skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2.) Emergency use authorization for the vaccines relied on there being no available alternative treatment

That's simply so factually wrong it's tough to take it as serious. having a treatment that might lessen the severity of some percentage of the people that get covid has absolutely nothing to do with a prophylactic EUA for a vaccine that is wildly efficacious against mild and severe covid cases and stop you from getting it in the first place. Let's do a thought experiment even if that were true... that would mean the other vaccines that are under an EUA would have been revoked the moment Pfizer got their full approval which didn't happen. This is "there are naval insignias on the flags therefore we are not a constitutional democracy" level of conspiratorial thinking.

> 1.) Ivermectin is out of patent and dirt cheap; basically not profitable at all

that's the reason they threw it at the virus in the first place. They were looking for anything that might help.
> An NFT is just a digital certificate stored on a blockchain. It's certainly not a scam and has perfectly legit uses.

In theory, yes.

> It's a flaw in human behavior though, not a problem with NFTs or cryptocurrencies.

If you find another lifeform besides humans to market NFTs and cryptocurrencies to I'll buy this argument.
Or it's like people who tossed all their 1960s baseball cards taking their regret out on beanie babies.
An anecdote: my eye opener was when I connected mine (3gb/32gb) to a usb-c hub (after seeing Martjin Braam's YT video on it) and was able to then connect it to my 27" hp monitor via hdmi and attach my keyboard/mouse as well: any complaints I had about Pinephone's 'rough edges' up to that point (which tbh, were plenty) disappeared.

Generally speaking though, the performance will be pretty sad and the device will get fairly hot during normal use. I am looking forward to getting this new device (Pro) at some point to see the improved performance. The software also keeps improving. When I got it (as a ubports 2gb edition, I later upgraded to the 3gb board), the software was in poor shape so I put it away for a bit. Mobian versions starting last summer really improved on the usability though.
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Objectives and incentives are extremely powerful drivers of mass behavior in large organizations. Maximizing profit is a much different objective that contributing to the social good. That is why some functions are best fulfilled by non profits and government.

There world is full of cases where products or services are degraded in order to maximize profit. Has DRM ever made for a better gaming experience? Do clickbait articles result in a better informed public?
This is like saying someone offered a human sacrifice for donating to charity, therefore incentivising charity donations is one use-case of human sacrifices that is really cool. What?
Yeah a huge portion of NFTs on Ethereum are like this. Hicetnunc does it right where by default the NFT is minted pointing at an IPFS hash.
>What requires NFTs? You can't just "bring" something into another game.

Isn't that kind of the point of NFTs? With an NFT, you hypothetically could bring something into another game. You'd need different developers to agree to recognize certain NFTs, though.

I think the better question to ask is the reverse: what requires bringing things into different games? Historically, nothing. This doesn't seem to be a thing most developers want. And if they don't want that, there wouldn't be a point to implementing NFTs, since they're already keeping things centralized.

So it's really just a philosophical discussion about the idea of things being tradable between and outside of particular games, and the potential merits of that, rather than a technical discussion about NFTs.
are you referencing to virtual particles? If so, are those real or just mathematical device used for quantum calculations?
Don't forget the environmental catastrophe of all that wasted electricity generation, and driving up prices of GPUs.
It flips back and forth with USDC, which one is higher, at least on compound.finance. Right now USDC is higher, but it's been different. Here are the historical charts (click the "borrow" tab, doesn't seem to be a way to link it with that one selected):

https://compound.finance/markets/USDC

https://compound.finance/markets/USDT

For example, on October 7, it shows USDT at over (sorry, "north of") 13%, while USDC was (sorry, "clocked in at") ~5%.
I do, but that doesn't explain how everyone of those patriarchal societies developed the same with the same fields getting dominated by women when they opened up to women.

All fields were dominated by men 80 years ago and were extremely hostile to women. Since some fields attracted women and others didn't, if that was just random chance then you'd expect different cultures to see women take interest in different fields, but that didn't happen. Instead this evolved similarly all over the world.
Digital asset should not be worthless if somebody put some work into creating it.

By your definition YouTube videos are worthless, but companies, individuals and Google burn a lot of gas to transport staff and tech, and a lot of electric energy to record videos, convert them into several formats and host them to billions of people.
The way this article is written makes it seem the focus of the bill is preventing the promotion of Amazon Basics. Personally it strikes me as a bit of a straw-man. The article seems acutely focused on this small aspect of the larger policy. Like the author is hoping the reader will throw the baby out with the bath water, in an evasive way. (Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post)

Personally I am finding it increasingly difficult to read the Post without noticing bias. I would encourage comparing this article to Klobuchar's own description of the bill before coming to your own conclusion.
https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/2/sen...

It would seem the portion of the bill in question regards, "exclusionary conduct". Like if Amazon refused to list retailers that compete with its own Amazon Basics brand, akin to a grocery store refusing to sell Rice Crispies because it competes with their own Crisp Ricies. Not necessarily precluding them from offering the products.

Even then that's only a small bullet point in a much larger bill. Most of the intent seems to be focused on increasing the capacity and resources for pursuing cases pertaining to anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions by these companies. The potential for exclusionary conduct becomes particularly concerning given the current trend of a few corporations gobbling up everything in their path that even remotely competes with their products.

Thing is it doesn't matter if a product is a good idea which solves a niche problem if it's involved with these massive companies. If that product doesn't make a billion dollars then it finds itself in the Google Graveyard. Personally I don't want to see new and innovative things have a bad deal forced upon them, only to merge into a morass of vanilla ice cream because they didn't make ALL the money.
They also can only target cancers that have specific markers that are unique to the cancer and not normal cells, lest the treatment kill non cancer cells. Early experiments here did lead to patient deaths (in advanced already going to die cancer patients). Not all cancers have these unique markers so this therapy only works on a few types,m.

Fantastic podcast covering topic by interviewing the father of these therapies:

https://youtu.be/pVMl0LgdnOU

Podcast available on Apple podcasts etc. The Drive episode 177.

can't recommend enough.
I’ve heard of another company that replaced Django’s ORM with sqlalchemy. Also, I am going to switch to Django ninja fastAPI is good but this is a backend to a video game so I’m going to need a backend and login information and you can add a CMS using wagtail which I will need so thanks for the link :)
You’re assuming you’re getting the full story vs just cherry-picking the app deletion violation.
> NFTs are still fundamentally stupid and only exist because people can make money selling worthless...nothings.

What about games, or art?
You can now be scammed by the company that makes the game and third party sellers on the blockchain! The future is truly a wonderful and fascinating place.
I've been looking at Materielize for a while (https://materialize.com/). It can handle automatically refreshed materialized views. Last time I checked, it didn't support some Postgres SQL constructs that I use often, but I'm really looking forward to it.
From what I read so far, NFT "ownership" works about the same way as those certificates from the 60s that attest ownership of a plot on the moon.

It's "ownership" of something without granting you any of the perks or rights that usually come with that.

It's not even exclusive ownership - because, while you have exclusive control over your particular token, there is nothing that keeps some other entity from minting another token and declare that it symbolises ownership of the same asset that is symbolized by your own token.

I think NFTs do have some interesting properties. The ownership of the token itself is indeed exclusive - this is enforced through the blockchain. Moreover, token ownership can be verified by software, without any human involvement. This could enable some moderately interesting use-cases, like resellable digital assets: You could imagine an online game where each character is bound to an NFT. You can sell the character by selling the NFT - and the game can restrict access to the character to the current owner of the NFT.

But this doesn't seem to be what's actually done: Instead, NFTs are simply declared to symbolise "ownership" of some real-world asset, without having any kind of actual connection to that asset.
Why do those cost money? Sounds to me like all of these features are zero-margin, so I see no reason to charge a recurring subscription. If you believe in your product, charge a small one-time fee or make it free. Otherwise, people who know how the sausage is made are going to always call you out for selling a glorified to-do list.

Hell, Brain Age for the Nintendo DS was cheaper than this stupid app. You'd think that we've come further as a society and developers, but nope: now you're paying monthly (or yearly, if you're one of the unlucky android users) for a toy with less features.

I'm frankly so done with YC at this point. I simply cannot believe that a benevolent person greenlit this.
What I find disturbing is that you are complaining about the included javascript in forms at this late a date. Where have you been for like the last fifteen years?
And tech is also operating where physical constraints don't apply. They can grow as large as they want.
You could use a radioactive source maybe to power a raspberry pi? Not sure DNS will still work in 500 years though
Yep. ADHD here and I won't touch anything that auto-renews.
Genuinely curious: does the concept of intermediary-less digital ownership get you emotional? And if so, why?
Why would another game ever honor those tokens outside of cosmetic fluff junk? It's like, as an IHoP, agreeing to honor every coupon Denny's issues - like sure, you can grab a bit of extra business that way, but Denny's could also screw you by flooding the market with coupons where they aren't competing.

Also, bear in mind that you still need to cook all those meals (or, rather, do all the art for those cosmetics). And if you're making art you probably want your normal players to be able to give you money for it as well... and you might not want to give it away for free to players just because they supported this other company that's not you.
I would be surprised (but delighted) if archaeologists uncover the ruins of over 500 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948. This was only 73 years ago. Some of the people are still alive (my parents!).

This was well documented in Walid Khalidi's book All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948.

There were over 750,000 indigenous Palestinians forced to leave in 1948. It's as if the Palestinians did not exist and the ethnic cleansing did not occur.
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They are and they share those images and data with other retailers in order to build up dossiers on "problem" customers.
I think this why there is an increasing trend towards valuing NFTs which assign rights to the NFT owners or simply license the whole project as CC0. That removes the dichotomy between on-chain ownership and legal ownership and leaves only a socially constructed notion of digital property and value.
Why would I want my game to be decentralized? That's a wasteful idea. You have to trust a central authority to make the game playable anyway. If you're concerned about the monopolization of computing, you can host the game's servers on Vultr or Hetzner or your basement instead. An SQL server anywhere will be better than an NFT blockchain.
> By finishing your assigned work exceptionally fast, you can focus actual effort on the "sharpening the saw" aspects of your role and/or the organization, and helping others.

If you're lucky. Mostly it's when there's relaxed oversight over your work, so you can hide the fact that you technically finished your work already and are languishing doing what, to many people, seems like a waste of your time even if you know that's not true.
The more I read all the arguments for or against the responsibility of these platforms – and I definitely lean towards them having responsibility – what I really want is for them not to exist at all.

I honestly don't think we would lose much after adapting to a loss of some of their sub-services, and have healthier, more stable societies as a result. Pretty clear cost / benefit to me. But pandora's box is open so this is all just wishful thinking.
They've been issuing non-fungible-tokens that have some real world value since TF2 went free to play.

It's just that they control the entire system and can remove the real world value from them at will.
IPFS would definitely be better, but there's no guarantee that the data will be stored on IPFS forever.

I'm thinking something more like a hash of the artwork embedded in the NFT directly rather than just a link to it. That way, even if the link breaks, you can still prove that a piece of digital art belongs to the NFT.
That’s the point. The self checkout cameras are just there to let you know you’re being watched; why else would they make them as in-your-face as they are?
You can't be serious. They were offered a simple collectable token. Why is that bad? People get stickers for voting.
While its nice to have water resistance in 15+ years of mobile use I've never felt a need to use one in a pool, nor did I manage to drop it in a toilet or similar. I also doubt that many android or apple flagships would really survive a drop in the pool, no matter how certified.
Why is it that, a ~decade since MacOS started including forms and markups in their default PDF app (Preview) there still isn't a sane PDF editor for Windows? Chrome and Firefox's PDF viewers don't have editing, Edge has editing and forms but bonkers window management (sometimes PDFs open with Edge but not in an Edge window). Adobe Reader DC still tries to ship with malware, and is license-restricted. What gives?
Making money will be banned globally? We banning capitalism, now?

There is nothing different about a user purchasing a digital asset on the speculation that it's price will increase than on rare coins, stamps, trading cards, race horses, real estate, pork bellies, etc.
regading conciousness being an illusion. Does it not imply a spectator? (illusion has to trick somebody)
I often do not have a problem with the information telemetry collects: I take issue with the entitlement to it a new breed of awful app developers have. They think they have the right to use my device for information collection without my permission.

If Firefox occasionally showed me a report on some metrics it collected and asked me if I was okay sending it to Mozilla, I'd probably be fine with it. However, the choice to take it without my consent will always be opposed.
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I need a recipe for the best cookies that don't harden. Every website does the same ingredients and they're always rock hard cookies. I want recipes from actual bakeries, chef's.
In Python it would be pointless, but for example it's how Seastar/ScyllaDB work: each thread is bound to a CPU on the host and has its own reactor (event loop) with coroutines on it. QEMU has a similar design.
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Yes, most likely the ilness would be there even without Facebook. But the platform enables some destructive behavior while in the real life, I hope, more productive support structures could exist.

While mental illness is something you might be biologically predisposed, the outcome can vary wildly with or without support structures and good help. And I think on this end Facebook is profoundly destructive.
From this tweet, it sounds like NFT's are not much more reliable than html <a> tags? If the host is down, the NFT is nothing more than just a pointer to a 404?
Exactly, and they're not mutually exclusive. You can still let players buy new stuff on your platform as well as import other value/items.
I'm assuming because a lot of people would lose a lot of money if it stops trading 1:1.
I’m not against this move, Valve reserves the right to vet any product they have on their platform. The PC is an open platform, and unlike say ios, there are alternatives including plain old shipping a binary. Valve has made significant leaps with Windows compat in Linux with proton /wine/dxvk
Valve seems like a good player that is helping open systems. Good guy gaben

Blockchain games are probably not going to be distributed as PE/ELF bins anyway. They will be wasm delivered via the browser and interact with the web3 wallets.

The closed economy of steam has never liked attempts to take value “offshore”. It’s probably for the best for platform integrity.
Not any more so than car titles are fungible. If I give you $10k cash and you give me $10k cash we end up in exactly the same material position, despite owning technically different objects (dollar bills) than before. That's because the dollar bills are fungible tokens representing a value. But if we trade titles for cars worth $10k each, we are both now in a different material position since we own different cars now.

(The problem with NFTs in this analogy is that transferring car titles has legal weight, while selling an NFT probably doesn't without additional contractual language.)
> No, but if someone was selling PCs with super buggy software

What you’re clearing missing is that they are not selling you software.

They are selling you open, unlocked hardware to run software on, with no promises/liabilities about the software. Just like Intel, AMD, ARM, MSI, Asus, Kingston and a lot of other hardware suppliers. They even explicitly state this when you buy the phone.

They are explicitly not selling you a combined hardware/software package like Apple does with the iPhone or OEMs are doing with Android.

How can you then complain about this later?

Edit: You might even say that this combined HW/SW appliance-model applied by the rest of the smartphone market is the exact thing they are fighting against.

They are selling HW as HW, leaving users free to run the software they prefer.
Trust me, it's not just your disability: Apple takes advantage of all their customers equally, regardless of race, gender identity, sex or financial status.
They do also sell keys, but most of the time the Steam gift is way cheaper.

For example the Garrys Mod Steam gift goes for ~9€ [1] while the key goes for ~16€ [2]

[1]https://www.g2a.com/garrys-mod-steam-gift-global-i1000000439...
[2]https://www.g2a.com/garrys-mod-steam-key-global-i10000004391...
PWAs come with their own suite of functionality issues these days, but I'm sure they'll be able to compete with Apple's native solutions sooner or later.

FaceTime does support sharing links so far but it's something I have yet to test myself.
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> you're not buying the art. You're not buying the legal rights to the art. You're buying a URL. A signed museum map telling you where you can find art right now. It may in fact just change to different art at some point in the future or disappear entirely, because you bought nothing.

Yes, you're starting to get it. You're not buying art, you're not buying legal rights. If the data was written directly to the blockchain, then it is permanent. But even if it points to some temporary host, big deal, the file itself wasn't the valuable part. Data can endlessly be replicated and rehosted.

It is the genuine provenance of an artist that was bought and traded. It is proof representing a work, whatever that artist declares it to be. They could simply resell it again for all anyone knows, but that would hurt them and devalue all their future work.

All value is abstract.

The papers without the Rolex can be worth anything anyone wants to pay for it. Following that rule I suppose fake papers can even be worth something, but most likely not.
Nobody is trying to absolve anything. The point is that Bitcoin won’t either.
Could you elaborate or simplify what you are saying? I'm curious to know more but I don't think I understand
> easy-to-use concurrency paradigm

Well it has queues and threads already.

Its just that asyncio for socket handling at least (in the testing that I did) is about 5% faster. (one asyncio socket "server" vs ten threads [with a number of ways to monitor for new connections])

I always assumed that people wanted asyncio because they look at javascript and thought "hey I want GOTOs cosplaying as a fun paradigm"
On my Macbook Pro, I have Caps Lock mapped to Esc. But every time I hit Caps Lock there would be a pause before the Esc triggered. Since I use vim bindings everywhere this was a nightmare as I switched to normal mode. I was like way less productive. It was nutty.

Fixed it using Karabiner as recommended https://superuser.com/questions/317900/eliminate-macbook-cap... and suddenly I was better at life.
If the target is "real-time systems with low enough latency bounds to make GC an issue", the question starts to be "does it have predictable pause times" (Rust, afaik, doesn't due to backing mechanisms behind some of the lower level aspects of memory management and/or use of Rc/Arc, though of course someone could get things better there)
I have but unfortunately it’s not available in my country. Would be a great product if it was available more internationally.
So we should distrust whoever in Netflix's C-suite keeps firing trans people who criticize it. If you want to be consistent.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I am a huge fan of suckless tools and despite of the fact that it is niche, I agree, it is radically different.
I learned Dvorak for the speed and remained due to a perceived lower strain on my hands.

(Another bonus is that now I cannot hunt and peck since my keyboard still has the qwerty imprints and I guess that is the biggest contributor to typing speed from learning Dvorak)
I really don‘t want a smartphone, but what I need in a simple device like this is a camera for qr code scanning and support for 2factor apps.