skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use cases are more than art. Art is a part of the equation, sure, and we see these... incredibly inflated prices being paid for art as insane. Digital art. That can be replicated. In which ownership of the NFT may/may not convey ownership of the artwork. Of course this sounds absolutely nuts, and people can be forgiven for believing it is absolutely nuts and that's all there is to it.

But consider a very successful real world use case: trading cards. As NFTs, these digital cards are limited by contract on their respective blockchain such that infinite copies cannot be printed - they are limited edition. Scraps of cardboard for this rookie or that player only have ever had value to people who collect them - now the same sort of thing exists in the digital realm, without the risk of losing the physical collection in a house fire. It's less the artwork that is valuable, but the NFT itself.

Another valid use case is Patreon-like support of artists (especially in the music industry). As it is now, tens of thousands of people contribute money monthly to their favorite artists via platforms like Patreon often in exchange for perks like early releases to tracks or works in progress. NFTs can represent the same sort of thing, except that at some point in the future these early released tracks - or really - the possession of a fact of support for a band during their career as an NFT - has value amongst other fans. In some cases possessing these things can become backstage passes to a band at a concert.

Much of the NFT space right now is a cash grab. That doesn't mean valid use cases won't emerge.
Opening this without JavaScript (Noscript) gave me a blank grey page. Sorry, but the web had content without JS in 1999.
The key here is "work my ass off". Even if you want to work, limit that part off and put that energy into training (like swimming e.g.). I know that sounds dull, but dull is better than not getting up from bed. If you are going to make it without the meds to stabilize, do limit the time you work in a manner that you don't fall in those cycles.

A well put metaphore I've heard is that you got a set of forks which you use daily. Make sure you don't run out of them. The problem is that it feels so great just using them all when you get a new clean batch after a couple of days of downtime..

Good for you that you are aiming for stability. Setting a structure and planning for mentally tough parts of the day (like social events) and never parting from that can make a total difference in life quality. It would for anyone obviously, but with living on some spectrum it's a life ingredient. Yeah, it's tough, and yes your life (as in with great life quality) depends on it.
I'm not really sure what OP is hoping to accomplish by posting this?

Sorry you had to deal with an asshole, OP.

The arch folk definitely seem unfriendly, which is a shame, because that's not how I recollect it from 2007.
How do you expect to get paid? That is a serious question, by the way.

In general, let's say that you want to use credit card. That pretty much put you at the mercy of Visa & Mastercard. They charge you fees, and the cost of managing the interaction with them is significant.

You can accept wire transfers, but note that this probably means quite a bit of dealing with the backend financial stuff (user paid, but didn't add the right invoice number, for example).

PayPal or similar also have their fees.

Using crypto for payment is possible, but the wild swings in price means that this is a highly unstable option. There are fees there as well (0.5 USD - 1 USD), and the time to close a transaction is a lot (10 minutes, IIRC).

It is also making things like taxes a pain. And that is where you start to get into really "fascinating" territory.

A truly underrated value you get is the fact that payment processors deals with all those issues around taxes, VAT, etc.
Ask HN: What is your Web3? Web4? Do we still have a web?
A recent thread[0] sheds light on how different hackers and crypto-enthusiasts see the term web3, or the future of the web. With VR/AR entering the picture[1] this fragmentation grows.

This made me wonder how I see the future of the web, and would fellow HNers agree with?

For me the web3 term was already coined years ago with the Semantic Web. Then completely distorted / replaced by reality: social networks. So what's this web3/crypto wave? Maybe we are already thinking about web4? Outside the web? Anyway, what is web1, web2, webX?

* web1 - Academic, hacker driven, early adopters

* web2 - Fully open to public, via blogs

* web3 - Semi-open, planet scale, mandatory social networks and apps built on personal data / advertising.

* web4 - More divide: blockchains, various reality layers.

It's clear we can't go forward with the `web` term. It's rather platforms than the web. Web1-2 went with the browser platform, web3 introduced the app/portable device platform, the next paradigms will introduce new platforms and devices.

I guess we should say goodbye to the web idea, a generally available, `free` platform for all, with non-mandatory participation.

We are already in the mandatory era, where we all carry a device and connect to a network, being exploited 24/7. Next, we will carry better devices (VR, AR) better exploiting us. If we say no to all devices, the the environment (IoT) will exploit us in a mandatory way.

I guess we can affirm the web, the ideal it represents, it's dead.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29727420

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncoiotldS-8&t=1s
3.77 / 97%

Yikes, it seems I am more out of touch with common sense than I thought. I really don‘t feel that „dark“ though. I usually try not to rock the boat, but if I can take 2 cookies with the only consequence being someone else will get none and the guarantee I won‘t get caught, I will probably take it.
There are non-depressed people who also struggle with this, I think.
From my understanding, smart watches are still not a mass market device yet. Not everyone feels the need to have one. ( I am not counting step tracker bands made by the likes of FitBit or Xiaomi as they aren't "smart").

So people who would be buying it now are going to be depending on word of mouth or professional reviews. And currently, Facebook isn't really a beloved company and neither do they have a track record of making devices apart from Portal (like Apple, Samsung etc which are very much into the business of making devices).

If say, smartwatches were a must have device like smartphones are right now, people might not care as much about privacy. This can be evidenced by the fact that most smartphones are mainly tools to track your information but people have been buying them in droves for more than a decade now.And it was only recently, Apple and Google have been making strides towards keeping your data private.
Don't worry, I'm pretty stable these days. And seeing a therapist helped. To your point, it was someone else who booked the first appointment for me. So, if you know someone who might benefit, it'd be good to help them out with the process of finding a therapist.
> The ones that are not for the FOSS aspect are either masochists or using Apple, aren't they? I'm yet to meet anyone using Linux because they couldn't buy or pirate Windows.

I switched to Linux this year, after three decades as a happy Windows power user since 3.1, because I was finally sick of having to fight the OS to stop it from showing me ads, tracking my activity, and trying to push unwanted products and updates on me.

This may or may not count as "I switched for the FOSS". Of course its FOSS nature is ultimately the reason why Linux does not treat me as a data cow.

But if Linux were a fully closed-source, commercial OS, but still showed the same basic respect to me that older Windows version did, I would still be a happy user. Said respect need be as little as (1) don't put stuff on my machine without my permission, (2) let me do whatever the fuck I want on my machine.
The novel "Black Out" by Marc Elsberg covers this topic as well.

Writing solid, characters slightly on the meh side, scientific research pretty ok (from an amateurs perspective, that is).
Just shouting "BUT DECENTRALIZATION!" bears as much sense as "BUT BITCOIN".

Decentralization doesn't have inherent value, and has a whole host of problems that cryptopeddlers don't want to either acknowledge or pretend to solve.
> Do we know how long it was before he gave up?

We don't need to know this. We can clearly see ample altitude at the time he abandoned the plane. Although there are reasons to jump at great altitude (severe fire, etc.) none of those reasons are apparent here.

When a competent driver loses engine power while driving they do not immediately stop their vehicle in the middle of the road. They will use the available momentum (pulling to the shoulder or whatever) for the benefit of their own safety and the safety of others, and ground vehicles are deliberately designed to achieve this. The analogy for (conventional, fixed wing) aircraft is altitude; this pilot wasted available altitude for no discernable reason despite the fact that he had a perfectly functional glider.

No competent pilot would do that. So the best case here is an incompetent pilot that shouldn't hold a license. All other possibilities are some form of attention seeking fraud and also reckless endangerment.
I just read a book from 1854 covering a dry agricultural topic. To my suprise, the language was more poetic and rich than most modern prose! It was a delight to read and never felt contrived or difficult to follow. Extending our personal vocabulary can spice up a text ... just make sure it doesn't get too spicy.
> In comparison NK propaganda is refreshingly childish, funny I would say.

I think you're yourself falling for North Korea propaganda, the reality there is nothing childish:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-china-sex-slav...
There is a difference between active and passive vocabulary though. Just because you can't think of a word right now, doesn't mean that you and your readers wouldn't easily understand it.

That being said, for anything that you want to be sure your readers understand, "write like you talk". http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
There's a JS emulator to recreate the browser/windows experience as it was in those days. Inside that emulator you get the web from 1999.
Life is so much more enjoyable when you move away from the suburbs and get rid of your car. The freedom to just walk to your destination and having everything within walking range is priceless.
To quibble a bit, in American English, Webster's is the traditional dictionary. That's why most American English dictionaries have "Webster" in their name, even if, as Somers writes, their "contents bear no relation to Webster’s original." It's the leaden, imprecise form of definition Somers criticizes that is a break with Webster's tradition.
Are you seriously complaining that this emulator of several operating systems and old browsers doesn't run inside a modern browser without javascript? I really hope you're kidding.
Wish you luck on making piles of cash.

It’s here to stay? Care to share your thoughts?
It's not that the discords and the discussions there shouldn't exist at all, but surely you could get those people who actually know about the tech have those discussions on a platform that better suits.
OP here. One goal: Make Arch's documentation for installation better so that more people trying Linux (if they pick Arch first) have a better experience. It seems that to do this, the entire project needs to have a cultural shift in the attitude towards newcomers.
You still get to have your car, it just means you can't drive it right through the middle of a dense living area, you'll have to park on the edge and walk/tram/scooter in. Which is the best for everyone.
Also I scanned the OED and put it on the Internet Archive so everyone can access it for free and build on it. The whole thing is in the public domain now, at least in the US, though of course not the second and third editions.
> Any plan to put real money behind the markets someday?

That seems much more an issue of regulation rather than capability.
There certainly are, but something like this would immediately get picked up and banned. It's hard to cheat without being blatantly obvious.
In French, always the Littré: https://www.littre.org/

The exact opposite of dry, modern dictionary, you can read it along for the quality of its prose, and its numerous and interesting quotes.
You can't assume that.

Part of being depressed is you don't even have the will to resist being treated in a way that you don't like.

In fact, I'd say that feeling powerless against conditions that you don't like is the core of what depression is.

It's why someone who is depressed doesn't feel like doing anything, because they feel like no matter what they do nothing will ever change so nothing they do is ever worth the effort.
Yeah, Tetris is very litiguous

And there is a precedent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int.... - Tetris sued a developer of iOS game, and they apparently have precedent about "look and feel".

Add the name that is intentionally similar to "Tetris" and I don't think they have snowball chance in hell to win if they decide to go after them.

The gameplay itself and the rules are not copyrighteable, but "look and feel" is.

From wikipedia:

"Wolfson discussed which aspects of Tetris were copyrightable as expressive elements, and which aspects are part of the general idea that cannot be protected by copyright. According to Wolfson, copyright cannot protect the idea of vertically falling blocks, or a player rotating those blocks to form lines and earn points, or a player losing the game if those blocks accumulate at the top of the screen. However, Wolfson determined that several aspects of Tetris qualify as unique expression that is protected by copyright. This includes the twenty-by-ten square game board, the display of randomized junk blocks at the start of the game, the display of a block's "shadow" where it will land, and the display of the next piece to fall. Wolfson also granted protection to the blocks changing in color when they land, and the game board filling up when the game is over."
Yeah I was wondering the same thing, looking at this it seems they have been pretty active at it, even removing a Tetris android wallpaper application.

Probably because Tetr.io is non-commercial ?

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/ka43wx/tetra_online...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1vzwe8/got_a_dm...

* https://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8135
I was given a copy of Chambers Dictionary[0] by my sister for my 18th birthday, I still have it. According to wiki, it is "widely used by British crossword solvers and setters, and by Scrabble players[..] It contains many more dialectal, archaic, unconventional and eccentric words than its rivals, and is noted for its occasional wryly humorous definitions".

I've always loved its definition of "éclair":

> "a cake, long in shape but short in duration"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_Dictionary
I think you misunderstood the question. The person you are replying to isn't questioning any of the things you mentioned.
Probably worth pointing out that dict, dictd, and web1913 have been included with Debian since last millennium. (The dict markup shows in the screenshot on https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary; dict and vh are the things that use {} to delimit references to other entries. Even the line breaks are preserved.) They don't have the nice CSS tho.
That's just one of many symptoms you're describing here (loss of interest). For me the main symptom is depressed mood, which essentially feels like someone you cared about a lot died recently.
Reminds me of Mark Forsyth's quip in his delightful book _The Elements of Eloquence_: "To write for mere utility is as foolish as to dress for mere utility"
And requiring privileged access workstations for admin account usage, preventing and alerting when admin accounts are used from anywhere else goes a long way too.
Except when stuff goes wrong. Then gradle is a right PITA because debuggability is essentially zero. And periodically a new version of gradle will break something non-obvious deep in your dependency tree.
Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
Avoid plastic? Is that even a possibility nowadays?
I don't think c++ overdid it persay, I just think that they really got some of the ergonomics wrong. SFINAE and the CRTP are examples of idioms that are possible due to the flexibility, but unintelligible to read (I'm sure there's some population that really disagrees with me. I'm not saying they're not useful, just not ergonomic)

They're slowly layering in those ergonomics, which will eventually be nice, though there'll always be a big pile of legacy.
How does this type of acquisition happen? How does the division of Microsoft that wanted this business determine that instead of trying to build it themselves, they should approach their potential competitor and ask to purchase it from them? I can understand most M&A, because at least one of the companies involved will be a whole organisation, but in this case a piece of Microsoft must have identified that they wanted to purchase a piece of AT&T. That seems really interesting.
It sound like java is not usable without the state-of-art IDE.
It’s hard. In the case of final year students they just need to do enough to get by. This usually means finding something in the project description that they can actually do or are motivated to do.

Sometimes you need to have a talk about what is going on. This usually happens after Xmas when they screw up their interim report/presentation. They get to see their peers succeed so it’s a strong motivator.

With PhD students it’s even tougher. You have to work with them for years and build them up. Some lack confidence, some are over confident but can’t actually do anything. You need to avoid doing too much for them — that’s the hardest part for me.

Occasionally you get postdocs that are difficult. They really should know better at this stage and should not have been hired.
Very cool. I have been using AppScript at my work as well to sync data from a sheet to Firebase and it works quite well.
I remember trying to download IE4 when it was released, and it kept failing after about 20mins, eventually it worked and 30mins later I had it :D

Active Desktop is what got me into doing websites originally.

Fond memories of early 90's internet.
The main appeal of tetr.io for me is it's ranked mode. You need an account, and to play a few games for your elo to stabilize, but multiplayer->tetra league is a great way to 1v1 people around your skill level
Large traditional engineering companies have tenures like this. I joined a dev team working on CFD software and the average tenure was over 10 years. Made even less sense when by jumping I’m working on much less difficult code but getting paid a lot more.
I agree, I was fortunate to have a very nice prof, really dedicated to the development of his PhD students, who saw the importance of social events and tried to have some fun himself, eager to roll up his sleeves and help in the lab, he enjoyed it. He was a bit further in his career with no need to publish or perish anymore.

That's also an advice I give to aspiring PhD students, look for a warm place, talk to the other PhD students about the working atmosphere. You don't want to end up a "measurement slave", as one of the 4 PhDs that (and I quote a prof during a talk) "was burned on this subject".
It doesn't need to be that intrusive.

Just mildly uncomfortable .. for a period of time longer than one would be willing to tolerate.

Something like being at the dentist when you have many cavities in your teeth.

You can tolerate one or two sessions. But the idea of doing it every day for two weeks straight is unbearable enough that you decide on the third day to report feeling well.
see this sub-discussion on UX of b2b products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29731828
This is a bit off topic, but why do I need a subscription to access a dictionary? How often should I be expecting the language to change? Not to mention that the UX got much worse since the 90s, when I had a program on my desktop to instantly look up words.
Why would I know? No-one has built it yet? It's not technically possible? There's no demand for it?

You seem to be insinuating something so please elaborate.
Dictionary.app is one of my favorite macOS programs; I use it regularly, and Dictionary.app is something that I miss whenever I'm not on my Mac.

I'm wondering if there are similar offline dictionaries available for Windows and Linux? I know at one point the Oxford English Dictionary was distributed on CD-ROM, but the CD-ROM version is unfortunately discontinued and access requires an online subscription. I also remember Microsoft Bookshelf from the 1990s, but that's also been long discontinued.

I know that there are plenty of nice dictionaries and other references on the Web, but I like using offline dictionaries for a handful of reasons, chiefly:
1. Having offline access is handy when my Internet connection is down.
2. The latency of doing a lookup on Dictionary.app is much lower than looking up a Web dictionary.
3. Not being bombarded with other media to keep me engaged on the site (I'm looking at you, merriam-webster.com).

I would love to pay a company like Merriam Webster or Oxford University Press for downloadable access to the dictionary database, and I'm willing to pay the same price as the equivalent printed dictionary. However, I understand the business motivation as to why this may not be possible: it would be easy to pirate dictionary databases, and it possibly more lucrative to place the database behind either a subscription paywall or on a website with ads.
This is an incredibly depressing view of math, programming and engineering. Strandbeest is a great example of physical engineering as art. Neither discipline needs to be relentlessly practical and dull. If you must though think what happens when some of your requirements have more whimsy.
thats likely why they're also including mentions in job postings in their metric

> Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned

its not a silver bullet, but I do think its at least somewhat representative of popularity.
track record of films with too many A-list actors/actresses is terrible
The concerning thing for me is not if Eli David/Malone is wrong or right or crazy but rather how selective the twitter suspensions are.
I am from South Africa and we have some insane politicians who have repeatedly called for the murder of white people and they have never been suspended from Twitter.
I am not going to post his name here because I dont want to give him oxygen.
Postgress is amazing, however I work with SAP HANA every day and I gotta say this thing is completely insane.
Is it time to start promoting this age-old and non-blockchain decentralized web? I saw an article that called it ''web4'', wouldn't that be a good buzzword to use?
The screw meme just doesn't die… Modern Chromebooks use a debug USB-C cable for flashing and serial console access, and a "sit around for like 15 minutes pressing power button when told" process to prove ownership to unlock dev mode.
Well good thing I've watched it then and can recommend it on more information than "who's in it".
I found medications ineffective, but my last therapist helped me tremendously. If your therapist isn't helping, find a new one. There's no shame in switching.
Bipolar 2 here. I didn't get diagnosed until I was in my late 20s. I just thought I got carried away with things sometimes. I got on lamotragin a few years ago and I've been Even Steven since, but I do sometimes miss the productivity of the mania. Not worth the downs though.
I remember a friend having ISDN installed at his house - no matter how much I tried I couldn't convince my parents to pay that much for the internet.

I remember reading about T1 lines and being blown away at how fast that was