jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A direct comparison with off-the-shelf high-temp black coatings would have been useful. Here's a list of some known values for black coatings for solar collectors. (http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/43.html)

Black chromium plating (absorption 0.87, emission 0.09) is often used for this purpose. It can handle the temperature, tolerates thermal expansion, and, like most hard chrome plating, is a hard plated surface that can be cleaned aggressively, as with pressure washing. There are other black coatings with up to 0.99 absorption, but they aren't as tough.

So what this new work has done is improve performance from 0.87 to 0.90.

(Why are so many "nanotechnology" articles like this? The title and lede sound like it's some earth-shaking development, and then it turns out it's at best a minor improvement.)
For those of you hunting to see the length of the cable like I was, it's 15,600 km long. I wish they'd provided a top-down view rather than a lateral view like they did, since that would make more sense and have the image look shorter.

Anyway...

I wonder if this will have a positive impact on the arctic communities that the cable goes through. Is there any history on technological booms and hubs appearing in places where a new cable went through previously low-occupancy areas?
I don't think the core of this article is about technology at all. My main takeaway is that often we imagine that the futures we're working towards can be accomplished through incrementalism. But it really requires far more radical action than that.

This can also be applied to self-improvement.
Surfside, an full-service ad tech company focused on the cannabis industry, is hiring for engineers like crazy. Remote/hybrid/onsite/whatever works, based in NYC with employees across the states, we're looking for engineers of any skill level.

We're a small and tight knit engineering team with plenty of opportunity for growth and specialization across our whole stack and our data pipeline, and are especially looking for React developers to take our front end to the next level. No matter where you go, you'll be able to make a measurable impact.

While we are fully bootstrapped, we just raised a healthy $4m in seed funding to help us build out our next generation data platform for cannabis companies. The excitement is palpable over here and it's great to be a part of.

Love of cannabis is, of course, a plus, and there are plenty of perks related to weed. We've also got unlimited PTO and excellent work-life balance, a friendly atmosphere and competitive salaries. I really enjoy working here and maybe you will, too.

If interested feel free to send a resume/linkedin and a brief word on your experience/why you'd be a good fit to alec (at) surfside (dot) io and I'll happily pass you along to the folks who handle our engineering hiring.

https://surfside.io/
I am very aware of the various things RMS said like the following: “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.”

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-rich...
you should take a look at sanic https://github.com/sanic-org/sanic
It's very popular among people writing async web services in python. It's like 10% faster than fast api.
You do understand that this is not a binary feature? Not just on or off.
The point is not that there should be no costs, but that they should be minimised. This means that data that has to be written, such as logs, should continue to be written and may also incur costs, but everything else should be switched off to prevent you from suddenly being stuck with thousands of dollars in debt.
This is way too complicated for people who use AWS on a small scale. Maybe if they provided some template to implement that system in the first place?

Anyway, they should be able to protect people from an unexpected $1k charge. Once you deal with alerts triggering automatic infrastructure changes, $1k is likely a value you won't even notice.
Right,and the anonymous articles help.
well the previous version is available in all its entirety at archive.org

https://archive.org/details/EconomistBooksTheEconomistStyleG...
You may want to take a mental breather before you do a coding interview. Those are the easy parts. The design ones I’ve found significantly more difficult. Generally you’re given simple coding problems to solve where all the tooling in the world isn’t necessary. Or you were given homework questions to do on your own time. Every interview mechanism in the world, no matter how fair or perfect, will always have someone who complains when they don’t make the cut. Don’t complain. Figure out what you need to fix and focus on that. The technical problems are ridiculously easy insofar as they expose the critical gaps in your knowledge. The answers are even often available online if you need help working through where you went wrong. You don’t need the code you wrote on a whiteboard - you should be able to remember your solution well enough to write it again from scratch. If your general approach was good but there were some minor error cases, the interviews are already set up to counteract the natural effect you describe.
Is that the real question? I don't really think so, but even if it were it's one with numerous obvious answers.

Some obvious answers:

Companies are made of people, so decisions that are made are often a reflection of the values of those people, not necessarily those of some country or another.

That some group of companies tends to be American is unsurprising since (a) America owns tons of 'loud' industries like tech, so it will always seem this way, and (b) unsurprisingly the values of those who make up a company are tied to some extent by their background.

Companies may feel that their targeted consumer groups are likely sympathetic with some specific social norm.

Companies may feel that the issue is in fact bad for business ie: that someone is a bad fit for a role, is incompetent, etc.

etc

It's so obvious I wonder why one would even ask.
I've been to Thiruvananthapuram, which has a low rate of fatality of traffic accidents compared to the rest of India but they make up for it on volume.

I have never been more scared in a car in regular traffic in my life.

What's surprising is that the people there didn't seem to see it as a problem.
Been around this forum probably since it's inception and have noticed the same in regards to bitcoin. I mean the parent poster is saying there is no use for a technology that's been around for 12 years and underpins ~$1T of value. Reminds me of this quote copied from internet:

First they ignore you,

then they laugh at you,

then they fight you,

... and then they buy bitcoin

Also noticed the same in regards to kubernetes, only in the last six months has it become "acceptable", and yet it is everywhere and used for everything. Just plain ignorance. But, as the above quote tries to show, lightly, eventually Bitcoin wins.
There is a huge community wide discussion about this. Characterizing it as “no-one” completely ignores that some of the most prolific and vocal community members have advocated for expressly supporting older Rusts.

One of the core issues here, imo, is that it is unclear which Rust is the oldest one to be supported. That requires a clarity in understanding the pros and cons of each one, and simply due to there being more releases of rustc, it’s a little less clear which version gets you the most bang for your buck here.

I agree that some of this is a function of the new-ness of the language. I think once (if) we start an LTS program, that will help, and is partially why I desire such a thing. https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2495-min-rust-version.html is an example of a feature we’re adding to help people do this kind of thing. It’s small but it’s a start.
This is useful but sometimes whats called 'Music Theory' is actually more like 'Music Notation' or 'Music Naming Conventions' and thats what most of this site is. IMHO for historical reasons the western naming conventions we've come up with for the 12 semitones (A, A#/B♭, B, C, C#/D♭, D, D#/E♭, E, F, F#/G♭, G, G#/A♭) actually obscure the underlying relationships between the notes rather then elucidating them. The same conventions get carried across to sheet music, where the overriding concern historically seemed to be saving ink rather than clarity.

The real 'theory' boils down to why the pattern of the major and minor scales is the pattern that it is (which is the same question as 'why are the black/white keys on the piano arranged that way?'). And the related question of why are there 12 of them in the octave.

And that underlying theory is much better explained in this page that was posted to HN some years ago:

'How Music Works'

https://www.lightnote.co/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792063 (2016)

Also see 'Music Theory for Nerds' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528144 (2016)
This claim is often made and it just makes no sense to me.

Let’s say I’m invoicing someone abroad for $100k USD.

Today they send me a wire transfer. It costs about 25 USD (fixed fee, but in this case 0.025% of the transaction, i.e. negligible) and normally completes the same day.

The payment is made in the currency of my invoice, so I’m guaranteed to receive the right amount. (Any currency exchange is the sender’s responsibility. But a lot of companies maintain accounts in various currencies, so they probably have USD at hand.)

How does crypto payment improve anything here? Exchanges just add extra steps. The extreme volatility of Bitcoin means that, by the time an exchange is processing my $100k withdrawal, it might be worth $90k. It’s not a useful currency if it goes up and down 10% in a day.
“...and, as a result, Thabo Mbeki was swept to power”

https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg

Love a good Adam Curtis documentary, especially when he throws light on obscure moments in history. Probably best not to hang your understanding of the world on the scaffold he constructs though.
Fort Detrick and all other US bio weapons ceased research in offensive bioweapons in 1969. One reason is that bioweapons can't be controlled, as evidenced by the failure thus far to control this virus. So no, it's not likely that there are undisclosed US bio weapons research sites; that's just propaganda.

While I don't trust the CCP a bit, I also doubt that China is pursuing bioweapons research, for the same reason: a bioweapon is too likely to backfire. If the covid-2 virus came from a lab in Wuhan, it's not because they were pursuing it as a potential bioweapon, it's because they--and others--wanted to understand how to protect against it.
Not the majority. every single one!
I remember using K-9 when I got my first (or second?) Android phone. I don’t remember the exact version, but it was probably pre-ICS. I do remember that I liked it a lot.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I tried the app again and was disappointed at how it looked basically identical to the last time I tried it. Seeing that, I just assumed it became abandonware.

Does this fund raiser mean I was wrong, and the app was always under development, or that it was recently revived?
A tax on the market value of a house should go up when the market value increases.

This is double true when the value went up without any change to the structure. Structures depreciate, and become less valuable over time. When property values go up in California, it's almost entire land value that goes up. The value increase isn't from the labor of the land owner, it's just simple rentierism.

Land gets more valuable because of what one can access close to it: jobs, relationships, people, universities. All this value is socially created. This sort of wealth hoarding is hugely damaging to the economy, and all sorts of thinkers revered by people in the US have nothing but the worst possible words for it, from Adam Smith to Thomas Paine.

It is quite strange for the wealthiest members of a community to depend upon the less wealthy to fund a community, but that's what Prop 13 is all about. This situation, where the wealthy could buy their way out of taxation, is a lot of what led to the French Revolution.
Oooo, neat! Thanks for pointing this out, I'll have to look into it. Many of my struggles have also revolved around the ecosystem (pulling in and/or keeping up to date with modules that other teams have written, etc.) so I'm especially interested to see how this deals with that.
Yeah, that’s my point: it’s the only option, except maybe for gold. And gold is only going up a little. So how could fiat currency be collapsing?

Crypto may be seen as an alternative in the future, but right now it’s all over the map. No one is using it for their savings account (or checking account, for that matter).
It's not just the US, it's the West in general. Even Germany, look at the Berlin airport boondoggle.
Did Microsoft really have to release the Kin?

Word is they did. Apparently they had some contractual obligation to do so.

And I don't think they intend for XBox to fail, but the goal wasn't to make profit in of itself, but rather to block and clear the way for their own living room initiative.

Why would anyone consider the date Courier was "shown" be days before what was suspected to be the date Apple would announce its tablet?

Huh? Courier was first shown in 2009. Way before the iPad was announced. If anything MS cleard the field for the iPad by announcing they were killing the Courier project.
It's possible, but would take years at the level of rate limiting they do.
Curiously, nothing more specific about data availability than "registration will open in 2011, after the launch of the Prize."

Also, the competition is expected to run for approximately two years. They will require teams " . . . to be bound by final competition rules, sign a Master Team Agreement and pay a modest registration fee."

I work in clinical informatics and am eager to see a sample of their datasets though.
Quick view: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.mic...
1. Train dog to press button

2. Train dog to press button when bell rings

3. Connect bell to the internet

4. SaaS dog selfies

5. Profit!
Agreed. I might go months without downloading any new apps, then I'll download/buy five or six in a day. That throws off the average.
What makes you think this anonymises you? Even if you have turned off everything on the phone (eg location services), the sheer quantity of tracking on web pages will quickly carve you out an identity. (Note that they don't necessarily need to have your name, but you will exist in many databases along with everything you have done.) The same applies if you have installed apps. Doing something like frequent factory resets of the phone would help, but ideally you'd want really deep ones that randomise the various internal ids.
Remember this day, because React Native is going to be a game changer (patent clause stuff aside). Others like Phone Gap tried to make it so you could build native apps using HTML/Javascript but they failed because they focused on running said HTML/Javascript within a performance limited WebView and not the other way around.

This weekend I am going to try and get a working application built using React Native. Facebook are absolutely killing it in regards to their open source contributions. The learn once, write anywhere paradigm is smart as opposed to what others have done via their write once, deploy anywhere approach which just doesn't work for web and native applications.
If you have your own instance of Taskfort running, this iOS app can connect to it or you can create a public account (that's hosted on my server) for free and create an unlimited amount of public boards.

You can create Private boards if you have a premium account on my server or pay $1.00 via the app. If you have your own instance running you can create an unlimited amount of private boards.
> It is also a communicator device, but only in the sense that for some silly reason I can't place calls with the 2000$ box on my desk, but only with the 800$ one in my pocket.

FXO card? :/
Feeding people is, sad to say, among the least of our problems.
One that, incidentally, we are lousy at already with 7 billion people in the world and a big fraction hungry or food-insecure.
It's not just a matter of waste or inefficiencies either. We're approaching resource limits.
But yes, we could feed 10B people on rice and beans, for a time, and give everyone sufficient calories, for a time.
There's still the little issues like global warming, poisoning of air and water, die-off of other species, and so on.
Yes, population WILL peak sometime in the next 100 years, and growth is slowing, but we are already billions past what we can sustain now much less provide everyone with a decent standard of living, and adding billions more at a frightening rate.
that's cute, because as programmers we generally think you bankers have no idea what you're doing.
Interested to see how iCloud+ VPN works later.
*3.96

(365-14)/365 = 0.9616...
With all the context the police got and repeatedly turning down help, at this point I think the extra support should be mandatory. He ordered guards for other protests but not this? We can’t let the system protecting our government rely on one person’s decision like that. It’s so abhorrent it makes me paranoid thinking he was a part of it
Whatever the solution is, it would be great to be able to filter out people who have inflated their own titles. Bouncing ideas off Staff+ level engineers would be great, but not if it's permeated with "CTO"s, "VP of Engineer"s, or "Lead Engineer"s that just graduated from HackReactor the week prior and founded their own blog and called it a company.
I'm hugely pro-keto, but, I have to say, assuming advice for one group in a given region is true for all people worldwide seems like bad logic.

We already know that the gut biome between two modern Americans can differ so greatly that a diet that makes one person obese will have no negative health impacts on someone else.

We know that obesity seems to be "inherited" to an extent, mediated by epigenetic effects.

And there are examples of populations that can extract nutrients from foods, such as seaweed, that the general human populace can't.

Heck a good friend of mine, if he follows exactly the same keto diet I do, felt physically sick and lethargic for 2 months before he gave up. Meanwhile I was out there doing 3 hour a day intense workouts.

Trying to say there is "one diet to rule them all", well, it doesn't work. Any given diet subreddit is going to be full of people for whom that diet works really well, and a self-reinforcing community will form. Back when I was super active on /r/keto people would come in and ask why it wasn't working for them, and after going through the regular checklist, I'd add "and maybe this just isn't for you!" because sometimes that is true!

I wish I had links to a study I saw where they worked to find an optimal diet for different people and were able to discover that different protein/fat/carb ratios worked well for different people. No one plan worked for everyone!

There is a lot we don't know about human nutrition, and while we can learn from past populations, holding up any one group as having an ideal diet that'll work for anyone, meh.

Heck I've seen people throw citations back and forth at each other for how good/bad cow milk is. Legit research, biochemical pathways explored and explained, and each side seemed to make some good points. None of which changed the fact that people people do GOMAD and put on insane muscle, while other people just get really bloated.
he mentioned this when he was on Joe Rogan
Yes. If you were running a news stand, should you be sued if one of the magazines you're selling ends up inspiring a riot? If you refused to sell a certain magazine should people be able to sue you or otherwise force you to stock their paper?

Freedom from compelled speech is the default. Requiring people or organizations to host speech is the exception, and is limited to things like utilities and cigarette health warnings.

Making Facebook or Twitter a utility is very coarse grained. They would have to allow all legal speech. They wouldn't be able to ban users for nudity or porn, or explicitly espousing Nazism (actual Nazism, not the much more expansive post 2016 definition of "Nazi"). Both of these things are legal in the US, and a utility would have to permit them. If social media is made a utility, then social media is going to become 8chan.

That's why I think it makes the most sense to apply utility status at the infrastructure layer not the application layer. Social media companies can still moderate, people on the fringes can spread their message on niche applications or on sites they build themselves.
You are looking for discipline in the wrong place.

I thought I could find it in the military, I was wrong.

I thought leaving the military and subjecting myself to the cold reality of the free market would force me to develop it. I was wrong.

I thought starting a company would make me focus. I was wrong.

Finally, with no other options left, I entered corporate America. Having a large, nasty ongoing project, clear motivation to keep working on it, and the latitude to implement my own approach was all I needed to start making real progress on my own inner quest for productivity.

In retrospect, it was not the last thing that I did that finally "did the trick." It was the combination of everything I'd done. There weren't any magic tricks, no way to skip the years of paying dues. There's no way to force it, even if you throw yourself into the ultimate sink-or-swim environment, if you aren't ready for that particular experience, you'll either sink, or you'll swim, but find that swimming doesn't mean what you think it means.

Your current course of action will not have the intended result. What will happen is that you'll get burned out. Then you'll have nothing to show for it but the experience. You'll take that experience to your next big push and build on it. And so on and so forth.

At some point, all of that accumulated experience will drive out some small success. Might take three years, probably will be closer to 8-10. Then the game will change, you'll have mastered productivity and now you're playing a management game rather than a survival one.

You're lucky in that you're driven to make this transition, most career techs aren't, they stay at the level of survival their entire lives.
Oh boy, the last time I saw an official state of Texas site give a 500 error it stayed that way for a month...
Seriously. I'm thinking it's time I set up my phone to turn off wifi whenever I am away from home.

But would that even be the end of it? With Wifi off the phone is still broadcasting on cellular channels. Could a device be built that listened to those signals and uniquely identify them?
I agree with everything said by the author, but I think that mood boards help to fill the gap.
OP suffers from an inability to focus on a task over long periods of time.

This is exactly the type of problem meditation adresses fairly well.

You might be interested in this Google "Tech Talk" on Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kobat-Zinn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
They abandoned it in the US because they purchased the rights to the "Candy Crusher" trademark — a game which came out before Candy Swipe and protects King against trademark attacks from that front. They are still pursuing "Candy" in the EU.
Must be feeling some pressure because they've redesigned that homepage three or four times in a very short time.