skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.goodnewsfinland.com/teraloop-secures-eur-2-4-mil... - There's a Finnish company called Teraloop who've been chipping away at a more Sci-Fi version involving maglev and evacuated loops.

Life gets difficult for this model because the heat induced due to current 'turbulence' and maybe skin effect gets 'stuck' inside the chamber. Fun engineering problems.
Hmm... so bottle a magnetar and you get apparently (but not really) "massless" propulsion. All we have to do is bottle a magnetar... umm... without the magnetic field ripping the spacecraft and anything in it to shreds... and do it with quantities of energy small enough to control (and dissipate waste heat) without melting the spacecraft into a blob of liquid metal. Got it. :)

So slightly more imaginable than the Alcubierre drive in that it does not break known laws of physics or require vast quantities of unobtainium (negative mass, lots of antimatter, etc.), but completely impractical with current or foreseeable technology. Might also be fundamentally impractical since the energy/mass requirements to generate a field powerful enough to overcome gravity and other forces acting on the spacecraft might be too large... the thrust/weight ratio math might not work even for micro-gravitational fields.
Remote | Front-End Developer | Sharetribe Platform | Full-Time | FunnelRolodex.com

As a sister company to ClickFunnels.com ($9M MRR), we are a digital marketplace, connecting their 105k paying clients to freelancers. We are looking for a front-end developer to rebuild our marketplace on the Sharetribe platform to improve the user experience and usability for all our users (buyers/sellers).

Requirements:

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- Timelines/Deadlines: Understands the importance of setting and hitting deadlines. Each project you will be expected to set an estimate on how long it will take to accomplish and the work towards hitting that target.

- Detail oriented: Someone who pays attention to detail and cares about the quality of their work, enough so that none of the details slip between the cracks. With each of your commits, it will be important that your notes are accurately reporting what was updated within each of the commits.

- Development Stack: React, Redux, CSS, HTML, Node.js, Github, Stripe, PayPal.

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Apply both brakes. When the rear wheel starts to skid, you are near the limit of your braking ability with the front brake.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html#frontuse

It's really quite simple. And you learn it with cursory research about braking on bicycles. Really this ought to be taught in schools.
My personal experience has been that, once an organization reaches some critical mass in terms of size, the primary goal seems to be to protect the institution itself rather than the stated mission it was created to serve. I’ve often wondered if this is the same mechanism that causes large organizations (e.g., churches, academic institutions) to go astray. I tend to think a diffusion of responsibility tends to go hand-in-hand with growth
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It's not my strong metric. It's his strong metric. You only quoted the first part but I'll try to streamline the point.

The point is that their approach is only going to slow down the status quo, not permanently change it. Whether his approach was successful or not is besides my point. His approach was not successful, no.

However some of the criticisms he levies are valid. Which the one I'm trying to convey. That some alternative approach must be formulated that will have a lasting impact. Partial success is not a substitute for actual success. Neither is a failing approach.
What do you mean by half valid?
I'm on you with this. These comparisons are usually made only looking at CPU, RAM and disk, without taking into account that there's quite a lot more to a laptop. Once you take into account the rest of specs, similar high-end laptops are on the same ballpark of cost.
https://archive.vn/dh0tu#10%
> I think there’s really something to this. I have to admit there have been a number of times I’ve been caught up in something “tragic” on the internet, generally some political battle, and felt like the world was falling apart. But then if I step away from the computer and go for a walk in the nearby park, I see hundreds of people just relaxing and enjoying life, not caught up in the daily trivia. I often bring my kids along and watch them just run and play, carefree.

That daily trivia is mostly useless, because news cycles aren't capable (of willing) of sustaining attention for long. I think the current coronavirus situation in the US is a great example, where the news switched focus to the BLM protests and relaxed the covid coverage despite the issue not being fixed. now they are already moving away from blm even though the issues that sparked the protests are obviously not solved either, and covid isn't any less of a threat than it was before. The same has happened countless times: the focus is not a reflection of important issues because each issue gets only it's 15 minutes of fame.
I would love to see more enthusiast scissor-switch keyboards. I learned to type on a mechanical keyboard, and I've tried all sorts of modern mechanical keyboards over the years. But I feel like laptop-style scissor switch keyboards are more precise and comfortable. Personally, I make more typing errors on a mechanical keyboard. My current favorite keyboard is an HP Wireless Elite V2.
Answering my own question, Firefox Android allows Add-Ons. So installing uBlock Origin for ad blocking and NoScript Security Suite for script blocking was trivial. So far so good, curious to see how it plays out...
There are so many entertainment options today. Far more than in 2005. Price increases may be met with more resistance for all but the most popular titles. Perhaps it's telling that it took 15 years for this price increase.
Tensions between tech industry and tech media boil over
My generation (millennials) really do think life only exists on a handful of very expensive urban centers.

Most of the country is very affordable, but I guess they don’t have advertising tech companies saving the world so it’s not as desirable.
Of course, they can't do that, because the source technologies they've put together are themselves patent-encumbered. An AV-codec is a lot like a modern pop song: a piece of IP entirely made up of licensed samples of other people's IP.

I think a more subtle "open-sourcing" of this IP could still be possible, though. Maybe one that still requires that large corporate players that are going to sell their derivative products, acquire a license the traditional way (this is, after all, what the contributors to the codec's patent-pool and R&D efforts based their relative-R&D-labor-contribution negotiations around: that each contributor would end up paying for the devices of theirs that run the codec.)

Maybe there could be a foundation created under the stewardship of the patent-pool itself, which nominally pays the same per-seat/per-device licensing costs as every other member, but where this money doesn't come from revenue but rather is donated by those other members; and where this foundation then grants open-source projects an automatic but non-transferrable license to use the technology.

So, for example, a directly open-source project (e.g. ffmpeg) would be granted an automatic license (for its direct individual users); but that license wouldn't transfer to software that embeds it. Instead, other open-source software (e.g. Handbrake, youtube-dl, etc.) that embeds ffmpeg would acquire its own automatic license (and thus be its own line-item under the foundation); while closed-source software that embeds ffmpeg would be stuck needing a commercial license.

Is there already a scheme that works like this?
Install "uBlock Origin" add-on, with "I am advanced user" enabled.
And/or "uMatrix" for more fine-grained control.
Why would that only fail on debug builds and not release builds, though? That seems really strange to me
"Worrisome"? Critics are never happy. Free to play game with option to buy features? Horrible scam by evil corporations! Expensive games that give you a lot of content up-front to recoup development costs? Robbery by evil corporations!

There are so many games out there, you can be entertained for a lifetime without ever needing to buy a recently released AAA game. Things cost what they cost, no one puts a gun to your head.
Not for 4K rips. I see tons of x265 10 bit encodes, just look for UHD or 2160p copies.
Periodic Background Sync – Explaining the JavaScript API and How to Use It
Zig showtime got me to jump into the zig community which is the first online/distributed community I've decided to join. Excited to see what he accomplishes now that zig is his actual day job!
On mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe... + enable the extention "uBlock Origin" in the settings (not sure the exact steps while writing this, sorry)

On desktop: regular Firefox + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

In uBlock Origin, there is a setting that disables Javascript by default (which I use). You can then enable it temporarily or permanently on a per-site basis.
What I learned in 5 years of working software engineering
It will be partly to attract new (young) customers to their brand and also to reaffirm the brand image with existing customers.

You see this a lot with car commercials. You won't buy a car after seeing the average car commercial. Most of them don't even explain why you should buy a specific car over another. They focus more on the aesthetics. They sell you the idea of being part of something by driving a car of this brand. And even if you have already bought a car for that brand, seeing a commercial again reenforces your binding with the brand (given you feel positive about the commercial message). This works really well with cars as for most people they are emotional irrational purchases.
Ionizing air affects on influenza virus infectivity (2015)
That way someone else can steal your data instead of the Reddit org, woo-hoo!
I would appreciate if you provide a definition of illegal that doesn't amount to "prohibited by law". In this case, the set of laws that are placed in order to protect international trade agreements.
Since 2005 games have been more or less cutting content and nearly every AAA title now has some sort of monetization other than the retail price, season passes, micro-transactions, DLC....

Call of Duty 2 had a 9 hour campaign and everything out of the box was free, there were two map packs costing $5 each and as long as one person in the lobby had it the entire lobby could play on those maps.

The latest CoD, Call of Duty Modern Warfare has a campaign length of 6 hours a season pass and micro transactions.
I see that but I think the broader point (and the point of the article) is that too often “success” in finding some less obvious link actually comes at the cost of overlooking the simple stuff. In the end there’s an argument that while neat the fancy ad targeting actually fails to meet the core business objective of maximizing ad performance.
I'm just cynically generalising - the rest of world compared to the UK has typically less stringent planning requirements, and more mountainous terrain. To store energy in other countries (except perhaps Holland..!) you build a hydro dam, and pump water into those dammed lakes using excess electricity to store it up for later release.

We have mountains (Wales, Lake District, Scotland), but the likelihood of creating lakes for hydro use is close to zero. And you would need many, many, flywheels to substitute for one lake.
I wonder why this lesson we learnt from desktop GUI development doesn't apply to mobile apps. Seems like the preferred approach there is to use native controls.
Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’
Lots of universities closed their campus housing
"If economics were so easy that the optimal way was mathematically proven 200 years ago, I think economic difficulties would be resolved by now."

I think you underestimate the market failures of the political system. Politicians are not interested in doing what's best for society, but what gets them votes and donations to help reelection. Sometimes the two align. Other times they do not. Like it or not, that is how the incentives are set up. This is why rent control for example keeps getting passed time and time again despite economists unanimously agreeing that it does not work.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control/
It tends to be much easier to increase sales of something to a current customer, as opposed to selling the first item to a new customer.

And by easier, I mean cheaper :)
> On a side note, this is one of the few things where I would like to be able to sign up for a newsletter.

How does one solve the "tell me about this in a few weeks/months when you launch" without email notification?

There's no reliable way to notify someone via Twitter or Facebook. Timelines are too noisy and there's no mass private messaging APIs.

I love my email but I've noticed that projects and products are beginning to appear that shun email communication totally.

I nagged a few projects into starting a simple list via Google Forms because I knew I wouldn't notice when they launched any other way. But "Me nagging" doesn't seem very scalable.
True, but end credits take very little space compared to the rest of the movie.
They say it's a 25M pound budget, and show a model about 2x the height of a person, so it looks like it may just be that single unit. The moment of inertia looks comparable to that of a large steam turbine.
> We don't really have the height,

UK is an island, and you have highlands. Why not make some salt water lakes there?
And people say Hungarian is hard...
Great writeup, and also an incredible tutorial on how to create a tracing allocator in Rust!

Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/hm3zjs/small_strings_...
Even more interesting is the Exacta and Trifecta bets, where you bet on order.

I worked with a pretty hardcore handicapper. He would plan for certain races for weeks and look at training and other factors. Basically, he'd cover the Saratoga meet and pair favorites a longshots and come out ahead enough to stay ahead. You could tell how well he did by the toys purchased in the Fall. Good year, a truck, bad year a laptop.
I have requested directions from Vienna to Paris before. ( https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=0dd3fe2f-ccc9-4899-8923-a5859... )

With enough context I could leave off any additional info when talking with a human, but there would likely never be "enough context" when asking a computer.
People fundamentally [1] dislike Brave, so this is just another opportunity to rap on it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22510008
WhatsApp stops processing police requests for Hong Kong users' data
That is just question of definition of 'socialized medicine' term. Many universal healthcare systems in Europe are based on public/government insurance, and mixed private and public healthcare providers.
They have this for certain things. MyFitnessPal asks me incessantly to have access to my "step" permission. I vehemently agree we should have more access to fine-grain permissions. Although apps should be punished for nagging me to change my settings every time I open the app.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to it as well.

I have very high hopes for the Zig community, and in the end my role will essentially be that of a catalyst for the potential energy that's already there.
Except I don’t think we can/should reduce our institutions to such a simple model. There’s many more inputs than just work-hours.

We build our institutions to guard against this. That’s why we don’t live in an anarcho-capitalist society and have things like anti-trust laws.
I first became aware of Lua in 2007, playing World of Warcraft. Really cool scripting language. Kinda wish it'd taken off the way it might've.
It's possible to google the answers to these things, and we're getting off topic. Here's something I found that may answer your question:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...
He touches on many things that I experienced in my career as well. Here is a short summary of talking points:

1. Forced to cut corners (we're asked to do low quality work and rush best practices just to make sure we hit original deadlines)

2. Cognitive Overload (the information requested of us to know and deal with stretches the boundaries of human thinking)

3. Low perception of value (people who don't understand our work, trivialize the effort and don't respect how difficult it really is)

4. High income forces us to seek deeper goals (with our financial needs met early in life, we start having "first world problems" of finding our greater purpose)

5. Learned helplessness (we act out of lost hope simply because that's what other people around us have experienced)
I never said you could do it in the sense that it's easy or cheap. I very specifically pointed out that you could do it in the sense that it is not illegal to.
When my first kid was born, all the ads I got where either baby clothes, daipers etc., or Second Love. A clear separation between A and B
That's what you want. You don't want these assholes knowing your business. The classic example is when they start advertising a whole lot of pregancy stuff to someone who doesn't want to be pregant and for whom that might be a serious personal problem - advertising seen by others who she does not want to see that.

Dumb algos means freedom and privacy. Smart algos that actually work stuff out are dangerous and vile. Nobody gave them permission for that. Nobody complains about seeing ads not specifically tailored for them.
Hmm, that's a good point. I wish a non-adtech company created a "pay publishers" tool.
> For example are Toyota's engineering and factories running on wasted meeting time, fax machines, and hand-written letters? Doesn't seem likely. If they are it seems to produce great results!

I used to work at Toyota, although it might have changed since I was there (I doubt it changed significantly, though).

The factories and supply chain seemed well optimized. This is a huge cost in producing cars, so it makes sense to focus on this even over engineering productivity, to some extent.

But engineering certainly did involve lots of meetings, paper documents with hanko seals, and antiquated IT systems.
Purely Functional, Statically Typed Effect System for Python
One could argue that this is already the case. How many AAA games actually give you the full game for $60? Usually you need to buy a season pass to access the full content. Some of the most notable examples have included Mass Effect 3 which locked plot critical characters behind DLC. Total War: Rome 2 had $50 worth of DLC less than 1 year after launch, and their more recent Warhammer titles lock iconic factions like Chaos Warriors behind DLC.
I'm getting 2.7% CPU usage with the clock loaded on Firefox, possibly platform dependant?
OpenAgain launched the first phase of a national campaign to get the British hospitality sector re-open safely.

The 100% free of charge solution enables pubs and restaurants solve the daunting challenge of collecting and storing customer contact data in accordance with government guidelines. At table ordering will also be provided free of charge in the near future.

Unlike other offerings, the OpenAgain solution does not require pub and restaurant customers to download an app; thereby ensuring that anybody in possession of a smartphone can easily go out for a drink or meal without having the hassle of downloading a different app for each establishment that they wish to visit.

Therefore, even larger pub and restaurant chains that may already have their own advanced smartphone apps in place, will benefit greatly from this solution in addition to their own, to enable them to cater for potential customers that have not downloaded their apps.
Here's the problem I see with unplugging to work; maybe it's an actual problem, maybe I'm just fooling myself.

I work on software. I want the finished product, to build something useful for myself or others. I don't necessarily want the "journey". When I work, my concern, or fear, is that I'm going to work on some library or method, multiple days, then find that someone else did it better in a library I can just import. As I work I also look for these libraries, and look at questions on StackOverflow. I don't consider that time wasted. Between that, and docs that are all online nowadays, I don't see how I can work while disconnected.
I would argue the opposite. You want your developers to be on a wide variety of OS, browser and screen resolution, to be representative of your users.
> The dirty secret of video codecs is that you can't

You can, but fraunhofer certainly isn't trying!

> At least the patent licenses usually used with MPEG mean that private use of open source implementations is free.

0_o that is not at all the truth.
The United Celtic Republic of Scotland and Ireland (and Wales?) will be more than happy to export angular momentum to its less enlightened neighbors.
We still use HeLa cells in the lab today. They're great models for testing adeno associated virus infectivity. It never feels right that we're using these cells at my company to do research with potential commercial applications but while a lot of people will make money off of license fees etc is we succeed, the family of the original cell donor won't. At last with HeLa, if I recall correctly, the cells themselves weren't heavily monetized, but there are some cases of cells late down the line where the patient didnt see a penny, but the researcher patented/made proprietary the cell line and charged significant license fees for it. That strikes me as even more questionable.

I wonder what the ethical right thing to do is in the case of, for example, an induced pluripotent stem cell line, or an immortalized line from a patient with a particular genome we want to study. We pay for the license for the immortalization process or stem-cell induction process, but we dont really pay for the genome, even though the reason we spend thousands of dollars immortalizing that particular cell line is because that patient has a disease we want to study and cure, and we want cells with that same genetic sequence to study.
An analysis of three Covid-19 outbreaks