skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except you're the one with the extraordinary claim, that's my whole point.

That's not a point, that's playground "nuh-uh, you stink" level of debate.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings
That page goes on and on

Yes. That page lists sighting of Unidentified Flying Objects. The clue is right there in the name. It's things we haven't identified.

"We saw some weird lights in the sky" does not by any measure equate to "there is no time or culture in the history of the world where humans have not been in contact with some kind of "otherworldly" intelligence."

> Wikipedia is no higher a bar than Youtube.
Wikipedia has its problems, but it's an order of magnitude higher a bar than Youtube. Wikipedia has editors and citations.
Past the reactor containment building, a nuclear power station look pretty much like any other rankine cycle plant, which were already delivered on scales those guys can only dream about. This only reinforces the rationale for much bigger nuclear plants, not reduces.

> But you can't drive the cost down if you can't iterate enough.

> A few hours ago I bought a smartphone for $35.

A low-end price for a smartphone SoC tapeout on the latest node is $100-$150m. Iterate that.

All of what you spoke about, and microelectronics in particular, could've never been done without sisyphean effort to nail hardest engineering problems in one go, because the nature of the problem does not afford "a half-solution."

You absolutely must solve such kind of engineering problems in fullest in one go, or it's not going to work.

A reactor vessel is not like a piece of software you can let crashing for a few beta versions. It either has no holes, and it work, or it does have holes, and it leaks.
This makes me want to go binge Space Engineers.
I think this practice is hand-in-glove with the general commercial model that a review site like this inherently pushes back against, though?

In any case, I've daydreamed about doing something along these lines, plus an aggressive list of policies that companies/products/brands are delisted for violating (i.e., delisting brands when teardowns find anything they went out of their way to engineer for predictable failure).
Replace the word "witches" with "violent racists"
You pinpointed what I’ve been feeling. There are things I want to buy for life. Things like (most) tools, camping equipment, or things I don’t expect to improve over time. But there is a large number of products that I don’t plan to hold onto because they are imperfect either because state of the art hasn’t advanced enough or because I can’t afford the better version yet. For example:

Boots. I can afford the boots I can afford today and I like them. But I am sure that 10 years from now I’ll be able to afford better ones.

Coffee mugs. I currently sport a Yeti that will likely last me at least 50 years. But I also expect that better coffee mugs will come.

Smart watch and mobile phone and laptop. No matter what, Moore’s law will catch up with you. And developers dislike worrying about running software on old hardware.

Clothing. Yes I know, but I do to an extent care about how I look and showing up somewhere in pleated pants and a plaid suit today because you bought it 30 years ago and it’s still holding up isn’t something I can pull off.

Vehicles. Yes, even your Tesla will become obsolete. There will be one that will be a no brainer upgrade.

This isn’t to say that I want to buy junk. But a $6 T shirt lasts me about two years and a $60 T shirt will need to last me more than 20 to make it worth it. In the mean time my body might change, my tastes might change, and styles might change. Timeless styles are a thing but when you spill red wine on it and can’t get the stain out four years in, who is your next move?

Also emotional and not objective, FWIW.
I'm okay with this. Before, I was definitely using DDG less.

It's good to see Microsoft still keeping up the good fight.

"Dont be evil" seems like a distant alternative universe...
> But I have a hard time visualizing RF light.

The best things I can recommend is to play with GnuRadio, IQ data, false color representation of a freq or set of frequencies bound to color/decibel strength, and ParaView and importing said IQ data for graphing.

Think of the frequency of light as its color, and dB strength of how bright it is. However at cm and m wavelengths, voids happen much more regularly. That light can 'bend' around, and go through objects.

> There aren’t any good videos out there of just a straight forward visualization of RF light.

There's quite a few false color images. If you look at hydrogen line radioastrometry, there's a ton of false color images. There's also this HackADay that mapped wifi for a wide area covered by their CNC gantry https://hackaday.com/2015/02/17/mapping-wifi-signals-in-3-di...

> And also, why can visible light pass through other visible light without causing interference?

EM primarily only directly affect things with an electric charge. EM radiation itself doesn't have an electric charge, therefore EM usually doesn't affect other EM. However, if we include gamma (+10^19 Hz), then if those collide, they can create an electron and a positron. But that's only theorized with energy vector diagrams and not actually seen.

> Why can’t they make visible light with an antenna?

You can... You just have to pump enough energy in it to make it glow! /hahaha

> Why are large arrays of RF receivers not more widely used for small-scale RF imaging?

That's primarily a cost issue. Go look how much a single RF frontend chip and an a/d chip costs. (Price gets to stupid levels at, say 24 bit A/D).

Now instead, lets look at human vision. Humans can see (eyes are receptors of radio from 380nM to 720nM). When converted to Hz, we're talking 372.55 THz wide spectrum vision.

My SDR on the table can see 112 MHz, or .0000112 THz

Now, in order to replicate what's going on in the eye, you'd need millions of antennas AND data acquisition (of some sort). And then, even with current SDRs, these generate 60GB/min - you need the disk, memory, and CPU to do stuff with that. It's NOT a trivial problem.

Now there are some RF arrays out there. KerberosSDR is one such array. However, its max bandwidth is 3 MHz @ 8 bit. And it can only do 4 inputs, which is enough to do geographical tracking of radio signals (within 24MHz to 1.7GHz). I know of one person who's trying to do some VR work with a KerberosSDR.

The other problem, once you have the millions of antennas and data acquisition, is a matter of synchronization. Timing is also another stupidly hard area, which increases geometrically with more sensors. And remember that 1nS = 11.8 inches deviation.. So whatever processing you're doing had better be time consistent and local to the device.

Eventually, we'll get to what you're proposing. A lot of us are wanting that. But we're decades away.
This is an egregious violation of privacy of the unsuspecting Chrome user who conducts their business while signed in to Chrome.

To make things worse, couple of years ago, Chrome started mingling Chrome Sync and cookies for accounts.google.com which meant that signing into Chrome Sync also automatically signed you into all of Google services. The cookies reappear even if you delete them, just because you are signed into Chrome Sync. Now, that same identity (<you>@gmail.com) is not just used for Google's own websites, but also made available to anyone who uses Google Analytics - which is 90% of the web - including your cross-domain and cross-device history. Of course, none of this is new, but I shudder every time at the thought of how much information the user is giving away about themselves.
> That resonates; I find "buying experiences" philosophy to be a scam - a thinly veiled attempt to extract recurring revenue from people.

It depends how you look at it but do guess you do spend some time going somewhere on vacation. When I go camping or hiking I sort of still consider it an experienece to be bought and even if it is close to little it nevertheless costs something to travel, the cost of time off, etc.
The Thinkpad line was acquired by Lenovo from IBM in 2005. They've done a good job in maintaining the quality of the product line but some products with the 'Thinkpad' branding is absolute crap. Technology products are hard to rank for build quality in my opinion. When Lenovo again made an acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2014, I thought they'd do a good job of maintaining Motorola phones just like Thinkpad. At first, you had almost a close to Vanilla version of Android with regular updates but since 2019+ they stopped maintaining Android Security updates and releasing whole Android versions on some of their bottom-tier phones. Things change quickly in the technology department so BIFL ranks are difficult.
The guy is a troll. The last nuclear power plant built in the US took 40 years to come fully online and has never made money. Meanwhile solar is going through a moore's law like cost reduction and is cheaper than coal in most places.

Geothermal has a much better chance of supplying baseload power than nuclear does at this point.
I confirmed that at a company town hall once and I asked if that makes that system a hack target. The CISO didn’t seem to understand the vulnerability, as if it were inconceivable that their infrastructure would be targeted to take advantage of their position as mitm.
I will use this as a chance to recommend the book "Debt:
The First 5000 Years" by the late anthropologist David Graeber. The book is full of interesting stories about how various societies do and don't choose to keep track of the debts people owe to one another.
Sharon Begley, path-breaking science journalist, spun words into gold, dies 64
David Coffin leading a sing along of "Roll the Old Chariot" at the 2010 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival still gives me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FWp7WLYKw
I got mine through Apple's page. It took a day or two to clear. No fuss.
The message is obvious. It's both reminder and a warning to keep one's nose clean during this heightened political tension.

It's easy to be partisan here and one is reminded to be careful to not overstep the mark.

The obvious issue is that AR could be used to circumvent or bypass social media bans etc and that forms of obfuscation could be used to do so.

In the past, it's not gone unnoticed that AR equipment and bands have been used for nefarious purposes principally by non-licensed interlopers, so the message subtext is for licensed operators to be on the lookout, etc.
This world gives zero shits about those with potential.

Technology would be 100x what it is today if humans would stop being selfish assholes ( such as the vaunted hero of all of you, Musk ).

Those who believe in the current structure of society are absolute fools.

Those who say to work within the system simply cannot comprehend how much the world is being held back by letting idiots rule and succeed.

Hate is required. To not have hate for this existence is to be a fool.
Yubikeys have PIN for FIDO2 passwordless auth, see `ykman fido set-pin` command (IIRC, there a GUI for this as well but I don't have a single passwordless login - to best of my awareness, no single website on the web that I use seem to support this).

This is different from typical U2F operations, though, where website asks for a password ("know") and a hardware token ("have"). For those, password is the secret part already.

If someone phished someone's password AND stole one's Yubikey - well, this is a very peculiar situation, where, indeed, the scenario fails. If someone steals a laptop with Yubikey plugged in - they (hopefully) don't have passwords. Unless someone had set it up to login and open their password manager with just a touch of the said Yubikey, without anything extra. Which is, again, quite a peculiar situation.
Nerds think trust is something that can be created with technology. If only that were the case.
Benefits of this proposal outweigh the cons. Average length of patent protection will decrease.
Seconding Wipr. It’s the one I use in Safari on Mac and in iOS. It isn’t as good as uBlock Origin, but it works fairly seamlessly.
Wow, thanks for putting this together!
Welcome to Chechnya* about the LGBTIQ+ community there and Russia. Not exactly a happy story but one which needs to be told.

*Disclosure, I helped run the security on it.
> Parler's entire point was being an alt-right platform

I don’t think this is a fair statement. From past interviews, it’s clear that the CEO of Parler and its founding team intended for it to be politically neutral and a destination for those of all ideologies. They may have attracted those on the political right, but that’s because Twitter is by default a bastion for the political left and naturally those seeking alternatives would have a different lean. But I don’t think that’s the same as the entire point being an alt-right platform.

Also, Twitter and Facebook definitely played a role in the riot story, and likely a much bigger role than Parler because of their scale. See https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-federal-authorities-a... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/13/faceboo... for more on that. But of course Apple and Google haven’t taken any actions against Facebook or Twitter. If the argument is that “most content on these services is fine”, that was also true of Parler.
I really like google text to speech and use it for my own custom audiobooks, I've tried google's microsoft's, IBM's, and a few other research ones. IBM's sounds slightly better but has a much more restricted free monthly tier, google's and microsoft's has 1 million free characters per month which goes pretty far.

Like others are saying, it's slightly robotic but I've started to listen a ton by TTS and you definitely get used to it (you even start to hear inflection in it, which is cool). I use android smart audiobook app and you can control the sound levels, turning down the high pitch aspects also helps to make it easier to listen to for longer periods of time

For HN folks, there are some pretty reasonable research projects, especially by nvidia (glownet) which you can run yourself. They sound relatively similar but the training voices are much more restricted and not as good. If anyone knows of a github/etc with a nicer diy TTS I'd be interested. The best I've seen which is customizable is https://github.com/espnet/espnet but I had trouble getting it to work, then getting it to sound ok

(For anyone else going DIY I'll warn you that the failure modes for TTS is some unerring frankly creepy sounds. Google's TTS fails very well, even for strange words, and when it gets very confused it spells it out. Some of the research ones go into haunting unrelated syllables, sometimes repeating for 10s of seconds
I wonder if it is for the anti-trust lawsuit. Claim that nobody else can provide what they need?
Guess we should ban peanuts too, since allergies to that exist too. Some population being allergic isn't an argument to remove it, rather one for transparency and alternatives.
> You really don't understand composition as it related to hooks, sorry, it's not condescension, you are arm-chairing something and it's obvious.

You’re being a jerk. You’re not in the least being open to the possibility that I understand the subject matter but have omitted exhaustive detail because I’m typing on a phone in comments on HN. But if there’s something you think I haven’t considered feel free to show a use case, and I’m happy to work with it to show an API I think improves on hooks but accounts for it. Let’s collaborate.

> I could provide a complex example for you and then re-write it in your example, and you'd see how hooks is far more elegant, and maybe I will, but to be honest there's a million examples on the web.

Please provide an example. Let’s have a conversation, not... this.

> And algebraic effects are a FP concept, go look at OCaml which has been pioneering them, so your appeal to FP purity doesn't even hold.

I didn’t appeal to FP purity at all. I explicitly appealed to impurity! I appealed to interfaces that embrace it and clearly delineate it.
This is great for me, I've bought hundreds of audiobooks in my life and my family had a collection of hundreds when I was a child. The original collection was thrown away by movers many years ago and my collection went missing along with other luggage when being shipped back from Kenya a couple of years back.

I don't think its immoral to download things I've paid for (often twice or even three times over if I bought it on tape, then CD, then on audible) and have a DRM free copy.
PoS security is weaker than PoW, that's a fact. See https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/70807/how-does-p...

But is it stronger enough to still be 99% as useful? I don't know, these are all experiments.
Please take note that this is form Germany.

Computer monitoring and video surveillance at the workplace are outright verboten. This can be only a temporary measure in case of justified suspicion. That's nothing new and most companies of course comply. That's also why the fine is so high: That company behaved exceptionally bad.

This regulation is also less about the right to privacy (in the end it's about working environments) but about general personal rights. Constant monitoring at the workplace is just not compatible with the notion of human dignity. (Also it's stressful for the employees, makes them ill and wears them out, which is bad for productivity. Maybe this part is the real reason? ;-))
I think the negative aspects stated by the "hardware authentication device" is overkill. It's really easy to use and cost is relative (gets cheaper with use). May be real issue is that we're not using these new solutions and are still relying on unnecessarily complex passwords to save with master passwords. In some cases, 2FA can be a pain in the butt to manage when you have hundreds of them. A couple hardware keys and voila.
Especially for US people don't forget overdrive! It's through your public library and often has a great selection
Why is video surveillance a problem? It seems to be most efficient at protecting employees from being falsely accused & spares from witch hunting. It also helps prevent crime for society. If privacy is the concern, then regulation should be about proper viewing rights and storage control, not shooting down surveillance entirely.
Hydrothermal vents can provide heat. It's not the great utility of being able to make heat on demand anywhere, but it does exist and provide another path for progress.
Maybe they can pioneer 5fa.
Here are some great resources:
https://decrypt.co/resources/defi-ultimate-beginners-guide-d...

https://www.voice.com/post/@osaemezu/aave-lend-a-beginners-g...

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized...

As for the actual yield on loans, there is no lower limit beyond the fact that there are fees to lend and return your coins to and from these lending contracts. Those fees are currently quite high, so it is in your best interest to plot those out when calcuating returns.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-transactionfee...

https://ethgasstation.info/
Does it though? I've heard about it so many times that I'm starting to think it cannot possibly be as extremely bad as the never-ending torrent of articles would have me believe.
In 2018, Masterpiece Cakeshop [0] opened the door for religious beliefs and other First Amendment-protected expression to be used as a pretext to deny service to folks even if they would be otherwise protected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
We have one of these locally and I've used it to get rid of unwanted stuff.
In general I'm a bit negative on the idea actually - the hyperlocal aspect of it makes it susceptible to a sort of privilege bias. Rich areas will gift each other nice clothes, hifi equipment, computers; people living in poor areas, who might have far more need for this stuff, will be less likely to benefit (because there will be both less excess goods and more demand).

For this reason I just give anything of remote value to charity shops instead - they have the geographic distribution to spread donations around, and it means a charity gets direct monetary value as well.
Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping
I am reminded of Bob Hoover commandeering an FW-190 to escape to Holland after spending 16 months in Stalag I:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120627082500/http://www.airpor...

https://web.archive.org/web/20121230162615/http://www.au.af....
How to Build Confidence
As they say, ‘the future is now, albeit sparsely distributed’
Also somewhat related video from the now-shutdown Great Big Story, “Meet the Man Who Escaped the Soviet Bloc in a Homemade Plane”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPGLj87ybo
facebook hosted the New Zealand mosque shooting... live
I wish there was a better solution to this. I tried creating a VM and joining that to the work "services" but HyperV, VirtualBox, etc. all add an audio delay making Teams unusable.

Also tried Barrier and dedicating one monitor to work, but I still can't share/mix the audio so have 2 separate headsets.

I know ideally I'd just use the work computer all the time when "working", but they're VPN-ing all traffic and I occasionally need to read a private email, or do some browsing and would prefer they don't see that traffic.
I'm not certain whether it's unreasonable or it's become an expected norm; you don't expect to be able to leaving a shopping cart full if you're leaving a physical shop, for example.

I guess it very much depends on your usage - I wonder the proportion of users who add to a shopping cart and go back to it without creating an account.

Of course, we're also ignoring session local storage, in memory storage etc... for alternate solutions.
appearances can be deceiving
My favorite thing about bisqwit is that he drives a charter bus for work, despite being an amazing coder. This is his hobby.
I charge my phone on my laptop charger, and charge my laptop on my dock. When I want to undock my laptop, I disconnect a single cable. I have two monitors that can run off a phone or a laptop using just a USB cable (no power supply). I can even charge my MBP off a Lenovo charger without a second thought.

None of this was possible prior to those "years of pain." I personally welcome our USB-C overlords.
Session jacking can also allow disabling MFA unless sites are careful to re-verify the MFA before doing so. Or before changing the password or adding additional tokens / generating backup codes.

Security is hard. And features make it porous.
I dunno, I think it’s both. I’ve paid the $100 a year fee for over a decade, even though I don’t have anything in the App Store right now. For me, it’s worth it for access to the betas and to be able to self-sign and notarize stuff on GitHub.

So I already pay the $100 a year. But there is a browser extension I help maintain that has a very limited audience (it is essentially an internal tool, though it is in the Chrome and Edge stores). I would like to bring it to macOS/Safari and started the process of doing it. But there are so many hoops, it will vastly change the build pipeline (I’ll literally have to package every single update differently than the other platforms), and the process is so convoluted that honestly, I’ve given up for now. Bear in mind, I’d be the primary user of said extension and even for me, I can’t make the internal argument to waste time doing it over just using Chrome or Edge when I need that feature.

Having said all that, I should go ahead and port it to Firefox. That at least is a lot more straightforward.