skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe how you square it is "if a really smart person disagrees with me, might I possibly be wrong?"

Lucrative opportunities attract frauds. The dot com boom attracted frauds, was the internet a big scam? Literally every technological development in history that was potentially very lucrative attracted swathes of con men. For every stock worth purchasing there are a dozen garbage ones. For every innovative product you can buy online there are dozens of cheap worthless pieces of junk. The fact that idiots and scumbags are attracted to crypto only means there's money to be made, it says nothing about the actual utility of the technology.
It already is.

‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280.

I'm actually shocked someone would pay $280 for it.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/13/jack-dorseys-fi...
Yes, the concierge company that handles essentially all of our expenses accepts cryptocurrency. It’s probably been a couple of years since I paid anything from my own bank account.

Meals are usually prepaid by the concierge or local hotel staff, they also handle all of our household staff.
Not bias. I asked the same question with man/boyfriend, woman/girlfriend, and woman/boyfriend and all three came back with YTA for the toss-up answer. My favorite was the answer to the man/boyfriend version:

>YTA.

>You are a man. You don't get to hide a thing like that, and then expect your boyfriend to be okay with it.

>You hid it from him, and lied to him. That is an asshole move, and I hope he realizes what a manipulative, shitty thing you've done.

>Edit:

>To the people saying I'm like "all men" and should "get over it". I'm not asking for your support, or even your agreement. I'm just asking for your understanding. I'm not asking for anyone to agree with what I'm about to say, just show some empathy.

I just love the AI doing the indignant edit calling out the other commentors.
https://reason.com/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-...
> People who grow cannabis also are unbanked.

I know someone in the industry. They use a credit union that is structured to be in-state only.
> I mean this as person that is actually studying this technology

I literally publish open-source packages on how to use this technology.

https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple

https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen
Yeah... This screams of people who never had bad networks. If you are going to add interactivity as a JIT thing, what happens when the user has a shitty connection? You give the impression that the page loaded to the user, but it didn't really load. This is just increasing by a lot the amount of connections the user will have to make. Its _more_ overhead with a bunch of http calls.
I'd offer some pushback, from someone with hands-on experience. I'm a paramedic and work alongside other medics, nurses, and physicians who have seen a wave of change in evidence-based medicine over just the course of a few decades. Not everything is flashy and glamorous like a brain-computer interface. No press release that makes it to the top of HN is going to talk about the choice of isotonic crystalloids or sedation agents on intracranial pressure, but we're making great strides, even if by definition "marginal" ones.

Modern resuscitation is like nothing I have ever seen before. Over the past 100 years, we have gained an almost complete understanding of cardiac electrophysiology, acid-base balance, hematology. In the worst-case scenario that you get hit by a car in a major US city, you will likely have TXA forced into your bloodstream through an intravenous catheter within 13 minutes to counteract the body's incorrect hyperfibrinolytic reaction. Your heart rhythm will be constantly analyzed and treated according to ACLS which has essentially been studied and modified to death by the AHA in a gradient descent pattern - we're stuck in a local minimum where the antidysrhythmic of choice alternates between amiodarone and lidocaine. When you arrive at the hospital, a FAST ultrasound scan will be performed where the culmination of materials science and informatics comes together to quickly identify blood in the retroperitoneal space without incurring the logistics of getting a trauma patient into a CT scanner. All this while a neurologist checks 12 of your cranial nerves and someone checks the tone of your rectal sphincter - because evidence shows us this is an important sign. In the case that you have an intracranial bleed, you'll be followed with MRI (which I'm convinced is the closest we've gotten to Star Trek scanner technology) to identify the penumbra of a stroke based on the deoxygenation of hemoglobin. We can now scan a variety of elements with magnetic resonance spectroscopy besides just precessing hydrogen atoms, which is helpful in identifying neoplastic lesions without the daunting task of a brain biopsy.

Not everything is gloom-and-doom at the financing of some big company.
One thing I’d suggest is to not underestimate the value of your current skill set or your ability to contribute to this kind of work - it’s easy when you work at a tech company around a bunch of other techies and big systems to see how much more you have to learn, but odds are if you’ve been in the industry for even a couple years, you’ve got an enormous amount of experience relevant to any organization trying to wrangle computers.
Coinbase has launched Instagram for NFT
right! and from the developer's perspective - who needs to either host a web 2.0 website or connect to a service from a compute instance that developer set up somewhere - the costs are very competitive and extremely attractive when it comes to utilizing nodes in a blockchain. You write once which is just a transaction fee to the network (formula can be complex and expensive, or pretty cheap, but just once) and are not billed for reads or the bandwidth used.
Honestly as it is on device, it would be quite useful for people who receive unsolicited/unwanted photos of a sexual nature as well. It is a cool feature, where as the reporting hashes remotely is...not

IAPs not being shared kinda makes sense from the perspective of the individual devs actually? The app is shared "purchased software", the account within the app probably is not.
give the people who will live and work in the space ability to locally control the design, as espoused by Christopher Alexander.

that means getting the end users out in the field and teaching them how to build or customise the system to meet their needs using simpler and cheaper traditional materials. maybe perl, javascript, wordpress. maybe excel. maybe bash & cron. smother those high modernist RSI-inducing SaaS user interfaces with a layer of malleable user-written robotic process automation.
I’m just speculating so someone else might know better. What I think is going on is that if your monitor shows especially short-wavelength blues, since this image uses pure #0000FF blue, it’s possible that the blue is so pure and short-wavelength that the lens of your eye doesn’t focus those pixels quite right, and it ends up at a different focal plane than the other colors, especially the pure red which is very long-wavelength.

The iPhone might use less extreme wavelengths for the colors, or use LEDs that are less spectrally-pure.

Edit: like the user named Someone commented below, it looks like this phenomenon has a name - chromostereopsis.
>I wouldn't need a home loan (or at least not such a large one) if the government didn't subsidize loans and cause inflation.

You are mixing up money and land. Those are completely different topics. You need a land value tax for land. Your monthly payments are going to be limited by your salary. A higher interest rate means the bank takes a bigger cut. You're spending the same amount of money either way. A higher income would help you more.

>It used to be you saved to start a business. But today savings is literally penalized.

You are saying this, while savings are at an all time high. The money supply is growing significantly faster than inflation. If anything, we are pandering to savers way too much. What people don't seem to understand is that the rich save way way more than anyone else so increasing overall savings doesn't matter for the vast majority of people.

Also, let me tell you something. Let's say you visit your family and your parents make you food. Would it be reasonable to tell them that you want to make your own food? It makes no sense, your parents already made food. Just take it. Don't pile up more food that nobody wants.

It's the same with money. The rich have saved such an incredible amount of money, that there is literally no point in saving your own money.
And he is likely writing that from a safe job in Europe, not Turkey.. It's fascinating how people develop so super strong feelings about "their home" while not living there.
Just because something is commonly practiced without choice, doesn't mean that it is legally defensible, which is what the person above was questioning.

Authors generally have right to their works by default, even students. Those who use copyrighted works for academic purposes do get some exceptions to copyright law.... but a commercial service is not this.

Furthermore, student assignments are additionally protected by FERPA.

I'm not sure the answer, but I do think it's a great question.
Good remark but we were thinking of luciferase outside the cellular context. Keeping cells alive is a very big challenge. But arguable keeping “naked” luciferase functional is as well…

For cells you need a lot more than just glucose, you needs some medium and fetal bovine serum and you need a way to remove waste and dead cells, etc.
The overwhelming majority of Russian citizens support both the war and Putin. One need not take Russian polling's word for it. Even independent polling suggests Putin enjoys wide support and that only 23% of Russians oppose the war in Ukraine.

While there are certainly oligarchs (who have the most to loose) who have spoken out against the war, the "Z" branding is very popular in Russia with influencers and athletes brandishing it brazenly in their respective forums.

So yes, I recognize that not every Russian supports the war or Putin and that sucks for them. The reality is that the vast majority do. Pressure on Russians puts pressure on Putin and likely in a way that is more effective that hoping that the next impounded mega-yacht was actually his.
IMO The best thing about AWS: The deprecation cycle. It's either never or some time in the distant future (and then pushed back multiple times)... mostly it's never.
It should be pretty clear that the content is “Guido van Rossum sees no value in web3” or “van Rossum sees web3 as harmful and unhelpful”.

The manner in which it is stated may produce other feelings when reading it but the content is still there.
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> They “last” 100 years with pretty Constance maintenance

It's no surprise to anyone that a house needs some maintenance, that's a given. If someone lives in it and keeps up with basic maintenance, it'll last many generations.

> the average house isn’t that old so the jury is still out on some of it

I suspect the average house will never be that old, simply because a lot more houses are getting built all the time bringing down the average.

But plenty of 100+ year old houses, even here in California where most construction is more recent.

> In many places tear down and rebuild is cheaper than remodeling

Remodeling is a whole different topic. Yes, remodeling a house to be much larger or much nicer (or both) can be very expensive.

But on the topic of simply living in the same house in the same configuration as it was originally built, for 100+ years (multiple generations surely), there's no need to remodel. Only maintenance.
Isn’t Guido actually making a political gesture here? There is no technical argument.

One side signals their allegiance to centralization as a philosophy of government; the other side signals their allegiance to decentralization.

It’s similar to the recent dust-up over masking: one side craves centralized, top-down, totalizing governance by experts; the other side craves decentralized power, maximizing individual liberty. Both sides loudly advertise their allegiances.
Which would likely go alongside it; the only thing MAYBE it would allow is everyone to continue to play "in one big agreed-on world".

I suspect it's unlikely and better handled by just using a database and a trusted group but it's the only idea I have been able to come up with.
You’re burning way, way more in labor (and/or opportunity cost of your own time) than you are likely to spend on your monthly cloud (or co-lo) bill.

Anything that helps get you to MVP faster is a huge cost-saving.
I really really wish twitter would change their UI to make it more obvious that I can scroll up to view the parent tweet. I didn't realize this until I read your comment.
Disease vector is the primary reason at the moment
My previous landlord that I had for nearly a decade was happy to take cash for renting out a suite, my bigger problem would have been that it’s difficult to get much software development work that pays in cash. (Would cheque be any more useful? Without an account, I’m not sure how’d you’d cash a cheque for non-trivial sums.)
The quality of arguments against web3 seem related to a trend where smart people indulge in acting dumb on twitter because it feels powerful. It's just an off the cuff tweet by a giant of our age, not some ex cathedra papal bull.

The basic innovation of proof of work is that it sidesteps the need to solve hard economic problems of energy storage and transmission and lets you turn energy where you find it into fungible, valuable compute and transmit it back as information. Economically, this means if you can find power, you can refine and sell it in the form of mining compute, which means I can make money that enables a supply line to wherever I can harvest an energy source.

Once we figure out solar efficiency and more efficient processors, it's how we can fund colonies on the moon, develop remote regions, and decouple some of our economic activity from geography. It's the most fundamental and pure form of value added manufacturing. When you view miners as electricity refineries, it's pretty simple.

Maybe I'm being dumb and web3 dies in a fire, but if it sucks that badly, maybe I just don't see how its critics are taking the other side of that bet. Even though I like who web3 annoys and why, seeing them at less than their best is unsatisfying.
I'm not the person you responded to, but I think you're going to see more folks self hosting things and owning everything themselves, and enjoying the cost savings. AWS has made great strides in the last decade, but so has the open source community.
>Sure, pay 25c via crypto wallet (2 clicks), read article, move on.

1. Couldn't this be done with just a credit card if companies took micro payments? My browser will save my cc details, so if they accepted micro payments, I could just click one button to get it.

2. Why would companies, who do not accept micropayments now, suddenly accept them just because crypto?

3. Wouldn't I still have to enter information into the system (more than 2 clicks)? Or would everyone just have access to my information all the time?

I don't get why crypto needs to be involved here, or how it forces companies to accept micro-payments.
None of that requires NFTs. As I understand it, Magic: The Gathering Online allowed real-money sales of cards to other players years ago. In fact, "Mt Gox," now best-known for its Bitcoin connections, was originally the MTG Online Exchange.

NFTs add nothing to this except hype and extra processing power required to mint them. Without the game, the NFTs are worthless; without the NFTs, the game could work exactly the same.
I imagine the objection is that it is consuming bandwidth, electricity, and computing capacity of an open source project as part of a profit-making service, with an extra fuck-you of a)crawling the site making no sense whatsoever for the service and b)the service being of no possible use to VLC or its users
I always flip between space travel and medical science as being our greatest achievement. For me, the covid vaccines and this story give medical science the lead.
Yes, but if your data is actually exponential, the linear segments are not going to be better approximations than an exponential curve. That's what's going on here
Does anyone actually need it when software like MySQL and PostgreSQL exist? Mature RDBMS already exists that you don't have to build yourself. Does Oracle have something special?
Does anyone have a sleep/suspend configuration that isn't too difficult to configure and works well? I should update and try again, but as of 6 months ago, this was the one thing that made the Framework too painful for me to use as a daily driver.

I loved how power management just worked on the Librem 15 (until mine died).
I would start by understanding the infrastructure as code paradigm, built by CDK. With CDK, I would build some kind of webapp, incrementally adding more resources (lambdas, databases, etc). The true value is that you should never modify resources you provision in the console and only do it through code. Once you start developing software like this, it will be very hard to go back to the old way.
the reason we need all this is so that Netlify and Vercel can make money

there’s no other explanation

it’s a capitalist game and if you want to stay sane, you shouldn’t play it
A brief stroll through the CNCF eBPF landscape
I always assume that people who make blanket statements like this imagine they're actually providing real value, and that they're one of the few doing so.
There's a big difference here: they're both experiments, one that's already over and failed, the other that's ongoing. We have the power of hindsight with one, the other is still actively being explored. We may find one day soon that it was also a failed experiment and bad idea, but we aren't there yet.
True, fair point.

Yeah like the article mentions, they are basically making an analogy to the idea of “punctuated equilibrium” from evolutionary biology. Here’s a good exploration of how punctuated equilibrium works, vs the alternative which is called gradualism.

https://gvpress.com/journals/IJBSBT/vol3_no4/3.pdf
Simply, it is related both through the ichthys, the fish symbol, and the Resurrection, or reanimation of the dead.
I remember people using eclipse and having orthography correction on comments, fixmes, "instant" reanalysis whenever the code was changed, automatic creation of accessory methods... things like that. I don't remember the same features were as popular among C/C++ developers at the time.

Maybe my feeling is wrong, but I always had a feeling that more "modern" more "dynamic" languages implemented development tools faster or even before the same features became available and popular for C/C++.
This assumes that most users of Nextdoor or have video cameras dotting their house are interested in protecting kids. Nextdoor is a cesspool of racism, and everyone I know who has "security" cameras is afraid of people stealing their stuff. Despite crime in our area being at an all time low and property theft very uncommon.
> when I worked at a VC (well, volunteered)

Sorry, since you mentioned I have to ask: Why volunteer at a VC? Shouldn't they have plenty of capital to pay you with?
That sounds really awful...
anyone's tried testing a VKB ?
Like google scholar?

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22t...
Is it sad? I recently put up a game with MIT license. The game IMO is pretty fun. I didn't need to write this in the README but just to be clear I wrote "You're free to ship this in a commercial app". I intentionally made it MITed. I know the reprocussions. If someone has the initiative to make a commerical product from it good for them. I'm too lazy which is exactly why I just posted it to github and MITed it.
AWS billing has been the main concerns in few projects that I worked on. I took some on perm APIs and moved it to cloud(lambdas, api gateways, route53 and such) from a on prem LAMP like single server application. Not matter how much I demoed the advantages about security and high availability and scalability, it wasn't good enough. I was always asked "How much would this cost us?" and everything else comes to halt.
>Servers are often weaker than many consumer computers anyways, so I don’t thin it’s because it can render faster than your own browser.

Isn't this the other way around? I mean a server is supposed to be fast enough to handle a lot of requests.
"Biotech firm announces results..."

Why isn't the analysis delegated to an impartial 3rd party?
Thanks for the reference to back up my recollection of a lecture, nice to know my memory (and professor) are correct. It was (and is) fascinating to me that there are these sorts of constants.
I keep waiting for someone to discover an evolutionary mechanism that looks Lamarckian. It's not that I think Darwinian evolution is wrong (I don't), but that a combination of Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution would be really cool and rather surprising.

Here's the only relevant thing on the first page of results for "lamarckian evolution" in news: https://brainblogger.com/2018/01/08/lamarckian-evolution-is-...
I've reached a point where I'm tired of discussing the possibilities/potential/revolution of crypto and blockchain. Is there anything I can use today, or must I keep waiting for this hypothetical future?
Rockley Photonics has done a lot of work to make that happen, maybe enough that the answer is “Yes”: https://rockleyphotonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Rock...

https://rockleyphotonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Rock...

Or summaries: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/14/apple-supplier-unveils-... , https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/03/apple-watch-blood-press...

Whether it’s in the Apple Watch 8, 9, or a special-purpose device is anyone’s guess, as is the accuracy. It seems like they’re pretty far along, though.
Web3 is such a vague concept, it seems to serve as a type of stand-in for technological worldview here.
The author claims that another drawback of AWS is that your AWS credentials can get "stolen by bad people." What? This is a risk to literally every online service. You must practice opsec and good design patterns if you have API credentials for anything online. Your secrets should be locked down with least privileges, encrypted at rest and in transit, and rotated periodically. AWS makes this extremely easy to do.