skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One answer would be that “I care about the world and when I see things that are wrong I get upset, which is good and reasonable.” But that’s the parasite speaking.

I think it's a social mechanism to weed out traitors. It's a necessary part of the process, not just a parasite meme.
On a 'regular' day I would be spending 8 hours on campus or at an office for an internship. Probably 90% of the people I interacted with on a typical day would share my goals and understand my life. Now it's all online. So the problem is there's no social pressure to do anything related to my long term goals. The time spent on a computer is not really that important
Spain’s been open school wise since the first lockdown and it’s not been a main driver of infections. Sure every week or so a class gets sent home for quarantine due to a case but each class is in a bubble so it’s not stopped school from happening and the kids are better for it. People got to stop panicking about it like it’s the Black Death it’s not helping anyone and it undermines my the argument because people push back at fear mongering. Vaccines will curb it as it seems it’s doing in the uk or Israel.
MicroSD, I think. Those can be a TB, if you want to pay for it.

Would be nice to load up on movies copied from DVDs I own for the kids to watch on road trips.
> compared with what children had to deal with during previous social upheavals (world wars, and the like).

You could say that for all of covid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogen...
I only wish D didn't fuck up so bad its chances of growth in the early 2000's.
The original conceptual framework for NFT-like instruments is Nick Szabo's "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority":

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/

At the very end he says:

> Largely unaddressed above is the problem of divergence between actual conditions and directory rights. [...] When divergence becomes too great, a solution to address the unreality of the title registry is needed.

Almost nobody selling NFTs today has even bothered to address Szabo's final "correspondence to ground" point, i.e., why anyone should think that the ownership of a particular NFT means anything!
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What for reverse-engineering books can you suggest for beginners?
I did a basic project and I don't see how you can do robotics without analog systems unless you don't intend to build custom actuators and just buy very expensive off the shelf parts. The digital portion is absolutely trivial.
Extra ranting: It's worth noting that there are a lot of businesses that also "do not fit in one persons head". Anyone who has spent time in a large organisation will be constantly coming across processes that seem designed solely to prevent anything happening and knowing how to get around it is a hidden mystery. I am sure there are billion dollar departments in my company I have no idea exist. And it's dubious that at any sufficiently large organisation it is truly understood by upper management - almost every corporate failure can be attributed to something like "Yes of course I know how engines work, we can move the forwards quite easily"
I miss my nexus 7.
Thanks! I talked with one other person so far who discovered the idea before me. I'm glad I was able to contribute running the marathon it required. All we need to do now is make it simple and universally accessible to everyone who needs it.
How is any of that relevant to a pandemic and isolation?
I wonder why e-gold didn't just opensource their database.
This is already a famous NFT.

"Remember when John Cleese sold the Brooklyn Bridge? Look, I have that NFT that he sold!".

Heck, I would even pay money for that. First of all for the bragging rights, and second of all because I'm sure plenty of people would pay for it.

But $50k is a bit over my budget ;). But in no way am I surprised that there is somebody out there that wants to pay this amount.

If anyone is surprised by this, you probably also don't understand any other collectibles.
> (Leaving aside the carbon emissions - let's assume everyone finally switches to Proof of Stake)

I don't know how you get to defend something when you're sidestepping the biggest problem with NFTs.

I'm fine with stupid and pointless things as long as your stupid and pointless things don't wreck the environment. If someone decides to poison the local water supply because it's an "art project" they still poisoned the fucking water supply.
But what it is is very clearly communicated
The effects on developing countries are not just on poverty levels but the natural environment as well. Wildlife conservation effects in East Africa and Madagascar are funded predominantly by tourists being able to come in and look at the animals; state support is meagre. A year of no travel has meant no income and some park staff being laid off, which means opening the door to more poaching and illegal land use.
Yes, but at that point it stops being a heuristic and instead is a tautology. "Don't repeat the things that shouldn't be repeated". Or even what you said, which, again, is a nice statement, but who decides what 'a piece of knowledge' is? I.e., when is it the same bit of knowledge, vs when is it different? That's often the heart of it; I've had those debates (and in fact, was referencing them in my parent comment), where someone feels these ~things~ are basically the same, and so should be treated mostly the same, with shared code, and where someone else feels that, no, the differences are sufficient that they should be treated differently. And that's a reasonable discussion to have. But it's one that trotting out "Don't Repeat Yourself!" or SOLID or etc adds -nothing- to; the principles themselves clash, and ignore the core difference you're trying to work out.

In short, the reasons for the principle matter, but if you know to look for and understand the reasons, the principles themselves are obvious and do not serve as useful heuristics.
I wonder what the Covid infection and death rate for teachers is compared to CA and NY. It’s easy for you to say they should’ve come back to school when you’re not the one getting exposed to 30+ families at once every day.
Just tow normal trash bags behind it! I solved the space trash problem!
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One man did plant a forest!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/26/572421590/...

I agree with what you are saying but I think it can also extend to planting trees, use the power you do have and vote which can make big change beyond ourselves.
Sure but locking down again is not going to change that significantly and even the WHO who I don’t trust at all has consistently been saying that lockdowns should be avoided at all costs.
I definitely developed a drug issue during COVID. I wouldn't say I had no choice in it like the people admitted to the ICU. Boredom can predispose you to things, but the choice does lie with the person. Making it seem like the choice is not in your sphere of power makes it only harder to quit. What I said does not apply to depression.
I guess at this point I turn into a cliche and find french philosophy not that interesting.

It seems to me that (those damned barrel-dwelling philosophers) ask all the questions backwards, as if their goal is to eventually gain an adequate non-understanding of something.

Besides ambiguity and context dependence "I built this web application using Python" also has a translatable meaning. You might need to translate "python" to "my computer" or "built" to "construit." You will have a hard time without pre-existing notions of computers or web applications. The sentence is translatable though.

A lot of things don't exist if you look too closely, but appear as you zoom out. There is no such thing as "species" in nature. It's a classification created by people. Language. Yet, it does describe something that nature abides by sometimes. It exists, even if it isn't discrete.
> Can the consequences of the lockdown be so cleanly separated from the consequences of the pandemic?

The consequences of the pandemic with all it's effects will be difficult to predict. But we do have data of how isolation/lockdown effects people[1]. Although no studies (I know of) that deal with the effects on children. The below linked study is worth reading beyond the abstract. I'd imagine it will be more severe than how it affects adults :(

[1] The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

edit: I found this: Nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of pandemic https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/nutrition-crisis-looms... - so distribution of hardship is distributed unevenly and not in favor of already vulnerable groups.
A better description of Florida would be "perfectly average". In deaths per capita they are right in the middle of US states. Obviously Florida could have done better, but many other states have done far worse.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I generally agree with you, though I want to comment on this line:

> Code that you don't touch doesn't suddenly change its behaviour one day.

This can and does happen all the time, when the platforms and abstractions your code builds on change underneath you. This is why a compelling environment / dependency management story is so important. "Code rot" is real. =P
Moderation of posts will be their downfall, morally and probably legally

We’ll probably also find out if the depths of society can get even weirder than /r/incel
It is still important to stop this particular strain and to achieve sufficient vaccination levels to achieve herd immunity.

That immunity will likely be durable for many years (based on the somewhat recent study of HCoV-229E).

That will force the virus to mutate to achieve true escape immunity (a strain, not a variant, which can reinfect everyone all over) which will likely come at a cost to fitness, since one or two mutations to spike isn't enough, and there will need to be a few tens of mutations to spike.

That virus strain will not be as transmissible or virulent as what we are dealing with now, because it has had to make those costly "decisions".

And this is important for people who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinate or who are at high risk even if they are vaccinated. They're much better off being infected by subsequent strains down the road than being infected with version 1.x of this virus.

This is also what has been observed in the past with 1918 H1N1 which later evolved into seasonal influenza.
"Germany suspended AstraZeneca, and others rushed to follow out of fear"

That is simply wrong. Denmark was the first country to suspend the use. Germany was one of the last countries to stop the use. But this was already 10 days ago. Is it too much to ask from a NYT journalist to research the news from 10 days ago?

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56357760

- https://www.dw.com/en/covid-several-european-countries-halt-...

Update: I see now, this article was not written by a journalist, but by an opinion columnist (Paul Krugman, not really known as an expert on vaccines and pandemics). That explains the quality of the article.
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> Ha, but you say the baseball card is a real physical item, and a NFT is not. Well, an NFT is as real as the movie I watch on YouTube, the song I listen to on Spotify, and the numbers my bank shows.

It’s not an issue of realness. Of course an NFT is real, it’s a long number and is just as real as 3 or PI or any other number.[1] The issue is instead ownership. When I own a baseball card I have a physical card no one can take from my house/vault/whatever without the police getting involved. When I own the copyright to a movie I can choose to let other people watch it or not.

When I own an NFT it means there’s a blockchain somewhere that says I own a particular number. As long as the blockchain is still in existence I can prove that the blockchain says I own the number and I can transfer that number to you.

That’s not exactly nothing but it’s pretty darn close. It smells like a scam. You do raise a good point that it smells like a scam in the same way that a lot of consciously created collectibles do. Once comic books, baseball cards, or stamp producing nations started pushing their products as something people should buy because they’d appreciate in value they started to feel a lot scummier (and not conincidently the items in question rarely increased in value the way organic collectibles had.)

So, sure if you can get someone to pay you a lot of money for the “ownership” of some 256 digit number in some blockchain somewhere by claiming it represents the star Vega, as long as you don’t lie I suppose it shouldn’t be a crime. But you can’t expect the rest of us to respect the way you’ve chosen to make a living. You are going to get downvotes because you are promoting a disreputable activity.

[1] Hope you appreciate the effort it took not to make a math joke here.
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At least I can look at art. That, alone is more utility than an NFT.
> I deal with servers for HPC use. Let me explain why I made my question...

Hello fellow HPC admin. I'm reporting in from another HPC center. Nice to chat with you. :)

> The differentiation is typically power loss protection. At consumer grade service levels, I don't care, I go cheap, but insane value. Again, fitness for purpose.

I don't think power loss protection is an enterprise level feature anymore. My Samsung 860 Pro has S.M.A.R.T attribute 235, which reads "POR_Recovery_Count". AFAIK, this attribute counts the times drive has lost power unexpectedly and had to do some housekeeping to recover itself.

AFAICS, the drive has 600x write endurance (1 TB version has 600TBW and it's linear with capacity), and if this thing is used in a VM server, it'd die in months. This is where enterprise drives matter. We have some SSDs designated as write caches for high performance ZFS appliances, and they didn't blink an eye to all this hammering.

> My quest is the opposite. Give me small, cheap, and insane value servers instead of VMs that are running dog slow in beauty servers used by a hundred others.

I understand, but as an HPC admin, you know that space is always at a premium. Having a Ryzen with 24GB ECC RAM and this drive on a non-system-room form factor is a waste of space and cooling capacity, and in today's integrated system room it's very hard to manage without IPMI.

So, at the end of the day, no cloud provider will touch this with a 10 feet pole. Even if they roll similar platform on a custom open-compute chassis, they'd opt for a more powerful system because it can a) can fill more roles, b) will be more efficient in terms of performance/watt since they can keep it more uniformly loaded and utilize it more.

From my point of view, this is the sad reality unfortunately.
sure, but everyone in that scene also understands counterintelligence will take that approach. there's also an understanding that people grow and change - most people are educated into ideology over time. you can drag any isolated example out of the past and none of it is damning unless trusted people corroborate, it can be demonstrated to be a pattern, and the individual doubles down on bullshit when confronted.
Well - Proof of Stake NFTs are already here: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/

So all I'm doing is hoping everyone uses these instead.
Why would ever you use anything else.
Varies from project to project of course, but it’s never “just because”. If you’re swapping dbs without reasonable expectations to improve SOMETHING, it is indeed a waste of time (one that I also fought against in my career many times - been through many, many “let’s adopt MongoDB bc it’s hot” cases)
I am unable to do that, possibly because I am using an adblocker/pihole. Sites like this are toxic.
That just makes sense, but I like how Chicago undertook the monumental engineering task of raising the street level.
I had exactly one class in college where cheating was rampant. I don't know why, but most of that class cheated on exams; the prof reused exams, and frats had bibles. I didn't see much cheating in my other classes; it was exceptionally rare.

That class was graded on a curve.

I got a 'B', and I would say I was in the 90th percentile for understanding the material. It would have been neigh-impossible to get an 'A' without cheating.
'Earlier studies focused largely on long-term effects in hospitalized COVID patients, McCulloch noted. "Our study is unique in characterizing a group consisting of mostly outpatients: 90% of our cohort experienced only a mild COVID-19 illness, yet one-third continue to have lingering effects," she said.

'"Many of these individuals are young and have no pre-existing medical conditions, indicating that even relatively healthy individuals may face long-term impacts from their illness."'

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91270

0.01%, 33%... Basically a rounding error, right?
I posted to a sibling comment to yours, but wanted to say here too - at that point it ceases to be a useful statement to ever bring up, because I've never seen a discussion where everyone agreed things were the same 'piece of knowledge', and one side was saying it should be repeated. When I've heard "DRY" trotted out, it's -always- been in a situation where the other side was trying to claim/explain that they were different pieces of knowledge. Hence my statement - it's worth understanding the meaning of the principle, internalizing the lesson, as it were, but then the formulation ceases to be useful.
nft's don't poison the environment in and of themselves. First of all they don't NEED to exist on a proof of work blockchain, and second whether or not you make or trade nft's people are still going to be mining bitcoin and ethereum. your criticism here is of proof of work, not nft's. please don't conflate the 2. there are plenty of reasons that nft's are silly, but proof of work isn't one of them.
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It wouldn't surprise me in the least if, upon closer inspection via a study, it turns out that one of the reasons is people don't want to bring children into a world that's as broken as this one currently is.
> other people of similar "desirability"

I think it's shown that of all women and of all men, there's a lot more desirable women than men. Meaning, the pool of desirable women is vastly larger than desirable men.
Single deaths not mass deaths.
And it's social distancing not isolation.
The whole lockdown nobody I know was isolated even if in quarantine.
Every online dictionary SERP on the first page lists something of the form “(noun)-a person favoring capitalism”, which is pretty clearly the use Patrick implied from context. About half of them list that first and half second to the usage you describe above.
This NFT is not "The Brooklyn Bridge", this NFT is "Remember when John Cleese sold the Brooklyn Bridge NFT". Do you think nobody wants the bragging rights of owning that? I certainly do, but not for $50k, which it already has.
What's your alternative? Have you come across any scenarios where not having the smartphone has been particularly problematic?
Speaking for myself: the biggest consequence for me, in terms of mental health, has been the total erosion of my belief that most people were basically good, and decent, and cared about the welfare of others. It was a choice I made years ago; I wanted to be the sort of person that believed those things, even when there was occasional evidence to the contrary.

But 2020 brought a trifecta of social stress that laid bare some festering social diseases. Both national and global politics, the response to Black Lives Matter, and the pandemic, all in the same year.

I don't know quite how to describe it. It's the loss of an ideal? I don't know. But, I feel it, viscerally. Whereas depression is more of an internally-focused feeling, this is externally-focused.

In the before times, I loved road trips, especially through smaller towns. It was a part of my identity. I've traveled through most of what's west of the Mississippi. I always knew that I had political differences with many of the people in the places I visited, but it rarely mattered. It wouldn't come up in casual conversation. Everyone was friendly. I won't ever be able to see people in those places the same way again.

I happily spent money in small towns as I went. Gas, food, lodging, services, the occasional trinket. I can't do that anymore, either.

I've been fortunate throughout the last 12 months in a lot of ways, and it's still left a big long-term impact on me.
I don't get why there even needs to be a separate concept between bookmarks and tabs. They both represent a webpage you have saved.
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I thought I had covered this point by talking about limited edition prints.

A print is a print is a print. The artist simple decides to make a set of 5. If someone later makes a run of 10,000 - why is the former more valuable. The artist might never actually touch the print. They are simply authorizing them.
> Given this, it would be cruel to come down hard on any particular student for cheating.

That's why you have to come down hard on everyone.
The way to solve it was to accelerate vaccines even more than we did. A couple trillion dollars to accelerate vaccine production and rollout (and approval) to cut 6 months off the pandemic. Avoided the big wave in December. We already did better than some feared with vaccine roll out, but we could have done even more.

Also, a harder (but shorter) shut down and a firmer masking requirement and really good test and trace and quarantine protocol were additional ways, but apparently not feasible due to having to heard so many cats. Vaccines were more under federal control and could have been accelerated.
> assurance of ownership to an "original" digital asset

So far, "ownership" has meant "vague association." If people really wanted to own IP, you'd think there'd be a boom in song rights, but there isn't.
Oh hey I know you, didn’t know you stayed so long. I think of you every time I hear the phrase “fractured fricitive”.

I remember the Amazon thing .. differently. Also some pretty shady marketing tricks, and you know, failing to protect a female employee from a predatory creep at a conference.
BTW it's not social but physical distancing. You can be as social as you want, just not so much physical contacts.
We do not talk eradication here.

It already worked fine during the first lockdown last year. At the end we were down to numbers at which tracing contacts and quarantining them worked quite fine for a while. This would have been an acceptable level where people would have been able to do quite a lot of things but not everything. A lot of people overdid it though. Parties, weddings, ... if nothing had ever happened. Unfortunately the response was slow and weak. Now we still deal with the consequences.
Smallpox. I think we're close on polio?
and the echo chambers isolate further...
I see, thanks. I am not sure I agree with your characterization of an encyclopedia, nor the continental approach to things, but I do at least grok your argument now.

> why wouldn't he just have written what you wrote?

For one, because it simply wouldn't have been as good at expressing the idea, but also, I'm writing for a very different audience than he was, so it's gonna come out a bit differently.

> etc all write as clearly as possible.

We'll have to agree to disagree :) Also, the "as possible" does a lot of work here, I would imagine that many people would say they're expressing themselves "as possible," and that's where a lot of the argument comes in.

(And yes, what "clear" even means is like, one of the differences between these traditions, for anyone else reading this discussion.)
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