skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we get microwaves (or whatever atmosphere blindspot frequency) through dozens of kilometers of atmosphere without it diffusing/scattering or losing a bunch to absorption?

Would need very large ground target to absorb and convert to electricity and hope someone or some tech error doesn't change the coordinates.
The standard cosmic ray/solar flare bitflipping or supervillain hacker.

Lose energy 2 steps more than a cell on the ground

Sunlight -> Battery (solar cell)
Battery -> Transmitter (magnetron?)
Transmitter -> Receiver (through atmosphere)
Receiver -> battery/grid (Receiver a PV cell or funky molten salt/water steam turbine?)

How many football fields of solar cell in space do we need to match a rooftop on the ground?

Just get started on that Dyson sphere and cut out the middle man...
So what is actually going on? Supply issues everywhere while at the same time a booming stock market?

Is quantitative easing and unemployment protection turning our economy inside out?

It seems like prime time to deploy capital to build manufacturing and raw material capacity, is it all getting sucked into markets too abstracted from reality?

I’m getting a gut feeling that we’re running towards an entirely new kind of crash, worse but much weirder than have been experienced so far.
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But BTC isn't going anywhere, so why would you think NFTs are?

I suspect you are correct wrt NFTs for art, but I do believe there are valid uses for NFTs still to be discovered. By the time they become mainstream and usable by the majority of people, they won't even be considered NFTs in the same way.
“By 476, the empire’s reach was zero.”

I stopped reading right here. The Western Empire fell in 476 (for many reasons). The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) lasted until 1453. Even that isn’t a perfect way of articulating it, given the continued influence of the Catholic Church had well into the 1500’s (Luther).

In some ways one could argue civilization has never ended, but paused in different areas of the world. Also, taking a myopic view on civilization focused on the western civilization ignores the inter-continental trade that existed around Africa, Asia and Europe, doesn’t seem fair to the history.

I know that’s a reductive argument, but I do think global civilization has been continually making progress, all be it with some slow downs and set backs along the way. Yes some empires went away, but we still read writings from Ancient Greece, so is it correct to say even that civilization ended?

Long way of saying, “no” but things might change, and it could be uncomfortable for a while.
Yet protonmail doesn't do that at zero cost. I also gladly do pay for email providers.
Very cool - I had no idea this existed. I wonder if this could be useful for using ramdisks when working with temp tables.
I Don't know about France but in some places its near impossible to evict squatters, meaning if your property stands empty a month (e.g. waiting for new tenant or repairs) and some squatters move in you are basically screwed for years to come - they won't pay rent, you'll lose thousands and much lifetime evicting them, and for a few years they'll run down your property as they have no legal or other interest in maintaining it, so you are out huge amounts of money.

This can happen to the slumlord (who will then send someone to beat up the squatters), to the big capitalist (who will go through the courts and win) and to smalltime owners where that is maybe their family home or future retirement apartment (who will suffer the most).

Homelessness/lack of housing is a problem, but squatting is in most cases not the right solution.
They are.

It's just that successful doesn't always mean famous, and its not always glittery.

Most people getting rich are not start up founders. Or SV job hopping tourists. Most are people who work one job for long periods of times, max out on 401Ks, invest in IRA/RothIRA, index funds, real estate etc. They have stable families, and good health.

This kind of stuff doesn't get profiled on Techcrunch.
How is it less principled when just about any principle at all will require a variety of actions depending on circumstances? Most notably, that you go about things normally when the principle isn't being violated, (a country isn't authoritarian) and take appropriate action when it is (The country murders journalists and political opponents)
On an unrelated note, the author is a "researcher based at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge".

Just imagine the atmosphere at that workplace, must've been very heavy and brooding.
I don't think his "What is the right dose of melatonin?" is correct.

My doctor told me to take 3mg. 3mg really works well for me. Anything less and I don't sleep.
Correction: the worst quarter is the northeast.
> Everyone uses Money

Even the communists gave up on a society without money. (The Soviet Politburo briefly considered it.)
It still seems to happen (2020 posts here):

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/404573/why-do-imes...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251223977

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250349230?answerId=2506... (2019 - iphone sending 16 int'l SMS/day trying to activate, $5/day in pakistan can be a lot)

Maybe they've ignored the popup, but the first and third examples definitely doesn't sound like that.

My guess is that Apple keeps a list of carriers that agreed to zero-rate these and keeps an on-phone index to determine whether to pop up that message, but what Apple thinks carriers do and what carriers actually do are 2 different things.
I don't think there is any problem with inequality. Inequality may be increasing within individual countries, but it's decreasing worldwide because of decreasing inequality between countries.

Similarly, i can't see a problem with East/West divide. "Eastearn" civilisations are rising only as long as they adopt Western principles. It's not as much of a disadvantage of a Western civilisation, it's simply that it's losing it's exclusive position, because it WON: there is no alternative to market capitalism in today's world, no one even pretends there is.

There are alternatives to democracy, but success rate of democracy is a mixed bag in the West itself, and it may be simply an outdated form of government for the post-industrial world, and universal democracy where everyone votes was a short (<100 years) experiment anyway, so it's not a big deal if it ends. Democracy the way it was implemented in 200 years ago USA when 3% of people - actual stakeholders - could vote, would be the most sustainable form of government today, and it's more or less the way China is governed (where 6-7% of population are in the Party and can meaningfully vote).
No, some people need more than the commercial supplements provide. That's the point. The effective range varies by an order of magnitude. The author denies the actual variety of human needs.
I'm not sure you can trust the numbers on unregulated supplements anyway.
It is mentioned on the detail link for the chart:

> Harappan Civilisation (Indus Valley Civilisation) [800]

But also missing is the Sumerian civilization, which I understand to have been over a thousand years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Got it. Which tool did you use to visualize this?
The guru who didn't believe in gurus (2013)
I have found melatonin supplements very effective for jet lag but I am hesitant to take any sleep supplement for more than a day or two in a row for fear of dependence.
The discussion concerns international students, not just undergraduate international students.
I think the one thing we've lost is the complete "down to the register" accessibility and the close coupling of hardware and software. You can write your own boot code from bare metal and actually make useful things happen based on data sheets.

It's concievable to grasp an entire 8086 or 68000 system in that way, but the Raspberry Pi, for all its benefits, is almost certainly going to be dealt with with relatively high-level languages and abstractions.
I suspect public speakers who are used to talking in very large rooms also already have this skill, since they pretty much always hear the slapback echo as they speak.

You can tell a new speaker by when they start to speak, they suddenly stop for a moment before continuing (he-hello!), because the slap back is really jarring when you aren't expecting it.
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> Hell, doesn't SomethingAwful let users ban others for a fee?

that's kinda brilliant
I like the idea behind this but I wouldn’t even put this in a small project. I don’t want to break functionality just because.
There are lots of things that can be normalized at a small scale that don't work at a large scale. If you're a 3 person startup with your 2 best friends you can work in your living room, keep whatever weird hours you want, call each other rude nicknames, and joke around. When you're a 1000 person company with an HR department you need to have some clear procedures because there's lots of different people that can't all know and trust each other the way three people do.

Likewise, a small niche forum with an insular community can police itself pretty much however it likes. A global communication network that has become telecom infrastructure for all intents and purpose has do a little more justification before it cuts someone off from what is becoming a vital service.
Not exactly what you are asking for but worth mentioning anyway: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Priorities
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https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w
Double FYI, the USPS does sell personal data when you do a change-of-address:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...
So one business offers a loss leader and every competitor has to be rebuked for not matching them?
Soils have limits to their absorption. July was the wettest one in recorded history in NYC, August was the 4th wettest.

And Ida dropped over 3" of rain in a single hour - the highest ever recorded (and >7" of rain for the day - 5th highest ever recorded).

The ground was already saturated and unable to absorb much more before Ida showed up. I don't think any realistic amount of additional absorption-based strategies would have accomplished much here.
The initial studies were bad quality, they just removed the people who got admitted to ICUs from the treatment group. They were run by a doctor known to be a charlatan. They were pushed to Trump as a magic way to calm the people and market down.

I don't get why people like you think the world is so US centric. The world doesn't give a flying fuck about giving Trump a very slight lower chance of getting re-elected, much less kill their people and their economy for it. I don't see how studies across the world were fabricated, there's no reason for, say, India to kill millions of their citizens and destroy their economy by faking studies about HCQ when they don't hate Trump and may have even liked him.

You're the one that's confused, here's an analysis on HCQ from someone that has worked on drug discovery for decades.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hydroxychloroquine...

You're a not a drug researcher.

And I don't think Trump pushed Ivermectin? If it works so well as you think, one would think the Democrats would be all over it so they can say Biden cured Covid and restored the economy.
https://archive.is/Z3RRU
Right, because that's the only evidence I have to draw from when UBI in the form you're referencing doesn't exist yet.

I also didn't say it can't, but I think the choice to make it optimal for SMB's, middle class, and upper middle class is an intentional one. I don't think that'll happen just by doing UBI. Hence I said, if you think it will then citation needed.
> 4. Support streaming

I feel the same. Streaming is so lacking in most dbs today. RethinkDB's `.changes()` was really cool. I wonder if PSQL will eventually do it, or whether a new DB will take over. Everyone went to Mongo then ran back to PSQL, but maybe after lessons-learned there is room for a new db optimized for in-memory usage and with great first-class streaming support.
My opinion is Postgres is Jack of many trades, but master of none. I would be more afraid of a DB that tries to be everything. Every feature adds a baggage.
or, only the happiest and most optimistic people can continue studying existential risk day in day out.
This typically comes from chasing after higher sources of recognition/prestige/clout, and it's especially prone to happen when you have a background in the "traditional" industry and saw the whole endeavor of producing Internet content as a stepping stone. "Finally, I can run a proper show with real production values", they say. Emulating an idol is the goal, but there's often no particular benchmark guiding it and their creative role suddenly shifts towards managerial elements, so the final product is invariably worse than whatever they did before. Plus the impulse to do it is pretty much always an indulgence running counter to market trends.
anyone remember the old-timey hardware word processors?
I suspect the push for podman was more about how docker ignored CGroupsV2 for so long that Fedora eventually turned it on anyway which broke docker and then told users to switch to podman.
Literally cheaper than hiring someone to maintain any list.
I don't see it as being less principled then, it's just a less simplistic principle.
Iain M. Banks did a far better job with this concept in his Culture[1] novels. In short sure, if you just want to eat a lot of steak or be a god in your local reality simulating VR or something you're good to go, but if you want to be a galactic kingpin not so much. And on the scale where the real players are playing, it comes down to matter. There's plenty to go around, but don't get greedy.

[1] http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
If Gawker Is Nice, Is It Still Gawker?
> I keep hearing how great are Zerotier and Tailscale are, but from internet networking point of view it seems that are they not just encrypted overlay/underlay networks?

I think the local-first dream (which I also share) is a bit different than the promise of these overlay networks. The overlay networks are a relatively small amount of infrastructure over current net technologies that allow folks to have private networks. I wouldn't underestimate the amount of value that brings to people. For example, it's much simpler to host web services and have them bind to an overlay network interface, and then just get privately accessible web services for free. The work needed to make applications work over a true zero-trust local-first network would be much greater.

Thanks for the tip about Osterhout's HOMA work. That's really interesting stuff. I've been playing around with NNCP [1] recently which is a store-and-forward zero-trust network that also works local-first, but there's a lot more work to go to make it usable beyond just hackers.

[1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/index.html
i don't know but for me it looks to color full and not structured properly
Stratovision
In both cases exactly the same entities read your email: you, the sender, and Gmail.

I don't see how you could go "yeah, this is a privacy improvement" if your information is still visible to exactly the same entities, but one of them isn't really mentioning it.
Burnout is real, but I think I could stomach this post a bit more if it weren’t from a company notorious for fighting to keep its front-line workers as independent contractors instead of employees, pushing them to hustle and sweat, and the casting them aside when they have nothing left to give.
No.

I'm not referring to portions of the US, but to segments of any given storm.

Given counterclockwise rotation in of these storms in the northern hemisphere, and a westward track of tropical storms (see for example the 2020 North Atlantic Hurricane storm tracks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season...):

- Hurricanes will make landfall from the east or south.

- Winds will tend to approach landfall from the east or south.

- Most intense rain activity tends to be to the NE of the storm. (I'd miswritten this as NW above. I've corrected that in a follow-up self-reply.)

Because of the westward storm track, hurricane landfalls on the West coast are exceedingly rare. They occasionally happen on the Pacific coast of Mexico or Baja California (about 19 or 20 storms between 1950 and 2000). By the time storms reach the latitude of Los Angeles they're subtropical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Baja_California_Penins...

Most Eastern-Pacific hurricanes (that is, off the west coast of Mexico or the US) drift westward into the Pacific. Some strike Hawaii.
> then money becomes obsolete and people no longer use it for anything.

Why doesn't anyone build their own fleet of starships, then? And why do the Ferengi exist?

Then again, why do anything at all since the Holodeck could dial up any experience you wanted?
You can say that, but the article was about an undergrad, and I'm pretty sure the user you replied to had undergrads in mind when they replied (for whom classes are the focus), not research-focused grad students. And in any case, you can consider that as a possible approach that wouldn't have the downside you suggested.
He was talking about Laura Demings if I’m not mistaken. I recall her being covered on Unity Biotech. Maybe worth looking further in that direction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Deming
I think the idea is that it can't be tracked, but unless the gyroscope and accelerometers are disabled somehow, at least it won't be tracking in realtime.
Timeline of the Big Bang
Of course we are!

It's been obvious for years, at least to anyone in my circle. Even my boss has said as much.
We can feel it in our bones. Things are getting worse, not better, and it's accelerating.

We did this to ourselves, with our own greed and indifference, and now it's time to reap our rewards.
Even now, rich nations are hoarding vaccines for themselves.

We have learned nothing and we will learn nothing, until it is too late.
There is a game from Hasbro that uses this exact premise. It's called Speech Breaker.
So true. Intentional misdiagnosis is probably the biggest contributor as therapies and intervention has become a big business.
Steak is so cheap these days, we've already more or less achieved that :-/
I tried taking 8x of his "correct dose" for months and it failed for me. I'm currently taking 16x his "correct dose".
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Thanks, I'm not a web developer, so can you tell me if this allows a page to control the opened tabs in the background?
I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive.

Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.
Memory reclaim is where all the kernel bugs are.
Does Apple have representation on the committee? Have they briefed anyone on this?

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/memory-safe-iboot-i...
Is there anyway to make docker-style Darwin containers?
>Eventually, the working population crashes because the portion of wealth allocated to them is not enough

What does it mean for the "working population" to "crash"?

In the West and the rest of the world, those with the lowest income have the highest birth rate. So it can't mean a decrease in population due to low birth rate.
It's a compile error, not a runtime error.

Though there are still risks it might suddenly hinder you from releasing a build in an emergency.
I found a liquid melatonin on Amazon that let's me dose 0.3mg. I take it 30-60m before and it definitely makes me tired. I still have to go with it though and put myself in bed to sleep; sometimes I end up powering through and end up more awake :d
LOL, what is the point of using their slow, shit email service then?

It's not actually difficult to self-host email. Micro$oft are bitches and will block you, but whatever.
I bet they initially configured it when Onion Routing was the new buzzword, and then lost interest when it wasn't the New Thang anymore.
Are you really so sure of that?

I'm old enough to have known a lot of people who lived through the Depression _because_ of FDR's programs. Whether the New Deal alone could have saved the country is literally academic to the tens of millions who were saved by jobs in the CWA, WPA and CCC, or the relief provided by the FSA, SSA and economic aid to businesses under the NIRA. It seems unusually cold hearted for any historian or economist to ignore the tremendous suffering those measures spared so many, just because they didn't meet some theoretical threshold for full recovery.
This doesn't compute.

> And to act like they are not worthwhile life pursuits because they aren't pushing humanity forward is a nihilistic viewpoint because it's focused on spending my life so that after-my-life benefits as if that makes it more morally correct.

What's so special of minds that exist at a later time? Note that under special relativity, spatial separation and temporal separation are relative to frame velocity. In effect, they're basically the same -- other minds, at other places in spacetime. If you accept that minds other than yours are important (as important as yours -- otherwise, what makes you so special to be the only consciousness that matters?), then you should help whether they are now or at some point in the future (of course, there's the question of reliability of impacting the future, but those are more practical questions).

As others mentioned, I don't see how this ethics identifies with nihilism and even less Nietzche's nihilism.

Your view seems more like akin to solipsism: the denial that other minds exist/have value as well. There are strong arguments against solipsism from computational theory of mind (which I may have discovered, I need to publish those).

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, I'm working on a formalization of ethics that aims to answer this sort of question more helpfully and precisely than we've been historically (for now all I have to refer is a subreddit...).
Remember "Wagon Train to the Stars"?

Oops, I meant Star Trek!
I wasted time looking in those links. The WinUI page does not mention base classes (or prototypes), inheritance, or any sort of runtime binding. A "highly-optimized C++ core", in particular, does not imply OO. The std::ranges view_interface template is not OO; it uses concrete inheritance purely as a notational convenience.

Likewise the others, with one exception. The Apple driverkit page does mention base classes.

Factories, adaptors, concepts/traits/interfaces have nothing to do with OO, beyond that OO designs often also use them. OO designs define functions, too, but functions do not imply OO.

It is, in any case, meaningless to trot out apparatus system-vendors oblige programmers to use to access proprietary facilities, and equate that to programmers' interest in whatever tech is used for them. Programmers are interested in using the facilities, and are glad when whatever they are obliged to use works at all; too often it doesn't.
> A global communication network that has become telecom infrastructure for all intents and purpose has do a little more justification before it cuts someone off from what is becoming a vital service.

Until the Facebooks and Twitters of the world become legally classified as such, you're making the same mistake of expecting as much from what is legally absolutely no different from the SomethingAwfuls of the world.
I never thought I’d see the day when HN starts posting random conjecture from Reddit…
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