skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article I posted, one justification given for the paucity of data other than gross cases and deaths is that it's much harder to set up a study due to the issues around consent.

> If kids were dying from covid in any significant numbers, I have no doubt I'd be seeing the stories on CNN and everywhere else by now.

Well, pediatric admissions are the highest they've ever been. I would not rely on the major media, you have to look for the data yourself. Media are big businesses in the pocket of bigger business that want adults to go to work and kids to go to school. They will only report issues that are so large and obvious they can't be ignored.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1477663737511297024
Amazon is a marketplace. Marketplaces are great businesses if you are early - they have strong network effect, are strong monopoly candidates and are not capital intensive.
Ruby's URI classes are such a pain in the ass. They seem so un-rubyish
This site is a joke. a long time ago I listed some NFTs and they didn't show up anywhere. zero views on the listings. a hundred dollars of eth down the toilet.
Dear Men: Don't buy your girlfriend an NFT for Christmas
In addition to being a marketplace, OpenSea stands to become the rubber stamp on an NFT that allows it to be used in other places (or have verified status when it is). Twitter seems to be going in that direction (for profile picture verification): https://twitter.com/thesmarmybum/status/1478505321433735169?...

(The fact that using a central verifier seems to contradict what web3 is supposedly about is not lost on me)
I suppose it is a great way to launder money. Other than that there is no other value. Or you can try to scam some people by pumping the value of NFTs you own.
https://archive.fo/gzNdo
The problem is that people try to turn type hints into static types. I got rid of mypy from all of my projects as it provided no value and just created this constant battle of "making it work" - a collosal time waste. As this blog illustrates - so much extra effort for something so trivial and unimportant - this whole shebang goes against the spirit of Python.

In general I've yet to see what these type check systems (be it mypy, pyright or any other) offer over proper tests. Type hints are there for developers not the machine.
OpenSea surpassed $10 billion in total trading volume a few months ago [1]

Their valuation is essentially equivalent to their total trading volume at this point. Both are absurdly large numbers.

What's really wild, though, is how hard NFTs have been pushed as decentralized, democratized, and so on. Yet again we have a huge centralized company cleanup up in the space and, apparently, skimming enough money off of the top of the trades to warrant a $13 billion valuation.

[1] https://decrypt.co/85507/nft-marketplace-opensea-hits-10b-to...
I think we're using different meanings of the word antisocial.
Elizabeth Holmes verdict: researchers share lessons learned for science
https://dune.xyz/rchen8/opensea

Yeah, this valuation is easily justifiable. First chart is OpenSea's monthly transaction volume. Multiply by 0.025 to calculate OpenSea's take.
I think the underlying problem with this debate is a widespread failure to understand the purpose and practicality of reviews. Actually I see this pattern repeated with many other practices in our field : tests for example. It's a kind of mass delusion, imho.

Yes having human #2 look at whatever code human #1 wrote with the goal of improving it and catching errors, is in the abstract a good idea.

But _requiring_ all code to be reviewed before merge to main, while allocating no real resources to that activity, while also expecting high velocity of development, is magical thinking.

It typically leads to "software engineering theater". Code reviews look to be happening, but for the most part they're not. And worse: some things don't get fixed because the participants see review as an obstacle unworthy of their energy to surmount. Some great features don't get developed because the engineer with some spare creativity perceives that their weekend efforts may be for naught due to ensnarement in review webs.

I think the author is on the right track by at least refusing to enter into the delusion, and rejecting the magical thinking.
Anyone who has seen another person die has a pretty good idea of what happens after death from empiric observation. Anything else is just wishful thinking, coping with one's own mortality.
There was no leap M1 -> M1 Max for single core. M1 Max, when it came out, was pretty much a bigger version of a one year old cpu.
SMTP had a very useful VRFY command after you've tested for the @ and MX record, but only a handful of service providers will tell you if the email is invalid nowadays due to spam concerns.

Gmail still does though, which is a big deal as 90% of people who register on my sites are using a gmail address only and thus easy to verify instantly and notify the user to double check the email spelling.
So if I am reading this right, they sent out fraudulent DMCA takedown notices and faced no repercussions for doing so?
Slightly different. He died of a cardiac angiosarcoma.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/celebritydiagnosis/...
$9.7 billion of it laundering or churn
I've been at it intensively for a couple months and my mind simply refuses to cooperate. If anything, after having done 400+ problems I seem to be worse at them than when I started.

Yup -- brain fog, paralysis and negative performance are the sure-fire signs of burnout (as least as pertains to your capacity for grinding LC). Excellent preparation for the daily grind of actually working for companies that rely on these tests.

Leetcode isn't about fun and challenging things, it's about thinking in one particular way, spitting out solutions using the same exact data structures and jumping through hoops on command without philosophizing or creating anything that can be reused/extended.

Exactly. And these are apparently precisely the "skills" these companies are "desperately" seeking to find among the engineers they invite for an on-site interview.

And don't forget the strong "culture fit" signal indicated by the sheer willingness to grind, grind, grind.

You memorize, regurgitate and participate in the agile masquerade. Creativity is shunned. Tried architectures/patterns are what is expected.

That's ticket. This is exactly the mindset these companies are after. That's why they swear up and down on the efficacy of these tests.

On the bright side: at least you've been freed of any illusions, by this point, about the intrinsic value of your advanced hard science degree.
No, they can't just copy what you own. The double spend problem is one of the core problems solved by blockchain. You can't copy and paste a Bitcoin. A blockchain is a ledger. The ledger is validated by a network of thousands of nodes using deterministic logic and cryptographic signature verification.

Likewise, NFTs are records in a smart contract that has been deployed to a Turing-complete blockchain. Following the ERC721 standard (which is the most popular but not the only example), the contract must implement an interface consisting of several methods that define how rules for ownership transfer are handled and what metadata defines the NFT.

An NFT could be better than a certificate of ownership, due to the ease and universality of on-chain verification. You can observe the entire chain of ownership of something if it begun as an NFT. You can also use an NFT in software programs to provide token-gated content, or to customize the user experience. Another major benefit is worldwide markets with 24/7 liquidity. It's also trivial to fractionalize or place into the custody of a DAO (on-chain organization). By no means is this list exhaustive, but there is a few.
after reading this post on the workings of NFT scams[1], i just can't imagine these valuations lol

Its like Opensea is really just a startup to modernize Tax Loops for the wealthy.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rqg0fh/forgive_me/...
If only distributed search engine was possible...
I’ve learned most of my design/build knowledge out of necessity. Eg, I need a granite base, well how do you do that..

Without knowing the specifics of your part. Usually you can trade a more expensive process and still get a workable prototype part if you want to avoid molding. Eg, commercial 3d printing, (assemble panels together for larger parts), cnc milling.

Do you have a validated market for your product? If you don’t want to do the equipment purchase upfront but can demonstrate that your are a competent client, a contract manufacturer would be able to help you with the smaller first runs.
I remember doing this in PHP(4? 5?) for my undergrad capstone project because I had a looming due date and it was the dev environment I had readily available. No helpful libraries in that decade. Great way to really grok the material, and really lets me appreciate how spoiled we are today in the ML space.
That's the difficulty, isn't it? There ISN'T a clear separation between the behavioral/classroom management tasks and content-teaching tasks. They are different and distinct but inseparable in practice. You can't have one person do one thing and another do the other.

Also, the behavioral thing is the thing you need a full-time person for. But parents can't teach full time. So the thin you most need a full-timer for is the thing that's impossible to do remotely! Which was kind of OP's whole point.

> In the comment I replied to, it sounded like teachers are basically just giving kids agendas for the day. I know it's a tough life right now and that remote anything with kids is orders of magnitude harder than with adults, but that doesn't sound good.

1. There's a lot more structure to it than that. Not to say it works or it's good, but there is more structure. Kids are often required to log into zoom for face time and so on, but it's at best marginally helpful. There's genuinely no way to manage 20+ little boxes on a screen.

2. More importantly, I don't think that is what OP was saying! They were drawing an important distinction between having a full-time homeschooling teacher and relying on a person in a box who's managing 20 other kids in boxes.

Again, if you accept on face that the behavior management side of teaching and the conveying knowledge side of teaching are basically inseparable, then OP's observation is an important one. Homeschooling can work well; remote schooling through zoom, not so much.
Realized you were actually taking about Octal - yes that feature would be great to have. I’ll wait for a new version
Sure, but that has no bearing on fearing the experience of death itself.
No need. You’re buying jpegs on the internet. Do we really need more litigious language to tell people it’s inherently risky?

Just go on wallstreetbets, plenty of people use brokers who use such language to make let’s say… ill advised trades.
No. Time to sell
Well it's easy to inflate trading volume when your business model is comprised of money laundering and wash trading to generate FOMO.
the bitcoin bubble already burst. the nft bubble will burst soon
Small government. So you are in favor of defunding the military?
This will use less than a couple of percent of your GPU when it's "in action" . My computer is so overpowered for what I do most of the time this sort of thing is completely harmless. I'm pretty old myself but this stuff is fun to play with. I don't mess with it very long usually as it gets boring after a few weeks, but it's not really wasting much energy or cpu.
Yeah, that's the origin of the phrase. What I don't get in that quote is the "But..." clause, when followers buying in is exactly the desire result of pumping bags. As a whole, the quote makes little sense to me.

Edit: Ah, reading the thread I think he means that buy tweeting a lot about a particular project he could raise the secondary market values (which could be considered a good thing even if you don't cash out at those levels), but instead his followers bought in at the mint level, which he was being paid a percentage of.

In other words, he was making money from his followers buying into the project. I can see how he'd consider that differently and regret it.
> They allow you to prove that you own a digital asset, without having to have anyone "vouch" for you. I can prove I own it myself.

Well, no. They prove you own an NFT, but they don't prove you own anything other than the crypto asset.

That NFT might be a fake NFT, that is not issued by the artist/game themselves.

Instead, it is the central authority, of the artist themselves, that determines who actually owns the asset.

Or, in other words, you do need someone to "vouch" that you actually own the real digital asset, and that the one you have is not just a fake.
That's my read under "Website visits for the top-performing news websites" and the subsequent note distinguishing hyper-partisan sites (large drop in attention) with mainstream news entities.

On balance I'd argue that this is a good thing, on two bases:

1. The level of attention was clearly toxic.

2. If outrage and clickbait are losing their power, mainstream news can return to more substantive and significant coverage, rather than sensation and trend-following.

Or so I hope. I'm often wrong in my optimistic (and occasionally, pessimistic) forecasts.
> One trip is enough for people for whom that is true.

you state this like fact but you’re sourcing this from your personal anecdote.

I agree 1.5 - 3.5 seems about the normal range for a single dose.

2.0g is therapeutic for me. 3.5 I am floored by the experience in a non productive way.
‘River Dave’ arrested after returning to live at New Hampshire cabin site
Just what Firefox needs in its bid to stop Chrome from becoming the new Internet Explorer - a fork.
> once a person reaches something like $10M net worth

I'll re-write your proposal:

"Once a person reaches something like $10M net worth they start donating huge sums of money to the charities they have created and who has their family members on board. One of them fully restored and is doing the maintenance on an authentic Gulfstream aircraft from the beginning of the century! An other one has created a school for the (still minor so he can’t claim his $10M yet) heir and a fund to send one student (chosen by the family) to Harvard on a full ride should he be accepted".
This is the opposite of what most farmers want, which is a dependable, no-nonsense machine they can repair themselves. When a tractor breaks down in the middle of a planting or a harvest, nobody can afford to wait for a factory technician to show up, or proprietary parts to be shipped from some centralized warehouse.

Deere is notorious for doing their best to create vendor lock-in, and this just sounds like more of the same.
> Incompetence at WMATA fritters away the money.

There is incompetence everywhere. Why is it any worse at WMATA than Maryland State Highway Administration or literally anywhere else?
All you need to know about OpenSea and NFT buying/selling can be found here -> https://twitter.com/nfttheft

While the concept is alluring, "own a digital good", the reality is that you still need some authentication mechanism to prove someone has the right to sell the digital good in the first place. This means centralization. I am fascinated that people lack the ability to scrutinize this appropriately.
Most of these books that were standards in the 2000s don't hold up great now, just because most of the important parts have diffused and become ambient omnipresent practices.

Putting so much emphasis on variable naming, to take one common theme from Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code, et al, makes a lot more sense coming out as a reaction against some of the worst excesses of Hungarian notation.

They just aren't the kind of revelation that they were 20 years ago, in part because they've been so successful at molding multiple generations of programmers now.
It is exceedingly hard to find places on the internet anymore where one can have a conversation between a range of viewpoints without it turning into an absolute shitshow, or the minority viewpoint being downvoted to oblivion.

It's one of many reasons I find myself using the internet less and less. Even the old forums I used to frequent and have the usual sparring conversations that were fun on the internet have fallen to one side or another, and anything outside the orthodoxy of the forum is treated with absolute hostility, "You are evil for evil's sake, I wish you dead" grade responses. There's no spirit of debate anymore, just a spirit of "Dogpile everyone who thinks differently." From any perspective!

It was a good 25 year run of internet, but I'm pretty much over the place. HN was one of the last sane places and it's been interesting seeing what sort of stuff gets flagged/killed. More and more, it's "That which isn't the groupthink." Which is sad. I'd rather read books from people I disagree with strongly than participate in an echo chamber. At least I'll have to either sharpen my ability to defend my views, or consider points of view I'd not considered before. Even if I decide they're junk, it's useful to understand how people get there and the viewpoints in more depth than shallow internet stuff.
NFT's are based on finding a greater fools, so ironically platforms like this become a "fool's market" which makes the NFT's themselves more valuable, and in turn the platform more valuable. And now NFT's are becoming the Rolex/Tesla/Ferrari where rich people buy them and they don't care if they make money on them, it proves they can afford them.
> It's nice that I could trade the game license to someone else without having the game developer approve it.

These concepts break down extremely quickly in practice.

For the above to work, the game developer would have to support all of this and code it into the game. There's nothing inherent to NFTs that makes a game license automatically transferable, nor does the game developer have to code their game such that the NFT-ed license continues working after it has been sold to someone else (all transaction history is part of the blockchain).

What would really happen, in practice, is that the game developers would almost certainly require the NFT contract to involve some kickbacks to them. For example, you can trade the NFT license, but the contract requires sending X dollars to the game developer. Do you really think game developers are eager to leave money on the table?

Not to mention, NFT transactions are bonkers expensive right now, at least on Ethereum. It's fun to think about trading game licenses on the blockchain, but if the transaction is going to set you back $50-100 USD just to make the contract go, you're not going to be trading anything on the blockchain that can be bought new for $10-$50.
I would like to add "synergy" to this list. Every time I hear it, it makes me roll my eyes.
Recently, I learned about an art sale in my town. Pieces were all anonymous and with the same price (VERY affordable for original art). Since this is HN, I should clarify: these weren't NFTs and such, they were drawn by hand on a predefined canvas size.

The name of the artist was revealed only after the piece was sold & there was a high chance that the person was some neighbour living close to you.

I had an absolutely delightful time browsing the art — imagining my room with some of them. I was also astonished to learn that it was the 18th event of our local chapter and this one had over 700 works for sale. They exceeded their sale target by 10%.

I had no idea it existed, but I have known what OpenSea was since about a year ago. One of my friends was complaining that her brother is wasting his time on it and gets absolutely nowhere. Since then I have only seen crypto transaction fees climb so I don't imagine there are less barriers to putting stuff out there.

I wonder in a world where we value things based on their social good and objective usefulness, how many Billions of dollars would my local anonymous art show be worth.
lol, the conspiracy theories keep getting wilder. So it's OpenSea wash trading or their users? Pretty hard to do with a 2.5% loss on every transaction.
Your products all look very well done - just curious, do you build them all yourself (including your awesome landing page)?

Congrats on the early growth and best of luck. What a great product - I’ll be looking out for your post on how you built your 13.9k audience!
Lots of comments here about public transit or whatnot in the DC area. Virginia is about the same size as maybe Hungary or Czech Republic and about 60% bigger than Ireland. The area being discussed here is not in the DC area but about 50 miles/80km south of there between D.C. and the State capital Richmond. The nearest area to this disaster is Fredericksburg which is a small historic town and an exurb from D.C. around 50 miles/80 km away from D.C. and about 60 miles from Richmond.

It truly is in the middle of nowhere with most turnoffs going to farming/rural areas. In European terms it's similar to the stretch on the A4/A6 between Vienna and Bratislava, but about 2x as long and about half as populated. If you drive here you basically see nothing but highway and trees for a couple of hours, with the occasional turn-off into a stand of fast food restaurants and gas stations and really nothing else until you get nearer to Richmond or head a bit east towards Hampton Roads.

The local towns simply don't have the support infrastructure to clear the roads and wrecks and the state. This combined with a drop in temperature from over 60F to under 30F (15C to -0C) in a few hours and a massive snow drop caused the early falling snow to melt, then freeze into a solid layer of ice before road crews could salt the entire 110 mile stretch between DC and Richmond.

Predictably the result was a giant mess, and few areas for motorists to exit onto local roads to get around the affected area or get food, gas, or other provisions. There aren't even many hotels as options in the area given how rural much of this part of the state is. Google maps has simply marked the entire 110 mile stretch of the Interstate as black and provides directions around the entire thing on local farm roads.

Directions from New York City to Miami Fl (which typically use mostly I-95) simply route around that part of I-95 from Baltimore, Md to just North of Richmond using local roads, a distance of 152 miles (244 km) or about 3 hours driving, and includes crossing bridges over the Potomac River in incredibly more rural areas.

Another way to look at it is that D.C. is the southern-most tip of the heavily populated D.C. to Boston megalopolis mega-region and any further South is basically farms and wilderness until Richmond, the next distinct and different metro area from the North-East mega region. This problem has occurred in the gap between those two areas.
Additional background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28239900
He's talking about generating interest in a security by tweeting about it - "pumping" its price so he can sell for more.
EWONTFIX
It's not even a digital furby, it's a distributed text file containing the string "You own a digital furby at this URL".
Somewhere can’t be robbery if you continue to permit it everyday… if you actually believed your words, you’d move to the middle of nowhere with no Internet and electricity or roads.

And it’s not robbery if you’re getting something from it everyday, which you clearly are because you’re posting on the Internet and drinking clean water.
> the bitcoin bubble already burst

says who?
I am so glad I'm on GNOME right now. Click the link, slid the slider, and woo here we are!