skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NFTs can be minted in exchange for currency

So can bearer tokens, client certificates, concert tickets, etc. Put up a webpage that takes payments (including crypto if you so desire) and hands out whatever authentication instrument you want upon successful payment.

> can be traded between owners later

A conventional, non-chain-based system can also include this functionality. Presenting your current bearer token and a contact for the desired new owner would invalidate your current token and email them a new one.

Any system where this kind of transfer makes sense and is willing to allow this kind of trade already has it - you can freely trade video game cosmetic items on most games, you can resell tickets on Ticketmaster (albeit for a fee), etc. If the platform owner doesn't want you to trade then NFTs are of no help either because the blockchain has a publicly-visible history of all trades which the platform owner can use to refuse access to any NFTs that have been traded (so if you want to trade you need to trade the actual bearer token - or private key in a cryptocurrency world - and hope the seller is honest and didn't keep a copy - again crypto/NFTs doesn't help here either).

The problem is that NFTs only make sense on-chain. As soon as you go off-chain you lose most/all of the advantages of NFTs, at which point you may as well rely on an authentication instrument also issued and managed off-chain.
Toy... well, similarly to that of most Rust rewrites of long-established stable projects.
How is it lower hanging fruit? If people move out into the country, then non-food goods will have to be transported to them instead. You're just swapping one problem for another.
I will stop learning Rust until this get fixed. Looks like a big bug in the language.
I mean external politics, not "office politics". There is no meaningful way of separating any group of people working together (a company, an OSS project, whatever) and politics.
Most corporate employees tend to skew towards narcissism, lack social skills, and tend to lack colorful life experiences. Ask me how I know.

The musicians are probably the most fun and interesting people in the room.
Indeed. I always need to look up the docs when I use Python regex, while in Perl it's so much more natural.
I wish accessibility included cognitive overload exhaustion. I am fucking tired of everything changing all the time for no reason whatsoever.
I think if the goal is large scale electrification we're designing our electric cars wrong.

Personally I'd love to have an electric car for the 99% of the driving I do. It could even have a small battery. ~25KWh would do, but on the other hand 1% of the time I do need to go few hundred km and back within a day without spending hours on charging. It seems silly to lug a huge ~100KWh+ battery just for this 1% of uses, then there is the issue of extra car cost and weight.

What would be really cool is some sort of standardisation in removable battery tech. Imagine electric cars had only ~10-25KWh built in batteries and an ability to slot in "something" that could be another 75KWh of battery, a hybrid power unit, or anything else we might develop in future. Motorway services could have companies that lease out those batteries.
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Anything that isn't a walled garden.

A forum, hell even a subreddit would be better, at least it wouldn't require an account to view and is indexable.
It looks like I do care about specifics and you care only about 'important part'.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the assertion that the contract killing example is boring and doesn't really expose any of the grey areas or nuance that is necessary to really think about this issue.

But even ignoring ethics, I don't think multinational corporations should be unilaterally deciding on questions of law, either. I don't think they will ever make legal determinations based on any sufficient amount of rigor, either. Sufficient in this case, to me, is "would be the same decision reached by a court of law after engaging in due process". And even if they could theoretically apply that level of rigor, why should we trust an unaccountable multinational corporation with that power?
Do you think they would care if you started a company named Oracle?
> Also, it kinda sounds like advertising for this breathing method mentioned, but the website doesn't explain the breathing method, just tries to sell it to you then refer you to a practitioner.

I briefly looked into it and got the same vibe from Transcendental Meditation, that it’s mostly a scam. They take a very basic practice and convince you it has miraculous results and that it is impossible to learn except by paying them obscene amounts of money.

I never paid for or practiced either method, so I cannot give a first-hand account. But years ago I did look into Transcendental Meditation extensively and was not convinced it has anything worth paying for, as confirmed by multiple accounts of people who had tried it. The documentary David Want to Fly is particularly interesting from the perspective of someone who really wanted to like it by influence of David Lynch.

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

I first heard of Buteyko from this post so I haven’t done thorough research, but a cursory glance reveals the health claims may be greatly exaggerated.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15907677/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method#Medical_evidenc...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/jul/...
There was a rumour that if they found a chiral aperiodic monotile then they might call it a Vampire Tile, because it doesn't have a reflection.

Seems like they didn't go with that.

I also see that the old discussion has come up: "But what can it be used for?"

These sorts of things are pursued because they are fun, and there's a community of people who find it interesting. Is Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto useful? Is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)[0] useful? Is Rodin's "The Thinker" useful?

No. And for each of them there are people who Simply. Don't. Care.

So it is with Pure Maths.

The difference is that sometimes things people pursued simply out of interest or curiosity turn out to be useful. It might be decades down the line, but it happens, and you never know in advance which bit of maths they will be.

So maybe Chiral Aperiodic Tilings will turn out to be useful, maybe not. Maybe the work done to create them is what will turn out to be useful. Maybe not.

It's not the point.

[0] Interestingly, this might not be by Bach, and some claim it's not in D minor.
> I don't use Rust, but the constant childish bickering has turned me away from even caring to.

Same. I want to use it because technically it's the right choice for a few projects, but when I talk to people in my organization I still label it as "too immature and volatile to adopt today, but worth watching". I was hoping the adoption by Linux and Microsoft would be the forcing factor to stabilize it, but the governance aspect still seems chaotic. I'll keep watching and hopefully it calms down such that adopting it won't be a risk. Or maybe the good parts will just get adopted by a more stable (w.r.t. governance and standardization) language.
perfect illustration of the democratic system, we are appalled about crudeness of the demonstration rather than the inaccuracy of it
For the last 30 years a strong belief in anthropogenic global warming has been polarizing too.

Sometimes appeals to moderation are valid, but I think sometimes it is entirely the wrong thing to do.
I think if a review is very large, the owner of the code should do a code walkthrough for the whole team.
Its an example of a wildly successful fork due to poor leadership, without any other technical reasons.

You can argue that “its different because its a community” but thats dishonest, because ultimately migrating an entire community is much harder than having an alternative development stream like MariaDB and MySQL.

Oh, wait, another successful fork…
Academic papers are usually written by a small group. But I imagine for large collaborations like papers from LHC and similar you'd have to deal with some of the same issues any major org. It comes at you very quickly. Can you hold an important meeting on the day 2 people of 100 are away because it's a religious holiday? What do you do about the fact that the Ukrainian guy refuses to work until the Russian guy is kicked out of the team?
And the research itself is of course interfacing with politics all the time whether they like it or not. Of course more in climate research or economics than in theoretical physics but it's still there.
They are in all three languages simultaneously, side by side. If you can read English, either one will be fine for you.
Also, people working for facebook are seriously trying to complain about morality. Lmao.
Nvidia testing Intel next gen chip for IFS
Nvidia apparently got a test chip for the upcoming fabs from Intel IFS.

Last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen said they are open to using Intel IFS in the future:
https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/nvidia-could-u...
Does it mean ISC is relying on Linux heavily? Random people on internet says FreeBSD has better IP stack and somehow I was sure ISC/BIND platform of choice is FreeBSD.
When they say 5k lines, I'm assuming they mean 5k lines of meaningful code. 5k lines with whitespace changes, linting etc. would be impossible to meaningfully review
It's the threat of people abandoning the current leadership. It has to be credible to make a change.
Retro lolly shops all over Australia mainly in tourism locations often selling nostalgia, lollies in jars alongside cheap euro/british imports.
I’m not familiar with the French market but Intuit is still on track to keep crushing it in the USA. Intuit spent $2.35B USD on R&D last year (across all products) and QBO revenue grew 33%.

Many startups in the space are building features, not products, and are at risk of QBO adding their feature the same way Stripe has been killing off fintechs with every new feature rollout.

There are many “let’s fix accounting” startups but the market itself moves slowly. It’s difficult to nudge users to switch accounting software and QBO has deeply entrenched network effects with accountants and integrations.

Another huge issue for QBO competitors is that there’s only so much you can do with the general ledger (GL) and closely associated functionality. The GL system is an end user of multiple different transaction sources/pipelines while most of the time those pipelines are outside of the GL software’s control. There isn’t enough there to strongly differentiate and pull users off QBO unless (maybe) you build a mega platform that handles all parts of the transaction lifecycles (something like what Brex is doing), and then you need to convince users to be all-in on all of the components to get the benefits.
Using DPUs Hands-On Lab with the Nvidia BlueField-2 DPU and VMware VSphere Demo
I get this when run with homebrew's openjdk (which is JDK 20, I think):

mikaeleiman@iMac ~/D/Setris-1.2_LINUX> java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar setris-desktop-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
[LWJGL] [ThreadLocalUtil] Unsupported JNI version detected, this may result in a crash. Please inform LWJGL developers.
[30.05.23][11:52:12] Loading Assets
[30.05.23][11:52:12] Done.
[30.05.23][11:52:12] Starting UI Subsystem
[30.05.23][11:52:12] Done.
[30.05.23][11:52:12] 0 FPS | 260MB RAM | 8 Threads | Render: 13ms
mikaeleiman@iMac ~/D/Setris-1.2_LINUX>

A window is opened, looks like the title screen with the text "press A". But nothing happens when I press keys, A or others.

Maybe related to the LWJGL warning?
> remember "HIGs"

Most UX people don't know what that even is.
I'm getting a browser error that says, "signature algorithm disabled".
It's a bit of a repeat of the early nineties and various companies trying to own the internet. None of it worked until people rallied around a bit of technology that worked based on open standards. Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash around the same time Tim Berners Lee worked on Mosaic, the first proper web browser. One of those things worked. In the years after we had crap like Compuserve, AOL, and others trying to sell off their walled gardens as the Internet. But about ten years later it became clear that the internet really just meant tcp/ip, email, browsers, and all the rest. The lowest common denominator that worked across the thing became ultimately the only thing people wanted.

Of course there have been attempts at open standards for VR. Things like VRML existed 20 years ago and there have been more recent efforts. You can buy VR goggles from a range of vendors and there are lots of games and other things you can use with them. But it's all disconnected stuff and little walled gardens. So, none of that adds up to a coherent web like experience where you can move from one thing to another without leaving your browser just by clicking links.

You can of course run a browser and project it onto your goggles but that seems a bit pointless as the content is almost exclusively 2D. But why is that? Movie producers have been producing 3D movies for ages. Why don't Netflix or Amazon or anyone serve any of that? Reason: standards are missing and there's a huge chicken egg problem of no audience and therefore no content. What little content there is is rotting away in archives owned by companies interested only in walled gardens that don't actually exist. So most of that content is basically unused after it leaves the theaters where people can enjoy it in 3D. And that's just movies.

As long as companies insist on walled gardens, this chicken egg problem is theirs to solve. No content means no users show up and the only people that buy VR goggles are gamers interested in checking out some of the walled gardens.

I hear Apple is about to join this party. They love walled gardens. I don't have high hopes for theirs.
It’s just the founder’s last name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_Taschen
They disconnected their phone number and switched to social media? Or did they discontinue their postal address and switch to social media? I am sort of confused what you are trying to say.
The joy of dagashi is its playfulness, whether that be the toys or prizes they come with, the chance to win a second free snack, the colourful designs, their interactiveness and the imitation of other foods. Commenting on the taste is kind of missing the point. And 7/11 happens to sell a ton of dagashi too...
There are two editions of the book. Each has the text in three languages.
https://www.taschen.com/en/books/popculture/04692/the-comput...
That's an interesting way of framing a position: "I think X and all the obvious counter-examples that might prove me wrong are irrelevant.", "Why are they irrelevant?", "Because I just said they are!".

Anyway, you're equivocating around the meaning of "politics". Yes, everything involving people is political in some sense. But that isn't the sense people here are talking about.
My experience was that I hired a developer who silently was replaced with a group of lesser capable staff. After the first few meetings, they were unable to take video calls and after 3 months the quality of the work went drastically down hill. I eventually had to let them go, and only found out because one person on the team felt bad about the situation and contacted me to say as much.

So my experience is not great.

Generally speaking, I don't think India is a go to country. For US firms, hiring workers in the UK is usually a much better bet because salaries are depressed there. Ghanian, Nigerian, Kenyan and South African firms are just as good as Indian IC and have noticeably better TZ difference to the US.
you gotta earn that knee, son!
I like PICO-8. The limitations it has (e.g. 16 colors, 128x128 screen) seem to "offend" some folk though. I have learned to like the limitations.
Conflating product names with legal company names does nothing to help the discussion. The fact of the matter is I can have a business called https://learnjavascript.online/ but not one called https://learnrust.online/, because the Rust team has decided they are uniquely suited to govern all usage of the word "rust" as their dumb little users can't manage to think for themselves and determine which resources are worth consulting.
Even if ChatGPT came up with Velcro I wonder if it could figure out how useless Velcro is to 'button' pants pockets after they've been washed a few times and the Velcro gets clogged up full of lint—and that fact had been kept from it.

Could ChatGPT then follow up and make a sensible suggestion like "take your pants to your local clothes alteration shop and have them remove the damn Velcro and replace it with sensible secure fasteners—namely buttons—so you won't lose your mobile phone"?
TIL about the pipe/newline, thanks. Edited.
So why doesn't Visa and MC also allow high-risk transactions, and similarly charge 14.5% (or whatever they need to keep their profit margins where they'd like) for the privilege?

Nearly everyone with a credit or debit card will have one with one of the major payment networks (that just all happen to disallow these sorts of high-risk businesses). No one has the ability to pay with CCBill unless they've run into a high-risk business and have decided that's a (possibly pretty big) hurdle that they're willing to jump. And many people won't want to sign up with CCBill... the end result is that these high-risk businesses are less viable. Maybe they should be less viable, but I don't think unaccountable corporations should be making that decision for us.
big corp diversity: buy our SaaS or you're a bigot

actual diversity: that roster of legends
he also does that too :D
Pardon my ignorance .. but what exactly .. or technically .. is the metaverse? how does one go about building a client? Are there api docs to refer to? is there like an equivalent to the 3gpp documents defining the standard of 5G?
You don't magically stop being an immigrant after a few years. Often it takes several generations to integrate. And particularly so if you form cultural enclaves and remain attached to your country of origin, as tends to be the case with the Japanese.
Clean energy investment is extending its lead over fossil fuels
gatekeeping much? (Williams, I mean)

Rust is on my list of things that I want to learn to use. I suppose that for now I can ignore the politics, but I don't know that I'd pick up Crab instead... what about all the crates, and cargo?
Yeah Japan is so terrible giving children sugar and additives. (slurps Coca-Cola while munching on a Snickers bar)
The flash is encrypted using a unique key that is burnt into the CPU at time of manufacture. So it is not possible to read back the contents on another phone even if you have the passcode.
I didn’t say faster, I said more efficient. They are two wildly different things.
Critical Drinker has a phrase for nonsensical things in movies: "X occurred... so the movie can happen".
Not to get into a back and forth - but that's not remotely true. Our values are soft things next to the concrete realities of life. The need to eat, our health, social contacts, the hard limits on our healthy lifespan. Values are the ways of being we develop to bring our desires into alignments with the aspects of reality we can't control.

Moreover - what you're describing is virtue ethics, which is only one of many ethical systems. Hold hard to your values and be evaluated based on your adherence to them. Personally I'm more of a soft utilitarian - it's the results of my decisions that matter, not how they adhere to an abstract value. But we all fight the chaos in our own way.
cue node.js - io.js and gcc - egcs
If you like that you should check out a Showa Museum (Showa-kan) as the whole place will have that aesthetic. Or a real dagashiya if you can find one!
That would be a reason to never accept the PR; not to auto-accept it.
"Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript."

Looking forward for you doing and sharing it. Because then I could complain, why you did not use WebGPU, as it is so much more powerful ...
I mostly agree with you, there are some really smart UX people out there but the vast majority out there are garbage who can just use figma and make wrong decisions based on incomplete business understanding or technical expertise or sometimes even both
Sort of like a Section 230 for payment processors -- fine by me.
> but isn’t it really cool we reached a state where you can actually do this

As in be a terrorist and produce bombs? These are all ticking time bombs.
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This has nothing to do with the GPL. For more than two decades Stallman has been described as a terrible public speaker by most people who met him in person. He has many strange quirks and can be very brash. He himself admits being very tone deaf.
Do they still use the term socially awkward to describe nerdy people who work in IT? I thought it was quite on point, at least back in the days.
Other countries have this issue, but they offset it with strong immigration and foreign workers, to include a clear and easy path to citizenship or permanent residence.

The problem with Japan (and a few other countries), is there are extremely high levels of racist and nationalistic ideology (even towards other Asians) over "purity", which aren't often openly discussed for trade and public relations. These kinds of attitudes often devolve into policies that aren't going to help the tax base. It also exacerbates the problem, as more "foreigners" discover they aren't really welcomed nor will be accepted.

So, Japan will remain "pure", as its population steadily and rapidly decreases. It's arguably a Japan problem, if they want to dwindle into irrelevancy (and some are content to do exactly that), while entertaining and indulging in various prejudices and discrimination.
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Rust was always a corporation/FAANG language when you looked at contributors and sponsors, so it's probably not real reason, I mean it is clear async was rushed out for AWS/Amazon and everyone celebrated it nonetheless.

People like to hide motives
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I just preempted the usual answer "look at X, they don't have a lot of politics and they seem to be doing OK" because it's such an obvious non-argument that it shouldn't even need explaining.
Stallman is a pillar of our community for better or worse he insisted on the availability of a free c compiler with source code. He is too extreme for my tastes but deserves a base level of respect despite himself.
> Everyone

This is not true, at least outside the US. The varieties of service people use to communicate vary much more than this. Line for example, isn't used by a single person I know. Many won't use whatsapp (as a Facebook company). Signal is strange and intimidating to non technical people and so on.

> if you don't think it's worth asking, that's probably because they're not your friends at all.

I'm specifically talking about good friends, non geeks, I've known for decades. They're comfortable with their platforms of choice. This kind of inflexible - my way or the high way communication style you're advocating, isn't a healthy or effective way of maintaining very long term friendships.
I would also assume that if something is called a "jazz bar", then there would be live jazz music there.
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