skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to build a home science lab/workshop like these guys have. I wonder if there are legal differences between the US states - if some might interfere more than others in these kind of projects. What happens when you start trying to buy chemicals, a fume hood, certain microorganisms, etc. ???
How did you get a book? I heard it's pretty hard to get one depending on where you're held.
Cryptography Dispatches: DSA Is Past Its Prime
As an European this is really cool and unlike others self-loathing Americans here in the comments I understand the idea, humor and originality.
Happy 4th USA, you are great today due to the greatness of your forefathers and the men that built this nation.
> Looks like they had 3 fingers per hand, so base 6 seems a likely choice.

Depends how they use their fingers and whether they use other body parts. There is evidence for human cultures having ranged from 4 to 10, 12, 16, and 20 (technically there are higher ones but they usually have sub-bases in that range).

You can count to 12 on a single hand (24 on two hands) by pointing phalanges with the thumb for instance. Some native cultures had base 8 using the space between the fingers rather than the fingers themselves.
I agree with some of your thoughts and thank you for putting this together. In order for this to be successful (and I truly wish it becomes so; I very much miss the internet before the web sometimes), it needs to work side by side with http. By that, I mean your web browser needs to become a ‘dual’ browser and be able to switch back and forth between the two seamlessly and documents built for the two protocols need to be able to link back and forth between the two protocols. If a browser can do that, my question then becomes, is it even worth it or fo we just need more web sites out there that focus on their text and their usability?
check AliExpress. I brought a great radio that is also an alarm clock and a Bluetooth speaker for $10. Excellent hardware (not so excellent ux)
Gosh, will major tech companies allow this to happen without an impossible-to-resist lobbying effort?

This would make US citizens who are developers and SREs and system admins almost impossibly valuable, wouldn't it?
The first crewed interstellar spacecraft
Its because the object that nature works with is not the probability distribution but the complex (as in real number plus imaginary number) wavefunction. The probability of being at a location is proportional to the wavefunction squared and the velocity is proportional to the derivative of the wavefunction times the wavefunction (? its been a while). take the function e^(i*x) the magnitude is a constant and so is the magnitude of the derivative.
Opinion: Highly composite numbers make good bases.

2, 6, 12, 60, etc

Number of fingers doesn't matter, although you can shoehorn almost any base into them. For example, base 6 lets you count to 5 on one hand and use your other to coujt multiples of 6. This lets you count to 35 on two hands.

More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_nu...
Can you query multiple repos at with one query? Interesting tool!
Drawing lines is hard (2015)
> "... especially in the US where people's lives are destroyed and horrible politicians get into office due to supposed authorities calling people names on the internet."

Is this not common knowledge? Do you not use the internet at all? Graham Hancock isn't even known by most people let alone the quality of his research.
I'm not indian, so I only see the surface of all the socio-economic issues, some of which go way back -- as far as I know, the reservation issue is highly charged and sensitive (similarly to gender/race issues in the US), and I have no strong opinion on them.

As far as I see, all energy spent railing against the reservation system is better spent improving yourself.
They may have 10 of something else...
Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm
I know we're all searching for ways to become morally outraged, but it feels like no rational person would draw this conclusion, particularly considering that Alice and Bob were originally created as generic placeholders when discussion cryptography. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As a former teacher, I 100% agree with you. Whenever I was explaining the same stuff 4 times in a row in 4 different classes, I thought "this would be so much more efficient with video". With the advantage that sick kids that stayed at home could watch the video, too. Or anyone who didn't pay attention could watch the video again before exams. And their parents could watch the video too, if they are curious.

And if more teachers would do it like this, and they would put their videos online, it means that if your teacher's explanation didn't work for you, for whatever reason, you can try another one. Having the same thing explained from 2 or 3 different angles would probably help.

The usual response is: "Teacher's job isn't just explaining; it's also making sure the kids understood properly, explaining questions, giving problems, checking the answers to the problems, etc." Yeah, so we could have 1/2 of the lesson on video, and another 1/2 solving problems and answering questions. Still an improvement over how things are done now. And a part of "giving problems, checking solution" could be done by a computer, by the way.

The part of the response I agree with, is that you cannot eliminate the helpers completely. No matter how well the videos would explain it, some students would misunderstand it creatively, and if there is no one to notice and fix the problem, the outcomes will be bad for a fraction of students. Also, for kids, someone needs to be there to make sure they actually watch the videos, and don't play with their phones during the lesson instead.

Khan Academy is fantastic! My daughter loves it, but she also sometimes gets stuck on a lesson, and needs to ask me. In principle, this could be solved by collecting feedback, and creating optional extra slow explanations for people who got stuck at some point. Like: if you didn't understand the short video, watch this long one.

The way we do teaching now is just... dunno, pretending that we live in 19th century and can't do better. It still works, but has a lot of problems. For example, if your teacher sucks, and you can't change schools easily, you are screwed; and I have heard stories about incompetent teachers.

(Also, all textbooks for elementary and high school should be open-source, and freely downloadable from one web page. With the option for volunteers to fix mistakes, add more explanations, make translations, etc.)
It’s the same rhetorical trick that allows folks in all-Democrat city and state governments to blame Republicans for all the problems.
Sorry but you have to wait your turn. We will burn down buildings, tear down statues, loot and protest for you after the blacks.

I get dibs after Asians, as a person who has some rosacea. For too long we have been disadvantaged.
Specific timing?
> and inability to use software outside of the app store

Google wants browsers to be like OSes, because they can't directly compete with desktop OSes. This concept is incompatible with security and privacy, so Google's interests are more harmful (they fund Mozilla).

Granular permissions don't solve the privacy issue, because denying them contributes to fingerprinting. Also, JIT compilers violate W^X.
Says a stem grad?
Definitely only tested on chrome. The .usa-conic item doesn't render at all in firefox :)
Tinc and Zerotier are establishing n to m connections and meshed routing where Wireguard AFAIK does 1 to 1 connections.
It's a lot worse when you have to use corporate software who implements a windows manager inside a browser window.
No women were involved?
>Unfortunately astronomers care

If astronomers care, then by definition, navigators care.

For instance, observing the overhead transit of a star and being off by a second translates to hundreds or thousands of yards in location, depending on latitude. FYI, ICBMs still use star positions as their primary means of navigation. But every datum and grid in the world is eventually traced back to, or translated via, positions originally defined by astronomic observations. There's a reason that the Prime Meridian is defined by the meridian that "happens" to pass through the observatory at Greenwich.

And while I get the point you're making, in the US, it's still legally up to the Navy to administer official time keeping, and they get to decide how all of the little non-uniform or non-predictable deviations and elements get dealt with in the real world. Including the deviations that result in leap seconds.

The fact that most people don't have to think about these things is due precisely to how well the military and scientific communities handle it.
I still don't understand the point of this project.

I mean QUIC is here, waiting for us.

Why throwing away 30 years of HTTP ideas .
If images and cookies are to be forbid that should be made from the web developper decision.

Choosing Gemini is like accepting restriction by law.
I feel like this is old behaviour, that confidence and responsability is the way forward.

In a way Gemini could have been published by writer of European Union , North Korea or Soviet Union laws, I can't belive this is a US products, as it contains too much to liberty constrain ;)
Not all of them are racists, but all of them are libertarians. The writer doesn't do a good job of clarifying that, but it's not like applying the label is inaccurate.
I don't think that's right. If you increment the time by one tick, you have the same position probability distribution. That is, the wave function didn't change. Why should it?

But that position probability distribution has a very specific energy. And at each point of that position distribution, the electron has a specific electrical potential energy. So at each point, it also has to have a kinetic energy. It has a kinetic energy probability distribution to match the position probability distribution. And now we can talk about velocity.
Marx wrote a letter of congratulations to Lincoln when he was elected as well, as a referendum on slavery. It would be silly to think that is uncritical support of the country tho.
De-escalating social media conflict
Way longer than 15 years
It's for both - 70% of capacity is for grid stability and the other 30% is for storing power when it's cheap and selling it back when it's expensive.
How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS
150,000$ / 3,000 charge cycles (~8.3 years) = 50$/MWh = 0.05c/kWh.
If a child, woman or old person is coming the other way then I take the side nearest to the traffic to protect them
How scientists know Covid-19 is way deadlier than the flu
I'm not sure if you've been following recent American politics, but that seems to be over.
Had a friend who worked for the US government, in one of their farmer support areas. Told me that it's not unusual for them to be used to keep crops from freezing, oddly enough.
Github was trademarked before git. The git trademark was only granted with a documented understanding they wouldn't conflict. Projects existing at that time got exceptions, and new ones are still sometimes granted.

EDIT: some more details: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
Gigabyte Shows Marvell ThunderX3 R282 2U Server
There is a video on YouTube about Bob Lazar the area 51 guy. Only it's about how he uses solar and wind to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen. He stores the hydrogen as a metal hydride. The tanks are heated to release the hydrogen and it's used to power his car.
Measuring by volume was from a time period before we had reliable digital scales. These days all baking measuring should be done by weight since it is far more accurate. I won’t even consider a recipe that goes by volume. Fortunately those are all written by amateurs.
That’s good for us as non-landlords though. I just want to live here. I don’t care about their ability to profit off of the demand which, by the way, has lead to a large amount of housing stock being left vacant!
Well I don’t limit it on purpose. But the idea of nations cooperating right now seems a little in the future. Whereas with aging, science will just naturally progress. No changes required to the current cooperative structure. It just happens because that is how science goes. Space is just much more political than biology.
Adults in the UK who take sport in any way seriously are more likely to quote their weight in kg, in my experience.
SSH supports things like pinning the key in a DNSSEC response.
This is a huge benefit to Canada!

https://theprovince.com/technology/shopify-poach-foreign-tal...
You're just trying to hop on the train, ain't you?
The cost of storing waste is miniscule. Because there's so little of it. The entirety of the US's nuclear waste from electricity generation occupies a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 meters high [1]. The government did build a waste storage facility, which was planned to have cost $150 million [2]. Which is tiny compared to the tens of billions that nuclear plants themselves actually cost.

The notion that cost of storing nuclear waste would make nuclear power considerably more expensive is incorrect.

1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste...
The Hidden Evidence of PTSD in the Ancient World
Drinking from an obsolete CE pint glass here. Brexit!!! (?)
20 Best Places to Eat in Manhattan. I love New York City and one of the best things about this wonderful place is it's amazing food. I could create a list of 500 places and still be short but if you're here for a short visit, these are my must try places.
Do you have an estimate of the number of days for each of the delays you mentioned?
Got it. Most of your comment went off in a different direction that sounds like a white supremacist diatribe. No interest in discussing that with you, it's nonsense and I'm sorry you believe something like that.

Do you have a source for the "tiny fraction" claim? And do you have a similar number for how much of the population cares about etymology?
Can anybody shed some light on how much scientific data can be gleaned or extracted from this? I presume that millennia underwater has rendered much of the chemical data impossible to get?
I thought of a few others that are "fun":

- The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

- Quantum Computing since Democritus by Scott Aaronson

- Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries by Marvin Jay Greenberg (a textbook, but an easy one to read on your own)

- Gödel's Proof by Nagel and Newman (best if he can read it with a partner and talk through the steps)

- Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire

Some of those have already been mentioned, but consider this another vote for them. :-)
I feel like the draw of hydrogen as a fuel source is that it doesn't disturb the current power structure which is based on control of oil and gas supplies. Countries have to constantly import oil and gas to power their transport networks. That requires those countries to pay in dollars (usually). Control that and you have them by the nose.

Electrification completely upends that. A country that is self sufficient in energy can tell other countries to take a hike.
This is not true. I currently live in a really nice apt that I rent. My landlord hasn’t substantially raised my rent in 3 years. I will eventually buy once I find something that motivates me but what actually empowers me to negotiate buying is that I’m content to walk away from the table. I don’t have to change my living conditions right now even if I would really like to.
Understanding Comics by Scott Mccloud
http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html

The four printed books by Edward Tufte
https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis

Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color by Arthur Wesley Dow
Americans generally make up the majority of visits to most websites, including Hacker News, so you're generally going to see a slant towards it.
Quoting the Wikipedia page cited above:

> It required one litre of water to clean, each of 400,000 installed panels. A total 15 days cleaning cycle required, 124 million litres of water enough to sustain 9000 people, while rain in Cholistan desert is rare and far between. Providing such huge amount of water in desert terrain, became a challenging and daunting task for management team. Besides, the manual cleaning methods allowed setting of dust before it was re-cleaned.
I have two suggest volume tablespoon measures.

One is 15mL and the other is 20mL.

That's a fair difference, but doesn't seem to matter a whole lot.
> Would you hesitate to say that expression without knowing that coworker's background?

Ok. But. The discussion is about specific expressions almost everybody knows, not just random words. One of those words is `slave`.

> It looks to me more sensible and a better long term solution to help this person to deal with his/her emotions instead of trying to change everybody around them.

I think this only applies to situations in which one specific person has specific triggers who are e.g. tight to an psychological trauma...
I'm guessing there is a difference in asking to be in solitary vs being put into solitary.
I don't think we have any plans of building anything testing speed in that time frame do we? New Horizons was/is(?) the fastest we've made, and it is pretty much end of mission as it's not going to approach anything interesting in any near generations' life span. Powering a craft is to me the biggest hurdle. Solar won't work for the obvious reason we're trying to get away from a star. Even a nuclear power source could only deliver so much power
Game theory / Moloch should've never let open-source software happen. While not perfect it works surprisingly well despite potentially suffering from all the same coordination problems outlined in this essay: free rider problem, tragedy of the commons, and all sorts of game theory race-to-the-bottom scenarios.

I also notice random acts of kindness from people, spontaneous corporation amongst rivaling tribes or companies, and things a strict self-interested agent-based analysis will tell us it's not possible.

It's an insightful model of the world but it's too simplistic and pessimistic.
wypipo. always cherry picking for comfort and absolution.
etc: 360 is a useful number of days for a calendar system
> beans and rice are already super cheap. Much healthier and cheaper option than mcdonalds.

Why are you slyly shifting from "sugar" to "mcdonalds"? Minus drinks and desserts, McDonalds' offerings are not high in sugar.

> That makes a big assumption that people aren't buying more spinach because of price of spinach.

The price per calorie of spinach is extremely high. Micronutrients are great and all, but you can't live off micronutrients alone.
Political Aspects of Full Employment
I guess Jane Street has customers in the EU. It is likely that occasionally they meet them in the EU. This might be sufficient to consider them as doing business in the EU, and submitting them to the GDPR.
I have to say I find these to replies very ironic. (Unless that's ignorant and I'm triggering someone with that, in which case I'll delete this post.)
Sounds like a cop-out from someone who can't defend their assertion.

Oops! I said "cop."
I dunno. I see a backlash happening, people building their own blog sites again. The whole "push to your own site, then syndicate that link to social media" thing seems to be happening more.

I'm tempted to creat a new GeoCities and see how that goes for non-technical folks
This will also incentivize firms to consider running teams from countries like Ireland, Canada (less restricted on immigration) and India (labor rich). It's also a shot in the arm for remote "work from anywhere".

Higher the wage in US, greater the incentive for a firm to do these things.
I'm glad to see people keeping Scott's writing alive in the general conversation here. He has written so much over the years. It would be a terrible shame to see it fade into obscurity after the deletion of the blog.
That's fun!

It'd be cool if it randomly BSOD'ed.
Their original argument was it's a MAJOR INDICATION of a bad law. Which is to say that if you're law is going to be broken by double-digit percentages of the population, there needs to be a solid argument as to WHY. A real counter-example would need to be a law that is widely broken, has no demonstrable benefit, and is still somehow a good law. Which is tautologically impossible, criminalizing people for no benefit is inherently bad lawmaking.
Gang borders create invisible walls in Los Angeles
I've run into far too many aggressively toxic, self proclaimed "libertarians" on the internet. So when the article mentioned "libertarian" in the context of the "boogaloo" idiots, it didn't surprise me at all. Libertarianism has changed a bit with the times, as have Democrats and Republicans. All kinds of bad ideas have crept in, after fermenting on the internet.
Seeing how there were and are many protests about police conduct in the USA, should be a hint about the police system there.
If putting the wrong text in front of people can make them attend large public gatherings in the middle of a pandemic, that's pretty powerful and pretty comparably troubling. (Of course, it's not an entirely novel phenomenon either - the stereotypical mob with pitchforks and torches is basically the same kind of thing.)
I'm thinking that they know everyone will appeal, but by threatening them on second appeal, you thin it out to people that actually think they have a case.

Still, it's obviously a bullshit process.
Sad Lady Dies After Writing This Post on Facebook -Video – Yawabase
Good to see some patriotism in a time when American patriotism has become faux pas. We live in a great country that doesn't need to be completely deconstructed in order to get better
Control of global tech infrastructure is an important aspect of global dominance and 'defence'. Expect a lot of disinformation in this area.
This is the coolest thing I have found on HN even
Part VIII.

> Somewhere in this darkness is another god. He has also had many names. In the Kushiel books, his name was Elua. He is the god of flowers and free love and all soft and fragile things. Of art and science and philosophy and love. Of niceness, community, and civilization. He is a god of humans.

> The other gods sit on their dark thrones and think “Ha ha, a god who doesn’t even control any hell-monsters or command his worshippers to become killing machines. What a weakling! This is going to be so easy!”

> But somehow Elua is still here. No one knows exactly how. And the gods who oppose Him tend to find Themselves meeting with a surprising number of unfortunate accidents.

> There are many gods, but this one is ours.
Whoever ever put their trust into American for profit companies which use slogans like "private secure and fast" should not be surprised at leaking all their data.

I never got how people trust companies like ddg or Brave. If you don't trust Google and Apple why would you trust a smaller company in the same jurisdiction. They will be forced to hand out all data as well regardless what they say.
> incredibly reliable and low overhead

I second that. It's one of those tools I keep coming back to. I've run production LDAP traffic through it, but also plenty of non-prod goofing around. It never let me down.