skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese propaganda department needs to get its game in gear and start flooding us with their rover's pictures. What is the point of landing a rover on Mars if you don't get any soft power out of it?
Just because some round pegs have arrived, doesn't mean we should stop hammering them into these square holes!

Obviously there have been changes in the students over the years, not least the fact that the universities now admit women and Catholics. There have also been far broader changes in society; it wouldn't be illegal for Turing to be gay in the present Cambridge.
> Pick any random apartment complex in the US and pretend 80% of the residents there own an EV

To pretend that, you'd also have to pretend that it's 20 years or so (if not a few more decades more) in the future. EVs are not gonna replace billions of the on-road vehicles over night, average of each is driven for a decade or two.

Over 20 years, as more EVs show up, more apartment buildings upgrade their electrical infra to keep up. How so? Compare the number of charging spots in buildings 20 years ago to now.
Hypersonic things are hot, and they go in straight lines, or else they have big engines and obvious control surfaces. A hypersonic thing that has no engine and no control surfaces is basically a thrown rock and the navy is perfectly capable of recognizing it as such.

Absolutely nothing human that is hypersonic can do that from a dead stop hover without a really unsubtle plume of rocket exhaust.
As someone born in the USSR, this is an oversimplified view instead. You can claim that the USSR had some good science and engineering, and it did, but it wasn’t always to benefit the people and was definitely done by oppressing the people. Remember that the USSR was the country that marched a platoon of soldiers under a mushroom cloud (without telling them of course) to see what would happen to them in the name of science. It’s also the country to displaced a village by rolling in tanks and telling people to move into houses of the people living in the next village over, immediately, and giving no reason. This was done to detonate an underground nuke to see if a natural gas fire could be put out. It’s the country that refused to evacuate Pripyat after the Chernobyl accident because it would have looked bad. The USSR wasn’t some benevolent scientific community bent on bettering lives. Its scientific interests were primarily military-related.
Can running WASM solve this?
If you do want bluetooth/WiFI, agreed, it's annoying to not have it, true. I rarely need either capability, so I don't mind too much. (And it's remarkable that ESP32's are so cheap that I find myself using them even if I don't use those features).

On the other hand I often find myself missing USB-related features on the ESP32, such as being able to act as HID device or even a USB host. The ESP32-S2 fixes that, although software support for that is still relatively immature.
What resources would they be competing for? I would expect more overlapping years would be beneficial since their primary survival strategy is predator satiation.
Managements will have to learn to embrace results instead of mere attendance at their meetings.
I wonder if the mood will eventually swing the other way, with companies preferring remote working arrangements, and then people will recall the quaint oddity of employees demanding the change.

Living in a high cost of living city, with a high salary, has its advantages - many goods have the same price point nationally, holidays cost the same regardless, and any raise or bonus calculated as a percentage of your base salary will be more generous in absolute terms. The housing market will be brutal but if you plan to relocate eventually, you'll be way ahead.
The Science of Bullshit
What are some reasons you'd use this over free open source software alternatives like : https://insomnia.rest/ , https://install.advancedrestclient.com/install , or https://github.com/frigus02/RESTer ?
Will the capitalist who prefer office workers offer higher salaries for workers who come into the office instead of working from home?

Or will office only businesses fail to compete with work from home businesses?

I hope the market decides.
Even if it's the least bad system, you shouldn't close your eyes to its downsides. And not all your assertions are always true.
Developer Ipsum
Lorem for NERDS!!!
I literally cannot imagine what sort of exciting things you're doing in your life, what sort of James Bond lifestyle do you lead where actual PICTURES FROM ANOTHER PLANET are not exciting for you. And in between all the explosions and heists and crazy adventures you must be up to, you still find time to post on HN telling us how little you care about something as mundane as PICTURES FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
i hope to read this article soon/today.

the last company to try this was a scam -- not sure who exactly it was -- juno/gett/vw:

https://mashable.com/2017/04/28/juno-sale-gett-drivers-respo...

think i might have been or be a founding member of black star co-op brewery in austin, and i and others have tried to start a similar operation in San Jose, California:

Austin:
https://blackstar.coop/

San Jose:
https://umunhumbrewing.com/

co-ops can def help save the world, but damn i thought we'd be further along by now.

i have def thought this would be a great business for a co-op. i thought the existing/old nyc taxi companies were co-ops, but not sure.
You can use desktop iCloud to get a local copy. From there I use Syncthing to a directory on my server that does incremental backups.
Market-based pricing for electricity is a big thing for people who have electric cars. It'll become even bigger when vehicle-to-grid/house becomes viable in a large scale (The Ford F-150 Lightning has this feature).

Basically you can program your charger to charge the car when the electricity price is the cheapest and feed the energy back to your house (or the grid) when the price is high.
The article talks a lot about executives' desire to "maintain company culture". Can someone unpack that for me?

I was already fuzzy on the concept of "company culture". But if executives are worried about it at the same level as "productivity" or "profitability", I'm definitely missing something.
> Actual wealthy people are generally not easily influenced suckers

source? no, seriously. All the marketing I see for luxury products and more generally point to yes, rich people are exactly as suceptible to advertising to poor people, if not more so due to having a greater share of disposable income.
Similar situation. And any time you use the nordic countries as an example, you have to realise that the middle class takes a huge hit for financing the equality.

Sweden has implemented a LOT of trickle down economy tax breaks for the wealthy people during the 2000s, such as completely getting rid of property tax, wealth tax, inheritance tax. Just to keep money in the country.

At the same time, the working people of the middle class are taxed really high, and that's used to show the world how equal Sweden is, while conveniently ignoring the tax breaks for the wealthy.

Redistribution always has a price, it's not like Sweden has invented a superior system that creates value out of thin air, Sweden has the poorest doctors and programmers of all the western nations, and people love to talk about equality but when they actually consider Sweden and find out that their salary will be 50% they go to another country.

Maybe not experiencing a terribly high brain drain, but the development is definitely stifled by the fact that it's so unattractive for middle class people to move to Sweden compared to other countries, even Germany is much better which is why so much of the IT companies are establishing in Berlin and not Stockholm.
And the employers can't find anyone in Manila or Bangalore to fill those positions at 30% of the cost?

I don't think so.

I know Bloomberg and the rest of MMT-crazed intelligentsia would be happiest if the US Gov and Fed endlessly poured money into a non-functioning economy where everyone "works" from home, but somewhere out there some employers still need to get shit done and run business.
I think that overtime some middle-ground will be achieved. Maybe some people companies won't allow full remote work, but will create satellite offices in smaller towns where people would be able to walk or even bike to work. (yes, I know, this is true in big cities like NYC, but then the cost of living is astounding).
Launch them from small naval vessels (or submarines maybe?) that don't show up on radar, a la Millennium Challenge 2002
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V8 has an interpreter now FWIW https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter
People have savings. It’s not worth making your life miserable over the safety net of your current job, especially when there’s so many remote options out there.
This is what I generally see happening any time these things come up. A dismissive half-answer that does not address the physical requirements of the phenomenon. I am not in the "it's aliens" crowd. But I am also not shutting down half my brain so as to ignore the the materials science and exotic energy requirements that would be necessary to reproduce these phenomena.

I am a strong proponent of Occam's Razor. But in order to use Occam's Razor, you have to account for all observations, not dismiss half of them.

As to their being drones: almost certainly. And that's actually the scariest thought. If they are, in fact, hypersonic drones (whatever the origin), then we are in deep shit.
True, but mandating a switch to EVs is certainly not an engineering limitation.
No, the screen size, regardless of the size of the entire device, is important because that's what its usability depends on. The bigger the screen the more area for you to reach when you use it with one hand. My previous phone was a Pixel 1, it had a 5" screen with large bezels on top and bottom. My current one is a Pixel 4a that has the screen cover as much of the front as technically possible. It's sometimes harder to reach the navigation bar at the bottom and the status bar at the top because they're physically in places where the Pixel 1 had bezels. (the two phones have exactly the same physical dimensions btw)
If there are any current (or ex-) Symmetricom employees reading this, then I'd love to hear about your work. I have a profound interest in the domain of high-precision timekeeping.
Understanding Wi-Fi Speed and How 6 GHz Compares
I don't think for most people the idea of plugging in and stopping for 20 minutes rather than 10 minutes is a big deal. And most people only do journeys like that a few times a year, if that.

One limitation is whether the charging stations are available where they'd otherwise want to stop.
What TikTok ads are you referring to? Users often get completely different targeting, but the ads I've seen have been mainstream fast food and then dumb consumer crap like moon lights. Also Old Navy and some car company.

TikTok is really the anti-"influencer" platform. It is a very wide, long tail and doesn't seem to concentrate like many other platforms. People seem to be completely ordinary, versus the delusion that Instagram as an example is pitching, of aspirational perfect living.

Algorithmically TikTok seems to assign very little weight to the creator compared to other venues. Single hits that aren't achieved again are common. Versus say Twitter where if someone has a hit, the platform presumes that every tweet from that person is a brilliant insight.
There's a moment in a Gabriel García Márquez novel where the villagers are completely unimpressed by the invention of the airplane as they had all already tried out the flying carpet in the county fair and in comparison the airplane looked cumbersome. This article reads like someone complaining that their cool science work will not get the public recognition they think they deserve because the common standard for alien discoveries is way too high.

> "Powerful telescopes that will soon be operational may be capable of detecting city lights on the night side of planets that orbit distant stars"

Hopefully that "may" is not carrying too much load as this would be incredibly cool.
Kaspar Lund of V8 and Dart fame and Toit.io have brought an IOT platform to market based around a purpose designed dynamic language with a bytecode VM optimized for use in MCUs. That VM engine is hosted in FreeRTOS which together with the VM and a deployment API provide a reliable and crash resistant platform for deploying apps to your IOT fleet. In their words "deploy a long-lived Toit application on your device, as if it was a mobile app being installed on your smart phone." (https://docs.toit.io)

The server end of their platform provides the management and app deployment infrastructure. It's claimed that the RTOS and VM environment makes deployment reliable even in the presence of failing apps. And that one app on a IOT device will not prevent other apps from running compromise management or brick the device.

Toit.io, the company makes $$ by charging you .10/MB after the first 100MB/mo for use of their management and app deployment and you are left free to choose your own data platform. What I don't have feel for is what sort of utilization per device I can expect for the management and instrumentation traffic.

*Edit I dug around the website and the tooling including the language looks like it is mostly closed source.
Which isn't even that expensive.
The military is bending over backwards not to favor the outer space aliens hypothesis. It's "unexplained aerial phenomena". Not knowing what it is makes it interesting enough.
> My attitude is mainstream.

> Those "others" have spent the past five years screaming at me and threatening me.

So... you first claim that the mainstream view is yours, and that you won't be vaccinated so assumedly the mainstream won't (even though by the numbers that's clearly not true as 62% of adults already have one shot[1] and that number is sure to continue to grow), but then you claim that the "others" you don't care are the people that apparently don't share your view and you're OK with threatening them. This doesn't make a lot of sense given that the "mainstream" who shares your view will not be vaccinating so those will be the people your actions threaten, not the "others" who have been threatening you and don't share your views, as they will be vaccinated.

Your argument and beliefs aren't making a lot of sense, outside of what appears to be a desire to be in the popular in-group while also simultaneously being contrarian.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...
A few remarks:

0) Very nice practical introduction to quaternions and their application to rotation.

1) Neat didactic "textbook" implementation, but note that it is not production quality (eg potential overflow in the norm function unnecessarily). That was not the aim, either, but just something to bear in mind.

2) As a supplement, a useful practical reference for rotations in 3D (with good clarifications and basically all formulae you'll ever need, but no implementation) is

Representing Attitude: Euler Angles, Unit Quaternions, and Rotation Vectors by James Diebel

https://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn-beta/_downloads/at...
Except for all that housing.
exactly, they're so deeply intertwined. when I read "oh but you could just go outside with the coffee?"...I would say out loud "why, yes...", and its genuinely a novel thought to me. Then, I silently think "but what about the cigarette?", and in that moment, I am enlightened.
I actually developed this for the same purpose:

https://github.com/Depau/wi-se-sw/
https://github.com/Depau/wi-se-hw/

It's too bad that only now I learn that esp-link exists, that would have saved lots of time :)
This is where the dreaded question comes in: Where do you want to be in 5 years? Your development plan will be different if you want to be one of the contractors implementing projects vs. a tech lead in an enterprise shop vs. a coder at a FAANG or startup. Heck, being good at writing up specs for other people to implement is actually a useful skill in some roles.

So first, define your end goal. Then work backwards - if you want to be at point Y in 5 years, you need to be at point X in 4 years, W in 3 years, V in 2 years, and U next year... so how do you make that first move?
C++ Standard Ranges (2018)
>After you gain admission, you have to prove that you have the money you need to sustain yourself either through a scholarship, or you have to literally show a bank statement that shows that you have a lump sum in your account that will sustain you for the normal amount of time it takes to finish the degree.

I think this is for graduate students - the undergraduate student system is different.
I always joke that cars turn people into sociopaths, but sometimes I no longer think it’s a joke.
How to Stop Living in Infinite Browsing Mode
“Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018)
What percentage of commuters have 2 hours bumper to bumper each way? That sounds like an outlier to me.
Indeed, the article contains nothing to support the claim in the title.
The problem with NNTP is a lack of incentives. ISPs have no incentives to keep the amount of data in Usenet. We need some kind of distributed system where the incentives to store and publish the data are there and are orthogonal to the interests of people reading and writing comments. It would even be a plus if it costed a tiny amount to write those comments, so as to reduce spam.
It’s a weakly supported clickbait article.

A may survey of 1000 people reported that 39% would consider quitting if their work didn’t provide flexibility.

I’m no statistician but the red flags are n=1000 and “would consider”. This is a hugely hit button issue right now, great for clicks.
This is a common result of modern interpretations of equity and equality. Instead of helping everyone equally, more often than not the result is dragging everyone down to the common denominator.
And this is different for status quo in what way? In every EU country the government can go to a bank and freeze your account via a warrant.
You know everyone out in the real world is looking at their phones.
I go to a coworking space. Having some semblance of separating home from 'work' (even though I do sometimes 'work' from home) helps. I did total 'work from home' - working out of a converted bedroom - for years, and... it's functional, but the process/ritual of leaving and coming back does help me.

I still 'work remote', as a freelancer. I have had engagements where I go to a client's offices, sometimes for somewhat extended periods of time. I will travel if needed.

But the majority of work I do is still done on terms I have some control over, which, ultimately, I think is the key part of the whole discussion. Where I work, what equipment, what hours, when/where I travel, what I wear, etc - things you were mentioning above - having control over those is key, regardless of whether you want to work from home or in an office or somewhere in between.
That sounds about right. I might not have a tobacco addiction, but I do have a caffeine addiction. I suspect it’s similar in many respects.

You don’t feel like you really need it, yet you want your morning coffee; it’s baked into your routine. If you don’t drink it, you feel miserable for a day or two, possibly with awful headaches. Even if you break your short-term addiction, it’s easy to fall back into it because what’s the harm in one cup of coffee? It’s so easy to simply have another cup of coffee, and seems so pointless not to. Your brain pushes you to it despite your conscious mind knowing better.

The difference, of course, is that the cup of coffee doesn’t haven’t such a serious downside, and the addictive quality isn’t as intense.
It would be 5-10 miles parked outside for the day, not just while you were shopping.
> But scientifically speaking, there is little to warrant that connection.

Nothing more annoying than people pretending they are open minded about extraterrestrial life when they are not. Plus the need to defend one’s "credibility".

Nobody talking about ufos as non-scientists pretends they are doing science. Just excitement, and interesting questions. A very healthy exercise, essential part of philosophy, metaphysics in particular... Questions which open our mind and help reconsider the "mundane" also, by reframing it.

Who is this guy writing for? Nobody. Or himself. "Look at me I am a very rational person, that does not believe in fairytales".

As Alan Watts said: "science is the art of prediction".

edit:

Perhaps explaining my thinking better:

- a lot of science is in fact predictions aka theories / models based on what is deemed sufficient, correlated observations

- as long as the model fits with the data, it is an acceptable explanation, it still is not "truth"... and if the model doesn’t fit anymore than just discard it, that’s how science progresses

So in light of that, if/when we have sufficient observations, why would a theory that we may be visited by extraterrestrial life, ie. that these UAP may be crafts of extra terrestrial origin, why should such a theory be more problematic or less "scientific" than any other?

The article reminds me of the rejection and resistance even physicists receive as in the Oumuamua story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua#Alien_object_hypothe...

He was on Joe Rogan explaining how much resistance he met even among his peers but thankfully he doesn’t care about social media... because lets call it for what it is : what the author ofthe article does indirectly is continue a long line of shaming others who dare put theories (aka predictions) that are unconventional.
Natural gas isn't much better than gasoline, biogas is a good option but the production capacity is limited at best.

Hydrogen won't be viable for consumer vehicles unless we get a Hydrogen Elon Musk who optimises the production efficiency by 500%. (It takes around 55kW of electricity to produce the hydrogen needed to get 11kW of energy from a fuel cell vehicle).
It might be possible because there was previously work for that.

In other words, there was already a try in the past to implement an authentication federation between all UE countries. Tried to use that in a Spanish government site but it was broken at the time but it already supported authentication from other UE countries.
That's fair. If self-driving cars pan out, then ideally, we'll soon be able to live in a world where we can all ride in electric cars without owning one. These self-driving electric taxis can then charge at fast chargers on lots somewhere out of sight.

Apart from that, why invest in charging infrastructure? Probably because, even though we've made it inconvenient to drive, some people insist on owning a car in the city. Maybe they are just being idiots, or maybe they need it for their work/business. If we don't make it more convenient to go electric, they will just stick with gas cars. Every little bit counts.

Trains, yes sure, but people love the convenience of a door-to-door service. I think Elon's idea of electric robotaxis and tunnels to alleviate traffic is not a bad one. It could work. We could also eventually have hyperloop "pods" that route themselves in a network tunnel underground. This would make it possible to avoid having to transfer from one train to another multiple times. Sounds sci-fi? Sure, but without a vision, there's no innovation.
Is it Caesium?

I thought Rubidium fountains were easier to minaturise. I can't see where I can find out how the device is made - there's not much detail.

Ah - you're right, it's Caesium.
https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/A3405FE2-C1...

I used to run an NTP server, in the pool. But it was stratum 2; it would stroke my ego to run a stratum 1 server. But 3.5 kilodollars: I'll wait.
Which doesn't matter at all: it's not like the dam wouldn't have been built if there was no Bitcoin, so the implied causal connection is extremely tenuous.

Especially since the Three Gorges Dam predates Bitcoin by 2 or 3 decades.
With the price of real estate these days, a two hour commute is not out of the ordinary.