skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine to try to wrap our heads around what's happening, and we can't help but feel that a lot of this NFT hype is based on FOMO and the craving for having something unique with high perceived value: like, everyone wants a Black Lotus, without having to wait 30 years to find out that there's actually people that have also some emotional investment into these items, and are willing to pay some big money to have a piece of that...

... yet apparently there are "Black Lotuses" everywhere, because people are making them left and right (not literal black lotus ofc).

And we left it here:

- are people mistaking something "unique" with something that's "rare"?

- is money really that much inflated?

- is crypto that much inflated?

- are these transactions being done among the same "kind of people", and it will reach a cap eventually with no one to dump these NFTs to?

It's like people want collectibles but seem to have decided to cut off a big part of what makes a collectible valuable. Everyone want's to get rich with the next big rare item, without having to go through years of cultural shifts.

For example, some MTG cards/sets represent a time and a place for many people, they were part of a culture. The rareness comes from the fact that a lot of these items had limited (some were literally alpha and beta versions of the game), and few endured the weight of time and life.

It's not because they have a unique id.

Cryptopunks represent the early move of the NFT... but is that such a noteworthy valuable thing? Maybe it is.

I'm not saying that Beeple isn't a good digital artist, he is. Neither I'm saying his art isn't worth what people paid for, probably it's worth it.

Yet, some how, can't help but feeling that something is off. Or it's just me that I'm just not getting "the thing"?
For that you need support from a large majority of the general populace, who unfortunately are just fine with the status quo (or the politicians would need to act differently to get reelected).
I understand all that (except you are confusing laser damage with heat damage). The prior comment was saying that non-ionizing radiation is harmless unless next to a radio tower, which isn't true.
electronic monitoring is just a tools, it can be use for good or bad, it would be sucks if that made illegal, I would certainly oppose it.

What you want to prevent or make illegal is the usage of electronic monitoring that is harmful, not electronic monitoring itself.
Very informative and well written, it will be useful to avoid using Solr or ES for simple needs.
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NASA and the FAA were also breached by the SolarWinds hackers
Yes, it sounds like someone is being paid as a "micro-manager" to check whether others are working. It is very dismissive towards the other employees, and it is very troubling to pay someone at a management level to do such work. Someone whose job only consists in checking over the shoulders of the people doing the actual work should be paid less, not more, than them

I hope the "silver lining" of everyone having to WFH due to COVID is that companies realise how little contribution middle managers make to getting work done and hence the bottom line. They are just dead weight, get rid of them and share the spoils between workers and senior managers, it's a win-win.
What do you currently feel is missing for web development? I'm using Karax on a few projects and I really like it
The biggest issue I can see with this approach is what happens if I’ve made a typo which changes the phonetics of the search input so that it gets excluded by the soundex prefilter, eg typing “Harrinbton” instead of “Harrington”
Huh. I’m not sure about PowerSpec but they do have an in-house laptop and tablet brand: “WinBook”. I’ve owned 2 and had challenges with both. Most recently:

- Touchscreen driver wouldn’t shut off when lid closed

- Inadequate cooling leading to overheating

- The worst touchpad I’ve ever had the displeasure to use

I really do love MicroCenter, I built a gaming PC there myself, but I recommend using the known brands when it comes to systems.
What if the intern was lying or it was a misunderstanding? What if the intern was afraid you'd think they were lying or it was a misunderstanding? What if the intern assumed that you support the director's behavior since you out the director in a high ranking position?

If the intern trusted you, why why would HR be a hoop they had to jump through?

How many employees do you have that rampant start date abuse had been going on without your knowledge?
Have you tried?

It may or may not solve the problem but has the potential to cut away some of the anxiety and trauma connected to not getting enough oxygen.
Parents insurance provided us with https://getaloecare.com and it’s fantastic. Seems to be evolving but maintains it’s absolute ease of use for my parents who are luddites and 80+
> Very few of our politicians are climate change deniers

No idea whether 10 years made much of a difference, but in 2011 it was "more than half of the Republicans in the House and three-quarters of Republican senators" said "that the threat of global warming, as a man-made and highly threatening phenomenon, is at best an exaggeration and at worst an utter "hoax"" https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27FOB-WWLN-t.htm...
Not a joke - are you running Chrome?
> wasn’t until the last few decades that photography and marine instruments provided empirical evidence for their existence.

Exactly my point. There are so many cameras in the air that you should trust less and less these ufo stories.
But you got the point, right?

And the fact that non-yokels also build cars, does not diminish the point.
ungated: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/female-fund-manager-opposes-g...

'(Bloomberg) -- For fund manager Katie Potts, setting mandatory quotas for women on corporate boards of technology startups is a bad idea. Not because she’s against diversity, but because she says there just aren’t enough suitable candidates.

“There are simply not enough experienced women in the sector and of suitable caliber to fill a third of board posts” in the smaller tech company space, the founder of U.K.-based Herald Investment Trust Plc said in the company’s annual financial report Tuesday. Many startups also struggle to compete for talent against bigger companies like Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc, she said.

Small software and tech companies make up a bulk of Herald’s holdings, and her funds will be “pragmatic” when voting on mandatory quotas and “overly burdensome” regulations, Potts said, citing “instances of unsuitable candidates being appointed and doing real damage.”'

...
I'm glad to hear! My series, starting with "Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers" [0] is exactly designed for this and borne out of a frustration in much of the existing content.

Some folks in the replies mention just starting to code and while I totally agree, it was also helpful for me to understand... at least the concepts.

TBH when I started, the main way I did this was my finding a course on Udemy and watching it at 2x speed, still being bored out of my mind for huge chunks of it.

[0]: https://blog.eyas.sh/2020/10/unity-for-engineers-pt1-basic-c...
Fax is absolutely still out there. Before he retired, someone I know who ran a machine shop got drawings by fax right up to the very end.

Put your drawing in the fax machine, key in the number (or speed dial), hit Send. No mucking about with apps or websites.

Of course, drawings are a rather special case, and it's not like we're using fax for general business communications now. Back when a few people still did, I actually put together a HylaFax setup that allowed the office to print directly to fax. I think it got used for non-testing purposes maybe twice.
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Isnt a pension already designed to be a payout until you die? What's the advantage?
Are the Universe's smallest stars promising places for life?
The sheer fucking arrogance of someone to think they can tell the founder / owner of a company what they can and can't do (minus illegal stuff, obviously) is utterly mind-boggling to me.

I legitimately cannot even fathom it. This is akin to telling God how to run Heaven.
At a company I once worked for, HR talked to us prior to interviewing candidates for an open position, with suggested lines of questioning for soft-skills, a framework for the decision process, and reminders of things to avoid for legal reasons. It may have been largely intended to cover the company's backside, but I would say it was useful at heading off some potential problems.
> All they have to do is point to the very low standards in the USA and say "if we let foreign dairy in, we'll be exposing Canadians to that".

Don't know about the standards - wouldn't be surprised that they are lower - but I don't recall hearing much if anything about safety issues at any kind of frequency - so what would they be 'exposing' people to??
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What exactly do you think IT does? Risk mitigation is a part of the job, but god damn is that a reductionist view of it.
Cool, so if from a licensing perspective streaming is legally equivalent to VHS, then I can borrow my friends 'home videos' and resell my old copies of 'home videos' after I watch them and don't want them anymore?
Yes and once your first cash cow investment (STEM degree) has paid for itself you can go on and do any liberal arts degree that you want.
HR is often poorly implemented, I think.

They could useful from an operational standpoint to make sure your resources are being allocated effectively if they focused on process improvements for the company that nobody else has time to test and implement. For example, HR should be keeping track of performance and worker satisfaction working from home; they should have data about performance and satisfaction in the office and compare it, be up to date on hiring and salary trends and have an opinion on what is necessary and appropriate in terms of perks and salary to hire competitively. This is all useful.

There is also a perception issue, as in my experience it feels like they are usually just there to print off some information about health insurance for you and run useless exercises.
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It’s all so crassly political. There are no principles left.

This is akin to a defense attorney suddenly showing a conscience when defending someone accused of murder. “Oh, no, murder, you say? I cannot in good conscience represent an accused murderer at trial.”

What the f/@$ is their purpose now? Stand for goodie two shoes? How many freedom fighters/revolutionaries are ‘clean’?
Ah that makes more sense

I see using it a currency backed by scientific work is already something that makes using it unique and can make people interested in accepting it and use it. I see that you don't view it the same way, but that's okay too

As well, here's one thing that may or may not usecase per se, but it is something a that's different from most cryptos in use of the coin itself. It's nice feature that only a one or maybe a handful other coins [1] called sidestaking. With it you can send any % of your staking rewards to other addresses in the coinbase transaction. So you could for instance use it to donate to BOINC projects that accept Gridcoin every time you stake (and people already do that). Or you could send it to a friend when you stake or anyone really. You can send to multiple addresses every time you stake with different % for each (up to 6 before it has to cycle through them on each stake) to. On the flip side, accepting Gridcoin means you can also accept sidestakes (at least for things like donations)

[1] Pinkcoin is the only other one I know of and could find (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTuM69Lgd5o). Looking it up just brings me mostly to Gridcoin stuff
SPA: single page application
(I actually had to look it up... Shame on me.)
How
many people lost out on being rich
I agree that my comment is anecdotal and reflective of my personal experience, but it looks like there are few people in this thread for whom it was also the case.

Probably an important piece of context is that English is my second language and I got an education in another language. By the end of my schooling I knew about William Blake and Robert Burns, for example, but not Keats or Tennyson. Same way Pushkin comes to mind as a Russian poet for people outside of Russia, but fewer people would know about Lermontov or Tyutchev.
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As a child of an 18 home in Ontario Canada, now you know one. Sweaters and slippers.
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They pay very generously for your time and have a long deadline. I’d much prefer doing that than going to 20 one day interviews with nothing to show for it at the end of the day.
"Can you imagine Apple or Tesla having an asset that’s expected to go up and down in orders of magnitude through the years on their balance sheet?"

Well that part of the argument didn't age well :)
Same, first day was black friday. Changed any views I had of buying things in general
This isn't a subsidy though, it's quotas, intentional protection from superior competition entering the market.
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Still. Just think about how much effort has to go into each of those transactions. It’s mind blowing from that angle. Acquisitions can take months individually.
I'm learning in the UK where you aren't permitted to skip anything. Even if you had a PPL for fixed wing (which I don't) it's only worth 15 hours of the required 45 in the gyro.

I'd be curious to see the video, but modern gyros are less susceptible to it and it's simple to avoid as a pilot (far easier than stalls and spins).

I find it alarming the degree to which US pilots can fly gyros with minimal specific training - they're very different to planes.
The use of monitoring doesn't mean they don't trust you.

Its a way to verify your trust, otherwise it just blind trust.
After this covid fiasco, im done with models. You guys have fun supporting the climate austerity that is to come, I'm going to just believe that the earth has it's own regulation magic that we have not uncovered yet.
compare (1957) https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Boeke/frames.html
"The Universe in 40 jumps"

10e-13 cm to 10e26 cm
How do you take a good video of a fast moving... missile?
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Only in early 20th-century racist fantasies is the term "Aryan" used to describe the speakers of Proto-Indo-European. In modern scholarly terminology, "Aryan" is only identified as a self-appellation of some speakers of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, not Proto-Indo-European itself. We don't know what the speakers of Proto-Indo-European called themselves. (Before anyone brings up the old claim, still in some pop-sci works, that Ireland's Irish name Eire comes from Aryan, that has been discredited for decades now.)

Besides that, it is recognized that most of Greek myth originates in Eastern Mediterranean cultures, both in Greece and in interaction with Anatolian peoples, and actually very little in Greek mythology can be traced back to Indo-European myth.
> Most of the time postgres will do fine.

For something that scale horizontally, I would probably recommend to use something like FoundationDB for this use case [^1].

A transactional Key-Value store is exactly what you want for this kind of use case.

[^1]: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/
Not necessarily. Look for something like this https://www.tasteatlas.com/heumilch which is about not feeding them with other stuff during winter, bad weather or such.

Which is more expensive, complicated (because storage requirements of dry hay).

But tastes good! Also for Yoghurt made from that. I absolutely prefer it over any other type of milk.
Not so. My biggest long-term client started with me on Upwork. We did three projects and then moved away to dealing directly. Upwork may have tightened its T&Cs since then, so that a kind of 'Eye of Sauron' clause applies, though I'm not sure it would stand a legal wrangle.
> We run our monolith (Spring boot) as a Docker service

Does Cloud Run's free tier 'sleep' containers when they don't get regular traffic?
Several years back Heroku nerfed their free tier -- they would proactively place low traffic apps into 'sleep' mode so the next request would have a noticeable several second long delay.

I ask because our SpringBoot monolith takes 30s to startup, and has bursty traffic, so I was of the expectation that Google Cloud would probably 'sleep' low traffic containers like this also. Would be nice if that were not the case.
It still comes down to trust. Who/what do you trust more?

1) Government and regulated institutions.

2) Technology and non-regulated institutions.

It amazes me that people who don't trust government will trust an "exchange" to tell them how much their crypto is worth.

Especially after a number of these unregulated "exchanges" have proven to be untrustworthy.

"Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie," New York Attorney General Letitia James said

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/new-york-ag-shuts-down-b...
Honestly I wish all their wireless keyboards had a wired option. It's just far more convenient, especially when switching between a work and personal desktop.
> Otherwise you tend to get keyword-based filtering or random filtering based on perceived "cultural fit".

You get that with non-HR managers though; it's not HR-exclusive.
I explicitly mention firehose of falsehoods.

I didn't say that propaganda is solely Russian. But that technique is closely aligned to Russian propaganda which we can all "admire" in the open ( eg. rt)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood#:~:tex....

Please, don't change subjects. The technique used by T. Is most similar to what i mentioned. You haven't given any source to discredit that.
RE McDonnelDougalas takeover - I found this to be a pretty well written article going over the basics of what happened. I'm sure there's a book or in depth article floating around somewhere...or maybe not, people tend to be closemouthed about those things.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...
It's all relative, but I managed to get a Dragon 32 after they went bust despite growing up on and off benefits.
The majority of the world's populace is scared of climate change. There's more than enough of us to eliminate the rich if we work together. Countries are an outmoded and unsustainable concept that only serve to artificially empower the rich. Global Ecosocialism is the only way to avert climate catastrophe.

The way to eliminate the rich is for us to band together and strip them of their assets, then they will no longer be rich.
I can envision the failure now

"we lost all the sales data from before 2012"

How?

"Bob left and he'd been storing everything on the cloud. We didn't notice for a while. Then we couldn't find the password, and after a year passed the data was deleted"

(This isn't to say local storage solves the problem. "The folder on the network drive is missing.")

How they do this could be it's own article
As CEO, why didn't you shut down HR?
Or just exhaustion. There's an interview with a Japanese ace Honda Minoru on yt in which he talks about how pilots were so exhausted from flying eight hour combat missions every day of the Guadalcanal campaign that they would fall asleep at the controls, slowly fall out of formation, and hit the water. They (amazingly) had no radios in their aircraft at the time, so they just watched it happen.
> I have 21 myself at home and often get complaints it's too cold. (eastern europe)

This is because the air temperature is only one component that determines how warm one feels:

> The importance of the MRT can be illustrated by something we’ve all experienced. In an older home in the middle of winter, the ambient air temperature indoors can be 68 to 70 degrees [F], and yet we feel cold when we’re near a window. That’s because the cold interior pane of glass in that window is literally sucking warmth away from us, or, to put it more accurately, our bodies are emitting heat to that cold surface, which causes us to feel cold. This is the inverse of the experience of feeling warmed by the sun outdoors on a cold winter day. Our skin has high emissivity and absorptivity, meaning we’re very sensitive to radiant heat loss and gain.

* https://blipdesign.com/blog/passive-house-2/mean-radiant-tem...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_radiant_temperature

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort
How would tf-idf help fuzzy match names? You would first need to decide the term youre looking for is the term you've indexed, which is what soundex &c would do.
I don’t know anything about NFTs but Beeple is an absolutely amazing artist who’s been working hard at it for years, and I’m glad to see his success.
I simultaneously believe that crypto is a giant scam, and that it has the potential to be the future of finance and radically change our world.

Cryptocurrency gives us the first opportunity to have trust minimized financial transactions, and contract enforcement without the use of violence. This is revolutionary in ways I couldn't do justice to explaining here in the comments. Almost no one in the field is actually working towards these goals, but I want to live in a world where these things are possible, so I keep hope.
Where are all the Native American Indians?

Where are all the native Australian Aboriginals?

Oh.. that’s right. G E N O C I D E.
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Hi HN! Thank you for this community - I’ve learned so much here. I’d sincerely appreciate your advice. Which are the best highest-paying non-engineering positions at tech companies, FT and PT? Which do you think are easier to break into that don’t require a ton of specialized knowledge or experience?

After years of multiple roles on the startup side, I’m also considering a full- or part-time corporate position. First consideration is working with great people, and after that it’s maximizing comp. I’m female and capable of many roles, having done product development, customer development, product management, marketing, QA, copywriting, sales dev and even legal (top corporate legal partners are shocked by my contract knowledge).

I know quite a bit about growth marketing and have come up with highly creative and effective marketing solutions for startups and larger companies. I’ve studied front-end dev to work well with engineers and know a great variety of tools to research and build products. I also have a creative background in the entertainment industry, which helps me craft brand and product stories. I’ve helped friends from top MBA programs land PM and data roles, but I don’t have an MBA. (I’m shocked by how poorly MBA programs prepare their students for tech roles).

Which roles would you suggest?