skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's just centralized in a different form. Or more precisely - not decentralized.

How many copies of the data in different locations do you need to be considered decentralized? In fact, I'd argue you just care about having enough copies of the off-chain data that you feel well insulated from data loss, so I'm not sure that the off-chain data needs to actually be decentralized. The goal is to have the ownership proof (on-chain NFT) be as decentralized and easily auditable as possible.

> Sure, some app can interact with centralised DB holding all actual information like deeds or music or whatever. Why do you need NFTs for that? Centralised BD must me utilised to track ownership of actual data or items by real people and it won't work any other way due to the IP rights and complex ownership agreements. NFTs are useless and impotent for this task.

I feel like many of these conversations in this thread are focused on the current state of blockchain adoption today. I don't know of any government today that has adopted a blockchain to track property records at scale, but I do think that will probably come eventually. As soon as that happens, then you can have rules and regulations drafted around all these tertiary concerns including IP rights and complex ownership rights, potentially some of those codified in on-chain contracts, but some would remain as processes for the government or the courts. Putting property deeds in an NFT on a blockchain does not solve all problems that arise with property ownership, but it could improve the record keeping process in some areas.
Cherry picking data and sources don't really convince anyone. What objective data can say is the averages from large industries. Those are useful, but also limited to those contexts.

I think you also missed that I earlier said that small scale farming and hobbyists are not scalable. There is just not enough land to feed everyone using those farming techniques. A person raising a few chickens do not need to also have a corn farm to feed them. They can just let the chicken eat grass on the yard. Large scale factory farms however do not have enough yards outside the house to feed millions of chicken, so they need to use large scale farming of animal feed. Those two farming techniques are distinctly different.
> I am not defending SVB executives.

But you're blaming the federal government for something the executives did voluntarily!

Please don't change the argument. I didn't say anything about depositors in my response.

The federal government did not cause this. SVB executives did.
I mean that employing people for good wages and good conditions has a holistic benefit to society in that it enables more people to fulfil their needs and have space for children.

As opposed to some dystopia where an exceptionally efficient and low employee organisation makes all the money and there is no/limited distribution of that wealth.
If they don't create value, why do people pay for it? And by your logic, isn't Google doing the same thing for website owners.

There's more nuance to these issues that you suggest. The U.S. government is investing in tech for various legitimate strategic reasons you can read about. Government bureaucracies historically fail to produce (or contract) good products for reasons you can observe by working at one (or by reading Dilbert). Many tertiary sector businesses are indeed just middlemen but still create value in a more complex way.

I get it that tech can be criticized in the way you're doing it. This discussion had been had thousands of times on this site. I have nothing to contribute besides what I already said, and even all of that had probably been said thousands of times as well.
people seeing a bank fail will worry that their own bank could fail, which could lead them to withdraw en masse which will cause their own banks to fail, and so forth. this scenario is bad for everyone.
>Standardizing property deeds is more of an application level concern not core blockchain infra.

You claimed it as a benefit! There's no reason that NFTs for property deeds would: Be standardised, or be on the same chain. That's more an application level concern, so please take that point back.

>Just because you host on AWS doesn't mean you get 0 downtime.

You get as near to 0 downtime as anyone needs for transacting property.

Also, still no one is asking for cryptographic proof of property ownership, even if you make it a single button push. No one needs it now, what does it add? Why is what we have now in need of cryptographic verification? Crypto boosters want it because they're selling it, directly or indirectly. You have not answered this question.
There's an equalization filter built into every single phono preamp to deal with this.

It's called the RIAA equalization curve.

Basically when you master the record you put something down that has rolled off bass and lots of treble onto the vinyl LP. This is to encode the music in a form that is compatible with the physical disc + stylus.

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

The preamp applies EQ to bring it back to normalcy.

The crappy CDs were a result of dumping a phono mastering onto a CD without realizing that a CD player was not going to apply the RIAA curve.
I'm surprised how small is Amazon downstream compared to others.
Real-Time Video Processing with WebCodecs and Streams: Processing Pipelines
Moody's downgrades US banking: ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’
That was our goal. Not to make a profit but to save the ecosystem.
Yes he does now, though if I remember correctly he makes absolutely zero claims about privacy or security enhancements and focuses on the region-shifting capabilities (especially as a Brit who frequently travels abroad)
So bitfinex is going to do the mother of all rug pulls on everyone
And that's why the astronomical seasons are bunk, and the meteorological seasons are the way.
They didn't open source their Windows and macOS clients, which are the most important pieces of the puzzle.
I suspect your customer use cases would have begun in Week 2. Most depositors would be able to cover payroll with the first fraction returned in the early days. Then it's a question of managing cash flow within the tranches doled out by the FDIC as wind-down proceeded. That's when the companies that had cash needs in excess of the wind-down would emerge.

At which point I think you'd find that you could no longer buy at 90%. That number applies to the WHOLE deposit balance; but after the FDIC has paid out the initial (say) 30% to 50%, the deposit to asset ratio shrinks considerably. You might loan at that rate, but then you're ultimately secured by the depositor's corporate credit.
I do think that marshaling the self-motivation required to move fast and
solve problems is a trait that not many people have. It requires a
single-minded focus and probably raises the adrenaline levels for all involved.

Unfortunately, many times the effort cannot be put to good use (like here)
or worse causes harm to the primary actor(s).

In my books, anyone who moves to make or tries to solve problems deserves
respect, irrespective of the outcome.

There are too few of these people in the world.
I don't believe Mullvad sells DNS data, largely in part to their much higher pricing model when compared to Nord/Express/et. al

Their FAQ confirms this, assuming you trust them. https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#no-logs
Now days, receivers are much more of a home theater setup and less of an audio setup, if that makes sense. Lots of 4k upscaling, DSP for video, and handling the different standards like Dolby Vision and Atmos. If you're just looking for something to play music, you can get a lot of amazing receivers from the late 80s - 00s for pennies on the dollar.
With all respect, those interpretations differ only in spin. "Let's refocus on our roots" and "Oh shit, the gravy train dried up so we can't run our late stage cyclic money printer anymore; at least we still dominate the seed landscape" describe the same actions.

And as for assuming good faith that this was a fait accompli already in progress... I'm sorry, but I can't get past "We're doing this on the first business day following the biggest upset to our industry in a decade and a half. But that's just a coincidence!"
This is exactly how I was feeling reading this thread. We are only concerned about the salmon to preserve the industry and not the salmon themselves or the ecosystem.

Sometimes I hear Millennials and Gen-Z say they don't want to have kids because the world sucks and think they're doomers but they have a point.
I wish the door close button worked as expected. It gives me distributing horror film vibes when it doesn't work and others come in.
I'm looking for feedback about the tool. I would love to ask you some questions. My email is aelqaraoui101@gmail.com can you please send me an email ?
They have a ridiculously high ad spend, ridiculously high prices, located in a tax haven, their advertising routinely makes false, exaggerated claims, they've been exposed as having logs even though they claim otherwise, and may or may not be running a botnet. Everything about this company screams money laundering scheme to me.

EDIT: I've realised my claims about logging were overblown. But I'm not so insecure as to edit it out so here's a disclaimer :)
The Catholic Church, of course, cannot trademark or copyright Catholicism or its doctrine, and so in most locales she has no secular legal standing to restrict the use of the word or term "Catholic".

However, the bishop can and will have a say in which Catholic groups call themselves "Catholic" and represent themselves as Catholic groups within the Catholic Church, and so they have ecclesiastical authority to revoke that right of representation. Not a few groups have abused the honor and privilege of the Catholic name, and it's been revoked.

Now also, whether or not a group chooses to cease calling itself "Catholic" is up to the group entirely, and whether they choose to be obedient. The National Catholic Register notoriously brushed off their bishop's concerns and continues to use the name. Others simply rename to something that doesn't contain that word.

It's also the case that the bishop gets to say who can reserve the Blessed Sacrament, and have it in a chapel where Mass is said. For example, St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix had those privileges revoked, along with their Catholic identity, when they performed an abortion. That identity was later restored by the same bishop who revoked it, so it's all good.
Patterns and Abstractions
This this this this this. This problem is getting _worse_ in the superstar cities due to immigration: the questions I've had people ask me about growing up in the South from born-wealthy Indians, Brits are absolutely insane.

People genuinely believe that Deliverance is a documentary, and that Now This' representations of the Deep South are 100% unbiased.

The South in many ways sucks and I'm happy to talk about that, but the things that New Yorkers/SF/Seattleites believe about the region has very little overlap with reality.

For example, there's a TON of Korean immigrants on the Georgia/Alabama line from Hyundai Kia plants who stay because it's so religious. People should talk about stories like that when discussing the oddities of the South, not JUST how awful Poor White Trash is.
He obviously didn't mean to include people who are just tunneling back to their residential IP.
LTT had a segment about VPN on their WAN show. They ran the numbers and figured out that you can basically print money by running a VPN service without doing anything sketchy. They even had the software up and running. However they decided to pull the plug for ethical reasons because they would basically have to protect their customers doing criminal things. Piracy they reckoned was a gray area but there's a lot of worse things going on online. So it's fully possible that NordVPN just got big enough to have a massive advertising budget.
I'm sure they made money.

I didn't call them jokers, someone else did.

I called them human garbage.
Yea, can even pay with brown envelope of cash. They're the MVP.
ridiculous statement. you're calling physical stores of value equal to nakamoto consensus secured digital ones.
Stigmatization has consequences as well. Reasonable people can disagree about which is worse.
maybe other fees they tack on, but not the FDIC fee.

people seeing a bank fail will worry that their own bank could fail, which could lead them to withdraw en masse which will cause their own banks to fail, and so forth. this scenario is tremendously bad for everyone.
It's also very common in Europe that the door close button actually works as one expects.
Bad news: Technology is so deeply embedded in society, now, that it invariably gets tied up in "financial movements and shenanigans", not to mention politics, sociology, ethics, and myriad other seemingly-unrelated topics.

This is what success looks like.
Ask Joseph Nacchio what happens to providers who don’t play along https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
exactly, the best we can do is act at our scale, reduce our footprint, ideally under 2T CO2eq/year
fair enough, but also the semantics of a Rust 'move' aren't identical to C++ std::move anyways. you can "get it back" after the function call, as it's a borrow, not a move.

Makes me wonder out loud if the C++ community isn't going to add some kind of std::borrow/std::return_borrowed to the language. If that's even feasible with the type system and reference system as it is today.
I'm only seeing one at the top of the article.
Plenty of A players might be assigned to pointless projects which could be axed wholesale.
> edit: Since I can't reply below:

For brand new comments that you want to comment on you want to click on the timestamp and comment from there. Otherwise you have to wait a couple of minutes.
it's proportional to account size
Sounds like a winning formula /s
The exact phrase "False spring climatology in the contiguous United States" doesn't show up in Google or Google Scholar, except for this thread.
The tech companies such as Meta that pay good wages and have good working conditions are able to do so because they are exceptionally efficient and require a relatively low number of employees to generate the outsize profits they do.

So that “dystopia” can already be considered to be here.
Yes, 45k USD remote for US companies, as opposed to entry level salary for MSc grads of 18k for the field I'm working in, in Chile. As I said, that's the lowest salary offer of remote jobs. The theory is numerical analysis of partial differential equations, specifically, the finite element method (for CFD, fluid-structure interaction, thin shell mechanics, buckling, and so on). To have a basic understanding of how to code custom FEM programs one needs at least an understanding of the fundamentals of functional analysis + analysis of PDEs + tensor calculus + the specific theory of physical application involved. These are non-trivial skills that take years and years to develop, so I would advise to anyone interested that it's best to get a job as a dev instead. I do it out of passion and because my family has a history of civil/mech eng.

The reason for such spread, I suspect, is that there is not much market for FEM professionals outside of the US and Europe, and if it exists, it's very small and unsophisticated.
Most definitely. SVB had $3B+ of Circle’s deposits for USDC. Just covered dollar for dollar by the US Taxpayers. Can sell all those underwater bonds at face value while the taxpayers issue new bonds at 5%. Crypto just unbanked the banked with the help of the US Gov.
Same with Korean evangelicals at Southern megachurches
> that being said, how can we tell if this is too crowded for chickens?

lmao this is on the same level as when we used to do surgery on newborn/babies without anaesthetics because "they can't feel pain"

We grow them so fast their organs can't even follow, we let them live for 4 weeks before slaughter when healthy ones could live 5-10 years, we cut their beak so they can't hurt eachother in stress induced fights

How can you look at a picture of a dark barn, with something like 10+ chicken per sq meter, bathing in their own shit and piss for the bulk of their miserable existence, and ask "how can we tell if this is too crowded for chickens"

> outside could be cold and snowy

They most likely will never see outside, the extreme vast majority don't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4rDvYHrZM

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/super-size-problem-broile...
and github is not git

and linux is gnu/linux

.... now get off my lawn? dunno
In fact that went very poorly. They cut off gas to Europe in an attempt to freeze them and make them come to the bargaining table, but Europe responded very strongly and largely still supports Ukraine. The winter was even very mild. In cutting off the crutch, Russia forced Europe to go cold turkey instead of delaying it for a decade like they wanted to. Now Russia has to settle for selling the gas to other places at a steep discount, and Europe may never buy Russian gas again.

There's even a fun parallel to draw with the floating LNG terminals off the coast and WWII floating harbors for Normandy
Most people wouldn't even know to ask.
> constantly pressing the close door button, this breaks the lift

I'm not sure I understand the argument? Why does this break the elevator? Why would a built-in button crashing the elevator not be considered a fault?
It might be even better for the user interface (REPL, GUI, web frontend) to have a nice way to send the command "stop and show current results" like ^C or ^G or a button that sends a signal to the backend. I assume this is only going to be useful in an interactive context, after all.
> The hardest challenge in my view is solving the intermediate representation issue.

Right, you'd basically be writing an interpreter for English
CS has had a range of challenges with its leadership and operational practices for years. This is just the latest in a string of events, some of them borderline just bizarre, calling into question the competency of the bank’s leadership its and long term direction.
Grocery stores aren’t necessary - you can grow your own food, dentists aren’t necessary - you can pull your own teeth, etc. It just seems like many people use exchanges and that’s what (at least partially) crypto is now.
Connection doesn't need to happen in the workplace, but the reality is that most people spend a majority of their weekday waking hours working so would be great if building connections there were feasible.
The idea that the victor is ever anything but perfect is rarely in history books. The history of Southern exploitation is heavily covered in Socialist literature, though.
PC players with old Mojang accounts were made to create and migrate to Microsoft accounts in order to continue playing. Either that or do what I did, and crack their launcher and only play on "offline mode" (no account verification) servers.

Microsoft accounts ask for a lot of personal information that they simply don't need, and I feared that opting not to provide that personal information would likely put my account at risk for being capriciously banned by bureaucratic anti-botting systems in the future. Furthermore, should I ever need a Microsoft account for some more important reason, I would not want that connected to an account I game online with. Mixing work and play is a bad idea, and having two separate accounts seems like a likely setup for a capricious ban sometime in the future. So yeah, I once bought this game from Notch and had a legit account for it, but now I have to pirate it because Microsoft decided to get invasive and nosy.
People vote as they vote. Part of giving people free agency in their choice is allowing them to post a convincing message. They aren't allowed to outright lie, but convincing people is a natural thing to do.

And naturally the losers of any vote always say "they're voting against their own interest" and "advertising and propaganda did X". So there is no information value in claiming that. P("advertising and propaganda manipulated people into this vote" | "I supported the opposite position and lost") is approximately 1.
Because the human body was designed to eat food, and instant noodles don't quite make the cut.

Balancing out a high sodium intake is not the same as negating it; you're still consuming it, whether its balanced or not.
Same can be said about Apple.
the FDIC only has jurisdiction over US retail banks, not everywhere dollars are held worldwide, of course

the deficit left after auctioning off SVB's assets will be raised from other banks. the FDIC/treasury/Fed are not going to just pay for it out of pocket.
he explains most of the reasons listed to use VPN by ads is useless

It's not like they can advertise the actual reason people pay for VPNs, which is piracy and other illegal activities.
Personally feel that knowledge graphs will disappear. Currently work on a large knowledge graph at FAANG. Feels like working on an antiquated abstraction layer that needed to exist due to lack of ML sophistication. With LLMs, I think knowledge graphs are obsolete. The LLM builds the knowledge graph itself inside the network layers. Anytime you have an ML system where humans are designing how the information is organized (feature engineering, linking, graph building), it will work poorly. The algorithm needs full control over the information at the lowest level (characters, words). Only then can something that truly works be built.
I never considered this and your response made me ask google the question: "Where is the best place to launch a vehicle?"

"The land at the equator is moving 1670 km per hour, and land halfway to the pole is only moving 1180 km per hour, so launching from the equator makes the spacecraft move almost 500 km/hour faster once it is launched."

Neat, thanks for such an interesting answer.
David Sacks took care oh him and made him whole.