skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What day to day life is and what is political depends on whether you like the current state of affairs or not.

For example, if you think minimum wage should be living wage, then saying it's an undue interference with the market will be perceived as a political statement.

What happens now in the federal government is immensely important and impactful for every American and NPR can't really avoid covering it. It's essentially their job.
Tcpreplay – Pcap editing and replaying utilities
This really doesn't help when devs just upgrade everything. Or if they simply install the latest (p0wned) version of something. Pinning hashes really isn't the answer here.
I tried melatonin a couple of times and it didn't seem to help. Note also it's not available OTC here in Australia (except in the useless homeopathic form) you need a prescription, but you can bring it back from overseas if you like. Which is a little annoying. They're working on making CBD oil available (also not currently) OTC) but not melatonin unless I missed that.
I went through your site, watched the first video, and the start of a demo. I spent probably 5 minutes on the site. I have no idea what it is that you provide.

I understand the widgets are customized to my role. But, where I'm unclear is if you are providing your own project management software and the widgets give me a streamlined view based on my role, or are you providing a widget that integrates with some other project management system?

You may benefit from showing this to friends and family and having them speak through their thought process as they navigate your site, this may be a good way to see firsthand what questions come up and how to iterate on the content.
Unreinforced masonry is weak in tension because of the weak binding interface between the masonry unit and the mortar. The reason masonry is used in wall construction and not in, say, a suspended floor, is precisely because walls don't typically experience tensile forces. Any tensile force resulting from e.g.: wind loading on the entire structure is typically overcome by the self-weight of the masonry.

If there is a special case where tensile forces are expected, for example a retaining wall, or a mid-rise structure, or earthquake load, the engineer will specify the the masonry is reinforced with steel and then it can resist tension through the unit/mortar interface just fine.

It is a poor structural engineer who tells the architect masonry isn't an option because tension.
> ...this is horrible idea as the plastic is going to be broken down and dispersed in environment in large amounts

This take seems trivially and obviously wrong. Recycling plastic produces a lot of nasty chemicals and is awful for the environment, but we still do it, because the alternative (chucking it in a landfill) is worse. The question is not whether these plastic bricks are bad in absolute terms, it is whether they're worse than whatever was being done with Kenya's plastic waste before this woman came along.

However, it is curiously common. From elsewhere in this thread:

> What about leaching [sic] chemicals into the soil and groundwater?

> I do wonder about microplastics flaking off of them, though....

> ...making me concerned about plastic particulate being released...

> What happens when these erode - wouldn’t plastic particles contaminate water?

> ...how does this product not heavily pollute the environment?

Isn't that interesting? Not to sound preachy, but did anyone have the "wait isn't this bad for the environment" reaction to any of the other stories on HN today? Starlink? That new Samsung fab plant? Shit, there's an ad on the front page right now for a gourmet dinner delivery startup. What is it about this one that brings out HN's inner environmentalist?
that search comes back with nothing. Anyway, if the desire is to ban semiautomatic detachable magazine rifles, that's what is being banned. And most people don't even understand that, the proponents of the last AWB didn't.

>and those kinds of killings would be the target of a new assault weapon ban.

Maybe you slipped there? You're right, the original desire, and the always desire, from the left, is to ban everything. Not even just semi-autos, they want to go to the UK/Japan model where everything is banned. That's the desire. If you want something else, it's going to be step 1 in the incremental ban of everything. That's always how it is. It's an article of faith with the left that guns are bad and only bad people want guns.

We need to ban guns (maybe "some" guns that are scary enough or you or somebody has determined I shouldn't be able to own) for the children because guns kill people. That's the argument you are making, even if you couch it in other terms. If you're not, what argument are you actually making?
There are so many great parts to Moby Dick. It has a reputation for tedium, so I was surprised the first time I read it at how much humor is in it, often mingled with deep insight, e.g.:

> Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks
will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs
round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every
killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant
butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other’s
live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks,
also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away
under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the
whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing,
that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties;
and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships
crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy
in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be
decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be
set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do
most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no
conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless
numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm
whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never seen
that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of
devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
In NPR's defense, dinosaurs aren't exactly having an impact on our daily lives. If a dinosaur does, I'm sure they will cover it extensively.
The cost of housing in Canada is, ironically, in the land. Land is something that Canada has quite a lot of. In Australia foreigner buyers are only allowed to buy newly build homes, that might work here too.
While I agree that 8k likely represents the limit to needed resolution for traditional TV screens, VR could use improvements beyond 8k. That is one usecase of 8k+ screens.

Also, to address your storage/bandwidth concerns, I expect 8k to be almost solely an "upscaling" technology (outside some niche applications). That almost nobody in practice will stream or store 8k, rather they will use local upscaling.
I'm all for securing domestic chip manufacturing but can we stop with the vanquishing? It sounds like you're talking about an army of orcs.
Mark Saroufim (Machine Learning – The Big Stagnation)
The Judgment Call Podcast Episode #23 Mark Saroufim (Machine Learning – The Big Stagnation)
So in essence researchers invented a computer program that sifts through conjectures (possible theories) about a certain area of mathematics (continued fractions), which will help discover new ways of computing important constants like Pi or the Catalan's constant in this case. This is a great development, because these computing these constants quickly plays an important role in speeding up several different types of computer programs.

It's also the first step in a new field of computer software that would augment mathematician's abilities and save them time, which will allow humanity to study physics, biology, and other complex fields more effectively and rapidly create advanced technologies.
That's true, but this almost certainly was not a state-level actor. When Russia or China decide to do damage to our infrastructure, they will almost certainly succeed. The deterrent in that case will be retaliation, not the appearance of security. But in no event can our civilian infrastructure be actually protected. It's just too hard. There's too much of it and there are too many people who legitimately need access.
That take is absurd for two reasons, the biggest that NPR doesn't have "programming" (local member stations decide their schedules) and the second that there is very little "progressive political ideology" on display for the national broadcasts - its remarkably neutral. But anything neutral looks liberal to contemporary conservatives, so what do I know.
They exist, but Intel doesn't do contract manufacturing and GlobalFoundries is behind the other major contract manufacturers (TSMC and Samsung) by many process node generations.
I don't doubt you. I'm sure these metrics depend on industry and company size.
Alleged internal sgi memo about the decline of IRIX quality
Gem: "IRIX went up from 4.8 megabytes to 8.1 megabytes, and has a memory leak that causes it to grow. Within a week, my newly-booted 5.1 IRIX was larger than 13.8 megabytes -- a big chunk of a 16 megabyte system. It's wrong to require our users to reboot every week."
Pencilmation Cartoon:Lucky by Chance
Exactly. I have 5 kids, and each one is so different.

My oldest loves programming, my middle child couldn't care less. They've been exposed similarly.

I think it's more nature than nurture personally.
What process is Xilinx using; not CMOS?
Blogging as a Zettelkasten
> Should I remind of the fact that Taiwan was very glad to sell any amount of semiconductors to mainland China.

> If anybody had an option to strangle them economically, it would've been Taiwanese themselves

> China is world's biggest semiconductor market. If the tap will close on their semiconductor imports, so would've their economy at large.

Why would anyone (least of all Taiwan) want this? Trade isn't a zero-sum game, and both parties benefit from it. Trade wars are very unpredictable, as the way the US lost the Trump-era trade war with China shows.

It's true that some in the US see China as a rival that must be "strangled". Views outside the US are much more nuanced - China isn't going to disappear and is way too big to just strangle. There are major issues dealing with China, though.
The book evolved from lecture notes that I've been publicly posting since at least 2005.
What's wrong with our outlets? We've got less voltage, and a ground plug that makes contact first. When the outlet is in a room with water, or outdoors, it goes through a ground fault interrupter to keep people from being electrocuted.

We reserve 220 volt outlets and higher voltages (3 phase 480, etc) for the larger loads, and those plugs are huge, and not something found in a typical home.
The gobertment does not need to use advanced stuff when they can just use coercion.

https://xkcd.com/538/

When the Roman Empire wanted something like water engineering or gold mining they found out who did it best, and then did invade the territory and enslave those who knew how to do it.

Steel traders from India will tell Romans it came from China so they did not invade it.

When the US three letter agencies want something from some company, they use a similar strategy: You are with us or against us. You can let us install backdoors in your software or you are a terrorist that support terrorists.
I love this. And yes, parenting is a total mystery.

One thing I found to be true for me personally (not trying to imply universal truth here), is that so many instincts just take over.

Was never one to think I'd be ready for kids (who is?), but here we are and my partner and I are somehow managing. It's exhausting, but I love it so far. There is nothing quite like joining the imaginary world of a young child in their endless creativity.
Sure, technically it’s not holding that increases emissions, it’s buying, but you can’t hold without buying.

Buying increases the market price, which increases the market value of the block reward, which increases the amount of energy miners are willing to use to earn the block reward.
I dont understand why people are so cynical about this stuff. Re-using is absolutely part of the solution. It's either pavers or blowing around in the wind into the water, until we can revolutionize recycling.
Interesting...I've been using the Facebook container for well over a year and have been very careful to only access facebook from it....but they still list very recent (like yesterday) data in my off_facebook_activity. This is very frustrating.
This is my usual nitpick, but pretty much every language does type erasure and there is nothing bad with it, blahblah.

Haskell is arguably great with types, and it does type erasure as well.
disclosure: I work for google

"People who understand human beings" and the have the ability to synthesize those insights into compelling technology products are exceedingly in demand in 2021. Rest assured, we hire as many as we possibly can and offer them a lot of money/benefits. However, they can pretty much get jobs anywhere and many choose to start their own venture.

You seem to think it's quite easy though. Do you think you can do a better job at Gmail than the Gmail team currently? Or a better job with Youtube than the Youtube team?

Maybe it's not as simple as 'understanding human beings'
In fairness, Brazil had plenty of slavery for a long time.
Can’t it still be useful by allowing contact tracers to get started earlier?
I've done a few meditation podcasts where a guy talks and I follow along, and as soon as it ends I'm relaxed but more alert. If my power trips overnight and the noise (fans or other electrical background noise) suddenly stops, I jerk awake. This is the same.

I've tried counting back from 5000 slowly on each breath. I got very far before stopping. Going backwards with large numbers is meant to take a bit more mental energy I think.

I've done the 1-10 then reset, we did that in Yoga at the gym. I've also done the box breathing where you breathe in and out slowly but at different rates.

I think mostly it will come down to practice like anything else. I get upset if it doesn't work but I enjoy ruminating so it's hard to let go. In many of these techniques I was very relaxed but still had an attentive core stopping the sleep from happening.
You see this all the time. As companies get larger, they become more and more difficult to understand. This is even more so the case with software companies since they are essentially complexity factories.
My friend's youngest is little miss princess. Everything has to be pink and sparkly, and tiaras are the height of fashion.

My friend was pretty dismayed at first, because she's quite feminist and has been very careful to raise her daughter with gender neutral toys, media, etc. All her family and friends have taken similar precautions, and if anything, this kid has been raised to see "girly girl" things as quite negative.

Ultimately, my friend came to the same conclusion as you--you can only shape your kid so much. For whatever reason, her daughter is just naturally obsessed with being a princess. Genetics probably play a role, plus other far more subtle environmental factors.

My friend has embraced her duaghter's interests--after all, feminism is all about letting women chase whatever interests and life paths they want! But we still chuckle at how unlikely it seems for her, of all people, to have a daughter so obsessed with pink.
RTP?
> It's things like this that make me a little suspicious when people say that going after big tech with antitrust law will necessarily be good for the consumer.

This is what we see coming from a mile away when people (usually user-hostile devs) clamor for the App Store to be broken up etc.
An interesting idea for an app which resets the iPhone after some idle time, or if iPhone loses contact with the apple watch. To prevent AFU exploits.
Can you share some sources where I can read up on this?

I checked the bitcoin docs - but couldn't find much about energy use (or I'm just not very good at searching ;) )
I love the "Expected/Unexpected" break down on the key insight slide intros to each section. Most of the unexpected ones I did not expect!
Is there any reason they couldn’t just start with multipatterning 193nm immersion? Maybe even ship that equipment out from a facility being upgraded.

Also, ASML’s EUV light source division was fairly recently (2013) acquired from... California. Cymer, LLC.
> the feed is not dictated by the user's subscriptions but by FB's will?

This is why my abortive attempt at using fb to keep in contact with people who refused to use another service was terminated.
The typical 3D rotate using ImageMagick as a shell script: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/rotate3D/index.php
I disagree with your statement that it was respectful.

Accepting your scenario, this suggests that they did not really want to hire the candidate and at best thought they might settle - when it came to it, they were not even willing to compare the candidate at the next stage, despite already asking them to do this work.

They strung the candidate along.
And Among Us...
I would think that even a modest success would fetch a high acquisition price from Uber or Doordash or Grubhub.
> “ until" implies that anyone is guilty given enough time

Sadly, I think that’s considered a “feature” by modern law enforcement and judicial systems. Plea bargains and the sheer volume of laws that cannot possibly be understood by normal people make for a prosecutorial power balance that genuinely means everybody really is just “innocent until they decide to prove you guilty”.

The well known “Don’t talk to police” lecture is extremely on point here: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

Your _are_ guilty of something. If you come to the attention of the wrong LEO, they will find something to prosecute you for, and like Al Capone, they’ll perfectly happily send you to jail for tax evasion if they’ve decided but cannot prove you are guilty of something else.

That’s totally fucked up.
> If privacy is your concern, BTC is the superior option

Bitcoin is a public ledger. It is AT BEST pseudonymous. At best.
Show HN: Inspiration, wisdom, and advice by GPT-3
Nothing, The miners are already securing the bitcoin network regardless of companies adding them to their balance sheets.
The product is very good but after I heard about "expertsexchange" I can't help noticing how URLs can have undesired consequences.
the article says:

> Some bitcoin proponents note, meanwhile, that the existing financial system with its millions of employees and computers in air-conditioned offices uses large amounts of energy too.

There's 0 details or comparisons in there.
The Speculative Dread of “Black Mirror”
I've been looking at the screenshots you've posted and I'm struggling to see what influence you're seeing in Big Sur that came from Gnome 3.

The best I've come up with is the switch from a two row title bar/header to a one that is integrated into just one row. Which could very well be inspired by Gnome 3 or parallel evolution.

Are there other UI elements that I should be seeing in Big Sur that look like they have inspiration, homage, blatant copying that I'm not seeing here?

To my eye they have a somewhat similar aesthetic but and general layout but their differences are many when looking closer.
Talking quietly at the local pub is resistant to all but the most sophisticated surveillance efforts too.

It's only very recently that people have been communicating over the internet, allowing the mass surveillance. All encryption does is return us back to the pre 1990s in terms of surveillance capabilities.
"Bitcoin Cash" is a fork of Bitcoin with larger blocks to solve the transaction fee problem, which it has been largely successful at.

In fact the original design for Bitcoin assumed larger blocks in the future, so it is perhaps a more accurate description to say that Bitcoin Cash is the "original" Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Core is a fork with an altered (small blocks) design.
It has been widely reported that Teamviewer was indeed used.
Have him check out Dino Dana, Dino Trek, Dino Dan on Amazon Prime. My four year old is a big fan and will randomly drop some amazing Dinosaur facts he's picked up from those shows.
MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept crypto payments this year
You're overthinking. Have a drink.
See here:

http://happyplanetindex.org/countries

India has a decent HPI. It's one of the few metrics that seems to avoid correlation with GDP without simply stratifying.
I've read some of the linked documents now and I have a kid that is reaching kindergarten age and in SFUSD. The kid's been in some of the SFUSD preschool programs since it seemed to be the only source of certain autism related services before kindergarten age.

Given the kinds of communication I receive from the district (the majority are coordinating welfare programs rather than supporting some academic mission), recent news, and these sorts of standards cropping up, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that I should avoid the public school system here. The preschool is dealing with such basic things that it probably doesn't matter, but as time goes on the picture doesn't sound promising.

So to take this discussion off on a tangent... is private school the only real option? Are there home-schoolers here that can provide some insights? I did mention he's autistic, but very high functioning and we're already making progress without the aforementioned district autism services anyway. Anyway, not sure where to start in the Bay Area and this head-shaking document prompted the thought to ask.
Headline is deeply tendentious. More completely:

"Despite Scanning Millions of Faces [at land crossings and airports], Feds Caught Zero Imposters [just] at Airports [in 2020]".

Seven people were caught the previous year at airports. And a total of 285 at land crossings over both years.

I can't say whether that's a good or a bad number, but it's not zero. But the headline is deliberately comparing unrelated numbers to single out the zero.
Its unfortunate that the proposed realms is still just a proposal. Even still I've heard many arguments that since the method of isolation lives inside JS it cannot be expected to be entirely secure and you would be much better off relying on OS level security primitives, a point that comments I've read so far completely glosses over. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong that this is air tight so we can champion realms at my work.

POLA is good to live by regardless if it can be implemented.
Archer Aviation gets a $1B order from United Airlines, to go public