skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments on this thread are... interesting. I hope I can clear up a little bit about POAPs, why people care about them, and what the point is.

First, why make POAPs instead of just making your own NFT? On one hand, what they are doing is just making it really easy to make your "proof I was at this event" NFT, so it's a product play in that sense. The have a pretty good mobile app now that makes it super easy to claim these tokens by scanning QR codes at events or using a secret phrase, among other methods.

But, they also are trying to establish a brand of legitimacy. The idea is POAP is trying to make sure people are actually only getting POAPs for events they actually do attend, which is harder than it sounds.

How are they used? Well, for example, Bankless Podcast (a podcast about crypto finance) started a DAO and distributed a bunch of the initial token supply to fans that have been with them for years. One of the metrics they used for identifying these fans was POAP tokens given to them when they attended certain events or proved they were avid listeners of the podcast.

POAPs are used a decent bit for initial distributions like this, so you can imagine there are whole hoards of people that are "POAP hunters" and literally just scour the internet trying to acquire improperly-secured token drops in hopes of receiving tokens in the future in these distributions (I've experienced these myself for a POAP we did for The DAOly Post newsletter at my company). POAP has recently begun clamping down on this and is being more strict about how these tokens can be claimed, with the idea being you can trust POAP tokens will only be claimed by true fans/attendees.

I hope that clears up confusion on why POAPs vs making your own NFT, and what the use for them is. A good way to think of them is like conference badges: idk about you guys, but I have a whole collection from all the tech conferences I attended. So they are basically trophies, but they can also serve as sort of "markers" to identify fans, or social data in the massive social graph that is the blockchain.

For those using the "this could just be a database, blockchain is pointless" argument, that would take me longer to explain and there's tons of material on that out there. Short version is: it's all about interoperability and composability. Blockchains are just databases that are interoperable by default, so instead of depending on companies being good at building external APIs, or being incentivized to do so, they just have them by default and people can build on top of them.
It's almost like RH/IBM made this change to prevent AWS/Oracle from cloning their OS!
I remember the day after Thanksgiving being a day my relatives (at least the ones interested in shopping in malls, etc) being excited about going shopping. Lots of people had the day off, originally I think "black Friday" just meant that stores were really busy.
Yeah, I get the R&D part, what I want to know, what specific improvement here does the R&D here contribute to?
Could someone with ground knowledge share how a society can continue to run with such a rapid devaluation? I imagine wages not keeping up, jobs lost everywhere and a lot of wealth destruction.

How do people live in such a situation?
Inverted Pendulum Balanced on a Drone
Probably Lenovo?
Is typing `combine(t1, t2)` instead of `t1 + t2` the largest issue your experts have to productivity? Most folks complain about a variety of factors beyond typing speed.
Math Has a Fatal Flaw
I'm aware of child vaccines and public school requirements. The Covid vaccine mandating adults and businesses is something we have never seen
> The initial pledge not to purchase the F-35 was basically a signalling of anti-Americanism

Yeah no sorry, not buying the f-35 is just sensible decision making. The idea that Canada is in a position to be playing with the most expensive death toys in the world is just comic absurdity. That's no world in which we use anything like the f-35 effectively, even if it lived up to the hot air that was blown about it.

Conservative hype about it was about as well placed as their attempts to get anyone excited about celebrating the war of 1812.
Thankful for Firestore as a Web Developer
There are perhaps three paradigms of motivation.

Internal motivation.

External motivation by application of force ("the stick").

External motivation by application of reward ("the carrot").

The most powerful motivation is internal, generally this is curiosity or mission-driven behavior for which the subject already has a mental or cultural configuration. To a certain extent, at the individual level if you need external motivation you have 'already lost' in that you will rarely be able to compete with internally motivated people in specialist endeavors.

Therefore, the best method may be to help rediscover curiosity and interest through play.
it technically works as advertised, that's why I didn't want to call them a complete scam. an IR LED + red filter does work to detect hidden cameras.
A good search ui should allow you to specify number of hits, imo. But 1000 would present technical problems. I'm most experienced with React and it would be difficult to render that many rows of anything in a useful way.

Additionally, depending on how your backend is designed and your choice of ORM, sometimes requests can be slow. In those cases it probably makes sense to design a UI that encourages users to rely on search and filter controls vs giving them a large list.
I generally have that reaction but could think of one use of this in theory: for continuing education credits for licensed professions. That also makes me cringe but this is a common situation for e.g., physicians wanting CE credits for attending conferences.
I use PHP for my personal sites.
On the other hand the earlier pandemics were over much quicker. For example I read about the anti mask league in San Francisco. The masks were only mandatory there for a couple of months! After that things were already getting back on track. After 3 big waves it was all over and things were back to normal. Death toll was high but during a short period. And very localised. Here in the Netherlands the Spanish flu was hardly a thing at all.

I wonder if in the end we're just prolonging the agony. And the measures have a human cost too. Depression, loss of economic welfare which leads to poorer health conditions.

There's more and more talk of letting things slide more ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29337373 for example) and I'm personally wondering if this isn't the right thing too. Corona isn't going away and if we have to keep living with constant lockdowns and masks there isn't much quality of life left. And really eventually we're all catching it anyway. I'm totally happy taking as many vaccines as needed but long-term behavioural changes into directions which are not human nature is a big price to pay.

We can't do this right away (we need more vaccination levels and effective medication) and we have to seriously invest in healthcare but as an end-goal this looks like a much more positive future perspective to me than continuing to fight against every infection.

Personally I'd gladly take a bit higher chance of dying instead of having to struggle with these measures every day.
> Let's hope the beancounters at IBM doesn't have other plans for Fedora.

What do you think they would potentially do? Fedora is the upstream for RHEL, it's integral to it. Part of the reason they dropped support for CentOS was because it didn't serve to benefit RHEL very much.
Good that you get the shot, but I'll just note that the symptom you describe is far worse than most people who get the flu shot. Most years I get it I have no symptoms at all besides slight arm soreness. Maybe one in five years I have a mild fever for a day.
I am baffled how this makes sense to you.

You are complaining about the State Department censoring news but imply that the CCP which literally controls all information isn't as bad? Again, you realise that the US being as bad as China doesn't make China good?

And, again, the doublethink is being unable to understand that the question of whether you have to trust government makes no sense in the US. You don't have to trust the govt, that is freedom. Indeed, the US govt is constructed on the principle of multiple sources of power so it doesn't even make sense to say that authority arises from one source, there are competing sources of power (ironically, this is what the CCP finds incomprehensible about the US). The US govt does not censor the internet, most of the news sources you cite are not "trusted", people are sceptical of the media, people are sceptical of the govt. The point I am making is that people are unable to sceptical in China because they have no choice, the question you are posing makes no sense in a US context.
Vernor Vinge.
Was kinda disappointed when I visited Madrid during Thanksgiving a couple of years ago and it seemed downtown was taken over by Black Friday shoppers (https://amp.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/vivir/2021/10/29/el-...)
And the fee is $50 or so per artboard which is wild
Covid is different because it forces all businesses over a certain size and it puts mandates for adults. This vaccine is a special case not status quo.
I need answers for this statement...

Ok open up, what is your kid doing on an iMac? (You didn't expect the question huh)
Not really surprising. Most clothes at the outlet mall are specifically made for the outlet mall too, and you start to wonder about the veracity of the deep discount when it's Fall 2021 and the "discounted" item you're looking at has a tag that says "Fall 2021."
You could pay Red Hat for licenses if it's that important to you. But as far as I can tell Amazon is a major supporter of Rocky Linux so sounds like they heard you and are giving you exactly what you want.
> some programming languages just injects symbols based on context

Well, okay, yes, not all software projects deliver reproducible builds of their software. Some software is, in fact, complete garbage.

I'm also not using Gene Ray's TimeCube theory[0] as an example of a mathematical paper.

> This sort of time variance is non-existent in math

Not... entirely. You could cite a preprint that then changes in the final version.

> And you have probably seen a programming tutorial or similar which uses library functions that no longer exists in modern versions

Sure. And cited papers can be retracted entirely.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070718050305/http://www.timecu...
MediaTek is the local industry's largest fabless chip designer. I am not quite sure the Taiwanese government would allow it to be acquired.
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At this point "Black Friday" just means "November."
I used to chase these kinds of deals, but if you stop to think about it, spending hours to optimize for $10 is almost certainly a terrible waste compared to what you could have been doing with that time. Deal seeking always eats up many hours of time for these small gains. That analysis skill applied to any kind of business problem is easily worth thousands.

No offense intended if this is pure stamp collecting.
Your last point is probably true for domestic missions. However, Canada has also deployed the CF-18s in missions abroad, most recently (?) against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cf-18-hornets-1.1003648
Another trick is just producing a Black Friday model that lacks features the more expensive one has.
Linking to a 9 year old YouTube video with 36 views and 12 subscribers should have an amusing impact on their metrics.
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Tanker and bomber aircraft complimented their business better. Those products have been fantastically successful.
The site has more tricks up its sleeve. Right-clicking on mathematical equations brings up a MathJax context menu!
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you're doing well.
I think the assumption is that all software developers produce output of equal quality.
School isn't really comparable to adult mandates forced on all business
>https exists. Why a second security layer? Of course there are a lot of use-cases where you need more than one layer. But for most cases https is enough.

Https isn't everywhere you think it is. (e.g. Linux and mobile):

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en
I'd rather have a more powerful shell that uses a functional style yet preserves many shell semantics we're all familiar with (like XS, https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/XS , except maintained!) than an easier-to-use shell
You can also use a net specific build tag.
Serious question - do most folks still own toasters today? They just seem so... specifically single function and take up counterspace.
In my house, we have a sandwich press which we use for 4 or less pieces of toast at a time. And of course it doubles as a press for paninis or cubanos, too. And you never have to worry about unevenness, as it's just two hot plates basically.

If cooking a lot of toast for a get together or really large meal, just throw them in the oven.

I haven't owned a toaster as an adult, so I'm really curious how popular they are these days.
Mouse study shows microplastics infiltrate blood brain barrier
Its know that most viruses trend towards increased transmissibility and decreased lethality.

Killing your host is an awful strategy for continued existence if you don't have your own lipid bilayer.
A real probility problem(or is it?)
(Since reddit r/mathematics won't accept me, so I put it here, any idea welcome)

Ok this may sounds not like a math problem, but please be patient listen to my story and help me.

I have a neighbor who has an broken air conditioner, which randomly making some annoying noise, and this really bothering me.

I already ask police and other delegate to ask him to fix it, but he seems to refuse or ignore them all.

Our government rule says the rule to enforce one to fix this kinds of problem is to have local environment protection agency send someone with very expensive equipment (30k usd around) to measure the noise, if the noise exceeds the threshold by law, EPA will send him a notice and ask him to fix it in 30 days, after that he will be fine like 100usd per time or per day until he fix it.

Here is the tricky part, the noise is not constly being produced. And i have no idea under what condition the noise will be produced again.

Sure, the easies strategy here is to ask EPA dispatch more inspections (increase frequency), but the EPA staff also tell me that if they came too many times but founds nothing will think I am doing a prank call.

So what i am asking is, is there a math strategy that can help me more precisely dispatch inspections (i think an overall 60% precision will be excellent) to catch the noise.

This is just an idea. I am really tired to dealing with this annoying problem, and running out strategy.
Yeah, this would be much more persuasive if he gave more reasons about why not to buy from Amazon.

(Mine shipped with a minor issue, but the seller agreed to reimburse me for the price my local repair shop charged to fix it.)
Fedora is the source and integration space for many things these days, not just the Fedora Workstation any more. Its the upstream for RHEL/CentOS but also has a ton of editions and spins, including Fedora CoreOO, Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, etc.
It's been found internationally already. Also there's a 0% chance that those ten detected cases are the only actual cases.
This is really the problem. What is the purpose of the CAF? We don't have anything close to an agreed upon one besides coastal defense.
Amusingly I just told my spouse about the article, and she said: "Why make things cheaper when you've already got them rushing into the store because it's black friday?"
Microkernels are necessary if you ever hope to secure a machine exposed to the internet. Linux can't be made secure.

However, with the knowledge that DRAM isn't secure thanks to rowhammer, etc... nothing will ever be secure again, unless it uses Static Ram, which is too damned expensive.

Computers are just going to get less and less usable as everyone forces the user interface into smartphones.
Yes happy thanks giving HNers. This is the only place I visit multiple times a day and each visit is educational. Thanks
> Unvaccinated people are at greater risk of complications from catching COVID, so limiting the avenues for transmission to them helps curb fatality rates and hospital occupancy.

I’m tired of this argument. Unless one has a medical condition preventing them from being vaccinated, who cares? We somehow got in a state where we protect unvaccinated minority who doesn’t care about how inconvenient they make the lives of everyone else.

One way of convincing people to vaccinate may be to make the ecmo treatment non-coverable under medical insurance for unvaccinated with no confirmed condition preventing vaccination and let’s move on with our lives. What’s the plan otherwise? Another 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
He may not be a paid shill, but he is not arguing from a position of sincerity. FooBarWidget is far too intelligent to actually believe half of what he's saying, especially his claim that 98% of Chinese citizens are happy with their government. That number is absurdly high.

For reference, trust in government is 84% in Switzerland (highest in the OECD), 65% in Germany, 46% in the US, 42% in Japan, 35% in the UK.

Even if the source of the claim is the WaPo, such an outlier deserves extreme scrutiny.

https://data.oecd.org/gga/trust-in-government.htm

Edit: Those conducting the survey probably experienced reactions similar to this: https://vimeo.com/44078865
Toaster oven FTW, it's probably our most used appliance. Get one with the convection setting and it'll beat any air fryer too [1].

[1] Wirecutter review:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-fryer/
> Yes - it boils down to “there are 10 cards. Pick some number of cards, give me the rest, and I’ll tell you how many you picked”.

It boils down to that when you know the trick, but it isn't trivial to conclude that from just seeing the trick being performed.
Yeah I'm so hoping this will happen. Evolution will favor it of course, because a milder virus we won't fight so hard.
Actually kinda smart?
I feel sad for you if you see work only as a way to make money. A good job with a team that is working together towards a goal is a very satisfying experience. I would be unhappy to be very wealthy without a job. There are many people who end up lost because they don’t have a sense of purpose, and a job helps with that.
> Stamets is inspired by a real-life mycologist of the same name.[1]
> Asking Google or Apple means asking a foreign corporation, likely through legal means and definitely targeted to individuals, not population-wide.

Which would be a local telco.
I tink the main workhorse supercomputer GPUs are not out yet.

They announced the MI200 GPU with 128GB of memory, two supercomputers (Setonix, Frontier) are suppose to include them but both will only be launched next year https://www.tomshardware.com/news/setonix-supercomputer-mi20...
People like to have mementos from events and show them off. See also: t-shirts, photographs, commemorative
coins, plaques. This is just a digital analog. Not complicated and I’d argue not worth being angry over.
Here's a write-up from Seattle's government about the root causes of homelessness in the city:
https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/the-roots-of-the-crisis

This is a take on the issue by the Seattle Times:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/why-are-p...
None of that is valid excuse for not giving me the option of 300/500/1000 rows.
I've had the same toaster for the better part of 15 years now I don't think its any weirder than owning a dedicated sandwich press. It's usually a set it and forget it kinda of item that doesn't take long to do its job.
There are many covid variants. Nu is simply the next letter in the alphabet

Naming a disease after private intellectual property is a terrible idea. Im not sure what that would accomplish.
The vast majority of tech workers don’t work at google or Facebook, or any other ad. company.
What's wrong with taking a vaccine booster every 3 months or so? I'll gladly do it to get more normalcy.

Production is being ramped up a lot so this kind of volume shouldn't be any issue soon.
The other issue is smart TVs carry a whole bunch of unwanted electronics that will definitely become outdated and unsupported, and will quite likely fail. And be expensive, or just impossible to fix when they do.
Meta cognition right der
At least from my experience my induction stove does not seem to have this problem, which kinda makes sense if you think about it:
It already has to switch on/off many times per second to induce current, so it can just skip some cycles.

I suppose as induction slowly wins over resistive heating this will become a non issue once again.
>> React and it would be difficult to render that many rows of anything in a useful way

That’s not true it’s dead simple to display 1,000 rows can you explain what the hard bit is?
I've already got natural immunity. Lock yourself down. I (and millions of others) won't participate in lockdowns. This kind of cowardly response is reprehensible.
Of course it's a thing... Where else did you guys find porn before you got modems?
Programming the FPS T Series [pdf]
Fortunately this is the trend for most viruses. I have seen no evidence that the delta variant was more lethal, but that it was more transmissible. I have also seen numbers from my locality sequencing that suggested lethality was significant chunk less than that of alpha.
I've gone down the rabbit hole with zshrc/bashrc customization, there are endless options and gists and pages and its a never ending rabbit hole.

In the end I realized a well configured toolkit is enough for 99.99% of people, and there are an endless number of those as well. I use zsh-quickstart-kit which is updated often and has good speed and amazing features. You get all the fish features AFAIK and more with no risk of scripts breaking and it was a 1min install.

For non devs who don't need to script I'd recommend fish and there are distros that default to it now.
As someone that has always wanted to try stock emacs, this kind of a breakdown is appreciated. I know the individual systems aren't all that complex but when you're new to almost all of them it gets overwhelming quickly.
Its also pretty challenging to publish research longer than 6 months when you only have 6 calendar months...
Is a college degree required for this kind of work? I’m a big fan of the USDS!
It depends on how do you define stability. Fedora packages are very stable in terms of bugs, but the problem of changes between versions might cause extra work. However, many run their services in containers anyway, and you can use the latest packages on your host.
Very interesting. I wonder whether it is capable of outcompeting Delta? And whether there will be original antigenic sin disadvantage conferred to those that took the Spike protein vaccines because the body will mount a defense against a Spike protein that is significantly mutated, causing longer and worse infections and snowballing numbers of mutations. The vaccine induced lack of defense diversity has always been a single point of failure that the virus was bound to take advantage of, but to see it potentially happening is worth watching.

This seems to be a potential worse case scenario, albeit a pretty predictable one. Fingers crossed.
I don't think that would work. Even if they open their IP. Who would like to put billions of money into fabs for a maybe 2-3 years of shortage? How to guarantee this would success? How to cover the cost after shortage?

There are plenty of crucial industries. Lots of them are in US, Europe, and Japan. Would they open their IP? No. The only way to break that situation is starting the war commercially or physically just like how US bullied Japan in 80s and China right now.