skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it was to take care of his ailing mother.

Maybe if she had decided to retire to Florida, Silicon Valley would be in the Sunshine State.
Pretty damn impressive!

BTW, Whittle invented the radial flow turbojet. Ohain invented the axial flow turbojet, from which all modern turbojets descended from.

P.S. Being an old guy, I'd have been pretty concerned about a turbine burst shredding my body.
VS Code Remote Containers is another cool feature. You can develop inside any Docker container locally. This could essentially mirror whatever image you have deployed into Kubernetes, GKE, GCS, etc.

Ref: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
It's more complicated. Microsoft waits until everybody adopts LSP for, say, Python, and then slowly moves to a proprietary language server, explicitly forbidding its use outside VSCode:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719338
Bad choice, I admit. What I was driving at is, 'we're not talking about stuff I saw somebody do on youtube'
“digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm”

I think they mean, you could have the same stuff in different video games
Your point is why “deregulated” energy systems don’t actually leave those choices completely up to the market. Regional Transmission Organizations, like ERCOT, are quasi regulatory entities that are supposed to ensure grid reliability. These entities actually engage in all sorts of central planning, and then conduct various types of auctions with precise parameters to set prices. The “deregulation” part is mainly about shifting from government regulators setting prices to having artificially constructed markets setting prices. It’s nothing like the free-for-all people are imagining.

ERCOT is a bit different in that it doesn’t use what’s called a forward capacity auction. All RTOs in the country have markets where users pay generators for instantaneous electrical production. RTOs other than ERCOT, however, also have what’s called a forward capacity market. The RTO projects how much peak power will be required three years from now, and conducts auctions to provide the required capacity at the lowest price. Then there are various mechanisms attached to that which ensure that a generator that commits to providing a certain amount of capacity actually does so when the RTO calls it in. ERCOT instead maintains a fixed reserve margin—it tries to ensure that capacity is about 13.5% higher than peak projected demand. That’s different, but it’s still not a free-for-all.

Amusingly, many people called the lack of a capacity market a positive thing. In practice it tends to prop up coal plants, because those can reliably commit to providing a particular generation capacity years in advance, unlike renewables: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/flexibility-wit....
I had the exact same experience. We found an iPhone in 1-2m of ocean in Mexico. It had been there a week, we found out after calling Verizon with the SIM and being put in contact with the owner. Someone in our group dropped it off in Portland on their way home.
You Have to Out API Amazon to Get to What Is Next
Pointing out the environmental impact of NFTs is not taking away a meaningful amount of attention or effort from pointing out the impact of nonrenewable power, cars, etc. What it can do is clue in NFT users who may not understand the impact of their participation.

Anecdotally I've seen several artists on social media making posts recently saying "wow okay I just heard about the power use of NFTs, this is nuts" because it's really not obvious if you're not already familiar with blockchain-related stuff.
Regardless of what you think of NFTs, you have to recognize that the author's only counterargument against NFTs is that they're bad for the "rest of us" due to externalities that everyone else has to pay.

The "rest of us" don't pay for the electricity use. The ETH miners are paying for it directly. And creators and buyers are paying for it indirectly through ETH usage. It isn't an externality. That's like saying the physical art world shouldn't exist because it uses physical real estate, electricity, and raw materials to be made on -- and the rest of us pay for those things.

Is it a good use of electricity? Maybe, maybe not. That's for people to decide individually, unless we'd want to go down the moral rabbit hole of judging every single use of electricity.
This is exactly what I don't understand. If it's the same art, why does it matter if the art is in an NFT or in a physical representation? Like, why are people buying pieces of art using NFTs?
You can also install an app that syncs your photos to a third party. Or migrate your photos to Google now.

iCloud is the default, not the only option.
Is It Time to Kill the Book Blurb?
I have had this taken to me. Taxi drivers "accidently" take the wrong turn into a tunnel that adds at least an extra mile to the trip. You are billed directly on distance traveled so it is not surprising.
As a tech pro who needs to keep up to date with current and future trends in the industry, HN provides an easily digestible list that I can skim through daily.

As a budding entrepreneur, the info here is incredibly valuable for learning, especially the comment discussions on products created by other entrepreneurs.
> It did work... for several seconds before it melted.

To be fair, the Me-262 turbojet engines only worked a few hours before they melted, too.
The externality of the electricity use is the pollution, and increased prices due to demand.
> They use an astonishing amount of electricity to create and trade. Together, they are already using more than is consumed by some states in the US. Imagine building a giant new power plant just to make Christie’s or the Basel Art Fair function. And the amount of power wasted will go up commensurate with their popularity and value. And keep going up. The details are here. The short version is that for the foreseeable future, the method that’s used to verify the blockchain and to create new digital coins is deliberately energy-intensive and inefficient. That’s on purpose. And as they get more valuable, the energy used will go up, not down.

Binance Smart Chain has many NFTs and doesn't use Proof of Work. Ethereum is migrating to Proof of Stake soon and will eliminate the power waste argument. If he wanted to attack NFTs he should have used a better argument.
Isn’t his argument moot due to ethereum’s eventual transition to proof of stake
Hey There Darling
Not yet on LibGen though I suspect it will be shortly.

http://libgen.rs/scimag/?q=10.1287%2Fmnsc.2020.3721
(Also others just didn't think it right to burn a nice house. The house did nothing wrong.)
One amazing use-case is recurring revenue on secondary market sales by coding royalties into the smart contracts. Artists used to die poor and their family saw nothing as their work skyrocketed in value. Not anymore with NFTs.
I'm the opposite. I dive right into the doing part and fail the planning part.
That's an argument for a different question, which is "should we allow people to waste electricity if they pay for it?". If your answer is that we should regulate what people are allowed to use electricity for, then we'll need to change the laws in this country.

It is very difficult to start being the moral judge for every single use of electricity. Instead, we let the free market decide in most situations. And when there are true externalities (meaning costs that borne by the broader population, e.g. car emissions) we do impose regulations to reduce those externalities.
NFTs, the new way to spin a copyright or incorporate into DRMs, but since it pumps and is bullish for crypto, all cool kids are lovin it.
Facebook seems like the least of the big techs
that are the most abusive of monopoly

Framing the issue as a competition between asshole companies lets them all off the hook.

FB blatantly abuses its monopoly by trying to buy smaller competitors, and if that fails, cloning their products.
A corollary to my thesis is that local inequality is what drives resentment among the middle class. Finance is peculiarly concentrated in NYC. It’s not like JP Morgan has an office in Portland where it hires investment bankers who drive up housing prices.
It's not a false narrative, though what is a false narrative is that it's directly because of prop 47, and not retailers adopting policies directed at limiting employees confronting thieves, resulting in fewer being caught. To the extent prop 47 plays a role, it's because police departments deemphasize followup enforcement on misdemeanors, though there is no legal requirement that they do so: a crime shouldn't need a disproportionate punishment for police to enforce it. And since the same police leaders choosing nonenforcement are also using the increase in crime to lobby for reincreasing punishment, there's an argument that, insofar as Prop 47 is involved, it's because police policymakers are conducting a lobbying campaign by deliberately allowing crime to occur to build support for greater punishment.
Does Apple have to worry about Tim Wu?
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the comments over what agility means vs the bureaucratic cargo-culting safe/scrum nonsense that has been perpetuated by enterprises and “certification” providers.

The ideas behind agility in software development were all about reducing bureaucracy, focusing on small slices straight to the customer, strong focus on quality and testing practices and continually readjusting and improving. None of it was ever about stand ups, estimation, using Jira etc.
One of my first trips in Vegas...I took a taxi from the airport to MGM, I believe. It's pretty near by. I get in the taxi, and the driver asks if I want to take the highway because it's faster. Of course...I said sure...everyone wants faster right?

I found out later in Las Vegas, the taxi drivers are required to take the shortest route unless the passenger requests for another route.

Well played, sir.
Try flutter for the mobile app, cross platform for iOS and Android, works great with firebase.
The problem I think, is that their art still isn't selling. NFTs aren't art, they are effectively trading cards referencing art.

These trading cards are, somewhat mysteriously, selling, and that does get money into the hands of artists which is good, but they're not doing it by encouraging people to buy art or tip artists, and it's hard to see how "everyone can just print trading cards referencing things" is a sustainable anything.
Legally, every web domain must have a contact point when you register. They shouldn't have to webcrawl for the contact info. Then again, they are already the kings of webcrawling....
As far as I understand it, some NFTs are built where the original creator gets some percentage of every sale.
Cut off services and have them go where? Also, how do you ban someone from a city? This is just a purely NIMBY response and not in any way realistic or helpful. You just really don't like it in your backyard and want it in someone else's backyard. I feel like your next suggestion is euthanasia.
Yeah; that was my original thought, but not sure how readily available that is without reaching out to the registrar. Certainly, the registrar could be reached out to.
McAfee indicted. Not indicked....yet.
It’s amusing to me considering the degree to which tech backed Biden.
Very interesting paper. I hope to see more about psychology and self dev I the futur here. It’s the root of a successful journey.
I personally find "hate speech" nomenclature quite tedious, but dealing with undesired content is handled via the usual Matrix methods[1]... since that is what underlies Cactus. You may have to self host though, i'm not sure if Cactus themselves give access to these features if you rely on them for hosting.

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation
Only if you're the last one holding! /s
Stories like this are exactly why the taxi cartels were decimated by ride sharing companies.
> portable, digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm

Why not just have a government or trusted company sign things rather than an NFT? If the UN says "we will digitally sign digital passports", that seems strictly better than an NFT for identity. Without a central authority to verify identity, how do you solve the problem of a thousand people creating NFTs saying they're john doe living at location X? Don't you need someone to validate it, at which point you have a central authority?

Or is this for digital assets like "I own this git repository", which you can already do by signing it with your gpg key and then distributing it via ipfs or such?

> can't be arbitrarily erased by any central authority.

Sure they can be. If a government creates a law saying "anyone that processes NFTs must first put them through this list of NFTs to filter, must filter them out, etc, or go to prison", well, now NFTs are effectively erased.
Certainly. If only Google was good at making sense of web page content.

Point isn't they need to do it for every site. Just, a semblance of effort seems like the kind of thing that's worth throwing some resources at.
That's a bold statement.

Also, this article doesn't address the huge issue with disposing the thousands of tons of fiberglass and plastics that are currently being buried in landfills.
"This is bad because of externalities, the externalities are big and will grow" is exactly why we don't have general nuclear power, saying it's the only argument doesn't make it a weak argument.
I might be in the minority, but I think using variables of equal lengths with opposite meanings is an anti-pattern. I like using clearly different words (diff lengths, diff starting characters) that still pair well together. IMO this makes it much easier to scan through code, and much less likely to accidentally use the wrong function/variable somewhere.
> Those debates continue - to Scrivener or not to Scrivener is quite the topic with long-form writers. And Final Draft is heavily discussed.

Where could I find such discussions? Do you remember any links?
> you have to recognize that the author's only counterargument against NFTs is that they're bad for the "rest of us

No, I think he makes a valid point that they're intentionally misleading and a scheme to sucker someone out of money.

Let's look at Jack Dorsey's 'minted' first tweet.[0]

This is in no way gives to exclusivity to 'owning' this tweet. It literally is just 'owning' the rights to 'Valuable's' NFT of this tweet (if they even are committing, legally, to never create another NFT of it). There are no limit of companies that can do exactly what they are doing and 'selling' this tweet in the same way, nor is Jack Dorsey committing never to accept those 'sales'.

To me, it seems like an outright scam that anybody but Twitter is trying to do this.

[0]https://v.cent.co/tweet/20
NFTs make perfect sense for representing a claim on things that can be used, like event tickets or in-game virtual goods. But as certificates layered on top of collectibles... I'm not so sure.

With something like CryptoKitties, you can do something with the tokens (play a virtual pet game). But with something like CryptoPunks you're essentially paying for digital beanie babies, which are worse than real ones since anyone can display and enjoy the image you paid for.

You can brag about owning such-and-such an image, but only as long as enough other people desire images from that particular set. When a set's popularity wanes, so does your token's value, and your ability to show it off.

I'm always happy to see artists being paid for their work, and if they can make some money during this craze - more power to them. Beyond a few creators being rewarded, it seems like this is going to be 90% bubble (with plenty of hucksters), and 10% real use cases that stand the test of time.
Diesel engine mechanic here and I learned about these during my apprenticeship. "high strung" is the understatement of the fucking century. Deltics are garbage compared to a modern inline 8 or 16 cylinder locomotive diesel.

cheerleaders for deltics will always measure their effectiveness in the guesome "miles per casualty" figure, completely ignoring the fact this system had astronomical service costs as the design compounds stress on cast parts. you had to have starter cartridges (explosives) to start the things, and it wasnt uncommon for them to give up the smoke just cranking them.

they have horrendous emissions as well compared to inlines. diesel and lube oil would roll out of the exhaust in massive plumes (you would never get these approved in the US today.) Usually on startup large diesels have monitored exhaust temperatures but in a Deltic your eyes had to be glued to the meter because the stack was always a blond one away from runaway (catching fire.) As tolerances drifted during service most fleets just fed these things more lube oil and in turn, worse emissions and efficiency.

again, complexity. Your tolerances for a deltic were insane compared to what you had at the time for an off-the-shelf diesel. repair parts too had to be custom fitted to the engine as it had worn and take into account things like piston bore cavitation damage from overprimed starter cartridges/overspeed/overtemp/etc...The shop down the road could not fabricate deltic parts so lead times were considerable. Whoever worked on these had a dedicated machinist (not just a miller) cutting parts off a dialed-in colchester lathe or something with a very good tolerance.
Maybe NFTs for collectibles isnt ideal but Im wondering if there are some more - lets say - utilitarian uses of this concept that we havent discussed yet. The other day I tried buying a bike. Id really like to know it wasnt stolen, and somehow being able to tie a real world representation into a virtual single item good would be somewhat useful.
That's how it already works for DRM-protected content, without the overhead of NFTs.
When the cost is directly paid by the actor, it isn't an externality. It is the literal opposite of what externality means.
I'll take it over the billions of tons of pollution spewed into the atmosphere from other energy production where we have zero feasible way to materially remove any of it
Digital art doesn't have a natural physical representation, and people find it interesting to get rid of the requirement for creating and maintaining one just to make it a thing to exist as art. I.e. fundamentally digital art pieces are today often sold as part of installations which are a pain to maintain long-term. Or as physical media, which also are difficult to maintain long-term, or if you don't require the specific media to be preserved you get into the chaos of which later copy is an "original". That really only works at an expensive high end.

Or you don't create exclusivity and sell it cheaply, but while people do buy e.g. music that apparently doesn't work as well for other art forms (artists certainly have tried).

Limited/unique prints apparently do work (as in people are willing to spend money on those), but limits you to static 2D media.

In principle nothing stops you from selling digital art with licenses like we do sell software with licenses, but that hasn't caught on, for whatever reason. (I'm actually expecting that to be added to NFTs soon-ish)

Enough people do seem to be currently willing to accept the concept of an NFT representing ownership of a digital thing to put a price on it, and that price is noticeably higher than what they pay for non-exclusive digital art. For many artists, that's reason enough to use this new avenue to sell their art.
Most things do, which is good news. I'd be interested to know if there are any projections of how these costs may be reduced. Do you have any references on hand?
Per the docs on zfs program:

The entire script is executed atomically, with no other administrative operations taking effect concurrently.

Which would be somewhat hard to ensure with an external language.
XMPP has been effectively dead for awhile. Time to move on.
Facebook is the CIA factbook for the peoples of the world lent out to the business community.
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What we know about the data breach targeting frequent flyer info
And because of that, the taxpayer should be grateful and happy
I took a taxi once in my life. He deliberately missed an exit to add 10 minutes to trip. I told him I was going to the hospital to meet my partner who had just been taken there by ambulance. I'm glad taxis are dying.
> The environmental critique rings hollow. Our economy revolves around this unnecessary consumerism

It is only proof of work which needs to be more wasteful the more efficient things become.

If it turns out t-shirts are polluting massively, and someone finds out that by replacing one chemical with another they pollute much less, then people will do that.

If a more efficient machine comes out for making a t-shirt, t-shirts will become cheaper to make.

Proof of work chains can't take advantage of any improvements. They waste X amount of money in electricity intentionally. If computers get faster, they need more computers. If electricity gets cheaper, they need to burn more electricity to have similar security (make the cost of a 51% attack the same again).

Any time computers get significantly better, old hardware has to be thrown out in favor of the new fancier hardware, or else other miners outcompete you.
Last I heard rents were astronomical in SF, which appears to be the opposite of what I was talking about.
It's really unfortunate that you have to buy the worst car to get the best car.

The electric drivetrain really is a wonder. It is so completely phenomenally better than gasoline cars.

Yet Tesla's UI direction is throwing out the baby, the bathwater and now the customer too.

Personally I think they should add a dashboard to the 3/y/truck, even as an option. same for a round steering wheel.

I think they should add more - not less - direct tactile controls for critical driving functions.
How much does it cost to decommission a megawatt-hour? Seems like an odd number to throw out without comparing what a coal plant or nuclear plant of equal output costs to decommision and clean up.
Sorry, I don't mean from a complete beginners perspective. I'm pretty familiar with how crypto works -- I've held some crypto for a while (not large quantities mind you, but enough here and there to develop the curiosity in the first place). I meant more along the lines of, I've never considered making it my full-time job before by working at company focused on crypto, and what I'm curious about is what things you like about working in the field and what things you may not.

For example, my friends that work in the field have mentioned that for better and worse, there's the double edged sword of evangelism which can be very positive in so far as people are really enthusiastic about its positive potential. But it can also backfire because there's sometimes tunnel vision that can come from a lack of adequate skepticism and reasoning from first principles with respect to legacy finance.

I guess that's along the line of questioning which I was curious about from your end. Sorry for being so vague!
Hypothetically, every domain is supposed to have contact information attracted to it.

Unfortunately, that was abused.
The hard part about this isn't the crypto, it's the coordination between game companies on how to store and render assets.