skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coil up some wire and run electricity through it, you get a magnetic field which can pull magnetic materials. That's an electromagnet, e.g. used in door locking systems, and lifting cars into car crushers. Instead of pulling on a car, fix some magnetic material to an axle and a ring of coils around it, the magnetic pulls make the axle turn, you have an electric motor.

Have some freely moving magnetic material, and unroll the motor into a line of coils, and you can make a linear motor as used in a maglev train. Make the electric current pulses powerful enough, and the thing is fired away very fast, your linear motor becomes a rail gun.

Make a huge pulse and make the thing small and light, and it could go fast enough to reach escape velocity from one coil. Handwavy estimates: An 8d nail weighs around 5 grams[1], it takes 28kWh to get 1kg past escape velocity[2], so about 150Wh into the nail might do it. Pump about 2 laptop batteries worth of energy into accelerating the nail between the moment it picks up off the ground, and the moment it exits the top of the coil travelling at several kilometers per sec - that's going to need a big setup with supercooling and high power capacitors because the time window is so short, not because it's using secret alien technology.

It doesn't sound "suspiciously like gravity manipulation" at all?

[1] at ~100 8d nails to the pound, and ~450grams to the pound, 1/100th of 450 makes 4.5grams, rounded up: https://www.treeisland.com/sites/default/files/documents/bro...

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4330/how-much-ener...
I wonder why they don't forward the drive thru calls to a call center even today.
Regular Discord users don't need to send in anything. It's used to verify your bot (only applicable for bots that are in more than 75 servers), which seems like a reasonable use case.
> make money [...] by building a huge social media following being a political outrage merchant.

I think you have summarised both the nature of the US "information economy" and the state of political discourse in the US.
This just sounds like the UK to me - anal retentive and compliant, so no surprise coming from the BBC. Short back and sides, suit, pointy shoes, don't stick your neck out.
>such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly.

I oppose such a law, as it appears to be very poorly written, but it's pure fantasy that criminals won't do crime via their phones, or will use some sort of advanced steg. Maybe some very talented criminals will do such things, but most criminals are just people: they either don't understand technology well, or else simply engage in risky behaviors.
There's a thing that happened with the Canada subreddit. It used to be kind of an interesting sub where youd get neat Canada-wide local stories (mostly Ontario) that were genrally pleasant. It was a nice place to visit after being inundated with American politics. Then, sometime in the early 10s and it gradually became very partisan and political. Which, to clarify, means it got substantially worse.

It, like the comment sections on Canadian news websites, leaned heavily to the right. So a group got together and made alt Canada subreddit that leaned heavily left called OnGuardForThee.

Originally, I thought it would be helpful to compare the two subs to get something closer to the middle but instead all that happened was I got twice as much screaming hot garbage.

I unsubbed from both and now individually sub to all the Canadian town I can find. It's better now. There's so much less anger.
Argument from ambiguity.

It claims that majority-minority uses the same line of racial categorical thinking as one-drop anti miscegenation laws from (not too) long ago but applies it to cultural thinking that gave rise to the one-drop rule in the first place.

Skips a step in the logical process though.

Yes, it is true that the white race does not exist. There can be more genetic variation within a racial group than between two individuals of different racial groups. The differences in eye shape and skin color account for very little of our overall genetic makeup.

But US laws and customs were largely built based upon those few outwardly visible differences.

Whiteness exists because we made it exist. Segregation doesn't cease to exist because biology determined that there were no "races." And whiteness (as distinct from individual white people, please don't start with the whole "not all white people" stuff) is still very much prevalent here.

So yeah, white folks as defined by the one-drop rule are dropping to less than 50% of the population very soon. Yes, it is completely justified to say that someone who is biracial white and non-white is not considered white in this country due to its history. It's contrary to any scientifically accurate assessment of the people who live in the US, but it is 100% accurate with regard to the very real cultural, legislative, and judicial history of the US.

The sooner it is an old myth in folks' day to day life the better, but today is not that day.
Could you provide the source indicating that only 0.1% of cops are bad and the remaining 99.9% are good?

Meanwhile a reality check for you: https://twitter.com/ProfessorPenis/status/140430555390457036...

"the cops showed up with bear mace and rubber bullets for the protesters. THE PEOPLE administered aid. THE PEOPLE apprehended the driver. the cops did nothing but antagonize the crowd of people that were almost murdered."
Muscle memory still happens in the brain. A better description might be unconscious memory. I believe the proper term is "procedural memory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory
There could be some kind of Crypto Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) to insure deposit accounts in case everyone does try to withdraw at the same time. You might want an entity with deep pockets and serious longevity (like maybe a sovereign state?) to offer that so you could trust that it would exist for the foreseeable future
From 2010:

While this view of Bitcoin might sound like it is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original vision of fully peer‐to‐peer cash, it is not a new vision. Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction from Nakamoto, wrote this on the Bitcoin forum in 2010: Actually there is a very good reason for Bitcoin‐backed banks to exist, issuing their own digital cash currency, redeemable for bitcoins. Bitcoin itself cannot scale to have every single financial transaction in the world be broadcast to everyone and included in the block chain. There needs to be a secondary level of payment systems which is lighter weight and more efficient. Likewise, the time needed for Bitcoin transactions to finalize will be impractical for medium to large value purchases. Bitcoin backed banks will solve these problems. They can work like banks did before nationalization of currency. Different banks can have different policies, some more aggressive, some more conservative. Some would be fractional reserve while others may be 100% Bitcoin backed. Interest rates may vary. Cash from some banks may trade at a discount to that from others. George Selgin has worked out the theory of competitive free banking in detail, and he argues that such a system would be stable, inflation resistant and self‐regulating.
Basecamp is like a rounding error in usage compared to G*.

Probably more Microsoft or whatever.
This is great news. As a major bitcoin holder, I still have to keep some cash in a traditional bank to write checks, receive payroll, and use a debit card. A bitcoin bank would allow me to store that last remaining % in BTC.
You are thinking from the point of view of someone with no mortgage, no family and you can choose what to do with your spare income. Some of us have a family or a house and that means they have renounced traveling.

You can have a family, a house be sustainable but not earning enough to be able to pay for a year off of work. Which is the lot of 99.99% of people on this planet.
The poster said it was done in the App, not on the browser.
I would suspect that the online communities skew a certain way that may not be reflective of the people actually doing it. One of the most well-known FIRE bloggers is known for saying that he is as active after retiring as he was before, but that he now gets to choose his projects - and despite his blog bringing in an income comparable to his pre-retirement income, blogging was not one of the major 'pulls' in his life after a while. I imagine people who spend a lot of time contributing to such forums may temperamentally enjoy the fantasy better than the reality.
Lee ... founded popular VPN company Private Internet Access, LTMI, which last year sold to an Israeli cybersecurity firm for $95.5 million.

IMHO, at this point you need to seriously consider the possibility that everything he's touched, including Freenode, could be compromised in some way, if not already a literal "honeypot"...

Off-topic: I love his new house: https://www.insider.com/south-korean-royals-california-mansi...
I'm very tempted to add mine which I would call "the lazy lifter: build a nice body with 4x30 minutes per week" (a very efficient, leangains-based routine).

That said i'm very sad by the abscence of likes. What dopamine rush can i hope to get by contributing to your database :( ?

Or at least comments.
Problem is how do you solve the need to eventually provide a real name and address for products to be shipped. Even if payment providers can be blind to what you are buying, the store/courier company still needs it.
Depend on those people are treated. Minimum wage and work conditions matter. If it's not sustainable, it's just not, and you cannot argue that "work is mandatory" on the premise that some people should prepare food for others.
I can't really speak for them, but I keep seeing this in the US too. Individuals just don't seem to have any real recourse. These laws and systems are kafkaesque--there's just some system out there that determines the rules, and good luck finding a functioning way to push back.

Also, here's one of my favorite fairly relevant quotes:

> "We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it. In some countries secret intelligence is used to control their people. In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms."

- William Hague (UK Politician)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-23053691
Last time I was in Ireland, we only saw a Guarda at the airport and nowhere else. I mean, nowhere else at all. No police cars on any road and none in any towns. It was very quiet so how would they enforce this?
I think it's partly because companies have become very complacent with regard to employee retention.

I think a large majority of companies are happy to simply extract as much productivity as they can from their workers and reward them as little as possible. Employees are treated as disposable resources, not just in software but everywhere. No one has a vested interest in helping people climb the ladder.

In software we're very lucky because we can often improve our income and seniority level by finding new jobs. Most workers don't have that kind of opportunity.
I think this is missing the darker point, which is that the main stream media along with the political parties that support them, are the the echo chamber. It’s not that we are caught in an echo chamber, rather it’s the information from mass media corporations that has created the echo chamber. If anything, to break out so to speak, is perhaps as easy as simply turning off all news, and paying more attention directly to what politicians are saying.
FYI, frame this as freelance consulting when you apply for your next job. You can talk about wanting something new and striking out on your own for a bit.

IMO what you find out is a year is a long time without work from a time perspective. Hope you enjoy your year off!
Discord uses it to verify the identity of bot makers - my understanding is that bots have been abused for a long time for data collection (think logging when users come online, go offline, change status, etc).
Yeah I really enjoy optimistic sci-fi :)

I do enjoy Dark sci-fi also every now and then but I generally like my heroes to be scientists, explorers, to solve ethical questions.
That's not quite true. The Crown would have to prove that you had either obstructed the investigation (in which case the crime would be perverting the course of justice) or you have deliberately disobeyed a court order from a previous court hearing, in which case you could be jailed but I am unaware of a judge deciding that you can be jailed just because they don't believe you.

Disclaimer: UK resident who is NOT qualified in law ;-)
It does not support ISR yet. If Vercel's price is a concern ($20/mo), you can always self-host. ISR works with `next start` out of the box.

For multi-container workloads with autoscaling or persisted cached entires to static storage, you'd need to write some code on the hosting side. Vercel is handling that piece for you, plus adding you to rollback and not lose your previously generated pages.

I believe they're working on ISR support, which is awesome!
Subreddit Gender Ratios
for me, personally, absolutely not. I want thoughtful portrayal of character in media that I consume, but am in no way desiring yet more religious representation.
And before that: one million other PIM tools that have done the same things for decades.
> Clubhouse lets you collect payments to join some channels. Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case?

If it's limited to only people receiving payments, then it's far more reasonable than what I thought was happening (eg. people getting randomly asked for ID scans to use their service).
That depends to an extreme degree on your environment, your language, your compiler... etc. What you need to consider is that tradeoffs have two sides.
It's not resistant it's depend on which thing. For example I don't no anyone who will go in a restaurant alone for dinner. Restaurant it's not to eat it's more to share with others. The same as festivals, concert, conference or trip we are human we want to share with others. The only problem it that sometimes we just didn't find the right person yet.

That's my point of view, and there is a lot who will not agree to ! :)
> The default renderer Eevee is a GPU-only renderer that works fine on my RX 570 with the FOSS amdgpu driver.

However, you need Cycles, and not Eevee. They have very significant difference in quality.

https://all3dp.com/2/blender-render-from-eevee-simply-explai...

> You can also run Cycles' CUDA backend with ROCm on amdgpu (somewhat..).

No. No. No, you can't.

They support only some GPUs !!!AND CPUs!!!. No support for RX 5xxx-6xxx XT. They are very picky about the hardware they support.

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm.github.io/blob/master/hardware....

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm.github.io/blob/master/hardware....
Out of curiosity, where are you located?
If you are changing some code that has inline documentation it's your responsibility to update it. If that is not your responsibility then it's an organizational failing. Keeping inline documentation up to date and clean should be part of the organization's coding style guidelines.

Tests are not documentation. They only test a very limited "what" or "how" and give no explanation of "why". If it's closed source software and you're only shipping a binary, the tests do not go with the binaries so they're meaningless to third parties. Sample code isn't much better. Without the organizational pressure to keep it in sync with the code it's demoing and "why" explanations it doesn't provide a lot of useful insight for third parties.
It might not be super clear from the site shared here, but most of these exercises are done with barbells with weights, or dumbbells. It's not hard for a beginner to do these with incorrect form, and then increase the weight over time, until bad form plus weight results in injury.
Please do add it. I would really appreciate some more content! Yeah a like/ranking/comment system is something I'm thinking about. Any suggestions?
I wonder how different the polarization is at the local level. It's easy to get outraged about policies in another part of the country if your position doesn't really affect you. I'm guessing people have more nuanced views about, say, fertilizer or pesticides if they live in a very agricultural area or about investing in mass transport if they live in an urban area.
Simply existing in the world increases your attack surface; everything is a trade off between usability and security. Given the pressures browsers are under, they have incentives built into their business model to provide very good security which is a departure from most other software where security is just a nuisance at best and totally ignored at worst.
I think many developers have used Stripe for payments after dealing with legacy payment APIs like Authorize.Net and have seen how Stripe does it right and makes the process so much less painful, I'd assume their other products like this are as equally well built due to their reputation in the payments industry.
IMO the only way to make that stuff engaging is to move "up" a level and be the one picking the tools to solve the problem, interacting with users/clients, that kind of thing. Basically, start your own business or become a product manager at a place where product manager is a fairly expansive role.

Otherwise, I agree, it's all of: fucking boring; frustrating; and unrewarding. But, it's also most of the market for developers. :-/
The article should have talked about data races, which are narrower than race conditions.
Looks like a more casual and open version of https://liftvault.com/
The business should be inventing the problems, because that is (hopefully) driving the revenue that keeps you employed. Usually the business has all kinds of wonderful ideas of which some are practical and vetted while others are a distraction. If you are thinking in terms of automation, internal training, and service fulfillment you probably aren't properly aligning solutions to expense reduction. The benefit of writing original software is innovation and IP (even if open source and liberally licensed) that can generate additional revenue for the business.

If you current approach is entirely dependent upon tools it will be boxed in to a set of configurations and flexibility is lost. From what I have seen on HN the greatest challenge for most early stage startups is finding product-market fit, which means you need to pivot at a moment's notice. That ability to pivot is far more significant than whether you can have a website up in 2 days versus 2 weeks.
That's asking for perfect foresight; the job market structure have drastically changed while they are in contract and WFH is now a competitive advantage in the labor market. That results in being shortchanged.
GDPR explicitly permits data to be accessed for legal purposes. I'm sure most judges would be well aware that their warrants shouldn't be overly broad but there is also a trust in legal officers to be discreet enough not to disclose anything they might have accidentally seen.
In theory though, this is no different than making someone “empty their pockets.” It’s just we happen to have information in our pockets.

Folks, keep your information AT HOME where it belongs. Don’t dirty the streets with those ugly snaps no one wants to see (unless there’s a cat filter) :)
I loved this article and going down the rabbit hole with the associated links was excited to see a discussion from Russ Cox (golang) about how QR codes rely on RS (and another great article)

https://research.swtch.com/qart
If you like podcasts, try Left, Right & Center by KCRW. Their sister show All the Presidents' Lawyers is pretty good too, but what I like about LR&C is that it really does show multiple sides without a constant yelling fest. Sure there are the occasional "you don't really believe that do you?" moments, but it's largely civil.
Once they've burnt it to the ground, they'll have a blank slate. It looks like they're trying to make a job board for channers…? It might work; I'm confused enough to think I'm missing something. If others feel that same confusion, Lee's Freenode might be able to get some venture capital.
> good luck getting billionaires to give to charity when they're just gonna get yelled at for it.

When billionaires take food out of the mouths of workers' families, they're lucky they're not made an offer they can't refuse. Even a few interested people amongst millions who have had more than enough of billionaires buying politicians, buying tax laws, stealing from society, and cheating workers out of living with dignity would make a difference to send a message. Strike the shepherd and the herd will follow. and Chop enough hands, theft disappears.

They should feel lucky to not have their stolen treasure reclaimed to help people, rather than overbidding on real estate to park it in empty homes that real owners could live in.
I don't disagree this is the direction we're moving in, but what need is there to move to handling your own stuff?

If I spoke to 99% of my non tech friends - who (thanks to things like the NHS Covid Check In app) now get QR codes - I don't think any would feel the need to avoid using Stirling and a bank?

(Edit: particularly when contactless/phone/watch payment is so ubiquitous in the UK)
Irish Wallabies (2017)
I believe Carta already does this: https://cartax.com/
I like the one who suggested the answer to the question of how much the free drinks cost should be "less than the cost of hiring a single engineer".
Do you have any idea of the true environmental impact of your day-to-day economic choices? Whether or not an economic activity is “worth it” for the human species is an unanswerable question.
Tell it to the arxiv: https://arxiv.org/archive/q-bio
They can also spin off an insurance arm called Crypto Deposit Insurance Corp, and provide CDIC insurance to depositors in case their bank becomes insolvent.
Chat apps use Identity to verify bots and prevent bad bots from spamming real users. And shipping services use Identity when a user is suspected as a fraudster—to double check before creating fraudulent shipping labels.
While this is true, early Bitcoin adopters started to conflate the two. Broadly speaking, Bitcoin has seen three or four phases:

1) Cypherpunks with a strong counter-cultural note till 2013

2) BTC as a currency + payment system ("Cheaper and faster than Western Union!") till 2016 after 1) exhausted the addressable market which is small. Lightning network is the semi-centralized attempt at resuscitating this but I have my doubts.

3) "Digital gold", SoV from 2017 when 2) fell on its face

From 3) on, you can't really call it a currency anymore as it just doesn't work well. And if it is no longer a functioning currency (despite El Salvador calling it one), IDK what the point is, really.
It's likely that it will work out better.

https://model.energy/
Ah, I didn't meant it as something I think we "need" or what I "like" -- just what I think is coming. Governments have used a lot of money to pay for things: the supply of money has been diluted heavily, and this together with other effects like decreased productivity, will lead to inflation.
So, so many nerdy memories [video]
Nobody is mentioning people leaving jobs because they DONT want remote. I do know of people frustrated that their company is closing its swanky office they enjoyed working at to be 100% remote.
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