skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My working assumption is that these digital tokens sell for so much because they are great for estate/inheritance tax evasion. With these digital tokens, you have something that's very liquid, immensely portable, unseizable, and doesn't depreciate like normal cash that you can hand down to your kids.

https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-ric...
Now Netflix is copying TikTok too
There's definitely evidence of huge pools of liquid capital and probably an expression of bad economic policy i.e. QE vs. minimum wage.

I suggest there's a time for both, but the time as long since passed for a minimum wage hike or other, better demand-side initiatives instead of the supply side economics that have dominated for the last 40 years.

I'm note speaking politically or ideologically, just pragmatically.

That we have people holding 3 jobs with no healthcare in an economy where people are paying $500 for shoes and 'digital art' and other speculative things is just not healthy.
The EKF works by linearizing the process, and suffers on even moderately nonlinear models as a result. It also suffers from the Gaussian assumption. So people switched to unscented (tries to model the underlying probability better) and particle filters (same idea), each giving better accuracy for most all problems. Now plenty of problems are switching to full Bayesian models as the ultimate in accuracy.

So if you like KF, EKF, UKF, be sure to look into this entire chain of accuracy vs computation tradeoff algorithms.
I first learned about it when a client hired me to write software to support this method for use in pharmaceutical planning and marketing. Very useful if done correctly.
I looked into it and this turned out to be the problem exactly.

If you change the part of your code where you have

hsl(${i*120} 99%${K*99}%

To instead

hsl(${i*120} 99% ${K*99}%

(That is, by not omitting the space after 99%)

Then it works in the versions of Safari that I tested; Safari 14.0.3 on macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 running on a MacBook Pro M1, and Safari on iOS 14.4 running on an iPhone X.
This isn’t a “narrative”, it’s a studied research topic in economics, and a big one that draws plenty of attention and funding.

Like I said: skill-biased tech change is the biggest factor by far, but China dominating manufacturing apart from those technological changes has had a major impact as well.
It looks like the idea of money got completely detached from a useful value. Probably due to the world scale corruption. This is not going to end well.
One more casualty of the absence of retroflex consonants in English. Before you jumped the gun, you should’ve taken into account the difference between ‘Ka’ and ‘kha’ consonants.
As much as that is true, I have a license for all of them and always use a few of them instead of the main IDE: CLion, Goland and Rider being the ones that are really much better for their respective domains because they are so different.
Isn't "tokens themselves become financialized" basically Bitcoin?
Nope, it's completely meaningless outside of the blockchain, and people who agree to comply with ownership recorded there.
What alternatives do you propose, and do you have the same view about the recent sanctions on the Saudis?
Hold up, how is this different from programming in e.g. Python or Javascript with Bangla characters? Why does it need to be a different syntax too? Can I use English characters with the Pakhi programming langauge?
One can hope, but I’m not so sanguine.
What you are purchasing is a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it has been signed and verified by the creator

So basically it's an odd form of a digital autograph associated with this tweet, that the owner presumably agrees not to autograph again and sell to other people.
They don't have to be in the same physical location as long as you have a means to consolidate feedback.
The article talks about dockworkers and truck drivers falling ill and quarantining, as well as what Americans spend their money on has changed. Instead of spending money on going out, we are spending it on home focused items, specifically ones that are shipped and made in China.
The US has a significantly larger consumer market. A lot of people would complain if they were unable to import cheap goods from China.
While collectibles are superior to fiat currencies as a store of value ($2T was just printed from nothing without any limit to do it in the future), Bitcoin is divisible, which gives it a great liquidity advantage. I expect most collectibles to decrease in value compared to BTC in the long term.
It's the best ad blocker I've found for mobile devices. It's the first thing I install on any new device, and I refuse to browse on a device without it. Browsing is a completely different experience with it: clean, fast, and my battery doesn't get trashed. AdGuard's UI tells me it has saved half a GB of mobile data and blocked twelve thousand ads since November 2020. I'm a pretty light browser.

Interesting thing: If turn AdGuard off while browsing, my phone gets hot. Website loading slows to a frustrating degree.

My mobile devices consist entirely of Motorola Moto phones and Samsung tablets and chromebooks. All android of course.

I use uBlock Origin on my PCs.

I've used adblockers for so long and so consistently, viewing the internet without one is a really jarring experience. I can't believe how obnoxious and instrusive ads are, and how much they slow page loading.
> it feels like a giant MLM scam

Yeah tell that to the cypher-punks who have been preaching 'speak math to power' for eternity. This is just crypto-porn evangelized by OG users of Twitter like @jack, nothing more.
I really lean towards the view that it's just because people are stuck inside. I'll be a lot more concerned about the trend if it persists into 2022.
That's not what I get from the last sentence of the article. Apparently you just gain the exclusivity of the right to claim that you own the tweet. But @jack can delete the tweet and Twitter can shut down at any time and that doesn't grant the buyer a refund.
Yes but these are hard to forge. This is like a PGP-signed UUID in a bittorrent.
Anasazi means "ancient enemies" in Navajo.
Workflow to build Static Website – eBook (soon release)
Everytime i read "quantitative easing" I chuckle, because this thing is stuck in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k
> Battery: it doesn't have to be lithium (even thought, currently all planned ones use lithium-ion). Sodium-sulphur would be an option as well.

Right: we assume some other form of energy that has yet to be commercialized will provide cheap storage. Get back to me when this solution actually demonstrates feasibility.

> Biofuels are low energy density: this isn't about aviation or transportation, so that's not a concern at all. Biofuels don't provide enough power: citation needed (are you moving the goalpost again?) - note that most energy will come from wind and the sun, so there is relatively little need for biofuels.

Biomass provides 1MWh per ton of dry wood [1]. On average, forests have 38 tons per acre [2]. The US consumes 11.5TWh of electricity daily, so this works out to 319,444 acres per day. The US has ~750 million acres of forest. So we have 2,343 days worth of biomass energy. Or about 6 years.

Sure, forests grow, but they take longer than 6 years to grow. Also the figure of energy was in raw BTUs, so the actual electricity generated is only about ~50% of that.

> Burning biofuels releases carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be trapped: No, it would be released anyway (well, unless if you burry it really deep).

It would be trapped in the form of trees and vegetation. If burning biofuels doesn't release carbon into the atmosphere why are people concerned about deforestation?

> The problem with nuclear power is cost, due to high risks. And even then, the insurance (which is really expensive for nuclear plants) doesn't cover all the risks. The biggest risk is externalized: if e.g. a power plant in Switzerland would blow up, almost the whole country would be become un-inhabitable. And there is no insurance company paying for that.

This is not even remotely true. The plants in Switzerland have secondary containment. Even Chernobyl, which had no secondary containment, created an exclusion zone of 40x40km. "Almost the whole country would become un-inhabitable" is laughable. It really just demonstrates that aversion to nuclear is not based on rational thinking.

1. https://www.nacdnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AppendixA...

2. https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/maps/nfr/descr/xlivebiohw.asp
I saw them only one time in my life, a few decades ago. I was leaving a band practice, and the drummer's sister and I were pretty blown away when we noticed it. Well, that's an understatement, because you couldn't miss it. Every light that could be seen was at the base of a pillar. We didn't know why it was happening, but we were pretty impressed.

Pictures do not give you the full experience, since there is a huge 3D element to how they appear, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

They interfered with the contract OP has with their customers.
Pueblo Revival Architecture
Sensage/Addamark was too early to the columnar storage game in 2001-2003 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage.
I think the git support used to be worse but now it is pretty great imho.
Anyone? That is a strong word.

At least I would consider losing an important asset based on a whim of an algorithm without a possibility of appeal to humans quite a gross injustice, though within the limits of the law as it stands today.
Probably naive idea: Would it be possible to set up an insurance fund for this? As in, the money would be used to sue FAANG for damages in cases when businesses are lost due to them being flagged/blacklisted by FAANG incorrectly.

If enough companies contribute to this, it might put some pressure on FAANG to take things seriously.
He starts by talking about how specter maintains the types of your structure as you transform it. For example, if you map (using Clojure's normal map function) over a vector, you get back a sequence. The equivalent in specter returns a map. However, specter does this at all levels of nesting, so your vectors stay vectors, your sets stay sets and so on.

Specter just does this for you, under the hood. In vanilla Clojure, the natural way to transform some nested data might be something like update-in and possibly some nested transformation functions and maintaining the types by hand can become quite cumbersome. In specter, you don't have to think about it. Its neat.
I feel the same. I couldn't do Scala with vim if it wasn't for LSP and Metals.

(and I'm aware that I still have less features than if I was using a full featured IDE, but I'm still very productive and also happy)
Just because something can't be or hard to forge it doesn't mean there's any value to it.

That's the madness behind the current trends: I genuinely fail to see value. Unique is not a guarantee for valuable.
It's not my intention to make this political, but it's odd to me that the current administration sanctioned the Saudis over the murder of a journalist, but has little more than stern words towards China over the Uyghur situation and cyber espionage. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they'll eventually do something.
Thanks for the writeup - I've learned some things. I have a site that allows user image uploads as well. I take each "image" and resize and compress it. If it's not an image after that, it get's rejected. Hopefully this is rejecting any malware.

I have gotten warnings from google multiple times about hosting NSFW images (that is not the purpose of the site) that have ads on the page. This isn't google disliking NSFW content - it's google not liking NSFW content and ads together. Due to multiple warnings, and worried about bans, I now actually manually review each image. This is actually easier than it sounds. I wrote myself a batch script and review in chunks before I allow google to view any images.
The thumb is commonly used as an analogy for a resistor because it limits the current. But with the hosepipe it seems to increase the voltage, which a resistor does not do. What you describe (trading current for voltage) is more like a transformer.
Hyperinflation as always coincided with a drop in production, rather than an increase of the money supply. Governments (and old economists) often seems to think that fludifying the economy is what it take for people to create again but never work, and the problem worsen.

MMT response to hyperinflation will be: tax more, Gvt borrow more, and guaranty more jobs (as job security is supposed to protect against inflation in MMT). I don't know if it will work, but i think its time we tried this instead of printing more money.
What? Even if we ignore China or Japan, the existence of the Holy Roman Empire overlapped that of feudalism in Europe.
Don’t forget that store became big again when they used bsd on OS X. It was a perfect dev machine
always suspected he was a wrong'un.
I don't think NFTs almost ever attach any intellectual property or copyright ownership to possession of the NFT.

It's more like a collectors card of some thing. Purely abstract.
My grandfather was a civil engineer and he had a number of different RPN HP calculators. He gave them to me when I was becoming interested in programming - a really exciting gift to explore.
It was likely already deleted, since they only kept files for 24h.
Labor force participation rate is (number unemployed + number employed)/population, so it's more of a measure of how many people want to be working than of how many people actually are working.

Employment rate is better for seeing how many people are and aren't working.

Adults 25-54: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

Was near an all-time high until last February mainly due to women joining the workforce, though with a sharp drop in the past year.

Males 25-54: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25MAUSA156S

Was down about 8 points from the peak in the 60s in 2019, then dropped another 5 points in 2020. Still slightly more likely to be employed than women in the same age range.
Makes me think of Civilization, the game, somehow (which I used to spend far too much time playing and now have officially Given Up). You start money constrained, but by the endgame there's typically so much cash floating around that it ceases to have the same meaning. So what is the person buying here? An anecdote; except that the better the anecdote comes across the more that it's an investment too. Seems like madness to me, but then I am very much not at the silly money stage. Money still means shelter, rather than a way to keep score.
I wonder if it’s possible for the programming languages to take advantage of the unique features in some languages, e.g. Agglutination in Hungarian and Turkish. Has any study being done to that effect?

I love the concept, this project has the potential to bring a whole new demography to the fold of programming.
China needs a new political system before we can talk about anyone being their allies. The CCP have made it clear they are only interested in total power.
I think with this it is good idea to look into other "collectible" markets. Many of them have massively increasing valuations. So this is just people trying to get early on some new market...

Still, at least with physical things, we know there is limited quantity of quality. Same can't be said about digital products...
I don't think that's the whole difference.

If you were into video games in the 80s and 90s, there are lots of stories of developers starting their own thing; the barriers were quite low (a lot of people distributed floppies in ziplock bags going to stores talking to store managers); and you see that in UK and US, and sure there's more in the US because there's more people. But I can't think of any internet sites/products that started that way in the UK.
It's simpler to implement RPN than algebraic notation with precedence. The latter requires an operation stack where operations are stacked until they encounter a lower precedence operator or the user presses =.

The user types less, the computer does a lot less.

I find it fun to think in RPN.
I'm interested in seeing what the next iteration of laptops is like. I have an iMac and MacBook Pro which are both over 5 years old and it would be nice to upgrade both to a new ARM laptop even if it's a bit less travel friendly than my current system. (I usually travel with my Chromebook anyway.)
I love it. But it makes me sad that 5 of the 7 primitive types are from english. You can replace list with talika or something like that.
Nations become sovereign when they are recognizes as sovereign by other nations and international institutions. Other countries can also challenge the sovereignty of others. "legally declare" implies some other outside legal power that decides it for once and all. There is no such thing. Not even the UN.

For example, Taiwan is de facto sovereign controls it's borders, but not de jure. China challenges it. Only few nations recognize it. It has no seat in the UN.
Rural (USA) Cloud Initiative
Currency was never meant to be a value store, ever. The US gold backing was a silly thing to start with. A currency's function is to be a glue, a common denominator.
The BBC site wasn't working for me either, found this one which has incredible pictures:

https://geoera.eu/blog/movile-cave-romania/
The examples the author uses to make the case that Idea is getting "fatter" and "more corporate" are actually things VS Code has too:

"What bothers me about JetBrains is the fact that they seem to be playing along. Judging by the talks on their recent conference, IDEA goes more elephantine, more corporate, more complex. (...) In this regard I will mention two announcements: the CodeWithMe technology and a lightweight "IDEA viewer" product. CodeWithMe allows one IDEA instance to run another instance remotely to allow for collaborative work. Even the color scheme and the shortcuts are provided by the master instance, if I understood that correctly. That is very Java and very corporate, no doubt. The IDEA viewer is another step in the same direction: let the IDE run somewhere else, maybe on a server, and let people use a lightweight client "on a laptop in a cafe". I seriously doubt it will work well in an average cafe though. Their WiFi tends to be unreliable. Given this degree of dependence of the client machine, spotty WiFi will cause a developer to smash his laptop against the coffee machine."

Talk about underming your own case.

CodeWithMe is what VS Code calls "Live Share" and "IDEA viewer" is what VS Code calls "Visual Studio Code Remote Development" (the SSH part), and has been available since forever in Emacs too.
They leave out just about everything important. No details regarding how the block size increases were blocked, which crippled bitcoin's use as a payment network.
The Holy Roman Empire was pretty much prototypical for feudalism and definitely had emperors
This is an odd explanation. II mean I t may be factually correct but has nothing to do with why people choose to use RPN calculators.

When calculating with an RPN calculator you do the calculation the same way you would by hand: “ok, figugpre out the numerator, now calculate the denominator, ok, do the division, ok now there’s a product, so do the multiplication, now add it to that fraction I just calculated...” except you don’t need to write down the partial results.

Not only is it fewer keystrokes and parentheses and such, but as you’re doing it as you naturally would anyway you’re less likely to get lost.
The death of traditional phones has largely been overstated.

Even my dentist sends both SMS and phone calls for appointments. And they are a 2-bit operation. My doctor has a web portal but they rely on phones for important information like 'you missed an appointment without warning us'.

I'm struggling at the idea some random locked we form was sufficient for this critical information.
If you ever get a chance to work on something with JetBrains developers (I got to when I was on the Java 8 JSR), you will find them to be some of the best out there. Their Java support was always ahead of javac for the new features we were specifying.
And you are not alone...
Sure, it's all on a sliding scale, but I think GP's point is the lines are blurring into insanity. At least a can of soup is a tangible object and is more "realizable" to our beings than some information stored on a database in some FAANG datacenter. Depending on your perspective it's all ridiculous or all rational, but at least the can of soup can be interacted with "natively" by our bodies without needing a trillion dollar technology stack to even sense in the first place.
Then of course most of your list (besides 5) is also what PhD students do, at least in the UK.
Any resources you could recommend for getting started re LSP with emacs?
Its a collapse in production rather than in supply.
It took awhile to learn RPN in undergrad in electrical engineering. But, once you learn it, it is so much easier to solve problems and it is much more efficient. You never go back, and you are less likely to make errors entering in equations compared to your peers. This is important on timed exams.

I prefer to always use RPN. MacOS has an RPN mode on their calculator, which one can activate by pressing command + R. On my iPhone I have an app called i41CX+, which is an HP-41CX emulator. I highly recommend the app, as the developer is constantly updating it. It probably is the most updated app I have of all of my apps.

Also apparently there are some companies that recreate old HP RPN scientific calculators: https://www.swissmicros.com/products
Securing Remote Desktop (RDP) for System Administrators
Quantifying the influence of short-term emission reductions on climate
Appreciate this perspective. There are a lot of issues with the space of crypto that I can think of, but the truth is (especially with the past year or two), it's increasingly one of the few spaces that holds some kind of positive hope for technology which I can think of. I'm considering moving into the space myself, workwise.

Are there any complaints you have about the space compared to other spaces you've worked in? It seems like you're pretty happy in the medium to long-term with your decision, which I think says a lot.
I never would have guessed that the Kickstart 1.x graphic was vector, but it’s so clear in retrospect. It’s not hard to spot the nodes of the pre-Bézier shape paths once you’re looking for them!
The current model iMac is a monster and a pretty good deal, too. The 10g ethernet option is only $100, half the price of a thunderbolt 10g peripheral, and 1/3rd the price of a 10g add-in card like the Intel X550 or X710. The main thing you give up is ECC memory.
You're most welcome -- glad I had the link.

> Very hard to find such data.

That is the understatement of the decade.
Nothing in this discussion seems to even mention the most important part of agile: talking to customers often
There is probably some value in those. Large part of market is nostalgia. I would personally now sell any of them that have risen substantially. They might go up more, but eventually they go down when the generation who have nostalgia is gone... It's common pattern that can be seen with things like cars, outside the very special ones.
There are no sanctions on Saudi Arabia, only on some minor officials.
Ah perfect, thanks so much!
Recently spent a few months going deep on React development and I concur. The support for it was just magical.