skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The eventual goal in the NFT space is interoperability with other service. For example, this NFT may eventually give me the ability to display a verified copy of this art in a virtual world. Other people can display the same art, but theirs wouldn’t be verified.

This is like me buying a high-quality replica of a statue and displaying it at home. It may be good enough for me, but not for people who care about owning “the original”, which this NFT would represent.

As we go closer and closer to spending our time in 3D worlds (which already require electricity to be seen) and owning property in them (think second life, decentraland, eve online), the value of physical “originals” vs digital “originals” starts to blur.
Yes, we're looking at it. One of our benchmark cases for this work, will likely be a post-extraction structure from one of the Sky130 chips (not that it wouldn't work in a more moderns process, but the NDA issues become complicated while this is still a research project).
Why and How to Tackle Internationalization at the Beginning of a Project
Acute dose-dependent effects of lysergic acid diethylamide
The question isn’t how hard it is to learn but who is willing to embrace an old technology which for now it doesn’t even make financial sense. When $300/hour becomes the norm you’ll have plenty of resources. For now COBOL jobs aren’t very attractive
Fair enough, I was just going off the registration info.

But in any case, what's the procedure they usually follow? I figure if I offer then $200 they'll turn it down flat and dig their heels in further.
don't know, developing the s360 line cost ibm 5 billion $ [1] (that was quite a bit of a moon shot, given that the moon program has cost 25 billion $ [2]). Maybe it would have cost them less if the s360 instruction set had a stack, but who knows. In any event this price tag pursuaded them to clone the whole thing.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/bu...
[2] https://money.com/apollo-11-moon-mission-cost/
> If an opinion is not broadly applicable then we shouldn't jump to conclusions and assume that was the authors intent.

Graham states in this essay that his goal is: "ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there".

Given that this is the goal of his writing style, it's not at all surprising that his readers often jump to ("incorrect") conclusions barely noticing what got them there.

Most of the comments critiquing this essay can be boiled down to an obvious but important observation: simplicity requires either eliding necessary nuance or hiding complexity. The goal is usually the latter, but hiding complexity in this way requires a shared context.

Take a running program and strip it from its context (state). Then, drop the program into a new context. The meaning of the program can change drastically. Hell, it might not even type check anymore. The program text is the same but the meaning is different, and all that changed was the context. The only way to avoid this is to muddle up the program text with assertions on the context that ensure this "drop into new context" operation can't change the meaning of the program too much.

So too with writing. Specifying context decreases the amount of shared context required to avoid miscommunication, but also results in less simple writing.
How to Make and Launch an App for (Almost) Free: A Practical Starter Guide
Wow I’m amazed that you don’t have the same interpretation to me here.

Perhaps the first difference between us is I immediately assumed PG is talking about transmitting ideas (argumentation or proposition), ie writing essays and not writing fiction.

What I assume he means about “writing not being pure ideas”, he means there’s an overhead in transmitting ideas via writing. This is analogous to using programming languages to capture ideas, hence anything but simplicity offends because it is analogous to (in)elegance in code.

I think this essay is excellent but it seems I was more attuned to his message, or at least it met my expectations.
What? A Silicon Valley company is ignoring customer feedback? You don't have a way to talk to a human? The only way to be seen is to hope social media shaming will work? What a surprise!!!!

Seriously, we need some laws to force these companies into actually allowing people to talk to humans and get answers from their unilateral decisions.

Sometimes I think we're in the Bizarro timeline. I wonder when the heroes from the "main" universe will make an appearance in our universe.
This is at least the third time this thing has been posted to hacker news.

Previous dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24017555
The end of Silicon Valley as we know it?
Mailchimp turned off double opt-in as the default list behaviour, presumably as a result of this listbombing taking place.

It eliminates the immediate flood from the listbomb attack but does mean the email address now has to opt-out from every list they've been susbcribed to.

https://wordtothewise.com/2017/10/mailchimp-changes-signup-p...
I want a doc like this, but targeting MS toolchains and libraries. gcc/make/bash/vim are already on my toolbelt regardless of OS I'm using. I've tried to get a build system going a few times in MS land, but I'm too used to the relative simplicity of gcc and make files and find I have little patience for what feels like massive overkill for building simple command line tools.
I ate this in Tibet or atleast that was very similar to this so I guess Chinese also have it?
> Not as big as the one in Sweden though

Not as big? Meh. It's a Megameter per millimeter! Yay![1] :)

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/assets/2017-Atoms/assets0/r/1... Old user test video I did - Powers of Ten-like, but with 3 order-of-magnitude chunking. Crufty source: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms#how-to-remember-si...
A better question is how MSM got addicted to spreading misinformation.

'Hate speech' these days means 'speech I hate and want silenced'. Freedom of speech protections exist for this exact reason.

Why should a social media app engage in political censorship and selecting right vs. wrong opinion?
Governments are already in the business of deciding many truths. It is called the court system.

There are people who are deliberately spreading misinformation to make money. I think that we absolutely should be investigating and prosecuting such people. We simply lack the policing resources to effectively combat online fraud, online bullying, and online extortion. I think we need a fundamental restructuring of policing on our society to make this feasible.
> I'm fairly certain that Tolkien actually stated that lembas is a reference to the Eucharist.

I'd really want to see a cite for that. Tolkien was infamously hostile to any allegorical reading of The Lord of the Rings. Sometimes a fantasy epic is just a fantasy epic.
Curious what VS Code extensions have been made for mainframe stuff? Sounds like fun to play with.

I agree with your main point though. Occasionally I’ll see someone recommended people to learn COBOL to get a job as if the language is the most relevant part of that industry.
Not all addicted people are criminals. Putting heroin, or any kind of drug users, who have not committed any crime exept possesion is immoral. Prison is just isolating them while making sure their only friends are criminals. People that are on the streets are clearly not able to function like most people in a society. Punishment cannot be on the table.
Thanks for the super valuable insight. Would you be actually up for connecting on LinkedIn? Got some additional question I would love to ask you!
And plenty of C++ projects also aren't projects of that size. I'm not sure what that has to do with whether or not OP should learn C++. Should OP not learn C because the Linux kernel is written in it?
Will there be any kind of slowdown for single-threaded code due to concurrent GC, or some other change needed for the multi-core implementation?
> First pet though, I agree is difficult.

Someone, somewhere, is mapping out all the sites that ask that as a "security question", and they'll be ready to add to their dictionaries when one of those sites is breached.
Depending on your value of work, most of them appear to not "work".
Record number of asteroids seen whizzing past Earth in 2020
This is an emotional take that's ultimately just as destructive as whatever your perceived enemy is doing.
I have been cooking for 20+ years, and i had to read that chicken parm recipe several times to make sense of it.

I have been entertaining the idea of writing a cookbook, that is not based on recipes, but defines some king of framework, describes the main criteria that you will use to judge the result and gives a definition and parameter range to the usual vague "cook until done", "salt, pepper to taste". Kind of Good Eats meets Naked Chef, but describes it all in OO, FP, C2 Wiki and Agile metaphors.
Your periodic reminder that Hunter Biden is a child rapist.
Several other commenters have noted differences, but I have one that I think is significant.

Tabloids, newspapers, news broadcasts are a single artifact delivered to many people. They have the same incentive to sensationalize, this is tempered though by the fact that they leave a public record that people can discuss, scrutinize, and will ultimately impact their reputation.

When a paper consistently prints outlandish stories of bat-boys and lizard-ufos, everyone can see that and the paper will get a reputation as being a rag.

In contrast, the feed of posts you see on your facebook (or twitter, or instagram, or other social media feed site) is tailored to you. There's no opportunity for other people to see the crazy thing that hit the front page and write blog posts critiquing it, give talks debunking the methodology, etc.

The algorithm can show your eyes, and your eyes alone, a steady stream of posts that are right on the edge of what you will find acceptable and engaging. The public at large won't know what is on your feed or even the feeds of powerful actors in society like politicians, billions, and celebrities.

It's like we are all accessing our own personal newspaper everyday, whose stories have been tailored to be as interesting as possible to us, but without any accountability or scrutiny besides what we bring to the table. You are welcome to see something that confirms your world view and either accept it as gospel or do the leg work to prove or disprove it.

What we are finding though is that when people are presented with things that confirm their beliefs, they tend to accept them. This isn't really earth-shattering or even surprising. The ramifications of having a population constantly consuming a stream of media tailored exactly for them is something are starting to understand.
Beeple NFT Everydays Sells at Christies Auction for $69M
A common wallet with a SO freaks me out :)
Nowhere in my post did I advocate jailing users.
That's interesting way of keeping to company flexible for market downturns. But do you hire contractors for even shorter terms? If not, I am curious to hear why. Is it because 3 months are not enough to get them up to speed? Thanks for jumping in!
My biggest annoyance is late interviewers who then try to rush you through a question. I’ve had multiple interviews in the past where they are around 10 min late when you’ve taken time from your day and they barely acknowledge it, then clearly rush for time. I guarantee they also write down in many cases that they didn’t get enough data points, not noting that a big part of that is their own time management problem (not to mention many of these places won’t get back to you for a month+, but that’s a different issue)
I got an offer from a place (hot startup)that I wasn’t really interested in.
Had a call to talk about it, see if I might be into. Oh can you talk to so and so, hey can we do a coding exercises really quick, hey can you chat with founder really quick.

3 days from hearing about company, I had an offer.

Then was being pestered about background check.

Wait, how did I get to this point? I wasn’t even really interested.

Few days later offer was withdrawn since I hadn’t completed paperwork.

Overall I’m glad I didn’t accept, they clearly had a very inflated opinion of themselves and how eager everyone would be to join.
By quickly looking at MDN[0], at least in Chrome, yes. Honestly, I can't say for other browsers at the moment.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasE...
yes, japanese cuisine can sometimes be extreme in this regard. it's also delicious, but only if you're being mindful of your eating. if you want to stuff your face, japanese is not necessarily going to give you good bang-for-buck. korean, chinese, thai, indian, etc. tend to be better at delivering flavor in bulk (also delicious, but differently so).

i still fondly remember the home-cooked meals of my japanese friend's mom. simple yet exquisite.
Depends on the time scales of the circuits (as long as your baseline simulator isn't dumb) ;). For example, consider LRC circuits that have an analytic solution - you can basically simulate them instantly. The primary goal here is to bring analog simulation to similar time scales as digital simulation on realistic problems.
Can bacteria make better crack-resistant materials?
A quantum theory of gravity doesn't have to explain curvature of spacetime.

It needs to produce better experimental results than modeling gravity as the curvature of spacetime. Whether that still describes it in a way that can be mapped to a curvature based explanation is irrelevant. It should for some cases give the same results?
Agile, agile.

Et tu, scrumfall.
It might be unethical to force AI to tell us the truth
Oh, nice! I've never thought about using flash for backups, that's a very nice trade-off of for form factor and cost efficiency.
It is a mistake to call the form of representative government used today "democracy". The system is designed in such a way as to keep the influence of ordinary people, who are not heavily invested in the system, very minimal. Usually this is done by parties promising rather different things before elections, but afterwards coming to some agreement and doing something unrelated to the promises. Now that there are new ways to organize via social media, people can behave in unexpected ways, and some people bemoan this as weakening of democracy.

But in fact it is not. People deciding what policies to use doesn't become less democratic simply because someone thinks these people are stupid/mislead by false news etc. Refusing them the right to vote or to communicate their beliefs is just as undemocratic as refusing well educated citizen the same right.

The focus should be on finding ways to make decisions less global, so that ill effects of a bad decision are experienced only by the people making it, and they have an opportunity to learn from it and make a better decision the next time.

The solution is to stop voting for people and vote for individual policies. With open online direct voting with a way to trade votes and option to delegate votes [1], we'll discover that in reality we agree on much more than we are led to believe from following social media. And we'll discover that there is a huge space for compromise that we were unable to explore so far because exploring it was disadvantageous to the representatives that we had to elect.

[1] https://voteflux.org/#flux-in-a-nutshell
Namaqualand, Fleurs Sauvages
This could have been an email.
A Lawsuit Inspired Apple’s Most Iconic Sounds
They take some getting used to, but I absolutely loved them when I was working in central asia. I haven't been able to find a hookup back in the states though.
But if you send yourself an email, you will get it? How does deduplication work for that?
Scope Sets as a Piñata for Name Resolution
Show HN: Humans on Clubhouse
ITT: People who didn't read the article, argue how GPL would make this business model impossible, not realizing code in the article is AGPL licensed. smh, I expected better from HN.
So confused why anyone would assume PG is talking about writing fiction or poetry. It’s an essay by an essayist on writing essays.
A missed opportunity, for Slack they could have put IRC. :)
In a weird way it feels like we are more prepared for this in countries like Sweden where your social security number, tax returns, income, credit history, address, spouse, children, company board positions, pet ownership, car ownership and criminal records are public information and easily available.

At least we have no illusions of privacy. Someone could start with your licence plate and two minutes later know pretty much everything.

Since 1905 you have been able to buy a book every year that listed up to date income and net worth for everyone in your area [0]. Now, of course, everything has moved to web services and APIs. Take a look at the example response from this API for an idea of the information available [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxeringskalendern

[1] https://api.ratsit.se/swagger/ui/index.html#/Person/get_api_...
> Just tell me the amount of salt, whynot?

It took me a long time to understand why recipes are vague. The answer to this is because:

* Personal and cultural preferences vary widely, in particular around saltiness.

* Ingredients vary in size. A precise salt measurement for a chicken breast will be too much salt if you have a smaller breast and too little if you have a large one.

* Even ingredients of the same size vary in texture and flavor. A cheap grocery store chicken breast might need more salt to become flavorful than a free-range wild-fed chicken whose meat is naturally rich in flavor.

* Ingredients change over time. A teaspoon of dried oregano might be too much if you just got it or too little if the jar is a year old.

* Taste is experienced in context. If you're serving that chicken with heavily salted pasta and a rich cream sauce, you might want to ease off on the salt so the meal isn't overwhelming. Serving it with a salad of bitter greens and you may want to kick up the savoriness.

* Preferences change over time. Some days you're in the mood for something light, some days you want a flavor punch to the face.

Cooking is taking once-living organic things, each of which is unique with its own history, and combining them in order to please the pecularities of some arbitrary set of living organic beings. It's not assembling a LEGO set.
Ask HN: How can I learn about eBay's bidding architecture
Hello HN,

I enjoy reading about various companies' system architecture. I found some architectures, like WhatsApp, are very easy to find info about. I haven't been able to find out a lot about Ebay's bid architecture.

This is interesting to me because of a few things.
- Many users are bidding on the same item and could put in the same bid at the same time. So how do we resolve that?

- Bids change very quickly particularly during the end of an auction. How to quickly display the current bid to a lot of users. Is that latest bid info contained in RDMS or cache?
- How does the system validate a bid. For example at the time a user places a bid the price could be $99.25 and the user places a bid of $99.75, but by the time that users reaches the system the price has risen to $100.

My Googling hasn't lead me to a satisfactory answer and I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks
> Not that you can really make money off of extensions even if I wanted to, but such is life.

Why not? There's successful projects selling or based around extensions.
It's fun to note the game Monopoly was designed as a teaching exercise for Georgism (it's meant to be awful; it's designed to show the unfairness of existing landholder/landlord structures), though the pack in rules (for somewhat obvious reasons) no longer include the pro-Georgism text and counter-rules that illustrate that the game is far more boring, but quicker and more fair under a Georgism-like model.
And so it should be. The Brexit should be as painful as possible for the UK. The more the UK is reminded of what they gave up, and what they will be missing, the better, as it positions them better for reentry.

Who cares about domain registration revenue? The only reason it isn't free is because of the administrative hassle of distributing frivolous domain registrations.

If EU citizens are confused about UK companies disappearing, maybe they'll search and be exposed to EU competitors, how could that be a bad thing?
Zowe and Z Open Editor for integration into Z/OS datasets and UNIX services and support for native datasets and file type editing.
That's no reason there couldn't be vegan recipes on the site. If a recipe happens to be vegan, then so be it...

Of course he, not being a vegan, isn't going to add any himself.
Good to see an article like this as so many people think an interview is a one-way process, it's two-way and you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. SO many let the potential employer dominate the whole process, with the token - do you have any questions at the end. If you have an interview like that, it wasn't a good interview and you will either find out by not getting the job, or later on, doing the job and regretting it down the line.
> And if amateur astronomers can do it, a well-funded national space agency can do it even better.

This confidence in agencies and funding is puzzling to me.
There's a difference between thinking that the stock market has a lot of crap in it, and feeling like the stock market is 100% crap -- so YOLO into GME and bitcoin.

The latter opinion is, honestly, the kind of attitude that I think is going to lead directly to fascism.

Lots of people thinking "nothing matters anymore".
In fact last year when it was okay to meet your benefits providers in person, one of them handed out plastic stick on webcam covers you could slide back and forth with their logo on it.
Apply the Lindy rule[0]:

To get a job at a startup, have an app portfolio.

To get a job at a Big N, go to an elite university, another Big N, or grind Leetcode for months.

To get a job at a corporation, grind Leetcode and have recruiters spam your resume.

Different jobs require different applicants. A balanced, general approach, would be to do 1 Leetcode problem and send 1 application per day. It'd be hard to still be underemployed after doing that for any while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
The Mona Lisa was never copyrighted
Why? They aren't making any sort guarantees with those locations, those aren't advertised as separated fault zones. Those buildings are meant as expansions for existing site.
Top-10 learnings after my first Product Hunt launch
Why Even Go to Work
Why even go to work. People getting rich with GameStop, Crypto, and NFTs. Why would anyone work when they can just speculate on stocks and create digital art worth million. Reading these headlines, and it feels like I am doing it all wrong in life. It's evident that value creation is not about working harder or longer but about finding these niches and loopholes that rain money for little time or effort.
It's interesting because it feels like a small turf war. The "Amazon Provider Team" wants to own the s3 provider backend, and you want to make it pluggable. Is this to avoid an explicit "b2" provider? I can see how it might be confusing to use terraform and see an s3 provider and then have it...not use s3. :)
> All projects that I have been part of in my current company don't have automated tests

On the rare occasions when I start on the green field, logging and unit tests are literally the first things I set up. It only takes a moment, and the time investment is paid back the first moment you investigate a bug.

Doesn't mean I do unit tests religiously, but at least I do them sometimes.
DigitalOcean Spaces Down? (NYC3)
DO status page shows All Systems Operational but I am getting errors for their spaces in NYC3, including from the dashboard.

https://status.digitalocean.com/

Am I alone? :(