skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dave Jones from EEVBlog made a debunking video on uBeam. They apparently tried to to do ultrasonic wireless charging, which seems to fit your description. Here's the video, it's mostly about efficiency/coupling loss (beam forming has it's limits) and IIRC also about being potentially harmful for humans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA
And two different scales of magnitudes (US-style "short scale", and "long scale" from Spanish colonial days), meaning two different meanings for millions and billions!

https://metricpioneer.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/long-scale-an...
So regular cookie session based auth? There are drawbacks such as managing session state on the server, and increased latency and cpu load, since you now have to have a db call on every action.
Regarding #2: The dashtop will be the tough part for getting closely-spaced stereo speakers integrated for both the driver and the front passenger. The rear channels are easier (integrate into headrests with level and delay controls). Rear passengers are even easier (integrate frontal stereo pairs into back of driver and back of front passenger seats).

This design may one day make things a lot easier:
https://ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/273938-bo-for-ford-must...
The legislative history is interesting but the arguments in the article aren't great. From invented phrases like "neo-regulators" (I think they are just called regulators and that is their job), to "25% of them didn't have an email account", a lot of it boils down to "Ok boomer, you don't understand the internet".

I don't understand at all how technical details of the internet should be guideline for the limits that the law imposes on online platforms.

If there is a social norm and already laws that prohibit say, pornography being available to children, on every medium, then internet platforms shouldn't get a free pass simply because they're internet platforms. (opinions on the particular issue aside for a minute).

I'm a little tired of somehow having to accept that internet giants can do what they want and deserve a special role in society because they're internet companies, and every critic is brushed off with personal attacks.
One of the things recommended is a drink right before bed that includes 1/2 cup of full fat coconut milk plus some coconut oil - it probably tastes great but I have a hard time believing their claim that it's good to drink that every night before bed.
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-1-0
That's exactly how I connect a vt510 to Linux, just start getty on the serial port.
Since I agree, but you didn't bother to give a counter argument...

Given the wealth and power of the richest nations on earth today, I think it's entirely possible to establish colonies on other planets, that are maintained indefinitely, as long as the will to do it exists.

However, I don't think in the foreseeable future, that these colonies could make an iota of difference to the probability of the human species surviving, until they can incorporate a completely independent supply chain of everything needed for human existence, and some kind of adequate ecosystem as well. Where do you get the nuts and bolts, the potting soil, the hypodermic needles, the aluminum and steel, the fertilizer...? Shipping everything from earth means you're no different from an Antarctic research station.

I don't think people who believe in near term colonization of space have grappled with the necessity of earth and its billions of inhabitants to support the lifestyle of the most well off. Anything, again, in the foreseeable future is going to be like a bigger, better ISS.

My guess is building up a sustainable colony from the ground up has to start with biotech and/or nanotech way beyond anything we have now. To live elsewhere, we'll have to become the indigenous aliens that don't already exist there. You have to have the ability to fall back to stone age tech, before your high tech is firmly rooted.
Yeah, I was surprised that there are a handful of reactors of the same type as Chernobyl (RBMK-1000) still online. For example west of St. Petersburg ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant )
> However, I feel that it is a very exclusive place, and if you are not good enough, you're just not welcome.

What do you mean by this?

RC is a company (a YC company actually) that leases expensive NYC real estate and bears all the other costs of running a company while providing its service for free. Unfortunately, it's not a hangout where anyone can join and thus they have to limit space.

As for "if you are not good enough"... all the tech interview questions (at least in 2016) are easier or simpler than real job interview questions. The important parts are the soft skills questions. I "studied" with PhDs, bootcamp grads, and college students. And personally, I'm a pretty meh developer. But just like any company, they don't always give the best feedback on rejections.
Why would microfinance be better than a big company getting a big loan and setting up say a battery factory in Congo because there is lots of cobalt there? The reason why that factory doesn't exist has nothing to do with the type of loan by the way.
Really like public sector unions in general. When the other side of the bargaining table isn't capital but the representatives of the people, and those representatives are often beholden to the unions to get elected, the union isn't representing the workers against capital, it's representing the bureaucracy against the citizens and capturing the people's representatives to do it.
> the main thing metric has going for it is that it's the same radix

I think this is the thing that is usually lost. Metric isn't about the units. No one cares whether the length unit is the size of a finger or a foot.

What's important is the radix, ease of conversion conversion and relation between the units of different dimension. A swimming pool can be 10m long and 5m and 2m deep. That means its volume is 100m^3 or 100 thousand liters and the mass of the water is a hundred tons. There are 3 coke cans in a liter (or kilo) so the pool could room 300k coke cans. Quick in-your-head conversions like that are so difficult in some cases with pounds, gallons, fl.ounces etc.
TFA says

>company’s cash was held in bank accounts it didn’t control

I suspect that the accounts existed and had the cash, but the company wasn't the owner (or the sole owner) of the account.
You mentioned "kiwi farms wiki page" which I took to mean the Kiwi Farms Wiki, which is the second result when I google the name Joshua Moon.

http://www.kiwifarmswiki.com/index.php?title=Joshua_Conner_M...

This is the self-referential page created by the stalker in order to defame Josh. I am not referring to the Wikipedia page on Kiwi Farms.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

> An estimated 87,000 metric tons of plastic inhabit the patch, totaling 1.8 trillion pieces. 92% of the mass in the patch comes from objects larger than 0.5 centimeters, while 94% of the total objects are represented by microplastics.

> In a 2014 study researchers sampled 1571 locations throughout the world's oceans, and determined that discarded fishing gear such as buoys, lines and nets accounted for more than 60% of the mass of plastic marine debris.
I'm not sure what you mean. Ive heard of kiwi farms before and know about it. It's an awful site and shouldn't exist.

Josh moon built a site that actively encourages harassment of innocent people online. That's unquestionably true. It's no wonder people don't want to employ him. He continues to work to improve the site and associate with it and actively engage in the harassment in some cases.

I cannot believe people are defending him.
You dont learn. There are two rules, you dont talk about what works and you dont talk about what doesnt work. I worked professionally in the quant space up to 2008, and i still get calls for interviews, with people wanting to dig out what i am doing nowadays. What is popular or known loses alpha pretty quickly due to overcrowding.
I was referring to the Wikipedia page.
Banning words seems the wrong way to go about it.
Well, here is some information on Mr Moon that is not from Wikipedia, and is not coming from "the stalker":

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/owner-of-christchurch-s...
The engineer you're relying upon is not the engineer the tech industry optimizes for. The tech industry wants engineers who are not overly concerned with how the business will utilize the fruits of their labor. Ask difficult questions or push back against management too hard, and you're on your way out the door before you finish saying "With all due respect..."

It's hard to imagine if you haven't experienced it yourself. You think it should work that way. You push for it, but unless you fall into the right, group you may as well be a fart in the wind.
Hiring developers – Lessons from screening more than 1000 applications
This is kind of what I was talking about. Why do you think paying the plumber is optional?
Most of my phone usage when I am out is when I have an audiovisual notification of some sort. But keeping my phone on silent combined with the Palm phone never reacting to any program while the screen is locked, means I just use it less. So while occasionally it still runs out of battery when I'm out, in practice it doesn't do it any more than any of my previous phones.
No, I chose a deliberately provocative example in order to illustrate the comparatively low stakes it takes to get people clutching their pearls.
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I can't speak for the NBA or Navy, but it's not true for RC. I was a pretty meh developer when I got in 2016. Technical questions in the interviews are a magnitude simpler than any job interview I've ever had.

Most people don't have the skills Julia and the other people the original post mentioned. They're honestly the 1% of RC's over 1k (I think!) students over the years. Most of us have little projects that we work on for 12 weeks in a great environment or learn new things. Most of us are normal people who are lucky enough to be able to study programming for 12 weeks in NYC.
had that feeling...

as a side note, i think more and more people are starting to realize that the async paradigm is not a panacea. that paradigm or at least the way we implement it might even mean more trouble than a synchronous counterpart.

also, other editors that i feel will be sunset or not worked on at some point are atom and brackets.
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> I've never received any benefit

You have, it is just that these benefits are so ingrained in society that you didn't notice. That's what people mean when they talk about systemic issues.
"If that's not enough, it's a good exercise to scrape them."
I like this idea.

I appreciate you for taking the time to reply and point me in a direction. Thank you.
Don’t most CPUs have 64 byte cache lines anyway?
TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data
Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
That one was an interesting design and aesthetic, but having also owned one for about a year in 2006 I have to say it was pretty terrible for usability of basic phone calls and texts (which is all I want).
Highly radioactive materials are couriered around all the time for medical purposes.

Edit: my point being, dangerously radioactive materials are valuable products of nuclear power, not just pollution that comes as a side effect.
I've actually heard the some other devs say they interpret the current calls to action as "refactor the police".

Saying "defund" and "disband" has somewhat derailed the discussion with people asking "does that mean when we call 911 it goes to voicemail?"

"Reform" is already a loaded word, as it's been associated with plenty of do-nothing or make-the-situation-worse initiatives.

Refactor is a great choice, except for limited currency outside the programming sector. It implies wholesale changes, an attempt to improve quality, but also that the existing desired functionality is still being honoured.

Indeed, it does bring up the appropriatre set of folloup questions-- can this be refactored with reasonable cost constraints and chances of success?
> I was rejected with a boilerplate "not for us" explanation, and that was that.

For what it's worth, RC has struggled with the question of whether to give personalized feedback to applicants who don't get in. They did it for awhile, but stopped for a number of reasons. They explain it here: https://www.recurse.com/feedback
I'm extremely disappointed your icon isn't a picture of Lemmy from Motorhead.
For free apps, maybe? I know back in 2011/2012 we had to pay more than $100 directly to Apple.
I agree. Blocks can somewhat substitute with scoping effects, and that's what I do with my inlined docs - they're nested {} with plain text description of contents and mentions of key variables and functions, scope is useful.
Its a sure way to gain some belly fat.
Even if capital isn't starting a business, simple things like a grant or loan to replace your thatch roof with a more expensive metal roof can reduce the amount of time & energy spent on daily survival and free up time & energy to invest in yourself.

Thatch roofs are cheap but require ongoing maintenance and harbor pests and fungi. It's the basically the African version of the boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Here's a better article from 2015: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/microloans-dont-solve-p...

The primary research it's based on:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20140287

I think micro finance is largely undercut by the claims made about it in the 2000s. But if it's an important issue for you maybe it's worth reading the linked book (https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1609945182/)? The reviews seem fairly positive.
What would that revenue stream be?
Thanks. Looks like a strangely mangled version (maybe to evade detection of copyright violation?)

Looks like "said" is replaced by "mentioned", and other weird substitutions. (Or the WSJ has crap writers...)
HP 9000 and Pa-RISC Computers Story
It’s not really that this virus is strange, it’s more that we’ve never really dug into the subtler effects of a lot of viruses that humans suffer infections from.

Herpes is another virus that when’re just now finding far removed links to, alzheimer's disease being one.
I think the limiting factor of the color intensity is the dye/ink used to make the mask. Probably each pixel is only blocking like 50% of the light in its stop band.
Earth has had life for more maybe as long as 4 billion years, and in all that time there has been less than 200 years when a species had the intelligence, the motivation, and the technological advancement to send communications into space.

I know the odds of this being life are (literally) astronomically low, but every time I hear news like this, I can't help hoping there's another species out there that found the will & the way to reach out.
We'd also love to see LCC integrated into every seat in a movie theater where each person gets their personal 4.0 LCC experience (integrated into each seat) and woofers and subs are located elsewhere (perhaps where they are already located in Dolby and IMAX theaters) and distributed for every patron. This is less of a personal project and more of a partnership.
Serious question: do we have any data on (non n95) mask wearing being an effective protective method from COVID-19? I’ve heard people use the prevalence of mask wearing in countries like South Korea and their better Covid results as a type of data point, but that data could be correlation rather than causation. Any other insights? Im truly sick of the masks but would feel better if I knew there was some science behind them.
But even for the "regular" scandals this is pretty ridiculous, which is the insane part. Usually there's at least plausible deniability or some sort of excuse. In this case they literally have not done the most straightforward thing in auditing and then signed that they did... For years. They are exposing themselves to criminal charges at this point. There's a difference between "accidentally" missing something/blaming hidden processes in the accounting and literally just not doing it and then legally signing off to it.

There was a wild west in the early 2000s with sino forest et al, but since it was in china and the government was gaining from those fraudulent schemes, they had almost no risks to actually get punished and that's the difference. There was also the excuse that it was new, half licensed agencies in a new market. Rule of law makes it much more dangerous to do it so blatantly in germany

It's very weird and makes me believe there is something more to the story. Like a very fat check, not just the regular incentives or even plain old kickbacks.
This is a major part of Donald Trump's business.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are...
Rational Wiki is known for running hitpieces on people disguised as encyclopedic content. I had a look at some of the sources on that page.

It claims Josh is an anti-semite. What does it cite to back this up? It cites a picture of a tweet hosted on the website on Mathew Hopkins, Moon's stalker.

http://matthewhopkinsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Moo...

I used to follow Josh on twitter before he got banned, and that wasn't even his twitter account.
Why not put in an SSD? That would be cheaper than a Chromebook
> You really should make an attempt to reply to comments as they are, rather than insisting on quoting sentences removed.

I did. At the time I began my reply, it was in there. One of the reasons I replied was that sentence – it modifies the context of the rest of your words. I think that sentence was pretty messed up. Perhaps that's why you removed it.

I skimmed each video in the threads you posted. Of them, two of the first (adults) and none of the second (with kids) appear to potentially take place in the recent riots. I'm not saying that violence doesn't occur there – it certainly does, but your original quote was: > There have been plenty of videos circling showing mobs during the recent riots beating people half and fully to death. (emphasis mine).

The videos you posted of racial violence are tragic, and I don't question their authenticity. But they don't substantiate your earlier claim about the frequency of violence from rioters.

This is the last I'm going to say about it – I regret replying in the first place. This wasn't productive. My bad.
Audit can only spot certain types of problems. But the trouble with the Big Four is that their record on spotting those problems is terrible. If they made breakfast cereal you'd be reading a story every week about severed fingers found in a kid's breakfast or somehow a factory making choco-puffs exploded killing a thousand people.

Of course the reason is that being terrible at their jobs is profitable, whereas factory explosions generally cost the manufacturer money even if they aren't held liable for killing all those people.

I think company audit needs a regime like the Paris MOU port state inspection regime. Government employed auditors would re-audit a sample of companies proportional to a current estimate of how bad their existing auditor is at finding problems. This would inform subsequent rounds of re-auditing, while also detecting non-compliances at companies whose auditor is bad in the process. I'm confident that such a scheme could effectively pay for itself in reduced economic damage from surprise corporate failures and improved tax revenue as re-audits find money that was "accidentally" not revealed in the official audit.

The Paris MOU scheme drastically improved safety, not just because now governments that cared were doing inspections but because governments that don't directly care were incentivised to hire competent inspectors. "Let's just do a bad job and keep the money" ceased to make sense and scarcely any countries offer that now.

(The US is currently greylisted in the Paris MOU by a narrow margin, under a different executive I assume there'd be focus on improving US oversight to get back onto the white list but today who knows, maybe the Marines will be instructed to attack Zeebrugge to "free" American cargo ships or something)
As a minimalist and an athlete I find myself not wanting to do either of those things in the middle of the forest climbing something trying not to be distracted by technology... I guess we have different interpretations of the target audience.
If they're unwilling to stop buying expensive toys then yes the reduction will hit labor.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing if those dollars are invested in other types of emergency responders.
I had a pentium laptop with a IR port built in back int the day, circa 98
Oh I am certain I was not approaching the problem in the UE4 way. But the issue is that the way UE4 expects me to do things is not the way I would like to approach game development.

UE4 has a strong bias about the way things should work. If I am making something which is fairly well aligned to that bias, then it's fairly easy to make it work. But if I want to achieve something which is quite far from what the engine expects, then I have to invest significant effort undoing or circumventing what UE4 already does before adding my own functionality on top. I would greatly prefer to start from a blank slate, and only add precisely the behavior I actually want.

So basically this experience with the double jump just gave me a window into the level of complexity I would have to work around in terms of realizing my own goals.
Unless they too were unaware of it.
Does anyone else notice this thread’s font sizes are different per post, seemingly at random?
One practice that seems relevant is when a large company buys a smaller product which many users depend on, then after a year or two proceeds to kill the product with poor or no replacement options. Some examples: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

This seems like a clear-cut case of market failure since it would even be better for society for the company to die and their product to be open-sourced. The fact that VCs focus on exit instead of building a sustainable business seems to at least contribute to this phenomenon.
The consensus seems to be that you should wear a mask not to protect yourself from the virus, but to prevent spread in case you're carrying it and have no symptoms. If everyone wears a mask, contagion is dramatically reduced.
Bizzare how you joined to post this though? How is this tech related?
Sorry it’s a weird render that is only happening in landscape on iOS (XR) Safari
Or they are sure, but relations with the guilty party are not conducive to revealing it.
> However I suspect that's how nature works anyway.

Uh, could you clarify what you mean here? Are you saying you don't beleive that the electromagnetic field is quantized?
>I don't blame the programmers, it feels they had deadlines to uphold from managment.

This is my own experience. The teams that spent the most time on standards usually had the least pressure, in terms of things like deadlines. Once the focus of the team shifts to having to ship things, there is less time to worry about having 100% code coverage (to pull out an arbitrary number), and so forth. Code review can slip into flagging only things that really matter, and leaving nitpicks for another day.
With modern C++ you could do this with a lambda
That already happened. Living cells are nanotechnology. Something loaded with them impacted billions of years ago, and we're currently working on AI and rockets.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378894
philosophically interesting concept -- a typeface that cannot express certain concepts

GS being boring and doing it w browsewrap, but I wonder if you could go farther and use ligature rules to warp certain words