skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea that we are so sure of everything is pervasive. The kind of people who like science are often the kind of people who crave certainty. And so for them science becomes like a religion, it provides them with a sense of certainty. Consistency. So when they rally against stories like this what they are really doing is reaffirming their own faith in an orderly universe, reaffirming their own faith in their scientific religion. It serves an emotional need. Which is why, paradoxically, their arguments are not alterable through logic.

If you go read what the real experts in a field have to say about the state of knowledge, they are often incredibly humble. They state that there is so much that they do not know. That are so many things that could be wrong. That there are even bigger pictures just beyond their grasp.

Now these reactionless thruster concepts don't look to be doing too well. But I for one am not particularly convinced that mach 's principle is so stupid.
Cancelled.
Presumably you could invert it as well and generate images from a single ‘color’. Create a passive spectroscope that converts the observed spectrum to text identiying the chemical compounds it represents.
California public entities are infamous for paying out on marginal lawsuits just to buy P.R. After all, it's not their money.
> * Many countries built lots of huge Le Corbusier-inspired residential towers. Since then, we have learned that the 'towers in a park' ideal is incredibly destructive to communities and the urban fabric of cities. But the allure of big towers in 3D renders is hard to overcome - China went ahead and built enormous numbers of them in the last 30 years, even though urban planners worldwide already knew how bad they were.

I'd say it worked well, and is not anything "unsustainable." Tell how exactly it is "wrong"
Any third party code can just read your credentials file and POST it to remote server.
Maybe we should start pulling chips of trashed electronics. There must be hundreds of thousands decently fast chips going into our trash.

How many dead xboxes and PlayStations have chips in them that are still good?

I'm thinking of a reverse pick and place machine that pulls chips of boards (boards that can not be used to fix other dead devices) and is able to test each valuable component for later reuse.
Windows 10 home edition doesn’t
even offer full disk encryption. That’s how much Microsoft cares about security.
TIL Project Gutenberg is blocked in Germany.
The professional tools are licensed at 100k-200k/year per seat each, there is no way around them if you want to actually tape out the chip. An experienced backend engineer needs 3-4 months to take a design from Verilog to a file that can be send to a Foundry. You also need access to a PDK from a manufacturer like TSMC and probably will have to license some of the digital-analog components (PLL, IO-Pads) from someone. Manufacturing itself is fairly expensive as well, we taped out via europractice ( https://europractice-ic.com/schedules-prices/), you pay about 12k per square millimetre in TSMC 65nm. Even older processes are more affordable, but you have to keep in mind that each of them requires at least some customisation and access to blocks specific to the process (memories for instance).

On the design and verification side the story is slightly better, verilator (https://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator) for instance is an excellent tool that lets you simulate system-verilog code with high performance. It has seen wide industry adoption in the last years and now a couple of companies like Google, SiFive, etc. are investing in open source tooling for hardware. You can go a long way to building your design without having to pay for expensive licenses. The downside is that most of the interface type components (PCI-Express, DDR4, etc.) are prohibitively complicated to build yourself, so you will need to rely on external IP at some point.
> Why not just start your day with a bike ride for leisure? Unbound by the location of your office you can now cycle to any arbitrary location. If you struggle to do it without a reason, perhaps cycle to a bakery or store and pickup some fresh food for the day.

For me, it's a motivation issue. I had to go to work and had to cycle/walk there. Now, going out in the morning is optional. If I stayed up too late or if the weather is bad (it's almost always bad in Scotland) I'll make an excuse and not go out. After doing it a few times, I broke my morning habit and it's extremely difficult to force myself to go out.

I know it doesn't really make sense but that just adds to frustration. I hate that I cannot force myself to do daily exercise and it makes me feel like shit, creating a sort of feedback loop. I don't go out and do exercise because I feel like shit and I feel more shit because I don't exercise.
Webpacker vs. Sprockets
Forgive me as it's not my area of expertise, but why does the world even need a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator ?!?

Surely even the worst of the worst motherboard embedded graphics can cope with displaying some text in a window ? Its something computers have managed to do since their invention ?
April fools.?
Competencies and Beliefs
Even if I could I genuinely don't care.
I think they were all lying about how they liked WFH?

They want employees in their cells.

Zuck has been buying up commercial space in SF a few weeks into this pandemic.
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I'm keen to find out as well. I asked a similar question a while back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091012
I am Mechanical Engineering graduate pursuing my Masters in Software Systems after 10+ years of industry experience.

Attack the Type System first. Do not read PhD research papers, just the practical aspects of it:

- Why is it that integers I am working with are 8-bit (or 16-bit or 32-bit ...)?

- What is "int x = 7;" translated into by the compiler?

- How is basic arithmetic implemented in the hardware? Integers, floating point etc.

- If my system has 16-bit integers, for example, how can I deal with larger numbers than what 16 bits can accommodate? Some SW implementation to hide HW limitations?

Then go on to understand how more complex types are implemented etc.

From there go on to things like Stack Frames and Heaps and Application Binary Interfaces.

From there go on to memory clean up and why we need Garbage Collectors etc.

...

To me, a Programming Language is a set of rules (enforced by a compiler or interpreter) for deterministic bits manipulation. The Type System is the core set of rules around which everything else revolves. Even lack of a Type System in a language is a Type System.
Python Gotchas
There are different configurations to transfer energy to the space-craft that is converted to it's momentum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-powered_propulsion
I planned to do that with old 64 MiB or 128 MiB SD cards and a car radio with SD support: One SD card = one album.

However, nobody still makes SD cards this small, and using a 16 GiB card for 1 album seems wasteful :)

But floppy disks would be much nicer.
> The benefits of remote work is mostly being able to focus and reducing the daily commute.

One of the reasons there's so much opposing views on WFH is that there are also other big benefits, that apply only to a subset of the population. Among those are, the ability to optimize your workspace for your own needs, and not having to have the "connection to your co-workers". For some of us[0], this can easily make 2-5x difference in terms of ability to focus and lowered stress.

The more universal, but less important and a bit controversial benefit of WFH in many occupations[1] is that you get to optimize your whole schedule - work and private - globally. E.g. you can take a break to run a personal errand in the middle of a work day, and then work a little longer, instead of desperately trying to batch up errands and take a day off in advance. This also reduces stress, and allows you to rescue even more free hours in your life, at no cost to productivity.

> I understand very well that those with long commutes like the work from home idea, most of the time it also enables them to have a nicer house/apartment than what would be available in the city.

Commute is a funny thing. Back in the day, my wife lived in a small town and worked in a different one, and her commute of 20km took less than my 4km commute in the big city, and that's using the tram system (which avoided most of the traffic jams).

The freedom to be anywhere is the important thing, though. It's not just about nice apartments, but also about being able to move closer to your partner's non-WFH workplace, or closer to extended family so your kids can see their grandparents more often, etc. I sometimes feel like an outlier here, but I'm planning to move back to a large city (different one than my employer is headquatered in, though!) - the costs of living will increase, but so will the access to benefits of modern civilization. Good cities are much more than work hubs.

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[0] - A subset of whom you could call "neurodiverse", but my current belief is that everyone's mind is different, and ones you'd call "neurotypical" are just good enough at hiding their peculiarities in the social context.

[1] - I.e. if your job does not require to actually be butt-in-seat for 8 hours a day, and your employer isn't of the abusive kind that decides to surveil you minute-by-minute anyway.
Modern semiconductors were invented in America, literally why we call it Silicon Valley. We used to have the best fabs in the world but 80's and 90's corporate American business culture decided it was better to shut down all that manufacturing and move it overseas for more short-term profit. They're now coming to the hard realization that maybe that was a massive mistake.
The Quarantine Quarters of Dubrovnik
"The first official decree to introduce quarantine was by the Republic of Ragusa, now the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia. Located on the Adriatic coast, the Republic of Ragusa had an active port through which people and goods entered from all over the world. When plague broke out in the 14th century in countries across the Mediterranean and the Balkans, the Great Council of the Republic passed a legislation according to which all merchants, sailors, and goods arriving from plague-infested areas were required to spend a month in quarantine. Only if it was proven that the person was healthy, after the end of the quarantine period, was he allowed to enter the city."
The US is heavily investing in that, there are recent DARPA programs (POSH, IDEA, SHIELD, SAHARA, ...) addressing this and continuous government investment in semiconductor technologies.
Unfortunately, but Kamaal is right.

It is very common all around the world, and especially worst part of it for robber dynasties of civil officials to exists. Even rather bad places, people don't realize how shockingly common it is.

It is exceptionally hard to root out once you got few generations of those corrupt babus in power.

Very common too in Russia, where a KGB official comes to a high school to recruit kids into their "academy," and openly state the income potentials from bribes, and that with full knowledge of parents, with some even facilitating that... That's even more common with all kinds of "elite education" facilities there, whose only point is to be a gatekeepers to recruitment into government jobs. Call it a modern caste system.

Busting it means busting a double digit percentage of population who participated in such system.
having skilled peoples at every org level capable to do the job is the most difficult part. Any gov could spend Trillions and still get little in return
If the internet went down for good, I'd expect we were on the way to losing 1/5 or so of humanity due to starvation, the collapse of international trade, etc.

We need computers and internet these days.
They don't play politics with their subordinates, they play politics with their peers and their superiors. Developers are "human resources" - resources are there to be exploited, not catered for.
Virtually impossible to find them all in one go, have to drill down 17 times!!! No PDFs. What a _horrible_ user interface!!!
Yes, because non-blockaded communist countries have been such glowing successes.
I see, I guess I will have to think more about it. Thanks for sharing!
This happened in the sixties, during and after the six-day war between Israel and Egypt. Therefore I think a movie could be made out of this story any day now.
As what would be described as an aspergers person, I find offices full of people playing bizarre political and social games with each other that I don't have any particular interest in and the workplaces themselves to be extremely unproductive. I hate working in offices with people often appointed due to nepotism or just because they are like the person hiring, that I would rather be poor then work in them.

The entire concept of workplaces, how they are run, and what people do is created by the normal person and for the normal person. This is completely irrespective and often counter to what produces the best outcome. It is about the social needs of these people, not the needs of the product.
Not something I have direct experience of, but don't most engineers, designers working on hardware projects spend a similar amount of time working at a computer with a screen, keyboard and mouse as software people do? I assume that the vast majority of them are not in a fab/laboratory/solder station on a weekly basis.
Glad it makes you feel good. Thanks for sharing!
For a company that provides so many tools for remote work, they are trying so hard to show that they do not believe in them.
> Perhaps this is unwarranted optimism in the specific case, but as a broader expression of hope in future scientific progress, the long bet wins.

Scientific progress has and will always win. However, it's almost impossible to predict which dimension/aspect of the scientific progress will accelerate. mRNA is a prime example of it.
I'm working on an open source solution: Saltcorn (https://saltcorn.com). Works against PostgreSQL and sqlite, with a drag and drop view builder and extensions for Kanban boards, maps, statistics, stripe subscriptions etc.
Seems to be an unreasonable assumption given the many idiosyncrasies and shortcuts human mental architecture has. I can simply remove them and have a better implementation.

Humans are not thinking machines. We're reproduction machines. Thinking and problem solving are just an emergent features and not by design.
The 0.7% margin is not within the margin of error for for that cancer (breast cancer). US is 90.2 [90.1-90.4], AUS is 89.5 [89.1-90]. US compares well to other countries on Breast cancer as well, UK 85.6 (85.4–85.9), France 86.7 (85.5–88.0). The Affordable Care Act has required insurance companies to cover the cost of mammograms (the breast cancer screening test) with no out of pocket costs. Same with colonoscopies (the colon cancer screening test).
For more information on the The One Thousand and One Nights, the following BBC radio programme (broadcast just last week) discusses the origins of the stories, the translations, and their enduring popularity. It's a very stimulating discussion. Download as a MP3 if you want to listen offline:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjwy

Programme description from the above page:

> The One Thousand and One Nights are a collection of fantastical stories of flying carpets, magic and genies whose ancient origins go back to the 7th century or earlier. The tales are told by Scheherazade who uses the power of storytelling night after night to stop her Sultan husband from beheading her.

> These highly influential stories were brought to the West in the 18th century, when more tales like Aladdin and Ali Baba were said to have been added by the French translator, and it has continued to evolve over the centuries. Rajan Datar and guests explore why these stories became so popular around the world and what they mean to us today.

> Joining Rajan is Wen Chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic at SOAS in London; Dr Sandra Naddaff, senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at Harvard University; and the Iranian TV producer Shabnam Rezaei.
Some of the boundaries here are blurry and subjective, making it nontrivial to produce neat categories.

Personally, I go to the Wikipedia page for any particular term and follow the crowd wisdom, plus a grain of salt.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Actually, you raise a genuine issue. Terminology isn't clear, and that makes discussion difficult.

I believe that the notion of AI was predictive, and emergent, and retro-fitted. It emerged around the 1950s (arguably), gained some degree of formalisation, meanwhile the goalposts shifted and the field diversified, and now the term is applied haphazardly. I think it's now the responsibility of the user of the phrase to define their terms... which probably indicates that it's no longer fit for purpose.
There are big differences between the consumption of the victim's resources by ads and their consumption by cryptomining.

Firstly, whatever resources are consumed by ads, resource consumption is not intrinsic to their nature. In other words, the effectiveness of an ad does not depend on how many resources it uses on its target's device.

Furthermore, the resource consumption by ads can be argued to be a real creation of value, in the sense that the advertiser could not make money from running ads on their own devices without any involvement of their targets. Neither is the target being deprived of any profit that they themselves might have wanted. Would the target wish to run their own advertising aimed at themselves on their own browser to promote their own product and/or track their own browsing habits? Of course not.

Compare that to covert cryptomining. The cryptominer could achieve the same result by running the code on their own devices, and paying for the resources consumed. On the other hand, the target is being unknowingly deprived of the profit being generated by the resources that they themselves are paying for but chose not to employ in cryptomining. Would the target like to use X% of their electricity bill, sacrifice Y% of their device's resources, and Z% of its durability lifespan to obtain a certain amount of a cryptocurrency? Maybe.
20 years ago I had the line, American businessman and political leaders are stupid. Because they think they own those factories in China and the far east.
Trailer parks feel like a symptom of zoning laws rather than the solution. They're a loophole in the rules which mandate low density large housing. Allow higher density prefabricated (but not "mobile") construction and trailer parks would become less attractive.

There's nothing fundamentally nicer about living in a very thin walled low quality "mobile" home rather than a more solid nicer "prefabricated" home on the same plot.
In a perfect world. In this world it is often username and password in one. Know the SSN and you are the SSN owner.
i guess it really depends on how good your WM is. fundamentally it is very easy to recreate a tmux-like workflow in a terminal emulator that has windows and tabs. so why invest the time to learn tmux?

if for nothing else, it's a much nicer nohup(1).

because once i learnt it, it doesnt matter which terminal emulator i use, i have a full window manager solution _anywhere_.

but it's not a zero sum game for me, i have multiple windows to multiple hosts, not one giant tmux mess. in those windows i have tmux'ed sessions, which makes working on a given host much nicer for me.
Medicine, ideally surgery. I have zero knowledge of it and stand in awe of what I see high end doctors achieve. This isn't even a humanitarian "help my fellow man" thing. It just seems amazing.
"But it was only with the 1984 passage of the Canada Health Act, drafted in the final months of Pierre Trudeau’s premiership, that Canada codified its de facto ban on private healthcare.

The reason was a wave of “extra billing” that had swept Canadian healthcare in the 1970s. Canadian patients were increasingly being hit with user fees and copays that were gradually chipping away at the supposed universality of Canadian healthcare."

Basically, private doctors wanted to be able to also bill the public system and any additional cost the patient is required to pay. That went against the idea that "healthcare should not be purchased".

[1]https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/private-two-tier-healthcare...
Zoning pretty much dooms this where I live and many other places. One recent recommendation to allow tiny homes in Atlanta had the caveat, no mobile homes. They wanted housing that could not move. The Atlanta proposal was to permit them on lots that already have a home but not elsewhere.

Issues of utilities along with school load come to mind but those occur with any other dense housing. So why wouldn't apartments be better? To make it easier on residents with bad credit and such the utilities could be baked in to the rent and the state or city could offer to subsidize.

However what doomed many existing communities near me were property taxes. The land is more valuable for actual homes or in some cases businesses. With tiny/mobile homes as you propose your location may require local governments reducing the tax load to make the location affordable.
It depends on what your goals are. We had similar volunteer programs where I grew up. Things were clean enough, but the classrooms were still a mess, and people still threw their trash away on the street for the volunteers to pick up.

For Americans that have never spent time in Japan, Korea, or Switzerland for that matter, they are nominally clean in a way that is rare-nigh-on-extinct in the US.

In Japan, seeing trash on the ground or graffiti are both very uncommon. Moreso now than when I moved here a decade ago, especially in Tokyo, but the toilet at my local public park is cleaner than the one I last used when I visited a hospital stateside.

The problem with volunteering is that you only get volunteers. When everybody grows up learning that community care is their responsibility, and not just "somebody else's job", there are some big benefits to a society as a whole.
It's technically possible for sure, but I would be surprised if the total cost of such a process was worth it compared to buying new chips in bulk.