skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. When I look for my next job, remote working will be at the top of my list of priorities. I am not willing to work primarily at an office. Covid has been great in forcing companies to figure out working for home infrastructure, though, so I don't foresee this being a problem.
I'd say beamed energy propulsion is more promising for high speeds. That's because the main problem becomes keeping the vehicle from destroying itself with waste heat, and beamed propulsion keeps the waste heat back at the beam souce. You can even actively cool an object with laser light (via anti-Stokes scattering and the like.)
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MS full disk encription is like FBI (or MI6) full disk encription. If your wife does not know the key it does not mean it is secure when everybody else knows it.
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You are missing a very important part of how science is done: science starts with a hypothesis, the refutation or confirmation of that hypothesis is done by experiment. Plenty of science has been locked into the theoretical phase for decades before experimental verification could be obtained.

If all we did was experiments we'd surely find some interesting stuff but without theory to guide where to do the next set of experiments science would be very inefficient. It's the closing of the loop that powers this tremendous progress you see from the renaissance to today.

Without that we'd be stuck in alchemy, astrology and other pseudo sciences.
Alright. I tried to do this. I'm certainly open to learning.

But it looks like I'm actually going to need citations from you because everything I'm finding so far confirms that we do NOT know how much gold exists in the earth, or where it might be found, or whether it will become economically feasible to extract it. All we know is that discoveries are slowing down.[0][1][2][3]

I've tried to read a variety of sources, from a scientific journal to a metals dealer to a mainstream news outlet to an industry-focused site. By all means, though, if you have citations for your confident claims that you're willing to provide, I'll be happy to read them too.

[0] Earthquakes are still forming new veins: https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1759

[1] There may or may not be large undiscovered veins left, especially under the ocean and in Antarctica (and we don't know whether new technology will make them easier to discover and mine): https://www.providentmetals.com/knowledge-center/precious-me...

[2] New technologies are gaining adoption that could reveal veins that were undiscoverable before: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54230737

[3] There's no reason to believe the discovery of large gold mines is nearing its end: https://www.mining.com/web/were-a-long-long-way-from-running...
This is precisely the problem
If your decisions are affecting access to something, it's reasonable to call it gatekeeping, whether it's through your positive actions restricting access (and passivity allowing access) or your actions allowing access (and passivity restricting access). In this case though it's through effects which are not directly in YC's control, so it would be unreasonable to blame them for this. It can be gatekeeping without it being intentional or even something you can reasonably fix yourself.
In the end it's all about a very simple equation: E(kin) = ½mv² so it's all about exhaust velocity. The closer you can get that to its theoretical maximum (e.g. c), the less reaction mass is required.

But the question still remains: is there a practical non-Newtonian way? We already know of rather impractical ones, such has deforming spacetime.
Funny to use Aladdin as an example: it was added later to the original manuscript.
For Japanese, we have Aozora Bunko [1]

[1] https://www.aozora.gr.jp/
You're absolutely right. I'm almost glad that BSV split off so BCH didn't have to be associated with him anymore.
So first of all, there are (or should be) a lot less interruptions when working from home. People tend to disturb folks that they see, it's a lot easier to give address someone at the other end of the room or across the corridor than it is to call, email or chat with someone. With these disturbances gone, you are more likely to be more productive from the start when working from home and so a little slacking off here and there probably does not make you less productive than what you were at work.

That said, self motivation and lack of external pressure can be a problem. When I feel I have a hard time to focus on something my last resort is the pomodoro timer. I sit down, set a timer at 25 minutes and force myself to no break focus during that time. Once the first period is over it's usually no problem to keep going since I've gotten into something by then.
> This is one of those positions that's so obvious, I struggle to articulate what the contrary position would even be.

The UK has a housing crisis, but it's not due to the cost of constructing the house - it's due to the cost of land with planning permission.

If the cost of a conventional home is 75% land, construction costs are almost irrelevant: Nobody's going to buy a £325,000 trailer in preference to a £400,000 conventional home.
The USA is the victim of having a reserve currency though. It's simply not economically viable to export products from a nation when every other nation wants to dump their products into that nation.
This just takes for granted that throughput is more important than latency. I also think that is true generally today (as wasteful as it is -- imagine how much needs to be shipped back and forth because of changing global supply/demand) but I can absolutely imagine a future where we can economically ship only what's needed when it is needed. At that point, should it come, latency will be much more important.
Mine too. They then emailed those to all graders (not just profs) to make grading simpler.
Hitachi is definitely going into the digital services market.

They have been working on a lot of various iterations of VeinID technology and have launched their own cloud hosted finger vein authentication solution last October and are definitely investing into this market.

This from the article confirms by thinking:

> Past GlobalLogic projects include working with McDonald’s on its customer app and in-store digital ordering system and with chipmaker Qualcomm on a fingerprint recognition system, according to its website.

And here are some resources to the VeinID innovation which has been going on at Hitachi:

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en/case_studies/finger_vei...

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en/case_studies/pbi

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en/article/touchless-finge...

And here is the press release of Hitachi launching their Biometric cloud service:

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en/topics/pbi-cloud
The Mac vs. PC wars are over. Smartphones won.
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Too bad the article dates two weeks back :D
I remember reading a story where sailors discovered an island where plant-women were growing. They were friendly and gave fruits growing on them to the sailors, but the few who tried to "embrace" them got absorbed. Yep, there was some vore hentai connoisseurs at the time.
A GPA that's much too low can hurt you, but it's way lower on the priority list at most employers than students are led to believe.
Perhaps my experience with Perl is similar to that of others who have been programming since the 1970s.

I loved Perl back in the day, when it seemed like a great alternative to constructing unix pipelines of awk, sed, etc.

Although I mostly used Perl for interactive use, I also found it helpful for quite a few short programs, say in the 20 to 200 loc category. But I noticed a problem: these programs were tricky to understand a year later. Perl was still useful, mind you, but just not as pleasant at the edit stage as it was at the writing stage.

And then Python came along. It soon became clear that Python programs would "age well". For quite a while, Python and Perl coexisted in my toolbox.

And then Perl started to drift into it's present state. All the new goodness (and I'm sure it is good) just seemed to come at a cost of more complexity. But why should I learn the new way of doing Perl, when Python was already filling the gap for that sort of work?

Gradually, my use of Perl decreased, from every hour to every week, to ... well, never.

I wish Perl had just gone into bug-fix mode long ago, so that it could have remained a reliable and understandable tool for a certain set of tasks. And then I'd still use it for pipelines, as I use awk, sed and the rest.
1000/200 per segment of course. So in a typical HFC network that can be shared between 40-400 homes.
I'm fully remote and I don't mind it. Compared to being either fully remote or fully office-based, my ideal lies somewhere in between the two. Remote by default with the option to head in for co-working and stuff when I want to.
File permissions allow finer granularity of access control.
Environment variables are visible to any user in the system.
Yes that is what I am saying.

You are thinking about this incorrectly. You are thinking about this like America's broken health care system. Our healthcare system should be charging a flat rate per employee to cover the entire system. IE, no matter if you are 20, 25, 55, or 95 you should be paying the same thing into the system.

This paternity/maternity insurance would charge a flat rate per employee, so that everyone is covered, since all of society benefits (same as how health insurance should operate and does in most other countries).
Incremental growth is basically the motto of strongtowns. Big plans fail big.
My personal take.

I have also "never gotten poetry" while I go through 52 in 52 and sometimes more than that. The part of the problem has been for me, early on the idea I had of poetry was "romantic stuff" and as a kid, meh.

Fast forward to a few years now, reading Louise penny Armand gamache series, poetry turned out to be more than that but I still dont know where to start. I want to "get poetry" like armand and Ruth but I need a starting point.

Any help?
They are doing their best.
(2017), not (2020), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065
Always fun to remind people that Aladdin is actually Chinese in the original stories.

But then, let's be fair, their depiction of China sounds like it was just a placeholder for "far away land"
They got their retaliation in first last November.

https://youtu.be/gHG0cT_ck00
expat in Germany here, opinion: you have a lot of trash to see elsewhere before you realise how good it is here.
Why would a private insurer not have the same incentive? Collect full premiums, but overall lower costs with early detection and treatment?
Some manufacturers have a monopoly in a certain class of engine thanks to type certification. The certification and liability that comes with it are prohibitively expensive for new comers.

The PT-6 is an example of this; in North America, it stands alone, undisputed king of it's class. What's ridiculous is that turbine engines are simple. More simple than piston engines, and everyone and their dog can build a piston engine.
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It's snake oil if you, as an experimenter, has not absolutely ruled out what's the most likely (and mundane) explanation.

What's the saying? If a theoretician is right just once, he's a hero; if an experimentalist is wrong just once, he's a goat.
The ones in power like it that way. With India at least you have the pretense that it is a developing country.
> looks like it may be in the firmware on the printer itself

One thing that has me baffled is why there's so much speculation and black-box approach when it should definitely be possible to reverse engineer those firmwares to directly get definite answers to all possible questions. Why does no one seem to even consider dumping the firmware from a printer and reverse-engineering it?
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> Why would you give up on freedom

Not OP, but I would guess the simplest formula is to total up (Heath care - gun violence). i.e. the more likely you are to have health care for whatever happens to you, and the less likely you are to get shot, the better.

I agree with William Gibson: "People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary." - https://twitter.com/greatdismal/status/385249887891111936

It's a case of what exactly you view as "Freedom". Are medical bankruptcies freedom?

YMMV, you are welcome to choose otherwise. But I put it to you that this costs vs. benefits is a valid, consistent and informed point of view. If you're asking "Why would you?", then that's why.
I'm curious, why xhtml instead of LaTeX?
Ah, I started working at a co-working before the pandemic.

Where I am currently (Spain) there's been different levels of lockdown. The co-working is open, but with a lot of the usual activities heavily restricted.
I'm not sure if you are referring to the US specifically, but there are governments doing this.

https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-tech-semiconductor-idUSKB...
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"Kunst kommt von Können" is a German saying. The word Kunst (art) is derived from Können (skill, capability, mastery).

In the Middle Ages, Kunst actually meant something like engineering, too. For example, Wasserkunst was the name for a water distribution system.
Yes, it is a band aid, or one solution out of many needed ones, and yes, probably not highest priority in terms of needs. But it doesn't have to be a either...or...

And I wouldn't derive from your lack of need from a lack of need for others!! Independently from the country. Stealing is allowed in no country, and it still happens in every country. Laws and enforcement is great, but it won't stop 100% cases, and if I like to have a door lock on my door (or two), then let me do... I don't care if some don't feel a need for it (and stealing is just an example... the same for so many illegal things).
Feel free to go to aromatherapy, crystals, alchemy, astrology, free energy, ley lines, quackery and so on. I'll be on the other side of this debate and I'll stick to science. It has worked better than any other mechanism that we've thought of to-date to give us actionable insights as well as a ton of abstract knowledge.
I have this simple mindset, if you want to succeed then start with world domination plans and fail somewhere in the middle. India hasn't gotten the memo yet, they are trying to dominate their own nation instead.
It seems like an opportunity for Apple to create a "vinyl filter" for Music, like a photo filter, to simulate the slight EQ profile and the physical scraping of playing a song on a turntable. I mean, if you really want it to sound worse, go ahead. It's no different than applying a "Polaroid" filter to a modern digital camera snapshot.
There’s more than just GPA. GPA is usually a function of how rich your parents are. I’ll take the kid who held a job and went to school over the kid who just went to school.
Considering independence has never received more than 5% of the vote in any referendum held there, I don't think that's a question that will be answered one way or the other by Puerto Rico any time soon.
Not really. Fusion has inherent generic engineering problems, particularly DT fusion, that are independent of the details of plasma confinement.
If you try to squeeze in as many endpoints as possible, sure.

With a competently designed network, you wouldn't have anywhere near that many in a segment.

I'm on a 300/60 cable connection via my employer, and I have never had my connection test below 360/70. This is in an an area densely populated with apartment buildings, where cable is still the best option for most people, with some fiber rolling out.

I am however moving to a 100/100 fiber connection (plenty fast for my needs, with the faster upload speed), due to a change in employment that is not of my own choice. So I don't consider myself biased in favor of my current employer ;-)
I bought a Tesla T4 on eBay. Many people will buy a set of broken laptops and use the parts to make a fixed one like Like Miami. Louis Rossman constantly has to find donor boards to fix laptops.
I think allowing a mix of commercial with suburb would solve some of the issues we are having. I’m not from the US and I miss walking down to the store to get some staples (not a corner store, a real food store with more than milk and lottery).

Having a vegetable shop, a butcher, a hair salon, small town way is the way to go. You socialize with your neighbor while you wait, hear some gossip, get acquainted with your veggie guy so next time he picks up those dragon fruits you like, etc.

I currently have to drive 3 miles to get to a supermarket. All the “food stores” near me are in a somewhat industrial area across the train tracks and are ghetto. They only sell beer, maybe bread and lottery tickets, and are secured like a bank. Not the feeling you want.

My fancy neighborhood doesn’t have a single store. Not even a gas station. I’m forced to drive out. Not great.
Military equipment is often more than a decade old and uses far older electronics.
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I run https://wip.co which is a community of mostly bootstrappers working in public. Members usually start sharing the progress from the very first day so definitely early stage.

https://indiehackers.com is a really helpful and active community too. Definitely check out their podcast as well.
Depends on the exact model, but PT-6 TBO is usually around 4500 hours. I'd imagine the turbopump is mechanically similar, just much bigger.
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I wrote a long edit clarifying a few things, and lost it on submit thanks to timing out. Damn.

I'm morbidly fascinated by the polarisation that drives some online conversations. Admittedly I have probably fuelled some of that with my question, I'll try to do better in future. However, it was intended to point out that there are shades of grey here (as evident in the comments) while the post I replied to seemed very black-and-white to me.

I wonder if a better question might be something like: what does a healthy, productive future of work look like now that covid has demonstrated that some people will very much want to continue working entirely remote, while some people very much do not?

For what it's worth, I completely agree and sympathise with all the issues people raise here. None of remote, in-office, or hybrid are perfect. They all have problems.

It seems that covid has given us the opportunity to at least try to improve things, even though clearly the answers are difficult to find.

Slight tangent: I was saddened to read recently that Basecap has permanently closed their Chicago HQ [0]. I've held up this place as a model for how I'd want to build an office space should my unicorn/cash-cow finally hatch. No, it's not perfect, but I loved the fact they explicitly tried, and they explicitly recognised it might be seen by some as a waste of company funds, particularly when they also did things like deliver fruit & veg to employee's homes rather than workplace as an incentive to go home rather than stay late in that expensive office space [1].

I think there are major underlying structural issues that discourage companies from solving issues relating to worker happiness. Extortionate rent and service charges have produced homogenous high-streets, and they're homogenising the business districts too. The labels over the door of each building might be different, but the attitude inside is the same. Worker happiness is grist to the mill, productivity and the bottom line reign. I think we could do better.

[0] https://basecamp.com/about/office

[1] https://basecamp.com/books/calm
The older and sicker patients tend to move from the private insurer's risk pool to the public one.
> That feels like a bold claim to make without any references

"Marble Framework"[1], Wikileaks' Vault 7:

> Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA. [...] The source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion

* * *

[1] https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Marble%20Framework
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If the west can’t supply China, the west should ban Chinese imports.
In the original there were frequent occurrences of the names of various anatomical parts or of various acts that are considered taboo now.
Also there were many explicit descriptions of love scenes, even if a poetic language was used for them.

Of the old translations, only the French translation of Mardrus and the uncensored variant of Burton were somewhat close to the original text. Even the "uncensored" variant of Burton was more distant from the original text than the Mardrus translation.

There exists a much more recent French translation which is said to be more faithful to the original text than any of the previous translations (while the Mardrus translation was not censored, there were many places where it was not a word-by-word translation).

I do not remember precisely, because I have read it a long time ago, but I believe that the new good French translation is that by André Miquel et al.; various editions of that may be found at Amazon. I am not aware of any decent English translation.

When I was very young, I have read a translation into my language of the French translation of Mardrus. The first few volumes matched the French text, so they were quite explicit. Then it seems that someone noticed that and ordered the translators to remove any explicit parts, so the following volumes were obviously censored, lacking many words or entire scenes from the French Mardrus text.
Yep! Glad you’re enjoying it. Here are my share of the SE productions: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/

Biggest so far (and biggest on SE at 1.2m words) has been Samuel Pepys’ Diary: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-pepys/the-diary
How would someone get into crypto swing trading? All talk seems to be focused on value investing
As you probably know, contrary to almost every other language out there, Perl was not designed by people with CS degrees adding things that sound cool.

Perl was designed by a linguist along the principles of "what would English look like if it was a programming language?"

Not in the superficial syntactic sense, but the underlying grammar. What is the implicit "it"? What can we derive from context and decision so we don't have to spell it out? And so on.

This makes it very convenient to express common things in different ways (just like English, there is no one true way to say something) but it also creates some peculiar constructs that make sense but you'd go "who says this?" (again, much like in English.)
The issue with nested structures is a good point.

Another problem I noticed would be natural language like syntax sugar, which makes it harder to maintain your knowledge of the language if you don't use it regularly. I learned some perl long time ago during one project, and after I stopped working with the project, I also gradually stopped using perl for quick scripts, and settled on sed/grep/awk again for quick simple stuff, and python for the other tasks.
Fair enough, it is a bit creative, but only really the first time. They go for twice the original new price now!