skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the problem is that users in livestreaming scenarios are much more latency sensitive than you would expect, especially inter-viewer synchronization, due to live chat. Just running a small centralized streaming system I struggle constantly with optimizing for latency and viewer synchronization.
Interesting, not the content, but that someone thinks this means anything.
Well, I mean, people used to feel queasy after classic FPS games back in the day, but generally people adapted. I expect VR will be similar.
> A more successful approach would be eliminating the ability for anyone in the world to extort money anonymously from companies. Because without the motivation, the blackmailers have no reason to blackmail you.

In other words: attempting to ban cryptocurrencies?
What do you mean by "trans-radicalism will eventually become woke"?

EDIT misread "racialism" as "radicalism"
That article was discussed a bit here:

Superfast-charging aluminum-ion batteries outpower lithium-ion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205855 - May 2021 (8 comments)
OK, so you think an email that starts with "Fine, let's enable Cocoa Touch apps" is presenting "Cocoa Touch apps" as a new idea?

Please. It's an idea they'd obviously been discussing.

There is no way in hell that Apple, a company that has always, always, always kept very tight control over their platform ever actually planned for web apps to be the one and only type of app for the iPhone.

> One of the original iPhone's "killer features" was a full, desktop-equivalent web browser

Nobody is disputing that. Of course they needed the web...until they didn't - and they absolutely planned the switch from web apps to native apps from the get go. Anyone who actually believes otherwise - I've got a bridge to sell you.

Looks like I underestimated the amount of stockholm syndrome surrounding this company though. Oh well - enjoy your dystopian new world order!
exactly! I think most teacher just teach random fact about plants weather molecule ... and think they did a great job.

But they rarely teach the scientific method.
I just looked up the volume of aluminum vs lithium here: https://www.periodic-table.org/lithium-atomic-radius/

They have the same atomic radius of 121 pm. The length of bonds might change the calculation when you actually look at chemistry, but the increase in number of orbitals is not an issue.

Also, no battery uses 100% of their electrons for storage. Your calculation of using the number of electrons on the outer orbital vs the atomic mass is completely misguided. their claims don't say aluminum ion holds more energy per unit mass, but simply looking at the ions available per unit of molecular mass also doesn't tell you this.
From what I saw that's just about exploiting WASM memory within the sandbox - like they say "at wrost WASM can make a mess of it's own memory" and they show some implications of that. That's mildly interesting to me, you still need to go through DOM to do anything system related - you can't just read random files off of disk or use some system API to exploit other parts of the system. If API security is broken for WASM it's broken for JS as well. That's completely different from having a separate sandbox running as a native extension.
Both Brazil and the US are really large countries. I'm not sure if comparison is so simple.
Wouldn’t we achieve the same with a flat tax rate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aluminium-ion_bat...

They probably forgot to also change the second sentence.
To be fair, the reserves are largely a national security requirement given the risk of potential Chinese aggression (trade or otherwise).

Given its remoteness, Australia is quite vulnerable to blockade. While the country is of immense size, global shipping lanes are consolidated and pretty easy to block.
More likely, it will lead to a governmental crackdown on cryptocurrency. If it were illegal for people to hold digital assets and impossible to exchange them for fiat currency except on black markets, cryptocurrency would lose pretty much all value and make ransomware worthless.

For the record, I think this would be a bad idea, but it’s exactly the sort of governmental overreaction I’ve come to expect. I’ve sold off most of my cryptocurrency as a result of this latest spate of ransomware attacks, waiting for this shoe to drop.
The Alcohol House at the Carnegie Museum of National History can sometimes be open to the public and well worth a visit. It was originally built as a separate building because of the significant fire risk.

https://carnegiemnh.org/alcohol-house-improvements/

Alcohol is no longer used, but the specimen jars are all still there.
Repeated docker builds. Other build automation. Mobile/apps. Raspberry pis. For teaching, less overhead is better.
To quote Bertrand Russell,

[...] it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct
which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that
ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has
nothing to do with the matter at all. ‘What has human happiness to do with morals?
The object of morals is not to make people happy.’

I suspect it is this particular trait of all Abrahamic religions that contributes much to the hatred and rage: "the rules were laid out once and for all, they are here to submit to them and follow them, not to discuss them or amend them, or deviate from them. Someone refuses? How outrageous!".

However, Christianity did pull an interesting trick to untie itself from the Moses Law, and it can be repeated again, although that'd require reintroduction of the Holy Ghost's visitations, to soften the rules of conduct even further.
How would we know since they can't check the identity of the voter?
You can also get a reproduction of a famous painting that is indistinguishable from the original to all but a small group of experts (and even experts might be fooled by very skilled forgeries). If you just like how a painting looks, you can absolutely get the vast majority (perhaps even the entirety) of the aesthetic value of it from a (relatively) inexpensive reproduction. Yet the vast majority of the immense value of very famous paintings comes from originality, as determined by a small group of experts which the rest of us trust. This is not so unlike how NFTs work.
"A more successful approach would be eliminating the ability for anyone in the world to extort money anonymously from companies. Because without the motivation, the blackmailers have no reason to blackmail you. "

While I agree in principal, that is quite a lofty goal. What are some of the ways you would suggest eliminating that ability?
We can produce graphene at scale but it's not big uniform layers but small randomly oriented pieces.

Big uniform layers are prohibitively expansive (and you have to provide your substrate to them)
In this case, energy density refers to the energy per unit mass, not volume. But your point still applies, for application in a vehicle you need to compare the mass of the complete battery systems, not just the cells in isolation.
Ransomware attacks have doubled in the last one year per the Verizon DBIR.

https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2021...
That's probably a false dichotomy. I'd imagine many religious people who homeschool also pragmatically believe they can provide a better education.
The polls were off by miles, but in the other direction from the alleged fraud; Democratic candidates received fewer votes and Republican candidates more than would have been predicted by polls.

There have, however, been very few claims of fraud benefiting Republican candidates, because this is mostly explained by high turnout by Republican voters due to strong personal support for Trump in a segment of the party that historically has low turnout. This is illustrated by improved performance by Democrats in runoff elections where Trump was no longer on the ballot.
I really like this idea and wish all project management tools included it by default. Fwiw Fogbugz has been using it for over a decade, called Evidence Based Scheduling:

- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

- https://support.fogbugz.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011258994-E...

- https://blog.fogbugz.com/evidence-based-scheduling

There’s at least one Jira app for it:

- https://github.com/handshake/pystradamus

And Trac also used to have EBS but I’m not sure if it still does, can’t find it atm:

- https://trac.edgewall.org/
Aviation in 2030: Fuel-guzzling supersonic planes or electric air taxis?
Apart from the perimeter limit, LGA's runways are also only ~7000ft.

I don't know what Boom's expected runway requirements are, but if they're anything like the Concorde's (>11000ft), there's no way they'll actually be able to take off from LGA.

Edit: At least one source says that Boom's plane requires no less than 10000ft[1].

[1]: https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/11/13/aerion-boom-taking-...
Every university institution in Canada either has an institutional repository or access to adoptive repositories for those without.

https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-re...

https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-re...
Isn't Javascript terrible for dealing with numerics (floats in particular)?
I've seen public school parents spend their time with their kids on making sure their kids don't believe anything that could challenge their religious or political beliefs, and many public school parents who encourage their kids to focus on sports alone to the exclusion of anything and everything else. Again -- compared to what?

I was homeschooled K-7 and again in 12th. I know lots of homeschool kids whose parents insulated them from the world (including mine, though less so than many) due to religion or just eccentricity. Almost all of us are successful, however, and very few stayed locked in that bubble. A key piece of that is because we became self-directed learners.
>To claim otherwise is equivalent to claiming every single business is government-run due to there being regulations.

That claim is a hell of a lot stronger than the one where the organizations run by municipal government employees executing on a state developed plan isn't a government run organization.

Are you going to tell us that USPS isn't government run because it's a privately chartered corporation that just to happens to be owned by the government and happens to have its product offerings highly regulated by government?

Public schools are government run for all practical purposes. Just not directly run on a day to day basis by the feds or state.
What's the background for choosing this name?
I imagine today’s stdlib converted to a pip installable package. The python.org installer would still come with it. Only software engineering types would use the stripped down version actively I’d think. Kind of like miniconda vs anaconda today.
Wow that's cool. It'd be quite interesting if the conclusion ends up being that we should go back to mainframes...
At some point, I decided I'm too old for redeyes unless I really have no choice. Yes, it means getting up early to get in at a reasonable time but at least I sleep in a real bed.
Firebird 4.0 (open-source RDMS) is released
A country could apply the global minimum tax on the worldwide profits of a company operating within it but recognize taxes already paid to other countries. So a country with a 0% corporate tax is just giving money to other countries.
They literally said they want to do this locally though.
Thucydides in Times of Trouble (2020)
Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases
Using more precise terms in language has nothing to do with being an utopia. Really, as a native Portuguese speaker it sounds really weird to ask about the race of a human being.
> "This provision covers those who obtain information from particular areas in the computer—such as files, folders, or databases—to which their computer access does not extend. It does not cover those who, like Van Buren, have improper motives for obtaining information that is otherwise available to them"

I think this would have acquitted Aaron Swartz (though he likely would have been acquitted anyway since they didn't even allege improper motive iirc).

In his case he accessed journals that were available to him via MIT's open network. There is the second issue of his trespassing in a closet to leave a laptop on the network, but that would have been minor when compared to the string of felonies they charged him with which was tied to the CFAA.

This seems like a good restriction to me at first glance.
Would that actually law accomplish anything? Victims of these crimes already get punished in that they are paying ransoms. I doubt that increasing the penalty would provide additional disincentive, these are already awful situations.

But let's assume that this law would be effective. Would it do a net good to the world? Maybe, if ransomware attacks stop. But in the meantime, we'd probably see some innocent people's data being released, and the downstream societal effects from the destruction that occurs.

If a company that holds my private information is hit by a ransomware attack that threatens to release my data, I'd rather they pay it.
Apparently quite well if you look past the decade-old takes on it.
>Perhaps but i don't feel they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

14 years is a long time really, there are people who get the benefit of a doubt for murder after 14 years.
I typically retweet so I have a record. Not necessarily stuff I agree with FYI.

I only believe what is provable in documentation.

I also never stoop down to insulting people when I don’t have an argument. We all deserve mutual respect and should discuss opinions not character flaws or personality traits.

You may think me the fool, but I’ll still engage with your arguments. Would you do the same? Spend an hour and watch the AZ senate hearing. If you disagree, explain why. I don’t see that occurring, but that’s what is required to have a civil discussion.
The terms anode and cathode are reversed. Mnemonic device:

Anode - ants - bad - negative

Cathode - cats - good - positive
This doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Look at the Christie's beeple auction- the guy was a normal middle class person going through a reputable dealer.
They passed such rules for Wayne Gretzky as well.
A proof of existence for any number?
> It isn't a copyright grant, a contract, legal ownership

Exactly the problem. If these were used to prove legal ownership of real assets, whether they be intellectual or physical, they would have value. Selling individually numbered digital pet rocks is not valuable.
For a lot of stuff that's really not a hard problem. You just create the NFT of the hash before publicly releasing the item, it's only for stuff that exists out there in the world already that's a problem. Doesn't mean it's not a good way to resolve stuff going forward. Biggest problem with NFTs are how they integrate with the existing legal frameworks of copyright, etc.
I assume you're identifying businesses to contact by those that don't have websites, or have bad ones?

If so, what if in addition to offering subscriptions to your product, you offered website design services (can be easily offloaded) along with that subscription? That way, they get a site built for them, but they can do the updates themselves.
Diet and Lifestyle Change Reverses Aging by 3 Years in 8 Weeks
Even if we say doubling instead of halving, I assume that the total portion of a transatlantic flight that it could travel at top speed would be pretty small, so the total time might still be more than half.
I didn't know or didn't remember about Onavo. Thanks.

WhatsApp is a social network because of groups. I think I never had a group with Skype. I don't even know if they are a thing there.

I'm currently using WhatsApp and Telegram groups to chat and exchange pictures and links with groups of friends and colleagues. I'm trying to move from WA to Telegram starting with the most technical friends (as always has been with new things.) I'm basically not using Facebook anymore. I appreciate that those apps let me partition people in groups with well defined boundaries. I believe FB has something like that but the UI was more about posting something and let all contacts see it.

Anyway, everything I post there is meant to be lost. I'm backing up images, messages not so much. Definitely not on WA which is pretty much hostile to backups as it doesn't give us the key to decrypt the local databases. Maybe it is not to break E2E encryption and not let other apps decrypt messages, but I should be able to download the key from somewhere if I ask for it. Uploading to Google Drive an unencrypted database is not good.

On the other side Telegram has a kind of distributed database on all my devices. Probably bad for E2E encryption unless every devices has its own key and messages are encrypted for all of them, or another equivalent system. I didn't investigate how it works.
Startup to Serve Local News to Young Audiences
Have you forgotten that more Google accounts were phished than iCloud accounts in Celebgate?

>According to court filings, Collins stole photos, videos and sometimes entire iPhone backups from at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/03...
not if you cropped it in the webside and (like in this case) don't have the original files.
His old posts are more than just solidarity with Palestinians or criticism of the Israeli government (which obviously should never get anyone fired).

> If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others.

It’s really hard to read stuff like that and not feel attacked as a Jewish person. I know it’s an old post and people change, but I don’t want people walking away from this thread thinking someone lost their job for merely being critical of Israel. That just feeds the cycle of distrust and makes it harder to discuss.
>"On May 24, Guggenheim cofounder Todd Morley told Bloomberg TV in New York that he is building a "blockchain tower" that will give anyone in the city access to wireless trading, provide a way to announce and showcase new technological advances, and house the world's largest collection of NFTs."

How can hype like that not set off everyone's bullshit detections, I can not understand. Todd Morley sounds like a complete charlatan.
Read the link above about FP as a leaky abstraction of the reals; it explains it better than I can. FP is not really a representation of reals, because you can't represent the entire number line with a finite number of bits. It is a representation of a cleverly chosen subset of the reals, so well-designed that many people forget that they're not dealing with real numbers. That intelligent people can write code with FP values, operating on them thinking they are real numbers, and not knowing how FP works, and get programs that often do nearly the right thing, speaks to the success of FP as an abstraction. Understanding how things can go wrong is the leaks (like, non-associativity). I don't think people manipulating char[] representations of strings are ever at risk of forgetting that it's just an array of chars (they program with full awareness of the implementation), so it doesn't feel like there's much abstraction happening there. Other higher-level data structures for text manipulation probably do implement some useful abstractions; I haven't worked with those.
It wouldn't surprise me. Let's take thousands of components from dozens of different CDNs and throw it in a Docker image that I downloaded from somewhere else and put it in production.
Your statement boils down to not wanting older black people to vote. Many black Americans were born at home in the South because they weren't allowed to use the hospitals and their counties refused to record the births and issue certificates. This was as recently as 50 years ago.
Within American culture, it’s not contentious that dark-skinned African people are “black”, certainly no less so when they immigrate to the US. But that’s race.

There is also a distinct notion of “black culture” which is a subset of American culture (people who identify with black culture also tend to be racially black, but not every racially black American identifies with black culture). That there is a “black culture” doesn’t mean that the American notion of race is incorrect.
About 5 years ago, when I first started using this method, I gave a talk about it that went into detail about how to do it, and the benefits. I did a live demo showing how well it modeled the variance even for really simple tasks like "take off your shoes and then put them back on".

The audience reaction was very positive, and I was pleased to have spread the word.

No one actually put it into action, though. It turns out if you need better estimation tools, you don't have time to make them -- you're in crunch time, because your estimates were bad.

The benefit is not so much slick UI -- that part is just me having fun. The benefit is that the work, however easy, is done.

If folks "steal" this idea because it's easy to implement, that's great! It's not a new idea, just an underused one. I just want to stop being hired onto contracts where the first thing I have to do is explain that the deadline is impossible.

I agree with you that a linear backlog is not sufficient to do really sophisticated planning -- Vistimo Quotes is a pared-down tool designed for easy adoption, because my kitchen-sink version requires too much buy-in for many teams.
Yep, I'm not giving my email to something before I have a decent understanding of what it does. Even the "Try it out" redirects you instantly to a signup modal.
> Rich people pay WAY more than what they get back from the gov.

Only if you ignore the role of the government in defining and enforcing (violently, where necessary) property rights, which is what allows “rich people” —particularly rich through various forms of intangible, indirect, and directly-physical-but-beyond-immediate-personal-supervision property — to, as such, even exist.
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"Up to 70 times faster charging"...

Good luck building a charging network that allows charging a bunch of cars at ~1 MW each...
I did? This guy spammed all over my posts saying “Democratic Party” is in some way insulting. It was literally a party in the lawsuit I was discussing.
I surprisingly love using these kinds of environments and this one looks neat.

What’s going to be the pricing model moving forward. Surely voice and such can’t be free in perpetuity.

Nice work!
> I imagine that larger cell sizes and lack of need for cooling might offset the perceived weight issues.

Have you ever looked at Tesla's vehicle cooling system visualizations?

It's not like by eliminating need for cooling in the battery you'd be able to omit the vehicle's cooling system. The coolant circulates through practically every active component of the vehicle, and regardless of battery requirements you'll still need sufficient thermal mass circulating to not overheat any of the other high-power components capable of producing a lot of heat like the motor and controller.

Though maybe there could be some reduction in coolant volume by treating the less thermally sensitive battery as more of a heat sink, by continuing to circulate coolant through it. Still, I don't imagine it'd be a huge weight savings, but may help stabilize temperatures.
I feel like ransomware attacks will lead us down a road to most corporate computers acting as terminals and defense focused on internal systems general users have limited interfaces with. Email/browsing will be on your PC that can just be wiped if there is an issue and work will be done through VDI systems. I know there will still be attack vectors, but right now too many employees can compromise entire networks by clinking the wrong link.