skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What if the whole universe was just a hologram?"

Well, a hologram is a photograph of an interference pattern which, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.

Confusing the universe with a hologram is like confusing a photo of a car with an actual car.

Pretty impressive that these "scientists" have been researching this topic for over 10 years. Must be nice to have that kind of funding for researching dumb ideas.
Unless you enjoy the strong flavor. I don't drink alcohol but I do drink espresso: ristretto, no adulterants (except the occasional mandarin peel -- I'm not above a little variety). I dislike americanos almost as much as I hate long pulls. The intensity is a significant component of my enjoyment (same with blue cheese, hot sauce, etc.) and if I drank, I'm positive that I'd find cask strength to be the best strength.
CVT != eCVT

An eCVT is a planetary gearbox which uses a pair of electric motors to control the rotational speed of the ring and planetary gears to achieve an overall gear ratio anywhere between a minimum and maximum ratio.

It's largely the same thing as what this two-speed gearbox is, but it leverages electric motors to provide a smooth transition between two ratios, instead of using (presumably) a set of clutches and auxiliary gears to select one of two fixed ratios.

This is why this question jumped out at me immediately. On the surface, they are going with a really, really archaic, complex design over a more simple, all-electric design which is ideally suited for their application.

I can't help but think ZF started with an eCVT, then retrofited it back to being a two-speed. They must have had a good reason for this. And I wonder if it's a patent/license issue, or if there's some technical reason this wouldn't work. And I'm disappointed the article doesn't go into details on this.
Michigan banned flavors is going to cause a surge of this when people start to DIY it.
Technology can help fight fake news
Landing of Chandrayaan2 on Lunar Surface
CSRF is really dead
That .1-.2% data loss advertised has to happen to someone, statistics do not lie.
We have this technology called representative democracy which allows us to make that determination. Other societies have other technology. It all boils down to might makes right in the end though.
I get up at 5am to start getting the kids up and ready for school (high schoolers first, then elementary schoolers, then middle schoolers). Everyone is finally at school by 9:15am and I can head in for work. I get home around 6pm and get the little kids in bed by 8pm. 8-8:30pm is me time. Then I get ready for bed and am asleep by 9pm.

I can't imagine what a slow morning (or evening!) would even be like. I'd appreciate it if someone could add about 6 more hours to every day.
I have this all the time, but to counter it I think about this time last year and it wouldn't have worked at all, now it works but it may be ugly, even better I almost understand why it works.
Doctors aghast at Groupon deals for medical care
If you create liability traps, the price of everything goes up and many things do not get made at all.

It's like saying that tents shouldn't exist and people shouldn't use bicycles even though they are great tools for certain jobs.

Nobody wants to pay for space shuttle levels of software engineering. It costs a lot in labor time to produce less results.
So, none of the vendors except Google and Nokia: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20847758/google-android-up...
Decent article on buying boxes and how "brands" like Dank Vapes can have a social presence on IG and other platforms but avoid responsibility for "official" or "unofficial" products.

"They act like a cannabis company, but they actually don’t exist. They’re in the packaging industry," ...
"These are just people filling cartridges as 'Dank Vapes.' It's not a singular facility. It's just people in their garages filling them and selling them.”

https://www.inverse.com/article/58581-dank-vapes
The issue which I understand is primary with fentanyl is purchasing black market fentanyl and selling it on the street as heroin or whatever other opiate and cutting it with various things leading to a wild variety of potency of street drugs, even within the same purchase (poorly ground, poorly mixed) which leads drug users to overdose much more frequently.

Fentanyl, absolutely is safer than many other popular pharmaceutical opiates but only when the dosing is done competently and accurately (even someone abusing opiates is safer using fentanyl IFF they are capable of knowing and distributing their desired dose)
Disclosure: I work on https://treenotation.org.

I made a my early career out of working on these API businesses in the late 2000's, early 2010's. The big change was the shift from XML/SOAP/WSDL to JSON, which just made things far easier for developers. Lots of companies did APIs before that, but they were ahead of their time as we needed JSON, which made things a lot simpler.

Fast forward to 2019. I'm pretty bullish that Tree Notation can unlock the next wave of innovation in the API space. Here is a demo video I did of a very early version exploring this idea back in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV4Nv23bBwQ&t=1s).

If anyone is interested and will be at this conference (I'll be there), shoot me an email and can do some more demos.
If you object to the Amazon example because the CEO was also the founder, there are many other examples of extremely long-term focused companies where that isn't true. A really good example is Uber. Honestly, Uber is probably far too long-term focused and it'd be better if Wall St punished them more. It's pretty hard to accuse Wall St of being short-term focused on that one.

That said, I totally agree with you that experimentation is good, and the LTSE is a valuable experiment. Maybe we can learn something from it, even if it's worse than what we already have.
Why would you want to imprint this stuff into your long term memory? Google is an extra brain with effectively infinite free space, why would I want to use mine?
Terraform is for managing infrastructure. Ansible is for managing configuration. You can argue they're the same thing, but I disagree.

I believe in one tool to do one job really well.

Terraform is excellent at provisioning and managing infrastructure due in part to its DAG and HCL. On the other hand Ansible has been tuned over the years for managing configuration and the state of anything and everything from the OS upwards.

I also believe in using building blocks to get to where you're going, and these two bad boys click together quite well.
Do they provide context?

You shouldn't vape and you shouldn't smoke, but plenty of people do unhealthy things for reasons that are difficult to explain and/or understand.

So, is this a "finger wagging" recommendation, or is there a tangible reason to avoid vaping?
Also gums, patches, etc.

I'd guess patches as the best, because the slow release breaks a lot of the fun of the addiction cycle. Apparently though, it's best to use both patches and one other NRT - https://www.cochrane.org/CD013308/TOBACCO_what-best-way-use-...

Vaping is just too much like smoking. It's basically the same habit, it's got the same quick hit, you'll have very similar rituals (leave your desk, go for a vape break, "light up", etc).

There's also the community factor. There's no nicotine patch community, but there's a vaping community. Maybe the vaping community was originally all people trying to quit cigarettes, but now it's also a gateway to people getting into smoking.
Mazda dumped a bunch of R&D and complexity into their transmission for "only" a 4-7% (AT)¹ and 1% (MT)² efficiency improvement. I guess in the automotive world, you're fighting for every last %.

¹ https://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/skyactiv/skya...

² https://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/skyactiv/skya...
Companies don't care about artificially restricting hiring: they want developers to be as cheap as possible.

The truth is, software engineering really quite hard, but that whiteboard interviews just happen to be a rather poor way of evaluating candidates.

A work sample test, structured interview, or IQ test (alone or in combination) would be a much better filtering process.
Well for one I can have many tabs open in firefox without having to suspend the page everytime I leave it and my computer won't catch on fire.
Try taking the command a step back with hardlinks: ln source dest

The association with cp makes a lot more sense then. This is how I learned it.
Nice write up. Good job, mate.

I moved away from Vagrant in favour of Terraform, but I agree Vagrant still holds its own and is a great choice (HashiCorp really nailed it, eh?)
Not exactly. Ember was originally “SproutCore 2.0” but the project goals diverged and a fork occurred (it was renamed “Amber” around that time, before a name clash was discovered and it acquired its current name “Ember”). Development on both continues concurrently today.

Incidentally, the latest major SproutCore version is 2.0.
I'm not hip to all the various state's stands on THC/CBD containing products, but from your first link:

>Laboratory test results showed very high levels of vitamin E acetate in nearly all cannabis-containing samples analyzed by the Wadsworth Center as part of this investigation. At least one vitamin E acetate containing vape product has been linked to each patient who submitted a product for testing. Vitamin E acetate is not an approved additive for New York State Medical Marijuana Program-authorized vape products and was not seen in the nicotine-based products that were tested.
> Maybe this sensationalism furthers the public interest by turning software security into a weird zero-sum game where every company is trying to break their competitors products.

This isn't a Maybe. Narrowing in on the statement of fact "where every company is trying to break their competitors products," query Ben Hawkes of Project Zero for an exact quote, but this about 100% lines up with it.
Exactly. It would be better to dissolve easily-measurable-at-home quantities into large volumes of fluid, but it's hard to make powdered synthetic H substitutes that way.

Properly micronized and triturated, synthetic H made with fentanyl would be very safe stuff. Unless you could afford enough to OD yourself, which you might now be able to at the prices it could be sold at.
Great job! I'd love to hear more about the calculations involved for the sun and moon paths and the implementation of the shadow maps. If you have the time and haven't already perhaps it would be worthy of a blog?
It's not that fear is purposefully taught. Your first indoctrinators are your parents, and they love you, they hardly would harm you.

It's just that indoctrination starts even before your identity and common sense develop. You grow up thinking crime thought and the thought police are real, and that really messes with your sense of security. I suppose different kids internalize that in different ways. For me, it was crazy believing I was being watched and judged all the time.

Yes, there is good that happens for religious reasons, but the bad that usually comes along is an expensive price to pay in exchange. People can do good in this world without supernatural incentives.
How do you do this? I would literally die. I can't live life so breathlessly with what sounds like no room for breaks. Are weekends even enough for you to recover?

Forget burning out of a job, I'd burn out on life.

Mad props to you. You've got a hell of a lot more discipline than I do. Your kids owe you.
Yes. Fun for the people playing. Fun, at the expense of the people I was talking about. Maybe I am too cranky, but it seems really frivolous and thoughtless. Given all the mass shootings at retailers, it seems like it could cause too many people anxiety or other distress to be worth it.
There's limited demand on both sides of this though.

To take the Uber model - you are going to take n trips, in m cities, for y duration. Uber and their users want unlimited drivers, riders, cities piled into their app.

Wag is completely different. Your dog is in your home. It needs walking say once a day. I'd have thought the user would want the same reliable person doing it each day - and the walker would ideally want to build a stable of local dogs that need walking each day.
Once both sides are happy and stable, you don't need the app.
> Leaving all the other cars next to you in the dust is quite antisocial behavior actually.

As a motorcycle rider I disagree, it's the safest option for us.

I get that not everyone is pleased about it, though.
That is how laws get made, it is not how a person decides their ideas about the roles of government. I am asking the latter.
> I am interested to learn more about how they solved it if not brute force.

https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf
It's a face backup. In case you lose the original.
Yep. AWS's instance identity implementation is crap. I want to write a follow-up blog post about this. They also don't rotate their keys and their tokens don't expire. To top it off, their implementation is buggy and terribly documented. Honestly it's pretty shameful. They have the resources to fix it, and they should fix it. GCP's implementation is the best. It's JWT-based and heavily inspired by OAuth OIDC identity tokens and uses a lot of the same infrastructure. Azure's is a close second. None are perfect.

That said, even AWS's crappy implementation is super useful, and really the only good way to do this (that I know of?). We've tried to mitigate this risk somewhat by making tokens single use. I'd like to also add a way to send a token to `step-ca` to say "this server doesn't need a certificate" that basically marks the instance as "used" without issuing anything. If everything that uses IIDs did this, and you ran through all of your services at startup and either authenticated or said "I never need to use this service", it would provide some protection.

Still, to your point, AWS should fix their shit.
Mugabe liberated his people, that counts for a lot even considering decades of dictatorship.
> As a motorcycle rider I disagree, it's the safest option for us.

Things are different if you're in a 4000+lb electric vehicle. The bigger the vehicle, the more polite it is to stick with the rest of traffic (or even let people pass you).
don't you have a ton of cooling air at 150mph?
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Radio Telescope tracking data show moment signals disappeared https://twitter.com/cgbassa
Right, it's not a clarification: one of us is objectively wrong.
Mission control loses contact with Indian moon lander
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327973

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182024
Perhaps not individually, but Firefox is notoriously difficult to configure for an enterprise. Continually changing config file formats, no support for Group Policy or any other easy centralized config management, doesn't use the OS-wide certificate stores, etc.

Tons of behaviours that just make it a royal pain in the ass to deploy in the corporate world, even though I do believe it's a better browser for my end-users and for the privacy of personal and corporate data.
https://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html

"The Space Tether Experiment"

> The space tether experiment, a joint venture of the US and Italy, called for a scientific payload--a large, spherical satellite--to be deployed from the US space shuttle at the end of a conducting cable (tether) 20 km (12.5 miles) long. The idea was to let the shuttle drag the tether across the Earth's magnetic field, producing one part of a dynamo circuit.

The experiment failed, for a fascinating reason...
Probably, but expensive to have to have a trench dug.

It does seem rare for people to use their garages for cars. Half the time they're too small to get a car in and a human out though.
Caddy seems nice but I am way too invested in Nginx
The subsystem was named after the thing it emulated the interfaces of not the software you can run inside of it (of which I wonder what % of the Ubuntu image is even GNU software anyways).
just to be sure: should I be in awe in front of a 2 speeds automotive gearbox from a 100 years old manufacturer?

it's been a few minutes and I still don't feel the tingling.
It works almost too well. I've been using it for years and don't recall seeing a window it couldn't resize. I've seen it resize "unresizeable" windows in several programs that did not have scaling components, though. Consequently, you end up with the whole UI taking up a small part of the window.
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NYT seems to have taken BBC's place in throwing shade towards the Indian space program. From the article:

"...The outcomes of the Indian and Israeli missions highlight that lower costs can mean higher risk of failure, which NASA will need to adjust to as it pursues a lower-cost approach...."
The subtitle is worth noting:

"The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida."

As is the detailed methodology section, which I hope catches on in journalism.
NTSB Report on Tesla Autopilot Accident Shows What's Inside – Not Pretty for FSD
I think I would start by looking at how-to craft that container by hand. You'll understand the fundamentals better if you do it that way. Once you have a grasp of those, research the tools that then do it for you.

If you deploy a container to a Cloud provider, you'll need to first setup and understand the container engine as well. Not a bad thing to learn, for sure, but again start small and from the bottom upwards.

My tutorials won't cover containerisation because frankly I believe they're overkill for most situations. Sure they're fast and so on, but a slower golden image and a simple EC2 Instance in an AutoScaling Group is easier to understand, manage, and can be just as easily orchestrated.
Also, does anyone want to sell their side project?
Really? Where can I find these and what are they called?

I would love to try one.
Evidently the w3c agreed with you, as in html5 made dl a backronym for "Description List"
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If it's proprietary than you have to assume it's doing everything it is able to do to track you, and even if it isn't, it could be at any time in the future and you will have no way to know.
Me too, I was starting to think I was the crazy one after reading the other comments :)
> Learn about C++

Why C++?
Thanks for that. Wow.

There appears to be conflict between the theater of mission control and the actuality. Or?
This is not about being friendly at lunch.

Most jobs involve working with others. Due to the nature of 'work', it's not always easy. The ability to work together towards a shared goal even in the presence of pressures that would challenge interpersonal harmony is an important skill.
If you are not a Facebook user or you do not have the Face Recognition on, we will not create or store a face template to recognize you.
> The GCP self-serving platform for certs is very welcome, but still kinda janky. You end up waiting hours for their batch jobs to run at unknown cycles.

Have you noticed where they get the certs from? Let's Encrypt! So there's really no reason for that.
What exactly happens if a CA is compromised (private keys stolen etc)? Wouldn't existing certificates before the compromise date still be valid?
> Leaving all the other cars next to you in the dust is quite antisocial behavior actually

Honest question: can you expand on that? Assuming it's a safe thing to do, why is it antisocial?
> but the reality is that the questions (once asked) have a psychological impact that influences what comes next.

This is a hard thing to get used to as an interview.

And it affects not just your interview, but if the candidate has other interviewers after you, and you shake them thoroughly, you ruin any signal for subsequent interviews.

This extends to technical questions as well - if a candidate gets super flustered because they can't figure out your coding question, for the next interview they're already gonna be worried about how bad they bombed the last question.
> I still believe an afterlife could exist, but it isn't controlled by a deity, it'd just be energy being re-used which happens all the time in nature.

It certainly would be amazing, but I chose to take a more pragmatic approach. Since we can't disprove the afterlife, I live my life as if it's the only one. That doesn't mean living feverishly, just enjoying the moment more.
Personally I just export a CSV file with my monthly bank transactions that I feed to a django app I've made.

1/ It flags suspicious entries according to rules that I manually add and it automatically highlights transactions involving new parties.

2/ I've added tags to be able to classify the expenses and present them in a pie chart so I can at a glance see if I was on track or not last month and adjust things the next one.

In the end it took 2h to write, I spent now 5min / month on this reviewing, I've found the bank made an error and was charging me for something I've never signed for and I'm finally following a loose budget and building savings in a "relaxed" way.
>it may be worth looking into whether or not your reasons for using Chromium for the devtools are simply habit

After deciding that life's too short and that I really should give it a try - I've found out that source maps doesn't work on Firefox's dev tools.
Back to chrome.
Serious question: how is this antisocial behavior? I understand wanting to stick with the flow of traffic when you're part of the pack, but if you're in front of the pack, what's the advantage (to anyone) of hanging back?
How does the sandboxing of applications compare on iOS and Android? Reading that iOS had trouble blocking applications from calling OS functions they weren't supposed to, plus they're running native code, not Java, seems to imply a security bug in an application is more severe on iOS than Android.

See the Whatsapp root exploit for an example.

Or are there additional protections in iOS, comparable to Android?
I suspect it might be motors too.

Why do they even need gears? I can see why we need differentials (until we have one motor per wheel), but can't gears be done in some electronic way with clever arrangements of motor

For example, the tesla has ~10:1 reduction ratio gearing, but I wonder if there's a clever way of rearranging the poles/coils of the motor, maybe like a crankshaft, so you get the best torque matched to the rpm?
What bugs me about security questions is when they give you questions that have subjective or time-varying answers. "What's your favorite X" is a terrible security question for me, I am not likely to remember an answer I chose 2-3 years ago
Yes, It was lost. News updated now.
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I was wondering the same thing - does it burn up in the atmosphere, or destroy all life on the planet?
It happened before landing, so while the probe may have crashed, a crash did not cause the communications loss. Here are the most similar conditions I could find that recovered: Beresheet regained communications before landing but not in time to save the mission. Rosetta's Philae lander ended up in a bad spot and couldn't communicate much because of low solar power. Hayabusa had comms trouble when it was supposed to launch from its asteroid, but recovered.
An expert argument against drinking cask straight, one I'm not qualified to evaluate but can repeat here, is that high-proof alcohol actually impedes your ability to perceive the characteristics of the spirit itself. If you just like the taste of very strong alcohol, dilute some Everclear down; don't waste money on cask whiskey (for the most part, the only whiskeys sold at cask strength are expensive, premium expressions).

I sometimes drink Four Roses cask-strength straight, because I'm lazy, but also cask-strength Four Roses is not all that high-proof. But I wouldn't drink Thomas Handy straight; it would be a waste.
but what if you are deaf?