skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the idea of a picture of a tree that a Hacker News poster used as a metaphor one day.

If you can define it as a concept, you can sell crypto 'of it'. Doesn't matter if it was your tree idea metaphor: I can sell crypto of your idea of a tree of a metaphor, if and only if I can get people to do such a silly thing along with me for the purpose of manipulating the IDEA of the idea of a tree of a metaphor, as money.

Makes perfect sense that the sillier it is, the more it works.
The low-level stuff is already "done" with https://GitHub.com/jetbrains/skija which is a Java API with FFI to Googles skia library, which is used for rendering in Chrome and Firefox amongst other things.
As far as I understand, the core graphics library will be Skia, and it’s C++. So to some extent, your wish has been granted.
HN user zoenolan posted this in another thread, with some great resources particularly focused on Solidity (Ethereum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337686
My takeaway is the opposite: I'm pleasantly surprised with how many people are vaccinated, and how quickly. It's hard to get 2/3rds of Americans to agree on just about anything.

When you look at the hold-outs, it's largely young people who are at very low risk of serious illness. (85% of 65 and older are vaccinated, but just 57% of people 18-29.) So it makes sense to me that they are more hesitant.
Yeah I agree with you, all of crypto is 100% a ponzi scheme and it's weird seeing him promote this stuff. I was just saying for the people pushing these coins it's still a very profitable venture. They got the dodge NFT for like 4mil and sold off 20% at like a 400mil valuation...
What does "behaves too much like a web app" even mean in this context?
It's possible that the intersection of white people and Republicans is the least likely group to get vaccinated, according to some survey.

Even if that were true, it's still a cheap shot from NPR, since the group you'd want to reference in that context would be whoever the largest anti-vax group is, not the ones who are least likely to change their minds.

And in any case, the link they cite as support doesn't actually support the statement: it's about rural whites not getting vaccinated, and mentions Republicans (and Evangelicals) only speculatively and in passing. It might be that NPR sees all these groups as equivalent, and uses one as a shorthand for the other without the need for explanation or comment, which of course they are not.
How to Survive the End of the Universe (2014)
My understanding (and admittedly I haven't read closely) is that this is a move to supporting transaction in BTC using an existing Salvadoran electronic payment system. In that case, it probably does reliably give increased visibility compared to cash payment.
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The case when Lean Startup could save the Product.

Did you hear about Polimobile?
It was launched in 2011 with the aim of letting politicians reach potential supporters across the US. However, the product failed as nobody wanted to pay for a service like this when there were other successful campaigning methods that could be used.
The founder admitted that he hadn’t asked his target audience if they would pay for the service, and if so, how much they were willing to pay.
It's Always about the Money
I really wish I could get math to stick. I just finished my National 5 maths (rough equivalent of a US High School Diploma) night-class today and all I ever seem to understand is how, but not why. I'm the one asking "why is that that." And today was recapping on trinomial, simplifying fractions. Simple I expect to anyone with a mathematical mind, but to me, it's just an insane implosion which leaves me exhausted. I have notes, but even still.

What is the secret behind it? How do people get so good with Maths? Is it truly study,study & study? .. I hadn't even herd of the terminology of co-efficient until today. Let alone something like this.
Good. This remote work revolution has had a dramatic effect on diversity in a positive way. My company’s learnings have been that it’s easier to hire a diverse workforce remotely, and our revenue and margin numbers have never been higher.

We’ve gone from “oh it’s our culture, we can’t wait to get everyone back in the office” to realizing we had hired almost half of the current employees in the company since the pandemic started so we moved on to consolidating office leases.

There is no going back to the “old ways” because we had simply grown too much for anyone but the tenured folks to remember. And we can grow faster because we’re primarily remote — we plan to hire about 2,000 people next year, 50% more than we had planned pre-pandemic (which should be a huge red flag for anyone looking to force employees back — they’re not bluffing about remote jobs being plentiful and we have lower overhead so we pay more.)

All of our work is collaborative. It’s actually far easier to be collaborative at scale if everyone is virtual; just the only baseline anyone had was when the bosses and half the workers were in the same room. Sure, the bosses felt good, but half your team was underutilized. The collaboration angle is absolute BS.
After working remotely for 5 years, it would take an extremely special team and compensation to draw me back into an in-person role. I live in a medium-sized town and would be hard-pressed to relocate at this point. The local tech scene just can’t compete with remote salaries, and life without a commute is just too good. I’ve had enough happy hours and office snacks for one lifetime.
I'm really tempted to take one of these famous NFTs and use it as a Twitter avatar, without owning it. I guess I could have copyright issues with it, but I doubt I would (why would the original artist care anyways? did s/he even package up the copyright rights to travel along with the NFT token as it's traded? maybe...).

You can own it and say it's rare, but it's not actually rare.
Can I sell you a fractional ownership of this message?
There's the wonderful SV attitude we all love...
In fact, in most jurisdictions it is.
Yes, absolutely. If we need Spartans, and we have that larger perspective, we can make not only the Spartans, but also the context for them to exist in. You've got it exactly right.
When Clearly Contacts was bought out by Luxottica it was described to me as the Mafia coming in. Clearly Contacts had gotten too big to ignore and it was starting to impact their bottom line. Yes was the only answer, how much was negotiable.

Rayban integrating with Facebook looks like the Mafia and Triads joining forces.
> covid vaccines do not prevent infection

This is untrue, see this site and the studies in the footnotes: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...

TL;DR: Vaccines are effective, though not perfect, at preventing infection with the delta variant
The Bitcoin Energy
JP Morgan's Coffee Machine
Got a funny feeling that the "metaverse" is going to be shut down in some time six months to six years from now and that the average person will, if they are asked about it, say "what's a metaverse?"
Why iPhone Names Have Numbers
Isn't the vaccination rate of healthcare worker only about 60%? If the reasons are strictly misinformation, then it seems you have an almost 40% chance of getting an incompetent healthcare professional. In my mind, that suggests there are rational and reasonable reasons, since I find that more likely than 40% being blatantly incompetent.
Also: In one of the most callous examples of exclusionary state politics in practice, last year the Queensland government denied a 14-year-old double-lung transplant patient from NSW access to his specialist doctor, declaring that Queensland hospitals were for Queenslanders.
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And if you don't enable javascript you only get two paragraphs of text. Yet the article's complete HTML is hidden in the page as a quoted string in a javascript object. Brilliant!
If I understand correctly, the author talks about pure-data approach to building GUI, and that’s pretty much the opposite of OO and inheritance.
It's just the hardware that's not user-facing which is similar between smartphones and computers. But the whole input model is fundamentally different. Software must follow and not dictate how humans interact with the hardware, and that's fundamentally different between smartphones, tablets and computers.
I assume he means that the crew was superfluous because the "on" button could be pushed remotely or automated at a fraction of the cost of sending people to space.
Yeah. I use something like this: https://github.com/jgrahamc/hncomments

Although I really need to commit the final version as that one isn't quite what I use.
Yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_infection#By_dise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity

Do not think in terms of "your vaccine," because vaccines are about preventing the spread of a disease within a population.
That's exactly why I ask :)

It seems like this is still WASM. I wonder if this is "Node with Rust bindings" as my EDIT comment alludes too.
For covid they have denied most of the severe side effects, like death or constant shaking. I think they admit to the blood cloths and the heart attacks, but not sure.
These aren’t exclusive options.

I’d rather have tuition than money because of tax advantages. Free college is free college. Paying me $1k extra to then pay taxes is less.

Also, this is biased toward people who want degrees so if I use it, it’s way more than they would pay me.

I’m not an anti-millennial (some of my favorite selves are millennials) but having absolutist mantras is stupid when it’s an alternative to having smarter, more beneficial work situations.

I have a long list of things I’d rather have than money. I’d probably take a $30k pay cut to work remotely, for example.
You mean giving out more BTC IOUs than they actually own BTC? Nothing does, but creating IOUs is not the same thing as printing actual currency/gold/BTC.

edit: And by "nothing", I mean there's no technical barrier. There are certainly legal barriers if they are lying about reserves and falsifying audits..
In a society in which if you do something stupid that causes massive but not immediately fatal injuries to yourself you will be taken to an emergency room and likely given expensive treatment even if you do not have adequate insurance or enough money of your own to pay for that treatment, thereby passing the cost on to the rest of us in terms of either higher medical costs or higher taxes, it is a lot harder for it to be just about hurting yourself.
It's funny... I listened to a "crypto podcast" the other day... They were chatting about some new, emerging currencies, and how they try to "incentivise" people to hold/trade/use them (e.g. by providing high, double-, even triple-digit yields), I guess that's the only way to achieve any kind of adoption these days.

Literally industrialized and scaled Ponzi.
> If you feel the urge to buy or sell NFTs

I think it's a sort of performance art. It's also just a fun way to donate to charity in many cases.
I have a CVE from Apple for a vulnerability in a consuming-facing mobile application RE improper data access & failed obfuscation of sensitive information. People think the CVE is cool and all, and it might help me get my next job, but for now it hasn't helped me put any food on the table. Maybe next time I'll call China, Russia, randoms on Twitter, go public before reporting to them, et cetera. Incentives are f'd up.
NFT's sound royally stupid as is; but I feel like I saw a bit of leaning toward an idea I liked which would be something a bit more "divisible" and maybe fungible? Lol? The idea I'm thinking is something like "shares in a work", or better yet "shares in an artist."

Something to essentially say, I like this artists' work and want to support, possibly with the potential for profit. I remember seeing Eminem when he was merely the opener for other artists and was wearing all black and a hat (i.e. somewhat obscuring that he was white) . And I kind of saw it, and offhandedly thought, "he's gonna be big, I wish I could buy stock in him or something."
What does "übertrieben werblich" even mean?

Did those people read any Apple fanboy blogs lately? These people actually pay Apple AND write overboarding positive reviews.
Yes. I could work for AppleCare phone support. All my friends call me instead. When I need to call, I'd do well betting a year's salary that the first person won't know the answer. I always get escalated, sometimes to someone with a deep understanding of the issue. I'm willing to pay for that, as I have trouble letting go otherwise. AppleCare buys me back days of my life.

This article threw me, first with the "you're" in the caption, then the muddled second paragraph. It's a "Where's Waldo?" of grammatical errors. I lost count.
CipherTrace provides KYC/AML and related services for companies and governments who need and want it.

Here's the thing: transactions on the blockchain are anonymous but they're not private. If you're going to do things out in the open, someone's going to watch what you're doing. That doesn't necessarily result in regulation, though it may. It may doesn't necessarily result in incumbents squashing competition, though it may. CipherTrace builds tools, and how they're used is a political question, not a technical one.

Disclosure: I know the CipherTrace folks and did a tiny bit of contracting for them between jobs.
Sales of fractional shares can be padded by using all the "money" you receive from them to buy more.
would you mind sharing what you mean by auto-generated validators that get injected into the code?
Well, those are quite close to each other from the orthographic point of view, I guess: Ukrainian or Serbian are visually very distinct from either Russian or Bulgarian, while to tell the latter two apart you need some actual knowledge about the differences of those languages: say, that the abundance of letter "ъ", words ending in "ът"/"та"/"то" and tons of prepositions (i.e., often repeated two-three letter words) are a pretty good indication of a Bulgarian text.
I know this isn't a new concept but this is also happening heavily in the retro video game industry as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A
I think AR/VR is an avenue that could be really beneficial to humanity. Humans have a need and drive for unique experiences but that comes with a huge environmental cost. If AR/VR gets good enough this could replace many things for many people.

Even small quality of life things having a window to the outside in a windowless room could help a lot of people.

That said, if the only ones making these devices are the big tech companies they will exist to convince you to purchase and consume with little other benefit.
Cloudflare Workers run in V8 isolates, so it would have to be WASM. It would be difficult to do something else and keep the current pricing model (including the free tier), since the overhead per Worker is pretty low with this approach.

See https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/how-worke...

Edit: "Native" does seem misleading in the title. "Streamlined Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers" would have been more straightforward.
I love to read history. Folks on Reddit should too. Every generation thinks that they’re living in the end times. There is no single indicator of impending societal collapse or widespread conflict, but there generally are clear and unambiguous indicators. I don’t see anything right now to indicate that I should be worried for the future.

All that said, the most likely existential risk for most of us is getting laid off and losing income. If you’re gonna prep for something, that’s a good one to prep for.
What about this guy's book?

https://math.uchicago.edu/~dannyc/books/4dpoincare/4dpoincar...
care to elaborate why you think that?
But some of us see it differently.

You are telling me that I am not allowed to disagree with you.
So you support having unvaccinated nurses in hospitals full of people with compromised immune systems? How does that work?
A common approach to proving a broad claim when there’s no straightforward proof is to figure out all of the entities that have the potential to produce a counterexample, break them up into a finite list of categories, and go through category by category proving, often with very different approaches depending on the category, that each category cannot contain a counterexample.

A major theorem proved in this style was the classification of finite simple groups. Not only was it done in this style, it frequently serves as a major component in other proofs of this style, since theorems about other kinds of groups can sometimes be re-expressed as claims about finite simple groups, and then checked category by category.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_sim...

EDIT: This is also part of why sometimes the first proof of a theorem will be very long, but someone will later use the insight of the first proof to produce a much shorter proof. The first proof will basically be a proof that the general claim breaks down into a (possibly very long) list of separately probable lemmas, followed by a proof of each of the lemmas. These may not overlap very much, leading to proofs that are very long and take a lot of background to understand. Once the result is known to be true, it may be worth the effort for the original author or someone else to refactor the “proved it can’t be disproved” proof into a much shorter direct proof.
My sentiments exactly. The extra couple of hours a day in commute time / getting ready alone is worth it. I can immediately jump off my computer at 5 and book, I'm with my kids.

Not to mention, I'm already making near Silicon Valley numbers, so why the heck would I switch?
And yet Visual Studio Code is doing quite well for a "slow and bloaty" Electron app. It starts many times faster, and in many areas (not all) also feels snappier than both Xcode and Visual Studio (and being an IDE versus "just a text editor" isn't an excuse, VSCode can be turned into a full blown IDE with a few extensions).
Interesting name. "Mēris" in Latvian means "plague". I wonder if it is on purpose. Too lazy to read the article or look up, though.
That's nice. Your politicized data contradicts less-politicized data coming out of Israel showing vaccinated catching covid at a higher rate than the unvaccinated.

What are your thoughts on the CDC having different reporting criteria for the vaccinated and unvaccinated? For instance - vaccinated individuals have a lower max cycle threshold in PCR testing than unvaccinated. Additionally, many unvaccinated are forced to test regularly while vaccinated are not -- do you think this might also skew the data being published by the cdc?
I’m unsure either way.

On the one hand, I regard crypto-foo in general as a failure to grok foo for all foo other than “graphy” and “nomicon”.

On the other, NFTs seem to fit into the same category as all other collectibles: I have no interest in used stamps, my dad collected them; original paintings and sculptures from famous artists fetch high prices, if I wanted one I’d get a (2D or 3D) print; autographs fetch vast sums and have zero valence for me.

Pretty much the only thing I care to collect are achievement badges in games and gamified educational services.

Which of these NFTs represent — magical thinking or collectibility — I do not know.
So is saying "Never trust an authority."
> Hey remember that there World War?

Wars like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan could not be financed or prosecuted under a hard money regime.

The wars you name as examples were "real" wars, i.e. they required real sacrifices of the nations involved, political buy-in, and were financially limited in a way that modern US fakewars are not.

(Aside: Of course, our fakewars do require limited sacrifices---of our young "grunts" that are recruited from high schools and haven't received a good enough education to know that signing up for Iraq makes you a sacrificial victim, not a war hero; and that sacrificing yourself in the Middle East hurts our country and is anti-patriotic, rather than the reverse.)

> Surely you have some citation

The rich are getting richer by buying assets (like equities, US homes en masse turning us into a nation of renters, farmland, etc.) while borrowing for nearly nothing. The Fed is what allows the rich to borrow at near zero interest. It isn't literally the banks as corporate institutions that are getting rich; I was referring to "banking" in a more general sense.

If you're serious in asking for a citation, you'll know that in modern scientific and semi-scientific literature works in such a way that there are dozens of "citations" for any position anyone wants to take. "Citations" are not the way to go. Understanding fundamentals is what is needed. That's why we have these conversations. The answer does not lie "in the literature."

I'm leaving the conversation now.
CORBA is 30 years old. Wikipedia says first APIs are now 80 years old.
In 2021, I don't think you can treat NFTs and GME and other confusing/contrived aspects of the economy as separate in any way.

The reality is that money, on the whole, is becoming more and more meaningless.

The world still needs something that fulfills the promise of cryptocurrency, even if it's a little distracted right now.
Go ahead, the people who own the NFT don’t have copyright over the underlying image, and afaict usually don’t have any special rights to the image at all.
I'm german, and almost all of the mentioned words only exist in the imagination of the author. The only exception is "Covidiot", which is rarely used as a replacement for "Querdenker" (literally translated as cross-thinker, in the sense of non-logical, mostly emotionally guided being).
Like Shattered PD with Transifex.
Trying to follow this link in w3m yielded this:

> JavaScript is not available.

> We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of

> supported browsers in our Help Center.

And that about sums up browsing the web in 2021.
Does the difference really matter provided that the bug bounties are paying market rates for the bugs that people submit?
We do not have data to support the claim "natural immunity will last many years", as the disease hasn't existed for many years. There are studies that go in both directions as to whether recovery from infection provides better protection against future infection or not, and there seems to be a lot of cherry-picking by people trying to support their own arguments.

If we can't eliminate Covid, there will be mutations that reduce effectiveness of immunity whether obtained by vaccines or by previous infection, and everyone will need boosters, like we do for influenza shots.
If Rust compiler team members wanted to collaborate on this effort, I would be open to that. We could co-maintain a separate repository with:

* The collection of headers for various targets, and the tools to upgrade/maintain them.

* The source files for various libcs, patches, instructions/tools to upgrade/maintain them

* A declarative set of instructions to create build artifacts (not Makefiles!!)

* Instructions/patches needed to integrate Clang driver frontends into a different binary (making the "main" functions co-exist peacefully).

Would be a fair amount of overhead to collaborate, but perhaps could ultimately save both parties labor.
It's the vaccinated population that breeds vaccine-resistant variants. Just like it's the antibiotic half-course that breeds antibiotic resistant bacteria.

As the vaccines are failing harder and harder, convenient to blame those that weighted long term risk over short term protection.
No, I mean crediting an account with an amount of bitcoins that came from nowhere. This is how commercial banks create money, and I don't see the reason why crypto exchanges can't do the same with bitcoin.