skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you had good experience in our city. But its always a little entertaining to hear naive job tourists describing the city this way. Devil is always in details.

>>The problems in our society are systemic, not because "people are bad". People are (in general) good and law abiding.

No. Actually people are bad. Parents line up their kids for civil services exam cram schools, because civil services have ...err... bribe income potential

You know people are genuinely evil when they want their kids to grow up and become corrupt, cheat and steal.

Basically people don't want their kids to be pick pockets in a bus. They want them to dress up well, sit on a table and pick pockets in a sub registrar office or while approving a road tarring contract.

But they aspire their kids to become thieves nevertheless.
I was looking at the image on the page and my brain was oscillating between "that looks like a science machine" and "that looks spot on like a quack perpetual motion machine."

I guess context really does drive perception.
All markets are speculation. Buyers and sellers speculate on the price of goods and services.

It’s quickly going to become impossible for governments to control cryptocurrency, unless they shut down the Internet. With ring signatures, stealth addresses, and shielded amounts, there’s no telling who has what cryptocurrency, who they paid, or how much was paid. Proof of stake and federated voting consensus are coming to privacy coins, so there’s no mining farms to shut down.
Yes the strange thing about this drive is it appeared to work with no solid theory behind it. Yes, there was some but my layman's understanding was that it was flawed.

It would have been so cool for something like that to have worked. We don't get many discoveries like that.
It's been April 1st all day here in NZ. :-)
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It's a lie. The offices are open and very full where they are allowed to (SK, JP, AU, NZ).
Datapoint: long ago (decades) I worked for a large well known valley software company, for several years. During that time I worked with many colleagues who were somewhere on the same campus, but I never physically met them. Obviously I was around my team mates, manager, and I attended many cross-group in-person physical meetings, but the number of people I interacted with online only was large. This was before video conferencing existed, just email phone and IM.
You could easily argue they are doing the opposite, in that they close down potential weapons and responsibly disclose them so that they are fixed and patched. Add to that, a majority of computer security work is revolved around improving infosec. A further point, I doubt infosec researchers are the types that run a deprecated microsoft web browser.
I'm sorry, but who in this scenario was forcing them to receive the treatments?
This is the opposite of a map. A map helps you build a mental model for how you navigate space by showing you a broad view of the land, potentially enabling you to navigate to anywhere. This offloads the effort of learning, such that you don’t learn to navigate the space yourself, and only gets you from one point to another.
Considering how much waste heat can be thrown off by high powered microwave stuff (as in the original resonating cavity waveguide horn setup of the emdrive, which people thought to be producing thrust), I am not surprised at all that the apparent thrust was thermal expansion and contractions.

Klystrons and TWTAs are not exactly known for being low wattage pieces of equipment, in terms of their TDP (thermal dissipated power). Ask anyone that's ever worked on a 1000W+ uplink power amplifier for two way geostationary satellite stuff... It's a lot of heat to get rid of.

So these guys are trying to duplicate results of like 1 millinewton per kilowatt, meaning you'll need a microwave source of at least 3-4kW, of course it's going to throw off a lot of heat.

I do wonder if any of the scientists trying to duplicate this effect have thought to bring in some commercial industry manufacturers of big C, X, Ku band TWTAs and get their advice on building a test rig.

Or to try modern small but high power GaaN SSPAa vs TWTAs...

https://www.cpii.com/docs/datasheets/17/t22ci_mkt326.pdf

https://www.cpii.com/products.cfm/153

Even very low powered terrestrial microwave radios are a lot of waste heat compared to what they output in rf. The radio head on a ptp microwave dish setup that is a 35W load on -48vdc might be outputting around +18 into the waveguide, equivalent to around 200 milliwatts. The rest is all radiated into the atmosphere and what it's mounted on. This why you'll see ridges of heatsink fins on the body of a full outdoor modern 18 or 23GHz radio. This is considered to be totally normal (a 35W 1024qam dual linear polarity radio with a capacity close to gigabit Ethernet line rate is sure a big improvement over a full 42RU rack size Harris Megastar 64QAM radio consuming 1800W from 25 years ago)
Probably downvoted because of that last sentence.
Two quick examples of the use of Bitcoin smart contracts:

1. https://suredbits.com/discreet-log-contracts-part-1-what-is-...

2. https://atomic.finance
This "test" and paper should be seen as possibly political.
Unrelated : Why most of the posts about India are political?
They are far more similar than you give them credit for.

Part of the reason healthcare is so expensive in the US is because people cannot afford to get preventative care and so they wait until they are basically dying and then go to the emergency room. If they couldn’t afford $100 to see a doctor before, they can’t afford the $100k the hospital will bill them so they just go bankrupt and the hospital loses it all. The hospital covers these expected delinquent accounts by charging more to people with insurance. The insurance covers these higher costs by charging higher premiums. You are already paying for other people, you’re just doing it the expensive way because there’s so many for-profit organizations in between you and those other people.
Async that guarantees the function is finished
Mine went away when I switched to a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. It took some getting used to, but I took heed of the advice here that it would be worth it and it was. Also, I use a Logitech MX ERGO trackball which I really like.
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That assumes you would be eating more to compensate for the activity. Many people, because they spend so much time in their car or just being sedentary otherwise, actually need to go out of their way to exercise (e.g. in a treadmill in a gym). And for people who don’t already exercise, the marginal increase in CO2 is probably worth it for society.

Practical example: I primarily walk and cycle, used to have a car but no longer do. I need to get 1-1.5 hours of walking in a day for my health. I chose walking because it is specifically calorie inefficient and unlikely to make me hungry like running or cycling.

If I can walk for all my business, I no longer need to take a separate walk in the evening to get my exercise. If I drive a car or ride the e-bike (the e part robs you off fitness benefit) I now need to take a separate dedicated walk.

If you consider that the CDC wants every American exercising several hours a week, I think your friend’s analysis would come out differently.

Also the analysis should factor in the reality that walking 6 miles will likely not trigger the same level of calorie intake increase as running or biking 6 miles; it is very easy to e.g. run and actually consume far more than you burned due to appetite response.
If the investigating this drive did nothing else this is a good outcome.

"We were able to greatly improve our measurement technology as a result"
I actually think it's an interesting change and might make my youtube a bit better for me personally. Let's see how this goes.
The difference is that the video uploader can delete critical comments
If you're a Republican elected official, and oppose Trump, you may be "primaried". That is, a Republican candidate more loyal to Trump may be found and funded to run against you.[1]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/10-republicans-voted-impeach-trump-...
Brevity was what originally made Twitter popular after the first wave of blogging. I don't think the vogue for blowhards talking at length in 'rooms' is going to last long, whether within Clubhouse or any of the other me-too cloned feature additions in other social media platforms.
Yes, a Kinesis Advantage and carefully resting my hand when not using the mouse did it for me.
Well duh. Nobody who actually studied the original results with a critical eye is the least bit surprised. This crap is literally Cold Fusion V2.
Same here, but that's adaptive immune response with antibodies. T-cell response is a different matter, and we're just beginning to learn how it works with COVID.
What's the point and value of a credential obtained elsewhere that you could have awarded yourself?
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I understood. I've never driven a camper.
Other than taking 7% of the business YC demands literally nothing of you.
TBH, if a person is in the top 2% of intelligence and don't finish basic post-school academia, then they are likely prevented from doing the types of jobs that appeal the most to them: new/novel research, high-level problem-solving, etc. Those individuals doing interesting stuff are almost always certified. Software Development is an anomaly.

So, sure, you can get hired as a web developer, or even some non-web development roles, but that's kinda pointless because if you could stand doing boring shit you'd finish the academia to at least a very basic level.

TL;DR: If you couldn't stand the uniformity of school, then the roles available to you without a formal education are going to be just as boring and unrewarding to you anyway.
Xoogler here, left pre-pandemic. Google has always been very data-driven. It just seeks data that support management's ideas of how they want to run the company. Despite ample evidence showing that cramped, loud working spaces both decrease productivity and increase sick days for coworkers (because flu and the common cold, and other reasons), management went for densification to meet growth targets and cut real estate outlays. Google workspaces would have been the absolute perfect super spreader spaces for COVID. TBH I feel a bit of schadenfreude for their deliberate choice to create that environment, and this article saddens me to see that Google hasn't learned much.

I, for one, hated the densification and tight working environments, but I didn't have the "data" to make a hill of beans difference.
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Personally, I'm over 20 years WFH now and love it. The last 5 years have been working with people on other continents, and I actually had the choice of time zones to work (I usually work nights for this, as I'm a night owl and it lets me sleep during day time when Arizona summers get hot). I haven't had any of the issues people seem to encounter. I don't work to socialize, so I don't miss lunches and such. For programming or devops stuff, you can definately do 100% remote. I understand people have different tastes, so I find it funny how polarized people get about it. In-office to WFH is a spectrum - just pick the spot your comfortable on it.
I'm a bit disappointed dogehouse wasn't mentioned..
One clubhouse is already too many. Listening to clubhouse is like turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed.
> ...does that font used for comments in the screenshot seem like visual terrorism to anyone else? Cursive might be fine on its own, and print is definitely the standard, but haphazardly mixing cursive and print is alarming.

I do it all the time in Vim; it makes it easier to visually ignore comments in the code. For anything that's not a comment, it's pretty ugly.
Feel free to cheer it on, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. All the evidence here has never been verifiable and comes across as experimental sleights of hand. Always reminded me of Eugene Podkletnov and his gravity shielding, an interesting research avenue with physical experiments sure, but no one can ever replicate what he has said is happening.

I sometimes enjoy to tin-foil that things like the emdrive and all those whacky navy patents are actually superpowers intentionally wasting the time of rivals. One space faring nation recently spent a lot research effort getting an emdrive into space to test it.
What is the policy?
Podcasts though.
They do that too
Um, I think you put words in my mouth and, in doing so, entirely missed what I was saying.
> appeared to work with no solid theory behind it.

That, my friend is the very definition of Snake Oil.

> We don't get many discoveries like that

On the contrary, we get far more than our fair share of charlatans claiming physically impossible results. See also: Theranos, Energous, Fontus and a million other scam companies.
That's weird, my complaint is that they don't connect the cursive letters in ligatures
Technically speaking it's difficult to see if the label 'clone' is justified given that the concept of audio only chat rooms isn't exactly new.

The biggest clubhouse 'innovation' might have been to make it an invite only app and thus create a cascade of FOMO in the style of Gibson's 'antimarketing' in Zero History where someone creates the world's most sought after jeans by simply not selling it anywhere.
The last 3 out of 6 total (every one since 2012) have had > 50% of the votes for statehood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_political_status_p.... A fourth, in 1998, lost by only a couple percentage points to a 'none of the above' option.
"He" is 'a common and accepted genderless pronoun.' ?

Uh, no. And continuing to propagate damaging falsehoods make it very tough for many of us.

"He" is a male pronoun. He/Him/His

"She" is a female pronoun. She/Her/Hers

"They" is a neutral pronoun. They/Them/Theirs
> It’s not like the majority of the folks around you remember an aorta of anything they learned in HS

The ones who did (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorta) biology might remember it :-)
I had the same thing, I switched hands using the mouse and developed it in my other hand. I switched to a trackball, it persisted. I switched to a Wacom tablet and it went away. I used a pen and tablet for over a decade afterwards and it never came back.
You are being too hard on yourself. We all suffer from "imposter syndrome" but you seem to have taken it very hard.

See the post from "yowlingcat" in this thread for a positive outlook.

To add to the above, If you have already spent 10 years in this industry as an SWE, you cannot be as bad as you think you are. Yes there will always be much to learn and you might have some catching up to do but that can be fixed with studies and collaboration with coworkers. Do not give in to self-doubt and quit your job; particularly in these difficult financial times. Ask for help, mentorship and study/work hard and you will grow in knowledge and confidence.
>> As an older engineer with bad hearing

Heh.. I can sympathize. I find voice chat with a decent head set makes it SOO much easier to hear/understand people. And it basically eliminates multiple people speaking at once - the 'muddle' that turned into used to drive me crazy.
MAGICL [1] is another Lisp library for scientific computing, specifically linear algebra, under active development.

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/magicl
Do you have some knowledge to share about s3 being built on a commercial storage platform? I was informed it was commodity and custom parts in pcs with cheap spinning rust and a lot of redundancy.
Bad news about alien cultures is hot news.
You see this with most of Asia.
A quick glance through my phone's screen time log shows that I average roughly 45 minutes per day on YouTube.

Maybe I'm an atypical user but I would not call the like/dislike ratio "a huge part of the experience". I personally never look at it.
You can't get a GED until you're 18; if you want to get out of high school early, GED doesn't help.
> but in my estimation in-person collaboration is far better than online-only.

Being able to talk to others in person and quickly is certainly useful, but its a double edged sword as that quite often results in your stream of thoughts being disrupted and focus gone in a flash. This is one of the reasons I love WFH as a developer. I can get right into my zone and focus on solving problems or being creative without someone walking up to my desk to ask if I read the email they sent me.
Tier 2 in what exactly?
It's really unhealthy to call anything that doesn't fit into the known laws of physics or science "snake oil"

If the EmDrive team was trying to sell NFTs and sucker people into investing in their radical invention it would be snake oil. But instead they approached this very responsibly, saying "we don't understand why this works. help us figure it out."

That's science done right, and a lot of new science has moved forward by questioning and changing the known rules. Whether or not it happens here.
Or even simpler: execs own super expensive real estate in the tech hubs and the only thing that supports the prices is the hoards of employees that have to live in the area.
> Any insight into why Apple seems to have a much better bluetooth stack?

This is a joke right? My M1 BT goes out to lunch several times an hour. It is literally unusable.
If I see a team that is 100% guys, as an investor I'm asking what's up with that?
Much needed shot in the arm !
When has 'he' ever been used in a genderless context?
Vaccine providers(at least some) are referring to it as J&J/Janssen, or even just Janssen sometimes, here in the USA.
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I think it’s more that I just don’t want it to be in vogue.
Nope, sorry, you really have no idea what you are talking about. Larger cities in general- and wealthy societies in general- see lower number of births per mother. That's how things go. But NYC birth rates are higher than the national average (13.6/1000 vs 11.6/1000) and fertility rate roughly on par (58/1000 vs 59/1000) and is higher than many other US cities. NYC does see population influx- more of adults than children. It has ALWAYS been a city of immigrants. That's a good thing. Keeps it interesting.

Best wishes to you.
Depending how far down the rabbit hole they go in weird microwave resonating cavities and power amplifiers, maybe something of practical use for radar systems or other uses of multi-kilowatt microwave band power amplifiers will come out of it.
Nope, vision and dental aren’t part of our system - and thank god because they’re much more pleasant to deal with.

I’ve experienced our healthcare system both as a patient and as an entrepreneur trying to innovate. On both counts it has been brutal - the best experience I’ve had by far was when I had orthognathic surgery, which falls under dentistry and is therefore private pay and subject to market conditions.

It was night and day. I could email my orthognathic surgeon when I had questions, where my family doctor is an inaccessible black box that can barely be assed to fax (yes, fax) a prescription renewal to the pharmacy after a week of hounding his secretary.

I started a telemedicine company that was treated with downright hostility by government bureaucrats who had their own vested interests in competing with the private sector.

If you think what Canada has is great and I’m just a complainer it’s because you haven’t looked at how the rest of the world organizes care. A competently regulated private insurance market can deliver the same broad coverage at a lower cost and with better patient experience than our incompetently-run crapfest of a system.
It’s rare that an analogy is so easy to understand while remaining highly accurate. Nice.
You are right, but most people want navigational aid, not map. Maps were popular because they were good navigational aid, not because they help building mental model. If better navigational aid becomes available, most people will gladly abandon map's mental model building feature.
> The fireplace was not functional (I presume there’s some law that actually forbids burning wood or something)

That's exactly right, and a good thing for all our lungs. I don't get why people are so attached to open wood burning fireplaces when anymore they just make houses colder, and are terrible for local air quality.

Then this from the article:

> Whether in working condition or merely decorative, original fireplaces are often the highlights of old homes. Dramatic and elegant, they introduce personality and amiable hospitality that exude the idea of warmth, even if they’re filled in.

This is putting form over function in a pretty vacuous sounding way. A non functional "classic" fireplace at best looks bizarre if filled in, and at worst is a tease on a cold day. It at least should have a gas insert to make it useful.
In the deck and on the website, I see ETL, ELT, and EL(T) but nothing that says what they mean.

Maybe I am behind the times, but I wonder: are these something that a typical technically savvy person would be expected to know, like CPU or GPU?
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It's published in quarterly financial reports. Iirc, their real estate is worth 100B.
It likely depends on your risk profile and age. E.g., if there is family history for breast cancer, yearly or once a couple of years mammograms. For prostate cancer, PSA levels yearly beyond a certain age and so on. The other part is just watching out for any changes/lumps and getting to a doctor before they get out of hand rather than hoping they solve themselves. The longer you wait, the worse outcomes are though for some really slow growing cancers it may be okay to leave them in because the interventions can have higher risks than the cancers themselves.
Apparently DEDA has some downsides, and pdf-redact-tools/dangerzone are better options:

https://lists.inventati.org/message/20200308.154747.1b4d1245...
https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools
https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone
I disagree. This is the definition of progress in fundamental science. The difference between science and snake oil is what you do after your first signal. Do you try to find every possible way why it could be wrong and most importantly do you let other people try, then it is science, like the faster than light neutrinos come in mind as another example. Or do you start selling and let other people not test it. Well then its snake oil
I don't think so, too many heavy hitters are adopting rust, and rust has the advantage in adoption across the board. To beat rust you have to be at least 2-10X as desirable as rust.
This is like rationalism vs empiricism. It's nice when the empirical results align with the rational conclusion again.
After a year working remotely, I don't think I'd be willing to go back to working fully (or even primarily) in the office.

I could do a day here or there for team-building activities or major meetings, but that's pretty much the extent I'd be willing to do.

Granted, this is based on having a 40-minutes train commute (each way, so 80 minutes/day), but unless I could have a 10 minute walk or bike commute I don't think my opinion would materially change, and that's pretty unlikely where I live due to downtown property/rent prices (Tokyo).