skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but some people value provenance...

Those people should stay away from NFTs, because theft is rampant[1].

> How is spending $1 000 000 on a "virtual image" (NFT) any different than spending it on a Picasso?

You own the Picasso but you don’t own the NFT image. Not in any way that matters. Your “ownership” of the virtual image via an NFT isn’t legally recognised and you have no rights to it. Especially not when the minter stole the image[1].

An NFT isn’t a virtual image, but a reference to it. Anyone else can download the same file for free and your purchase can be gone without recourse[2].

A more apt comparison would be spending $1,000,000 on a Picasso or a document that says you own the Moon.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vxe7/people-are-stealing-a...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nft...
The better solution is just to get rid of car and use trains and bikes more. Trains don't require FSD and yet they're incredibly safe.

FSD exists only because we built our entire society around cars.
Figure out what institutional racism is first before criticizing.
Literally the perfect place to start.
My congratulations on your commitment to carrying the joke forward.
I see no inherent issue with news agency cooperate with CIA or any other 3 letter agency, on projects for the good of the society and international community.

The issue, as you probably having in mind, is that media lost their independence in finance, political protection, etc. Those then gradually corrupted their spirit and mentality. To the point that they start to produce contents that are easily nidged and manipulated.

The first step of regaining media's strength is to rebuild a financial foundation for independent media. They should and must remain self-sufficient in support their own organization and employees.

I'll be mocked for this, but, it seems to me that only such tech right available is crypto and block chain. I see no other tech even remotely close.
The CIA employs linguists!?

All of the things you've listed sound pretty reasonable for basically any huge gov agency
100% on point.
Unfettered capitalism says that the corporation has no conscience and if it can clear responsibility for the death with an out of court settlement, then that's it done and there's no further business.

The obvious fix is some kind of government/regulatory involvement that introduces additional fines/costs for bad behaviour, whether specific to endangering the public or more broad. And of course, sometimes this is upfront standards stuff like we have for emissions, lighting, seatbelts, etc, whereas other times it's prosecuted as a negligence charge after that fact.
Generalizations are always wrong.

No, wait…
Sending money is something that almost everyone needs. Sending cryptocurrencies is something almost no one needs. And if you did need it, why wouldn't you just send it directly from your wallet, without the middleman? Isn't that the point of cryptocurrencies?
Its in the Java, C# family of languages, where you can do pretty powerful things without the complexity of the likes of C++ and (now Rust) with a very good performance.

And when you take the family Swift is in, (now also with Kotlin), i consider it the best language over its peers not only given the design, but the fact that being AOT compiled from the start it's of great value.

Having said that, i feel inclined to invert the question as, why i would not want to use and learn it?

In my experience at least, a lot of IT folks, just don't have the mental energy for the likes of C++ and Rust, but can peak at a language like Java which can already be complex enough.

For instance, i deal mostly with C++ all day, and i don't think i would choose it if i were to create an application with buttons, multi-media, etc.. Nor Rust(same problem as C++) or Go(poor design for that goal). Given there's a language like Swift which combines the design and speed/efficiency to create such a thing.

If i were to create a backend service for instance, i would take Go into consideration, and probably in that case it would be a better fit than Swift or Rust or C++..

So its about being the right tool for the job.
Pervasive computational special effects became widely available around the early 90s (Silicon Graphics, Pixar, ILM); maybe writers migrated towards movies around then, because they could tell visually compelling stories.

maybe (again, maybe) the expanding availability of high bandwidth cable access has shifted attention back to homes as theaters?
I think you're stretching the use of the term many people.
"unless it was done following a court order or something similar"

I thought, this is one of the main points we want to avoid here, so why are you phrasing it as something so unimportant?
Very few people buy gaming laptops to edit video on, but that's not a reason for them to perform poorly at the task. The most frustrating part about the M1-series is that it's gaming performance is limited by arbitrary software decisions.
It's hard to find good jobs unless you want to move to where faang hires. I did 50 interviews got about 40 offers, accepted 1. Wanted to accept only 3 of em after talks.
Based in Poland.
at this moment, if anyone pays google enough they will serve the result on top no matter what they serve. So if you want to survive malware, please enable an adblocker.

fun times with google and all !! /s
It's possible to train your mind to do this. It's not just musicians who find their inspiration in dreams.

Albert Einstein and Salvador Dali practiced naps while holding an object over a plate. When they dozed off and dropped the object, the clang would wake them and they could better remember their thoughts from the dream-like state moments before.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3023078/how-dali-einstein-and-ar...
If you are in a position where you can do that then great. Most folks out there are in a position where they need to run arbitrary applications delivered by vendors without an ability to modify them.

The second aspect is that this can get extremely expensive if your applications are written in a wide number of language frameworks. That's obviously different at Google where the number of languages can be restricted and standardized.

But even then, you could also link a TCP library into your app. Why don't you?
Chasing Memory Bugs through V8 and WebAssembly
> I was thinking someone was trying to make it through to the other side without leaving.

I feel like you're describing a "stay bag."
fortunately I can't "dial" anything on my smartphone. it doesn't have a "dial"

https://www.google.com/search?q=dial+phone

Serious, the cryptic statement could mean your message above should have called 911 instead of letting you enter the digits 9, 1, 1 into a message
The issue is that prosecutors works very closely with police.

We need separate state level prosecutors who solely go after crimes committed by the police.
My workplace switched to Teams as official chat app and I'm disheartened. It's user hostile and a resource hog.
In many languages the word narcotic is commonly used to mean any substances causing addiction.
Supporting ISO takes basically zero effort. By dropping support for it the developer is just wasting both users' and his own time. It would be far better to say "you can download an ISO but I don't recommend it, here's why a plain disk image is a better way".
That describes almost every american city.

Feeling like you're in a prison is entirely due to the street level design of the buildings, which to be fair, a lot of American cities are god awful at. The difference between walking by a 15 story building and a 100 story building is minuscule.
But you're not being a skeptic here, you're just gambling.

Skepticism considers the ways in which you assumptions could have plausible positive or negative outcomes.

I see the entirety of the DeFi "industry" being regulated to death considering how many of these protocols and DAOs behave exactly like securities or replicate existing legal structures; I see no reason that governments will not seek to regulate them the same way.

We can look at the claims of crypt enthusiasts as stores of value, which is coherent, for sure, but if we're willing to give it the benefit of doubt then we should consider other equally shaky technologies and tech scenes, which doesn't give me much hope by itself.

The place where crypto has, and will likely continue to show value, is in money laundering and tax and currency control evasion. There are all things that, while illegal, _definitely_ have value, so my lower bound here is the value of a digital instrument to bypass these controls, especially in countries in which such things are tightly regulated.

That's not an insignificant lower bound; it is at least as large as a big fraction of the remittance industry + shadow banking. It's just that it's really, really difficult to make an honest living in this industry.
> They're essentially private in everything but name and some slight discounts for in-state students.

I'm not sure >$20k/yr is a slight discount.
There's a ton of bleeding edge and novel work being done by Chinese companies and communities due to their insane scale requirements. I've been trying to learn the language to gain more insight and stay current with what they're doing.
Thank you, I will likely try this.
Matter could bring universal casting for TVs and video players
>like by staking ETH

What's the ROI on staking ETH right now? Is it anywhere near the rate that they claim?

>selling covered calls

you're taking on risk when doing that. It works well until you get assigned, in which case you take a massive loss and unable to pay back your investors.
I've actually gone through CS50x, but I felt that was only a base introduction compared to a regular old CS curriculum
I really hope this is Poe's law at work.
WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payments pilot in the US
Previously I had thought of Levenberg Marquardt as it's own little island, separate from the collection of line search and trust region algorithms. I guess maybe I should think of algorithms using regularized Hessians as a third category now. (Although I guess the quasi-Newton algorithms that maintain positive definiteness are regularized in a sense, so it's kind of a fuzzy categorization)

I'm curious if this square root trick performs better than a well written trust region algorithm.
The M1 is an impressive chip... for what it is. I bought an Air just to mess with it, while in the past I would not have touched Apple with a 10 foot pole. But, the whole framing around M1 being better than _everything_ in the x86 world was just weird and not true. Yes, perf/watt it was unbeatable, but the rest...if you just care about raw processing power, you'd still buy a desktop x86. I think Apple framed it this way and most media ran with it, but I don't see this a sue apple kind of deal.
Not a question but I switched to Dracula a few months ago and love it. I don't theme many applications but having neovim, bat, fzf, tig, kitty, starship and tmux all have the same palette makes for a much better experience.
I think the rural parts of china is driving those stats.
This is mostly because I have some friends very much into CSGO who also constantly make fun of NFTs, but my favorite thing about CSGO skins is that they are basically modern NFTs in every way except not being stored on a blockchain. Every skin has: The skin name, a random 0 - 1.0 damage value, and a skin offset (, optionally stattrak, attached stickers, etc). I'm not sure if the randomness guarantees uniqueness, but it's damn near close enough.

Not that distributed is even in the initialism of NFT, so I guess csgo skins are NFTs.
Long Covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake
This is what has always amazed me about the political party which are very much supposed to be for smaller government yet it whole heartedly supports the police in almost every instance. The police are a militia with almost complete power over life and death and very limited oversight. They can literally kill you for any reason and 9 times out of 10, that's it, case shut. We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong. I would think the party of less government control would be all for more police oversight and a reduction of police power. Instead they fly 'thin blue line' flags and campaign on 'back the blue'. I really don't get it. I don't state this to attack that political group, I just very much don't understand.
> shite

Yesterday is only good when you hear it in hindsight, knowing the commercial success that it had and under the influence of halo effect

Honestly every song of that Level is.

You have to put together a good album and it can make it to 100k copies sold .

Everything above 100K copies is more telling about the luck and the scope of the promotional campaign supporting it then it says about the album itself .

It’s a phenomenon you see in every field .

Gisele Bunchen is beautiful but not 400M dollar beautiful

Bill Gates is smart but not 170B smart

The Mona Lisa is a great painting I guess but not 1B dollar worth

Jesus was a pretty cool role model , but not a 3B devote follower type role model dictating that the world stops on his birthday

All the above phenomenons rely on a mix of luck, vitality and as well as people not thinking about potentially buying into something that could be overrated and ‘overpriced’ compared to cheaper options which is the definition of halo effect
What I will do with that is nothing because there is no way an intern did anything interesting enough to be worth mentioning in this thread.
The problem is that most local PDs would be considered organized crime in any other context (violent gangs and extortion rings within police departments have been well documented). Most don’t want the FBI involvement and are perfectly happy to extort the citizens of their cities for protection.
I don't see how this "productivity" you're talking about is relevant to my point. The page you link is talking about the large scale urban-rural balance, not analyzing the gradient in a given region.

Cities themselves are obviously centers of commerce and concentrations of wealth - but it's nonsensical to extrapolate this feature as applying to slightly denser suburbs. If someone lives in the suburbs and commutes into the city to work, then all their "productivity" happens in the city. And obviously the more workers you can fit into a given area, the more work gets done (cf factory housing).

Furthermore, cities are inherently more interconnected and thus the activities there are more legible to the system, whereas rural work is less so - eg a couple working full time plus and hiring maids/contractors/etc to take care of their home creates a lot more cashflow than a rural couple DIYing.
The best journaling app is anything that opens a markdown file. You can always build the workflow that suits you best.
The phrase is certainly apropos, but I am not sure Rumsfeld would disagree. I believe it's implied that the behaviour of the bad apples will not be tolerated.
Imagine if Ma Bell said they're no longer supporting your touch-tone phone because it's more than 3 years old, so 911 calls aren't guaranteed.

How did this ever become acceptable?
The lead paint generally has been painted over multiple times, so the surface would be modern paint with the lead underneath.
Devs watching QA test the product
Like a lot of people, I got myself quite wound up over the last few years following politics way more than I ever cared to in the past. It was a big enough problem that I tried to quit all my normal sources many times, but kept failing and it kept getting worse.

A few months ago I moved onto trying to find sources that felt less intense, less angry, and far less frequent than the fire hose sources I was stuck on, so I could get my fix without getting completely consumed by it. I had a hard time finding anything that stopped the urge to go back to my old sources until someone on HN mentioned Breaking Points. I've been subscribed for about a month now and I haven't had the urge to go back to the old places and, if I do peek back there, the click bait titles don't get me fired up. I even clearly see that the arguments people often make against those places are pretty fair and don't automatically mean the critic is "a racist" (I never really assumed that, but that's the meme and I'm guilty of making less extreme assumptions).
Why are Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (FQs) such as Cipro, Levaquin etc. even still on the market, from the many life long devastating side effects they cause many?

The FDA itself has said that this class of Antibiotics should be reserved until ALL other options have been exhausted. Yet doctors are giving this crap out like candy. Usually for things that they don't even work for such as UTIs see FDA July 26 2016:

"Limits use for acute bacterial sinusitis, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis and uncomplicated urinary tract infections." See link below.

Because for those items they don't work any better than a placebo, as the FDA itself documented in this 617 page report:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170113234645/http://www.fda.go...

On page 17 of that report they even give a name to the problem these antibiotics cause:

'"fluoroqunolone-associated disability" (FQAD)'.

I have gathers all of the FDA warnings, and a few from the EU that say don't use them at all, about FQs at my late wife's website:

https://www.kpaddock.com/fq

In large part she is my late wife because of Levaquin causing her systemic tendentious. After several years she killed herself to stop the pain from that and CSF Leaks. For that whole saga see the documentary Pain Warriors that is free to watch on Amazon Prime and TubiTV:

https://www.kpaddock.com/pw

For me because of all of that it comes down to don't trust Big Pharam and the Medical Establishment with your health. Study EVERYTHING and make an informed decision before taking anything a doctor offers you.

Ask them "Is my problem being caused by a pill deficiency?" and watch their stunned looks...

On a possible upside there is some work coming around on using Phages as a type of antibiotic. The founder of this company experienced her own antibiotic resistant infection. [Full disclosure I have communicated with her about the above FQ issues, I receive nothing from them.]

https://www.felixbt.com/new-page
"follow the best institutions and ~50 top individuals" wasn't meant as a suggestion actually, just an observation of what most people do.

You're right they "could work if designed to solve a specific real world problem" but against what baseline? The baseline could be spending that time on actual deep tech projects and not NLP meta-science
If the author of this believes what they wrote then I feel sorry for them, they're seeing the worst in a good situation and they're substantiating it with an opinion piece that's purported as scientific. Ironically the paper quoted in this article is a victim, or maybe a symptom of the citation issue it points out.

You don't need to be a genius to see the innovations of the last 5-20 years however they are so much more complex that they're harder to understand. It's a LOT harder to explain Amazon (the global teleportation of goods and services) then it is to explain electricity.
>Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer?

More than 2/3 of smokers say they want to quit [1]. What kind of freedom is it to be addicted to a deadly product, to want to stop using it but to be unable to do so?

At a certain point, legally preventing people from becoming addicted in the first place protects freedom more than allowing people to become addicted to something deadly.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cessation/smoking-cessation-fast-facts/index.html
Don't spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it
What's the point to asking the accused to join the project to report their own wrongdoings? Even the fully benevolent and conscientious people instinctly feel difficult to admit wrongdoings. This whole thing sounds like a shim.
European regulation of online disinformation may be a “game changer” in 2022
I wonder if minecraft's sticking to private servers as the first class multiplayer helped keep it relevant.
Pod Security Graduates to Beta
If anyone wants to work through SICP, but is having trouble getting MIT Scheme for their computer, or wants something closer to a Fisher-Price student IDE, :) there's an add-on for DrRacket:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/Installation.html
Oh you’re totally correct here, that is definitely a pay cut against inflation - fortunately not the case for me, just expressing this opinion, thanks for your kindness there.

I am indeed beating the dead horse here, but I guess what I’m trying to say is, I really wish there was an even cheaper model, because $35k/$40k seems to be right at that point of pushing the budget of a budget car into luxury territory, and not truly giving consumers what they want, a base model. Sorry if I’m not being clear, a bit hard to explain.

But that’s not Tesla’s problem, just an issue of the economics of the industry at this point. Hoping we see that significant drop in cost as battery tech evolves.
Gen Z programmer here. Can confirm that video content is by far the best way I learn new information and skills. I think having grown up with the modern internet has shaped my brain in a way that makes it so video feels more natural than it might for folks even 10 years older than me. It's definitely fascinating to look at the effects the internet is having on society over longer time periods.
> The CIA employs linguists!?

Not sure why this is a surprise? They're in the business of understanding information from all over the world, in all languages... and are undoubtedly interested in things like "this accent means this person came from this part of the country" too.
I'm not against smoking but I believe that it should not be illegal, but controlled.
The clearest non-scam answer I’ve found for ‘who the hell is funding these APYs’ is fiat denominated loans against BTC, ETH et al. People with long, appreciated crypto positions want to take profit/add leverage, so they borrow stable coin against crypto at substantial rates, collateralized by the crypto. As long as crypto goes up and to the right, borrower is in the green, can pay interest with some of the borrowed stablecoin (or in the underlying crypto asset) and has some nice stuff. This demand for fiat denominated borrowing can be seen in the differential rates offered to BTC/ETH/… depositors vs stablecoins. An order of magnitude difference in favor of the stablecoin is not unlikely.

The lender is basically long the underlying asset, which they could pay to hedge (likely impairing their 10-20% APY) or just hold, since crypto only goes up. The stablecoin depositor is ‘risk free’ in the sense that loans are secured against other crypto, but exposed to massive exchange rate risk. In a year 2BTC recovered from a default on 100k USD might be pittance or a windfall, but I wouldn’t take a strong position on which, at least not for 1200bps.

In general one wonders how many of these 10-20% APY crypto things are just mis-priced exchange rate risk/exposure. A hypothetical protocol/coin minting 10% if it’s overall volume per year would have no problem paying 10% nominal APY to holders. But, like investing in a bond issued in an foreign, inflating currency, one would expect the exchange rate to decline enough consume most of the nominal yield, leaving some real yield proportional to the other underlying risks. If the mechanism is sufficiently obscured, or lost in the frothy demand , borrowers might actually get outsized returns, for a while. If it’s not, they might be surprised when they try to take profit in fiat.

This is compounded by PoS systems where there are real rewards minted by holders to compensate for the costs of maintaining the network.
"Because this issue impacts emergency calling, both Google and Microsoft are heavily prioritizing the issue,"

I don't know your definition of playing it down.