skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A recurring theme in these conversations is that the lack prosecutorial interest in prosecuting minor crimes intrinsically results in decreased police action, presumably because the police lack the motivation to enforce laws that they don’t believe will be fully discharged in the courts.

But I don’t understand why this is a necessary relationship: the political incentives of the police are such that it always makes sense to make crime rates look as bad as possible (since more crime means more police funding). So we’d expect them to continue to make arrests, even if those arrests don’t result in a convictions. But that isn’t happening, and nobody has produced a particularly satisfying explanation other than “the cops are depressed.” Which, in turn, strikes me as a larger indictment of the police than of the DA.
https://nbviewer.org/github/ghislainfourny/jsoniq-tutorial/b...
Any sane man understands this, but crypto people are too steeped in lies. They're detached from reality, just like their beloved crypto money.

Even if a perfect decentralized database will be invented, the violence, that enforces the rules under which the real world operates, can't be decentralized.
It will be an issue when NFTs are being used as the only source of truth instead of a judge making a decision based on multiple factors.
Generative art (Processing, p5.js, etc.) has been a hobby of mine for 15 years or so. During that time, a handful of people were truly able to make a living out of it -- or even get paid for doing it. I ran workshops, taught people to code, helped students learn, etc. and it was all for fun, as a hobby, to get people interested in computer-based art and to learn a bit about programming. (Incidentally, p5.js is excellent for teaching programming to kids b/c of the immediate visual feedback.) Making a living or even getting paid to do this type of work was extremely difficult prior to the emergence of NFTs.

There's now an accessible marketplace for me to sell that work, thanks to NFTs. I do it as a hobby, not relying on the income, through Hic et Nunc, which runs on the Tezos blockchain. I do it for two reasons: it feels really good to sell my work, even if it's just for a few dollars. My entire family, including kids, get really excited when I sell something for just $3 or whatever.

The second reason is that it has vastly accelerated my ability to connect with communities of similar artists. For most of them, this has been a hobby for many years. Through them, I've joined some of the most positive, fun, and creative communities I've ever found on the Internet. Most discussion is not NFT related, but just about techniques, helping each other, fun and friendly weekly coding challenges, etc.

Say what you will about NFTs. I'm not blind to the issues they bring along with them. For a lot of digital artists, however, the accessible marketplaces and creative communities are truly groundbreaking. Honestly, the past 6 months of participating in these communities have been some of the best times of my life, full of new friendships and the occasional small financial reward. I'm very thankful for NFTs providing this because I know that, even if the marketplaces go away, the new creative communities will persist.
I think this is such an interesting question! Perhaps a new science of creative management. I guess there were a few places that presumably seemed to do this successfully (e.g. bell labs :)). There is probably a 51% problem somewhere in there, where the institution would need to make sure it isn't captured by those who would 'phone it in'. Maybe you could pay people a healthy sum to quit at any time.

Managing a process which has no defined outcome, but whose local quality and direction can be measured seems like an interesting research path in itself. I think the institute would have to be bootstrapped and a lot of learning would have to take place to make a sustainable version of it. Also, as you say hiring would be challenging (though maybe no more challenging than hiring professors). However, I'll say that I can recognize at least one phenotype of researcher reliably who would thrive there.
It's notable how this attitude can only exist in a scenario where the art itself has no real-world value and the stakes don't matter. It's easy to dismiss "right-clickers" if you aren't losing any money from them. But anyone who owns digital media that _is_ valuable doesn't think like this at all.

For example, consider a musician losing their income because their fans are pirating their mp3s. The musician would never dismiss that by saying, "those right-clickers will never have the satisfaction that I do of owning the original copyright!" As we all know from the past twenty years, they take the exact opposite approach.

When you have something actually valuable, then owning it in a legal sense doesn't mean much if anyone can just copy it.
> There's literally zero incentive for devs to do this.

I mean overall I agree that NFTs serve little purpose, but hyperbole like this doesn't help to argue against NFTs, it just makes you look bad.

Yes, having cosmetic items in games seems ridiculous, I certainly don't "get" it, but lots of people seem to like it. Since cosmetic items seems to add some sort of value, it's not hard to argue that cosmetic items locked to NFTs probably also have some sort of value to some type of person.

But again, "literally zero incentive" is seemingly not true for anything today. Just because you don't understand/see a market for something like cosmetic items, doesn't mean that there is "literally zero" value in it.
The furlough system transferred a large amount of money to households, because people had substantially reduced expenses (due to not having to commute, and service-based industries being closed, for example) but only slightly reduced income.

This is generally true in most countries: although the exact mechanism was different, people ended up with more discretionary income and fewer services to spend it on, and so demanded more goods.
The Mafia was a hierarchical franchise system. There would be gunfights when one mafia franchisee would encroach on another franchisees turf.
Reddit can absorb off-topic digressions better than traditional linear forums at the expense of conversations becoming repetitious because five separate conversations each say approximately the same thing. However, the "one login to rule them all" trumps that UI hurdle.
I think you're right that that is a related concept, but I don't think it makes this uninteresting, I think it is perhaps exactly why it's interesting. It is precisely that it isn't "conspicuous consumption"... it's conspicuous, but it isn't consumption. The NFT "owners" are bothered because they've engaged in this conspicuous consumption, but then aren't reaping the benefits they expected because the thing wasn't consumed. They consumed the thing, but what's this, so are other people! That's not part of the deal!

I think you've sharpened the interestingness, not removed it.
If I'm not mistaken, you were using Equinix Metal (formerly Packet) at some point. Did that change?
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DLC cranked up to 11, that just sounds like it will make modern games even worse.
Firefox: The first major browser to be available in the Windows Store
I agree that streaming is interesting, and I did it from a mac a few times, but you have to be online w/ a good connection in order to do streaming.

I got a switch as a present recently and while I don't like Nintendo's eStore software, pricing and console power, I found myself just picking it up and playing randomly in off time much more than opening a laptop and getting a separate joystick or mouse to play a game. I only played it docked once.

If the steam deck came out earlier I probably wouldn't have bought my g14.
WSL2 irritates me for a reason that is not common. It uses this thing called the "Host Compute System" which should theoretically allow one to launch any OS in the same sort of lightweight VM as WSL2. Of course, there are modifications to guest OS (kernel, init for talking over Hyper-V) required, but it should be doable.

However, Microsoft does not properly document how to use the HCS to achieve this. I've dived as deeply as I could into the docker shim code for HCS, but wasn't able to figure it out. It's an old story with Windows. Some cool feature buried under poor documentation.

Every time I hear someone say "Microsoft has changed", I mutter to myself "nope, same old MSFT with better PR".
> I don't think anyone getting into NFT gaming is going to care about the centralized nature of it.

Then what's the point when I can already buy hats for my characters on Steam?
> Often I will send emails with direct requests asking "what time is good for everyone?" and not receive a response at all.

Be more proactive. Make things easy for the people you’re communicating with. Don’t send e-mails asking others to schedule your meeting for you.

Send an e-mail with a proposed time. Include a meeting invite. Tell people to inform you if the time doesn’t work.

More broadly: It doesn’t sound like the rest of the company is struggling to communicate with each other, but rather that they’re not communicating in the exact way you prefer.

There is no singular “right” way for a company to communicate. Part of good communication is learning to adapt to how the company interacts with each other.

If the company likes phone calls, it’s time to learn how to like phone calls. Pick up the phone and make the call for someone you know isn’t going to read their email for a while. Learn the art of quick phone calls and keeping it short. Gradually try to use more email and let people know that you prefer email for yourself, but you’re not going to have much success if you try to force the rest of the company to change their entire communication style to match your personal preference.
A GitHub Pages setup is not a more minimalist take on services like this one, so your comment makes for very strange reading (esp. that "even" in "you don't even need this").
But with the need to use a physical keyboard, placed somewhere, you would lose the advantage of being freely moving in space - and with that you would have lost pretty much all advantage, because if you were stuck to a desk, then desk equipment (monitors etc.) remains optimal.
You can do this too already. IIRC there's a web-based character viewer for WoW that lets you see equipment/stats/etc. I'm not sure what NFTs add here other than the remote possibility that you will be able to use the same NFT in a different game. The chance of this happening across franchises is vanishingly remote in my opinion though.

Using NFTs for loot like this also gives a great excuse for publishers to make more games online-only, which is a net-negative as far as I'm concerned.
I am. Work laptop is Windows, but I'm writing code that runs on Linux VMs. The software cycle is the same as using Linux (but granted, I've always kept my development process in terminals)

I started out in a virtual machine before wsl2. I want a terminal that interacts with the Windows environment (easy copy paste, mouse support in terminal, no lag of running graphical environment in terminal), so I was sshing into my virtual machine. wsl2 skips that step. I was sshing into wsl until Windows Terminal since before that I was using some Chrome SSH app which had mouse support
I see an indictment of media behavior, probably deserved. But no actual false statements (although I bailed after the first couple thousand words).
I would engage an SMS-to-Slack gateway for texting, and expect a fee (you’ll see Twilio used). I expect email is third-class and you won’t be able to change that; voicemail is their email. Get a headset that’s comfortable for interrupt-driven work. When stumped for search terms, consider that there are successful positions working this way, agents for professional sports players, for example.
I believe the OP was about the difference between having and sharing an opinion, and choosing the use dominant market position to push your position despite it not being necessary to service your customers.

Nobody honestly expects Google not to have an opinion on preserving its dominant market position; the use of that position, to further that position, however, arguably crosses a line from "we're big because we're so good at providing services that it is a natural monopoly" into "we're big because we've convinced you we have to be big".

The former "feels" good: we're big because we're good at our jobs.

The latter "feels" icky: we're big because we're good at convincing people we're good at our jobs.
Yeah you're right, Windows isn't great for developing, although it isn't as bad as it used to be. But employers love it because they can run all their monitoring spyware on it, it integrates with Outlook and Office, plus they might have some legacy software that you have to use that runs only on Windows.
The cut off point where shoplifting becomes a felony varies by state, but I don't think any state would consider stealing razors a felony for example.
Larry and Sergey's initial funding for backrub when at Stanford was also from the NSA. Google doesn't exist without the military and intel community, who knew that one day they'd be able to seize information from these companies

>The research arms of the CIA and NSA hoped that the best computer-science minds in academia could identify what they called “birds of a feather:” Just as geese fly together in large V shapes, or flocks of sparrows make sudden movements together in harmony, they predicted that like-minded groups of humans would move together online. The intelligence community named their first unclassified briefing for scientists the “birds of a feather” briefing, and the “Birds of a Feather Session on the Intelligence Community Initiative in Massive Digital Data Systems” took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose in the spring of 1995.
Isn't there a california-state law that is gdpr like? Sorry I do not know the details, just remember someone saying that if you are gdpr compliant you are also compliant with those laws.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/californias-new-data-priva...
Our city don't have all that many parking places. I do like riding bikes, but I would be really against reducing of parking area.

It is already difficult to have a car near house where you live here.
TRIZ practitioners quickly realized that the root cause of some problems cannot easily be identified, which makes a frontal assault on them impossible. This kind of problem is solved with TRIZ’s Anticipatory Failure Determination mental model — rather than solving for success, solve for failure.

This is pretty darn close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology : I can't tell you what The Good Thing is, but I can tell you many things that it is _not_.
This happens outside of NFTS, this happens with everything, US dollars, physical contracts, licenses. They can all be faked. NFTs actually do a better job at allow people to identify fakes, lmao. Do better research.
I'm not. I'm just pointing out how "stupid" her defense was.
I'm all for CIPRO being used in such situations. I would take my chances and use it myself even though I had an awful reaction. I do have a problem with it being used for "suspected" UTI or as a first line medication. Also, the bigger problem is the lack of care after adverse reaction occurs.
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> Looks like you have to do more stuff on mac

Are you referring to the "Note for OS X users" section in the README? If so, it's only additional step, so 4 in total... I know macOS users might not be the most technical, but I think most of them (at least developers on macOS) should be able to follow it :)
The last decade has seen a massive effort to prop up all asset classes including stocks at any cost. This can't go on forever and won't. I have seen the 2000 .COM crash and the 2008 crash and at the moment it feels the same as when it was leading up to the crashes. There are plenty of people whose only experience is always rising markets so they think this will keep going on (it will until it doesn't).

Same could be said for tech workers. I think a lot of them will have a rude awakening in the next few years when they realize that their great jobs were not because of their own brilliance but because they were lucky to ride a huge bubble.
I don't see that in the linked article (maybe Reader view is hiding content?). What exceptional circumstances is she claiming?
YES!! NFTs are just a smart contract standard.

Look at OpenSea. It's the google/ebay of NFTs on Ethereum.

They are all interchangeable.
You've got some ingredients that don't map to any recipes, e.g. "tofu scramble".

Also please add a facets like feature to avoid the user selecting combinations of ingredients that don't match any recipes.
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For some reason I read this as Futurama projections.
"she thought it was "stupid" that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at -100F (-70C)"

I'd be curious to know what that requirement is for too, though I'd likely not just ignore it.
It certainly is good, but I've never found a great dev setup. It seems like you have to force a full recompile of all cython in the project any time you make a change. At least that was the stated process for the statsmodels library. And it was always a little unclear whether I was running the latest code or hadn't yet actually compiled it.
I know plenty of people who are demi-sexual, in which the love comes first and the sex perhaps later. And for that matter ace folks do have children too.
-70C can be expected in Arctic.
European collectivism definitely took a hit during the Cold War (collectivist = "communist"), but it's still there and will see a resurgence in the coming decades.

> And anarchism was literally born out od rejection of classical liberalism and "classical liberals" don't really like them

This doesn't quite align with what I've learned. Nonetheless, sectarian infighting between liberal ideologies is indeed a common theme.
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>was she right, or was there a sound rationale for this?

It literally doesn't matter. You've been hired to do a job, or contracted to do a job. You decide on the front end whether it is a job you can perform or not. Not once the contract is signed.

Or, you use official channels to express your disagreement with the requirement and up the price by whatever it needs to be upped by.

You don't make arbitrary changes to expectations based on your gut feeling without telling anyone. That's called fraud at worst, and just plain dumb at best.
I, for one, continue to think that those people are probably still racist. But the public sentiment is perfectly reasonable, given that they belong to the contemporary American party that has fewer (not zero!) white nationalists in it.

But it’s still not clear what this has to do with the National Review.
Doctors get sued and lose their license in some cases too.
This is why many NFT websites back the NFTs with IPFS.
Pre-mortem exercises (opposite to the typical post-mortem, after something has gone wrong) can be a really fun process of discovery and ideation.

Unfortunately though, I have yet to run one that actually helped us avoid the exact risks we discovered!
I love the speed! I agree with other comments about the pictures. They help to skim so I think they add to information density in a way.

I would remove the author column personally, and maybe you could remove " reviews" in the reviews column (just show the number) and show the time as a number in minutes? If no time provided just show nothing.

If you add pictures you could have the option to show as a grid, similar to a file explorer. In the list view you could have a small picture with a bigger one when you hover?
My name is President Joe Biden, and I endorse this SHA-256...
Photoshop! After over a decade of using it, most of the things I do there became muscle memory and I have absolutely no reason / incentive to learn different software (other than being able to use Linux). Ruining it in Wine proved to be a horrible experience - after a couple days of bruteforcing a setup that started, the graphics performance sucked so bad that it was nearly unusable.

I ran Windows -> Hackintosh for 2yrs (until it exploded after an update) -> Linux for 2yrs (until it exploded because of NVIDIA drivers ruining my stability) -> back to Windows after they released WSL2.
What if, instead, the teen will shout for help if the hand signal doesn't work. It would not work all the time.
If the developer was smart, he would build the NFT on an existing market place so as NOT to have control over its price, and in a sense de-centralizing it (even though all currencies have a foundation group pulling the levers at their core). Think Steam coins to buy steam NFT's, across multiple games. Focus on the unique aspects for your NFT to unlock whatever and create hype for your game. If someone wants to sell or trade the NFT for other NFT's in other games in said market place, then they have the ecosystem to essentially escape that in game asset to the real world and assign a real world fiat price to it. You suddenly have something that can accrue real world value the more rare/scarce it is. Like they do for in game loot, people will go nuts for it and keep farming / trading, especially if you keep adding features to someone unlocked item rather then take away from it. This also lets the developer create hype to attract players. Like owning a classic car only produced when the game launched or in the early years with long since nerfed overpowered attributes, and oh by the way you can put a modern engine inside if you want, but only if you have the NFT to unlock the engines for that type. If the dev does anything to screw that up like spamming an item or screwing with how its interpreted in game, they will have a lot of angry people deleting their game as their NFT values crash. Competition of eyeballs. I'm not saying its not going to be fraught with problems and people struggling to figure out what works and what doesn't. Some will choose to wall off their ecosystem, some won't, may the best prevail. Markets will evolve. Developer will lean the direction that makes the most money and I think that will be the direction where you have the least control over it once the NFT is in the wild. Its going to be the wild west, but so is crypto currencies in general. In fact I think crypto currencies is still in its infancy stages. Look at all the alt-coins struggling for unique aspects they bring to the table. At some point their may be one or a handful that do it all, but right now its a shit show of entrenched technologies and up and comers struggling to steal each others market cap.
Again, assets on a blockchain only matter if someone cares about that blockchain. If I only support blockchain B, it doesn't matter how many assets you have on blockchain A as I will never support it. If I'm invested in blockchain B there's little reason to add to my expenses to support other blockchains.

Even in the most practical terms, if I sell in game assets they're ones I made for my game. I know they work with my game. Why would I put in extra effort to import third party assets I don't make money on? If your assets are in a proprietary format I'd need to spend more money licensing some importer or build my own.