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PyPy is two projects.

1. RPython + the PyPy _compiler_ which is a compiler for JIT compilers (like GraalVM as I understand it)

2. An implementation of the Python language _using_ RPython to produce a JIT for Python scripts.

There are other languages _using_ RPython + PyPy compiler to produce JIT compilers for languages other than Python too.

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/architecture.html#layers
NFTs essentially are blobs of data on the blokchain. As soon as that data references anything off chain you need off-chain methods to sync data with a blockchain, at which point the blockchain becomes merely a datastore.

> A digital ID, a in-game asset, a digital license

All of which require off chain sync. For NFTs to have any meaning at all, the embedded data must be world readable. At which point that digital ID, in-game asset, license all are usable by anyone else. In order for that "ownership" to have any meaning at all it must be exclusive and therefore the service must check your identity one way or another, be it somehow checking that you actually own the private key corresponding to NFT, or using any other mutually agreed authentication method. If the service does not recognize the particular blockchain fork your NFT resides in your NFT is more than useless, because it does not prove absolutely anything to the service provider. Proving identity via blockchain is probably the most inefficient method known.

NFTs can only make viable statements about on-chain assets. As far as I am aware, there are no other on-chain assets than cryptotokens, therefore all NFTs do are provide a level of indirection to cryptotokens.
When you take someone to court over a copyright violation having proof that you control a wallet that was the first to have minted an NFT representing the work in question would be one piece of evidence that you may be the original author.

If there is other evidence, e.g. the other party has a YouTube account which uploaded a video years ago of the work, and is publicly known to be the author of the work, then the judge will probably rule the NFT is not sufficient evidence of ownership/you are not the copyright holder.

There is nothing technically stopping people uploading NFTs of things that they don’t own the rights too. That won’t hold up in court though, not even the court of public opinion.
You are not completely wrong but you can definitely use this over the long-term when in a composition of funds.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=288192
Its one thing if these practices are followed when building something with little to no consequence but I've been saying for years, code that handles safety critical tasks or handles sensitive information where there is a lot of liability needs to be treated like civil engineering. There should be licensure, rigorous industry best practices and validation. We don't have that right now and I think systemically its why you see Boeings flying themselves into the ground and Financial firms losing everyone's data day in and out.

Some things should be held to a higher standard and with those, tools like NPM that only serve to make the job faster but not make the end product better shouldn't be allowed.
Spoken languages are constantly evolving and mostly evolve at the keyword / reserved level and sometimes when interacting with neighboring languages through necessity you’ll get pidgins and creoles (think of them as external DSLs). But because spoken languages are so fluid there is a massive amount of ambiguity over time. It’s not like we can read Middle English very well now (we need scholars oftentimes) and another problem with human languages is the entity knowledge problem with idioms oftentimes being computationally “AI complete” (requiring general AI to comprehend semantically).

In this respect x86 is the English of the computing world moreso than even C, Java, etc because these are different cultures. And as someone that was in ESL I can’t express how much waste and cruft is in the language that makes me think it’s Perl or Ruby (note that Larry Wall is a linguist and wrote Perl to be more like a human language - we can see now why it was not a great idea).

Also seriously, human languages are entirely defined by its user base (language pedantic folks have very little influence empirically such as the flawed academic rule of not ending English sentences with a preposition which was a bad port of a rule from Latin) and given the trends of each programming language community I’m doubtful giving language control to users is what helps keep a language ecosystem alive and thriving. In fact, human languages are essentially a secondary map of imperialism, genocide, and suffering across all of human history moreso than trade and integration with consent.
I'm not sure you read the article.
I think people on HN react to NFTs perfectly resaonably and I don't think you make a good argument about their value for creatives. As far as I can see NFTs at the moment have done nothing for creatives getting paid. As you point out - we have solved the problem of creatives getting paid for their work, they can sell their work, they can take commissions, or they can use patreon or similar sites. I would bet that at the moment the commission that shopify or patreon are taking are much more creator friendly than paying to mint an NFT. You say that NFTs provide a new way to interact - but what is that interaction? What does an NFT give me that sticking a badge on a shopify store saying "Creative ownership of peice of work X" does not? And I don't see how that problem has anything at all to do with being gamified?

>Never in history has anyone been able to buy shares of highly coveted art... maybe now you can

Well, firstly, let's be clear that it's highly contentious whether you meaningfully own the art if you own an NFT. But let's assume that's a solved problem. YOu can already buy shares of highly coveted art - https://www.masterworks.io . It's exactly the same model as NFTs - some individual buys the actual art, then they offering to sell "shares" of the art. The difference is that Masterworks doesn't carry all the risk of being scammed in the crypto market.
Ireland aside from usual suspects Stripe, Workday and a bunch of others you can get 200K total comp
Uh... well, it would be even more embarassing to admit how long I've been telling myself that I'd start learning emacs-lisp in earnest... so I won't. :)
I didn't see this yet, so I'll throw in my own experience: with prices inflating in a widespread way, I want to lock in my losses now. Yes, you could point out that investments will probably continue to outpace inflation, but I have never in my life triggered a taxable cap gains event, so for all intents and purposes investment is a one way street to me (money never comes out.) So while my two central air systems continue to work, I'd rather pay 10K to replace them now than 15k in a year when they finally do break. And while I feel it's silly to be driving around a minivan for just the one kid and one dog, it was better to have bought at the end of 2020 and feel silly until kid #2 comes along, rather than be sitting on the wrong end of the enormous swing in car prices.
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I think about the guy in the manhole in Die Hard's "cut the power" scene all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMKQVPV1pf0
> - Click new project - Fill out the form - Get a Design window - Drag a 'Textbox' into the design window, - Drag a 'Button' into the design window

Non-starter these days. Building a form graphically doesn't take into account multiple screen sizes and screens that can change dimensions on the fly, which are now far more prevalent than the heady desktop UI days that you're talking about here. Unless you have some novel idea for how to design graphically for all sorts of screen sizes.
I think #1 (running Windows itself via HyperV) is just the direction Windows is going anyway, and WSL2 is just one of the features that require it. Another one that requires it is the "Windows Defender Application Guard" which can isolate browser instances and other stuff.

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He revolutionized the computer industry 3 times with the Apple II, then the Mac, then the iPhone, and the film industry once with Pixar.
I had a friend who used to rent a limo for first and special dates. Even that was cheaper than owning a car.
Still a firm believer that the NFTs are simply an instrument for money laundering and other criminal enterprises. Those transactions which aren’t simply provide cover (possibly unwittingly) for those that are.
Well I think you'd find that your first barrier would be the fact that most open source projects are run off of GitHub which is a company owned by Microsoft.
One solution is to integrate with one of the up-and-coming zero trust products. This is a new space that was started by the company I work for strongDM, and there are a number of startups competing in this space. I would highly recommend looking into it if you want to be more secure than a VPN's model of once you are inside the wall you are trusted.
Good point about the vanguard funds.

I was more thinking that you can sell ETFs by tax lots, but generally cannot do that with mutual funds. I suppose it depends on who you bank with though.
Right click on server icon > Edit server profile.

Custom nickname per server is a free feature. Alas, custom profile pic per server is a paid feature.
Didn't some artist get his NFTs stolen through Discord screensharing and he begged his Twitter followers not to acknowledge the possessor of the NFT as the real owner of art?
My current #1 side project is "three-sided cards" which live in both the physical and digital worlds.

There was that time I got a "free" inkjet printer and discovered that the ink would dry out if I didn't use it regularly, so I challenged myself to print something every day.

I have been through a year of continuous improvement and thinking a lot about how to develop more physical-digital objects, performances, etc. I am still dismissive of Facebook's "metaverse", but my current work and planned work is all metaverse-ready.
There's a fantastic book which addresses this - "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805073690
"Google pretends to still be an uninterested referee on a fair playing field."

It sounds to me as if they clearly lay out the disadvantages (in their view) to their users. That's pretty much all there is to it. I don't think they pretend to be "uninterested referees" in a call to action against certain legislation? Who would ever think that? Clearly they are "interested" in shooting down that legislation.

As I said elsewhere, there is plenty to dislike about Google and their power. That article was not about that, though.

The "monopolies" argument is just commie propaganda in my opinion. In general the "people with power" theory, which commies want to use to gain power over other people. If you don't like Google, again, don't use them. It is only the people giving it its power. Likewise, if your employer exerts "power" over you, look for another job. The people could stop using Google at any moment, taking away its power. Government regulations, on the other hand, are REAL tyranny as there is no way to opt out.
bless you brother.
may i ask what is this forum is about?
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Maybe the ultimate "stupidity" is for someone to pass judgment on testing requirements without any real motivation or basis for doing so.

Imagine if the doctor in the prison this woman is going to decides it is "stupid" to give her decent medical care.
I've been using paperless-ng for a while. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

I have a Samba share that I added as a destination on my network scanner. I then tag them, add a correspondent, and never think about them again. PDFs that are sent to me are just uploaded and tagged the same way.

The paper copies are then thrown into a box in hopes I never need the originals.

I back up the document storage regularly.
RISC-V is not an open-source royalty-free Core design.
It's an open-source royalty-free ISA.

Using the RISC-V ISA is free, and that means being able to use all the tools developed for this ISA for free.

It is still very attractive in terms of cost and competitiveness, but be careful not to confuse ISA and Core design
If you don't want both, then use

https://github.com/sirixdb/brackit

for instance :)
What the hell is that opening story? Some weird homeless fanfic about how nice it must be to toss all the free stuff the benevolent dude-bros give you because you're mentally ill and can just steal from stores. And why open with that if your story is about organized gangs of thieves?
How does this prevent Nvidia from switching to a new blockchain, migrating the transaction data, and deprecating the old one?
We didn't have 30 years of limitless duplication. You're overestimating how many people were online in the 90s.

Look at the graphs from this article: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/visualizing-40-years-...

I'm actually surprised that the music industry revenue went down that fast in the 2000s. I would have guessed it took a little bit longer. So going by those figures, we had 20 years of limitless duplication and it utterly destroyed the revenue of the music industry. Exactly what they feared would happen if there was ever a digital writable medium to play music from.

NFTs are not DRM. They produce scarcity in a different way than DRM does. They don't encrypt digital content, they sign it. Without additional support from websites or physical venues this doesn't do anything.

This could e.g. be something like a Twitter checkmark for a NFT profile or being allowed to a special club only if you own a certain kind of NFT.
As far as I remember, PyPy uses a Python interpreter written in RPython that's being specialized with respect to the actual Python code to be executed, with the residual program implementing the semantics of that one Python program that's been fed into it.
Great point, and a good way of illustrating it.

But I have to respond: Or you could grab something similar and use that as a beginning point. Say, for this application, `clipman` which gives me a popup list of the last few clipboard entries. Get into that and add some regexp filter and log output and it need not even interfere with the original functionality.
> 1) I use leak detection tool so no productivity gain in that area.

These are never as good as garbage collection. In some cases, not even close.
Real world displays for digital art, like photo frames, could be the next step in digital art enjoyment. But will the hardware manufactures enforce ownership of public keys so only the owner's NFTs can be displayed?
What is a fundamental right?
Conservative thinkers, ideologues announce 'fiercely independent' university
No, I'm sure that the current writers do not secretly yearn for racial segregation. If you read it you would notice that there are some non-white contributors, such as Deroy Murdock and Ramesh Ponnuru.
Kind of. It would be desirable to put your work on the blockchain before anyone else.

There are other things people could consider though, in terms of evaluating the history/authorship of something. The blockchain is just one data point.
This not being a universal property of NFTs undermines the entire system.
I haven't evaluated how Hamilton is implemented specifically but:

* It's solving a really different problem than Spark/Dask/etc. It could definitely use those tools but it's just not the same thing.

* If you're looking at this and thinking it's useless even if you're familiar with Pandas/dataframes it's probably just that you haven't had to work on the types of problems that this particular tool is intended to help with.
I'm not sure it's conspicuous consumption. Cases of recent pure conspicuous consumption in the tech world, such as the "diamond app" (an iOS app that displays a diamond and costs couple thousand dollars) didn't really catch on that much. I think what's really driving NFTs is:

1. Speculation. People just see it as another asset class that can be blown up and sold to the greater fool.

2. Artists trying to monetize their digital work this way. Up until NFTs arrived, digital art had very little market value (due to ability to make indistinguishable copies of the original at zero cost). Some artists hope that the NFTs will be the vehicle which allows them to cash on their digital work.

3. Money laundering and similar usual suspects.
Context on the Vanguard tax hack, since I recently learned about this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-vanguard-mutual-fund...
The Great Organic-Food Fraud
In that context most human activity is a scam.
According to the base article[1] the plain steak was about £33 or ~$45 not $20 which seems about right for a nicer cut of beef in the UK. Still a lot of extra money for the gold(£28). I do think you can get a few sheets of gold leaf for quite a bit for cheaper than that if you shop around though.

[1] https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-...
Or, hot take here, they just want you to be more productive on Windows so you continue buying Windows. Surprise! That's how innovation works! You keep using the product if it's easier than the alternative.
TIL: Powerline networking (a.k.a. internet over the electric wire)
I really like the Metaverse cherry on top of this cake. Originally a strategy trick made to steer attention away from fundamental ethical problems of Facebook brand, it just adds so nicely to that whole situation.

“Why? Because we will need it in Metaverse (the illusory future I have just invented).”
I think this is the author's most novel insight:

> Honestly, I would not be suprised by 2030 if insurance companies made the usage of ephemeral sandboxes (in whatever form: be that cloud, OCI, or firecracker) a condition of issuing cyber insurance.

Whatever form it takes, insurance companies' influence on the development process is a new and profound thing. Try to think of an industry where insurance is involved that doesn't go to great lengths to comply with their requirements; manufacturing, bulk transport, personal transport, health care, home ownership, civil engineering, chemical development, plant maintenance, entertainment, farming...it's an endless list. Devs can rant all they want (people in other industries sure do!) but if the insurer's mandates are imposed at a company level, they won't have much choice.
Heavily lopsided upside risk means they are never in danger of personal financial calamity. Nicholas M. Maounis looks like he is doing just fine even though he seems to have lost enough money for a hundred lifetimes.

All the incentives are aligned to go big on a theory and talk it up, and then if you are wrong just dust yourself off and try again- all the while cashing your paycheques.
Every time I see a cycling story, I like to do a Cmd-F for the word 'rules' to see how many rules pedants there are in the thread complaining about how cyclists don't follow the rules of the road.¹

1. Apparently, cyclists have to follow each and every rule of the road—rules which were designed with cars in mind—in order to be allowed to be on the road, or I should say even to be allowed to _live._
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In Seattle we don’t report properly crime except if insurance requires it. Police can’t be bothered to show up so it’s just a huge headache. I think they just have you fill out your own shit online anyway. I would assume sf is similar.

Naturally that discourages reporting and drives crime stays down
Seconding the recommendation for Vanguard funds. And yes, five years is not long enough to amortize away a crash or substantial downturn, so if by "large risk" you mean "I don't mind not getting my original investment back" you might be fine, but if by "large risk" you just mean "I'm not going to panic at a little volatility" then you probably want something safer on a five-year timeline.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but I like it / am scared by it
There's a huge human factor, which Microsoft, as a business, exploited very successfully.
For many, Windows is the default because that's what you see on other's PC, taught in schools, used in many office environments. And as a tool, it works good enough for them. And change is hard. For many, the FOSS principles are sympathetic, but not compelling enough to change.
We got the always-on job (2019)
Slightly nsfw language, but this reminds me of a stand up bit summarizing Hemingway's life in about 3 1/2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlxEKOscu0M
Just because patron exists doesn't mean alternative revenue streams are useless
They have them in Trader Joe's lots on 9th St. I'm not sure they cut down on theft since it's easy to decant them into a backpack or car and not exactly optimal for a quick getaway.
The definition of a scam is not something that other people like that you dislike.
My local Safeway (a grocery store) switched to using carts with long poles that can’t leave the store. But I don’t know of any stores that have closed?
What stops me, technologically, from creating an NFT from an image that I didn’t actually create? If it was about creators getting paid then there'd be a better answer than "nothing, caveat emptor".
I would also recommend checking out strongDM (I work there). We go a lot further than teleport does in the zero trust world.

See https://www.strongdm.com/compare for comparisons.

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> These artworks are infinitely reproducible and therefore hard to value, if anyone can own a perfect copy of the work with the click of a button, what value does it have?

From the perspective of non-dual Shaiva Tantra, the value of rasa (aesthetic, beauty, art), is its transformative experience of the consciousness as consciousness experiences art. From such a frame, it is uniquely valuable to the specific viewer and the art; no two experience are ever the same, not fungible or reproducible. The transformative experience can expand meaning and significance to one’s journey in life, how to better contribute to the world. It is not monetary value, and yet can have great value to both individuals and society.

On the other hand, modern art has spent an (imo excessive) amount of effort deconstructing classical notions of art, so it shouldn’t be surprising that among what gets deconstructed are the societal valuation of art itself.