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> Good try, but trite criticism regarding crypto is required to include the words "Ponzi" and "tulips"

Thank you, I'm trying to come up with an "anti bullshit bingo" since the bullshit bingo from cryptocurrencies has already managed to raise tens of billions of dollars. Glad you like it.

> Quite an imagination! You're very far off, do you have any experience in this space?

I was trying to be generous since crypto supporters always like to point to the newest barely working bleeding edge centralized "layer" called lightning or thunderbolt or some other electricity derived thing, which is supposed to greatly accelerate the glacial rate of crypto transactions.

Again, can I use crypto of any kind to buy $2 peanuts at the supermarket in Bucharest and grandma $1 popcorn at the cinema in Djibouti, without turning Earth into Venus?
If I'm reading that page right, the actual minimum cost (in us-west1) is $65.70/month, because a "node" is $657/month, but if you look elsewhere in the documentation, it says a single "instance" can be as small as 1/10 of a node.

I have no idea why they chose to structure the pricing model this way, but it makes the entry-level cost look a lot worse than it really is.
Over 90% of NFTs flow through one provider, Pinata. OpenSea, GME, and many other exchanges are all powered by Pinata, without which you would have a terrible experience buying and trading NFTs. Of which, NFTs are primarily traded on two platforms.

It's already centralized, all of it, from the blockchain to the "dapps" built on top of them.
Yes, but to realize it, you have to get (bribe) a major exchange to list your coin.
https://twitter.com/ShitUserStory/status/1570389286121250819
Here is another thread from HackerNews today:

”Stripe nuked my business”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528

Visa/MasterCard is never going to be a solution for everyone, everywhere, even if it is a solution for a particular Orignal Poster.
I’m not sure what is extraordinary about someone dying, isn’t that sadly very ordinary?
Surely it's due to the mobile application that HN is always pushing. And the invasive tracking. And the paywall. And the ads, the ads go without saying.
It is a shadow government but it also makes sense.
While I'm generally very unsympathetic to Marcus' anti-AI arguments at this point, this critique makes some sense. If e.g. the model is just combining the features at random, you'd expect it to combine them the right way over enough tries. It isn't that simple, and I don't believe it matters as this is hardly the peak model we'll get but in isolation his objection is valid.
Commenter said "there's no way to distinguish fake wash trades from real ones" and I showed a case where a wash trade was, to anybody looking at it, very obviously fake.

I agree with the other part of the comment. Blockchains do not track "persons" but "wallets" and so metrics like "number of users" will not be accurate. But it is not accurate to imply that it is impossible to recognize wash trades. In many cases they are very obvious, and even can be automatically flagged. In other cases - like with CEX mixers - only the authorities can detect the fraud.
"because bots and market makers buy from you so fast"

Does that still hold true today, or was that the case six months ago before the NFT market crashed?
Future bring CPU modules and the future is now
Indeed, and that's even the branding used in the Wikipedia article on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
Amplify Teleport was (is?) just that: https://amplifi.com/teleport . I think it's now software only.

What you're describing is just a router + WireGuard. I have a server with WireGuard that acts as an exit node in tailscale network and RPi with WireGuard that acts as SoftAP that routes the entire WiFi network through that WireGuard connection.

For this solution to be truly plug'n'play you need to figure out how to punch holes in NAT. Tailscale has ways of connecting two nodes even if both behind NAT and block UDP.
> where all peers hold a full copy

how large is a full copy these days?

how are peers jump started and why is that mechanism trusted so well? like say I want to connect to the blockchain, I need to make an API request to some IP. how is that resolved and why is that regarded as "decentralized"? why is the mechanism for serving me peers trusted and why is every peer in the network trusted?
Gaming with being able to earn money is something I normally call gambling or work.

It's depressing to think about it.

And yes people who made gold in wow were also not gaming but working. It wasn't cool, fun or whatever 10 years ago
All in all I prefer the SI system, but the Imperial system has it's advantages. 5280 feet seems really arbitrary, but can halve it five times and still get an integer.

It also divides evenly by 3.

For comparison:

1/3 of a mile is 1760 feet.
1/2 of that is 880 feet
1/2 of that is 440 feet
1/2 of that is 220 feet
1/2 of that is 110 feet
1/2 of that is 55 feet.

1/3 of a km is 333.333333 meters
1/2 of that is 166.666667 meters
1/2 of that is 83.333333 meters
1/2 of that is 41.666667 meters
1/2 of that is 20.833333 meters
1/2 of that is 10.416667 meters
RIP in Peace Ligma, I won't miss you at all, you sack of shit.
This is the typical communist/labour style answer which ignores that todays mobile work force is not just a body in a geography. An employee past about 5 years experience is essentially unique when observed across the many variables (education, years of experience with each specific tool, industry/domain experience, soft skills etc). Just because a capable expat employee happens to presently be located in Costa Rica, doesnt mean a capable Costa Rican can be found. The most valuable people in the workforce are not cogs.
I agree that in general, it matters.

However, by a long series of deliberate actions, Stripe has made it irrelevant to the fact that they are now deliberately, unilaterally, and with zero notice whatsoever shutting down that biz' critical infrastructure.

They could have, and should have as a part of KYC compliance, already figured out what type of business it is. If they failed at that, then fine, give them 60 days notice to find other infrastructure. Stripe is taking its OWN FAILURE to properly vet their customers according to their own standards and dumping the consequences onto the ex-customers. Sorry, but unless we're talking actual provable international criminal/autocratic money-laundering, that's just wrong.
Trading cards and NFTs have a lot in common.

- Scarcity, artificial or otherwise.

- Subjective value. Neither an NFT or a trading card provides substantial, measurable utility to its owner. But, we can agree they have "value" of some kind.

- Lack of oversight. Governments doesn't have entire offices monitoring irregular sale prices for Obelisk the Tormentor or Mickey Mantle.

- Low transaction volume. If you're the only market-maker, you can set your own price.

These attributes lead me to believe that NFTs and trading cards would both very effective tools for someone trying to launder money.

You can take away any one of those attributes, and the asset would become much more difficult to use for money laundering. For NFTs, oversight seems inevitable in the next couple of years. One can only hope.
most english speaking countries apart from the us (and canada?) say and. Are you saying they are wrong and you are right?
Just a guess but they could be invalidating the cookie controlling whether to display the banner server-side due to a bug.
Happened to my startup too. But the alternatives turned out to be even worse. We capitulated.
Lancet report claiming Covid could have come from U.S. lab met with uproar
Right, I'm not saying there's no real trading, just that it's impossible to say how much. Which makes the graphs and anecdotes quoted in the article a bit meaningless, IMO.
Not sure I agree. They're services. Uber is a car as a service. You don't pay monthly, but you use it as a service.

I don't pay a subscription for Gmail or their productivity suite, but those are SaaS.
I have a software product that began with a traditional SaaS model before I realized that usage was project-driven/sporadic and it was better for the customer to do a pay-as-you-go model with no subscriptions.

What happened after I made the switch away from subscriptions?

I received a bunch of support questions asking for the subscription options back. People were truly confused/upset that hosted software wasn't being sold on a monthly or annual subscription basis - even though per-project was more flexible and cheaper for them.

My takeaway is that - for better or worse - the SaaS subscription model is just so expected among buyers these days that to defy those expectations is just going to shoot yourself in the foot.
> contracts along the lines of "if (condition)

what are some examples of these conditions? how is it not like... i put money in escrow, if the buyer agrees i did my part, they click agree and that's the "condition"?
I knew the concept (every post on "I want a randome number in a range" mentions it), but I didn't know the name, thanks.
Most regular people really, really need a working "I forgot my password" feature.
Ethereum contracts 'enforce' integrity the same way (but better) as escrowed down payments on housing purchases 'enforce' integrity - they allow a consequence if one or both parties do not fulfill the terms. They can also automate the financial transaction. Why anyone would read more into it than that is beyond me. These are not meant to replace laws or writ.
This is fun, we used to do something like this in high school called Five Clicks to Jesus, which is exactly what it sounds like.

I find this particular version a bit tedious because you aren't allowed to Find on a page. What good is having a timer if I can't go fast? Why punish me twice for reaching a dead end page by making me read the entire thing to discover that I need to go back?
The same can happen at low prices so that the owners can claim the paintings have lost value and can offset some other capital gains.
It's easy to forget the firehose of fraud attempts that platforms like Stripe, PayPal, etc must be dealing with 24 hours a day. I assume that's what's behind most of these unfortunate incidents. Not that there is fraud in this case, but this could be one false positive among billions of true positives.
I don't mind, help yourself.
Fair rebuttal, that we must not forget local grievances... but I do think the order of magnitude, and level of transparency / accountability between these two cases makes the US a clear winner when choosing the lesser of 2 evils _today_.
Pretty cool! Some of these are very fun to think about, where to look to find the most likely connection and trying to come up with intermediate concepts that would likely link two thinks. Like linking "Analytics" to "Surrey" my first thought was "bank" since it's close to both Analytics and the UK.
I doubt that for credit cards. Carrefour or pick your favorite supermarket chain alone probably generate hundreds of transactions per second worldwide during peak periods, and there are tens of major supermarket chains you've never heard of. Add regular grocery stores, cinemas, etc, I'd be really interested in an order of magnitude, but at peak times it has to be in the tens of thousands if not low hundreds of thousands.

For crypto I was trying to be super generous, I know they're incredibly slow.
Stallman would probably be happy with the idea of paying an expert who used open tools. It's no different from taking a bus, or hiring a taxi if you don't know how to drive.

My impression is that the key aspect revolves around freedom to participate in society. In theory anyone can run their own email, irc, matrix, etc servers. Anyone is free to use an off the shelf open source product, a paid product, or even write their own if there is need.
But before they’re broken in, they can cause serious issues on longer walks. Metatarsal fractures are no joke.
SAP ECC is the ERP system and SAP HANA is the in-memory database, designed to handle transactions and analytics. HANA was originally designed to be a data warehouse, but it has grown into all-in-one data platform that manages analytical, transactional, and application development.
Where I worked, the CEO would walk in and get a free burrito. It's another kind of headache (technically that burrito is pay, and needs to be taxed and declared as CEO pay), but that was considered preferable to revenue inflation which is fraud rather than dodging taxes.
It's a bit of everything. Sure there are mistakes, but OTOH the complexity also grows exponentially.

And it's literally impossible to make software without mistakes. Doesn't matter how much money you throw at it.
Ask HN: AWS CSA-Professional – Training materials? Is it worth it?
So I posted about the AWS CSA-A exam on Hackernews about 8 months ago.

Happy to say that I passed it using the ACloudGuru course, with some 900+ rating.

That being said, whenever I look up practise exam questions for AWS CSA-P, I seem to find a lot of conflicting sentiment from the quizes... Some focus a lot on CloudFormation - if CSA-P is 20-30% CF knowledge, then I do not want to take it.

Similarly, I was recommended Adrian Cantrill's course on CSA-A - I notice he has one on CSA-P, and it seems to be quite bespoke to the exam, as opposed to the ACloudGuru one which didn't seem entirely inspired by what was actually asked in the exam.

My two questions are:

- CSA-P - Is it as heavy in CloudFormation crap as some sites make it seem?

- Is Adrian Cantrill's course enough to get me through the exam? Is there a cheaper alternative?

P.S.

I know that certification isn't absolutely necessary to getting work with cloud architecture, but I imagine that getting through the door is easiest when I have it. In full-stack-ey roles, I tend to struggle on leetcode style questions, and would like some other value adding proposition to make up for it.
The GoldenEye Re-Releases Are a Weirdly Convoluted Situation
You're getting downvoted but I agree with you.

I've referred to Trump as the ultimate pen-tester of the US political system.
I don't believe either of those are true. As it happens, the largest companies capture so much of the market that they can afford being inefficient, and they still have the power to push the competition into a corner.

There are small-margin markets where this doesn't happen, bit then those markets don't have huge companies either.
In terms of strategic voting, if you are okay with 2 candidates in a close 3+ candidate race, refusing to vote for one of them in favor of the other risks the candidate you don't prefer winning the election.

I think your idea about being the tiebreaker is a little reductive, since it really assumes you are choosing between 1 of n candidates you like, and that the other candidates are known to be losers.
same thing happened to us, our ceo also sent us a similar email. He bounced 3 months later to enjoy his billions i guess.
To me, Sketch is a spiritual successor of Fireworks.

I loved Fireworks, but it had far too many quirks that weren't improved, and when I discovered Sketch I was amazed how many thing that did bother me a lot in Fireworks were made just right in Sketch.
This is such an edgy teen attitude type of comment.

Why do you live in the US, then? That should make you think a bit harder about failed states.
Regarding Gary Marcus, the author of this piece, and his long and bizarre history of motivated carelessness on the topic of deep learning:

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/v8yyv6/somewhat_c...
> no, traffic lights are efficiency.

Yes, but:

https://xkcd.com/277/

Around here, typical light cycles are 2-3 minutes, and intersections often sit idle for 60+ seconds. When there are power outages, and the lights switch to four way stop mode (blinking red), traffic usually improves. Also, the California state government has basically mandated programs that intentionally increase congestion.

They call it traffic quiescing, or say they want to reduce commute miles driven per year. No, they aren't providing meaningful improvements to public transit or bike safety.
For your two specific product questions:

> 1) Personal photos and videos backup and viewer. - Just give me a cheap cloud for backup and a desktop app for viewing.

It sounds like you want a one time purchase for backup that lasts forever? I'm not sure who is going to rationally offer that service as there are ongoing costs.

> 2) Personal budget - Just give me a desktop app that connects to my different accounts and gives me overview.

At least in the US that means you have to directly work with banks (ala Quicken), use a third party service (like Plaid) or maintain your own scraping system that perpetually breaks and/or violates the bank TOS. Any of those options is going to cost the software provider ongoing costs. Again nobody is going to take a one time payment and be liable for ongoing costs.

I do think there is money to be made in the right industry for desktop apps that charge a decent amount ($100 and up) and offer 1 year of updates and then perpetual use with the final updated version for that year of use. This incentivizes the developer to maintain security updates and make feature additions so users are willing (but not required) to pay again in the future.
Running a successful business that is intrinsically tied to a well-known or well-trusted institution is not only common, it's the case for the majority of businesses. Which is WHY we have consumer protection (it's not to protect your typical "consumer", it's to protect the money interests of business people).
How many businesses do you think could survive a disruption to their banking access? Or maybe their internet access? Electricity access?
These things get laws to guarantee their functionality, even though they're private industry, because keeping businesses running is pretty important.

So no, in no universe is it rational to believe that trusting a resource to deliver on their promises is, in any way, "fucking yourself". You're just projecting your paranoia onto others as a mechanism for rationalization. You have the privilege of living with backups, and pretend that it makes you more reasonable than others, because it boosts your ego while simultaneously satiating your paranoia. It's fine - I always carry a full sized spare tire in my compact car. Inconvenient and hardly used, sure. But it stifles my paranoia about the many times I've needed to ad-hoc replace a tire. And has saved me more trouble than I can quantify.
That doesn't mean people who can't afford a full-sized spare are 'fucking themselves' by not prioritizing it over, say, other or less-costly needs. It just means that I have privileges they don't.
Macromedia Freehand was also nice.
Devbox: Build your Docker image from `scratch`
Payment processors exist for customers who were rejected by Stripe/PayPal/etc.

I had a client who was a processor and they used banks in Malta at the back end.
Sketch is the new Fireworks.
Is the second layer decentralized? A small number of large players does not make it decentralized.
I think the point is that you should be able to use one commodity service to handle your data storage and syncing needs. (Or maybe a couple different ones, if you're worried about your account getting terminated.) But that doesn't mean you should have to be nickel-and-dimed by subscriptions for every individual application you want to use.
If you like the outdoors, Lexington is great. Plenty of hiking, kayaking, fishing, rock climbing, etc. within a short drive. It is a college town, so it is way more progressive than the backwoods parts of the state. You will hear different accents for sure. Neat seasonal events like Keeneland, plenty of scenic drives to the smaller surrounding cities (things like bourbon distillery tours and small museums in/around Frankfort) and lots of Mexican food.

Cincinnati is close and has even more amenities like Jungle Jim's (2x giant grocery stores, 100% go here), CAM, theme parks, Union Terminal and niche museums (Sign Museum, VOA, Air Force Museum in Dayton), various pinball arcades, and places like Microcenter.
Is it an option to tokenize the recurring payments across both providers, but only charge on one provider at a time?
I completely forgot about Google Duplex. It looks like it is still around but very limited in terms of what phones you can use, what cities it can be used in, and what businesses in those cities will accept it. Doesn't appear any progress has really been made in the past few years. I think this is a great point of how companies create something with AI that is initially really cool, but isn't quite there to actually be very usable and gets forgotten when they roll out the next big thing.
0 stress or effort needed. But your purchasing power goes up 15x. When you rent a 3 bedroom beach house in Turkey for $450/month and the rest of your expenses don't exceed $1k but you're still getting 6 figures...
It’s not illegal to be a monopoly; it’s illegal to use your monopoly to profoundly disadvantage your competitors.

An example was Microsoft threatening to cancel HP’s Windows license if they bundled Netscape Navigator instead of Internet Explorer back in the browser war days.
> 1. the capacity to signify a digital original and 2. to decentrally organize ownership (though it's more like possession) of these items.

There is nothing novel in this. You could do it in Bitcoin too by agreeing that a certain transaction structure that includes a digital hash is a valid way to signify an original with that hash, and a spend from that address represents an ownership change.

It's simply a convention, and people don't do it because it's mostly a useless diversion from established ways to record and trade IP.

The true NFT innovation is the marketing gimmick that such a convention has any real world relevance and somehow magically makes the IP non-fungible. This enabled massive speculation on essentially worthless (and fully fungible) IP, expressed in a clunky and impractical distributed database.
Then you've got your ZIP+4 format ...
You want a real challenge? Build a number input that handles localizations, some countries use "," to separate decimals, and allow displaying thousand seperator automatically while typing, but read the value as a normal number during submit.

So something like "12.400,56" turns to 12400.56 and vice versa.

Also, is it just me or does this article seem to be a bit of an ad for "keenforms"? Its mentioned multiple times.
SF does pour rain fairly often between January and March, those films could have chosen the time of year for the desired atmosphere.
It's interesting that people keep coming up with things that are meant to distinguish AI systems from human intelligence, but then when somebody builds a system that crushes the benchmark the next generation comes up with a new goalpost.

The difference now is that the timescales are weeks or months instead of generations. I believe we will see models that have super-human "compositional" reasoning within 1 year.
Perhaps, but it IS a good example of a system that protects the end user from monetary loss in the event of fraud due to leaked credentials (in this case the card number + CVV + exp date). In my opinion, any system that seeks to replace credit cards needs to have a similar ability to recover user funds in the case of inevitable security leaks, which is something many crypto systems struggle with.
Indeed. I still build my game assets in Animate CC, export them with the Export Texture Atlas feature, and then have a custom built runtime play the animations in my game. It’s quite simple to build such a runtime for immediate mode rendering engines such HTML canvas, Monogame, Kha.
Don't forget about the Merge song "Pandas are not known for running" - a true classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpj9tMIDIY

Cheers
Fwiw, it’s not much fun when a thread is bombarded with only a small number of users repeatedly replying to a wide number of users. At some point, we understand your views. Apologies, this is not meant as a personal attack.