skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily endorse the practice, but, that's not how I read it. It seems like "doing the minimum to not get fired" is what they're aiming for, which means not getting fired.
Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.
That 2nd sentence is incorrect. The blockchain is already the 3rd party attesting to the NFT's legitimacy. The purpose of the decentralized blockchain is to remove the need for 3rd party validation. Yes the NFT can be copied, and yes the digital asset that the NFT represents can be copied, BUT the NFT's record in the blockchain can NOT be copied. What is meant by "own" is that the owner's address is tied to the NFT in the blockchain record.
Where's the Interpreter? (CVE-2021-30853)
So you are part of a collective then - you have a small mining/compute farm in your home that contributes results to a much larger group?
Imagine if this guy wasn't a Canadian MP, and instead just some random person without reach or influence. Do you think this would still have gotten noticed solved as quickly as it did?

Stuff like this always reminds me about this story [0], that became only a story because the editor of a rather well known Norwegian newspaper ran into that problem himself.

There is no telling how many people before him ran into the same issue, and just went; "Well, I guess then I can't do anything about it" because they didn't have the ability to publish this issue in a renowned traditional news media, which actually gets it attention.

At best those other people might have described their experience somewhere, and probably got called conspiracy nuts for it.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031
New Zealand doesn't really have brick or concrete buildings (except high-rises). Lots of very old weatherboard. And you're right, the advice these days isn't "get under" something, it's "get next to something big or under the doorway".
Never use physical force unless the child is in danger. Instead simply take away a favourite toy and tell her she will get it back when her behaviour improves.
More free time? I mean is it understood that you're not working much during the day? Otherwise it sounds like you'd have to be "on" pretty much all the time.
I doubt it, but it's fun.

If you're lifting for strength a sedentary job helps. Lift heavy, eat heaps and rest plenty. You'll get very strong over a long period of time.

That is if your goals are purely lifting strength. The above method works for winning amateur lifting comps but leaves you with a bit of surplus fat and no cardio fitness.
Well, except that only works in the winter time.
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Really liked the first one. How is the second one? Sort of been avoiding it because of how much I liked the first, and not wanting to be disappointed.
A Toyota Camry is just about the most basic boring utilitarian working class car I can imagine in US culture. See all the other comments.
You're basically arguing that authoritarian governments are great at wielding their absolute power towards their policy objectives, which is not a particularly controversial statement.

To suggest this means that large bureaucracies are inherently good or efficient is very strange.
Our approach is to be free and sustainable by radically cutting down hosting costs. Most technical solutions are mentioned in the Github page. Apart from this honestly the product is well polished and easy to use. Check it out :-)
I don't know... I think the point is not caring about being fired because they only explain timelines for a short period of time. I assumed the end of that period was being caught! But maybe you're right!
I can't give you an example of anyone who's done it secretly, but, Jack Dorsey (and several others) have done it openly. Why did nobody argue they shouldn't be doing that because they owed their full effort to one or another of their companies, I wonder? Why is it only a bad thing if a lowly worker does it?
yes, and he got the boot for plagiarising and failed to attribute his conclusions. if he attributed them properly the snopes fake/true would be unaffected. And the Pelosi stuff they said it was gray - a tossup.
The fentanyl is validly attributed. Death of people who took overdoses of properly prescribed drugs are in fact far higher. people who intentionally died by powdered bootleg fentanyl are the focus of this conclusion.
Many fentanyl doses are now dispensed as patches which do not bootleg well (bulky to import and too expensive for bootleggers). The lion's share of fentanyl overdoses are due to incorrect dilution of powdered bootleg fentanyl where the mixing and granulation is badly done a few pure granules get into the does. 2 milligrams of fentanyl kills the average person and some fentanyl derivatives are 15 times as toxic. This is 0.13 milligrams. 1 Sugar cube = 2.3 grams = 2300 milligrams = 17,692 fatal doses. Can you imagine cutting a sugar cube into over 17,000 equal powdered parts = why these deaths are so common, as the criminals have zero chemical training and screw it up. For those who may be curious, mixing powdered drugs means you need to powder them to the same size and mix them with a neutral powder of the same density and electrostatic nature or you get density settling = fatal doses, or electro static separation = fatal doses.
Difficult materials are often made into a paste with a liquid non solvent(so they do not dissolve) at perhaps 500 times as much neutral powder. This paste is then well mixed by repeated subdivision and combination (like when you mix powdered green into white to get a very light green, the more you fold and divide the more even the light green gets). It is then vacuum dried and powdered as a 500:1 dilution, and can safely be pressed into small tablets of the right dose with precision. Usually a small added amount of a binder (gluing agent) is added to make hard pills that do not break in shipping
If you like that, you might like r/progressionfantasy. They really drill down on the hero’s journey genre.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1946).

A close runner up might be Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis (1989).
This article fails to mention the obvious reason for not taking profit: taxation.

Why would any company take a profit when it can invest in it’s own future success and defer taxation?

Anyone paying out a dividend is saying that the shareholder is a better capital allocator by the marginal tax rate.

Philosophically should companies be allowed to do this?

Analogous to similar loop holes where individuals use their own wealth to raise debt for cash and avoid showing paper gains to minimize tax.
There is also counter.dev - Free and Privacy friendly since more than a year now.
read it for the 3rd time this year and it was just as good if not better. wow!
Images of Organization by Garth Morgan.

I went in expecting a somewhat fluffy business book, but it is nothing of the sort. Every page is full of interesting anecdotes, analogies, and insights around not just corporate life, but life in general.

It was way more thorough and academic than I expected, very highly recommend it.
This struck me odd:

> There is virtually no jurisdiction in the United States where the building code would allow a seven-story building served by a single means of egress.

Why is this a bad thing? A "111-foot wooden high-rise" with a single fire exit seems like a death trap waiting to happen.
Really love this book too. Feel like some of the ideas outlined here could make a difference for the climate future. Hard to see them being politically palatable though.
Stand your ground anywhere anytime you feel like you need to shoot someone because you came into their hometown and threated to shoot them, and then you did.
So that your ground cricket flour looks more appetizing post climate change disaster.
This is like a chicken and an egg problem.

Google likely haven't designed their indexer to handle pages like this because not many people do it.

Many people don't do it, because Google won't index it properly.
For that setup, what is the up front investment in equipment?
Generally, the concept of trust in poor countries is corrupted by centralized institutions, mostly as a means to redirect wealth. Rule of law is meager but in my experience, land rights are one of the few that maintain (as long as someone with power does not want what you have. There are few with both power and stupid greed enough that this is a very rare occurrence).

Despite barely enforced laws, people are mostly good and largely follow rules. Human trafficking, armed robberies and kidnappings are a lot higher than in wealthier countries but it's still only a minority who succumb to that. It's mostly scams (including having a business but not paying employees) that a significant number participate in.

With property, those that have less respect each other and those that have much more also have gated compounds and private security (among which we can count having police on call). It sounds weird but in disputes, even absent an actual justice system, a verifiable paper trail or record still carries a great deal of weight.

Having suffered a lot from it, I think a lot about corruption. I've also read a fair few number of papers on the topic, from the sociological to the game theoretical.

Lack of accountability and lack of transparency are major enablers. Public blockchains are of interest because of their (pseudonymous) transparency and virtually tamper-proof nature. Not a solution but of interest. A fully transparent and neutral system or layer of payment of last resort, where the powerful cannot forge records, for use where trust is non-existent would be useful.
That puts the term 'just in time delivery' on a completely different footing :)

Congratulations!
> could be handled this way more cheaply than it is now

I don't see how that's possible. Right now, at its core a real-estate title is a row in a database managed by the local government (whether a row in sql, a row in excel, or a row in a physical document).

That system, with a centralized way to ensure it is unique etc, is strictly cheaper than any blockchain / NFT can be for storing that same row of data.

The reason real estate titles are expensive now is that there are significant legal burdens and human overhead on top of this database row.

NFTs can't be used like a real estate title unless we also add the same legal frameworks and human processes on top of them. The only bit the NFT actually replaces is that database row, not the expensive other stuff.

Now, you might claim "ah, but with NFTs you may be able to cut out some middle-men. If the token is legally binding, then you can transact directly and skip a lot of mess". But, of course, we could build that _already_ with the existing system by letting the owner of a row in the existing sql/excel/paper database digitally sign a statement saying "I transfer this ownership to X, this is legally binding". If we can get the law to recognize NFTs, then getting them to recognize this cheaper, far simpler, cryptographic operation would be both cheaper and easier.

... Or that's my take I guess. I'm curious to hear yours though!

Do you think an NFT-based real estate ownership system will be cheaper because we'll rebuild the system from scratch, and rebuilding the existing system without NFTs would be similarly cheap?

Or is there a fundamental reason NFTs are cheaper here than building the same thing on top of a centrally managed government-owned database?
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Very thoughtful and short read.
The core/back strength helps with sitting and posture, which can indirectly help.
For me the question is how to get comfortable with the mining software stack and the pooling services. I poked at it a bit earlier this year and, possibly just due to my own paranoia, I felt like I needed to take a shower afterwards. I don't know why, I just felt like there was no ground truth from which to build a framework of trust in the tooling and the services and I was suspicious of everything.
No, not a SPA.

There is a concept of a single file app (SFA). You can share an html file, and that is the application.

It can have inlined micro js/css frameworks, or hand-rolled everything. An SFA should be human readable though- viewing the page source is useful.

I think it’s a concept worth exploring.
I have been helping people of all ages, including many seniors, with their computers for the last 30 years. I finally hit a point now in my 40s where I just can't do it anymore lol. I love people, and I love helping people, but after you've written something down explain it three times and walk somebody through it five times, and they call you the next day asking how to do that thing you showed them because they can't remember any of it...

You're a better man than I! Also, raise your rates a bit. You are undervaluing yourself significantly. Even if you doubled your rates you Will still be in plenty of demand. And for those who simply can't afford it just give them a discount back to your old rates. I was charging 75 an hour for a long time and that was cheap in my area.
I make $3-5k a month from my golf betting algorithm website: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk

About half of the income is from algorithm profits and half from subscription fees. Feedback/questions appreciated!
> man’s search for meaning

Loved this book the first time I read it. Couldn’t finish it a second time. I think some of the darker parts were too much during an already difficult year.

Giving it as a gift to my nephew though.
Probably Reaper, by Will Wight. It’s not an insightful nonfiction book or a piece of high literature, but the whole Cradle series is very, very fun.
Not OP, but I read both of them too. The second is not as good as the first, got a little too weird (already a weird setup as you can assume from the first book). It's enjoyable but filled with a lot of tropes, compared to the first one which was quite original IMO.
I haven't seen any evidence of granted access to user-controlled private info, from this convo.
The Google home page is 500K
I run a string of free sudoku sites that have earned around $1000/month from advertising and donations since 2005:

https://fiendishsudoku.com
https://samurai-sudoku.com
https://sudokuprintables.org
https://sudokuhints.com
https://extremesudoku.info
https://sudukopuzzles.org
https://easysudoku.org
> Boxed ints have identity, whereas primitives do not; boxing is not able to fully paper over this gap.

I don't know why the glossed over small values of Integer's sharing identity (effectively behaving like values) when discussing the complexity of these things.

From 5.1.7. Boxing Conversion[0]: "If the value p being boxed is true, false, a byte, a char in the range \u0000 to \u007f, or an int or short number between -128 and 127, then let r1 and r2 be the results of any two boxing conversions of p. It is always the case that r1 == r2."

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-5.html...

I like this bit:

> These so-called primitive classes can combine the expressive power of classes with the runtime behavior of primitives. The slogan for Valhalla is:

Codes like a class, works like an int.

I can immediately get a sense of what I'm getting--very much like Go using a non-pointer receiver for a function.
> Why not add a factory reset button?

If you don't say dumb things in life out loud, you won't move forward. You'll just continue to think dumb things.

> I’m saying that we don’t know enough about the constraints to say there’s a better solution.

This is pride in ignorance. There's no reason why you can't. Light bulb engineers, rocket scientists and doctors are just human beings.

OK I'm curious.

Why was it like that? If you don't judge it how can you understand it? What framework should be used?

Don't be judgemental without being curious, I think is a better line.
Whaaaaaaaat? Where are you based? I've had that for every role in the EU/UK
This isn't how entrenched businesses generally operate though. All those other companies have been making tons of profit the whole time. It doesn't make sense to take massive risks on an unproven business when you are actively making billions in a relatively non-competitive market. The growth dollars are generally better spent figuring out how to maximimally exploit and maintain your monopoly.
RTFA!
Do you shut it down when on vacation? Or hire someone to babysit your machines when you're away?
The omicron variant: What we know so far about the symptoms
I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work.

Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range.

So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!
A lot in here to love. Non-perishable software that just works and people are happy to pay as a result.

However, you maybe missed the message wars I, II, and III starting back in ~1997.

As an Android user and software dev, realize the biggest motivation would be to reduce friction across "borders".

The 2nd bone of contentiin is having 8 excited to pay and 2 whom do not. This goes back to the common denominator.

You must eliminate friction and while noble ideals, Telegram, Signal and others have a heck of a headstart even outside of iMessage.

As an idea...make it decentralized and autonomous. Think this is happening in a couple web3 projects, but building aessage framework that could live for 100yrs without updates would be interesting.
"My instinct is to ridicule the entire concept of the smart home"

Your choice. I'm an IT consultant and I try to run my home IT to the same standards as at work.

I keep my IoT devices on a separate VLAN or two. I use Home Assistant as a mediator and I absolutely refuse the likes of Alexa. I'm pretty sure that my Kitchen telly is listening and it is surely loving Morecambe and Wise show's audio on an endless loop and quite quiet.
Thanks! Appreciate that. I may skip it then.
That highlight in the gif is indeed just some spinning cubes.

Either way, there definitely are some leaks and other artifacts -- many corners need to be cut for this to run in real-time.
Life is hard. Once you become an adult there is no mommy or daddy to hear your appeals. If you cause a lot of trouble for powerful people and organizations you will suffer. Truth us a luxury only ascetics can afford.
In aggregate, we were able to generate about $10K for few weeks of work in 2021 working on no-code projects (https://twitter.com/n0c0de1) ... most of it outsourced. Due to low-costs almost fully goes to bottomline.

Our aspiration is around SaaS for real estate brokers that I've dabbled with for many years. Stopped dev work due to boredom to "focus on the big picture". Kind of bleeding a bit since then but the products seem to be quite nice now.

Getting to the sales / marketing phase now and figuring it out (not our strong point ... painful stuff :) )
> There is no actual evidence China carrying out any genocide in Xinjiang. Implementing a two/three child policy does not constitute a genocide.

https://shahit.biz/eng/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
DMCA complaints against Google's own property are sure to get special review. They're not involved as just an index or host, you're directly accusing them of copyright infringement.
I use it ♥
I don’t disagree but not everyone lives in the US/UK/Germany tho…

I would say that in say Romania or Poland circa 2007 owning a new Camry would definitely make you an upper middle class, owning a Volvo or a BMW Series 5 would you make you quite rich…
As an auto tech, Tesla has fire walled their information from the usual distributors. A AllData Or Mitchell repair subscription cover every (popular) brand except Tesla. Their cost for a single mechanic is cheaper than Tesla's.
Hi everyone, this is an old project that is finally becoming public. Back when I was deep into experimenting with neural networks I created this game and put an neural network to play it (so it could learn how to shoot a target). The mechanics are very basic, no air resistance, the enemy is always on the same spot but, the neural network is fresh each game, it only learns while playing against you. On desktops arrows left and right rotate the cannon, up and down increase and decrease the strength of the bullet. Spacebar shoots.
On mobiles (better on landscape orientation) dragging your finger up or down controls both things, but if you're dragging of the left side of the screen it controls the strength, and on the right side, the angle. Taping on the screen shoots.

By the way, you are the gray one.

Hope you like it.
Nice! I just ordered two, one for my brother's first grandson (9mo) and one for my first grandchild on the way (-6mo).
> That was NFTs working fairly well long before the invention of blockchain or computers or cryptography.

Define fairly well. Title/deed recording is a very fractured system, with almost nearly every county maintaining its own recording system. The cost is astronomical to maintain from the recording offices, employees, to attorneys that complete a majority of the recorded documentation. Finally the “double spend” is in no way solved, title fraud and/or fraudulent deeds are a very real problem, that is rising as much as 30% year over year.

What exactly is an acceptable level of fraud to still constitute having solved the double spend problem in your mind?
Can you share the product? I'm curious.
I believe you. But, the point isn't "is there someone out there who can do it?" The point is "is this typical, and can I do it." And, the answer to the latter is clearly "no."
The Library at Mount Char came from a Reddit recommendation for weird/bizarre fiction, and it did not disappoint. It's about kids who were abducted by a very powerful person, and that's all I'll say about it. If you like house of leaves or some of the strange chuck palahniuk stuff, you'll like this.
You're describing PDF files, but unfortunately Adobe didn't invest much time or money into making them interactive with a scripting language.
I make about $600/month froma software platform that a single Nationwide cleaning service uses to track there quality control forms. Been operational for years.

And I do about $1200/month running a piece of software that handles early and late fee charges for a couple large Airbnb hosts. <-- this one I actually hate, but it started with another vision and this is the service that worked. And now it's like free money and I know the hosts would just replace If I took it away.
I read a couple of the series about 15 years back and found the writing style and characterizations so dated, that I really had trouble getting anything enjoyable or insightful out of it. I feel the same amount most Golden age SciFi, with Dune being a notable exception.
"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, a radical take on human deep history. Extremely thought-provoking so far, though I'm not finished yet (it's massive)
Aristotle's Poetics. Yes, it was published before 2021.

A lot of writers try to set their own rules, but according to the best, you need limitations to be creative. Just like you would play sports with rules. That rulebook is Poetics.

It's the kind of book that's so information dense that you have to read it slowly. Summaries are often as long as the book itself.

There's some aging in there. Notably the concept of hamartia has changed from "mistake" to "sin" over a few hundred years. Good stories were all tragedy back then, where a noble person makes a mistake. And the audience is fearful because if this superior person can make mistakes, what about me?

Since Christianity, the philosophy has been that everyone makes mistakes, but repenting for it saves you from tragedy. And more popular now is a reversal. Some tries to slay a monster, but the monster is too perfect. But eventually the monster suffers from hamartia (missing the mark, making human sins) and the hero exploits that to win.

Besides drama, the book also covers actual poetry and music, both of which have their own limitations, but that part was all Greek to me.