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"To make regular" is to make things the same/constant/even. Are you saying that in the late 1700s "to make regular" meant making things uneven?
Wile E. Coyote could relate:

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Julia is pretty much the same but a few levels higher. Julia gives you some really powerful tools like @code_native (basically godbolt), inline assembly (or @code_llvm) something that , powerful macros, and better code reuse. If you look at the size of Julia libraries compared to similar C++ alternatives, the Julia ones are often about as fast (or faster), but typically around 10x less code. (my favorite example is that Julia's reader for Arrow files is more complete than the C++ one while being smaller than the makefiles for the C++ one (https://twitter.com/MoseGiordano/status/1489255661728796679)
Yes, someone will redistribute it without charge, but there are still ways you can make money from libre software:

• selling physical media (e.g. an installation disk or drive)

• selling downloads from a trusted, official server (with the bandwidth to serve a global audience)

• selling support

• asking for donations

• adopting a patreon model (if you want so-and-such feature or modification, please fund me so that I can do so)

and so on. Admittedly, it is more difficult to make money from libre software than non-libre software, but that seems to be a consequence of the law allowing non-libre software to be sold as it is (i.e. treating software like other copyrightable material). "It's more difficult to make money from libre software" is essentially "it's more difficult to make money when you don't threaten to sue people for inspecting, modifying, or exercising ownership of the tools they use". We could similarly say "it's easier to make money when you can threaten people at gunpoint", which would simply be true! were it not for society imposing a high price (imprisonment) for doing so.
HN (and myself honestly) might be a bit biased in favour of Lisps, but if one wanted an unambiguous notation for mathematics, Polish notation / s-expr style writing would be the way to go.

As for screen-readers -> parsing s-expressions and converting them into a more meaningful reading of the equation is within our power as well.

That's not to say that everything should be a lisp, but in terms of unambiguously applying mathematical formulae, I think (* f (+ x 1)) is very distinct from (f (+ x 1)).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mileage may vary I suppose. As someone who uses LaTeX a lot myself, I'm not sure I'd be fully happy writing Scheme / Lisp instead either. But I'm not sure the article really gives us less ambiguity purely thanks to an extra whitespace.
There is no general rule for NFTs having value, much like there is an infinite amount of art that struggles to have a primary sale.

BAYC has a liquid market. It does not matter how many wash trades critics imagine there are - list your BAYC at the floor today, and it will sell within a couple of hours at most. Therefore, anyone not selling isn't doing so because they lack the liquidity. They are holding for other reasons.
Update: My instance was recovered over this weekend (Apr 16). We've verified that integrations (webhooks, jira integrations) are working, and no data was lost that we can see (nobody works overnight, so our last change was at the end of the working day, which matched our recollection).
Russia tried to avoid involving in Donbass for 8 years meddling with Minsk-2.

It's still not sure if it will take Donbass. All the new captured parts of Ukraine are becoming new or join existing "People's Republics".
I won't be surprised if after the end of campaign, there still will be independent republics and some shaky agreement that will be broken by Ukraine in the first week.

Even first plan was apparently to overthrow government, not to gain some land.

On other hand, the tactics of West/Zelensky is to destroy the East as much as possible, killing as many people as possible, destroying as much infrastructure as possible.
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The notations of these things are essentially unambiguous in the first place, since overloaded operators rarely have compatible type signatures, and when they do, the shadowing is just shy of explicit. Human mathematical notation is definitely very bad, but not because it's wildly ambiguous, it's because it's inconsistent.
I've been getting those spam calls lately from Consumer Insurance Bureau, or something like that. But I also expect to get a lot of important calls from unfamiliar numbers, so I have to pick up. I also figured out that if I call back these random numbers, they pick up. At first I thought it was a human on the line, but pretty soon I realized it's a bot that is pretty good at asking for and collecting your information, but not at getting off script. Of course, I fed it lots of BS information, but I also experimented with Turing tests and seeing if I could get connected to a real human. I got through to a real human twice. Once they hung up on me until I told them my name was Mike Wazowski, and another time they hung up on me when I started asking questions about who they work for. I haven't gotten calls from that bot since then.
> This comment could be talking about all art.

Here's what I predict we'll find out:

* Some high-value traditional art sales are "wash trades and money laundering."

* Nearly all high-value NFT sales are "wash trades and money laundering."

There's an important different between some and nearly all, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader to work out.
I've paid $40/year for RoboKiller (the source of the data in this article) since 2020, and consider it worth every penny. For reference, I was a long-time Pixel user before then who enjoyed the Google Assistant call filter. It's not quite as good as Google Assistant (it's based on call forwarding) but by far the best solution on iPhone, and it filters SMS spam as well as calls.
Is there anyone out there promoting NFTs as inflation resistant?
Fastmail is amazing. I like it so much I started paying for the three years in advance plan.
The high art scene is the evolved form of this. It knows to maintain enough legitimate artistry jammed in the crevices between the tax avoidance, money laundering, fraud, and flexing to cement the whole thing together and weather the occasional public ire. NFTs will be gone next season, but the high art grift will endure.
I propose Google Human™, a new service that gets you in contact with a Google support person, where you pay a rate of $5.00/mo to get premium Human™ support services, so you can get back into your account without having to yell over social media in an outrage and 'escalate' your issue to Google employees over Hackernews or Twitter.
"FBI" and "credible" are two words that don't exactly mix, given very recent history [1][2]

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60999431

[2] - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/politics/trump-doj-strzok-dep...
> Now they are in their 60s and same work they did all their life, they would barely manage. Memory starts to go down too.

Are they still working or not?
If you don't want to do endless drone work (who would?!?) then why would you stay at that job?

I've never stayed at an unfulfilling job - how pointless. I've made a point to network outside my immediate group - and most importantly be nice as well as helpful to others. It really makes a difference; people notice. All of my jobs, including my current one, came to me based on my reputation. There was no luck involved, just honesty and steady work. I won't even say hard work because it was always work I enjoyed.
“A great man who is vicious will be a great
example of vice and a rich man who is not
generous will be merely a miserly beggar,
for the possessor of wealth is not made happy
by possessing it but by spending it, and not
by spending it as he pleases but by knowing
how to spend it well.”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t if something is slightly more rotten than the other thing or a lot more rotten. They’ll both end up spoiling.

I was educated in America from K to 12 and some college, across 3 different states and even 3 years in Canada (where they actually shat on America a lot). Most of what we are taught about freedom or democracy is bullshit. When it comes down to our foreign policy at least it’s really just us or them. The cognitive dissonance is in holding that belief that we are actually helping the countries we invade or topple via the CIA.
They're a scam in the way that anything for which its value is mostly a function of its scarcity; the scarcity is still always just a modifier on the demand for it.

I would be more inclined to call it a scam if the technology was a failure or the purported scarcity of the asset being sold was being misrepresented. Neither of those are true. Instead, what is being traded are extremely scarce assets for which the demand is unimaginably overestimated. In 10 years will anybody actually care that there's a signed entry in a particular blockchain saying that this asset belongs to you? Probably not. I think if technologies like video games hook into a blockchain and let the owners of an NFT artwork for example use it as a character skin or put it up in their virtual house as a painting, maybe they'll have some value amongst people...but the demand is still probably extremely overrated. I'm guessing the value of something like that would be more on the order of <$100.

TL;DR I don't think scam is the right word. I don't think Beanie Babies or IPOs are scams just because people severely overestimated the future demand for the thing that they're buying.
>What's the story here?... Beanie Babies

Well, the Beanie Baby craze always struck me as ridiculous too. So I guess the story is that someone famous is related to an event that many people consider ridiculous.
46% of the state, roughly 10M people, should move, apparently.
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Recently had a similar experience. I was horrified. If there were no alternatives, I'd just stop browsing the web for the most part, to be honest. Library it is.

Thankfully, there are lots of smart people staying one step ahead of the greedy corporations. And there will continue to be until the internet becomes a bearable experience by default. That'll probably never happen though.
> Isn't the reason that Unity/UE have crap performance because of the capabilities they offer? For example, you can run the app on multiple platforms.

Is anyone, Casey or someone in this thread, complaining that Unity or Unreal have low performance? I don’t think so.

Casey Muratori’s performance rants of the past were almost always about specific pieces of software and in the most public of those he managed to show how to fix those in an acceptable timeframe.
A Peter Thiel quote - "The something of somewhere is often the nothing of nowhere."
Ask HN: What did you do that got you to wake up earlier?
I don't think that's the intent, but that's definitely how I've seen it implemented, either through spending lots of time comparing velocities, trying to optimize burndowns, or making equivalencies like 1 point = 1 day (that company also allowed estimating at the 1 hour granularity).

That said, when done well, I think there are benefits to elements of Agile, but one really has to buy in to the fact that average velocity or similar metrics far more useful for looking at what might be delivered in several months, not what will be delivered in 2 weeks.

It _can_ be done right, but I think that's the exception and not the rule.
>Are we going to resign ourselves to see our home be destroyed?

It's not going to be destroyed. This 'extinction rebellion' stuff is not true at all. In less than a year you will never ever hear about that again. Al gore wrote an excellent article explaining the damage that climate alarmism and even his own poor predictions have done for the cause. It read legitimately that he is concerned about climate change and we do need to make changes. He is right and it's good on him to reflect on his mistakes and want to be better.

> I have to suppress the feeling of anguish about the future to continue functioning in my daily life.

Many other bigger issues than climate change to also worry about. The better thing to do is to not be concerned with or fearful of anything outside of your control.

>How do we get the people in power to take the bare minimum of actions necessary to prevent the worst?

Take Canada for example. We implemented a carbon tax and have some pretty severe consequences for it. Mind you, oil was already taxed about 100% for 'road taxes' and such. Tacking on an extra 20% tax isn't going to make huge changes, in fact it's very likely it's overtaxed and they won't actually gain any extra tax money. The government collects a pretty significant amount of money under the banner of oil taxes. To do what though? Build roads? I've seen the roads lately... they are terrible. The Carbon tax does not affect usage. Oil is an inelastic commodity whose price doesnt affect usage.

So lets say the carbon tax is meant to help with the cause of climate change. It doesn't in of itself. How about using the collected money in a way that benefits climate change? That isn't even happening. There's no benefits toward insulating homes or buying solar panels. Or really anything. There is a 'tax benefit' for buying an EV but the cut off is intentionally put so low that virtually no EV cars qualify.

So frankly if our goal is to do something to benefit climate change... we haven't done anything. People think we are doing something and that's worse than doing nothing.

So what should we actually be doing? Here's a list from my municipality's proposal. It's not approved or anything, still a work in progress.

Walkable neighbourhoods? So major redesign and reconstruction of the entire city?

More public transit? No mention of converting these away from diesel.

ban fossil fuel vehicles from the city?

ban use of concrete and wood from being used in construction?

circular economy of regenerative prosperity? I dont even understand this one.

Ban agricultural lands from city and convert them to carbon capture?

improve community resilience? I dont understand this one neither.

I look at the list and they are at best thought out at the highest level only. How do you propose destruction of entire neighbourhoods and redesign to be walkable AND not use concrete or wood in the reconstruction?

How about we just do the obvious stuff like single-payer solar panels, house insulation, ban ICE, no taxes on EVs, build grid scale batteries to store the energy produced from solar panels on every building.
It was expected that it would be possible to take $182 million in reserves easily with a flash loan?
That's not how taxes in the US work. If he sold it now he'd only be able to take the loss on his 2022 taxes, and even then he better hope he has a lot of gains or else he'll need to carryover the loss.
This is crystallized vs fluid intelligence in IQ terms. Your fluid intelligence (short term memory/spatial vizualiation/problem solving) starts going down around 25 and you crystallized intelligence (long term memory) starts going down around 60: https://oxfordre.com/economics/doc/10.1093/acrefore/97801906...
NFTs do not enforce exclusive access in any way or form; they don't even necessarily convey specific rights of ownership.

When you buy an NFT you purchase a receipt for an entry in a Blockchain that is validated by some distributed code. That receipt may reference a URL, or any other arbitrary text, within some limits. Anything beyond that isn't assured, you'll have to check the license that's conveyed.
This is not an appropriate comment for this forum.
I feel like for NFT's like these, it's all pure hype on potential future value. Take a Bored Ape NFT, a bored ape is pleasant to look at, you can set it as your profile picture or hang up on the wall as digital art. That's why I think that BAYC was so successful, you had the NFT hype combined with actually good looking art.

Now this on the other hand, you won't really want to set it as your profile picture and hanging it up as digital art looks dumb. No one is buying it because they like the NFT, they buy it because they think it will go up in value.
"The dilemma is real."

Um, authentication?

The issue with API mass data leaks is unauthenticated access to the data.

Facebook HAS a web-wide authentication service, to heap the irony. Which of course would be sabotaged, but there are of course other means to do basic authentication. The users presumably know their passwords.

That is a fake issue, IMO.
A related hill I will die on it that the US needs a government backed email addressing system for anyone with a government ID.

The current option of going "paperless" by way of providing a privately owned email address is a huge risk factor. Gmail should not have access to view my government related emails. They aren't accountable for network issues either that may result in personal damages. The email itself is commingled with spam streams, related filters, and other things.

We need a dedicated, government protected, digital communication line. Sending mail through it would be tied to your government identity. Behavior is then open to regulation and accountability. Which is a good thing for the specific need of two known identities talking to each other.

Google can be the contract vendor for the service, that's fine. But there needs to be a contract setup where they are simply providing the service and not owning the data / contents. Maybe Microsoft outbids them the following year, and the underlying provider changes to no observable effect to the users. that kind of thing.

As a bonus, it would be immensely helpful for people dealing with permanent housing issues and the host of problems that are associated with requiring a mailing address for things. A government regulated email address would be sufficient for a lot of those things.
It says it in the article. Lift is created by turning a fluid. Just as a spoon in a faucet, it’s all how you “throw” the fluid in the direction opposite the direction of lift. This is angle of attack.
I find it weird to say that UE would be crap in what it delivers in performance. Or that someone could do better. At least if it comes to real-time graphics rendering and processing. Not saying there isn't likely warts and issues in the gameplay side...
You can see trading volume on OpenSea (one of the larger NFT marketplaces): https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub?tab=activity

How legitimate that trading is is not possible to know (e.g. people trading stuff back and forth to make it look like there is activity).
I'm 39, and a fairly decent pianist. I learned a bit of guitar when I was younger, but just recently started learning guitar/uke more seriously.

I'm keenly aware of the skills that I spent hours and hours practicing that are now second nature to me on keyboards (such as scales, chords, names of notes) that I need to learn for guitar. Intellectually I understand how things work on guitars, but in order to get decent, I need to start putting in the time to practice playing scales, learning the fretboard, and even just teaching my fingers how to move in certain ways.

And it's not any harder to do this stuff than when I was a kid - in fact, in some ways it's easier. But it takes time and dedication. I have to keep reminding myself that I am actually making a ton of progress. But the tiredness / busyness can make it difficult to put in the time.
Ban Twitter posts? Is you complaint about Twitter threads or Twitter generally? People also tweet links to things, or single-tweet statements.
> "Ubuntu just released, a few days ago, their latest “Long Term Support” release (version 22.04)..."

Isn't the release date for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on April 21? This article is dated April 16.
> Jack Dorsey sold it

So what? If Jack Dorsey took a dump, preserved in resin and sold it as an abstract representation of his first tweet, how would that be different, more genuine or less genuine than this NFT?
Yeah, high art will have proportionately less money laundering -- because it has proportionately more tax avoidance, and that's a much larger industry.
But a group call isn't formal; it's just something anyone can start, which results in a call object being visible as a message in a certain channel, that people can freely join and leave. The call UI can be minimized into a little floater that can be put into the corner of the screen and you can configure the mic to be muted by default.
It's pretty unlikely that anomalous transport comes down to quantum fields. The instabilities that probably cause it are complex but are classical in nature.
It's actually an NFT of a screenshot of the first tweet.

Note that for space reasons, NFTs do not generally "contain" their payload. The actual contents of the blockchain is just a URL of the screenshot. The URL points to a centralized server, and the screenshot is publicly accessible.

But yes, the Tweet itself remains under Twitter's purview, i.e. centralized. An NFT can only contain authority or ownership recognized in the context of the blockchain itself.
The legislative fix I can see is putting a price floor on sending SMS and connecting phone calls. Require the carriers to charge for them. If it cost me a penny to make a phone call or send a text message, it would not impact me at all. However, all the bulk garbage would stop overnight, because the carriers would want their money, and at that price, spam won't scale.
I experienced the same thing when I moved to southeastern Ohio. I was used to rain coming in different kinds: mist, drizzle, soft rain, hard rain, downpour that would flood the street in half an hour, thunderstorms that made it dark at noon, wind-driven stinging rain, rain that would come and go every ten minutes, rain on a sunny day when you could look up and wonder where it was coming from. Southeastern Ohio had only one kind of rain. It was consistent, sustained, medium-soft rain. Enough that you couldn't ignore it, enough that you'd get wet without an umbrella. Just that much, never more, never less. Maddening. It was like God left his laziest angel in charge of the weather, and he was sitting in a control room flicking a switch between "gray clouds with rain" and "gray clouds without rain" just often enough not to get fired.
Regardless of the economics at play, a valuation going from $2.9M to $280 is an interesting story.
To be deprecated and sunset within 2 years for no apparent reason.
That could make you blind to your surroundings though, and studies show fairly consistently that well lit areas have lower crime rates. So imagine a dimly lit path that has a lighting system that makes it more difficult for your eyes to see your peripherals.
All NFTs contain a public URL inside them, as the thing the sellable token points at. You can go look at other peoples NFTs all you like, at any time.. they can’t stop you.

NFTs aren’t contracts for the rights, so this is as real an NFT as any other. An NFT is essentially a text file, that only one person can prove they own via the blockchain, where the file has a URL written inside. Nothing more, nothing less.