skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, don’t be an arrogant prick.
I suppose I have a long ways to go still :)
This is perhaps my confusion around the whole NFT thing. How is it in /any/ way different than a boiler plate contract around "ownership".

I.e. when my photographer took photos at my wedding I signed a contract that I "own" those photos and all those rights. I can move then, alter them, back them up, sell them to getty, or whatever.

If I draw a piece of art, even digitally I own the copyright. I sell it to someone and now they own it and inherit all those rights...

Is NFT just simply creating a "Block Chain" for this? and if so... is it even needed? What value do I gain from using a NFT over you know a signed PDF that would actually be backed up in court if it came to it?

Is the vision that there is some hot market place for art and other assets that are traded so frequently that we need a live 24/7 market and exchange for them?
This is why they create laws to require you unlock your phone when crossing borders.

I have been constantly surprised that there isnt a phone/company that specifically markets to "buy this temp phone to cross a border"

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Also, WRT Quantum computing, what are your thoughts on the talk by D-Wave CEO where he said "we can reach into different dimensions" -- and soon after, D-Wave went super silent?

What is the state of quantum currently - did they discover something super secret?
If you think NFT’s are bad, you should check out CRDT’s. The sheer volume of pointless text that they produce is proof enough that they’re nothing but a huge grift.
I do this too, I used to read before going to bed, but now it's podcasts. Like the RCRpodcast or Cortex.
I'm using a podcast app that support rss on my android phone, and use my normal wired earplugs, they work well enough, and I just pull them out when I reach the point when I realize I'm no longer listening.
Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths
I talked about iToy as a whole. You are implying that Crapple doesn't have censorship in its products while is wrong.
None of that requires NFT though. Literally all of that can be accomplished as well if not better without crypto being involved in any way.
This project has unfortunately been crippled by toxic devs who value their opinions more than actual technical arguments.

Report bugs and you may end up getting mocked instead of thanked.

When I reported that on my hardware I need -vo vaapi to get full hd playback without frame drops and stuttering, I was told to get better hardware. They wouldn't even entertain the thought that maybe -vo gpu (their default) needs more work. All I asked them to is to document in the man page that if you get stuttering video with -vo gpu you might want to try -vo vaapi.

This was a few years ago and apparently they did work on -vo gpu in the mean time, but they will never get rid of the stench that episode left.

Since then -vo vaapi has been deliberately crippled. It can not display subtitles and gives a deprecation warning when you try to use it.

It's too bad that mplayer has fallen into disrepair. Didn't they also suffer from toxic dev infighting? I seem to remember even a fork of ffmpeg because the other devs needed to get away from one particularly toxic dev.
But we have a social consensus on JPEG copyright, and not on NFTs.

"It might, speculatively, become as good as the existing thing accepted by society and most crucially the legal system" isn't a great selling point.
I prefer having a laptop that's powerful enough on its own, this gives me a lot of freedom when the internet is bad. I also like to have a desktop with a nice screen and a bit more power that I can use to run things that take a bit longer.

Everything more serious happens in the cloud, yes, but it's good to know that I can achieve reasonable results, browse, watch videos and send e-mails.

Even though I'm kind of excited for a new M1 Macbook with way more battery and faster apps, I wouldn't spend money on it until I absolutely have to.
I didn't really get it at first, in fact, I might still not be getting it, but if you draw a line from A to C, then you can see that the triangle ABC will not be similar to DEF... when it should be? I don't know.
I have that exact laptop, abd my only gripe is battery life. How's that holding up for you?
That's been my experience with Arch as well. I've only seen a handful of actual breakages in my time (using consistently since 2016), and there's _always_ a good discussion with a manual fix available within a few hours, or a few days if you want to stick to official update channels.

Plus KDE Plasma has become such a joy to use! I repurposed my T530 as a media center with a wireless keyboard and it's been a fantastic experience
I don’t have the numbers at my fingertips but I believe it’s institutional money (pensions, endowments, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, etc) that are the real drive asset prices, not the marginal high net worth buyer
Does China have a motivation to be honest about their figures? Did they a year ago, or two years ago? Even if they're honest now, no doubt they were first hesitant once the cat (COVID-19 in this case) got out of the bag?
xi-editor https://xi-editor.io/docs.html

This is written in rust and has docs about rope data structure and editor architecture.
Until such a court case happens you literally don't know how that will shake out. If the artist runs out of money and can't pay for their server and the image goes down what exactly do you expect the court to do? I suppose they could force the artist to hand over the image and domain ownership to you assuming they still have it in the first place. And then you could stand provide the artworks url yourself.

But what if they no longer own the domain and it's now owned by an opportunistic squatter? The domain wasn't part of what you bought so the legality of forcing the squatter to provide you the domain isn't quite so clear cut. You still of course own the ledger entry asserting that your payed for the url but you have no legal recourse to ensure that the url stays up.
Bonus points if you first ask yourself "who wrote this shit?", then open blame, then see your own name.
Wow! I just stumbled across your novels a month ago (recommendation by my library) and am currently reading my 4th novel of yours. Small world! Thanks for chiming in.
Vegan, environmentalist, "cryptoboi" here (no, I don't do crossfit unfortunately). I don't hold any BTC, I constantly tell people it's not worth the cost. Even though it feels like yelling at a brick wall much of the time, there are a lot of people involved in crypto who feel the same way, and exclusively use blockchains that are proof of stake (an entire proof of stake network might consume roughly as much energy as an average U.S. household)

So yes, many people in crypto have switched, and I'm in favour of an outright global ban on PoW mining (though El Salvador might be hard to get on board). Bitcoin is still number 1 by market cap but I suspect Ethereum will flip it soon, perhaps this year as they move to proof of stake, and (hopefully) more countries ban mining.
The anglophile Indian elite is surprisingly ignorant of what is going on in their own country. The anglophile Indian elite also controls many aspects of the country.

This out-of-touch anglophile elite is the reason India is so dysfunctional, even more than other poor developing countries.
There's a lot of chaff at the bottom of the market. I encourage everybody to avoid that segment.

I've been freelancing for 9 years (with a 1-year interruption last year as a regular employee, but I managed to escape that), starting with small projects for small customers, but very quickly moving on to larger projects for larger customers that pay better. My second client (a 4-person company) stiffed me for about $600, which lead me to avoid such small companies, and I've never had any payment problems since moving on to bigger clients.

There's usually a recruiter in between, which partly sucks, because they have their own margin, but I can imagine it may also have played a role in making my payment more reliable. Those recruiters also find my projects for me, so I barely do any acquisition of my own. I guess I could do more, but this works well enough for me.

(I have no problem working with autistic people; I come from a family that's probably riddled with high-functioning autists (though only one was ever diagnosed), and at work I've noticed I'm pretty good at translating for people who struggle to express their technical ideas.)
If you want to be reassured then sure.
My take from reading that is in 2016 there was practical collision attacks demonstrated, which would be amplified with specialized hardware (compare to
bitcoin mining).

Btw cheers!
I recall you from correspondence years ago regarding fuzz testing linux packages.
This is how I learned how to code, by downloading Visual Studio and randomly trying stuff out. Visually you can have an immediate feedback about your work, and then you start learning the code.

Nowadays, it's all about interconnecting different microservices just to bootstrap something, let alone build something complete.
It's not as easy as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem =)
a boss that scoffs at your concern sounds like a boss without empathy. that can hurt for even more important issues like when you really need time off. i’d talk to him about how you’re interpreting these events and see how he reacts as a final signal before bailing
Pilot from crashed plane in US pulled to safety moments before train hit
I've been annoyed by my own legacy code long enough to try really hard to make sure the features being asked for are REALLY needed, simplifying things as much as possible before going into code. That's usually where most of the code is removed - sometimes all of it.
We banned insurance companies from making decisions on genetic information long before any actually tried it. No one had to make a personal nuclear weapon for us to make it illegal. Plenty of examples of how this isn't true in society.

A significant potential and likely harm is enough to consider preemptively regulating.
Courts don’t play games like this. Everything is under their jurisdiction whether it’s novel or 1,000 years old. Worst case scenario you entered into a verbal contract where $100 of consideration was exchanged for x and you are engaging the courts because you believe the counter party failed to deliver x. If both parties are German it will not matter that blockchain was the medium of exchange anymore than it would if napkins at the bar were the medium of the exchange.
They might just pull it off though.
For those that think that Bitcoin is not environmental, please read -https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/open-letter-bitcoin-tes...
China isn’t North Korea, there are plenty of information paths between China and the rest of the world that doesn’t go through the party. The party has motivation to be honest in so much that if they weren’t honest, it would be obvious very quickly that they weren’t tame they’d lose face.

Back when COVID first came out, local officials on the ground were hesitant to bring attention to what they thought was a minor problem at the time. Even when the deaths began piling up, they were still trying to hide from the central government, and even then, plenty of information was leaking to the outside, everyone knew something was up even if they weren’t sure what it was. However, once the central government got involved, well, any chance of deception at the local level was off the table. The central government doesn’t really have a boss to hide things from, so in that case, things work out for transparency (but, ya, if they thought they could hide something, they would be tempted to for face reasons).
I'm in a constant state of this in the codebase I inherited. The previous solo front-end developer was the manager of R&D so he couldn't be fired easily, he was the only person willing and sort of able to do front-end (PHP + JS/Dojo), he was super productive (most code was written in 2012/2013), but not a very competent or self-critical developer.

Think a back-end that concatenates XML into a big global string over the span of thousands of lines of code, then passes it to a function that parses it and outputs it again as JSON.
Think functions spanning a thousand lines with triple-nested switch/case and if/else blocks
Think a front-end where JS is used to concatenate HTML, CSS and more nested JS together into a string
Said front-end will save and reload the currently active page on change of any form field, and there's dozens of form fields across dozens of dialog screens.

When I joined I was given free rein to rewrite it in the technologies I thought would suit best. It's been two years, at a stretch I'm about 20% of the way there. It's a project that needs one or two fully staffed development teams, but we have the budget for two people because our management resists faster growth or investments.
While I disagree with his move.

1.It is totally in his prerogative to mess up the package he manages, but not to install into it malware. I am on the fence if this would count as malware. (Because of the open loop, but my leaning is that this is not malware.)

2. Github is, IMO, breaking any trust that I might have had by assuming control of the package, removing the last commit and keeping it online.

If they feel they have a reason to close it, they should. And, they then should fork it and put it up under their own name. Which would generate lots of bad press, but is at least within their rights.

3. I don't quite follow the logic of Github closing his account. Yes, I know that when you use $megacorp they WILL eventually close your account and make you sad. Google did it to me once and shut my gmail account. Tough luck for not being a millionaire.

4. You should always lock your NPM dependencies on a version, and update it when you can see what the results are.

5. Yes, the large corps really should be paying for all the work that is being done to help them, despite their hostile attitudes (being typed on a Mac. Guess who wrote the docs? Not Apple.)

6. Github has some perfectly good competitors, both SaaS (gitlab.com, sourcehut.org) and self-hosted (gitlab, gogs/gitea, etc)

Using them empowers you, and removes a wincy bit of leverage from $megacorp. Enough people follow suit, and the world will be a better place. And besides, Copilot won't steal or reveal your code.

7. There are more effective ways of making his point, but he worked out of emotion, not logic.

Eg. Perhaps he would have been able to change the license and demand compensation from all non-profits? That would provide both cash and publicity.

As a rule, it is always better to act out of logic than emotion, but us humans seem to have an issue with this. ;)

8. Is anyone stepping in to help the author get treatment?
Honestly nothing gives as much experience/knowledge

as trying to write it yourself

and then reading about how other people do it e.g VS Code blog

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
> We have a post like this every month.

I'm not sure that's true. And if it were to be true, I'm not sure how it speaks against the claims made in this article?

> What incentive does the country have to under report COVID deaths? Get some glorious trophy from the west on its stellar COVID management?

I don't think TFA is trying to establish what incentives an administration may have to try to demonstrate their administration was more effective than it actually was. (Though, having written that out loud ...)

> Save face with people and continue winning elections? The people don't blame the government for covid.

I admire your optimism regarding the passive objectivity of 'the people'.

Generally, I'd expect a population (within any ersatz democracy) to evaluate the quality of its administrators based on their performance during a pandemic, and subsequently vote accordingly.

> Not to mention, the numbers are reported independently by the states, ruled by very different political parties.

How would you expect this to play out if every incumbent politician / political party in each state, was incentivised to downplay mortality rates from COVID19?
At the same time, suicide attempts has increased fivefold for children.

(https://www.svz.de/deutschland-welt/panorama/Corona-Bis-zu-5...)
China was becoming insular even before COVID. One gets the impression that the Chinese government finds COVID to be a convenient excuse to control the population in ways that would have been unthinkable before.
> 1. It's not a currency. It's an asset;

I could even see it classified as a collectable. I agree with "asset", but the price volatility makes this a bit of a harder sell; and let's not kid ourselves, it's Bitcoins convertibility into fiat that is _exactly_ what makes it attractive (there is a reason it used to be "worth" only $1 before it was integrated into the financial system/exchanges).

I love the idea of Bitcoin, but I'm not 100% convinced that it will usher in the paradigm shift in money that many talk about... but it certainly has stirred things up and gotten the conversation started, so that's something.
> I’ve seen Denver the guilty dog. She’s behaving like she feels guilty [therefore she likely experiences guilt].

I'm not sure I believe this, but there are other believable explanations than yours: consider that humans and the dog could share a non-mental dispositional state (something more basic and hardwired into us) that leads to guilty actions. You would acknowledge that some very simple animals function in this way, and we as humans retain other core systems from simpler times.

Human consciousness could be on top of this and not a guaranteed consequence of it. We additionally rationalize and experience this state and the actions we tend to take from the guilty dispositional state–and as humans call that guilt–but the dispositional state could exist on its own.
TLDR: Torben.
Footnote #1 suggests the author is concerned with solutions to the availability of CSAM. In this light the ownership of the NFT is actually irrelevant. Anyone can read the data in the NFT. That data will either point to CSAM or it won't. The problem, if there is one, would be with anyone with a copy of the blockchain's ledger – it would have nothing to do with the ability of anyone to update the ledger.
I'm not sure which DE you're using, but many have a simple shortcut (in XFCE it's something like Alt+click) to resize windows with the keyboard. Becomes very natural to use and much less fiddly than the touchpad alone.
I may be missing your point but two of those are trading below the IPO/reference price and two above it. You could also have included Wish, RobinHood, Didi and so on...
> What if the US passed a law tomorrow that said that financial institutions who traded in crypto in any way lost access to the US financial system?

America isn't banning crypto because we, overwhelmingly, benefit from it. While the public pitch is fire and revolution, the ground-level truth of crypto is it exports cheap, often-subsidized, environmentally-ruinous energy from poor regions to financial centers.
Stuck with a chassis and motherboard, but not the ram, storage, wifi or power supply.

They seem to have too much invested to not make it a year.
the website orbbec3d.com
It's not as bad but it's not too different from other countries. Trust has evaporated in France, it didn't devolve into full on medical scam like what you describe, but the feeling is the same. People don't trust doctors or nurses and can't go willingly there (hence the limited vaccination rate).
What exactly is there to sue over? Let's say the NFT is an image. Let's say that someone displays that image without your permission. Nothing in the NFT itself gives you copyright over the image (although there are some NFTs that do confer copyright), so you can't sue over that.
> business fleets

In every case that I am aware of, a business takes care of this (i.e. I've seen it done). It's not exactly complicated - it's just a bit of work.
People who buy NFTs are playing a game of chicken against other investors/gamblers. It’s not about art or novel technology or anything like that. It’s just a gambling game. Nobody wants to hold the bag.

Was anybody else around for CryptoCelebs back in 2017/2018? It was literally the same thing. You’d buy a million dollar NFT of Zuckerberg and hope somebody else would buy it from you for two million. They called them “hot potato” games back then.
See the German TV show Dark for in interesting take on what could happen if they somehow became cyclic.
I moved to pinboard because it WAS the alternative :D I use Pocket because it's made by one person who clearly was passionate about it and it has been running without fault for years.

The closest alternative might be Pocket[0], it's a "part of the Mozilla family of products".

[0]: https://getpocket.com/en/
A tutorial blog post that guides through position, title, link, displayed link, snippet, and favicon extraction process from qwant.com using Python.
Ah, my bad. Thanks!
The foraging subreddit will have an answer for you.
As someone looking to tinker with this kind of thing at home, would you recommend OpenBCI? Are there any more "consumer friendly" projects out there (i.e. off the shelf) that are affordable at a hobbyist level?
MariaDB Public Slack
I think at this point, every single thing the Chinese government claims, whether it’s about Covid or invading the independent nation of Taiwan, it should be taken with deep suspicion.
I like the Swedish variant of this. It's basically describing the relationsship in terms of closes family ties, so maternal grandfather is "morfar" ie "mother father". Same principle applies to a bunch of relationships:

farmor - father's mother

farfar - father's father

faster - father's sister (abbreviated from "far syster")

moster - mother's sistem (abbreviated)

farbror - father's brother

I like to extend the basic set of these to older generations, so instead of "my mormor's father" it'd be "mormorfar". Very practical!
I can use DDG only for finding out the TLD for sites I forgot the actual address. To search the internet, I consider it rather useless.
I don't think you're overreacting, each one of these is a red flag. It's not obvious what you can do right now though. Do you have any other offers still open from your job search? Keep applying if you don't.
The very rich in Canada mostly go to the US for extraordinary health care (surgeries etc.), the very rich will always find a way to skip the line.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603567, discussing https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html probably will give you some hints.

Architecture-wise, you can start with an ordered list of lines, with each line stored as a string.

Features that complicate things are:

- supporting large documents and staying speedy (“replace all” is a good test case)

- supporting line wrapping or proportional fonts (makes it harder to translate between screen locations and (line, character) offsets)

- supporting Unicode (makes it harder to translate between screen locations and (line, byte position) offsets)

- syntax-colouring

- plug-ins

- regular expression based search (fairly simple for single-line search _if_ you store each line as a string; harder for custom data structures, as you can’t just use a regexp library)

- supporting larger-than-memory files (especially on systems without virtual memory, but I think that’s somewhat of a lost art)

- safely saving documents even if the disk doesn’t have space for two files (a lost art. Might not even have been fully solved, ever)

Edit: you also want to look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244103, discussing https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-...