skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On too many occasions, when filling out those forms online that have become ubiquitous when applying for jobs, I have had to answer a question asking whether I am under any sort of non-compete agreement. I imagine if I choose yes, my resume will be sent directly to the trash folder on the applicant tracking system. The nuances about which clauses of the non-compete may not be enforceable won't matter.

If I lie, I imagine it will only take one phone call from the previous employer for the new one to fire me. If you tell the truth, I don't get the job in the first place. If I want to invalidate it through courts, well I don't have more than 10 million dollars in the bank, and we all know even single digit millionaires have no effective access to the legal system.

I am not a minimum wage worker or in the US, but I am sure people applying for minimum wage jobs in the US see similar questions and have to fill out similar forms.
The physical representation of the "print" and "original" can be identical and indistinguishable in the case of an NFT
Why should anyone measure success? If the entire point is progress, then any and all benefit should go toward advancing the next position.
>> Do humans fit in 10TB?

> If it were just the algorithm, I think 10TB would be enough

Just thinking about it makes me shiver. I had been assuming that AGI or strong AI needed enormous advances in hardware like quantum computing or numerous iterations of Moore's Law. Would it be correct to say that the right 10TB bit pattern might give us strong AI on today's commodity hardware -- at least in theory?
Subsequent 'owners' too. One could say having your name on the trail diminishes the value

Just smells like laundering to me
If they ban beef from the food supply, people will find substitutes.. like bat.
> You could argue that one particular NFT is the official Picasso NFT because it was sold by the owners of the Picasso painting

I’m pretty sure the analogy would be that Picasso himself actually issued the NFT. Anyone can “argue” that Picasso issued an NFT, but that’s just like arguing that your extremely skillful forgery is a Picasso original. What’s important is if it actually is an original.
You can read all California autonomous vehicle accident reports here.[1]

Most Waymo reports are "stopped in traffic, was rear-ended". There are two reports this year where the Waymo vehicle was responsible. In both cases, it was backing up while doing a three-point turn in a narrow street and bumped into something at 2MPH. So they need better sensor coverage in back.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
As with any other kind of collectable, scarcity is created artificially. There is a potentially unlimited number of baseball cards. I can print one for myself today. Yet it is the authenticated 1933 Goudey #53 which is worth $4.2 million. NFTs provide this authenticity.
Soybeans are a fungible commodity. That means that it's fungible with other soybeans.

Corn is a fungible commodity.

Pork bellies are a fungible commodity.

It's a mystery to me as to why you think I said soybeans and steak are the same.
Postgres Foreign Data Use Case
Hi! Here is a simple use case of how pg query federation could be used. Hoping I could get some feedback to why/why not people would do something like this. Keen to also hear from people that do this already. Thanks heaps!
> Most companies already have the "apprenticeship" half-codified in "Junior Developer" versus "Senior Developer" distinctions or "Level Ranks" or other ladders like that. If you switch jobs mid-"apprenticeship" today in the software industry depending on who you interview with and how well you can negotiate you either "start over" at a low rank/level/job title or luck/bs into "skipping that step" and jumping to a higher rank/level/job. Standardizing that across the industry wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for the industry.

In my experience no-one cares who's "junior" or "senior" day-to-day, and no-one can compare levels across multiple companies, and that's good for the industry; I've worked with plenty of "juniors" who were better than corresponding "seniors", standardising and formalising some years-of-experience metric would make the industry much less meritocratic.

> Similarly, PE licenses would be so hugely worth it to the industry if it saved everyone time in "technical interviews", both interviewees and interviewers alike. How many collective labor hours as an industry are we wasting annually on "technical interviews"? For most classic Civil Engineering firms the "technical" part of the interview is almost entirely "Is your PE license valid and up to date?" "Yes." "Great, you're hired." The software industry would rather waste multiple hours (if not entire days) of wages of everyone involved instead, and it's rather sad when you think about it.

I've yet to find any software-related qualification that wasn't an active negative. I've worked in a place that applied the acknowledged "best practices" of 10 years ago and it was a terrible environment for producing good code.
NFT license are dependent on the project. That's up to you to research. NFT license from crypto kitties allow you up to 100k. BAYC has full commercial rights.

You wrap the token into the new standard if there is a new one when there is a new standard. Look at cryptopunks, they are wrapped into ERC-721.
Even if that's generally true (which I doubt), it has nothing to do with the legal theory in which Euclidian zoning operates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_Euclid_v._Ambler_....

"The court ruled that speculation was not a valid basis for a claim of takings."
The purpose of taxing tobacco is to discourage consumption. The tax is directly the mechanism for achieving the desired purpose rather than a hardship imposed on some otherwise innocent people only incidentally. It's not a taking, it's a penalty.

When your neighbor builds a house next to yours, that's not a taking because it's not the government doing it. If you wanted to control what got built on a piece of property that isn't yours, you should have bought it yourself, or entered into a contract with the property owner where they agree not to do that for a particular period of years and you compensate them for the restriction.

Governments should have to compensate property owners for zoning restrictions and the like. That makes perfect sense, for the same reason they have to compensate for any other takings -- because you're imposing a hardship on a specific innocent third party for a collective benefit, which is unreasonable. If there is to be a collective benefit then it should be paid for out of the collective fund and not disproportionately imposed on unconsenting innocent people at random. And if it turns out that the cost of compensating the property owners for the restriction you want to impose exceeds the value you hope to achieve by imposing it, that's some pretty good evidence that you shouldn't be doing it -- which is exactly why it should have to be paid out.

The fact that courts decided not to do that with zoning is the whole reason we have a housing shortage -- because now we've over-produced zoning restrictions since they can be imposed without accounting for their cost.
Same answer at Google
>metropolitan decadence

New band name!
It makes total sense to me if you think about money laundering for illegal transactions.
Thank you for sharing this. HN’s default layout and behavior have never made sense to me and I always rely on alternative front-ends if I’m spending more than a glance on a thread. Currently I’m settled on hn.premii.com but your attempt seems promising.

One suggestion: I know the client is designed to be a single-page app, but is it possible to have a constructed permalink for each submission and comment thereto? On hn.premii.com that I mentioned above, I can have links in the form of hn.premii.com/#/comments/28704873 so that I can create a bookmarklet to jump directly from a original HN page to a “optimized” version. I hope it will also be possible with yours.
If net neutrality doesn't get us first!
I still don't understand why this needs to be decentralised?

> without having to solely trust the company issuing the nft ticket

For the transaction yes, but what about the thing you are buying? Perhaps I am not thinking creatively enough, but I can't think of a use case where there isn't ultimately some trust required other than solely digital assets.

Using your hotel example, you will end up at the hotel where they can choose to honor your ticket in the same way as their traditional booking system. There was no need for this to be on a distributed ledger as the asset (a hotel stay) was between you and the hotel.

You are not cutting out the middle man of some SaaS provider, you are substituting them.
+1 for the zerohedge comment.

A few months ago something happened over at Zerohedge..
The site became unviewable with JavaScript disabled so I stopped going to the site.
But it looks like they’ve had a change of heart and can now be viewed with JavaScript disabled.

But it also seems like the content has changed from what it used to be.

Did they change ownership or is it just my imagination from taking a break from their site when it became dependent upon JavaScript?
Animats says "Cog was a flop, and Brooks goes down in history as the the creator of the robot vacuum cleaner."

Would that be the "robot vacuum cleaner that can't see shite?":

https://www.boredpanda.com/robot-vacuum-cleaner-spreads-dog-...
Have you played Mount & Blade: Warband? Some random video I googled with big battles (500 units active) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onap7r0ZUM
Oh I didn't know that. Both the name and relation of VMS and NT. Thanks for sharing.
It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don't think I like it very much
5G has lots of latency compared to fiber or even good cable, if you want the same latency as someone on fiber to a regionally hosted server, you need edge compute stuff.
I am the happy owner of a Maxi. This is what made me realize that so much of the experience was the physical artifact. While an FPGA-based board may be more accurate, the experience is incomplete without the accurate replication of the human interface.
> I can't even follow what your unsourced talk of sub-urbanization is trying to claim.

I can't find the paper at the moment. I will try to get it posted here tomorrow.

The gist is that suburban grow is an overflow of city growth onto the surrounding area. When a suburban areas GHG accounting is taken into consideration it further removes any "apparent" per capita efficiency of the city.

It is really all just another case of Goodharts Law [1] with the addition that the measure was never comprehensive in the first place.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Could this product also do row level securiry? For instance by finding all user roles and then generating where clauses to inject to the query automatically?
If you buy a Babe Ruth baseball card you aren't buying the rights to Babe Ruth. It's the card itself which is valuable, as a product of the context it was issued in. I don't know why that part, as it translates to NFTs, is so difficult for people to understand.
> Hanning was later charged with third-degree assault and fired from the police force in a separate case in which he allegedly used his Taser on a 75-year-old man

So not directly, but reading between the lines there is probably something to do with straws and camels going on.
I suspect that selling NFTs will be popular for anyone who needs money laundered.
Solvents from semiconductor production do not amplify and trap energy from the terrifyingly powerful object in the sky, threatening to destroy the biosphere, so yes it is all about carbon.
In 2017 Cloudflare had an HTML parser bug that caused encrypted HTTP traffic to be leaked. Any website served by Cloudflare was vulnerable to having all of its traffic leaked into the HTML body response of the website that Cloudflare proxied. Given that Cloudflare is the proxy service for 80% of websites that use proxies, this affected a significant portion of the internet.

Cloudflare served private HTTP traffic in response bodies, meaning that website results contained cookies, session data, encrypted traffic, all personally identifiable, and because it was served as response bodies, it was *indexed by search engines*, not to mention anyone else who was scraping websites during the time of the incident. It included credit card information, frames from videos, PII, the works, all linked to individual users.

This was ongoing for *months.*

Anyone savvy could use this information to hijack accounts, scrape personal information, view private browsing habits. Even when Cloudflare publicly announced it (and tried to blame others) when they thought they had cleaned up most of the data, you could still easily use search engines to find people's personal information by searching for the Cloudflare header strings that started the leaked session information.

Many countries have legal policies around data breaches, including required disclosure policies and penalties. In the greatest blind eye turn of the history of the internet, Cloudflare managed to get away with a single blog post, and no other penalties. https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...

THAT is Cloudflare's disruption.
This should be the top voted comment on this post.
"plant monocrops" -- like all the soy that is planted to grow so it can be fed to the cows?
That article seems highly motivated to marginalize the effects of livestock. Quoting a section:

While methane is 28-times more heat-trapping than carbon dioxide, methane’s lifespan is just a decade, while CO2 — known as a long-life pollutant — remains in the atmosphere for 1000 years.

After ten years, methane is broken down in a process called hydroxyl oxidation into CO2, entering a carbon cycle which sees the gas absorbed by plants, converted into cellulose, and eaten by livestock.

In the first paragraph, it says methane isn't so bad because it lasts only 10 years, unlike CO2 which lasts 1000 years. In the very next paragraph it says the methane is broken down into CO2 which is then absorbed by plants and recycled. Wait, you just said it lasts 1000 years.

The next two paragraphs say that livestock accounts for 33% of the total methane released and blithely states that it all gets broken down and reused. If no additional animals are introduced, then net release equals net absorption. That is not very insightful -- eventually an equilibrium will be reached. This glosses over the real data that CO2 levels are rising, it is having measurable consequences, and is pushing control loops to new, worse states.

Citing one article written for the "Farm Business" trade publication isn't as conclusive as you seem to state.
Aaah I thought it was reference to 'What the dog saw', which is a Malcom Gladwell book. Seems it's also a reference to that film
This is big!

Amyloid beta has long been implicated in Alz. Now they've found a mechanism to generate it in the liver, cause it to reach the brain, and trigger the disease.

Wow, wow, wow.

The paper: Synthesis of human amyloid restricted to liver results in an Alzheimer disease–like neurodegenerative phenotype

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Abstract:

> Several lines of study suggest that peripheral metabolism of amyloid beta (Aß) is associated with risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). In blood, greater than 90% of Aß is complexed as an apolipoprotein, raising the possibility of a lipoprotein-mediated axis for AD risk. In this study, we report that genetic modification of C57BL/6J mice engineered to synthesise human Aß only in liver (hepatocyte-specific human amyloid (HSHA) strain) has marked neurodegeneration concomitant with capillary dysfunction, parenchymal extravasation of lipoprotein-Aß, and neurovascular inflammation. Moreover, the HSHA mice showed impaired performance in the passive avoidance test, suggesting impairment in hippocampal-dependent learning. Transmission electron microscopy shows marked neurovascular disruption in HSHA mice. This study provides causal evidence of a lipoprotein-Aß /capillary axis for onset and progression of a neurodegenerative process.

The abstract spells it all out.

We knew amyloid beta was highly associated with Alz. We've been studying this for decades.

They noticed amyloid beta was found in lipoprotein complexes (fat+protein), then modified the liver to produce it. The protein leaks out and causes neurodegeneration.

> Insight into how blood Aβ increases risk for AD comes from findings that in humans, greater than 90% of blood Aβ1–40 and 97% of the particularly pro-amyloidogenic Aβ1–42 is associated with plasma lipoproteins [3], principally the triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRLs) of hepatically derived very low-density lipoproteins (VLDLs) and of postprandial chylomicrons [4,5]. Direct evidence of a peripheral TRL-Aβ/vascular risk pathway for AD comes from studies in preclinical models, which show that cerebral capillary amyloid-angiopathy, a common early neurovascular pathology of AD, may be a consequence of parenchymal extravasation of TRL-Aβ.

This implicates fatty acids originating from the liver migrating (extravasation). Wow.

Some quotes from the linked article:

> “This study,” he added, “shows that exaggerated abundance in blood of potentially toxic fat-protein complexes can damage microscopic brain blood vessels called capillaries and, thereafter, leak into the brain, causing inflammation and brain cell death.”

Wow.

> “[Changes] in dietary behaviors and certain medications could potentially reduce blood concentration of these toxic fat-protein complexes, [subsequently] reducing the risk for Alzheimer’s or [slowing] down the disease progression,” he concluded.

Diet plays a huge role in development.

This is incredible.
I seriously doubt an RPi 4 class multi core device with a GPU can’t do that or, at least, precisely emulate a Commodore 65.
> beef is deadly for the planet because of destructive water and land usage (Vice had a great video showing the deforestation due to beef production).

Thanks, for a second I thought you might have to be serious but now I can be certain you can be laughed at in perpetuity.
I don't know about the disengage rates, but just the training model of data scares the bejeebus out of me. There was training data released and posted here on HN some time ago. I'm pretty sure the post was talking about how bad the training data was. There were all sorts of crazy things like signage being indicated in the trees or other "to a human" obviously wrong data. However, this was the supposed training data for some ML system. It was at this point that I just shook my head and walked away from interest in the subject.
Right. Prices, not arbitrary bans, are the correct way to incorporate externalities in the costs of a product. People are far too happy to promote ad-hoc bans of all sorts of arbitrary things without creating any kind of general incentive structure that would automatically optimize the metrics of interest. The result is malinvestment, economic inefficiency, and global poverty.

The problem is that the externality is set arbitrarily by people who think beef in particular is bad --- it's a sin tax. If you're being honest about pricing emissions, you internalize externalities universally, uniformly, and transparently. An across-the-board carbon tax is defensible; such a tax would likely affect beef. A fee on beef by itself --- that's just disingenuous and moralistic nonsense.
Complete sidenote, but I loved your "So You Want to Compete With Roblox" article a while back, it was a pleasant surprise to click on this link and end up back at your blog.
The only problem with Discord is that it is closed. Otherwise, it's a truly excellent platform.

In many ways, the problem with Social Networks isn't algorithms or whatever, it's the scale, and being on a small server with at most 50-100 other people is an incredible experience. I've met so many interesting people from around the world who wouldn't have the technical skills to navigate the IRC world, and I didn't have to blow up my brain in the process.
the point is that the propertied class will lower wages and raise commodity prices to pay to keep eating an unsustainable amount of beef. instead we should restrict or ban industrial animal agriculture, while investing in educational material to help society transition away from beef. that and regenerative agriculture, agro-forestry, etc.

Ernst Gotsch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE

i don’t want to give my children a dead planet either.
imagine being this strident about the flu. I can't.
you're forgetting the "Full self driving v2.0 for real this time, seriously, guys. Oops, v2.1 (bug fixes)"
Oh goodness, haven't added a new feed to my reader in ages. Much obliged!
If you bought let's say a signed physical print of the piece of art you can't do that either. Even if you own an original painting you can't do that unless you explicitly got granted permission. So why expect it from NFTs?
Yes and No.

Most paintings don't have (much) value. Behold my latest work, the brown ring of quality... do I hear... 5 cents?

A few paintings have value, primarily due to the fame of the artist or the history of the piece (It hung <place>). Supply is frequently capped by the fact the artist is dead...
Havana Syndrome or Hypochondria?
If everyone had a private jet with jet fuel subsidized by the government it would also be bad for humanity. It’s currently tolerated as a luxury only for the rich. As an argument for subsidizing something, that doesn’t resonate with me by itself.

We subsidize the meat industry directly, and indirectly by not pricing in negative externalities like it’s carbon expenditure.
This is any over generalization based on you personal experiences/beliefs.

There are many Americans in the Appalachian area of the United States that care more about where their power comes from than where their food comes from or contains. People in other parts of the world may have different priorities. But most households in West Virginia not only know what type of power is used to run their homes but know the name of the coal mine that it was dug out of.
Wellllll, um, not really.... Any NN recognizer can be fooled and your neighbor's dog may as likely be shot by the "granny gun AI". You need to read up on the validity of facial recognition software. It ain't nearly human!
Did you honestly believe you were clarifying in a less confusing manner than the original question with this response?
We're back to "Giant Electronic Brains"!
You’re missing a big part of the picture. NFTs do provide real utility for anyone dealing with illegal goods or services. They are only selling NFTs publicly while the real goods or services are something else. It’s not a new hack but this is a much more efficient vehicle.
With a closed source compiler (Apple clang is not the clang you or I can compile, unless they have no tuning models for their own silicon)
I disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
I love the accusation of disinformation. When you call somebody a liar you just sound like a psycho. But when you accuse somebody of spreading disinformation you boldly declare yourself a soldier in the army of wokeness. Which is so much better.
Good on them! Makes me want to spend some time learning Ruby.