skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unlike most if not all other companies that outsource manufacturing. Apple still has the known how and detail view in not only the factory but the whole supply chain. They could, should they choose to, instantly assemble everything by themselves.

They can't "instantly" assemble everything by themselves at the scale they need, because almost all their infrastructure and supply chain for that is located in China. My bet is that it would take them on the order of a decade to build up alternate infrastructure and supply changes, and that's assuming the detailed knowledge they have about their processes.

This is an interesting article about how Apple's dependence has played out: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce....
I believe that's how the MGR window system, from Bellcore, worked. I fiddled around with it briefly on an old Sun Workstation many years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManaGeR
Thinking about it like that (my eating choices) is actually how I lost 15 pounds once, haha.

I gained it back.
I mean, yes? The IETF has additional cachet as having created the internet. ITU and IEEE are international orgs relied upon not only by companies, but by governments. The W3C isn't as important as it once was, because people stopped listening to them (WHATWG is the new org). But I would trust the IEEE and IETF like I would the ISO, and Matrix.org as far as I would trust Microsoft.
You can write code almost as quickly (like <5 mins slower) with a schema if you're using any kind of migration tool (which probably maybe requires 1 hour of initial setup). When I'm writing code that requires schema changes, I keep an open migration locally, then I can just unapply and reapply it every time I want to make a change.

With MySQL you get quite a few problems when your migration script fails as you can get left in a broken state that you have to sort out manually. But with Postgres schema changes being transactional it's quick and painless.
It's not about "missing proofs". Instead its about

propositions not being provable.

See the following for contradictions in foundations:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’
yeah, hence my pizza quip.
Regenerative ag with animals and produce on one farm seems to me to be the healthiest and most sustainable path forward.

Mono anything is terrible for consumption and production externalities.

Wheat and other grains that require fortification with vitamins and minerals just to not kill the consumer are terrible and shouldn't be eaten by anyone.

Also saturated and animal fats are good for you. Chemically expressed vegetable trans-fats are not.

https://thebigfatsurprise.com/

https://drcate.com/deep-nutrition-why-your-genes-need-tradit...
I love this type of Internet info ~ browsing through the site, an old airstrip is now a lumber yard where I purchased some wood for a shed in my backyard, and can see from my monitor: https://ibb.co/HrCny1M
C will be here a long time, but it shouldn't be. There's still zero reason to write new code in C. None. If you need to integrate with a legacy codebase, fine. But for new code? C++ is better in every possible way.
Yes, I can imagine a mostly-backwards-compatible, but much improved, standard; let's call it VT-2021.
Trust has nothing to do with names, contact page or impressum.

The other way around also works (e.g., Facebook has all the impressum and contact pages you want, but it's the least trustful tech company out there).
You should be proud of it because the fact that the poor and the rich are working at the same company tells you how successful you are

Or at least that's how I interpreted. I did almost the same things you did. My coworker (many of which are now close friends) went to fancy universities, had no gap in education and from a economically stable family. I wasn't. But here I am, working side by side with folks from amazing school and exceptional employment backgrounds... I love it
Are you saying that people in prison lack training or qualifications?

Picking fruit is a valid occupation and one that is not limited by post-incarceration rules like not being a stockbroker after committing securities fraud or not being a childcare worker after pedophilia. While many agriculture jobs provide on the job rather than classroom training, there are skills to be acquired that can enhance productivity and value.
JSON Serializer in Python
What's stopping your adversaries from seizing hardware? Nothing? So the system relies folks playing nice in the physical world?
The whole thing is a ridiculous fantasy with an asinine threat model.
So don't write C++ in a style you hate. What's so hard about that?
This has to be one of the funniest financial things I've heard. "Uhhh, you know when your account dropped 50%? Actually that is only like 10% if you pretend it's a log scale."

Unfortunately for them, USD is not on a log scale and they'll be disappointed to discover that when they try to cash out.
Tether has already admitted that their reserves consist of under 3% cash.
No, I would create legislation that mandates that the pipeline must keep running in situations like this at the company's expense
If no speculators want to pay you for your stock, you'd have a stake in a stream of future profits or asset sales that company made simply from hanging onto it. If no speculators are interested in your bonds, the issuer is obliged to pay you coupon payments until it matures simply because you hang onto it. If nobody speculated on your property, there's a lot you can do with the land whilst hanging onto it. Even a dubious investment propped up by a lot of marketing hype like gold can make shiny things.

With Bitcoin, you have a cryptographic string. You can't make anything with it, it's not interesting to look at, it doesn't pay dividends or coupons and you almost certainly don't have any debt denominated in it. The only reason to hold it is the hope someone else will buy it from you for a greater price in future, and the only reason to believe they might want to do that is a claim that it's a "store of value" based entirely on the profits earlier holders made selling it to new ones.

It may not literally be a Ponzi scheme, but the dynamics are the same.
I am not sure the Amish have pushed problems away or externalized them. These problems would continue to exist without the Amish or any other tech-hesitant group.

I view them as a variety of groups who have made some reasoned compromises as to how much they will allow their adoption of technology to change their way of life. They do not seem like the type who think they can do it all on their own and understood that they live inside of another country, etc.

Technology shapes us even as we shape it. They are at least attempting to put in some care as to what shaping they allow.
Brita filters might actually work. The outside surface of the pool could be studded with around 9000 screw threads onto which screw brita filters. That's one filter per square foot. Now we just need to pump some water out of the pool to lower the water level inside and water will flow through the filters from the dirty side to the clean side. The pumping could be done the conventional way with electric motors, or you could rig up something clever with one way valves that lets the wave action do the pumping.

You would need divers to replace the filters on a regular basis, but with a low enough flow per filter they could last a long time.

The main problem would be biofouling of the filters, but a clever filter design might actually use the biofilms as part of the filtration medium.
> > When at any point as an engineer or a scientist have you observed large exponential growth to be sustainable in any context???

> what on _earth_ do you think 6-7% a year is? that's exponential growth.

It's not "large" exponential growth, it's inline with the revenue growth of many large companies, so it's sustainable for quite some time.
Acid test: scientists show how LSD opens doors of perception
For the most part everyone is like that. I have no clue how to make chips with a 3nm (um?) process. I saw a headline about IBM making progress on it a few weeks ago (or was it 2nm?) However I can sit back and enjoy the progress. In the mean time those people at IBM have no clue how to do the job I'm doing but they can enjoy it working. The people at IBM are smart, and I like to think I am: we could switch places and after a dozen years of training would be just as good - but at the expense of being behind in our current job.
That IBM is a competitor increases my trust in their refutation. IBM could have raced to to the same test, but on 56 qubits or whatever, and claimed quantum supremacy themselves.

I've seen a lot of criticism that DWave is only good at making hardware that's hard to simulate without doing anything useful with it. What's different here?
Show HN: Cohesion: Build serverless workflows in Python
How a suicidal pizza man found himself ensnared in an FBI terror sting
This is super similar to my start. I was hired at 17 one summer to do data entry for a surveying company, by putting timesheets created in Excel into a central system for billing clients. That got boring after a day, so I figured out how to use VBA (Excel on Macintosh System 8!) and wrote a macro that I linked to a button and put on the spreadsheet template, hidden off in the corner somewhere. When I got the next set of sheets back I hit the buttons and my job was done.

I showed the bosses, and was immediately put to work on some much more interesting stuff linking Lotus Notes with SQL Server for reporting and dashboarding, and then I was off to the races.

(The previous year I'd spent the summer making concrete garden ornaments with a group of ex-cons in a shed in the back of a farm - an experience which certainly made me appreciate the comforts of doing spreadsheets in an air-conditioned office, though my muscles were never quite as good.)
The rocket backpack seems like it would allow you to land more weight than the lander an ramp method because you don't have a much superfluous structure on the rocket lander section of the craft. Zhurong is only about as big as Spirit and Opportunity that the US landed back in 2003 using big airbags, larger rovers can't do that so you get into more complex things like the sky crane.
> Just because a study finds that some cause, on average, has some effect, I don’t think it is correct to start believing that that cause and effect will hold for you or any else in particular.

Where did I say this at all? This is a straw man. The original comment stated, without any evidence at all, that noisy, chaotic environments aren't necessarily worse. I stated, with evidence, that it has been shown to have a negative effect on average. No where does this preclude that it may help some people or have no effect on some people.
While I am not Indian and the only thing that I know of this is what I have read here and from having watched 3 Idiots(2009), all metricization is the same. You can not test intelligence, you can only test knowledge. But everyone wants to know intelligence.

The examples you cite are finding the farthest distance in their field, and the only people capable of going that distance are people who move fast AND work hard. It only works when the participants are geeks for exactly the thing that is being tested.

As the people who study for a long time keep increasing their studying, the scores naturally improves, and therefore they need to make the test harder to keep the same pass rate. This only works so long as the juice is worth the squeeze.

We see this with the interview circuit. Top engineers, instead of studying up on CICO choose to interview elsewhere where real problems are asked. They have turned down working on esoteric problems that no one faces in the real world, even though if they were to face it would easily be able to solve it - likely by themselves from first principles.

We care about intelligence. The only way to learn someones intelligence is by seeing them work. It's by seeing them understand a problem new to society. Tests can not measure intelligence. Only personal accountability will work, but personal accountability doesn't scale.

The key is living in a society that doesn't scale.
> And if you scale that up to $4k per week that’s $11k per week in today’s money which feels pretty crazy for a teenager.

Maybe that's because minimum wage did not scale to match inflation since 1982. If it had, I don't think $11k would sound as crazy.
OMG. I am hooked now. The thing is hilarious and totally awesome
Although the US rover program has made Mars look easy, it's been fiendishly failure prone for other space agencys

Outside of one Russian lander working for 120 seconds after touchdown before failing, no nation outside the US has ever gotten a lander to work on Mars before.

Have a look at the list of mars missions and see just how many failures there are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
Because of the environmental and societal consequences of that action. It is a collossal miallocation of electricity, advanced manufactured goods, and the time and focus of intelligent people all around the planet.
> I consider crypto currency as it is to be an elaborate Ponzi scheme (personal view)

Off topic, but as someone with very little understanding of economics and no stake in cryptocurrency, I don't understand where "legitimate currency" ends and "Ponzi scheme" begins. I get that a Ponzi scheme is one which produces little or no value, and the majority of "earnings" are just wealth redistribution from the bottom of the "pyramid" to the top (and yes, I understand that pyramid schemes and ponzi schemes are different); however, I don't understand what legitimate value ordinary currency produces. Can anyone help me understand?
Black Lives Matter says it stands with Hamas terrorists in Israeli conflict
It sounds like you’re arguing crypto is a commodity and not a currency.

I think OP is saying “why would you want a currency that could lose 30% of its value in a day”

Which I agree with wholeheartedly.
Very nice!
The UI is not pretty, but the UX surely is great. Bitwarden also provides true black theme for OLED.
Website auto-detect key works well on Safari, but hit-and-miss on other browser (just like 1P is—or was).

-- former 1Password user
You may want to make clicking through a habit when commercial & project interests may be involved.

HN's minimalist post format isn't amenable to adding such disclosures all the time - but making them available in bios is practical.

You may also want to assume deep undisclosed conflicts may exist whenever there's no bio info at all – as with your user page.

Oh, for all the bigco employees to have their affiliations declared for when they're flacking their company interests under a pseudonym! Oh, for net upvotes/downvotes on highly critical/opinated posts to be cross-tabulated by employer conflicts! Unlikely, but things to think about.
Almost all of physics, it’s consistent no matter where you are in the universe.
It's all about Expected Return. lotto's expected return is probably ~25% of the ticket price. You could look at past performance for BTC's expected return, and that would give something >100%. But as is always mentioned "past performance is no indication for the future"
Interview with Jose Ricon on Longevity, Metascience and Economics
Pretty much everything is down, eth decentralized exchanges are all clogged up too due to sky high gas fees. It's like a bank run.
If you are asking why not stock, you don’t get the point. You obviously have access to the US stock market, and have never had banks steal money from you, straight out of your account.

Yeah, I don’t like altcoins either. Stick to bitcoin. Hardest money ever.
Unless you're a Buddhist monk living on donated food, you have to.
Put everything in gold/ precious metals with no other diversification?

Gold has some funny business with its paper holdings because of the way governments lend it out.
Freenode has been a positively awesome and welcoming group of communities. Was particularly pleased with the security enhancements over time compared to most IRC networks

Looking forward to joining Libera Chat.
IDK man, it's not just politics. Trump supporters also often seem to be misogynistic/bigoted/racist. Are those the kinds of people you want being in charge of online communities?

That person is completely within their rights to not want to work for someone like that.
I count OCaml as "mainstream" as Haskell ;) it's one of the good ones
Masks are not created equally. proper N95s are an order of magnitude more effective than cloth at protecting yourself.

Putting on a cloth mask outdoors is like wearing a helmet while driving on the highway.
> Most people everywhere are nice.

While true, places earn their reputations for a reason.
X was meant to be a lowest common denominator for Unix workstation vendors to base their proprietary software, window managers and desktop envrionments on. Too much standardization at that point would have meant less distinguishing features for their products. Today all major unix workstation vendors are dead which shows they were clearly wrong.
Translation:
Hey guys, I actually already sold all of it before at >$48,000 - $55,000 (at a profit) and when it went straight down as low as $31,000, I bought it again.

Please HODL the line so that I can sell it even higher. Diamond Hands!
I was skeptical of this, but I just confirmed that I can no longer login to Kraken either.

I have no holdings there to speak of, so it is a non issue for me.
I bought my bitcoin for under $10,000 about a year ago. No tears here. How has your fiat performed in comparison?
2017 and 2013 also looked like bubbles exploding, yet here we are.
Human population growths, mosquito populations growths. Sustainable for a certain amount of time. You need to time bound your question. Nothing is sustainability on an endless time scales - the stars burn out and collapse on themselves.
To no ones surprise, or at least I hope not.
"A third possibility is 'removal'. The idea is that a potential criminal is under the control of the state."

The problem with this approach is that its counterproductive, as many prisons act as graduate schools in crime.

Combine this with society mandating severely curtailed opportunities to participate in non-criminal work and you get a perfect storm where prisons churn out more hardened criminals, which leads to more crime, which leads to more prisoners.
The next thing is semi-automatic tests, which you can do with property based testing, fuzz testing, and sanitizers.
Thank you! The days of those stereotypical used cars that fall apart at 100,000 miles are pretty much over. A 10 year old economy car, maintained basically (not obsessively), will probably outlast your need for it.

Yes, a 1980s turbo Porsche or 1990s M3 will eat $10K+ a year due to constantly breaking. Not nearly the same as a 2010 Toyota Matrix, which you can probably get for $5000 and drive forever.
Why do you think former prisoners can't compete with agricultural contractors from Mexico?
Old party spots deserve national historic registration.

Now gone spots from my wayward youth included an abandoned bridge over the interstate, garden ruins bordering a prison, a railroad signal bridge and the concrete roof of an isolated watershed monitoring bunker.
More generally, I've noticed being reluctant to ask others to do things for me even when it's their job is an attitude I have that's hard to shake, and is probably a result of my low-ish social class upbringing. It feels rude or imposing. This extends to hiring people to clean or work on home improvement projects for me—it's hard not to want to help out when someone else is doing stuff for me, even if I'm paying them. I feel bad if I pay someone to mow my lawn. I very much doubt folks who grew up with lots of "help" around feel that way. I expect it'd be damn hard for me to run a business with employees, for similar reasons, at least until I got over the initial discomfort—it makes me feel really bad to pay someone to do something I could do myself, not just because I'm parting with money, but because it makes me feel like a lazy, rude asshole.
Amurhica. :) However, I do speak Norwegian (and can limp med Svenska). Even if I tenk på det på Norsk, det fremdeles er samme :D. GratisNet would have been kult I guess. Or ÅpneNet.
When you are involved in hiring, it's surprising just how bad most resumes are. Have a single page of highlights that are going to make me want to talk to you. The interview is the time to go deep on details, if that's how the conversation goes.
Was gonna say. I feel like I hear the same set of news stories once every 3-5 years.
Discord, game platforms, etc. do this with a discriminator. You're not Bob, even though that's what everyone sees - you're Bob#1337 internal to the system, and people need your "full name" to locate you if you aren't already friends.
Fiat money is trusted in good part because there are backed by institutions, mainly governments in turn are backed by armies (real soldiers and policemen). All this uses a fair amount of energy, and there is no other way. "Cryptos" are in their infancy and there are already ways for them to dissipate less energy.
I don't think the technical data being hard to find is that surprising. China has a pattern of not talking about their space missions unless they go well. Since they control their press the party only ever gets good press. It's also worth noting that the CNSA is not a civilian agency like NASA or the ESA. It's a military agency and treats programs as if they're secret military projects.
It's really hard to imagine a WORSE store of value than crypto.
Hi there HN,
This is a prototype of something that lets you build AWS Step Functions in regular Python code.

I think step functions are very neat, but have a suboptimal programming interface (essentially an assembly language in JSON). However, the idea of having a fully managed workflow system with serverless-style billing is really exciting, IMO. So I've tried to bridge this by building a tool that transforms a Python function to an AWS Step Function plus a set of Lambdas.

This is a prototype, it's far from complete. If there's enough interest, I'll open source this after cleaning it up a bit.
The highest BTC adoption per capita is actually in Nigeria. So no, it’s far more diverse than you think.
If your analysis centers on 'servers', I think you're missing the point of concerns about describing an "IRC network" as being "purchased", and other aspects that make some Freenode channels interesting.
It would include your email address if you register with NickServ.
Honestly honest, honest!
Simple: be rich and white
This is essentially my view as well. I also have never owned bitcoin. I personally am not really bothered that bitcoin can be used for illegal transactions. I find much of legal industry to be morally wrong anyway.

That said I find the speculative nature totally ridiculous and it basically keeps me from ever touching it as currency. Same for the high transaction costs. And the fact so much energy goes into it is also quite irritating. Mining should eventually not make economic sense (which is good), but with the never ending price growth it seems like we'll just keep mining forever.
I was very, very disappointed that the `tap` macro has nothing to do with pattern_tap: https://github.com/mgwidmann/elixir-pattern_tap

Basically, in Elixir pipelines are not very friendly to simple destructuring: if a call at the beginning of the pipeline returns a tuple of `{:ok, result}`, you can't use either of shortcut syntaxes for lambdas (&Mod.fun/arity and &Mod.fun(&1)), you have to use `fn` and destructure in its head. pattern_tap solves this quite elegantly, but I was told that it's a "non-standard macro that people don't know, so it shouldn't be used"... So when I saw `tap` in Kernel, I though that maybe it's similar at least... unfortunately, it's not similar at all, and now the global identifier `tap` is taken, which made the situation even worse :(