skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will not disagree that there is confusion and bad arguments on both sides of the debate, which is why you are essentially arguing within the wrong framing.

At the same time, people buying NFTs are generally quite a bit less confused about what you consider "lies" than you seem to think.

Importantly, the blockchain is not useless because they have to exist within the universe's rules of impermanence. You may want to ponder the differences and shared properties between something like seditionart.com, MASS MoCA's ownership of Sol Le Witt wall paintings, and an NFT on a blockchain.

Finally, let me point out that the URI issue is very much a misunderstanding that is widespread within the NFT community as well. It helps to think of the URI as a convenience feature rather than someone implying anything about the value of the token. There are fascinating experiments with tokens that have no url, tokens that have no visual representation, tokens with changing urls, or arbitrary urls; tokens that point to the same url. There are of course tokens that use data uris, and have the image-representation on-chain, or generate it dynamically; or they do so but not in URL form. There are technical implementations where the database of urls is separate from the ledger of tokens; there are early experiments by artists with blockchains (many years before anyone cared about NFTs) where there is no ability to store a URL in the first place.

Cryptopunks, a really early project, simply stored a hash to a file containing the assembled images, and that is all that is needed.
That gives you the number but not a comparison. To claim "most searched word on Bing" requires knowledge how much other terms are searched on Bing.
> the irony is that contrary to the professor’s claims, the entity he is suing completely protected him

That's a stretch. A tenured professor at a public university not losing his job over some drivel hardly constitutes as being protected.
American? You mean what's widely available in USA?

Sweet/acidic 'mustard' just is not mustard. That is marketing BS, maube catered to youngsters who cannot yet handle spicy food? It is something else than mustard, containing a little bit of mustard, like mayonaisse does. A chararacteristic element of mustard is the fact it is spicy. Therefore, mustard is always spicy. If they specifically mention spicy, it is very spicy.

As long as I get real mustard when it looks like it (mentions mustard), and its mentioned when its spicy (read: more than normal mustard), I am happy. When I get that acidic/sweet crap I am not happy. Its easy to recognize though. The color is lighter than the real deal, and the structure is very creamy.

I just buy local mustard, Zaanse and Groninger. But the structure isn't creamy and you need to mix them before grabbing content else you end up with an acidic leftover in the bottle.
I totally agree. I actually love this. I always assume that each company exaggerates their product's capabilities.

In highly technical areas, the number of people who can push back on marketing BS is likely to be very small and there is a good chance they are working for the competition. If companies challenge each other and then defend themselves against challenges, it gives me highly valuable information to figure out who is full of it and who is not. It also tends to draw in attention of other industry people who can weigh in, adding even more to the discussion.
but white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.
It's not the C64, but the DOS game Starflight was written in Forth.

And hey, considerably more and even larger games have been written in assembly, compared to which Forth is definitely high level (arguably even to other programming languages, but let's not get into that unless Don Hopkins joins this thread)

https://www.filfre.net/2014/10/starflight/
These insufferable people think they're actually fixing things with this bull shit.
Now the big question is if mods are a part of the protected class or not :)
Were those real trades, or just the same few people trading back and forth between themselves as part of a pump-and-dump scam?
Google Reader disappearing certainly had an impact, but I think there is another factor that contributed to companies abandoning RSS: user tracking & advertising.

For example: our country's version of eBay used to have a great RSS service where you could set up a feed for search queries on their site. I would skim through all the feeds once a day to see if there where any deals I liked. But now they have replaced it with an email service, which requires me to visit their website to see the results of the queries (every query also has it's own notification email). Which means they get data on the things I am potentially buying and how engaged I'm with them (since the email is coupled to my account, the RSS was not). It would also give them an opportunity to present some ads, because I have to visit their site every time I want to see if there are any interesting results.
> To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000 [0]

That group is still pretty price sensitive. Maybe not enough to drop beef completely, but enough to at least partially move to pork or chicken.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/
Unmentioned in the article is vaccine hesitancy among local populations. I'm currently in Cameroon on a project after spending 6 weeks in Kenya on another project. In both places, people were pretty fine with the status quo (e.g. nothing closed, just temp checks and masks required) and very hesitant to take a vaccine. Part of this was due to the ones available (e.g. Astra Zeneca and Sinopharm) but mostly people just didn't want to get one because they don't see a need. One colleague only bothered to get one because he had to travel to Europe and its a pain to do anything without a vaccine.
How to protect your intellectual property?
> FWIW, I am personally shocked that anyone wants to buy small pieces of cardboard (...)

I fail to see the relevance of your personal preferences to the discussion, as my point was that the cases I'm aware of sound an awful lot like shills trying to inflate the value of something with no market value whatsoever.

As a concrete example, there was a HN discussion a couple of months ago on how a kid reported a couple thousands of dollars worth of sales from NFTs, but it all sounded like a mix of straight up fraud and money laundering. A few comments in the discussion point out that the kid's father works in finance and it sounds he is trying to case in on the NFT trend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326220
I've never even heard of Tora-Borah, so maybe I'm ignorant.

But for one thing, I wouldn't say that an authority that authorizes the destruction of three buildings would authorize a nuclear strike. For another, destroying three buildings in some village in Afghanistan does not sound like and "escalation" in response to the half dozen or so buildings destroyed in New York on the date you specify, and the damage to the Pentagon, and the loss of four aircraft and all souls on board, and I don't know how many more on the ground.
In addition they have Google Analytics on a huge % of pages, so they can track referrals from Bing to those pages, and if the referrals to Google's homepage eclipse those, that's a strong indication.

...assuming Bing isn't preventing that behaviour.
German is also developing (unofficial) gender-neutral nouns using an asterisk ending but I think it’s also an open discussion about how best to handle it. It’s mostly often seen when referring to a person’s role, position or job in a way that includes all genders and non-binary people. I speak the language but it’s not my mother tongue so native German speakers might explain it better.
Honestly, I'd prefer that trolls get banned straight away without needing to point anywhere, instead of all these stupid CoCs. You do not need any special document to kick off annoying people from a mailing list. The mere existence of CoC documents seems like an elaborate act of extreme trolling.

EDIT: Moreover, CoCs don't really work in practice. Has any CoC ever prevented abuse of somebody? Do you have a concrete example?
I think it's very telling just how little engineering there is in Software Engineering that people can call best practices "just preferences" or "marketing fluff" and not be immediately laughed out of the room.

Because that's what would happen if someone suggested "best practices smells like a marketing term" in an actual engineering discipline.
The idea would be to backward engineer such "creation process" to the extent given by tools and abilities. Unfortunately, the enemy to be avoided, "pale imitation", lurks.

It depends on the level one manages to reach: in a context of speech, for example (attempting to give the idea), copying the wisdom > copying the semantics > copying the syntax > copying the words. There are foundations grounding what they support, so just identifying patterns (e.g. of words) without creating their "understanding" misses the core. Generating the latter (words, syntax) without having reached the former (wisdom, semantics) will mean obtaining "rambling" which may suggest the style of some author - it would be creating an idiot impersonating some real figure, an "impersonating idiot" like any fool attempting to disguise as Churchill (or whoever).

In theory, elements of the «creation process» could be entailed. In practice, that must be a goal, and it presumably requires a much higher understanding of those methods to be feasible.
In reality the market isn't a zero sum game. And there isn't a fixed supply of resources. In a crisis scalpers ensure that the customers receive critical goods that may otherwise be unavailable at any price. Not having that option could kill a company just as well. All of the profit money doesn't go to the scalper either, the original manufacturer can sell for higher prices, reallocate resources to make what is most profitable and meet the demands of the market. And there are price gouging laws to limit this activity for essential goods in an emergency.
I'm surprised the powder form of Colman's isn't a controlled substance. Not enough water and its essentially death paste. Sneeze near an open container of the powder and you'll probably need to move house and have facial reconstruction surgery.

I pity your friend for slathering it on a hot dog, first bite must've been quite a shock.

Marvellous stuff.
I see no difference in results, only in interface, Duck being even cleaner than Bing, reason why I use it (the privacy part sounds nice but is not actually verifiable)
Rotate and popcount are very specialised instructions. The vast majority of software doesn't use them at all, or uses them so infrequently that a software implementation is fine.

You are confusing embedded applications, which have huge flexibility with RISC-V, and standard operating systems with packaged software.

For the next few years (5?) standard operating systems have to support exactly two choices:

- RV64GC

- RVA22

RVA22 includes all the bit manipulation instructions, vectors, cache management, scalar crypto, and some other stuff. You can't pick and choose -- you have to support it all.

If you are making an embedded appliance on the other hand you can pick and choose exactly what extensions you need (a huge number of combinations, as you say), specify a core with exactly those extensions, build a chip around that with the other IP blocks you need, and tell your compiler which extensions you have. You compile all your software yourself, whether bare metal, using an RTOS, or a minimal Linux such as builtroot or yocto. There is zero confusion because you know what you have and you have what you need -- no more and no less.

No one who knows what they are talking about is talking about fusing five-instruction sequences. That's a total red herring.
I agree this is a phenomenon right now, but I feel that article is vastly overcomplicating it, and not necessarily accurately.

I'd suggest simply:

- software engineers are hugely in demand

- software engineers have worked out they can work well remotely, and often prefer it for a combination of productivity and work/life balance reasons

- software engineers are voting with their feet and finding work that suits their needs - and many firms are losing talent accordingly due to not meeting the needs of those staff
> You can't make DNS query from browser JavaScript AFAIK.

Yes, you can. [1] Lots of public DNS resolvers have support for it, too. [2]

Example:

fetch('https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=example.com&type=A...', { method: 'GET', headers: new Headers({ 'accept': 'application/dns-json' })});

Note that this is the JSON-specific format [3]. DNS over HTTPS itself uses the DNS wireformat [4], so you would have to build a parser for that if you want to integrate it into a web app.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/doh/json

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encrypted-dns/dns-...

[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8427

[4] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8484
It would make more sense to call it CNLabelContactRelationBiaomei. It's a concept that doesn't exist in English, so why use English? Nobody gets any wiser by that word salad. The docs can provide an explanation.
Colman's is mentioned.

"A few weeks after my Mr. Wonton, and since all I could talk about was my mustard quest, I mentioned to a friend the Chinese food thing. He mentioned that he’s also a fan of spicy mustard on his eggroll, and wondered had I tried Colman’s (12). I had tried Colman’s in the past, and Beard had it at number 16 on his list, but I didn’t think to try the English mustard with an eggroll. I guess I was too focused on the idea that Chinese mustard is best for Chinese food, and that isn’t wrong, but the Colman’s was a killer choice. Not as hot, but enough kick to clear out your nostrils. Big fan."
Running a program "for employees" is pretty different than running it "for everyone"
I feel as if the article is a bit of “tea leaf reading,” but it does make sense.

> A verifiable track record is overlooked, while CVs filled with adjectives top the stack.

This is not new, but I do believe it has reached a crisis point, in tech. I’ve often posted about my own travails with this.

The most annoying thing, to me, is, despite all the hoopla about “disruption,” companies hire for conformity. They always have, but the screeching about being “disruptive” is fairly recent.

Protip: you won’t “disrupt,” if you hire people that “won’t rock the boat.” Truly innovative workplaces aren’t necessarily comfortable (especially for management).

It’s like classic waterfall companies that claim to be “agile,” because they have daily meetings.

I thought this linked article was interesting: https://betterprogramming.pub/why-software-companies-often-r...
When I finally lose my mind and think that DSLs solve more problems than they create over the medium term and beyond.
Somehow these people also tend to be the ones who have their pronouns in their twitter bio. Am i the only one noticing that correlation?
> 2. What other costs would replace energy?

> Hardware depreciation

In other words, instead of massive environmental damage through energy production, we would have massive environmental damage through e-waste.
It feels like you didn't even bother reading the table.
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Everything in my home as I grew up was Ikea. It is all there still working 20 years later. If what you are buying isn't holding then you bought some brittle stuff, there is plenty of cheap and sturdy things from ikea but they might not be the best looking furniture.
Why won’t Safari open that web page?
Great comment.

I think you are hitting the issue with monads tutorials. Most tutorials focus (or at that's where the reader will linger) on the flatMap "interface" and the box-or-container-of-things while mentioning monads laws only in passing.

So the reader is left wondering what's the big deal with an IFlatMappable interface other than, yes, it is a common pattern seen in the wild.

But the real power are the laws and the transformations. I suspect that for most procedural (with a sprinkle of FP) code those laws probably don't give you much, and if really needed the programmer might just derive the the specific transformation by local reasoning. An initiate of the FP arts will have internalized the transformations and will structure their code to take advantage of them as much as possible.

I say this as a boring procedural programmer that most definitely has not internalized monad laws.

As an aside, is it possible to further generalize monads and allow flatMap to interoperate with any monad instead of the same monad of its input? For example here the internal flatmap function might return an optional instead:

[1, 2, 3].flatMap(x => [x + 1].flatMap(x => x < 4 ? Just(x) : None))
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Don't forget that it's easier to get a raise by changing jobs than asking your boss.
The goal posts have moved significantly since the early nineties. Back then we had a realistic chance of limiting warming to well below one degree. We're now far past the point of no return for that. Today we talk about approaching the point of no return for 2° warming. Chances are good that we'll still talk about approaching the point of no return in another decade, only this time we'll talk about 3°.
Looking at the web site, I can see how one might get that impression. The code base comes from signal, but the web site looks more than a bit like various XMPP things from a few years ago. It seems to say "we have features most XMPP clients don't" as I read it. Compare this to signal.org, which seems to be written from a list of FAQs/complaints. "Privacy" in the first sentence, four endorsements, and then a variety of FAQ points: "No creepy affiliates", "no SMS charges", "we have groups", "share GIFs freely".
i seem to have turned that off somewhere - better, i think that interface is too much information. Neither of us gets 72 though
he shared a link to buy colman's on amazon. It was in a plastic squeezy container!!

The guy is not fit to write about mustard.
> I can’t imagine writing something so complex in it

Actually FORTH despite being so low level lends itself perfectly for writing complex software in it because it allows for a great bottom up style programming in a similar fashion as LISP does. You would start your application (or game) with higher level words abstracting all machine details and then write your game engine on top. Then you would go on defining a set of words allowing you to define levels and characters easily on top of the engine. So well written FORTH applications were just layers and layers of specialized DSLs working together to solve complex problems. With the right abstractions, the code was easy to read in the end and also easy to port across different architectures.

Unlike LISP, however, FORTH did not come with memory management or a complex run time. So it was way better suited for the small 8-bit micros back in the 80s. One of the British micros even came with a FORTH runtime instead of BASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace. But, unfortunately, BASIC turned out to be much more popular, although usually being too slow and inflexible.

I remember BASIC 2.0 -- which shipped with the C64 -- not providing any kind of abstractions around the particular hardware features the machine provided (like sound, graphics and sprites). It was very frustrating especially for beginners that just wanted to create their own little games. But that was almost impossible without embedded machine codes and the resulting BASIC programs much harder to read and understand than FORTH code.
Yeah or open the doors to competitors since it'd be far easier to get that piece done. Terraform would just become a planner and a half baked language
At this point, why not simply make your own? The simplest recipe would be n time better than an industrial one.

Look a the recipe:
150 g of seeds of brown mustard,
10cl of vinegar,
30cl of water,
10g of salt

Nothing really fancy, even my son could do it.

The same applies to homemade mayonnaise, 10 times better than the industrial one.
Seems more like you knowing it's a sexist joke should be enough reasons not to make it. I sincerely hope you agree that intentional bigotry has no place anywhere.

It's sexist regardless if woman are present. People are victims even if they stand their ground.
This has to be elephant in in room right? There is so much cryptographic potential and none it is realized by most NFTs currently sold. Signing an http link to an existing .jpeg has to be the least imaginative way to implement this concept.

How about: Sign the image and generate a MAC. Then use steganography to include that information in the file. For the NFT sign create a certificate with the same key and include the MAC information. Publish that together with an IPFS link to a blockchain.

Then we can have discussions about IP law, art and what art ownership means.
Why does it have to be the CEO? My first association was that Winston Wolfe character from Pulp Fiction. Wouldn´t it be neat if companies had that kind of fixer who you could call for the real hard problems? Like problems that arise from the structure of the organization and cannot be fixed on a micro level. Asking half joking, half serious.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any other skills that could earn me anywhere near as much as software. What do you do for money now?
Have a look at the sales (lower down the page) of say these:

https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks
lowest price available $386k(!)

or more detail on artblocks:
https://www.nft-stats.com/collection/art-blocks
average price $39k

or these:
https://www.nft-stats.com/collection/boredapeyachtclub
90th percentile = $168k
Wouldn't it be possible to run multiple concurrent processes on the same CPU using many different wavelengths of light?
Willingness to have sex with another male is not being "gay". Attitudes towards gender and sex are not just a new thing, many cultures, historically, have had far more fluid concepts of these things.
This was quite a fun read - especially the self-deprecating humor and the little vignettes about how and where the author sampled the different mustards - but I was pretty surprised by the narrow selection.

In various parts of Europe there's a strong tradition of very geographically-specific types of mustard - often differing greatly in texture, strength, color and taste in neighboring towns or regions.

Also mustards can be seasonal - here in Sweden there are many mustards that are only available at Christmas, for instance - not to mention that people make their own mustards (also usually based on regional preferences).
I think the big difference is, you administer an antiviral after infection.

Many people who are vaccine skeptics are also living under the delusion that they aren't likely to get COVID. Or they believe if they do, it will be mild. If they do get it and it turns out not to be mild, then they are much more likely to be willing to try an "experimental" treatment.
Perhaps I am missing something but how it the label here different than “cousin”?
> special patina

Sounds like standard trade-secrets.
What… I’ve had so many incredibly bad and sometimes downright scary situations due to being locked in close proximity to people out of their minds on drugs. Those experiences have absolutely decreased my willingness to take public transit. If you want to call that classism, then fine, but that doesn’t make the impact on ridership any less true.
It's probably a troll.

Man, the passionated bikeshedding over CoCs in some communities and even in here, with many extremist viewpoints from both sides, makes me glad I'm not really attached to any community. If they're stupid, why should I spend the emotional energy? Just walk away.