skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who want their items "back" are forced to play/pay again..

Therein lies the misunderstanding. The people didn't "own" the assets in the first place. In no way has ownership been transferred at any point - you only acquired a limited license to run the software in a specified way, no more, no less.

The license depended on an active account and thus was rendered null and void with the termination of said account. NFTs fall into a similar category - if bound to a license, they're just as useless in case something like this happens.
I am not saying people give a fuck it is legally accurate. But since nobody ever reads the terms and conditions this could help to give a quick understanding of what you are paying for.

Everybody knows that renting a car is different than buying a car.
There is nothing intrinsically hard about it. Crystallography is the science of reversing this dot pattern.
From what I’ve seen working in the financial industry, hardly anybody uses lucene directly. It is typically behind elasticsearch or solr or whatever - which then takes care of load balancing and replication and all that.

For these use cases, you could swap out lucene for something faster or more “low level” in implementation without affecting the typical application using it much, as all interaction happens across some rest API.
You don't address the concern here

"Well if you don't need it and don't want it, obviously don't get that degree."

The concern is that, according to parent, and I believe parent, is that the system requires a useless piece of paper. The degree is more an economic hurdle than a proof of capacity. That merit is a social construct.
The recommendation algorithm bears some mentioning too. Western apps and media love forcing pet projects down my throat from lgbt content I don't care about to blm riot apologism. TikTok made a few recommendations on those topics to me and then got the hint they I didn't care about them and just wanted to get back to memes. Similarly, TikTok noticed that while I avoid politics I liked memes making fun of Trump and it adapted to this quirk fairly quickly. TikTok in my opinion is easily the least preachy media app and it's refreshing to use because of that.
The norm in embedded world, particularly if the component giving you hard-to-debug issues is a "black box" where you have to deal with binary blob firmware - and almost everything dealing with WiFi or BT is closed source.
This is not an anomaly. Workerman and Swoole are asynchronous PHP frameworks. Node is asynchronous by default, so Express/Koa/Fastify/NestJS are asynchronous. Starlette is an ASGI framework/toolkit, so it's asynchronous too. FastAPI is based on Starlette. The thing is that asynchronous PHP is way faster than asynchronous Python or asynchronous JS. There is nothing misleading about this. If you need performance, PHP is a better choice than Python or Javascript
Oops I clearly didn't mean a dedicated DevOps team; I mean a team that develops and runs a product, what DevOps originally meant (and not the glorified developer tools team that often people have nowadays with that name)
It's a lot more than the US median salary though (31 kUSD). And 309 kSEK is roughly the arithmetic mean income in Sweden so most people are paying less than that marginal tax rate.
> What happens if the transfer fails or doesn't go through, for whatever reason? If you hand the recipient a check, they have physical proof that you intended to pay them,

For most of Europe transfers are instant. So you’ll know if you’ve been paid or not pretty much immediately because you get a push notification confirming the payment within seconds of someone hitting send.
At the beginning of 2021 I completely move my life away from facebooks ecosystem. As a hobbies photographer I moved from Instagram to Flickr, I wish I had done it earlier!

Flickr as a tool is very focused on creators. Once you start using it you realize that the company isn't optimizing for clicks and content consumption. This results in a product and community who’s standard of quality is leagues ahead of anything else one the internet. The idea of “an influence” just doesn’t exist within Flickr. It actually reminds me a lot of the internet before the FAANG monopolies.

They’ve identified a niche in the market and they are now striving to serve that niche the best they can. IMO Flicker is a radical tech company operating complete counter to the omnipresent hyper growth “conquered the world” mindset that pervades tech. I think they would make a good case study of how to build an online community that doesn’t try to optimize for engagement.
I built something comparable for myself, that I already mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896170

It sends an email a day and I just respond to it, and the response is stored in an Sqlite db.

It's not a log, exactly, but could be used as one as I can respond multiple times for the same day.

But I use it to store not just what I did each day, but also my thoughts, or my reactions to things I read, or little things I learn, etc.

It took a little getting used to at first, but in the last 30 months I have never missed a day.

Although it's not the main use, it's fun to be able to tell friends, with near certainty, when exactly we did what.
People like Wilson are a rare breed. He stuck to his guns despite the huge backlash around Sociobiology. From my vantage point, it seems everyone else is coming around to eventually admitting he was basically right all along, begrudgingly of course.
The Story of the Game Genie, a Cheat Device Nintendo Tried (and Failed) to Kill
Oh wow, that IPD range actually includes me!
With service providers (eg. Google/Facebook) it happens every day to thousands of people, and there's little to no recourse although there was usually no financial transaction to begin with. With software you setup on your computer, i'm not aware of any instance, BUT subscription models (eg. Adobe) are really recent and not so long ago software vendors did not have the means to disable software remotely on your machine, because it was usually not (always) connected to the network, and because software that didn't need it didn't make useless network connections.

I bet in a few years we'll have plenty of documented instances.
Rethinking Resistance as an Act of Improvisation:1914 Christmas Truce Lessons
I'm curious too. The descriptions has the heading of "excavated tree" dimensions, so it sounds like it was at least partially removed.

Unfortunately the original publication is not available. And even if it's back, I'm not sure I'd spend $1.9k to check... https://www.amazon.com/Mitteleuropaeischer-Gruelandpflanzen-...
Moderna dose is 100mcg whereas Pfizer is 30mcg. This is probably why Moderna has higher risks of myocarditis but this is just my guess.
I've completely given up on playing with strangers. All my experiences were negative, and whenever they weren't, they were just neutral.

One time I tried playing Battlefield 2 online (usually played against bots) and played the same map for a few hours (one that didn't work with bots). First I had some trouble, but then I learned the map and how the players behaved so I could anticipate their actions a little, got more kills, and suddenly I got kicked and accused of hacking because my online profile didn't show enough hours played and I beat some of the guys with 1000h+. Sometimes I wonder how anyone gets into e-sports when "being slightly better than average" immediately means "hacking".

When I started playing Rocket League I almost immediately turned off voice and text chats. Made the game 100x better.

Recently I tried playing a co-op game, thinking there should at least be some more friendly attitudes there. Accidentally hit a teammate (didn't die), who immediately lost his shit over voice chat and proceeded to murder me shortly after.

The only thing that could have made these things worse would have been some service suspending me on top of getting harrassed, which is apparently Sony's solution.

To be honest, I don't see an easy solution to this, or even a difficult one without creating the equivalent of the judicial system of a medium-sized nation. Banning bad words won't ban bad behavior. Automated bans can be easily used for blackmail. Cheating/hacking prevention seems to be impossible even for extremely successful games (e.g. GTA V), plus it doesn't seem to deter players, so there's not much incentive anyway.

Maybe blacklisting is the wrong approach. Maybe we need better whitelisting schemes instead.
If you have a limited number of images of the same scene, with NeRF you can generate new images from different positions and angles (novel view synthesis).

But this only works with rigid scenes: e.g. if you apply NeRF to images of a person, they cannot move between the pictures.

This is what HyperNeRF is trying to solve. If there are pictures of a person, and in one of them they are smiling but on another not, 1. this method will not fail, and 2. looks like it will give reasonable new views/images.
Thank you for the tip, really appreciate it. I do think in the long run, the best way to use my "generalist" powers would be to do something where I am forced to know a bit of everything like entrepreneurship or content creation. That's likely where I need to turn to.
The statements are not symmetrical, though.

Let's use the less emotionally charged example of the gym rat.

An individual who sets out with the goal and drive to become strong can be successful with high probability.

But not everyone will do that. Most will give up or just not even bother in the first place.
Richard Rhodes released his biography of E.O. Wilson a couple of months ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Wilson-Life-Nature/dp/03855...

Rhodes is famous for this book, that’s often mentioned on HN

Making of the Atomic Bomb:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451677618/
The statements are not symmetrical, though.

Let's use the less emotionally charged example of the gym rat.

An individual who sets out with the goal and drive to become substantially physically stronger can be successful with high probability.

But not everyone will do that. Most will give up or just not even bother in the first place. Lots of people don't even care, despite it being almost strictly superior.

It would be logically incorrect to use that fact in order to argue that muscle mass is likely to be unchangeable. It is changeable, it's just not the path of least resistance.

edit: or, to put it succinctly - prevalence is not probability
1) put a be cdn in front of it

2) set your caching in assets and images to preserve bandwidth

3) test if your db is the bottleneck.

Eg. Some applications have their performance log in a response header ( db: 20 ms, logic : 10 Ms, total: 50 ms)

Definitely start profiling and try to up you bandwidth depending on your current online users.
A lot more than 1% have enough wealth to not need to work full time. The top 40% by wealth have wealth of at least 200k. Top 25% have 400k. Top 20% have 600k. These numbers are huge, but they are enough to indicate outright homw ownership at least depending on area, which is enough to make working full time unnecessary. There are places where you can own a home for under 100k as well.

I addressed high income tracks already regarding the time investment and limited opportunity. Loans are not as readily available as you suggest, particularly for 7 or 8 years of education, even less so if you're older, and taking on a lifetime of debt is not wise. There's a reason med school and law school (actually most graduate and professional schools) are full of students from affluent backgrounds.
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Thank you, I appreciate your view. What you said about my "projects" makes perfect sense. My projects are likely not focused enough, and some are definitely upside down. I am currently going through the articles you have sent. Thanks again!
Reasonable risk-taking.

No pain, no gain, but don't do things that may kill you, maim you or land you in prison for several years or make you homeless.

I am a moderate risk taker as well, but I had my share of failures and my instinct would never allow me to gamble everything at once. I always try to have some reserve/slack just in case.
That’s part of the issue, with consulting you’re forced to act and think like a company rather than an employee. It requires more research or hiring professional advisors. There’s potential tax benefits, but also corresponding legislation to ensure you and your clients aren’t dodging social security contributions. I’m sure once you have some experience it’s simple, but from the outside looking in, it seems slightly risky.
It's a wish list, but it's full of things I know are hard. Or at least things where the difference between doing them kinda poorly, and doing them with style, is a few billion dollars worth of established natural language processing infrastructure. Google genuinely understands the sentence you're trying to type - for some AI value of "understands". Therefore its suggestions are succinct and sensible.
If someone who downvoted has better arguments than the industry's propaganda, i'm all ears.
Separate laptop.
Thanks. I wasn't quite sure what "pick a random vertex of the triangle and find its midpoint with p" meant. What's the midpoint of a vertex?
Here's a quick proof as to how it works. Suppose the triangle has endpoints (0,0), (1,0), and (1/2, sqrt(3)/2). Given a point (x,y), the three transformations then become

f1(x,y) = (x/2, y/2)

f2(x,y) = (x/2+1/2, y/2)

f3(x,y) = (x/2 + 1/4, y/2 + sqrt(3)/4)

which are precisely the maps in the Iterated Function System [1] which generate the Sierpinsky triangle!

It's a very nice observation that the three maps have a concise representation in terms of taking the midpoint with the given point and the vertices of the triangle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system
> but his account will still be closed.

That wouldn't be a problem with NFTs as they could just go to another game provider, show their proof-of-ownership and download their games from there. Such import functionality already exist to some limited degree right now with GoG, Steam and Co., but all of them require that your account with Ubisoft is still working. NFTs would work even if Ubisoft disappeared completely.

Furthermore NFTs would allow used game sales, something we have lost with the switch from physical to digital, despite it being required by law in many countries. A signed recipe is nowhere good enough, as that still depends on your account at Ubisoft, e.g. to keep track of if you refunded the game or not.

Now getting the game industry to actually implement and use an NFT based game-ownership system, that's the tricky part. But claiming there is no technological problem that needs solving is ignoring all the freedoms we lost by going digital with our purchases and that could be regained with NFTs.
The article is very slightly misleading on the nature of the coining. It was not a forging of a new term from some kind of rapturous regard, but a sarcastic remark on behalf of Mr. Whewell. It was only years later that he saw the real value in the word and began promoting it seriously.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0003379620020272...
Because people have been trying pretty hard to replicate what Lucene does in other languages specifically because they thought they could do a better job. The reason the Java implementation continues to dominate is that it being implemented in Java has repeatedly proven to be not as much of an issue as people assume it to be. At least not enough to matter.

And since the article is called "why C is faster than Java" and the main argument is literally "here's this thing implemented in C that is fast", it's an excellent counterpoint to go "here's this other thing in Java that is fast".
I have found large variance on checkout processes between (European) countries. Take supermarkets. I lived in the NL, where scan, bag & pay takes 30 seconds to a minute, with a cart full maybe 1:30. The I moved to France where old people might take that long just to reach out and sign their checks. Once I saw a sign at the Auchan boasting that the handle customers on average in under 4 minutes now. I sometimes would wait 30mins in line. In the NL, I would never (have to) put up with that.

Its weird they wouldn't drive 150km to learn how to save sooo much time, not just the customer but also their own labour costs.
Thank you for the recommendations, I have now gotten the books you recommended and I will be going through them.
Author here. I certainly don't not track it!

If you're wondering where it could appear in the charts, any one of the Sleep/People/Exercise/Other categories would seem a possible candidate...
I do the same except via hckrnews.com which displays which post is the most recent you’ve already seen from a prior visit.
Grepping for "GDPR" in these comments results in zero hits. I'm reasonably certain Ubisoft deletes accounts due to GDPR requirements.
Electrical engineering. Getting a working PCB design for a modern CPU, especially in tight space constraints, is quite challenging.

It's probably something we will do in the v2 (the NUC solution has its drawbacks in terms of exposed IO and such), but I'm glad we don't have to do a full design immediately; only the carrier board that routes the NUC compute element to whereever we need it.
Yes, but the insanity lies in the lack of decent public transport, not in the holiday-makers desire to travel around.
McDonald's is a pretty good example. For one, cheap burger they can provide it to you for cheaper. As soon as you start asking for quantity or quality though, you quickly realize you can make it yourself for cheaper, not counting your time.

At that point, the question becomes how much is your time worth, or in this analogy, are you ready to hire a professional chef to get better quality food?
The Dutch land registry dumps their stuff into OSM every now and then. I assumed this process was easy, but maybe it isn't?
Point ad domains to 127.0.0.1 and run a local https that displays art.
The viral load in vaccinated infections has been demonstrated to be the same as unvaccinated infections in multiple studies now. And a perfect example is here in Ontario where 80% of the cases are in vaccinated individuals even though 77% of the population is actually vaccinated.

The shots might be helpful as a potential severe symptom mitigator which wanes but it should never have been called a "vaccine" as it neither prevents infection, nor prevents transmission.
Actually that can indeed be possible — have a look at Futamura projections.

Also, there are AOT compilers that can make use of profile information.
TCL's good for string stuff, but gets very messy if you want to do stuff outside of that. It wasn't really designed originally as a general language: it works and does have some (IMO 'too') clever features, but it has a lot of foot guns as well: comments are actually (almost) ignored procedures, which causes issues, you sometimes have to escape comments or they'll change logic or cause syntax issues (i.e. trying to comment out statements sometimes still triggers syntax errors within the comment!), everything's a string which is great for strings, but not when you need to start validating numbers or similar...
TCL makes a lot more sense as a command language (what it was originally designed for - string commands) or a REPL...

Back in the late 80s before Python and Lua were released the following decades, TCL made sense, as it was the only freely available embedable language.

Python's larger and more complete (and I'd argue a better language then Lua), but Lua's compact and very fast as it's a register-based bytecode VM (and luaJIT exists which is even faster) (although if you don't use the 'local' keyword on variables, it's then quite a bit slower as it no longer uses stack-based variables, so the code can end up being more verbose to make it fast), so games commonly used Lua for scripting/gameplay as it was easy to integrate.
Interesting article, basically it boils down to "if your business model requires you to have an App in an App Store, your decades worth of work are at the whim of Big Tech". Same with Google banning accounts etc.

Divesting from Big Tech is the only solution. Don't write Apps, don't use AWS, etc.
One of the giants. "Consilience" is one of his books that's well worth reading. Small book, small words, short sentences and huge ideas.
Money is a social construct. In fact almost everything other than food, shelter and tools are either social constructs or only have value in a social context. Jobs are social constructs too.
Ukraine crisis: how Putin feeds off anger over NATO’s eastward expansion
Availability is hit or miss though. I've been trying to find an improved MUT blade for years.
If that were the case though, why wouldn't that apply to credit card debt?
Honestly unless you have been living under a rock this is common knowledge and many sources and lawsuits exist. I am not sure anyone is going to waste their time to find you sources when we all know and witness that it has been contrived for how long now?
The biggest and most important use of NFTs in gaming space is going to be raising money on Kickstarter for an NFT based video game - and then disappearing with the money
Yeah I have been involved in the community and things like Ubisoft making an NFT is 0% utility and 100% money grab. Don't trust gaming companies NFT providing any sort of value to you. Those things are not good for the community.
Ask HN: How can one be of service in a high socio-economic community?
I like living in nice places. I wish to contribute to my local community in a beneficial way. Such communities aren’t in need of material goods. In what other ways can one be of service to the community?
When I was in high school my teacher told me a trick…take Pascal’s triangle and colour the even numbers black and the odd numbers white. You’ll end up with a Sierpinski triangle.

Since Each row of Pascal’s triangle is generated from the row just above it…

P(x,y) = P(x,y-1) + P(x-1,y-1)

and since for any even or odd numbers …

even+even=even,
odd+odd=e,
o+e=o

so really you can compute the sign of any item in Pascal’s triangle by just checking the sign of the two numbers above it and xoring them.

So you can compute each pixel S(x,y) = xor( S(x,y-1), S(x-1,y-1)

Where the initial row is all 0 with a single 1 in it.

I wrote a program on the Mac II in high school to compute this…it was quite a lot of fun. The process of going from integer to floating point to large integer to single bits was instructive.
op mentions it largely happens for UGC content apps

so no surprise you haven't found any such reviews if you're doing completely different apps
Doesn't it, though? Are you not many times asked to "just sign this paper" which you are not expected to read?
RadioLab did do a very nice ~20 minute bit on E.O. Wilson, it's just a conversation on stage (so it's not overproduced and chopped up with weird sounds like RL stuff can be): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/91867...

Just sharing because I really liked this, he comes across as a really lovely man.
There is a lot of competition in this space. If you have a bad experience, don’t use them next time. If it takes more than a couple of minutes at a counter to pick up a car including queue time, that’s not acceptable. Switch.

I have good experiences from Hertz, Europcar and Avis in Europe. Just pick up keys, usually the right car (some times obviously a switch within the class but that’s expected as it literally says “or similar” and it’s always similar e.g an A4 instead of a 3-series or a golf instead of a similar sized Toyota or whatever).
But with a MUCH larger carbon footprint
If there are anyone who do care about Chinese workers, pleas stop using TikTok, because programmers in ByteDance are really the one working around the clock like slaves. Just check out the 996.icu project, which ranks as #1 on GitHub.