skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not seeing how they benefit even in the short term. The businesses would all be owned by people outside the tribe, the entire point is to have low/no taxes, and the infrastructure built is unlikely to be useful after the business is gone.

For Tesla at least, taxes are not so much an issue as the regulatory regime prohibiting them from operating outside of reservation altogether. They are happy to pay higher tax, if the alternative is inability to sell cars at all.

But, in general, even if the tax rates on tribal lands are lower than on regular state lands, the tribes still benefit, because it is them who collect the tax, rather than the State. Many polities would rather have a smaller bite of a cake rather than no cake at all. Look at Ireland, for example, which is greatly benefiting exactly from being a EU tax haven: sure, it collects less from Google or Apple than, say, France or Italy would, but they still benefit from their low tax policy.

> and the infrastructure built is unlikely to be useful after the business is gone

If you read the casino, you’ll find that Tesla is actually renovating and using a former casino facility.

> Besides, it's entirely possible the way the state fixes this "loophole" puts them in a worse position than currently. The history of renegotiating often doesn't end well for the Natives.

Yeah, that’s sadly correct: the governments tend to screw small people over when it sees its power and revenues diminished.
Might be because that I read it in translation, but Don Quixote always strikes me as something quite easy to read. It’s funny, has a light-hearted tone (however deep its underlying message is), and the story is straightforward.
How are you going to get huge quantities of cash across borders without anyone noticing? Even the Narcos know thats a bad plan, they used binders of gift cards.
People tip housekeeping?! I've probably stayed in a close to a thousand nights in hotels and honestly had no idea this was done.

I have left money on rare occasions when I left a mess that I wasn't able to clean up though.
Virtual influencers have been around for a while. Couldn't tell from the article what the "AI generated" part adds to it though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/lil-mique...
It's a solid pattern. Eventually I find you end up wanting a write API for validation, and a read API for flexible querying in some applications though.

That is well-served by GraphQL mutations and queries.

BFF pattern can be more approachable and reduce client code, however, and that's a plus.
> "These days, celebrities are sometimes withdrawn from dramas that they have been filming because of school violence scandals or bullying controversies. However, virtual humans have zero scandals to worry about."

Wait till they make the virtual human “talk” (or put up messages and replies online) and you’ll have scandals very soon. Others have learned this the hard way before.
Why do things like this generate so many responses along the lines of "this is depressing," "technology is terrifying," "humanity is doomed" and etc? We've always loved entertainment ever since the dawn of our species. "Generated people" just seem like another form of entertainment medium, enabled by advancements in technology, to me.

Sure, I see the points about how we're more and more isolated and anti social and stuff.. but is that really a problem? Our evolutionary programming has the primary objective of genetic propagation, but it's ultimately up to us to decide our purpose in life. Someone said that real "AI-takeover" scenarios would involve such enthralling fantasies and entertainment that humans cannot even begin to imagine, and humans won't even put up a fight against AIs. As for me, I'm not alarmed; I absolutely look forward for that scenario to happen.
You open up a competing car dealership on the opposite side of the street and sell for cheaper (assuming that you have access to wholesale prices from the car manufacturer - that is the part that needs to be regulated).
Lady A vs. Alan Parsons Project does well, especially the chorus parts, which are identical. https://rave.dj/_iUxT46RQ89dZA

Run DMC and the Bob James track they sampled heavily: https://rave.dj/Y6TGXT9GkgARGA
They're just the noisy developers who haven't found their hyperproductive niche. Once you've found your perfect tech stack, you just keep using it and stop making noise about it, and then your voice no longer gets counted. But that doesn't matter, because the work gets done, the code goes out, and the money comes in.
> pretend you really read the entire GEB

Seriously? This is a book that is plenty accessible for high school students, and not outrageously long or notably archaic.

If you want an English-language analogy stick to something like Canterbury Tales or Moby Dick or Ulysses or Infinite Jest.
I relate. It might also be Darwinian.
I can think of few worse business plans than a paid browser, in 2021.

I would bet money that even the majority of HN readers wouldn't pay money for something so heavily commoditized.
I do think that the novelty effect will quickly wear off.

What is the future for 'virtual humans' after that? Will it be mainly virtual assistants (that people will quickly grow to hate)?
Will they come to dominate pornography or say cam sites, and be tarred by that association and then end up ignored in other spheres? on the other hand, if they avoid that fate, they could gradually become a pretty significant force in mainstream film; i think getting popularity there will be a hard road to climb if people first associate them as tacky.

And unless these virtual personalities end up engaging in scripted dramas and celebrity feuds and things like the way (i gather) k-pop bands do etc, they risk people coming to find them extremely boring. Being able to be in more than one place at once is in some ways a disadvantage if it makes them so ever-present that their audience no longer experiences them as part of some kind of narrative, which is what lets people develop feelings for them.
You accounting for taxes? HST? Gasoline taxes? The general higher cost of anything imported? How about the recent run up in housing costs? Houses are about as expensive in Toronto as they are the Bay area now.

Having worked in both countries, $300k USD goes way further in the US than $300k CAD in Canada. And that's even accounting for the housing difference.
We are a global startup in Seoul, the company next to our office creates this type of character. I am not sure what they use their models for though. Very talented work they create.
that's true, I was coming at it from a 'going to college' perspective, when in reality a lot of kids don't end up going to college and don't need all that. It's a tough problem, and I want kids who don't want/need to attend college to spend their time in a useful way as well.

And having a local high school is very important as well, It's definitely not practical to send kids on an hour commute.

The system the UK has with grammar schools is pretty interesting, by separating kids around age 11, basically it's a more advanced public school. Although that system gets some hate as well. I think it separates kids a little too young, before they can really understand what's going on.
New Company Says It’s Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
In sane countries, the "popular view" holds, as it should. Not so much in the US, though. The IRS knows how much I make, I want them to send me a form that says "we think you made this much, if that's true and you have no fancy deductions, sign here".

Then I just sign a form and return it instead of slogging through the bullshit that Intuit et al has lobbied for.
we need one to run for President in USA in 2024
Have you tried refreshing your profile?
Eh, that's because hands are real. They are face swapping rendered face to real body. Source: easy to find if you can read Korean.
That's really interesting one because I saw another comment saying the same thing, but two because I had personally come to the opposite conclusion. I found the Desktop GUI to be one of the best experiences in all of crypto. I had no problems with crashing or freezing, and a lot of subtle UX/UI quirks many crypto interfaces have that cause anxiety were subtly avoided in the Monero GUI. Curious what others think.
Here's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place more on what a 3rd space is from Oldenburg, the Sociologist who coined the term.

I remember seeing a great tweet with pictures of parks and libraries about third places a while back. Wild goose chase, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about I've been searching for this tweet all night!
I recently watched this talk-

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? (https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4)

Here's the HN thread- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21280429

I learned in that talk, among other things that Oracle spent $500 million to promote and market Java.

- https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/09/sun_preps_500m_java_b...

- https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105510454649518400

- https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/sun-preps-500m-jav...
>How else can we explain decades and decades of broken promises and total deferment to the lobbyists and highest bidders?

You just said it. Money.
thank you, i misread that somehow.
Who are 'they' who will stabilize the price?
Mostly vscode.
1 folder per ticket (epic/issue/task), multiple files per folder. Folders can be nested if needed.
Files: markdown for notes, Todo+[1] for todos, plantuml for diagrams, etc
I also use pen and paper for scribbling.

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fabiospa...
I started with element and matrix.org, now I use element on IPFS and host the conduit homeserver behind a caddy reverse proxy.
> > The FDA already approved the vaccine. It's not their job to approve when it it is given

> This is wrong. The FDA doesn't issues generic approvals, it issues approvals for specific uses.

Actually, it is correct. There are many drugs that are used for non-approved purposes after having been found to have additional properties.

This is what the FDA says to specifically address this.

"Why might an approved drug be used for an unapproved use?

From the FDA perspective, once the FDA approves a drug, healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient.
You may be asking yourself why your healthcare provider would want to prescribe a drug to treat a disease or medical condition that the drug is not approved for. One reason is that there might not be an approved drug to treat your disease or medical condition. Another is that you may have tried all approved treatments without seeing any benefits. In situations like these, you and your healthcare provider may talk about using an approved drug for an unapproved use to treat your disease or medical condition." [1]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and...
The distractions are actually fine if they're revenue-positive.

There might still be a small window of opportunity for Mozilla to be the champion of the web platform. It has an excellent operations team. Its CDN still delivers updates to hundreds of millions of devices. I would have loved to see Moz Inc create a Netlify service for developers and a Shopify service for small businesses.
Once people realize that when they transact a BTC transaction and all their history can be tracked, they won't like it. Most people think they are hidden behind pseudo-address, but that really is not the case anymore. Go figure. Imagine your bank account is transparent. Every transaction can be seen by everyone. Scary stuff... And it's not about illegality. The fact that everyone can know how much money my neighbor has or his spending habits whatever. Just horrible horrible horrible. It's awful. I can't wrap my head around it. And it's only gonna get worse with more KYC. Coinjoin isn't practical. There is nothing that can fix this. Some people already find this troublesome. You might not feel bothered holding 0.1 BTC, but if you have more than that? People are crazy. It maybe isn't problem now, but the future?

Financial transparency won't prevent crimes. And KYC doesn't prevent crimes either.

Optional privacy also isn't a solution. All transactions must look the same or very similar otherwise you stand out.

Monero solves all of this. It still has a long way to go though.
Designed to be CPU mined: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
On Android, have you trying installing Google’s gboard and swiping? It is like a superpower for typing fast, and so few people with Samsung seem to discover it (and most iPhone users are not aware of what they are missing).
> For now, at least until they extend it another 100 years.

I don't think there's the political will to keep doing that.

https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/copyright-term-extens...
Yes, we induce pancreatic cancer in pigs, and then we try to treat the cancer.

One important question is why so many new cancer treatments are successful in mice and rats, but then fail in human trials. You could point to genetic differences between mice and humans, but I think another important factor is simply the size difference. Just like a scale model of an airplane won't fly the same way, there are also scaling laws in animals. Large animals have a lower metabolic rate (per kg), require lower drug dosing (mg/kg), have more defense mechanisms against cancer, and have differences in blood flow and many other variables. We suspect that cancer treatments that work in pigs will be more likely to also work in humans.
I will go even further with this one. I've been working on a personal project of mine with REST APIs on the backend and a fancy combo of TypeScript/React/Redux Saga on the frontend. Everything was shiny and cool, except the overall development process was super slow. I'd spend hours polishing components, figuring out various states, installing TS libraries, fighting the compiler and god know what else. It was exhausting and tiresome, until one day I said "f#%k it, I'm done". I opened my favorite search engine and typed bootstrap premium themes. jQuery? Whatever. HTML? Fine. Pure CSS? Sure! No AJAX. No fancy reloads. No history management. Plain old <form method="POST">, good ol' cookies and simple HTML files. Within just three weekends I was already MILES ahead of a previous stack.

Long story short, if you are working on a personal project, please, consider the most dumb setup. With the vast options of super polished modern frameworks, it'll take you pretty far. A few more weekends and I'll prob be ready to go prod.

Edit: remembered something fun. I have a page that requires to poll the backend and then take some action. So I thought a bit of Ajax is fine. I opened the corresponding HTML file and started typing:

<script>
jQuery.ajax(...)

but then... hold on a minute! That's getting way too complex. META REFRESH FTW, M%F%CK%RS! :D

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">
I'll go one step further than this - build an endpoint for each component in your frontend. That way you can re-use each of these components on multiple pages, and you end up with components that are scoped fairly narrowly.

In practice this ends up building out a reasonable approximation of what a "public" api would be. Eg, your WidgetList component forces out a /widgets endpoint, which might get re-used by some other widget too. That's fine. The point is you're still working UI-first and making the minimum viable backend.

With lots of components on a page, you might end up making multiple calls for the same information. That's also fine. You can optimize that later if it becomes a real problem.
I feel like your last example is a known tradeoff not an exception. Frontend frameworks never intended to solve performance, it had usually been at the cost of performance that we get a more powerful/dev friendly experience.

They are heavier applications not simple websites, and you pay for that in performance and often UX latency. The modern web feels slower than it did in 2010 in many situations. Latency and lazy developers not implementing affordances for when things are loading or the page is changing. Your app is probably slow for everyoelse, you need loading spinners! Especially if you are hijacking the browser navigation.
Surely, you can't be this credulous
In K-pop scandals are quite toxic. Radiolab did an episode on it https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/kpopa...
Why would anyone watch that? I thought that after all the infatuation with technology, power and wealth other humans are still what we need to connect with..

Why not shut oneself into a virtual world if virtual everything is what they want? I have the feeling that in the not too distant future there will be big labels on things stating “not virtual” like we’re getting now for organic/bio products
It depends on the restaurant, but I know plenty of friends who would be screwed by eliminating tipping. On a busy night they could take home 2-3x their base rate in tips.

Bumping up their pay by 50% and eliminating tips would be worse for them.
I held on to my Z30 for a long time. Even bought one off eBay when mine died rather than get an iPhone. Caved once it was clear that the company was dead though, as I couldn't use any apps.
> and it hasn't been as full of cultists as some of the other coins I've seen.

LOL. Not my experience at all. Monero shills are the worst.
Body is real. The face is synthetic and augmented onto the actress.
I've taken 3 runs at GEB each time getting a bit further than the last. It's been about 15 years since the last attempt, I think I should give it a go again soon, I think I'm readier for it now than I was in the past.
“Generated people” are no different than animation videos and movies in this regard. Another art form. No?
Sexual awareness, like holding a boy's hand, is considered a major scandal. SK celebrities are often expected to be highly sexualised in clothing, their songs, etc. whilst maintaining an entirely "pure" persona. i.e. Never considered kissing, etc.

This "impure purity" is expected for both male & female celebs, though there are some differences and boys tend to get a little more leeway.

The celeb also tends to take the blame for their creepy fans. It's their fault for 'encouraging' stalkers, etc.

It's an impossible culture that chews people up and spits them out.
I can foresee a future where this (in practice) eliminates choice/individuality because people will allow their responses to be dictated by an AI for "best results."

Then whoever controls the AI controls society.

Tag onto that how AI/ML often reinforces systemic problems, and one can foresee how it would further entrench the status quo.
The funny thing is that despite all of this high end, super secret, extremely sophisticated technology used against them, those activists won in the end.
Suspicion is good :)

I'll take PMP for example. I have made my way through the PMBOK Guide and various satellite publications. I've found some parts very useful, especially when focusing in retrospect.

I have also worked in organisations where HR decide to get 20% of operations and technology staff certified in a year because they're working on projects for no reason other than a box-ticking exercise to show the organisation is a learning organisation. [This is then compounded by one company doing it, then all of the neighbouring ones deciding to do similar.] PM career paths were not opened. Rather, those PM paths that existed were made a lot harder for anyone that now didn't tick the new PMP-box. And I have friends that did it simply because it afforded a small pay rise; many freely admit (brag) the only thing of recall was the sweat that went into a month of cramming before the test; required experience of actual project work was largely imagined.

So, while with great respect to the effort that's been put in by the PMI in creating PMBOK etc, the certification system they use for PMP is broken for determining any signal in competent project management. I'd far prefer someone's blog.

For OP: That does not mean the above makes certificates worthless. Far from it. Getting them can get you through various filters. They can signal an interest in a field or in furthering one's self in a field. They can provide networking opportunities. They are what you make of them.
If you take it as a piece of entertainment, more of a historical clip show with some connected narrative they can be enjoyable to watch even without trusting the information entirely.

Curtis has a gift of picking out obscure and interesting clips many of which were filmed before many of his audience (including myself) were even born. His British slant (and the fact that they come from the BBC archives) may make their relevance to those watching from outside of the UK particularly low however, depending on the overall film's subject matter.
Edith Grossman
That was a lot of extra words around the crucial bit:

> It is based on incentivizing behavior through tax breaks/credits.

Who do you think has time and money to spend lobbying for new tax breaks to their benefit? Hint: it's not the poor
That's iOS 14.8, not 11.4.8, and no mention of 11.6 here.
They were already making out like bandits. They have near zero capital costs and their company is essentially running itself (im exaggerating, but you get the point). Assuming each of the founders had 33%, it means they are each essentially taking in $100M/year in salary with no end in sight towards that either slowing down or it decreasing. This is a simple math formula for them - cash out $4B now, setup a family office and then never work again or never work again and just bring in $100M/year. They'd get to that exit by ~50 anyway.
Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript
i didn't realize it, but it seems they provide the bootloader sources which most "open source routers" don't. If they also provide the full board schematics then I would consider them completely open source.
Does anyone have a preferred english translation for Don Quixote?
Google or Facebook?
Unfortunately, you really can't (except as an absolute last resort) suppress the immune system of children. Seems as most Type 1 diabetics are diagnosed in early childhood and the age of onset/diagnosis is creeping forward, an approach involving immunosuppressants is not likely feasible for the majority. By the time you're old enough to take immunosuppressants the beta cells are well and truly destroyed and they don't regenerate.
North Korea would beg to differ, having amassed billions in violation of International sanctions. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-north-koreas-role-bit...
How is it different from what GraphQL gives (Other than being too flexible)? Front-end can do single API call for entire page and can be cached.

Did I miss the whole point?
Oh wow I'm kind of shocked this is the first time I am seeing this. I have mostly gravitated to eclipse SWT with a bit of dabbling in JavaFX.

I just started playing around with clojure last week, but I have yet to do any GUI work with it.

I intended to try out Racket at some point, but this GUI library looks so nice I might start soon.

I wonder if anyone has implemented cassowary contraints yet for Racket and combined the two.
It really isn't. Just see Racket, Clojure, Elixir, and F# for practical functional programming languages.

This article is pretty terrible. There isn't even a functional implementation, with just a half hearted attempt to even understand how to do it.

Functional languages excel at state machines. The example is pretty terrible too with regards to imperative programming being a good fit, because literally no one enjoys the real life statefulness and mutation when cooking. If you mess up, there's no going back. Why would you want to embrace or repeat that feature in your implementation? Functional state machines just pass explicit state around instead of mutating some random collection of variables.

And god, those C++ examples make me nauseous.