skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was painful to read. 14 year old me finally managed to get the NASCOM 2, my first ever computer. It came as a kit with 2,000+ solder points, but patience was never my virtual and certainly not at 14 year old so my work wasn't perfect and worse, wasn't properly checked. The original Z-80 died and I had to get professional help to get it working. (And learn to program: Z-80 in binary hex codes -- didn't get the memory necessary for the Microsoft BASIC until later). Still have this computer.
So the recent radical solution that the blockchain is empowering is moving off the blockchain and relying on a centralized store of information?
This is really cool. What frameworks or technologies is this built on?
Utah family sells daughter’s viral meme as NFT for $74,000
If you’ve spent any time on social media, you’ve seen it: the image of a young girl no more than two years old, in a car seat, looking side-eyed at the camera—with an expression on her face that took the internet by storm. “Can you believe this?” her face seems to convey. Whatever words you want to put to the image, one thing is for certain—she looks unimpressed.

The girl in that meme is named Chloe, and that image—taken by her mom, Katie Clem—is her reaction to her older sister Lily freaking out when their parents told them they were going to Disneyland instead of school.

Chloe is now ten years old. Her past self might have given her parents a similar look upon finding out that the “original” digital version of the image was recently bought for 25 Ether, the cryptocurrency equivalent of $74,000 at the time of the sale.
https://archive.ph/4pBpU
and paper source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454
I teach 15-30 sized courses to adults but I also teach at a university.

My solution - I installed Moodle on a cheap Hetzner VPS.

Added Let's encrypt for SSL and it seems to work pretty well for 100ish students.

I looked at alternatives but there really wasn't anything better that is open source.

The critical factor - all the universities that I've taught at and also know of at use Moodle.

Thus preserving the lessons, quizzes, exams, pages, etc. was quite important.

I was able to migrate my courses from older Moodle versions(3.7) at university to my own latest version (3.11) with no issues.

One thing I have not done yet is set up mail.

How well does e-mail from Hetzner IPs get through to gmail (what most students use)?
Interviewer: "Why aren't you depressed?"

Psychedelic microdoser: "Because I'm a balloon."
You don't even need to go back to old english: per your source, definition 1 under english etymology 1 is:

(chiefly Britain, uncountable) Any cereal plant grown for its grain, or the grain thereof.

edit: but yes, in the context of discussing a poem from the 12th century, old English would make more sense :) Interesting that the translation is from the french ble , which I would intuitively associate with the modern french blé meaning[1] wheat

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bl%C3%A9
Nevermind, checking their pricing https://www.gitbook.com/pricing it looks like the export feature only starts at the "Business" plan, that is $2880 to be able to export PDF, a complete joke. What's worse is that when I first started using them, they had the export to PDF feature and they removed it.
I had a mate that trained at Vidal Sassoon in London. There are plenty of heterosexual men in hairdressing, and they aren't exclusively in barbers, at least in the UK. As it happens you can have a pretty reasonable business with it if you have a dash of entrepreneurial skill and drive - the pay at VS as an apprentice was pitiful but this guy left school with basically no qualifications whatsoever but ended up owning several salons. There can be lots of work handling the emotional ups and downs of a group of younger hairdressers though... Lots of hormones etc flying about!
Wow, great insight.

It reminds me of the dynamics with walking down the sidewalk past a dog. If I walk too close to his yard, he decides I'm a threat. He barks! I walk away. It's easy for him to do post hoc ergo propter hoc and conclude that his barking chased away a dangerous threat. In reality I didn't do a thing different, but his lesson is that barking works!
As long as the you use only the four elementary arithmetic operations in the same order with the same types, and use compiler flags that disables any optimisations, then you should get the same result. (knock on wood)

Different standard libraries for different processors could have different precision for transcendental functions though.
There are those that are written to always produce reproducible results though; and in the case of CRlibm, proven correctly rounded.

Older compilers for x86 used the x87 FPU which used a 80-bit type internally but all modern compilers for x86 and x86-64 use SSE/AVX instead which supports IEEE types.
Too bad being rich is such a temptation to people, or he'd probably not have to spend time writing these anti-crypto takes decrying the rampant greed that's undermining the technical foundations of internet culture.
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I'm not a programmer so it would need to be easy enough to set up and maintain.

Logged in states are a must have.
Using whatsboutism to whitewash the influence of a foreign power in free speech is gross.

What makes you think that you’ll be able to talk about climate change if the Chinese Communist Party decides doing so is against their interest?
It’s absolutely a failure on Harris part.

It’s fairly obvious that expecting someone to exile themselves from public view for the rest of their life is absurd and unreasonable.

Even if DeBoer said he would do that, it doesn’t mean it’s reasonable for Harris to expect it.

If Harris thinks 12 months is not enough, he can say that.
This is the really icky part of crypto. It would be deeply ironic if crypto, which was supposedly created in opposition to traditional banking institutions, was able to open the door for those institutions to financialize every nook and cranny of our lives.
If the issue were technical competence, you'd have a whole industry full of technically competent people who would be paid to take care of the issue for others. Even if people didn't realize that they needed the service, these enterprising individuals would produce marketing materials to reveal the pain point to them. That's how most technical services are sold. An electrician doesn't need me to understand the danger of a particular electrical issue, they only need to tell me the undesirable consequence of not fixing it - someone can be dumb as bricks but they'll still shell out money to fix it if they're told it could start an electrical fire.

The fact is this privacy protection industry does not exist because even after thoroughly explaining the issue to people, they generally still don't care. At the end of the day, it's not a real pain point - I suffer no measurable damage from corporations having my personal data, indeed I derive some small but non zero benefits. It might feel weird or even unethical to you, but that's just like your opinion man, and people with other value systems will not necessarily feel the same way. These people aren't dumb and blind, just apathetic.
All my browsers (firefox, chrome and safair) on mac have this behavior at least. Do none of the windows browsers have the feature?
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There are other factors other than time though. In current market it's important to get at least 2 or more offers for negotiation power. Otherwise you might(or will) get the minimum offer of the band, i.e getting lowballed. Therefore going through a few of interviews in the same time frame is very beneficial to the applicants.
Dealing with Microsoft APIs at a large scale
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I'm not sure, actually. I wasn't able to find any information on the safety of a single dose of saline solution. There is apparently a health risk from being on saline solution for a long time (I guess it hurts your kidneys and some other stuff). Stories about this swamped stories about the fundamental safety of a small amount.

These vaccines do of course have some (rare! and way less bad than getting sick!) side effects. So I'd suspect a saline shot to be less dangerous. But that's a guess.
Presumably they prefer the look of one IDE and the features of another?
> Rather than live up to that commitment

This is an unreasonable commitment for deboer to have made. Yes, he made it. No, that doesn’t make it realistic.

> make Harris look like a chump for being so graceful about it

There is nothing graceful about Harris expecting DeBoer to do this unreasonable thing.

It was a bad agreement. DeBoer should never have made it, and Harris should never have accepted it.
I know someone who took psilocybin mushrooms and it seemed to be the beginning / unlocking of schizophrenia for them.
> the complete waste of taxpayer money that is the SLS.

SLS is such if you see it as a space exploration program. If you see it as a qualified workforce preservation program, then it is quite successful. There's a chance it is exactly that. The US has built thousands, or maybe tens of thousands rockets capable of reaching space in the '60s, '70s, '80s and a bit in the '90s. The Trident II SLBM is an absolute marvel of technology, and it's probably unsurpassed even today, three decades after it was introduced. But what do you do with your workforce once you built all the rockets you need? Do you simply fire them all? What if there's some new development 20 years from now, some Chinese or Russian innovation (maybe hypersonic missiles? nuclear thermal rockets?) that destabilizes the balance of powers? You won't be able to flip a switch and bring all your engineers back to work to figure out some way to stay relevant. So what you do instead is you give them some pretend work. What you don't want is to turn that pretend work into real results, because those results is not what you are paying them for. You are just paying them to keep them around and a little busy, not to take you to the Moon.
I think you're right about stability being a poor term here. The term as applied in this case is actually an implicit analogy.

A "stable marriage", for example, is conceptually stable in the same way a plane or car is physically stable.

To then take that analogous usage form and re-apply it back to where the actual, original meaning makes more sense, is indeed confusing.
We're talking about a CEO who intentionally smeared the reputation of another man by publicly insinuating that the man was a pedophile.

And TITS, always good for a laugh:

"Am thinking of starting new university: Texas Institute of Technology & Science ... It will have epic merch ... Universally admired"

This behavior, in public, from Tesla's CEO, lends substantial credence to the claims made in the lawsuit (i.e., "rampant sexual harassment").
Unfortunately in these cases it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the drugs from the underlying problem they were trying to treat.
It's crazy that we are still funding the non-reusable SLS. Promoting competition makes sense but reusability is now proven and should be a requirement.

Funding would be better spent with Blue Origin or the many other smaller companies that have demonstrated reusability or a path to it.
Direct Evidence of Bitcoin Wash Trading
Well the other option, which is to pay when a problem is found, can lead to over-diagnosis and finding issues where there are none. Its 'taking your car to an unknown mechanic' problem, he _will_ find a problem, and that is a problem too.
It's legit very hard to sift through the scamminess of the space, I've been thinking of it as the cost of revolutionary potential: exponentially more people rush in to profit off "being early".

I would say start with web3 science folks like https://twitter.com/joshuaforman and https://twitter.com/eperlste who have a vision for the utility of DAOs for positive social impact that's unlinked from personal profit.
It's a great point, and one that could be rectified by their teams actually having standards. Threats can't be empty. "Deliver early, we'll give you a bonus. Deliver on-time, we'll pay. Deliver late, we'll hold you accountable and pay less according to this attachment. Deliver really late, and you get a strike. Three strikes and we drop you."

Of course, that would require backbone, fortitude, accurate forecasting, integrity, and management support.
> I recently had to go through extensive KYC/AML

I'm not entirely sure how KYC/AML are related to wash trading ...

In other words: how is the amount of checks they impose on their customers related to what goes on in their trading engine?

Or do you assume that because they're very strict on one thing necessarily implies they're strict everywhere?

That's quite a stretch.
> systemic issues [causing higher incarceration rates]

Anti-male bias in the justice system, which has been shown to be around 6x higher than the anti-black bias in the justice system.

> reward/excuse antisocial behavior in boys

We do not. Society strongly discourages not just anti-social behavior in boys, it nowadays discourage a LOT of boy behavior that isn't actually anti-social. Boys are seen as defective girls. And of course the education system hugely discriminates against boys. Unabashedly so.

> Feminism isn't about just swapping gender roles and just giving power to women.

That used to be true. It no longer is.
Exactly--all it requires is a quick inspection of the histogram to tell if you need another shot, but that's problematic for a human unless you can do it all remotely as you don't want to touch the camera if possible. It would be a trivial task for the camera itself.
It’s probably easier to add some more addresses than to switch to IPv6 but I hope you agree that switching to IPv6 ultimately is inevitable. And then you are comparing the optional costs of adding that small number of addresses against the switch costs that you are going to incur anyway.
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"Peter Sellers, in the Pink Panther movies, wasn’t so much a clown as a man lost in the monotone wonk-wonk-wonk of spoken English. “Do you have a lee-sawnse for your minky,” is in fact a much more interesting way to say it. For me, in French class in college, it was a license to slip through a linguistic trapdoor into something fabulous. Why do I love French? Let me compte the ways."
This is a great answer. If any of the details bore you, don't do it ;) Renting from hetzner and other low cost dedicated suppliers will get you almost all the cost savings, and none of the heart stopping horror of having to drive to the DC at 3am and diagnose some knotty RAID failure.
Yeh, make sure they can actually provide the amount of power and cooling you contract for
That's a great question—thank you for asking.

In my view, turning off notifications (or using something like iOS 15's "Focus" feature), though superficially in the same sphere of concerns, is actually an orthogonal concern.
The purpose of Pony not just to limit distractions, but to create a space that naturally keeps out transactional (security codes, shipping alerts) or low-effort (tweets, funny pictures) messages. These messages are usually time-sensitive and often fun and enjoyable, but they also have a tendency to bury messages you may need some time to think about. So while I enjoy getting links and pictures from friends, I've always wanted a space that's on a more "human" timescale—that is, a space that isn't instant but more attuned to our non-instant cognitive processes. Turning off notifications kinda, sorta gets you there, but not really.
Wash trading doesn't change the price, it just increase volume, hence the term wash, there is no price change to the owner.

Selling your own NFT to your self for a profit, that's something else, but its not a wash trade as in that case there is a price change.
> Digital assets can still be copied and distributed. Notions of ownership and title in digital are still inherently problematic

Some NFTs come with additional publishing rights for the underlying asset. For example Eminems sold an NFT that contained to the rights and a different rapper bought it to make a song with it:
https://bitcoinist.com/the-rapper-who-bought-eminems-nft-for...
I think we're going to see more stuff like this in the future.

> 2. This is probably not a feature society needs

You might be right, but we do allow LLCs so we do allow a more difficult way to do the same thing. There is less regulation around DAOs but that's starting to change in some states, I'm for letting the experiment run

> 3. Possibly good?

I think this is a net benefit

> 4. maybe. USD, Gold, Etc have historically been good at this.

Yeah, for this one in particular I was thinking of stable coins that are backed by USD
Conditional prediction markets on future health/QoL observables if visiting alternative doctors.
HPPD and substance-induced psychosis are very real, however I don't know of any cases that were the result of microdosing.
Opposite results as this is would likely be a reduction of alcohol consumption for many participants
Of course they do. The biggest one to me is micro transactions to me. Of course being required to pay capital gains on every transaction kills that.

It opens up ways to run ad free online services without thinking of dumb schemes like charging exhorbitant amounts of money for digital “stickers” and other crap. Like tipping with a small percentage going to the platform, charging tiny amount per min/hour of usage, tiny subscriptions. In game currencies/economies that use regular crypto.
My favorite part:

> Prague mayor Zdeněk Hřib, who attended the conference, said in response: "I hear that China is unhappy about this conference being held here in Prague. Well, I am unhappy there's a country in 2021 that has concentration camps."

I don't know why it's so politically incorrect to call out the Chinese communist party on its human rights abuses. It's clearly a highly authoritarian, abusive country -- one of the major blots on the human race at the present time, along with North Korea.

We ought to be brave and speak the truth about it.
>there are people that end up in psychiatric wards after one acid trip.

Really, where have you heard this. I have only heard myths about this. Do we have any collections of data for these cases?

Something that is interesting is one of the lead researchers in the area professes that the disclaimer about psychotic episodes due to psychedelics in research is not based on any study more of a fear of tainting the study outcomes.
Speaking of lights in the sky, I recently fell into a wikipedia rabbit hole and learned about the Gegenschein[0]. This is the backscatter reflection of sunlight from interplanetary dust. You need an extraordinarily dark sky to be able to see it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegenschein
You admit that art can be high value - and everyone who believes art can be worth millions is a "status-wanker" apparently - so therefore NFTs can be high value. Or is it only physical art that can have worth, but digital images cannot?

This is what drives everyone crazy - the art market itself is irrational. NFTs are the same thing, but digitized and hyper efficient.
The major advantage of owning your own servers is that you, well, own them. Ideally you'd rent space at a carrier hotel like One Wilshire where you have access to numerous providers in the meet me room. That way if whatever it is you're doing suddenly becomes unfashionable, you can't have some activist cloud provider decide to destroy your business on a whim.
Well, now only about 15% of the tx fees go to miners. The rest of the gas fees are burned, so you can't even get a kickback from a friendly miner on your fees.
If it exists, it doesn't follow, that it is used for a tea, or in this case, that it has any military value over military satellites on the Earths orbit... even if it can disable sattelite, that doesn't follow that it is the best satellite disabler and that teapots function is exlusivelly to disable a satellite.

Sometimes stairs are just used as a stairs and there are no other functions for them, than just walk those steps up and down, up and down - every day.
It's the classic MBA meets genius nerd situation.

"Hey everyone, look at this weird tech thing my brother has been obsessively building for the past year! You can have one for $5!"
Also, for many of the prestigious publications, the way into the door is often via unpaid internships, and interns who do really well eventually get paying jobs. Only those whose families can support them well into their 20s can afford to do that.
On the other hand, such constraints on large communities can sometimes allow small communities to perform norm enforcement.

For example, that same amendment makes it illegal to prevent a church to subjecting gay minors to various forms of norm enforcement.

Size seems like a misnomer here.
Mate you ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep... ?

Here's a bunch of real people suffering from it: https://old.reddit.com/r/HPPD

You can definitely overdo psychedelics and fuck up your mind if you are careless with them. Maybe read up a bit on erowid, dmtnexus, shroomery, plenty of warnings from people who went to deep. Don't be stupid and naive.

Microdosing may seem harmless, but it also means taking psychedelics every day for long periods. I wouldn't do more than 2 weeks, you gotta have to function without the drug at some point, can't imagine dosing LSD for a year and then stopping will be pleasant. But your mileage might vary... I just have way to much respect for psychedelics to take them every day.
>If you get an unexpected phone call, hang up. Then look up the bank, agency or organization that’s supposedly calling and get in touch directly.

They should really add a warning here not to use Google for this unless they have an adblocker installed.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/phishing-for-crypto-half-a...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-search...
I think you have to participate a bit in the non-speculative side to get a feel for the culture and social movement that's brewing there. New entrants aren't the ones to watch since they're probably jumping in to make money, look to the increasing interest in DAOs as social coordination mechanisms, they will keep evolving to empower groups of individuals to have outsized impacts.
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you can store your private keys printed inside a deposit box if you don't trust computers (which you shouldn't). Nobody guarantees bitcoin, but insurance companies will always exist.
> I think you are confusing the cost of production of these things, and the cost to you personally.

No, I'm not. The fact that artists need to be paid for their work so they can continue to exist within world of scarcity economics is orthogonal to the fact that information can be copied and disseminated for an effective zero-cost.

Let me put it this way: if, instead of minting and purchasing an NFT, the potential buyer just gave the artist money, what has changed? Everyone can still copy the art for free, the owner can still say they paid for it and prove it in any number of existing methods. Absolutely nothing about adding a cryptographically secure certificate of ownership to that is valuable as far as I can see.
This computes:

To compete with the religious fascists of Al-Qaeda, we must become religious fascists.
To compete with the single-party state of China, we must become a single-party state.
To compete with the autocrats of Russia, China, Turkey, etc., we must have an autocrat.
I have a guy who I originally told to get back to me in a year. He did and has been doing this ever since. I got into one gig through him and stayed there about 10 months.

I just got my annual call the other week, but had to refuse because I'm not planning on switching yet, but we'll be in touch.

Several times recruiters who I told the same got back to me after a set period. Does this count?