skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing.

Can you detail why you would use blockchain to solve this?

If I wanted to keep things simple, and I already had to rely on a central server for the assets, why not also do verification there too? It seems like it would be a lot easier. The participating games still rely on your servers being available.

Or is it that the assets themselves are stored in a peer to peer fashion? In this case, how do you deal with the large size of the assets for each client? Blockchains are huge for the amount of data that they might contain, and game assets tend to be pretty big.

If the network runs only on the participating developer servers - maybe then the size isn't too big of a deal? But then those developers would still have to be trusted to participate (enforced via contract) so then it's back to the central server being a lot simpler solution.

The HN community grew sceptical of blockchain after some initial interest because it didn't seem to help in a lot of places it was marketed for.

The technology seems to stay alive because it turned out that it's a great vehicle for some kind of new multi-level-marketing. You can promise a piece of the action to people in some partially verifiable way. The tech is complicated enough that a lot of people think they own something when they don't.

Just because it is a good vehicle for scams doesn't mean it is not also useful for legitimate technology, but I haven't seen too many examples of the latter.
Same workspace != same company. It's not uncommon to have people from multiple organizations in the same workspace.
https://archive.is/jnqq8
What strikes me is how great of an investment this turned out to be. Does the US invest in manufacturing like this anymore?

Tangentially, if there were a war today would the US be able to produce as much as it did in WW2?
My goal of the cameras, which my neighbours know about, is not protecting me. It's protecting us.

I point cameras at their houses, at their doors & driveways from my property. Why? Because they can't install a camera on my house, but I can. Nobody has a problem. There's no distrust. There's cameras pointed right back at my home, too. We watch each other, because having more than one camera point of view creates a better security for all of us. I also have them watching at my door, specifically so I can see who is at the door, when mail gets delivered, or when packages get dropped off.

None of us have the delusion that we're all spying on each other. We're watching out for each other.
Forget to mention, thanks for the reminding. Permify also supports zookies[0], here is the official docs for it.

[0]https://docs.permify.co/operations/snap-tokens
Wrong. Some other cryptos do highlight their trade-offs. E.g. google "This isn’t to say Grin is better than others, it simply makes different tradeoffs."
For the record I just got it working with https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-aarch64-images/commit/04092fc... and making sure the tow-boot version is up to date.
Cross like a New Yorker.
Even Realities G1: Minimalist AR Glasses with Integrated Prescription Lenses
I like this service and use it myself. But I do find one thing unsettling about it: I run a blog that offers email subscriptions, but also provide direct RSS feeds (with prominent links!). For reasons I don't understand, large numbers of people subscribe using kill-the-newsletter. Which makes me sad, because then they don't get real tables, can't see post-publication corrections, don't get vector graphics, etc.
Idk. It’s totally ok to just ignore those types of requests. Even a lot of the requests the author was getting. They’re just fishing and there’s Practically zero chance they’ll even ever follow up to see why you never responded.

Mega corporations get away with awful support of paying customers, people don’t actually expect you to jump at their command as a startup or even as a toy side project. If you’re able to ignore a beggar on the street, you should be able to ignore a lot of these emails. Stop guilting yourself into a heavy administrative burden and don’t avoid consumer apps because of that fear.
No more trip hazards: safe in-pavement electric car charging system pilot
The pokémon card is only valuable in the context of the pokémon game. Like the above comment said, a magic player doesn’t care about your pokémon card, so this isn’t a shareable asset.

On the other hand, if you have a rare pokémon card and another player sees it in game, that’s a cool moment, blockchain or not.
How does your comment relate to the topic here, job interviews?

squeaky said that companies are risk averse in their hiring process because it's hard to fire people. I said that companies are not risk averse if they can't fire incompetent people.

You responded that it takes time to determine whether someone is incompetent. Ok, but that just shows job interviews are ineffective at weeding out incompetent candidates, so there's still no justification for the so-called "risk aversion" of the interviews.

I guess I'm not sure why you responded to me rather than to squeaky.
Is it even possible to have high blood sugar while eating zero carbs? You could be catabolising muscle mass but that would be a case of extreme malnutrition and/or type 1 diabetes.

These drugs fix symptoms only, and only for ad long as you keep using them. They have adverse effects, and probably well beyond the published ones. Most signs point to T2D being caused by insulin resistance, which builds up through bad diet and lifestyle. You can 'fix' symptoms by forcing the body to pump out more insulin, but science and common sense would indicate that this could end up worse off in the long run.
I really wish there was a reliable way to ask people.

"I need your engagement level to be set to 10 for this communication. It's ok if you can't do that, but then just say you can't do that. I'm already set to 10 and rando guesswork / tidbits are only going to cause problems."

Even just "nope can't do it" responses would save me time.

I just got off a critical call with folks pulling stuff out of their ... and it was a nightmare / complete waste of my time.
Gentoo: Profiles and keywords rather than releases
>The new feature on the Pixel 9 series is way too good at creating disturbing imagery — and the safeguards in place are far too weak.

Yes, let's kneecap it because it's way too good. Safeguards just make users migrate to other services to generate what they want.
It was always impossible and you always had only two options - trust the person who told you, or see it so many times from so many original sources it's impossible to be fake. That's always been the case. I have seen fake wartime reports using photos from different conflicts, complete fabulations etc 20 years ago just as often as today - the good thing is that people finally recognize they shouldn't trust everyone and everything they see.
The npr segment I heard yesterday [0] called out nausea and muscle loss among actual users.

[0] https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-08-19/ozempic-takes...
Or is the US BTC ETF just a convenient way to speculate on the rising value of BTC, when the rising value is driven by the illicit activity happening elsewhere?
Until the mid-1800s, basically only the Chinese used cast iron, since it's so brittle. Ingots would come from smelting, not casting.
When they measure the heat content in the Gulf, do we know how deep they're measuring? If the weather is still, won't the surface water heat faster from the sun when it's not mixed with the deeper gulf water resulting in new "highs"?
Plus even if you have the assets themselves they're likely useless without the game's original proprietary software for interpreting them.
I always figured it was so that the bridge acts as a storage buffer for backed up traffic so you don't get the ramp to 635 eastbound so backed up that there is stopped traffic on 75 southbound.

I mean you still end up with that at rush hour but I think that's what they are trying to do. There is no number or lanes they could add that would prevent it from being a parking lot twice a day.
To be a bit of a polly anna, why is everyone so scandalized by AI tools that can be used to create bad things? Photoshop can, too. So can a paintbrush. No one would want to buy an electronic paintbrush that prevents you from painting particular images, so why is this so different? Just because it is easy and gives quality results?

We're basically already at the point where images and videos of unknown provenance can't be assumed to be real so how come people pay attention to journalists getting the vapors about scandalous things AI tools can do? Wouldnt everyone rather have a completely unlocked tool to do with as they will?
That’s just gambling
Some comparisons of power generation by deaths here: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
More very rich people looking for somewhere to park their money and earn returns means more competition when you want to buy a home.

I agree it doesn't necessarily mean rents rises. You might actually expect higher price to earnings ratio with more wealthy people competing to buy assets (see also stocks).

But it will lead to the shrinking of the home-owning middle class.

That's not to say there isn't also a problem with lack of supply.
> If Jupiter wasn't there, these missions might not be possible

If Jupiter weren’t there and moving relative to the destinations. The gravity isn’t the critical piece, it’s the relative motion.

Just having a massive object does nothing because gravity isn’t doing any work, it’s just coupling you to a moving object.
This is the main reason I still use Firefox. Being able to have multiple color-coded containers for my different Azure roles at work, and being able to set a custom socks5 proxy on each container so I can route certain container tabs through a different VPN service.
But we're already there. The Gaza and Ukraine conflicts have been full of misinformation, especially showing pictures of attacks that either:
- were from that conflict, but not the particular attack that is being used to fuel upset reactions
- from other conflicts and labeled as being the current one
In old world Egypt they kept the creative class in a seperate village. I believe this was needed to keep group harmony and focus.
Gah. I shouldn't have mentioned houses... Now everyone is drilling down into houses. Which is an obviously difficult use case.

I can't solve all of the worlds problems, for all possible situations, today, in pure crypto. It's new financial system that's just barely getting started.

The easiest solution would be to do a person-to-person trade of a house that's not owned by a bank. If it is owned by a bank, then the bank probably going to expect local currency. So, the buyer or seller will need to find a means to convert crypto to local money. Though with crypto ETFs taking off, banks are getting less picky by the day. As for "What if your govt just takes your home away?", crypto doesn't solve oppression directly in one step. It gives people a lot more freedom from government oppression. Ex: It gives them options to leave the country without worrying about how the govt is going confiscate their local currency in the process --because their wealth is not stored in local currency.
I didn't realize Russia ever had made it past Alaska! The world would be a very different place if they were there a couple hundred years earlier.
I'm sure a solution exists that can take inspiration from the digital rights people, anti-cheat developers, cryptography, and other industries interested in provenance.

Of course, nothing will be fool-proof, but perhaps something strong enough that social media websites require the uploaded media to have this provenance attestation as well.
This has been such a frustrating culture war definitional argument.
To know how the "world works", to know the causes of things, either includes hackers, or is identical with being a hacker. Is Aristotle a hacker? Human beings desire, by nature, to know. If you live in a technological society, it is important to understand the thicket of technology we find ourselves in, and how to navigate it. That's just prudence, and just a particular determination of the truth, that it was always good to understand oneself and one's predicament.

I guess you can call that a hacker, or count hackers among such people. But then, if the latter, you must offer a distinguishing characteristic that distinguishes hackers among others in this genus.

And what are the author's presuppositions?
> That is one perspective but I think people actually want digital scarcity.

In the same way that a heroin addict wants heroin.
We’ve also seen customer support inquiries, and in general quality of our customers, rise with an increase in price.

It doesn’t make sense as an end consumer, but B2B lens it makes sense.

If a business can afford the higher price tag, they most likely would rather have a hands off approach for the problem they’re trying to solve (in a service based business)

Many of our mid and lower tier customers want everything drawn out and explained, and give feedback at every step. Our higher tier customers pay faster, request minimal input (outside of times we ask for it), and generally much easier to work with
Thanks for the heads-up about that. If I go this route then it looks like I'll want to measure battery drain both before and after installing the silencing antenna.
Some blogs only make themselves accessible via email. This service is a way to get those blog posts in your feed reader.
Not only is it not free, but fares on the strip buses are higher than the fares everywhere else. I think this is a result of subsidies for public transit not going to the tourists.
Yes and no. For sure, they are dangerous to hearing and can easily provoke bad reflexive reactions that bypass our evaluation.

But - where I live, good 80-90% of cyclists on the roads are absolutely mad a-holes, and I try desperately not using more appropriate words. Red light with all traffic stopped doesn't exist for them. Unfortunately they are part of road traffic on many places, even though some good additional cycling lanes appeared recently.

I've personally as pedestrian have been almost hit 2x by cyclist going above 30-40kmh who zoomed through crowd of pedestrian crossing without even touching breaks, on red light. He drove not further than say 5cm from me, felt quite powerful wind wave he generated. This can easily end up in me being dead or permanently crippled (wife worked at emergency and they had exactly same case few years ago, the 40 year old pedestrian hit by cyclist on red light came in full consciousness, was dead within 2 days).

If you have such a person doing very dangerous stuff, rather than quietly tolerating and enabling him/her, horn is way more appropriate if it can make a positive difference. And as a car driver I've seen so many cases like that. I've seen probably drunken cyclist trying to smash kick side mirrors of cars stuck in traffic jam.

Just to be clear, I talk about Switzerland here. But not places are created equal - Geneva in this case is literally on french border from 3 sides, has tons of french folks living in it and even much more commute daily for work there. Suffice to say, Geneva has absolutely horrible traffic of all types compared to rest of the country (plus also highest crime).

Bikes should be on dedicated lanes, if Dutch or Danes can do it and managed to put it into tightly built medieval cities, many others can too. Then all the power to you guys. But mixing with traffic where every cyclist is an hard-to-avoid obstacle, on very narrow roads, thats recipe for many unhappy participants and some bad situations. In US this should be easier since every city US road I've ever seen is absolutely massively wide, often equivalent of 2 lanes here.
Not sure I fully understood all that. Still a wonderful read. Angry Birds 29 will be even crazier! (If they even use Box2D anymore ... and if micro transactions and loot hadn't ruined the series.)
Im not sure - most of what my project does is compile multiple people's modifications together, I feel like I saw one such repo recently, I'll reply if I find it
> If you're making enough to sustain a $2M net worth, either you are skilled enough to be able to find another job quickly (highly experienced individuals are always in demand) and you are just not confident enough to realize your worth—or, you are not skilled enough to get another job quickly and are being paid above your worth.

As someone who was out of work for ~13 months during the dotcom bust; this is absolutely false. Sometimes, things work out such that getting a new job is more complicated than just having a good skill set. And honestly, the idea that "if you can't find a another job quickly, you're clearly not very good at your job" is flat out insulting.

> I would suggest saving up an emergency fund to the point that you are not scared of losing your job.

13 months eats a lot of runway.
Implementing SSO is a nightmare, particularly if customers want controls on their side.

My view is that you should use Cognito (simple) or Auth0 (simple but expensive) and build a self-setup page for it. Then if customers want it, it's on them to deal with configuring.

Oh, and push them all to OpenID because it's a lot less hassle than SAML.

If you're selling to big businesses (and you generally want to be), they'll pay for it anyway because this sort of security thing falls under various box ticking exercises for ISO certifications.
My reaction reading the instructions was to laugh. I couldn't resist when I read "Now restart your computer to see the result".

Is it possible this was an AI response? Or AI can't be this stupid?
I know a number of software engineers who have gone on to teach high school C.S. or math classes, mostly at private schools or special magnet tech schools. They don't make as much money, but seem to be happier and can have summers off.
Personally, my race is "human" (I swear!) and I identify as not identifying much, so go go team Non Responder!
Some machine porn I found about the the biggest(?) press in the world in L.A. by Weber metals, I think it's 60k tons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe8KYZXGeg
If anything this honestly looks like a great ad for this feature.

I think this shouldn't be newsworthy - the tool is just doing what you asked. It's the same as complaining with $pencil_producer that their pencils allowed you to draw disturbing images.

I think it would be more "newsworthy" if it would produce racist outcomes (e.g: asking it to draw a criminal and the tool produces always the same minority / output), but we're also probably past that - we've already seen those news articles.
Design is meaningless when there is zero content. The site has no information to help me in making a decision of whether I should try it out. No technical information at all.
There’s a UX school that says that if the user needs the manual you fucked up. I mostly subscribe to that school. Mostly.

It drives my family nuts that I will assemble a piece of furniture without reading the instructions. But the thing is with a little mechanical sympathy, and a well designed product, there’s only one sensible way for the parts to go together, and if you organize them right while you disassemble it (granted, harder to do when shipping overseas) then you’re good.

Imagine you had a device where four hardened steel bolts held the critical parts together. It would be stupid if the handles used the same bolt sizes in mild steel, right? Someone will fuck that up and use the wrong spare parts or do deep maintenance wrong. You’d use a different size bolt so they can’t get mixed up.
> I also usually follow most prompts with “look it up I want accurate information”

That didn’t work so hot for two lawyers in the news a while back.
I like the natural color of nails way more, so I struggle to get it...
It's high overhead, but having a VM just for Excel isn't that insane. Performance differences these days are negligible, and if you are just using Excel I doubt it's that much of a problem. There is also Google Sheets.

For planning, Jira is king and available as a web app.
Then Netanyahu came and made both Iraq and Ukraine look almost sane. I suspect we're still not anywhere near the inflection point: it's going to get much worse before it starts to get better.
> Interestingly, the date line wasn't always where it is now.

Different empires defined their own prime meridians (and thus implicitly their date line 180 degrees away) from the ~16th-19th century. Eventually in the late 1800s a conference was organized to pick one and since Britain was the center of commercial shipping (with all the concomitant infrastructure like Lloyds, project finance, Admiralty law etc) there was little dissent.
> would be completely correct and not misleading to say "the springs on the bowling ball accelerated the marble to 2v"

I suppose this is where I disagree. The springs transferred momentum. Your throw (and the resulting motion of the bowling ball) did the work. (Tyres don't accelerate a car, its engine does.)

You could slingshot around a moving body magnetically, the fundamental principles remain the same. The effect of a gravity assist comes from the motion of the body, not gravity per se.
Hehe.. Well, most importand is, use whatever language that makes you happy using it. I ve started using Ruby around 2006 I think. I was evaluating Python too, but syntax annoyed me and portability issues as well back then. I never regreted that I choosed Ruby. Its just solid for me :)
> By the early 2000s, parts from the heavy presses were in every U.S. military aircraft in service, and every airplane built by Airbus and Boeing.

>The savings on a heavy bomber was estimated to be even greater, around 5-10% of its total cost; savings on the B-52 alone were estimated to be greater than the entire cost of the Heavy Press Program.

These are wild stats.

Great article! I was fascinated to learn about the Heavy Press program for the first time, here on HN[1] a month ago, and am glad more about it is being posted.

It makes me think: what other processes could redefine an industry or way of thinking/designing if taken a step further? We had forging and extrusion presses … but huge, high pressure ones changed the game entirely.
Looking forward to trying dStack to deploy NVIDIA NIM and NeMo Microservices.
my new hobby has been making AI videos of TED Talk-esque "Creatives" passionately saying "AI has no soul and people will always be able to tell"

and watching all the luddites on social media agree with the genAI person
I don't know off-hand. I do know that millions of people distributed around the world are motivated to the tune of trillions of dollars to figure out how to make this stuff work better in more situations.
300% is a massive underestimate for someone who is AI native and understands how to prompt and interpret results correctly. In the past I would spend 30-40 minutes hunting around on StackOverflow to get the syntax of a difficult database query or bust out a long regular expression.

With AI I can do the same in 15 seconds. We’re talking a 120x increase in productivity not a 3x improvement.
Horns should be as loud inside the car as outside of it
if i come to your house and hold a gun to your head and your option is death or slavery, is that really a "bargain"?
Reading THE MANIAC right now under the beach umbrella. So this is really on time.
Well obviously because of the ease of doing it. Typing a prompt and having the image generated for me is a lot easier than having to spend half an hour in Photoshop. It also allows phony images to be generated at scale, overwhelming any mechanisms we currently have to investigate and counter misinformation.
Let's improve driver's ed and impose more licensing restrictions. Seems like pretty wide variations in standards between States.

Let's ban distracting billboards in more States, as in Maine, Vermont, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Let's expand annual vehicle inspections to more States.

More surveillance tech, automation, and regulations aren't the answer.
To all food or just bad food? And how does it do that?

I saw in this thread that it reduces cravings to fatty food which is bad news.