skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not advocating for 3D asset sharing through NFTs at all, I think this is where we misunderstand each other.

I’m not saying you have to map 1-to-1 to every item that Ubisoft has made either. I’m saying that if you want to build Ubi NFTs into your game, using completely different assets, you can. You could just do the 10 most popular assets, or the top 100.

You’re right that it doesn’t make sense to just build them into your game (considering the overwhelming power Ubi has given themselves over these NFTs in particular).

However if they are in the Tezos blockchain you CAN send matching NFTs for your game to every owner of UbiNFTs you care about - ie the top 100 most popular - in order to bootstrap a marketplace for your game. You can do this without asking anyone permission. All this information on who owns what NFT is public in the blockchain, and airdrops like this are common in the crypto world. You just duplicate them as a way to bootstrap your game for instance.

Again, data portability and ownership is the benefit here.

Although Ubisoft has given themselves enormous power over these NFTs (I assume partially to protect themselves legally since they cannot sell them to under 18s) they do not own or control the database where these NFTs are being held, and you can do a lot with that.
How does it work? DO I have to send some BTC to some address of the site? How do I transform my point to BTC?
I'm hardly an expert in GR, but it seems to me that gravitational waves is a trivial consequence of limited speed of gravity propagation. It takes 8 mins for Sun's gravity to reach Earth. If Sun suddenly moves left and right, in 8 mins we'll feel a pull to the left and then to the right, so in effect gravity will feel like a couple waves passing thru us. The exact geometry of those waves is complex, but that hardly matters for intuitive understanding. The exact geometry of water ripples is also very complex, after all.
This misses a fundamental point - the goal of this is not to fund infrastructure - it's to fund people who vote for people who vote for infrastructure. There is zero incentive to run on time and on-budget, and every incentive to milk more government cash, so that people in power can get election contributions, that stay in power.

If you also deny money to people who didn't vote for you, then all the better as well. See the union restrictions on EV money in this bill. Why help GM, when you can help GM and hurt Tesla, all in one!

Doesn't matter if it's (R) or (D), or union versus non-union. It's profit-seeking across the board.
Say what you want about Google and Microsoft but at-least they have taken some steps to back away from China's oppressive government.
No backend is entirely possible. The less tools you need, the less room for complexity, bugs, and slowness.

I've recently started an app with Vite+TypeScript and Supabase and it's exactly what I've been looking for:

- Fast development: I make a change to the webpage and it automatically reloads instantly (like 0.02sec). Starting the dev server or installing deps takes 1sec. The site itself is fast. IntelliJ inspection is fast. This might just because my site is still small, but given the insane speed I'm hoping it will hold up when I add more code

- Good integration with tools and linking: If the code is wrong the browser / console instantly shows a detailed stacktrace that actually makes sense. The Firefox dev server doesn't de-sync. So far I haven't had any issues looking into obfuscated JavaScript. Only issue is I haven't gotten IntelliJ debugging (in-browser debugging works fine though)

- Low boilerplate: I create a new table on the database, add a 4-line GET function on the frontend, add a 10-line view, and now I've added blog posts to my application. Authentication is absurdly easy, I can authenticate with Google/Facebook/Github in a single call. I don't have to write useless boilerplate. Supabase can even generate TypeScript types for database objects

I've worked on sites where reloading took a full minute (meteor); there were bugs in babel-js, bugs in the npm libraries we used, and every bug involved looking through obfuscated JS to find what code "actually" triggered an error; and every small schema change took so long as I literally had to code the database schema / ORM schema / migration / REST endpoint / fetching from the endpoint / updating from the client etc.

Those were all worst cases, but they basically made me flat-out give up and accomplish barely anything. They're what make me skeptical of 1000+libs and complex build systems in the first place. Sometimes all you need is a 100% static site and a few static ES-module dependencies, and that will take 0 seconds to compile and (provided you can actually find un-minified ES-module deps) you'll never get obfuscated JavaScript or linking errors.
That has its own problems. You create tension and stress across your entire workforce while the calls are going out and people are letting their friends know they've been fired and their friends are wondering if/when they are going to get a call too. That alone seems much worse than a brusque mass layoff call.

That doesn't even begin to address the fact that the company would have to put significantly more time and effort into coordinating, distributing, and executing the calls. Maybe that's okay if your company has unlimited money and you can afford to spend lots of it on niceties. I think it's less okay if the time of your middle management layers is important.

I say this as a person who has been told in a mass meeting that my job no longer exists. I was thinking "I need to find a new job" and absolutely not thinking "I wish I had been told 1 on 1."
Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file
I have an acquaintance that's been working on the team for this telescope for as long as I've known him ~10 years. He's had so many disappointments with the continued delays and issues. I hope for his sanity and his research this launch goes flawlessly.
from one of the referenced links [1], this is cool: https://isohedral.ca/other/Spirals/

[1] https://isohedral.ca/escher-like-spiral-tilings/
Tim Sweeney retweeted the article about this from The Verge:

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1468665277512658951
To the topic of this article, it is largely due to government that we aren't still putting lead in our gasoline, paint and water pipes; most of the issue now is in the deteriorating housing stock that our (free-market-driven) development pattern (money goes into sprawl, leaving older, decaying housing stock in the hands of people who can't afford remediation, ditto at a local tax base level) hasn't updated.
The best choice is what you are already familiar with. And it you aren't familiar with anything, any one of the popular frameworks will work.
Sure, they have seismographs, but they don't necessarily have full details on all the subsurface geology between you and the epicenter. Wave propagation can be complicated... depending on what's down there, the waves can intensified, dissipated, reflected...

If (e.g.) everyone in a small area reports strong shaking, while those in surrounding areas report less, that can indicate a need for further investigation as to whether the area that experienced strong shaking poses a specific risk.
Probably that can be a useful insight in some specific circumstances as you describe, but it falls flat as a generalization. Allow me a snark: maybe a group of venture capitalists (many of whom call themselves "angels") might not admit a mistake. But many groups (not as grandiose as the military, though) jolly well admit and own up non-trivial mistakes.

I participate in several open source projects over 13 years now. And as jancsika mentions in this thread, various times I've seen mature groups of contributors and maintainers admit, and articulate, really difficult mistakes in public. Granted, these are small groups ranging from six to twenty-ish. Still, it takes courage and wisdom to do it gracefully.
>World peace through world trade

And here I was under the impression that most everyone - everyone important enough at least - understood that Fukuyama was (very) wrong. Perhaps his definition of "world peace" is different.
Whose national security?
Protest against restrictions in Nuremberg, Germany
Gene editing used to create all-male or all-female litters of mice
> Why aren't contracts to build the projects tightly written to avoid cost ballooning?

Because no legitimate construction firm will take on a project where they are saddled with 100% liability for overruns.

Not without very generously padding their estimated costs, that is.

Which will make them lose the initial bid.

A fly-by-night operator may want to take that project, and when things go sour, they'll leave you with a half-built bridge, and an empty shell of a corporation that you won't squeeze a dollar out of.
Thirty years ago when you needed to install new computers in an office I remember it took us weeks to get the cable (Ethernet) installed because one contractor had to pull the cable and cut it at each workstation, another contractor had to come and put the connector on the cable and yet another had to come and plug the cable into the machine. Believe me we were tempted to sneak in one weekend and do the whole thing ourselves but were severely warned about the consequences. So what could have been done in a day by one or two guys took over a month because you couldn't even schedule the second service until the first was done. I imagine this kind of thing is everywhere when it comes to building real infrastructure.
This is how you are supposed to build software too.
Wow that really sucks. It's insane how heavily stacked equity comp is against the rank and file, even if a non-trivial amount of them come out the other end a millionaire.
Omicron Rally Stalls – U.K. Lockdown Fear
This could just be about the scope you attach to a group. If the composition of the group changes is it still the same group?

I feel most of the changes you mentioned saw a churn in the members of the groups themselves.

Also, the article mentions changes can happen but not without a schism, which I feel most of your examples demonstrate that a schism is happening.
Latest Chrome, macOS - your R3 intermediate cert expired "Wednesday, 29 September 2021"
i've used similarweb.com
IANAL, but I believe that there's already precedent to that effect. (Sorry, don't remember the particulars. Someone here will, though...)
You can probably snicker at most engineering in "X engineering".
I’m perplexed about “ whoredom.groups.ycombinator.com” ? From grandparents link
What did that circuit board do?
Exactly.

Not only use of cmdlet aliases make shorter syntax but also:

- Shortening parameter names to unique prefix

- Use of parameter aliases

- Use of automatic pipeline property binder

In my experience achieving the same or shorter one-liners for the same task as with bash is typical.
> Does human reporting add resolution or other information to their data?

Yes, a lot. They only have so many seismographs. They ask a bunch of survey questions that get them a pretty good qualitative score of the experience in your exact location, and when merged together gives them a much better picture of how the waves propagated.

Also they ask you questions about damage, which they can't get from anywhere else.
Meanwhile we're developing hypersonic cruise missiles & katana munitions... Sure they cost a lot & require a much bigger footprint to operate & deploy from. This is asymmetric. For sure.

But it's also not radically far apart. Some established self-destructing drone-weapons are already visually & historically recognizable/categorized as a legitemate & established weapon of state-sponsored violence. While emerging low-cost drone-weapons used by advanced persistent threats are not granted the same classification/view.
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>Most people would rather be able to afford food, clothes, a home, electronic, entertainment, etc, than they would the ability to be critical.

The Chinese 'middle class' standard of medical care ( on average, a lot cheaper but it's also a very basic level of care), financial security, air / water / consumer good safety, access to meaningful education, and freedom of worship / speech / congregation of all types is well under what is typical for a middle class citizen in a western democracy, even including the united states. At around $20,000 USD per year (approx boundary of China's upper middle class) you're in the same general territory as Russia.
I would expect them to do this in the future. The incentives to make these NFTs more and more valuable is there, since Ubi can take royalties from all the preceding sales of the NFTs in the secondary market.

If they eventually reach 10.000$ per NFT since it grants you X and Y on 3/4/5 games, Ubi will make 1000$ a sale. That’s 20x retail games at 50$. For one sale. Imagine there’s 100 of these 10k NFTs, that’s 100k on royalties alone.

There’s a reason Axie Infinity an NFT game has 3.6$ billion traded in their marketplace.
I think in the case of US infrastructure spend it’s more like “we have the best system in the world, except for all the others”.
Apple is big enough and rich enough that they don't need Chinese manufacturing. It is a nicety, and probably cheaper, but they could have probably picked about any country to do it and set up shop. As pointed out, Samsung does all their mfg in Korea and Vietnam. Oneplus setup shop in India for some devices...and Apple is much more powerful than BBK.
>I'm very skeptical that China is the only place Apple can make their products

I'm skeptical as well since Foxconn also open a factory in India for Apple.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Foxconn-set-to-m...
I’m not sure how you came to your conclusion but it doesn’t seem justified by the info in this bug.

It reflects Web Push being done in WebKit by Apple engineers (who use and pay attention to bugs.webkit.org). Apple doesn’t usually comment on when/if WebKit features will ship in Safari but Apple engineers don’t generally do stuff like this just for kicks.
If you want a reliable system it’s very important. Those concepts very much relate to Isolation and Consistency in ACID. Just take a look at different levels at https://jepsen.io/consistency

There are certainly fields with lower correctness requirements where inconsistent data is not such a big deal though.
Maybe as a possible help/hint. There are theories that you get sunburned more if you wear glasses. Something with a part of the region that does some kind of hormonal regulation.
I’d generally recommend not blocking mobile users. I’m not installing an app just to see if I like the idea. An “it’s even better…” pitch after using it would let me know if it’s worth the trouble.
Worker rights in the USA had been a big issue before WWI and the Russian Revolution.

The USSR was bad because they were neither socialist or communist but an oligarchy bent on maintaining power at all cost -- just like China is today. The people at the top are the aristocrats in revolutionary France.
There's nothing at all wrong with this unless it involves transfer or IP, know-how and of course the bits about privacy invasion.

Every country should be concerned that the money flying out to megacorps does not result in long term value for the country.
For low risk groups I think it's preferable to let your immune system have a go at it. Training it on only a portion of the spike with an alpha based vax will get you into the endless booster game. Especially if you have things like ivermectin and vitamins at your disposal.
OpenStreetMap has a page[1] on this. TLDR: Private individuals surveying is illegal in China, which seems to outlaw the entire OSM project and any participation or contribution. I am not a lawyer or expert on Chinese law so who knows.

1: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/China
because when I am in a shell I don't want to spend days typing out and tabbing forever trying to write some quick one liner command I'll never look at again. I just want a bunch of quick and easy to compose functions to just do what I want, and then move on. I don't need it to be readable, just quick and functional which bash is.

for scripting I'd personally use neither.
As for breakthroughs a common problem with analyzing vaccinated with unvaccinated is that among the unvaccinated there will be disproportionally higher percentage of naturally immune (recovered), who are if not equal, better protected from reinfection than naive vaccinees.
Right, just bought a new TV and it came with an energy efficiency rating of F. Now it makes sense.
AFAIK Lagrange points are not fully stable, so any debris cloud will likely disperse into the Solar orbit, which is kinda big.
My issue is the booster (3rd shot and now 4th) shaming going on. As someone who is vaccinated I am still disturbed by the sanctimonious tone of shaming citizens who whatever reason don't do it. We have enough compelling evidence out there for the benefits of all vaccinations. Once we go down the route of shaming whole groups of vaccine hesitants it becomes an irreparable burden to society and manifests itself in manners beyond just health outcomes. Positive messaging works better than negative messaging in the long run. The Catholic Church eventually yielded to Galileo. But they did firebomb evangelical Cotton Mather's house in Boston who advocated vaccinations.
What do you mean no moral equivalency? Are you suggesting one is obviously superior than the other? Judging the behaviors in the 21st century, I think China is morally superior to US? Based on the wars invoked by IS, and the poverty elimination done by China. Obviously China improved Chinese citizens living standard dramatically, while US are doing the opposite across the world.
How fondly people remember a company that totally installed tracking software into browser add-ons.
barbed wire and re-education don't count!
also given that they add an "edited" flag; a deletion is a substantial edit.

also I would like to have a flag for silent messages,
Your question (not me though, but) was:

> why is a mandate that the majority wants equivalent to tyranny?

I doubt the dead people (the vast majority being 60+) are the ones mandating it.

It's the same people who think it's imperative that we vaccinate children when a) children are barely affected by the virus b) the vaccine doesn't do much for the transmission rate anyways.

And if that's a majority then the majority is simply misinformed (or stupid).
PowerShell Core runs everywhere and installing it even on Linux servers now is an easy install away. Sure, no Linux distribution is likely to include it in the base install, but that doesn't necessarily make it niche. "Power user" tools are rarely in the base install and sysadmins have all sorts of install scripts or preferred images beyond just base distributions and few argue many of those "must install" applications were "niche" just because they needed to be installed when setting up a new server.
>https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-...

>What do you think of the projects currently underway to develop OS kernels in languages like Rust (touted for having built-in safeties that C does not)?

>That's not a new phenomenon at all. We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

>I'm not convinced about Rust for an OS kernel (there's a lot more to system programming than the kernel, though), but at the same time there is no question that C has a lot of limitations.

And I asked him once I think in a private email a few years back and he manage to gave me a long detailed reply that was like an essay ( Still very very grateful for his time ). May be he doesn't hate Ada as he did to C++, but it certainly feels he doesn't like it.

I would be interested to see his opinion on Zig, which I think really fits his liking. But may be after 1.0, which is still some way off.
One thing the article misses is that construction worker productivity has been on the downtrend for decades

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_...
They would, if our democracy worked better. People care deeply about where municipal tax money is going.

Unfortunately, most of the time, municipal governments are entirely controlled by an unholy alliance between local real estate moguls, and the town's chamber of commerce, so 'what their constituents want' is rarely a priority for them.
I might suggest Naval misunderstands what it means to manage something (which is funny because he's known for being wildly successful at having done so). It's not solving problems, it's extracting value from them. The board he was on congratulated itself because it had managed, e.g. to continue to extract value from whatever cause or dynamic it ostensibly exists to contribute money into. It has no interest in solving problems, as then what would it exist to manage?

This is very close to the cynicism of those who accuse for-profit enterprise as only doing things for money with no care for the people their decisions effect, with the slight modification that it's not so much the money managerialists do it for as the power of continuing to do it, money is just one effect of sustaining a dynamic.

Imo, Naval's generalization succumbs to exceptions because it misses the above point of what these groups and boards are formed to do.
I did that in my comment by rephrasing slingnow. That I think was the productive bit of their comment. I think the unproductive bit was that dawnerd just wanted to vent and was not asking for feedback, so giving them feedback... is unproductive :)

But then, if you are posting something in a forum where people can comment on what you wrote, are you really not asking for feedback?
Hardware-based sleep()? :)
Spack is pretty damn good for scientific stuff
Since he's being forced to sign an agreement, the state of Texas is forcing him to hold a particular political position in order to work and get paid by the City of Houston.

His political opinion (and you can agree or disagree with it) is to boycott Israeli institutions as part of an international Boycott Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because he disapproves of the treatment of Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories. You can read about how Palestinians are treated in a recent Human Rights Watch report (just google, "Human Rights Watch Israel apartheid") and decide for yourself.

This seems to violate the First Amendment rights to free speech and this is what the lower courts have held. So while the right to "free speech" is not absolute (one can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater), you are free to hold (and talk about) any political views. And a state (or federal) entity cannot punish you for your thoughts and speech (outside of work, of course).

The reason this is important is that boycotts (and talking about and organizing them) have been a powerful tool for non-violent political action and have been used throughout the world since their origin in 1880's Ireland.

But why is this important now? If a state or federal agency can require employees to hold certain political views, they can create all sorts of requirements (via laws) for not only employment, but other benefits and or services they provide. Hope this helps.
Some logic to exclude duplicate results would be useful. I often search to see how many external users there are of some API in postgres. But there's hundreds of separate repos with similar contents showing up in the search results...
Given that this will be at a distance of more than a million miles from earth, I would assume that missions to repair the telescope are likely not an option. So how long is jwst expected to live? Is it extremely unlikely to collide with any objects at such a distance from earth?
"Alexa" seems to have fallen of a cliff since Amazon's device, though. If this site is accurate:
https://nameberry.com/babyname/Alexa

"Alexandra" seems way more common than "Alexa".
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