skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we don't need the companies to split up.

What we need is a truly distributed Web. Web X.

Imagine a web where all the servers are just something like torrent nodes(or IPFS nodes). Ever user uses an Agent that just stores and retrieves encrypted chunk bytes to the servers.

No central point of control => No dominance, no monopoly, no censorship.
Waymo wasn't bought
At the mercy of the SEC now by the sounds of it.
What do you have to offer?

Im an ambitious person with credentials, but programming is not my day job and Ive made marketing mistakes on my popular website.
I think it's an excellent business model and even has the incentive to help and encourage small time inventors who do not otherwise have the budget or know-how to implement or protect something the invent.

Otherwise, corporations with huge budgets are the only ones that benefit from the patent system.

But this comes with a big "if".

IF the patents were actually novel. IF the patent office was actually doing its job and enforcing its own rules that a patent should be for something novel and non-obvious to people in the applicable industry.
Did they account for the gender of the researchers in this study?
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The actual study findings: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/index.htm...

From the fact sheet:

"Rats and mice were exposed to RFR in special
chambers for up to two years, or most of their
natural lives. NTP scientists looked for a range of
cancers and noncancer health effects.

Exposure to RFR began in the womb for rats and at 5-6
weeks old for mice. The RFR exposure was intermittent,
10 minutes on and 10 minutes off, totaling about
9 hours each day. The RFR levels ranged from
1.5 to 6 watts per kilogram of body weight in rats,
and 2.5 to 10 watts per kilogram in mice.

The chambers were shielded rooms with a
transmitting antenna that radiated RFR fields,
plus rotating stirrers that generated a uniform field.4,5
Pilot studies established field strengths that did not
raise animal body temperatures excessively.6

The rats and mice were exposed to whole body
RFR at frequencies of 900 and 1900 megahertz,
respectively, from two technologies – Code Division
Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for
Mobile Communications (GSM).

NTP and RFR experts from the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the IT’IS
Foundation designed and built the chambers
specifically for these studies. "

Also:

"Were there any surprise findings?
NTP found longer lifespans among the exposed
male rats. This may be explained by an observed
decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often
the cause of death in older rats"
What's the areal efficiency of this process? The primary input to the growth reactor is hydrogen gas. The primary input to producing renewable hydrogen is electricity. A solar farm in a good location, like Desert Sunlight, achieves an annualized power density of about 10 megawatts per km^2 (0.1 megawatts (100 kW) per hectare).

It takes about 50 kWh of electricity to produce a kilogram of hydrogen via electrolysis:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/doe-technical-targets-...

According to this paper by some of the people behind Solar Foods, "Carbon emission avoidance and capture by producing in-reactor microbial biomass based food, feed and slow release fertilizer: Potentials and limitations" ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326571432_Carbon_em... ), it takes about 560 kg of hydrogen to produce 1000 kg of dry microbial based biomass with a protein content of 70% [1].

At 100 kW/ha, a solar farm in a good location can produce

(100 / 50) * 24 * 365 = 17,520 kg of H2 per hectare, per year.

That in turn can produce

17520 / 0.56 = 31,286 kg of dry microbial biomass per year, containing

31286 * 0.7 = 21,900 kg of protein per hectare per year.

According to some (admittedly quite dated, circa-1972) data collected on this page, the crop with the best areal productivity of edible protein is soybeans at 400 kg/hectare/year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_o...

According to table 2 in the article, the essential amino acid profile of this bacterial protein is equal or superior to soy in all respects. The areal protein productivity of a solar farm coupled to microbial reactors may be more than 50 times that of growing conventional crops. If the bacterial protein is used as animal feed for animals with a good feed conversion ratio (e.g. farmed salmon), it even looks like you could get more animal protein per hectare this way than a vegetarian diet can achieve with conventional farming. And the water requirements are reduced even more drastically than the area requirements. And the electricity production can take place on non-arable land. I would be interested to see more modern areal productivity figures for soy; presumably there has been some additional intensification since the early 1970s, though not 50x improvement.

[1] Hydrogen consumption is not stated directly, but they say that hydrogen at $3/kg makes up 60% of the $2800 cost to produce a dry tonne of bacterial biomass. (0.6 * 2800) / 3 = 560 kg of hydrogen.
This is your second reply to where I explain what I meant with regards to evolution without you enlightening me about what's wrong but instead go on about evolution in some sort of spiritual awe.

But you're not done there. After you've decided to overrule that the author of the analogy used it as an analogy you extrapolate that since I'm not following your evolutionary wanderings I'm clearly ignorant of politics and economics altogether. What the hell?
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I vaguely understand (on a theoretical level) why the syntax for pivoting in databases is necessarily convoluted, but it does underscore to me how spreadsheets have a great advantage for everyday data-exploring, at least when it comes to ease of pivoting.

(by "everyday", I mean working with datasets small enough to fit within a spreadsheet's limits, and aren't yet important enough to need the reliability/regularity that comes with importing it to a database)
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This is why "Open Source" is terrible terminology for Free/Libre software.
Wow! Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to cycle them off the split peas. I wonder if sweet potatoes could be a problem too. Will look in to supplementing their diets.

Thanks :)
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Walking away from AT&T was hard because of the expense of building a phone transmission network, and (I suppose) because of some patents they held.

Walking away from Twitter is much easier, because multiple global instant or near-instant messaging systems exist, including completely open and user-controlled systems, and even building a new such system is reasonably easy for a group of competent people.
Thanks but no thanks.

When a transistor is off, it’s off. Then it takes a certain input voltage to get it going. Then there’s a varying curve to full output.

In contrast, fully switching on or off “gets rid of the curve” and tranforms the problem into one of timing, and one of a modulation scheme for a series of on or off states. In that respect I contend that it is an useful thought to consider transistors’ behavior (in an amp) as more linear and controlled if used in only the on or the off state. The output quality of Class-D amps in relation to price, size, complexity, and power, and cost suggests to me that the gains are not only in power efficiency.

Class D amps do leave the operation of transistors in their linear domain on the table, and do gain efficiency by that. Overall linearity as a control mechanism is something I stand by saying is increased. You may present an alternate take of course.
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I wanted to like Hugo (especially with its ridiculous speed compared to Jekyll), but I found that any time I wanted to do something slightly unusual I had to spend far too long finding what template file name I was supposed to use, mostly by trial and error. With Jekyll I just specify the template name in the front matter.
Apache Spark doesn't use Calcite.
Many[citation needed] electron-ish apps are also available over the internet (vis: slack, atom, vscode, discord being examples I've personally used).

In the case where your software development practices require static bindings to exact versions, you're correct, but your app is participating in the "IoT anti-pattern" of deploying baked code which may or may not be updated based on the long-term viability of your company / product.

I think this offers a great leap forward in transparently keeping local software up-to-date. Your argument boils down to it being better to ship an entire Windows95 VM with your app so you "have control".

In most cases, better to ship your own app and integrate properly with the external operating system / runtime provider (or hide: "Use bundled chrome.exe" as an advanced checkbox).

Ideally it'd be possible to select puppeteer/firefox as the target runtime environment as well.
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Well, like I said, the entire subject deserves a good gothrough, but I'll try to be terse and summarize:

For one, because many sysadmins don't have the proper CS background to "program" well. We get shit done, mostly in bash/perl/python, (these days maybe in go, etc), but devs who read sysadmin code tend to gasp and sigh a lot.

Two, being a sysadmin is more than just admining the machines. A senior has to be just as comfortable in a suit in a meeting with the C-suite, writing reports, doing BCPs etc, as they are terminating cable.

Three, coding is useless if you don't know how to fix issues, or diagnose them in order to know what the issue is that needs fixing in the first place.

Four, this push to sysadmins must code seems to largely be a filter-bubble effect of companies that are software focused. Thousands of sysadmins across the world are supporting companies that don't even have a dev team, so the whole "sysadmin is dying, devops is the future" angle is naive imho.

Five, does writing config files in something like ansible yaml or hashicorp config language really count as coding? Because ok then I'm down with all sysadmins must code. But far too often I've seen some poor sysadmin tossed a mess of python and told to fix it... and then when they struggle they hear heaps of criticism. Don't even get me started on all the huge perl messes from "sysadmins who coded" I've had to clean up...

Do you see the general gist of where I am going on this? Did you evolve into a software engineer, or did you move up to more managerial position of senior or CTO/CIO? One thing to keep in mind is that many companies don't have a CTO or CIO, and sometimes don't even have IT department heads other than a senior sysadmin. Much of the pain points we are talking about are probably different in different company cultures, and are more situation specific. What I've found is that managers tend to think that if their sysadmin can code that means their sysadmin is a dev, and they can save money by having them fill both roles, and that almost never turns out well for anyone.
Applied almost two months ago, and it still says "New" on the smartrecruiters page, so no one hasn't even looked at my application?
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We make TiDB, a scale-out database that is always consistent, always online, and MySQL compatible. The job listing is for the international team based out of SF. Right now there is great adoption in China and we are trying to make this amazing technology available to the rest of the world [1].

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it's silly to try to split up tech companies. look at AT&T; it was tried, now it's basically un-split up. they exist in natural monopolies and their service benefits from monopoly anyway.

it's also silly to try to regulate them. they have a fundamental incentive and nearly unlimited resources to do bad things, such as profiting from spreading hate via advertising, but also protecting their ability to do things like that by capturing regulatory agencies. look at attempts to regulate banking and how that has worked.

services like web search, email, internet access, and social media are clearly valuable and important, arguably necessary. they also get massively distorted and damaged in private markets. these are not lemonade stands; capitalism is an extremely bad model for natural monopolies. they should be publicly owned, run, and developed, in the federated, open model suggested elsewhere. anything else is fooling yourself about what is possible or beneficial.

as an addendum: yes this would require a massive renewal of democratic control over everything involved in this in order to make it work. unfortunately there aren't other good solutions.
It's actually on my TODO list to write a book about that.

The idea being:

- Every geographic location you ever visited, every password, every google search you made is now available to anyone publicly, with a convenient web search interface.

- People are digging through your data to figure out that you visited this brothel in Thailand, or googled the N-word back in 2009, and activists will send that information to your employer, friends and family. Every query you entered on a porn site. Every time you bought drugs online. Every comment you left on any site. Every sex toy you bought. Every photo you thought was deleted. Everything.

- Finally, the hacktivists who performed this selectively left out roughly 50% of the data, the data of the people who are on "their side", their supporters, and included only the data of the groups they don't like.
I've wanted this for some time. Combined with Go for the native layer so all that's distributed is a single binary and a webapp bundle.
This assumes that all Twitter users are actual people and that one person doesn't have multiple accounts all over the place. I would imagine that, although still not a major issue, the cost would be a bit higher for users and that's only factoring in users that find enough utility in Twitter to think that it's worth paying for.
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is also pretty interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Dreams-Madness-English-Subtit...
I've read that dogs can be vegan. They're not obligate carnivores like cats. That's about all I know really.
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It's a discussion thread. I add my input, maybe you find it relevant, maybe you dont. Maybe I don't add enough insight. Fair enough.

But it's honestly fucking weird that you are tracking my comments.
It's a good example of GDPR non-compliance too.
Oh that's a great! Are you okay with me adding it to the article?
There's a paywall =(
Well, I'm also 35 and have never worked as an engineer. But yes, at 25, I'd agree that this is certainly possible.
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That can't be right. I frequently my feel my phone getting hot and often take it out of my pocket because the warm patch on my leg is uncomfortable.
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> Pushing JavaScript everywhere increases the attack surface for every single user on the web.

I understand where you're coming from, but most users browse the web with Javascript = on. Even as a NoScript user I have Google whitelisted because most of their services are unusable without Javascript. Even automated tools have good Javascript engines now thanks to headless mode in popular browsers.

I suspect the next steps in browser security will not be to blanket-deny scripting, but instead focus on containers and sandboxing to make script-based attacks less worthwhile.
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The SSPL is what Ballmer thought the GPL was.
Of all of the places where you shouldn't discuss business, Burning Man is near the top.

The whole situation is weird. The victim applied for a position and was rejected. A week later she finds the guy who rejected her at Burning Man (on accident?) and he apparently gets the wrong idea about why she is there. It's pretty clear the guy needs to leave his job regardless if he was willing to reconsider her application if she took him up on the offer. Google doesn't need a casting couch manager.
Yes.

Some key quotes about this:

> The female rats did not show evidence of a link between the radiation and such tumors.

> Experts say it is not unusual for cancer patterns to vary between sexes in both people and animals, including the study’s mice and rats.
I'm pretty sure that having no zoning regulations in addition to allowing business and residence in the same building would improve a lot. Who doesn't want to live above a grocery store?