skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideas:

- revolutions in local democracy (when was last time you or anyone else voted on the local planning permissions / building code? When was last time we got opportunity to vote on layout of a town?

I live in a rapidly built new town, another thousand houses going up, everyone is moaning about and trying to petition something but the leverage is in the development corporation hands.
Textiles being dumped in Peru particularly hurts my soul because their local textile industry is such a deep part of their history and culture. I’m sure by this point we’ve all read about how our clothing “donations” have destroyed most of the local textile industry in Africa.
I simply don't use services that demand a phone number to use them.

It won't get better if we keep caving.
I felt like Superman the first time I hacked some emacs lisp. One of the most enjoyable programming experiences of my life. Thanks for this book.
The most plausible conspiracy theories I've heard is that the big sales ($1 million plus) are wash trades, ("sell" an object to a confederate for 500 ETH, then they transfer the money right back via another route) and some classic money laundering

Now of course there's a mountain of clueless suckers kicking off a regular tulip mania-style bubble. I wonder how many more weeks it will last.
Wait until they get Oblivion inteligence and weaponary.
Can you run ‘git status’ or allow it to show history from certain commands?
Almost worthy of an "Hey Boss, I got it working! Come look, it's neat!"
Yes, legally they are limited. Here in the real world people are riding electric mopeds at nearly 30mph on bike paths anyway. Happens all the time. There are pedestrians walking in the bike path too. Someone is going to get hurt.
> Even factory complexes were usually brick and had some amount of ornamentation

And these factories are often converted into exclusive apartments these days. Modern factories are instead torn down.
MMT does sound like those radio commercials they had back in the 90s saying they would teach you how to "borrow your way out of debt" though.
Or an uncensorable domain name service which has both utility and rarity and cannot be downloaded and is stored on the blockchain.
Technically:

((: Mania! :))
Finding replacement parts will be interesting. I hope they have a nice maintenance contract.
Which will require the authority to recognize it. Your NFT of house is worth nothing unless court/police recognize it to be so.
Solana and Brave partner to integrate it into Brave Browser
it's back up in the east bay, but comcast DNS isn't returning google addresses, switched to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and everything is working again
"The cost of China’s new nuclear ambition has been estimated at US$440
billion." But it doesn't say how much power that is, just that it's
150 new reactors, so it's about US$3B per reactor.
https://archive.md/A5B6S shows that the article didn't say how much
power it was 9 hours ago either. So, is this 15 GW, 150 GW, or 1500
GW?

PV modules are about US$0.2/Wp, so if it were PV panels, US$440B would
buy them 2.2 terawatts peak. At an average capacity factor of 20%
(though, as pfdietz points out, most new utility-scale solar has
single-axis tracking, which pushes it to 30%) that would be 440 GW,
but China's historical PV capacity factor has been terrible, more like
12% IIRC (maybe due to a Chinese version of the irrational
misregulation robomartin documents in California in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29155094). 12% would make it
more like 260 GW. But a PV power plant includes things that aren't
panels; balance of plant (inverter, wiring, grid connection,
monitoring, mounting, security) is typically roughly equal to the
module cost. So it would be more like 130 GW. (Total costs of
utility-scale solar in the US are about twice that in China
<https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Articles/20...>
at about US$0.89/Wp according to pfdietz
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29155644>.

In the US, nuclear plants cost about US$8/We. If China's program was
at the same cost, it would provide 55 GW. If it was closer to the
cost of US nuclear plants in the 01970s about US$1/We
(and if the US$440B number is correct), it would
provide 440 GW.

The threads at https://birdsite.xanny.family/pretentiouswhat/status/1293961... and https://birdsite.xanny.family/pretentiouswhat/status/1318838... provide some more context, suggesting that the "HPR1000, aka Hualong One 华龙一号", is the reactor being used at these 150 sites. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209580991... says the HPR1000 is 3.050 GW thermal, 1.070 GW electric, net. (See also https://www.ukhpr1000.co.uk/the-uk-hpr1000-technology/hpr100... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One.) So 150 of them would produce 161 GW electric, which (if that's US$440B) would put the cost around US$3/We, about twice the cost of the same generation capacity via PV with single-axis tracking, not including any cost of storage. But maybe that's 150 power plants, each with nuclear reactors, not 150 nuclear reactors?
Same issues here in Cupertino. Surprisingly my phone refused to work on just cellular data, despite using a different provider for that (AT&T). I'm pretty confused.
TLDR:

Brutalism and Modernism are ugly, left is good, but left is associated with Brutalism.

Right is evil and filled with nazis and racists. Right is associated with nostalgia about beautiful things.

You can still be a leftist and admire beautiful things, provided that the architect you admire is not from the evil race.

Politics is making everything rot, even architecture.
Yes not bad at all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931...
I mean, it's still worse than not doing any of this lol, and that's the null hypothesis we should be using. Yes, getting stabbed is better than getting shot, but maybe stay inside and fire up a nice S3 bucket.

The real problem is any proof of resource scheme immediately becomes a grey goo where folks are incentivized to consume literally all that resource wether it makes sense or not. It has no negative feedback loop. It cannot make sense.

Also, because of market pricing of the tokens businesses cannot actually leverage it (as they don't want wacky prices that vary by the minute) so you're left with, as usual, illegal content, gambling, speculation and other misc crime. Basically why Filecoin has a small rack of hard drives' worth of stored data and Chia has exabytes and exabytes of garbage - or did, does anyone care about that one anymore?

It makes more sense to just store garbage if your goal is to run a neat little pyramid scheme.
Indeed where are all those Second Life users after its hype bubble faded away?
This means that NFTs still don't denote much without a centralized authority. Doesn't that defeat the point?

(That might not make them worthless, since value is socially constructed, but it makes the claims of decentralization seem less impressive.)
Every one used to use your social security number instead to uniquely identify people but that was made illegal because of the many problems this caused. But company's want a unique identifier for people. Now that everyone has cell phones people never change their phone number so it is a great unique identifier that is legal to use. Not enough edge cases, yet, like yours too worry about. Maybe it will be made illegal in the future.
I find it odd that stop sign is a go to complain about cyclists, given that those do nothing for bike. And I say that as someone who drives car way more often as bike. Cyclist ignoring stop sign is not an issue at all, stop signs exists because of cars.

The red light, yes, that is valid complain. But stop sign, meh.

But also, pretty much any transport mode features people with bed behavior: cars, pedestrians, roller skaters. Those people are not even that much demographically different, unless the transport ends up tied to politics.
Which contribute to a chip shortage making cars more expensive, seemingly pure financial instruments directly causing inflation for everyday people, there is no escape
> Then you must hate on-street parking and parking lots.

Here in Seattle we actually reclaimed on-street parking for dedicated bike-share parking because people park them so inconsiderately. Like sideways blocking entire bike paths and sidewalks.

If you are in a wheelchair you can forget about curb ramps, they’re blocked by bike shares.
» What it took was a focus on good quality bike lanes outside the affluent white neighborhoods, bike accessibility at transit stations/on busses, and expansion of bikeshare to poorer neighborhoods.

I've never been to Chattanooga, TN but once I realized I can work from home I've been curious about owning a home somewhere with gigabit fiber but without ridiculously expensive real estate within commuting distance to a Costco or Sam's Club (so clearly not Jersey City, NJ or Longmont, CO).

What I noticed just looking at Google Maps Street View was that any home within my price range lacked a sidewalk. Apparently, only the wealthy people in Chattanooga, TN need sidewalks. How do we talk about bike lanes when places lack sidewalks?
"...Alejandro Aravena’s Angelini Innovation Center, was called by the Pritzker jury “remarkably humane and inviting.” His work is “welcoming,” they say, and “deepens our understanding of what is truly great design.” When I read things like this, I feel like I must be of a different species to these jury members, ... "

Absolutely! It looks like the toilet block in a gulag.
Hype. Hoping it will become even more popular to sell it for even higher.
> Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies.

i've seen this pushback come from two camps. 1) people with cars who get pissed when street parking or automobile lanes get turned into bike lanes (i prefer bike lanes, but i can at least understand this.) 2) professional users of the roads who saw early construction of bicycle infrastructure as something that would attract more cyclists and therefore make their jobs harder/riskier.

i feel like construction of bike infrastructure in many us cities is something that really blossomed in the late 00s/early 10s when urban cyclists were often more ragtag jorts with tattoos than "lycra-clad yuppies."
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Dan is actually referring to Google where "complexity" for a very long time was an explicit requirement for career progress to Staff level and beyond.

I bet it's the same way even now, unofficially. For better or worse, engineers do not seem to sufficiently value simplicity, so people hated the rules, but played the game, producing insane rube goldberg like backends all over the place that you need whole teams of experienced SREs to run successfully. The fact that this is ridiculous was not at all lost on people either - memes on Memegen (an internal meme site) were pretty vicious. But, not a heck of a lot you can really do if you want those golden handcuffs to turn into platinum ones.

I'd be remiss if I did not mention the silver lining in all this: Google's SRE team is very likely the most experienced in the world, and SREs are respected there. Stuff wouldn't run at all if this wasn't the case, and certainly not with five nines of reliability.

Another bullshit requirement in the general case is "cross-team impact". No matter how valuable you are as an IC, you gotta get a bunch of other people involved so they write your peer feedback and endorse you for a promo. Sometimes this makes sense. Often it does not. And those people better be one or two levels above you, which is a problem in a remote office.

There was a whole slew of antipatterns like that which might have made sense at some point in the past, but now are perceived as an immutable thing nobody can do anything about. So in a way, "culture" is not necessarily an _universal_ good, although at the time I was there the good outweighed the bad IMO.

This cultural stuff is also why Agile by itself does not mean you'll be particularly "agile", nor is Agile required for high agility. As a manager I've found that if I can get people to care about things and give them autonomy, most of them will not require close supervision and will move faster than they'd otherwise. Some will require supervision, reminders, incentives, and all that, and those are best sequestered from the rest and grouped with folks with similar working styles and put to work on tasks that tolerate that kind of thing, or in clinical cases let go.
The bigger problem is how to adapt roads to multi-form-factors. There are going to be cars, trucks, bikes, tricycles, and other battery-cars for all kinds of needs, and separate lanes are not the solution, in fact they may make the problem worse. Roads are woefully stuck in the two-lane-car system
No visual studio or rider, vscode support isn’t great from my experience.
Would anyone buy a house if the proof of ownership was a URL to JSON file on a server you didn't control, with no regulation of the blockchain that the "proof" resides on?

I will genuinely put effort in to starting a company that provides a blockchain proof of real estate ownership if this ever happens, just so I can fraudulently sell everyone's houses while they live in them after a few years. It'd be hilarious.
IPFS doesn’t guarantee safety either, it’s still possible for the link to rot and no longer be accessible.
Of course it only clears when you run a new command, or press enter. Basically think of it like typing clear after running a command. You can also scroll up and find the last output.
That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed. If building housing wasn't illegal it would be built. Developers love money and the Green Belt is quite big enough to spare one Mnahattan's area if it was politically possible to build a Manhattan's worth of housing on it.
Discourse (selfhosted, open source forum) > Discord (proprietary, centralized, censored spyware chat)
The only thing it proves ownership of is of the NFT itself and not the asset the NFT claims to be.
You might be thinking of Namecoin, the first fork of Bitcoin.
The Intelligent Investor + Security Analysis (after II) is all you really need. Both are by Graham.
This is why I like HN. "My point of view is going to be borne out as being correct; if only you bothered to investigate you'd have it too." "Well, I have, and I've done it in practice, and I understand the maths, and here are my concerns."
> I use a hardware device plugged into my motherboard to grab the encryption key directly from memory.

Can you give me more information on this or some pointers as to where to begin?

Also: is there a way to protect against some of your techniques, assuming you are the developer of the game who wants to keep the cheaters out?

I am asking because I am working on a game. I will have to start from the basics I think, as in, what information the clients can receive, what they can manipulate and so forth. I have not thought much about client-side prediction either.

First off, I am going to require authentication (paid account), but the problem is that it requires an Internet connection, and as far as single player is concerned, anyone could "hack" the client[1]. Is there anything I can do or can you give me some advice as to how to go about it? I suppose authentication would be useful for multiplayer though.

[1] They can just make it jump directly to the Main Menu screen and bypass authentication. I do not even know how I could protect against that, if at all possible.

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Come to think of it, I hardly remember how ioquake3 handles this stuff and makes sure the client has "pure" .pk3 files. I would think it would be easy to bypass that as well.

I checked out the Wikipedia page of PunkBuster which says:

> PunkBuster Servers can be configured to instruct clients to calculate partial MD5 hashes of files inside the game installation directory. The results are compared against a set configuration and differences logged, and optionally, the client removed from the server

Now, would not the client eventually know the correct MD5 hash, thus modifying the client to send those hashes could bypass it, right? I imagine such things to be easily spoofable.
cannot be downloaded

I can't help thinking this criteria makes the DNS service a bit less useful.
The analogy that helped me understand it (even though I would still not buy one myself and think the hype is way over the top):

Think of a booth at Comic Con, where an artist hands out signed copies of their comic books. The comic book itself is nothing special, but the signature is. But there is a problem: if you ever want to sell the signed comic book, how do you prove it's a real signature? NFTs solve that problem.
>Absolutely! It looks like the toilet block in a gulag.

Maybe the architects derived a sense of beauty from toilet blocks in a gulag.

Even though soviet architecture wasn't exactly beautiful, it wasn't as bad as most modern architecture.
Here is more information about current NFT-related standardization efforts in the Ethereum community:

https://www.nftstandards.wtf/

Discussions about proposals & implementations are happening here:

https://ethereum-magicians.org/tag/nft
All the trading hubs like OpenSea are centralised to the point that some NFTs will get blacklisted if a famous enough person in the community gets scammed out of theirs.
The idea of NFT is not scam, but the current scene is more like it. Not exactly like scam but more like a super-hyped balloon.
I have a house I just finished buying off. Real estate goes up in value a good investment plus you own your own home and don't have to pay rent. It costs money to fix it up, and it is how Donald Trump got rich buying used condos and fixing them up and selling them for millions.

The stock market is iffy. I had a 401K and ROTH IRA that went down from the original $150,000 I had in it to $1000 now. Tech stocks don't do too well because of debt and reinvesting in R&D.
Like this $500,000,000 flash loan backed wash trade of punk 9998. [1]

[1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/crypto-punk-500-million-sa...
Despite what narcissistic Zero-to-Oners would tell you, their startups aren't important in the grand scheme of things. Nation states are hacking intelligence agencies, governments, established IT vendors (not startups), power grids, and hospitals in that rough order. Ransomware gangs are hacking companies that have real money right now, not lottery tickets pre-IPO. These companies can afford good cybersecurity but don't want to spend more money than the damages they would incur from a successful attack.
So it's like spark for pandas? Seems like it might be better just to use spark and if there are features missing, build a framework to add in missing features on top of that - in which case you get a giant distributed processing engine for free with it. Would be interested to know if that was a consideration or not.
It's not even encrypted.
Enterprises Are Advancing from Digitization to Data Insights
Okcupid used to be the only good option, but it got increasingly worse since match.com bought it. They recently did another overhaul and now it's so bad that it feels like they're deliberately trying to kill their userbase. Which might actually be true - it's probably better for match.com from a business perspective to kill off some of their less popular offerings and force the users to migrate to Tinder. The network effects and hence the potential monopoly are nothing to scoff at.
>One can believe that some people are better at ruling a country than other people

That is a "belief" without any basis in facts and therefore untenable.
How does it solve the problem? You still have to trust the physical object I hand over is the real signed copy.
Oh of course, but at least it is decentralised
Svelte vs. React: Ending the Debate
What are you even talking about? Bet you can't give even one example.
> So if I buy an expensive NFT, and the domain goes down, the NFT is now worthless?

Well, that’s a question and a half. If its intrinsic value dropped to zero, would that be a change in value?
Here in Seattle people park them inconsiderately. Like block the entire path with the bike sideways inconsiderately.

They’re a nuisance. The city actually marked off some specific parking areas and is asking the ride share companies to require drop off in those areas. It got that bad.

I regularly see bike shares and scooter shares blocking curb ramps in crosswalks. Good luck to anyone in a wheelchair.

E-bikes might provide some value but proponents and users are ignoring the negative externalities to existing cyclists and pedestrians.

It will get better but we need to educate people on how to use these things responsibly.
Parentisophilia.
This isn't the whole story. Some NFTs are written to the blockchain.

Avastars https://avastars.io/ is an NFT collection that's represented by an SVG. The SVGs are all written on-chain, back when it was cheaper to do so. https://nft.substack.com/p/the-art-of-avastars

The original NFT, Cryptopunks is also written on-chain now. (It wasn't originally).
https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2021-8-18-18-0/on-chain-crypt...

One of the oldest NFTs, MoonCatRescue https://mooncatrescue.com/ writes an encoded version of the image onchain, and uses a published function to regenerate the image. The MD5 hash of the algorithm is written onchain so you know you're using the right one. https://github.com/ponderware/mooncatparser/blob/master/moon...

For other NFT projects that can't use these techniques, they use decentralized storage like IPFS and ARWeave.

You can check what technique is used with this tool for any NFT project on ETH chain: https://checkmynft.com/
This. Surprising.
I was 12 or 13 when I found a 2400 baud modem in my neighbor's attic while babysitting their kids and playing hide and seek, the remnant of an automative repair business that had failed.

When the kids' mom got home she saw my interest and said I could have it, but I still had to track down the right cable (a DB25 if I remember correctly) and then to figure out how to use it (since modems varied widely in the commands they supported and the settings needed to talk to them successfully).

The first BBS numbers I found were in the listing in the back of Computer User magazine. The Seattle boards I still remember are RaT CiTY (24-666-47), Jesus on Ecstasy, the Southern Cross, and the Bat Kave.

At 13 I didn't know what long distance was and so ended up with a $400 phone bill. I'm sure I got grounded for that for a while.

One of the things I remember most poignantly is that you had a finite number of minutes (and actions, in the various door games like Barren Realms Elite, Solar Realms Elite, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Usurper) so that no one person could monopolize the 1 or 2 phone lines most BBSes had for long periods of time. That made the time spent online feel important, and I remember strategizing so that I could reply to messages, check for new files, and play the doors I liked within the time allowed.
Oh yeah, I saw NFTs with IPFS URLs before, the reason why I'm surprised is that I thought all of them were using some form of decentralised storage.
No, I'm not allowed to ride it on a bike path. I am allowed to ride it on a combined bike/moped path.
It does not contain a hash, and the image may vary over time or based on the requesting server.

See Moxie's tweet thread showing this experimentally: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305