skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is functional value to NFT’s. Think beyond JPEG NFT’s. If you’re a software engineer, consider building a decentralized system with unique instances of a model. Unique tokens make a lot of sense to me and certainly there is utility to them. I agree that JPEG NFT’s are ridiculous though.
Self cleaning toilets work pretty well for this. Odor doesn't just sit in the air if the room is ventilated at all. Usually it's a result of micro-organisms on surfaces covered in biological material and water. Most toilet odors are a result of a film of feces remaining on the bowl and seat after flushing. This is why, if you clean a toilet after using it, the odor will dissipate in less than a minute.

Regular cleaning, de-humidification, filling drain traps with water, and self cleaning toilets is more than enough to keep a restroom odor free.
> With North Korea we’ve blown our load

Actually no, much more could be done against North Korea. A total naval blockade, for example.
Yeah what's going on? I bought a chunk of HP stock 10 years ago on the assumption they'd be revolutionizing swaths of the computing industry and it never materialized.
Leave it to the browser to opt out of cookies
Any website following GDPR guidelines presents annoying preference options regarding which cookies the user wishes to accept. Some sites categorize the cookies from "cookies needed for functionality" all the way to "third party advertiser cookies"
I'd like to be able to pre-define what kind of cookies to accept in my browser.
Since most content providers won't like the approach I think it might have to be legislated, since most users would probably opt for "cookies required for functionality"
I like this approach a lot better than the municipal curb-side charging stations that a lot of cities are building. The former naturally scales up and down with overall demand for cars, while the latter further entrenches cars as the dominant transportation method by making it virtually impossible to convert those curb spaces to other uses.
IMO much more likely they're mining, phishing, or advertising than sending out 0-days to random phone numbers. Unless you're a far more influential bloke than you're letting on.
I loved it as well, the OG flash version. That and Gemcraft. I have a concept for a 3D Tower Defense I'd like to do in ThreeJS, where the enemies approach in log spirals ;)
This is why you have things like quadratic voting to e the votes you have from your net worth - it’s cheap to vote once, it’s cheap to vote for two different things, but it’s very expensive to vote for the same thing repeatedly
How good can you be for your team if you're burned out?
It would be buyung up majoruty, then voting to transfer all assets to self. In non-crypto world there are minority shareholder protections that cover even someone with a 1% stake against the other at 99%.
While it’s certainly funny (in a very morbid way) how much this resembles workplaces I’ve been in, I how how much it resembles those of the past.

Surely the CIA did not invent incompetence and method of disincentivizing work. So how far back do we have to look before we stop seeing this behaviour in our history? Does all work run into these problems, or are certain arrangements more/less susceptible to it?
Apocryphal encounter when Texas rednecks [sic] learned about the BSD mascot:

https://unixsage.com/humor/daemonsintexas
Maybe this is why most high-budget shows today are more visual and action oriented with superficial plots, so you can watch them while not devoting your full attention. It certainly makes them easier to follow in this age of distractions and notifications.
Based on a couple of occasions I've been in Barcelona and around Catalunya, people always answered me in Spanish (both in tourist and non-tourist locations) when I was in Barcelona and surrounding areas, while when I visited Lleida and Vic (and surrounding areas), they always answered me in Catalan (and one time even got visibly angry when I couldn't reply to them in Catalan, only in Spanish).

So my anecdote would be that generally Barcelona seems to be fine with Spanish (and walking around the city I heard a lot more Spanish than both English and Catalan) while areas up north/west seems to almost require you to speak in Catalan.
You can find a number for google? I've been trying to find Ebay's number for months. Support told me I have to call them, but they are not allowed to tell me the phone number.

I'm not enough of an influencer to get my rants here noticed.
Looks like previously blurred strategic objects are now available in full detail. Auto translated from Ukrainian.

Original article : https://defence-ua.com/photo/znajti_bunker_putina_google_vid...
Not sure if you're asking seriously, but: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
It's like the old parable in 7 Habits, "I don't have time to sharpen the ax, I'm too busy chopping". You have to get strategic about it, you can't just plow through like you did when life was simpler.

Cut things that aren't such a high priority out completely. Reconsider division of labor in your household. Outsource. Batch process. Block time out on your calendar to do things you want to do, on a repeated schedule so you don't have to find time again. Put them in the form of classes, if social pressure helps. Yeah it's a job but if it gets your life back, isn't it worth it?
This seems misguided to me. One of the biggest benefits to an EV is not having to go to a gas station. Most people can charge at home for their typical needs. Next, it makes sense to put then at a person's work, then at stores or public parking. And of course there needs to be charging infrastructure on highway gas stations and/or rest stops. Making all gas stations, especially urban ones, pay a fine for not having chargers is stupid.
> Practicing penmanship unlocks neat handwriting.

Practicing speed-writing unlocks fast handwriting....
An average car needs about 5 kWh of electricity daily. That's 24 hours of two incandescent light bulbs.

And it's needed overnight when the grid is almost idle.
I like rekts leaderboard: https://rekt.news/leaderboard/
I would say most shitcoin hacks are inside jobs. Skip the pump and dump and more to stealing from token holders
Dont get me wrong, I am happy for you :-)

Assuming you don't get a salary raise every year, and if you do, also good for you :-) but the critical factor here is, your purchasing basket of course and the percentage from each item, and of course the rate of inflation on each item.

For example, Energy Cummulative inflation is at 32% just for the last 12 months.

If you did not get a raise in the last 3 years, then with food at 12% every twelve months I am not far from the estimate. Now food is normally not a big percentage of a household costs but for example housing, as in rent for persons who rent and don't have a mortgage.

If a big percentage of your costs are housing and you had to move, or for example will have to move in the next 12 months, you might find housing costs like rent on a reasonable place, increased more than that.

"Renters across US face sharp increases – averaging up to 40% in some cities"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/renters-rent...
anecdote time - Months ago this same question arose in my head reading something about graphs of cause and effects over other dimension (like time), If I remember well, they mentioned something about information pockets and how you can take advantage of them to change the course of events if you are an almighty observer, then searching about it I read something about daemons being things that changes things and move through those pockets.
> NFTs that are linked to real-world assets (through intermediaries that you have to trust

That makes the NFT redundant.
Sounds like a way to quickly create an unreliable network of shitty, dimly lit EV chargers that help sour EV adoption.
Like just rebranding their fascist tribunal? In the same building with the same people, but one day they become Democrats.

Amazing story.

Also, they have a tribunal that has two powers, and another one that decides if money has been well spent, if they decide otherwise you get to pay with your properties.

Amazing country, and is part of EU.
> I would say charging at work

I don't know the numbers offhand, but Vancouver has a pretty low rate of driving commutes compared to most North American cities.
Show HN: QA teams deserve better than SnagIt
Hey HN,

Screenshots of bugs are no substitute for reproducing issues, but clearly annotated/laid out images do go a long way for developers to understand what’s going on and start working on them sooner. These remain an odd amount of work/overhead to do well— no one is going to fire up photoshop here, and most QA folks I’ve talked to have a simple trick or two up their sleeve for assembling screenshots/repro content quickly.

A friend of mine’s spent the last few years working to improve this process and threw together what’s quite possibly the most functional screenshot tool (on windows) I’ve seen out there, meant specifically for QA teams (one click share to issue trackers, some annotation tools useful there, etc), and I wanted to share it with the HN community on behalf of them. They’ve put in pretty much zero marketing efforts so far and I’m trying to encourage them to get started— I think this could be useful for quite a few people, but other than some surface blog content, this is literally the first public post of their product.

There’s a free version (and like, $2/mo for premium), it’s my hope some of you can try it out and find it useful. A bit on their product here: https://www.pixtel.us/product.html, and you can grab a download here: https://www.pixtel.us/download.html.
I'm wondering, what entity enforces a uniqueness constraint on the URLs? Presumably it wouldn't be hard to copy the content & host & create a whole new URL, but what prevents you from just minting using the original URL?
> Except for the ability to easily take assets across borders to leave authoritarian regimes, bringing a form of storing assets to the 2 billion or so unbanned individuals of the world, and cheap remittances for people sending money back to their families in another country. These are just a few worth mentioning because they quite literally change people's lives.

I'm not disputing you can still do work on a 486 PC that requires as much power as Argentina; the question is why would you want to when a regular PC works just as well or even better?

Also, most of those use-cases break down in practice at the intersection with the real world. Sure if you've got some Bitcoin and an internet connection (and a big HD to store the blockchain), you can transfer it around to your heart's content. But how (for instance) are you supposed to get Bitcoin for your authoritarian-regime fiat? Wire it to Binance? That defeats the point. Why would you use Bitcoin as a store of value, when there are better, less volatile alternatives like the dollar, the euro, or even gold? When you work through the particulars, there's not that many cases where Bitcoin actually makes sense to use, from a practical perspective.
Yes, thank you. It's a closure problem in the former sense.
With a written contract actions allowed in the contract can still be considered as fraud. Making the contract a program does not change that.
There's a git repo linked at the bottom of the page.
Plus how do local laws even have a chance against a global decentralized system - which country gets jurisdiction, etc
Or just raise the price on communications, or let recipients set a price on being contacted. Charge $1/text, which the sender gets back if the recipient replies. This would very quickly make most spam uneconomical, since the expected returns wouldn't exceed the cost to send the messages.

Spam works because most of these mass communication channels are free or extremely cheap. Raise the price and economics will dictate that most of these communications will drop off.
bool foo(int x) {
return x+1 > x;
}

This compiles to a function that always returns true on most compilers with optimizations turned on. If the value of `x+1` were merely implementation defined for `x == INT_MAX`, then it would still need to return false then, as it can't be larger than `INT_MAX`. Yet it returns true.

https://godbolt.org/z/hn3de1h49

edit: correction, clang and gcc optimize this to always true, MSVC doesn't.
Agreed! As someone who just completed a 2,000 mile electric road trip, it wasn't TOO inconvenient, but we had to choose our dining based on what was near the charger, and we mostly chose our lodging based on who had overnight charging available.

Shopping and meals fit really well into the (traveling) charging use case. I think a cafe would work as well, but I haven't visited a successful "charge cafe" yet.

Of course, the most convenient charging is just plugging it in overnight at home, but travel stops are real use cases, too...
Looking at the present article, while these bio-lights are diffuse, they are probably the wrong spectrum. Due to the nature of the light-sensitive proteins in our eyes, humans do best with orange light at night. Our peripheral vision is most sensitive to blue light, and there's a reflex where we look at blue light in our periphery. Blue light is exhausting for us. Intense blue light is blinding.

Back when the lighting companies had all the money in the world to research their lights, scientists figured out how to use artificial light safely. Now that those scientists have mostly retired, and people alive today have no idea what it was like for artificial light to be precious, we're forgotten everything our predecessors figured out. Just last night I was at my current city's newest hotel, and while the lights are mostly pretty good, they also have a bunch of 5000K LED fixtures mounted at exactly eye level. Light is mostly useful to us humans when is bounces off of things.

In the 1970's the outdoor lighting industry standardized on High Pressure Sodium bulbs, because they're incredibly energy efficient AND because they're an almost blue-free light source. Low pressure sodium [LPS] bulbs are even more efficient and a perfect single-wavelength of orange (~590nm), but only a few cities (Flagstaff Arizona) really standardized on LPS.

I was whining to someone about how Phoenix, Arizona switched out its safe HPS streetlamps for 5000K LEDs in 2016 (I think they switched these to ~3000K after people complained about 5000K's effects on wildlife). The guy knew exactly what I was talking about, and said "I wrote the 1982 report that resulted in Phoenix's 1984 lighting ordinances." He'd recommended LPS, but the police didn't like how people have no color perception when things are lit with the single wavelength of LPS. HPS has a bit of a spread of spectrum from red -> yellow, with a peak at the pleasant orange color.

Arizona DOT is gradually switching out the safe HPS lights for defective LEDs. At first these were 5000K, but I watched them switch out one intersection's functional 5000K light for what I think is 3000K. LED streetlights' light is not nearly diffuse enough. I've come to referring to the bright spot under the lights as a 'cone of destruction', and have taken to lowering my car's street lamp visors to protect my eyes from the glare of passing under these streetlights.

Flagstaff Arizona uses pure-orange LED streetlamps, now that LPS bulbs are no longer being manufactured. These are wonderful... Not as nice as LPS, but 1000x better than "white" LED streetlamps.

If you're interested in the guy's 1982 report about street lights, give this comment an upvote, and I'll maybe work on that blog post.
Given the expansive budget of the CIA, I would assume if they wanted to offend them they'd probably leave a handwritten note left inside of a "secure location" somewhere in Russia.
> HP ... revolutionizing swaths of the computing industry

Heh... Yeah, I don't HP in it's current incarnation can revolutionize anything.
> after Dorsey’s NFT went up for auction again this past week, no one bid higher than $280

That's still $280 too high.
Group 2 are the people who had 17 browser bar extensions running at the same time and filling half of their screens in 2007.

They don't care and they hate it when you fix it because then they have to do it all over again.
Ah gotcha. Agree that no one man is going to stop a nation state from using Physical violence to achieve their goal.
> Ostensibly, yes. But in practice stocks are often pretty disconnected from business realities by algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading.

No they're not. Only short-term to a limited extent and only to an extreme in very rare cases.

High frequency trading is a laughable triviality to a long-term investor, entirely meaningless. It only matters if you're trading a lot of volume and they're swiping some of your profit by moving faster. I don't care if they take 0.1% of the present value of my trade if I'm buying a stock to hold for years (or if I'm buying at a steep discount to what I value the company at).

I buy Teladoc at $61.22 and I plan to hold for years - do I care if HFT swipes $0.02 of that trade? No. I don't care if it swipes $0.20 of that trade in fact. If you're doing it right, if you're calculating the margin for error in the purchase correctly in terms of the value you're buying, you can very easily disregard the margin that that $0.20 represents. That is to say, if a stock isn't a good buy at $61.22, it's not a good buy at $61 either. There's no scenario where I'm going to care about HFT.

I also don't base my purchases on what the market (other investors, whether algorithmic or not) thinks a stock is worth. I make my own determination of the worth of the business, its potential, and from there I decide if the current price matches up with the value I think the business represents. As such algorithmic manipulation largely doesn't matter to me, I don't care if they run a stock up or down 5% tomorrow or next week, it doesn't alter my evaluation of what the business is worth; although if they want to crash a good stock by 70% in a few weeks because some people panic and hit the sell button, prompting a cascade of selling, due to something like Covid, then I'm a buyer, I'll happily take advantage of their mistake.

> Most companies can't even explain many of their own stock price moves.

Again, you're talking about shorter-term volatility, spikes, blips, temporary emotional swings up or down.

As a long-term value investor, I don't care much about short-term volatility and will never have to (other than if it happens to provide a rare, freakishly outsized, emotion-based buying or selling opportunity to take advantage of; as with the Covid crash). As an owner, shorter-term concerns, swings, are largely meaningless to me. As they should be to most investors.

Why do I care if a company can explain stray volatile stock price movements? That's not the business I want them to be specializing in. I have no need of their explanations unless it's a critical legal matter. Read their quarterly reports, figure out their business and its long-term trajectory - that's what you're properly buying, not the explanation by public relations on the daily movement of the stock.
At work I've used dirty sock[0] to gain su on a development server.

[0]https://github.com/ROIGap/dirty_sock
What’s even more frustrating is that most people have integrated that with the “infrastructure you have to have” and then whine about the cost of a bike lane. We seem to have accepted that putting billions into motorways was ok, and use that against any other form of transport.
This kind of makes sense to me.

Gas stations are already setup as places where cars are coming and going frequently. As cars move from gas to electric, the use of these places transitions smoothly.

It's a pigouvian tax: tax the things we want less of; in this case gas stations without chargers. I always kind of like those.

Could work.
Spam spoofs the caller ID field. The calls are routed by the ISP so the ISP sees everything (including that the source address and caller ID address are differ, ie spoofed) and allow it. It would be trivial to flip the switch on spam.
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Your vendor should never have said 3.0 or 3.1 or 3.2. They should have said Superspeed.

There’s no point complaining that the engineering spec versioning strategy is confusing, when no consumers should have been exposed to it. The problem is squarely on manufacturers and the tech press.
Circumvention Prohibition is is likely a measure which has some legitimate uses which justify its inclusion in law but is applied to many things as a technicality to limit consumer freedom where essential IP/competitive advantage is not harmed by circumventing what is being blocked. It would be better to amend the law with guidance describing the difference between illicit and licit application of circumvention protection. Using this clause as a broad-spectrum way to block Right To Repair is illegitimate.
Where is the statistic proving that?

CVE database is pretty much alike.
> in practice stocks are often pretty disconnected from business realities by algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading

If you are an HFT and you are noticeably impacting the price of a stock, you are losing a ton of money very quickly

> mass sales on a company posting a slightly less than stellar quarter on the back of a proven long-term, solid, growing business: is that company really "worth" 10% less today?

This is a very easy theory to test. If you think it’s true, just buy every stock that’s down 10% on earnings (it’s obviously not true as such a strategy would have been exploited by hedge funds decades ago)
Who cares if an asset is tangible? There's really not that much difference between being able to own and show off a CSGO skin vs a baseball card.

For stocks most people prefer owning an intangible version of it. Very few people want an actual certificate saying they own it.
Many people can not charge at home. Where I live (Toronto), street parking is common. It's not possible to charge on the street near your house. Condos have parking garages and unless they put a charger at each single spot, most of those people can't charge either.

Toyota has it right - there are huge issues to be solved before widespread roll out of EV is possible. The charging question is just one of them.
The quality of HN posts on crypto is borderline - writing stuff like this pushes it off the edge towards flame wars and ‘All crypto is bad, just look at these flame wars’. Please try add more substance to posts, such as how PoW vs PoS has any impact on Code is Law (especially when Eth moves to PoS and Bitcoin becomes the last big PoW chain left, yet doesn’t have smart contracts).
> Actually no, much more could be done against North Korea. A total naval blockade, for example.

Isn't virtually all their trade land trade via China? Short of a land invasion to cut off that border, I don't see how any kind of a blockade makes much of a difference.
Thanks very much for this. I had seen this before but I somehow missed the "grift counter" in the lower righthand corner, which is just what I was looking for.
So...it's decentralized but if you don't like how it plays out then you run off to a centralized power structure to fix it?
Its Vancouver, so no.
Intended outcome: more EV charging stations

Actual outcome: fewer gas stations
This has existed in various forms through the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive (section: Dedicated hardware RAM drives)

It's non-existence (or at least extreme difficulty to locate)for current gen tech suggests that it doesn't improve performance enough to be worth the tradeoffs, but I'm not an expert in that at all.