skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German here that’s exactly how it is. Roaming in other countries has you stable and fast connections.
Yes, diet is important. Feed young kids jerky and other things that take some effort to chew. It makes the jaw grow so there will be more room.

Another thing told to me by a mechanical engineer who is the son of a dentist: people from different countries can have different characteristics and inter-breeding may cause problems. He said oh, German teeth in an Irish mouth - the kid in question is indeed a mix from those two places. My kids ortho said they do things differently depending on race too. Example they gave was that Chinese teeth tend to be more straight across the front as opposed to more arched, so they take that into account when doing braces.
> [..] and its monopolistic anti-competitive practices,

iOS owns 25% of the market. How is that a monopoly? You might not like their policies, but as you mention, you have a choice to move to a competitor with a vastly larger market share.

> I'm better off turning to the Play Store or one of the many other app stores that can be used on Android devices.

Doesn't this demonstrate that the Apple AppStore isn't a monopoly? That you have a clear alternative with 74% market share.

> I'd like to see regulation that forces Apple and Google to allow any and all app stores on their devices,

...but why would they do that? There is healthy market competition between Apple and Google. I'm old, so I remember when Windows dominated everything. That was 2007 (or '98 if you wanna talk IE anti-trust case). 13 years later and Microsoft has 0 market share in mobile devices. In another 13 years it is likely a new competitor could supplant the Google and Apple dominance.

reference: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
That's exactly what was done here. They actually tested the cut-down version; with a uranium tamper it might have been over 100MT.
I don't quite follow. Was that supposed to be a reply to the parent instead of me?
Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of the Wet Hot American Summer line about how we are all passengers on starship earth!
In the process of doing the same
Gmail -> Kolabnow

Android -> Iphone (more expensive, but can last longer with reasonable user experience and I can resell for better prices)

Contacts and calendar -> Apple icloud

Google Maps -> apple maps (still have to use waze sometimes, traffic information works best in Waze in Brazil)

Search -> Duck Duck Go

Web -> Firefox (The multi account containers in Firefox is to good to stop using)

Google Drive -> Ondrive (I had to buy an Office 365 licence to my dad. End up buying the family licence, and 1 TB cloud storage endupd being very usefull). A shame I really dont use office, but, is there in the cloud if I ever need to open a word doc.

I still havent found a viable alternative to Youtube videos, but, I think is a matter of time for an alternative product reach enouth users)
These rare books are an intellectual heritage. One thing that should be top priority for libraries that have these valuable works is high fidelity digital scans of all their works.

Any location in the world can be subject to man-made or natural destruction. If these collections are digitized and placed online, at least there is a better chance of the knowledge being preserved.
> how important it will be for us to somehow find a way for the people at the top to not lead everyone else down a wrong path.

Or to find a way of life that doesn't include "people at the top" as the primary decision making apparatus.

> but in some ways we need to overcome our caveman instincts when we're stocked with nuclear weapons.

In a lot of ways, it is our caveman instincts that make mutually assured destruction a viable political option. It's probably what also prevents us from using scorched earth as a common warfare tactic. This seems a bit like looking a gift-horse in the mouth.
There are hundreds of videos of nuclear tests publicly available. They're not revealing anything here. It's arguably weird it took this long; the Soviet Union and Russia have released footage of other tests before.

> Does every teenager these days know how to plan and carry out a 50 megaton nuclear test by reading Wikipedia?

This video shows you nothing of the sort.
It's a very good (and new) simulation model. The issue is that it's pretty buggy, and performance is varied. I think there is real potential for it to be optimised into being much better (very poor use of multi core CPU for example), but that's a pretty fundamental rewrite you'd need for that. That it isn't built with DX12/vulkan is again disappointing and I doubt will be something that's addressed in an update, though I'd love to be proven wrong!
That guy really has bad luck. From the Wikipedia article,

"In the early 1990s, Wayne sold the original Apple partnership contract paper, signed in 1976 by Jobs, Wozniak, and himself, for US$500. In 2011, the contract was sold at auction for $1.6 million.[15] Wayne has stated that he regrets that sale.[5][6][16]"
Doesn't all of that censorship make .pk internet access more expensive than it would be?

Firewalls and maintaining them aren't free. Cheaper to let it all pass through, especially when it isn't harmful to the network itself.
> by making existing players share infrastructure.

This is exactly what US needs to do to bring back competition. Sadly even Wheeler who reclassified Internet to Title II, excluded that part of it.

Back in late 90s and early 2000, we had huge competition, exactly because of Title II (DSL, which ruled the net back then, because was under telecos automatically was under Title II, so your phone lines could be leased to other companies). In 2003 Internet was officially classified under Title I which ended this (including net neutrality) and here we are now.
And how did you aim the reticule against your opponents in this checkered paper game? Gameplay ran in realtime? I'm sure you mean to say that you created a pen and paper game that had shooting as an element, but backed by some kind of dice roll. This is conforms to what I said were the constraints of text based games: graph or grid based worlds with turn based or pseudo turn based simulation. Shooters in these kinds of games do exist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/722730/Cogmind/ but they exhibit the same constraints I mentioned
This isn't showing you anything about the _manufacture_ of the warhead, though, and the design and manufacture is the hard bit. And today, it's mostly hard because it's _expensive_; the technology isn't all that secret.
At #the-sodium-deuterium-reactor-program you quote this:

> The principal problem in the SDR is a psychological one. Many people have a feeling that sodium and water react explosively; they do not react explosively. Hydrogen and oxygen do react explosively. The pyrotechics that you may have seen on sodium combining with H2O is principally one in which hydrogen has reacted with oxygen in the air. The reaction rate is of the order of microseconds; it is truly an explosive reaction. Sodium and water can be handled quite safely and quite easily, as I will show you later.

Well, so, sodium and water do not explode because of dissociated hydrogen reacting with oxygen so much as through coulombic explosion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEVmflpUCo https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i5/Sodium-Potassium-Really-E.... https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2161 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_explosion https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30983141

What happens is that as sodium loses electrons to the water it becomes more and more positively charged, and this causes tendrils to grow as the sodium's surface pushes on itself to reduce the electric potential, but this increases the surface area in contact with water, which speeds up the rate at which the sodium loses electrons, which speeds up the rate at which tendrils form, and so on. This reaction is spectacularly fast. It does also produce hydrogen, yes, which could react with oxygen, but even without that the tendril formation is explosive.

Plain sodium will not necessarily explode in water because a) it has oxides on its surface that reduce the rate of reaction with water, and b) hydrogen formed at the surface does the same. But with the right setup you can get an explosion and it really is incredibly fast. In one of the videos on the topic clean sodium (no oxide) is dropped through a noble gas atmosphere into water, and what they get is an explosion.

Apparently this was only properly understood very recently, around 2014.

So yeah, knowing nothing more about SDR, the thought freaks me out! :)
Riding a PRT in Morgantown during a football game is quite an experience. At least when I was familiar, it was quite the smell was often a mixture of piss, and vomit, only occasionally from the person's currently riding it.

Every year they wouldsee how many people they could cram into one PRT car, I think the record was 28, which was pretty significant. The PRT is definitely a unique experience.
I wonder, when someone doesn't like something, do you say "Vote with your wallet, don't use it?"

Or do you say "use it anyway, how tiresome, you're obligated to use XYZ Company because I like them"?

I truly cannot see a point to your post at all.
a) Global market share is irrelevant, show US share, which is about 51/49

b) Apple makes up the plurality of all store revenues, despite having a smaller install base both globally and in the US.

c) You can display monopolistic/duopoly behavior without having 100% of the market.
I tend to agree. I was an incel for quite significant parts of my life. Probably due to some autistic traits I never understood how the whole dating thing worked. Thank god things have improved for myself but this is something you basically can't admit in public without being ridiculed. I remember the time when "introvert" was also something to be ashamed of.

I really wish society had more sympathy for people who don't fit in socially. With all the progress we are tying make not demeaning people for their race or sexuality it still seems OK to bash socially awkward people.
I, for one, would like to hear more about your opinion on the social aspect.
> I'm pretty sure that will have massive opposition, because they are deathly scared of opening their devices back to the general-purpose computers they actually are.

Who's the opposition coming from? Apple? They can fart around and waste time and money on appeals, but if they get hit with an antitrust ruling there isn't much they'll be able to do about it.
I so thought that was going to be a link to The Arrival.
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking

You have a lot of faith in 60+ year old (mostly tech-illiterate men) to fix technology they don't understand. Government isn't the solution to this problem. Developers leaving the app store is probably only what will get Apple to change.
I haven't used pov-ray in about 5 years, though I used to use it heavily, and at least back then, it didn't allow the export of the objects you render in a 3d format. It's a ray tracer designed to create scenes via objects modified via CSG.

I'm actually pleased to hear about this, since I find my patience with most 3d programs is very short, and I really have a need currently for being able to create 3d objects using CSG that I can work with hopefully for a game I'm making.
It's exceeding obvious, capital is cheap. The means the finance industry uses more of it. They use it for rent seeking shenanigans that wouldn't make a return if it were higher priced. The problem is increased rent extraction reduces the return on economic activities that require real investment. Because the cost of labor and rents are too high to compete with aforementioned shenanigans.

Simple simple simple.
"Not sure why society should care (beyond preventing people been radicalised into becoming a danger I guess)."

We should care because one of the most basic needs is not met for these people. They also don't get much sympathy or help.
I think people have this internal moral scale where they're okay to sin if they throw a few bucks into the collection plate. So serving on the ethics board might've made him feel okay to cheat.
Thanks, working on sync.
He/she meant monopoly over iOS software market, not over the entire smart phone market.
I’m in Denmark. I have “3” as a phone provider and have essentially an unlimited plan for 30usd, with free roaming in most of the world. My home internet is served as an IOT plan with a “300MB” plan that in practice the network owned by the old national provider don’t cap, so I hit 1TB on 4G with a monthly fee of ~4.7USD.
I know many people who does the same.
The US really seem like in need of some good old competition.
MDN, Firefox (voice search would be nice), and anything that is a replacement for Google products.
Ever tried to negotiate to get your product sold on a shelf? It is very much not a level playing field. WalMart is infamous for beating sellers down to such a low per unit price with the promise of making it up on quantity. Target, BestBuy, and any other big box retailer only follow WalMart's lead. Then there's the fact that if your product doesn't sell well according to their metrics, you are forced to buy it back from them. Now you're hoping Ross will buy it from you!

There are costs of doing business. They can all be negotiated or at least attempted, but at the end of they day you want your product where the consumers are, so you have to ultimately play within their terms. You can make 70% or make 0%.
The same points hold for India as well. We’ve never had SIM locking and exit penalties and have had number portability for quite a long time. Cellular infrastructure though was handled by “non public facing” companies, owned by consortiums of telecom companies. With the entry of Reliance Jio, these companies joined hands to lock Jio out of their networks. For quite some time, cross network calls would be of very poor quality or almost impossible. Things have improved a lot since then.

However, it’s great the Israel has made it possible for infrastructure to be shared as a utility, allowing new players an easier entry. That will keep things competitive for a long time.
(Preface - agreeing with you) - And we really can't know it, either. There's some "evidence" that they're willing to tweak search results in favor of their politics of the day but I'd even take that with a grain of salt - mostly because of the original problem: Google is not transparent.

It has always worked out well for us to give power to completely opaque entities right? Guys? Guys?
At some point I'll get around to writing this up in more detail, as I don't think anyone else has ever described the behaviour of this particular invalid 8086 opcode.

I'd love to see more about that --- there has been plenty of documentation on "first-byte" undocumented opcodes, but far less research and information on undocumented operand combinations/groups and such. In particular, the infamous FF FF (that gets disassembled by DEBUG and a few other assemblers as "??? DI" ) falls in that area, as does LEA with a register operand ("LEA AX, AX") and several others that don't immediately come to mind.

If I remember correctly, on the Z80 some of the hidden architectural registers' state was also visible as undefined flags. What you've described sounds very similar to that.
I think that is very questionable.

X-Plane handles some edge cases better for sure, like stall/spin.

The feel of MSFS is much much much more real... like how there's always a little bit of turbulence.
Black and white hat symbolism in film
One motivator for these giant bombs was the poor accuracy of the early ICBMs. The Soviet Union at one time planned to get around this with really enormous warheads and ICBMs; the Proton rocket used to launch Mir and ISS components started life as a design for a super-ICBM (though it was never deployed as such). By the time this test happened accuracy had improved enough that it was kind of pointless, and the whole thing is a bit of a historical oddity.

Both the US and Soviet Union did explore using really big fusion bombs for geo engineering (there was a bonkers plan to dig a harbour in Alaska with them, notably), but early testing of these concepts were not promising and the atmospheric test ban killed it off.
> I know it is easy to hate on big companies but how do you leave them when credible alternatives are not even close in productivity/performance.

There are times when that is true, and there are times when it is simply a matter of adapting to the differences. For example, you mentioned trying a ThinkPad with Ubuntu after using a MacBook. You claimed that the MacBook seems to be at the sweet spot. It reflects your experiences so that's a fair assessment. Yet my experience in moving from a MacBook to a Linux PC was quite the opposite. A significant factor was my extensive prior experience with Linux, as well as a desire to reap the benefits of Linux (rather than to escape the drawbacks of the MacBook).

> Lastly, I would add one can pay for Gsuite and then Gmail etc. are ad free. I doubt they would be mining paid Gsuite user's data since companies use that.

Don't confuse "pay for" and "ad free" with "no data mining". At least with consumer goods, companies were mining data from paid products well before the Internet was a thing. I also wouldn't be surprised if Google mines some data from business accounts, even if the scope of that data collection is severely limited.
How did you figure this out? I'll keep my eyes open for this in the microcode.
> Now... how well does that translate to building software?

Well, let's dig on on what the Air Force ended up doing, overall.

First, they studied and improved the ergonomics. Specifically, making things like seats adjustable. The tool became more adaptable for a wider range of pilots.

At the same time, there is a limit to how far that can go, especially when we are looking at 1940s technology.

The Air Force thus imposed body-size standards for pilots -- 5'4" to 6'5" is a wide range, but it excludes outliers. Too short, too tall, too wide, or too heavy, and you couldn't be a pilot.

My Dad was in that category -- too big to fly his dream plane.

Controls were adapted so that unique functions had unique hand-feels. Flaps had a different shape of control than landing gear, and all of that was standardized across aircraft.

So what does that tell us about workflows for engineers?

Well, we can say firmly that physical ergonomics matter. Bigly.

Uncomfortable seats, poor-quality monitors, high-latency or slow network connections... all of those are deal-breakers.

But in terms of things like process and practices... standardize what you can, give everybody a sane baseline from which to work, and then empower them to customize as much as possible for their team or group.

At the end of the day, software is shipped by teams.

There's this odd, pervasive myth of the Morlock and Eloi in the software world.

E.g., that engineers are either beautiful artisans in designer specs to which every whim must be catered, or that you just need to shove a pizza under the door every couple of days and production code will then appear on your servers.

Don't open the door, though.

None of that is reality. And to work in a team, you get to surrender some of your personal work-autonomy, in order to leverage the cognitive multiplier effect.
They were not legally required too; or at-least never lost a law suite to the degree that they were required too. Only once AB 5 pass did it really become a true legal requirement.
The Earth will be seismically dead at some point.
Despite the cheery orchestral music, I don't think a video that was classified for 60 years would have been produced as propaganda. I assume it was intended as an internal technical report for high-ranking officials.
I doubt either of them have the capability to do it in the first place! Invading an industrialised, heavily armed country of 30 million people which has been planning for that to happen for decades is an extremely big deal. Note that it didn't go well in the Korean War, and North Korea is much more prepared for it now than then.
The important bit being:

"though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of material (enriched uranium)"
The SSN Numbering Scheme
The peer-tube recommendation was really embarrassing.
The surprising story of the salesman who became L.A.’s first Covid-19 patient
Could a random person show up in Denmark and buy this plan? That sounds amazing
Wait, they blacklisted you permanently for simply asking about the case?
Such an amazing object ... of itself, and that it even survived that long on the ocean floor.

After being found, it sits around for 50 years before anyone qualified to understand it takes a hard look. Then forgotten for many years, then decades more to sort of prize out how it worked. Then the need for advanced imaging tech to pry apart and decode the (physically fused) layers.

To me probably the most amazing single-object story ever. And we may never know the who or where. (Are there more out there?)
Sure it's still around, and anyone considering dropping Google probably dropped Facebook a long time ago.
That is a really good point. I think it runs standard RAID configurations, but I could be wrong. That said, it also supports encryption at rest so to your point, you probably couldn’t plug them in to another box. That kind of stinks.

As you said, I may be expecting too much. Maybe a dedicated custom box is better suited to the multipurpose application.
"What do all men with power want? More power."

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I feel like we have to re-learn the lessons of history every few decades. These things have never worked out well for us in the past and yet despite thousand of historical examples, in every generation or three, a not-small group of people arises swearing that this time is different.

Literally the only way to protect humanity from itself is to prevent the concentration of power and here we are, doing it again.
I believe all the droids were destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad, and the windtraps are managed manually by the Fremen.
At the university I work at, the frat houses are owned by the university. The vast majority of all students live in university-owned housing, and while there are unsanctioned parties in off-campus housing where the university has no jurisdiction,

a) Most parties are not. They occur on university property. Therefore, the university has a responsibility and liability for what goes on there.
b) The university is known to lean on the local police force (which is already very small) to not do anything about student parties either on or off campus.
c) The university has, except for this past year due to the pandemic, funded and run every year a huge weekend-long party every spring. Until a very few years ago, this was poorly-enough policed that students from the local high school regularly got in and got themselves smashed. One underage girl (the last year before they instituted stricter access controls) got so drunk she passed out and nearly died.

This isn't about being "substitute parents". The university has a responsibility both to its students and to the community in which it exists, and it is blatantly shirking that responsibility just so it can give the students a "fun experience" so they will remember it fondly and give it lots of money as alumni. (This isn't even speculation; it is well-known that this is the reason for the lack of policies with teeth.)
I wonder -

Do you wear your COVID mask? Why? How do you feel when others don't - or openly refuse to?
Heard about it a bit, but haven’t spent time looking at it. My buddy runs it but as you said, I don’t really have the time to put towards it. There was a day when that appealed to me... now I just want to turn it on and be done.

The point is still worth considering. I can stomach some NRE in setup as long as it is powerful, gets the job done and doesn’t require on going hassle