skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The electricity argument loses weight when you look at the world allocation of GPUs. Although mining has cut into supply, they're also being used for gaming, workstation, and cloud compute tasks. One way or another all of that chip supply would be sold, and then it is a case of benchmarking the social value, load and efficiency of the different uses to some utilitarian optimum.

Much easier to cut off the framing early and declare "all crypto is bad and has no value", which is what the contra side is leaning towards. It's easily embraced by authoritarian-left ideologues, since their inclination is to reject market solutions anyway.

My suspicion is that we'll all be surprised in eighteen months. The "boom" will be gone, but an unalterable trend will have taken hold regardless, and the platforms will have largely moved on to proof of stake, closing the environmental argument.

The thing of cryptocurrency is that at the end of the day, all you have is a file of a few hundred gigabytes that somehow represents hundreds of billions of dollars of market value. That value means that an absolutely huge number of eyeballs are scrutinizing it, looking for a way to protect their investment. They can't "turn off" the system and make sweeping changes. The hypotheses of anything-goes "assassination markets" have not panned out - crypto has become a sector with a civic outlook.
And also why I have zero sympathy for taxi drivers in the rideshare app revolution. As a rideshare customer I'm extremely happy that the price is stated upfront and I don't have to haggle, I only have to decide whether or not I want it at the presented price.

I've had enough share of rigged taxi meters that clock faster than normal, getting the runaround to a longer route, and lots of other tricks they have.
>The "rest of us" don't pay for the electricity use;

No but the rest of are paying it with the overheating of the planet which is way way worse
I think it’s mostly that they think the people that seem targeted by the product would not (generally) use it.

That can be either an error on their part, a problem with the copy on the website, or a deliberate choice on the creators’ part (e.g. hobby project, I don’t care).
In the near future we may be able to playfully push each other into bodies of water once again. It was such a shame that went away with cell phones.
I can't :)

It's also not technically mine.
Ethical and moral considerations aside, this also has some interesting philsophical implications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
It is very different from how we make it in india
It's name is Moon, and it's referred to as "the moon".
In regards to merging, I understand that part, but say I have a conflict, how does it get resolved. Does it open some sort of text editor where I delete the unwanted lines?

I mean, if I have a repository on one PC, I can clone from there on a different PC.

As far as I can see this only allows S3/GC or Dolthub remotes.
I now recall seeing that in the ceilings of buildings. Maybe there's more of this kind of thing than meets the eye.
This all assumes most people care about buying a stolen bike or not. Maybe you care, and maybe I care, but I’m sure there are plenty of people that really don’t give a shit and are thinking “it’s a cheap bike and I don’t have the luxury of money or time to care, I’ve got to get to work”.
Mr Cartel man do you have any openings in UX because my last purchasing experience was harrowing
I get a similar notification when I take Apple Watch surfing. Also took an iPhone 11 in a waterproof bag around my neck for pics, but it was a hassle to zip up the wetsuit, and the bag fogged up.
That isn't a credible argument. We've known how to engineer for seismic risks for a very long time and many dense, tall cities are built on top of faults in seismic risk zones at least as severe as San Francisco without issue.

For example, Tokyo and Seattle. San Francisco even has the advantage of being merely fault adjacent. In cases like Seattle, a major thrust fault runs through the city. It doesn't prevent dense construction.
Is there a nice way to distribute a database across many systems?

Would this be useful for a data-set like Wikipedia?

It would be really nice if anyone could easily follow Wikipedia in such a way that anyone could fork it, and merge some changes, but not others, etc. This is something that really needs to happen for large, distributed data-sets.

I really want to see large corpuses of data that can have a ton of contributors sending pull requests to build out some great collaborative bastion of knowledge.
There seems to be a mix of legit use cases and mania going on with the NFT craze. I can see use cases like NBA Top Shot being legit, here you have essentially the digitization of trading cards (a proven collectable market) backed by a major sports league. The top shot "moments" have some unique advantages over traditional trading cards in that they can't be damaged/stolen/lost, can be traded instantly online, and may be more interesting to fans since they are videos vs pictures. You can see the transaction history of a moment, and in some cases NBA players themselves are trading them adding to the value for die hard fans. Being backed the NBA and unique content created specifically for the purpose of trading via NFT, I could see them having a long term value & market https://www.nbatopshot.com

Then there are ideas leaning more towards mania, essentially trying to make "NFT for X" by adding a token to every piece of digital data. For example, NFTs for tweets: https://v.cent.co/tweet/20 (current bid is 2.5 million for Jack Dorsey's first tweet). I suppose these tokens have value as long there is a market for them, but at certain price points I question if they can sustain long term and if they are more trying to cash in on the mania.

Debate on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370866
> double edged sword of evangelism

Yes, you want to keep a cool head. I didn't mean just for the cocaine, but for everything else too.

This is because you will find all kind of people there - including a few crooks that are still left from the early days, but also great hackers of the kind that you won't find anymore in regular startups.

But it's no different than any other job IMHO, it just evolves faster and has greater upsides.
3-axis mill for $45k? And looks flimsy. Compare to a Haas at the same price.
That's an insane workload to put out during a PhD. 5 Papers including 2 top-tier ones in 3-4 years? Is ML really full of such low-hanging fruit where that is possible?

In my stints around Denmark and Japan (Computational Chemistry) you basically need ~1 top-tier or ~3 mediocre papers during your 3-year PhD.
I find there to be nothing interesting about it.

This, like so many other “philosophical quæstions” is a futile quibble of semantics that answers nothing.

The simple answer to this problem, and many other problems, is that the exercise of giving clouds of atoms in vicinity to one another “identities” is not one based in salient thought. — there is no such thing.

All Theseus' Ship shows is that, indeed, this theory is flawed, and easily reduced to the absurd, but that is a trivial conclusion an unindoctrinated child should be able to easily make in a multitude of ways. It's as though one come with a thought experiment that demonstrates that the borders of countries are an artificial man-made construct, rather than an actual physical property of the universe. — it is rather obvious.
Glow-in-the-dark sharks found off New Zealand coast
Nope, it was to ensure they were ready:

> had the PAL codes all reset to 00000000 to ensure that the missiles were ready for use

FYI: Russia planned to nuke Beijing in 1969 (the CCP gave Russia an attitude and continually escalated force along the Russian border until Russia was fed up.) The US intercepted signals traffic and told them not to, or else. Huge missed opportunity, since China has been at war with the US since the Korean war in the 50's.
If anyone here is developing a network-enabled ISO3103-compatible automatic teapot, be sure that it responds to invalid coffee requests with an HTTP 418.
Last I ran the numbers (which was a couple years ago) the HN community was at least 50% outside the US.
Docker Volumes
that's great to hear about how Airtable has adapted during the pandemic. Love the cute pic of your son. And also a big fan of the automation platform. Congrats on the launch!
> I am not sold on the fulltime 40hour/week wage slave lifestyle.

You and me both, friend, but I think there's a lot of us that aren't doing 40hour/week because we want to, we're doing it because it's hard to find a part time gig that lucrative which is also reliable.
This article doesn't go into much detail about the actual source of randomness -- can anyone explain why the photon emissions are random?
New York Eases Restrictions for Vaccinated Travelers for 90 Days
Well for one, NFTs on art create a unique money laundering strategy.

Drug dealer buys an art NFT for $1k (using legit money), sells the NFT plus a bag of drugs to someone for $10k. They just made $9k in "artwork" profit, which is clean money....and since the value of art is always subjective, it can't really be questioned. On top of that, all monetary exchanges and transactions can be handled via smart contracts, so this reduces risk to everyone involved.
I drew an equivalence to highlight that the problems related to the record 100 year cold weather crossed regulatory boundaries, which was the topic of discussion.

In Louisiana 2 million people lost power (42% of the state population), 800k had to boil water (17%), and 5 people died (1 of every 940k).

In Texas 4.5 million people lost power (17% of the state population), 12 million had water problems (43%), and 40 deaths as of a few days ago (1 of every 685k).

I don't think my comparing the two states to prove a point was out of bounds. The numbers show significant impact in both of them. I know Oklahama got it pretty bad, and Mexico was impacted. Cold weather kills. Water pipes were going to freeze regardless of electricity. People don't go to shelters when they should. I know the numbers are not the complete picture, but back to the original point: This was a 100 year cold spell, not a free market failure.

I'm not sure of your angle, I might be misunderstanding your comment. I didn't mean to trash Louisiana. It's understandable that this record cold would cause problems. I don't think it's fair to single Texas out, and the numbers above support that.
(1) Offer rehabilitation (many homeless don't willingly take advantage of this).

(2) Regularly push them out of where they are staying with officers. If necessary, use hoses or w.e.

People will either leave because they can't stay there or they attempt to rehabilitate. This is what they do most places outside of California.

This method often leads to rehabilitation, because they don't really have a choice. Those who don't want to be rehabilitate leave and start a life the next town over, live in the woods, what have you.

It's better for everyone in a society to hold each other accountable -- be apart of the society or leave. Many homeless are drug addicts and / or mentally ill, they need help, but you can't help them (unless they want to). By holding everyone accountable, everyone will be better off.
It is. WalMart stocks it.
> I mean Visa transactions take 1-3 days for the merchant to actually receive the funds.

Luckily we have loans.

Merchant processing is something I happen to know way too much about. The fact it takes a few days to settle is an implementation detail. Square for instance will front you until settlement and pay you out overnight, free. I believe all merchant acquirers have followed suit.

This aspect is not a real problem for anyone anymore.
Wow, that is touching. I remember seeing the name "Jim Fox" when using Wordstar back when I was in school in India in 1997.

As a kid I thought it was a pseudonym. I did at some point wonder, what he went on to build. Your description of what he was going through, makes me hope that his memory will be well honored.
NFTs are not useful for securing anything in the real world because there is no way to verify that the thing in the real world is uniquely connected to the NFT.
I’m not sure why the Suess company couldn’t do what the makers of old cartoons did on Disney+. There’s a title card warning on old cartoons that say they are a product of their time, cultural depictions are not accurate, etc.

It would be fairly simple to do this for new editions of the books. Print up front the precise images which are sensitive, and talk about what they would look like today or why they wouldn’t be included at all.
I'm really happy to have found this at I'm in the early stages of building an app. My plan is to release a web only version first and then desktop clients later depending on demand.

So, my question is, how much work is there to convert a web app built with Svelte to a Svelte NodeGUI app? Will most things just work, or should I expect to have to rebuild a lot of functionality?
Wow, I would like to see some animations of doing this for sofas going up and over the railings and down stairs. It works better with the sofa upside down.
As far as I can tell that framing is probably for crowd appeal. The real breakthrough here is the availability of high-magnetic-field superconductors, which push the size requirements for break-even down a lot and so put construction costs in reach of private investment.

(This is why MIT is at the center of the work - they have a really good materials science program that's good at working with these finicky ReBCO tapes.)
Until we figure how to hack nerves, I guess being paralyzed from the neck down would suck less than being dead? (also, it's less final!)
This looks like Node-Red, but with less pre-made nodes, and designed to show stuff, I love the idea. Also, maybe this is a problem with my installation, but I only see one type of block "custom". If I'm supposed to use npm to install any blocks that support anything, this isn't an ideal starting point, too little information on getting started.

Looking at the examples, I'm a bit overwhelmed with how much new boilerplate code I need to remember in order to use all the fancy GUI. I like the idea of having the code be front-and-center, but if you require me to remember how to use the UI elements, why not make some of that code auto-generated based on some UI widget? I like what you have, but it's so minimalist (or brutalist as someone else pointed out) that I find the actual utility of the visual controls... disappointing.
I went this route with code-server[1]. But later decided against it because some shortcuts don't work in the browser. Also installing and managing code-server on those VMs had started becoming a chore.

I am using remote-ssh instead. Hassle-free and works like charm.

Can't comment on sudo issue because I mostly log in using root.

[1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server
[2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
Push it to DoltHub, tell them to clone it. Just like with source code.
I'm really happy to have found this at I'm in the early stages of building an app. My plan is to release a web only version first and then desktop clients later depending on demand.

So, my question is, how much work is there to convert a web app built with Svelte to a Svelte NodeGUI app? Will most things just work, or should I expect to have to rebuild a lot of functionality?

Second, my app will make use of WebGL (or possibly WebGPU in the future) and have done wasm components. Do these work with NodeGUI?
What is a "NFT"?
It doesn't really raise any interesting philosophical questions though: so long as we're moving at least an intact brain from body to body, nothing dramatic has really happened (and all the small stuff applies up and down the stack - you go under aneasthesia, we put a new part in, you wake up and get all sorts of different signalling from this part which is not genetically yours.
Which already exists in fiat land.
Aside from the moral aspects, it's also interesting to think about the results. Would a new brain have difficulty operating a different body? Would one's senses translate similarly? Would the person's idea of where their limbs are in space be all messed up?
If only the bond was actually enough to cover decommissioning.
PSA on the Multiverse and Reality Warping
What the OP is probably trying to say is that TPTB should collectively push-together, no wait, thats not the word, gather? No that's not right either. Ah yes, "concentrate" the undesirables into to some sort of "camp", perhaps.
> They're honestly not that different from taxis…

Strong disagree. Uber is better in pretty much every way over taxis. It's hard to overstate how much better Uber is compared to taxis. It's (generally) cheaper, cleaner, more predictable, and more pleasant.

- Outside of major cities, you can order a pickup but there's no guarantee that anyone will show up. I've had taxis cancel after waiting for 40 minutes.

- Cleanliness in taxis ranges from meh to horrifying.

- Manipulative techniques like pretending that the credit-card machine stopped working to force a cash transaction.

- In Vegas taxis, there's an obnoxious screen 3 inches in front of your face.

> I don't think I've really ever had any issues with Uber/Lyft, aside from I wish I could rate drivers honestly without worrying about ending their career.

The big difference between uber and taxis is that uber drivers have a direct incentive to improve via ratings. The incentive for taxi drivers to improve is much more indirect.
I wonder if the creative window is between moving away from the parents and setting an example for kids ... or if it's later in life after the parents are gone and the kinds are grown.
It is odd, I've been involved in the cryptocurrency scene from the beginning, and I've seen the whole "Bitcoin kills Mother Gaia" talking point pop up every couple of years - but I've never seen such prolonged parroting as this last cycle. It is a silly complaint, because it never considers the wastefulness of the status quo. But it is an interesting method of attack, trying to conceal the fact that it is a call for others to act against their own interests, while also tickling their envy. It could be a dangerous gambit though, while most people can't see far enough ahead to realize that global carbon caps effectively freeze the international market's structure, they can see when somebody is ham-fistedly screwing with their money.
Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)
Looks like there are a lot of devices sold.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/surge-pr...
"Who failed?", 400 hundred people ask, and argue.
Just one failed. The student.

"But who failed him?", they cry!
His mother? His school? His city? His society? His economy?

And all of them may have failed him.

And yet he still managed to still fail all of them back times two.

It's a shame that no one told him, and it's a shame they say it isn't his fault. But the real shame is that his is the life that's ruined now.

And so it's a shame that no one ever said: "It doesn't much matter who failed who, when you fail you."
Yep been there too in SF. I told the driver I would be more than happy to have the police come and suddenly the machine worked. Those drivers get 0 tip.
I've never quite figured out the advantage to these integrations, either. The only "terminal" that I use occasionally in an editor is BBEdit's "Shell worksheet", which is actually just a plain text document that will send the current line to a shell when you press ^Enter and paste the output into the document starting at the following line. (This is equivalent to Emacs's Shell mode; I don't think I've seen it in other editors.) And I only use that in cases where I want to capture terminal output and do stuff with it in a text editor because, hey, it's right there.

And, so far I've never found a source control integration that I really like more than using command line git or, on specific occasions, standalone git GUI clients.
this severely underestimates their value. the baseball card analogy is good. there’s only a few that become valuable. the top shots nfts are good example, only some replays from the last 10 years are ones people care about. and those will retain value
"Far-right Misinformation" funny how we ignore "far-left misinformation" like we ignore 4 years of far-left violence to focus on one day of "far right" violence.
NFTs do not exist outside of the blockchain, a central authority would not care in the least about the NFT, they would simply target the actual asset in the realm of their authority.
For what it's worth, a round steering wheel will be an option.
A colleague went on once about Star Trek transporters: what if they worked by "scanning" a person, sent that data over the airwaves, then, made a perfect copy of somewhere else (sourcing new molecules from wherever) — would this copy believe they were the original?

He went on: suppose you kill the original — did you "transport" the person?

Star Trek creeps me out a little now.
PRA – Hacker News but with an emphasis on technical implementation
Interesting point. Facebook has 2.8B active monthly users. How many does the next highest one have? TikTok has 680M which is not even a quarter of that.
I pivoted careers to software engineering. That wouldn’t have happened without HN. I actually make less money now, but I am much happier and have great work/life balance.
The license looks ok:

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/LICENSE

The only unusual limitation is that you're not allowed to say "built with Sciter" without getting permission from the maintenaners. You can still use it for commercial projects though.
A lot is in the framework level features: I have workspaces set up with combinations of projects configured as dependencies for each other. The perspectives feature allows me to then have specific window configurations for each, and the working sets lets me zero in on a particular subset of projects and files for what I'm working on. The incremental compilation that crosses project boundaries then means I can, for example, jump into something in library, refactor it, immediately (like, less than a second) have all the errors across all the projects across multiple languages show up from this change ... and nearly as easily execute all the unit tests.

I have projects where pieces are written in PHP, python, Java, Groovy and Javascript and these can all be open at once and do things like, set breakpoints in each step of a flow that executes across them all and follow a process end to end to inspect where it is going wrong.

It may well be this is somehow all possible in IntelliJ but the times I have tried it out I couldn't work out how to do anything as sophisticated as what I routinely do in Eclipse. It could barely highlight the errors in one project correctly without launching Gradle, let alone propagate that downstream to all the dependencies.
One random idea I had was to use cryptomining to “soak up” excess power: so, for example, you could build nuclear out to meet peak load and then set up mining rigs to use the difference between peak and the current load, subsidizing the cost of power production.

It’s probably a bad idea for other reasons, but it’s one way to reduce the environmental impact of PoW
One large reason that option 2 isn't great is because people will forget or lose their key. And at that point you'll have a very angry customer when you tell them that you can't let them in or give them their data back (or at least not any useful data). People don't truly understand just how impossible it is to regain access to their data.
Yeah, I recall searching part time jobs that aren’t limited contracts a while back and they were mostly all internships.
Wait so you can create an NFT on a tweet that you don't own? You're just claiming ownership in this NFT universe but it doesn't entitle you to anything related to the tweet does it? Meaning Jack Dorsey who "owns" the tweet didn't create an NFT on the tweet, a 3rd party did?