skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3mm radius is very impressive. My former workgroup was able to get almost the same curvature accidentally on a Nanodimension PCB printer by forgetting to UV/heat cure the substrate properly, but that was PCB scale (mm instead of um) and the resistance was then far too high to be usable.

As I'm a MechE before all else, I'd be most interested in structural performance: usability after n strain cycles, resistance to environmental exposure, allowable strain/shear/bending in all dimensions (polyamide, so not much normal strain), heat transport, whether it can be operated inside a fluid/gel, etc.

There are some questions making me wonder what is more likely between an FPGA, Arm Cortex (or other RISC), or a fully nonprogrammable IC being most successfully deployed in a flexible form factor:

How would this be packaged for an end user? Should it be programmable with on-board NVM and a debug port? Or is it programmed with wafer probes during manufacture? What would then be the standard for flexible debug ports? Ideally something easy to connect using automation but (a) small enough to leave on and ignore, or (b) able to be cut off completely for production. Would this still be CoreSight-compliant e.g. having a discoverable ROM table, so anyone with a USB wiggler can attach?

In short, how technical must a user be to program this? Is this then attached to a flexible PCB using BGA? Electronic fabric using thin conductors?

Present-day developers have the alternative of buying a KL02 (2mm x 1.9mm; decidedly better specs/capability) and putting it on a flex PCB. More progress on bendable/non-silicon CPUs would be awesome, and maybe one day they will have a clearer purpose or better economics to displace existing tech.

I'd reserve any final judgment until a test unit or third-party publication appears.

In my eyes, there are gains enough from having an alternative library for the cell architecture. Arm Ltd. involved in the testing suggests a shorter road to market than if undergrad Joe in Dr. Smith's lab published this.
From your link:

A NULL pointer in most (but not all) C implementations is address 0. Normally this address is not in a valid (mapped) page.

Any access to a virtual page that's not mapped by the HW page tables results in a page-fault exception. e.g. on x86, #PF.

This invokes the OS's page-fault exception handler to resolve the situation.
From the paper [1]

>Flow rate was slowed significantly more when the two funnel-shaped spiral intestines were subjected to flow in the posterior to anterior direction, indicating their success at producing unidirectional flow, similar to a Tesla valve.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.135...
The voting system on HN is subject to all the standard misbehavior. It's common to see indisputable statements of fact downvoted into light gray. Turn on 'showdead'. Who downvoted this stuff? We don't know. Who flagged it? We don't know. What can you do about it? Nothing. Talking about the misbehavior is against the rules.
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This is an article about finds from Doggerland, not an article about your favourite flood mono-myth theory, hence a comprehensive discussion of global floods and associated myths is really out of scope and that's why it's not in the article. No confusion required.

We have no reason whatever to link the Atlantis story and the Noah's Flood story the way you do. Not all stories about floods have to be about the same flood. Individual flood myths may well be legitimate oral history, but therefore Atlantis is a non sequitur.

As it happens we do have evidence that oral history can persist stories about events across tens of thousands of years. However we also know that floods are a very common phenomenon for unrelated reasons all over the world even now.
That does seem interesting. To be aure we should introduce antibiotics into their food supply... I know for myself, eating potatoes doesn't lead to weight gain like grain flours. My hypothesis is either fiber level or the presence of water in the potatoes as opposed to dry starches. I think a chemical source is also likely. It could also be a chemical we aren't getting anymore instead of one we are only now exposed to.
> I agree with the flaws you point out, but I still find reddit discussions to be of much higher value

It highly depends on the sub-reddits. Go to highly frequented and news-oriented subs like /r/worldnews or /r/soccer and you'll see the group-think comments upvoted the most. I agree though, on more specialised and less trafficked subs the comments with the highest number of points tend to have the most value, too.
There are unofficial builds at https://github.com/querycap/istio, and it seems like it's got to a point (with Envoy now supporting arm64) that it could be upstreamed. I'll keep track of it for you!

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Moore's Law isn't a physical law of the universe, it's an observation of what is ultimately a short window of progress extrapolated into a guiding principle. More like an aspirational metronome than a "law" per se. And some observers have claimed that it's no longer bearing out
Yes, definitely not production.
Using them (MicroK8s, Minikube, K3s) for local testing mostly.
Interesting that this is supported and maintained by Canonical (Ubuntu). Maybe it will be shipped inside Ubuntu one day.
How does his theory explain why the UK has the most overweight people in Europe but still relatively low antibiotics use? And, yes, Swedes and Norwegians (who are from countries which banned antibiotics use a long time ago) are lean for Europeans but internationally we are still pretty fat. I am all for banning casual antibiotics use in animals (which my country has done a long time ago) but I do not buy this theory since it does not match the evidence very well.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livesto...
Good that this happened, really! I was sick of all the online propaganda the tools from DB had ordered for these elections. Back in the day I actually closed my facebook page as I was getting targeted messages and invites to their facebook groups. It’s funny how the guys claims they dint have objectionable content, all their content is buzz-words, lies and empty promises. Also funny that they spent a fortune on facebooks ads, since facebook is a DB echo-chamber anyway…
I would be more interested in refactoring work. How they have turned upside down a project and make it more scalable.
It's funny - the reality is that it depends on the organization. It's not lost on me that everyone wants to hear about your side projects from a technical and general interest perspective. It serves many companies as a reasonable proxy for life long learning, and checking up on a passion.

At the same time, several of those companies would be mortified that you had, or continued yours once employed there.
It’s great that you’re finding a way to pay people quicker that’s less bad than payday loans!

What stops employers from paying wages more often right now? When I worked in the US, some places would pay you every two weeks. With instant bank transfers, couldn’t that frequency go down to weekly or daily, without the need for a middleman?
> I haven't had Defender remove what I thought was a legitimate binary

Probably because you are closer to a "typical" kind of user who doesn't use "hack tools" (which some people like me use for absolutely legal and benevolent purposes "hacking" their own PC, e.g. to backup the passwords and e-mail records saved on it). By the way it also is very important to distinguish between a legitimate hack tool and an infected hack tool and I am not sure they do.

> I installed and ran qBitTorrent recently and it didn't complain.

They just added a slightly old version to their threats database and didn't add the most recent version there yet.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/lwqjm9/qbitbor...
Entropy and Algebra and Topology = ?
This is not at all what I said!

Before conditional approval, possible risks have been extensively studied in very large phase 3 trials with a few ten thousand participants. For reference, the phase 3 study of the conventional TBE vaccine I recently got had just a few thousand participants. Like for any other medication, regulatory agencies have used this safety and efficacy data to judge whether the vaccine is beneficial or not. I strongly suggest you look up the corresponding reports for the various COVID-19 vaccines if you are interested in the details. Most countries' agencies post them publicly on their websites.

Due to the limited number of participants, is not possible to detect extremely rare side effects in a clinical trial. This is why most countries have adverse effect reporting systems. If they detect statistically significant anomalies (e.g. rare thromboses in vector vaccines), they then update their recommendations taking into account the new data. This is again standard procedure for all medications.
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> This releases energy, and the plasma expands, pushing back on the magnetic field. The change in field induces current and thus electricity to power electrical loads (Figure 1).
Did you miss the part where everyone involved was Mexican?
This is kind of ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that Haiti was born from a successful slave revolt and and one of the first things it did as an independent country was to expel or kill virtually all the whites, expropriate their property and destroy all the institutions associated with them. Both culturally and genetically (95.5% per Wikipedia), Haiti thus has a lot in common with sub-Saharan Africa, another notably poor part of the world, while the DR largely inherited the culture of their Spanish conquerors and rulers and genetics of both the Spanish and the indigenous inhabitants (well over half the country are mixed native/white, only 15%-ish black).

Connecting the dots from this to their present sad state of affairs is obviously pretty controversial, but I need to note that aside from the obvious racist inferences, there are also many indirect paths. For example, Haiti being both linguistically and culturally "the odd one out" in the neighborhood, they lack an obvious pool of culturally related investors to tap into, face racism from non-Haitians (relations between Haiti and DR in particular are very bad) and struggle to attract investment from the outside.
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What I really don't like about Defender and other antivirus products is they'll silently send your files to the mothership to be analyzed, without even letting you know that's happened, or any straightforward way to find out. I understand that's a large source of new malware samples for them, but it's an awful antiprivacy behavior.
> despite the protests of actual native Spanish speakers.

The only people I've ever seen mad about "Latinx" were American internet free speech advocates.
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Win95 was still a special flower OS due to its backwards compatibility compromises, where you could even kill the kernel with task manager, not really a good idea.

Eventually NT 4.0 became a better option, if you could get all the required software and weren't doing DOS games.
And if you pay on hours from the previous month or deduct hours not worked in the previous month and not the current month (as it mostly is in Germany), this is sensible to not have it at 100%.
> There are some questions making me wonder what is more likely between an FPGA, Arm Cortex (or other RISC), or a fully nonprogrammable IC being most successfully deployed in a flexible form factor:

I believe it will be some display driver IC for the fad flexible displays.

RFID cards are flexible, but they just use the most tiny chips possible.

Even tiniest chips made with relatively recent IC tech will blow any printed electronics out of water.
Judging both from my experience and other comments here, the organisations that value side projects are not the majority, but they are exactly the places where you WANT to work at.
He owns The Sun and The Times in the UK as well as various other media outlets, mostly in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_C...

The Daily Mail, Metro and several other papers are owned by another fellow named Rothermore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail_and_General_Trust

Murdoch did own a controlling share of the Sky Group until 2018 when it became a subsidiary of Comcast.

I guess "Murdoch owns Sky News" is one of those facts you learn about and then forget that they can change over time, like I distinctly "know" there are 6 billion humans on Earth although the current number is closer to 8.
HN has a certain userbase, while Twitter caters to the masses. I'm certain this plays a large role in the quality of content, along with upvotes and moderation.
The Oceania migrations started 60,000 years ago! Agriculture was experimented with early on in some places, but agricultural civilization with all that comes with it is a different thing. That's taken to have started popping up about 10,000 years ago, but very slowly. It came to Europe with the Indo-Europeans, so about 4,000 years ago, long after Doggerland (submerged 8,500 years ago). Agreed?
Industrialization dramatically increases agricultural output, primarily due to use of fossil-fired tractors, harvesters, and irrigation pumps, along with fertilizers (which are either produced via industrial process such as Haber-Bosch, or are mined with the aid of industrial machines). Industrialization also enables sedentary lifestyles since humans are now examining computer screens and sheets of paper, and riding in steel vehicles on paved roads and rails, rather than labouring.

I have examined the author's claims concerning altitude. He presents a coloured map of the United States and makes the claim

`Obesity is less common at high altitudes because of the
watershed.`

Yet his coloured map shows California (Most of the population lives near sea level. Even inland Sacramento sits at 46 feet.) as substantially less obese than the Appalachian states. His hypothesis is interesting but the evidence appears lacking.
> I really dislike when people assume containers give them security, it’s the wrong thing to think about.

to be fair, there is lots of published text around suggesting that this _is_ the case. many junior to semi-experienced engineers i've known have at some point thought it's plausible to "ssh into" a container. they're seen as light-weight VMs, not as what they are - processes.

> Containers allowed us to deploy reproducibly, that’s powerful.

and it was done in the most "to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" approach.
I've wondered why Twitter seems far more toxic than Reddit (certain now-banned subreddits excluded) and I believe the downvote is a powerful tool used to achieve this, along with Reddit's community-style moderation, even though that can border on toxic itself at times.

I wrote about it here a little while back https://unlikekinds.com/article/trolls-and-consequences-what...
Directly coupling the two processes like that would certainly have some interesting failure modes with regard to potential and phase. If this results in DC power distribution... elephants everywhere will rejoice as Westinghouse's reign of terror ends.
Is this a minikube alternative?
Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed!
Upvote/downvote have a design flaw. They are intended to be asymmetrical (one for "I like this or agree with this or find it interesting", the other is _intended_ for "irrelevant, doesn't contribute" and not "don't like this/disagree"), but their design is symmetrical. They are equally prominent in the UI, they have mirrored names, etc. So no wonder people use downvotes as the mirror concept of upvotes.
I think there's two ways it can go, I don't know which was the case here but I can understand them being treated differently if this is what happened:

* Upvoting comments because you think they are good comments, regardless of whether they are downvoted or not
* Voting more for things that are downvoted than things that aren't, because you think the downvoting is unfair

The former is just adding your vote to the pool, blindly. The latter is deliberately trying to undo other votes, distorting the system.

There's a difficulty here if you tend to align naturally with things that tend to get downvoted though.
I don't think that would work, because it is hard to imagine anything that somebody wouldn't dislike. You see it on Youtube, where even a video getting hundreds/thousands of likes gets a few dozen downvotes.
I see nothing of particular utility to iot here. I will call that marketing.

After shipping a number of MQTT backends for deployments of few million devices each, I'd say the most troublesome part was getting the anycast network setup, uplinks, routing, and getting the "messaging CDN" second to it.

It's very hard to do without having an own ASN in which you have complete freedom.

Even in the case of 8 million shipped units fire/burglary alarm client, with ~4M constantly on units, which all have to send frequent pings to signal that they are online, I haven't seen any need in any kind of sophisticated clustering.
I'm seconding your suggestion. I also think it's mostly moderation.

Through close to two decades of watching and participating in discussions on Reddit, HN, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, YouTube comments, some phpBB boards, website comment systems, as well as a bunch of local discussion boards in the age before social media, I've observed that:

- Niche forums fare better than general ones

- Voting systems don't matter at all, including pseudo-voting like "likes" and "shares" counters

- Real name policy doesn't matter

- Heavy active moderation - i.e. with moderators being part of the community - seems to be the deciding factor

- Passive moderation, like e.g. "report" buttons on Facebook/YouTube, does not work

It is my current belief that the only way to maintain quality discussion in a community is to:

1. Define a quality standard, e.g. through a set of guidelines, and

2. Have moderation that continuously and timely enforces everyone's adherence to the standard.

Nothing else matters.

People don't have one fixed mode of communication - they can't be divided into groups like "idiots", "assholes" and "quality contributors". Individuals may habitually prefer some styles, but they also naturally mimic other people, and ultimately always adapt to boundaries of what's allowed. Culture then grows around those boundaries, further influencing people through mimicry.

A person that's a total asshole on YouTube can also be very professional at work, and polite to their friends. A person that's communicating constructively on HN may do the opposite on Twitter. In all these cases, the enforced standards differ.

Guidelines aren't standards if they aren't actually enforced, and moderation doesn't bring quality if it's not moderating for it.
I advise you to learn about the safety capabilities regarding strings, arrays, pointer manipulation and references, numerics and enumerations in PL/I versus C.

Additionally, you can go over to Multicians and read the security assessemt reports of Multics vs UNIX done by DoD, back in the day.
>Ikonomedia is a small media player with different biases and I am not sure what they support.

You're either taking the piss now or a complete tool, lol... Their medias are among the top 5 in engagement and they clearly support a specific party, even Stevie Wonder should be able to see this..
RKE is minutes on the same cluster, and a one click rollback too. It’s just K8s packaged as containers really.
FullCalendar is a GUI component, not really a proper alternative to something like Google Calendar. These are different things IMHO...

But anyway, nice list, thanks for sharing.
Two more issues are water tables (although those have been falling rapidly across much of California over the last few years) and seismic activity -- not just the big quake sort, but also the usual few cm a year of movement in opposite directions sort.

I suspect that this is going to be an engineering project on the scale of the mythical California high-speed rail, and with the same life cycle. PG&E especially has a track record of misusing funds for upgrades and maintenance.
Ideas are not hard to find, even if you don't feel like you have them yourself there are loads of people pursuing side projects who would love help from someone skilled like yourself. I have pages of side project ideas I'd like to explore but will probably never get chance and would be happy to share with someone who might want to do them. Maybe it's more that you don't get very excited by side project type ideas?

The other thing that it might be is rational pessimism. A lot of ideas would take a phenomenal amount of work, and as a senior you probably see those pitfalls and that work right at the beginning, while someone more junior might attack a problem - and eventually succeed precisely because of their irrational optimism.

There was a fun quote on the Alexander long Piano story:

> I think because I was so young I absolutely knew it was totally possible to do, I was fully determined and without consulting any professionals I had no barrier stopping me.

I think the implication there is that if he had consulted professionals, the enormity of what he was taking on might well have crushed the idea.
Personally, I found that if I do side projects, I simply burn out in long term. The family is not even necessary for that.

It is really no different then working overtime same amount of hours.
I'm not sure you are being completely honest even though you say you worked at Microsoft. VSCode exists because Visual Studio is becoming harder and harder to maintain and they wanted something to target all the other languages not supported by VS2019. Also, they use Visual Studio Code to upsell their other paid services. They have first class integration with Azure and GitHub meaning the first thing people try to use with Microsoft's free service is some other paid services. They have the same playbook with Windows -> Office & OneDrive ecosystem.

I'm not saying this is bad or evil but let's first be honest
I too think negative signaling is valuable, but I doubt Twitter will ever correctly implement that. This is evident from the state of "report tweet" menu. Reporting can be thought as a strong negative signal that happens to be also ToS violation, but its implementation is far from working; not just political figures, but I've seen even direct death threats against minorities with numerous reports ignored multiple times. Twitter seems to have no incentive to fix reporting and I don't think downvotes will be different.