skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People value the Mona Lisa over time because it is beautiful, many people want to see it, and therefore it has use-value. Pet rocks like this have zero interest or beauty, still less the digital receipt attached to them by an NFT:

https://twitter.com/etherrockprice/status/143164180043171431...

They'll be remembered as an interesting footnote to the everything bubble that we're now seeing due to massive production of USD and other currencies. As the currencies devalue, asset prices (and later consumer prices and wage prices) rise in concert and all sorts of scams proliferate as people try to cash in - I'd count most NFTs as part of those scams - scam artists painting the tape and purchasing nominally worthless items at inflated prices, in the hope of drawing in other suckers who want to get rich quick and selling the worthless assets to them.

I don't think they have long term value, the concept is not useful because there is no jurisdiction and no enforcement, NFTs and the digital art associated have far more in common with tulip bulbs or beanie babies than works of art, and as with beanie babies, they'll crash when other assets associated with them crash, but not before a mania which has everyone questioning whether they truly are worth what people say they are worth, and not before a lot of people lose an awful lot of money.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/03/02/beanie-baby-bubbl...
> What about N26, Revolut and all these new online banks? They don't charge anything where I live in the EU. I don't have 100k though.

Most (all?) online banks I've seen will charge negative rates.

But ultimately the "if, how and when" is a commercial decision for the bank.

Some of them set higher cut-off levels (e.g. 50k vs 100k vs 1m).

Some of them segregate by account type (e.g. higher cut-off for retail clients than for business customers).

It might well be that some of them have a "fair-use policy" where they silently "eat" the negative rates but will quietly invite you to pay or move elsewhere if you have a large balance.
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> Maybe that is wrong, and the idea is just to try new things.

That's what basic research does. It discovers new things, and new ways of doing things.
I like nested comments too, but the screen realestate on mobile devices does not permit that; it can immediately become messy.
I loved flying, but the headlines of how oil extraction destroys communities and wildlife, burning it warms the globe, and flying everywhere tears apart communities, families, and cultures, creating craving and dissatisfaction . . . I couldn't do it anymore. My excuses that flying only contributed a little, that one day planes would be electric, etc collapsed as they became so clearly self-serving, ignoring the actual effects, not just the ones I wanted.

Once I accepted I couldn't see everything I wanted, I learned to appreciate where I was more. Now, not having flown by choice since 2016, I've learned to appreciate different cultures more, gain more control over a career I thought required flying (again, self-serving specious logic disappeared as I overcame the addiction), and spend more time with family. I experience more variety of food and more connection to culture.

Past experience tells me this community values flying and devalues reversing course from technology solving everything, but I'll take the downvotes if you disagree: the values of the lifestyle the article, however beautiful the images, cause most of our environmental, social, and cultural problems, even as people living those values profess to want to solve them.
Sheets: How to create a drop-down list excludes values have already been entered
The author must be fun at a party.
Microsoft sinks standalone HyperV Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI
I have to admit, old Windows network configuration for example was a mess. But once you kinda figured it out you could handle it. I don't think new one is much better...

Still, I don't have much good to say about Linux either. I think on Ubuntu you can manage to get 3 different ways of network configuration all half-working and not working at same time not being visible to each other...
IMO charities should get into the game of minting these pointless NFTs; unlike producing luxury watches, minting NFTs of random pixel art requires virtually no skills other than marketing, which celebrities may be able to help with. There are clearly a lot of people with way too much money lying around, why not take a slice of it to at least feed some of the hundreds of millions of people who are still starving.
> The only things really stopping average people from using Linux are ignorance of the issues and laziness.

Actually a big part of it is that its community is full of people like this.

...and a huge number of other reasons, but having a high probability of encountering a condescending asshole whenever you engage with the community certainly doesn't help.
I would have thought pro-nuclear and massive government expansion go together, but you seem to be arguing the opposite.

I've noticed this discrepancy before with libertarians pointing to the French nuclear program as a big success.

What kind of massive expansion of government into energy markets are you thinking of that helps renewables but not nuclear?
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Maybe browsers should go back to using a gray background by default, but less gray than one Mosaic and the other used.
I attended the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 8 a couple of weeks ago, here's the pictures I took.

https://imgur.com/gallery/hi5Yb50
I'm sorry, I have extreme doubt to what extent these anecdotes are true and have no choice but to reject them when there's no corroborating evidence.

In my experience, I see about 100x as many people trying to shame folk with the "brexit=racist xenophobe" brush than I witness actual incidents of such behaviour.

At the end of the day it is all anecdotes from people who have an ideological axe to grind.

I'd be more interested to see actual data that suggests any permanent effect - like changes in all the many studies into the tolerance of countries towards immigrants, or even a substantial increase of hate crimes - but so far all that is strangely lacking and all we are left with is anecdotes.
If it wasn't owned by a king and then a national museum and (for a while) a theif it's unlikely that it would be famous now.
The article called it "cultural imprinting", but I've been calling it "prestige marketing" for decades. Humans seek prestige above all other things once their basic needs are met. Given alternatives, the choice will always be the option signaling to others the highest prestige the user can afford. And by "afford" I mean the combination of finances and social credit of the individual selecting between the options.
>Using virtual environments with pip, instead of installing packages system-wide, has been the recommended practice to avoid conflicts with OS-installed packages for quite some time. But it is not generally mandatory, so users sometimes still run into problems.

I use virtualenv any time I use Python. That said, it would make way more sense if OS-installed packages used virtual environments, so that a user can pip install whatever they want on the default python install and not have to worry that it could bork dnf or any other system utility.
It's not about making sense economically it's just that there are not many ARM platforms out there, so if you want a native ARM dev box, Apple is pretty much the only choice.
They do want to support their family, just not with bad software.

It's the difference between being willing to give your kid a ride to sports practice vs a crack den.

You do want to support your kid, just not enable them if they're going to be doing bad things.
Can You Prevent Pregnancy with the Pullout Method? (2019)
Semiconductor companies hold a big stack of ASML.
The question is: Why does Mozilla need analytics at all? Sure, counting downloads is good, but what other useful information are they pulling out of analytics?
You know… I stopped supporting Windows years ago. I switched to macOS in 2008, but it might as well have been Linux for all my family knew.

As the years when by, it became easier and easier to say I honestly didn’t have a clue how Windows worked anymore. It helps that my nearest relatives are 8 hours away by car.

Eventually they stopped calling for support. They weren’t interested in switching to something I could help with.

I could have been more pushy, but I have enough problems with the world that I don’t have the energy to go on a religious crusade to make people use an operating system that is unsupported by most consumer repair places.
Checking picking good results is jaw-dropping indeed
A more precise title would be: "I'm an asshole even to my own family."

This being on front page is just fucked up.
Natwest.com ...
Products: Bank Accounts, Mortgages, Savings, Investments, Loans ...

Your investment options are limited to actual investments basically, so essensially shares. Term deposits dont seem to be a big thing in the UK for whatever reason, and we dont have the US tax breaks to buy municipal bonds etc.

ISA's are great, you can go buy some apple stock or some FTSE funds or depending on the provider one of 1000's of funds with it. 'Cash ISAs' while rare are still around are no better or worse than a savings account (IMO).
That just means the compiler needs more work around generating optimal code. Rust has some similar idioms and does much better, with the difference between "C-like" Rust and idiomatic Rust usually being small to nonexistent. With Rust you can still sometimes hit edge cases though where the compiler spits out slow code for some idiom that should be zero cost.
> It's hard to beat the C-style for-loop: they map really closely to the underlying hardware, and modern compilers are starting to become really good at auto-vectorizing them.

Except with many compilers and depending on the loop, for-loops may optimise much poorer than their C++/Rust iterator based counterparts.

That's because modern language constructs can communicate intent much clearer to the compiler than a primitive for-loop can; the compiler has to make fewer assumptions (which can can be wrong).

So no, it's not "generally true" at all.
very much down to the local council, but the vast majority would say "Noooooope" if you asked permission to put one up.

Having said that though, several of the "old boys" on my mum's allotment had fucking huge sheds to keep pigs and chickens in. They were the full width of the allotment and a good few meters long.

However. If you do have a place to put a temporary structure in, I can recommend: https://www.tuin.co.uk/Office-Log-Cabin.html (Although I bought mine when they were £4k).

With insulation they are warm/cheap to heat. Lots of space to put solar on the roof. Really strong and well made, and easy to put together. The hardest part is making the base, everything else is pretty simple.
Uncanny resemblance https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/install-gentoo
I am also one of the backers and fine with it: I see the issues they have. They did their utmost best for all those years and that is well above and beyond the 530k$ and the source is there to take further if you would want to. Again, above and beyond 530k$.

I use github and kickstarter/indiegogo and patreon to support open source: especially going closed to open: I backed a few programming languages going open, among which LiveCode and Shen and both did not enjoy the outcome so they kind of went back. I can fully understand it; some work out, some do not.
Parliamentary Committee to Government: Ban VPN Services in India
I don't think that this is correct. My laptop, Lenovo P14S GEN 2 AMD with 5850U CPU has 65 WATT USB-C power adapter. Half of that power will be consumed by monitor (4K and 500 cd/m²) and you write above that the whole system should consume 65 WATT... This is not possible at all, because there is only 30-35 WATT left for the whole system except monitor.
We teach people general math skills that 90% of them don't use after graduating high schools. Why not also teach these computer skills that aren't directly relevant to their careers but will be of use given that in modern societies people use computers?
As someone who maintains 6 computers for 5 Ubuntu machines family members (7 to 80yo) I can just testimony that it isn't painless.

Here are recurrent issues:

* printing (hplip): paper might come now or tomorrow

* UI changes

* UEFI boot destroyed by an Ubuntu minor upgrade

At least running Flash is not a problem anymore.

The good side: no hardware upgrade required for years.
Interesting how it only took this little time for the vulnerability to appear and it being found
It's still a LOT more to think about and that they have to filter out when developing it though.
Check out prices in Toronto, Canada. Need a few more zeros[1]. Housing prices are out of control.

[1] https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/08/new-toron...
Documents ≠ Programs
Congratulations!

I have a garden shed, thats not quite as impressive as yours. Its more of a workshop.

However the look and feel of your new house is wonderful
I have an old MacBook Air running Ubuntu Linux, and that is my only experience.
Does JavaScript have regular blocks? There are a number of times where I want to put a small amount of local logic in a block without having to put into an anonymous function called immediately and without moving that logic further up in code.

A specific example of this is doing some small custom callback logic in d3 configuration.

foo: {
const f = 1;
f
}

Versus:

foo: (() => {
const f = 1;
return f;
})()

Blocks are common in other expression-oriented languages like Scheme, Ruby, Rust, and Standard ML. I would like to be able to use that in JavaScript.
If you just want a system in the Mac Mini (or MacBook) style form factor, it's probably not worth it. There are plenty of x86 based alternatives and even some low cost ARM solutions.

But, if your requirement is for a "high performance" ARM based machine, suddenly the M1 macs become very appealing.

Many of the other solutions are ARM dev boards that have a tenth of the performance and very limited RAM. There are some half decent Snapdragon based laptops, but that only gets you about 50% of the way to M1 performance.
I own all the books by Heydon (their webbed briefs videos are also worth a watch!) and I've also bought the Eleventy course by Andy. They're both excellent chaps and great educators as well. Andy was also one of the persons behind the revamped content on Google's https://web.dev.

They both truly demonstrate how to build robust and accessible websites with properly structured elements and how to tame obscure layout quirks.

I recommend perusing the content they produce. If I can suggest a few more people, I can also strongly recommend Max Böck and Manuel Matuzovic as well.
What? It's working as intended on Chrome and Chromium based browsers.
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CryptoPunks are just an individual art group of Pog designers that don't issue Pogs, so it's Pogs minus the plastic waste of Pogs plus the energy waste of the ETH blockchain.

Is it really that valuable? Kinda. There are a lot of rich people with rich kids that have no idea how money works, and will throw anything at a new fad.

The real winners here are the creators of CryptoPunks and other NFTs, though. The value will only be high with a great marketing campaign, so their profit would be what they manage to sell them for minus the marketing costs of elevating themselves over other NFT Pog makers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38MPprnXQc
Bank fee income will definitely go up as they are typically set at flat level and not linked to the deposit amount. Could it be that increased fee payments effectively undo the strategy of avoiding the negative rate?

Remember, you can beat the system, but you can't beat the house...
it's all about acceptance and being wide open
I'm pretty useless at fixing Windows not because of any holy war or Linux evangelism but simply because I've not used it very regularly in donkey's years and don't have a clue. Last time I dealt with Windows at all was briefly two years ago as a database server for SQL Server, not very useful for the average user. I don't encounter it regularly enough to justify learning it to the point I could fix random user's problems.

I did teach my family about adblockers though, which goes some way to reducing one vector for malware.
There’s an interesting and quite muddy line between having some kind of knowledge or support about “where to go next” in musical progression and something that feels like it’s too much of an automated decision making process. The former - knowing that x is the related minor to y or that a I -> V will work well in this scenario is what musical knowledge and practice is all about, or having a circle of fifths to hand before you know it very well.

The latter - having some kind of lookup chart which decides what to do next - just feels sort of clinical, and misses the feeling tone of great music. Similar sorts of complaints have been said about AI generated music and so far based on what I’ve heard, I agree.

One of the key components to writing great music is knowing when not to follow the rules. Any Radiohead song will teach you this, but they (and any good musician) know how to do it without dissonance, pushing the boundaries where they know it will work, even if it’s surprising and not “the norm”.

I guess AI will get there too. Alpha Go’s “37th move” confounded people in that it showed what felt like actual creativity, so I’d imagine there will be more and more of this in time. It’s hard as a musician or artist to concede this though, and an interesting area of discussion.
Before bashing a new feature make sure to read then criticize the actual proposal [1]. I think the proposal makes sense mostly because of private fields (`#x`) since it is very awkward to initialize those fields outside of the class.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-static-block
I'm 100% the wrong person to ask about that since I have a personal intense dislike of soccer and fast cars.

If I saw this out of context (not comparing it to the CalorieMate ad), I'd shrug it off as very vanilla, flavorless, and forgettable. But then it is at least 10 years old, so I can't say what I would have felt in 2011.

After viewing it while remembering the CalorieMate ad, it made me cherish that one even more. Maybe this is just personal preference, but I feel a lot more connection between the music and the action, and a lot more connection between the characters in the anime than the POV protagonist in the Nike spot.

It gives me lots of "4-out-of-10 Hollywood adaptation of a 9-out-of-10 Japanese movie that completely misses the point" vibes.
What I learned on the line at a Dodge City slaughterhouse
Eh, there's a sweet spot. I installed Ubuntu on my dad's computer 12 years ago, showed him how to upload his photos, and to use the browser and abiword, and left him to it. I apply updates remotely every 6 months or so, and do OS upgrades every few years between LTS versions. It's been rock solid.

Otoh my mom was on ubuntu for about 18 months and switched back to windows. She wanted to do more with it, e.g. install photoshop, scan documents (this was pre ubuntu coming out with simple scan or whatever, when xsane was still state of the art), yada yada.

For relatives who just need a stable set-it-and-forget-it computer, linux is fine. For wannabe "power users", they have to be interested in investing the time to get over the learning curve. That's a more evangelical sell. I'm kind of with the author, although am a little less strident about it - "ehh, I haven't used windows in 20 years or so, but let me google that for you and see if I find anything you can try" is my usual approach.
I wish you could downvote posts.
I think you misunderstood the original comment. They seem to be using Docker in the first place because they think it will help simplify managing Python dependencies. The answer is surely that their life would be simpler if they didn't use Docker at all, and instead use venv/virtalenv on directories within their home directory. Your comment about how to use pip if you're going to use Docker doesn't apply - the best answer is not to use Docker at all (if you weren't going to anyway).

There's not point talking about pyflow or some other tool to simplify your Python dependencies until you've said me _why_ I need another tool. What's wrong with the plan I listed above (with no Docker)? If I want a new set of dependencies, I just make a new virtal env, activate it and pip install away. If I want to get rid of it, I `rm -r ~/envs/foo`. What could be simpler than that? There's just no problem to solve in the first place.
I remember reading a massive list of airgap malware like this... really interesting to read the ideas they come up with to escape airgaps
Arduino Racing game for 20x4 Character LCD and analog potentiometer
Three words: embrace, extend, extinguish.
"TS should not have any influence" I argue it had a positive influence. Do you argue it had an undue influence?
When I was growing up in South Florida (which does not include any of Florida's Gulf Coast no matter its latitude) in the very old days, they came out with a John Wayne movie called "North to Alaska" which had a catchy soundtrack.

For us it was always "North to Orlando" :)
> Pay-to-get-attention could in theory still be a meritocracy where good products make money and thus can pay to get advertised more

Would good products need advertising though? Maybe at the beginning, but once they reach a critical mass of users, word of mouth and "organic advertising" (for the lack of a better word - think legitimate reviews, blog posts, etc) would take over and stop the need for paid ads, meaning that conventional advertising platforms return back to being a cesspool.
She can live in one of the homeless shelters run by Cuomo's sister, NY is already paying $3K/month per bed for those.
Amazon CEO unveils 55k tech jobs in his first hiring push
You know, while I do understand the reasons for the unstable kernel ABIs, that's actually what detracts me from personally recommending Linux unless if I know full well their needs. Even using printers is a pain (which I hope it will solve in the near future with standardised tools). Web browsing and web browsing only? Full speed! But beyond that, I'm not so sure that Linux will be ready.

Plus while GNU and Linux user-level ABIs are stable, and LSB means that portability is nearly seamless (except if the GNU or Linux part is swapped itself), other APIs do break, especially when it comes to desktop elements. Snaps and Flatpaks accentuate the problem to the point that even if the system and app uses the same desktop environment (GTK on GTK / KDE-QT on KDE-QT), it looks like out of place.

More importantly, Microsoft have focused on accessibility to the point that it can be navigated by keyboard, mouse or (recently) touch alone. GNOME settings (aka control center) don't navigate well on keyboard, not even allowing selecting search results (https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...).