skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it still is in its infancy. Cities and societies have not adapted for remote workers yet, at all. OTOH the office has a whole ecosystem of transportation, real estate, cafeterias, cleaning etc that is adapted to it.

Sure, being in the same space is a different kind of connection, the question is which part of that connection is needed for work. I 'd personally rather share a cowork space with my friends rather than whoever the company chooses for me, and i think that's going to be a trend in places that house lots of remote workers. There are in fact cities being redesigned around remote workers like Madeira. I think the actual problem that people complain about is not the lack of physical bodies at work, but the lack of physical bodies in general. That needs to change if people are going to work remote in large percentages, people will need to either find more friendly neighbors or just start talking to their neighbors , like people did a few decades ago.

And then we haven't even began to scratch the surface of ways to connect with coworkers. I find that sharing a gaming environment (like e.g. secondlife) gives a sense of presence, space, and connection and takes away that lingering anxiety of "where is everybody?" that I get when i work at home. Slack also does that to a small extent.

Ultimately, remote work is objectively giving people more options, and that is a measure of progress, so I see the transition as inevitable. I think people are being held back by the current designs of modern big cities, which have been entirely shaped around the home-work routine. In fact, large parts of the rewards of "real life" (e.g. making new friends) has been moved to the office for purely logistical reasons (other places of congregation stopped existing). This isn't inevitable, remote workers will develop new habits in a few years. Historically it's the cities that changed to adapt to work conditions, not the other way around , and now a critical mass of workers is ready for the change (In fact, the switch to remote was possible years earlier, COVID just accelerated it).
One dimension to this is that racism and xenophobia is so nakedly tolerated including in the political class in the US, that many are fear that any governmental ID would only be half-heartedly rolled out to inconvenient and undesirable people in an effort to suppress their voice.
While there is no Federal ID every state in the Union (to my knowledge) provides ID cards to citizens. These vary slightly from place to place but all contain verifiable identity (authentication).

This may seem strange to outsiders but makes more sense when you consider the United States is a federation of sovereign states. The system is built on the idea of limited federal power with states sharing but retaining much of their own sovereignty. This has many of the benefits of any federated system and makes for a robust democracy.

There’s very little of consequence you can do in the United States with single factor knowledge. If identity theft is more common here than elsewhere (citation needed) I would guess it has more to do with a lack of consequences (consumer protection) than a Federal ID.
Now this is an excellent and informative post as to your position, but it really shouldn't have taken so much to draw out your meaning and justification.
Technically, Project Gutenberg blocks Germany. Anyway this also surprised me last year! Protip: Main PG is blocking DE IPs but mirrors aren't. Unfortunately, [mirrors](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/81t0ad/project_guten...) don't have the convenient search infra, just the texts. If you can get the ID somehow, then you can navigate to the text in question.

Maybe I missed a more convenient mirror. In which case I'd be really glad for links to convenient mirrors.
Crap, you're probably right. I completely overlooked the IP side of things...
This is reminiscent of former San Jose City Councilmember Kathy Cole's rants of 1993:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-27-mn-40493-...
>How many dead xboxes and PlayStations have chips in them that are still good?

Those things have one big APU (with weak CPU cores), some VRM and memory, GDDR5 + useless DDR3. I'd discount the APU as it'd need someone to make OS support for with the blessing of Sony/Microsoft. That leaves the chips of GDDR5, which can be used by low end GPUs - I don't think they'd ever recoup and investment and likely cheap manual labor of preheat + hot air is the easier option. No idea if anyone would get a license from AMD or NVidia for such GPU.

Edit: the capacitors would have the best value but well... I cant see anyone relying on old caps for anything but repair.
> they know their current understanding of physics could be wrong.

Sure, we do know!

And we know how to recognise when someone masters current literature (a.k.a. factual knowledge) and proposes a breaktrough in a yet uncovered field, and when someone is speaking out of his ... nothing!

If you prefer a non-car analogy: we all do know that a hundred consecutive heads is possible, still you are not going to bet your week pay on it, even if you were promised 2^100 weeks of pay in return.
That is definitely true, but don't underestimate the number of patients who aren't all that interested or motivated to do what their doctor tells them to do. I worked in healthcare and even for very serious diseases, patient adherence to say taking their medicine regularly, is pretty atrocious (even when it's free).
Yes, Universities can simply refuse to participate in this deal, but it puts them in a worse position, as previously, the deal was usually made on state level, which afaik no state does anymore. I'm in BaWü and now the choice is either negotiating with MS individually or taking the Bundesvertrag. I think technically they are still considered individual deals per state, but they are effectively the same everywhere ("Campus und School-Rahmenvertrag").

E.g.:

https://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/de/microsoft-landesvertrag

https://www.rz.uni-freiburg.de/services/beschaffung/software...

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/software/mslandesvertrag.php
I still don't get why is there a need for so many "Ubuntu" based distributions
WhatsApp AppStore Top Apps Are Frauds
I read the story about a keyboard app that was was severely hampered by fraud / fake / copy cat apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986515

I chalked it up to Apple being anti-competitive, letting a small guy suffer, a tale of David vs Goliath. Their app store can't be completely full of such apps.

But tonight I just watched my partner attempt to download WhatsApp on the iPad, and this is what it looks like:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rjaus/d35358f4286b12a47e3130365d5743aa/raw/a414b08f15f8b3335688e07cb71748a7891903f6/watsapp-appstore.PNG

1st: Ad for TikTok
2nd: Fake App (free)
3rd: Fake App (paid)
4th: Fake App
5th: Fake App
6th: Fake App

Hint. There IS NO WhatsApp for ipad, it's iphone only. This is WhatsApp, owned by Facebook. One of the biggest apps in the world, owned by the largest social media company in the world. And the AppStore is plagued with fake versions of their app.

It's bad for users, it's bad for apple's reputation, it's bad for WhatsApp, it's bad for Facebook. The only winners are these fraud / fake apps (and I guess Apple gets their cut, but surely that's not enough to sanction fraud against their own customers). What is going on?!? How has Apple let this get so bad?
That's a very cute April fool joke :)
See Curtis — bitter lake?
Personally, I find the whole April Fools thing beyond tedious now.

It was mildly amusing when we played tricks on each other as kids. It was slightly amusing when staid institutions like the BBC would slip the occasional spoof article into a TV programme, back then. Likewise when the intarwebs was young and the odd website here and there would try to put one over on us.

Nowadays, every bloody website owner seems to feel compelled to join in. usually with some atrociously unfunny and poorly written attempt, that would fool no-one. So I end up hardly reading any news at all on this day as, scanning down the list of submissions on HN, I just find myself thinking "Probably a crappy attempt at an April Fool" for most of the interesting sounding ones and not even bothering to read them.

So, apologies to anyone discovering a cure for cancer, or life on Mars, on this day and wondering about the lack of interest.
I would like to know this too. GPU accelerated terminals are growing in number so there must be a use case. I'm an avid terminal user, but I've never discovered this.
I think the post has some merit if we differentiate strongly between what is truly external to the code.

The article's point stands if we're being lame and treating internal code details as external.
To put in context what "we have a cure for cancer" means:

In 1993 Prof. Dr. Somlyai has discovered that cancer cells cannot tolerate low-deuterium environments (as low as 100 ppm). There is solid science behind. He and his workmate, Prof. Dr. Boros even buy the publication fee for their own scientific papers to make them available to the general public because they are open to recieve scientific criticism. The idea of deuterium depletion manifested in a therapy using deuterium depleted water, which is drank regularly or injected directly into tumors. It has been approved for animals and being used in therapy since 15 years with great success. The human experiments have succeeded to demonstrate that mentioned water significantly improves acute survival rate, and survival rate is significantly better after 1 year of treatment.

The authorities have declined to approve its use in humans because there were no significant improvement in survival rate after 3 years of treatment. So "we dont have a cure for cancer".

Life, since eucaryotic cells have appeared, thrive to deplete deuterium levels inside mitochondria because deuterium kills atpase enzyme, which produces the energy for the whole body. One method of doing this is to keep procaryote cells and fungi in the gut, which in turn tend to concentrate deuterium, which is required for their genes to multiply. Feces is therefore richer in deuterium, getting the body levels lower.

Ocean deuterium level is 155. When the water evaporizes, the steam has 2.5% - 4% less deuterium as the water. The cloud then moves around, and rains the deuterium-richer water first, leaving the deuterium depleted rain for the end. When clouds form around the equator, and they quickly fall in the form of summer thunderstorms, they tend to be higher in deuterium. But if the clouds form, move around through the poles, then back to 45 degrees latitude, they can reach the 130 ppm, which is tremenduosly good for mitochondria. We know that cancer is less prevalent as we go closer to poles.

The consequence of mitochondria having low deuterium levels is that they produce citric acid with low deuterium content, which later turns into fat. That's why lard has 118 ppm deuterium in it, which generally means that eating a ketogenic diet of such fats (and drinking as little water as needed) is super efficient in depleting deuterium in the body. It takes 2-3 months to reach the equilibrium of deuterium levels after a change in diet/lifestyle. The Wartburg-effect might be a consequence of this.

ppm is parts per million, which labels how many deuterium isotopes are present for 1000000 hydrogen atoms. So oceans have roughly one deuterium-containing water molecule every 6600 water molecules.

The above is basically what I understood researching the topic, please google Somlyai and Boros for more.
Manufacturing you'd need billions and the support of your government. But a design business? There's quite a lot of those around.

Bare minimum estimates, working backwards:

- $? for marketing and distribution, physical inventory costs

- $100k/y for one field engineer (FAE)

- $250k for first successful manufacturing run

- $250k for first full mask run with bugs

- $100k bringup boards, test equipment, engineering time fixing it

- $25k shuttle run for initial testing. This will find at least one bug.

- $100-200k outsourced layout: this is boring, specialised, and low value-add, so get someone else to do it

- $500k/y misc software and testing staff or consultants

- $100-500k/y each: 3-5 senior design engineers. For best results, these are people you already know and are spinning out of their job at Big Boring Semi Co

- optional $100k really big FPGA + software + custom boards

- $250k/y software licenses from Cadence or Synopsys, unless you're very brave and want to try the open source flow

- IP licenses. Not just obvious things like ARM cores, but analogue or semi-analogue IP like high-speed transcievers.
> That period included the massive money printing of 2008 crash, none of it says hyperinflation, despite the federal reserve "printing" $3.9T between 2009 and 2014.

[chuckle] Now do assets as well. Do healthcare and school fees and energy for good measure.

> […] dohicky […]

Also see Jeff Booth's "The Price of Tomorrow" for a discussion on the deflationary effects of technology.

Also consider velocity of money and if it slows as governments and commercial banks print.

Also, M3 contains illiquid assets. Perhaps, better to think in terms of base money? https://cryptovoices.com/basemoney

For fun, the history of McDonald's menu prices.

> Official inflation figures for 2004-2019 are $1.35, about 2% per year, and that includes the time period of the 2008 crash

Inflation is perhaps a vector.[0]

> Median wages have increased by about 2.6% per year

US centric but consider also https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

[0]: https://www.lynalden.com/fiscal-and-monetary-policy/
I haven't bought a CD for many years, and I don't think I'm the only one.

I see the appeal of having a physical token that I can transmit to people, but it's not enough to make me buy CDs any longer.
I agree. We are beating cancer. One step at a time. People are waiting for a “cure for cancer” but there doesn’t seem to be one catch-all remedy. We need to celebrate the incremental improvements that we do achieve.
The sixth supplement volume was released this year: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64384

I'm not seeing the last and seventh supplement volume (volume 17 of 17 in total), perhaps that was released recently?
> Maybe we should start pulling chips of trashed electronics. There must be hundreds of thousands decently fast chips going into our trash.

This is already been happening for decades on industrial scale in countries doing eWaste recycling. Just a decade ago, you could've still find people selling refurbished chips in Shenzhen on every corner. Now it kinds of became a much more low profile enterprise.

The US defence department, colloquially known as the pentagon, ran a wargame scenario a few years ago to see what will happen if US will be hit with a worst case scenario, years long semiconductor unavailability due to sabotage of domestic fabs, massive industry wide cyberattack, or something happening to Taiwan.

One of comissioned think tanks recommended that exact methods of military going door-to-door to gather old gaming console, smartphones, and PCs for conversion to use in munitions, and military equipment.
I have a ~ 10 minutes walk commute to work and event I share your opinion, I wouldn't want to go back to the office either

I used to work remotely for a different continent + 9 hours diff timezone and that was as painful as it can get: different hours for meetings, not knowing anything about my coworkers was really exhausting

But with the ability to go back to the office only when I need to and focus on my work much better at home, I don't think I'd ever want to go back anytime soon
>as long as you stick to twm and xterm.

FVWM or ctwm will run much better, ditto with urxvt against xterm.
Yeah this is great - they have made an advance in how they can make measurements. There will be many more reaction-less thruster concepts to analyse in the future. Now we have a much better idea how to test them effectively.
Cloud Native at the Edge: High-Performance Edge Inference with RedisAI [pdf]
What 100 contracts reveal about China’s development lending
Favourite No-Code Apps
Hi,
I would like to ask you: what are you favourite nocode frameworks / apps, which speedup apps development ?
Well in that case, you won't hold it against me if I doubt your story entirely.
I came here to mention the Woodward Effect. I had never heard of it until last week when someone here on HN mentioned the blog of Tom Mahood (a former master's student of Woodward) in an entirely different context (namely: UFOs). It ended up sending me on a deep dive into the subject and, ultimately, led me to an article by Mahood[0] about the Woodward effect. The upshot is:

> But Tom, is this stuff ……real?

> I….don’t…. know. And I say that after being involved in chasing it down for 10+ years. At this point, I see arguements on both sides.

> Fundamentally, the mathematics are extremely compelling. I have yet to come across anyone credible in General Relativity who can say why the derivation is incorrect. About as damning as I’ve heard is something along the lines of, “Wait,…This can’t be right….But I don’t know why it’s not right”. The math is straightforward.

> The effect (or something like it) has been demonstrated in a wide variety of different types of devices and experimental setups. Something has been observed if it’s merely capacitors being shuttled back and forth, but also with later generation devices composed of all PZT discs.

> […]

> As time progressed and the experimental apparatus more refined, the “effect” seemed to get smaller, and that’s a REAL bad sign. It was already well below what the theory predicted. That sets off alarm bells. After all this time, if something isn’t in hand to float around a table top, its should still at least be producing unequivocal results.

[0]: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/physics/graduate-studies...
I'm quite thrilled about this accurate analysis of the problematic aspect of using blockchains to solve arbitrary problems.

However, I'd like to point out an issue with this paragraph:

> For a long time, the only accurate applications were to cryptocurrency. But that is changing: the current non-fungible token (NFT) boom is a prime example. The fact that MetaKovan holds a $69 million NFT of Beeple’s digital artwork “Everydays” is not independent of the blockchain. Quite the contrary: his holding that NFT depends entirely on the blockchain’s saying he does. The blockchain dictates who holds which NFTs.

Specifically, this sentence

> The fact that MetaKovan holds a $69 million NFT of Beeple’s digital artwork “Everydays” is not independent of the blockchain.

is not entirely true because it claims two things, not just one, and only one of these things is defined by a blockchain (i.e. "accurate"):

1. MetaKovan holds an NFT

2. This is an NFT "of" Beeple’s "Everydays" artwork

Only the first of these two statements is "accurate", i.e. defined by a blockchain. The second statements is "inaccurate", i.e. defined outside of a blockchain.
Open source: Clementine (and a fork, Strawberry), mpd (and ncmpcpp/Cantata/vimpc), Deadbeef, Sayonara

Closed source: foobar2000
In case its not abundantly clear:

Also, in order to make the engine more commercially appealing, we are evaluating other changes, such as moving the engine to a premium shared revenue model, increasing the download size to a few gigabytes, and making any kind of help or support paid. A bright future is coming for our shareholdcommunity. We hope to be able to tell you more very soon (probably on April 2, since it's now April 1).
It's much easier to do something when you have no choice but to do it. If you have to commute to office, you have to do it, period. If you want to do "virtual commute time" when working from home, you have to somehow justify it to yourself (and your spouse), against the ongoing pressure of thoughts and words like, "I can skip my 'commute' this time to do just this one errand / complete this one task / read this HN article...".
Babashka shebang now available for Windows .bat scripts
See https://github.com/borkdude/deps.clj/blob/master/deps.bat#L1-L7 for an example.
And "Mo Sez, a regional expert in water division management" :-)
Unfortunately the format of most ebooks at Project Gutenberg is usually really bad. Usable on computer screen, but unusable on eBook readers.

Just checked the "mobi" version of the volume 1 from this link, and it looks like all paragraphs are just walls of texts with no paragraphs and the footnotes don't really work unless you scroll manually. I guess it's better than nothing, but not very comfortable to read.

Usually it's even worse with text from the margins, header than footer getting mixed with the normal text.

Does anybody know if there is a website or project where one could find "curated" or properly formatted books with expired Copyright? Maybe one where other people can collaborate?
... But it isn't, though.

Minor, in general, is something that plagues you, yet waiting for surgery isn't going to be an issue. Foot surgery, for example, might fall under this. Waiting won't take complications.

For skin cancer checks, though, you can go to your family doctor. (I have to get skin cancer checks due to a medicine I'm on). If they find anything worrysome, sometimes they can remove it in-office or get you to the correct person in a timely manner. You know, because doctors know that some skin cancers spread quickly (others aren't that serious).

Minor actually means minor. It doesn't mean waiting to see if you die.
> How much would it cost to start a design semiconductor business? On the low end of the budget.

A decade ago, it would've taken you $1m in China for a 50/50 shot at it.

If your first tapeout works, you will make money, if not... you wasted $1m.

$1m looks like pocket change to most American tech people now, but the fabless trains has long since departed.

You will need a sum with few more zeroes, to get a jumpstart in the industry now.

There was 4-3 years long extreme consolidation push in the industry, with big swallowing dozens producers of commodity products. It is very reminiscent how the demise of American oil industry happened when the industry gone from thousands of oil producers, to less than 10 in one decade. Everybody bets now that there will be 10-15 or so mega-fabless running the industry in coming decade.
I have joined a company remotely and I don't feel I got slower productive than before. The ability to do pair work is almost enhanced and the fact that everyone is able and willing to be called in to help has accelerated learning and integration in some areas which I found harder in the past.

Also keep in mind that it may be slower than with direct in person mentoring but there can also be the opposite of in person mentoring and then being locked in the same office can become extremely stressful.

I also run a small team with new hires on one day and I'm seeing great productivity and teamwork.

We are going back to the office eventually but I don't think the on-site requirements will be as strict as in the past. In the medium term I see us moving towards a more flexible model beyond just the flexible allocation of desks (which imho. is a horrible thing, pretending to be office workspace and serving neither then needs of people there nor the companies output).
They really got me before reading this comment
Laravel Voyager: https://voyager.devdojo.com/
Is this a relatively new requirement for universities to require a SSN for prospective students? I don’t recall having to provide this information about 1 decade ago or even 5 years ago.