skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yea, if one company runs the Metaverse they don't need NFT's. NFT's are for places like Decentraland and other Metaverses running on Ethereum where there is no centralized manager of the world.

It's unlikely there will be one decentralized world (maybe a lobby of some sort, akin to a website directory on the early internet), but instead an Engine + SDK that allows anyone to build their own worlds and choose what NFT's are useable inside it. These worlds can be registered to Ethereum and then users can easily explore and congregate in whatever worlds they wish.
Why would they necessarily be combined?

If you look at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics they will happily provide you with more detail, for instance the median salary in a field for the top 10% of employees versus the top 90%.

I don't know how you'd keep that updated though, you can hardly say "the amount the richest 10% spend is the rich CPI" because it's a silly statistic. I don't know how you can reasonably say "the minimum amount required to be rich", it just seems silly on its face.

No, I don't think there's much of a way to make it work. It's probably more directly useful to understand whether people are saving money or how much debt they have, though that's going to lag.

I mean, or just ask people. The government is fairly good at doing that.
My Emacs Lisp book is finished
Um, 3d printing? Robotics? Computer aided design?

I suppose it is the lack of imagination of top-end architecture that these techniques, some of the hallmark technologies of our age, that there isn't a healthy market in their use in architecture.

The employment of these things all seems focused in mass production and cost reduction (which isn't a bad thing), and seems to ignore the possibilities that programmable manufacturing and production could have on architecture (which could push the state of the art).

It might also be that being an architect kinda sucks these days. Not enough jobs, and those jobs are paying worse, to cover the costs of schooling.

So there aren't the true geniuses anymore? Maybe it's just that the iron rule of finance has drained the budgets from every large scale project, and the ultra-rich are now no longer artistically inclined, they are either concerned with the magnitude of their fortune in numbers rather than edifices.
Standards and building codes, the same sorts of reasons cars, except for a few visual design points, all have the same basic shape and look. Organizations, as well as home buyers, also look for resaleability and the ability to repurpose spaces — odd, though beautiful buildings are thought to be hard to sell, and specialized spaces are considered long-term detriments. Contemporary architecture is a monument to bureaucrats and middle managers.
Attackers are being shielded by and adversarial nation states and taking advantage of currency exfiltration via crypto currencies. So, arguably ransomware attacks should be treated as terrorism and, in some cases, acts of war. Whatever 'war' means in this context.
> Having a hosted system which behaves different than the underlying technology it's modelled on is not immediately clear. The realm of "things you don't know that you don't know" expands drastically with managed services.

So don't use managed services? They are expensive and the only thing that works consistently and well is the lock in, everything else is pretty iffy. Somehow people look at me like an idiot when I say this, but it's LESS effort to NOT use AWS and build everything yourself. I guess this seems impossible somehow, but at the scale you are ever going to operate it's not hard to just build a service to store and serve files (s3), and if you scale to the point where you can't build it easily, you will build it anyway because you can afford to hire enough engineers to build it and still save huge amounts of money. The same goes for every managed service offered on the cloud, they are not a good deal at any point, ever, for anybody.

> It's never been suggested that this is possible.

The gist of the article is they got a refund because they didn't bother to pay attention close enough to realize their queries were doing full table scans, and they didn't bother to pay close enough attention to realize this was causing the service to scale in capacity to an absurd degree.
>Just pick something already old-fashioned today but that somehow does not die.

Sounds great. Do people have recs here?
this is a great point re the brain's regulatory role. thanks for sharing.

can you recommend terms to google to learn more about what mental exercises yogis do and can achieve immunologically?
As someone grew up with 2ch forum(terrible place) I don’t get why vB gets such a high praise. Too much wasted screen real estate and already overcomplicated.
Zulip is also, last I checked, the only ones who offer completely free, archive-enabled, hosted chat for open source projects ( https://zulip.com/for/open-source/ ). Mattermost has some kind of "out of the kindness of our heart" setup, but it requires applying for it ( https://docs.mattermost.com/about/license-and-subscription.h... ), and Slack appears to actually retain the archive content, but only makes it available for those who pay
No demo of the sound.. really? :)
It can allow some pretty cool things. For instance, a end-to-end open source VPN. The nodes are hosted on an open source 'decentralized cloud', that is made possible by crypto, which allows users to know exactly what the server providers are doing with their information and ensures fair play. This is something which you can use right now, and is cheaper (for my use case) than buying a VPN.

Here is another notion. If you want to be anonymous you have to use anonymous protocols. If you explicit want to be able to track the movement of the tokens you are providing, like if you are a government who wants to ensure money is not moving to incorrect places, this is enabled easily and openly through crypto protocols.

I didn't meant the Nazi Germany thing to be a strawman, I was trying to be humorous while also bringing a historical example of the failings of government that is un-doubtable.
It's evocative and beautifully written, though mostly sad news.

“This is the purest water anywhere in the marshes,” Abbas says. Carp dart around and kingfishers and gulls fly overhead. There are at least 15 species of fish in the Hawizeh, and over 150 species of birds found throughout the marshes, including four that are endemic and eight that are globally threatened. Some, like the Basra reed warbler, survived the draining of its habitat against the odds, breeding in pockets of remaining reedbed before returning, Phoenix-like, after the re-flooding.
Install ClamAV Antivirus in Debian 11 Bullseye and Ubuntu 20.04
Taiwan says China can blockade its key harbours, warns of 'grave' threat
The F.I.R.E Strategy to Retirement
Ask HN: I'm building a low-code that builds an express app using drag and drop
Hi All,

I'm building a tool that allows devs to build APIs in expressJS visually. Basically through drag and drop.

I think devs should spend more time writing complex algorithms instead of rewriting the CRUD functionalities every time. That's the reason why I built this.

Unlike other low-code platforms, this one allows to export the source code.

What do you think about it?
I’m a believer in just creating a subreddit. It’s free and easy, many people already have Reddit accounts and it’s a much better forum than the ones that would be self-hosted, including moderation tooling and bot ecosystem. The threaded discussions are also better than what Github offers.
Had Nazi Germany coordinated with Japan to focus on Russia, we would have lost. Japanese stretch too thin across Asia Pacific islands. They would have done much better had they establish their empire on eastern Russia while Germans chomping the west side. Russians wouldn't have the manpower to mount against Germans. Affectively resulting in Germans and Japanese having a huge contigous defensible territory shielded from even nuclear bombs. Then within 5 years, they would have build enough atomic bombs and V2 rockets to wipe USA. Essentially alternate universe that Philip written in The Man in the High Castle. I'm glad I am in this universe, not Philip's. So Russia basically saved USA indirectly. The irony we treat them as the worst bad guy ever.
> It just strikes me as such an opportunity to create a place for these people

the problem is finding and filtering the applicants that come to such a place. How do you tell the difference between somebody who just phones it in, from somebody who would actually produce some valid research breakthroughs?

Unless you have unlimited resources to spend, this is a difficult problem to solve.
It’s the new SSN but even less private.
I bet the FBI is leveraging the crypto bull run and using the cryptos they have seized to be able to pay such a fortune for the capture. They probably know they may be able to extract even more after they're extradited and negotiate the cryptos REvil have stolen so far for a lighter sentence. Otherwise, they would most likely not be able to pay that much money.
I’ve used lulu.com for this in the past for small one-off print jobs (I think it was 5$ for something around 80 pages)
Discussed at the time:

Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412148 - Feb 2020 (155 comments)
Yes but It's just beginners guide, choose distros simple and easy to use
The Starting Point in Hong Kong: what should we pay for?
Besides the Larkin building (a factory), what did he build with predominantly flat roofs? I don't think there's a home he built prior to fallingwater that was anything close to what Bauhaus did.
It’s a false reason to collect more data by holding your Gmail hostage until you provide a phone number. It is a pretty shitty user flow with no benefit except for their data collection.
I think I know what you mean, but your assertion seems wrong to me. At times "love" is all what mankind seems to be able to talk about: it's the topic of most songs, but also of literature, cinema, poetry, art in general. I'd risk to say it's the number one topic of art, and we have multiple ways of depicting it and talking about it!

It's, of course, also one topic of science.
That's when you turn on the DNS tunnel (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619259 ). If they somehow detect that and try to block, change your MAC and repeat. Those bastards deserve it for trying to force users into megacorps' services.
I believe this is a whole other debate (that I’m not willing to get into)… Still my question remains, this type of currency seems to be mostly benefiting criminals activities.
When I visited Casa Mila ("La Pedrera"), one of the most striking things about it was how modern it seemed. It was commissioned in 1902 and finished in 1910. More than 100 years later, almost nothing about it felt dated (other than specific appliances), and several details felt as if they were still coming from the future.

I've had this feeling in some of Gaudi's other buildings, as if he was so far ahead of us that more than a century later, we have still not really caught up with his vision.
It really would be. There would probably be famines since this globalized race to the bottom has affected our food crops as well as manufacturing. Just within the last 10 years, a lot more of our food is imported.
> We know about (and don’t knock down) the particularly beautiful older buildings.

We have lots of evidence from paintings and photographs that it's not just survivorship bias, that things have gotten on average uglier.

> If you go to New York City there’s beautiful stuff from the early 20th century (think Chrysler Building) and plenty of unremarkable stuff still standing (think pre-war walk ups).

Still more aesthetically pleasing than a large majority of what's built now.

> Maybe one in a hundred of the older buildings is remarkably beautiful.

Not being actively ugly is pretty good too and a great deal more common in older buildings than newer ones. There are many, many more neighbourhoods that people will travel to just to walk around and appreciate that were built before wWW2 than after, in every country that was developed before then, and almost all that weren't.
>there's actually value in a game server which allows _all_ cheats

There's no such thing as "all cheats" by definition. There's always "all cheats plus one".
People who bemoan Slack and Discord have never used MS Teams or tried to bring multiple friend groups together on Mumble.
Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control
Infatuation?
For the past 5 years or so I pay moderators, community managers, designers, marketers, and many other personnel in crypto. Usually stablecoins. I've also deployed vesting agreements for closer personnel. Software developers have basically always accepted crypto for services over the last decade, or ones that do have been easy to find.

I've accepted capital in crypto for non-crypto hedge/PE funds, more and more fund administrators are very well adept in taking in-kind investments for subscriptions of new limited partners.

Its more like having cell phone service in an underground subway station. When its not there you debate about it, when its there you just use it.

One aspect that may be overlooked which is a high volume use case, is that international wires are being circumvented at unlimited amounts, converted to domestic wire transfers. The unlimited amounts aspect is something that Wise/Revolut/Paypal/Western Union cannot compete with in either capability, company policy,
company interpretation of compliance, actual regulatory compliance, speed, or fees. For example, in the payment for services use case, instead of an international wire transfer taking multiple business days and being error prone by user error along with multiple banks and a random compliance officer, the recipient (me, or them) just does a domestic wire transfer if they want fiat currency, after the payment was received in crypto. The bank just has a locally KYC'd person receiving domestic funds from the same person's KYC'd account at the domestic crypto exchange, which has the capability of being a same-day transfers within the local monetary union. Its just a matter of convenience. The international wire system (SWIFT) is not an authority to defer to, if their circumvention makes you feel like something bad is happening. They're just there, and antiquated, and inconvenient. Despite what you may have heard about how amazing the Eurozone's SEPA system is, turns out that not that many people actually send between nations, where the reality is that instant or even same-day SEPA is heavily dependent upon the two banks involved, the two countries, and more. Infinite, unreliable, permutations. With crypto, people receive it all very fast, and they can decide what they want to do with it. Since they can also acquire goods and services and invest with crypto often times they don't want fiat money. Whether they do or don't, they all also have the choice of stable value, or merely a few minutes of exposure to volatile value. This reality amongst people that actually use it has simply trumped all conjecture.
I self host my repositories. In this way I do not care about either. But when I am searching for code Github proves to be very good source. I would not say that projects hosted on Gitlab are any better
Personally, I would stick with the current i7 chip that I own rather than become an Apple victim.

I'll be perfectly fine for that 5-10 years.
Doesn’t this mean that the clock is just moving faster?
The ebikes I am familiar with have a governor such that the power assist turns off entirely above 20 mph.
I agree that subreddits have a very low barrier to entry, but all that comes at a cost. Among other things, one of those costs is that your content is no longer owned by you.

Should Reddit decide to take itself private, or make ethically questionable decisions, etc., you are locked in due to the networking effect.
I'd say the ability to run on Linux is a major selling point. Without this, I think .NET would have largely disappeared.
As of today this is my belief too. It’s reached billions of $ of values,I can’t think of a place to use it and all (absolutely all) the persons I know who owns some look at it as an investment not as a currency
It's harder than that in the US, but it's possible. Mostly it depends on the carrier's policy.
I'm a French person living abroad. I hadn't looked at the French political landscape until I recently took a quick look to somewhat prepare for the next presidential elections. And well, it looks like that's how it's going to play out, with no left candidate having any amount of significant popularity, and the extreme right having not one but two candidates that both trump the other candidates on the right. And Macron being the most popular candidate overall. Unless things change significantly in the next 6 months, it's going to be the same second round as 2017.
There is a reason to call it workplace. Its meant for professionalism. Families expect cohesion without guarantees, put down as T&C. We make sacrifices selflessly or put in our energy without expectations for people we call our own. The organization structures are different. Families are born out of blood relationship and emotional bonding. Office organization always evolves - people come and go, often minus hard feelings & get promoted also. Families are organic without changes - I can't expect to become a granddad from being a dad, by doing some exemplary act.

As a matter of rule, I don't add my workplace people on social media. There has to be some insularity for long term sanity. Work cannot replace family, and family shouldn't encroach work time. Division of time & mental space is as important as division of labor.
A cursory look at the data says that bikes are more dangerous than cars in the current environment. The US Bureau of Transportation Statistics says that in 2017 806/37473 fatalities were cyclists, or 2.2%, but the NHTSA data indicates that only 1% trips are by bicycle. That is a worse percentage than pedestrians (16.2 % of fatalities but 10.5% of trips) but substantially better than motorcycles (13.9% of fatalities but only 0.2% of trips!)

I think you are trying to say these statistics would change if we created an entirely separate set of infrastructure for cyclists, but that is not the world we live in currently and can't be realized quickly in any sane and humane scenario.

Ed- I'm a big electric bike fan, but we have to work within the world we live in, not the world we'd like to see. Right now using a bike or an e-bike for most tasks is more dangerous to the user than using an automobile. Doesn't mean we shouldn't use them or encourage them (after all they in the same ballpark as walking), but there is a lot of work to do to make them "safer" than cars. BTW- I don't think this was always the case- there were 5x as many fatalities per mile traveled in automobile in the 1960s then there are today, primarily due to the addition of vehicle safety features. I wonder what sort of active and passive safety features could be incorporated into cycles now?

(1) https://www.bts.gov/content/transportation-fatalities-mode
(2) https://nhts.ornl.gov/person-trips
I take the first view of transience, and I would be a lot more concerned about the current level of inflation if we weren’t seeing significant wage growth and job growth. What made the 1970s a nightmare was inflation without wage growth. I think as of yet there’s little evidence that we risk such an eventuality, but at the end of the day I’m just a programmer reading econ papers, not a professional economist.
Hrm...

So I know that ePub is a packaged bundle of HTML + CSS. I could see SVG in there. Does it also include JS?

A static or slow-moving subset of HTML could be reasonable. Again, what ePub manages to achieve by way of single-file distribution and reflowable (but pageable) text is ... useful for mediocre devices.

But if it does keep us on the Google-mandated spec-escallation treadmill ... Yeah, that's kind of awful.
Sounds like you want nim.
For what it's worth, such a feature is baked into IntelliJ IDEA now. It will yell at you for repeating blocks of code.
NodeBB can, for qualified open source projects. I think some other softwares also offer similar deals for open source projects, especially those with a following.
so are you currently fighting a civil war or living peacefully in your current location?
My first job out of college in 2007 was building a pdp-11/70 emulator on virtex-5 fpgas to replace the control computers for CANDU nuclear reactors.

We had a punched-tape and microfiche of the xxdp diagnostic test suite to pass: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/microfiche/ftp.j-hoppe.de...

Several nuances that we replicated were probably never used by the production software. For example the order of execution of a floating point instruction trap followed by a stack pointer trap due to the pipelining of the fpu instructions, even though we weren’t executing anything out-of-order. I also produced the correct partial result for the division algorithm in the event of overflow condition.
> Logic can work on anything. In fact, it exists to serve emotions.

That's a frightening idea (a riff of the classic Humean quip). Luckily, it is false. Emotions have their place. Properly developed and proportioned to reason, they can motivate us to do what is good and they can be pleasant. They are a good per se and a deficiency of them is defective as is an excess, but in mature adults, they are subject to reason. You wouldn't cheer at the funeral of your dead spouse, right? But if reason is subject to emotion, then there's no way to really object to the idea.

> I don't have a logical reason to keep living, I just want to do it so I do.

I disagree. The reason we wish to live is because to live is good. To exist is good. Being is better than non-being. We are by nature bound to want to exist. Even suicide is not really a wish for non-being, but escape from a predicament.
My most miserable programming experience was with Tcl. It was used as a plugin language for a heat transfer application.

Maybe it allows for some "clever" code or "powerful" concepts but for its use in that application, it was just not straightforward. It was used among a pretty large team and it just felt so messy and chaotic. At that scale I would want type checking and the ability to not have to think "okay is this a variable or is it getting interpolated in some other code, or what?"
This is something that the Racket community has faced. We have an active discord, but the search ability is not great. We also have a mailing list, but have been getting increasing amounts of spam.

Hopefully the Discourse forum that was created in the past few days will solve this [1]

1. https://racket.discourse.group/
I would hope nobody wants complexity for its own sake, but I do think there's something to be said for not shying away from a problem just because the only way to solve it is complex.
Could be auto-generated.
https://www.burnerapp.com/ ?

Note: no affiliation, just a satisfied user. Also, not free.
Same here, been with my wife for more than half my life now, we build on our love all the time.

It's funny, I've had infatuation before for a couple acquaintances and celebrities and it's amazing how on a timer it is. Six months, like clockwork, that strong feeling is gone if you don't feed it.
Dynamic scoping (`local $foo`) is nothing special in Perl. It's also a construct which, like novel flow control operators, by its nature leads to code which is complicated to reason about and difficult to debug.

There are many programming language concepts which may be innovative and beautiful, but whose popularity wanes because of practical flaws. (EIAS is another.)
Thanks for your perspective. I have been burning out job after job and could never tell why. It’s like my mind was excited but my body could not go on.
Are you saying make the FAQ. and that will make the Disord unnecessary? New stuff always comes up. This doesn’t seem right