skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think misunderstanding of NFTs is caused by one or all of: a persons generation, a persons hatred of crypto, a persons lack of openness to change.

- Generational: I grew up playing Habbo hotel, club penguin, TF2. I am comfortable with the idea of digital goods. You pay for something that is not real and can sell ‘it’ later. ‘Ownership’ is a decidedly different concept for me and many other younger people. If I ‘own’ a hat in TF2, I can display it on my avatar, but I really have nothing. It’s a piece of code in Valve servers that renders some pixels on my characters head. Imagine if you buy some NFT art, and the metaverse becomes popular. You will have the ability to display the art (in your ‘house’ or something). If you think this is dorky and no one will bother, think about the resistance then explosion of social media in the mid 2010s.

- Hatred of crypto: people hate crypto ideas for various reasons. Either environmental reasons, social pressure (from news and friends), fear of missing out, resentment at having missed out etc. I don’t comment on the validity of these beliefs, but they cloud peoples judgement either way.

- Lack of openness to change: it is just a weird concept, like many crypto concepts. Even the thought that there could be underlying value to crypto currency was indeed a radical notion. Now it is mostly accepted (in my experience). The only people who don’t accept it are older and less willing to uproot the institutions which served them so well. Banks and traditional finance are still entrenched in our society. There are a huge set of people that have interests which oppose crypto. This is fine, I don’t blame them for disliking crypto. It is just something to keep in mind when making decisions.

I hope my perspective helps some people.
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Yes, unfortunately the vernacular usage of the word bipolar, and actual bipolar disorder, are significantly different. The vernacular usage of 'bipolar' implies sudden mood swings and black/white thinking, whereas bipolar disorder implies episodes of mania or depression that typically last weeks to months. It also doesn't help that people consistently confuse bipolar disorder with BPD because the acronym could work for either.
If you already have $750k and you're developing real estate, talk to a banker.
Food supply is not in such a dire shortage as this post suggests in the USA 2021
I'm just as interested in his journey that brought him here as I am with this OS. So amazing!
This is the cycle at all companies.

People join, politics gets played out, people leave or are fired, those in power consolidate their position.

I’ve never lacked swagger but I’ve been the powerful and I’ve also been the fired.

Indeed having confidence is just another reason to get fired …. If you’re smarter than someone else then they don’t want you there …. it’s just politics it means nothing.

It’s not personal, it’s politics. Just find somewhere else that you fit better.

Also, if you plan to be in any level of management, read “The Prince”.
I don't know if I'd rate that as easy, however. LOL
Not clear at all. What takes the label of a BNW, what of a farming society, whether the dichotomy is descriptive or theoretical...
That is still fine tuning, in fact one of the more common interpretations of it just have an infinite number of universes one of them has to turn out to be alright…
> ANYTHING is better than first-past-the-post.

I disagree with this stance. Mostly because how these methods are presented. RCV has gained such popularity because its claims of preventing spoiled elections. But people think that's Bernie spoiling Hillary and not Stein spoiling no one. RCV only prevents weak spoilers where cardinal systems prevent strong spoilers.

The reason I'm so concerned with this is because this is also why RCV got repealed in the past. IN AMERICA. This is my big fear. We all get excited about it, implement a system that doesn't solve the problems we are seeking to solve, and then go back and look for other solutions. We have a solution now, and a wide breadth of them. They just aren't the popular ones.
The scarier thought is some kind of gene-targeted virus that avoids the blowback
Does it actually work? Have you tested in in court?
> But that’s exactly the point. This is equally a problem for packages and namespaces, so it should not be considered a reason to avoid adding namespaces to a system that already supports packages.

I think this is missing that crates.io doesn't transfer packages between owners. That NPM decided that it was acceptable to unilaterally transfer ownership of the kik package from the original maintainer was an lapse of judgment on their part. It would be unprecedented for crates.io to begin doing so.

> And namespaces do help.

I agree with this entire paragraph and have made these same arguments in favor of namespaces before. As I mentioned, I am mildly a proponent of namespaces. But we can't delude ourselves into thinking that an identity layer is simple to maintain, regardless of how much we want namespaces. It's a messy social problem.
8 months after graduating college, I realized I missed solving physics problems.

I drove to the nearest university, walked into the physics department office, and asked to speak to the chair. The chair was busy, but the vice-chair was more than happy to chat for 20 minutes.

The vice-chair then took me to a researcher's office, and we chatted for half an hour. That researcher then introduced me to a group professor, who offered my an unpaid-technician job a few days a week.

After a couple months happily toiling in the lab, often alongside the PI, I was asked to change to a full-time paid position.

A year into that the PI asked me to join the graduate college. I earned a PhD from the group 6 years later.

It all worked very nicely for me, and every person was lovely and encouraging through the whole process - regardless of my audacity in asking for the chair!
Saas has obscene markups
The creator of this site seems to have a fairly nuanced take, but there some critics who earnestly seem to think that right-click saving an NFT is owning the crypto-bros, where the latter simply couldn't care less.

There is also something off about about the "it's a url" obsession, as if the storage location of the bytes makes a conceptual difference. As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go "oh, one of copies of the JPEG is stored on the blockchain, now owning arbitrary ledger entries makes total sense".
I don't think you should be downvoted for this, but I do think there are some reasonable responses to it.

First, supporting desktop/mobile software can be hard. Customers have all sorts of weird things on their machines. iOS cuts down on that, but you still lack access for a lot of debugging and that can cost a lot of money. Support is expensive.

Second, I think there's this idea that desktop/mobile software is a one-off. What happens when Apple removes an API that your program used? Do you tell uses "sorry, your $X doesn't entitle you to a working program anymore?" For better or worse, software requires ongoing investment. If software requires ongoing investment, it kinda requires ongoing payment - or operating on the idea that new users will pay for the improvements required by older users. However, that's a dangerous assumption. At some point, there are a lot more older users than there are new users. Many companies tried to operate pension schemes assuming that new workers would pay for older workers retirement benefits. At some point, there are fewer new workers than there are old workers and it collapses.

Software maintenance is important, but it can be hard to price. Do you tell users "you have a license for 2.0, but you'll need to pay $X to upgrade to 3.0...oh, and 2.0 won't be updated to support iOS 14 so you're basically forced to upgrade"? Do we tell creators "if you don't keep this software maintained in pristine condition for the next 20 years, you're being predatory"? That kinda just demands that they do uncompensated work.

Even if software isn't hosted, there are ongoing costs. Some of that can be priced into the initial purchase of the software. Some of it can't be. It's hard to guarantee that software will continue working for 2, 5, 10, 20 years when you have no idea what that might entail in terms of work. 20 years ago, Apple was shipping Mac OS 9. Since then, I may have needed to upgrade my app from Classic to Carbon, from Carbon to Cocoa, from 32-bit to 64-bit, from PowerPC to Intel, and now from Intel to ARM - not to mention the huge number of APIs that have been broken along the way.

Is the right model something like what JetBrains does where you get a perpetual license to the version you bought, but that version might just stop working given changes around it (like OS upgrades or new machines it isn't compatible with)? That doesn't force you to subscribe, but it does mean that you're likely going to need to upgrade. Programming languages move on and you're stuck with an IDE highlighting things as bugs or that won't launch your program because it isn't compatible.

Subscription-based pricing gives creators an incentive to keep investing in their program and it gives customers predictable costs. No one wants to hear "sorry, this won't run on M1 and we're not going to upgrade it for free for you so here's a $X charge that you have no way around given that Apple is abandoning Intel".
The world in which smallpox is a potential weapon. Part of the research was done by the Army. It is also effective against other pox viruses.
Not having consumption-based billing is definitely a callout issue and many exploit the simplicity of bundled t-shirt (Small, Medium, Large) SaaS pricing.
This is hilarious. Is it a quote from something? Sounds like something Douglas Adams would write
This is what you get when OSs allow protocol handlers but not URL handlers. It would be totally fine if you could install Zoom and then zoom.us links would open Zoom but this is what we get on the desktop.
>This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text.

You know this how?
Typing Antrocentric auto corrects to androcentric, you are correct of course, good thing this isn’t Twitter or I would be forced to apologize by now.
> This massively improved the time it took to load search results on mobile web, since it moves the request out of the critical path and allows Google's CDN to serve your assets

Kind of, some of the time. In practice, that massive amount of render-blocking JavaScript made it slower - I noticed this on a daily basis using the web on the subway here in DC. The Washington Post loaded consistently faster without AMP, but the big win was the long tail where you could read content on normal pages but AMP was either blank until you reloaded, or took 5-10 seconds longer because once the AMP JS loaded it then had to fetch all of the resources it’d blocked behind a lazy-loader.
Direct link to the blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-now-even-more-unbound/
Olympus also has some excellent lenses quite reasonably priced. The brand is seriously underrated. (Ssh, don't tell anyone.)
It's relevant to point out that while Mozilla is (rightfully) fighting against user-hostile practices, at the same time they treat their users in a similar way.

Browsers have become platforms, just like an operating system, and Firefox is the only browser that took away the freedom to install extensions in your browser, on your own terms. They disrespect their users on their own platform just as much as Microsoft does when it comes to setting a default browser on Windows.
I think the first time around, mania kind of creeped in - everybody got sort of frog-boiled by a set of progressively more weird ideas and behaviours that all built up on eachother so it wasn't totally obvious that it was all nuts, until it got really extreme. Now, though, I like to think I'd see it coming a mile off.

In general, I think trust is the wrong rubric for living with humans. It's better to have faith. In reality, people make horrible decisions and do monstrous things all the time, especially neurotypical people, and if you can only trust people who will not make terrible choices, you should trust no-one. History proves that the vast majority of people, in the right circumstances, will do astonishing and awful things.

It makes more sense to treat it as a moral good in and of itself to trust other people, no matter if they let you down or not. That's the key insight of having faith in the people around you. Maybe they will let you down, maybe they won't, but suffering for an overabundance of faith is a worthwhile kind of suffering.
Wait, you're now using "cancelled" for "people know what you said and don't want anything to do with you", and suggesting that this is a problem?

The alternative appears to be "people know what you said, but ignore it." Is that somehow supposed to be better in some way than "people actually have opinions about good and bad, and act on them" ?

This just reminds me of what was supposed to be a funny (if sad) joke by Asheigh Brilliant:

please don't judge me by what I do, or say, or who I really am.

> People need to be shown that there are better ways to resolve disagreements and react to objectionable behavior, past or present, which don't involve rejecting the entire person and all the good things that they've done.

Implicit in this is the claim that people don't already do this. Implicit in this is the idea that people cannot possibly be already performing this calculus and saying "well, yep, even though Tonya from accounting has done a lot of great things here and has been great to work with, her attitudes and language about <X> overrides all that, and we need to make that clear".
CVS to close 900 stores over three years
Part of that might be that non-english searches in DDG are a horrible experience.
Borderline? You are being charitable.
Damn, the GUI brought back sweet memories. The OS as a whole looks nice too.
Is...there another answer?
I’m not a fan of art NFTs and think this is cool, but NFTs aren’t about art, this is one application of NFTs that’s gotten way overhyped. This is like saying that the internet is a thing you buy to access Facebook - accessing Facebook is one thing you can use the internet for, but it wasn’t designed for that and you’d be better off avoiding that site altogether.
You might want to take a look at the embassy project for a unified stm32 HAL. The idea is that it defines the APIs per peripheral version as defined by STM (spi v1, spi v2, usart v1 etc). The advantage is that a given peripheral can be used across all stm32 families with that version. This makes maintaining a HAL and keeping a unified API much simpler.

The other part is the stm32-metapac (not specific to async) that generates the PAC for any stm32 chip.

Read more about embassy here: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
Maybe in Arizona. In places where clouds is a thing you are looking at weeks of storage. And some of that stored energy would need to be collected months ahead of time. This is simply not doable with batteries, hydrogen storage is absolutely essential.
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And taxes, like speeding, aren't a judgement call. There are specific rules for what you do or don't owe, and you either are breaking them or you're not.

Court precedence in common law countries like the US is equivalent to law.
backup? this is a crimial violation of NFT owner's rights!! /sarcasm
Tell HN: Aurora 3 with support for MySQL 8 is here
I haven’t seen an announcement from AWS yet but it’s available in the console.
Because it is a disease which has been weaponized by the United States, United Kingdom and former Soviet Union at a minimum.

Not only do diseases escape containment (there was a weaponized Smallpox outbreak in 1971 in the USSR, and Lyme disease is believed to have originated from Plum Island, 2 miles off of Long Island), but there’s a nonzero probability that you’ll have a planned release someday.
lame, or "Hello fellow teens!"
Down below I actually give an example of IRV/RCV not solving a strong spoiler case. Clay has also written extensively on the subject matter so I'll defer to him. I'll especially defer to him on explaining how IRV actually encourages extremists.

I think the problem here is that people get caught up in VSE. I get it, that's what I was caught up in when I first started learning about this stuff. Then I had to really dig through strategic voting and spoilage. The nuance of the systems actually do make a very big difference in the outcomes.
The lies of a con man or an uninformed person are generally pretty distinguishable from the lies of a psychotic or manic person, especially in long form writing (isolated tweets are another matter). And for the type of writing deBoer does, which is quite well-sourced whenever he is making factual claims, I think dismissing it because he has a mental illness is kind of silly. Honestly I’ll take a bias of disorganized thought that is likely to be easier to detect over an ideologically motivated bias any day, and we certainly don’t prevent anyone from being published for the latter.
I think that's part of the point -- you get to draw that line and decide if you're more in favor of promoting your favorite over all others vs opposing your least favorite. Where you decide to put your approval mark favors one vs the other.
Easier bookkeeping is the main ingredient of debate between consumption-based billing (AWS, Twilio, etc) vs user-based billing.
No. What liability? It isn't illegal to generate descriptions of illegal acts.

1. Then they could make "illegal acts" the rule.

2. It isn't illegal to generate descriptions of illegal activities.
Haven't made it to court but it would certainly be legally sound. Courts love certified mail and formal notices it's not even clear what counterargument they could have. They require notice, and we gave notice and can prove it.

But in real life what it really does it get them to back off and go back to having a normal negotiation about what we do want to do for renewal instead of the bullshit attempt to mislead and trap us.

Needless to say if there's any viable alternatives to companies that do this we take them but in some categories all the options suck.
So took a chance to Google the quoted phrase attributed to Cotton. It comes from an interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, in context:

>In the interview, Cotton said the role of slavery can’t be overlooked.

>“We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction,” he said.

>Instead of portraying America as “an irredeemably corrupt, rotten and racist country,” the nation should be viewed “as an imperfect and flawed land, but the greatest and noblest country in the history of mankind,” Cotton said.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/26/bill-by-cott... via https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tom-cotton-slavery-necessa...

One common historical argument (I think I got it from H. W. Brands' biography of Benjamin Franklin that I read recently), is that there would had been no union at all if the southern states (with slavery) were not accommodated.

Of course, any decision about a school curriculum excludes other curriculums, unless one chooses to deliberately cover all aspects of debate of any debated school subject, or take an anarchist attitude of no imposed curriculum by the state, giving total control individual teachers or maybe parents themselves.

In Finland, teachers have quite much autonomy as long as the minimum standards of vaguely specified curriculum is adhered to, which is more "free speech compatible" in some sense, but that comes with failure modes too. (I had quite professional teachers in my time, but I recall reading a complaints about politically partisan teachers. System like is prone to have issues because while government schools are, in theory, part of the democratically governed system, the actual decisions about education and choice of teachers are quite many hoops and levels of hierarchy removed from the kids and the parents themselves.)
They were very careful to say characteristics associated with intelligence for exactly this reason, I presume.
You should rest assured that it's not a good idea to invent grievances to justify personal hate.

It is just not true that because there is a carried interest loophole, for example, that you can just make up arbitrary other tax loopholes that don't exist and blame "the rich" for abusing them, and then when confronted with being wrong on the facts, cite the carried interest loophole as a justification. "Piketty" isn't some magic word you can use to waive away reality.
In most EU countries, including those discussed in the article, mortgage rates are fixed.
Also

> IF YOU LIKE THESE NFTS, PLEASE BUY IT.

> THE ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN FRAUD DESERVE SUPPORT! (c)

https://github.com/ghuntley/thenftbay.org
The biggest problem with BLM making progress is a lack of solutions they bring to the table. The only consistent proposal is to defund the police, which is very unpopular even within the black community. The majority of the black community sees neighborhood crime as a leading issue and wants to see more cops on the street (just with less discrimination and brutality).

Unless BLM can come up with another solution, I don't see them making headway with the black community. That said, other communities may be able to propel BLM agenda into action against the consensus in the black community. Really a bizarre situation overall.
Reminds me this cartoon: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5-lDJWCUAAwfya?format=jpg&name=...
central banks are in a bind:

* raise rates -> the whole house of cards collapses as 10+ years of easy money have created a monster.

* keep rates at zero (actually negative) -> the monster keeps growing as people are basically forced to speculate

how this hairball will unwind is anybody's guess. in a sense the pandemic was a reprieve cause basically all risks globally have been absorbed into government liabilities through the massive and unprecedented support to the private sector

a return to biological "normalcy" may actually become an economic (or at least a market) abnormality...
applicable to a majority of annual contracts of top SaaS vendors.
You don't have to go far to find a book written pre-2019 that outlines the pandemic that just occurred down to a T. This is something a lot of smart people hypothesized and it's something a lot of people took seriously. Indeed the catchphrase for it was probably "when, not if". I sure didn't think Gates sounded apocalyptic or unrealistic when he did his TED Talk about the future pandemic. It was all stuff I already knew! I just didn't expect it quite so soon.
To be fair there is a non-small portion of the crypto-bros I've seen on Twitter who can get quite mad at people right-clicking. It's pretty great trolling to watch when it happens.

And has produced some lovely art, too!

https://twitter.com/nicodotgay/status/1458891554026930181
I assume there's lots of stuff they need engineers for - I imagine managing loads of Spotify stores simultaneously has some strange requirements around inventory management, ordering stock from suppliers, returns, providing customer support e.t.c.
Starbucks opening a cashierless store in NYC with Amazon
Anywhere I can look for news about when this launches?
I didn't say anything about what people with schizophrenia can or can't do. Please don't put quotes around things I didn't say when responding to me.
Yep, I've looked at that and my hardware isn't supported.