skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering it's a physical house they sould be able to do more than they can when someone steals bitcoin.

So I imagine they can either legal pressure on the illegitimate owner to transfer the NFT to the other owner (which has worked with some bitcoin transactions in the past), or if that doesn't work, then the system of smart contracts created for something like houses would most likely have something in it that allows the smart contract owners to mark that NFT as void in the blockchain (while it remains in the perpetrators wallet, it would no longer be associated with the physical benefits) and have a fresh NFT minted based on the data in the previous one and sent to the legitimate wallet.

Barring all that, they could just not recognize the owner and send police to physically remove someone who thinks they own it because the have the NFT. That's one reason why some people like bitcoin so much, the government can't (easily) take it from you by force (because there's no physical aspect to it) like they can a home or gold.
He was probably only referring to the situation in the US, where the political polarization (and tribalism) has undeniably increased in the last decades.
Typical use case for Presto or BigQuery. Putting it in S3 and using Athena wouldn't take very long.
Have blocked medium.com in my pihole. I never read a single article on there worth my time. It's all just low-quality bullshit these days. Might have been different years ago but just like Quora it has big quality issues.

I'd argue Substack is on a trajectory to get on my banlist as well.
I`m working in a startup which helps people with focus and productivity. We are building this mobile app - AppBlock, where you can basically set up which mobile apps you want to block and when. It also was reccommended for some people with ADHD issues by therapists and it has some other nice use cases like parental control. Feel free to check it out.

https://www.appblock.app
An old one from 2015. However, very relevant for startups in today's environment.
It can be even more daunting for a person if they're paid well and feel like that because of it they have to produce even more results, or otherwise they're paid unfairly, which compounds stress. So it can go both ways.
This is lame. Is an addictive algorithm an illegal substance of some sort? Is personal responsibility not a thing people care about anymore?
"Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st amendment which states..."
It's a little more complex than that because of the potential feedback loop via the main price channel.

In other words if you can have a wage/price spiral you can have a profit/price spiral and an interest/price spiral for the same reasons.

[0]:https://new-wayland.com/blog/interest-price-spiral/

Once you abandon the concepts of general equilibrium and a fixed amount of money for what happens in reality, then the functional control mechanisms get a whole lot more interesting.
U.S. and China likely to trade blows at Asian security meeting
The entire purpose of DRM is to keep controlling something after selling it to you. I'd consider that immoral.
China's Pacific island-hopping reveals new front line of geopolitics
Yeah I completely get why it happened it's just sad that it did.

Because of how markets work in the US their management come under immense pressure to find other sources of "growth" now that the main streaming business has capped out.

TLDR engineering hiring got a lot less selective in pursuit of accelerating "new growth areas".
Once that happens your A class engineers leave and you can't ever rehire at that same level again without majorly taking out the trash.
And this violates the spec that is already in force in each jurisdiction.
> I dunno, it only asks for a thumbs up or thumbs down

Yeah, but why? Why would I even "rate" my coworkers? I would prefer not to. If someone is a prick, I talk to them first, and if it doesn't help and the case is serious, I go to the manager or file a formal complaint. What's the point of giving people thumbs up/down? Someone has a bad day, let's make it even worse by giving them a thumbs down, it's ridiculous.
I can give a few. In general, the theory behind rendering generally treats what's on the screen as a discretization of a continuous visual signal. Post processing especially is largely about signal processing.

Anti-aliasing (AA) is a very clear example where the lack of it leads to moiré patterns and jaggies. Understanding a lot of AA techniques is simplified by seeing the frame not as a discrete set of pixels but as a continuous signal being sampled (and can be sampled at multiple sub-pixel points per pixel).

A lot of other screen effects are essentially filters applied to the graphical signal (sobel, gaussian blur, ...) and understanding them from a signal processing view helps understanding how to modify and optimize them. A good example here is identifying whether your effect is a separable filter which can be split into a horizontal and vertical pass.

Seeing the image as a continuous signal/field being sampled is also the theoretical basis for a lot of visual effects used in physically-based rendering and things like screen-space ambient occlusion.

Finally, if you want to write your own ray-tracer it really helps to be able to take this view of things once you get past the basics.
But without everyone having to carry their butts from home to the offices and then to the supermarkets and then back home, everyday by car, just think of the damage that has done to our economy. How are the poor car manufacturers, dealers, gas stations, shopping centers, office real-estate enterprises supposed to survive whiteout all this car traffic?

/s obviously
A Suggestion for Hacker News – Feed Filtering
I want to start off with saying I generally enjoy this site. It’s a great place to find links to news, blogs, and other interesting technology-centric websites.

To that end, and I believe there are quite a few that may agree with me, it would be nice to be able to hide or remove certain types of entries from the list, such as cough cryptocurrency, NFTs, any-fly-by-night project, what have you.

It would be cool if this site could offer a feature like Reddit where you can actively subscribe to the types of things that interest you, and ignore everything else.

If other folks want to discuss the topics, so be it. But let me opt out going forward, please. I used to really get involved in the discussions around cryptocurrency, but frankly it hasn’t been good for my sanity and I’d rather just go about my life not hearing about it anymore.

It’s exhausting to hear how someone thinks they are gonna make it, or how fiat is filthy and I’m an idiot for not just following the bandwagon. At this point, I have no more energy to expend on the topic and want to go back to a pre-2012 Internet, before the snake oil ruined everything.
Every time you write a non trivial regex!

Regexes often contain complex parts that repeat themselves throughout the regex or can be combined into higher level patterns. This adds support for that.
I believe that points gained from submissions and those gained from comments are weighted differently.

That's in regards of unlocking "features" like the dislike button.

But I don't think the difference in these two is visible on a users profile.

If it starts a discussion, what's the harm? It also bring into attention various things that one might not have heard of it that one might have forgotten about, especially with software. (I love GNUCash)
> The general form is that crypto can't do X. The response is that an obscure implementation Y does do X. The problem is that Y, while existing, largely doesn't address X in practice because Y's trading volume and/or market cap is insignificant.

Sure, but this presupposes that Y's trading volume and/or market cap are indeed actually insignificant. A lot of people make that presupposition, but it's often about as accurate as a drunk chimpanzee playing darts. Proof-of-stake is the case-in-point: "but but Ethereum hasn't switched yet so therefore PoS is obscure", quoth the "skeptic", entirely ignoring that multiple of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap and/or transaction volume are already proof-of-stake and have been for some time now.

Even taking that presupposition at face value, what's experimental today is less so tomorrow. That experimental solutions do exist bodes well for the state of things even months (let alone years, let alone decades) from now. If you want to wait until then, then you do you; meanwhile, those of us willing to experiment will do so.
I don't think Musk is exactly struggling to maintain a big media profile. This story might keep him in the headlines more but it's hardly making him look good. Rather I'd say it seriously damages his reputation as a serious player. He looks more interested in sounding off on twitter and messing around. Following this mess if he approached you with an offer to buy your business how seriously would you want to take him?
How would you have expected the state broadcaster to behave? This was the usual behaviour up until the Falklands (and I was in Junior school in the UK as well at the time).

More recently, the BBC seems to prefer to talk down their home country armed forces.
> explicit focus on correctness, simplicity and verification

Does this mean Cranelift has a clearer view of what its IR really means than, say, LLVM? It seems to me that being very clear-eyed on this will be important as C and C++ get ready to bite the bullet (perhaps this decade) and formally document how pointer provenance works in their languages, and perhaps Aria's provenance "experiment" in Rust begins the journey to stabilisation.
As a Cornell alum from India , I’ve seen so many these sorts of political storms in a teacup. Especially, of the India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine variety. If you’re a foreign student, just don’t engage with this stuff. You are a guest in a foreign country. So even if you disagree with the views of your hosts, keep them to yourself and be polite and gracious. Your home country’s government is more than capable defending its point of view in the appropriate fora. You are at Cornell to learn, not engage in political brawls.
>...is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion and government

This doesn't seem right. Firstly, we generally operate under the principle that laws are created by the populace, not "one man", the censor. That seems to contradict the idea that a control on freedom of speech would be up to the whims of one person, if the censor is restricted in his activities by the voting populace and the lawmakers they elect. Secondly, this type of restriction has precedent in several other important areas of life, such as food and drugs. While many people disagree with the FDA's decisions, very few people argue for its abolition in its role as a 'censor' of which products can be sold and in what quantities on the American market.

Of course, the usual retort would be "I trust the state to regulate food and drugs more than I trust it to regulate speech", but to convince someone else of that point, you'd have to also provide evidence and reasoning that our hypothetical censor cannot be trusted to censor according to the law that the citizens vote for via their representatives. Another retort would be "Free speech is more important than food and drug availability", but that statement implicitly admits there's an issue with any food regulation, it's just not as important as speech, which leads to the question of why so few free speech absolutists care about abolishing the FDA.

I haven't really seen any convincing argument for a slippery slope when it comes to regulation of speech, nor any reasoned argument on why there ought to be an absolute constitutional protection on speech. That said, I'm not personally in love with the idea of a censor, as I've seen that censors in other countries have practiced unjustified censorship - but that seems like a problem with the democratic process and oversight rather than the idea of a censor.
coinbase's nft marketplace has <0.01% of the marketshare. they launched without using their key advantage- custodial relationship with the customer. coinbase nft should have been a custodial marketplace. this is definitely on someone in product, though it's unclear whether it's on surojit.
I'd be shocked if my cell phone contract said they couldn't sell my data. Why would they do that?

I have plenty of options besides cell phones. I could have a landline, or get my ham license, or pen a letter!

I'm just a subscriber to a private service, after all.
As someone with a rapidly (exponentially?) decaying background in engineering, all the article did was create an insufferable itch of mathematical fuzziness about why these were called zeros until I got to the footnote and the actual article began.
You don't need to control people if you can control machines. Once AI is there, society will fundamentally change.

I would assume that in hundred years, people will spend most of their time in virtual worlds. Would it be important what people do and think if all they do is moving some bits around?
And he freely used blackmail to extort sex from the wives of political dissidents.
your snark is unwarranted and incorrect... when Gates and Bezos held the title of the world's wealthiest, they did not pay the most in taxes.
Software can often be intangible, abstracted and make you feel disconnected from the implementation.

Whereas woodworking is highly tangible and physical, which can make you feel connected to the work.

The same can be said for many other types of craft work too...
Looks like it would be good if you had to use some ancient regex engine.

Otherwise, I find regex is extremely easy, since the problems it solves well are very simple, and one can develop it interactively by trial and error, by looking at the highlights in their editor.

I could possibly see actually using this if the playground had a similar "Try it on real text instantly" feature, but I've never had a problem with traditional regex+trial and error.
Well yeah, because of the studies and wide communication of the results, to push for a less polluted world.

Ask a kid in 1950 on whether the factory right here, or daddy's car, is bad for the fields, and you would not have the same answer.

Now that I say it I'm not even sure if kids would answer correctly on this one today.
Transaction irreversability is the whole point of the "peer to peer electronic cash system": "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments... cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions ... What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party. Transactions that are computationally impractical to reverse would protect sellers from fraud" from the opening lines of the Bitcoin white paper.

So Bitcoin was designed for micropayments, and irreversability is a feature to reduce the friction. That is fine because it was intended for "small casual transactions" which very few people are going to invest the time and effort into disputing. It even looked like it might be successful as a micropayment system at first, given small Bitcoin transactions were initially processed without any transaction fees.

The problem is that it has clearly failed as a "peer to peer electronic cash system". It is now used primarily for large transactions, which you absolutely do need consumer protections for if you are a legitimate user (indeed the fact that there aren't consumer protections has made the space so popular with fraudsters, scammers etc.). And as others have commented, the newer cryptocurrencies which attempt to offer such protections end up being worse in every conceivable way from the traditional solutions. Leading back to the original article - is there any legitimate point to cryptocurrencies nowadays?
Tinypilot Month 23 – Oh Boy, the Redesign
One of the simplest combination of solutions that I know in this space is to use Publii CMS to compose your blog and push it to GitHub Pages, which automagically makes your SSL enabled site live. Of course something as trivial as adding your custom domain leads you down a rabbit hole of nameservers, CDN etc. There is probably a simpler path here I'm missing.

But the bigger problem is the non-tech world simply doesn't know about any of this. When they want a site, they straightaway consider Blogger vs Wordpress vs SquareSpace vs Wix vs Shopify. Or just a FB/Instagram Page. In fact the latter often comes before the dedicated sites since you depend on them for networking.

It's a hard problem: how to be fully decentralised, yet connected/indexed/searchable, secure, yet flexible... and all this with sensible defaults and point-and-click to onboard lay people without scaring them away.
The issue is that SSO is often in the Enterprise tier.

The best solution would be to have G-Suite SSO in the lowest paid tier and SAML in Enterprise.
I didn't downvote it, because it's not a bad attempt at an answer if you don't know the context, but the actual joke is completely different and about calculus and control systems. The right side of the plane is double meaning for the right half of the complex plane in dynamical systems analysis, which is the area where the real part of every point is positive. If your poles are on the right half of the complex plane, then the system is unstable and the output will tend towards exponential growth (going out of control) for any change in input.
(Just trying to get this clear in my own head by writing it down.)

When a real world system goes non linear (like the Tacoma Narrows case) you don’t get a sigmoid but something catastrophic.

(If you graph the amplitude of the vibrations they increase and increase — and then — if it was a sigmoid they’d level out and stay at the max amplitude… but in reality they go to zero as there is no bridge left to vibrate.)

When a company is “growing exponentially” it may saturate the market and then the growth slows in a nice sigmoid function. That’s common. But if, for example, the investors insist that the company must maintain the growth at all costs… it breaks laws, gets destroyed and there’s no company left to grow. No exponential curve, no sigmoid, no signal at all.

Both the sigmoid and the total collapse are typical real world results of what a simple model would expect to be an unbounded exponential curve.
Even with this and even with not updating their client for macOS anymore they are still better than Google Drive and One Drive.

OneDrive for example: you can't delete a file into the trash anymore. It gets just deleted, like a force delete. So if you are offline or OneDrive is not running or the file has not yet been uploaded to OneDrive, that file is GONE. MS response: use the online trash. It worked until they updated to the new 12.3 macOS sync system (icloud can delete to trash, so I fully blame this on MS). Also if one file does not sync for whatever reason ALL syncs are stopped until this conflict is resolved.

GoogleDrive. If in drive stream mode (which i think is the default) it is mounted as a volume, so it is not "there" when you login, so any files opened from there will not open until GoogleDrive is mounted. Also saving to this Volume mounted google drive with some apps will trash the file. MySQL Workbench trashed files very very often. You need to restore from the google drive backup in this case. If you switch to all files always local it is like Dropbox and works, unless you want to upload symlinks or something with characters that don't match googles like and then you have missing files. At least other files will sync. I also have no idea if they actually support macOS 12.3 file sync type fully ...

iCloud: Works ... except that what you see in the finder is not what you actually have in the Terminal because it is a mix of actual files and data folders from applications. Sharing is a pain between users. I also don't think it works well on non Apple systems.
TIL that scallops have eyes: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=scallops+eyes&tbs=i...

That's terrifying.
I'm excited about space exploration now because of what it could be in the future. I'm excited about various up-and-coming programming languages and operating systems and such because of what they could be in the future. Why shouldn't I be excited about crypto because of what it could be in the future?
Yes, it was some luck ... and a lot of hard work. But it wasn't only NumPy that helped.

I was around in the 1990s when Python started making waves in the scientific computing and research community. Python wasn't installed by default (we mostly used IRIX back then).

Python was excellent for "steering" low-level computations, to use the buzzword at the time.

That is, if you had a large body of existing C, Fortran, whatever code, you could turn them into Python extensions, let Python glue the components together, and use a Python program/script to organize the high-level data- and control-flow.

Swig was a popular tool to help automate that process. Swig 1.0 had support for Tcl, Perl, Guile and Python, back in 1996.

I used Swig to interface to an existing cheminformatics toolkit, and published my experience at https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/making-c-extensions-more-pythoni... . Python made it very easy to convert the implicit object model of the underlying C toolkit into an explicit OO model in Python. Python's reference-counted garbage collection was also a good fit to the C library.

Together these helped simplify scientific research work quite a bit.

And that's without NumPy.

Even now I do a lot of non-numerical scientific software development, and rarely have need for NumPy. While I often use Python to steer components written in C or C++.
the important thing imo isn't the distinction of computing vs running experiment/simulating, but rather the pragmatical aspects around it: how easy is it to set up and execute.

if a quantum processor is sufficiently similar to regular computers and you can just run a couple of lines of code to actually simulate an arbitrary variety of different quantum systems, that will have mind boggling implications for large aspects of technology that deal with quantum systems (like material science).
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Three architectures that could power the robotic age, Festo develops with Isaac Sim to drive Its industrial automation, Apple announces the M2, Arista's latest switches pack AMD Xilinx FPGAs, Semiconductor growth still seen at 11% in 2022
Download books and read them. Also academic papers. Between archive.org and libgen you can get almost everything. For books I'll reread forever I buy paper copies.
It’s not complicated, it’s all about the arithmetic. If the user can supply enough hashpower to pay the site more than the ad then they can. I am skeptical that ads would be less profitable - but some sort of credit system where built up mining could escape future ads certainly isn’t off the table.

I really don’t know the logistics on ad revenue.
I was at the opera last night seeing Don Giovanni and some of these excerpts from Peyps are fairly close to the behaviour of the titular villain. It's intriguing that recorded contemporary attitudes towards stories of sexual misbehaviour were typically tinged with amusement.

Excellent article over all. Although one minor criticism I have is that it toes the line in terms of almost judging historical figures by today's morals at certain points.
Its ok to not defend bad behaviour from people you otherwise admire.