skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to misunderstand the comment you replied to.

They agreed that the current manifestation (signed URLs to JPEGs) are scammy, but that is one use of the NFT concept. In gaming, NFTs can represent in-game items with utility and unique attributes that change as you use them. They can be used across multiple games and sold/traded on an open marketplace.
The person you're responding to already addressed that point, why are you reiterating it?
There are people who believe all kinds of crazy things; it doesn't reflect their truth. Going back to Python 2 is not going to ever happen (and no one working on Py3 would ever want to, anyway).

A hard pill to swallow.. ain't that bad if it also benefits you tremendously, which fixing the GIL would do.
Thats not really how it works - every transaction must have a buyer and a seller. When prices go up, buyers are simply willing to go deeper into the order book to get their orders filled.
Could you elaborate on how?
Americans are very comfortable in extrapolating the US experience as a global reality.

Here they’re talking about the Wild West of small banks that they have.
I actually do this and think its the best option. The app that is always there is best. Especially if its simple. I just use iOS notes, and they show up on my mac. Easy, always there, and fast to load.

I just dump everything into its own note, then write some keywords to search for. Lots of small notes. Searching text is easy and fast on modern tech, so forget organizations that are inflexible and will need to change, just use text search for everything and put every thought into its own note.

Have an upcoming flight? Throw the entire email into a note ( i attach the email file, not contents), then write "trip SFO NYC november 2021 delta thanksgiving" and i can just search "SFO november" or "delta thanksgiving" and find the flight details.

I even keep a note called "addresses" so any service i give my address to i know about. Very helpful when moving (i do a lot) and tracking what accounts need to be updated.

I found the important thing was not to bother cleaning up notes, or tracking old ones or doing anything complex. Just let them exist, and when i get bored (eg. on flight) i may go through and clean old ones.
> The existence of your stock ownership depends on a legal and social framework to exist.

That's true for most things we own these days, and it works quite well.
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a way to get immune cells called T cells (a type of white blood cell) to fight cancer by changing them in the lab so they can find and destroy cancer cells. CAR T-cell therapy is also sometimes talked about as a type of cell-based gene therapy, because it involves altering the genes inside T cells to help them attack the cancer.

...

In CAR T-cell therapies, T cells are taken from the patient's blood and are changed in the lab by adding a gene for a man-made receptor (called a chimeric antigen receptor or CAR). This helps them better identify specific cancer cell antigens. The CAR T cells are then given back to the patient.

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects...

Right now this is done in a very personalized and labor intensive way. I think the thought is mRNA is potentially a gigafactory compared to artisanal methods.
Valve could say that you could. NFTs don't solve a technical problem here: it's just implementation.
Relevant Medium article linked from the Talk page: https://hmoluseyi.medium.com/was-nasas-historic-leader-james...
> In addition to the fact that the very idea of NFTs is a scam

An NFT is just a digital certificate stored on a blockchain. It's certainly not a scam and has perfectly legit uses.

For a variety of reasons, everything related to blockchain is ridiculously overhyped. What should be boring accounting technology is suddenly a pop culture fad, and that birthed thousands of get-rich-quick schemes.

It's a flaw in human behavior though, not a problem with NFTs or cryptocurrencies.
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
Would this imply that gender studies fields are making mistakes that retard participation from men?
The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]
> In gaming, NFTs can represent in-game items with utility and unique attributes that change as you use them. They can be used across multiple games and sold/traded on an open marketplace.

I hear this a lot, but it really makes no sense to me.

An in-game item is really only suited for the game in which it exists. What good is a CoD FN FAL with certain balance, certain damage, certain bullet velocity, certain balance - in Minecraft? Anywhere else really?

Game creators go to extreme lengths to make their games balanced and fun and engaging. Opening up the ability for people to port in legendary weapons from unrelated games seems like the last thing game creators would want, and certainly, it's the last thing I'd want as a player.

Am I missing something? What's the draw?

Then if there's only one source for items, and only one place to use those items, you've got what we call a centralized system. Why would the game creator then want to give away the revenue from such a marketplace to "the blockchain" when they can just do it themselves and have a far more lucrative business model?
As someone who has changed the kind of work I do in my career I've had two very different experiences.

There is a web development culture. There was a pace of advancement for many years that helped shape this desire for newest shiniest stuff. Other ingredients such as chasing FAANG, VC money, and the general youth of the average web dev. Salaries chasing talent due to the online boom and corporate policies not adjusting to keep talent, thus needing to do resume building for the next job hop because it's going to happen in less than 2 years.
What's elitist in learning a craft properly? Working with a higher level language doesn't mean that learning C, C++, algorithms, data structures and a bit of math isn't terrible useful.
Neither. The murder case has been officially resolved so you can just Google it now.

Btw his place of residence was hardly secret, but it wouldn’t have been if he were prime minister of any other particular country either.
Hahaha sometimes it does seem like scams are so clever and involve so much work that the people involved would be substantially more successful in almost any business.
NFTs have an ID that uniquely identifies them, the URL is just for extra data really.

> Otherwise what's to stop multiple games trying to adopt the same group of NFTs?

Nothing at all. Breaking data out of small silos into one large database opens up possibilities like this.
> I would argue these "metaverses" are the scams of the future

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The concept of metaverses have existed long before the cryptocurrency/ICO/DAO/DeFi/NFT community co-opted it. Same way they have, unfortunately, co-opted the term "web3" in current vernacular. It won't last though.
iirc g2a is the big one
> The author (and you) clearly does not think the current Rust code is suboptimal.

Sorry if it looked like I was being harsh on you particularly, I was not... I was being harsh on people making comments like "this Rust code is very slow" without showing their faster code, making suggestions that would almost certainly be slower or not even compile and other similar things I observed in this thread.

Never believe anyone saying "this could be much faster" without showing their code so people can actually check it.

I will believe the OP's code is slow when I see a faster implementation, which I haven't.
> South Korea's cases and deaths have been increasing for a few months,

That's because Korea had relatively slow roll out of vaccination + large national holiday (Chusuk). Given that Delta needs full vaccination to meaningfully slow down the spread, this is expected. The last week's R was less than 0.9, which coincides with recent vaccination program focused on the second shot while the mobility number is steadily increasing! There's a certain threshold where vaccine shows meaningful impacts on a reproduction rate, so you cannot simply saying "# of case is rising, vaccine is useless".

> while Spain and Japan have very recently had very large spikes (Japan's was several times larger than their previous spikes).

Japan also had pretty slow roll out, it had ~40% of full vaccination at the point of the spike but the number rapidly dropped as full vaccination rate goes up rapidly. This actually proves my point of strong correlation between reproduction rate and full vaccination rate. I know Japan now somehow arbitrarily limits free testing but positive test rate also has dropped significantly.

Spain's the most recent spike was mostly due to their lack of lockdown option. It also had some level of vaccine hesitancy (which led to much lower fully vaccinated than partial vaccination rate) but the recent spike led many people to take their second shot. And they're now seeing a significant drop without declaring state of emergency.

All of those slowing downs are strongly correlated with full vaccination rate. Of course, vaccine's effectiveness wanes over time so some sort of booster will be needed to keep its effectiveness.
> Don't NFTs usually hardcode a URL? Anyone wanting to "adopt" would want to have control of the relevent domains.

they hardcode a content-addressable url (eg. ipfs). there's no domains to take over.
Yeah, the barrier is lower, many people can write Electron apps now.
Most trading firms such as susquehanna, citadel, and two sigma have London branches.
> awesome, outsized emotional influence on risk assessment is tough to talk about rationally, but it's so important to public policy discussions, not to mention our daily decisions.

Yeah, the more I think about, I wonder just how many pandemic decisions have been made by conflicting emotions, especially conflicting fears. Me afraid of my mom dying of cancer + giving her covid-19, others afraid they'll lose the restaurant that they've poured their life into, others afraid the government is using covid-19 as an excuse to gain more control over their lives and steal their property, etc. I talked with a friend the other day who isn't vaccinated and said, "Ya know, if I get covid and die, maybe it's my time." Made me think just how much more I seem to fear death than that person does.

I was listening a little to Sanjay Gupta's conversation with Joe Rogan and one point he made that I liked was talking about how sometimes the conversation about covid-19 risk becomes life or death, overlooking the possible negative effects of just having the virus itself.

> it's just the extrapolation of that kind of situation to blanket public policy that really doesn't make sense (because risk varies so widely for the whole gamut of daily circumstances).

I agree in that risk is widely distributed and it's one of the reasons why I love the idea of decision making at different levels and the concept of federalism in general. I think where it can be a struggle, especially in our current forms of government, is when people cross geographical boundaries. As people move from one place to another (and maybe even as we communicate and therefore virtually feel in many places at the same time or in this one large place together), standardization almost becomes required to make things work. Setting aside the conversation about medical validity of vaccines for a second, one thing they do is help to standardize someone's status for communication to other entities. As someone who (used to) travels a lot internationally, something like a vaccine passport (which they've done for yellow fever for years) makes it easier to verify someone's medical status. Possible to do with covid-19 positive tests as well, just maybe more complex, not sure.

Anyway, I get the feeling you and I could go back and forth for hours on probably any topic lol.
I agree with all that, the issue for me is when I simply what to peruse info and am forced to join their community. An annoying case for me was a game dev that only posted parch notes in their discord as opposed to a dev blog or something.

I think for me a lot of the pains would be solved if discord allowed a guest mode to temporarily view a server without the (admittedly small) hassle of having to leave the server
World’s first delivery of lungs by drone
I think that idea was mentioned earlier in the article:

> The simplest change would be to replace non-atomic reference count operations with their atomic equivalents. However, atomic instructions are more expensive than their non-atomic counterparts. Replacing Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF with atomic variants would result in a 60% average slowdown on the pyperformance benchmark suite.
You don't need them to go out of business, people enjoy multiple games.
Lets be careful there. While vaccines do wear off, they are not wearing off nearly as fast as most people using that line are saying.

Also, Isreal is no longer vaccine heavy. They were an early leader, but many other countries exceed their vaccine rates these days.
Fiat backing, lol , clown world.
Low-performing computer science students face wide array of struggles
Scott Alexander breaks down gender ratios of doctors in different medical specialties in part IV [here](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...)

Basically finding that specialities with less patient contact have a higher proportion of male doctors.

Though I suspect there probably is more going on with nursing than differences in interest in people.
So, I was in college when a false rape accusation occurred. How did I know it was false? I was in the room with the supposed rapist when he was supposed to be raping someone.

If you didn't "believe," actual fistfights occurred. The accuser would later change her story, and managed to fabricate other things as time went on, including frankly supernatural events.

A pointing finger is all that is required these days. And perhaps you should do a bit more reading on some current travesties of justice that have occurred on campuses as of late.
"But I need to make money, too" isn't an excuse. It
wants to be, but it is not.

There's another way to phrase that.

"But I would like to buy food, clothing, and pay my rent"
isn't an excuse. It wants to be, but it is not.

People need food and places to live. The vast majority of people on Earth aren't fortunate enough to have a year or two worth of savings to tide them over while they work on some dream project that

I would say your incentives don't align. By effectively restricting the privilege of app/product creation to those people that have a strong economic cushion, you're effectively excluding most of the people on Earth, particularly those that not already wealthy and particularly those with people besides themselves to care for.

"if you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage
you can't afford to do business" of many retail/service
environments.

But app creators should just do it for free? Until the money maaaaybe rolls in? Most business/apps/etc fail.
I think it's important to see all of these situations. The very fact that the brain optimizes its maps based on constrained environments is awesome. Also, the technology had to be built to do the previous 2d studies, which then bootstrapped the 3d studies. Knowing that under certain circumstances the neural maps had a very "clean architecture" may have saved a lot of time and effort once these more random 3d structures were being analyzed.
only experience can save you from making a mess
This is the first interesting use case for NFTs that I've heard of.
I don't consider the original PinePhone obsolete, I'm still planning to get one at some point even after the announcement today.

Suspect you can sell your one on to someone if you want.
>In addition to the fact that the very idea of NFTs is a scam

Is the concept of digital ownership a scam?

If so, why?
They are quite hard limiting the step 2. Seeing that even some bigger profile titles don't get enough keys to allow them be on quite well selling bundles like Humble Choice. At least not before they have generated enough organic sales.

Also gems have absolutely horrible conversion ratio. I think lowest I can find in my inventory is 6 gems per copy of game. You can sell gems for 0.30€ per 1000... So 167 copies. And accounts...

Not to forget that it cost 100 dollars I think to release game on Steam...
Most places have stopped asking me to sign when I make a purchase less than $X with my debit card (Generally around $25). Their thought process is that it's much faster cycling people through and the risk of money loss isn't worth the loss in throughput.

What you quoted is specifically for less than 200 transactions in a calendar year. The implication being that any account involving 200 or more transactions in a calendar year will need that information.

Which brings about two points.

1. Exactly how much money can someone launder buying < 200 csgo skins in a calendar year (are we arguing that they're paying $50k per skin?), and
2. How exactly does the idea that they've decided to take on some risk to decrease friction incompatible with not wanting to deal with NFT's, which *COULD* conceivably go for $50k a pop.
> No amount of "tech stack" can fix these human problems.

This was the most painful lesson we had to learn so far.

The bootstrapping is the hardest piece looking back on the last half-decade. Once you figure out how to make 3 different customers work using the same code pile, you are moving in a good direction. Implementing for 1 customer at a time in a serial fashion is a path for guaranteed failure if you are expecting to just copy that code pile to the next one and have it fit their needs. We tried to do this 3 times and only by the grace and understanding of our angel investor are we still doing business.

My new job is to ask the question "Will this feature/function/enhancement work for all current and future hypothetical clients?". Forcing the team to think in this way was a challenge, but it's kind of our default mindset now. When you guard for bullshit like "what if the account number is longer than 64-bit integers for some future customer?", you trivially-sidestep things that have literally killed other businesses. Clearly, you can take all of this too far, but only if you actually implement in code the proposal before realizing your mistake.
So how is it different than an NFT?

For starters, let's take the Autoglyphs (https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs): the smart contract gives a list of instructions for each piece that you can use to draw the final output.

Cool concept or scam?
Thanks! I thought I was having a false memory. Blind spot, I guess: I've been looking for it for at least a week.
The article first tells us what Spinoza thought and said and the last paragraph is the personal interpretation of the author but one that tries to show that was wht Spinoza thought.
Yeah, I'm not exactly getting all the complexity here.

I'm digging the 2 reference counters, that makes sense to me, but I don't know why it isn't something more like:

"every time a new thread takes a reference, atomic +1, every time a new thread's local count hits 0, atomic -1. If the shared reference is 0, free".

IDK what special purpose the flags are serving here.
Tether doesn't change the fact that my percentage ownership of all btc will never be diluted like my dollars constantly are.
Did steam ban fiat?
Its the only thing that matters to me. I am convinced that money is optimizing a quantity which is increasingly becoming irrelevant.

If you have a rich understanding of 'meaning' you should be maximizing that, and if that includes the accumulation of economic free energy (money), then do that. I urge people to make sure they are taking the proper time to analyze what they want out of life, and not just defaulting to dollar-maxxing because its what your parents told you to do.
Yeah. Aspire to be good, fast, and expensive. Also, slow gets expensive fast anyway.
Someone tell Stallman he can stop using a typewriter!
nfts are terrible. You're buying a url. what if that nft company disappears? Unless an artist or creator makes the nft how do they benefit?

I hope people get distracted by the next squirrel that passes by and nft's fade into nothingness.
> The big question is when the peg of 1 USDT ~= 1 USD (or USDC) is going to break. Tether is going to do everything they can to maintain that peg as long as possible.

Yuup. Assuming USDT is a fraud, Tether likely makes very good money off of it, and is hence HEAVILY incentivized to keep it running as long as possible. I'd be very curious to hear theories as to what might cause it to collapse.
Awesome! I wish you well too. I hope today is a better day :)
reminds me of sword art online! This same concept is used in the anime, ids of the items from the base game were transferred over to the new game. Interesting to see something like this happen in a few years.
The population of Christchurch is 395,000ish, depending on what you include. How do you calculate $0.004 per month?
Scrum I don't care about, but you need to keep a list of bugs somewhere. And a list of requests too, if you have multiple teams. What are you going to use for those?
The venn diagrams for terrorist and assassination definitely overlap, and even more so with the loosened definition of terrorism these days. I may be wrong in assuming the politics of the attacker, but the event doesn't seem to be random - the mp was targeted at a scheduled event, so that ticks all the boxes in my mind - someone specifically targeted and murdered for political reasons was assassinated.

Have a link for the daily telegraph article in question? Or at least, some more detail?
In addition, intramuscular vaccines only provide blood/serum antibodies, while nasal infection also provides nasal/mucosal antibodies. Those who recover from Covid infection gain sterilizing immunity (less than 1% will be reinfected) that stops future infections in the upper respiratory tract.

That's why the CDC website says Covid (leaky, non-sterilizing) vaccines only provide protection (in blood) against serious illness, not infection (in nose). A future nasal vaccine may provide sterilizing immunity (what most people assume they are getting from a "vaccine", like their personal experience with the MMR vaccine).
Yes, views are nice, but there is also a fair concept of not needlessly bogging down a table. Sure, they were making up data, but a flat table with stats, profile data and other easily external data is just bloat. Once you have an id then static fields can be retrieved from other services/data stores.
The history of that is actually a bit funny.

You see, there used to be no such "fixed overhead" in early versions (including post 1.0) of k8s.

This turned out to be a worse idea for less involved or experienced operators than fixed overhead, because it turned out that people would run k8s nodes way underpowered, load them with a ton of workload, then have lots of outages as they starved critical system components of resources.

Because of that a (settable) "overhead minimum" was added to calculation done about available resources, iirc originally going for 0.9 cpu core and I don't recall how much memory. This allowed to still run a 2 core node (though it's really not recommended) for experimentation, while greatly lowering chances of obscure for newbies issues. It didn't prevent them (PSA: If another team provisions your cluster, check what resources they provisioned...) but it makes it much harder to fail.
One example may be unlocking something if you've 100%-ed one or a set of games.