skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation is one thing, and I think it is what drives the costs to such ridiculous extremes.

However, I don't think it explains all of the value.

First is the art itself, probably not worth much considering that it is rather generic and partly generated art, but some people may actually like it.

Then there is the idea of being part of something big. Some people think that NFTs are revolutionary, that in the future, this is what will represent property, more than a paper in some administrative office. Owning a NFT now is like owning a piece of history.

And there is also this idea that many collectors share that if it is rare and unique, it is worth having, and apes are rare and unique.

I know some collectors who spend thousands on collectable items, like video game cartridges or trading cards with no intention to ever sell them back. It is their treasure, it represents a lot of dedication and effort, they may have memories attached to it. It may sound stupid to outsiders but it is important.
Yes, to be fair the simplest advice to new programmers about how to use inheritance should be "don't". Aggregation good, polymorphism good, inheritance bad more often than not.
> I mean this isn’t just some majority that would be okay with this.

Says who, based on what data?

I feel like it's pretty clear that most educated people in the US of working age are either centrist or left of center politically, and that, accordingly, for the most part, groups of educated people in the US tend to have a "liberal bias".

I don't see what basis there is to argue that these companies should not provide a perk that a significant percentage of its workforce wants. I also think the term "bias" is misplaced; there is no duty on the part of these companies to resist culturally skewing as their employees skew. We can speak of biased media because, ideally, journalists should be as objective as possible, but that logic doesn't apply to, e.g., Amazon.
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No, BAYC license terms say that whoever owns the NFT has the commercialization rights.

Now, all you have to legally is prove that you own the NFT, because theft and computer hacking aren't a legally accepted way to transfer ownership.
Yes, always a fun sight. Sky Guide has ISS notifications as well.
Can I mint the terms as an NFT or is that recursive?
There have been several studies on the correlation between income/wealth and empathy.
https://blog.ted.com/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/
It can be faster if you combine the best of the old and new.
as a user of Maccy, yes anything you put on the clipboard will be an entry in plain text. Maybe there is a way to do a 'secure' copy with Maccy but I'm not using it so I can view my passwords via the buffer.

edits: I guess this is only the case when you copy the plain-text. Seems there are event types associated with the copied target that Maccy will ignore if it believes it is a 'confidential type' Check the GitHub README
Anyone know about her claims?
San Salvador is not a country - it’s a city. The capital of El Salvador.
You conveniently ignore the 9th amendment in your incorrect analysis.
The 9th amendment literally stands your conclusion on its head.
I largely stopped bookmarking stuff altogether, and now simply save a website as a PDF file in a folder structure that is ordered by broad subjects.

Works fine for over a decade now.

Bonus: on MacOS you can search through stored pdf files very easily.
I wonder if they will survive. They hired like crazy here in Vienna. Lots of good people which started to work there are now 2 years later at other companies.

I tried to sign up for their service 2 times. Both time it did not work. One time even after the success message after the video verification.

Still getting Newsletters which seems to get more and more irregular.

Well, we will see. Maybe cutting down will solve it for them in the long term.
I explicitly wrote from an European POV. Stuff like not having mandatory and functional health insurance... even our far right doesn't want to question that.
"crypto luminaries" using Coinbase...
For the record, I think both you and the person you're replying to hold extreme, unreasonable views on the subject, though you moreso, and your comments are well-spiced with crackpot notions as well.

And I think the bulk of American people would agree with me on both counts.
I will add, once I reach my target weight, then I would just try to stay in the daily caloric allowance eg. 2400 or so (combined with some form of exercise).

Fasting is just a rapid way to lose weight and in my case above it's not crazy, you're still eating daily, not starving yourself for days on end. And for me it helps me keep my energy levels up/focus by delaying eating.

Regarding my binge eating (fast food) habit that's my "exciting thing" on the weekend with some shows, I can still do that however not "fast food". For example I usually would buy/eat:

- a large quarter pounder deluxe meal (burger and fries)

- a fish fillet sandwich

- a mcchicken, a mcdouble

- large shake/or caramel frappe

I think when I binge like that it's 3000-5000 calories in one shot. That's why my weight gain is so rapid/bad. I would do that a few times in a week of different chains.

So in order to still have "fun" on the weekends, I will get some prepared/frozen meal like those skillet pasta... I'm not saying it's much better... but that's my junk food avoidance/fun food. Otherwise I usually eat the same thing everyday: fiber bar snack, then rice, chicken, frozen veggies meal (only because I don't like cooking).
The comment this is a reply to is what's known as rhetoric. The goal of rhetoric is to persuade the audience in the absence of logic or evidence.

The comment is offering "testimony of conversion" which is not scientific.
People more receptive to bullshit overestimate their creativity, study finds
According to personal experience, not exactly a common attitude to be found among the types one usually encounters at FAANGs.

I did run into a group of super nerds at Google that, allegedly, regularly paid for sex with high class escorts, but I guess compared to the money they earned, it was a drop in the bucket.
Absolutely not. Not entirely sure why though. I just checked it yesterday, and there’s stuff since my last reset about a year ago. Really, if you’re a disorganized weirdo like me lmao it helps you remember where some files are. The other day I was looking for some video transformation software I used months ago but couldn’t find it. I tried everything. Last resort? I checked my downloads from 5 months ago and found it. Video Proc. But don’t even get me started on my desktop or folders named desktop files because that’s another story.
> If there was a lab leak and a coverup, this meant that the Chinese government likely knew earlier and had more information about the nature of the virus and how it spread.

You're assuming that the lab "designed" it like a new vehicle engine complete with horsepower and torque specs.

Even given it was produced in a lab through chimeras and serial passage then they still wouldn't have known what they had. They wouldn't have known its characteristics in a human population. They wouldn't have known how long its incubation period was, or when peak symptoms and peak transmissibility happened, they wouldn't have known its virulence, or its R0 in a human population or pretty much anything. They'd might have receptor binding assays against the human ACE-2 receptor. That knowledge and $4.25 will buy you a latte, but it won't predict the trajectory of a pandemic.

And why aren't you annoyed at the coverup that China is doing of its zoonotic origins and that China isn't cleaning up all of the trafficking in live animals like palm civets and racoon dogs? We know SARS-CoV-1 happened, and there was no BSL4 lab to blame it on, so it was definitely zoonotic, yet still fairly unexplained, and nothing serious was done to prevent it from happening again. Now the US is blaming the WIV lab and China is feeding its domestic population propaganda about how the US did it, and still nothing is being done to address the mechanism that we know created SARS-CoV-1. There's still a known virological time bomb there that nobody is doing anything about.

And the reason why China wants to cover up the zoonotic origins and kick the can down the road is that it can use the lab leak theory to push the domestic propaganda that the US did, along with avoiding the political costs of clamping down on the animal trade. And there will be a political cost to doing that. Imagine if in 2009 that the H1N1 pandemic happened in a US pig farm and was 100 times worse, and then Obama tried to ban bacon to prevent a future pandemic.
Why is it "choose to have sex" and not "choose not to use contraception"? And what about the case where one uses a contraceptive and it fails?
Like rzz3, I am suspicious of a lab leak (but reserve judgement). You say the lab leak is unlikely, but do you know better than the WHO? From the article:

> In this we are in line with the US government, the G7, the World Health Organisation and the general public, all of whom are on record as saying that they think a leak from a Wuhan virology lab is a strong possibility that deserves to be investigated. The latest WHO report two weeks ago confirms this, saying that it is important “to evaluate the possibility of the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into the human population through a laboratory incident”.

China's behavior is suspicious, but as you point out there could be any number of reasons for this. However, that's hardly a basis for exoneration. In either case, China's behavior is surely a confounding factor in understanding what actually happened.
My read of the abstract is that it is about growing food without sunlight or aid the growth of food with sunlight plus their thing. This is the focal sentence in the abstract:

> Here a two-step CO2 electrolyser system was developed to produce a highly concentrated acetate stream with a 57% carbon selectivity (CO2 to acetate), allowing its direct use for the heterotrophic cultivation of yeast, mushroom-producing fungus and a photosynthetic green alga, in the dark without inputs from biological photosynthesis.

My understanding is that they take CO2 from the atmosphere, run it through an electrolyzer to create acetate, then add the acetate to the plants' environment to skip the need of sunlight in and/or aid photosynthesis.

Note that I am not a biologist so this could be completely wrong.
The Biden admin made this official today. More HIMARS coming in July.

And Ukraine is about a week early; combat footage of a HIMARS battery firing on Russians emerged from Ukraine today.
The idea that crypto solved "fast, global, cheap, secure, anonymized transfer of value" is not "realistic" - it's preposterous.
What are the numbers here?

This was intended as a 90-day pop-up, and they reported there were few crypto transactions even before the crash. ApeCoin already wasn't a huge part of this.

The entrepreneur plans another restaurant and is already selling NFTs for it. Their involvement with Yuga Labs was minimal. Bun B paid for the burgers.

Is it possible the entrepreneur still turned a healthy profit? Or that was killed in the crash?
Thanks, I'll have to give this some deep thought, it's news to me that having that much more data gives you high resolution in real time.
Wheelchair
> can the Democrats truly be so ineffectual that this is the state of your country?

Not to deny that the democrats certainly have their own sets of internal issues, but a key factor is that the US election system is designed to ensure that republican areas have far more voting power than non-republican areas. Take the Senate, for example. Since each state has exactly two senators regardless of population, a voter in California has far less power than one in, say, Arkansas. In this environment, it's basically impossible for the democrats to achive meaningful policy goals.
Do you mean a stringent bar? A bar that is hard to identify?

Full text of "emergency":
“Medical emergency” means a condition which cannot be
remedied by delivery of the child in which an abortion is necessary
to preserve the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by
a physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury including a
life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the
pregnancy itself."

This is very clear a covers all possible situations where the pregnant woman's life would be in danger.

This is very straight forward. If however, you mean to say it restricts abortions too far, you are arguing a different point.
> Banning crypto won't make ransomware go away, it will just increase the cost of ransom.

That must be why ransomware demands were so much higher in the pre-bitcoin era. Unless you're including the cost of sending a cargo jet full of cash or gold halfway around the world?
I mean, if the wifi didn't work the credit card terminal likely might not have either. I've had issues tons of times in remote places with credit card readers.

And cash is cash, but I don't think crypto is really competing with cash, more with cash-alternatives (like credit cards, venmo etc.)
Just for modern perspective... you can use SDCC. It's an open-source optimizing C compiler targeting small microprocessors like the Z80 and various others. The project itself is terribly run--the maintainers recently pushed out an ABI change which broke everyone's code, but released it as a minor version bump. This ABI change did speed up the code, but that's small consolation to anyone who ended up with broken code.

IMO the Z80 is a lot nicer compiler target than the 6502, because the stack pointer is 16-bit and it's much easier to use the stack in general.

There are a couple C compilers for 6502 (like cc65 and WDC's C compiler) but they're not quite as good as SDCC, as far as I can tell. They're also not as actively maintained.
Are you of the belief that the conservatives who support overturning Roe also support WIC, SNAP, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing? Because the traditional conservative viewpoint is that these programs should be completely eliminated.

I believe this is what OP is referring to - the same people who supposedly believe in the sanctity of human life are also the first to cut any programs that support it. So it's difficult to take their "pro-life" arguments in good faith.
> Yeah, direct democracy, computers make it work.

I feel like you made zero effort to understand the point I tried to make. Founding fathers may have been from a different time, but they absolutely weren't wrong about democracy not being a solution.

They studied numerous constitutions written during the antiquities and correctly concluded that for a large geographical nation like the US, democracy cannot work. That part does not change just because we have super fast communication lines and computers today.
My downloads folder on my mac is 59GB. You can thank movies and virtual machines for that.
Shouldn't the legal analysis of a legal opinion be the norm? Facts don't care about your feelings.
I feel like I'm slowly becoming a Nix shill, but... Nix is a good alternative as well.

Install Nix in one command:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon

Then run Magic Wormhole in one command, without even having to install it:

nix-shell -p magic-wormhole --run 'wormhole send myfile'
I doubt that this was a benevolent step ensuing that Roe is replaced by something more real. This is not the pattern we are seeing, or else explain the other religion-related decisions. More importantly Roe was universally accepted as real.

That legal tidal wave could very well come.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/roe-v-...
Maybe, if the controllers are internally digital. If they're internally analog requiring their deviation from linearity to be insignificant over the 1%-99% range of PWM values rather than the 8%-10% range is likely to require extra complexity.

Now that Padauk has microcontrollers that cost less than most discrete transistors it might seem like an obvious improvement to redesign such controllers to be internally digital --- but Padauk's microcontrollers were out of stock this year, and discrete transistors weren't.
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I'm very clearly and obviously doing the exact opposite
They should stop being so nosy and looking over the user's shoulder, then.
US banking still stuck in the 70s and encourages rent-seeking third-parties to fill the gaps.
If Nguyen really believes in ETH and APE wouldn't he want to pull in more of it when its down?

Obviously he needs cash flow to run the business but most are not paying with crypto. I'm reading this as Nguyen lost faith in crypto.
That "only" is doing a lot of work.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/24/1107126...

That's a lot of people and a lot of territory where you could be arrested traveling through if someone snitches.
Tumorectomy is not just a medical procedure, there is a third party involved: the cancer. Now I find the religious view that a cancer exists as soon the cell starts replicating uncontrollably ridiculous. But I find equally ridiculous the dismissal of the cancer's life implied by calling it just a "medical procedure".

I think it's fine. The cancer is not able to survive in it's own and has a significant negative impact on the person carrying it. To make medical removal illegal even in cases where continuing to carry the cancer threatens the life of the one carrying it displays reckless disregard for their safety.
> Catholic doctrine might, American Catholics, especially, do not

This is unfortunately true (but unsurprisingly so, especially these days). That doesn't mean that they're somehow right; they don't speak for the Church.
It wasn't that hard. Payment was in pre-paid credit cards.
You usually (there are some exceptions) don't hop off and on planes. With trains is the norm, so you simply cannot compare the anecdotes.
One thing maybe missing from the many good comments here is a
separation of digital currencies from crypto coins.

We would do well to start separating the mechanism that stores value
from the mechanism of exchange.

That's why I think something like GNU Taler backed by ordinary dollars
is a much better way for selling burgers and pizza in any foreseeable
time-frame.
For BAYC and some others, it's not just the art, but also membership in a club that gets various privileges.
90% of people won't use their own wallets.
Ask HN: Do cloud vendors slow traffic to other cloud vendors?
This may be a bit of a cop out, but compiled, runtimeless languages are so astonishingly faster than Python on average (especially for things like numeric computation in loops) that you don't actually need to go out of your way to write optimized code. If this is your first systems-level language, the I'd say just focus on getting your head around things like pointers and the stack vs. heap, and you'll find that your code will be plenty fast. Only then,if you really really need more optimization, will it be worth your time to learn about advanced optimization techniques.
So if taxes go up, there will be more demand for a currency? And if taxes go down, there will be less demand for a currency? I’m not sure that’s right.
Pro-lifers may SAY that they think that abortion is murder, but there is no law, even a proposed law, that literally treats it as such.
> then it would contradict their argument

to be clear, its pretty irrelevant to the argument because the bible is just one such example of the history of abortion. There are hundreds more and if it would help you can pretend I mentioned one of those instead.
I wonder what percentage of the crypto population has wallets compared to having all their crypto on an exchange. I don’t know anyone with a wallet.
And development, which you seem to skip over. Most people draw the line at third trimester, which is generally when a fetus is viable outside the body.

A fetus in the first or second trimester isn't capable of life outside the mother's womb. A vanishingly small percentage of people are even considering late-term abortions, but that's what you seem to be fixated on in all these threads.
It's clear the original Roe v Wade was an ideological ruling. It was motivated reasoning. It's just being undone.

I support first trimester abortions. Now go pass those laws in the states via the legislative process where it belongs.
> fast

Not fast. Most cryptocurrencies have unbearably slow transaction or confirmation times. Maybe if you are buying a car, they will be confirmed by the time the paperwork is done. Even with initiatives like the lightning network, it's still slow. So much so that some of the major exchanges will tally your transactions off-chain, to be confirmed later.

> cheap

It really isn't. Be it gas fees or computational power

> secure

Eh, depends. Surely the transaction itself may be from the blockchain's viewpoint. But if your coins get stolen or your exchange gets hacked you really have no recourse. And that's just one issue. And before anyone says "hardware wallet", exploits have been found for those as well, assuming they were even secure to begin with.

> anonymized

They are not anonymous. With a few exceptions, all transactions are visible in the chain, forever. This works as long as you never need to convert to/from fiat. The moment you do, your identity is exposed - even retroactively. It's way worse than cash. Tumblers only help so much.
Bitcoin can only process 7 transactions per second globally. Ethereum 25. That is not fast. If you want to get an actual transfer cheapness goes out of the window. And it is not anonym either.
Center right, by global standards.

Maybe your views have been distorted by right wing news calling Biden “far left” which is an objective falsehood.

I’ve seen over half the nations on earth and I stand behind the OP assessment of the US Dem party as center right.
Do investigate a bit before knee jerk responding from a position of falsehood
(totally agree, and found myself laughing reading this)
The ruling isn't actually rooted in state versus federal powers, and in fact opens the door for a federal ban on abortion.
It's simple, fetuses don't have rights. Roe was the right decision. The current SCOTUS went off the farm and are now just an extension of the RNC because of the 6-3 supermajority and recent ruling show they just do whatever the republican platform is wrapping it up in "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution.
I think it's often misunderstood at how incredibly hard it is to stop reproduction.

For example birth control pills are 99% effective. From the NHS:

> When taken correctly, the pill is over 99% effective at preventing pregnancy. This means that fewer than 1 in 100 who use the combined pill as contraception will get pregnant in 1 year.

So, if you're in a relationship for 5 years, that's 1 in 20. For my group of people I know, this matches up pretty well.
Wait how do I do text over wifi?
The intention isn’t relevant - sex leading to kids is hardly some unknown fact.

That's ridiculous. Many people engage in sex using contraceptives design to prevent pregnancy, but we all know that contraceptives aren't 100% reliable. So the possibility of any given sex act leading to kids is absolutely an "unknown".

And that's before getting into the point about how, in many places in the world, knowledge of (or access to) contraceptives is withheld from portions of the population to begin with. For that matter, there are some (mostly very young, I expect) who don't understand the whole "sex leads to kids" thing.
Ah, interesting, thank you. How does propertarianism deal with my example of parents making medical decisions on behalf of children? It seems like an interesting quandary because a 1 year old can't be expected to make an informed decision on vaccination (for example) and so some control over the child's body must rest with the parents.