skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially none of the organizations you've mentioned care about desktop Linux. They may care about the kernel, and many of them do help fund aspects of kernel development. But desktops? It's not relevant to them, or their plans.
But weren't there other streaming services such as last.fm and pandora?
O'Brien: I'm afraid to touch anything. It's all cross-circuited and patched together - I can't make head nor tails of it.
Bashir: Sounds like one of your repair jobs.

Seriously though, it seems like every form of infrastructure we rely on is held together in such a fragile manner. I hate hate to think of the chaos should there be a major Internet and physical infra failure in close proximity, time-wise.
you were supposed to destroy the sith not join them
what effects of global warming do we see today, exactly?
Their main customers are in blue-collar industries (transport, utilities, etc.), so they are pretty unknown outside that world.
What's wrong with phytoestrogen? Despite the name it's not the same thing as estrogen found in humans and it doesn't always trigger the same response in your body. The research[1][2] seems overall mildly positive on the effects of soy and phytoestrogen on health. At worst it's a wash.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9888630/
>And no, I'm not trolling -- this is my sincere and deeply-held belief.

You have been too modest. Actually most of what you said can be relatively easily collaborated by experimentation.

Personally - I've been mostly on a read meat diet for the past decade.
This is neat! I’ll add it to my box of no/low-code tools.

I do feel like not letting the homepage itself shuffle its layout is a missed opportunity for showcasing the product.
> Axie, which is loosely based on the Pokemon franchise, rewards players with tokens for winning battles and completing quests.

So I looked for a gameplay video on YT, and it looks very much like a typical free-to-play mobile game. I'm guessing the difference is that you can exchange the in-game currency for actual money? Not sure why you'd need a blockchain if that's the case...

Also, are these games actually fun? Or are people playing just for the money?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344274
+1, I do pretty much all these things. Sunlight in the morning, and regularity of times has made a big difference.
I literally bought a license just now because you support Bulma
That does look pretty nice for this example. I think the problem with it is that introduces too much new syntax that you have to memorize. The beauty of a for loop is that you can do _anything_ with it. And it all works with the same syntax.

for item in array:
item.foo = bar

for item in array:
item.foo = item.foo * 2

for item in array:
my_bar_func(item.foo)

If you special case certain uses of a for loop and add language syntax around it, of course you can make code terser. But it's nice to rely on a small set of very generally useful syntax.
I’d prefer a model where more content enters the public domain rather than the copyright changing hands.

Declare somewhat-short, fixed terms (5 years?) for every bit of content. The first term is free and then subsequent terms increase in cost geometrically. The first renewal could be an almost insignificant amount…but just the fact that it’s something would mean most content that is unmonetized would enter the public domain after the initial free term. Successive terms would start to only make sense for the most profitable content.

Being able to balance a healthy public domain with the ability for content creators to put out content that costs a ton to produce seems like it should be the goal of the copyright system.
Gaming Cryptos That Will Explode in 2022
From a somewhat unemotional perspective I'd argue this disease comes with quite a silver lining - _especially_ for developing countries. Old and sick people will die - which releases social and financial burden. While adults and healthy folks up to an age of 50 will be mostly fine. Not being vaccinated just speeds up the process until reaching an endemic state. Also people in developing countries have less issues with obesity which is one of the major comorbidities in the first world. We (westerns) on the other hand seem to go nuts over small inconveniences ripping the social fibres apart.

The west focuses too much on those X people have died of covid imo. A death is a singular not a plural experience. X people dying means X people individually experiencing dying - we all die eventually - and we all have to cope with deaths of close ones. That's a fact of life. For one person dying - the process is not better or worse if more or less people are virtually dying chronologically close by or of a similar cause. X people dying is a political and economic quantity - and many people dying especially old and weak ones is not necessarily economically, politically and two weeks later socially a bad thing.

So, Africa and Asia will do pretty well compared to us.
As crazy as it seems, in Brazil, payment plans are accepted everywhere. You can literally buy gas , groceries, medicines or whatever on your credit card and they will split make those installments for you. Maybe this market exist outside of the US?
There's 20 search results on this page at this moment for ponzi. HN missed the boat hard on this and there's a lot of sour grapes.

Technical folks have left the marketing chavs alone and they've taken a concept and made it something that we hate. We hate it so much we can't see its potential.

If a bunch of people put their money into a constrained system and the price goes up that doesn't automatically make it a ponzi scheme.

Edit: 28 search results now
It is a bad sign for a company when they start to focus on selling you finance stuff instead of focusing on what they nominally do. I remember how hard Sears pushed their credit card, for example.
Anyone knows if this is applicable to Covid passes used in the European Union as well?
If I understand the current trajectory of society, it will come in the form of taxes on people who work more traditional jobs.
You do you, I have friends working in the ICU who see young people die daily. Having my groceries delivered instead of having to stroll through the shop really doesn't affect me.
> Although the code was provided, we took around 2 days to get this running since the code was written back in 2015. Some libraries are not currently supported forced us to make several changes on the code. The project was then running smoothly.

Why not use a VM with older libraries and tools ?
Sports don't employ a significant portion of the population. Gaming will definitely be "big" in the future but it can't be huge.
I remember here in Canada there were concerns about this sort of thing when rolling out our proof-of-vaccination system, but practically speaking, the number of people with both the technical understanding and inclination to do this is surely too small to have a meaningful impact on COVID spread.
> To write off this activity as a scam or criminal seems to be missing a bigger picture that we don't quite understand yet.

The linked article is literally about the meltdown of the game's unsustainable economy, so maybe the critics understood it better than you're suggesting.

The entire Axie Infinity economic model only worked with an ever-increasing number of new players entering the economy. As player growth slows, the model breaks down.

This is why people are comparing it to an MLM or other scheme that only works as long as you continue to find more and more people to pull into the system.

The money must come from somewhere. If old players are cashing out money put in by new players, the game is up as soon as the supply of new players dries up.
Folks, folks! Can we not downvote loops at least? All we want, I think, are useful tools. For goodness' sake, isn't it obvious that loops are a useful tool?

Not a compulsory tool, not a forbidden tool, not a foolish tool, not obviously the correct tool in all situations, possibly not something that needs to be mainstream in every work flow? Sure, all of those. But ... we're downvoting loops now?
I've found this tends to happen in my Rust code too, and even in my JavaScript lately (though sadly it has performance costs in JS). It's true that 90% of loops in practice are just for processing collections, and that can be better served in most languages by using a harder-to-mess-up construct that's designed for the purpose.

It really does almost feel like an extension of the goto trajectory, since loops themselves were one of the purpose-built constructs designed to cover specific, common uses of goto.

I wonder if we'll see a "control-flow considered harmful" one day (this is a joke... mostly)
Aside: I agree, but find phrases like 'poverty spec' a little distasteful.

'Low spec' is a pretty normal phrase that gets the point across.
In California, math classrooms in nice places may still have classroom sizes of 40 students, with classroom size penalties ending at middle school. To get down to 20 students per teacher districts across the state would have to basically double the number of math teachers.

This may be a necessary move but it's a steep political battle.
Putting all SQL into the database gets you two huge advantages: First, all relations and dependencies are visible for DDL changes, and what the code uses is easy to see without looking through the code. Second, a test database can use (near) live data with the new DDL and new code, making testing much better especially for non-development staff who can spot issues based on the data or UX.
I understand that politicians don’t necessarily look out for the best interest of their constituents over that of powerful lobbies, like big finance. But if it were legislatively possible, would there be any down sides to society as a whole to flipping the script? Meaning make banks the ones responsible for opening an account without doing due diligence? Make credit reporting companies the ones responsible for essential libeling someone for fraudulent credit report entries… I can’t think of any, banks would have to pay to do due diligence but most businesses should have to.
Sir, I like facts and you do facts correctly.
This is such a Hackernews take "I thought it was gambling and immoral, but now that it has made billions there might be a point".

It can still be gambling and/or a Ponzi schemes.

Adding obfuscation over methods to tap into greed and gambling euphoria does not technical innovation make. Cryptocurrency already attracts people who like to gamble and want to get rich quickly, so this is just docking onto a natural pipeline of marks to deploy their scheme.

I have nothing but disgust for these types of games, even without the block chain veneer.
No hate against the players and we know prohibition doesn't work so not calling for a ban, but at least I can contribute a small bit of social stigma against those that profit by hijacking their customers reward functions like this.
> HN is very dismissive on these topics.

In general, when ever crypto topics come up, the pro-crypto side tends to do a pretty terrible job of establishing that there are "some pretty incredible innovations occurring in crypto, gaming, and defi."

Perhaps you could list some and change our minds?

I just saw on Twitter how some one is minting NFTs using the art of a deceased artist and their family is scrambling to figure out how to stop it. There are a lot of shitty things happening in this space.
Omicron: Mutations prompt new coronavirus variant concern from WHO
If you post a comment that just says somebody said something dumb, you laughed and told them they should stick to $other-thing, and they didn't like it and have since moved, that's a putdown even if you didn't intend it that way. You've actually done this again with your reply: all it tells us is how much more you know than other people, how clueless other people are, and how you've had to spend your life educating them. That may all be true, but a comment like this doesn't teach us anything—it just makes the environment more acidic.

IMO the basic problem is that we all tend to read our own comments as informed by all the information that's in our own head. You have direct access to your knowledge and experience, so for you it's implicitly included in what you posted. No doubt that that makes your comment very rich and meaningful—but it's not the comment the rest of us get to read. We don't have access to any of that—all we have is the information that you explicitly include in your message. That makes for an enormous difference between how your comments appear to yourself vs. to readers.
It seems that actually nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread.
Highlights:

- Scientists have described the Omicron variant as the “most worrying we’ve seen”, with it found to contain a large number of mutations that may not only make it more transmissible, but may also help it to evade the body’s immune system. [...]

- The World Health Organization cautioned countries against hastily imposing travel restrictions linked to Omicron, saying they should take a “risk-based and scientific approach”. It would take several weeks to determine the variant’s transmissibility and the effectiveness of vaccines and therapeutics against it, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said, noting that 100 sequences of the variant have been reported so far. People should continue to wear masks whenever possible, avoid large gatherings, ventilate rooms and maintain hand hygiene, he added.

- South Africa condemned the decision of other countries to impose travel restrictions as ‘unjustified’. The health minister, Joe Phaahla, Phaahla said South Africa was acting with transparency, and that travel bans introduced by a number of countries against southern African nations are “completely against the norms and standards” of the WHO. Phaahla called on all South Africans over the age of 12 to come forward and receive the vaccine, which he said remained a “major bulwark” against infection and severe illness.

- South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa will discuss reimposing lockdown restrictions at a meeting on Sunday, as the country scrambles to assess the potential for Omicron to unleash a deadly fourth wave. As I’ve mentioned above, the government appealed for people to get jabbed as soon as possible - only around 35% of South Africans have been vaccinated.
I argue what you’re actually observing is the vanishing middle market. People still appreciate quality, but with the market bifurcating your only choices are cheap crap or expensive luxury. Quality at a reasonable cost is frequently just not an option.

I haven’t figured out the ‘why’ - dwindling middle class? Min-max consumer purchase patterns? Perhaps planned obsolescence is actually optimal on average? (e.g. home mechanics just don’t need Snap-On quality)
OP's idea is batshit, but worth noting that a doubling of the cattle population doesn't necessitate a doubling of emissions. Actually, your second link kinda goes into this. It's written by an animal agriculture advocate who recommends improving the efficiency of, rather than reducing, animal agriculture.
The opponents to Democrats are always going to find some baggage or other to complain about, even if they have to invent it. So they can't let the baggage by itself rule people out. Republicans would never vote for this candidate, regardless of their background.

It does mean that they need to find somebody who's universally tolerable among Democrats, which is a very tall order. In this case, they're not objecting to her background, but to her policies against large banks. They'll object to anybody with those policies, regardless of their baggage. So it comes down to a matter of negotiating who can be made acceptable to a party who has to act unanimously.

That is an immensely complicated intra-party matter of persuasion, negotiation, horse-trading, and occasionally bullying. Sometimes the administration will win; sometimes they'll lose. But they can't afford to write off everybody that Republicans think has "baggage", because Republicans will never vote for them and so there's nothing to negotiate with. They'll start instead with people the administration thinks are qualified, and do the hard work from there.
But why are fossil fuels currently so cheap? They have a bunch of situational advantages over renewables that will either go away (such as subsidies and plentiful easy-to-access reserves) or evened out over time as infrastructure and adoption of renewables catches up
Doesn't this simply follow from the mass-energy equivalence (the energy being that of interaction with the Higgs in this case)? Not to say that said equivalence is intuitively obvious, of course.
Elderly people, many of whom received their last dose >9 months ago, are definitely at some risk again despite being technically vaxxed. IMO boosters were not pushed hard enough for this population in the early fall. Now Thanksgiving is past and we only have a few weeks to administer boosters that would be effective in time for Christmas gatherings.
Totally agree. I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB ram daily. CPU is only a bottleneck when compiling, but with just browser and terminal I regularly break 4GB ram usage.
There are multiple cron jobs. One with a valid date that will read the invalid cron jobs’ commands and extract the payload from them.
> HN's top-voted comment...

...spawned a really interesting conversation on the PL design-tradeoffs of various special-purpose iteration/recursion schemes.

> J, a universally admired language developed by Iverson.

Even in hard-core PL communities that seems like a reach. Lots of PL courses exclude APL/J, which is a pretty strong empirical proof-point against universal (or even strong majority) admiration. Outside of PL enthusiast communities, array PLs sit somewhere between "niche" and "esoteric".

I think there is a lot to admire in APL, J, et al. They clearly had far-reaching influence. But there's also a reason that the dominant reaction is closer to "um... heh" than admiration. There's no need to over-state the case here.
> I only drink coffee before noon

For some folks that's not enough. I had to drop it entirely to recover my sleep fully.
Use of bacterial strains antagonistic to Escherichia coli for biocontrol
I haven't used Facebook in years, but when I did the ads were fantastic. The only platform were the ads seemed like a net positive for me.
1. Duckduckgo search engine, privacy

2. Noscript, ublock, privacybradger, vpn ad network

3. No Google, facebook for kids

4. Limited youtube

5. Privacy dns settings, dnsdec over tls

6. Encrypted backups

7. Password manager

8. Paranoid security auto updates
Surely you are supposed to tell the other person if you are changing the contract though? Not a lawyer, but it's hard for me to believe that tricking someone into signing the wrong thing is an effective legal strategy.
The Greek letter Xi is pronounced very differently than the pinyin Xi
I deleted facebook and twitter in January and it's been a measurable improvement in my quality of life. Before I did, I made a point of clicking every ad for a while to f-ck the algorithm. It took only about a day of that for every ad to be personal injury lawyers.
There's always gonna be room in the 8 billion people on earth for a variant to come around, just like this. We need a combination of fast vaccine updates for the elderly/etc, and also just increasing collective health to get some herd immunity.
Every time I hear about this I am reminded of this strategy game I once played in ~2008. It was a strategy game and it promised to pay you money if you were able to capture certain territory. I cannot for the life of me remember it's name though, anyone recall something like this?
I’ve been seeing a lot of ads recently for mobile games with cash or crypto payouts.
Project Entropia?

I guess it's Entropia Universe now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropia_Universe
Samsara's founders also previously started and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Pretty rare to have founded 2 unicorns in ~15 years.
DataScript 1.3.0
Investors also buy tokens because they think it will go up, not only people playing the game. Yes, people will lose if it goes down, but that's what it's like with everything. Some players will win, some players will lose, some investors will win, some investors will lose. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is how the world works. If people think the project has value then it will go up in value and if they don't then it won't. I don't understand why people make it so complicated and try to imply that there's anything wrong with this.
What is the source of the token rewards? Are the tokens pre-mined and then handed out based on games played on Axie’s servers?

Just trying to understand the innovation. Is it primarily that game rewards can be exchanged on chain, while the granting of the rewards is still centralized?
This is true and doesn't really matter, for the optics.
Seriously friend, I don’t want to take shots at you. You’re cool and I have precisely zero reasons to take shots at you. You’re (likely) good in my books - I only wrote about David Icke.

If you feel I took a shot at you, I apologize. That was not my intent, but I behaved like a brute. That was completely wrong and I’m sorry. I have no excuses only sorrow. :(

Edit - Sorry, I forgot to mention that I really dig your attitude. I was a dick and I’m sorry.
Because Microsoft's raison-d'être is to extract as much money as possible from computer users. No matter how much they try to not be evil, no matter how many overtures they make to developers, it won't change the fact that Microsoft is basically just a hostile entity out there to extract as much money as possible from the computing scene.
$4.99 for 1k or 5k at Trader Joe's.
IIRC Belgium and the Netherlands have already banned loot boxes for children as gambling.
From all of the experts I'm following, I'm hearing that it will take a couple of weeks to determine if this variant is able to evade vaccines or if it is more severe. What they do know now is that it has a lot of mutations and highly increased transmissibility. Sounds like governments and public health professionals should be on alert, but the average person should focus on getting vaxxed and wearing masks.
How do late fees work on this product in Brazil? Does this enable usury rates when late fees occur?

https://www.profgalloway.com/red-friday/
If you can earn referral fees for your referred people's referrals, then it starts to get into pyramid territory.
I'm old enough to remember terminal speeds slow enough that you could see “is an id” spelled out and then the cursor back up and the replacement text appear.
If you've ever wondered about the unusual arXiv.org website favicon:
The original logo was a skull with bones as reference to the piratey nature of distributing preprints without the publisher's consent. The smiley face was added later in order to make it less offensive. Due to the conversion to a non-transparent format, the backgrond was filled with the green color.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-the-arXiv-org-f...
It's a dynamic and complex system, not all metrics tracking the consequences of climate change will be evolving in perfect synchrony, and they will not change everywhere in the same way.

Also sea level does not rise equally all around the globe: "Sea level rise at specific locations may be more or less than the global average due to local factors such as land subsidence from natural processes and withdrawal of groundwater and fossil fuels, changes in regional ocean currents, and whether the land is still rebounding from the compressive weight of Ice Age glaciers." [1]

Looking at a single metric from a single place is quite shallow reasoning. Ask a Canadian if they are already seeing strong negative effects from warming and you will get the exact opposite reaction from you after what happened there over the last year.

[1]: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html