skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, holy cow, I would love to see an interview with your Dad about doing that kind of work at that age and I bet it would go over really well here. That is amazing. Being in my early 40s now I have been increasingly thinking about what the future holds for me. Reading things like this gives me a lot of hope that I could keep my skills sharp that long.

Bet Apple would love to see it, too. That's the kind of thing they'd put in a commercial or on stage at an event.
Alternatives:

Mine somewhere else.

Non-lithium approaches to storing energy.
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And you could make the same case for other inventions.

Hammers in 1860 looked like hammers. In 1880? Same thing. In 1900? Same old hammers. 1920? 2020? Yep you guessed it, still a hammer.

Some things are invented and then perfected to a point where you can't really improve them much in a cost effective way. That doesn't mean that new stuff isn't being discovered and worked on at the same or faster rate.
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Why have facts when you can use feelings? /s
> I've always thought that the Missionaria Protectiva was coolest concept in Dune. The "religious engineering".

> The idea that over thousands of years the Bene Gesserit have seeded fake prophecy and religion throughout the universe to "primitive worlds". A Bene Gesserit visiting one of these worlds is trained to fulfill these prophecies and basically weaponize the locals.

> I don't know why it blows my mind but it does. Has modern scifi used this idea anywhere?

To anyone interested in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere but hasn't yet read the Mistborn series, be aware please that my answer contains major spoilers for the first couple of books, so stop reading this comment now if that concerns you.

In the Mistborn series, there are two deities for this one specific planet- for reasons I won't go into, they created the planet and its humans together but one deity trapped the other in a metaphysical prison. To escape this prison, this second one uses the tiny amount of influence it still has to pervert the prophecies and teachings of the dominant religion over thousands of years to weaponize the local population, engineer rebellions, and cause a lot of people to believe they're some "chosen hero" who will defeat a fake threat manufactured by this 2nd deity, which all eventually causes the release of the 2nd diety from this metaphysical prison.

Not quite the same I guess, but they share some similar threads.
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> But that doesn’t still make the specification “standardised” for anyone else.

Of course not, and no one has claimed that this is a globally recognized standard. The only thing that has been claimed is that they have standarized it for _themselves_.

It's important to get semantics right, and it's equally important to really read and understand what's being said, and not assume something "more" is being said than what is really said.
Yeah this might be a good example of how local governments can prioritize long-term realities over short-term gains.
> One of the issues that this plan is trying to address is that these gains are forever unrealized

To the extent that is a real issue, it's not even approximately just for billionaires; again, the point of this bill isn't to deal with structural problems rewarding the rich at the expense of the working class, its to raise a little money making a symbolic gesture at a handful of people while preserving the features benefitting the wealthy at the expense of the working class. The action does not match the problem is that it supposedly addresses.

If you wanted to fix that problem in the system I describe upthread (and you’d do basically the same in the status quo system, leaving the broader problems the system upthread fixes in place), you’d tax non-cash assets as income at market value less purchase price at the death against the estate after subtracting any unused advance-recognized income (and likewise adding in any leftover deferred income.) Nothing is then “unrealized forever” for tax purposes. Not for billionaires. Not for hundred-millionaires. Not for anyone.
That’s a tiny amount. The major nations should each pull a budget line item and support it directly and remove costs of accessing the iso standards. That could go under NIST in the US. (Maybe start a service charging for for cryptographically signed standards doc).
I don’t say they’re not spicing conversations by promoting provoking content. What I rather say is that all media companies do it and they don’t get a similar PR which they well deserve.

As an exercise one can watch today’s news and count how many news made them angry vs. how many were neutral/positive.
These are examples of technologies maturing, not scientific progress waning.
Really appreciate the Thai CERT link -- I was really interested in seeing that Crowdstrike information presented in a format that's not about to pitch me the Crowdstrike Cinematic Universe or next-gen-Rainbow-6-arena-MMO or whatever they're going for. The glitchy elements/animations made it actually stressful for me to read.
Reducing our personal carbon footprint (e.g., everyone becomes a vegan) isn’t enough, but reducing our collective carbon footprint (via making pollution economically infeasible via carbon pricing) is significant. If we can actually remove carbon at scale, that’s great but for now that’s a pipe dream—we should absolutely invest in it, but we shouldn’t pin our hopes on it while we continue polluting.
nah, just humanity
In Japan, Country Ma’am cookies are infamous for magically getting smaller over the years. Shrinkflation is a real thing.

/edit to include cookie name

Pic: https://twitter.com/cicada3301_kig/status/131419416269930905...
Because they can make a great deal of money by making something that people want and competing with others for market share.

If your business cannot survive without a state enforced monopoly, it's a business that can't support itself and should not exist.

People often point to drug development to illustrate your point about the necessity of patents, but how about a world in which drug development is public and funded by government as well as industry participants and a "drug company" becomes more of a "drug manufacturer" making generics. Lower profits, but consumers benefit from more selection, and I would argue the science of drug discovery would move faster because it could focus on discovery more than legal bullshit. If your interest in medicine is literally only money, maybe you should try something else other than medicine. Medical innovation did not start with patents.
There's no actual written law on this, but the relevant authority (Standesamt) has to take the child's welfare into account when accepting names, and may reject them as a matter of common law.

(I suppose it's possible this would be under the purview of the Verbotsgesetz as well, but it wouldn't get that far due to the name being rejected.)
Do you really expect useful discussion when you say stuff like this? Normal academia isn't like that.
I don't understand why consensus jumped to the conclusion that there must be a new form of undetectable matter instead trying to figure out what we don't know about gravity.

Theoretical particle physics is even worse. There haven't been any advances since the 1970's. Experimental particle physics has done a great job in verifying/testing the predictions from the 1960's/1970's but theoretical physicists are stuck in a rut.
> When the rare paper does break through, it usually does so in less than 12 months, suggesting that popularity comes from social media, news coverage, or via existing networks of people who are already well-connected in the subject area—rather than from citations in other work

I buy ads for one of my papers. Only a few dollars per month but I like to think it's worth it
Apparently it's a surprise that this exists.

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
Your comment reminded of the time 10+ years ago when avid Cadbury Egg enthusiast B.J. Novak was on Conan and talked about how he thought Cadbury Eggs were shrinking and proved it by bringing out a Cadbury Cream egg he had around his house from years prior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXLCrzpToo
yodsanklai said HN is "schizophrenic" when accusing HN of being one body with two conflicting personalities: one that wants FB to emphasize freedom and the other that wants FB to police content. He said "Hopefully these aren't the same people expressing these contradictory points of view." (In my opinion, what's really happening is that there's some diversity of opinion among HNers, which is how it should be. As you point out, and yadsanklai implicitly admits, HN is not a single person so there is no self-contradiction or multiple personality disorder. Beyond that, it's a mark of intelligence for people to be able to change their minds, but I digress.)

Schizophrenia would have been appropriate if he was accusing HN of being paranoid, hearing voices, etc.

Schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder (actually called Disassociative Identity Disorder, I just learned). I am really curious to know why people started misusing the word schizophrenia in common parlance like this.
I think cloud providers let the "you can use anybody, it's so freeing!" myth go on, so people would feel safe moving into the cloud. In practice, each cloud is its own technology stack. You have to be a very large player to be useful "at scale" in multiple clouds, and you have to have separate teams.

It's like having your Windows server department, Linux department, mainframe department, SQL server admins, DB2 admins, Postgres admins, NFS team and SAN team.
One reason is money. Government institutions are one of the biggest sources of funding, so if you're a scientist, avoiding anything that could be politically connected can be difficult to do.
So you are saying we shouldn’t trust whether others have been vaccinated or not?

Or should we fallback to paper cert?
I don't think the parent would disagree with you, they were saying that basically all of the big media companies sow discord to get higher engagement, and that any solution that only deals with FB and not all media is likely to not be in the interest of everyone.
Why don't you buy the slippery slop argument? Recent history seems to show taxes increase or new taxes are added. If you listen to your parents and grandparents about the increase in the scope of various taxes (or research their history) one can easily identify taxes that fit the slippery slope. It's hard to trust that it won't happen to this one, and nobody can guarantee that it won't.

So while slippery slope arguments aren't great, it seems there is some support for it based on past government actions.
It must be a recent thing. A little over 3 years ago I had to eat a poptart dinner in a hotel while prepping for a demo. They were exactly what I remembered.
> There is however significant evidence indicating a country other than Russia

Such as?
> rage fest

Not hardly.

All of your 'wuts' are easily verifiable via a cursory search. There are ads for various MS services all over Windows.

https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windo...

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/08/windows-10-turn-off-ads-in...

The problem is that less tech savvy people wont know how to turn this off. They dont need to be advertised inside a product they _bought_. Should be opt-in, not out.

MS Teams installation:? Neither linux nor macos install Slack/Discord/etc for you out of the gate.

Telemetry:? Same as Ads; should be opt-in, not out.
“Hate” feels like a strange word to employ here. Is the reporting false? You seem to be suggesting that it is (“they sincerely believe”) but I’m yet to see a rebuttal to the revelations in the Facebook papers. There’s a trove of leaked internal documents. Are they faked?

I think there’s a reflexive kind of “independent” mindedness that’s actually very collective: the assumption that everything the mass media publishes is false. The correct independent minded approach is to examine the evidence provided. From my analysis I’m not sure what’s fake here.
To be completely frank, I hear this from many people and I think they are excuses. I see plenty of successes, including where I live. It's not at all perfect, but a lot can get done. The biggest obstacle is the people standing on the side saying nothing can be done - while other people are doing the work.
I use to be of the opinion that business/enterprise grade network printers were the way to go. You'd assign an IP and forget about it, when you set them up you'd plug in the IP and magic.

However once you introduce power saving, wifi, and self discovery via Bonjour or whatever voodoo Windows uses, they're not much better.

It doesn't help that every printer manufacturer these days wants their driver to be a full blown App with a custom UI and taskbar icon so they can push their consumables on you.
1. It seems to be very small amount of information, if you compare to what already being included in a typical Golang binary. What's 1kb (or even 10kb) when your binary size is already huge thanks to Golang? If binary size is very important for you, then you would surely use something else than Golang in the first place.
We're even timetraveling back to the era where Microsoft employees come try to persuade us that their company's software isn't obviously garbage, like a brainwashed cult.
> Even if we assume that it's not a threat to the vaccinated, it is still very much a threat to the non-vaccinated

...which is irrelevant in the context of this discussion which centres around a vaccinated person preferring to avoid unvaccinated people.

It is strange how the vaccinated seem to be the ones most scared of the disease while the unvaccinated just get on with their lives. Many of those unvaccinated people have had SARS2 and as such have better immunity than any vaccine can give them, even more are in the age brackets where SARS2 is no serious threat. Most will have a full set of childhood vaccinations but are wary of these new vaccines which do not have a long safety record like the aforementioned childhood vaccines. A small group will be opposed to any and all vaccines, even though many if not most of them will have gotten vaccinated as children. For some reason the latter group is used as a marker for all unvaccinated people but the same is - fortunately - not true for the vaccinated group or I would be considered like one scared of his own shadow, not being able to cope with any risk now matter how small. It should not be true for the unvaccinated either but alas, that ship has sailed.
Maybe I am alone in this, but a book that 'reads like an encyclopedia article with a slow moving plot tacked onto the side' sounds amazing to me. I am unashamedly fond of the book and I feel like it is perfectly framed and paced. I also put Tolkien's The Silmarillion as my favorite Middle-Earth material.

But even with my admitted love of the material and the particular style and presentation of Dune, I think the story of Dune (and the rest of Herbert's Dune works) is well told and captivating for people who like more traditional narratives as well.

As a follow-on thought, I might be more correct in saying I enjoy 'post-structural' stories, since Steven Erikson's Malazan novels are often at the top of my personal GOAT lists.
I'm not a chemist so I can't tell you what is so hard about it.

I can only say that there are not very many companies that can do it and even those companies seem to struggle a fair bit bringing new supply to market. Many startup have for long time tried all kinds of ways of bringing new supply to market, and many have seen huge delay.

Lithium was (and still is) a tiny industry and these process are pretty immature. Most lithium never needed to be as high grade as is required now.

Every company seems to have a lot of its own secret sauce. The people that are really knowledge about the subject are very thinly distributed and given the growth of the industry I would assume there are very few veterans.

You can just go out get a bunch of veterans that have done it many times before, buy some standard equipment and get going.

Somebody in the comments here was involved in setting up such a project, so that person have some more insight.
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I think you're making a flawed extrapolation here, because the space race and the cold war overly inflated the pace of progress in space at the time.

With the meagre funding that has remained since the end of that there has been pretty good progress so far.
That's what I'm thinking too. GraphQL for the frontend, gRPC for backend to backend.
All the names and terminology, MMX CPU, 3Dfx Voodoo, VideoLogic PowerVR, AGP, i740, Cyrix 6×86, AMD K6, ALi Aladdin, Super Socket 7, 440BX.... etc. It just put a smile on my face. :) And I have every single one of them somewhere in my house.

But it didn't touch on the real reason why i740 failed. It was Drivers.

Intel fail to invest enough resource to catch up in Driver quality. The constant rendering bug, crash, and performance on non-optimised Games were dismal. ( Games that were not on Review Benchmarks list )

That is why I am sceptical of Intel re-entering the GPU space. This time around they do have their iGPU marketshare as test bed and foundation to built on, but driver quality will continue to dictate Gaming performance. Even AMD barely manage to get ~15% discrete market GPU.

And as a side note. Nvidia market cap at ~$630B is now worth three times more than Intel. I am wondering if Nvidia could be another trillion dollar company.
Citizens United switched US government to Proof of Stake.

https://twitter.com/sowbug/status/938802817883545600
I wish they had gluten free pop-tarts...
Either, niether or both stances could be correct REST depending on the meaning you want to give the operation.

PUT replaces the entity or thing that has that url. If the entity didn't previously exist then it is created. A cache should be able to use the incoming entity and return it directly for a following GET to the same url (in the same way the entity returned by a GET might be cached). I don't think anyone would configure a cache to work like this any more - but that's the idea.

POST was the dynamic-web afterthought for anything that really didn't really fit into the website maintenance behaviour defined for GET, PUT or DELETE. You could send anything to an endpoint and it isn't cached. POST often gets used in REST to create an entity within a collection at the url, but really (in HTTP terms) anything goes. POST does allow for returning a cachable entity through use of a Location header.

PATCH came much later and its use in REST is debated. Originally it was intended to effciently update multiple text documents through use of a single patch (or diff) document in the body. From a HTTP/caching point of view it is effectively the same as a POST (i.e. this is not an entity so don't cache it). People use PATCH today because they want to partially update a larger entity, but HTTP and REST did not provide for this. How the body of a PATCH is to be interprited in REST is effectively undefined - its up to you, just as with POST.

Some prefer to do partial updates using PATCH for semantic reasons. Some like to use POST for syntactic ones. Some like to POST to a url extended to encode the part of the entity being changed (which is wierd but compatible with POST), and some wrongly do this with PUT.

Unless you can see functional issues (e.g. when a CDN somewhere sees a DELETE for a url and could assume it should now always return a 404), then it's probably best not to get too hung up on which verb to use.
> I hear its supposed to help artists

That's the grift. A handful of artists get paid and push the story that NFTs help artists. Throngs of starving artists throw their money onto the pile, only to never receive a cent.
I think you may have missed the part in my original comment where I agree with you but use the example of Roblox or Minecraft instead.
>>Since the gap between theory and confirmation of the theory could span a whole career, young physicists need to survive by pleasing their elders with fashionable theories for a decade without any feedback from the physical universe.

There are multiple ways of defining science: a method, methodology, epistemology... One definition is that science is the scientific culture. Stuff that impacts culture, without conflicting with methods epistemology can still change science. Science in a world where generations pass between hypothesis and test is a different kind of science.
Because search and rescue needs guns, yes.
I started driving in 1982... and I can say with 100% certainty that cars of 2020 may not look all that different from cars of 1980, but under that skin of glossy steel and glass, they are very different. The engines are different (electronic fuel injection, timing and compression ratio monitoring), the transmissions are different (dual clutch, torque vectoring differential), the electronics are massively different, safety features are like out of sci fi (parking cameras, adaptive cruise control, anti-lock brakes, in-dash navigation, ). All that and the quality (fit & finish, reliability, durability) is hugely better.

A typical mid-market car of today would have been considered absurdly high quality and uber-luxurious in 1980. The difference is night and day.
And as corny as this scene is, I envision some kid hacking into the puppies [1] but probably over bluetooth with the pin 0000.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4IrCBLzTI
Starship is designed for mars. They built a new space craft that will be re-usable, at a cost efficiency never seen before that uses technology specially designed because of Mars. It's engines will use Methane - something no other manufacturer was able to master because of specific issues with those styles of engines and they did it in with the purpose of generating methane on mars to be able to fly back. The methane can be synthesized on mars from CO2 in atmosphere and Hydrogen in Ice. They had to invent the largest re-usable rocket platform, the first re-usable and working methane engine and the first flight computer that could take off and land...

Not only that, but they invented or invested in massive technology for manufacturing all of this such that the engines are often 3d printed and designed with precision only dreamed of before.
What kind of comments does HN select for?
Are you against speed limit enforcement too? Or is this a matter of degree and not pure principle?
There's a link called "link" which creates a permalink to a given word.
"white saviour" is just the pithy modern name for what the book was critical of. It wasn't just in general against saviours, the oppression and race aspects were def part of the book. I'm no activist but I was disappointed (and surprised given the current climate) that those undertones weren't in the movie at all (arguably acting nice to the Freman for "desert power", but the movie was too invested in showing Leto as a really great guy with so little screen time that it couldn't afford to dwell on the complexity) - it comes more to the foreground after he's with the Freman so hopefully the second movie will explore that critique a bit more.

None of this stopped me from really enjoying the movie - though I think highlighting the ambiguity could make it into a really great movie. The book does it by exploring how the systems work in the world which rarely works well in movies, so I'm not sure how part 2 could do it without it feeling "tacked on"
>Everyone's grandparents will need to do the certificate retrieval dance again

it's very questionable whether this is true. revocation can be done many different ways, reissuing can be made more convenient too
They're gonna ship it across the street for processing and then that stuff is what gets trucked out of state.