skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans today enjoy higher standards of living, increased access to food, water, medication, and shelter than any other time period in human history.

There can high levels of inequality, yet this can still be true.
> They made it clear that all you got was a token that limited in supply to one per olive garden and had a picture of said olive garden with a dynamically generated background.

That is not what the opening tagline of "Own an Olive Garden on the blockchain!" conveys.

I'm not a lawyer (and I'm guessing you aren't one either, but willing to be pleasantly surprised), but I find it hard to believe that they can argue that "Own an Olive Garden" for x.xx ETH without any mention of the word "picture" or "image" reasonably conveys an intention to sell a picture or image.
This NFT was created partly as a satirical critique of the valuelessness of NFTs. I think people in the NFT scene find it funny to drive up the value of that critique and make it a financially valuable asset. There's no justification of actual real world utility, just a continuation of the joke by a small online community.
I'm a SWE turned diy biologist and among the services I offer is bioprospecting for biotech startups. My most recent client hired me to gather soil samples from different biomes and running assays from my home lab to determine if there are any enzyme-producing organisms of interest.
Humans are fundamentally untrustworthy. The solution is less trust and more verify (mathematics).
High tier are not accessible everywhere. I do this, work 3 jobs in paralel and it is very lucrative for my location. I do not see a path I could make as much doing what I do, without relocating. Only way I could beat it is going the SAAS way or doing my own startup. Being a local early employee would not cut it.

My employers have so far been very happy with my work, although I am aware I could have performed much better and have done very stupid mistakes because I was moving too fast.
> 1) If they seriously don't like it, they can change it (Gab, Paler, Truth Social).

No they can't. Remember how all the major companies coordinated to shut down conservative sites they scapegoated for the Trump riot (which was actually organized mostly on Facebook)?
> In my experience, it's pretty rare

How could you possibly know this? Basically the entire blockchain ecosystem is set up to prevent distinguishing whether wash trading is prevalent or not.

Edit: And even if you can establish that there's multiple people involved, they still might be colluding among themselves to create the illusion of demand.
> It's like if the confederates lost the war, but simply kept Florida or if Nazi Germany lost, but kept Austria.

Kind of a good analogy, but the wrong way around. China vs Taiwan is more like if the confederates won the civil war, but the Union kept Florida; or if Nazi Germany won WW2, but the Allies hung on in Austria.

The communists never were the good guys.
This sounds like what I did in high school and college, where I did pretty well for grades etc. By grad school I was doing funner things, and then the first 15 or so years of working, I worked pretty hard and was productive. Since then I don't think I can measure what I do in terms of productivity; I'm a manager (every day) and strategist (on good days) and if I have a good idea, it's rare and unpredictable.

So I would ask, are you providing value in some other way? In school I got a lot of informal extra credit, or at least good will, by participating in class a lot even when I hadn't done reading or homework. I'm sure that alone caused teachers to bump me up a half-grade or better. And then after 30 years of working I still do kind of the same thing by being useful at meetings and in figuring out what work can and should be done, defending and supporting my colleagues and staff, and otherwise being a good influence around the office. What I'm saying is you might have other skills you're not recognizing.
Here's a free idea I couldn't find on opensea yet: Make the entire set of Monopoly streets and properties.
How do you exclude bot traffic?
I would think that you could use a hybrid approach where you have a table that is perhaps 9 or 10 bits wide and covers many of the more common codes, which will by definition be more common. Should be small enough to fit in the cache. Then do something slower for the very long codes. This way you avoid difficult branches most of the time.
JCS 1 and 2 were both phenomenal, JC1 especially was ahead of its time.

Interesting you can still get both on the app store
Of course it was the worst thing they did. Everybody knows it.

The more pertinent question for me is: was it really that impossible to restore the API access while he was officially the CEO? Are there concerns of stock prices falling? Can he be booted because he adopts "a defeatist attitude" or whatever?

I'd really like to know why he is saying it now but this curiosity will likely remain unsatisfied. :(
This ~always happens.
May be? I had assumed that was a certainty.
The Bay Area isn’t a frequent earthquake zone though
Maybe some could, but you need to be _there_. So you create different kinds of opportunities where you are.
The blockchain is not a computer. Computers are computers, and since it's trustless every node has to recompute everything.

With enough spin you can make everything sound revolutionary. Smart contracts are effectively like stored procedures, just ridiculously wasteful.
I thought it was the middle class being anti working class myself. It conjures images of Guardian readers at a dinner party saying things like "Oh, aren't we British just so awful!" when someone brings up British tourists in Magaluf or something.

You'd never hear that from anyone not absolutely riddled with a kind of middle classness that looks like self-loathing but is really loathing anyone who likes being British. Rinse and repeat with deriding "whiteness", or whatever else is in fashion.
anemic growth

Twitter may primarily be a text-based medium and for that reason it appeals to people who are more textually and informationally oriented. This idea isn't original to me: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptote..., https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/17/the-audio-revolution/.

Maybe there's much more growth in it: or maybe that's the nature of the company and product.
You should be able to do the same technique, but in a PNG-compatible format.
What's interesting there is that internally, all of them use Samsung, made in Korea batteries.

They just assemble the case and circuitry in China.
But if the policy fails, then what is the complaint?
Bootstrapping a legible system that fully agrees with the current system will be a nightmare. I just didn’t want anyone to come away thinking the current system works well, because it really, really doesn’t.
I make a Safari ad blocker app for iOS and macOS - Magic Lasso Adblock - https://www.magiclasso.co/

It's free to use and download with an optional Pro subscription that includes additional features and makes > $500/month.

Key things that have helped the revenue in 2021:

- Released a major new version 3.0 which blocks all YouTube ads and has kicked along sales and improved the conversion rate considerably

- Apple's small business program began this year that only takes a 15% cut instead of 30%

- After a long time developing and updating the app, it now includes most features requested by users, so it's achieved a 4+ star rating on the App Stores

- Downloads were originally weighted heavily towards the macOS version but it is now getting more usage on iOS which is growing the overall sales volume
> It’s weird to me they approve futures based ETFs ...

When your friends want to buy in low, you let big money short the hell out it.
“… it has the more ambitious agenda to heal the rift between primitives and objects.”

I have been waiting for these fixes to the language since I was first introduced to Rust which got the type system “correct” where Java had left a lot to be desired.

The big thing that Java will get beyond generics and such being cleaned up for all types, is true Optional types. That is, a stack based Optional that is itself not null, but tracks something that might be null in the interior.

It will take a long time to update the ecosystem to correct this, but when it comes it will make Java a much “safer” language to develop in, that is a class of runtime errors can be avoided and caught at compile time. This will be great, and I look forward to the day when it comes.
Participation in discords and NFT trading telegrams. You can see what people buy and that often the hot potato ladder involves multiple verifiably distinct persons.
Even if I 100% believe your example, an example alone doesn't prove the point you're trying to make.
This belief is fundamentally incompatible with the rule of law and human institutions being the final arbiter. Unless those who make and enforce the laws cede authority to the blockchain, the blockchain (and the mathematics that runs on top of it) won’t be the authority.
Here is some higher quality material. It could just be that the spinning cubes are throwing some odd shadows.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KoLm8ajfo8
> I wish I was a more unethical person. I feel like I could do really well in this space

Chasing money for ... ? The answer to that question doesn't usually lead anywhere good.

Stay ethical, if you are you're killing it.
Bankruptcy sales can be profitable too using www.inforuptcy.com
Full Archive of CERN Courier (high-energy physics) 1959-Present
As long as we're all not lawyers here - I would mention that the site is quite obviously satirical in a number of ways and publishing a document that is generally satirical makes the argument easier for any individual components.

That all said most of the parody is directed at NFTs and the Olive Garden seems to be picked as an example mostly arbitrarily. The OG might be able to argue that the site isn't deserving of any parody fair use exemptions for the OG specifically.
Not helping. The website says:

> For too long, ownership of Olive Garden franchises has been dominated by the capricious whims of the fiat system. That’s why we’re enabling anyone to trustlessly mint a nonfungible token representing 1 of 880 real Olive Garden franchises in the United States.

Again, they are falsely promising "ownership of a franchise" and "representation of a franchise" right there in the website. Nowhere does it say that the actual ownership will be of an image.

I suppose a skilled lawyer could make the case that they are obviously joking because all NFTs are worthless images, but that would be a bit of an uphill battle in my opinion given the deceptive wording here.
How does it compare to conda/mamba + env.yaml?
It was basically a bunch of rich merchants trying out a new financial instrument for a couple weeks. It's just got one hell of a legend around it.
> Doesn't VW own Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche?

Yup. And BMW owns Rolls Royce.

> I think Mercedes has a pretty solid market in Arabia too.

I'd imagine it's their Maybach sub-brand's biggest market not only in percentage of total local car sales, but in absolute numbers. (Hm... Unless the latter is China.)
I recently found pirateship and it is indeed significantly cheaper than retail shipping prices. I told my mom about it and she refused to believe it isn't a scam!
Agree. The difference in my belief structure is that those that make the laws cannot cede authority to math. The mathematics already overrides their authority. They are beholden to the laws of physics and mathematics, we all are. They cannot be overridden.
Toyota giving off an "upper middle class aura"? Like, the ubiquitous/reliable Toyota Corolla?

Not something I've ever associated with the brand. Are you referring to Lexus? (made by Toyota).
> Stripe is still private company: the SDE1 "my stock > FAANG" folks shouldn't consider that yet until they're fully vested.

Fully vested and liquid and have taken the tax hit one often gets in IPO situations (if applicable).
So this works like modern art? Is this a fancy new form of money laundering guys?
Sounds like the pessimistic people really do have something to be negative about.
Honestly at this point, I don't really care. I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but breaking up FB as a matter of principle may be a better idea than letting them slowly take over every tech sector.

I need to study more history to understand the tradeoffs, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

The main problem is that it didn't seem to have much effect. Fast forward one generation, and AT&T is still pretty much a monopoly in most areas. It would be fascinating to know what long-term impact it actually had.

Breaking up a large company may benefit the company itself, too. Chaos is opportunity -- this is practically the thesis of startups -- and nothing would be more chaotic than to suddenly split Facebook's power into subunits, each with their own independent leaders and their own agendas.

The social network would be the most powerful subunit, sure. But it wouldn't be able to pool its profit with all of the others, which has a very real impact on the power it can wield. For example, imagine if Facebook wasn't able to acquire Instagram at all. What sort of empire would Instagram have built? We can't know. But if Facebook can't buy competitors, it unlocks more options for knocking down the castle.

Honestly, my main problem is that I'm having trouble coming to terms with why I want to see Facebook demolished. I don't want to turn into a hater. I guess my most powerful data point is that they ruined Oculus, a fact I'm still saddened by, and now they're trying to appropriate whatever the Metaverse will turn out to be.

One could argue that some company will do that, so it may as well be Facebook. But that logic doesn't work too well for a company that controls so much already.
There’s an assumption that Toyota being a Japanese company will make decisions in a holistic manner that is not driven by corporate greed.
Even if we take it as read that that's hypocritical (and plenty of Conservatives are not in favor of free markets) where are the Liberals railing against the new public square being owned by unaccountable private entities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

Neither of these cases are slam-dunks, but I'm a bit tired of people saying that the fact a website's private property necessarily means the owners have absolute control as if there were no possible objection to that stance.
Just say to have it 30 mins later or whatever, problem solved. Come up with some excuse, or don't say anything at all. And then have the meeting and be as effective as possible during it. Cut bullshit meetings to a minimum. If you have more than 6 people in the meeting and you're not essential, don't attend. If you have meetings longer than 1h, try to go through the points as effectively as possible and underscore the conclusion dor each point until you get a resolution (important, so you don't get invited to _another_ meeting)
What your income is at tax time and how much you were compensated are not the same
Yes. I don't understand the need to create an NFT. What problem does this resolve.
I think WSL1 sound like it's better than cygwin because it's native and made by MS. I also preferred babun and cmder for occasional scripting/dev needs (the Windows machine is only for entertainment to me), but WSL has an upper hand for easier integration with VSCode, Docker and other tools
I think it is important to delineate treatment from prevention. I would agree that prevention may be undervalued relative to treatment.

My understanding is that dietary effects on treatment have small effects on the margin. They might bump your survival a few percent, but are not going to reverse your stage 4 cancer.

Dietary research is probably good ROI, but is unlikely to yield groundbreaking treatments or silver bullets, like you mentioned in the OP.
having empathy does not exclude that you can't also still think the users are not smart. you're empathy can come from them being total ID10T users.
Yeah, even matching one developer job is hard... you definitely get better at it and closer as you go, but that's alot of opportunity cost in the process, if you can even survive that long on peanuts
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Yep, and if you negotiate hard and come in near the top of your salary band, they will use that against you at raise time so you only get like 3% or something. Granted, that may be equivalent to just taking your first year raise up front before you start, which is better than waiting a year for it, but that's what happens.
Isn't approximately half of the Facebook workforce doing manual content moderation already? I was under the impression that it's an enormous time suck and morale killer that lets a ton of awful stuff through, hence the desire for automated solutions.
I know everyone is pointing out that's not what it says but there is a solution hiding in plain sight. Give us the moderation tools that Facebook/Twitter etc have.

For example, Twitter routinely announces things like "we cleared out 50,000 fake accounts". Why can't I see the little score that an account has telling me if it's likely to be a bot, or a troll? Twitter has this info, why can't I?

Why can't I filter out all people who appear to be X, Y, or Z? It could be anything that the social network's moderators can see. Why can't I have proper search? Why can't I order my feed according to how I wish it to be? I bet moderators can get this kind of thing when they're looking at posts.

The answer to all of these things in the media is usually to limit speech because someone was nasty to someone else. Just let us have the tools, give power to the people instead of taking it away and treating us all like children.

Nah, what a silly idea!
> And in fact nobody calls it a country.

Cyprus?!? Everyone calls Cyprus a country! Because it is.

So yeah, that's a much better analogy to Taiwan. Because that's a country too.
Practically, yes. Whomever has the private key can make a transaction. Proof of knowledge (of a private key) is equivalent to ownership. This is how it works.

Money is a human construct. But it can live on a system backed by physical universal quantities like computation, to remove the need for human trust constructions.
Ummm, no. I ran the routine through clang 13 with '-O' and didn't get an explicit compare.
The news there is that the system is so bad that it has a very high false-positive rate, including something that should never have been a false positive in any proper system. That's like the police arresting the mayor of San-Francisco for a robbery that happened at the same time in Miami, and was perpetrated by a male. Surely, they let her go after the lawyers got involved, but wouldn't you call a policeman who makes so obviously wrong arrest an idiot unfit for the job, regardless of the fact that the error was later corrected? Wouldn't you call for re-training, or maybe even firing such a policeman, even if you agree that there should be police in general and police work is important?

I think if we design artificial idiots, and entrust them to gatekeep our society's communications, it's newsworthy to point that fact out.
I guess communism boogeyman is still very scary.
I did, which is why I corrected the part which was wrong in the described scenario.
If I can't trust future humans to honor property rights, why can I trust them to honor property rights specified on the chain?
I just implemented this format in my game engine and the performances are crazy: images loading is 3.2 times faster (compared to png) and 40 times faster to generate game screenshot!
Your logical fallacy is appeal to authority
Regarding #1, why do I need to make any excuse to anybody about the content of my LinkedIn profile?
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Ryan Levick used to stream Rust videos when he had the time. They are excellent.
Not an expert, but a more frequent and controlled power cycle of servers with HDD can make sure not a lot of servers go down in one go, when events like these happen. Also, gives you chance to identify patterns...
Totally, and that’s one of the ideas floated in the issue. I think depending on how it could be done it may not even lost out on ergonomics in most cases, but I haven’t worked through it myself.
How else are you going to do it except using a cellular signal? Conventional RF in a tiny key fob only has limited range.
It's impressive considering how readable the text is. I'm especially impressed with ted Cruz who is a lawyer and literally works in the same building as the guy who wrote it but still manages to spend his days misrepresenting it.
Just because they are a big company doesn't mean everything they do is legal. The legal system exists exactly to stop this kind of behavior. You can go to small claims for under $100 out of pocket, and you generally get these fees reimbursed if you win. In many cases just filing a lawsuit is enough to get them to settle and provide a refund, because they would spend more money sending someone to court(and probably lose anyways).
Check out Paramotoring. It's self-powered Paragliding that opens up way more places to fly.
I remember that survey from April. Another of those IRB-waived studies, with interesting questions such as "do you use other substances such as cocaine". Admitting to crimes was not enough to warrant IRB review...

The survey also asked for detailed demographic data (well enough to de-anonymize IMHO) -- age, gender, income, field, highest degree...

The link to the form to enter the drawing for $100 gift cards at the end was also dead (https://twitter.com/remram44/status/1379071856326684678)

Not to put the results into questions, only to echo the recent Princeton mishaps I guess.
Correct. My fob works the way they have for decades.

With this service I can lock my car from a different city. I can see where it is. I can set a polygon zone where it emails me if my kids leave the city and whatnot.

It requires cell service and servers. So I get that it requires a subscription.
> I honestly don't care for in-person employees, but it's something I ask remote employees to do for this exact reason.

It sounds like you're just nosy, then. The content of my LinkedIn profile is no more your business than the content of my Tinder profile, and just as relevant to my work.
Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
Yearly thread. It can be books published on 2021 or in previous years (but that you read this year.)
surprised to see DVDs sell. I don't think I've played one for many years now, haven't even had the capability to play one!
> ~15yr of being the official car of people who want to give off that upper middle class aura

A Toyota? Think you're mistaking with a Land Rover or something.
macOS 12.1 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux vs. Windows Benchmarks
Raytracing is clever. Good for realism. But end of the day, these are games, not simulations. Being blinded by reflective materials periodically doesn't sound like my kinda fun
> And then after signing the deed you have to send the paperwork to the county registrar because if they don't write it in their books then the land hasn't actually changed hands?

This is actually not true. A proper deed, signed by the seller and presented to the buyer, is enough to transfer ownership of land. The reason it gets recorded is so that it's easier for you to prove, and it's possible to get title insurance. However, it is entirely legal, and binding, to transfer property without recording the deed.