skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the artists I follow, not a single one has had anything good to say about NFTs. Their only interaction with NFTs has been dozens of scammers fraudulently minting NFTs of all their work, followed by exchanges putting the burden of proof on the artist to show that each individual NFT is fraudulent.

Maybe there's some legitimate business happening in the art NFT space, but if so, it's a drop in an ocean of fraud.
The USA is very much like Australia. Major difference is it takes about 20 km to go from, say, Brisbane CBD to the boonies in Australia -- whereas in the USA, particularly the northeast corridor, you have to go a bit farther through densely but not too densely populated suburbs.

If you want to see what spatial discipline looks like, check out Japan. I've always been impressed by Boston's ramification into side streets and back alleys where interesting shops, bars, and restaurants can be found. But a Japanese city ramifies a couple of iterations deeper: the side streets have side streets, the back alleys have back alleys. And they are littered with family-owned restaurants, tiny bars where you can have a conversation (unlike American bars where you have to shout to be heard over the sportsball game on every TV and the entire bar screaming when a score is made), and specialty shops of every sort. The shop you're interested in may be on the fourth, fifth, or tenth floor of a building. Any square meter that can be converted to retail space, will be. Train stations play host to entire subterranean strip malls. It's nuts. It's kind of cyberpunk. Or rather, cyberpunk borrowed from the aesthetics that blossomed on Asian city design constraints, particularly those of Japan, Hong Kong proper, and Kowloon Walled City.
No, not really.

Cities/counties/local municipalities tend to provide firefighting services to residents.

The National Guard will participate in fighting wildfires, but there are firefighters employed by the land management agencies that take the lead role.
Algebra geometry view makes sense to me. Considering ML as a learning to approximate scheme algorithm. Tensor representation is similar to the SDP trick achieving the optimal max-sat approximation. The difference is that DL approximates from inside of the high dimensional space (concave) while SDP approximates from outside (convex). The later one turns into polynomial algorithm, but the former one remains NP-hard. The success of DL just proved that there is a long way to go for P equals NP. Whenever we figure that out, symbolic approach and Tensor approach will merge.
Sure. I don't keep a running list of this (and I feel like I've seen some, but can't find them now) so it's a little off the cuff...

- Scrollbars not appearing until you attempt scrolling, so no indication that there is more content to scroll to. If you mouse-wheel scroll, then try to move over to click and drag, sometimes the scrollbar disappears before you can grab it. Yes, you can change this default, but... it's the default. Good examples: Dock & Menu Bar System Preferences sidebar, Spotlight results, Finder windows in list view.

- Having to hover over the more inner portion of a notification to get its close button to appear.

- Unintuitive Finder toolbar buttons for changing types of view, grouping, and 'More...'. Years on I still click the wrong ones routinely.

- Try searching your own music instead of Apple Music in the Music app. And then do it again. You are fighting the system to access your own content.

Here's an example of something that to date still is adhered to pretty well: having dialogs with OK/Cancel/possibly other interactions be ordered such that OK is to the right and the default, non-destructive action is the one that is both visually highlighted and resounds to the Return key. And Cancel responds to the Esc key. If you use another system where you literally have to pause for even a split-second and figure out which button is tied to which key action and whether you are going to lose some work — or read the informative text to parse it out — it drives you batty. Have a browse over https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... to see the sorts of things I'm talking about.

There are countless little interactions now that, if you've only used other computing systems, just feel like the things you need to do to accomplish tasks. Often they are "intuitive" to pro computer users because those users have gotten used to thinking how the computer wants them to think. But, if you've ever used a Mac thing done well, each use is a delight. Sometimes you can almost reflexively use a new interface and be delighted that the right thing just happened. If you then experience the sorts of degradations that have been happening over recent years, it's a double punch: one, a tedious annoyance and two, a reminder that it used to be — and can be — different.
They don't. An example search from my NFT anti-fraud solution:

https://fnftf.io/?results=982ce32629ebcbd7dce30baf2f84adafb5...

So there you have it - dozens of copies of the same art across the same chain and other chains plus dozens of other low-quality "remixes" that don't qualify as an original work. Nothing in the space (other than solutions like mine) do anything to authenticate the content in any form or fashion.

In fact, on FNFTF we make a pretty big deal of searches that only return one result (original and unique content) because it doesn't happen very often:

https://fnftf.io/?results=81cd744ab237b0eb68fbe1702c82db9cdf...

Shameless plug I suppose but there isn't anything else publicly available that shows just how bad and widespread this issue is.
The speed of light is way too slow
> Who, exactly, is going to pay?

Well, he clearly said the government. Who else would pay? Or could pay?

> if you did somehow pass a bill mandating $500/hour wages, how would the flood of applicants be managed?

We manage people going to work at FAANG and people becoming CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and people becoming actors and sports stars. "More people want this job than are applying" is something that most places that pay above minimum wage deal with.

> Is he saying that throwing more money at the problem would solve it faster?

Probably. With a lot of these problems more funding leads to faster solutions. Moreover, if you knew that solving those problems was a valid career move, the smartest people would stop aiming towards software and wall street.

> How about "nuclear war over Taiwan"?

This seems unlikely. Putin using nukes over losing in Ukraine seems far more possible, although if other countries retaliated is an open question. China seems really patient about Taiwan.
I think you are just reiterating what the person I was replying to said. Makes sense, what I was saying is that it should be explained that there are differences with pure mathematics and that it's meant to be a pragmatic tool, and maybe even some of the reasoning as to why the differences are the way they are.
Privacy != Anonymity
D-D-Don't quote me regulations. I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey
I have been using copilot for two months and I find it more annoying than useful, am the only one that feel like this?, I also used tabnine, and it gives a lot of syntax errors in rust, so I could barely use it for a week. I definitely can agree that copilot is better than tabnine, but I feel like writing code is the easy part of programming, and copilot doesn't offer a crazy help to justify the monthly payment and that my private code is uploaded to Microsoft servers. Not only that, but I find that my IDE suggestion are good enough most of the time.
generally any alternative sugar that isn't metabolized by you is metabolized by bacteria
We don’t have to be high density in America. We can have our natural spaces and well planned green cities.

America is a nation of immigrants. They didn’t leave their home countries and sacrifice so much for a better future to go back into high density apartments and sprint to the park for fresh air.

I know elderly Asian neighbors who hyperventilate at city hall meetings when they hear their adopted country going the way of the homes they fled. And my heart goes out to them. My friends who came here from communist regimes prefer to live in middle America that used to be immune to the coastal political restlessness.

The way a govt can control a citizen’s life is through housing, taxes and trade it for quality of life. It’s borderline blackmail. Current trends and progressive/liberal/greenwashing fads invalidates entire lives and makes a mockery of immigrants’ journeys made towards a prosperous abundant life that is free from govt constraints.
Half Life Alyx ruined VR gaming for me. Every other game feels like a tech demo compared to it, and so my Valve Index sits behind me collecting dust.

So to has Phoenix ruined any other way of building website. The though of going back to react and all that mess just makes my stomach turn.

We're building a new startup with Liveview, all-in and it's been fun. There are some sharp corners but you get so much for free it's completely worth it to me. I don't think I would build a webapp with anything other than liveview for the next decade. It's just too good and too productive.
> 2b. If > 67% of the network refuses, transactions can be successfully censored.

Similar with PoW. For both PoW and PoS, the proper response is to socially coordinate forking out the censoring block producer majority (like with the Bitcoin UASF that was threatened over much less egregious miner misbehavior). PoS improves on PoW here in two ways:

1. Non-censoring PoS block producers can have a tiny meatspace presence compared to PoW mining operations, which makes it easier to physically evade pro-censorship forces

2. It's more effective to coordinate a direct confiscation of the censoring PoS block producers' on-chain capital investment, compared to making miners' equipment partially obsolete by coordinating an ad-hoc redesign of the PoW algorithm

https://nitter.net/dystopiabreaker/status/156071598642414796...
The big idea is this: a wind farm is rows and rows of wind machines. Those rows at the "front" - facing into the wind - disturb the air flowing to those in following rows. But, if you make some rows of wind machines just a bit less efficient by making them point slightly sideways to the wind, overall, that lets more "fresh air" make it to rows further downwind.The overall effect is that the farm itself produces more energy.

There's a rub to this and it depends on how the wind farms were sold. When I was doing wind energy and consulting on wind farm sales, frequently (this was 40 years ago) individual wind machines were sold to individual investors, such as wealthy people taking advantage of tax incentives (don't get me started on that one).

So, I own one of those machines, and my monthly income depends on how much energy my machine produces; if they turn my machine sideways, I get smaller checks; I'm not going to be a happy camper.

Having said that, it may be the case today - I've done no research on this - that individuals don't buy machines in that way anymore. (edit: fixed typo)
Neobanks Are Struggling to Make Good on Their Lofty Promises
The personal solution is to not buy monitors from manufacturers that fail to put EDID chips in their HDMI signal path. The set of manufacturers that do this is well-documented.
I'm suggesting maybe writing the Lebesgue measure as

1

so the Lebesgue integral of a function f becomes

⌠
| f(x)⋅1 dx
⌡

The logic is that the Lebesgue measure is a density which is everywhere equal to 1. Given a measurable space over \mathbb R^n, I think there is only one such measure.

Another example is that δ(x) in

⌠
| f(x)⋅δ(x) dx
⌡

represents the Dirac measure.

For producing this ASCII art, I use Sympy. I write for instance

pprint(Integral(f(x) * delta(x)))
Likewise the impression I formed was that Pa was impulsive and a bad businessman. Now, we don't know if he kept on the move because of something like bad debts, which would not be shocking or even necessarily incriminating.
Ask HN: Why tf do I have to install Java freaking 8 to run Android SDK?
Seriously google this was released in 2014, even Java 11 doesn't work. WTF is y'all's problem.
It's all relative. If everyone else moving in can spend a mill plus, you're priced out. If you and your neighbors happen to be the only ones improving things, and the mil plus group comes in and stagnates/displaces you through gentrificative forces, requiring you to to start from scratch elsewhere.

Lets say you live long enough for the cycle to repeat multiple times. I assume proponents would say, "well, hooray, everyone but you is way better off, I guess it sucks that you weren't better at managing money", when all anyone ever wanted to do was live together and be left alone.
https://archive.ph/O0925
Probably a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32531141
I don't think that conclusion is warranted at all.

The bigger problem with human reasoning is that it is impossible to keep 'the sum total of human creativity' in your head, but there is no reason why an AI could not do this, minus the 'head' part.
"There's plenty of space, grow wide."

"That land is in use already."

"Lololol strawman! No u!"

Alright, sure.
My major did not require DE, but I took it anyway as a senior--mostly to test my mettle. Most of the time, I was just like why won't they just let me solve this via the Trapezoidal Rule (or similar, my memory is hazy on this), or Monte Carlo methods.
> There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

I'm honestly tired of explaining to people that this line of Python zen does not mean that there shouldn't be more than one ways to do something. On a very literal level, it states that there should be one obvious way to do it -- and in no way defines how many non-obvious ways there should be.

What you're calling "clever" stuff is just regular Python functionalities, even if many of them are non-obvious. The only thing before something being "simple" and "clever" is how much is an individual familiar with something.
I think that's a pretty interesting conversation, I see two sub-questions:

1) Is our intuition that art requires effort some remnant of the labor theory of value applied to art?

2) Is it simply that as something requires less effort to make it redefines the baseline for what is considered beautiful, and thus to create something that stands out requires more effort than what's commonly available to everyone?
I'm sure what you mean. NFTs allow for a market for digital art, in that there's an immutable ledger where artists can say "I am selling 10 'signed artworks' of this piece". Because the ledger is known to be immutable, and it allows for transactions between users, you have a market where there wasn't one before.

The problem of authenticating art before this, for a digital artist, was that you HAD to have a gallery do it with you in order for it to work. No one trusted anyone, not even the artist, to say that there would only be "10 copies" of that digital artwork, since they couldn't do any follow through if the artist decided to say there were ten copies but sold 10 000. This was an issue with digital art that was previously only solved by the reputation of X art gallery - the art gallery would say - "we certified only 10 copies, and our reputation as a gallery protects this artwork from being certified again".

With NFTs you just do it. The problem was gatekeeping, the need for an "authority" to certify your signatures on digital art, and the process involved. NFTs are a click of a button and a few dollars to mint.

Does that answer your question?
> Way too many people argue about this stuff without having thought through the consequences and the possibility that one day they themselves may well be begging for that kind of relief.

Yes, could not agree more. I see the same thing when arguing with people about accessibility to pain medications, where people who are generally healthy and not tormented by chronic pain want to throw roadblock after roadblock in people's way, and support policies that take away pain medication from people who need it which is literally torture. These people view addiction as

We like to think that we moderns are so much more enlightened than people of the past who engaged in extreme cruelty against others, but in reality we're still pretty horrible. We just do it now through a mix of apathy (out of sight, out of mind), hubris, and moralism, by building a system in which people aren't free to make their own medical decisions but instead are forced to concede to the dictates of another. It's no doubt progress given where we started, but we still have a long way to go. I am optimistic that at some point people will learn empathy and humility, and stop projecting their own thoughts/beliefs/opinions onto others by coercion.

I love this quote from CS Lewis:

> "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

> They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
We planted our own trees 15 years ago and now, we cut, split and dry our own firewood, it's a lot of work, though it is an extra pleasure to sit in front of such a fire
I can see why people stopped doing it.
Everyone in this class was uniquely confused compared to every other class I took. Had a 80% drop-out rate. I don't think it was fully a problem of the students.
Care to actually elaborate on what your meaning is, or refute any points presented?
Wow, your professor had an amazing idea! I wonder why isn't this strategy more common in college classes.
Crypto itself can cross borders as a intangible virtual entity. You cannot. Your physicality means you're bounded by geographical borders to a nation state and thus its laws and regulations.
It's even reasonable to call the loader a linker (a "dynamic" one), as its main job is updating addresses in jumps etc. to match the locations where it loads modules.
Thank you for a civil, intelligent conversation.

I had never thought about the "asymmetry" of putting control codes with the character codes in ASCII--it does seem illogical now that you point it out. :) Languages like Ido aren't completely "artificial", and I certainly think Couturat didn't fail in some sense--my irrational issue with Ido, despite its numerous strengths, is that words with the same part of speech end in the same letter(s), making it monotonous. But as my wife pointed out, that regularity makes it easier for computers to parse.
It's a heuristic. If you haven't done a randomized placebo controlled double blind exhaustive study of the compound and all you have to go on is the layout of the molecule, is it a bad guess?
Reminds me some of Django or jinja template tags.

Except the tag names are free form and the source is generated rather than defined.
Agreed. This article (haven't read the book) has the feel of yet another "ackshually."
> I assume something like Moore’s Law applies tbh.

We're nearing the limits of physics already. I do expect hardware to get much faster still, but not forever and not as fast as now.

> I agree of course it makes order of magnitude slower. The point is - how long until this slow is good enough to perform immensely useful things, with a better distribution of wealth generation than the current datacenter model?

I think really never. Because the rest of the world doesn't sit idle, and most anything can be done the traditional way.

You could pay huge $$$ to create a smart contract on ETH, or you could get more power than any normal person could afford on the Ethereum blockchain on the AWS EC2 free tier. If you think paying amounts with a few zeroes in them is a sensible thing, then you have far more computing power available.

I think the only reason to use the blockchain is if you really need the blockchain. And the vast majority of computing doesn't. And as we're seeing, the blockchain is very much vulnerable if the world wants to push it around badly enough.
Not at all - it is an excellent way to make modules, well, modular - allowing complex internal namespacing while keeping the surface clean and simple.
Congrats to the team, that's a big milestone!
If you're trying to support a claim, it's more useful if you specifically point out which facts you believe support the claim, rather than linking to a many-page summary, with some 183 footnotes.

Usually if someone does this, I take it as an indication of arguing in bad faith, and give up on the conversation, but in this case I assumed good faith and scanned your link for the section that seemed relevent to your claim.

Anyway:

> Signaling molecules such as endocannabinoids are constructed from specific essential PUFAs, that combined with our cells swapping out different fatty acids to alter membrane fluidity

No dispute there...

> we literally lack the enzymes to construct them

...or there.

> tell me that we do need them

But you can't conclude that! You're still missing a demonstration that not being able use PUFA in these ways would lead to pathology.

And if it does, then what is the minimum level of PUFA consumption needed to to avoid it?

As far as I know, those questions have not been answered.

That said, I do think you're probably right, on an intuitive level. Any traditional diet (or indeed any diet that incorporates whole foods) will contain some PUFA, so it would make sense we were evolved to function best with some PUFA in our diet.

But, at least per Ray Peat's claim, all experiments with diets claiming to show the essential nature of PUFA were manifestly defficient in other ways.

So it seems the claim has yet to be demonstrated, and remains somehwat uncertain.
Did you read the part where I said “yes I get it”, because yes, I get it.

I just think it’s really lazy.
I don’t know. It seems like deep learning might take us really far.

> A third possibility, which I personally have spent much of my career arguing for, aims for middle ground: “hybrid models”

So this person witnessed the last 5 years of DL advancements and didn’t update their beliefs at all?
I might test waters saying ...do you think it is worth exploring if automation is possible in this area? Maybe that will allow them to focus on more human intelligence and analytics tasks?

If they are receptive ... I am happy to look around for any possible solutions that might help you. Will let you know if I find anything that might interest you.

If my boss / other team sound comfortable I might share snippets or demo a possible solution a week later.

Otherwise if the response is not encouraging I will keep it to myself.
Thank you for this. The fact that you did this shows that there is a potential for a solution for NFT/art copies. Hopefully markets will begin doing this themselves and stop this plague.