skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent like 8 months working for a company that specialized in home HVAC contracting advertisement. I'm not going to say the best minds of our generation were working on this particular problem, but still. What a fucking waste of human life.

Think about this market. People need air conditioning services. They're going to get air conditioning services. The only real question is which service operators get their business. It's zero sum. Every cent spent on marketing is valuable to individual businesses, costs other businesses. Marketing and adtech are necessary as part of an arms race, but it's net loss for the world. You're just spending money on market conflict. That company has produced nothing of value: they only attempt to divert flows of money from some people to other people, entirely independent of merit or value provided.
The US looks like it's inclined to going to throw money at someone to build up that capacity if necessary.

It's certainly less risky for Taiwan for TSMC to be the one building and running the most high profile element of it than if it was someone else.
It may really be 10x, but you've mischaracterized what the paper is claiming a 10x breakthrough for. In fairness, the linked article is light on the specifics.

The claim is:

__This battery holds 10x more charge per kilo of material than previous attempts at STRUCTURAL (massless) battery materials__.

To be specific, this material holds only _ONE FIFTH_ the charge of what your smartphone's battery can hold per kilo of battery. No laws of thermodynamics is being broken and this is not at all about battery chemistry. It's all about the 'physics' of construction materials: About how this stuff is made in the factory and layered. The basic battery chemistry going on is not much different from what's been available for years - the interesting part is how this material encases it.

You can't make a car by building the chassis out of smartphone batteries. But the promise of this paper is that you CAN build the car chassis out of this battery, and even if this battery is only 20% as effective, a car chassis is rather large, and you needed it anyway, so every drop of power you can store in the chassis itself was effectively 'free' - hence the somewhat hyperbolous 'massless' terminology.
OTOH if you're able to write `if bug_will_happen_on_next_line(): breakpoint()` you're pretty much done debugging.
There has been much finance research studying the Student t and other fat-tailed distributions to model returns. I will read that rather than Taleb, because Taleb spends so much time insulting the work of his others that I find him unreadable.
headdesk

Fucking hardware vendors
"Its multifunctional performance is ten times higher than previous structural battery prototypes."

The problem is we don't really know what multifunctional performance means or how it's defined, but maybe this is a common metric in battery technology?

edit:
I skimmed the actual paper linked in the article and it doesn't mention a 10x improvement.

"Structural battery composite materials, exploiting multifunctional constituents, have been realized and demonstrate an energy density of 24 Wh kg−1 and an elastic modulus of 25 GPa. Their combined electrochemical and mechanical properties outperform all previous structural battery materials reported in the literature. "
Consistently talking to your team every week will create a winning culture
"For all of us who sign our git commits, detecting such a forged commit is easy and quickly done. In the curl project we don’t have mandatory signed commits..."

This gives me the impression that some people on the team sign their commits, but not all. As this is a team that is clearly takes security very seriously, I am interested in learning how the cost/benefit case works out for this particular feature/burden.
This article completely misses the point of the original quote. The original quote is not 'they could be working in better fields', it's 'the entire structural incentives of capitalism are messed up'.
> Funding has come from the European Commission's research program Clean Sky II, as well as the US Airforce.

Carbon fiber structural battery would be ideal for aviation.

Of course, scientific discovery is not the same as engineering solution, this is just early stage research.
This was the name of my hometown ISP back in the late 90s.

You see, kids, back in the day, the internet was not ran exclusively by gigantic mega corporations whose only argument against monopoly was "but but but WE wanted to be the monopoly!" Before Walmart pushed out all the mom-and-pop grocery stores, we had mom-and-pop internet service providers, and they didn't have to be called "artisanal" or "organic" to get anyone to care about them.
Somewhat related, here's an interesting video about the behavior of Slime Mold:

Nova - Se47 - Ep10 - Secret Mind of Slime https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7z6ycz

(Someone shared it here on another post.)
Any comparison against Avro?
What I imagine Macha is arguing for is that the cost of using print is extremely small, smaller at least than breakpoints.

No one is saying breakpoints are useless, sometimes printing is 'cheaper' in time and effort in order to locate the region code of code in which using breakpoints is cheaper.
No, it can just use a different variable each loop turn?

Go authors themselves admit it might have been a design mistake, but is unfixable without breaking compatibility.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines

> This behavior of the language, not defining a new variable for each iteration, may have been a mistake in retrospect. It may be addressed in a later version but, for compatibility, cannot change in Go version 1.
OTOH, don't reduce the ethics of the situation to "makes money? it's OK!" either.
Depending on the state, state jobs usually are unionized gigs with a few entry points. The “happy path” is entry-level. You need to understand the benefits and how they work as it’s a major component of compensation. For example, if you worked for NYC or NYS government, your pension is largely exempt from state and city taxes... but that pension changed during the Great Recession and its value may vary depending on your circumstances.

If you’re mid-career, you need to figure out the “side loading” path. Usually there’s a way to get non-political temp/term appointments, and sometimes if you work as a contractor there can be ways to be converted to an employee.
We are using it for sending data from edge devices to the cloud
Ask HN: Do you refactor things when you join a new team?
What I like about this is that ending your data with FS means that you can detect file truncation, yet another thing that CSV makes impossible.

I wonder how you embed US/RS/GS/FS within a field though. Prefix with ESC?
I would give the OP the benefit of the doubt that they understand both are structural batteries and is wondering how they compare in other battery metrics.

From this article, Tesla's blow these ones away - except possibly as a structural element - and they're much closer to being a real product.
If China takes control of Taiwan it would be a strategic disaster for the rest of the world. Building a factory as far away as possible is a great idea for both Intel and TSMC. There is still expertise in the US. Wikipedia has a good list of fans that are still open and those that have been closed. The number in Taiwan is shocking, but you’ll also see many older fabs still running in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
You are looking for sources that will predict the future with accuracy?

Taiwan is definitively on the next because it is way too close in distance to China for its own good.
Same company that made the term “5G” worthless because it’s cheaper for them to just change the label 4G to 5G than it is to build out their network.
If I'm given the task to do so.
Almost certainly - e.g. the J&J vaccine (a DNA vaccine, not mRNA, but same principle) is using a viral delivery platform that they'd had sitting on the shelf for years and have used for other vaccines.

After the massive capex that has gone into mass-production of encapsulated mRNA delivery systems, I suspect this new technology will be very cost-competitive for the big markets like the annual flu vaccine.
I got 99 problems but living in the elite regions of the country aint one. You could always skip 1 night at the bar and purchase a neighborhood of mansions in my state.
Indeed. From the perspective of battery chemistry technology this paper is utterly unremarkable.

But then that's not what it is about. The breakthrough is (oversimplifying here) that they invented a way to whack a bog-standard smartphone battery into the middle of a bunch of layers of building material, such that about 20% of the weight of the end product is battery, whilst the material is still strong enough to not cause a Samsung Galaxy Note style oopsie when structurally compromised, and to be strong enough to build with, and to have some of the mass of the battery improve the structural integrity of the whole, even.

The idea being: Take your tesla. Take the batteries out. Smash em to paste. Remove ~20% of the atoms from the chassis materials and replace them with your paste.

Voila - made your car 20% lighter.
i don’t think it’s going to happen in any case. it depends on what the USA does. if the position is like in the cold war: "this way and no further" china will probably not risk a nuclear war.
Hopefully it'll be easy to repair. I'd hate to replace entire chassis because of light collision.
AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)
This got me wondering as well. Maybe it's a quid pro quo type of arrangement.
So the only businesses that should exist are the ones that already do?

Like, marketing and ads have problems, but specifically Google and Facebook have helped millions of small businesses actually make a living.

We ban marketing and all that goes away (well actually it just gets recycled into other approaches).
I prefer ipinfo.io

You can even lookup info for other up addresses. E.g. https://ipinfo.io/1.1.1.1
I'd been wondering about this.. Ubiquiti's wan and firwalling is super weak, especially for multi-site, when compared to some of the sd-wan products out there.

What's wrong with the ap's? Have you used the switches? How much of their kit can managed via a single console?
It could be as easy as adding some toggle to enable sending a patch series when you push to a specialy named branch, to relevant people (mentioned in the patch message for example, via Cc: tags).

Something like:

git push master:email/v1

Email/v1 branch would not be created, it would just be a virtual target branch name for this functionality.

You can easily make a git hook script to do it with regular ssh/http based git hosting.
> If the problem with GPT-3 is that it’s just being fed non-interactive data, why are robots still so primitive?

I never said we understand the right architectures / algorithms that are necessary for robust machine intelligence. In fact I explicitly said that we don't (which answers your straw-man question).
I think I expected to see more of this by now given the number of incredibly liberal folks who work in Adtech.

Sorry to break it to you, you don't get to wash your hands clean of it's incredibly detrimental effects on people mental health, the state of mis-information, and the creation of tooling that manipulates the way people think.

Ads made money before hyper-targeting, and will continue to make money long after. Most folks in Adtech are making an incredibly comfortable living - while ignoring the collective harm that is being done by the industry.

No matter where you work, it's worth asking yourself a few questions.

* What is the mission of my company ?

* What is the revenue generating unit of my company ?

* Are the two aligned ?

* Am I comfortable with the answers to the above questions ?
Stopped reading at "a key feature of the political right" - the political left has adopted many anti-scientific ideas, too (if you want an example, take gender ideology and critical race theory, or belief that socialism works).

People rightfully reject publications that write nonsense like that. If such a publication calls itself "science something something", or worse, has a longstanding reputation for representing science, it is no wonder if people become wary of science in general. It seems healthy, actually. Maybe it is not science that is in trouble, but fake propaganda science.
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It is possible it will work.

But now I think you can easily replace the battery without interrupting supply. Just solder two wires, connect additional battery and then replace the old one with a new one. Nothing extra necessary.
Plus if you use curl, it will return JSON instead of HtML
It's odd that the author only traces the political aspect back to 2015, when climate change denial has been a political issue since the turn of the millennium: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_policy_of_the...
There is nowhere I could go in my 2600 square foot house that would be far enough to cause my phone to go out of Bluetooth range of my desktop.
I use PySnooper[1] when code behavior deviates inscrutably from my mental model. Like Icecream, PySnooper exhorts, "Never use print for debugging again." A simple example:

import pysnooper

@pysnooper.snoop()
def add_up(numbers):
total = 0
for number in numbers:
total += number
return total

add_up([123, 456])

When run, PySnooper prints the activity of the decorated function or method:

$ python example.py
Source path:... /home/joel/example.py
Starting var:.. numbers = [123, 456]
08:46:58.742543 call 4 def add_up(numbers):
08:46:58.742692 line 5 total = 0
New var:....... total = 0
08:46:58.742722 line 6 for number in numbers:
New var:....... number = 123
08:46:58.742755 line 7 total += number
Modified var:.. total = 123
08:46:58.742787 line 6 for number in numbers:
Modified var:.. number = 456
08:46:58.742818 line 7 total += number
Modified var:.. total = 579
08:46:58.742847 line 6 for number in numbers:
08:46:58.742876 line 8 return total
08:46:58.742898 return 8 return total
Return value:.. 579
Elapsed time: 00:00:00.000405

[1] https://github.com/cool-RR/PySnooper
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It's funny because unless there are some Jedi mind tricks going on which made me not realize my actions, I can honestly say the same. I've never deliberately clicked an ad in decades of using the Internet.
> It's 10 times more everything, just like every other battery breakthrough in the last several decades.

Has the article been changed since you posted this comment? Because the article I've seen was pretty clear:

"Its multifunctional performance is ten times higher than previous structural battery prototypes. [...] The battery has an energy density of 24 Wh/kg, meaning approximately 20 percent capacity compared to comparable lithium-ion batteries currently available."

A battery strong enough to be a structural component, at the cost of 80% of its capacity-per-unit-weight, doesn't sound so hard to believe.
Money doesnt make things ethically happen it makes things actually happen
An attacker could mitigate this by having the download server only return the evil version to specific clients, eg. by IP or by user agent.
Even the term "massless" is kind of silly. "Structural" should be sufficiently descriptive as most people can infer that if you build the structure out of the material you don't incur any ADDITIONAL weight penalty for the battery (assuming the mass/strength characteristics of the battery are similar to other structural material).
> This is just not ok.

"Not OK" is forgetting to clean up your table after the meal. What these scammers are doing is simply fraud and Facebook should be liable as they enable it.

I remember when I set up my first FB ad (maybe 10 years ago?) it took a few days because some of them were manually reviewed. Fast forward 10 years and they accept any fraudster who pays them a few bucks. Just low scum, that's all.
The Cost of Ideology
> and an attack still has a non-zero chance of triggering WW3.

Very improbable. Nobody cares enough about Taiwan to even officially recognize its existence.
And yet here on HN it's the workers themselves who are often blamed for choosing to work for these soulless tech companies while they're free to go cure cancer at some startup.
Yet we have had massive increases in battery performance over the last couple decades.
I believe that BCC can actually act as an active suppressor of reply-all storms even after they've started. i.e., reply-all to the storm in progress, but BCC the big list.

Each person who would send a reply-all does it in response to SOME message. If it happens to be your BCC, their message doesn't perpetuate the storm.

The BCCs would act as a kind of neutron absorber to dampen runaway reactions. Or like a trap-neuter-release program for cats.
I think that was just one guy.
Was this posted in reaction to the Ubiquiti ad discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198?
If Taiwan is less important strategically, they are more at risk. But it isn’t TSMCs job to play geopolitics, they just sell chips. One factory doesn’t make a global semiconductor market, though.
And I'd heard of the anti-vaxx movement in the mid-90's.
> At least these companies pay fair wages.

All companies pay you the smallest amount that they think will keep you from leaving. Average wages being high at FAANGs is mostly a function of employees of said companies desiring a high wage and having other opportunities.

If you're making less, it's either because you're not good at negotiating/selling your skills or you don't actually have better opportunities. You can work on either or both of these things. (or you're actually happy with less and working on a mission to change the world. Good on you if so.)

I have not worked at a FAANG and have not had problems finding fair pay and a sensible work-life balance. I have a house that's fully paid off (and I'm single, never married) in a second-tier city's suburb and about to purchase my first rental property and I've never hit the startup equity lottery. I don't even live at the first house; I put up a relative there. I rent an apartment in NY. Still under 40, started this career in my 30s.

And yes, for a very long time, my job was making people click on ads. The pay was quite good.
From your mouth to God's ears. /grin

This religion, despite Asimov, was not successful because it worked. It was successful because - like all other religions - it made it easier for people to stop thinking for themselves, and accept what they are told is the truth.

[When it works we call it engineering.]
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No Bank Account No Problem: Analysis the $100B+ Unbanked Market
Since you mentioned the Economist, here's an article from Feb 18th, 2021 - China faces fateful choices, especially involving Taiwan (https://www.economist.com/china/2021/02/20/china-faces-fatef...).

> To many Chinese, the island’s conquest is a sacred national mission
I'm still confused about the state of Clojure CLR. I initially thought it was the "OG Clojure" before Rich dumped CLR and went for JVM instead. Is it maintained properly and kept up to date with Clojure proper?

(I used to be in the "Clojure is not Lisp" camp, but I've grown up at some point.)
Makes them feel more important.
> I d be more interested to move on and start discussing how we elect the president of our country now that we all agree we should be patriotic ;)

I take this as evidence that you are planning to overthrow the current government? You do realise posting this is an offense under the National Security Law?
Whenever I propose to use a time based estimation they say I don't understand. I tried and I still don't understand :D

But the idea is that when you use a time based estimation you do add a buffer so that you can be sure that you finish the task in the estimated time.

In order to prevent the "buffering", we says we do not estimate the time but the complexity of a task.

That's the theory. In practice: You have a story which is e.g. 3 points complex and you can not really say how long it will take you to finish it. It could be a simple task like painting the wall. The complexity does not depend on the size of the wall so it does not matter if I have to paint a 5 meter wall or a 20 meter wall it still will be 3 points?

Now how is this suppose to help anybody???
I’m fine with ads. The problem I have is that the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to spy on me.
Where is the edge in Deno terms though?

It's the same issue with Netlify, Vercel etc. where their edge is very different to say Akamai, Cloudflare or Fastly's edge.
I like how they call out that it has 20% of the capacity of a lithium ion battery of the same mass. I'd rather be realistic about technological advances, and then be pleasently surprised when it shows up in consumer products rather than have a glowing press release and then we don't see it in production ever.
Let me add to this...

Any experienced developer is going to dislike her new team's code. It's just the way developers are. They like the code to match the way they think or what they're used to. New code bases are always counter-intuitive at first, and it feels like that wastes your time.

That means every new, experienced hire is going to want to refactor. It does not mean they should refactor or that anything is actually urgently wrong with the code.

I've had people who refactored, broke their build, couldn't fix, and ended up scrapping the branch entirely. It was a complete waste of time.
Even if the platform is safe, the payload itself needs to have its safety proven. Remember, the payload is just instructions, and those instructions make your cells pump out oodles of arbitrary proteins. That in itself can cause health problems. see e.g. the AstraZeneca vaccine's safety issues, which were caused IIUC by immune responses to the manufactured proteins. DNA vaccine, not mRNA, but the principle is the same.

re: cancers, that is actually what this technology was originally developed for! Moderna has been spending about a decade getting this tested and proven out for the cancer role, and they're quite close. From my quick reading of the literature, there seems to be some regulatory confusion about how exactly to run approval for this kind of personalized drug design (testing the method of generating the individual drugs?), but the bar is usually much lower for cancers with high mortality rates.
Good question.

When you have gigabit FIOS backstopped by multi-hundred mbps LTE, several thousand square feet of concrete and metal construction, and actively use (and feel) hundreds of megabits in any given room, even in commercially packaged offerings there are not a lot of consumer or prosumer options.

Of the two that I’ve found: (a) eero Pro (not base), and (b) UDM Pro + Nano HD APs, it comes down to something like iPhone vs. Pixel: how much twiddling do you want to do for entertainment value?

For what it’s worth, I find better sustained up/down WiFi speeds (>600 mbps vs. 450 mbps) through eero Pro, but better sustained up/down wired speeds (>900 mbps vs. >800 mbps) and support for obscure legacy IoT through Ubiquiti UniFi®.

In locations not needing more than one AP, I find monster all-in-one gaming WiFi routers (e.g. Netgear, TP-Link) beat both of them.
Indeed. Only if you ignore anti-vaxxers, healing crystals, “food without chemicals”, essential oils, etc can you say with a straight face anti-science is a problem driven by the right.

It’s hard to take an article seriously when it only points the finger in one direction.
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Work through technical debt
https://www.axios.com/concern-republican-coronavirus-vaccine...
Sure, but having to add in that code surely causes friction to the whole attack, which is useful.