skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's closer to saying that someone's successful startup where they used X counter-intuitive strategy was "luck".

Perhaps they were lucky but it's also possible that conventional wisdom on X is wrong.
Yeah.... I don't find this disagreeable

Ever read on the idea that most megafauna was hunted down by men?

Yeah... that seems pretty erhm, "unnatural", therefore the entire rest of the world is "unnatural"

Supposedly the tsetse fly was local to a very small area of Africa, yet during the 1700 and 1800 during colonialism it spread onto the rest of the continent, before that the continent was quite settled with larger farm fields in respective areas, but the tzetze fly disrupted all that

Anyhow just wanted to say that "nature" and "natural" once one starts digging more are not really "useful" descriptions, because the world is complex and not an idealized scenario
You mean like most of Musk's tweets, which are almost always brutish, have no content, yet make news.
I don't get the extreme positions on that. There will be some sort of web3 and will be really relevant for some bigger groups of people. Saying that it should die and (the other extreme) saying "it's the solution for everything" is just ignorant.
Imagine you live in a country with abundant fresh water. You can just drink from a spring at every corner.

A group of foreign investors comes in. “It’s shocking how the market for bottled water is completely inexistant here. Don’t worry, we’re going to teach you how to make money selling imported water! First thing, we’ll dynamite those springs that disturb the market…”

Do you welcome these business gurus and their scarcity-introducing ideas with open arms?
* Having 2% of the population locked down to maintain COVID zero?
* Or having 0.3% of your population die, and several times that disabled?

This is a false premise. Their lockdown will only slow the virus spread, unless they stop all travel and trade in their country the virus will find a way in. Everyone in the world will be exposed to the virus eventually. So in the end they will bare the cost of the lockdown and the virus, not either or.
Or maybe they count as "hucksters". All of these people you mentioned seem to be quite invested into the ecosystem and therefore stand to gain quite a lot from crypto going to the moon. It's in their self interest to do everything they can to ignore or dismiss any negative arguments, and convince as many people as possible that their hustle is legitimate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_emotional_i...

if women > men then good else bad
If the title read “Linux laptop” I doubt they would have as many people in the comments suggesting anything else.

Sorry, but that's a cop-out. As others have point out, the real problem is "people just don't read these days". Not even the top few lines of a post. If they did, they would have had no problem finding this important qualifier:

I have no intention of using Windows/MacOS
This project is more intended as fun and not a treatise on the industry.
Is it much faster compared to the 17,500mph LEO speed?
There's much better arguments for/against crypto than appeals to authority. Consequently, you then cited an appeal to majority to defend your appeal to authority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Granted, the crypto debate on HN is pretty well hashed & Guido's tweet doesn't add anything to the discussion besides making clear where he stands on the issue
The parts of Paris that were most affected by Haussmann's renovation are arguably still kind of awful.

The Champs-Élysées for example is a horrible place to actually spend time in, and is currently undergoing major redevelopment to make it a bit more livable.
every one of my closest friends who are all very successful Wall St finance guys are hugely bullish on Bernie Madoff's investment funds.
I know who Linus Torvalds is. He's intelligent. I've read some stuff he wrote. I use some software he wrote. I don't know him.
That’s the WSL I’m complaining about. Got VPN routing issues and background process problems. Plus the hyper-v vswitch keeps killing my networks. It’s not a real Linux. I’m done.
> For design reasons, no one can delete anything from it.

This is a feature, not a bug.
Yes, though that’s half of DRM. The other half are anti-circumvention laws that give it legal, if not technological, teeth.
If I were doing another serious large-scale commercial optimisation application where it was more valuable to get a pretty good feasible solution rapidly rather than potentially wait a long time attempting to find a provably optimal solution, I would be very interested in seeing how localsolver performs.

Often the mathematical model of the real world problem or the input data used to parametrise the model has a fair bit of approximation error (e.g. assuming parameters are deterministic when actually they are uncertain, linearising things to bash them into the MIP modelling framework, etc) , so pragmatically it doesn't often seem useful to be too bothered about getting an optimal solution to an approximate problem vs getting an approximate solution to perhaps a better model approximation of the true situation.

https://www.localsolver.com/
Nope, prepare to see the exact same comments as the other two anti-crypto threads posted today and pretty much every day.

I clicked it curious to see what his reasoning was, but nope, the HN headline is all there is.
There is ONE possible thing I could see "blockchain" gaming allowing, which would be for a game to continue to "run" after the company no longer cares about it. Maybe in that case you could get some sort of consensus algorithm to track something.
I used to DM games sometimes using those random charts from the AD&D DM Guide. It was a lot of fun. The players (who knew what I was doing) always tried to figure out the purpose of the labyrinth based on what what developed.
Pretty counter intuitive that it takes less energy to swim upstream than to move forwards in still water!

I wonder if live fish swimming upriver ever do this - just relax and enjoy the ride - rather than putting any effort into it ?
I disagree with this. I work at a large US bank and from the conversations I have been apart all the big banks are moving into crypto. So much float is moving out of the banks that they are scramble to catch up to try and control the damage. They are all planning to become crypto banks in a custodial sense to maintain float. Lots of people want to hate the new trendy thing but once this gets mainstream banking support everyone one will be on board.
Requiring a transferable license to use IP in a locked-doen metaverse (say, having permission to play a certain album in your "public" space) is the only use case I can see for NFTs and also the reason I'll be using exclusively pirate-friendly metaverses
But that's not true, even those privacycoins are still technically pseudonymous because transactions are still done by wallet ID. This fundamentally can't be fixed because otherwise you can't have something like a wallet that stores a balance which is assigned to you and only you.

Also I would like to point out that the idea you can ever be fully anonymous on the internet is a lot of bunk. Regardless of what kind of cryptography you use or how many obfuscation layers you put things through you're still generating a great deal of identifying data just by accessing other servers. This is a problem I have with most of the marketing behind any privacy technology, it's not just these privacycoins that are making false promises.
Did...you just describe Nestle?
I think another part of it is that people don't know their neighbors as well as they used to. Here in Seattle there is a problem called the Seattle freeze and when you encounter other people who won't even say hello back to you in passing let alone can have a conversation with you become weary of who they are in private and how they could be a threat to your children.
> Games are designed for people to have intrinsic fun, they’re not optimised for speculators to try and make as much money as possible.

True, and 'play-to-earn' will make it even worse.

We have just seen it with Axie Infinity and it is unsustainable as the author has already explained and makes zero sense to apply this 'play to earn' model in games that already have rampant micro-transactions and loot boxes that are also modelled on casino slot machines.

> But not at all in the way it is doing now. No way. Not everything has to be on-chain. 0x has an off-chain order book for its DEX, but on-chain settlement. The future will have to be a mix of centralised and decentralised.

Yes, since we know that both Bitcoin and Ethereum have both failed in scaling for on-chain applications and have resorted to using off-chain layer-2 systems. But even applying that contraption anywhere further confuses the user to even begin to use it.

At least for Lightning it is somewhat easy for users to use such that it the swapping, transacting is hidden from them; but you can't call it 'Bitcoin'. So both centralised and decentralised as a mix will exist (Lightning), but certainly not for 'play-to-earn'.

Even thinking about applying this layer-2 play-to-earn contraption to games is beyond unnecessary with no advantages whatsoever.
Smart as he is, Vitalik also has a massive financial interest in the conclusions he's reached being the correct one, which can lead to all sorts of biases.
If you really have $2k to spend on a laptop, then a Mac is probably a safe bet. All developers I know that use one are very happy with it, although I don't have one personally so I can't offer first-hand experience.

OTOH, I am more than happy with my Dell laptop. A slightly older Latitude. Everything works out of the box (I run Manjaro on it), even the WWAN, keyboard lights, card reader, etc. And you can get replacement parts (battery, screen, keyboard) for years since those laptops are so common.
European politicians on the cusp of requiring USB-C in all smartphones
NASA’s next decade: Build a mission to an ice giant
Stacking Up L2 Cache, Riken Shows 10x Speedup for A64FX by 2028
Hackers can use blank signatures to pass ECDSA verification checks in Java
or you know we could just make student loan eligible for bankruptcy.... then just let the courts deal with it as usual.
I poked around and didn't see a list of the 51 languages. Maybe I'm stupid.
I just purchased the ownership of a crappy AI generated image for $$$. I am glad the ownership is now stored in your database because I think I can sell the ownership for $$$$.

By the way, do you know how I can view the image? The link doesn't work anymore.
It is news to me yes and yet, by any definition of news I understand, a measure taken in 2007 is continuing is not. To further make my point, the original commenter felt the need, correctly I think to clarify that the article is not discussing a new policy! "What's the point of the article?" is a short way of asking both what the author wishes to communicate, why and most importantly what the intention is. I had hoped my asking the question in the first place would be a clue that I dont buy that it is just "to inform"
I wont support any loan forgiveness. I worked my but off to work fulltime and pay tuition at the sate university. It took 6 years of hard work for a 4 year degree. I graduated with no debt. That my hard work might make me no better off than those who took the easy route, infuriates me.
Thank you! I had known a friend who helped me with apartments. Generally it is quite difficult to find an apartment that has a good price/quality ratio. As for the visa, I got it by post in 7-8 days after the appointment.
the market has chosen faux-scarcity many many many times over (at least) hundreds of years. we live in a market based economy, the market doesn't care that your MySQL database can do it, the market is saying "I'll pay you to write to a public access database you set up, so quit with this Betamax technical superiority stuff, we don't care."
> Crypto is 99% full of hucksters, and the remaining 1% are the sorry saps.

> The intelligent people I know want nothing to do with it.

"political tribes self-segregate to an impressive extent – a 1/10^45 extent, I will never tire of hammering in – based on their implicit tribal characteristics." - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

> Folks I've met IRL who are into it usually aren't all that bright. The traits they do have are affinity for risk taking, and being somewhat technical but not too much so, just enough to be dangerous. They certainly won't be opening any PRs to fix Ethereum bugs.

Replace "risk taking" with "compliance" for outgroup point of view. (Being "into it" then meaning heavy investment into being opposed to cryptocurrency.)
To your point, Apple's market share: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940431
I worked for BigCorp (not FAANG), and developers chose Macs for exactly the opposite reason - they did not integrate into BigCorp's dysfunctional IT infrastructure because they were too new.

Over the years, BigCorp IT had deployed increasing amounts of corporate malware for various reasons. Users would be regularly treated to dialogs from various IT departments (accounting, security, inventory, licensing) demanding that they verify their employee number, job code, physical location, etc; security agents that scanned all disk activity and network traffic; inventory agents that make sure all software was properly licensed; and arbitrary software installations and upgrades that IT incorrectly believed everyone in the company needed.

With a Mac, none of these agents existed, so you didn't have to deal with your computer actively working against you. With newer forms of enterprise management, this overhead should be reduced on both Windows and Macs, but due to inertia all those agents will continue to be installed on Windows long after they are needed.
Why does Turnitin get to keep a copy of all of my work for free? Do I not own the copyright of my papers?
Patches Updated for Linux to Enjoy Consoles Running at Full-Speed
Sounds like there's a business opportunity here for a turnitinturnitin bot that runs your plagiarism through turnitin until it passes ...
Try https://osf.io/eumn6 for a viewer of the PDF.

(hosting at the Open Science Framework, "a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration")
> threats to very powerful people

Same people who also control the hash rate? :)
1) The governance problems of private money are incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.

2) There are irremovable privacy, scalability, and recentralization contradictions at the core of any and all permissionless blockchain solutions.

3) There are vast negative externalities that every blockchain-based investment inevitably entails.
Why male mosquitoes leave humans alone
I don't know about Linux support, as I would use WSL, but I love Samsung laptops that have the S-Pen. It's Wacom EMR tech, which is the best you can get for a stylus and the only place to get it on the PC side that I know of. Other than a standalone Wacom digitizer of course.

I also have a Thinkpad X1 Xtreme and it's solid, but nothing to write home about. If going for that, I'd compare (in person) with the latest Dell stuff. Otherwise, I'd go Samsung for me.
I didn’t understand you.

But, imagine a DDOS attack on the nodes serving the blockchain. I don’t see why “pay once read forever” works financially.
"Bitcoin would make a solid SIGBOVIK paper" is honestly one of the greatest put downs I've ever read on the topic.
If someone becomes serious about solving this problem with tech, I want to point out that children are left on buses by schools/daycares with tragic consequences as well. Maybe there is a general solution to both somehow.
My question exactly. Sounds fun. Girlfriend sounds jealous.
1. Govt Reps get elected for a lot of things. Maintaining our roads, bridges and infrastructure are always buzzwords during elections.

2. Your link to Brookings just reinforces the issue. For profit schools account for 10% of students, borrow more often compared to public school students, and borrow more money. The Fed link shows that these students default more; they also are higher in pure dollar terms when it comes to Pell grants and Stafford loans. There's no good defense for profit schools.

3. Our tax to GDP has been constant for decades. Wow. I guess that wouldn't coincide with the Republican and Grover Norquist's efforts to "drown the baby in the bath tub?" A tax code can be "progressive" in theory while in practice it's regressive since the wealthy can shelter so much of their income. By underfunding the IRS, we're leaving money on the table. That's what the rich want, and since they largely control Congress, that's what they get.

4. If you look at trust in government, it was in the mid 70% range up until 1960. So obviously all the people in 1950 were so scarred by how poorly the British Parliament treated us in the 1700s. The drop in trust dropped during the Vietnam War when both parties continually lied to the American people, and since then has hovered in the 30% range for 40 years. But it's pretty clear that one party has had a platform for over 40 years to diminish the accomplishments of the Federal Government (except the Military), to starve it of funds, to politicize it's agencies. The other party sees the Government as a solution to many problems that are simply too large for individuals to solve.
Maybe it is done
Yeah sorry, if it's me or my children or these mosquitoes, I am going to pick my children.

The only reason you are so callous is because you imagine those dying as others, not you, your neighbors or loved ones.

Not going to keep replying, because I know you don't really believe these things when push comes to shove.
With crypto, now more than ever
Building on this, what does that tell you about the state of crypto when the coins that actually have libertarian values built into them (Zcash and monero) have not exploded in value? That crypto is generally dominated by marketers and pump and dumps.
I work hard and always have. I wont be happy if it leads to zero advantage over those who dont.
I used to use this obscure little piece of software for that called Apache. Maybe y'all have heard of it. Though I think it's getting some competition from this unknown little project called nginx. Really looking forward to that stuff becoming mainstream, it'll be revolutionary.
I’ve had quite a bit of fun playing Gods Unchained which is like Hearthstone but on Ethereum. What does that actually mean? The cards are NFTs so you can buy and sell them. You can also buy card packs with regular micropayments like other TCGs. However because you can sell cards it suddenly becomes a lot more interesting - you can make real money from your legendaries. Not much but I heard earlier in the year people were making $50 a week. The market for high value cards is driven by people wanting to get win streaks for more packs to unlock rare cards to sell, people buy packs from the store because it’s a TCG and that money is in the ecosystem to invest in new card designs/run tournaments/etc… it genuinely works quite nicely and I’m against microtransactions in general because you can get it back out again.
This is confusing to me. From the article it sounds like the javascript is run on the server producing markup. That markup is sent to the browser for rendering then the javascript is requested by the browser. When the javascript arrives it is run again on the browser to re-generate the DOM with event handlers attached. If that is correct then why is the javascript run on the server to begin with and not just sent directly to the browser?

Is the idea to take advantage of the server's horsepower to get something on the screen fast by sending pre-rendered HTML and then wait while the browser runs the code to basically re-create the page for interactivity?

(it's been a while since i've done traditional front-end web dev)
> This week, Take Two Interactive announced that they were acquiring Zynga.

Haha, and this is what is being measured?

Honestly, delivery is the biggest fruit in gaming in my eye; the space is over saturated with games no one plays and will be 30% less than it was only weeks after it's release. I saw Xbox started a game streaming service that while a bit on the rough side really proves what is left to innovate outside of hardware since the supply shortages with semiconductors make that nearly impossible.

It's always been my guess that GME would do a digital Gamefly play with the influx of cash they got from the Stonk BS, but so far it's the same monoliths that keep making the biggest moves: Sony and M$.

I think their will be a usecase for microtxs and maybe for EnE encryption, but beyond that this is all ICO/NFT hype looking for a way to perpetuate it's own existence.

People played Sarutobi and other tournmanets because it was a way to battle test technology (specifically LN) while having fun and maybe earn some sats, but even it's most devout believers never thought for a second Sony would upend it's business model for using a token on it's own blockchain for the sake of being 'web3' complaint.

I'd argue not since Seals with clubs has their ever been an actual use-case for gaming, and it used Bitcoin (often misrepresented as crypto) for a reason: they needed to bypass financial censorship.
This was my issue and was why I refused to use it.
The problem I have, is it is getting increasingly difficult for me to not answer "Yes" to that question as I get older.
> You can build lucrative businesses around the observation that long winded web 2.0 funnels have been shorted down to a single call to action that in itself is a payment, while again completely ignoring the ethos and ideology of the users and enthusiasts.

Sidebar: I love sentences like this that go on and on but say literally nothing. Nothing in the preceding or following context gives it any clarity. It feels like people are still trying to pad their college essays long since graduating.
That comparison might make some sense if Kurdistan were a enormous global power and shared a huge land border with Turkey. When in fact, Kurdistan [checks atlas] does not exist at all as an independent country, much less a dominant world power.
Pandemic Effects on War and Society
Probably GPT-3.
Isn't an escooter better at that point?
I've also left and your reasoning is more or less the same as mine. For me it's been more than a decade, and Germany is filled with opportunities. I wish you all the best, bol şans, viel Spaß.
Ha yeah... That's what I subbed HD for specifically.
I think there's some truth to this, but there are two categories where Netflix's content is actually much better than basically all its competitors: reality TV and programming outside the US (which there is a huge amount of). I agree though that Netflix's non-reality TV programming in the US is their weakest area.
This is a universal argument for never doing anything.

It "proves too much" in argument jargon.
I hope I can scale my company to the point we need to use aws or equivalent offerings. Currently just using VMs, managed database, and services like firebase.
How the AI industry profits from catastrophe
I was disappointed when Flush, which seems like a neat service, linked to an app only available on Apple devices
when I worked at a VC (well, volunteered) I recall the tech investors looking at the health investors and boggling. "You ... want ... us ... to ... do ... what?" "Invest in a company and wait 20 years for it to go out of business? hell no, we invest in 10 companies, 9 fail and 1 makes a billion in their first year"