timdaub

I'm depressed about rC3. I totally get that we can't meet up in person and hack all day but this year I've been so unexcited about rC3 that I didn't even bother to get a (free) ticket.

Of course, I value everybody's enthusiasm towards continuing a tradition. I'm happy the scene continues to do their best and I'm grateful to be able to listening in the talks.

But it still feels off. The congress and other chaos events are so much more than what the live streams portait. It's exhibition halls full of nerds. Waves of applauses and cheering of everyone's excitement. Pixelflut, tschunk, blinking LEDs and having an awesome time with my haxor friends for 3 days a year.

Fingers crossed that we can meet in person next year!

Hi HN,

I submitted this as I think it's interesting to many given that there's a criticial mindset towards SPA-ifying every web app.

I started svg-line-chart because I wanted to give my users the best possible experience on any network, device anywhere in the world.

The website this library is used is cached everywhere using Cloudflare. It's PageSpeed Score is 100 and I believe that it has become a competitive edge that my website is fast and just loads. I don't have to download the data, I don't have to load JavaScript and probably SVG rendering is even accelerated using the graphics card (not sure).

It has a small drawback, which is that it's non interactive. But for now that's been ok.

If I had the time, I'd rebuild whatever is possible from d3js in svg!

Isn't it obvious that an underpriviledged person has more authority in the domain of being underpriviledged than a differently-priviledged person?

I'd recommend learning by doing. Working with clients is not different than working with e.g. your boss except that both of you are equal on deontic and epistemic authority.

You'll get better at working with clients through experience - essentially you'll build wisdom.

For sure, you'll fuck up a lot of relationships before things start to go well. That's normal.

You'll also have to think of an economic position and where you want to stand in the relationship to your clients. Are you thirsty for work? Can you communicate rationally under high pressure? Are you being exploited? How much heart do you put into your client's work?

I've written an article about the relationship I once had with my clients. But since then it probably became outdated once again. It changes constantly, but maybe it's interesting for you: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/01/16/web-principles/

I've been a follower of Hintjen's writing since a few years. I appreciate his thoughts on distributed systems and software governance. He's still shining like a rare diamond on those topics and I think we'll take many more years to truly apply all his forward-thinking principles into practice.

I'm sad to have now discovered this article by him which hasn't arguably aged well. Or let's say that I would have wished that Peter never trespassed into involving himself into the world of social justice. He couldn't be an authority in there and so I judge this article to be rather useless or superfluous.

On the other hand, I get it: If you spend too much time on Twitter it really can alter your perception such that you start to think in the patterns laid out in the article. Twitter is a parallel society. It's hella interesting but also not real.

But what happens on it isn't what happens in real life. Once you've gotten off of it, you start to understand.

Quitting Twitter and quitting smoking, in that regard, felt much alike.

Seems you haven't read the article as he never mentions not liking his timeline. His criticism is conceptually way beyond the Twitter timeline.

- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

no because similar to PGP keys it really doesn't matter where you publish your fingerprint or how you connect your identities. If shaq had a popular website, he could do it there too. E.g. I have my PGP fingerprint on my website: https://timdaub.github.io

I suggest that to fix the problem of a single owner being able to sign away the ape to more than one person, the app could be extended as such:

- For every new custody signature, the signer publishes the transfer online to a collectively-maintained database

- We chose the database software such that is publicly accessible to anyone that wants to participate in ape collecting and checking custody signatures

- In case some people start to get annoying and illegitimately edit the custody database, we somehow try to lock the databases edit function making it append-only

e.g. that's why famous nft artists either have their ENS name in their Twitter bio or as their name. With that, you know that e.g. if shaq.eth minted an NFT, it's indeed the real shaq o'neal as otherwise the imposter shaq.eth registrar would have had to have the access to the real shaq o'neal's Twitter account.

You're wrongly assuming that all incidence data of COVID-19 accurately represents its real spread. E.g. it may just be that beyond a point of exponential growth testing ceases to be accurate. The German Robert Koch institute has pointed out many times that there's a hidden incidence number of all actual cases and the official one that represents everyone tested and recorded.

Yeah the NFT isn't the image. The image is metadata, read the ERC721 contract interface [1]. The NFT is the NFT.

- 1: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721#specification

> Its not an NFT of this person, its not even an NFT of the picture. Its an NFT that points to an image.

It can be "an NFT of that person". The NFT is the contract and the image, name and descriptions can be considered metadata. I think you're unnecessarily picky here: Strictly speaking, you're also not buying "a song of the Beatles", you're buying a copy/recording of an encoded piece of convoluted sinus waves or whatever.

Relevant art work: "Ceci n’est pas une pipe.", La trahison des images from René Magritte.

I dislike your condescending tone and I also think your speech doesn't generalize.

There are large code bases in production that are productive: Everything that is open source - and still the process isn't as shit as op describes.

So this has to do with corporate hierarchies and not the quality of the code.

Can we stop calling projects 'blue chip"? Thanks.

You put a large emphasis on the idea that I have invested in cryptocurrencies and that I'm hence arguing for that.

But even if I had, wouldn't you equally be a shill for having invested in companies that merely exist for the sake of cryptographic functionality? Do you think any FAANG would be able to exist without cryptography? Do you hold any kind of stock? Because if so, your incentives aren't likely more inspiring than mine.

The context is that the economist wrote a piece on "most powerful people in crypto", so isn't it a bit weird that people assume these people to be cryptographers? Economist, crypto?

Am I?

Anyways, the definition of "reactionary" is to hold onto an outdated believe or assumption. Crypto means cryptocurrencies these days. I was just stating the obvious.

I'm a daily user of nitter. As someone without a Twitter account, nitter has legit a 10x better UX than Twitter. It loads super fast and just works. On Twitter, it seems the "X" to remove the sign up popup is first run through 10 react js virtual dom frameworks, it's so sluggish.

"crypto means cryptography" is reactionary.

haha me too

yes, nothing bad happened for me neither. Everything seems to work as expected.

Or maybe, everyone that accepted in the meantime has received a brand new Meta VR headset maybe :D?

As a person that has worked on a product that did NFTs before they reached mainstream [1]: This is not what we were trying to achieve.

And before anyone comes with the classic HN argument that blockchain is a hammer looking for a nail. Sorry no. In 2015, we did what any other startup would do to create a product and talked to a whole lot of customers and did story elicitation.

What customers were interested in was:

- being able to prove the existence and hence authorship of their digital artwork upon creation: blockchain anchoring was a good fit

- being able to make their art digitally ownable (precursors were e.g. Rafaël Rozendaal's ownable TLDs)

- making money from their creations

- transferring/consigning/loaning

- generating a certificate of authenticity

- licensing/copyright claims

Many of these things aren't important in today's modern NFTs anymore. But what the author has created is not what artists were looking for in those days and it's not what they're looking for today. If they did, surely they'd do what the author suggests.

- [1] https://ascribe.io

Actually it's a good point and IMO for a population that may have a certain distribution of voting credits e.g. shareholders of a stock, adjusting the exponent can make sense to more fairly distribute power.

Not sure I understand.

Non colluding:

- Alice spends 100 on P

- Bob spends 100 on Q

Colluding

- Alice spends 75 on P and 25 on Q for Bob

- Bob spends 75 on P and 25 on Q

Like this?

I'd call it square root voting if there isn't any assumptiom about how often a single identity is eligible to vote.

E.g. for most of the crypto space, they do square root voting but claim to be quadratic. Exemplary issue here: https://github.com/snapshot-labs/snapshot/issues/951

That's a snarky comment and according to the HN guidelines those shouldn't be posted.

I didn't see it coming as I'm not from traditional banking.

Yes, there's legal oversight: But what is much worse is that the legal system may often not be capable of correctly enforcing as e.g. they can't do anything against cryptography.

So I think fundamentally compliance, oversight and regulation will have to come from within the space.

I'm also not totally familiar with what's going on but I discovered it on /r/datahoarder and I think it's because redditors are scared that content starts vanishing now that reddit files for IPO.

Anyways, here's a further description: http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

My project's goal is to increase the safety in the DeFi space (actually just a small subspace for now): We're monitoring token pools for "rug pulls" and giving them a "safety" rating: https://rugpullindex.com

I also wrote a blog post about the safety crisis in smart contract development: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/12/08/illuminating-the-dark-f...