skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have an important performance issue that only they can solve it's better to have that code where debugging is easier.
I was happy to see this posted because I have been citing this as an example of misguided application of copyright protection to muscial snippets, and unaware that it had been overturned last year.
> The supply chain's a disaster area right now.

I would edit that to read "a scary disaster area".

We devoted most of this year to designing an entirely new product line for a new startup I am launching. It got delayed due to the pandemic. We decided to restart it around March of this year. We have gone through many prototypes and are now ready to start manufacturing, with the aim of delivering products during Q1 (we have serious orders).

Well, this week I am having meetings with component suppliers to figure out what we have to do in terms of design changes and ready-to-go variants in order to deal with supply chain issues. The variants have to be there in order to be able to deliver product if key components become unavailable.

The approach is requiring us to design something like three versions of each product. Each of these has to go through full UL/TUV/CSA and other regulatory testing. That's why I say "disaster area" doesn't quite cover it. I have lived through massive manufacturing supply chain upsets in the past. This one is different in that it is far more widespread, with multiple product lines suffering shortages and delivery issues for different reasons.

If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will.
> The powerful bit about foundation was always the ability to predict larger events better than smaller ones, as well as criticism of empire and overdependence on interconnectedness. In that, the TV show preserves the themes very well.

I can't see how you'd think this, with respect to the show. Seldon literally tells another character that that character's decision (on that day, apparently) will shape the fate of the galaxy. It loses the plot about psychohistory being about prediction of populations and turns it into predictions about individuals (and that's just the most overt example). Maybe they'll find a way to redeem it by the end of the first season, but so far several characters are presented as Chosen Ones, selected by Seldon to get through a specific crisis (or crises).
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033945
I still think "The Mule", AKA the second half of "Foundation and Empire", could make an excellent standalone - still one of the best sci-fi thrillers IMHO, and much more interesting characters than most of Asimov. But otherwise, there are so many better choices for translating to screen...
> Bitcoin ~= a Starbucks gift card you hope appreciates in value when Starbucks sells more coffee

Are you under the impression that Bitcoin is a company? This analogy really doesn't make sense from any angle, even being extremely charitable, so it's hard to address.
It seems just to be a very common misspelling : https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Etherium
This made me wonder (not that it matters, just curious): what are the biggest scientific discoveries made by older folks?
IIRC the foreword to Asimov’s unproduced “I, Robot” script (vastly different from the released movie) was a recollection of his grievances in getting the movie made. He made mention of “eye-fi”, where the science and the social effects of the theoretical science take a backseat to the effects. I left feeling that he wasn’t a fan of modern Hollywood.

That said, I’m guessing the estate knows that public interest in Asimov is dwindling by the year and that either something gets made now or nothing gets made ever. Recall that 2001 LOTR was originally supposed to be Foundation before things fell through - it’s that difficult to produce.
Ask HN: Living in Two Cities?
So like many of you I feel pretty confident in being able to find a fully remote job, as I've already been remote for the last 2 years on various contracts.

The backstory here is City A is my current home and I absolutely love it, City b is a place I lived for about a year and I love that as well. I came up with the genius idea that I would buy a condo in City B, and live there about 6 or 7 months out of the year, while I'd rent in City A for the other 6 months.

Aside from being a waste of money and sounding strange, has anyone else done this ?

I can find a condo in City B for about 200k. I will not own a car in ether cities as both have fantastic public transportation.
The title should really be "Earns Second PhD at 89"

This is not one of those stories about someone who "always dreamed of earning a PhD". This is an MD who already had a PhD in Biochemistry from MIT.
Absolutely not. Americans don't call people 'brown.' We generally have white, black, and hispanic/latino. Anyone else we refer to by nationality, even incorrectly at times. If he were say, Indian, it would say Indian, not Brown.
Perhaps the tone is justified given the treatment received by "conspiracy theorists" (including SMEs) who have been repeating the data backed assertions documented in this article for months?

Tone aside, aren't you just cherry picking? You have two conflicting studies, and you're simply ignoring (without any attempt at a critical discussion) the study that does not support the "consensus" for a rapidly evolving current event. Here's a scathing review which suggests there may be holes in the CDC's analysis [0] - and let's not forget that the CDC has effectively committed to vaccination at this point, so there is the weight of political pressure to justify certain conclusions.

In any case there are other valid, data-supported points raised in the article - which have been published for many months, mind you. At what point are we going to acknowledge that the science regarding this new disease and an accompanying novel medical technology is actually not as settled as certain political and pharmaceutical interests are incentivised to have you believe?

And that experts are hesitant to come forward with criticism, does that sound like a healthy scientific process? Suppression of dissent is equivalent to wearing blinders - and it is totally possible to conduct seemingly valid research but deliberately steer an entire field toward the wrong direction. Just look at how many decades we've wasted chasing the amyloid plaque hypothesis.

I would have an axe to grind too if my coworkers shamed and alienated me for doing my job (practicing research). If you don't let scientists ask certain questions or make certain conjectures, you are poisoning the scientific process, and a pandemic is no excuse; in fact such dogmatic, socially enforced groupthink is counterproductive to any pandemic response.

0. https://trialsitenews.com/cdc-vision-network-study-showcases.... --- the source is questionable but the points it raises appear to be valid. At the very least it appears that the CDC has made the same mistake here as they did together with pfizer in choosing, let's say, optimistic effectiveness values for approval of vaccines in children. Numbers which are blatantly contradicted by real world data from numerous highly vaccinated nations.

Experts are human too.
The show feels like the creators read the back of the book and nothing else. Adaptation is never a one-to-one translation but you need to keep the spirit of the show. Also the whole emperor lineage stuff feels like an attempt to add a Game of Thrones type plot to the show.

I'm not far into the show, so perhaps they address this, but I'd love a more modern commentary on how the whole ideology of the Foundation is basically colonialism and manifest destiny. Having a civilization that is predestined to be the chosen holy empire is a common justification for invading and oppressing other civilizations. It'd be an interesting twist to argue against the Second Empire, in line with the modern re-evaluation of the so-called Dark Ages as not being so dark necessarily.

I also don't get why the stories are intertwined and so stretched out. Well, I guess I do know why in that Apple probably wanted a prestige TV show that'd last 5-6 seasons. The adaptation would work better with 1 hour to 1.5 hour episodes, each adapting one section of the book.
I don't really like clicky touchpads, so I consider that a bad point of most of these Apple trackpads. Apple trackpads still work better than anything on Windows cause software stack? I can't stand how mice work on macs, the acceleration curve is terrible so that's a trade off...

The force sensitive trackpad is nice because you can click with little pressure, taking away my biggest gripe about clicky trackpads.
10M children are food insecure. https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/...

This is not to negate your point about SMBs.

But to remind that yes, children do go hungry every day in the US.

I was one of them.
but the autopilot makes you nudge the wheel every 30 seconds. if people are really sleeping in their teslas they have added a device to defeat this attention tracking mechanism
only stormtroopers are so precise.

Personally these days when I hear they're making a book or book series I like into movies/tv I wait for the inevitable disappointment.

I hear they're ruining Robert Jordan's books next, something I plan to skip entirely and just re-read the books instead.
When do you think that will be?
Just wondering, why did you decide to build this around proprietary, managed cloud infrastructure when the core utilities are open source? Doesn't this unnecessarily lock many use cases into AWS?
Quantum Trick or Treat
It seems like passing an important AI test, like hacker news Turing test.
I don't think it's a thing on Windows, but I don't have a laptop with me RN to test.
Seeing that China has trillions in reserves, I sense that the piddling little amount that people might give to China/CCP would make negligible difference.
Congratulations Manfred!
Lucky you! A lot of us older than you don't have that luxury :)
Will AsciiDoc be supported too? Markdown is far too limiting for many applications.
Yes. A phd has very little overlap with learning broad topics about a field (unlike masters and bachelors/associates). Unless your job is literally to do research on the subject of your dissertation, it will not help.
I wish I had something interesting to say here but honestly, kind of depressed. Not the clinical kind of course but more the aimless 24 year old kind.

I've been working at this startup (or perhaps scaleup would be a better term considering they're already worth 7 billion dollars). It's great career-wise. I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm being compensated fairly. But I thought my life would feel "complete" once I was satisfied with my professional position but it still isn't. Not to mention, I'm not super sure where to go from here.

It doesn't help that I've been feeling awfully lonely. The close friends that I thought I made in university don't seem to care much for me these days. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they're happy and whatnot. I'm not mad at them for choosing other folks over me, it just makes me wonder what the point of those friendships was in the first place.

But ah well, that's just life I suppose. I hope anyone reading this is having a better go of it than me :)
Many modern web video players are iframe based for embedding in third party sites.
Or maybe this is a classical troll scheme, like we have seen a hundred times, black money used to confiscate a public good (a common name) and ransom it to highest bidder, all this with the entire backing of Uncle Sam's own lawyers.

And maybe you are yourself a troll.
Generally speaking I account for it, so yes. If someone comes with a problem they've not been able or need to solve and I basically know what tools I can use that can solve it, but I've not spent the time to learn how to use them for this particular problem, yeah, they're going to have to pay for that.

For example, they want a chart on their web site using chart.js but don't know how to get and parse their data and know I can do that with Perl and some regex work. I'm not a pro at that but I know I can generally find out what I need to know to make it work for the task in hand.

I will certainly never use that regex again. They will probably use it for a very long time, or save a ton of time using it once.

So, yes, they would have to pay me to learn what I need to know to complete that task.
The site is specifically by p-code, company, or processor location.

But only by single location, I'm not sure if you've been near a chicken processing plant, but they are very often clustered together, shockingly near where an abundance of commercial chicken farms are, so knowing the percentage chance by an area can be very useful.

I don't think my perspective and interest seem to be aligning with most people commenting here.

I'm not concerned about if a random package of chicken is OK, I'm concerned about a cluster of processors.
Taskbar stuff! I totally forgot about that. Yeah, those are very frequently wildly screwed up. I've had their icons squashed weirdly several times, context menus in particular have no rhyme or reason I can discern about how they break (they just do everything imaginable), and a good number just never show their popup content at all. Maybe it's appearing off-screen? It's impossible to tell!

Not that stuff in the taskbar is at all stable normally, of course. About half of the time I'm trying some new application out, it'll disappear from the taskbar as I mouse over it, apparently because that portion crashed or something and for some reason windows doesn't detect that until it's moused over. Or sometimes they'll double or triple up for no apparent reason, and mousing over will clear out the duplicates. I can't imagine what leads dozens of applications to have those same kinds of problems, so I'm forced to assume it's at least partly because of Windows.
A PhD is research training. Is he doing to do research now, or is this just, like everyone seems to be treating it - a big trophy? Does anyone ever stop to question their credentialist mindset? I heard a character in a video game say indignantly "Excuse me, I have a PhD", and I thought, well, that's not realistic dialog because a PhDs is something you have done, not something that you 'have'. But then people here are treating it like attainment of literally a 'qualification' is an end goal in itself.
Yes officer this comment right here!
Sounds like you are reinventing PKI to me (ala OSCP). Just issue everyone a signed PDF. I’m sure some country would have figured this out by now.
Correct. They are doing share buybacks instead.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/companies-on-pace-to-penci...
It's definitely a thing on my wife's crappy Dell XPS running windows 10.
Thanks! Happy to hear any feedback or requirements you have for your new project. Shoot me an email at hello@papyrus.dev if you want to chat further.

And thanks for that -- should be fixed now on a majority of pages.
I started a PhD in computational molecular biology. Dropped out after year and focused on software. Some years later, I applied to grad school for a CS PhD but was not accepted. The following year, I got a job in the CS department I had been rejected from, spent 4+ years there before leaving to help start a certain e-commerce company, then left that after a year to raise my daughter. Eventually back to software, and feel proud and happy about the libre software I've given to the world over the last 21 years of that part of my life.

You might think after all that that a PhD would be an irrelevance. But actually, I do still sometimes dream of being able to follow that process, of drilling down and into a problem much more deeply than any other context would allow, of having my ideas constantly challenged by smart people, and of eventually (one hopes) coming to some sort of conclusion.

I have many friends with CS PhD's, and to be honest, I don't think my life has been impaired in any way by the absence of the PhD, and maybe even enhanced. Still, it would be nice. And apparently, I've still got 30 years (at least) to get it done!
Actual text of the law can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe...

I didn't read all of it, because it's 145 pages, but the most relevant section seems to be on page 52, section 46 "Meaning of “content that is harmful to adults” etc"
It's a subset of process mapping specific to the legal area. Since there is no agreed upon convention for process maps everyone does their own thing and calls them slightly different things. I tend to just use the six sigma convention even for non six sigma things.
I don't really have too many regrets about it, there would have been both advantages and significant disadvantages to leaving sooner.

Certainly being a bit less emotionally invested would have reduced the burnout, and lots of people stay motivated and do great work without that level of commitment.
> 2001 LOTR was originally supposed to be Foundation before things fell through

Could you expand on this? I've never heard this before.

I'm glad we got the Lord of the Rings adaptation as it was truly a mastercraft, but I'd have loved to see the same talent do Foundation.
I don't know if it was intentional, but that is a funny question! (On the basis that reliable news organizations should strive for objectivity, and not be pro- or anti- any particular country.)
> You definitely aren’t too old

By "old" I didn't mean actual biological age exactly. I guess the more appropriate word would be something more like "settled". As it stands, I have a mortgage and whatnot to take care of, it's not really realistic for me to quit my job and focus full-time on a PhD for the next 5-6 years.

> but I would never take on a PhD student that wants to continue working elsewhere

That seems to be the consensus in the US for the most part. Ironically, it's actually easier for a working American to get a distance-learning PhD from a British university than it is to get a local PhD in person in the states.

Right now I'm in the process of trying to get into University of York's distance part-time PhD, while remaining in NY. It's a long shot but it's basically my only option.
>If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will.

I don't think a single billionaire or bureaucrat is gonna bat an eyelash. Inflation doesn't affect them. Deflation does. That's why they stripped every single mean from the lower classes being capable of doing so.
This article itself has lost (at least part of) the plot: it does not contain the word “treatment”.
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This sure sounds like a deflection. The GP raised several points about how mail-in-voting (especially 100% mail-in voting) could reasonably lead to increased rates of voter fraud, and it's not all because it transited the mail.

And that renders your second paragraph moot. GP talked about the sender being either under coercion or not who the ballot said. If that happens, then keeping a camera on the voting lock box once the ballot arrives isn't going to fix the problem.
In my experience, you overcommit virtual address space and have the compiler generate max stack size information. You then work to remove giant allocations. Not ideal, but the price for bespoke speed and debuggability.
I think you are a little unfair in your comparison of bitcoin and gold. Gold has advantages over bitcoin, but bitcoin also has advantages over gold. Storing gold is more expensive then storing bitcoin. Transacting gold is much more difficult than transacting bitcoin. One of the downsides of bitcoin is that it could go to zero for some reason. I think gold has less of a risk of that, but other investments have a significant risk of going to zero.

I am not sure I understand the negative sum game you mention. The first payment miners get is (I don't know the proper name) a bounty, which is equivalent to a gold miner obtaining gold. This can be seen as a built-in inflation, which not only gold but also any fiat currency has. The difference is there is no known limit on this inflation factor for gold or fiat currencies. For gold we assume some gargantuan deposit will not be found and that it will maintain its scarcity. I don't think anyone thinks there is an inflation limit for the US dollar or any other fiat currency. Bitcoin has a known amount limit. (As a disclosure, I own gold, bitcoin, and US dollars.)

The other part of what miners make is a transaction payment. That exists in every other payment system I assume, except I guess physically handing an object to another person, which covers a pretty small fraction of transactions.
> Cannot exactly pinpoint why though.

That's because there are so many examples it's hard to choose one. The population of planets shift by orders of magnitude between episodes; the spaceship apparently has a 'fifth quadrant [1]; the zephyr acts too melodramatically, even when she is supposed to be having an honest conversation in private, she sounds like she is speaking to the cameras at a political rally; etc. etc.

It feels like they spent their entire budget on special effects and had to hire interns and volunteers for story and directing.

[1] If it were fifth third, it could have been a nudge to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but fifth quadrant has to be an error.
I agree, especially the directing, and the over-reliance on end of episode cliffhangers, which are often not revisited until 2, 3 episodes later.

I do like how the story is developing though, and I know that often it takes a show one season, one and a half, to really get into its groove.

3 more episodes to go before I can have a more full opinion...

All in all so far though it really does seem like just one long drawn-out introduction, with the juicy stuff really starts in season 2 (as teased by Goyer in a reddit AMA - Hober Mallow, Church of the Galactic Spirit, a strong general and a weak emperor)
The surface of spider thread is such that air blowing across it takes away charge, leaving behind the opposite charge.

So, atmospheric drag provides horizontal motion, and electrostatic repulsion provides vertical motion. Once the spider is aloft, air motion relative to it falls off, and the charge begins to leak away. Eventually it descends.
What a sharp mind. Even though he was already recognized scientist the capacity to continue at this so advanced age is nothing but very respectable.
Have you tried this, as it seeming does not work at All. Type in LA you get a single facility in Delaware
I am the opposite. I much prefer a good ergonomic mouse to using the trackpad. My vertical mouse leaves my wrists and fingers feeling much better than a trackpad after a long session. I ususally turn off all gestures that I can on a touchpad to avoid any accidents.

I will agree that touchpads that require you to click in specific locations are bad though. They confound the action of clicking with the action of pointing, which causes every click to require extra brainpower that you just don't need with a mouse or a 'tappable' touchpad.
Thank you for your impressions - very interesting blog post!

And welcome to America - we are glad you are here. :)