skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Interoperability of digital goods would allow the creator economy to grow in very cools ways.

NFTs only solve one part of the problem though - rights management. You still need a good way for a cosmetic designed for game X to work in game Y. That's similar to any multi-platform development challenge. There are many other economic decisions that will have to be experimented with, including tax collection, platform fees, creator fees on resale, etc. It needs to work for everyone or it won't get the reach it needs to really empower users.

Whether or not NFT actually add anything here comes down to the remaining technical challenge of interoperability. Is it common for parties to agree on a common asset definition but not a common rights management platform? That's the situation where NFT help.
A manager offering an extra vacation day as an incentive when you have flexible time off is everything that is wrong with FTO.
It's ok to express frustration with something without having a solution to it.
> The main difference is that the decision of painting the road or segregating traffic in the Netherlands is based on traffic volume and traffic speed. High speed high traffic zones get segregate bicycle traffic. Low speed low traffic routes can cope with mixed traffic and just a side lane for bicycles.

The current standard technically doesn't allow for bicycle gutters: Traffic should be either fully mixed on low speed, low volume streets or fully separated. Though bicycle gutters do still get made (space being the primary excuse), from what I've seen it's primarily old roads that have yet to be renewed since the standards changed.

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/cycle-lanes-in...
A lot of bike paths here in Copenhagen are simply painted and it works fine, even for small kids.
It's too bad Ruby isn't seen as 'cool' anymore, it's just so easy to be productive in it. And now MJIT, YJIT and TruffleRuby are making some very impressive performance gains. Rails is also better than ever and I still can't think of a better language for scripting.
Each time the incumbent A snuffs out such a competitor, they have to give away a lot of cash.

While financing this might become profitable after the competitor goes bankrupt and A raises prices again, there is a continuous stream of competitors trying to profit, which might erode A's capital to a point where it's not worth dumping.

There is also the risk of a bankrupt competitor open-sourcing their product out of either spite or benevolence, significantly and permanently demonetizing the product in question, damaging A (the dumper's) finances.

And yet another risk is the competitor not going bankrupt, but merely scaling down while A is done with its dumping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
In that case, given that plane tickets are bound to a specific person, you walk up to the counter, identify with your passport/drivers license, request a replacement ticket and that's it.
Thanks for posting this. Without having dug very deep, I would say it appears that L'Abri has remained true to its original mission and convictions.
I have the opposite opinion of painted-line bike paths: I'd rather they not be there at all. If they are there I feel forced to use them by drivers punishment passing me, despite the fact that the so-called bike lanes are full of glass, potholes and cars.

If they aren't there I feel like I get treated with more patience when I ride in my normal road position, about 75 cm from the kerb.
And then you need network adoption. Once there is an environmentally friendly Blockchain, you still gotta shut down all the rest.
did you read it?
Existence, perhaps.

Ownership, no. That's a legal concept.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/30/22860010/bored-ape-yacht...

> A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody. Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Now the dueling projects are selling their apes while dodging bans from other marketplaces, becoming the latest example of how the NFT world handles copied art.

The only thing that determines the real Bored Ape Yacht Club is an off-chain belief that it's the legitimate one.

Hell, they can't even agree on which one is the real fake.

> Somewhat ironically, PAYC and PHAYC have since fought on Twitter over which one is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff, with PAYC’s founder referring to PHAYC as a “cash grab fraud project.” PHAYC charged people to mint its apes, and CoinDesk reports that it took in around 500 ETH (or around $1.8 million) in sales. By contrast, it says PAYC earned around 60 ETH (or roughly $225,000) from its paid sales.
Wait, you are making this much too complicated. I think if you take a step back and realize that the industry of hats in games that have zero effect except being cosmetic is enormous. Don't ask me why - I think anyone who pays actual money for an in-game cosmetic item is a fool, but that's beside the point.

But now imagine if 10 different AAA game studios realize that they can create a market in which people instead of paying $5 for a hat or $1 for a loot box with 10% chance of finding a hat-they pay $100 for a hat NFT and $10 of that is a transaction fee to the studio. They pay $100 for it, because a) it will work across games and b) it might be worth $10k tomorrow. The studios can take a cut on each transfer, instead of just one fee! So these studios just scaled up their hat business a lot and all they had to do was agree to honor the hat ledger which says that only the hat's rightful owners can wear the hats.

There is obviously no problem moving the hats between different games (A purely cosmetic thing is pretty easy to implement).

The fact that the honoring of the NFTs is still voluntary from the studios, that it's just as centralized as ever, and that it might disappear the day the studios no longer make money from this is of course lost on the hat buyers. The tokens are extremely fungible.
That's why the different between the neutralizing antibodies and T cells is so important: when the pandemic is raging, your odds of exposure are high and so public health people are concerned about the ability of vaccinated individuals to slow the spread impacting the entire healthcare system. The medical system is under levels of stress which haven't been seen in a century so they're understandably focused on trying all of the tools available to calm things down.

Once it's spreading at a lower level, your risk of personal exposure is much lower and the long-lasting T cell response becomes more of a focus because that reduces risk to the person and you're less worried about the crunch of many thousands of people showing up at the hospital at the same time because for someone vaccinated it's more like something like influenza where most people have a bad week or two but don't urgently need medical treatment.
Smart is a very vague criterion. What you need is people curios and intelligent enough to be able to do independent research and
It's very difficult to judge whether someone would be a good scientist before trying them with real PhD work. This process takes years so there's no way to judge how smart or successful a PhD student will be. The master's work can give a hint of how serious the student is but it's not enough because it doesn't require the same degree of independence as a PhD.
If we'd had total lock-down for two weeks it would have slowed the spread and businesses might have been able to re-open. Instead we had half-assed lockdowns forever.
And like Amiibos, support across games is almost always "you get a small non-unique bonus" because implementing specific content for each amiibo is time consuming. So you end up with a complex matrix of which games actually have real support for which amiibos, and realize they aren't as interoperable as they are advertised.
> This never seems to be a talking point. Have the statisticians controlled for all this when they come to these conclusions??

I never see this as a talking point of folks who are in favor of universal / state-funded healthcare, but it is often a talking point for those who are opposed. They point to the links between state-funded healthcare and the soda tax in the UK as an example of how allowing the government to control your healthcare results in more aggressive and manipulative social policy to control health outcomes societally. Many people opposed to state-funded healthcare feel rather strongly that you should be able to do pretty much whatever you like with your body as long as you're paying for it yourself. I consider this take to be missing quite a lot, but it does seem to be a common one. I am personally in favor of universal single-payer healthcare systems, so I've had this conversation a lot due to my surroundings and have heard just such this argument many times.
Neistat's Bike Lanes is a perennial classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ
capitalism seems like a more likely home for broadly distributed systems than government systems which are, by their nature, centralized
There is an issue that needs consideration, if you compare to Japan which has enormous cycle usage. Although it is good for air pollution, you end up seeing whole seas of cycles everywhere which is not nice in terms of the aesthetic nvironment. Go to a normal suburban train station and there might be 500+ bikes all in a massive area.

Better than a large car park but we don't get many large station car parks in the UK. At least with mass transit like buses and trains, the vehicle isn't parked anywhere for any length of time whereas most cycles have very low utilisation in terms of hours per day.

It is impossible without registration to know how many bikes are abandoned. Not sure if the authorities in Japan already have a system for dealing with that.
Yes, it also ignores that price is only one of many factors in the market - doesn't matter to some consumers how cheap your widget is if my widget has new tech/features not found in your widget and consumers need those features. So company A in the example could drop prices and still not be able to compete with the superior product from company B. Happens all the time in the real world.
"...that some government interventions to address the apparent shortcomings of capitalism invite cronyism"

LOL, so yet again, govermint is the problem!

It should be increasingly clear by now that capitalism itself is the problem. It naturally leads to the rich getting richer, and despoils everything in the name of profit, unless it is reigned in by government, taming it for the benefit of society, not just profit and growth. Cronyism is a symptom of too much private power.
This is perhaps the most trafficked new bike path in Milan, going to the city center from North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBeEBgodCw

It was built in Spring/Summer 2020. You may start from 1:00 if you're in hurry, you'll get the idea. They moved the parking area towards the center to make way for a protected bike path. The road is narrower for cars but it was stop and go anyway (mostly stop).

Further North, on the way out from the city, they didn't move the parking area. They painted a line between the cars and the parking area.
Any confirmation of this? A bbc article updated only a few minutes ago doesn't mention it

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-australia-59909477

> the Australian immigration minister is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to use his personal power to cancel the visa for a second time.

I think the OP article is mistaken
Why is it up to governments to decide whether Bitcoin is a good idea or not?
The author makes an important distinction between state enabled cronyism and market activities. Comments here seem to be missing the point. Regulation is the pretense which enables cronyism.

I enjoyed his appearance on the "Economics for entrepreneurs" podcast.
I like the self-aware comment/plea of "FIXME".
Yes way more complex as a recent article outlined regarding a very relevant story.

"$35BN Match Group file multiple lawsuits against muzmatch following repeated failed acquisition offers" -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29860034
Gitea is very lightweight, easy to get started with, and all-around fantastic Git host, although it does less than Gitlab (I don't think it does CI as a built-in feature, for instance). The web interface is lightning-fast, almost as fast as a native app (no exaggeration here). I'd you have a little spare RAM and a CPU core, it's a great start to self-hosting Git. I have been running it for at least a year, and liked it.

If you want more of a one stop shop, Gitlab is a good alternative. The web UI is slower than Gitea, and the resource requirements specified really do match reality. Don't run it on less than quad core with 8GB of RAM, because it will be slow.
Or this:

Code as if the next guy is a violent psychopath who knows your address.
GitHub Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
> such a system won't be found in capitalism

It won't be found even harder in communism, where the cronyism is baked into the system of governance.
It is very rare to see GIF images these days. 99.9% of the time I hear GIF people are talking about videos (usually short and automatically looping).

The fact that GIF videos are considered an image is really just a quirk of evolution of the image format to support videos and browsers supporting these videos in an <img> tag (and nowhere else).
My favorite laptop is an Acer I bought new in early 2009 for maybe $400. The only hardware change I made was to upgrade the RAM from 2 GB to max it out at 4 GB.

There are a couple of advantages. First, it's a joy to type on something with a good keyboard. Part of it is that older laptops have more bulk to them, and that makes for a better typing experience for me. Second, modern displays are the wrong shape. It's hard to find a nearly-square screen these days. Performance is not an issue. It's the most responsive computer I own. I'm running AntiX, a distro that shows how to do lightweight right.

Having said all of the above, one thing limits my usage. It has a 32-bit CPU. Among other things, that means no Electron apps, and one in particular is critical to my workflow.
As they did last year... There was quite some adapting for the drivers then and still confusing for drivers not familiar with these streets. Newly painted lanes with width that would vary every 50-100 meters (or less), random taxi/bus stops and parking being interchanged with the bike lane... Not easy for the riders nor the drivers...
All encryption schemes have this problem. You never really know who you're communicating with unless you trade keys irl.
For my X220 I went for a cheap generic Chinese import (either Amazon or Ebay), its about 90% capacity of a genuine, but the price is so low its not a worry.
The entire basis of modern public administration (and one of the reasons it can be more bureaucratic than market mechanisms for delivering services) is that it attempts to rigorously exclude cronyism. The reason for civil service tenure, for example, was to stop politicians selling public service jobs to the highest bidder, or handing them over as a quid-pro-quo for favourable decisions. As seen in the late 19th and early 20th Century 'Progressive' movement in the US, for example, the idea was for a government of the highest possible rectitude.

Now, that obviously doesn't happen in all areas all of the time. And we have moved away from that kind of rules-structured ideal over the last forty years or so in pursuit of greater efficiency (which has re-introduced cronyism in the UK to a greater degree, for example - see the present government) but it's grossly over-simplified to say that cronyism is an 'essential' part of big government, when its original foundations were intended to produce a (big) government of laws and not men.
I subscribe to a couple private podcast feeds. I paid for those with a regular credit card, no NFT or cryptocurrency needed.
I say this as a blanket possibility: Possibly too much screen time doom scrolling.
I've run seti and protein folding applications in the past and your comparison does not hold up.

One runs sporadically, with each result (even the negative ones) being useful for mankind as a whole.

The other one is run dedicatedly 24/7, with almost absolutely all of the calculation being worthless in the end.

If it is to complex for some to understand then let me state the obvious; banning of and enforcement for home run crypto mining will not be feasable. That isn't what is being discussed. It is the large industrial scale that is being banned. Those can easily be monitored and shut down by energy companies and governments.

I say ban the whole thing. The whole thing is idiotic.
Equally fun is using a package or a part of it that you haven't used for a few years and going to read the docs for a certain feature... and realising you're the one that wrote those docs :)
My T440p started life in 2013 as a work PC in an engineering firm. Was then retired and sold for scraps to an employee, a friend of mine who later passed it on to me. I splashed out and bought a brand new, higher res display on eBay, less than USD 100 and the quality keeps blowing me backwards. Plus 8GB more RAM for a total of 12, and a new 1TB Samsung SSD, and soon perhaps a battery replacement. And they can damned well pry the thing from my cold, dead hands. It's just a superbly well designed and satisfying piece of machinery to handle.

Meanwhile, a much newer Lenovo is sitting largely unused except for the occasional batch job and some audio processing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in 2020 Zynga had revenues of $2,506m and losses of $270.3m.

https://investor.zynga.com/node/16156/html
qBT also has a nice WebUI that has feature parity with the desktop version (or at least near enough that I don't miss anything), which is very useful. Other clients (e.g. Transmission) do too, but I like qBT the most here.
Having read the news on a French website few days ago, suspicion goes to the usual suspects.
My career sounds similar but all at a large company. High performer initially. They wouldn't promote me, wouldn't give a modest raise, and then screwed me over a few times. It's been a downward spiral. I just don't care - even if I perform well I would probably get screwed like in the past.

My advice is to not care. If you get fired for work in tech for a non-tech larger company. It will be boring, but you'll get paid.
Cycle lanes are the subject of active and intense debate in the netherlands, and while they remain grandfathered (not sure they’re allowed for new roads) they are not the part of the recommendations.

Furthermore, the legal management of cycle lanes is a lot harsher in the netherlands: drivers are not allowed to drive, park, or stop in cycle lanes. Cycle lanes with solid lines can not be encroached on at all, while cycle lanes with dashed lines may be crossed or used to pass an obstacles.
There's a number of reasons why amiibo are not like NFTs:

* Nintendo chooses what amiibos are made. Centralized.

* There are many copies of a small number of amiibo types.
Fungible.

* You get a physical thing. Not a token

* Only nintendo games may use amiibos

* The data on the amiibo is uniquely interpreted for each game. It's not a generic interface. Not all amiibos will do anything to every game.

Amiibo, and pokemon (trading the pokemon) are great examples of how to trade and scale information exchanges in the real world without needing an NFT blockchain. Blockchains are terrible ideas for games.
Source? Because that sounds like a whole bunch of conspiracy theories packed together.
> Communism led to authoritarianism

And cronyism, too.
Confirmation bias goes both ways, I'm not saying anything about how it might be affecting perceived report frequency.

I'm saying a prediction about a specific timeline in years or decades is not important. Whether you're right that it was a few years or decades sooner than expected, or right that it was a few years or decades later than expected, doesn't really matter to me.
> If true, this means that much of Ethereum’s promise to decentralize the web is in fact a lie: it may instead be controlled by a group of elites whose existence has been purposefully concealed.

> This also means that if Eth switches to proof of stake, the larger hodlers will have the power to determine consensus.

Absolutely correct and this is where the web3 hype origins were from. They are using web3 to pump their bags to get late comers buying into the Ethereum dream of 'decentralisation'. First it was the ICOs, then ERC-20 tokens, NFTs, The DAO scandal and now you have web3.

Sounds like 'decentralies' from the start. This article [0] summarises the entire problems in 'web3' and the mismatch of its proposed goals.

[0] https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-sa...
Whatever happened to acid rain? (2018)
Is wealth inequality necessarily bad? Genuine question here.
Well anyone would be pissed if the only documentation was written by some asshole on his first week.
AFAIK, this is more of a belief than a fact. I would be very curious if you would show me a rigorous proof that e.g. SHA256 requires like on the order of 2^256 of operations to find a preimage of a random 256-bit string.
> With NFTs games can take a cut of resales

How is this a positive? Where were the people begging GameStop to write publishers a check for the used games they bought and resold?
Yes, the fundamental problem is that there is a strong feedback loop between capital and income, so that the more capital is accumulated, the more it produces income. In practical terms, it means that the rich can not only buy rewards for the work they've put in, they can also buy opportunities for additional income---opportunities that poorer people could've won with hard work but now are no longer available. This feedback loop is exacerbated by a lot of factors, including things like cronyism and winner-take-all digital markets, but the fundamental problem is intrinsic to capitalism.
> For I once again have trouble installing Nokogiri.

One could consider https://rubygems.org/gems/oga, as it doesn't have any installation problems. It's not actively maintained though (mostly because the author considers it to be complete). I do think the author is a bit of a weirdo though :)
Unregulated free trade doesnt reward corruption, it's the opposite. It rewards value to the consumer. Goverment intervention is what rewards corruption when it eventually becomes captured and now insiders control the levers of the economy forcing themselves on the end user. You need to invert your thinking, we need more freedom and less interventions by middle management. Market feedback needs to be emergent from the bottom up.
Since proof of work is inefficient in general and impossible for humans, society can only function with leaders. The problem with anti-capitalist ideology is that it without a healthy private sector, people who are uninterested in public service seek leadership positions there because those are the positions with most "profit." This is why every attempt at socialism has been a complete failure.
Incredibly disappointing to see foxhop's comments flagged and dead, while pickledhotdog's snark lives on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is worth a read.

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."
Was waiting for this after two top posts about IRC.
On my own private projects, I just do classical SSR inclusion of JavaScript libraries in Java and .NET frameworks and SCRIPT tags.

I don't even care nodejs exists.