skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
L'Abri Fellowship: Shelter for honest questions
Anyone that would want to own such a thing probably cares about what it points at so they're more than likely going to possess the illegal content as well. For example if you own an art NFT that is on IPFS you probably want to pin it yourself to make sure the link doesn't rot whilst you own it. Then some images are actually on-chain so the NFT and a copy of the picture exist together.

That said there is an explicit link between the NFT and the child sexual abuse material so I'd presume there is a legal case that keeping one is keeping the other. Like if you made sure your hard-drive was totally clean but kept bookmarks to abuse material.

In the example of cocaine there is no explicit link but if they could connect the NFT to a criminal enterprise then I guess there's likely some laws around profiting/handling gains from criminal activity.
Because non PoW algorithms are inferior, and bitcoin can be entirely powered from stranded energy that would not otherwise be used
Well it’s a less fancy version, considering that a notary public can legally notarize a binding contract between two parties.

The analogy I have been using with my artist friend (who is interested in their use for selling digital art) is a global bulletin board.
Why would the (most likely) first world power drive shitty cars ?
If they didn't do that, what would have happened?

I don't think this is a great piece of writing as it doesn't really say much about these people's legacy. Only the legacy of one man through his entire career.
The key word is fraud: getting something for nothing. Medicare itself bills at a lower rate than private insurance. For many doctors and hospitals, Medicare can be a margin-reducing annoyance. The private insurance patients are where the moneys at.
It will be acquired below the IPO price (per share) from more than 10 years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/16/zynga-ipo...

"Zynga IPO fails to generate stock market 'pop' on disappointing debut

"Shares lose momentum after initial surge, as games firm behind Words with Friends goes public on Nasdaq stock exchange

"Fri 16 Dec 2011 17.17 GMT

"After months of hype and speculation, Zynga, the 4-year-old games company behind FarmVille and Words with Friends, has had a disappointing debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

"Many tech firms enjoy spectacular first-day "pops", with stratospheric rises in their share price in the early hours of trading. Zynga's shares, priced at $10, rose 11% initially, before closing out the day at $9.45. Wall Street, it seems, isn't playing Zynga's game. At least not yet."
> This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not.

This is usually sorted out before mass vaccination. We rolled out completely novel technologies and skipped the medium and long term safety steps.

If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this. The future of mRNA will be circling the drain, and vaccination in general may go down with it. Distrust in science and government will soar and it may take decades to fix.
You mean the number between b3a07c4d42880e69398e05392405050efeea0664c0b638b7c986556fa9b58d77b31a40eb6a4fdba1e4537229d9f779daad1cc41ee968153cb71f27dc9696d40e and b3a07c4d42880e69398e05392405050efeea0664c0b638b7c986556fa9b58d77b31a40eb6a4fdba1e4537229d9f779daad1cc41ee968153cb71f27dc9696d410 ?
What is an acceptable derogatory term when you need one?
> Excess deaths

Excess deaths are not just due to COVID.
"assuming similar demand" relies on people believing that they'll be able to sell their BTC at an arbitrary point in the future to realize any profit they've made - if they don't believe that then they won't buy. Banning bitcoin mining puts a huge negative pressure on people believing that will be the case. It's likely that would drag the price down more than the limited supply will push the price up.
Looks at the CDC numbers. Accidental deaths are up several fold.
Are there a limited number of NFTs, then? INT_MAX?
> the people who get care

There is a sad trend where the small doctors -- who can't survive without group power -- join conglomerates, the conglomerates buy hospitals, and finally the conglomerates close the less performant facilities. You get large states with vast underserved geographies.

The OP headline is we are careening towards a luxury retail arrangement like Trader Joes: they will only have "outlets" in the richest areas. There's no regulation around closing hospitals so this is coming fast. Two in my county closed this year and I am far from rural.
Can't be flu can it, because that's miraculously disappeared!
The whole 'extra-governmental' thing is also a bit of a problem. How many governments would be happy to lose control like that?
>> If people are making so much noise about this technology-- if it IS technology, at all-- then surely it does SOMETHING... right?
>> (The answer is, no. It does absolutely nothing.)

>> It records a crytocurrency transaction and appends arbitrary data to the transaction.

Seems contradictory. They do nothing...except this thing that they do. Seems like just another "old man yelling at the clouds" style thread to cause controversy and generate engagement without saying anything remotely new or interesting.
Well, of course that hiring a consultant to lead the project for you will cost you more than not paying anything to your co-founder who works for stock only. If you can find a co-founder with both the expertise and will to work just for some hypothetical money on the end of the rainbow, great for you, you should go with it.

And if not, you can always hire a consultant and accept it as a realistic cost of running the business, instead of feeling being ripped off because you could have had it cheaper "only if".
Which one did you take?
Yarn at least includes a hash of the tarball in the lockfile, so even if npm’s immutability fails somehow you’ll at least know.
I believe I read that sugar from fresh fruit enters slower because the fibers as opposed to processed products.
Very nice, love it.
I believe parent referred to Medicare as a subset in American health care that is socialized, to some degree.
Great idea, there are lots of others that are showing you if SPF/DMARC/DKIM work correctly but this one is also great for people trying to set up mail server and are confused what is actually going on.

Nice work.

It would be very nice if more header information would be exposed so you exactly see what is taken into account.
Driving to a testing center and sitting in your car could easily use $3 in gas and more of your time. 7-11 is absolutely everywhere here, you don't understand the level of convenience.

I'm in my condo right now, I could go to a 7-11, come back and have my result all within 10 minutes for $3. But yeah car culture in America is great
It's actually trivially easy once you remove ambient authority, which is the real source of these security problems. Consider how a program could modify your files if it cannot willy-nilly turn any old string into a file handle.
We keep cats, cause they are small and fun to be around. Not because they laugh or have high IQ.
> This is so easily disproved

Oh, you were checking every dying patient?
Fraud being changed for unneeded services?

Not sure what your point is.
All these checks for validity, and still, my Gmail spam folder overflows. What was the point again?
This is not the case where I live, work and practice medicine
This. Ultimately the defence blockchain has against hard forks is exactly the same as the defence other monetary systems have against things like hyperinflation and mass asset seizure which cryptoenthusiasts worry about: generally the people with the [hash]power have strong incentives not to do so. Except when those incentives change. In both cases, how much confidence you can place in that theoretical incentive structure protecting you varies widely according to who and why (you can be pretty confident that your US dollars won't be hyperinflated, the contents of your Swiss bank account won't be seized to balance another government's books and nobody with significant hashpower cares that you scammed Joe Sixpack out of BTC. You can't be so confident your Venezuelan Bolivars or shitcoins won't become worthless next month or that you'll get to spend gains from a heist against an Ethereum Foundation or US government flagship project.
For anyone who wants the most powerful laptop from this generation, T530/W530 can be equipped with i7-3940XM and has a good wide gamut FHD display. igpu models are recommended for battery life and linux. They are also supported well by coreboot, and you'll be able to run just about any OS on them. A slightly newer T440p is also a decent choice.
Fair enough. Those tunnels are wider than I initially thought. Still, it's putting a lot of faith in the ventilation systems.

That said the comparison to the london underground is hardly fair. For starters it has emergency exits in the front giving a LOT more space for egress than the tesla. Not to mention that trains catching fire is much rarer than cars (of any sort) catching fire. I simply don't trust teslas to have gotten reliable enough for small diameter tunnels without service tunnels to not be a problem. Tesla seems to be reinventing the train poorly.
Laptops in the early 2010s kind of reached a level of being adequate enough for most use-cases that it's hard to really justify an upgrade.

I feel, as I write this on my late 2013 MacBook Pro, that it's powerful enough for most normal activities, read, browse, video calls, work on not too large data sets, etc. Anything that needs to run longer than I keep the laptop open can run on a different device, many programs are now web apps. The screen has a high resolution and the keyboard is good, if only battery and RAM replacements were easier it would be as good as new.

This is different to for instance my older laptop from 2008 or that before from 2004 - horrible screens, battery life, no fast wifi or USB.

But also compared to newer laptops, mine seems to get exactly the right balance between being robust and lightweight.
Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick
That is how averages work. One could equally point out that 0.6% IFR actually underestimated the risk for some adults.

Many people shared Facebook memes of a “99.9%” survival rate not understanding that they personally were at greater risk than that. This page was available on the CDC website for quite a long time explaining the different risks in a pretty straightforward table https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
Storing results between Airflow runs
That “crypto bashing comment chain” is just as relevant today as it was when it was posted 16 months ago.

People are still struggling to articulate a legitimate use case for cryptocurrencies.

I made some money mining BTC way back in the day with a GPU. I bought a new computer for $1,900 last year and much more than paid for it mining ETH. I’ve spent years now listening to all the claims from BTC, BCH, BSV and a dozen more coins and web3 proponents. But I’ll be damned if I can articulate a legitimate use for it that is better than what we have today or that doesn’t fail to take human nature into consideration.
I agree. I think efficient market is a great zeroth (or even first) approximation, with obvious and rather narrow limitations. Unfortunately too much is build upon this approximation.
In my view, the fact that we don't know, is a major part of the problem. Our system is such an entangled web of business entities, that we probably have no idea where the money is coming from and going to. Everybody says that somebody else is gouging us, which means that they're all probably gouging us.

And they are all invested in each others bags. For instance I've read that doctors are major investors in health providers, are often the owners of the expensive equipment, and also heavily invested in the malpractice insurance industry.

Half of billing is multiple businesses billing one another.

It seems quite possible that what makes government health care more efficient is simply knowing where the money is going, if it's all coming out of one checkbook.
Haha I’ve been working at the same place for 9 years. Last year I came across some code and thought “who the fuck wrote this shit”. Looked at the history. I wrote it 7 years earlier. Always fun to dunk on old code but still appreciate it pays the bills.
I can picture the person who "invented" NFTs reading The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, and an evil grin spreading slowly across their face.
> suicides and overdoses are up

Do you have reliable statistics on that? Quick ducking showed that suicide rates in the US rose during the 2010's, but it's hard to find more recent numbers. This article claims that suicide rates fell in 2020.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/03/health/suicide-rate-2020-...
It's still a better metric than some guy on science.com effectively saying
"I feel this number should be much higher"
The Deno docs say:

> make sure you carefully consider if you want to grant a program --allow-run access: it essentially invalidates the Deno security sandbox

Saying Deno shouldn't "pretend" (or attempt) to provide more security because a non-default flag invalidates the sandbox (as stated clearly in the docs for that flag) seems slight hyperbole.

It would admittedly be cool if we could use this flag securely (though I'm sure the implementation complexity would be significant, and more code surface area is never nice to audit).
Ultra-low-cost airlines flock to Boeing's 737 Max as talk of safety vanishes
So I take it your'e still freelancing?
peole are different. I loose appetite and forget to eat enough and regularly enough when depressed, found the "last 4 hours" prompt to be a useful reminder and it would definitely not serve me well if I was told to eat less frequently
Anecdotal data point from Germany. SMS is still 9ct per message if you don't pay for a package with included text messages, MMS is around 39ct/300kb, and as far as I know there are no (and have never been at any price point) packages with included MMS messages.

It's not surprising >90% of people in Germany use WhatsApp (+ other messengers)
Except, would you trust a notary public in, say, Sudan?

NFT gif collections are obviously speculative money/crypto-laundering garbage, but there is a real use hiding in there somewhere.
Which is why you only use `npm install` for development, and `npm ci` for production.
WSL1 as far as I understand works like wine, transpiling calls to NT. But isn't WSL2 just a VM?
I believe you would need to add it to your local dns host configuration.

For example (on a mac):
https://setapp.com/how-to/edit-mac-hosts-file

64.62.134.190 pinboard.in
Here you go: https://www.uriports.com/tools?method=dmarc
This is a very white collar view of a manager. Hourly wage workers have a relationship that is much more like supervisor or overseer. They actively police your activities, timing, behavior, in ways office workers don't deal with near as much.

Anyway why do you care so much about what your coworkers are doing or how policies are being applied to them? You don't know what's going on with them, why not just focus on your work.
Worth noting that Germany also spends more on healthcare than the UK does: $6,646 per capita vs $4,653 per capita in 2019 [0]. That's quite a significant difference.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
I'm not pro-NFT in any way, but this other Twitter thread raises some interesting counter-arguments to this common criticism: https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1456399715646513153

TL;DR NFTs that point to centralized mutable databases like s3 are a bad idea, but people are working on immutable data storage technologies like IPFS.
What conclusion, I'm not asserting they are going to fail. Startup failure rates are close to 90%, being concerned that this startup might also fail isn't unreasonable.
Potential government action goes beyond chasing a friendly regime and low electricity prices.

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?

That's not fantastical. We already do this with trading with countries that are sanctioned (eg Iran). The US uses this power to exert influence on foreign banks so it's not just a US banking issue.

And I agree: governments don't willingly lose control.
Fire writing!
Indeed, that’s why I gave the context.
Only 11 provinces are reporting zero current cases: https://news.sina.cn/zt_d/yiqing0121
The point is, if you want people to review the code before they deploy it, it's better to just give them a source file.

Package managers just make it so convenient to use code without ever looking at it.
I don’t see how it would help to dispose of “or”. It would just make it less readable.
> I think that knowingly exploiting people's trust to stop their software working should be treated as evidence of hacking

How so? The license that you accept each time you install or update the library explicitly states:

"IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY [...]"

Use of automation software (npm, yarn) to auto-magically fetch newer versions of your dependencies doesn't absolve you of respecting the terms of the license. Newer versions could have a different license or contain completely different code, there are no guarantees and no contracts.

> It's like if you went to work one day with a spray can hidden in your jacket and started graffitiing the office walls

I don't think that's a good analogy at all. I think this is much closer to the truth:

It's like your boss called you into the office (i.e. explicit software update), gave you a signed waiver that said you couldn't be held liable for anything that you did to the building (i.e. LICENSE) and told you to go crazy (i.e. not auditing the update), so you spray painted the walls and left.

> Would you still blame the victim for their "self-inflicted injury"

No, because professional software developers and end users should be held to a different standard. The fact that you should be auditing your dependencies is well known, precisely because of such scenarios, but people still choose to ignore it because it's inconvenient. This should be the final wake-up call for devs to start pinning and auditing their dependencies.

For the casual end user, replacing functionality of "File > Open" button would be a dick move by the authors, but still within their rights (assuming MIT license).

All in all, developers should be outraged at the state of the NPM ecosystem and their own software development/release practices. He could have easily stolen everyone's AWS access keys and other tokens/secrets if he truly wanted to be malicious.

You can call him an asshole and you'd likely be right, but he was fully within his rights to do what he did.
Yes, but anyone in US that has healthcare in US and reads the paragraph above will come to a conclusion along the lines of 'Wait, my experience wasn't bad; what am I missing?'. As a result, you may end up making an opposite of the point you are trying to make.
The only feature NFTs have is it makes people money
Having a car is not a requirement to get tested. It has made it really easy to get tested though. For what it’s worth, this isn’t our idea as a nation. Korea was doing it before us.

The drive through testing really does offload a lot of stress that would otherwise be placed on physicians and pharmacies. The logistics are a huge win. Locally we’ve had unoccupied parking structures used to house the tests. Even without that you basically just need a parking lot, a couple tents, and a restroom.

If you’re so sick you can’t drive you can have DoorDash or any other delivery service send you an at home test. If you’re too sick for that, you probably should call for medical services and not an antigen test.

I’m in Georgia, which has not offered any support for people during the pandemic beyond what the Federal government provided, and it’s pretty easy to get a test due to the efforts of private companies. If you don’t have a car you can often walk up provided there is a sidewalk. We also have testing available in every chain pharmacy and in dedicated facilities that have sprung up in unoccupied mall space or buildings used by bank branches and fast food establishments that are vacant.
I’m confused at this position that bothersome colleagues who don’t communicate enough can be attributed to a specific diagnosis. People can be all sorts of non communicative just because they don’t believe you’re worth their time, or they’re too busy to answer your questions.
A co-op may be a better structure than a non-profit.
That's a good thing because said governments are pushing miners to out of reach regions.
One thing to note - they cover case reports following six major vaccine platforms, not just the mRNA ones. The review seems pretty good about differentiating when summarizing, but a lot (maybe a third?) of their descriptions of the individual case reports don’t specify which vaccine was given so you have to jump to the cited report in those cases.
Cool! But, as someone who used to be very competitive with fast touch typing and then suffered some long-term injuries, I say do not overdo it. It hurts your fingers. Learn how to type correctly, but do not hurt your fingers and do not aim for speed.

Even though I have recovered physically, my fingers still (mentally) hurt when I try to type very fast. It hurts even when I think about it.
I'm curious how you can suggest the US government spends the most money in the world, by far, on healthcare and the simultaneously suggest there's less government involvement.

The government is involved in every step of American healthcare. As you can imagine of a system that gets all of its funding thru companies completely overseen by regulatory bodies or thru social programs.
We do, just for certain groups, such as elderly and the poor. Hell like 40% of births here are paid for by medicaid. But we have system here where only up to upper middle class (~$142k) of income is paid to social security tax, so middle class pays for both poor and themselves, while poor pays for no one and rich disproportionately only pay for themselves.
Toyota announced last week it's going to offer a full overhaul of its BEVs in the UK every few years. So you can drive it back to the manufacturer and they will make it new, much like a major revision of an aeroplane.
This is what should be happening with laptops as well. Sealed devices are a thing of the moment and will not last imho.
I grew my audience to 30K+ as 14 year old
With so much horseshit, there has to be a pony in there somewhere.
The only source of their stats is the party. It's part of their politics to downplay the bad and show off the good. They have nothing to gain by showing to their population that they are weak in front of this pandemic.
Excess deaths - and maybe a QALY-loss estimate - are the only way to "score" the pandemic and different countries' response to it, but I suspect there will be a lot of writing on "actual COVID deaths" versus "deaths from hospitals deferring treatment due to COVID surges" versus knock-on deaths attributable to the pandemic, lockdowns, unemployment.

We're getting so much interesting data out of this pandemic, both biological and sociological. Which public health measures were effective? Which ones were acceptable to different populations, and why? How does misinformation flow? How well can governments control the narrative?

There are going to be PhD theses built on this for the next ten, twenty years.
Thanks for bringing this up. I will check whether such a facility exists in the village where my parents live.
If you’re curious, they live in Srirangam, Trichy, TamilNadu.
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