skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't expecting to see this on HN, but if you read Big by Matt Stoller this is the kind of thing he might write about, and that's a frequent HN topic.

The ESL proposal sounds like something that an American guy like Joel Glazer, a guy who admitted to not understanding the offside rule, might come up with. I don't want to make it about Americans and how they don't understand football, because they're making good progress over there and a lot of them do get it. How they got Agnelli, a guy who as the heir to Fiat and Juventus on board, is a mystery to me. If you grow up in that family you have no excuse.

The thing with American sports is the leagues are closed shops. Even baseball, with its extensive farm system, doesn't have promotion and relegation between weaker and stronger leagues. Rich guys buy a franchise, and the business pays some pros to swing a bat or throw an oval ball, etc. That's the "club".

In Europe, there are a couple of thing to note. In principle, you can find 20 mates and found a club at the bottom of the pyramid. If you somehow stay fit and play better than the other teams in your league, you can in principle be playing in the Premier league (in like 12 years or something crazy), and from there qualify for Europe and even the Club World Cup (which isn't nearly as big at the World Cup). That's a principle: however lopsided your financial advantages are, you still have to beat enough opponents to stay in the league that you're in. And if you're a Leeds fan you will know what risk is: they had an amazing team 20 years ago but it all unraveled, they had to sell players, got dropped down the pyramid, and lots of pain. They just got back and they hate the ESL idea.

There's also the fact that clubs aren't just the professionals. For instance there are a load of youth teams at various age groups, there's women's teams, and there's even teams for old people. All playing in the same uniform. There are actual grass roots, who get paid next to nothing, yet they go and put out cones for the kids, they stand outside the stadium selling matchday leaflets, they clean stuff. I'm watching from the other side of the pond, but the closest I could get to this was the Green Bay fans clearing snow every winter at Lambeau.

Of course it makes sense to the bean counters. You make a closed league to limit risk. You get JPM to front you some money so all the clubs can buy the best players. You sell the TV rights. With some luck, the chumps will pay for it.

What's missing is that people really, really care about how football works in this world. It isn't just about getting the 22 best guys on the pitch. Whatever you think about billionaires using the clubs as their playground, most fans see the billionaire era as another chapter in the story of their club. Each club is a story, and amazingly, winning is not all that matters. Most clubs have never won diddly squat. But people get on a bus to sing songs because they want to watch a story. My best stories about following my team are never about winning. It's about being part of a community.
Even worse than you think. Free tokens were handed out to select influencers. Does that sound like a bribe to you?

the best part, Vitalik freely admits this himself.
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I jumped into .NET w/o any background while running Linux - it's not a pleasant experience when you lack the heavy Windows+VS background you've had. Perhaps Jetbrains Rider is better, but at this point you know all the ins and outs of the platforms - a beginner lack that.
I have seen a lot of attacks using it on the server side, like:

-innocuous looking code merges user supplied input from a json object ("we just use this to render a view or write it to an object store")

-attacker throws in a __proto__ property which means every object in the _entire_ node runtime has that value for that key until it's overwritten in script

-random templating engine has a config option that would _never_ be controlled by an attacker, right?

-oops, RCE!
Super League seems exclusive and divisive, but is definitely pro-competitive, with respect to its relationship with the national leagues and UEFA.
Why would any company build a private blockchain? Private companies have top to bottom control of their systems, which means they don't need proof of work or proof of stake or any other system to establish trust: they can just issue PKI keys to employees from a database.

Private blockchain has never made any sense: you just give all your employees private keys and move on with your life.

EDIT: Which is to say, I'm sure a lot of people are saying they're doing it, and it is yet to be for anything more then to say "we're doing blockchain" to investors and the public.

EDIT 2: Reading through the Hyperledger case studies seems to bare this out as well - the implementations are comparatively small, and keep desperately asking the question "was blockchain vital to any of this, or was the actual innovation you just finally automated something into a database?"
Exactly what I wanted, thank you!
The EF Core thing might make a little more sense with some context. It originally started out only compatible with .NET Core (which was the successor to .NET Framework)

Eventually Microsoft came to the conclusion that doing .NET Framework to .NET Core migration in tandem with an EF6 to EF Core migration would be a huge undertaking for legacy projects. So as of EF Core 2.1 they added support for .NET Framework 4.7.2+ so people could migrate that first, then move to .NET Core. Therefore you end up with the weirdness that it was .NET Core only, then eventually it wasn’t, despite being called EF Core.

As for Standard.. can’t help but agree, it was a bit of a mess unless you really understood what it meant for API compatibility. But with .NET 5.0, Standard is pretty much gone for new code. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-future-of-net-stan.... So I think Microsoft is slowly learning and fixing up some mistakes made in the “Core” era
Excellent talk, this could be seminal in the years to come.

It is really aptly that the Turing Award for this year is awarded to the pioneers of modern compiler design [1].

It will be interesting to see how modern compiler techniques namely Single Static Assignment (SSA) and Polyhedral/Polytope can enable heteregenous high level synthesis (HLS) and multi-level compilations for both hardware design and programming [2].

[1]https://amturing.acm.org/

[2]https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15103
> so long as you immediately relicense that code

Without a copyright transfer agreement in place, only the original author may relicense the code. The permissively licensed parts of the code will stay permissively licensed, but nevertheless may be distributed in combination with copyleft or proprietary code.
crypto overall is a joke.

Bitcoin is replacing central banks.
My problem with Chomsky's view of linguistics is that lacks falsifiability which makes it fundamentally unscientific. I'm not even sure what Chomky's theory is as it has become more and more vague over the decades as evidence has emerged which contradicts it.

In its original form, it was fairly specific and made quite strong claims. One claim, for example, was that we humans uniquely have a specialized language organ/section of brain that evolved at some point in time. No evidence has emerged to support this idea as it seems language skills are not concentrated in a single area of the brain (unlike vision for example). And it actually seems implausible that a genetic mutation would produce a language "organ" as it would confer no advantage to an individual in a society where your peers had no language skills.

And you'd imagine that a "fundamental theory" of language would have some practical application but Chomsky's theories don't seem to have any. For example, you'd imagine that it would provide the basis for the study of language acquisition. I remember a friend with a doctorate in clinical child linguistics laughing when I enquired about how their work in therapeutics for children struggling with language problems used Chomsky's theories. Apparently this "fundamental theory" of language has absolutely no application in this area and earlier attempts to apply it led absolutely nowhere. She says that clinicians ignore it - it has no relevance.

Even in AI natural language processing it led nowhere when it was the foundation of AI research in this area from the 60s to the 80s. All breakthroughs in this area use statistical approaches.

I find linguistics fascinating particularly historical linguistics and I used to be quite surprised at how authors in the area seemed to tip-toe around Chomsky's theories - reading between the lines in Guy Deutscher popular book on the evolution of language, for example, he espouses a theory which seems fundamentally at odds with that of Chomsky's (and also seems far more plausible to me than the idea that language ability just sprang into existance through a random genetic mutation) but he seems to go out his way to credit Chomsky's brilliance.

Having observed the villification of Everett - far beyond what I think would have been reasonable - I now understand why linguists genererally either ignore Chomsky's theory or pay some sort of lip-service to give it credit rather than attack it outright. Doing the latter is academic suicide it seems.

As an amatuer in the area, it looks to me like the Emporer has no clothes. It's a theory which is defended vigourously but has no appparent application and is not truly falsifiable. Even when contradictory evidence emerges, the theory is "refined" not into something more useful - the way most scientific theories evolve - but into something vaguer and even less useful.
Thank you,that one seems quite good too, and more portable!
I wonder if (and I wish) battery producers could use the same "coating" as the Nintendo Switch cartridges. They taste disgusting and greatly reduce the risk of having a child swallowing them.
It does seem a fairly big loophole that you can completely ignore the network condition if you do whatever customisation you need without "modifying" the software. I wonder then how courts would interpret "modification" - say I put a proxy that rewrites the HTML in front of an AGPL server and with that proxy I replace or supplement lots of features - in the eyes of a court did I modify the software, or not? Surprisingly the AGPL actually includes the qualifier "in a manner that requires copyright permission" - so I have to think that they've cut this out from their definition.
The idea has been, presumably, to acquire much more TV licensing money from outside Europe, where people are not so much interested in the smaller "local" clubs; so they would pay more for seeing high-profile clubs against each other all the time.

In comparison: in current leagues, each team plays each other team twice per year. If you have only 2-3 internationally known top clubs (like in the German Bundesliga), that adds up to 2 to 8 "top games" in a season.

Also, these top clubs in the ESL would distribute all that additional money among themselves instead of sharing it with the smaller ones.
If you’re looking for some great content that is completely unrelated, I’d recommend either Keenan Crane’s Discrete Differential Geometry course (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/ and https://brickisland.net/DDGSpring2021/) or Peter Shirley’s Ray Tracing in a Weekend Series (https://raytracing.github.io/). The former is a little more math heavy/in-depth, whereas the latter is a little more abbreviated. Both are super fun and expose you to some really exciting and powerful ideas from Computer Graphics.
Java projects publish Javadoc which is good - you can sit down and understand an API. It's not the same story on .NET.

> Windows tutorials will expect you to use Visual Studio as that is the IDE that primary IDE of people using Windows.

Yep, hence the bubble. Python doesn't have this problem, for example.
The postgresql driver might be considered derivative work, and thus required to be AGPL as well, because Postgres does not talk some standard protocol that exists outside of it.
A lot of the owners aren't actually fom those countries. Could be why.
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> Are you saying that YouTube should be the arbiter of whether or not a video is a fair criticism of WHO guidelines?

No, I don't think YouTube should be in the "arbiter of truth" business at all! That said, I do understand the argument some people make, that misinformation should be censored. Note that you didn't make this argument. You made the argument that misinformation should (in some cases) be promoted, while truthful information should be censored.
LINQ is built into the core .NET runtime (and the syntax into C#) and available everywhere (I think LINQ was introduced with .NET 4 and C# 3.0 some >10 years ago). So doesn't matter if client/server or blazor. But you need some kind of LINQ-to-your-datasource adapter (i.e. to Sqlite, MongoDB etc.) which might have different availability depending on your environment (i.e. a Sqlite adapter would clearly somehow depend on a native sqlite client - but AFAIK is available in Blazor through WebAssembly).
Probably the actual CCC are figuring out how this all works as we speak.
Nice project but you should probably change the name of the service IMO.
Discord has zero ads.
Only partially, this is part of the legal mess that is GPL, because if your program is based around standard apis etc. (and not, let's say, deep linux-only stuff and won't work without that ever) then your program is not derivative work.
There is a Hungarian tongue twister that is a good example of why Hungarian is on this list:

"Te tetted e tettetett tettet, te tettetett tettek tettese"

But this is not a representative example of what Hungarian is like.
The UEFA(European) Champions League is the most popular football club competition in the world.

In its current incarnation it is a knockout tournament where the best positioned clubs in all the different national leagues come together to compete. So the basic idea is that you have to reach a certain position in your domestic league to compete in the tournament next year. Otherwise you don't get to compete, or you can compete in a lower rated Europa League.

The big clubs didn't like this, the idea that they might miss out on the CL and the big TV bucks, and on the other hand they don't like the idea that small, not attractive clubs can get in the CL and basically lower the TV appeal of matches since less fans follow them.

So, they decided to ignore the CL, and create their own competition which would pretty much look exactly like the American NBA,NHL,etc. model. The clubs would be fixed always the same, regardless of how they play in their national leagues. But they did expect to continue playing in the national leagues, simply abstaining from the UEFA competitions.

Basically the idea of an unchanging big club Super Legaue goes against what a lot of people consider to be the biggest appeal of Europe wide football: free competition, lots of clubs from all around, a chance for everyone to win, a strict requirement to play good in your national league.
We use the Blazor Server hosting model, which is inherently incapable of running offline. For our specific use case, this is actually more ideal than any notion of offline capability. In this model, any LINQ would be running on the server.

Now, you certainly can run LINQ client-side if you were on a Blazor WASM (or hypothetically, Desktop) application. This is kind of the entire point of the stack.
Reading your logic here one would think that your musings have lead you to become an anti-capitalist but for some reason this texts strikes me as if it was written by somebody who's far from that position.
I would wager that there’s a corner case in Google somewhere where Google is paying Oracle for Java. (After so many acquisitions, it’s essentially inevitable and not all will be eradicated in post-merger integration, especially if the product wasn’t the main driver of the acquisition.)
Yes, 2nd gen = Zen+ [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)#Second...
Proof of Stake just means those with the biggest money bags (stake sounds so much better than wealth) rule over you, explicitly.

It is simply plutocracy, but with cute emojis.
A planned upgrade of 6 years? How would that be in the future? How long does it take to fix a minor issue?
Tezos for example is able to evolve every 3-4 months without forking and is PoS since 2017. Also they're doing a better job on security. https://tezos.com/
I think you're arguing that it's competitve in an economic sense. But you seem to be missing the point that it's anticompetitive from a sporting perspective (as membership of the league would be on financial merit rather than sporting merit).
Apple's own apps don't ask if you want to keep letting them access your location.
This is true, you need demand too. But NFTs make scarcity possible in a domain in which it was not possible before (digital art, for example). You have demand from collectors and speculators who want to create a market for "scarce" digital art. You have supply from creators who are quite happy to meet that demand. And you have NFTs, a way to make digital art scarce (for some definition of scarce.)
such story could be widely spread that someone bought thousands of bitcoins maybe six or seven years ago, and hold it till now. then he's financial freedom.
Cash flow is for businesses.

Ethereum doesn’t know what it is. The rules are always changing, running a full node is practically impossible, and issuance is always changing. It’s not even clear that the features claimed in this paper will be true one year from now.

Multiple consensus failures (most recently this last month) and constant design changes do not provide a secure foundation for sound money.
Glad to hear it! Just out of curiosity, where did you end up taste wise? I found DnB pretty early on and it has always remained the backbone of my rotation. Mostly dark stuff like Current Value, Noisia, S.P.Y etc.
Increasing the velocity of money doesn't help the world on average. Otherwise the Fed would just set their inflation target higher. Even if you disagree, given that the Fed has a fixed inflation target you can't do anything about it by changing inheritance tax. If you force a bunch of rich people to spend more than they would have, the Fed will just take that money straight back out of the economy.

Sometimes I find all this money swirling around difficult to keep track of. It's easier to forget about money and look at what's happening to the goods and services. Ten families in $1 million houses get more happiness than one family in a $10 million house and nine homeless families. No matter how you shuffle the accounting around it has to add up to that same utility difference.
Ethereum is quite exciting in that regard, but my feeling is that most eth enthusiasts don't actually care about that. They only care about the value and thus it has become another crypto pyramid scheme for now.

The only crypto community who has shown any genuine effort in creating a "currency" is Dogecoin. And that is mainly because they are more aware that their coin has no value without real adoption. But sadly, even that has been infested with the pyramid scheme HODLers after the recent surge in value.

Another problem with Eth is that regular folk are thrown off when they hear things like "smart contracts", "NFT" etc.. So, in terms of a realistic crypto "currency" having widespread adoption, it seems hard to justify any of them at the moment.

I love using crypto for payments as it can be incredibly simple when done right. I really hope to see a crypto that works toward distributing wealth and opportunity though rather than the toxic crypto culture of HODlers we see today!
As I understand the instability of mRNA in the general cell background cytoplasm is because of the presence of enzymatic molecules (produced by the cell) that attract and then break down (lyse) any mRNA that floats into their 'jaws'. Loads of different things get broken-down by this kind of background presence of some enzyme, and since mRNA is used by the cell itself, maybe not too surprising that it has a cleanup mechanism in-place already?
It is guaranteed to change, as the stated policy is "minimal viable issuance", which sounds rather subjective.

How is "minimal" and "viable" determined?
My guess is there are huge profits for the companies that build them.

Some of the motorways in the UK have been under construction for what feels like decades. Surely the same job could be done with machine vision these days!
> Bitcoin is open source

Bitcoin is open source, all right. But the first mover advantage and marketing campaign that it has...well it's insurmountable at this point.

> Problem is that is still centralized

The world doesn't give a damn about that. The only killer app of decentralization as of today is the ability to give people peace of mind that the unit of account they use to store their wealth cannot be tempered with by anybody.

Literally the only application of decentralization was the ability to avoid the ever present threat of money printing because people are scared of inflation and rightfully so. Ever since the stone age people have been diluted by the the central currency authority, it's a fear that is deeply rooted in our brains.

People aren't similarly scared about Paypal or Visa processing their transactions.

Fear is the greatest motivation and fear of inflation is the only thing giving the decentralization thing any market.
Everybody , ranging from the supermarket employee to Stanley Druckenmiller...they are all scared as hell about inflation.

And it shows in the marketcap and price of king BTC

BTC gives those 7 billions people a way to express such fears in the market whereas they could only buy Gold, Silver, and Inflation indexed bonds before BTC came about.
> Monogamy is, more or less, a female fantasy. All women love the fact that birds mate for life. Meanwhile males fantasise about polygamy

Maybe there is a kernel of truth to it deep in our evolutionary/reproductive drive, but every guy I know, without exception, wants a monogamous relationship.
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I have looked into other sources. From what I've gathered so far, the best thing I could do is to pick a very prominent dictionary format that many other formats can convert into with existing open source tools. Then, I would let users import their custom dictionaries themselves.

This would reduce maintenance on my part while ensuring very broad support for a lot of languages. I'm thinking that a format like DSL should work out.

Beyond my plans for more language support, I also want to extend the tap to select functionality to the other CJK languages, so I've been looking at text segmentation libraries I could port to Dart for Chinese and Korean.

Otherwise, drag to search should work out for most languages, though a lack of deconjugation would get in the way. Jisho.org's deconjugation is why I query their site for definitions rather than just use their data sources -- I actually have a Chinese-English branch already working by scraping MDBG, but the owner explicitly disallows any scripted use of the site, so I can't release it. I really wish the websites for other languages were as scrape friendly.
Come up with one reason that France would fund RFI that isn't essentially propaganda. It's the kind of bias that exists outside the internal political debate, which makes it far better than the alternative commercial stations, but the stated goal is to spread the French POV worldwide.

Again, I realize I'm terribly cynical on these issues. We can both have the same information about the network and my distrust will just lead me to this conclusion.