skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many fashion houses literally burn their unsold products to create this scarcity or create limited runs. DeBeers have a heavy control over the diamond industry. If an artist says they'll only create unique pieces (a 1/1 collection) then while they could create more in future, they'll still have a market determined value.
> terminate the contract and blacklist the company permanently (include the board of directors to ensure no hopping between companies to take advantage).

Here, Bradken acquired a foundry that had been faking test results for decades before; eventually discovered it, and reported it to the Navy once they did. Giving Bradken the death penalty out of this seems absurd.

(Not all of Bradken's actions post-discovery were perfect, and it did take them several years post-acquisition before they detected the ongoing fraud-- so there was definitely a failure here, but...).
Possibly, but one way has MUCH worse consequences than the other.
It's foolish to think it's just about money and industry.

I mean, yes, be very skeptical of publications that justify an outcome their funders' wanted. But why should that stop at industry? Should we be so naive as to think that all the other science funders and fundees up to and including NSF itself don't have their own "agendas", not necessarily aligned at all with figuring out what's true and what's not?

Top of the agenda of all institutions is to survive, and second is to grow. In industry, that means making more money and making it more efficiently. In academia? Here our currency is "impact". In government? Here our currency is "power". "Impact" is really just another word for power.

The desire for power, for relevance, and for status are just as potent, and just as corrupt when compared to what you might consider an "ideal science", one whose practitioners are motivated by something like "curiosity." How much has our Science been influenced from these directions? It's a disturbing question, right?

I mean, can you even imagine that article? "How Scientists Weaponize Science to Create Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones and Serve Their Agenda (moar sinecures and grant money)". "How Bureaucracy Weaponizes Science and Sows Compliance to Serve Their Agenda (moar sinecures, bigger slice of the budget pie)". Seems crazy, right?

But is it? A Minister of Truth is a bureaucrat with a bureaucrat's salary, and has no real interest in "profits" beyond holding onto his position and advancing in the ranks. Such an organization is basically outside the realm of the market and profit-motives, and yet, would you trust such a ministry to produce good science? If not, why not?

Of course, we do not have an official ministry of truth, but if you adjust the telescope lens to bring into focus the constellation of universities, government agencies and other funding apparatus, it is rather difficult for me to distinguish what we do have from that one unified ministry. "They're the same picture." The org-chart is just more complicated.
I know nothing about NFTs but if I was to forge something for a test, it probably wouldn’t be something that is high profile. I would pick something in the 1-10k range and start from there. /cluelessrant
Love Common Lisp and found this helpful even after using it for several years (coincidentally I was just reading it before it popped up here again). I'm intrigued by Sly, as a long time Slime user, will have to try it out!

I was also just getting some of my environment set up on Guix and the addition of Guix Shell [0] is great. Now I can set up an environment and load a lisp file instantly (after the initial caching) with `guix shell sbcl [sbcl-packages] -- sbcl --load somefile.lisp [arguments]` Works across computers with Guix for reproducible environments, very nice stuff. Even easier from a blank slate than getting Roswell and/or quicklisp set up, just a one liner with Guix.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/from-guix-environment-to-g...
Many Worlds: a philosophy of data collaboration
The odd thing was that the proliferation fear hit suddenly when Pakistan hit the bomb.

Iran under the shah, for instance, got a small-scale kit for reprocessing plutonium. High enriched uranium wound up in research reactors all over the place. It's nice stuff, makes it very easy to get a critical mass in a small space.
Rave reviews? It seems low quality paid reviews are worth every penny.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_wa...
This looks amazing! Thank you!
Is anything really solved?
I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.
Robin Hood gave to the poor, Robinhood takes from the poor. Robinhood sells the poor the constantly disproven dream that you can trade your way to riches.
This was built on top of the Pytorch implementation [0] of AnimeGANv2, using gradio [1] and HuggingFace Spaces [2]. See the 100s of examples [3] posted by users.

[0]: https://github.com/bryandlee/animegan2-pytorch
[1]: https://gradio.app
[2]: https://huggingface.co/spaces
[3]: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...
Generics will be insanely useful for me. I work in an environment that uses a huge Golang KV store for all persistence. This means we write all of our own indexing code etc. None of it is reusable because of the lack of generics, so each module has much of the same boilerplate for building second indexes, etc, often written in slightly different styles because it was written by different people.

Generics will let us build a set of tools for DB access and indexing tools which can be reused across all types.
Creating a dorm that is far from classes and amenities actual encourages social interaction, or it did for my dorm.
What's with search companies having terrible names? Am I supposed to tell someone to "you it"?
Nutrition science is quite complex and much of the published literature is simply junk. A lot of what we thought we knew a few decades ago turned out to be wrong. So it's not entirely unreasonable to ignore the science altogether and just eat the same foods that your ancestors ate before agriculture. It might not be optimal from a nutrition standpoint, but it's unlikely to be too far wrong.

Of course most "paleo" nutritionists are scammers pushing cookbooks and dubious nutritional supplements.
Not just developing economies had dam disasters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teton_Dam
A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos
NFTs and Bitcoin are both forms of tokens, which represent digital property rights.

The parent comment almost certainly understands this and was talking more broadly about forms of digital ownership. So your blasting them was kind of cringe.
I've been on a few projects where there has been no obvious way forward. So to find the least worst option, I've started off by desiging a really bad design (along with polished diagrams and RAIDS etc..)

This generally invokes good/ heated discussion on how not to do things - which always seems to get poeple talking - as opposed to asking people what they think is the best way forward. People are better at telling you how thngs can't work than saying how to make things work

Keep track of all the choices and design decisions and do this iteratively and you have you least worse option.

I think I've accidently followed the TRIZ method
This is why I love the email wildcard trick you can do with most providers [1]. Now I just update my email in Robinhood to a new wildcard, and then just block all emails to the old one since they will quickly just turn into spam emails 99% of the time. Makes email breaches way less annoying.

[1] If you have a service like Gmail or a service that supports wildcards you just do `name+[blahblah]@` or `name.[blahblahblah]@` to make the email specific to the service you are signing up for. So like `bluetidepro+robinhood@` and then if there is a breach you block all emails that go to that, and change your acct to be say `bluetidepro+rh@` or whatever new one so only legit emails go to the new one.
Discord community splits as CEO unveils ethereum integration
L-Arginine potentiates radiation therapy for cancer
It’s hard to make people care with “bad/user hostile/privacy invading” because those terms have saturated descriptions of behavior that users are okay with. Example: tons of articles mention FB as a privacy invading or user hostile service but it continues to be used by people who don’t really care. Using the same terminology for something that is arguably worse with much higher stakes (algorithmic proctoring that “reinforces white supremacy, sexism, ableism, and transphobia”) is appropriate because it gets the reader to care by illustrating exactly what is possible with algo proctoring.

I sense you’re tired of discussions that mention the “cards in the deck”, likely because you aren’t affected by them and therefore care little for them. That’s honestly fair, but there’s value in writing that way to channel outrage into action.
A more apt explanation for this is Baudrillard's conception of sign value. (Veblen initially thought out parts of it through the concept of Veblen goods, but it was Baudrillard who took this idea to the extreme). The value is not created by any utility or scarcity, but is derived by the system of signs (prestige, class symbol, brand) created in consumerist societies. This system of signs is often self-reinforcing, since sign values themselves are "in association" with other sign values, rather than having cause-and-effect chains and physical processes. And it's "free-floating" just like the current monetary system of floating currencies are.
Buy why is that beneficial to MS? Desktop Linux has no "market". The servers your deploying this code to is still running Linux. You can still have your Red Hat Enterprise Support contract or whatever you'd consider the Linux "market" to be while you're using WSL. What exactly are they trying to kill?
Count me in as well, very happy to see this addition.
It's amazingly "on brand" that HN commenters upon the Munger quote at the top of this article.

Being a fellow HN'er, I'll follow suit:

The most obvious response to Munger's critics is, "Then don't live there." The U.S. is blessed with a huge number of universities, meaning lot's of choice. Particularly for those individuals with the type of accomplishments that would get them into UCSB. (It's not Stanford, but it is very selective)
I'm a fan of Go, but, let's be real, Java's not going anywhere.
They can't ever work. You can't prove digital rights to a non digital asset. It doesn't matter what the blockchain says owns a property when the county courthouse says you do. They tried the same thing for "produce on the blockchain". "You can prove that this crate of apples was grown organic in Kenya". But all you can really prove is that someone put that claim on the blockchain and attached the hash to some paperwork. You are still trusting something and someone not on the blockchain. And how do you make sure this crate isn't swapped for another crate of apples that this isn't true for. You are trusting that no one did that during its transit.

Blockchain can't work for anything that isn't a self-referencing currency. It only ever exists on chain so the chain can be trusted.
I do the same, and I bought a self-incrementing stamp that I use to give (paper) documents an ID. The originals are then sorted only by that ID.

That way, I don't need to have a date for every document.
Bottlerocket - An open source Linux-based operating system -  a Year in the Life
Solana is proof of stake, not proof of work. So probably pretty minimal.
I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.
Just make them sign a contract that states if they quit in the next {n} months, they have to pay back the cost of training!

You'll offset the cost of training, and help with employee turnover at the SAME TIME! :D

/s in case it's necessary.
Small nit, but at this point I barely consider SSNs to be non-public knowledge, and it was never made to be. Just a record identifier.
Exactly. They are trying to win developers back from Apple, not kill the linux "market".
Discord Nitro users cancel en masse as CEO teases Ethereum and NFT integration
Seems like they don’t have MFA on this customer service tool? Device based security?

Don’t mean to pile on but this is not a hard problem to solve; it might cost money, require training etc. It’s scary that this could happen to a supposedly financial institution.
It could also help prevent unwanted communication between the students and the outside world (or between themselves).
The result would ultimately be the same, just a less extreme example.
.NET 6 was just released this morning, so I'd assume it will take at least a little bit of time to get into the default package repositories.
Why the quotes on "own"? You can hold it, trade it, or destroy it—curious what other factors you see as necessary for "full" ownership of a digital token?
Is it that rare of an occurrence that it's worth reporting in the newspaper? Comcast goes down in my area a few times a year, every year, for the 20 years I've been handcuffed to them. It's not ideal, but I wouldn't describe it as a newsworthy event.
This is so common that I'm surprised spammers don't just drop the +xx part of the username.
Who needs the real world when we can own things in the metaverse? ;)
Calculate the checksum of a file using JavaScript
I have been having strange issues with my Spectrum internet this morning.

Probably unrelated.
Dude, enough. Things were okay, but now you really are splitting hairs. This is a legal (for now) use case for cryptocurrency.

Edit - “For now” is critical. Who knows what the next five years will bring??
That's pretty much it. It's quite a useful tool if you need a quick way to calculate the checksum of a file using your web browser. Additionally, it might also be used as a library. For API documentation and usage, check out the GitHub repository. A live preview is hosted here: https://csum.sany.one
The pandemic really exposed the complete lack of cost-benefit analysis. The FDA and CDC prevented the country from properly monitoring COVID early, which contributed to the chaos of early 2020. It was worse than it would have been without these agencies.
Because in 21st century, not everyone likes a website with a lower-bar rendering experience… SPA or hybrid rendering is just plain better, but I get the point where time is limited for human being, so if modern frontend is hard to grasp for you, perfectly to stick with old tech. Pretty safe.
> What is reality anyway?

Have you not heard of this concept? Seems to be a bit of copout to explaining the value of an NFT given an NFT, by it's mere existence, has no bearing on anything outside of a blockchain. But if you are unclear on the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality
And I can copy that url off of the chain, pay nothing, print it out and hang it on my wall. You bought nothing. If you want to support an artist, give them money. NFTs are the new penny stocks. Pump and dump.
Not sure if calling the metric system weird is actually serious or not but the solution is to get a scale. Modern cooking highly utilizes the scale and probe thermometers. They seem unimportant to the new cook but I end up using one or both for nearly all my meals now. Dry ingredients especially should be done by weight.
>Don't you normally expect people to make the strongest case for preventing something?

Not at the expense of grounded reasoning. When I see poorly substantiated claims, it shouldn't, but it really drags the whole rest of the argument down. The argument presented about lawsuits is actually a great example of why I think that's a broken system. They resolve that issue of lost credibility by considering each issue with total, clear, and mandated separation. Outside of that legal world with very well-defined rules, using such tactics reduces credibility.

I should note, that in this particular case, the claim of racial biases is at least substantiated by a believable anecdote.

EDIT: To clarify why I think the legal methodology is broken, its only because the same principles apply to criminal trials. IMO, prosecutors should NOT be throwing poorly substantiated charges at a defendant just to increase their winning probability and make the required defense more expensive.
Too little social interaction leads to bad health. Too much also does, though
How one would check if the YJIT was correctly enabled?
Geostationary Satellites
Doesn't this implicitly assume that the negatives are easier to enumerate than the positives? What is the test for this? Gut feeling?
Yes, it’s possible to ask for the raw connection to be passed to the application and self-manage TLS.
Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes
The foundation is funding oncall support staff for crates.io which was a much more urgent need than funding more devs.

Amazon, Microsoft, Huawei, Google and Futurewei are all now employing a good chunk of the devs to work on it full time.
Looks like it can also mount btrfs and xfs directly

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/blob/linux-ms...

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/blob/linux-ms...
Holiday season kicks off at Apple
BZx crypto heist results in reported losses of more than $55M
Won't the bad people just scan for gmail accounts and take off the wildcard part?
Same here, I only found out about it last night. I thought the whole point is that your buying something totally unique, apparently not
Bitcoin is definitely not fully fungible, because you can easily trace its origins. And so you could "stain" certain bitcoins. "We don't accept bitcoins coming from transaction X"

Monero for example is fully fungible.
Most of the beautiful normal buildings in Europe are quite simple in design. It isn't like Italianate design isn't particularly expensive: urban American buildings used to be built in that style a lot up until the 1930s.

Modern urban buildings use the same materials and could easily replicate the Italianate design aesthetic. Designers just choose to build with a more boring, minimalist style.
So social engineering is hacking weak (knowledge) humans? Reminds me of Trump. Make no knowledge great again!
On this first point — 'Get the Number of Updated and Inserted Rows in an Upsert' — unfortunately this `xmax` method is not always reliable and there does not seem to be any reliable alternative.

I posted to pgsql-hackers about this problem here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/DE57F14C-DB96-4F17-925...
nearly every exam I had at University, as a Computer Engineer, allowed 1 sheet of notes. So they were already not focusing on memorization even 20 years ago.
Ah but I can’t transfer it without the artist having to be involved. And so, in practice, I can’t transfer it because that adds too much trouble for them.
If a big techcorp writes something like "we don't know if your social security number was in the leaked data", assume that your social security number is compromised. Because it basically means the SSNs where in the reach of the hackers and they hope they didn't find it.
Thank you! Really interesting point re the "data middle ground". I guess the problem has always been with the "spokes" to connect that data middle ground/"hub" to other apps. This has either required pre-built integrations (e.g. apps on Zapier) or interacting with APIs (not easy for non-technical people).

The lack of a "source of truth" is definitely one issue we identified with many processes. If your process is 8+ different SaaS tools duct taped together, maintaining consistency in data as it travels from app to app is always going to be challenging.
It's a spectrum, not a binary question.

If a startup writes software so poorly that it becomes too unstable, buggy, and unmaintainable to sell to customers, it's a severe problem. Some startups can use proof-of-concept quality code to secure funding and then throw money and engineers at rewriting it. Other startups aren't so lucky and end up sinking because they can't retain customers and the engineers are spending more time chasing bugs than making progress.

On the other end of the spectrum, many startups have failed to get off the ground at all because they were too focused on perfecting code that never ships. Usually you don't hear about these stories in the news because they rarely make it that far, but if you spend enough time in startup communities you realize this happens all the time. It's especially common among engineer-turned-founder companies where the engineers see their own company as an opportunity to code the "right" way without the pressure of deadlines and management. Unfortunately, early stage startups have perhaps the most pressure and the most pressing deadlines of all, which isn't compatible with endless refactoring and rewrites to make everything perfect.

The ideal balance is somewhere in the middle. Code should be good enough to get things done quickly without burdening the future engineers with impossibly difficult tasks. It's okay to ship code with shortcuts and compromises that are documented in the comments. It's usually not okay to ship code that works 50% of the time but you wrapped it in a retry loop so it mostly succeeds eventually.

The key is building a team that knows where to identify code issues and how to make note of them. The team shouldn't be using the startup as an excuse to hide bad work, but they should be using the urgency as an excuse to ship "good enough" code and document (in the code comments) how they would have done it differently if they had more time. Someone can always pick it up from the comments later.
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Pretty common scenario in tech engineering.
SSR's main goal is to reduce the time to first interactive and improve SEO, not to bring the internet back to 1995. The page loads without JS, but JS libraries clearly load after the fact to decorate the page.
Okay, well I'm sorry you're too young to benefit from advertising, but your parents who change your diaper and everyone else old enough to be considered a consumer certainly do.
> further dramatize their own dramatization of a rather innocuous situation.

That's exactly why they included it. It's the internet equivalent of when journalists go out and interview random pedestrians to get their reactions/commentary to some event.

They want a soundbite that will stick in your mind after reading/viewing the news segment, regardless of how useful the commentary really is.

As long as most news is for-profit, and therefore their incentives lie primarily in maximizing engagement/ratings/ad revenue, they will continue to optimize for those things with different iterations of what is essentially clickbait.

Even here on the relatively intellectual HN, I regularly see articles posted that have very clickbaity and misleading titles.