skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(s/hydro/electro/, thanks.)

Handling of LNG and LH2 are not very different, a matter of volume and temperature. Where we handle millions of tons of LNG today, we can handle LH2 in its place with some adjustment. The people doing the adjustment will see a big job, but we won't notice.
Unfortunately, once you have 100+ people across multiple teams and disciplines working on the same product release, formal documentation and all the ceremony that goes with it is no longer optional. Things have to be written down to keep that many people all on the same page and focused on the same goals.
Hey folks. Author of this post here. I sincerely apologize, this was accidentally published live prematurely (my fault). It’s got a number of style and structure issues I’ve been working through locally (you are spot on regarding the heading feedback). I have taken it down and will be publishing it in the future once it is actually complete.
Same with greenbacks tho

EDIT: let me elaborate before you downvote: the value of a US dollar is not "intrinsic", it's the result of the strength of the US government and military, i.e. due to social factors that cause it to be accepted as a medium for exchange.

Crypto is no different: any crypto asset that has an exchange value (i.e. for which there's a liquid market) is backed by social proof of some kind, although likely on not nearly as large a scale or with as much force as the US military.

I highly doubt crypto is going to replace the dollar, because then it's internet communities vs the US government, and the US government has a lot more material power than internet communities, but there's no good reason why a cryptocurrency can't have some value as a legible unit of social proof, especially if the social relations involved have some material stakes (hence the DAO).

The idea that "money = intrinsic value" is a naive view of the world; Marx didn't believe that (he saw value as based on labor added), nor did Hayek, etc.
The fact that I've seen many, many rejoinders to "crypto has no long term value" in the "well, just short it then" vein makes me think these talking points must be what the cool kids on r/Bitcoin or somewhere are spewing.

I don't necessarily believe all crypto is going to zero, but for Bitcoin specifically I believe (a) that proof of work is definitely unsustainable as the market cap grows and (b) given the power of miners in the BTC protocol, I have a difficult time believing they'll ever transition off PoW (e.g. compared to what ETH has done).

But, of course, shorting an asset requires conviction not just that its value is going down, but when. I would easily bet that within some decent extended time period, say 15 years, that the value of BTC will be zero or near zero. I am unaware how to short an asset feasibly over that long of a time period.
I'm extremely skeptical that this silent majority exists because I don't see crypto being used for anything other than hodl-ing. Do you have indicators you can point to of cryptocurrency being used as a real currency?
They are rich people things. I would say toys but they seem better than that.

I'll take the elecric Humvee over a Tesla any day with my pretend momey.
Do rocket launches or cables on the ocean actually contribute a significant percentage to world pollution? I would imagine it's insignificant.
> 3. Often, there's no way to tell at a glance if you're muted. I can't believe Zoom still does this: you have to move your mouse to get it to show you the UI. Why are you hiding the UI.

Did they change this recently? On Windows I always see an icon on the lower left corner showing that I'm muted without having to move my mouse or show the controls. I do prefer to go into the options and enable the Always show controls setting under General just so I have a bigger indicator. I think pressing Alt also toggles the controls.
Happiness is not found in relationships, happiness is found in the disinterested pursuit of supreme excellence. Good relationships, like good food and exercise, help with (mental) health and motivation, but they will never be enough by themselves
I never said it was a negative thing. It's also not a negative thing to step back from that and add value to the world in other ways, maybe raising your kids, tending a garden, or stimulating the economy of some other places by traveling there.

For someone who's so happy and joyful about all the value you get to create, you sure are bitter that anyone else might not choose to do exactly what you're doing.

People who take time off to travel or otherwise enjoy their life don't do it based on the charity of working people as you seem to assume. They already worked, created value, saved some of that value, then spend their stored value as they please. Why does that make you so angry?
If we were talking about petty crime, I may agree with you, but cryptocurrencies enable ransomware, which frequently shuts down critical services like hospitals and schools. Ransomware attackers have also leaked personal medical records from hospitals, and student's private records from schools.

Surveillance is an issue, but for the most part, it's not warrantless in our current system. Cryptocurrencies, excluding things like Monero and Zcash actually make it considerably easier to do warrantless surveillance.

If I'm forced to choose between some instances of illegal warrantless surveillance, and the complete inability to trace financial crimes, I'll take the instances of illegal surveillance, with the hope we'll try to fix those issues.
Look, yes this is another post that seems to be written by an idiot but that’s presumably because their simply a bad at this type of communication. Writing for a mass audience is just really difficult to do well and this is just one of the common failure modes for technical people.

Even if you can’t find value in what was written just take it as a lesson in what not to do.
They don't mind not spending on gas. Who does enjoy that?
Sorry about that. The post will be live again (in complete form) in the next week or two. This was an accidental early deploy :/
This is like pole chess from Piers Anthony books. My buddies and I used to play pole chess a good bit.

Each player has a pole, and you can place it or pick it up with a move. Nothing can move to through or capture the pole.

It leads to more draws but also weird and fun tactics.
Supabase: Should I Open Source my Company?
Did they try unplugging it and plugging it back in?
What do they do with the old wood? Do they recycle it? Can someone buy it?
Kagi has been fantastic to me. The search results seem better. The option to search by EDU or discussion or by "literally anything that doesn't have 5000 trackers" with a single click is indispensable. Showing results from the internet archive and old blogs is a nice plus. Shoving all the listicles into their own compact section is great.

If this is the quality I can expect going forward, I have zero problem paying the $10/mo down the line
Cosmic ray bit flip in the code, most likely.

Very relevant recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31016042
Tesla's Safety Record vs. Volvo
Yeah, if they lose the duck the game might work ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137736
"General aviation" below turboprop-scale has been too small to command the attention needed for change.

When you need an LH2 airframe to be able to stay in the market at all, that will accelerate conversion.
More to the point, consumer protection in the form of regulation is what makes a currency and banking system real. There's far too much risk for the average person to consider using cryptocurrency the way they currently use EUR or USD without such a regime.
> Governments will likely fight this tooth and nail however, because crypto is currently an anti-government technology.

Democratic governments represent the will of the people, and I don't think a technology can be pro-government or anti-government, it ultimately depends on what the people what. I think you are correct though for autocratic governments. Would you for example say that guns are clearly anti-government or pro-government?
The article says a bit about past cases in the US. This page is exhaustive (there have been few past cases):
Past US cases: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak/us-outbreaks...
https://www.alice.co/ is one.
They're company companies, meaning that their goal is to make profit, not do something that's "interesting." You can't take Apple seriously when its spokespeople explain the logic that drives its production. It's a load of horseshit. You can't take BP seriously when they says that it's an "energy company" and you can't take Apple seriously when they says that it's a "tech company."

European oil majors invest in "renewables," American oil majors basically do not at all (unless you count carbon sequestration for the purpose of further oil extraction as "renewable"). Here's a source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2021/03/09/oil-gian...

This difference in strategy stems from the difference in economic opportunity between the two imperialist spheres.
Can you give some examples of cool stuff that isn't a scam? I'm genuinely curious.
Overpriced is an understatement. It's like 20x as expensive compared to things like colocation.
Remind me again what the price of BTC is most commonly quoted in?
> projects they believe in

really curious whether what they believe is anything other than “I’ll cash out before it tanks.”
Free markets do not require perfect information. Every transaction made has an element of risk in it - the risk is factored into the price. Buying a used car is a perfect example. They cost more at a dealer than from a private party - because people will pay more for lower risk. Another example is name brands costing more than generic items. Another is less risky investments come with lower returns.

I don't know where the idea that free markets require perfect information comes from.

As for monopolies, the historical ones are ones set up and enforced by the government.
Generally when you make claims like this, giving proof (eg PR for contributing consul support that was quashed) makes the claim stronger. I looked it up and this seems to be the PR https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31622.

Reading through the discussion, it doesn’t look like it was quashed; the project owners had a reasoned debate about the pros/cons of what would happen if such a support was included at the time and its a totally reasonable argument to me.
Love this!

Unrelated, but reminds me of another story featuring Chess and a Duck, and also relevant to the HN audience, which relates to the old videogame Battle Chess: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
Note that the wet-bulb temperature there was "just" 29 °C. The 33.1 °C reading is terrifying.
I think it CAN come to an end.
The backbone of crypto and the blockchain is the willingness to maintain it which has a cost.
The reason why this maintenance is cost effective is because the major holders are few and at a < 1/2 of the entire base.
As long as the "right" people are winning, there will be enough justification to keep the ball rolling.
If there will come a day, in which the ammount of holders become so dilluted that there stops being any clear (lets say) influencers at the top, then the "cool boy's club" will be no more.
This is when exchanges will no longer have any skin in the game.
Massive runs and "outages" until a few weird naive dreamers are left at the helm of the sinking ship.
> Has WinMerge quadrupled its number of features in the last decade then?

It has not.

I have both installed. WinMerge is the superior program. It
has 3-way merge, among many, many other features.

Are you thinking of WinDiff? https://adamtheautomator.com/windiff/

I'm talking about WinMerge: https://winmerge.org/?lang=en
Crypto crashes every couple years and of course it has grown immensely since the last crash so the scale and scope of these kinds of “analyses” grow with it. I’d imagine in 5 years in the next big crash it will be the top news around the global for many weeks.
There is public opposition to building desalination plants in part because a lot of people don't like that solution. For starters, it just sounds bad; it sounds like a company brushing aside pollution concerns by saying they'll spread it out where you can't see it. That characterization isn't fair; but fair or not, poor public perception still stalls land development.

More significantly, it requires more infrastructure under the water where it will be difficult to inspect and repair. Furthermore there is a financial incentive for plants to neglect these pipes. Suppose there is a break in the pipe that discharges concentrated brine straight into the ocean. Slowing or ceasing production until the pipe could be repaired would be very expensive to the plant operator. On the other hand if they ignore the problem, they wouldn't have to slow production and it would cost them nothing (unless they got caught.)
Names with stories by SmartBranding: The story behind roiquant.com
It’s the only thing I have permanently banned and blocked inside and (as well as I can) outside my home.
It's not the accuracy the court is concerned with, it's the chain of custody. They are worried you would deliberately contaminate the samples to get somebody else to pay for improvements to the plumbing that aren't necessary.
>Ignored files appear grey but they’re still showing up for me.

They show up greyed out in the explorer yes, but they won't appear when you navigate with "Go to File" (ctrl+p) and they won't be searched through with "Search" (ctrl+shift+f).
Pretty sure the CRCs are in place.
Crypto shills have the problem that this is now in the money-losing phase. This is when people start complaining to enforcement agencies. Then prosecutors, the SEC, and courts start doing their thing.

The SEC just doubled their "cyber" enforcement staff. They're still working down the backlog from the ICO boom of 2018-2019, at the rate of about two scams per month.

I expect the hammer to come down on a number of Metaverse schemes which collected money, promised a fancy 3D virtual world, and failed to ship. That's where an unregistered public offering becomes fraud.
No, I disagree. That’s like saying an isp can’t create information, only move it around. Metadata is value, such as on-chain data being an expression of trade volumes etc, and this itself is a second order value, beyond the utility of trustless censorship resistant payments, that in itself is worth percents of the total value transacted.

Yes, it is a protocol, but TCP/IP made many fortunes also. Even though it just moves bits around the globe.
A corporation does not apply force. Socialism requires force.
Ya, that's what I think of everytime I am tempted to remove some form of physical activity from my daily routine.
Not for nothing, but the majority of stimulus money was dispensed using checks with "Donald J Trump" written on them.
Meh. I switched away from Ubuntu years ago, but it still makes me sad to see they're this broken of a company.

I guess it explains the plummeting quality of the technical decisions they make.
Not sure about everyone else but it pisses me off that criminal charges resulting in jail time is rarely pursued. The SEC and Justice Department seem to prefer fines which are not an equivalent deterrent.
Is rust in Linux a good opportunity to review the Linux licensing?

For example, go Gplv2+ instead of just GPLv2?

Or maybe just forcing developers to subscribe their DCO (Developers Certificate Of Origin)

I remember a lot of kernel developers signing additional declarations to clear up some licensing issue, I remember it was not all of them and can't find the reference.

Basically any cleanup on the licensing side, so that you know that rust also means "the correct way"? Sure, it will take decades, but at least you would not be stuck with current "gplv2-only-dco-maybe-additional-guarantees"

Can someone @Greg or even @Linus on this?
The thing which proved life changing for me was ditching WiFi for Ethernet in the home office. I wasn't able to lay cables but I did buy an ethernet over power adapter (you can also get them for coaxial). Speed took a hit but I didn't have the same issues I previously had with packet loss, even after manual tweaks to avoid interference with neighbours.
No, I think there is a natural limit - eventually you have enough people burned by the scams, crashes, hacks etc. who will keep away, to the point that you don't have enough new entrants to put enough money in to have continuing growth.

Unless there was an actual crypto economy, but at this point, there's not much more than speculation.
agree, never seen entrepreneurs regret getting into business. If not entrepreneurs, at least what is called a businessman in India, are fine at the end of the day. They get a decent amount of support from family to run their business. They achieve a decent lifestyle despite working 12+ hours. Many times, businesses are taken over by the next generation also.
It seems rash to wish for regulation to be weaponized to the effect of banning something, rather the actual meaning of regulation to define and enforce orderly, fair, predictable functioning of something.
The problem is not simply the rules on any particular app store. The problem is app stores. Let users curate their own programs.
Money is a creation of government, and frankly, the dollar ain’t so bad.

If my bank goes under I’m protected by the FDIC. If Coinbase goes under they have the right to use my money to pay their creditors.
its only real use cases are in transferring money internationally and buying drugs off the darknet
If a cable is long enough to require amplifiers, they are spliced in. Couplers/circulators need to be in line with the doped section of fiber that forms the laser amplifier, both before and after. One of the couplers injects the pumping beam from another laser into the doped section. This necessitates splicing at every amplifier. Also, almost every strand in the cable would require amplification.

In addition there are feedback, failover and monitoring functions that require more optical components to be included, and it's likely that this type of functionality will increase as demand for improved latency and reliability increases, and new cable networks are built.
LOL as of today the SEC can’t do it, horrible case ruling from 5th circuit of approvals basically makes SEC enforcement of rules illegal.
There is too little scope for graft in modular nukes to be feasible in the US.

I.e., if you are trying to scare up money for a big enough nuke plant to be worth installing, the stakeholders you would need on board will see noplace to skim off the money they demand to greenlight the project.

Thus far solar and wind seem thus far resistant to graft, for reasons that are easy to speculate about, but hard to prove.
>Getting there is going to take us several years.

It's understandable that it's going to take a long time but nevertheless disappointing.
This draft post was accidentally made public. Please move along
Long system commands with a ton of switches usually give pause, requiring at least a couple of reviews before pressing <enter>. Two day turnarounds are a whole other level.

Interesting problem nonetheless.
Making predictions about something that’s only been around in any significant way for a decade and is subject to so many social, political, and economic pressures (extremely chaotic in themselves) is probably pretty fraught.
TBF Solana is the future of crypto.

Disclosure: All of my crypto is in Solana :D
The President cannot fire arbitrary federal employees.
To be fair, college was much cheaper back then
and you thought these transponders arent in your vaccines too.
Keeping crypto on an exchange is like keeping gold at the gold dealer. Just why.
Kubernetes should be thought of as the missing layer of abstraction between computers and production grade services.

Replicating the capabilities it provides in another system that offers such capabilities wouldn’t involve less complexity. In fact, I would argue that the way the authors reasoned through the issues was made possible because they were able to operate with these abstractions. Imagine doing this but with eg AWS NLBs. This team might have discovered similar quirks in that setup. But now their knowledge and what they could share would be restricted to AWS NLBs. Since they’re working with K8s, the lessons they learned are a lot more widely applicable.

Another thing to consider (as pointed out by a sibling) is that an average user of k8s may not likely have to worry about minimizing 5xxs during application termination. But if they did want to, now they can.
Isn't there already eye-tracking software that can tell where you're looking? If you can fake the eye position, why not keep faking it to track if the person looks away?
It's somebody's blog post that's passing by and will be gone tomorrow. I don't think we have to worry about it being overly "elevated".

On the other hand we have a bunch of people spending too much time on hacker news, often with all the insight of someone who spent 5 minutes scanning a wikipedia article. I'd worry a lot more about the long term effects of elevating this self congratulatory content, but where's this content cop then?

> It may seem harsh

Honestly it seems like it's trying too hard. Call it feel good vagueries and move on.
Tangentially related, I think it's interesting that people used to cite VOO pretty often, and IVV sometimes, but now I almost exclusively see SPY as an analog for the S&P 500.

I wonder how much of it's high volume is just that it has the letters "s" and "p" in it?
> Democratic governments represent the will

How are people still this naive and indoctrinated. Me, earlier:

> You vote what you're told to vote by the media that the state and capital dominate entirely (Think about it: how would enough people even hear about an alternative idea or candidate that they don't deem in their interest?) If you're American you get to choose between two millionaires (or sometimes billionaires) with virtually identical economic politics chosen in advanced for you who can safely ignore you once they get elected. "Democracy."
Who said there's any pass? From the AG press release:

> Specifically, the investigations will focus on those platforms that may have been used to stream, promote, or plan the event, including but not limited to Twitch (owned by Amazon), 4chan, 8chan, and Discord.
If you're interested in learning more about how a WSS (Wavelength Selective Switch) works under the hood, there are 2 main methods:

* An array of MEMS micro-mirrors which turn to reflect light, or

* Finisar's LCoS based method, which uses a 1" LCD TV display to display a gradient pattern which literally bends light.

It looks like the undersea cables use Finisar's (now II-IV's) WSS. I think the idea of bending light under software control is pretty cool.

Finisar's white paper showing optical path and other possible uses is here: https://www.amstechnologies.com/fileadmin/amsmedia/downloads...
It’s an easy observation to make. Make it about everyone you meet and you’ll be right nearly every time.

Whether boring is a bad thing is a matter of perspective.
> There's still no effective way to non-verbally signal that someone wants to speak

Some tools have a raise hand feature. Though not sure if it brings such users to the top of the participant list or otherwise highlights them beyond an icon.
I still blows my mind that they designed and built it more than 45 years ago! Kudos to engineers.
If crypto goes down in value to ten percent, or one percent of its current value, will people who believe in it admit it was a grift?

If it goes up in value again, 2x or 10x its current value, will people who said it was a grift admit it was more than that?

I would bet money (fiat or digital) that, in either case, most people on either side will just say "I haven't been proven right yet", because it's just camps yelling at each other at this point.
Replace crypto with dumping toxic waste into the local river and re-read your sentence.