skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd fare poorly, but for different reasons. Digital cameras can be vulnerable to IR lasers because their sensors are sensitive to infrared light. Human retinas aren't sensitive to IR, which ironically makes IR lasers more dangerous than visible ones, since they don't trigger the blink reflex which would otherwise limit the damage to the eyes.
There is a risk if you stay in one place (or work on the same FOSS codebase) too long, because the answer to "who wrote this shit" often turns out to be "wow, what was I thinking?"
Or just put it in the file’s metadata. If we’re counting on social contract, I’m sure everyone will respect the metadata and never modify it.
While all of this is technically true the NFT implementations I've seen for games so far seem like unique tokens for some ID identifying a generic item interpreted by server or client code of the game.

The point I was getting at was that udbhavs' comment on "no two games would ever want to share an item" reminded me of a case where several games do share some item, though in this case not a unique one. Any item shared between games would always have to be interpreted by each game unless they're based on some shared engine feature or module for interpreting them.
If that were true(lobbying is just communicating), people and corporations would write a letter rather than hire a lobbyist.
Equally maybe. Simpler? I'm not sure, I don't know Python very well.

A couple of things I found surprising about Python was having to do the whole `re.compile` thing instead of just `//` in Ruby. Also, no one will ever convince me that a list comprehension is simpler than `map` and related functions. Also, it's hard to beat the convenience of libs that let you do `1.day.ago`.

Ruby gets complicated when people start throwing around metaprogramming where they shouldn't.

I do like Python's file == module. Python seems like it would be a good functional programming language but it goes and only allows for single line lambdas.

Again, I don't know Python very well.
If people don't spend on goods and services, where do wages come from?
because I need a doc's certificate to show my employer?
Multiformats is not really cryptographic agility, it's just adding a small tag that indicates what type of data something is (what kind of encoding, what kind of hash, what kind of binary payload, etc). The benefit is that the tags are standardised rather than being tied to a protocol version or some other out-of-band information. Whether or not you start making negotiation decisions based on that header is what determines whether you have cryptographic agility.

I'm also not sure I'd say the security community as a whole feels that cryptographic agility is an anti-pattern, there are plenty of vocal voices on all sides of that argument. I personally agree that you gain very little from cryptographic agility but have to pay a fair amount, but I don't think it's as settled as you make it out to be.
I maintain an analytics tool for a large newspaper. I wrote the code for it in PHP 13 years ago. The app has been running without interruption for 13 years and is used by hundreds of employees every day. Still, it needs a bit of maintenance (APIs change). The code is scary and I will probably maintain the project for the rest of my life because anyone else would pull their hair out. I'm not proud of it and write better code in the meantime, but rewriting all the code from 13 years ago would be way too expensive for the company.
They were doing it for you because you didn't know about that button. But now that you do, they will stop doing it.
SHA1 collision was never much of a reason to change it in the first place; there is no practical attack that arises from it.
If someone dies because they cannot get treatment in a hospital (because it is full of covid patients) do you not consider that death a byproduct of the covid epidemic?
> Why would they run this as an NFT though.

Imagine you had a set of digital drawings of apes you wanted to sell. What can you charge for a nice colurful drawing of an ape? $1? Now add "NFT" to the description.

Same with a hat. The studios would do this because they see a situation in which a few of their assets become $10M ape assets and they make $100k. Before this hype dies down, the studios are afraid of missing out on it. No studio wants to be the one that missed the golden rain of NFT hats of 2023 because they didn't get on the hype train.

of course this won't be a long term thing. But we'll see land grabs like these now for a while because it's a low risk/high reward kind of thing.
This reminded me of writing a `is_set_cover_possible` PL/Python function for Postgres. I wanted to take an arbitrary number of arrays. Apparently it's not possible so I just had to overload the function and hope that I would never need to check more than n arrays...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56623975/pl-python3-with...
1. I think Valve takes a cut of every marketplace sale, as well as the game publisher. More importantly they control the market completely so they surely can choose what share to take on every sale. They certainly don't need NFTs.

Am I missing something?
In an area where you store 1 car, you could instead store 20 bicycles (more with better storage infrastructure). If 20% of people switch from driving to biking, you can save 19% of the storage space, which will be reclaimed by the city. The decluttering of the public spaces has a positive aesthetic effect on the urban environment, which is clearly visible in Dutch cities.
Reminds me of this. https://twitter.com/darren_cullen/status/1422550369985605637
Settings > Backup
I see HN as a very supportive community, and you can see the overall negativity of the feedback. This would be way worse in a facebook thread for instance.

> Advice doesn't need to work for everyone to be good advice.

This is a valid approach for personal advice, or at least advice from someone that identifies as an individual speaking for themselves. It’s a different matter when it is broadcast indiscriminately and sets itself as a self-help resource.
I don't know how any American can accept the pile of trash that the US healthcare is. The only good thing is that in some cases you will get state of the art care, this is "rare" and may not result in better outcomes.

1. The cost is insane. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if you stay long term in a hospital your bill will be insane and more than an average cost of a house.

2. Single ER visit? 10 different bills over the next few months. Apparently, there is a new law trying to tackle this but hospital can opt-out by having you sign paperwork.

3. If you have an illness and need to see many doctors and have many tests in a short period of time get ready for your insurance to fight you and deny claims. You will be calling them all the time.

4. There are now 3rd party businesses set up to "VERIFY" no other party is responsible for the care you received(meaning you did not have an accident). If you fail to respond to their letters, your claim will be denied.

5. MRI, X-rays, dental work, physician visits are SO MUCH more than other developed nations. It is a joke. I'm talking without insurance here, just going to a private clinic and paying out of pocket as these also exist in Poland even though it has socialized healthcare.

6. The insurance prices are out of control, and the insurance company don't give a shit. In fact, they welcome the high prices. Obamacare capped insurance companies profit margins at a percentage of money spent, this is the result. The more they pay out, the more they make. The cost falls on the policy holders.

7. Covid is really showing cracks in for-profit healthcare. I have friends who work in the field and are complaining about people coming in with positive covid tests because they are asymptomatic. If they don't want to come in they risk getting fired, and in some areas large hospital networks own many smaller clinics and being fired may result in not being able to find a job without relocating.
I think you are really over estimating the size and importance of gamers
And there's plenty of space in the US; most roads can be half as wide and still service most cars. Plenty of space to build in a hard shoulder / fencing and a dedicated two-way bike lane.

But that's only part of the problem, the amount of entitled, and selfish drivers that ignore traffic rules, lights and sometimes even roads is crazy.
Sounds like serious disorganization, pushing boundaries, and trying to get stuff from you for free right from the start.

This might be expected in a 40-person company that was 5 ppl six months ago and heading to 100 this quarter.

But a 500+ person company, hiring cohorts of 20-30+ people, supposedly preparing for an IPO?

Nope.

Many smaller companies have a far better process that actually gets people up to speed better. This looks -at best- like consistently haphazard scrambling, with low ethics.

Also, if they want you to do work before your "start date", they can move up your start date and start paying you. If they even said, "hey, we'd like you to participate in a handful of calls the weeks before, we'll pay 1/3 of your pay as a signing bonus, is that OK with you, or do you really need a break /moving time / etc. before you start?" that'd be cool. But just expecting you to drop everything for their disorganization up front is bad.

Unless there are some contrary huge positive indicators, I'd keep looking.

(also note that you are concerned enough to write this, which also tells me that you kind of already know the answer and are just looking for confirmation)

In any case, I wish you good fortune with your decision.
The world isn't black and white. There is good and bad regulation. Effective and ineffective regulation. For example car safety regulations are pretty effective. Cars are more safe now than they ever have been and its rare for there to be a problem with the safety systems in cars. Financial market regulation has been mostly a disaster and is in large part due to capture by the industry and serious conflict of interests at all levels of government.
I love Ruby - Rails has been my day job for the past decade and my life is so much more pleasant when working with it than the odd time I've ventured off into things like Go or Java.

For personal things, my bread and butter is Sinatra and Sequel and that's a great combo as well.

My only real issue with it is differences in building native extensions on macos vs linux, usually need to set different compiler flags in the bundle config. Otherwise, works great.

ie.
# ~/.bundle/config

---

BUNDLE_BUILD__PG: "--with-pg_config=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql@10/10.19_1/bin/pg_config --with-cflags=-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration"

BUNDLE_BUILD__THIN: "--with-cflags=-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration"

BUNDLE_BUILD__FFI: "--with-cflags=-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration"
Been reading about this work for years, really cool to see it get merged! I recently came across a neat interview which describes upcoming changes to the OCaml GC and memory management system, which apparently lead to huge performance gains:

https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/
This is part of why I'm a bit cynical about "web 3" in general. Bittorrent is terrific and yet the real money is streaming video/music platforms.
There are many reasons why amiibo are not like NFTs, but I'm only interested in trashing this "in-game item NFT" idea. When you scan Mario, you have no expectation of instantiating mario into your game, because that would be stupid in just about every context. Smash AI aside.

There is an Epona Link one that instantiates Epona into breath of the wild, but it definitely doesn't do that in Mario Odyssey.

Amiibo are cool. People like them because they're cool and the in game bonuses are a fun little extra. That's very different from the idea of trading in game item NFTs with the intention of carrying over their utility to other games.
There was much fear about a rise in suicide among children during any sort of lockdown, but actual evidence suggests that suicide rates fell rather than rising.[0]

One might infer that school itself drives suicide among children, or one might say only that correlation should not be confused with causation, and we don't know why the suicide rate fell during the pandemic.

What one should never do, of course, is to claim that suicides are up dramatically when they aren't.

Anecdotally, although my 11-year-old daughter has been back at school since September of last year, she loves wearing masks at school and in public generally. She plays volleyball while wearing a mask. Not all children are struggling or feel tortured or hindered.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110323/
BTC already is centralized.

Your only real hope for making money is to buy an ASIC miner.

But just try to buy a single unit - they’re either perpetually “sold out”.

Or there’s some guy in another country that will deliver a unit but only accepts payments in Bitcoin. So there’s no recourse if he doesn’t deliver.
It has been pointed out that Daniel Webster was on retainer from various business interests while he was a senator. I don't know the figures for federal share of GDP in those days, but think it must have been much smaller.
Why is cronyism bad? Because it distributes opportunity based on relationships rather than merit.

Why is unregulated capitalism bad? Because it distributes opportunity based on capital rather than merit.

But cronyism by definition operates at a human scale---a person can only have so many friends, after all---while the scale of capital is unlimited. in principle, one person can deprive millions of people of opportunities that might otherwise be available to them. So unregulated capitalism is a much, much bigger problem than cronyism.
Based on your description, I gather you are not in the United States :-)

In my opinion the best case is a society where all kids have parents with the care and understanding to send them to school with nutritious, healthy food. And that students have healthy choices and that they have the means to purchase.

But the kicker, is that in the United States (and some other countries), this is not the case. In the United States, children in dysfunctional or impoverished homes or no home are common enough that it's more efficient to broadly provide support in this manner.

Side note: my wife, who previously was a teacher, and I lived in New Zealand for a few years. New Zealand didn't have a school nutrition program, but probably needed one. My wife did a fair amount of substitute ("relief") teaching in a poor area north of Wellington when we first arrived, and gave her lunch away to hungry students often enough that she knew to pack several sandwiches. So, even countries with comparably strong social supports can run into this issue.
https://twitter.com/dmarti/status/1477389651849756674?s=21

> An NFT is like being the Foursquare Mayor of a JPEG
Bitcoin doesn’t operate without the traditional finance system, either. Exchanges interface with it all the time.
Obligatory disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer.

I'm pretty sure your text doesn't do what you think it does. Dual-licensing means that there are two licenses and the user can choose which one to use. The GPL + commercial combo works because there are reasons why commercial entities would want to avoid GPL licenses. Mainly, to not have to release whatever they are building as GPL too. So when you give a choice of GPL 'BUT also' commercial, there will be people who will opt for commercial to build their closed-source application.

However, if you give an MIT + commercial combo, there is no reason why one should opt for the commercial one. Unless your commercial license includes some SLA agreement or something as a carrot.

You seem to think that you can enforce use cases for the MIT license, which is not really the case. If you attach conditions to your MIT license, it is not MIT anymore. Neither is it open source.

Not everything has to be open source though. I think something like the Fair Source license [0] aligns with your intent better.

[0] https://fair.io
what site did you give your government id and cc info to so you could buy tokens in the first place and who do you trust more
I feel like I must be in a distinct minority because I personally prefer painted bike lanes over any other alternative. It's pretty rare in my own experience to have cars ignoring or being impatient with them (maybe because I like in a fairly bike-friendly city) I also don't like getting stuck behind really slow people in physically separate lanes where there's no room to pass.
> They say things like people won't play games unless their getting paid (i.e. NFT like reward system)

I agree that is BS. I tried out a few "Play2Earn" dApps and they are in no way a replacement for modern video games. Some of them weren't even dApps, like one game running on a discord bot where you basically had to spam commands to earn tokens that you could withdraw. Guess what happened? Discord banned the bot for gambling features and the token tanked. The server is back up somehow with some features stripped out and I'm amazed people are running back to it after countless red flags.

Nobody is in it for the enjoyment because there is no "game", it's just people looking to make a quick buck. The P2E games which are "single player" necessarily have to function as a Ponzi to keep new players coming. If you try to run the game logic on chain, you will be severely limited in terms of scope which means that PvP games will need a centralized server to run the game itself in which case there's no reason not to cheat the hell out of it.
This whole situation would be solved by a simple change to the tax code. Managed healthcare (health insurance) can no longer be purchased via employers with pre tax income.

Everyone gets funneled to healthcare.gov where they can choose.

The whole buying things (life insurance, gym membership, retirement savings) with pre tax income if it is bought through an employer system needs to go in the trash.
is this an "I was wrong?"

"One doctor’s campaign to stop a covid-19 vaccine being rushed through before Election Day"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/1010646/campaign...
And maybe UK, and maybe Austria, and maybe Australia? Check the work of Edward Snowden, see who shares data with the NSA.
Is there actual enforcement of people stopping their car or parking in those lanes? Doesn't happen for the most part in the US.
It makes sense if you replace GitHub with Microsoft in your sentence ; )
You are in luck, they just updated it today.
This is similar in spirit with what https://tidelift.com is trying to do. I'm not convinced this will work at scale.

At the end of the day, open source software is different than commercial software is what you're proposing.
How good are the drivers with Linux?

A family member bought both an Epson and a large flatbed HP printer in the past few years. Neither of them work (recognized, but do not print) while my much older (over a decade and a half) HP printer does work including scanning.
They did a great way of encouraging biking and reducing total carbon emissions. I hope that other countries will start doing this like this and will create an overall effort to impact our environment positively.
Lobbing in the US at least I’d typically referring to large institutions , not citizens. The elimination of lobbying in the US is most often reference to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court.
I did something similar by switching back to my old Lenovo after a poor experience with a HP computer. I tell here my story for those interested in cases like the one described in the article.

Three years ago, I was feeling that my Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 540 (2014) was a bit outdated, and since I just won a grant and had some money for this, I looked for a new laptop. At the time, my employer encouraged all the staff to buy laptops from HP; the discount was not significant, but for those that accepted to follow that route, the amount of bureaucracy was significantly less (I work in a public university in Italy, and the bureaucracy for even the simplest tasks can be daunting!). The model I chose was a HP ProBook G450, and I bought an extended warranty too.

After less than one year, one of the small plastic clips holding each key in place on the keyboard got loose, and after having put it again in place a few times, after a couple of weeks broke. I contacted the assistance, asking for a replacement of the pin. Well, they told me that my extended warranty did not cover «external peripherals» like the keyboard (wtf, is the keyboard in a laptop an external perhiperal?!). The person at the phone was clearly embarassed in telling me that HP's policy prevented them from sending these paper clips by email, and he instead told me that the only solution was to substitute the whole keyboard for ~340€. Obviously I refused. I started looking for replacement pins on eBay (which were sold for <1€ each), but in the meantime another key pin broke, followed by another one, and another one… In a few months, I had a dozen of keys with broken pins! (Before suggesting that I should type with less force, let me say that I have a soft touch, and that no other laptop I owned had this kind of problem.)

I decided to buy a replacement keyboard on eBay, after I quickly checked on YouTube that there were videos showing how to make the replacement step by step. Once I got the keyboard by email, I started tearing apart the laptop as described in these videos, but at the end I found that some glue was keeping the keyboard attached to the frame, and that I should have used some solvent to remove it and then glue it again. (It would have been better for me to view the video in its entirety before ordering the replacement!)

I was scared by the idea of doing this kind of work, as I never did something similar before, so I decided that I would have instead removed the pins from the new keyboard and used them in the laptop. I put together every piece of the laptop again, but I probably broke some wire or misplaced some component, because once assembled the computer refused to start! Out of frustration, instead of debugging the problem, I took my old Lenovo Thinkpad out of the shelf and upgraded its OS, putting the two-year-old HP back in a drawer.

It has been my workhorse again since six months, and despite not being as performant as the other one, at least it works! In particular, now I am really appreciating the sturdy keyboard, which is still working fine after 8 years. To think that I disliked it when I typed on it for the first time!
> It's simply a currency with the total supply being 1. Nothing less, nothing more.

Yes, exactly like that unique scrap of paper, of which there is only 1 in existence. The fact that OP wrote an URL on it is not important, it could have been a sticker, or a coffee mug stain, or even nothing at all. The scrap of paper is guaranteed to be unique since you can never rip out the same piece of paper again, the fringes would be all different

I find it a good analogy
> 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.

Did you mean you use Pinboard because it's made by one person? Or is it the same case w/ Pocket? That'd be news to me!
Your average American doesn’t have the pull to effect change. The majority of Americans support government taking a greater role in healthcare (per Pew Research), but Congressional reps won’t vote for it, so you have to wait for people to age out for change. In the interim, everyone overpays and suffers.
China targets 2023-2025 for recovery in international air travel
> Who are those people?

Maybe regular posters to /r/unexpectedgwennhadu/?

On a more serious note, the Bretagne independence movement used to be quite strong (relatively speaking) until the mid- to late-1990s, I can see some people still not being happy with the Paris administration sending airplanes upon their lands.