skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question!

https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/effects-examples has links to tutorials and examples for how effects can be used.

There's also some slides from KC's talk on effect handlers https://kcsrk.info/slides/handlers_edinburgh.pdf and materials from the CUFP 17 tutorial: https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial

https://gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-bye-bye-monads-algebraic-eff... this is also a great introduction
Complaining about crony capitalism, yet using a computer, driving on roads, buying stuff from stores, all things provided by crony capitalists.

Go live in a cave if you have a problem with it.
Capitalism rewards owning capital heavily, so it naturally trends towards wealth concentrating. The argument against this is to regulate it, but overtime, you'll always end up trending towards capital becoming more powerful then the regulators. You'll always have Capital just buying the regulators, basically. You can have "resets" (like the Great Depression and WWII) that maybe fix this a little bit temporarily, but it'll end up going back to cronyism again as power (i.e. Capital) starts concentrating again.

Cronyism can exist in an economic system where there are positions of power. However, if you were to limit position of power, I believe you could make an economic system more resilient to cronyism. Obviously systems like the USSR had positions of extreme power so it was very prone to cronyism.
Yes, but what if the podcasters wanted to give you a special episode or discount for, let's say, buying their latest course on Udemy? You can set up a flow using private posts on both platforms by figuring a way of giving out promo codes or gift cards, but the implementation basically comes down to "Show me a receipt" - and that's exactly what NFTs happen to be.
Sure. It doesn't matter at a national population level.

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Excess deaths is an epidemiological measure and should be used for epidemiological purposes - targeting a public health response.

It seems like quite a few people have confused epidemiology, clinical care, and virology. Each of these fields can suggest data for the others, but can't speak definitively until the studies are actually done.

For example, some have said that omicron is more mild than other variants; but it would be more correct to say that the average experience of omicron in the population is more mild AT THIS TIME.

At this time, many people have been vaccinated or recovered from a previous infection, so without some very particular data, you cannot say that omicron is more mild.

Edit:

> you cannot say that omicron is more mild than another variant to any particular person in a clinical context.
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Weird, never heard of a strawman that actually keeps happening in real life, over and over. People may be disgusted by the incentives of capitalism, but their disgust hasn't changed it very much.
Except humans, business and politics are far too complex to encapsulate in laws, at least in their current format.

Look at a "simple" case in the news today. Several men who were abused in the 1970s have lost their case against Manchester City Football club who they say were responsible for the "scout" who abused them. If it was really simple, there would be no case. However, the Judge rules that at the time of the abuse, the man (who is currently in prison) was not officially a member of Man City staff so they are not liable vicariously for his actions.

I think something that is lacking in the UK at least, is more like a Charter for Society. What is it that we accept and don't accept. It would be much easier in Court if a ruling is made not just on the letter of a law that might not have thought of the specific scenario, not on common law of something that was close enough to this case but on whether it violates the charter.

Don't know, just a thought.
> PhD students not smart enough to ever be peers?

What is your method to determine this? Especially at the beginning of a students >= 5 year journey to earn a PhD?
It seems like cronyism can manifest in any system just as well as capitalism. Collectivist-isms are just as susceptible, and are perhaps more susceptible given their inherent dependence on the state's management of capital and resources. What do you think?
I couldn't stop chuckling over the example use cases' screenshot for Sentiment Analysis. Please don't remove it, it made my day and it's only 10am here.
NFTs are exactly as useless, in exactly the same way, as any and every fiat currency.
Netflix too. How much wasted screen energy and bandwidth do we need to consume until people recognize that streaming media is a blight on society?
Please don't take this the wrong way but I think you might need to get out of the political media trap. I say this because of the way you are parroting left wing media talking points. I have been there and I have no doubt you are well educated on the all the twists and turns regarding the political landscape and may even be taking the righteous side of the argument.

The question is, what value does having that knowledge provide you? Personally I came to the realization that no matter how much I "Know" about the "Truth", it is a waste of time and effort on my part. If I had spent half the time I did following US politics and the slanted media reports from both sides on learning about the stock market and chart analysis, I would in a much better place. Political news and it's infectious outrage is an addictive and toxic product designed to suck otherwise intelligent and good people into consuming their product.

As far as the article subject I was referring to, the military has a very good track record for breaking down then remolding young ideologs into good soldiers that follow orders. Any "leftist" media reports from authors that probably will not and have not served claiming there is a threat to democracy from insidious cabals of right wing extremists are ridiculous at best and most likely political propaganda to feed the beast.
Seems like life goals
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*If the banks valuation calculations are correct, which is unfortunately not always true. Case in point: the 2008 financial crisis.
Haha yea I'm to blame for the crappy UI... I believe in principle with shipping things you're uncomfortable with, but it also hurts my soul.
Perhaps I'm missing something but even as a crypto-hopeful this doesn't disturb me too much. Bitcoin et al. is better off without mining becoming consolidated into giant conglomerates.

The vision is for mining to be distributed amongst many small to mid-sized, non-colluding teams, the sum of whose hashpower is still greater than that which could be mustered by, say, a government or bank.

I hope that one day the UX and hardware for mining and joining mining pools becomes so simple and cheap it just makes sense for many semi-technical people to run a node in their home or contribute their compute/storage to distributed protocols. Even have this built into the operating system, with a simple toggle for turning it on and off.

Truly distributed mining is largely a UX problem. I hope that these bans may spur spur development on dead simple mining pools for all.
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I'm not trying to convince anyone. That was just a passing observation on my part because, as an MD, I have a very good idea of why healthcare is expensive. But I lost any hope of making anyone who's not working the clinics understand this
There is basically zero chance I would do these calls prior to an agreed on start date. I spend enough of my life working already.
Which leads to Nassim Taleb's "no skin in the game" problem.
It does! I didn't test it on huge functions yet but technically speaking, Codex is able to take into account about 14kb of memory, which translate to a few hundreds lines of code :)
Pretty sure a gamer, even heavy, still has to sleep sometimes.
What is the cause of the worker who needs to pay the boss a $1,000 bribe to get a lucrative job in a communist system? Is that the government?
> 1. With NFTs games can take a cut of resales. With something like cs:go there was a substantial secondary resale market for things like skins, which valve wasn’t able to capture but with NFTs they could have taken say 10% of each resale.

So what is EA's incentive to join the Valve blockchain where Valve gets 10% of each resale? And if there's no incentive for EA to join, why isn't it just a centralized marketplace rather than a blockchain?

> 2. Because the data is public it’s possible for other games to bootstrap off the data (we have seen this with “airdrops” in the crypto land). Meaning a game which is coming out can give some perk to people who own X in fortnite because they think their game is similar and want to entice people to try their game, especially people who they know like fortnite.

Valve and other companies already have this data, in much greater specificity than "this wallet owns a longsword".
I'm convinced that it happens proportionally to information transfer. What once took 10 years to slowly detect now takes about 1 year to realize you don't want the new [thing] because you're feeling a sense of deja vu.

In 15 years, it'll be a 3-month endeavor unless we see the human limits of perceptual processing hit a hard wall. I liken it to how memory used to be expensive and engineers cheap, and it's now the other way around.
Relevant news story to what you're saying: US States Ban Certain Alienware PC Sales Because They Use Too Much Power

https://www.ign.com/articles/dell-alienware-gaming-pcs-six-s...
That's why you use dual licensing; if you clearly state that you want the software to use MIT without money involved but something else if money is involved that is generally not a problem, never has been, and never will be: because it makes sense, it's fair and honest!
I don't think he pushed malware, did he? He just broke his own project and published the broken version. That's not pushing malware.

I don't get why people don't just pin versions, honestly.

I'm not saying he did a good thing. But neither did he push malware nor has he any obligation to publish unbroken packages. If you're using FOSS projects without a service contract, don't whine if something breaks.
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"Government casuses cronyism -- especially anti-cronyism laws". What should the role of government be? I guess the authors would say: Governments should be replaced with financial modeling. I'm not convinced.

There's something fundamentally undemocratic (and perhaps, sadly, realistic) about this take. Will advocating for broad de-regulation and business rule actually reduce cronism? Will it / can it reduce negative externalities?

I just think ... we've tried that. It's been the experiment of the last 40 years. What's next?
Americans seem really good at ignoring cyclists being run over. Children don't seem to walk/cycle and rely on being driven around by their parents here so they don't die as much (good, obviously people know its not safe) but doesn't promote infrastructure investment for alternative transit (bad).
I would guess the parent comment is referring to paid/corporate lobbyists.
Many of them are probably due to the fact that people were less likely to go to the hospital due to fear or hospitals being clogged. Patient care took a big hit, basically.
Someone is doing the KYC either way. It gets paid for one way or the other, and that cut comes out of the price the consumer is willing to bear for the underlying item.

The cost of KYC might not even be the biggest issue. The friction will be a non-negligible drag on sales.
Great cast too :)
For indie games however, it could make sense. Hear me out.

It's true that items are unique to games. But if you want to allow some kind of trading, you will have to implement it yourself (next to programming, art, marketing, etc.). Linking this to crypto-tokens could have the benefit that you outsource the trading part. Your players "own" their items through crypto tokens, and can trade them on crypto exchanges.

You can implement it yourself in a centralised way of course. But the question is if you want to spend the resources on that.
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As someone who looks at GitHub accounts as a resume, I can tell you that improvement over time is amazing to see. Assuming it’s clear what’s most interesting or recent.
> The high power consumption used by a heavy gamer (CPU + GPU) is easily indistinguishable and probably higher than a plain old individual miner since you would have CPU + GPU + Peripherals running.

My understanding is that (even top-tier) consumer-grade hardware and consumer electricity prices are not going to be enough to turn a profit, at least in current hashing conditions.

If a country detects 10,000 people running high GPU loads (not sure how they could tell the difference between GPU and, say, a space heater) then it probably would just be gamers and not miners.
"WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big difference. Exactly, the official hospitalization numbers have been shown to be 27 percent higher than the actual figure for how many there are in the hospital, simply because they have corona. We only know that now."

On Saturday morning I went to my barber shop. My barber was talking to me and I relayed to her some of the pain I've been going through lately dealing with my late mother-in-law's bank, insurance, and other accounts. She then told me that she lost her mother 5 months ago to cancer. Her and her family finally got the death certificate, and the death certificate claimed that her mother had died of covid-19. She had terminal cancer and was at the end of a very long battle.

The family had to fight the hospital because they were shocked knowing that she died of cancer and happened to test positive for COVID-19 at some point in the hospital weeks before she died.

The hospital eventually fixed the "error". I put error in quotes because there's a huge financial incentive for hospital administrators to do this. They get large sums of money from the US federal government for every covid patient or death.

This is an anecdote of course. Not real data. But as my barber pointed out, and I personally experience with my mother-in-law's death, most people might not even see this on the death certificate and if they do they don't have the stomach to fight it. They are grieving and simply want to move on from the pain.

What is the actual data on this? How many deaths are being incorrectly classified as covid related to maximize revenue for immoral hospital administrators?

We don't know. But what I can say is if this is a rare occurrence, It's pretty low probability for me to encounter more than one person who has described this to me. My suspicion is, based purely on economic incentives, this is fairly common place.

Really happy to see this Danish newspaper finally doing what the fourth estate is supposed to do:
Challenging the powerful and the elite rather than being their lap dogs.

I canceled my New York Times in Washington Post prescriptions several months ago. I still really enjoyed much of the content in both publications, but it became a big negative emotion to open them up and see the blatant evidence of how corrupted they have become. They don't challenge power unless the power is run by someone they don't like. If they happen to find the person in charge less objectionable they will happily do their bidding.
I still miss being able to do that with Flash.
One certainly can’t just put a bow on blaming cronyism and assume that capitalism without cronyism would just work (which is what the title implies…. And the article hedges but still kind of implies). Capitalism eventually leads to some pretty unbalanced outcomes as the distribution of profit to the factors of production shift, and it’s not clear that those imbalances would stabilize/correct without extreme intervention (e.g., illegal acts, revolution).

We’re seeing a shift to greater distribution for labor, but that’s after a very long period of favoring capital that doesn’t seem so much to be breaking down as giving way just a tiny bit (like a pressure release valve).

In a fully automated farming, manufacturing, and delivery future, it’s hard to see how capitalism alone would allow for the maintenance of a functioning society. Such conditions would heavily favor engineering/design, raw resources, and (most of all) capital over physical labor.

And, of course, any practical regulation will be imperfect and will lead to functional cronyism as a result of imperfect people working to craft evolving and imperfect laws…
The complexity of a NFT system provides a benefit to the company by (A) offloading processing power to people who might be making some money from 'mining' the chain, and (B) not having to run your own marketplace system, while still getting a percentage of TX fees.
I found this PDF from the City council [1]

There is an example about "Line 6" at page 14. It starts almost at the eastern city border.

[1] https://www.cittametropolitana.mi.it/export/sites/default/po...
Masks with a decent seal work and studies with mannequins show this. But in real life, an airborne disease, massive gaps by the side of your nose, wet cloth, rules such as wear it to your restaurant table then take off to eat, it's a pathetic exercise at best.
That's excellent!

I tried it with all three of my domains.

It's interesting that two of them didn't have full DKIM/DMARC support, even though they are paid mail services.

I'll have to check, and see if there is anything that I can do.

I seldom have issues with bounces or spam-suckers, but I have had a couple, with those domains.

My mac.com domain was green, all the way.
Good to finally have confirmation that my rats are indeed laughing at me when we try and play and they run away from me.
Fits writing words as well, where you’ll look back in your first blog posts a decade later and wonder who would write such things.
> The study found that povidone iodine "may reduce the carriage of infectious SARS-CoV-2 in adults with mild to moderate COVID-19"—but that means it was found to only reduce the amount of virus in a person's nose when they're already infected with COVID-19.

That certainly sounds like a positive, unless you think viral load doesn't matter? Based on the study from your article, it seems that a careful few day course of this treatment after known exposure could help prevent significant infection. At the very least warrants further study.

The cons in that article make the assumptions people will swallow it and then some non-sequitur about deterring vaccination.

Not a great argument, doc.
I think NFTs are mostly only useful as a parody of the concept of intellectual property and artificial scarcity. They take the concept of "owning" something that can be infinitely copied to the absurd extreme.

When the average person conceives of just how useless they are, they might start to see the ridiculous inefficiencies of our intellectual property system.
What can you do with a bank account, a book you wrote, a patent you own, an image you shot? Immaterial objects and intellectual property is not new. And NFTs are not that innovative or special in that regard.
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cool. Did you write it yourself or are you using an open source project of some kind? Would be interested to run one of these myself.
> Company A, having been dominant on the market for a long time, can simply tap into their savings and lower its prices, to the point where X is more attractive to consumers than X'. B, new to the market and wo. such substantial savings, cannot compete and goes bankrupt.

If it was this simple, why have so many gigantic corporations gone out of business over the years? Sears was once the world's largest retailer and built the world's tallest building to use as its headquarters. Now it's a penny stock. Why didn't they just lower their prices to push out competitors? Remember every town in America had a Blockbuster and AOL was synonymous with the internet? What happened to those companies?
Seems to have worked amazingly well based on all the times I recall reading the comments of stories posted here involving unions.
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One colleague once told me capitalism is the natural state of world and that her dog was capitalist, because it picked up a stick and refused to let it go - and that is why socialism and communism (same thing for her) will never work.

When people consider your ideology "natural state of the world", you know your propaganda succeeded.
So what?

He didn't force anyone to update to the new version, right? So how is it his problem? Some other entity had to go and update the version they depend on.

And if you now say "well, that happens automatically", I say; suites them right. They should have tested the stuff.

Not his problem.
> Germany is also infamous in EU for its antibiotic resistant hospital bugs like MRSA.

Never heard that this is a problem in Germany. Maybe because Poland is so much worse in regards to healthcare.
There have been a lot of attempts to curtail wealth driven lobbying. Capital somehow overcomes all of them.

This inability of capital to help itself from corrupting lawmakers is apparently the fault of the state, not the fault of capitalism for reasons I can't quite fathom but might make sense if I had a lot more money.

If somebody emerged from poverty in the third world though, and capital was tangentially involved then lavish praise is apparently due.
> EA Games starts selling an exact copy of the GOLDEN HAT for $1. What now?

This is how NFTs work. If you own the $10k hat on a blockchain you own the $10k hat on that blockchain. There is nothing anyone can do about the fact that the monkey bitmaps can be copied. The ownership only applies to the ownership on a ledger, not copying or usage. Same with owning a hat on the Activision blockchain and not the EA blockchain.
If they both agree to store it on the ETH ledger, then obviously there is only one copy.

To prevent copying or usage, studios would obviously need to agree (which is why this is so ridiculous - and "fungible"). In your scenario EA obviously weren't in on the scheme together with Activision. There could well be different ledgers, or studios that just use a centralized store like they always have. But those studios can't use the NFT buzzword, so they'll miss out on the sweet $$ that they can make in the 15 minutes this is a thing.

> I start selling GOLDEN HAT WITH A DICK ON IT for $0.69. What now?

Whether or not "user created" items will ever be a thing is obviously up to the studios. The studios can obviously ensure only studio-created artifacts are ever allowed, regardless of if a public ledger is used.
They can't prevent a studio from making a golden hat with just one bit flipped in a 100kb artifact, which looks exactly the same. This would be even more likely if there were user-created artifacts.

But there is just nothing that can be done about that. That problem exists whether or not you use a public ledger or a private one, and whether there are multiple studios or just one.

> the blockchain adds nothing.

It adds the word "Blockchain" and "NFT" to the equation. Remember that's the difference between pictures of monkeys being worth zero and being worth millions of dollars.
> IMO it's safe (from the floss side) to assume companies won't be cheating.

Agreed, plus you now have a collective motivated to enforce license compliance.

And "license compliance" is easy, because the collective has a list price. No need for a complicated law suit, it's always cheaper to pay the collective.
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