skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was Aristotle's Unmoved Mover being incorporated into Christian Thought around AD 50 via Philo of Alexandria that changed Monotheistic religion of God being the Organizer of All Things from Chaos into the Creator of All Things out of Nothing, Ex Nihilo. Beforehand Monotheistic Religions believed God was a creator but he created out of chaos and imbued the formless with a specific form.

Likewise simultaneously around the time of Aristotle during the time of the Hellenistic Era, The Seleucid Empire arose from the fires of Alexander the Great Empire. The 2nd king in the Seleucid Dynasty decided to make a universal time calendar that just increments again and again past individual rulers and this change the nature of stories tremendously in the empire.

When Time Became Regular and Universal It Changed History
https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universa...

When Antiochus I Soter in 281, after his father death decided to keep the calendar his father created (and he had already served 10 years as a co-ruler prior from 291 to 281.) And not start over it started the various populations that were opposed to the Seleucid authorities to tell apocalyptic tales of the end of days, not just the end of the ruler / authority but the end of everything. Especially since later Seleucid rulers such as Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175 BC to 164 BC) seem to limit Jewish religious rights, though Historians are not sure if this true (it may have been about taxes and other areas of authority.) Well there was a rebellion in 167 BC and the internal Jewish Warriors succeeded from the Seleucid Empire (The Maccabees Rebellion.) Well the rebellion was successful and they were independent for 130 years (though lots of civil wars for authority) and only in the end succumb to the Romans except the Jewish People saw the Romans at first as liberators for they still feared various Greek / Hellenistic empires and the Jewish People thought he romans were better.

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TLDR: Cyclic thinking and Creation from Something / Chaos was actually the norm in monotheism, only during the Hellenistic (Greek Influenced) / Roman Era did this shift to Creation out of Nothing (Ex Nihilo) instead of Creation out of Chaos. But yeah read the article I linked to.
A Warcraft 3 world editor clone would be really good for game innovation. If someone was willing to start up a project like that, I would definitely help fund development.

Blizzard’s world editing tools helped players innovate new genres like the MOBA but its restrictive IP terms killed innovation dead in its tracks.

All Blizzard does now is make reskin of old game(but excellent games) and release classic version of MMO’s.

What happened to the company?
Exploiting JSON Framework – Aditya K Sood [pdf]
there is some critique on previous papers[1] I would wait for an update from this blog to actually assess if these claims can hold water

[1] http://lacey.se/2018/07/05/glass-battery-part-2/
Wild bees are building their homes from plastic–and scientists aren’t sure why
How do they earn money? Is it GDPR compliant? Will my data be sold to disheartened companies?
I do know that the one with 53 children (last time I heard, which was about a year ago, so the number has gone up) had more than the "allowed" four wives. I do not know enough about Beduin culture to tell you if he just went over the limit, or divorced, or what. I'll ask.
We could talk radians per second.
Mutt was just fine.
I just interviewed at Google on Friday, and actually brought this up with my lunchtime interviewer. According to him, Google recognized this problem about a year or two ago, and rejiggered their promotion system to place less emphasis on product launches and more on long-term usage and stability.

If that's true (and I only had his word on it), it may just be that they're currently "flushing the pipeline" of all the promotion-fueled products that got started before this change went in, or maybe the change hasn't permeated all the way through the company yet. So it's possible Google's frantic pace of launching doomed products will taper off in time.
How to Start a Streaming Service
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"The site was intended for academic purposes. It was run by an employee that is no longer with Microsoft and has since been removed."

What in the ACTUAL fuck Microsoft.
Our existence is limited to four dimensions, so we perceive things through the scope of time, including cause -> effect.

On the level of higher dimensions, it's difficult for us to perceive how cause -> effect would play out, but it's similar to how you would influence a drawing of a 2D stick figure. You could draw a house next to the stick figure, and that would cause the house to exist, but to the stick figure it would only perceive a single line with a start and finish on 1 dimension.

To that stick figure, cause and effect would be perceived as the two points on the line, though your four dimensional pencil caused it to exist on a different dimensional level.
Even I am surprised too but I guess since Google started working on self-driving cars and then after seeing the advent of ride-hailing apps, they may have thought to keep Waze so one day Google can convert it into a ride-hailing + navigation app. Maybe that's the plan who knows!
I've been using, mostly, travefy, and haven't had the time to check Trip It (I think I tested it years ago, and had something I didn't like)

Is it better?
The new way of testing REST API's
From what I remember it wasn't too bad at the beginning. It was a clean layout and easy to read. That has now been polluted with sign up modals and toolbars.

I assume from a content producing side it was easier to not deal with hosting, scaling, etc.
It's for the same reason Canadians largely ignore the extraordinarily vast environmental destruction in their resource extraction territories: their economies, wealth and incomes are partially dependent on destroying the environment. Everyone knows what is happening, most ignore it and go about their business.

Out of sight out of mind, for the most part. You see this in nearly all countries.

It's often peculiar what people can have apathy about and what gets rabid attention.

The media and social frenzy about measles cases in the US this year as an example. There will be 1,600 to 2,000 cases in the US in 2019, and a few deaths. It's wall to wall media coverage, the world is ending, social media is on fire. Meanwhile ~25,000 people will die just from fentanyl in the US this year. Half a million Americans - more than died in WW2 - die in total from overdosing across seven or eight years, and well you know, it's just a thing that's going on, I guess we should focus on it a bit maybe sometime, shrug what can you do.
I looked further into this following bluedino's mention of TreadWright. Doing a bead to bead retreading will eliminate the issue of rubber rot due to sunlight or wear and tear.[1]

"... when we make the remolded tire we remove the existing rubber down to about 3-6mm remaining on the recycled casing. The rubber is removed from the inside bead, across the sidewall of the tire, across the tread of the tire, all the way to the outer bead. We then replace the rubber from "Bead-to-Bead" applying 6mil rubber on the sidewalls and multiple plys of rubber on the tread."

They probably do some kind of scan to determine the structural integrity of the tire structure, I imagine.

[1]https://www.treadwright.com/pages/faq
Hence the realistic goal of 40% by 2026, that should be enough to setup the charging infrastructure and also to be able to complete the power plants (nuclear,solar, hydro) under construction.
How are young developers trained to cybersecurity?
Hi all, I'm making a thesis for my engineering school and I would like to ask some questions for new developers who just entered the market.

Where did you study and how long was the formation ?

Did your formation provided you with cybersecurity training (Common mistakes etc...) ?

And if yes, which aspects ?

And finally do you apply those in your current job ?

Optional: your age and location and when did you start working ?

Thanks for your responses !
Except it's not that realistic. I have more than that generating passive income and I still can't yet quit my job even though I live in moderate cost of living state. That COL is rising, especially insurance and upcoming education costs.

I've been trying to work it out, but mostly I just need to add to the pile until the passive numbers work out better an do so reliably in good and bad years. $40K on $1M means you have to be 100% in risk assets (stocks). Technically, if you had your whole million in say, an S&P 500 index fund, you could probably safely withdraw 4%, e.g. $40K/year and still grow your principal "most years." You couldn't last year, though.

I earned somewhere around $55K last year without lifting a finger except to judiciously manage the accounts (which takes around 1hr a day), file taxes (10-20hrs once a year), and manage few other things like the odd 401K rollover and what not. It takes the edge off of my main career, but I'm not ready to depend on just that side yet. Inflation is a cruel bitch, always moving the goalposts further away.

My main "plan" is to ditch the coding job if I can find some $40-50K role someplace not in tech, but that would probably still have to be a 40hr/FTE deal so that doesn't give me any additional free time although it probably would be a hell of a lot less stressful. I'm weary of the stress and outsized corporate nonsense, but I still love tech.

I'm open to any ideas.
Time is another dimension that we 'perceive'. Hence for our frame of reference, which is bound by time, asking what is outside this frame of reference makes no sense. But frames of references are relative and meant to be broken.

Similarly it is hard to imagine any object that can be purely 2D in nature, because we are biased to perceive the world in 3D. So we think that every object has to be 3D, even the smallest organism, or even atoms. But a 'fake' example of 2D is a tv screen. It gives us an example to imagine 2D. The point I am trying to make is that time is just our perception. To say causality is always tied to time is a bias created by viewing the universe through a 'time' tinted/colored glass.

The point of singularity where gravity is so high that time comes to stand still, but is still present - this is a possibility.

So maybe time just pauses between big bangs and flows at lower density and lower gravitational fields
Don't get me wrong, building them is fun, but just wanted to make sure you know you can buy them fully assembled too. For example, https://mechanicalkeyboards.com has a large selection.

For building a first keyboard, I would order a "cheap" kit that is Pok3r compatible. For example, this kit includes everything except keycaps, which you can buy from the website above (or ebay, aliexpress, and many others).

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Satan-GH60-kit-mechanical-ke...

Full assembly required of course, can be soldered in about 30 minutes if you've got some soldering experience. Also, it will come with some basic programming but you'll want to learn to program it yourself so you can really customize it.

I recommend a Pok3r compatible PCB because then you have many different case options that you can switch to in the future. Also, 60% is pretty approachable and will help you learn if it's your thing or if you want a larger (or smaller) board.
I’ve had positive and negative experiences on both side of the fence. There was one company where I had to commute 2 hours to and from which was absolute hell for me. At that place I worked out of a cubicle which I preferred to an open office. But people also tended to just stop behind me and have a full conversation without so much giving any thought to how they may be disrupting my concentration.

Another job I worked remotely without a single problem. The whole time I only met one person from the team but I never felt isolated. It may have helped that it was a young company with young employees.

Another job I worked was a failing business that was eventually swallowed up by a larger corporation. That job was fully remote too and without issues until the merger. I was laid off in preference of a team member who I think was chosen simply due to face time in the corporate office. This was reinforced by other remote workers being laid off as well. It probably didn’t help that this was a more traditional company where very few if any people worked remotely.
"Later in his life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him."

There's your between the lines. He was mentally ill later in his life, which caused his untimely death. I don't know what you were reading between the lines, but if it was making fun of an old man and his mental illness, please keep it to yourself.
Ask HN: How do you mantain your current lifestyle in times of big income?
Hi, I've been working for several years as a Software Engineer, always getting a little more than the market income. I live with my SO and we own an apartment (no kids) so my basic expenses are low.

Last year I started earning way above what I was earning, something like five times what I need with my current lifestyle.

I was always pretty frugal with my money and I don't own too much, but I'm noticing that I'm losing "pricing sensibility" compared to family, friends and some coworkers. As a result of this I'm slowly starting to increase eating out at above average places and taking trips more frequently.

I don't want to make the common error of raising my lifestyle according to my income, because I like the flexibility that a frugal lifestyle and I'd like to have the possibility earn less than the actual income if I want to switch jobs.

Are you in a similar situation? How do you deal with this kind of "issues"?
Could have been predicted seven years ago. Kudos for making it longer than expected.
If you want to target Medium users, Medium is the best place to publish.
Headline is misleading. The battery has a brief burn-in period where it gets better.

> They also published a graph that showed an increase in capacity over more than 300 charge-discharge cycles. (This increase, however, pales in comparison to the cell's at least 23,000-cycle lifespan.)

And once they dig into details, the "apparent increase of entropy" is further exposed as bait. Sounds pretty credible, and not controversial

> She says their glass electrolyte is a ferroelectric material—a material whose polarization switches back and forth in the presence of an outside field. So charge-discharge cycles are effectively jiggling the electrolyte back and forth and perhaps, over time, finding the ideal configuration of each electromagnetic dipole.

> “This is what happens as you are charging and discharging,” Braga says. “You are aligning the ferroelectric dipoles.”
Look up the 4% rule and firecalc.com to learn how this 100x multiple is a lot less, more like 25x realistically.

A lot of people are irrationally intolerant of risk. Try not to let fear dominate your intuition about investing.
This is really awesome, works great on both mobile and desktop.
Ironically, now I'm seeing yet another anti-pattern in Medium, which is that the pictures don't display with an adblocker, another way of making me turn it off.
I think that's an America-centric view. In a lot of places in Europe it wouldn't matter what neighborhood you lived in - the schools available would be equally good.
(assoc foo "bar"
(assoc (get foo "bar") "alice"
(assoc (get (get foo "bar") "alice") "bob" 12)))

vs

foo.bar.alice.bob = 12;
"the secret [to creating fiction about technology that stays relevant] is basically to assume that people will be really stupid about technology for the foreseeable future."

Cory Doctorow on the anniversary of "Little Brother"
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/
That also makes those with a truly extravagant lifestyle part of not-rich - I think you'd need to be in the billions to rich a level that you truly could maintain without working - one can always rack up an extraordinary bill buying a new personal jet or private yacht every week.
I don't think this is an accurate analogy. The computer's space-time and your space-time are the same in this analogy. The space-time that our universe exists in would not be the same as the space-time that some extra-universe process would be inside if the big bang theory is accurate. This isn't an analogy for causality without time, this is causality for the creation of our universe if the big bang theory is wrong and space-time didn't expand out of a point some billions of years ago, ie. that our space-time existed "before" the big bang and there were processes outside of our universe that were still inside of the same space-time as ours.
Certainly this model would result in a lot more people who would create accounts to test and never come back after deciding it's not for them. The answer to that is a clear dormant account policy - for example by deleting free accounts after 60 days with no login. That helps make sure that all your trial users are actively engaged in using the service, and also gives you an opportunity to follow up with dormant users at defined points to remind them that their account will expire if left unused, and giving the opportunity to upgrade to a paid account which has no such limit.

Another person mentioned that 5MB is a lot for text notes, which is quite true - following the notion.so approach and having a limit of 100 notes or so might be more sensible. I personally just don't like the idea of a time limit on a note taking app, especially when all the other options provide a free quota instead.

That said, your pricing looks just right for me, and the lack of the web app is the main thing stopping me from giving it a try. I really like the fact that you have both folders and tags, instead of just one or the other - that's really the one thing I feel is missing from both Standard Notes and Notion
I see the appeal of that, but I think most of us think that the school experience is necessary for proper socialization of the kids. Personally I think that most schools are akin to prisons in many ways, but they were also the place where I forged some lifelong friendships.
Right. It sounds funny to have a 2x guestimate from many people though. Is that evidence of a common mental heuristic for estimating and mitigating future risk?

I personally can think of a net worth figure which seems like it might be comfortable under lucky circumstances (no major crash or catastrophic health issue). And, right now I also feel like twice that would make me feel pretty secure. In spite of my concerns about the future unknowns, having that amount would probably cause me to essentially retire, turning my career into a hobby so I could shed the less enjoyable parts...
Finding a "non-suck' Medium is similar to some classic startup problems.

Medium's tech complexity and operating costs are low (relative to web apps with similar scale).

Totally agree the real problem is not technical, its reestablishing a community of significant size and quality, never an easy thing.

For things like this, I wonder if the HN community has the characteristics to be a rallying point to build the momentum/awareness needed for initiatives with enough interest.

I have no doubt HN folks could inspire (indeed, have inspired) enough to catalyze formidable technical initiatives.

But that's a different problem, tech can be willed into existence if a handful of the right people get interested. Harder to predict when it's possible for sheer force of will to give rise to a quality community.
In the Netherlands, current design calls for three types of streets:

- highways, speed limit >= 100. Cyclists can’t go there (but alternative, cycleable routes always exist)

- main arteries into cities, speed limit 50, with separated cycle tracks.

- ‘last quarter mile’ roads, speed limit 30, where cars and bicycles share the road.

So, if there is a bicycle lane, it typically is separated from the car lanes by a barrier (row of trees, parking spots, etc)

That makes switching from bicycle lane to car lane or switching back to the bicycle lane when the car lane gets busy hard to do.

Also, you may be more likely to get a green light when riding in the bicycle lane, as the the induction loops there are designed to detect bicycles, not cars, and, on top of that, cyclists may be preferentially give green lights on crossings over cars.
I wish Google would give their employees the option to create spin-off startups of products they kill or killed.
The vast majority of policy happens at the local level. Zoning, municipal ordinances, occupational licensing, elected judges, etc. Unless you live in NY,LA,SF the 0.01% has little impact on these.

Even making over $100k can have a huge and oversized impact on politics. They are the ones who can afford time to show up to PTA meetins, public hearings, donate to campaigns, etc. The average American city is designed to meet their needs.
Medium publisher here (I run three pubs behind the paywall). I'd love for people to just start considering Medium a paid service like Netflix or the NYTimes. Medium and the NYT offer monthly samples and Netflix doesn't. That's why you end up hitting the modal so often for NYT/Medium.

I think there's a bigger point though which is just "Does Medium have articles yet that are worth $5/month?"

It would be totally reasonable to answer no. But every month they spend more money on authors. And, you don't see this, they are also ramping up spending on editors.

On programming topics, a lot of articles are finally getting a stricter editorial curation and even going through copy edit. Even though I'm involved in editing some of these programming articles, I don't think it'll be enough editorial in the end. I think programming articles should also go through a tech review where the code actually gets tested.

I'm hopeful, based on the growth of the programming publication that we'll be able to afford tech reviewers at least by the end of the year. So maybe if it's not worth $5 now, it'll be worth $5 later.
Time flows in a similar way throughout the universe. It might be slowed down by gravity here and there but it's a similar effect everywhere. With causality but not time, there would be a partial ordering of events that happened at a particular location, but no definite way to connect it to events that happened elsewhere using relativity like we're used to now.
...and they can't find where the money went.
The problem with that argument is that the Nazis considered the German "race" to be the paragon of "whiteness", and other less-German white peoples, like European Jews, to be degraded. They absolutely conflated "whiteness" with their idealized German identity.
In the US the distinction is made so that journalists exposing misdeeds from people in power cannot be prosecuted since the value of the information is too high for the public.
To fight this, I don't think we should be talking about privacy or rights. That's all very important, but society is already fairly desensitized to that language, and the pro-surveillance side can literally point to the dead bodies of real children.

Instead, we should be talking about how deleterious it is to the character development of our children. Among other problems, they are being demanded to conform to an increasingly narrow range of acceptable behavior, and conditioned to develop about as unhealthy a relationship with authority figures as possible.
It's nonsensical to wonder what happened in our universe before it existed, but if our universe has an external superuniverse, it's not illogical to wonder what happened there that caused our universe to exist.