skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To reference back to the article about Goldman Sachs analysts from yesterday, I think this helps explain why investment bankers can always change jobs. You market yourself off of deals you have worked on and offer a nugget from each one to a potential employer. “This IPO showed that investors value growth over cash flow right now, I can help position your company for growth investors”. That resonates if you are interviewing for a Corp dev, c-suite role or if you want to be hired as their banker.
This. Concretely it's about negotiating the most draconian IP clauses out of your contract before you take the job.
Comically, when this is all over society will probably be geared around one of these, but hard to predict which one. In 500 years, we are just as likely to be using cryptopunks as the base of our exchanges as whuffie.

Of course, this is no reason to try to buy any for that purpose. It will probably be something silly like the first in game item that works across games and platforms or something. Having a red hat that will work across all games and be unique forever, now that’s worth something.
Nothing is misleading in the title.
Ok - but that piece of art is done now.

NFTs are no longer original and so are not art.
"Rejected" does not mean that the energy gets sent back to the producer like a parcel.

"For a coal fired power station, for instance, about 2/3 of the energy released when the coal is burnt is discarded as heat in the environment. This reject energy sometimes appears as clouds of vapour coming off a power-station’s cooling towers, such as the well-known ones at Didcot in England."

-- https://energycultures.org/2014/07/rejected-energy-much-ener...
The miner and the power plant operator are often the same entity. They turn the mining equipment on when they want to dump energy, and off when they have more productive places to sell it. Seetee is a good example.
25+ years of Windows updates, and still these issues keep happening :(
This is why I don't trust my feces with anybody but Smart Pipe [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
Another example of Reg C crowdfunding equity
It's nice that you have been able to deal well with the situation this last year, but try to remember that your experience is not necessarily representative of the whole:

> The districts, large and small, rural and urban, serve more than 2.2 million students across the United States. Of the 74 districts that responded, 74% reported multiple indicators of increased mental health stresses among students. More than half reported rises in mental health referrals and counseling. Nearly 90% of responding districts cited higher rates of absenteeism or disengagement, metrics commonly used to gauge student emotional health

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-c... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532588)
"Web-browsers" seems odd — normal usage would just be "web browser", no?
This argument is never productive. I can use fewer plastic bags. I can plant trees (or pay to plant trees, whatever). I can't fix a failed state.

Offer actionable and measurable alternatives.
the youngest have never mattered, the old steal from them all the same.
This is a complete misinterpretation of the graphic. The "Rejected Energy" are the losses that occur when converting primary energy on the left into useful energy on the right. In a car, for example, this would be the difference between the chemical energy contained in the gasoline and the mechanical energy used to accelerate the car and overcome the drag during driving. In a thermal power plant it would be the difference between the heat released when burning the fuel and the electricity produced.

As others have pointed out, the power grid does not even have the capability to "burn off" excess power. It is simply nerver produced in the first place.
why would they be?
yup, afaik MS even has (had?) their own torrents for Windows with MS servers acting as seeds to verify its authenticity.
That's kind of like asking "Can you do all the cool things Linux provides without installing UNIX?"
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Part of me believes that it could've stemmed from people birthing at younger ages though. Since most women appear to be having children at older ages as well as men being older when they finally conceive, that could cause many of the issues as well.
Calling opinions you disagree with "exhausting" is exhausting. And obnoxious.
> like, how can you work for a company like this and have a sort of Twilight Zone or Kafka novel experience for years and just be okay with it?

Realistically, the best and brightest left early and it's the people afraid of losing their jobs that feel compelled to shut up and toe the line.
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that's because you have trash taste and 20 IQ
The sun is shining, the vaccines are flowing, I can eat inside now, I am feeling optimistic today.

But on my grey days: I wonder how long the mental health trauma of all this will last. Besides school-age depression, there was a noticeable uptick in drug overdoses. (https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/16/as-pandemic-ushered-in-i...) And, anecdotally, I have several friends and acquaintances who developed severe drug issues during the various stages of lockdown. I fear there’s going to be a lot of dark matter out there, and we won’t detect it until we see the knock-on effects for years down the road.

This is not an anti-lockdown screed, I feel like I must say. My dad went into the ICU for something non-COVID in December, and the hospitals then were at the breaking point. (At least where I was.) We needed to control this virus somehow. But we will be feeling this for a long time to come.
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I think every traveler has this idea, explores it, realizes it is illegal and moves on.
then you don't know what it means.
Unfortunately, it's probably outside the reach of science, just like we can't expect artificial life in a simulation to learn what happens outside their computer by conducting experiments inside the computer.

So all that we're left with is philosophy, religion, and Ockham's razor to figure out what we'll believe. My advice would be to maintain an open mind and a sense of uncertainty.
because OP is cringe
It is a common experience on GNU/Linux, even on a netbook I own, I have force enabled it, something that most users aren't aware of.
I have to disagree -- in part -- about the advice system: used sparingly, I think it's one of the killer features that lets me tweak emacs exactly how I want it.

That said, yes, I think packages should be (at least) discouraged from using it. A highly dynamic and patch-able software system is a huge asset IF you're the only person working on it, which is true for my own emacs config. But having third parties simultaneously monkeying with the same component without knowing about each other is certainly a recipe for instability, even indeterminism.
I think the idea is that a lot of these come with publishing contracts built in so the artist receives a royalty if the token changes hands and the current owner has the rights to license the art.

For example if I sell you a song as an nft you could then license the song to Budweiser to use in a commercial and we both get paid. Think about how difficult this would be to arrange without the nft to handle the contract.
Sure, but I've never seen somebody try to read a book just to find that the book is written upside down and only reveals itself during the full moon.

How would somebody teach my wife to deal with a weird dependency error message? It took me several hours to figure out. Googling error messages accomplished nothing. There was no reasoning really behind it. Just unique problems with python dependency management. There aren't really transferrable skills here that would empower somebody to rapidly figure this sort of thing out if they just rearranged how their thought process worked. You either know the incantations or you don't.
Was.

Now it's just a myth that people perpetuate. What SV has now is a bunch of greedy people looking to give money to ideas.

It's not that SV technologists are innovators anymore, it's just that they are in proximity to money.

Now the business people and their greed and money are leaving SV en masse. What does it have left?
Brooklyn Bridge NFT by John Cleese
Fantastic article. When I read patio11's content I'm almost always amazed at two aspects: (1) the important truths about capitalism/the valley/entrepreneurship/getting better and (2) his simple, matter of fact, and no-ego way of expressing the said truths.

(1) in itself is not unique to him, there are many great comment writers on HN and elsewhere on the blogosphere. What makes him exceptional, I think, is (2) which sets him apart from most people at that level of public visibility.

After reading his posts I feel like I'd love to have a beer with this person and have a deep discussion on a multitude of topics. The only other content I've gotten the same joy is pg's (earlier) essays.
> requiring that a buyer of a good or service must know how the sausage is made would break our system

In that particular case Amazon knows what’s going on because they have engineered the system, buys services anyway.

For purchases of some illegally obtained goods U.S. Code §2315 is there since 1948, has not broken the system: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2315
This is what should exist imo. Families shouldn't be punished for having children.

However, do we tell single men/women who just can't get married to pick up the married peoples slack?
I predict California will also be full remote for the coming school year as well.
I think it helps to think of SBOMs as extracts or projections from an underlying knowledgebase which is updateable.

There's certainly no sense in saying that any SBOM is truly final. Merely "this is our best knowledge at time X".
There is some “behind the scenes” info about the Python -> C++ translation process here.

I’m interested in any parallel efforts. In fact one person said they made great process on translating Oil to Nim, and another person wanted to rewrite in Rust. That is all welcome.

I think the current strategy will work but it’s not easy. Rewriting isn’t easy either! But I won’t be at all surprised if there’s someone out there that can do a better job :)

How to Rewrite Oil in Nim, C++, D, or Rust: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#how-t...

(same comment as on /r/ProgrammingLanguages and lobste.rs)
> and make all believers a lot of money

Somehow I think it will transfer money from believers to a small group of non-believers.
It's all clear now.

Everyone understands that baseball cards are just like savings accounts!
Do you know if the graph in the article is accurate, and what is meant by "rejected" exactly?

What surprised me is that "Transportation" in that graph is supposed to "reject" over 22% of its energy, which seems odd to me. For electricity I get it, it's hard to store so if you have excess production there's not much you can do. If your wind turbine can't dump its energy anywhere it's just lost, usually. But for petroleum can't you just... not use it?

As such I wonder if "rejected" means all losses? In which case it's unclear how bitcoin would fit into that.

In general I think the author doesn't make a good enough case. He'd have to show not only that there's enough loss to power the bitcoin network, but also that bitcoin actually slots into these losses instead of adding to the demand.
I mean all the licensing and incompatibility questions aside, one very cool thing about these newer formats is they (intentionally? unintentionally?) reduce our carbon footprint a little bit, by trying to save delivery costs.

It would be pretty neat if my mac could make a thumbnail of a webp on my desktop, though. I mean without installing software, overriding security policies, or turning it into a developer laptop.
Yeah, that does seem especially bad.

In Seattle with a short commute you'd pay $900k-1M on a 1500-1800 sf house on 1600-3000 sf of land depending on if it's a townhouse or 1930s construction. $100k is a starting salary for new grads here. And plumbers/mechanics still charge about $100/hr, I think. (I have never had need of a professional plumber -- I do it myself -- and haven't had to do any auto work beyond oil in a few years.)
> Wait! It gets better. These gears are training wheels!

This is very cool, helps the young bugs coordinate both legs for jumping before letting them lose the bumps and graduate to precision jumping.
> It was good for something, else so many people wouldn't have successfully used it for so long.

I don't know - some ideas just turn out to be completely mistaken and any success while using them to be actually down to something else entirely.
> And if I looked like an eagle I could flap my wings and fly.

???

> We didn't even shutdown widespread commercial traffic between the US and Canada (although otherwise travel was largely shut down).

Why bother? It’s not like any significant number of transmissions are coming via commercial transit with Canada. I don’t pretend to be an epidemiologist but it seems pretty intuitive that a small island nation and one of the largest countries are going to differ.
The funny thing is, the 50, or 100, is completely arbitrary. Initially it was 50 because authorities couldn't follow up cases above that. They couldn't below 50, as it turned out. Also, this threshold changes as seems fit. When 50 wasn't realistic anymore it became 100. Only for one state to choose 200. It is utter chaos. And still, a majority still supports these measures. Funny times indeed.
Anyone else find it strange that a country that has often fallen in line with "think of the children" arguments for hypothetical dangers appears to be completely uncaring about very real dangers of social isolation that are impacting our youth?
One more reason why credentials dont mean much. People have to be able to demonstrate their skills.
I could, but I would then also use a different metric for the average person: $65k is similar to gross revenue in that regards (it is money a person receives but before deducting tax or any expenses incurred). I could also use something corresponding to after tax profit for a person, but the data would be harder to come by, and I suspect much closer to $0.
> The fact that vi iMproved became the dominant implementation isn't particularly relevant here.

I think it is. Most vim users I know have never used vi and would hate it.

As a reminder: In vi, when you go into "insert" mode, you cannot edit anything prior to where the cursor was when you entered insert mode. vim got rid of such annoyances.
If you own the mining hardware, why would you do that? You are better off running that hardware 100% of the time (using batteries or similar when necessary). Mining hardware is expensive.
You're thinking about malicious apps, where the developer would just request all permissions they can. But sandboxing is also about limiting the impact of security issues in apps from honest, well meaning developers who (hopefully) won't request more permissions than they need.

E.g. if I make a chat app, and it has a bug that lets someone send you a malicious message and execute code in the app, then a sandbox is a really good thing.

The developer also sets the default permissions - in principle, the user can change these before running the app. Of course, not many users will do that, but there are still cases where it can make a difference.
> Is physical art any different?

Yes, physical art, baseball cards, gold and whatnot all have a long history and vast amount of people who participate in the trade.

NFTs in comparison are super new, and the only people who seem to chip in are those who either have some stake in there or bored.

NFTs might be a good store of value eventually. But right now dumping millions in there seems like a huge gamble.
I'm not sure how this can be applied to the discussed issue? Especially considering that this kind of trades are atomic (when run by miners/flashbots), though maybe we use different notion of "atomic".
Iceberg More Than 20 Times the Size of Manhattan Breaks Off Antarctic Ice Shelf
Thermodynamics is why. It’s not because of running big resistor banks.
They don't seem to have mentioned storage?
I think that today we're just admiring the custom paint job on an old commuter car, and not the design of the car itself.
Interview with FTX exchange founder, One of the Biggest Donors to Joe Biden
Reacting to the first paragraphs: on decentralized exchanges, traders (liquidity takers) don't change the price because of something called the constant product formula. Market makers (liquidity providers) do.

Since trading doesn't impact price, front-running can't be done by sandwiching buy/sell orders but with LP orders.

Also slippage isn't price movement due your own trading (that's price impact). Slippage is difference between displayed price the moment your press trade and price when order is processed at exchange (due to other people's trading during network delay).
I wanted to suggest the same but I didn't. "Greyhat" is not specific enough for what OP has asked for - it can be chaotic good or chaotic neutral. It's not "you leave systems in a better state than you broke into them" - simply "not making it worse" is sufficient to qualify.
>>The curve did flatten even in spite of these difficulties.

yes it did, then the goal posts were moved, it was no longer about hospital resources it became about death rates, then when death rates did not support the lock down narrative it become about infection rates

In reality (for many regions) it was always about political and economic control not public health

>>we could have just accepted that life comes with risk and allowed millions within the US to die within a couple months.

There are hundreds of different ways the pandemic could have been handled to believe the only 2 options where complete economic shutdown or death is moronic is in no way supported by the evidence, it sounds like you want have a fact based discussion but are leading off with emotional rhetoric, I am happy to debate facts, but I have no time or need for emotional responses or red herring fallacies
That doesn’t explain how it’s relevant.
It’s almost like people don’t actually care for the children, they just know of the social consequences of crossing those who claim they do.
Every time I play Tomb Raider I'm rejecting 300 watts per hour. How do you propose turning that into Bitcoin?
Really liked the description of the thought processes behind finding the relevant bits of code through memory inspection in this write-up.
Our first child.

Born last June. Working from home with a baby there too for most of the time has been quite OK actually, much better than expected. Since the pandemic hit we have both been working from home (I already was working remote) and I can't imagine coming home from work at eg. 17:30 and then the kiddo going to bed at ~19 so I would only see him for a short while.

Without, the pandemic would have been much much harder to bear.
I recently left Red Hat (Feb 2021). I joined from the CoreOS acquisition in 2018. For the most part I enjoyed working at Red Hat. Honestly the real reason I left because of GME but there where a few things that convinced me to move:

1) Killing CentOS/CoreOS. Replacing these two stable OSs with unstable upstreams in CentOS Stream/Fedora CoreOS.

2) So many container tools that have overlapping tasks yet perform in completely different manners (podman, buildah, cri-o, skopeo, tekton, openshift, quay, libpod). Interoperability between all these projects was a constant struggle.

3) Forced usage of IRC. I shouldn't have to run my own bouncer to get features like history, push notifications, identity services. I cannot comprehend how in 2021 at a major corporation I would receive irc messages from usernames like "cloudpizza9000" or "m0use" and be expected to know who these people are and take things seriously enough to work together. It seemed like I was in a 90s chat room with a bunch of strangers.
I'm not sure when "virtue signalling" became the new buzzword to attack people with. It seems these days that if you don't like someone you accuse them of virtue signalling, and if I understand the term correcty, accusing anyone of virtue signalling is itself a form of virtue signalling. Yes, I realize, this is an ironic paragraph, because I'm virtue signalling by accusing you of accusing someone else of virtue signalling.

Now onto the actual topic -- While I agree with you that fixing failed states should be of utmost concern I don't think it's a bad thing to be banning plastic items now, one at a time, because we don't currently have a good way to truly recycle plastic, and the material should be avoided at all costs for anything not intended to be reused for years.

Plastic is an immediate environmental problem and the bans are actionable.

However, my opinion is that the bans are suboptimally directed. I frequently get served drinks in plastic non-compostable cups with bamboo straws now, and see supermarket vegetables on goddamn styrofoam trays wrapped in plastic wrap, and "harmless" coconut water sold in plastic drink bottles. I'm cool with plastic bag bans but they need to extend beyond plastic bags. Ban the cup, then the straw. Ban the foam trays and plastic wrap on vegetables, then the bag.
Well, this article is at least in part about the effect if deep fakes on women in politics.
>> In many cases it feels like you can obviate unit tests

And that is the trap. So far each time I’ve come across someone who’s fallen down the types all the way down hole, they’ve shared a view like this.

In the times where i’ve dug deeper, they were applying a bad unit testing strategy where they aimed for 1:1(+) ratio of methods to unit tests - save that granular level of testing for really specific cases. The heuristic to use is “can i refactor my code without changing a single test?” - if your refactor commit has changes to tests then you’re not refactoring your just changing. Your unit test suite is too tightly coupled and is going to cost a fortune to maintain, even more so in a statically typed language.
It depends who is doing it. American politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, engage in it and it isn't defined as insider trading directly (it's grey). Pelosi's husband, Crowdstrike shares is one recent example.
I read it the same way at first but maybe they mean "necessary to the health of the project".
Researchers discover breakthrough solid-state EV battery manufacturing technique
And it just so happens, vaccines are made based on knowledge of how the immune system works. Yay science!
tbf if I was stupidly rich and not particularly philanthropically inclined, I'd see far more value in an NFT John Cleese personally mocks me for buying than any others
If I follow, you are suggesting that web users protest a format that has been in the public domain for 17 years by instead using a format which has existed for less than 3, and in the process render content inaccessible to anyone not using a bleeding-edge browser?
Like when moocs were going to replace the University and now that University has been online everywhere for more than a year nobody even mentions the old moocs that were supposed to cause this shift when instead a pandemic did it.