skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can see this in the US Constitution where the common understanding of the word "regulate" in the late 1700s means to "to make regular" -- which in modern language would be rendered as un-regulated. Reading the Interstate Commerce Clause with the understanding of the words as they were used at the time gives almost an opposite understanding to what was meant at the time.

I've seen this rhetoric used somewhat frequently by 2A advocates but it's completely bogus. The word has had the same common meaning in English since at least the early 1600s.[1] Even in Latin the word regula (from which "regulate" originated) was used in the context of governing, control and regulation as we know it today. As in regulae iuris which was literally, the regulation of interpreting the law.[2]

I've yet to see anyone present any argument at all, let alone a reasonable one, that would even form the basis of such a theory for the "changed" meaning. It's always just stated as a fact when, in fact, it seems to be a completely fabricated talking point.

[1]https://www.etymonline.com/word/regulate

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulæ_Juris
About the same time that Uber launched I tried to launch a similar startup except that it was purely a dispatch service. Our plan was not to have any cars, but rather to just provide centralized dispatch for cab companies. The economics were win-win for everyone but we couldn't get a single cab company to sign on with us because each one was happy with its little fiefdom that was blissfully free of competition. The result was universally terrible UX. So regardless of whether or not Uber is actually better than what it displaced IMHO it's a net win simply for having displaced the old ossified cab companies. Maybe Uber will be swept away and replaced with something better, maybe it won't, but at least now we have a shot.
I know it’s only a part of their reasons for unionizing, but out of curiosity how many people here have actually seen their pay keep up with inflation this year? (8%+ without promotion or job switching). Survey of my friends points to basically no one.
Can you provide an example of a centralized authority providing a service with these features that is widely adopted? Because there are blockchains that provide these features currently, and central authority finance has had a lot more time to figure things out.
Twitter rolls out its ALT badge and improved image descriptions
Just start doing it. It's easier than you think.

1. (Optional) Register a domain (So if you need to migrate in the future, you don't need to change your email address!)

2. Sign up for paid service somewhere else. Paid email services are extremely cheap, and worth it to have a phone number where you can call a real human person.

* If you wish to continue using the Gmail interface, skip step 3 *

3. Forward Gmail to the new account.

4. As you see messages you want coming to your Gmail account, switch them to your new account.

5. (Optional) If you really like the Gmail interface, use IMAP/SMTP to check your email in Gmail, even though it's really coming from/to your external account!

It's really easy to get away from GMail, and definitely worth it.
I believe the BAT ICO was a positive for the investors.
I hear people saying that Ethereum is finally going to make that proof-of-stake transition and not be so energy intensive anymore but I wouldn't be surprised if bad actors have accumulated a knowledge base of vulnerabilities they haven't shared and if within 48 hours to a month there is no more Ethereum.
Trivia note - "an apple and an egg" is a German expression to mean a cheap price, kind of like when we say something costs "peanuts."
Wow. I really did get it right.
The value is the same as always. The price is whats changed.
Hindsight is 20/20, which is why you never see the crystal ball flying at your head until it's too late -- also Peter Thiel, probably.
> The object being collected no longer exists in any meaningful sense.

Depends on whether or not you set the thing on fire. But in the case of a tweet, that's rather difficult. Of course the literal original tweet might long ago have hit the bit bucket, scrubbed off an old original server that was dumpstered long ago, and now even the "real" one that showed on twitter was still just a copy.

Not that an NFT with an abstract pointer to the dumpstered server would be any more meaningful.
Wow, amazing ASCII art! Are you selling an NFT of it?
"(IMHO) Software is a development on par with writing itself. Writing as a technology provides the basis (the foundation) for all of what is considered "civilized", the law (in general, any and all law) is a written artifact."

This is ... great, combined with the observation "software is eating the world".
But the "traditional" art market has been successful for thousands of years. Comparing selling a tweet for millions to the Mona Lisa is pretty weird. People are ready to pay the museum fee to see the real art, while I'm sure nobody would pay to access a tweet. So the ownership is meaningless.

I'm sure NFTs have a place in today's art market, but it won't totally replace everything, so no, don't invest all your money on somebody's auto-generated monkey.
> If code is law

Code is not law.
The setting up part is easy. It's migrating user logins, subscriptions, and everything else tied to your GMail account that takes time and energy. Someone really aught to create a migrator app to get people off GMail and do the hard stuff.
What are the best gated communities you have found?
If it saves you 2 hours per year it will be worth it even if you are paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

If it takes 2 hours to cancel it, it could definitively be a net negative though.
CDOs are groups of bonds. Bonds are debts, so they produce real value in the form of interest. If the debtors stop paying, the CDO can recover value in bankruptcy court. CDOs may misrepresent the risk of the underlying assets, but those assets are still there.

An NFT is more akin to a baseball card - it’s value might go up, but that would just be because someone wants to buy it. It’s not producing any income on its own and the owner is no right to recoup the money they paid for it.
>> The tweet is publicly available so there is no exclusivity. Anyone can look far enough & find it.

This is true of all NFT's. The data is (should) be on the public blockchain.
before you make a new one you probably need to reinstal, or scrub the OS for google bugs, replace the NIC, and get a new router, new modem, new ISP with a new, pseudonymous/business account.

you might be able to evade google fingerprinting if you do all these things.

it would not surprise me if google pays to be allowed to crawl everything that touches google for even one tick, so they may still connect the dots when the AI sees a browser activity graph just like your last one. Who knows how well a VPN my hide your breadcrumbs, i just avoid making accounts with google or letting any overt analytics through my browser.
Steve Jobs is an aberration. I wouldn’t count on anything related to him being true now that he’s gone.

I had a friend that was interviewing with Apple. Apparently the orgs are so siloed that the teams that wanted him didn’t know about each other. It appears to be a very rigid sort of organization.
The right is successful because the left frequently calls people racist when they aren't. When everybody is a racist nobody is.

The left is almost always successful at political framing. Look at the don't say gay bill. It wasn't the right who came up with that name of the bill. Perhaps it is changing but it doesn't look like it to me.
Gosh, I've been to both Catalunya and Pays Basque. I've lived in France. Catalunya is on Spain's south coast. North of Catalunya is Pays Basque, which also adjoins the pyrenees to the east. The north-east portion of Spain is the Pays Basque, not Catalunya.

You can certainly get further south than Catalunya; but only by going west or getting on a boat. Catalunya is the southern portion of eastern Spain; it is therefore south-east, not north-east.
In this case (as with many NFTs for things like digital paintings or famous old memes) the thing that make the NFT an NFT is the public proclamation by the person of interest (the author, creator, subject, etc.). No one is claiming that only the owner of the NFT can view the tweet or digital image.
I think their best use I’ve seen yet is for money laundering.
A Samsung employee in one of the overseas research centers. I'm not sure about this at all. The most that is restricted is one cannot shoot pictures - either camera lens gets a cover (paper sticker) or the camera is blocked using MDM.

This is practice in many companies and I hear at Apple it is even more restrictive at certain places.

Not able to use phone I never heard or experienced. We regularly test out apps in phone, test out devices (non test ones), we test competition ones, etc. And when one can get on a Zoom or Team's call, what use is restricting phone usage.
Nobody actually wants this. They only promote it to virtue signal. when faced with the prospect of actually exposing their financial life to the word most people respond with a deep aversion.
I like Python but mikece is more right. Go with the language that fits what you do. Websites dont need to be done in Python when there is PHP and so much more ... with lots of libraries already written for the task. I couldnt imagine debugging a content management module written in rust or go or python.
This is one of those rare situations where the solution really is regulation, but unfortunately it's dropped out of the US Overton window. The FCC or some other regulatory body could drop the hammer on telcos and implement whatever is being done in the EU/UK that seems to work.

In an oligopoly it's really the only way to fix this, and every single time I mention this an American friend will say that the government can't be trusted with anything. If you have such a low opinion of your government's capabilities, why not ask it to get better instead of abandoning all hope?
Car requires a lot of infrastructure that are very costly. Traffic control, safety equipment, road bumps (how ironic) because indeed cars are fast and heavy. Biking made me realize how much it took to get a full fledged car culture.
Too bad low-level support workers cannot do anything. All they will be able to do is read the AI-auto-generated text to you and answer your questions by reading from the prepared responses. You pay for having a human read to you what the computer system produced. For supporters to be cheap and exchangeable (for the business) they are bound to executing the prepared algorithm and script without option to deviate. Often they cannot even access relevant information about you, never mind updating anything in the database.

To get someone able to actually make decisions, especially when they are against a measure the system automatically put in place following its programmed or AI-.derived rules, you need to go at least two levels higher. Even "managers" often - usually? - only have digression within pre-determined possibilities and scenarios.

It's going to be like this: https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1447916881009127430
For me it is driven by the sun.

In the summer often it is bright at 5:30am and I can't help but drive to

https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/8204.html

hike 6 miles then go to work.
A lot of people had the foresight to see that an NFT of an old tweet was a bad investment at the time.
Is it fake? The relationship isn't just between the user and facebook (thus, auth) it's between the user, facebook, and the third-party app. The concern is that the 3rd-parties act maliciously; see the challenges with browser extensions.

I'm not making excuses for the big companies -- I'm just trying to evaluate the challenges properly. If the core of the problem really is the behaviors of 3p apps, the security model for them is what a solution needs to address.
> just those where the people involved have opposing goals.

This describes every competition ever; person A wants the winner to be A, but person B wants the winner to be B. Should we stop doing doping tests at Olympic games, as it's an application of (non-free) technology to a social problem?
"The lightning hostile takeover raises fresh questions about the unregulated nature of digital currencies and the lack of protections for investors."

People worth their salt have known proof of stake has been broken for many years.

Question 1. Why do people trust the founders of these scams?

Question 2. Why do we refer to them still in mainstream discourse as systems that even qualify as cryptocurrencies?
This is a genuine question - should anyone take cryptocurrency seriously? To me, the only purpose of it is to make money. It's the stock market, but with less rules, and it's 24/7.

People will say that crypto is important because it's decentralized and non-fiat or whatever, with the implication being that it's not controlled by a government. But we have seen time and time again that that isn't true, and if a government wants to freeze your crypto assets, they can do so easily.

So in all seriousness, what is the point of crypto, other than a "new stock market"?
It is, per the article, a large enough gap that designs from scratch can't predict performance and that simulation isn't always fully reliable. I don't know that the author is looking for a metaphysical answer to all of existence here. It would be nice to understand the functioning of something that moves billions of dollars of material around well enough that design is less dominated by trial and error.
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I think he's asking what the "it" is.

Usually when you sell something, there are a bunch of legal rights that go along with the sale. What exactly did this guy buy? The right to look at the tweet? The right to restrict others from looking at it? The copyright? Any advertising dollars which flow because of that tweet? What?
Hall thrusters do not involve any form of detonation or condensation. They're run on inert rarified gases. There are ionization instabilities in Hall thrusters for which I suppose you could make an analogy to detonation. Rotating spoke instabilities in Hall thrusters do resemble RDEs, to an extent. However, these are low frequency modes and as the post discusses, they are insufficient to explain enhanced transport. The instabilities that cause anomalous transport are probably high-frequency modes which occur faster than the characteristic timescales of ionization.
$0 recovered, no arrests despite many hacks and billions stolen. goood luck with that. these hackers are likely in Eastern Europe, far from reach of FBI. There is no information to go on.
Nothing inherently scammy about posting a JPEG and auctioning of some cryptographic link to it. The part that feels scammy is people trying to convince others (often people who are financially illiterate) that NFTs will gain value.
it is if we're talking about binding ourselves to legal contracts that execute on the basis of the result of proof of work security instead of proof of stake and centralized-forking garbagecoins
There are earlier references elsewhere, but the oldest Internet RFC I could find mention of it is RFC114 (Apr 1971), a Multics related doc called "A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL"

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc114

An excerpt:

The cooperating processes may be "daemon" processes which "listen" to agreed-upon sockets, and follow the initial connection protocol much in the same way as a "logger" does.

Related to MIT's "Project MAC", with the same Professor Fernando José Corbató involved as the Stack Exchange answer.
The innovation we are all waiting on is an SSD which has the speed and performance of RAM such that they become one in the same. With some chip yields as low as 30% we are approaching the limit of shrinking transistors and the next 10 years of innovation will have to be architectural. The idea of photon computers is also a direction we will see more research into and might be about to get a 1mhz light processor by 2030
If you mess up your subscription order the company can’t help you because the subscription is through Apple, all they can do is direct you to Apple. Apple also can’t help you because they don’t have access to the company’s services to make the correction. So as a consumer you have your hands tied by Apple if you use their subscription service.
Right. I'm sure most of would agree that we don't want to normalize robocall phone calls for anything that isn't really immediate and urgent. And failing that, email isn't necessarily reliable (spam filters/changes/getting lost in all the clutter), which pretty much leaves physical mail. So, yes, even if most people will just throw it in the trash I do want to receive notification of town meetings and other official actions that affect me by mail. I certainly also wouldn't want to normalize posting something on Next Door or Facebook to be a sufficient alternative.
lmao what
Can the people downvoting this explain why this comment is not valuable?
I would love an HN "AMA" from someone who built one of these monstrosities, to understand how their company processes work/fail, resulting in a work product like this. Doesn't anyone at any point through design/development/deployment speak up and say "Uhh... am I the only one who can see how awful this is?"
well for one, you could have exclusive access to that specific dump. Ironically there's more scarcity in what you described than an entirely publicly accessible NFT Pointer to a file with unrestricted access on the open internet.
>It's not designed for "the citizenry," but it's been scapegoated and demonized by folks on the right.

Again, don't care one way or the other but I'll take the "bait," if it was never designed for the citizenry, why is it being taught in elementary, middle and high schools, or is it?

As an aside, police are allowed to lie about evidence when interrogating suspects. Police are allowed to interrogate children without their parents consent or knowledge. Police are allowed to confiscate any cash they find in your car during a routine traffic stop without due process. This is typically done to bolster police budgets. I deem these as a way more important reforms that people are distracted from thinking about with this new wedge issue.
because we're surrounded by folks with higher IQs on this platform and so there is demand for tools to help bridge the gap. besides making you feel good for a few minutes, the efficacy of which are questionable IMHO.
> They are a problem that should be demonized.

How? Aren't seed oils better than butter and palm/coconut oils due to their low saturated fat contents (canola oil or sunflower oil for example)
That should be what they call a deacon in the Church of Satan.
The only valid use for NFT I can think of is a pure vehicle for financial speculation. It's better people do wild speculation on NFTs than housing market.
HN members are possibly more easily seduced than others by the idea of "hacking" one's brain to become more productive.

As for why such articles are commo, I'd guess the following:

1) these articles get more engagement from the broader HN community because they're more general than the niche topics that are often posted.

2) we're about 10-15 years into the era of hustle culture. Regardless of where you are on the career ladder, there's pressure to do more, make more.

3) we're 15 years into the smartphone era, and our collective attention and focus have taken a beating, and people want to address that.

4) Tim Ferris, the erstwhile Tony Robbins of Silicon Valley has been pushing the idea of shortcuts and 'hacks' for life issues for a decade, and has been pretty influential.
Not being familiar with that quote, it's definitely one that is nearly meaningless on its own and requires more explanation to interpret correctly:

https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/09/how-peter-thiel-teaches-s...

> Thiel is also not a fan of defining yourself in relation to something else, like the ‘Uber of dog sitters.’ Claiming to be the Stanford of North Dakota doesn’t mean that the school is good. “The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.”

As an aside, if vapid quotespiration is your thing, here's the first google result for "The something of somewhere is often the nothing of nowhere": https://quotefancy.com/quote/1583769/Peter-Thiel-The-somethi... (proof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220418155400/https://www.googl...).
Well, yea, it was a pump & dump. Most NFTs are.
>so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples

I don't get it. What's so remarkable about "HideousKojima" (Hideo Kojima?)'s games?
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff Say
I have a hard time adding protonmail to my "generally regarded as safe" mail provider list when they haven't been able to implement Webauthn security key support (aka U2F security keys / FIDO security keys).

Yes, they support Multi-Factor authentication, but only via phishable methods (TOTP)[1]. They have been "trying" for years[2] to implement U2F but for some reason haven't been able to figure it out yet /shrug

[1] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/two-factor-aut...

[2] https://twitter.com/protonmail/status/1300758061255217153?la...
I thought the NFT was on the screenshot, rather than the tweet itself. Given Dorsey created that screenshot, it has intrinsic value over an arbitrary person’s screenshot - there’s a supply of exactly 1 of them.

I don’t think exclusivity applies to much art — art is often photographed or video recorded for others to see. It’s easy to find photos of the Mona Lisa, and it’s even feasible to get quite perfect recreations on a canvas. But there’s only one original.
Seems like a lot of crypto stories end with, "And none of the investors ever saw their money again".
I've talked about structural deficiencies in earlier language models, this one seems to be doing something about them.
If you want to speculate on a digital asset with limited regulation around the market, sure, it is fine for that. For any other purpose, no.
"[...] a bored ape is pleasant to look at [...]"

Is it really, though? Maybe the word you're looking for is striking or distinctive. Possibly-- competent. But pleasant is not the first word that comes to mind.

BAYC had first-mover advantage, there isn't anything particular about them that wasn't done better by a project that came later. That they are uniquely fugly made them stand out as a novelty.
> a bored ape is pleasant to look at

Respectfully disagree.

> you can set it as your profile picture

You can do that even without buying the NFT.
I find him to be elitist sometimes. The community he built around himself likes to gatekeep by defining what is considered "from scratch" and what isn't. I looked up his youtube channel, and it seems he spent few weeks writing an abstraction layer over WinAPI. You could just download SDL and get it over with in a day (and support more platforms). I don't think there's anything wrong with that. There's a difference between using a large framework/engine, where you only give inputs in and get outputs out, and using small libraries to abstract over specific parts of logic. And even after a year of work, the "engine" seems to be very unimpressive, capable of doing some basic 3D graphics.