skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often said that I intend to work until they carry me out in a box.
The last 10 years have seen massive asset inflation, unrelated to economic activity.
On the basic component end, the history of early electronics was a search for gain. Modern components have so much gain you can throw much of it away to make digital switches or negative feedback amplifiers. Early electronics struggled to get enough gain to drive headphones. Lack of good amplifiers limited the range of long distance telephones.

There's a whole history of forgotten attempts to get some gain. Edison's electromotograph. (See if you can find out how that works. Edison discovered variable friction depending on electric current, but the physics wasn't understood until the 1960s or so.) A speaker driver pushing against a carbon microphone (early Bell System long distance). Higher power devices included magnetic amplifiers (the UNIVAC Solid State computer used those) and large Ward-Leonard drives, used for elevator control for many decades.

There was a long struggle on the transmit side of radio to get gain at high power. The Alexanderson alternator, a high frequency AC generator, was the first real success. There's a long history of transmitting tubes, finally maxing out in radar systems for the DEW line that had tubes with their own vacuum pumps.

Another kludge was the super-regenerative receiver, where positive feedback was used to run the same signal through the same stage more repeatedly. Noted for producing loud squealing sounds.

There's also some history on the musical side. Look up the Teleharmonium, a musical instrument the size of a building. One was actually built. Lacking an amp, they had a sizable AC generator for each note. There's also the switchgear used in large pipe organs, with both electrical and pneumatic components. Those were workarounds for not having enough gain.

We're spoiled today. You can hold the semiconductors used for controlling a locomotive's power in your hand. The first half of the 20th century, though, was a struggle to get enough gain to get anything done.
Agreed. Rowhammer is just one more example of this, but it's frustrating that ECC is not widely deployed.
> Can Rowhammer bypass ECC and not be detected by an hw_event_mc_err_type?

Afaik, yes it can (unless you're counting HW_EVENT_ERR_CORRECTED). They specifically try to get 1 or 3 bit flips, never 2.

See here: https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/

(yes, that's the same link)
Agreed. When it was canceled I was furious but a part of me was convinced that it meant that they would add the nice features to the other client. I was wrong.
>In the UK one establishment in London was shut down as they found a massive number of their "students" working in restaurants in brick lane.

Foreign students are generally allowed to work part-time in the UK, so there has to be a bit more to the story than this.
I couldn't be a paramedic. Too much sadness. Being an oncologist has to be brutal, too.
Sort of makes you want to have a watch heart beat linked app that clears your browser history.
> Why can't the electorate elect competent legislators?

I don't believe this is a realistic goal. It is an idealistic goal, that we should strive for but will never actually happen.
So much of this is similar to karmabot (dot) chat

Like, so similar that I thought your code was an early version of the aforementioned paid Slack app.

Is there a connection there?
Would you consider using a non-GC language that isn't Rust outside the various domains where C/C++ is the only realistic (non-Rust) choice?
I don‘t know much about OS development or C++ but I still watch his videos because of his thoughts on life as a software engineer.
Interesting; in terms of your first point, e.g. preserving the rights of the current generation, I have heard people argue that we should continue to do what we want with regards to the environment because it is within ‘our’ rights (which is the exact opposite conclusion from your premise).
What if the women just aren't as good? Will they get paid more just because they are women? Isn't that sexism?
It's interesting that Herman Göring's father was governor of Namibia.

https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/goringh/hermann-goering
Its totally possible to make a large online game with proper procedural generation of geometry and sharded servers for zones.

It's a bit of work but it's doable.

Games are not about content, they're about multiplayer experience. Online games don't need content or scenario or background. A game without story is a software product.

Not saying this is not a scam though, but real of the old gods proved it was possible to make a real MMO game with just 2 people.
Considering it's true, how was it baselessly claimed as a legitimate theory last year? There was plenty of evidence back then, it's just that people like you bury your head in the sand when someone presents evidence on something you don't want to believe. It's called cognitive dissonance. THAT's the real bias here!

Also, how exactly did "science" indicate it as being unlikely true? Coming from a person who likely believed it came from someone eating a bat sandwich...bc CNN told them to believe that.
They always say that. its not a great time for executives to look for new work. And in general pay has little to do with performance.
Is it really "on top of SMS" though? The way I see, it's just a messaging app like WhatsApp, Telegram etc but they just combined it with the SMS app on their platform.

I am failing to see the additional value of combining them. If Google bought WhatsApp and combined it with the stock SMS app of Android, I don't think I would prefer that.
I want to convince you this isn’t a good idea. If all the businesses shut down in my town or city, what happens after? Where do I find work? Especially if I don’t have sufficient capital to start a new business (never mind the skills or training), what will I do then? How does society go back to normal?

Do we stop all output and just have the government mail checks to every individual forever? That’s not going to work. Who is going to produce the things we need to function as a society?
There's also a fake it till you make it aspect. If you're having a crummy day, forcing yourself to smile anyway can help you out of it. Wagging the dog's tail to make it happy so to speak.
I don't have any insight into this specific situation, but there's one element of the post I wanted to comment on: that Scott Adams "canned apology."

Is there any sequence of events in which that tweet is useful? I see two basic paths here. One: you want to apologize in order to get people to stop yelling at you. Two: you want to sincerely apologize because you think you've done something wrong.

In either case, you can't use the Adams apology, because... it's obviously pre-canned. It's not sincere.

But worse, what if you didn't know about the Adams apology and you come up with something similar? Same problems apply and you didn't even know you were setting yourself up for it!

This feels like an instance of the insincerity/shitposting problem. It's fun to be snarky. You can get a lot of laughs being snarky. In some cases, it's even useful to be snarky, because it tends to muddy the waters. But I think it's also usually corrosive to be snarky.

I wish Adams hadn't done that.
I understand consciousness as containing a lot of "optimizing for"s, lenses that we keep track of our lives through. Daily life is restrictive, and "optimizing for" not making a scene, not being wrong, or just conserving energy naturally leads to a defensive posture. Trance states are a way of bridging the gap between that local optima (which is largely about saying no to internal impulses), and more open emotional expression.
That’s strange. My current suggested trends are “Future Hendrix” (rapper), “Kanye”, and “No Way Home” (the Spider-Man movie).

If I had to guess I’d say it goes off what your following is interacting with/talking about at the moment. I notice they get more negative when my timeline is talking about something more controversial.
There are 1 billion iPhones in current, active use.
A dollar from each of those is 1 billion dollars.

That's a nice bonus, no matter how much the needle moves.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27/there-are-1b-ipho...
> While at Apple, I really enjoyed how most of the software was made under one roof. Not only did this enable super tight integrations, but it made the system extremely hackable for its developers, and you could always find the experts somewhere nearby. I thought I could try bringing that same feeling to the open source world, so I decided that SerenityOS wasn’t going to be a patchwork of packages – no, we’re building everything ourselves! From kernel to web browser, and everything in between.

I love it. Good luck.
I wonder how many were overworked doctors treating overworked patients. I could imagine a chain reaction occurring where you could wipe out several thousand doctors and nurses merely by showing up at the ER. (Not to mention all the overworked health insurance adjusters who’d necessarily be involved.)
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266

If a company promises more than they can deliver, is it a scam? What if they believe that they actually can deliver it?
Tell that to plentyoffish who took on the dating market and consistently ranked higher than big companies like match.

If bookings.com suddenly disappeared you would have hundreds of players ready to jump in with their own angle. What would you offer? Is bookings.com really holding you back?
My thoughts exactly. Furthermore, this would be great training/practice for eg. Linux Foundation certifications with just the questions and "here's a terminal, go solve it".
The unconventional route-The journey on becoming an online entrepreneur
Part of me wonders if that's one way to give bonuses to employees while avoiding a tax penalty. Most companies give employees stock via various mechanisms so you end up throwing money away by avoiding it.
Searching Messages on my Mac is a joke. If type the name of a friend in the search field, it returns (after unreasonable delay) various results, mostly of texts about the person I'm searching for.

How does it not realize that it should first search recipient names and present these results first? A search for "Delilah" should not show a bunch of texts about Delilah, obscuring the one thread with my friend Delilah.
Agile Uncertified – Philosophy over Rituals [video]
That always struck me as an ass-backwards way of looking at taxes. $100 saved by someone near the poverty line is a big deal to them, $100 saved by someone making six figures is not near as much. The recent doubling of the standard deduction is probably one of the biggest (in terms of impact) tax cuts to the lower/middle earners (read: the vast majority of people) in a long time.
I don't believe giving money to poor people will make them lazier, nor do I believe we should give free money to rich people.

Ultimately, they want to give money to people that need it and will put it to good use (for whose definition of good, I don't know... also, we HOPE that is the case but obviously people are biased, politicians included). Sometimes it's individuals who need money, sometimes it's businesses (which is why they did both).

I will tell you that I personally did not need any of the individual stimulus money, but I got the full amount because I don't make a ton; however, there are others who need the money because they have expenses much higher than mine, e.g. they have debt of some kind.

Not trying to muddy the waters. I am trying to say it's not always clear who needs money and who doesn't.
Consider Asia Carrera as someone whose insights would be very interesting on a regular basis but who might also post content you would want to avoid.
What sjf said. Your non-furniture possessions are easy to move. The difficult part of moving is moving or buying furniture, and it's also totally unnecessary.
A lot of these sign languages were developed before the Internet or any easy mass communication via video. Each region developed their own language, and at this point it's so ingrained into local cultures that trying to get every sign language user to switch to some international language would be like trying to get everyone to switch to Esperanto. It's not happening.
the company basically got free labor for 2 months. instead of needing to pay employees, the company got to keep its cash (and pay them out to the owners).
The One Time I Accidentally Started an Antarctica Conspiracy Theory
Why didn't companies only hire black factory workers during the era of Jim Crow?
An arbitrary distinction that does not convey the true complexity of the issue.

Anyone would destroy millions of embryos vs killing a single actual baby. So they are clearly extremely different things.
LLVM-MOS, a project to port the LLVM toolkit to the MOS 6502
I've since come to believe that to have a high quality medium, you really need not just the editorial guidelines I've mentioned, but also someone who interprets those guidelines in the intended way, and the ability to enforce them properly.

That means you can, at best, have a small team of moderators/community managers, likely with the person who has manifested the editorial guidelines at the top. This does not scale, so the community is limited in size.

When I think back to the times of TV channels, professional magazines, radio shows etc., I remember how amazing the quality of that content could be. Reading the same magazines printed back then today confirms that to me.

Curated content wins.

Sure, some TV channels and magazines were terrible instead, but that's just because I did not agree with their curation.
> who answer to the people regularly and reflect their opinion

Really? In a huge number of legislative districts in my country, only one party is competitive, and there is little organized intraparty effort to mount a challenge at the primary stage.

The judiciary is an antimajoritarian institution. There are times when what the majority wants isn't a good thing, and also times when what it wants isn't implemented by the legislature.

Also, plenty of judges aren't dipshits. Plenty of legislators are.

Point is: arguing from the first principles of political structure isn't terribly convincing since political reality doesn't actually match those principles.
Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a Covid-19 vaccine– ecosystem may suffer
I'm not sure if it even works anymore or if there's a better option, but I've used PhoneView <https://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/> in the past to make a PDF archive of my iMessages.
If this is the new age of robber barons, where is all the money going? Or being physically manifest? In the age of Rockerfeller, etc. they built mansions that other people could envy/detest and see the excesses. Where is all the money in this new class?
full title == [Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but the ecosystem may suffer.]

here is a wikilink regarding the basis and usage of this ingredient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limulus_amebocyte_lysate

this is of interest as part of the quality control phase of production.

it seems possible that if this is a contaminant it would cause issues, should PAMP be present at time and site of contact with the contaminant substance [limulus amebocyte lysate] be present.

as for environmental concerns there is a possibility of "overfishing" these animals and disturbing the trophic structure of the region for the return of $60,000/Gallon
of separated product.
You're not meant to editorialize titles like this on HN. People who submit stories have no more claim to their viewpoint than any commenter does. The title here should be:

"This MMO that promised an 'infinite open world' has become a giant fiasco"
Wasn't there an HN article recently which linked to a useful site on PID controller tuning? That was interesting. PID controllers are easy to create but hard to tune.
I'm sure this is true but presumably they have to show that the disparity exists because Google deliberately chose to pay women less. That's going to be a tall order!
Libera is effectively the spiritual continuation of freenode, managed by the former freenode operators. Freenode on the other hand is now under control of new management, which has in very short time already managed to prove itself inept and abusive.
Now you just take things a blogging platform can do and try to morph that into an argument against static site generators. The very point of static site generators is to drop a whole host of functionality.

How often does a construction/handyman "online flyer" webpage need a change? Once a year, maybe. The primary point I am trying to make is that websites of a lot of small business (obviously ones that are not webshops) serve more or less static content and therefore have no need for a backend at all.

You have a food blog where you publish recipes/reviews daily? Surely a blogging platform is a much better fit for you. You have a restaurant page where you publish contacts, coordinates and a menu which changes every second year? Well, maybe a static site generator is a better fit.
NocoDB: Open-Source Airtable Alternative
I feel that with Inbox... still miss it. That said, if something comes along that is as good, I'll still switch back. (And maybe Big Mail will do that?)
They aren’t scientifically unrealizable though, which is a flaw in this argument.
I think he's saying that at a certain level of wealth, you don't need mortgages anymore. And especially with super low interest rates - bonus points if the interest rate is fixed - mortgages are more of an investment than a liability.

So people with a ton of money can just buy a lot of property which they then rent out. Renovation work can be delayed and property values have only went up in the past 30 years or so (minus the financial crisis, which in the greater scheme of things turned out to be just a blip). So they have an ever appreciating asset that's a constant stream of revenue. Double-win.

Which makes this whole multiple-bankruptcy thing for the former US president even the more baffling :-))
So I have to make 50 accounts for every news service and hand out my credit card for yearly subscriptions everytime I want to read an article? Do you know what a PITA it is to keep track of and cancel those subscriptions? Half the articles are clickbait, opinion pieces, or have a strong political agenda with painful lack of objectivity. The assumption then is I'm going to pay upfront based on a headline? No way not in 2021. The news services need to get together and back one single payment processor, and accept payment on articles that are actually read, and there needs to be a one click option at the end of every article to cancel payment to prevent them taking advantage. And they are taking advantage and clearly have no respect for their readers looking at current tactics.
I worked with a PID controller in college. It's a concept that's stuck with me to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

Proportional–integral–derivative

P: proportional, this one is obvious. Water is WAY too cold, turn the knob WAY up

I: integral, how long does it take for feedback to take effect. You don't want to turn the knob up and up each second if it takes 10 seconds for the change to take effect.

D: derivative, a bit trickier.

What's really interesting is seeing how humans apply these concepts, which are so intuitive to things like balance, we don't even think about them. In face we'll apply them to where they don't apply or are faulty. You'll see it when people learn to back up a car for the first time or start winning at blackjack.
I don't think that's the case at all, based on variations in the US. The upper-class parts of LA are known for superficial friendliness, while New York is not, but in neither region is known for its gun culture.

Meanwhile parts of the Midwest that had a lot of Germanic immigrants are perceived as being "cold" compared to the southern states, and both tend to have high rates of gun ownership.

When I first moved to Southern California, I found the smiles quite off-putting. Living here for over a decade, I'm sure I do the same now.
Not sure this is true. A wealthy person might have a mortgage on a $1M home while the poor are more likely to be renting.

To whit, US mortgage debt in 2020 was at $10T while the debt that the poor are more likely to have (Credit Card / Personal Loan / Auto Loan) is a combined $2.5T[1].

The wealthy are often highly leveraged in a variety of ways. Just look at some of the world's richest people – they generally fund themselves through loans taken out against their equity holdings (stocks in the case of Bezos / Musk / etc).

So the ultra-wealthy like Musk are actually winning twice: once when everyone rushes to buy stocks like Tesla because they're worried about inflation and such, increasing the value of his holdings substantially. Then again when the inflation actually hits, because he is funding himself with loans, which are now easier to repay.

[1] https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/research/consume...
Thanks for mentioning these points. Another explanation could be that _if_ these UFO's are in fact extraterrestrials with a technology advanced enough to travel to our planet, then it's plausible to assume that they also adapt their techniques based on our technological capabilities. In other words, if they are real and they know we have more advanced cameras compared to 100 years ago, chances are they are not going to reveal themselves to us as much as before, or they do that in situations where environment noise does not provide a high-res picture of them (like in the sea).
Apparently the bridge is up since yesterday.
(disclaimer: I'm not Deaf, just interested in ASL.)

Signs very geographically even in ASL. (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/asl/comments/dcvqo9/is_there_much_d...)

Wouldn't your argument hold for spoken languages as well? Why do we have french and spanish? Because it would be impossible to force most people to learn the other language.

English is the widely spoken for economical reasons and yet that's only 13% of the world population.

No sign language has that kind of pull. We would need TV shows / movies that pushed a particular sign. The internet helps but how do you prevent groups from drifting?

At some point accents become dialect that become languages. Written ASL doesn't seem to be growing.

Why do people communicate in different languages? Because they live in slightly disconnected social circles.
The great recession resulted in the creation of Blackstone's Invitation Homes, which is the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the US.

Homes that used to be owned and rented locally by individuals or small businesses are now rented and managed from elsewhere.

Profits resulting from higher rents and cheaper maintenance flow to stock holders, creating bad incentives. These homes are no longer rotating into the market for sale, reducing inventory.

Even for rental homes rented by local owners, the increased rent due to the commercialization of rented residential housing created conditions for everyone's rent to go up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-land...
At work.

Example: In France, there are about 500 deaths at work, 40 are women. It’s getting lower in general but actually increasing for women until before the Covid, as equality makes progress in worker positions.