skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Owning and NFT is more like owning a sign that says there's a poster on the wall in the next room that's yours. For many NFTs the poster may be removed at any time by a third party you have no influence over. All you own is the sign.
I suspect at the same time Oscar will gradually become less relevant as people's attentions will be divided between Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.
Yeah I think the art/jpeg part of it is somewhat meaningless. The creator can probably still can claim copyright, and of course anyone can copy it. At one level it's lust a link to URL that can be bought and traded.

But also: proof of ownership of a NFT can be access to something else, that can be the "utility" defined by the NFT creator. Like the Board Ape Yacht Club gives access to parties. Others give other value add like YouTube revenue license rewards if the NFT shows up in an animation for example. (Quarter Machine) I think "utility" is where more of the potential is. It can be valuable with the people/company backing it and keeping their word.
No, that's a trademark thing. Copyrights do not need to be consistently enforced to maintain.
The study you linked is over 10 years old. Furthermore, it is using lifetime earnings as the core metric, which means they are pulling in data about people who earned their degrees like 50 years ago.

All the data that currently exists shows better outcomes for students that go to college.
One would expect this even if college had no benefit to students because the population of students that go to college is pre-selected. Before they attend, students that go to college, on average, demonstrate better analytic skills than the students that do not go to college. They also, on average, have access to more existing wealth and other resources through their family.

In the absence of perfect data (which is almost always the case in sociology), it is reasonable to look at case studies to try to make sense of reality. It is not bad practice. It is what Harvard Business School does. It's what product managers and UX designers do when creating products. It's what marketing teams do when selling products.

Feel free to disagree with the interpretation of anecdotal data, but statements should not be dismissed out-of-hand because no p-value accompanies them.
Carriers didn’t make battleships obsolete, missiles did.

Missiles are the only reason big guns aren’t a thing any more.

Your assessment of the impact of hypersonic missiles is also extremely simplistic they would not make surface vessels obsolete anymore than submarines have. Or even a better example how SAMs haven’t made combat aircraft obsolete…

Hypersonic missiles are extremely expensive and have poor terminal guidance, they are effective against carriers not because they can easily hit them but because they can easily hit them when they are performing air operations.

They are a deterrence and capability denial weapon. And you can develop CONOPS around them just like we have developed CONOPS for denied airspace’s.

Anti ship missiles hypersonic or not were always already a huge threat to surface vessels only recently has anti missile technology actually progressed sufficiently to marginalize the threat from conventional anti ship missiles and even that is purely theoretical.

The idea that somehow faster or better missiles would devolve surface or air warfare back to what essentially is castles and trench warfare without any force projection is ludicrous.

You will always need and be able to project force even against peer and near peer enemies the cost of that force projection would increase.

The idea that China somehow can take out the entire US navy is simply silly, you assume that the tactics will not change and you buy into propaganda and misinformation way too much.
The way I see it, Forth is the architecture-independent assembly that is optimized for ease of bootstrapping on new hardware at the cost of efficiency.
Bomblet Dropping Drones Are Now Being Used by Cartels in Mexico’s Drug War
The problem is that the salespeople _frequently_ misrepresent NFTs as having legal meaning as a key part of the explanation for why you should pay so much for one and they _never_ mention that the same basis you'd need to convey the legal contract also means that you have a system you can use instead of a blockchain at much lower cost.
10 different string encodings is one problem.
Fair point; in the US any of these roles will be salaried and exempt, so actual hours will be up in the air.
Get him started on something that focuses solely on the programming concepts and the way of thinking without any unnecessary noise (pointers, lifetimes etc.). When I was starting out I attended a programming club/group and we were using Robot Karel. It's a little programming environment where you control a robot and walk him through obstacles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)

https://karel1981.com/
You never know what's possible in the future but I imagine right now they're working on the core features so supporting every compositor around is down the road a bit.
And the article doesn't fail to live up to it --

"...because of the potential [of blockchain] to outpace any efforts to transition to zero-carbon energy production."

I think that even the most craven cryptocurrency and NFT buyers have yet to envision such exponential scenarios that 'blockchain' consumes resources at a clip that subsumes other greenhouse-gas activities like, flying, driving, HVAC, etc.

"There is of course another solution: We stop reinventing things like currency or certification until we have a proper plan [...] until humanity has figured out a way to generate all our energy cleanly, from solar, nuclear, and so on, would make more sense."

"There is of course another solution: We cease all human behaviors [...]".
Mintlify – The AI generated documentation writer
Ask HN: Bug Fixing Metrics?
Curious if there are any good metric formulas that align a team well for fixing bugs (reducing total count) while not penalizing them for the reporting of 'old' bugs in a system. Looking to track a number for the health of the system and the performance of a team.
Nice to see GitHub catching up[1] with GitLab in this area.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210509204433/https://about.git...
Another problem nobody wants to publicly acknowledge is that unlike in law, medicine or even classical engineering, everyone can call himself a Software Engineer!

So you end up with 6 month coding bootcamp "graduates" claiming to be "engineers" alongside folks who graduated from long and hard engineering programs (MIT MEng comes to mind) and who had to complete things like this [0] as assignments.

I recall someone from a bootcamp writing a cascade of nested if-else statement, 6 level deep in some places. Then someone with a real CS background told him that he was basically building a finite state machine, to which the other dev responded that “he didn’t need fancy thing, just for the function to work”.

That's the main reason companies use algorithmic questions when filtering out candidates (because it checks for an understanding of the fundamentals, something bootcamp grads will lack and that will take years to acquire) and why every job interview has questions like these (there's no certification process, anyone can claim the title, so the company must do the vetting every time).

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f10/www/l...
I assumed he meant it the other way around, as showing management lacks common sense by imposing the mandate under those conditions.

But I guess it could go either way, depending on one's preconceptions.
Extremely simple (basically just one big rocket combustion chamber with the propellant already inside, no pumps or plumbing) and shelf storable and potentially extremely high thrust to weight ratio.

Useful for munitions and for one-time-use. I’d like to think we’re going to reusable rockets and not as much war, so I’d LIKE to think they have fewer uses, but…
We all know that. I assure you. Gnome uses GTK and evidently Cosmic 2.0 will use GTK
Giving to Freely Given Software – The Why
What I learned is if you a find concert or something else you’d like to rewatch in the future - download it. Even if it’s legit video on legit yt channel, it could dissapear for number of reasona. And it’s not like - we’re taking it down from yt but you can watch it here for $5 or subscription or whatever. You typically can’t find it anywhere anymore.
>Buying a painting allows me to hang it on the wall and admire it, where is where I derive the value of owning that painting.

That's true, but why do people spend millions on an original [famous artist] painting? If all they want to do is admire the painting, surely a high quality replica (ie. the type that can fool the naked eye) would be more than sufficient?
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource
Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, but when you set about describing it, the linguistic choices have a subtle influence over the content of your statements. Over the entirety of an exposition, that influence can amount to a significant shift in meaning. I guess that's the point of journaling in a way; to find out what you think. But the effect must show up everywhere without people realizing it, even in writing that's not experimental.
Then stop making music for free. Find a way to get paid before you put the work in. Because after it's been made and published, it's already over.

Computers exist and are networked. Data is trivially and infinitely copyable. The clock will not be rewound back to the dark ages where data was a finite product that people could buy and sell. No matter how much the music industry rages and sues, it won't change the fact that YouTube is just sending me data via HTTP and there's absolutely nothing they can do if I decide to redirect that data to my hard disk instead. It's up to them to adapt to their new reality. If they can't, that's their problem.
This is a bad argument.

Just because something we currently do is worse than something we want to do, doesn’t mean the new thing is good. Nor does it mean we should add to our current burden unnecessarily.

It also ignores what we use the old thing for. Flight has enabled so much: fast response to disasters, faster shipping of goods, saving human lives. The entire planet can benefit from flight. Crypto is used by a small minority and seems pretty much fueled by speculation.

The only legitimate use of crypto is as a currency in places where the economy is poor, or the state can too easily seize your assets etc.
> Then, if someone starts jamming/blinding your satellites, you will pick up the phone, call them, and tell them that doing so is an act of war and if they do not stop you will have to sink their ships now, while you still know where they are, instead of waiting long enough to kindly let them wander far enough from their last known positions to be able to evade strikes.

We're already at this point. Now what?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43328/u-s-satellites-a...

> U.S. Space Force's General David Thompson, the service's second in command, said last week that Russia and China are launching "reversible attacks," such as electronic warfare jamming, temporarily blinding optics with lasers, and cyber attacks, on U.S. satellites "every single day." He also disclosed that a small Russian satellite used to conduct an on-orbit anti-satellite weapon test back in 2019 had first gotten so close to an American one that there were concerns an actual attack was imminent.

China and Russia have _ALREADY_ begun to live-test satellite jamming / satellite blinding weapons on live US satellites.

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Those satellites are going to be obliterated as soon as China or Russia actually gives a damn. Russia is testing anti-satellite missiles. Etc. etc. They're already well within the capabilities to blow up every single US satellite should they so desire!
Except the RIAA isn’t a starving artist and the actual artists make practically nothing from streaming services - the starving artist’s needs are already compromised by large corporate interests.
Could read it either way. If a remote company has stupid policies on full display, imagine the unseen policies.
I concur, and try fitting three car seats next to each other in the back of anything but a very large truck or SUV. Never mind the fact that often one parent usually needs to sit next to really young babies for the first year or so.
Solana is a platform that is frequently used to issue NFTs, and people are releasing NFTs on other blockchains as well. There is a significant incentive to move to these other platforms, because Ethereum is so expensive to use. But yes, most NFTs are issued via Ethereum smart contracts.

Ethereum is operating a proof-of-stake network right now in production, and is scheduled to end proof-of-work later this year. My sense is that they will likely complete the transition before the close of 2022, or in 2023 at the latest.
Isn't this the case where there were more informants and undercover agents than there were actual group members?

When you have multiple sources receiving (ie they are the intended recipients) decrypted messages that corroborate each other, the encryption aspect probably becomes all but moot.
They also move to the "simple" side as well. The phrase "the rocket science is not a rocket science" has reasons to exist.
> Contemporary practice is to team up, and be in constant communication about the code base, requirements, approaches. Someone in the team or adjacent will know the proper approach and be able to communicate it to the others.

Or you hire a 10x like John Carmack and he codes the thing. No need to constantly have meeting and waste everyone's bandwidth.

That, of course, assumes the department understand what a 10x is and how to attract them.
Giving to Freely Given Software – The How
most of the time, the completion is only half correct. But I have to either apply the entire result (and then spend time removing the unwanted part) or apply nothing at all. hope to have a better ui to choose which part to apply.

sometimes, the completion isn't syntax-correct, for example, with unmatched parenthesis .
That's average, but when you look at what happens on the ground, the winners, like the name brand schools you've probably heard of before, are all expanding and building new dorms and labs and athletic facilities, and the losers, those random liberal arts schools in the middle of nowhere in new england and such, are closing down and selling off their property. It's hard to find a major university that isn't constructing some massive donor-backed capital project as we speak, and acceptance rates at major state schools across the board has been dropping like a stone; even schools like Cal State are becoming very competitive.
in case you don't think you have time to read it all, buy 3 or 4 copies of it to speed things up

(there, I summarized it for you :>) ).
Abstract

> Understanding the factors that influence the airborne survival of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols is important for identifying routes of transmission and the value of various mitigation strategies for preventing transmission. We present measurements of the stability of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol droplets (~5-10µm equilibrated radius) over timescales spanning from 5 seconds to 20 minutes using a novel instrument to probe survival in a small population of droplets (typically 5-10) containing ~1 virus/droplet. Measurements of airborne infectivity change are coupled with a detailed physicochemical analysis of the airborne droplets containing the virus. A decrease in infectivity to ~10 % of the starting value was observable for SARS-CoV-2 over 20 minutes, with a large proportion of the loss occurring within the first 5 minutes after aerosolisation. The initial rate of infectivity loss was found to correlate with physical transformation of the equilibrating droplet; salts within the droplets crystallise at RHs below 50% leading to a near instant loss of infectivity in 50–60% of the virus. However, at 90% RH the droplet remains homogenous and aqueous, and the viral stability is sustained for the first 2 minutes, beyond which it decays to only 10% remaining infectious after 10 minutes. The loss of infectivity at high RH is consistent with an elevation in the pH of the droplets, caused by volatilisation of CO2 from bicarbonate buffer within the droplet. Three different variants of SARS-CoV-2 were compared and found to have a similar degree of airborne stability at both high and low RH.
Umm... commercial aviation is just a tad more useful...
The US seem to have had some blunders lately in regards to ship design, both Zumwalt and the LCS projects were pretty much a failure.
But air travel has tangible social and cultural value: visiting clients, friends, colleagues, and family.

NFTs do not provide social value. That's the central argument to the article. Did you read it?
AWS re:Invent 2020: Privacy-preserving machine learning [video]
"It's nearly impossible to even get people to come out for normal household jobs anymore"

Yup, residential clients are bottom feeders - avoid them at all costs - nothing but a hassle. The good money, and work, is with commercial clients.
Thank you for the clarification! (I should be more careful how I phrase things. I didn't expect a personal response from a celebrity like yourself who's part of history and the anestory!)
It would be a bit smarter and generalized than that, it would detect new chromium 'version bases' and differentiate based on that. Eventually it will stop working, but if you don't update your OS after a certain point, new app versions wouldn't work anyway, or they would fall back into standard mode.
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design and Machinery's Handbook are two classic texts on the design of various mechanical components.

For ICEs we used Ferguson and Kirkpatrick when I took a graduate level ICE class. It's concise but good. I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for as a hobbyist though, it's a lot of thermodynamics and associated math, not a lot on practical implementation of engines.

If you're looking to rebuild engines and such "mechanical engineering" is probably the wrong road to go down. I don't have specific recommendations, but maintenance manuals or trainings for mechanics, millwrights a d metal workers might be closer to what you want.
There's this toy for the iPad. Don't remember what it's called at the moment. think it's called the Osmo. Seems like a good fit for children
Bearing with Bear Markets
At the end of the day there's always skew; crystals in systems aren't made to perfect tolerances. In fact I'm not even sure how you would define perfect tolerances for clocks in a meaningful way.

So at the end of the day it doesn't matter if it's in 'error' or a fundamental to the physics even under perfect conditions. Neither are really under your control and both have the same answer.

> You can't escape answering the question: do I care about the time elapsed at home or the time elapsed here?

We already have that concept, in the difference between CLOCK_WALL and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. You use monotonic for "local temporal reference frame" and wall for "proxy of globally visible temporal reference frame". Wall shifts around anyway as NTP or what have you figures out how skewed off of "actual" time you are.
> SSMEs are reusable.

Not as much as RL-10s. SSME you can disassemble - because you should do that, as thermal stresses on turbine blades are too dangerous, so you have to periodically replace the parts which are nearing the fault.
Given that this is a website run by a startup accelerator, articles about commercial licenses are arguably more on topic than ones about open source licenses. Successful commercial products with GPLed code are few and far in between.
Both renting and re-selling are major sources of friction. I'm a first-time homeowner and I find the prospect of moving today far more daunting than when I was still renting, because of these factors. The risk feels much higher, so I need a much greater promise of reward before I'm willing to take it.
I don't know - what are you going to do when they say "ok, soon and good". Are you going to demand a raise before you deliver?
I thought about using wikidata, but I'm not quite sure how I would feed it into the neural network. It's definitely a possibility though!
A joke you hear unceasingly when you take tours of engineering schools with a heavy aerospace focus.
I still do because Firefox doesn't support hardware video decoding on Linux in any of my machines. Though I use mpv, which then uses youtube-dl in the background.
Astronomers use mathematical models of the solar system to translate between barycentric time, geocentric time, and terrestrial time, which are all different relativistic frames of reference. Only TT has actual clocks: TAI ticks at the same rate as TT, tho for historical reasons there is a fixed offset. That isn’t counting the clocks derided from observing the orbits of the moons and planets…
Oh, I was discussing this phenomenon whereby intelligent people can have substantial knowledge of the various complexities involved in human perception, bias, etc, and discuss it freely and competently.

However, if you take the same people and (at some other point in time) change the topic of conversation to some object level issue, they then behave as if they have no knowledge whatsoever. And if you remind them, it isn't just that they get angry (as would be expected), but they seem literally unable to recall the knowledge that they do possess.

I genuinely believe that to some degree, the default human mind can't really multi-task abstract and object level thinking, so if you throw a bit of emotion and cognitive quirks [1] into the mix, add it all together [2] into one big system, you have a half decent model for explaining why the world is the way it is.

I'm leaving a ton of stuff out of course, but this is one of the more fundamental ideas in my hypothesis.

> In general, I've found this idea was quite natural to me, but always seems quite foreign to others except those with a background in neurology, meditation, sometimes physics, and Buddhist circles.

Agree....I truly think its possible that things like Buddhism are an important aspect: if a person can't "get" Buddhism (or can't take it seriously), I suspect they will also not be able to properly understand this topic.

> People seem especially hostile to this when you start talking about the criminal justice system.

Oh, can you expand on this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I‘ve been fascinated by this film for years now and highly recommend it for anyone who likes artistic and a bit surreal sci-fi films. It‘s one of the few films that somehow deeply touches me, where I can fully immerse.
You asked for resiliency, I merely provided an example of it. Of course not everyone can be imprisoned, so it's pretty unrealistic to think only ass-phones would mine bitcoin/crypto.
There’s also Hesiod (HS) records: https://jpmens.net/2012/06/28/hesiod-a-lightweight-directory...
GA has always been a raw deal. Businesses that use it don’t realise they’re effectively giving away their customers to any competitor that pays Google more.
> It wasn't as good as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

I saw it, it was all people swinging around on wires with the wires painted out. By the arc of their movement, I knew where the wires were, anyway. The whole thing just looked silly.
This is the other side of the same coin. All the patriarchal bullshit gender roles that we were all raised with. The damage that women have suffered was more immediately obvious, but it hurts everybody.