skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"In theory, most materials are capable of becoming metallic if put under enough pressure. Atoms or molecules can be squeezed together so tightly that they begin to share their outer electrons, which can then travel and conduct electricity as they do in a chunk of copper or iron. Geophysicists think that the centres of massive planets such as Neptune or Uranus host water in such a metallic state, and that high-pressure metallic hydrogen can even become a superconductor, able to conduct electricity without any resistance.

Turning water into a metal in this way would require an expected 15 million atmospheres of pressure, which is out of reach for current lab techniques, says Jungwirth.

But he suspected that water could become conductive in an alternative way: by borrowing electrons from alkali metals.

These reactive elements in

group 1 of the periodic table, which includes sodium and potassium, tend to donate their outermost electron.

Last year, Jungwirth and his colleague Phil Mason — a chemist who is also known for making science videos on YouTube — led a team that demonstrated a similar effect in ammonia. The fact that ammonia can turn shiny in such conditions was known to the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early nineteenth century, Edwards points out.

The team wanted to try the same approach with water instead of ammonia, but faced a challenge: alkali metals tend to react explosively when mixed with water. The solution was to design an experimental set-up that would dramatically slow the reaction so that it would not be explosive. The researchers filled a syringe with sodium and potassium, a mixture that is liquid at room temperature, and placed it in a vacuum chamber. They then used the syringe to form droplets of the metal mixture and exposed them to small amounts of water vapour. The water condensed onto each droplet and formed a layer one-tenth of a micrometre thick. Electrons from the droplet then quickly diffused into the water — together with positive metallic ions — and, within a few seconds, the water layer turned golden."
This is only tangentially related but has anyone else started getting more obviously spam emails in their gmail inbox lately? I feel like for a long time I never got spam in my inbox but lately I’ll get ones that seem like they should be easy to detect, talking about gifts and stuff and uSiNg wEirD capitals or s p a c i n g. Is it just me?
I never have any trouble reading the news. I never get harassed or blocked. I use a text-only browser.

The problem with online ads and tracking arises because 1. ads are permitted on the network and 2. "tech" companies rely on them to make money. Newspapers are not driving the development of the online ads business. They may be customers, but it is "tech" companies that write the browsers and websites and a gazillion lines of Javascript (collectively, "ad tech") that make the web extremely ad-friendly, at the same time lining "tech" company pockets, while newspapers die on the vine. "Tech" companies facilitate online ads in exchange for money. They sell nothing else. They purport to offer value for "free". This is just bait to lure in ad targets.

Newspapers produce journalism. They hire people to produce journalism. "Tech" companies just sit on the web as middlemen, lapping up user data and marketing their "business" to advertisers. "Tech" companies do not hire people to produce journalism.

This "but look, they are using ads themselves" argument is really getting old. It does not change the message. The journalist is not equal to the media company that employs her. It's like arguing that newspapers cannot write about the newspaper business because they are a newspaper.

If anything, we should be marvelling at how for the past 20 years newspapers routinely drove traffic to the web (away from print) by reporting on it ad nauseum, and how they now are reporting on privacy issues even though they themselves may benefit from using privacy-invasive "ad tech".
You mentioned calling in your original comment. Any form of communication is fine.
> I have self hosted personal mail for over a decade.

Maybe thats why it works for you. Try making new one?
I am planning on using AWS S3 with a Lambda for a static site.
I presume "GPL" was an autocorrect from the intended "GPT" right?
> The screed is exactly the thing you don’t give space to if you’re looking to give a balanced view on a subject

I never thought that was what the op-ed section was for though. Isn't it so you can see more aggressive arguments for or against something?

Op-ed has published the Taliban.
Yeah I totally get that there is an interest - I disagree with whether it's a big enough interest at the employer level to justify a requirement. It feels more like pandering/posturing to me. The trade off isn't something that's easily weighed and I doubt we could ever reach consensus (it's pretty much a classic divisive political issue) but in those cases I err on the side of freedom and am sort of fed up with Americans giving up their freedoms.
How is this the case, if getting vaccinated doesn't prevent you from being a carrier? It seems that your children are at roughly equal risk of catching covid from a vaccinated friend vs. an unvaccinated friend. No? At least this is what a lot of people are saying in these comments.
Woohoo! Oh, Uh sorry.
So dumb question about Matrix.. any long-time IRCers use it? How did you make the transition? Is it straight forward to use weechat with it? If you abandoned the irc client, is it easy to keep personal logs?
You are absolutely right. Most middle managers are negatively productive. People working from home makes that obvious.
> The difference is that what Apple says is security and privacy is often fluff

In the context of Apple's Safari engineering priorities, which is the context of this discussion, Apple has delivered real security, privacy and battery life wins. This isn't even disputed by Apple's detractors.
The government rations rationality, but hey, that's just like my opinion, man.
Valuing equity in startups: a decision-making framework (and a spreadsheet)
I believe this narrative is being funded by the commercial real spectate industry. They are absolutely fucked. Like Wile E Coyote running over a cliff, they are desperate to not look down. In December 2019, I asked some guys in wealth management, what’s a hot tip, and they were all about Commercial Real Estate, it never goes down! I laughed, but then wondered, what would make it go down? Anyway, that question is now answered.

I’ve been working with a company that have done studies on remote work, at the beginning 4% of employees wanted to work from the office 100% of the time. 6 months later it was 2%.

Problem #1, Most managers don’t know how to manage a remote team and their employer still hasn’t trained them.

Problem #2, people new to the workforce are most likely to want to come into the office some of the time as they are struggling to figure out the culture and finding help and mentoring. This is actually another failing of employers.
At CareDash, we’ve witnessed the issues for providers, patients, and partners that Yash has noted here. This is no small problem, but the overall issues are very systemic in nature for the US healthcare system but interim gap measure like this are helpful for everyone.
Consequently, this highlights why the first person may have an incentive to fix it: if their code gets reverted to fix the issue, they will definitionally be forced to rework it before they’re able to merge again.
That’s still aligned with my point. Either you pay rent for an additional separate office (lots of money), or you reduce your existing living space to make room for work stuff. The only case where you don’t notice is this is when you just so happened to already have completely unused living space that you don’t mind filling up with work stuff, or you just so happened to have an office setup at home that overlaps perfectly with what you need for work.
The microchip shortage has impeded new car manufacturing, and car fleet operators are buying back fleets they sold during the pandemic to stay afloat. Give it a year.
I don't see any chicken anywhere? This is the screenshot that shows up: https://cinny.in/assets/preview-light.png

I also tried changing the "light" in the url to "dark" and got https://cinny.in/assets/preview-dark.png
Correct, it was a typo
Is there a coherent thought here? I don't disagree the vaccine has saved lives or even that you shouldn't get it. I can enjoy my job and what I do and disapprove of decisions made by leadership at the same time. It's easily the best place and people I've ever worked with.
I've also had luck with self-hosted solutions. Gawd, email is a really backwards technology these days isn't it?

But...I've also been in the unfortunate position of leasing IPv4 addresses which were already blacklisted by various sources. It's not a terribly easy problem to solve if you need to contact customers NOW without using a 3rd party solution.
Slip of the mind, surely! :)
“Sunlight is not a disinfectant; try gasoline” —Amber Frost
Thanks for the advice, seems like local LLC is the way to go. Do you have any insights on the how heavy of a lift it is to transform a LLC to a c corp without triggering a taxable event and is the conversion to a c corp a prerequisite before pitching outside investors in your opinion? Thank you again
I've heard the term "effort asymmetry" used for this phenomenon.

If someone can spend five minutes of their own time to create a days worth of work for you, they will do that without any hesitation. If you require them to spend fifteen minutes instead, then all of a sudden these urgent requests go away.
Qantas to Roll Out Digital Health Pass for Future Qantas and Jetstar Flights
Neural Rays for Occlusion-Aware Image-Based Rendering
Pattern matching and guards handle that aspect quite well.
With all the features being added to the Chrome Platform recently, given the trajectory Google is heading along with web applications, absolutely yes.
Oh, true. I'll email them
A Tale of Two Long Tails
Meeting part of someone's needs is definitely "something to offer" the taxpayers who are currently charged with meeting all of them. I've never understood the appeal of this all-or-nothing approach. If someone is capable of earning 20% of a living, reduce their public assistance by 10%. They come out ahead, society comes out ahead.
Their news scroll is also better than average.
If only all the ISP in the U.S. had IPv6... We are still really far. Some like RCN don't even have that planned (or they keep that really secret).
Whitespaces and Strings in Bash (2018)
Motorcycle helmet rules are set at a state level in the US and many states do allow it.
>realising how alien they are

You can't dehumanize someone and claim to understand them simultaneously. It's logically incoherent to draw a conclusion from a failure to understand.

When I try to understand people, I start by assuming that they, like everyone, have an inner self with the golden rule hardwired at a very basic level, and anything appearing to violate that is an illusion creating by coping behavior, distortions in perceptions, or something. Psychic pain being prioritized over everything else can make the resulting behavior very confusing.

Also, since I'm not a professional psychologist I don't have to pretend I understand when I don't.
Typically Google has a warming/trial period for new large content sites, after their search bot is introduced to the content and has spidered its way through the site.

For example there used to be a very common content farm system, that was structured like like this:

https://domainsites.com/site/nytimes.com

So when people searched for sites by domain name, the zillions of low traffic long-tail results of this farm system would be all over Google's results.

What it would present on the page is a mess of data about nytimes.com, such as traffic, or keywords pulled from the site header, maybe a manufactured description (or pulled right from the site head), sometimes images / screenshots of the site. Anything that could be stuffed in there to fill up enough content to get Google to not do an automatic shallow content kill penalty on the content farm. This worked for several years very successfully until Google's big algorithm updates, 9-10 years ago or whatever now (Penguin et al.). You could just build a large index of the top million domains (eg Alexa and Quantcast used to provide that index in a zip file), spider & scrape info from the domains, and build a content farm index out of it and have a million pages of content to then hand off to Googlebot.

So initially such a farm will boom into the search rankings, Google would give them a trial period and let out the flood gates of traffic to the site. Then Google would promptly kill off the content farm after the free run period expired and they had figured out it was a garbage site.

I still occasionally see this model of content farm burst up into traffic rankings, and it's usually very short lived. It makes me wonder if that's not more or less what's going on with the Mermaid farm.
SoftBank Said to Offer $2.1B Uber Stake via Goldman
This was hilarious when I saw local businesses put up signs requiring masks due to local "ordnance". I had to wonder what kind of masks they expected us to have
I'm scared that I'm going to catch covid because I've been having a lot of gay sex lately.
Can you catch covid from sucking too much cock?
yeah google and apple also spent massive budgets on commercial real estate holdings. billions. that’s why they’re trying to prevent wfh
It's unfortunate, but walkouts and other employee activism around social justice can achieve the opposite effect. The marginalized leave because they don't feel heard, and potential new hires who might represent change stop applying or responding to recruiting attempts because of the company's tarnished reputation.

Over time this leads to increased marginalization and concentration of the vary behavior that provoked the activist response in the first place.

The only thing that actually works is board level action and commitment to following through on the change. Boards can hold execs accountable.
NIMBYism is how polite erudite folk implement red lining with plausible deniability.
As a side note, being someone who is quite interested in matrix as a technology, could anyone recommend any good and active rooms (or spaces, if that's a thing now) on matrix? The only ones I can find are mostly for asking questions about specific programming languages or technologies.
Well, my siem probably wonders why I randomly and repeatedly mash the F15 key through the day sometimes (keeps teams status as "Alive and Present")
If this isn’t parody, and I am guessing it’s not, then it’s still a perfect depiction of what changed in the American left in the 1960s. Politics became more about changing the orientation of one’s mind than the orientation of one’s society. Walkouts are worthless.
Idk. I somewhat agree; but I’m not sure what to think of that because it’s a fiscal and not a monetary intervention. Minimum wages going up (whether explicitly or because unemployment benefits are competing with them) will definitely bump up demand and will also bump up costs for some industries, particularly restaurants and hospitality. Insofar as demand responds positively a little inflation is imo not a terrible price to pay. This article, however, is bringing up a boogeyman that inflation will somehow slip from the Fed’s grasp, which I very much doubt.
I don't understand why people think lying is so difficult. It is human nature to lie and manipulate. At least that was how I was brought up. I think people who think that normal is goody two shoes are virtue signalling or decieving themselves. The average person in the world just wants to get ahead. Sometimes prosocial behaviors help with that. Sometimes they don't. It depends on the relative amount of hostility vs cooperativeness in the specific environment.
Conor Mcgregor Ugly Remarks on Khabib Nurmagomedov's Father
Fair enough, I’m coming at this from more of a non-gaming tech / SaaS startup lens. Maybe it would work, I’m not sure!
If we had Freedom of Ideas, then yes, you could pull this off.

But we don't have that. We have copyrights and patents. Those with capital have a lot more freedom with ideas. Those without, don't.

If we abolish copyright and patent laws (https://www.reddit.com/r/ifa), then workers will have a lot more power.
Yes, I believe you only needed to insert the old install disk to prove you had the original.
Rocket tanks of carbon fibre reinforced plastic proven possible
Easy to say f regulations, and oddly and most surprisingly nobody ever says good regulations when the building doesn’t come down.
> Don't call it the flu. It's not the flu.

The original commenter didn't call it the flu as far as I can tell. He wrote: "Is there some reason to expect that covid-19 is different in long term effects than a flu? This study is saying it causes substantial brain damage, right? What possible mechanism is there for this?".

Nowhere did he call it the flu.

> It's killed 20x more people than the flu even in the fact of pervasive society-changing mitigation strategies (all while the flu itself has all but gone extinct, remember! All that masking and distance learning actually worked!).

No. It killed 20x more people than the flu in 2020 to now. But the flu has killed far more people overall. The flu epidemic of 1918 killed 50 million people, far more than covid.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...

> Beyond that, nitpick with my phrasing all you like. This is HN, after all.

It's not the phrasing, you know that. You outright contradicted the CDC which makes your comment misinformation.

> It's not the flu.

In your zeal, you falsely attributed a statement/argument to a person and argued against it. In one of my philosophy classes, I learned that it was called building a straw man. It's a logical fallacy.

Your heart may be in the right place, but you aren't helping. Though I'm starting to believe the fanatics on both sides deep down want covid to ravage the world and that neither side has their heart in the right place.
The problem is that paywall sites already do this: Google sees the article, others see a paywall.
There were multiple episodes that I remember watching as a child (In fact, I think I have seen all the episodes except the recent ones in the last 3-4 years). The one where they make a movie due to the new "James Hound" movie is rated PG-13, the Christmas movie about uncle frank, the Mr Rogers episode where he comes and stay in Arthur house(there was another episode like this except Arthur's teacher Mr.Ratburn) and so much others. However, one thing that was stuck in my head ever since I saw it was an episode where Muffy was watching a Backstreet Boys music video and Francine calls them a sellout. So she makes a band and calls it "U stink." Then they play in a front of a crowd and the Backstreet Boys themselves come[0]. That episode and the ones where they have different animation like South Park and beavis and butthead were the ones that stuck with me as a kid. But I have to admit how long this aired, I thought it would end in 2015, but apparently they kept making new episodes.

[0] - https://youtu.be/F3x72g-s_bk
Amazon acknowledges 3G Kindle shutdown, offers new incentives to upgrade
Laptop is a different story, because of the whole lap top thing.
I have some background in linear algebra from college but 3b1b really made it click for me [1]

[1] https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/linear-algebra
The last time I accidentally installed malware on my computer was when the top Google result pointed me to a site masquerading as the official site for the software. That thought me a lesson to pay attention to the domain name.
The company also has the right to fire you.
What a boring response.

You don't just get to say "this as about saving lives" and not have any real argument.

Encouraging vaccination, and getting it to levels consistent with other vaccines, does not automatically mean accepting new powers for employers or anyone else to enquire about people's medical status.

Google's move is consistent with wanting to give the appearance of being a progressive company that shares the values of many people here, that think individual privacy and freedom take a back seat to showing that we are taking the disease seriously. This is the same theater we see with airlines and security at other venues. There are real ways of addressing it, and then there are token gestures that are mostly about appeasing stakeholders. This is effectively populism. It's comforting to provide rituals and easy answers, but it is discriminatory and divisive, and not consistent with liberal democratic values, even if you agree with it.
okay. i’ll bite. what’s the “real”
truth?
For example, the right to freedom of association, and choosing not to employ people who are making reckless choices that impact the safety of their coworkers?
> Dedicated IPv4 addresses (for SSL encryption)

lol. SNI exists folks.
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It's hard for some of us, myself included. I'm a hospital physician in a suburban American hospital. I don't know a single physician who was even hospitalized with COVID-19. I know two physicians who died from the vaccine, one who bled to death with DIC in my care. I know of another in our area who is permanently disabled with transverse myelitis after the vaccine. I'm not alone, despite what you've heard generally about physicians, when I say I have some very controversial and unpopular opinions about vaccination of low-risk individuals, regardless of how that impacts the at-risk population. Selfish, yes, but in my opinion the reaction to this virus has been far more damaging than the virus itself. Throwaway for obvious reasons, as I would be fired for even sharing my opinions.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a landing page consultant?
I am looking for someone who specializes in landing page optimization. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I’d guess that taking the time to deep-dive a problem takes away from time to design large systems.
huh. tell me more?? not sure where you’re driving here
A walkout is worthwhile if it signals that the employees are ready to strike.
Command line tools for productive programmers
I suspect they might run into trouble if they started discriminating against specific religions.
Twitter were the first to get the future/promise abstraction right and publish it widely (in Finagle). That inspired not just Scala's now-standard Futures but also the CompletableFuture in newer versions of Java and even e.g. Rust's Future, although none of them have the wonderful for/yield syntax (similar to Haskell do notation) that make it such a joy to work with in Scala.

Sadly most of the tooling funding came from the other big Scala user, who favoured an invisible-yield-point style (which I'm pretty sure inspired the model that Kotlin now uses with suspend functions).

One of the many tragedies of Scala (still the best general-purpose language on the whole, IMO) is that the community formed these somewhat siloed ecosystems that were each doing things their own way and had their own stack of libraries that didn't really play nice with each other. The language actually makes it very easy to write your own adapters (which may be why industrial users didn't create a lot of pressure to stop all the nonsense), but political fallings-out usually meant that it took years before there were "blessed"/official ways to use X with Y.
I noticed this in my country when searching for somewhat less common parts (electronics, car parts, tools, etc). The first few results are for online retailers in my country, and then after that it's full of domains with paths such as /sale_12345678. The domain sounds somewhat promising, and the description sounds good - other than it often being a quantity of 10 - but when you click the link it just redirects to AliExpress.