skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civilians across Eastern Europe protested and helped bring about the fall of communism based on their belief that the West would bring a superior way of life, government, and economy to their countries.

For whatever reason, it all failed. Assuming slightly higher oil prices than we have now, life under the USSR would likely be better.

Some particularly egregious things the West / Wall Street did:

1. No plan to absorb the massive amount of laid off secret police and military members. These ppl would turn to organized crime very quickly. Same mistake made in Iraq in 2003.

2. Giving Russia garbage loans they were in no position to pay back and had to be repaid in dollars only. An absolute disaster that Goldman Sachs was mostly responsible for.

3. EU was completely unprepared, for what has now become, the greatest migration in human history. The best and brightest left Eastern Europe in droves, causing massive brain drain that helped usher in the collapse of regime after regime.

4. Sending a CIA team to Moscow in 1996 to directly override the wishes of the Russian people. In defense, the USA was worried in a reasonable way that the communist party would win in a landslide at the polls. But regardless that should have been their choice.

5. Not focusing on Afghanistan after leaving in the late 1980's, letting jihadism further spread to Chechyna and the devastating war from 1994-1996 their. Causes terrorism on a 9/11 scale in Moscow, hundreds of Russian tanks destroyed, just insanity.

[2] - https://quillandquire.com/review/sale-of-the-century-russia-...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt...

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
I share the skepticism here. Regardless, here are some more-direct sources of info.

NDB's web site: https://ndb.technology/

NDB's recent press release: https://www.prweb.com/releases/ndb_inc_announces_major_techn...

In the press release, you can see the company itself is making the extraordinary claims about applications like electric vehicles and aircraft. (That is, it's not an embellishment by whoever wrote the mining.com article.)
Content Banned from Front Page, Why?
My submission was getting a lot of votes and active discussion up to 50 votes on the front page (very unexpectedly!) and then suddenly disappeared from the front page and nobody else gets to see it.

Why is this? Is it because it is in Notion?

Secret NSA op?

Horcrux Encrypted Messaging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322069#24324516
Because they make enough money not to care and Congress also makes enough money not to care.
You leverage depends on your position and is not clear cut.

If you are interviewing to have an alternative to another offer, you might effectively dictate the process (time spent, deadlines etc.) if they want to interview you bad enough. And I’ve been on the receiving end as the recruiting company’s interviewer, pitching the job to get a favorable answer.

Same if you don’t have any pressure to leave your current job.

Sure big companies sometimes won’t have any leeway to deal with these candidates, that’s also why they get avoided by people who have the choice, and everyone’s happy.
> A less direct form of price discrimination is to create a slightly different product that would only appeal to customers with more money. In software, we see this often with features revolving around team management, accounting and compliance.

Um, if the feature set is different, that's a different product, not price discrimination.

Price discrimination is charging different customers different amounts for the same product.

I gave up after reading that.

[edit] OK I scanned the rest, and found a section titled "Hypocracy" -- is that a system of rule by the underclass? Or perhaps the author meant "Hypocrisy"... there's a bad joke somewhere in here given that the topic involves higher education.
This is great, thank you! Although, the name seems like a bit of a misnomer since there's not much in common with vim aside from the HJKL keys. It's more like EasyMotion or avy-mode.
Python ate my log message
"Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe" from Fred Abrahams is a good book as well.
As someone with domain expertise in both distributed systems and crypto, I'll say "not crypto"; it's relatively well-understood and most of the people who get value out of it don't need to work on it, they can just use what already exists. By comparison, one needs detailed knowledge of distributed systems to make effective use of them, so expertise has broader value. I suspect ML/AI is similar to distributed systems in impact and value, maybe with broader market applicability, but I don't know as much about it in practice.
The commonality is that both should flow across serialization boundaries, like RPC calls to downstream services.
WebBundles seem like they would be a useful format for distributing PWAs - like a web standard alternative to Android's APK files.
We could do away with the battery itself and end up with supercapacitors. There's cool mods to replace car batteries with a permanent supercapacitor since it's perfect for the the crank with low density. Not good for extended use with electricity in the car though
Ridiculous. Somebody is trying to raise money from naive people. Sometimes my cell phone gets hot enough that a cat would want to sleep on it.
Because it’s a massive invasion of privacy and customers hate it?

Yes, they’re price sensitive, but if Airbnb carried a “you will be recorded while you sleep” disclaimer I doubt many would agree.
https://www.economicshelp.org/microessays/pd/price-discrimin...

> "One way firms practise price discrimination is to offer slightly different products as a way to discriminate between consumers ability to pay."
Slovenia or Yugoslavia at that time.
Which channels
Then how are you addressing

1) the security of the individual endpoints with access to each share. Let's say your magic wand is airgapped and nothing gets in via the share transmission media (QR-code, thumbdrive, whatnot). What if your Huawei, iPhone and device N are compromised via network because they're all connected to network at all times. The adversary can then just steal all necessary shares and they don't even need to access your magic wand, they can just XOR the shares from the three receiving endpoints and recover the message.

2) Airgap exfiltration security. Let's say the iPhone is secure enough and the adversary can't hack it. But how are you ensuring the QR-code scanner app of the Magic Wand can not be exploited with a carefully crafted QR-code? If the Magic Wand is compromised, it can leak plaintext messages the next time you scan the QR-codes of outgoing shares.
It's 100 microwatts, and there are other nuclear-decay based betavoltaic batteries on the market, including some used to power pacemakers.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery

It may be a nice product, but it's not new, revolutionary, or unique.
It was common to hear that you can only automate what you do manually, but these days a lot of the underlying tasks have changed. Iptables is an absolute doddle to automate, TBH, and the entire security coverage that Iptables offered has often been superseded by security groups in AWS, sidecar proxies with service meshes, etc, so the whole paradigm has changed. What I meant about the article being quite old, is not just that the solutions are old, but the problems being solved have gone away, or should have. Ok, I did come across a client at the beginning of the year doing it the old way, but they were an Internet Exchange around since 1994, so I understood that.
They say on their website: "No recharging or refueling stations required."

https://ndb.technology/automotive-battery/

:-)
> There are way more reputable candidates than there are reputable companies.

Your mileage might greatly vary.

I've only encountered companies that struggle to hire good people (so they end up not hiring many people at all, not enough to keep up with growth) and companies that struggle to hire good people (so they end up hiring everyone that passes Fizzbuzz and can't keep up their quality).

But then this is an insular market (Switzerland) where there are tens of thousands of unfilled positions.
I’m sure their justification is that (1) they have no obligation to help AMD, and (2) how could you guarantee AMD implements CPUID the same as Intel (as in: what if AMD implements a feature bit differently?)

Of course, the second one makes no sense as x86 programs run just as fine on AMD as Intel with the same feature set (albeit at different speeds)
One problem with this view is that “unobserved”
particles still take up a large (possibly larger?) amount of computation. Rather than being in one position, it acts like a wave, being a little bit in every possible allowable position. These probability waves also interact with each other (which is what the double slit experiment demonstrates).

That being said if it was demonstrated that un collapsed wave functions are somehow more efficient to calculate that would definitely give credence to the simulation hypothesis.
Lots of interesting stuff in the video's comments. Apparently their "advanced circuit board" is a regular charging board off AliExpress [0] with the micro USB port switched out for a transformer. Also, their investor pack [1] has no actual information on the power output of the batteries.

[0]: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32703936097.html?trace=wwwdeta...

[1]: https://gofile.io/d/Iorhs5
Well, yes. The interviewee is supposed to impress the interviewer, not the other way around. The onus is on him to get hired. They're flooded with applicants. A smart applicant can thrive in any system, no matter how bad - otherwise, they're not very smart.

If you'd hire people based of how much they could lift, you'd see how the smart, driven, competent people coming in suddenly have much bigger muscles.

The system is never broken. You are broken for failing to adapt to it. If you fail to adapt to it, there are hundreds willing to take your place.
> The problem is not copying internal states, the problem is I/O. A given instance of a quantum computation can only be queried once before it decoheres and goes "poof" because the querying process itself decoheres the system. So a quantum computer can never pass the Turing test because it cannot even participate in the Turing test without destroying itself.

You seem to be saying that a computer can only be called a quantum computer if it never decoheres. Or perhaps that it is only usable in some sort of batch-mode, like mainframes with punch-card decks, with each calculation cycle being a laborious one-shot affair.

I have little doubt that many near-future quantum computers will be used in exactly that mode, but also that at some point thereafter their coherence/decoherence cycles will start to be measured in Hz, Khz, etc.

Therefore there should in principle be no barrier to a quantum computer participating in a Turing test, or any other use-case that requires interaction.
I've used FreeCAD for some basic 3D modeling work.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Feature_list

It's free and fairly easy to use.
Worked on some of this in the UK a few years ago. Main complexity from a tech pov is hooking into whatever CRM and line of business and workflow/workforce management solutions the local authority uses. And then in public sector it's not unusual to have a requirement for open bidding for a solution.
Environmental laws in US are loosely enforced by agencies with limited staff. Something like this is so small scale that it would be unlikely to create an issue for Bestbuy.
What on earth? He wasn't a convicted sex offender until after this sequence of events. You're also assuming that he believed she was 13, which is contradicted by his words in the article.

HN policy is to assume good faith, but I'm finding that incredibly hard in this discussion. I sincerely hope you never sit on a jury.
I know for me there is a definite diet aspect on a daily basis, but I don't remember if that's been the case during any of the weeks where I've felt invincible.

But on a small-scale basis:
- Eating a big simple-carb-heavy meal will absolutely ruin my energy focus the rest of the afternoon
- However if I've been running a deficit and feel low-energy, a moderate meal of complex carbs (ex: bowl of pasta) will give me enough energy for a few hours of high-energy focused work

I've done keto once or twice at various points when I was more into fitness and there's something nice about the consistent levels of energy.

Have you tried going on keto again? I wonder if there's some magic recipe of cycling on-and-off carbs that can fuel extreme bouts of energy without negative health implications
I know it's not evidence that it won't happen in the future, but how often has AWS raised prices on a service? I would bet it's less than a handful of times, and never on an established product.
No one has talked about An Artist of the Floating World here. I'll try without giving too much away and taking away the potential enjoyment of someone who could read it in future.

So much of what we read, fact and fiction, stands on the foundation of an omniscient first- or third-person narrator. We do not even think of questioning what the narrator tells us. Even mystery or suspense stories only hide a secret with the protagonist "peeling an onion" to find answers progressively. Deceptive incidents, the doubts of the detective, inconsequential objects, descriptions of crime scenes serve to distract us and we know we are being distracted and it is part of the game.

But unreliable narrators are a different beast altogether. As the story progresses, there are hints of doubt created in our minds regarding description of events, feelings of characters, gaps in some story lines which we hope will be reconciled later (and which are). A great author can do this so subtly that if you do not follow along closely it is easy to miss or, worse, mistake this to be a problem with the author's storytelling.

Fight Club is one such story. It is non-linear which serves to disorient the reader and at the end we realize the narrator was also unreliable. There are sentences like "Today I almost ate Marla's mother" and we are left wondering what that means until a few paragraphs later it is revealed. The non-linearity masks the narrator's reliability. The book is well-done even though the story-telling is . But you have to read An Artist of the Floating World to see what a master can do with ordinary events, conversations, descriptions of places by (someone who we will later in the story consider as) an unreliable narrator. Stories like these serve as a reminder that every one sees the world differently. We consider others unreliable while forgetting that everyone sees what they want to.
It was not even true capitalism, but more of a anarchy/libertarian place, where anything goes... and in almost naively way people invested in things that didn't make sense...

I have 'libertarian' friends that just never lived in a true libertarian society. Albania was a libertarian/anarchic place, because coming out of Communism, the government was too inept to apply the laws... and it ended up becoming a 'anything goes' type of society.

Want to build in a place without a permit? Sure.. go ahead... roads, infrasturcutre be damned... want to open a TV station, go ahead. That other guy is using the samme frequenncy? Just by a bigger transmitter to drown out the competitionl..
Pirated moves on TV, all the time. Cinemas just couldn't functionn. Why pay for a movie, while the local TV is just showing it right now....

Things settled by 'strong men', where the biggest gangster usually wins.... for while, until the competition settles scores and he ends up killed.

The country is still suffering with the urban mess that period left... where things were built with no regard of urban development whatsoever.

Libertarism... just like Communnism, are naive ideas that ultimately don't work. They always end up with few people gaining power over everybody else (either the communist elite, or oligarcic rich)
I remember when you posted this on Reddit[0] very happy you continued to work on it. At one point I might even switch to macOS :)

0: https://reddit.com/r/vim/comments/dc95by/vimac_vimium_for_ma...
And neither phones or similar, as they are not at all super low-power.

I wonder if it might work with thinks like air buds.
Or if the constant energy required to make the sound for hours not stop is to high?
After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
That is the part I dont understand.

CMOS is widely known. And in the context of Image Sensor, as long as you write CMOS everyone should understand. But CIS isn't, not to mention it keep repeating itself like this sentence below

"In the face of Samsung's close pursuit, Sony decided to expand its partnership with TSMC, hoping to win 60% of the global Market Share of CIS Image Sensors by 2025."

What exactly is CIS Image Sensors? CMOS Image Sensor Image Sensor?

Just call it CMOS Image Sensor. Not everything has to be an acronyms.
100% this works. Just be careful to ensure all your queries and indexes include the tenant Id.
Clean air is the problem?

Most people’s rational plan will be to breathing smoke because they can’t fly to the summer house, live in an apartment without central air, have to go to work, and don’t have the money for Marie Antoinette’s idea of “rational options.”

They don’t live in a bubble where that flavor of bullshit is palatable.
Oh that’s why they didn’t provide any numbers except 28k years
Regardless of what usually happens, there have been instances where someone who was negligent or started a fire for fun, was blamed for starting something that destroyed vast amounts of property and killed people. I think they can be/have been considered criminally and/or civilly liable.

If it's ok for people to just start fires without any particular authorization or restrictions, then it's not clear to me how you distinguish them legally if the consequences should be particularly bad.

I just don't understand logically, how you can define arson or negligence without clear rules.

It's clearly incorrect that California just doesn't care. After all after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018) PG&E was charged with 84 counts of manslaughter.

Also, remember Sergio Martinez? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire
> very intelligent people

I don't think being intelligent and standing for your values is related.

They just chose the easy path over the uncomfortable one, the only difference with someone dumb is that they knew what they were doing (and so have no excuse).

I'm not throwing stones at them, I did the same exact choice and I don't feel particularly good about it. I use the 2 most privacy abusive OS there is, Windows and Android and I so distrust them that I can't even have a diary.
And none of these people were prosecuted? Wow. I think voyeurism might just be the least taken-serious crime today.
Interfaces are internally pointers, insofar as the value passed when you pass around an interface is a pointer to something so that the value passed is a fixed size regardless of the underlying type (otherwise you couldn't have any arrays of interfaces).

But if the interface is implemented by a pointer-to-T and you pass a T, you will get an error; and if you have wrapped a T in one interface and try to convert it to another interface that is only satisfied by a pointer-to-T, the conversion will fail.

So the answer to "are interfaces are always pointers?" is yes if you're asking about implementing the Go compiler or worried about the size of some allocation; but no if you are asking about Go's type system.
Dr.Racket has a `#lang eopl` to support the second/third editions: https://docs.racket-lang.org/eopl/index.html
The first edition seems to build a tower of abstractions gradually, than directly jumping into the deep end of the pool. But getting code from first edition to run on Dr.Racket is quite a trouble. Can someone well versed with Racket macros, please write `define-record` to work with `#lang eopl`? I can figure out the macros with some effort, but cant quite figure out how to extend an existing lang.
After having unrestricted access to bulletin board systems and the internet since being 10 years old, I have to say with some disappointment that if the dark triad personality type is on the rise, it has to be related to what is now unrestricted free internet for everyone.

The current version of the internet having been commercialized and available everywhere creates a sort of machine learning feed back loop for narcissism just like it does with fake news.

We all became the evil queen from Snow White in varying forms. Except the mirror evolved and became halfway sentient and began controlling us.

If you look at the DSM-5 example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) it describes the behaviors and outcomes that we have seen with increased social media addiction.

So the theory is that the internet is a dangerous addiction like any other, far more than people want to admit... Certainly more than the people who helped create it want to admit. All you have to do is look around society to see the impact.
> The interviewee is supposed to impress the interviewer, not the other way around.

Interviews are two-sided auditions.

If there was a genuine talent shortage as we keep hearing about, the asymmetry would be the other direction; while it would still be two-sided, the bigger burden would be on the interviewer as the representative of the prospective employer to impress the prospective employee.
While I wouldn’t like to find a hidden camera, if I did I would not steal them AND steal the keys to the house. I do wonder if you’re renting without the host present if you should just block the camera view and keep staying
Yml Coding
Thanks for sharing your experience. Mind sharing the details of the bugs and the middleware you were writing. IS that an open-source library that I can take a peak into?
Yes indeed, energy harvesting SMD's are the thing:

https://www.tdk-electronics.tdk.com/download/2427688/6fa9508...
Some rich person should offer a $1M prize for a single useful application, or example in nature or science, of cellular automata.
The most practical is to drop the information theoretical promises and use e.g. Linux kernel's GETRANDOM syscall. Or you can outsource the HWRNG building for users who can create it from COTS parts, e.g. http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/ has diagrams for the circuit.
> Nearly all of the JavaScript on my page comes from two third-party loads: ga.js and gpt.js

Well if you're using Google Analytics and Publisher Tags, you're not the kind of person to care about your users' experience anyway...
This is great! I recently built a similar thing because I wanted to learn more about WebRTC. Fun to see someone else's take.

https://tmpch.at
Pro tip: being lucky and getting away with tax fraud is not the way you want to live in any country. You will eventually get caught.
Maybe a phone on standby - just listening for calls or something.
How do you afford the travel time? Seems like all the handholding would be quite expensive.
It’s such a good distillation of what made Stronghold and the Impressions’s city building series so great. Please keep it going!
Have it ever happened o you that you read "a pillar of reality" and it turned out to be more than a clickbait?

Me neither.

(To make it clear: the content is interesting, even if clearly for popular science audience (some statements about physics are false, e.g. "These are all intuitive ideas, and widely believed even by physicists." The title is worth a tabloid.)
Everything written by Poundstone is worth reading.
> without making a big change in how expensive are things

Stocks beg to differ.
We live in a "5 monkeys" world.
Sorry, that explanation is just plain wrong.

A car maker who offers a "GT" upgrade to their standard car model is not engaging in price discrimination, they're selling two different products.

Selling movie tickets cheaper to students and the elderly is price discrimination. It's literally the same product, with a different price.