skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really curious to see if this experiment works out. Looking at their website, it seems that they don't have any land whatsoever, so does that mean this is going to be 100% virtual for now? They also don't offer degrees, so is this basically a glorified Khan Academy for the time being?

Also, it remains to be seen if they can resist the same forces that they say have overrun other universities in the country.
Of course I would trust someone if someone I trusted trusted them - subject to some obvious limitations. That is the essence of a social network. A cryptographic representation of that network is a profoundly powerful concept. But OpenPGP/gnupg are bad tools to represent it.
In particular, the word is derived from a brand of toy foam arrows. Basically, it refers to negating the possible damage of something.
If they did, the World Wars proved the point, such conflicts are in nobody's interest.
What Zuckerberg's metaverse means to our humanity
FPGA kinda almost works like that for digital projects with some light analog, that is you can convert analog processes to a digital form and output using Delta Sigma modulation.
Kitcart
Kitcart is a cloud-based e-commerce software platform
It is a shame companies do not donate the actual design documents to a museum of some sort, like the Computer History Museum.

Of course things get lost over the years. I wonder if companies could put their designs in escrow to be released after some number of years so they don't get lost.
> It’s often stated that in theory each branch of government is equal

Not by myself (above), but yes, sometimes others say this

> in practice the idea of the constitution splitting power into three exactly equivalent portions is kind of silly.

I wouldn't use the word 'silly'. I would say that any such design goal of a constitution would be (a) tricky to implement and (b) probably impossible to convince the public that it was 'equivalent' because doing so would require value judgments (norms).
Ask HN: Development Environment Sandboxing on macOS
I've been thinking of ways to sandbox development-related programs/processes/data on the MacOS. A primary use case is to protect the whole system from the, for example, malicious NPM library. I'm aware that there is some application sandboxing built-in into the MacOS. However, I don't know to what extent it covers this use case.

For this discussion, let's consider full-fledged IDE, like IntelliJ Idea, and skip remote development using VSCode/CLI editor over SSH/TRAMP/Projector. Also, examine a case where we would like to run multiple different applications inside the same sandbox for a specific project (e.g., IntelliJ + iTerm).

Please focus on the MacOS — I already know how to solve this issue on Linux.
I'm not sure, but seems to be an expensive operation on snapshot based architectures - have to search through all snapshots.
What Whale Barnacles Know
After I filed my response, we did two more calls and finally settled. I just had to change 3 words in the description which I initially offered prior to their opposition. You should definitely not stop at a simple opposition.

Most oppositions never go to a full blown trial. The trademark office really pushes for the parties to settle their claims.

I had a strong case though so I was certain I could defend my trademark application.

The lawyers will tell you the best case and worst case of any action, so I would definitely get other opinions then just relying on the word of one lawyer.
I'd expect that doing so would result in a serious upgrade to the charges if one is later arrested for drunk driving in that car, leading to a great increase in the probability of significant jail time.
The fab was sold to ON Semiconductor, a US concern. The US government could invoke the defense production act.

More likely, the fab can more-profitably produce some other product, and the United States would have to offer a higher price to restart production.
Tempeh: A semicentennial review (health benefits, sustainability, affordability)
>“I had one Texas mom email me who said she was crying at the possible opportunity for her children, and a very successful businessman who said, ‘my children may now have a place to go to school.”

Not a single university in the world is acceptable for their families? Are they looking for an education or a club to join?
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The Ubuntu Server installer has used this trick for a while to allow people to get their SSH keys imported during initial setup.
If you can build a service that’s able to depend on protocols and user community incentives to sustain itself then that’s better.

Centralized SaaS apps optimized for ads that could be shutdown, sold to languish at salesforce, or have constant spam aren’t the best we can do.

Zulip is better than discord on the above metrics, but doesn’t solve all of them. I think what urbit is doing is cool and solves more. There are other web3 experiments going on that are cool too.
I got hit by this two separate times in the early 2000s before I learned it was better to withdraw whatever cash I had left. I was already stuggling, living out of my car, and having additional overdraft fees on top of the one I expected was devastating. It literally left me unable to buy food for days, because each overdraft fee was $20 IIRC.

I'm shocked that the transaction reordering is still a practice nearly 20 years later.
The big unanswered question there is: Why go through the effort of making the headers real, if you want to intentionally filter out the kind of people who would look at them?
good luck to them.
> If the network generates $100 of value (in terms of market cap etc) for each $1 spent to operate it, then the resource consumption if the network is essentially bounded to 1/100 of global GDP.

I agree with this point - but over the last few years, we have seen how wildly the perceived value of cryptocurrencies can fluctuate. There are a lot of actors who are strongly interested in driving up the value - either through legitimate means, but just as often through fraud, e.g. manipulated exchanges, wash trading, etc.

So the market cap can easily reach fantasy numbers which aren't really justified by economic utility - but because this fantasy valuation represents real money for miners, energy consumption will follow it.
In terms of recyclability, I don't think metallic glass has any advantage over polycrystalline metal.

It's much stronger though.
I don’t think these guys have enough money to make it as a university. Where’s their anchor billionaire? Are they doing this Lean Startup style?
> But, the judicial branch sure tells the legislative branch no far more often than the reverse (edit: than the legislature tells to judicial branch no.).

This is only one of many ways to try to quantify the balance of powers between the branches. To make a comprehensive assessment, we'd need to be much more systematic.
> they don't have any land whatsoever

Vast majority of organisations don't own any land - they lease office space.
I would advise against calling users leeches. A product is meaningless without users, and those users that do go out of their way to file helpful bug reports should be lauded not disparaged.

The phrase leeching implies an entity is consuming a host's life force in some way (seeders's bandwidth in the torrenting analogy), simply using the product does not meet this criteria.
As far as I know, the design of the SSH protocol requires that the keys be public: you can pull them via SSH rather than http.
It's planning to be 100% in-person. They are looking into acquiring land. My own opinion is they should buy a large (university-scale) plot of land far enough from Austin that land is cheap.
Hah, yeah, I've been at this since 2004, so deldo is mid-career for me, and Buttplug has been relatively recent!

The perception that I've stuck with a single direction isn't quite how things actually turn out. I work in a general context of devices, and Buttplug is now a through-line for that, but I still get distracted and go off and do random things constantly. It's just usually based around that through-line.

For instance, right now I'm rewriting our buttplug application GUIs in Rust using egui, because immediate mode guis looked interesting (and also because electron was a poor choice in the first place). I've also spent most of the year concentrating on VR interfaces to toy control. It all revolves around affective haptics/teledildonics, but that's really just the base camp. Thanks to knowing the field and the technology I need for it, I can go any direction from there.

All that said, yeah, I have constant motivation issues. I take weeks/months off at a time (the combo of Metroid Dread, Deathloop and Forza horizon 5 coming out relatively close to each other this past 1.5 months is one of those times :) ). But working in the subject always gives me that base camp to come back to, at which point I can decide which direction I want to go again.
Dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
How do hardware timers work?
Would it be possible to repurpose this hardware to build a scanning 3D radar?
Differences in efficiency.
At universities, ideas which were once countercultural and revolutionary have become the mainstream orthodoxy. I'm not sure anyone has quite confronted that reality yet. It seems almost like an army that won much more easily than they expected, and now doesn't quite know what to do off the battlefield.

I hope this university is able to balance these ideas into more of a discussion and less of a battle.
There’s a grifter born every minute.
Someone should make a mini CM-2 -- desktop size. With the LEDs and everything. And then some kind of emulator (or FPGA) on the inside that could actually run their code. Maybe connect to a desktop via USB or something.

I wonder if the compiler/whatever for the host machine is available anywhere?
simple/fun vs. complicated/scary depends on the target user.

Simple for someone who is comfortable with the terminal. Scary for those who are oyherwise familiar with GUIs only.
It’s not obvious to me that this reflects anything special about this particular model for a university. Instead, I think it reflects the utter horrow-show that is the academic job market and, to some extent, the terrible matching in the rest of the job market as well.

Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.
Ask HN: How do you find the motivation to finish?
I'm a serial project-starter but I'm awful at finishing. I'm constantly full of ideas for things to work on/learn about outside of work. I'll start new projects at the weekend and by the following weekend I'll have completely lost interest, having found something else. This is often a cycle.

I feel I could do great things if I could only find the focus to finish them.

This extends beyond "projects" to many of aspects of my life: my job, dating, music etc; I go through short phases of being very excited about something only to feel complete apathy towards it days or weeks later. I've even struggled to find the motivation to finish my CV lately despite having a job I despise.

I've wondered whether there's something about my brain chemistry that causes this (which I appreciate is a very 21st century attitude to have) but I'm curious as to whether anyone else has experienced anything like this? A constant shifting in your interests/motivation to the point where it's impossible to finish (or be really good at) anything. It makes it very difficult to feel I'm using my time well.
I hadn’t heard of this before. Is this a drop in replacement for RefCell that is compile time checked?
The US has around 5000 universities. Not all of them were started by anchor billionaires.
What Is a Tensor?
Do you know anything about Something Awful at all? Lowtax made worse mockeries in his life, callousness and crudeness was the goon way. He would not have shown you this courtesy you’re so desperate to virtue signal. Don’t try to pontificate on cultures and people you know nothing about.
Ah the good old fashioned ways to increase the administrative bureaucratic arms of university. And then we wonder how university education cost has ballooned over 150% inflation in 10years.
It is the best word.
It’s frustrating how much culture wars content is posted and upvoted on Hacker News these days. I feel like we can’t go a single day without these dog-whistle style articles.
The issue is, a whole lot of people disagree that mandate = lives saved. The reason mandates are bad is that when lots of people are disagreeing with a law, there are usually rational reasons why.

In this case the increasingly fanatical "vaccinate everything over and over" brigade refuse to accept that disagreement can have any kind of rational basis, and thus don't even listen to the people who don't want to take it. But that is exactly why this type of mandate is really bad news.

As for "what about the other vaccine mandates" - yep, time to revisit them too. Apparently public health agencies aren't at their most trustworthy when talking about this topic. Their treatment of COVID vaccine data has been shockingly poor. It's not a big leap to wondering whether they've been acting like this in the past too and people just didn't notice.
Ben Laurie posted a link to this paper in response to Satoshi's posting his first version of Bitcoin[1], with this comment:

> Richard Clayton and I claim that PoW doesn't work:

> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf

It's in the context of a discussion about why PoW-based tokes are a bad idea in terms of burning CPUs and their carbon footprint. The generous interpretation is that he was claiming that this discussion was moot because the bigger issue was that PoW wouldn't actually work as a feature of Bitcoin.

The less generous (but probably accurate) interpretation is that he posted that without reading either the Bitcoin whitepaper itself or the abstract of the whitepaper. IIUC his paper is about how PoW applied to email would either break a lot of the desirable features or the difficulty would be too low to prevent spam.

I'm not sure why this bothers me enough to post about it on HN-- I'd actually prefer it to be true and Bitcoin fanbase never to have existed. Nevertheless, his paper wasn't really relevant to that discussion and I'm not sure why he posted it there.

1: https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10...

Edit: clarification
you mean gpg sign? By the way the gpg public keys are also available via a URL.
https://github.com/Larusso.gpg

Edit
If course you mean the new signing feature which will come to git and GitHub in the future. Sorry
I think YouTube definitely qualifies, though the content hosted there is much more heterogeneous in quality and purpose. The how-to content alone is its own little wikipedia. Guided by videos, my mother is now diving into home-improvement projects that she would have relied on my dad for in previous decades. My dad has always been handy, but now he's learning to do things to professional standards instead of the improvised, jury-rigged way he's always done them.
Several do, I think. I use org-roam, which extends org-mode on Emacs. The files are org-mode (very much like Markdown), but there is a SQLite DB that enables speedy search.
Being able to use ammonia as a fuel to produce electricity is really neat to me because an ammonia fuel cell uses a liquid fuel, unlike a hydrogen fuel cell, and so is far more energy dense (including storage cylinder weight).

It might be a better way to handle energy storage than batteries, honestly, if we didn't make the ammonia from fossil fuels...
Makes me wonder if there's something like Project Euler but for more programming-like problems. Logic, application of well known algorithms, modelling, etc.
What do you mean? That's awesome!
Apps/Seahorse – Gnome Wiki
My understanding is that recycling glass is energy intensive to the point where it's not economical, leading recycling programs like in our local town to choose to dump the collected glass instead.

The most effective recycling seems to be for aluminum due to high energy cost of converting the ore, and low cost of melting the metal.
I don't much want my face automatically associated with my GitHub (or other) account, either.
as a treat i will occasionally let my boys get a "mexican coke", which is coke from mexico that comes in a real glass bottle and has real sugar, rather than corn syrup

my oldest asked why, since it tastes so much better and feels so much nicer to hold glass, we don't have this style of coke here

well, son, we are too rich to afford that
Last one's a joke. Right?
Generally speaking, under 50 populations survive covid fairly well. Under 18 survive almost perfectly, with a higher survivability rate than drowning. Therein lies the problem: we expose the young(er) populations to a black swan event.

Please spend a few minutes to refresh on the data. Some nice dashboards from Singapore (ongoing delta wave), but also e.g. King County, WA (Seattle) shows similar data, though you have to drill down a bit (Demographics tab, then Deaths metric). For example in the past 30 days a total 12 deaths in the under 50 population, for a total of 10% of total covid deaths. Or, since the pandemic started, a death rate of 22/100k or less in all age groups <50, going as low as 0-3/100k for under 30s.

This is not to say that people, especially the elderly, should not get vaccinated if they choose so. It is only a reminder that there is a perception problem around covid and that the long term risk calculus is more complicated.

https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/daily-summ...
> But the odds of getting Covid are far less than the odds of getting the vaccine.

At this point my conclusion is that everyone either get

- the vaccine,

- the vaccine and covid

- or covid without the vaccine

- or just covid

within the next couple of years unless they live outside of society.

I see no way an ordinary unvaccinated person can avoid catching covid now except using extremely much more invasive countermeasures than the vaccine.

But I might have missed something. How do you suggest people avoid it?

(Just theoretical interest. I took the vaccine as soon as it was clear that those charge took it themselves ;-)
I’m definitely curious about other people’s approach to Project Euler. My experience was that the first several were pretty straightforward, but I pretty quickly ran into a wall where I couldn’t rely on my intuition to generate a solution that would work in an acceptable time frame (python is a hobby for me, and I’m not sure that I have the quantitative ability to go much farther than that. Im curious how many other people look up algorithms and then implement them when they run into a similar wall, or how many people sit and think and implement ideas until they have an answer.
s/marked/market/. Just saying in case English is your Xth language, or your autocorrect has gone weird (your English is great BTW).
Chia's Proof of Space Time is not Proof of Work. They are different forms of Proof of Resource.
I think it depends on technology to technology. I know people who are still milking their Enterprise Java and Spring skills almost 20 years after they started. Now obviously they don’t work at FAANG but rather at smaller companies but the advantage is that they can spec out and complete the work much faster and don’t have to slog more than 20-30 hours a week.
This isn't a commentary on patent law or I.P. which I find mostly absurd, but did the 1-click patent actually have any impact on reality? I remember the internet lighting up with rage about how stupid and obvious it was.

I don't recall e-commerce being hamstrung by it. Do you have any more information on some cases where the patent was actually leveraged?
By default I think the simplest model is to just use references, that should work if you don't move anything into the async task.
The article claims the university has a "diverse board of founding trustees and advisors", but amusingly the actual page has photos in black-and-white which is a frequent trick to obscure the lack of (racial) diversity

Edit: It also says that "UATX will ... eschew federal and state funding to maintain independence from government-imposed programs and excessive regulation" which sounds like it might be related to dodging Title IX?
No to mention that "doom" is an English word and it has to do with people scrolling never-ending pages of bad news on social media! It has nothing to do with the video game...
This position assumes that all harmful side effects are detected, recorded and correctly ascribed to the vaccine.

What we see in reality is that "medical professionals" like yourself are loathe to accept that reports of problems could be linked to the vaccine, even if they occur very soon after vaccination. Instead they are routinely ignored or ascribed as coincidences. For instance, the system is still totally ignoring the apparently widespread appearance of menstrual problems in women who have been vaccinated despite it being one of the top reports in VAERS. Female friends of my girlfriend are reporting this problem at a very high rate, yet as far as people like you are concerned it doesn't happen at all.

It seems very much like virtually none of the reactions that would intuitively be caused by the vaccine are actually being recorded as such. In that environment your confidence would be severely misplaced.
The incentive structures enabled by web3 (in addition to distributed state) can solve the issues that led to the failure of the decentralized web.

At least I see a path for this to be true.
This is 'weekend HN', where you will find a higher proportion of political posts, particularly those of a libertarian and alt-right variety. Eventually you just learn to either skip HN on the weekend or flag & hide as desired.
IME, most people find it rather easy to take in a days worth of calories in a single sitting, with the right (wrong?) kinds of food.

Like... a largish portion of very cheesy mac 'n' cheese will do it.
Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports
Is there a website that would gather different solution to those problems (or other similar problems, like Advent of Code) written in Python preferably sorted by some rating? I don't want to scroll the long list of similar solutions but I would like to see selected interesting attempts. I think it's a good way to learn new tricks and useful libraries, but searching for different solutions on blogs/git repos/long reddit threads is no fun.
But what's the risk profile of Moderna + myocarditis versus Pfizer + breakthrough case (and remember, odds of contracting Covid at all are less than 1) + myocarditis?

Any stats on how many 13-29 year olds vaccinated with Pfizer have gotten myocarditis from a breakthrough case specifically?
36 hours was the key for me because you can’t make up for that the next day (eat at night and then nothing the next day until the following morning). If I stick to that once a week, I am good. Otherwise, not.
Seems like right-wing speech will be the most free there.
Second this 100%. Postmark is my go-to for every project
> DOESN'T IT TAKE SOME UNIVERSITIES A DECADE TO RECEIVE ACCREDITATION?

> Our conversations with our accredited partners lead us to believe that we'll have a much shorter time frame than that. But we're not waiting for accreditation to get started on our programming. Until it is accredited, UATX will offer ...

If you are graduating high school soon, I'd recommend not betting on this University until/unless they're accredited.
Oh I definitely think it is too! I could see other people dismissing the modular stuff as a waste of money, or the midimutant thing as a- or un-musical. Maybe I could have reframed this as a meditation on how quirky technology development can be when it is subservient to human creative urges. (Edit: spell check)