skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sinclair Research - creators of the ZX Spectrum and Timex/Sinclair computers - unveiled a futuristic prototype FM watch in 1984. The three separate cases hold an LCD watch, piezoelectric speaker and FM tuner, along with a separate battery compartment in the clasp. The watch design was spearheaded by Sinclair product design manager Dagfinn Aksnes, who recalls that Clive Sinclair's casual design brief was, 'Design an FM Radio Watch as small as possible. The watch must have an integrated speaker and aerial. The aim is to design the first/smallest integrated FM Radio Watch in the world.' Sinclair's partner TIMEX was selected to manufacture the revolutionary watch."
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says 'prepare for inflation'
Minimal distortions it might have, but is it useful? Both sides are centered on either totally-uninhabited or sparsely-inhabited regions, or wide open ocean.

If you're a tern or an albatross, this seems like a great map. But as a human I can't see myself using this for anything practical.

On the other hand, it's always nice to have new ways to marvel at the pale blue dot we inhabit.
IARPA Program Driving New Capabilities to Capture Clearer Images of Satellites
The bullying that I experienced was verbal. Hitting the bullies for saying mean things probably would have been overreacting (and lead to me getting in trouble), but it was happening in class so I couldn't "walk away" either.
Silver Sparrow macOS Malware with M1 Compatibility
http://www.arrl.org/shop/Ham-Radio-License-Manual/

This is really all you need to get started. I was 14 when I first got my license - I used an earlier iteration of this book to self study. It’s really straightforward. Feel free to email with any questions! Always glad to help people get started in ham radio.
Why would you download anything? It seems possible to have a DVD/BluRay or USB disk with the golden copy on it, or the OS itself should be able to restore itself to factory settings.
Take this guy

https://mobile.twitter.com/GregSchoen/status/702616488117616...

Who lamented making $400 instead of $13k back in 2011. Those coins would today be worth about $95m, but there's no way he'd have kept them -- same as the buy who bought the pizzas (or the guy who sold them)

This guy was bored of $14/coin, it wasn't moving

https://twitter.com/rockerest/status/91885405368098816?lang=...

So he took the loss (in July 2011 they were at a peak, jumping from 77 cents to $15 in 3 months)

Had someone found an old laptop with the coins, they'd have been looking for it in the 2017 craze (ala Big Bang Theory) and sold then.

Bitcoin is currently 3 times the peak in December 2017.
The video is in English and you're commenting in English, on an English-speaking site. It's clear what "de-accent" is intended to mean in this context.
How to have better arguments online: Don't.

Not worth it. Waste of time. Useless. Do anything else.

Just my experience of over 10 years having heated arguments about a lot of stuff. Nothing came out of anything.
She didn't say "I don't wanna work here anymore". She said they could discuss a last day when she was back from vacation.

They said her employment was terminated immediately. So no more pay.

Gebru was able and willing to continue working at the time Google terminated her employment. So it was involuntary in California law and English.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203772
conceptually holding more cash than you can usefully spend reduces your cash value and doesn't have to happen with inflation

I remember Buffets letter to shareholders apologising Berkshire Hathaway wasn't able to continue delivering the same historic returns because that trajectory would require them to own every publicly traded asset in the world after ten more years.

even now you can potentially eliminate the major inflationary risks by holding property without debt and rely on policy consumer price regulation to hold basic necessities in check but I personally think that energy risks and not only exceptional weather events put that out of contention for sanity sake. In fact if energy infrastructure and general infrastructure development is increasingly critical for the future it makes little sense to have a cash savings incentive in the economy despite this is unfortunately not a explicit case for the generational savings deprecated in a way that I readily appreciate.

edit to remove accidental negative from I personally [don't] think that energy risks....
Holocaust survivor Berta Berkovich Kohút dies in San Rafael at 99 of covid19
The infosec community at large is well aware of how unreliable just using md5 checksums to identify malware is. If anything it is the absolute first line of defense for identifying malware, in that it is easy to implement quickly and has a decent enough chance of filtering out low hanging fruit. The biggest use for the checksums between malware researchers is for identifying if they have the same strain of malware as someone else. Identification is mostly not based on checksums, but rather things like YARA rules where different identifying factors of malware are outlined to be compared against binaries. This isn't foolproof either, but there is a rather large ecosystem of malware researchers out there constantly taking samples and releasing rules. I follow a lot of these folks on Twitter and the majority of what they post are their findings on the bajillionth strain of whatever malware is in vogue at the moment. This sort of stuff is going to catch the majority of what will be coming at most people and anything that slips by the first lines of detection usually gets picked up somewhere along the way and passed on to researchers who do an exceptional job of reversing and identifying new malware or strains of old ones. But of course the reliability of that whole ecosystem depends on sensible organization security policy to start with.

In short, md5 sums and signatures are there to protect against the low hanging fruit, spray and pray type malware that's pretty common. If someone wants to target you with uniquely signatured malware they can. Identifying it isn't going to be what stops it, but proper opsec can.
So you're telling me they were never expecting someone to return a laptop and it needing to be wiped?
If that's the case then it's not an infinite chain - each successive universe would have lower and lower resolution or a smaller and smaller universe.
How often does your server go down? If this is a common occurrence that you are stressed about it, try to solve that first.

My advice will be a little controversial in this thread, but cloud providers are really perfect for building durable products. Any situation you can find where you can trade dollars for durability is well worth the ROI as a solo tech owner. Load balancers, auto scaling, aurora clusters, s3, these are all services that help me sleep like a baby even though my SaaS needs a perfect uptime. Expect instance outages, so keep your servers stateless and run at least 2 instances, as small as possible and go horizontal.

Another good idea is to learn how your product can die. Load test, try to break your app, and then fix those weak spots.

These are my opinions and experiences, and have continued to serve me well.
Backprop isn't biologically plausible but predictive coding is and it approximates backprop.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04182
Yes, I have no idea why this is on HN - not tech related, and basically no actual content except for a feel-bad story with no conclusion.
Show HN: Libre-Studio.com
> Is it even demonstrably secure against the potential of malicious original owners/operators running away with large sums of money?

Are you talking about Bitcoin itself here? There are no operators holding your money. It's secured by standard cryptography implemented in open source code, and the entire ledger is public.

There are developers who fix bugs that come up, and make minor improvements to the protocol occasionally. Ultimately it's everybody running the software who decides whether the changes actually deploy.

(If you're talking about Coinbase, they do hold your money and they are regulated and audited.)
The OP is missing a solution to the problem that nobody's listens to the others because the are thinking about what to say: Have all people think about what to say before the standup!
Technically the Venera probe itself didn't melt. The solder in its electronics did. Higher temperature solder could have been used, but this would not have made a difference in the end because silicon stops behaving as a semiconductor past a certain temperature. Silicon carbide does not though and we're starting to make ICs that can function at Venusian temperatures. Even the venerable 555 timer/comparator has been made to function at Venusian temperatures[0].

[0]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8782125
For me, it's not even clear that someone watched this on company time.

This is like if I was at home and did a Google search for "vegan recipes". Because I'm logged into my corporate account, my employer's logo appears in the upper right corner. If I shared a screenshot of that search, does it mean that my employer is forcing its employees to learn how to live a vegan lifestyle?

Perhaps Coca-Cola is mandating this. Perhaps they aren't, though.
The SCCS weave was our secret sauce. Tichy did the world a huge disservice in his PhD about RCS (like that was worth a PhD, come on) where he bad mouthed SCCS's weave (without understanding it, or maybe he was spreading misinformation on purpose, he implied that SCCS was forward deltas where RCS is backwards deltas, see below for what that means).

When we were still in business, each new SCM that came out, we'd hold our breath until we looked at it and said "No weave!"

For those who don't know, the SCCS weave is how your data is stored. Most people are used to something like RCS which is patch based. For the RCS trunk, the head is stored as plain text, the previous delta is a reverse patch against the head, lather, rinse, repeat. Branches are forward deltas, so if you want to get something on a branch, you start with the head, apply reverse deltas until you get to the branch point and then forward deltas until you get to the branch tip. Ask Dave Miller how much he loved working on a branch of gcc, spoiler, he hated it. With good reason.

SCCS has a weave that is not aware of branches at all, it only knows about deltas. So you can get 1.1 in exactly the same amount of time as it takes to get head, it is one read through all the data. bk annotate (git blame) is astonishingly fast.

And merges are by reference, no data is copied across a merge. Try that in a patch based system. How many of you have been burned because you merged in a branch full of code that someone else wrote, and on the trunk all the new data from the branch looks like you wrote it, so you get blamed when there is a bug in that code? That's because your brain dead system copied code from the branch to the trunk (Git does this as well, that's what the repack code is trying to "fix", it is deduping the copies).

Weaves are the schnizzle, any SCM system that doesn't use them today is so 1980.
That's literally apples and vaccines. In the future you might as well not bother with such pointless digressions.

Back on topic: recently read on CNN that the UK contract's exactly the same as the EU one (best effort) and it was signed later than the EU one even if it was negotiated earlier.

If we combine that with the fact that the UK is not exporting any vaccine and the EU is, including to the UK, it seems to me that the EU was right to be upset with AZ and put pressure on them.

The UK is being selfish and trying to make the EU look like the bad guy.
I am a major pain in the ass at my company. I point out flaws constantly and clearly state what problems exist. But when I do that, I literally don't name names and make general statements such as "Company does not currently have the expertise to solve this issue and are requesting a consultant" while talking about basic issues or "Everyone is leaving because IT is seeing how bad things are and we're at the forefront so all the problems will be hitting the rest of you guys soon." And even then I think if I wasn't in a country with such strong legal employement rights I would so get fired for it. So calling out people by name just seems nuts.
I would happily write code for free (and do so off-hours, with my kids, and for side projects).

I have the luxury of working in a field where my employer pays me not because I hate what I’m doing and would rather not do it all, but just because they need me to focus on solving puzzles they choose instead of puzzles I choose.
Why did they create their Etsy store? Was it to make as much money as possible? If the goal is just to make money then they should cash out at the peak of their brand.
News articles about cryptic, now-deleted tweets are not a great way to discuss these issues. It seems the media wants inflation and stocks and Bitcoin to be the new attention-grabbing topic now that the election is over and COVID is trending downward due to vaccine availability.

Inflation has entered the public zeitgeist in a weird way: Too many people are convinced that inflation is a binary on/off switch, rather than a range of values. Too many people have also been led to believe that Bitcoin is the only way to escape inflation, when really any asset will rise with inflation (by definition).
"We have continuity over the equator. African and South America are draped over the edge, like a sheet over a clothesline, but they’re continuous."

Odd way to characterize a map that cuts the equatorial region literally in half. It is true you can rotate the two circles so that whichever longitude you want is touching though, that's nice. They picked something around 5 degrees east, or just about the middle longitude of the landmass of Africa.

The most unusual feature of this projection is how it heavily emphasizes the two poles, literally centering them. Most maps you don't really get any sense of the Antarctic continent at all.
Open Sourcing Miranda – Code Mesh V 2020
How? Writing resource hogging code all day to figure out how to best display obtrusive advertisements is a good start.
> Several commenters online have pointed out the irony of this happening to Metallica. The band, particularly drummer Lars Ulrich, has been heavily critical of online music sharing, and the band had a high-profile case with Napster back in 2000.

Is that not the opposite of ironic?
There's another project[1] with the reverse engineered API in python and a blog post in Korean, so I used that as my reference.

[1] https://github.com/stypr/clubhouse-py
"After a while, more and more, you’ll find yourself in moments of awe, stunned by the size and fragility of it all; the mountains of work and talent and creativity and foresight and intelligence and luck that went into it. And you’ll reach for the word “magic” because you won’t know how else to describe it and then you lean back and smile, wondering how someone could not."

I guess I wish I felt like that about programming. But more and more, I feel like this:

"You are an expert in all these technologies, and that’s a good thing, because that expertise let you spend only six hours figuring out what went wrong, as opposed to losing your job. You now have one extra little fact to tuck away in the millions of little facts you have to memorize because so many of the programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots."

-- https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Truly fantastic stuff. I don't really have anything to add other than to say that this made me feel happy about what I do for a living. So much better than reading flamewars camouflaged as blogposts :)
I would guess it's an evolved survival strategy. You need to go along with the tribe you're in. It's just part of our nature to do this.
I dont really understand the point of this article. Literally any system can be made romantic for the sheer fact that everything has spent hundreds of man-hours building up to it.

The cheapest possible ballpoint pen is made up of years of research into the plastics, the machinery required to create bearings with the tolerances necessary, the exact chemical makeup of the ink etc etc. It just seems to be a waste of brain-space to bother with making everything romantic.
AZ was/is shipping vaccine from the EU to the UK. That's what the EU considered stopping.
> If there's a similar distinction between the business models of Coinbase and e.g. CME Group, I have yet to hear it.

Traditional finance and crypto finance are often hard to compare, but here's a surface level comparison: Coinbase is an exchange, a brokerage, and a clearing house all wrapped into one. I'm not aware of entity in traditional finance that is all three, though plenty are two out of three (Robinhood is a brokerage and clearing house, CME is an exchange and clearing house).
We had commercial supersonic passenger flight in the mid-70’s. We don’t today. But we do have more affordable commercial flight I suppose.

The Cold War was great for tech investment and research without a clear profit motive.
Long term capital gain taxes are lower than dividend taxes which are taxed as income, no?
Talk about arbitrary, on the pharmaceutical front some very revealing and somewhat forgotten info seems to be in the comments:

>anon the II says:
19 February, 2021 at 1:03 pm

>About 27 years ago, a little company that I worked for was going through another transmutation in order to survive. We became a high-throughput screening/combinatorial chemistry company. The CEO told a story about how, by the time anyone figured out that we didn’t know what we were doing, we might actually figure out what we were doing. I volunteered to be the technical lead on the combi-chem side. Anyhow, we managed to get bought by Lilly in 1994 and shortly afterwards, we got a visit from Bryan Malloy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Molloy), the inventor of Prozac, who came down to see what his company had purchased. I met with Bryan and we had a lovely chat. But, he let me know that he thought that what we were doing was no better than “pissing in the wind”.

>I guess this means that he was doing much the same.
Sounds like a lot of work when the alternative is just using a device that doesn’t spy on you in the first place. For instance, Remarkable is a great e—ink tablet that literally gives you the keys to the kingdom: there’s a UI in the product that gives you the root PW (which is set randomly for each device).
Rotterdam
Yes, certain ways of making money should absolutely be on outrage, sometimes to the point of being made illegal.
Well, for absolute beginners and non software engineers globals are really a major part of the non-BS part. Just throw stuff in to little named boxes and use where ever. There are many jobs which require programming but not software engineers where I see globals all the time: data science (jupyter), trading (mt etc bots), accounting (excel and 4gl hell) etc. These folks just 'get shit done' and do not care (or know) about scope. Only us pro software engineers get upset about as we know this will hurt down the line.
Romantic? A relationship can be a metaphor for almost anything. Currently I feel abused not by programming but by other programmers. How can you be romantic about programmers? (more broadly: How can you be romantic about people?) I agree with the title paradoxically.
Yeah they don't tend to talk very openly about who is doing the buying for what. Occasionally in the last few years Buffett will indicate if it was him specifically buying something, usually outsized positions.

I think either Ted or Todd is likely is doing the buying on Snowflake (at least instigated the premise), perhaps with Buffett's sign-off (given it's an increasingly large position). I also think one of the other buyers is likely responsible for Berkshire's position in VRSN.

There's a high risk that Snowflake position will humiliate Berkshire Hathaway. I think it's a mistake. It wouldn't be Berkshire's first mistake in dabbling in tech but it looks like it could be the biggest.

I have great respect for Buffett's historical performance, however I consider him mostly done at this point. He's conservatively managing the end game of his career now, he seems to be intentionally avoiding doing anything that might stretch beyond his lifetime now (I don't think he wants to do anything that might need a decade to manage that he might have to offload onto the next person). I think he should have taken advantage of KHC's weakness for example, to strip Heinz back out of the conglomerate and break it up and sell off the rest of Kraft, the stock was so cheap at times you could have almost gotten Heinz for free in the process. Instead Buffett is sitting on a hundred plus billion dollars yielding squat (KHC was down to near half the market cap it currently sports, which was the general time to grab it to try to get the Heinz business, and then sell off the lesser pieces, either after you repair what was ailing KHC or immediately depending).
>"...the Taste Display could reproduce any flavor one might care to conjure up. Here’s how it works, starting with a bit of anatomy: The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting the five basic tastes—sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.

Miyashita’s device has five different gels, each containing an electrolyte solution that causes the tongue, upon contacting the surface, to sense one of those flavors at an intensity that is readily adjustable. Each gel is connected to a separate (exceedingly weak) electric current, and the taste associated with that gel diminishes when the current is turned up. A sixth, tasteless gel is also included as a buffer that keeps the overall current level—and the associated stimulation of the tongue—constant at all times.

The six different gels (including one that is tasteless) inside the part of the Taste Display that transmits flavor to the tongue.

By adjusting the current strengths for all six gels, which can be done automatically, the taste of a chocolate milkshake or a sirloin steak or any other desired treat can be experienced through the use of this device without any caloric intake."
No influencers is a positive. They make social media such a toxic environment.
I am enjoying the relatively nerdy community of mastodon ATM. It feels like a place to see some actual thought provoking discussion
I'm really glad you find it useful! I originally intended to include the actual reviews like they do at https://bookmarks.reviews but the journals' terms of service are pretty clear about that sort of thing.
Thank you for detailed post. Lot of it taken for granted when seeing schematics and it is tiny component named “XO” by designers.
We seem to collectively forget a lot of things with the Mac experience. You know how many troubleshooting required to zap the pram? Option-cmd-p-r on startup. Was that good Ux that people could guess on their own?
If you're interested in this, watch this [1] very in-depth 1943 movie called "Crystals go to War" which documents crystal oscillator manufacturing step by step. Honestly, I was amazed by this. I tend to think of technology as pretty primitive in the 40s but this is a great reminder of how sophisticated technology could be even back then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKprsCNLUlE
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ancient-relic-earth-history-ye... "Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago"

Just because this article's title is less sensationalistic, doesn't make it any less interesting.
> because so many of the programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots

Out of all the problems with programming as a job, this is around the bottom of my list.