skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its the wild west baby! The same can be said with crypto currency development, yet some are willing to take the risk, endure the nightmare and press forward. It's never perfect.
It can make you rich and simultaneously hated. Those who can walk the balance beam will get the rewards. There are definitely games coming out with this very concept, so one developers nightmare is anther's opportunity to try his luck. I'm sure new laws will be written also to give immunity to developers who crash their assets by tweaking interpretation or going out of business.

You got me thinking with your middle-ware comment... sell the weapons needed for those who venture into the nightmare of crypto gaming.
OpenBSD does it already [0], see also discussions here on HN at [1]. Thankfully, the push to implement something like that in Linux wasn't strong enough. By the way, notice how questions "why do I have to go through an OS-approved C runtime even if I write in some other language?" are responded with "Oh come on, in the end, everything is built on top of libc".

The problem, again, is not that this kernel-entry interface is factored out into a separate shared library; the problem is that it's glued into a runtime of one specific programming language that now apparently everybody has to use.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859612
As I recall collectible cards were sold with a plain single stick of chewing gum for reason(s) I don't know.
This idea of combining NFT and GPG to demonstrate both ownership and authenticity is very intriguing. Would the artist's public GPG key have to be something similar to a verified Twitter account, i.e. some kind of due diligence by a third party that the key actually belongs to a specific person/artist? How would the artist "sign" the artwork with the private GPG key in such a way that the signature wasn't simply duplicated when the digital artifact was copied? Is there a way to combine some identifier from the NFT with the GPG key such that there was a way to cryptographically demonstrate authenticity?
Maybe wikipedia also changed it (did you check?), Webster did change it:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886

> Also, mRNA is not the only type of vaccine for COVID.

I know.

> Which definition of "vaccine" do you subscribe to that these "treatments" don't fit into?

It's all marketing at this point. mRNA-treatment does not sell. Vaccine elicits people's trust, and obedience.

> would you clarify which definition of "experimental" you subscribe to?

Not FDA approved in the US. "approval pending"

> And do you have a source for "testing standards were reduced"?

These kind of drugs take years to develop. This stuff was done in a few months. They skipped some steps in the process. Understandable, but still...
I've seen it done successfully at some uni's. Zoom for the lecture, and a far less invasive proctoring tool for the tests. You can even have in person and remote in the same class if the material is made available online.
The FBI File on Foucault
I look at this like Multimedia and the web in 1995. Yes some of this is a shadow of Microsoft Bob. We don't know what we're doing with VR yet but the technology has crossed over the line from being a toy or experiment. Skeuomorphism is a temporary workaround until we (users and designers both) learn what conventions are most powerful and port more applications to VR.
YOLO was such a shake up of the computer vision space that he could probably get hired just about anywhere with a resume crudely written in crayon.
One of my relatives recently lost IPv4 but not IPv6 connectivity through Comcast. She actually e-mailed me that her Internet was down. Of course GMail was the only site she used that supports IPv6, everything else was timing out. After power-cycling all the usual suspects it took a call to Comcast that actually needed escalation to get resolved.
Precise recipes, i.e. anything related to baking, where ambient temperatures matter - everything is measured in grams, even water. I'm so used to this by now that measuring anything by volume sounds disappointing, let alone dark age units like cups and spoons. I get it, not everyone is serious about cooking enough to own ingredient scales but are these users still the majority of recipe consumers?
The Hough is a good one! Also Invariant Moments: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_moment
Here's an article about OpenBSD's efforts https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/

The basic idea is to make it harder for remote code execution bugs to result in useful abilities. Restricting access to syscalls to libc, and using adress randomization to make it hard to find libc makes it harder to do system calls when you take over a program.
These categories exist, but parent's main example was diet/nutrition, which should fit into the hard science bucket because it's chemistry/biology, but currently involves a lot of soft science-y type studies because it's got so many moving parts.

I'm not sure making a distinction like that is particularly useful, in any case. I think perhaps that people who have studied a lot of science can already make the distinction fairly easily, and having phrases like hard and soft science just serves to create assumptions where they needn't exist.
> Even when this wasn't given directly to citizens, as it was in the US, it still trickled down from businesses to labor through steady wages.

Yeah, no. A lot of it just went into stock buybacks and other navel gazing.
Which bs there's when searching for recepies?
Then you should definitely not go to YouTube and search for "vaporwave". Definitely definitely definitely.
I just looked into this, because I tried to delete my account yesterday as well. Normally you can use a CCPA request to nuke your data, but reading Robinhood's T&C it looks like they aren't obligated to delete much since they're a financial institution. Various regulations require them to keep records.

So ... we're basically screwed with Robinhood.
The company's name is 'Arm' though.
I don't know about you, but if I lived in a place where the power goes off I'd certainly have good torches and non-electric heating.

(Of course if internet goes down my phone has tons of spotify tracks downloaded onto it, so I'm sure I'll cope)
RetroArch is looking for more translators
There is apparently a Guile enabled version of Emacs available.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsBuild
How do we get a government referendum on aesthetics?
Volume measurement for flour is inconsistent and annoying.

Metric and by weight is by far the best format for recipes and best way to measure ingredients.

In professional kitchens it's all we ever used (I used to work in some top restaurants, talking world's 50 best back in the day).
French health authority advises against Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for under 30s
>this makes all aarch64 phones a bit more responsive

always nice to hear :D
Is your criticism that these accusations are false, or just that they included too many true accusations in the same paragraph?
I bribe TWO employees at my competitor ...
That logo is exceptionally hideous.
The repeated debacles of their trading systems going completely down for entire trading days already made me lose trust. I remember clearly their only communication through one of their most major outages was one tweet saying 'sorry' after the market had already closed. I discovered during this time they also had no customer support to call, only an email support system which was backlogged several days. Apparently they do have phone support now that have power to grant anyone access to customer data.

Robinhood reminded me of Theranos in that they are ran as tech companies that don't take the usual responsibilities of their respective industries seriously. And their outages make me think they don't take their tech seriously either.
I’m curious about the requirement too but I agree that it doesn’t matter. The client wants their steel tested at -100 deg F, so do it. Someone who is a Director of Metallurgy should take pride in delivering the product that was asked for, not in think they know better than the Navy.
This reminds me a bit of a Clojure library called Plumbing (formerly Graph): https://github.com/plumatic/plumbing. It also let you create a DAG for structured computation. It was used for a web service, at that time.
I keep it very simple with Vanguard. I have some of my private pension with them - 20% UK gov bond index fund and 80% in V3AM - EGS global all cap.

Part of savings is with Vanguard as well. 40% emerging markets VFEM, 35% FTSE developed world VEVE and 25% in global small cap index fund.

My horizon is longer than yours though. 10+ years.
I feel like you're trying to find a more concrete reason than is necessary - the fact that it is unique can be valuable on its own. I can go buy a reproduction Picasso that looks identical to the original and from an art standpoint it's effective equivalent, but it's still worth nothing compared to a "real" one. The fact that the original was painted by Picasso is what provides it so much value, even though who painted a particular piece of art is not a physical part of the art itself. A unique NFT effectively provides value in the same way, it is valuable as long as people care about who/what issued it and thus want to be able to say they own that unique one.

And while it's notable that digital art can be duplicated perfectly and physical art cannot, I don't personally think that matters all that much. People who are buying a Picasso aren't doing so just for the art, they're doing it so they can say they own a Picasso. In the same way you're not buying an NFT for the art itself, you're buying it because it's uniquely identifiable in a way you and others care about.
Isn't that what they make firms pay taxes for?

So many bay area firms seem to think they live on sacred ground and wouldn't move anywhere else for any reason.

If their productivity is really a function of the place, the market-based answer is to raise local taxes until they start to leave.
Sorry I should be more specific I was thinking about leaded gasoline, but Exxon hide climate change data for decades as well
Fuel would make more sense to measure by mass, because the volume and energy density changes with temperature. It just happens to be easier to measure by volume. I believe many locales mandate pumps which correct for temperature and dispense slightly more volume on a hot day.
I've been building a personal project in both Clojure and Common Lisp to make a DSL for scraping web data, transforming it, and outputting it to a few backend formats.

I would say it's been significantly harder to achieve the same functionality in CL than Clojure, but there are major perks to the ecosystem. I was surprised by how much I've valued conditions and restarts, type inference from SBCL, stack traces, and tooling in general.

Clojure OTOH feels like it takes much less effort to get up and running, feels more intuitive to write, and has far better documentation.

I'm probably going to continue writing my project in both languages in parallel because I love learning and I spend my time poorly. I want to stick with Clojure given that it sees more use these days, but it's hard not to prefer CL once you invest the time in learning its capabilities.

As a final note, was Practical Common Lisp challenging for anyone else? I've read many glowing recommendations of the book, but at times it feels DENSE, and it took a fair amount of staring at the intermediate stages of the projects to understand what was going on.
YouTube: “Doing YouTube has this whole dark side of constant judgment” [video]
If you think the accusations are poorly substantiated, then make that case, rather than just complaining that too many accusations were included in the same paragraph.
Brilliant advice. Maintaining a schedule is a meta project itself though. I find that the energy there ebbs and flows as well. Some days I cannot create a schedule; much less follow it. Do you have a similar issue? If so, how do you deal with that?
> Doesn't this implicitly assume that the negatives are easier to enumerate than the positives?

In my experience, the lowest-hanging fruit tend to be negatives. Once those are gone, the negatives that are left require more creativity to ascertain.
USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts
> The whole "lawsuits cost millions" thing is a myth

That may be, but they can easily cost many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Lawyers typically bill at multiple hundreds of dollars an hour so it doesn't take a lot of hours to rack up five- or six-figure costs. That's high-stakes poker for most people.

I once sued a neighbor for their barking dog. It cost me over $10,000 before I pulled the plug.

https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/07/dog-days.html
There are a number of perks that a BAYC membership grants.

https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/
Architects for his other buildings didn't resign though. Why do you trust this one specifically over the other ones who followed through creating the buildings?
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I'd broaden this to: any time science seems to strongly support money or power.

Governments are large corporations with a monopoly on force.

Again it doesn't prove the science is wrong, but it should cause you to put your skeptic hat on and take a deeper look.

Assuming the science is not wrong, keep in mind that the framing could be questionable or if there's a problem there may be solutions that are not being discussed because they do not benefit money or power.
So I only have experience creating/grading tests as a TA, not a prof, but that wasn't my experience at all.

The total time spent in creating a few good, easy to discuss questions, the answering of which would demonstrate understanding, and then reading them, thinking about them, and coming up with a grade, was probably actually less than the amount of time it took to create meaningful multiple choice questions that didn't have any ambiguity, and which weren't easy to intuit the answer even without understanding. Doubly so when we did away with "partial credit" answers, but instead made it so each question was 1 point (or otherwise all or nothing), you had, say, 5 of them, and what we really were looking for was a paragraph that showed understanding (rather than checking off boxes in a rubric of "mentioned A, B, and C"; short essay questions, if you will), an expectation we communicated to the students.

And that's aside from the actual project based grades, which were better still.
Well, looking at the most recent figures, it appears that Ireland, Belgium, and Spain all have higher per capita new cases than the U.K. Also, while the UK's numbers are higher than Germany's, the UK's rate is trending down and Germany's is trending up, and Sweden's rate per capita is significantly lower than either, and headed sideways.

It's great to look at the difference between Scotland and England, but lumping "Europe" into one group masks (hehe) a lot of differences.
To be fair, you shouldn't. Science isn't doctrinal. It's not something you or anyone should take on faith. Skepticism exists at the very core of science, the basic posture in any scientific endeavor is "I don't know". If you can't read a scientific paper because you don't understand it, or because it's behind a paywall, then your conclusion shouldn't be one of "well I guess it's correct because important people say so", but "I don't know."

Some people don't understand skepticism, and get muddled up in Occam's razor or something (which is just modus tollens of the similarly dubious "where there's smoke, there's fire"; a good starting point perhaps, but nothing to draw conclusions from), and they think that if they can't prove something, it must be false. That's not correct either. If you there is no proof, it could be either way.

We're in this bizarre zeitgeist where everyone is telling you to listen to science because it's all true, but for the love of god, don't engage in any sort of scientific inquiry yourself, who knows what heterodoxy you might arrive at.

The coffee machine at work has a bunch of advertisement stuck on it, how the coffee has been fine-tuned by experts and tested by scientists to be the optimal coffee experience. Like what the heck, am I not a better judge of whether I like the coffee than a bunch of scientists?
They made some strategic errors beyond that like how they lost $8 billion on their merger/investment with Baker Hughes in the oil and gas sector.
Yes, it’s difficult, but that’s why being a teacher is a job.
I experienced this outage last night, which doesn't seem to be a routing issue, because the cable modem can't establish connection with the headend(CMTS). but the the outage impacted area is big whole bay area and some other states, which seems to suggest issue happens on a central system, not just a few malfunctioned CMTS;
my guess it is backend system related to managing cable modem or CMTS
The gang themselves aren't doing the actual customer engagement (breaking in, phishing, etc.). The affiliates are. The affiliates are the ones themselves potentially exposing their IP address. REvil just provides the tools, training, and guidance.
How many years did it take to debunk well funded science misinformation?

There is a chance that will occur again.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
In hindsight, it looks like the parent article "The Value of Nothing" might have been written in response to "The Value of Everything".

Thanks for this, I've long thought that value creation, monetary extraction, and resource consumption are too disconnected in our economy.
The Internet was designed and built by hippies (literally bearded dudes out of Berkeley). Open protocols, bits are free. Copying is a core function.

Open Source, BSD, GNU, ... all an extension of that thought.

While this was awesome for the spread and easy build out of the modern apps we all use, it had a massive "flaw" when it comes to property rights.

This was exemplified by what happened to music through p2p file sharing, e.g. Napster. Bits don't have copy protection.

The industry tried to roll back this fundamental freedom of the web via DRM schemes, with massive pushback from the old guard of netizens. But, freedom is never perfect, the devastating effect on artists is real. Streaming kind of solved the copy problem, but the amount you can charge for music now is miniscule. (Just using music as an example).

NFTs, web3, metaverse are all now being positioned to rollback this fundamental flaw of the Internet - copy protection, ownership on the bit level. Digital scarcity. There will be no Right-Click Copy in the metaverse, no screenshots in web3. The struggle with NFTs right now is that it is this idea of digital ownership on top of bits that don't support it, hence this mind-boggling maelstrom of crazy.

Personally, having grown up in HACKER CULTURE (see the name of this very forum, oh the irony) e.g. having spent time at copy parties in shady buildings, admiring the intros/demos on cracked games, the BBS scene ... this whole web3 thing creeps me out. I totally get why it's kids doing it, they don't know it better, and maybe this is just normal, the pendulum always swings.

Some VCs will get ultra-rich pumping this, big corps will be all over it (charging for bits? ironclad copy-protection? price arbitrage on premium bits?), even government will see the upside - no more anonymity, every bit is signed.

Bleh.
In that case drop criminal charges left and right. It's still illegal to commit treason right?
Avoid using lesser known features...

They're the ones that will be hardest to migrate to a different database, most likely to be deprecated, and least likely to be understood by the next engineer to fill your shoes.

While many of these are neat, good engineering practice is to make the simplest thing to get the job done.
Why are generics more usable than codegen in that use case?
This sub-thread is talking about an existing case where an NFT has been taken from the person who paid for it by social engineering. The new owner won’t return it so the marketplaces have blacklisted the NFT. So querying the chain isn’t enough in this case because social consensus has determined the chain to be wrong.
Just to piggyback on this comment: whatever you do, don't get a Samsung. I have a Samsung printer, and the Wifi just stopped working. As in, it would lose its settings for no reason. Currently I've given up on trying to fix it, and put the PDFs on a thumb drive and walk over to the printer to print. It is painfully slow. I hate this printer. If I hadn't bought new toner cartridges for it last year, I would have gotten rid of it, the PoS.

It's a Samsung C460W, BTW.
I've got a variant of this disease called "Shift-F10" mentality so I don't have to move my hand to the mouse.
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As someone who works in the manufacturing of steel components for marine use, the most surprising thing for me is that there's no mention of any quality-system auditor being involved. Did the auditor miss this? Is there no auditor? If so, why was their customer (the prime contractor) willing to tolerate this? Why were the company's insurers willing to tolerate it?

No doubt the metallurgist was grossly irresponsible here, but I do wonder whether they might be making a song and dance about this one aspect to distract from a whole chain of careless practice.
Your speculations don't really apply to this company but perhaps I wasn't clear - I wasn't saying the "speed above all" company was bad, or even that they weren't thoughtful. They made conscious choices to have different priorities and I didn't pick up on any of that. If there's a villain of the piece, it's me.
You just keep enumerating reasons why as a hypothetical game dev I'd never support NFTs.

"Hey, build your platform on movable objects so that customers have no incentive to remain sticky to your game"

"Hey, build your in game economy in a way that you can never fix it, leaving it open to attack by griefers or famine"
That’s one I’ve considered! But despite wiring being the cause of failure for all of my previous Logitech mice, I still prefer wired.
This blames governmental failings on corporations, which doesn’t make sense. It also seems a lot less altruistic given the author has opted into Medium’s paywall.
But then nobody would buy that. The value doesn't come from the image, but the combination of the image and the digital signature attached.
Reflecting on 11 years of side projects
I actually signed a contract like that back in the late 90s when Y2K business was starting to build. To be fair, the training involved moving me 2000 miles from home for 3 months and my employer provided my housing and a per diem along with a reasonably intense "boot camp", so they actually spent money on my training. I think I had to stay a year. They kept me for 6 years, so it worked out for both of us.
Ironically enough, you might not have internet access at your datacenter (reception issues, so no wifi or phone data, and switchport connections are often secured or don't route to a public internet). And things get really entertaining when your whole office network is down.

It's not an odd question. "Okay, the whole subnet where your credentials server used to be is now a smoking hole in the ground, and IT forgot to pay the fiber bill last month. What do you wish you'd done three years earlier to address this problem?"
It has to be on the level of the package manager, if you want to avoid package A interfering with package B
When I had to deal with Proctor-U, the software refused to run under a KVM VM. Detection of anything remotely VM hardware related, made it alert and the proctor refuse to continue.

That's after fighting with the software to have it installed in the VM to begin with.
Why you’re broke (it’s not the avocado toast)
been there, done that, got the tshirt and worthless equity ;)

these days, just spin up some disposable container/vm and tinker...
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