skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing in US law, the Constitution, or really tradition that calls the military the "true defenders of the Constitution." Indeed, the US government intentionally subordinates military interests to civilian authority by having the President assume the role of Commander-in-Chief.

There have been dozens if not hundreds of governments where the military wrested control from elected officials as "true defenders of the Constitution." We call those military coups. They generally represent the death of a Constitutional republic.
The "change" I want to see in the world of menus is this: List desserts in order of size ! Biggest to smallest. Usually desserts are such a rip-off at restaurants, but when I do indulge, I want the biggest :)
It would be neat if it could power an 8-bit emulation for 100 years .. think about it: we want to keep old computing platforms around. We make an emulator, power it with this, and drop it out in the desert somewhere, guaranteeing that the lifeforms of the future get a chance to play some classic C64, Spectrum, Apple, Atari games, &etc.

Okay, so maybe I only need one of these devices. And isn't that always the problem with 'earth-shattering technology' - you only seem to need one or two of the thing?

Anyway I'm all for lower power computing using radiation to prolong the useful life of computing devices. Computers don't get old: users do. 28k years is a lot of users.
Creating and implementing a plan to hire millions of people would have required much more intervention in Russia's internal affairs than just trying to push an election one way or the other.
The relevant number is its power of 100 µW.
I didn't really get a perfect answer except that if the logging operation is done incorrectly it makes the fires worse. The environmentalist view is that the trees should be burnt but not removed to return the nutrients to the ecosystem. Basically the experts are saying logging won't get us out of this.

See https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/why-we-cant-log-o...
I can't find anything by that name either, but the details do match the major ARPANET outage of Oct 27, 1980.

The incident is detailed in RFC 789:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc789.html#b
I agree with your assessment: it's easier to find subjects with peripheral nerve issues. It gets progressively harder to find subjects as you move up the chain, as the risks compound quickly: peripheral > central > brain.

As you can imagine, neural link is targeting some of the most invasive -- hence animal subjects.
Nonlocality basically means that the universe has a global RNG state. If you write some code that uses a global RNG and no other global variables, that code will still be "local" in the sense that functions cannot communicate information between each other using the RNG. But the outcomes of the functions might still be correlated in interesting ways (corresponding to entanglement).
Indeed, and I admit, even within Italy this is likely uniquely a Naples problem.
I pity you guys. Finder 6 was 10 years ahead.
> You seem to be saying that a computer can only be called a quantum computer if it never decoheres.

Not quite. I'm saying that in the context of using a quantum-computer to play the role of Wigner's friend, it must be isolated from the ultimate observer. If you're not going to require that, you might as well just do the experiment with an actual human.
Red pills are what they hand out in cults when Kool-Aid is too expensive.

When reality contradicts beliefs, the mind would rather adjust its filters on reality than adjust its beliefs. I've spent enough time chatting with flat-Earthers to watch the process in action.
Flagged this article, I also watched EEVBlog’s take on it and it sounds like complete bullshit.

Let’s not pollute the front page with this nonsense. Please flag this article.
Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots
Really this economically seems similiar to "permanent tourists" if taken to the logical extreme and extended indefinitely, their income source isn't taxed directly, they don't take local jobs, but do use local services. Healthcare is probably one of the most significant differences between transient and "permanent tourist" compared to transit costs. Not being seasonal is almost certainly an advantage unless it aligns with another industry's "off season" and the transit income is likely irrelevant to the host country.

It brings to mind a future organizational hypothetical of a "modularized citizenship" for work vs residence - unlikely as that may be given the tendency of nations to insist that their rules are the only rules and thus international laws are more like guidelines in practice.
We have been fortunate enough to be able to hire people for our group of about 60 that fall into two categories:

1) Researchers/mathematicians

2) DevOps/software engineers that are fluent enough in ML/AI processes and methodologies that they can listen to what group 1 says they need and implement a system that will efficiently solve their problem.
A phone would still need a regular battery for normal operation. At that point you can just use for everything
Feeling more like 12 Monkeys these days.
Let's not lose the plot here: we're talking about a Wigner's-friend-type thought experiment. If you're not going to require that the quantum computer be isolated, then you may just as well use an actual human.
You may say that it's not surprising, but in fact all statistical-style reasoning relies on it. If the universe is superdeterministic, than no kind of statistical reasoning makes any sense, since everything is already set in stone, there is no probability to any event, it has either happened already or will never happen. Since there is no freedom or even randomness, there are no statistically independent events or measurements.
LoL, for the way you finished your point. Good to know your experience :)

Did Amazon mere said, "you are doing it wrong", without an explanation? In retrospective, do you think you could have done better? I'm looking to hear the lessons you learned, so may be, I don't end up making that mistake ;)
I think the night sky would be more interesting with visible satellites zipping around.

And I'm curious who gave a perpetual use agreement of the night sky to astronomers, such that they think their complaints should be considered.
But suppose that mall didn't charge for anything else? Electricity, water, security, gravity all came free, and you just paid only if you made a sale? (Ok, there's a $100 developer fee and the cost of a Mac and iOS device.)

Maybe Apple should offer two deals to publishers:
1) Pay £1,000,000 up front and keep all the revenue
2) Pay As You Earn.
Right. It's a nuclear battery. "Within the DNV, radioisotopes are placed in a way that facilitates inelastic scattering originated due to the presence of a single crystalline diamond in the unit."

Nuclear batteries work fine, but the hazard problem and the PR problem limit their use. Here's a nuclear battery from the 1960s.[1] That used Krypton-86, which is a gas, so it will disperse if it gets out.

Worth thinking about for devices with very low duty cycles, like temperature sensors and smoke detectors.

The render of a chip is a joke. It's a battery. What would it need that many pins for?

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/leesona_moos/nuclear_battery...
For sure! Whipped up a quick pen:

https://codepen.io/willem-aart/pen/oNxwRXY?editors=1100

This is impossible to achieve with CSS Grid.

One might alternatively approach this 'cluster layout' using inline-block elements. However, these elements would then be separated by space characters and the width of the space would be added to any applied margins. These issues could possibly be resolved by resorting to hacks such as setting font-size: 0 on the parent. Not pretty.

On the other hand, when using flexbox, space characters between flex childs are ignored which makes it a good fit for this kind of layout.
Pretty much just a rehash of the various other articles on this topic, several of which have already been discussed here. See this from a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291443
It’s the opposite of noise by making the logic more precise. Suppose you have unwrapped optionals or result types, or need to specifically handle a null type differently from a false. It’s also helpful when refactoring changes a function signature.

Are you young or early in your career? I think the extra verbosity is something you come to appreciate the “the hard way” over the years.
MIT's 'Implosion Fabrication' Shrinks Objects to Create Nanoscale Versions
I've also experienced my IPs getting blacklisted (albeit on the free plan). I can understand this happening (you get what you pay for) but what I can't understand is that their support response was saying that I just had to deal with it rather than switching my IP. I've also used MailGun and not had that problem (although I'm not a fan of the way you can't export logs from them for some reason).
I'm wondering if IPFS or other content-addressable networks handle version updates for documents as well as git handles code?

It might be nice to make websites that are more like PDF's that can be redistributed, downloaded, and stored. But when there are many versions of immutable content, the result is a mess, with people having random versions distributed all over the place. Having built-in history and being able to sync to HEAD would make this a lot easier.
Ryan Newman has the nickname Flyin' Ryan for all the times he's been airbone in his car. I don't know what the number is but I'm pretty sure it's at least four.
Hi Sean,

I remember your username from earlier posts, IIRC also quality content about WebRTC or similar ( implementation? )

I am not a writer, but did get some extended language education, and I suggest you get rid of most exclamation marks in your texts.

It makes the reading ... boring might the wrong word ( not a native speaker ).

Good luck and many thanks for your contributions.
My colleagues and I recently published a paper at CHI 2020 that was inspired in large part by this problem of hidden cameras in AirBnBs. Here is a link to ACM Digital Library (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3313831.3376585) and a PDF copy of the paper on my Box account (https://cmu.box.com/s/89iugeaf3hcc51ir9f4akrp1a9b0mogd).

One of the things we did was a survey of N=226 AirBnB users. 86 people said that they manually searched for devices in AirBnBs, and 8 actually found undisclosed devices. As you might imagine, manually searching is hard because devices are small, but also because you don't always know if you've found everything, and because it looks socially awkward too.

People also reported on how they looked for devices, ranging from manual search (most common) to using WiFi / Bluetooth scanning tools. Here is an excerpt from our paper as to what people said they did.

11 (13%) tech-savvy participants used special tools to help search, such as using a phone camera or flashlight, scanning Bluetooth and the Wi-Fi network, and using an infrared scanner. For example, participants reported that they turned off all the lights and used their smartphone flashlight to shine around the area and look for reflections that might indicate a camera lens. Some participants reported that their smartphone cameras did not have an infrared filter, and so they could detect invisible infrared light emitted by cameras. Other participants reported using smartphone apps, such as Fing and iNet, to detect suspicious devices connecting to the network. Two participants brought RF signal detectors to scan the room for the source of RF signals (cameras). However, these methods require a strong technical background, and the devices might not be cheap (e.g., over $100 USD on Amazon for a popular RF signal detector).

The main point of the paper, though, is to look at ways for IoT device manufacturers to help physically locate devices. We called these IoT Locators. An example might be to have devices blink or beep. It's trying to address the physical layer of privacy, to help people have more awareness of what's nearby and where these devices are. The logical layer might tell you that there's a camera nearby, but we also wanted to help people find those devices and see (for example) where those cameras might be pointed. There's a big difference between a camera in an AirBnb that is pointed toward the living room versus pointed out the window, something that isn't captured just by knowing that a camera is nearby.

There's lots of limitations, for example needing lots of standards among device manufacturers and how to incentivize them to install things like these in devices. I would say the main idea, though, is that we need to really think more about the physical dimensions of privacy (which has been underlooked in research and industry), and that we need to think more about how to help hotels, AirBnBs, and device manufacturers that do want to do better on privacy w.r.t devices, but don't know what to do.
The downvotes hurt, not for the social scoring but to share a real and valid concern and have that concern dismissed. I'd say it borders on literal crazy making.

You get debated on "extinction" when you might technically be wrong because a handful of people might be left but the planet will have still been rendered inhospitable for most.

You're absolutely correct, it is sociopathy on another scale.
They wouldn't be non-public if they told us plebs
Pretty telling that the top two comments at the moment endorse the two most diametrically opposite approaches possible: single app and single set of tables with row level security, vs totally separate apps + separate dbs entirely.

I think it really depends on the kind of application and the kind of user / customer you're dealing with. I'd probably lean towards "single" database with horizontal sharding .
usually these channels are either invite only (for members of a NOG for example) or are very, very hard to find if you don't know the proper people.
Isn’t that one of the points of a salaried job versus hourly? You’re paid the same regardless of how long it takes you. Many companies sometimes don’t care if it takes you 5 or 10 hours to do the task as long as it’s done by the deadline.
CalFire updates its page regularly. And anyway Mountain View, San Francisco and Stanford weren’t at risk. Fires burn upward because heat rises. Silicon Valley is in a valley and built out. It’s not wilderness. There’s five minute fire response times throughout.
To buy treats, to lure in said strays :-)
Wait, this is the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever found?! What have I been looking at in museums?
So did Microsoft, but win32 apps aren’t taxed and MS is doing just fine.
This is horrifying. Fredkin and Feynman are both heroes of mine, and both succumbed, for at least a time, to the idea that cellular automata is more than a game. Wolfram, another genius, appears still afflicted.

This is a kind of intellectual heroin. As Jerry Garcia said, first drugs seem like the solution, then they turn out to be the problem.
That seems to be the logical conclusion. The current system is artificial, every piece is carefully stacked like a house of cards; this makes it very brittle.
We're in an Orwellian nightmare. By now, if the system collapses, it could be the most devastating crash in human history.
On the other hand, if things keep going in the same direction, we will end up in a horrible dystopia where life will only be worth living for the rich; everyone else will be slaves.

Also, I think I've figured out what the "defund the police" movement is really about; it's to allow Corporations to later step in and privatize the police force. Then they can claim the credit for restoring law and order and further gain people's trust whilst gaining more control over them. Seems kind of far fetched still, but few things would surprise me these days.
> 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.

We'd get the same thing if we actually defunded police and shrank the military in the US. We're one weak but aggressive left-wing elected government away from an American ISIL.
I see a bright future for satellite de-commissioning craft - I assume by staying in a parking orbit and then zipping around as needed and nudging them out of orbit at just the right time to avoid other satellites and ensure a innocuous (presumably oceanic) landing site for any remaining wreckage.
But you still need to have the same wafer area if you are keeping the same sensor size. So you can't have 300mm wafers at <10nm, you still need 864+mm (for a FF sensor).
Chinese dishes seem to have way more selection all the time. Its always overwhelming.
I’d think there is a massive risk to letting a consumer device ship with polonium in it, no matter how securely it is stored. A speck extracted from a device can kill a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
I can’t wait for the same efficiencies we’ve seen in mobile CPUs to translate to other areas, like image sensors. The latest Sony a7s III is supposed to have a giant heat sink as one of its flagship features, but just imagine if they were working on TSMC 5nm tech.
Are there a lot of parentheses?
Because the answer should be an obvious "no it is not guaranteed to be sorted".

If the answer is yes the input is sorted, then that context should have been given in the original prompt as it is a completely different question.
This will be fascinating as every country tries to have their own system. If humans were rational creatures, we would build and maintain one system to stop reinventing the wheel and preventing kessler syndrome.
Look, I'm really not sure where you are coming from. Batteries are solved problem since 1920. It's just gadget and computer manufacturers that suddenly see a way to make a uick buck and to drive their cycle of planned obsolescence.

If I could do it at 6 and my mom can do it at close to 80 then I really don't see why other people could not. Sometimes there just isn't a problem unless you make one. Standardize the cells, sell them through the supermarket chains at a normal price, just like Duracell and other quality battery manufacturers have been able to do for ages. Problem solved, once and for all. No need to go through AliExpress, Amazon or some other shady online store, if you are that concerned about trust then the only way to solve that is to buy from a reputable vendor.
>> For whatever reason, it all failed

I think it did not for the simple fact that now you have more freedom that in the communist era.

Now if want to talk about economy and equality that's a diffetent story. The results of a new democratic system like in any project depend by execution.
You mean like procedural generation? I used cellular automata with custom rules to generate procedural generated universes for a video game I worked on.
Self-destructing business model is the most effective scalability strategy for developers by far. Just make sure you do net 30.
Used it last week for a presentation. Loved it.
'Ask clarifying questions' and 'think out loud' are also two of the suggestions in this excellent video from Google showing an example of a great technical interview: https://youtu.be/XKu_SEDAykw
Exploring Pathfinding Graph Algorithms
> I do have to push through stressful situations regularly and make progress in a timely fashion.

You mean like everyone else in (almost) every single job ever? Do you think developers at inferior companies just sit around blissfully typing away with half of their brains shut off?

Those interview processes say practically nothing about candidate’s fit/performance for the job. This has been shown to be true many times. The awkward hoops put in place just result in the interviewer having ample convenient opportunities to turn down a candidate for any reason. Like maybe in the back of their mind, deep deep down inside, they actually don’t want to hire that black person who just wasted weeks or months of their life grinding useless leetcode questions.
Happy 90th, Warren - Bill Gates
Maybe our dream state is how we resolve and wipe quantum paradoxes from our days experience.
packetheads irc
EDIT: huh, I opened a couple manga I had nearby and my original post was dead wrong
Oh, let's play the game of "who would be the best actor to play each emperor"! A few obvious ones:

* Gallienus: Pedro Pascal
* Decius: Clive Owen
* Maximinus Thrax: George Clooney
* Augustus: Daniel Craig

How about the others?
Almost 20 years ago, the place I worked decided it wanted to make something like Wine, except going the other way--it would run Linux binaries on Windows.

We got it working fairly well. We expected that we'd have to put in some kind of hack to deal with filename case, and I think we eventually did.

But before that, when it was still just passing Linux case-sensitive filenames through to the case-insensitive Windows filesystem, I tried installing most of whatever was the current release of Red Hat at the time.

It almost all worked fine. The only thing I remember being a problem was that some things, such as some Perl modules from CPAN, had both "makefile" and "Makefile" in the same directory.
Its not really western, it was born in Asia.
I sold to cities, counties and regional agencies in the U.S. for 30 years. Random suggestions:

* Do not wait wait for them to decide they need a solution and then engage; your business will die. Success comes from educating prospects, helping them understand the benefits -- hell, even helping them write the RFP, if they'll let you -- and being the preferred solution before the bidding process formally begins.

* Related: All of your meaningful sales will come from formal proposals submitted as part of an RFP process. You need to get good at being the insider who helps them write the RFP or you need to get good at writing better, more compelling (not cheaper, not fancier -- more compelling) proposals. Even better? Get good at both.

* Bob correctly referenced the fact that you'll have high insurance requirements. Don't let them faze you too much -- commercial liability is cheap. Errors and Omissions, on the other hand, can be pricey and you want to avoid having to have that if possible.

* Get very good at finding local partners, even if you don't need them. Big projects that leave some of the money in the community are more compelling.

* If you are not a woman or a minority, get good at finding local partners who are certified as women-owned or minority-owned businesses. Some public agencies set up their RFPs with an automatic point deduction from your score if you can't tick this box.

Happy to chat more if it's helpful.
The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
https://opengov.com/
Thanks for the feedback. I agree.

When talking to people I really want to emote. I am self conscious that people will think I am not interested/excited in the conversation. Through most of my life 'programming/tech' was something that I cared about. I never had any friends/family that cared though. When I became an adult and started working it felt like a re-birth of sorts :)

I just don't ever want anyone else to feel like I am not interested/excited. I will try dropping the exclamation points, and I hope that my enthusiasm still comes through.
> Are you arguing about the perception of a narcissist, or your own?

"Symptoms include an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-...

I get that you enjoy splitting hairs to confuse an otherwise simple discussion, but I don't.
> House slaves did not have slaves, at least to my knowledge. Saudi women do.

If a Saudi woman divorces her husband, does she have durable ownership over those slaves, or are they her husband's slaves in her husband's household; which she enjoys a temporary privilege to command?