skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there are several things going on. Protons absorbing electrons becoming neutrons doing the opposite of decay, a sort of connective cycle that radiates away neutrinos while enabling decay and reverse decay, and plain old Pauli exclusion where there is no room for electrons.

But it all comes down to lots of things being possible in such a crowded place and neutrons not being “free” in a neutron star. Nuclear chemistry is full of crazy stuff happening constantly in stable situations that all kind of balances out.
This would be an absolutely crazy outcome if this turned out to be a result.

I think Vizio (who I have no love for) would get a HUGE number of opens source folks behind them.

We need to look at what developers believed GPLv2 required and what it did not.

The whole Tivo issue came about because GPLv2 does NOT require that a developer ALSO make it so that others can use HARDWARE they create any way they want. Linus (who is a major GPLv2 user) also was clear, he wanted folks to have to share software, but didn't want or care what they did with it - they could put it in a car (that was locked down from modification), they could put it in a motor controller (also locked to manage duty cycles), they could put it in a pacemaker (also locked for regulatory and safety reasons).
This might be a long shot, but I once thought my USB-C port was broken but it turned out that all that happened was that fluff and dust/dirt was lodged inside and the cable no longer went in all the way.

The fix was to slowly scrape all the fluff out with a needle (I am sure there are better ways).

This is of course assuming your issue isn't anything electronic.
This is about recycled "*NMC111 Cathode*", not recycled whole-batteries. Although cathode is expensive, lithium is the tough business that requires a new solution.
> Target Plus Marketplace is one of the top-tier eCommerce marketplaces, along with Amazon Marketplace and Walmart Marketplace, that cater to third party retailers. Target, one of the biggest retail chains in the United States, entered the eCommerce marketing realm in February 2019 and expanded its product assortment by allowing third party retailers to sell on Target.com
This reminds me to uninstall brave. Rebranded chromium with crypto shilling and now "premium search"? They didn't even test DNS with their tor feature, causing identity leaks.

Can we not just have the chromium builds degoogled and include the codecs and DRM libs?
Woolyss builds do all that, but there's no fancy single download installer+auto updater. We need just "chromium".
I’ve been using Brave search for several months now. I switched the day that it was announced. The quality is fairly good, but I’m having troubling telling whether it’s just my own halo effect or if the initial quality that experienced has started to slip a little as it indexes more widely or something. At first I was impressed with how little spam ended up in top results, but lately exact queries for Python functions or prominent API functions have lots of spammy content above the actual documentation. Talking about sites that just republish GitHub issue threads, republished StackOverflow questions, w3schools-likes, etc.

I’m still rooting for them, but in general
I continued to be baffled why such blatant spam can consistently make it into top results on Google, DDG and now Brave. I really wish a search engine would empower me to provide a URL ban list that gets applied server-side instead of filtering on the front end (if anything).
Honest question. I have used DuckDuckGo and Brave Search and although they seem to do the job for generic searches they really suck for very specific searches.

How likely is for one of these search engines to catch-up technologically to Google's sophistication? I really can't see a clear trajectory for them to compete with Google's quality.
AWS Keyspaces TTL Support
In my (post-Soviet) country the only vandalism is people putting stickers on drain pipes, and the occasional grafiti - but usually it's art, not just random drawing on stuff. Once I saw a plastic bin burned to the ground, but that could have been from someone who had put a cigarette in it accidentally.

My city feels very safe and there is little vandalism, but nobody is really well off. Everyone complains they have no money, rent is too expensive, salaries are too low, fuel is too expensive, etc. I guess it's because nearly everyone feels like that here, there isn't a 'poor' vs 'middle class'. On the other hand you do get 'new money' driving their G-wagens and Porsche Taycans, so it's not that there isn't a social heirarchy.
I'm wondering what the safety stats are here in New Zealand where it is legal (and basically when we legalized it, the sky didn't fall).
Great! I've recently mentioned that Brave Search is the only alternative search I've stuck to since day 1. Works much better for me than DDG or any other search has ever did.

Not perfect, rarely returns DE results instead of English, but from my point of view they're doing something good and I'm sold.

But please, give me a way to pay for it. I don't want to be the product, one day.
Congress can only impeach certain government officials, and the result of impeachment is losing the office, not jail.

Random citizens are not at the mercy of punishment by congress. That's super protected against in the constitution and by checks & balances.
Which is why in the USA you write off your losses. If you make 11 on 20 and lose 10 on 20, you pay taxes on 1 dollar.
This is straight from Investopedia:

> To execute quantitative easing, central banks increase the supply of money by buying government bonds and other securities. Increasing the supply of money lowers interest rates. When interest rates are lower, banks can lend with easier terms. Quantitive easing is typically implemented when interest rates are already near zero, because, at this point, central banks have fewer tools to influence economic growth.

Ok, the Fed doesn't "print" money, the mechanism is more convoluted than that. But it absolutely does inject money into the system, which is ultimately backed by "reserves" which are created out of nothing.
I'm afraid that's not even remotely true. Just two counterexamples:

- MLC flash storage devices use multiple levels to store/retrieve bits [1],
- Lots of control systems are implemented with analog PIDs [2]. A trivial example is a jellybean voltage regulator that computes the adjustments needed to maintain a stable output voltage independent of the load.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell
[2] https://control.com/textbook/closed-loop-control/analog-elec...
DDG is awful for spam on most searches which can't be easily resolved with a Wikipedia info box. The 3rd result onward is very fishy, content spammy results of very low quality. It's like their algo isn't good enough to separate the wheat from the chaff yet.
This is a caricature of open hearings scripted for popular consumption. They're coördinated campaign events where, in essence, both parties agree to suspend legislation to win points with the uneducated.

With respect to "political affiliation" and related biases, you're ignoring the significant areas of bipartisan agreement with respect to potential (note: not proposed) legislation. (Our political culture goes to shit when legislation is actually proposed.)
Can the law distinguish
Before phones, were teenagers writing full-length letters to each other in order to communicate? Were most of them writing at all, even just sentence fragments, outside of school? I wasn't alive so I can't say for sure, but I have a pretty good guess.
They’d prefer holding USDT to BTC.

In this event we describe though, they may prefer selling for BTC or other cryptocurrency.

They may not have the option of selling for fiat currency, as well, at least not right away.

The assumption that an exit from Tether would lead to an exit from BTC is not necessarily well founded.
Oni was a fantastic game!

I miss it so much, but zero chance I'll ever get to play it again.
I believe the word was 'unwitting'
> "Target Workers Unite recently released a survey of more than 500 Target workers around the US, representing 382 different stores in 44 states. Only 12.7% of the workers who responded said they could survive on the wages from Target alone, with 56% of workers citing they have ran out of food while employed at Target, and 12.8% of workers reported experiencing homelessness."

The homelessness rate in the US general population is 0.2%. This survey indicates that in the Target-employed population, the homelessness rate is 64x higher? That does not compute on so many levels. I would have to suspect a massive methodology problem here. It also seems strange that they surveyed only 500 workers from 382 stores - only 1.3 workers per store! How was that one representative of an entire store chosen? This doesn’t scream manipulation via sample size to you?
I've literally never contemplated the weight of my phone, if I'm honest.

The screen size sure, but never the weight.
Yes, Canon RAW images are 14bit. Once opened in After Effects, you are working in 16bit space. Are you just trying to be argumentative for the fun?
They would be selling USDT.

Especially on short notice, with Tethers sitting on an exchange that may not have access to fiat, they will likely sell to BTC or ETH at least at first.
> Why should these affairs hold any legal weight whatsoever?

Because Congress literally defines what carries legal weight.

(What is going on with Hacker News? What an awful thread this has been. Ignorance parting seas for cynicism.)
Lol... you are out of your mind man.
> 5 years of security updates, 3 years of feature updates.

It would be nice to have 8 years of security updates and 0 years of feature updates, instead. I always dreamed of having the option to only have security updates on my OSes...
I’m always a bit dissatisfied with this way of thinking, if parameters were different it’s pretty easy to believe that there would still likely be a sweet spot for complexity that enabled life, it would just be somewhere else.
A 40% false collision probability would give an overall false flag probability of 1/trillion only if you had exactly 30 photos in your library, and thus all 30 had to be false collisions. The calculation gets a little more complicated if you have more, because you have to account for all the possibilities of combinations of 30+ false collisions among N photos, for N > 30. I wrote out the calculation in a comment from when this was being discussed a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28174822.

On page 10 of the paper I linked though, they state that they assume a false collision probability of 1/million, which is more conservative than the 3 in 100 million false collisions they saw in their tests. The way they chose 30 as the threshold is based on the safeguarding assumption that everyone's photo library is larger than the actual largest library. This is safeguarding because the more photos you have, the more likely you are to have collisions. Copying from my previous comment, we can compute their photo library size assumption by solving for N in this equation:
1/trillion = 1 - sum_{k=0}^{29} of (N choose k) (1 - p)^k p^(N - k), where p is 1/million (the probability of a false collision).
You know you don't have to go all the way to communism to fix the problems we're seeing. You simply need to take a step back from extreme capitalism were currently experiencing with a little bit of revamping. It worked fairly well, let's just fix some minor things that seem to be systemic problems with capitalism unless we want to be the poster child of how horrible capitalism is when it fails just as the Soviet Union is the poster child of failures of extreme communism.
To play devil's advocate, the strength of a model alone is not sufficient: I could say: Well, how can we be certain "gravitational waves" detected by LIGO aren't random dark matter density ripples and not GW from events we haven't correlated (n=1 on independent correlations). In other words, the dark matter model is too strong, because there is a arbitrarily parametrizable density field... Hell, there are people postulating Sagittarius A* is a very dense ball of DM and not a black hole. At that rate you can explain anything with dark matter. I have no logical or philosophical basis for this but in general when this sort of thing starts happening I start doubting the validity of a concept, not gaining confidence in it.
That's just part of the money supply. M2 increased as well, but perceptually much less.

There is no evidence of hyperinflation as of now, but we certainly have an inflation hype.

The items I buy in the supermarket are same price as before. My rent is the same as before. Gasoline is up, but I barely use any of it now when I work from home.
Only £200m is impressively low for this type of failure. Canada's federal government is on track to waste more than 2.2 billion dollars on a pay system that does not work and needs to be replaced with another billion dollar system ASAP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
Is their argument that it harms customers and competition? It seems it benefits both. Customers get cheaper goods and Amazon is competing with the existing players. The government willingnes to act is then easier to explain: it's not defending customers (it rarely does) but it tries to shelve other established businesses from competition (which is common).
(I swear I’m not in Fridman’s payroll.)

As a layperson I found this episode with Jeffrey Shainline an interesting discussion tangential to the topic of optoelectronic computing. The basic gist was that photons are good for communication, electrons are good for compute.

https://youtu.be/EwueqdgIvq4
Fisher Price's Chatter Telephone Now Makes Phone Calls
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers
Feeling superior quoting Latin?

Perhaps Java became a victim of enterprise culture, just like nowadays everyone is doing system level DI with Kubernetes orchestrations and WebAPI?
You know the world hates your company when it has to rebrand.

See also: Comcast → Xfinity
As someone who built a forge and a good deal of blacksmithing equipment in order to make tools for woodworking... This analogy is supposed to make the situation sound ridiculous, but it really isn't. If customizable physical tools were able to be created and destroyed as cheaply as objects on the heap, every carpenterwould want a tool factory factory factory. There's so many jobs where a custom tool is really useful.
Have you spent much time with Brave Search? I use Firefox and currently have DDD as the default search on my laptop, but I often use the !g operator since the DDD results are routinely not as good as Google. I’ve had a significantly better experience with Brave Search, though. I’ll probably switch my default soon, once I learn the operators that Brave supports.
One of the arguments of legalisation/decriminalisation/whatever you want to call it is that it brings it out from being underground and anyone can call law enforcement. However given the relationship with law enforcement in the US I’m not sure how well that would work.
It is unbelivable to me that many educated people on HN cannot put themselves in the shoes of the other person and simply sit down and imagine the narratives flip. It's like a rotating doll illusion. Sometimes it looks like its revolving left, sometimes the opposite.

It shows the grip of politicians on their followers. It is impossible to imagine someone switching sides today.

Ever want to embarrass someone? Ask them to name a couple of things their party does wrong. Or ask them if they can praise one thing about the other party.

We're in the deepest delusion in the history. It is time to put down the pitch forks and listen to reason, rationality, logic, kindness and openmindedness. Worse is that they'll attack me for raising these questions (how dare you to be centrist?). These people need help.
People die all the time because things for buildings are changed "in production". It's common for the builder (or supplier... the people in charge of taking the engineers plans and actually building the thing) to swap out parts at their own discretion. And there's tons of stories of lots of people dying because of it.

There's also stories of architects designing buildings using "new and interesting techniques" with little to no testing. There's a story of one building that was lighting things across the street on fire because it was basically a big parabolic mirror.

And.. well.. the Boeing 737 Max.

So sure, engineers and related jobs are _better_ about it, but they're certainly not perfect. The still do stupid things. It's just less likely because the fields have been around for a long time and there's been time to learn the right ways to do things... and to learn the things that get people killed.

As the expression goes, regulations are written in blood... because new regulations come about when people die because of a gap.
It is. I use the definition that most farmers in the state use in the article--working on soil health through a suite of techniques, while also still spraying in a limited capacity when needed.

There are a million ways to define regenerative agriculture. That's one of the main issues right now, and it's something I covered in part 1 of this series. It's covered in incredible depth here: https://thecounter.org/regenerative-agriculture-racial-equit...

That article also leads to the same point I was trying to make in the above comment. If agriculture is going to be truly regenerative, it needs to support communities. I did not get into that explicitly in the story, but it informs the entire framing of it.
Adventures in Category Theory – The algebra of types (2018)
> why is wasteful packaging even on the shelves?

Shrinkage. It's to the point where you need a screwdriver to get a kid's toy car out of the box.
You don't need to liquify hydrogen. Simply compression is enough. For large facilities not even that high of a pressure.
“Do it on a computer” may work for patent attorneys but it’s bs. Just because Amazon is on a screen doesn’t actually make it different than brick and mortar.
thank you! and thank you for reading part 1, as well.
They will never catch up because Google is the only one dedicating enough engineering to match the growing amount of information, and their level of effort sets the pace of increasingly high user expectations for search results.
One of the friendships I most value in my life, I formed meeting for the more transactional version of this: at a brothel. I made a lifelong friend because I connected with someone, even though I was paying for sex.

I’m not expecting to change your mind about whether this kind of interaction can become a meaningful connection. But I know from experience it doesn’t have to be empty.
For all the love DDG gets on this site, it’s not really an independent search engine. It relies heavily on the Bing index, despite spinning it as using it as one of many signals. Brave has its own index and that puts it in another class. In my experience the results have been higher quality, too.
It's linked in the last paragraph.
Target needs to do same day delivery and then they will win hands down. It does not take an MBA to figure this out and I don't know why they have not done it yet.
> underneath it runs a crusty old 2017 kernel full of holes of different sizes

> LineageOS and other projects can’t fix things in kernels they can’t compile

I think that you're wrong on this, that is unless you decided to use term "kernel" above too liberally, referring to all software running on a device. AFAIK, alternative Android images, such as LineageOS, include relevant - and quite up-to-date! - AOSP common kernels (aka Android common kernels or ACKs; https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/andro...), which are open source, plus some manufacturer-specific proprietary binary drivers and firmware (though there exist a related, but slowly-moving, project Replicant focused on creating and maintaining a fully open, i.e., kernel + drivers + firmware, Android distribution: https://replicant.us).
I mean sure, although the time article uses the word "conspiracy" in a sensationalist sort of way. It's about Trump's efforts to weave a false narrative and the bi-partisan "conspiracy" to ensure the election was fair.

But again, my point is not towards uncovering or debunking conspiracy theories or convincing anyone one way or the other. I just appreciated the approach described in the article where they instead targeted emotional issues to help loved ones disagree amicably.

EDIT:
As an unrelated aside, I really did appreciate you posting that Time article, it was quite an interesting read.

And a related aside, to your point, I agree that we should be vigilant of actual malicious conspiracies, that just wasn't my intended topic of my initial response.
The fact it's been the opposite has been attempted to get deceived

Not going on ver.6 while almost unexpectedly its best features are quickly backported to ver. 5 is the main thing most ignorant people have missed
This is such a silly post. Why even make it when you clearly have the loosest of grips on the subject matter?
I agree with your premise that speed makes a difference and should not be ignored, but your conclusion about android seems a bit off.

The pixel 4 is older and much more of a budget device compared to the iphone 12, I am not sure why you are comparing the two.

That being said, my even older oneplus 6t takes around 200ms to open Firefox so I am not sure what is wrong with your pixel 4. Same on my partner's pixel 4a (which should be even slower).
on the contrary. for what it's worth, I think google search is finally open to disruption. the tech required to compete with them is finally commoditized enough that it's financially doable, plus, and most importantly, they've screwed up their search results so much now that google search is just not that good anymore.

I also think that they're "too" clever with their search to their detriment. We tend to think in terms of text search and are looking for results that match what we want. I'd prefer not to have a machine assume I actually intended something else. Just give me great text search where I can perform various inclusions/exclusions and you'll win the market
Alright - I'll bite. This is a smartphone, not a windows PC with a bunch of services. There is Zero listening on any port. There is no attack surface for any kernel - the only thing there would be a bug in mms. Please share your source for kernel attacks, on any android version, that's not an attack on an app - but on the kernel. No, this is not a google play attack, or an attack on an outdated app - which are updated fine.

In addition, I'm unsure why you think you can't update the kernel on a phone. In fact, updating the kernel is standard procedure for... pretty much all directions on flashing a custom ROM. I had my nexus6 on kernel 4.9.3. There are literally new phones, right now, selling with that kernel version and earlier, with android11.

This is like saying windows server 2016 has a kernel that's outdated, or that windows 10 which came out in 2015 is outdated.

I think you are extremely confused.

>I really don’t recommend

Which is a good thing, because you should not be recommending about things you do not understand on even a basic level.

>After that, it’s probably left up to the community.

right. the entire point of my post. you can load stuff from the community. which includes the community of things like lineage - a big official community that's an llc - a corporation like redhat.

A phone is not a server. It is not a security risk to run an outdated kernel. there are no services running a hacker can connect to. You don't connect to a kernel over the internet. A kernel which is by no means out of date, and is currently running in many datacenters.