skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Zune 30, the first Zune, and the only 30gb Zune player you could be speaking about, was released in Nov 2005. By comparison, Apple's flash offerings in 2005 included the 1G Shuffle (1gb) and the 1G Nano (4gb). These were not large and complex enough devices to be considered competitors to the Zune 30; Apple's competitor to the Zune 30 was the 5G Classic, which came in 30/60/80gb hard drive sizes.

I'm not sure how you got "three months before the iPhone" when the Zune 30 was released in Nov 2005 and the iPhone was released in June 2007. That's not 3 months, that's 19 months.
Money is the worst proxy for optimising returns for the society. Lemme know if you have anything better.

Greed and selfish pursuit leads to wealth creation
I long ago developed the opinion that most "innovations" in money and finance are scams whether intentional or not.

Money and finance are like power and water. They belong to a class of things that should be unbelievably boring, things you forget exist when they are working properly.

A related idea I developed from watching the cryptocurrency world is that it is really hard to have a financial system that is anything but gambling, Ponzis, and fraud. These are the paths of least resistance in finance, the things money seems to "want" to do. The vast maze of regulations in conventional finance are the outcome of a multi hundred year evolutionary battle to maintain at least some level of actual productive activity in the financial world.

The reason money "wants" to gamble and play Ponzi games is likely related to how human dopamine reward loops work. We get dopamine hits from gambling and are very prone to it, while productive investment is often too slow to deliver regularly spaced Skinner box rewards.
I only see a list if four "Don'ts". Would have been nice to have some "Do instead's".
Of course I can try to think about "good" ways to access my secret other way than hard coded, but then I may not be the audience. If I already made the mistake of storing keys hard coded, then how should I know that my new way is better than this?! For articles like "X mistakes in topic Y" I expect some solutions to solve the problems. The other way is only pointing at fools for me.
Well yes, people tend to become violent when they are violently attacked! Over and over again, we saw police violently attacking non-violent protests so that the natural push-back that ensued could be dishonestly portrayed as a “riot”.
When are you scheduled for an appearance on the Event Horizon podcast?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw
The article’s title is “New US Bill would require makers of encrypted devices to leave a backdoor” which reads much less like propaganda than the current HN headline of “Senators propose lawful access to encrypted data.”
A lot. Snippets of text, or links to stuff I want to read later.
Not them, but I imagine that it's because your fixed costs never stop — you can't just tell your staff to go home and not get paid until the next customer gets in.

Every hour you're open, money goes out. You need to have continuous sales to even have the opportunity to make ends meet. Even if you're losing money each hour but still making a few sales, you have some flexibility with tweaking your formula to reduce the losses or turn it into a net even. If you're just sitting idly, you're just burning money without anything to do about it.
The gentle gradients and transformations from black & white to color are charming. It made me think of the scene in Wizard of Oz where Dorothy steps into Technicolor.
If you don't have a factory-level meat industry doing it all-in-one, processing material that otherwise would be discarded is a niche for one-person businesses.
This does some fascinating things to my brain and I think I want a Reddit front end that lets me put in my username to see my own front page as an auto-generated Newspaper.
> it costs literally nothing to apply other than you time

Which, if you're wondering, is probably around 6 weeks of full time work the first time you go through the process, less for future iterations when you have a better idea of what you're doing.
There's a few ways to do it (and the press release is surprisingly good and mentions most of them), but certainly one of the more obvious explanations is that the emitting object, is in a binary system with some other object, and that modulates the emission mechanism somehow.

I don't think either needs to be a black hole though. What I consider the most plausible candidate for emission is probably magnetars (i.e. neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields), and there's no reason the companion would need to be a black hole either, you just need a companion that gives a 16 day orbit and that's very easy to do with another star or neutron star.
Wow.. Never heard of it before, thanks.

That heavily reminds me the "Roadside Picnic" (1972) novel of Strugatsky brothers (that same novel, that coined term "Stalker"). The only difference that the heroes of the novel dealt with consequences of alien civilization visit, and ”Goiânia accident” is purely our's own...
You're asserting that these things are as easy to use as keeping all your junk on a shared Google Drive or whatever it is many companies are currently doing?

They all require you to have a level of technical competence equivalent to what would be needed to implement the backups yourself.
The US Metric Board also wasn't really getting anywhere and didn't have a Congressional mandate. [1] I'm not sure you can really blame Reagan for getting rid of an ineffective government organization that was being publicly ridiculed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
TBH, the satirical tone makes your reply difficult to read and weakens your argument, if any. I'm really not sure what you're position even is - you could have just said, "history is cyclical" or "nothing has changed"
diminishing police’s right to self defense seems to be a deliberate strategy to destabilize communities and increase crime

Indeed, you just need to look at marxist countries to see the hypocrisy: they all have a well-funded, scary, unnacountable police.
So the black site is somehow justified by the fact that there is crime in the area? This makes no sense. The black site is itself illegal and an example of lawlessness. How is an Abu Gharib clone helping solve the gamg problem? Did Abu Gharib really help out the efforts in Iraq?
Their collection is coming along nicely.

Right after NextStep, they really need to get Apollo Domain/OS (not HP-UX) on the HP 9000/425e. :) Apollo innovated a lot, and rethought or created the network OS, display system, SCM and CI/build servers, etc. There are ideas you won't see elsewhere, or that only reappeared decades later.

If they don't have SunOS 4 with SunView on one of those SPARCstations, that's another neat one to have in the collection. Architecture-wise, a Sun-3 (m68k-based rather than SPARC) would also be nice, and were often used with "shoebox" drives, to complement the pizza box. There were also some neat Sun-386i models, though those were minitowers, not pizza boxes.

Since the theme is "Pizza Box computer", DG actually advertised the less-known m88k-based AViiON as "Mainframe in a Pizza Box", IIRC. If you've read Soul of a New Machine, "AViiON" looks like "Nova II".
I don't see how is it degeneration. It's just a different encoding format...

Towards the end it looked very much like how you would transcribe English speech as Hungarian.
I could read it fluently around maybe 50-70% speed.

Japanese does the same (for words they borrowed from English), so I could actually understand lots of things in Japan which were written using katakana, just after a month, without actively learning it. I might have spent 2 hours in total memorizing the katakana and hiragana symbols.

Dutch also became substantially decodable for me just after a day or two and after learning a few trivial transformation rules between spelling and speech.
Binary to decimal can’t be that hard, right?
Acetate sheets for use on Over-Head Projectors (OHP), used to come on a plain white backing sheet. The top was glossy smooth, and the back was a little tacky; if you can find those ...
If it’s regular like clockwork it’s nothing but a cog in the universe we’re looking at, all in all interesting to study.
Next irregular signal will be even more interesting though that does not necessarily imply alien communication
Hell, with all the regulatory rollbacks by the EPA [i] that might happen here soon enough.

[i] https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation...
I was just discussing this with a friend of mine. I only need one or two of each cable type, and one or two wall plugs. I don't need every device to come with an extra cable. It's wasteful.

Given the increasingly small number of different cables, I'd be fine with buying my own every few years.
Says person who never started a venture backed startup. Ignore this poster. VCs want to invest in companies with moats. Depending on the domain, you may require one or more patents and potentially a Freedom To Operate.
Dark and the Long Term
Just open the link in Firefox, a flash of text "a document sharing ... ", then it's gone and the error message displays. I've enabled js for the site.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbdAa9qXQAYji-z?format=jpg&name=...

Spoiler: 99% chance it's from Russia.
Unfortunately, left/right does not map to Democrat/Republican.
Whenever topics like Snow Crash and the Metaverse come up, I'm amused at all the comments from people talking about what it will be like when the Metaverse is invented. The Metaverse already launched. It's called Fortnite.

Epic isn't done building it, of course, but they know what they are doing and have read every chapter of Gibson, Stephenson, and Ready Player One (just as those authors have paid attention to the actual real life career of Tim Sweeney at Epic). The team at Epic also has insane amounts of money to throw at their work because they have demonstrated success in game design, economy design, and large scale low latency architectures. The fact that it's an actual real functioning product is why it doesn't look like what most people thought v0.1 of the metaverse would look like.
Why not use the meter?
Are there known cases of this being done?
A charity only gets to give part of the money away once and pay the rest to administrative overhead. A lender is incentivized to get the money back more than a charity and has to do more vetting and training of the people it lends to. In order to be self-sustaining, it needs to charge interest.
> Public cloud solutions can help overcome these above shortcomings of in-house security+IT teams in a org politics friendly manner.

The problem there being that the choice of "public cloud" is subject to all the same forces, so then the vendor with the best corporate marketing team gets the business even if their security is crap.
No, that was the right phrasing. It isn’t perfectly explained, but its perfectly explainable.
> Democrats' Trust in Media Highest in Past 20 Years

Confirmation bias is a real thing.
Just because I needed to look it up:

- 1 International Foot = 0.3048 m

- 1 US Survey Foot = 1200/3937 m ~= 0.3048006096 m

- 1 light-nanosecond ~= 0.2998 m
A fair number of synthetic undergarments. I live in Vietnam, so breathable, wicking clothes are important. I have tried rayon, but I am not impressed. I tried wool boxer briefs, but they were comically small. After reading your post, I did order another two pair of wool shorts. We’ll see how they do.

For the record, I also use a metal water bottle.
My bad, I just glanced and conflated two events. The one I had in mind was replacing the police force of Ukraine in 2015. A country of 44 million people fired all the 150 thousand policemen and hired 120 thousand new ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militsiya_(Ukraine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Police_of_Ukraine
No, I’m not missing that. To quote myself: “the state obviously depends on a monopoly on violence to sustain itself.” The point is that violence is not the source of state power, but its instrument. This is a real distinction, not just word games, and it often gets elided when people talk about the state as a monopoly on violence. You said it yourself: “In a power vacuum, the group that has the most weapons...” Violence reigns in the absence of state legitimacy. Governments that forget this tend to fall into chaos, lawlessness and corruption. For example, Somalia. Or read Fire in the Lake for an examination of the way all the violence in the world couldn’t make up for the lack of legitimacy of the US-backed South Vietnamese government.

When Weber is talking about the state being defined by a monopoly on violence, he’s talking about the definition of the modern state as opposed to the pre-modern, not an inherent feature of all human organization and government. The medieval king, for example, certainly didn’t hold a monopoly on violence.
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Hey. I looked up redlining, but I am not sure how it relates to bidding.

Could you explain your point in a bit more detail. I am kinda curious.
Everything is already made to imperial, people are already comfortable using imperial. And the US is in an international position of strength in that we arent manufacturing amd selling things to other countries, we are buying goods made elsewhere, so we're the ones generating the demand. We dont need to standardize with the rest of the world in the same way, and so we dont bother with the effort. In the areas where standardization is required, such as research and development, you'll see that scientists already use metric.

The US actually originally planned to use metric, but if I recall correctly, the guy thomas Jefferson had invited to bring metric standards to the US ended up getting captured by pirates, so we never had the standards needed to switch and just didnt bother. But he time metrification was sweeping the globe, we'd already industrialized.

And one advantage that imperial has over metric - there are more multiples of 12. 12 is more divisible. A third of a foot is 4 inches, while a third of a meter is 33.333333333333333 etc centimeters
I tried cache-oblivious algorithms for some numerical code, but found them underwhelming. The cache-oblivious model does not consider the effects of prefetching and cache line associativity. Both can make a huge difference.

They are a great starting point and work well for the RAM/Swap level of the memory hierarchy, but for the L1/L2 caches manual tuning still pays off. This unfortunately makes the implementation non-oblivious and even depended on the specific CPU used.
> For many applications "slow" logouts are enough

Why? I understand it might be acceptable for the next "Uber for Cats" SaaS but if you protect an account that is actually important, not being able to revoke an access key is an issue.

> Keep validity of access tokens short.

But then you are actually spamming your authentication service and it even starts to blur the distinction between access token and refresh token.

I understand that there is many specific use cases where JWT makes sense like when you have to delegate authentication but for other case which shouldn't be recommending it, not being able to properly logout is not a security practice we should have in 2020 and later.
As of the latest Firefox release that no longer works.
Lovely. Thanks for writing this.
Honestly I’m just back to storing my own music and gave up on streaming services. To discover new music though i use mostly Hype Machine, Deezer and Youtube music, just get the actual mp3 for the stuff I like so I am not at the mercy of changing licenses etc.
Obvious submarine article / PR. The goal is to signal how concerned with ethics DeepMind is.
> Taking the threat itself down from Facebook in no way violates the public’s “right to know”.

How can we even do journalism if we are deleting the sources quoted?
i'm an extrovert, but the older i get the less i want crowded theaters.

the problem with crowded theaters is that people, in general, make a lot of noise. and i hate watching movies with other people making noises.
The writing has also reminded me the https://dotsies.org/ font.
Change being presented gradually is actually a lot easier to adapt to.
Ok so I guess this is the level of the cinematic experience after watching movies on mobile phones.
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Would encourage anybody on Ubuntu to give Linux Mint a try. It’s displaced Lubuntu as my go to distribution due to it being very polished overall while still being about as lightweight and fast as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
The best way I've heard it phrased is that europeans 2ant to know much much fuel they need to get to their destination, while americans want to know how far they can go on a tank. Its obviously oversimplified/not relevant/other pedantic nitpicking but it captures the different relationship americans in general have with driving and their cars
Roadside picnic didn't coin the term stalker. Stalker is a Soviet film based on the book.
It’s actually down to what Unicode you use. We ran into this on Standard Ebooks tooling for return-to-text arrows in the endnotes, and the solution is to add a U+FE0E character after the emoji to indicate a textual rendering is preferred. More info at https://mts.io/2015/04/21/unicode-symbol-render-text-emoji/
And whatever some people on forums like this may think about it, there is zero widespread interest in a wholesale switch to metric in the US. Where there's an advantage to using metric like in science and engineering, people use metric (mostly). For day to day life, they mostly use US units and they work fine.

As someone else noted, even if you look at the UK, they use the metric system more than the US does, but they also still use imperial units in a lot of contexts--including some we don't use in the US like stones.
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The article itself lacks the region. As I don't have twitter I don't care about following links to it and furthermore, because of NoScript that I have, it didn't even appeared in the first place. In order to see the twitter link I had to temporarily allow it to see that as well.

And including the entire quote would've made no difference on the region, but the origin. I differentiate between source region (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia as indicated in the twitter post) and origin (a nuclear plant, a mining operation etc - that's for me meaning origin of radionuclides).
Pay-walled article. Mirror anyone?
I think “heart” has a slightly different meaning. I can’t really explain it, but when people say “heart” the also tilt their head or do the heart symbol with their hands. Just a little different.
GiveDirectly (https://www.givedirectly.org/) gives 88% of the money straight to recipients and offers a nice baseline for charity work.

There's also better metrics than "how much money does the charity take off the top" which you can learn about in Will McAskill's book "Doing Good Better," namely you can try to track things like "how much good are we doing for the amount of money we get." The main idea is that if a charity can use more of its donation money in order to have a better impact, then that's what it should do.
Just not worth the effort to switch. What do we gain that's worth getting everyone to relearn everything? We already use metric where it matters.
> If people cared about society more than money

Money is only a way to measure relative value of one thing vs another to people who have things (or time) want things (or time). Money is the wrong thing to focus on. It's like blaming air for carrying bad words.
I genuinely want to believe in it, but as others have already mentioned, charities seem to have a better track record in what they are trying to accomplish ( my favorite example being a goat gift ).
How does implementing Fibonacci weed out people who can't program at all? Spending hours doing Leetcode is far from a reliable assessment of someone's programming skills.
Kazakhstan.
In Python, everything is a pointer to a PyObject and always passed by value, so thinking of them as values makes sense. You can even easily get the address of the pointer by calling id on it (but not as easily convert it back).
As someone who bricked an iPhone XS after swimming with it (in freshwater, at depths < 1m), I can confirm this. Certainly took me by surprise. It was a $99 fee with AppleCare+ to replace it.
From:
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/hamman1/#:~:tex....

"non-feedstock energy [for plastic production is] (between 1.4 x 1018 J and 2.2 x 1018 J)". Non-feedstock means the stuff that doesn't turn into plastic, but just powers the product. From the same paper, adding both feedstock and non-feedstock together:

"between 2.5% and 4.0% of total U.S. primary energy consumption in 2008 was due to the energy for plastic."

Also, plastics are a fossil fuel, and a lot of waste plastic is burned for energy production, which results in significant fossil-fuel based CO2 emissions.
How soon is that in your opinion/information?

Is it 1 year away or 10 years away?
The phone looks pretty cool but I'm not sure what their deal is with the radiation stuff. Their claims [1] seem a bit fearmongery. They even say stuff like "Although it has not yet been proven, the stress felt by those sensitive to EMF exposure may cause cortisol levels to rise"... not been proven, so why say it then??

Additionally it appears the only product they have ever shipped before is a music album [2], so I'm not sure how they go from that to a phone. I'd be surprised if this turns out to be any more than Indiegogo vaporware.

[1]: https://mudita.com/products/pure/sar

[2]: https://mudita.com/products/nick-lewis/
Non-paywalled source:

https://apkmetro.com/wirecard-scandal-puts-spotlight-on-audi...
There is no Nobel prize in economics.
> AJAX is a new technique for creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications with the help of XML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

AJAX first appeared in 1999 [0], when people still ate Olestra and used pagers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
Let's face it, he only liked it because he's seen inception before.

If you haven't seen inception before and this was your first experience you'd be pissed off.
Correct, a CMOS sensor with a rolling shutter looks and handles a lot like a piece of DRAM. Pixels are arranged in rows and colums; capturing a frame works just like a sequential read through a DRAM array. The nominal frame-rate at a given resolution is set by the read-out speed of the array, so reducing resolution increases speed almost linearly.
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Nothing will change so long as you have the current agency derived audit model.
There is always asking your rich parents for money. :)
I'd not heard about van Emde Boas layout before, and it sounds super cool! I wish the author had included a simple example before focussing on the general case -- I find it hard to get an intuition for the general without a specific example! In particular, after some searching, I found the diagram at the top-left of page 4 of https://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/papers/soda02.pdf to be immensely helpful in getting my head around the concept.
I understand the political reason for not naming the reactors/nation-states most likely responsible for the release but I don't understand the lack of context. Why wasn't short-lived iodine-131 detected along with the caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103? How do the measured levels of the long-lived caesium/ruthenium isotopes compare to known events like Fukushima? How do these measured levels compare to known nuclear weapon tests?

I'm worried about the geopolitical implications, not the global health implications.
I think "Microfinance is a scam" oversells the claim.

The truth is much closer to "Microfinance is payday loans". To the extent that you believe payday loans can help the poor in the developed world, microfinance can also help the poor in the developing world.