skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...physics that some people take an almost instinctive dislike to..."

It is true. The common feature is, "Sounds like BS to me." The solid answer to them, as to the previous quantum, relativity, and even neutrino skeptics, now satisfied, is evidence, but that stuff has been raggedly thin lately.

This, at the same time that we hear, loudly, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence".

Thank you, just ordinary evidence will do. The more the better.

I don't think dark matter skeptics are especially enamored with MOND or supercausality; I think they are just rationally suspicious of a one-theory field that prefers to sweep contrary evidence under the rug, while parading the dirty laundry of challengers; and want to see things kept honest.

I have no dog in this fight, but I have seen more than enough echo chambers operating in what is supposed to be science.

Speaking of which: This might be the only useful result, now and forever, of all the $billions spent chasing Tokamak: a generation of physicists not afraid of plasma fluid dynamics. God knows there will never be even one solitary erg of competitive commercial energy production from it.

And, while I'm here: "magnetohydrodynamics" is an extremely limited sub-field of plasma fluid dynamics, involving just the trivial parts. Astrophysicists seem to hate the expression "plasma fluid dynamics", and say "MHD" whenever they feel like they can get away with it. I have interpreted it as shame that they cannot cope with the mathematics that doing real PFD involves anywhere outside of the wholly artificial circumstances where MHD maths work; but I am open to alternatives.
I guessing that as long as you're not trying to plot the results, julia is fast?
RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)
I've been using Webmention.io on my own site (https://rasulkireev.com) and it works beautifully.

A lot of frameworks and static site builders have a plugin to integrate webmentions on one site.

I believe this came from the Indieweb movement, which I am a huge fun of.
Traditionally, they say that because even when their outward trappings are all over popular culture, they know that their core message is difficult to live out in practice, and most of the people who show up aren't doing it.
I'm always interested in applications to signal processing:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-36104-3

You can download it for free from academic libraries that have SpringerLink.
When Not to Innovate
Only in the US among developing countries do you care.

My experience getting a COVID vaccination was eye opening. I walked into a large facility, provided ID, was asked screening questions, consulted with a provider about a medical issue and got the shot.

I work for an employer with a legacy PPO. I suffered a back injury, had a major surgery and 8 weeks of physical rehab. My out of pocket was a few hundred bucks. I didn’t lose a days pay because of sick leave at half pay and short term disability insurance. The people I was in rehab with were losing jobs, selling cars, facing complete ruin.

The lack of ethical standards and focus on profit over the general welfare of the people is gross.
Good to know, thank you very much
I have a different story. I come from a Northern country where there was no "good" coffee for decades, just regular filter coffee, usually too strong. We accept our inferiority in this regard.

When I was in Italy or France, I took a liking to their coffee. Sure, seems complicated for home use, but nice in a cafe or bar.
To me, living in Paris, this was (at the time) good coffee.

So then I met an American, and when I related the above, I was told that the coffee wasn't actually that good at all, and I should try some real artisanal coffee like they do in New York. Luckily, this was getting popular in Europe as well.
So, I tagged along to a new and hip coffee place and found, to my surprise, that the mysterious espresso machines had been replaced by good old filters, but with a very arcane and complex production process.

The other difference was that the coffee was weak and tasted more like tea than coffee. I did not like it at all, as I wanted a coffee and not some weak watery tea. I like all sorts of coffees - from espresso to filter to Nescafe - for their own unique taste, except this one.

Anyway, my point is that I found American coffee snobs to be more snobby than French or Italian ones.
They could just require a higher stake, the price of eth is irrelevant.

Let's say hypothetically one eth was worth about a Satoshi, 0.05 cents or so. So they could just require 1,000,000 eth as a stake. Or ten times that. Or a hundred times that.

It's irrelevant what the price is, the choice of the stake amount is. If eth was inflationary, they could inflate the stake proportionally.
Except plotting things
Exploitation and Sanitization of Hidden Data in PDF Files
Percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009)
Why do with repurposing your old laptop's monitor, when you can also reuse it's obsolete OS?
"press" is a bit of a misnomer, as it actually does die casting.
Its not arrogance- it is confidence.

We've been doings like this for twenty years. We made Potato Phones in 2002 before a potato phone was a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3StA3INws

Youtube is lame- our work is also archived on Internet Archive and other places- this is a 172 gb master of one of our films https://archive.org/details/heartstringmarionette

Flag? I don't see a flag. I see text.

The "try too hard" stuff usually comes from weak people who are wannabe creators but lack the guts to do it, let alone stick with it for several decades while remaining original and independent.
Is there consensus on how significant the sparrow thing was to the famine? I would have guessed that the whole “you’re not allowed to have your own farms any more, you now have to work in these farms, but you don’t get to keep any of the food from these farms” thing was a much more significant cause.
That's a good question.

Imagine what would happen if one person held literally all the money. It may be easier to imagine a 100-person community rather than the whole world.

One thing that would have to happen is everyone else would develop their own money/currency, which would turn mean that the one person with all the money is no longer the one person with all the money.

A thing quite likely to happen is that everyone would decide that whatever the money is that the one person has, everybody would decide it is not money.

It isn't entirely dissimilar from me claiming I have all the Jerfoleans on the world, and what the world is really doing about that currency right now. They're worth a zero so zero-y that even an infinite number of them is still worth a flat zero. Someone who has "all the money" might find themselves in a similar boat.
Well, if everyone is an attention seeker online trying to pitch their own line of BS and side hustling, then not using social media, or being genuine there, is counter to culture.
big of you.
Ah another believer in infinite wisdom of free markets without regulation.

This is a true believer, few people suggest we need no regulation in healthcare.

How far are you willing to go, should we remove fire safety and return to the fun days where entire cities burned down like in the great fire of london.

Should we deregulate the nuclear industry and let the market decide which reactor design is best and who should be allowed to enrich uranium
Full version (including history of sound recording devices) https://youtu.be/_Tx6TYnPat8
Yeah for sure. I appreciate that they chose that route for compatibility. I know I don’t in my hobby projects :)
Wow so why do we as rich techies in SF put up with this shit?
A higher market cap can be more secure in a PoS system but burning ETH doesn't increase the market cap. Like stock buybacks, burning coins increases the price without necessarily creating new overall value.
About 20 years ago, I used to say: "People are like dung beetles... fighting over balls of shit." Might've been live, pirated HBO George Carlin-inspired.

How about a nice game of chess?

I wouldn't demonize the very poor as addicts; drunks, sure. A dry hobo is likely to whip your ass and mine at chess. There are a good fraction of sane, teetotaling, drug-free hobos who are merely poor and itinerant without magical bootstraps.
The interesting thing about vinyl compared to any other format is that not only is it analog, it’s also mechanical! I think that gives the technology an aesthetic that can’t be matched by other analog formats, it also works without electricity! The whole idea of engraving sound into a physics object is a still pretty wild and something that’s been going on for over 100 years!
It seems that the phenomenon is already part of cosmological simulations.

https://sciencenode.org/feature/toward-a-realistic-cosmic-ev...

(Note: frame-dragging is another term for gravitomagnetism)
The U.S. healthcare system cannot be fixed. Period. Full-stop. The only solution is to nuke it from orbit, pave it over, and start again. It's very easy to point the finger at the conservative party as the one who's screwed it all up, but the other parties are not really putting forward models for successful healthcare systems.

If one were to sit down and try to create the most absurd approach to healthcare that guaranteed high cost and poor outcomes you couldn't come up with the idiocy that our system has become. It's completely untenable, a failure at every single level from medical school to funeral services. The fact that there are so many smart people working in healthcare defies belief in the absolute fucking disaster it is.

Even in the interaction between health providers and insurance companies, the billing practices have moved so far beyond fraud and are so widespread that nobody can even comprehend or describe how fucking broken just that one part of it is.

Without getting into details, the healthcare industry is absolutely mortified of a law that requires them to provide patients expected costs before care and to publicize those cost for comparison. I can't believe that some startup hasn't glassdoored billing practices yet by patients simply uploading screenshots of their bills when they get them.

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we just went through a bizarre medical experience where surgery was billed out at a total of something like $70k, the "negotiated" price was more like $7k, and we payed out of pocket something like $700.

At one point the insurance company turned down the bill from the surgeon, who promptly simply submitted a bill from a "surgical assistant" who we never met or knew existed for the exact same dollar amount which was also denied, and then resubmitted the original bill which was approved and promptly "negotiated" to 10% of the original bill amount in the end. In the meanwhile we had absolutely no idea if we owed $30k for this bill, $30, $300, or $300k. No idea at all.

It beggars belief that congress, who is mostly made up of people who are obviously experiencing their own medical journeys, can't put together some easily bipartisan approaches to price visibility.
It looks fine to me. A lot of the press targets a 6-8th grade reading level. This sentence structure probably violates those rules, I guess.
You have to pull to find it- we live in a push world now and that's why all you see is the same old crap- because people aren't searching new works out- they are just sitting around letting curators and algo's push it to them.
Indeed, however Oxalobacter formigenes is not widely present in all human biomes, even those without antibiotic therapy.

I have attempted to garner the interest of major enzyme corporation (Novozymes, for example) in mass producing the oxalate degrading enzyme through fermentation, but no response.
Does limited time codes really get you anything that putting a date or which vaccine you got wouldn't? Besides, seems a bit overengineered for something that might happen in theory but hasn't yet.
Precisely. Vitalik wants to fork ETH (as he's done before when they rolled back the DAO hack) to make a new version of ETH that is proof of stake.

The miners, as I've predicted here before, disagree, because this fork obliterates their entire business model. Shocking.
I can type 100+ wpm reliably with touch cursor. AHK is not recommended for space bar dual role functionality for the reasons you mentioned.
For those trying to host a git server on your home network like I have and encountered network issues even after port forwarding, you might be behind carrier grade NAT.

You'll need some forwarding solution, or use an SSH reverse tunnel to punch through CGNat.

Use something like ngrok or localhost.run. For example if you're using gitea, host it on localhost:8080 then run this:

ssh -R 80:localhost:8080 localhost.run

This will forward localhost:8080 to <subdomain>.localhost.run

Now you just pass <subdomain>.localhost.run to colleagues and they'd be able to connect to your self-hosted git instance.

Now do the same for ssh port.

Caveat that your traffic would route through localhost.run, so it's best to not use this for anything serious, or alternatively host your own reverse SSH tunnel on a VPS somewhere.
The point of this proposal is that Ethereum no longer needs miners and they know it, so there's kind of a race between the miners trying to take Ethereum hostage and the developers kicking miners off the island before they can do it.
I believe that was disabled in the protocol long ago because it was deemed to be a security risk.
We work just fine without mobiles. The plus is that we aren't enslaved to a handheld device ruled by rich guys.
hahaha. I've been to a bruins game in TD Garden, and while I agree with you it still was pretty fun. Jacques Plante, best goalie to ever play for the Oilers!
Then it is NOT unlimited.
In that case, is it not really autonomous? Who’s stopping the signal? I’m assuming the range officer?

When passengers are on-board, there’s generally a launch abort engine that is supposed to help them leave safely in a abort scenario
I think they meant it more as in how FM radio quality is also better than AM, until it doesn't
This was awesome, OP! Great use of FS.
It will be interesting to see how the situation develops if they really do attempt to fork and if normal users want to use ETH2. Miners could potentially want to keep the blockchain going and the value could be artificially high, but with transactions falling down and holders migrating, they couldn't keep it up forever... <insert "dis gon' be good" gif>
Previously (and flagged, I guess) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433381
Nice to use this as a "boss key" when reading HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
Put me in that camp too! I know a small text box won’t get across what changed for you but I’d love to know what I’m probably missing. What’s the text box version?

For me, it feels like we limit the search because we’ve found a pretty good answer. There’s a fashion and if you aren’t fashionable then you can’t get tenure. We should continue to explore the unfashionable edges.

PS I love the idea that it’s similar to clusters of political preferences.
Some opcodes were disabled but most of them remain. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
I fell for the clickbait. I was super excited to read a story about the actor who plays the mascot for the Proctor & Gamble cleaning product having to beg for a raise, because they were paying him only $380k (which I'm pretty sure is below the poverty line in San Francisco).

Instead, "Mr. Clean" is merely the name of a corrupt (allegedly) local politician. How boring.
most accessible device these days is probably the realsense
Not with ADA or Tezos.

Bottom line, ADA is a proof of stake chain. It is upgraded in place based on proposals and consensus of stake pools.

Same thing with Tezos.

ADA hasn't fully rolled out all the features of the ETH blockchain yet -- I believe we're a couple of months away from the smart contract upgrade.
I hated CDs. Too big to be carried in a pocket. Read-only, until CD-R
came out. Single use, until CD-RW came out. Required careful handling,
to avoid getting fingerprints on the read-side etc.
In some ways not unlike vinyl, in its proneness to damage. Lastly,
I had terrible luck with CD players and CD drives; they'd wear out after
a couple years of heavy use.

For me, CD was a step backward, lacking the robustness and convenience
of cassette.

As a medium of information exchange between computers, I can make
a similar comparison between the CD and the 3.5-inch floppy. Aside from
their limited space, I much preferred the floppy to the CD.
That’s a harsh take in a society that lacks universal income or healthcare. It’s also ripe for exploitation in that anyone can harass your employer into firing you if you offend them. I’m sure that works great if the mob is on your side, but mobs aren’t exactly known for their fidelity.
All those fines seem pretty reasonable, I don’t see any questionable or odd interpretation of the rules?
That's kind of true. You obviously know the reasons why it should be true, but consider also (the "kind of" part) the fact that there's stuff like mastodon, like small hobbyist forums, unpopular telegram groups & channels that don't sell ads, imageboards with a couple hundreds of users. They appear because people (the users, not so much the owners) need them. And they are (at least sometimes) loosing to FB/reddit/twitter, because there's at least something (even if that "something" is the network effect) that these Companies are better at providing.

Which means, that even if they only want to be companies, they (unfortunately for all) indeed are the "social media" in some sense. Sometimes even borderline with "essential infrastructure".
> If you want to lower its orbit, you need to push it back.

if you want to lower its orbit, you probably need to take a lot of complicated stuff in to account which doesn't fit into a comment. i won't charge the orbital dynamacists implementing my idea more if they replace "down" with "the optimal direction for this target, at the optimal moment".

mass of the target, cross sectional area of the target, any out gassing it might be doing, where we're trying to maneuver to next, etc, etc.

if the optimal direction ends up being exactly "down" or "back", i'll buy you a beer.
But you could just kick it in the retrograde direction and to de-orbit it. In fact you could use centrifugal force and a cable to generate a significant amount of acceleration using reaction wheels powered by solar panels which would not consume any propellant.
Sure it will. It will just involve 51% of the stake pools instead of 51% of the miners.
I once had the opportunity to talk with some apple growers in Washington (state).

They said that they regularly sprayed their trees with a mix of water and soft detergent early in the season, to prevent parasites and larvae from taking hold. As I understood it, they viewed soap as a simple solution. It was not completely organic and natural, but it helped to keep pests away and it did not seem to cause undue harm to the orchards or the apples.
Could adding a google form to the site work for you? It's fairly straight forward to trigger JS script to onSubmit form action plus the sheet doubles as a database.
If relativity is such a good theory, why didn't Newton use it?
Microsoft was not making the hardware they were monopolizing. Apple makes the entire stack end to end. You are welcome to just not use apple products if you don't like it. I like the integrations and protections I get from a device built with privacy and security in mind.
Not sure why a convicted felon away for life gets any credibility in the tech community. Yes, many in these parts think he was just "running a website", including his mom. Tells you a thing or two about his upbringing.

Mr Ulbricht was a kingpin drug trafficker and I really couldn't care less for his technical opinions. If he were to take a modicum of responsibility for his actions, then perhaps there would be a pathway for him to have a voice in the community. His vote is irrelevant until then.
Thank you!!! Was trying to find this a week ago, but couldn't find the right set of search terms.
It's probably nothing new either. Even on boards people complained about waves of newcomers... spirit comes and go. The thing is when the wrong part of society turns it into a regular materially beneficial event it loses it's edge.
The taskbar looks like Windows 7
The same universal controller boards (more commonly known in the industry as "scalers") can be used to "dumb down" smart TVs. For monitor use, one with HDMI/DVI/VGA is sufficient but you can find the TV-oriented ones with a tuner and composite video input too, as well as speaker outputs.
My mechanic complains about newer cars with all these electronics. If a car is officially totaled but still repairable it can be a big problem. Say the car is totaled and someone buys it to fix it. The door lock needs to be fixed but you need an electronic code from the manufacturer to make the repair. But since it was totaled, the vin has been removed from the manufacturer’s database so they can’t provide the code.

Or you have one of these cars with sensors in the windshield to detect other cars on the road and your windshield cracks. That’s going to cost a hell of a lot more to fix than a regular windshield.
One of the biggest mistakes of cryptocurrency was calling it cryptocurrency.

Distributed Ledgers have multitudes of use cases. One of them is as a currency, but you don't need the base layer to be a currency. ETH doesn't need to be spent as much as its needed to act as a quantitative measure of ownership and buy in. You can build a currency on the second layer, which has been done.
ive always thought about doing this for old macbook pros that i cant resell but never found any info
Is it not plausible that developing the math to get a stable version of PoS, could take longer than Satoshi had before he dropped off the face of the interwebs?

It's not like he's God .
That's awesome. Can't wait for these features to reach the Sqlite lib on Python in 5 years.
It's not exactly what you're proposing, but the CHV1 virus attacks C. parasitica and it's being used to combat it in Europe. I'm surprised the article didn't mention it.
I see that you didn't take me up on my challenge to prove that dbus does anything we couldn't easily do with bread-and-butter POSIX IPC. Just regurgitating something I could have just read on the dbus homepage isn't fooling anyone.

Look, I have very strong opinions on what software I consider worth running on my computer, because I've been doing this for a long, long time. I also have very strong opinions on how to go about solving the problems that dbus, udev, systemd, logind, PulseAudo, and the rest of the fd.o middleware purport to solve. I also happen to strongly disagree with how they go about doing it. But, please don't misconstrue this as me believing that their authors don't have a right to create whatever software they see fit. I put my money where my mouth is on this and write code to do the things I want if I can't bear to use the code they publish -- in fact, I have my own binary-compatible udev replacement waiting on stand-by but ready-to-go in case udev comes to hard-depend on systemd [1].

I normally don't share my opinions publicly like this because it causes people like yourself to crawl out of the woodwork and throw well-meaning but unsolicited advice and github links at me to wrappers and adapters for projects that depend on the very software and the very architectural paradigms I'm trying to avoid. When I try to explain this is not what I asked for, it falls on deaf ears. It's a supremely annoying, frustrating experience.

I don't know if you remember, but the only thing I was trying to find out in this entire comment thread is whether or not Wayland solves a problem that was truly impossible to solve with an X extension. I've already got my answer: no, it does not. So, I think I'm done here.

[1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev