skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analyze your monthly/yearly budget. Add up how much is spent on physical necessities, even those providing modern conveniences (food, heat, electricity, Internet, housing maintenance, etc), versus how much goes towards virtual trickle-up debt flows (mortgage interest, health "insurance", student loans, etc). The difference is staggering for denser urban living. Suburban/rural uses more real resources and has been less financialized, but the trends are still telling.

The non-productive meta economy has gotten ever larger, dwarfing the real productive economy. And it's not like the industries administrating those debt flows are on easy street either - their workers are still working 40+ hours per week creating and consuming paperwork, because their individual alternative is to become destitute. "Antiwork" is not about doing no work, but rather about seeing any of the gains from increased productivity apart from shiny gadgets.

Looking at this another way, full time employment was 40 hours per week before women entered the workforce. After the workforce nearly doubled, the definition of full time employment should have nearly halved. Combined with productivity increases and offshoring, modern "full time" employment should be below 15 hours per week! Instead we have a glut of unskilled labor competing at "minimum wage". Even worse, this has led businesses to destroy their own value by deprecating trusted skilled workers, and instead hiring cheap interchangeable cogs and running business logic Chinese-room style through policies and procedures.
It is by r/antiwork - "Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!"
Right, but he states it as if his method is a trivial (or at least non-novel) solution that others have overlooked.

"Why hasn't anyone else attempted using my obscure and unavailable software?"

Others have taken the same approach (ie intercepting-arcs/circles of the various satellite pings, plus 777 range estimates, plus subsequent oceanic current modeling), it's just that none have come up with the same exact solution.

Unless I'm missing something and his software is incorporating an additional new element I'm unaware of.

>Godfrey claims that his WSPR track matches that from the Inmarsat data

Isn't this just semi-independent confirmation of the Inmarsat data?
> The double pendulum is not "unexplainable" or "inexplicable behavior", in fact is is explained very well in this very article. It just requires an infinite degree of precision if you desire to simulate it numerically with infinitesimal error.

The interesting thing is, while the double pendulum does exhibit randomness, it would not appear to be ergodic. If you look at a plot of the double pendulum in phase space, it has some interesting structure. There exists stable regions of phase space which seem to imply non-trivial solutions.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE&t=11m30s
Thanks for the detailed note! :)
Graphite counts; if you want to manufacture it from forest materials, compressed bonded charcoal might work. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01675...
100% of it is exchanging value. Less than 100% is for payments for goods or services.

I think it is arbitrary and capricious to declare that the store of value use case and/or increasing the value of your investment use case are not valid?

Do you believe that when one exchanges cash for shares in Tesla or Google they are not exchanging value?

Let's be honest, most of us work for a living to earn money to provide for a lifestyle for ourselves and our families.

Bitcoin solves the unique problem that all other fiat-based monetary systems allow those at the top to manipulate the money supply and print money out of thin air thereby diluting (inflating away) the value of all existing holders of the currency. This is Bitcoin's value proposition - sound money, honest money with a transparent monetary policy from now to infinity.

The temptation to print money instead of raising taxes is too great as we are seeing in the US with a multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better plan that politicians claim will not cost taxpayers anything.

Can you explain that math without disclosing that the money is costing taxpayers by way of monetary inflation?
It's quite reminiscent of the Common Core fight. No one read the standards. I mean, you ask someone to sit in front of you and read "Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data (including joint, marginal, and conditional relative frequencies). Recognize possible associations and trends in the data." and they just don't get that worked up. Instead it was a cultural fight over power, control, and who gets to set the agenda, that ignored the fact that Republicans participated in creating the Common Core. Nothing gets people to the polls like "schools brainwashing children" -- see Glenn Youngkin.

We have the shittiest math education in the developed world, and it comes down to teacher training, teacher support, professional development, and ensuring that children are fed and in safe situations where they can do laundry and wear non-smelly clothes to school [1]. In Finland that is understood, and lo and behold, good scores overall. In the US we think that curriculum is a magic bullet. Like changing the textbook will change what kids learn. As a former math professor, this is bullshit. I can take whatever curriculum you want in math and transform it to meet students where they're at -- because I f*(&ing know math. Too many of our teachers don't, and it's our fault as a society. I left education because of the crap wages and that creeping feeling that my individual efforts to better things just couldn't match the magnitude of the problems.

America keeps being a magic-bullet country. The vaccine will fix COVID, so we don't need societal support for public health measures. Right or left, I don't care; the right thinks "individual responsibility" is the magic bullet in the face of infrastructure problems, funding problems, everything, while the left thinks technocratic solutions or "being correct" will be the fix.

I strongly support the shift to more applications of math, more stats and probability, more analysis of real-world systems. There is plenty of room to challenge gifted students in this context and I have done so myself -- you do need the time and support to build scaffolded projects so when "that kid" is done you can say, "Well, what about this?" and when that other kid is still struggling you can break it down. The factory grind of education in American and the fact that many math teachers don't even have a degree in math means that is quite difficult to put in place.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/schools-laundry-rooms....
I made another one, where I curate good articles from Wikipedia, their respective discussions on HN and structure them into topics.

For example the most popular Wikipedia articles on HN: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

And the topics HN find interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics
New research twists elusive ‘exotic’ quantum particles
I have hundreds of cards.

I have heard nothing of this problem until now.

Still nothing in the app.

WTF?!?
There used to be a debate about going All-in on GPON or doing FTTX with G.Fast. Now G.Fast is pretty much dead or niche at this point. The end of DSL era. While DOCSIS is still doing well in many places.

The next step would be to mandate fibre cables in all new housing. Along with ONT and Router in one solution.
Only way to block this is that “airgapt” thingie is hopefully this sshd_config setting:

# DisableForwarding disables all forwarding features,
# including X11, ssh-agent(1), TCP and StreamLocal.
# This option overrides all other forwarding-related
# options and may simplify restricted configurations.
#
# CLI option: -o
# options.disable_forwarding/do_authenticated()
DisableForwarding no
> It turns out delimited files IMO are much harder to parse than say, JSON.

I have to agree, having recently done a deep-dive into the new Utf8JsonReader in .NET. Tracking state in a JSON parsing context can actually be quite elegant. CSV is a minefield of edge cases in my experience.
>They really think work itself is the product of capitalism, as though it isn't part of the human condition and a necessary part of every society that has ever existed.

The idea of 'work' in our society is quite different to the idea of 'work' in past societies. Time is allocated in a particular way (to particular people), usually by particular people, and the direction of the labour performed during that time, as well as the restrictions within that time and the end purpose of labour during that time, is determined by a complex social arrangement. There are several reasons why someone involved in that arrangement would be critical of it to various degrees.

For example, some people on HN are critical of the five day work week. Others are critical of the "back to the office" rhetoric pushed out by big corporations. Still others are critical of what Graeber called "bullshit jobs". These are all criticisms of 'work', usually from the point of view of wanting to do less of it, and under different conditions of society.

Nobody - not even the orthodox Marxist or the anarchist - believes that society functions without labour. However, they do recognize an important point: 'work' is a particular implementation of a much more abstract 'labour' in a particular (global) society. It's necessary, but not immutable.
Productive Virtual Offsites – Tips from GitHub
>“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”

We already have millions of tired, poor and huddled masses. Drive down the street in San Fran, LA, Philidelphia or virtually any other big city in America and you'll see their tents on the sidewalks. The idea that its somehow a good idea, let alone necessary, to import millions of poor, unskilled foreign laborers while we have millions of poor Americans already here is wrong and offensive. The somewhat widespread idea that opposing immigration is racist rather than a show of support for the millions of poor Americans we are allowing to languish is similarly offensive.
I think your example of how the employer behaves is a big part in how people react.

If your employer doesn't value you then I think it is absolutely the right thing to do what the person in the article did. Resist. Make other people resist. If possible in more subvertive ways instead of just getting fired loudly.

If my employer values me then they don't even have to ask. I'll gladly help the company out where needed. If I know that I actually can take time and a half off in lieu of working on a holiday that's totally OK. These employers do exist. Find them and work for them and make them great.
You could always side load something. Better cercube for iOS?
ADSL, being essentially a form of alternating current, will pass through an air gap. I was enlightened on this by an AT&T tech who pointed out that one of my ADSL lines had several breaks and could not carry DC but the ADSL signal still came through. The other line was dead so I was running essentially on one wire with an earth ground. Here is an interesting discussion:

"Phone line with 1 broken wire still gets ADSL2"

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9yzp5wr3

Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.
Show HN: An Unofficial GraphQL API for Hacker News
Sorry, I should have specified the US. I don't think we have any holidays that companies are required to give employees off.
Crystals are conceptually very different from "mixed solids". Eutectics, e.g. solder, count as mixed solids.
In the reality we have no idea how long this has been planned already. Another name just takes responsibility from that.
You are reading this article for free on the internet. Provided that his employer is OK with it, he can do whatever he wants.
Last I checked geolocation was still busted on FF Android when you actually "install" it and launch from the install-icon. Put in a bug report like 2 years ago. PWAs are ok for little internal widgets, but I couldn't recommend them for user facing stuff. For the uninformed, the principle reason to avoid PWAs is you need more granular control over the hardware than is available through a webAPI also indexeddb data will get deleted by Apple after a week for your privacy.
Depends on the available charging infrastructure. If you can go 6-7 hours without passing a fast charger and it’s -20C outside then you need the equivalent of a 60L diesel tank (1000km range) to manage.
How does that work for a salaried person?
She is actually quite good with her basic computer skills by now, partly due to the remote learning over the last year.

As codingdave mentioned below, I see that there’s already some gender stereotype creeping in her thinking. The other day she won a math competition in her class and she was happy because she beat all the boys.
There needs to be more transparency about how your partners forced you to this course of action and on this timeline, because this is going to seriously hurt your reputation and business. That sounds like an abusive partner, who doesn’t care about you. Or they make for a convenient scapegoat.
As radiative cooling is a temperature to the 4th power (T^4) process, vs. linear (T^1) for conductive and convective cooling, one could certainly increase power density for general electronics, though the danger of setting something on fire, and actually needing higher temperature packaging / soldering / bonding processes might put a crimp on that.

However, space craft would be where being able to run hotter would significantly reduce the size and complexity of cooling systems, as they can only use radiative cooling bleed off the heat they generate into space.
Amazon is barely a vertically integrated business (now that it actually has its own branded products, it is inching its way there). It is a retailer and operator of what it like to call a retail "marketplace".
The chilling effects of global warming.
Facebook stays big because nobody else seems to have the magic combination of (1) a more compelling product vision for a social network, (2) capacity to execute and scale that vision.

Come on, can't anyone make a product that connects friends better than FB? I'm sure it's technically amazing, but from a product perspective, my god, look at the thing, it's an absolute garbage fire. You can tell from the notifications it sends that it wants you to watch shitty videos and read shitty news articles alone, not connect you with your friends.

Make a social network that feels like an actual social space and not an ad-infested media shithole, and I'll sign up, my friends will sign up, everyone will sign up, and FB will be toast in a couple months.
but this is already the case for a LOT of companies.
HN seems so focused on cloud and sillicon valley that they forget there are hundreds of datacenters filled with colocated space and connectivity.

Colo is cheap, connectivity is cheaper then it has ever been, and most bussiness don't require massive scaling to do their bussiness.

Also, owning your own infra allows you to innovate and play a game outside of the borders aws, gcp and azure are drawing up for you.
> their goal is to restore the Soviet Union

More like, restore the buffer zone with defensible geographic barriers that the Soviet Union had.

Russia’s geography is terrible for defense it being positioned in the “horde lands” which allow attacking armies to drive right through. Current Russian borders require huge armies to defend in a nation that is running out of suitable army personnel due to a terminally low birth rate for decades, widespread heroin addiction, disease etc.

This move by Russia has long been expected, and it won’t stop at the Ukraine.
I disagree, I can hardly remember the ordering of months in my native language, never mind in english. (I can never remember which comes first, June or July).

YYYY-MM-DD is completely unambiguous.
It's the emperors new clothes. Nobody wants the be the guy saying "But what the hell does that really mean?" so everyone pretends it means something.
I’m genuinely confused how you arrived at that? I just read it as “there’s now one person in charge of each of these divisions”, which seems like a pretty standard way of organizing things? Do you have a specific reason you think this would shut down discussion?
Thank you. As you and many others here have rightly pointed out, I must start at a higher level. I will check out this link.
I would be interested in hearing of a "capitalist" system in which this "bastardized, corrupted form" is not an inevitable end case. Why would "capitalists" want meritocracy? They already have the means of production. We've seen this before with other power structures: people want their kids to succeed them, even if by any objective measure somebody else "deserves" it more. Why would that change with suits rather than crowns?

The way to keep "capitalists" from doing intrinsically capitalist things is to have a strong regulatory force with an engaged body politic that refuses to allow that regulatory force to be suborned by capturing interests, such that you can harness the positives of a competitive economy without grinding humans to dust within its gears. But that is in itself difficult when the fundamental mode of teaching in a society centers around creating technicians for the industries owned by those capitalists, no?

A steadily and strongly mixed economy that commits to ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met (so as not to create wage-slave conditions; nobody would work as a janitor for peanuts were there other options, so make other options to push the floor upward until it finds a better equilibrium!) plus a willingness to shatter giant companies is the way you make something that superficially at least smells like "capitalism" into a thing, but that adds to the mix all the things that make people start screaming about socialism.
I have one of those, it uses ATX-power so it is basically like a PC motherboard, I had to find one ATX power supply from an old PC in my garage, the power supply is a bit chunky and looks ugly by the side.

The worst part is that its small fan is screaming after power is on, which really hurts my ears. You either have to buy a solid(sound-proof) case, or put it far away from your desk(better in a different room that no one lives there), it's hard for me to do either, so this little board is collecting dust for the last few months.

At least I wish they use a larger but quieter fan, there is no way I can use it unless it's at least 30 feet away.
That is what keeps the Web of fully turning into ChromeOS for all practical matters.
True but its resistance might be too high maybe ? also it's not easy to make graphite.

Thanks a lot for the link though. Are you into green electronics by any means ?
Keep in mind that SiC is a substance, so a pure SiC crystal is not a mixed solid.

Mixed solids are more sensitive to temperature variations (there's no change on the melting point), but actual chips are already full of mixed materials, and temperature variation isn't the bottleneck. A SiC chip has actually a bit fewer kinds of materials on the mix, but still, probably not enough to make a difference. (Anyway, we are talking about discrete transistors here, so the material count is exactly the same.)

You are probably thinking about pure substance (the ones that only have a single kind of chemical element). If so, you are completely wrong, pure substances usually have a very low melting point, and very few reach as high temperatures as you can get with composed ones.
you are obviously unfamiliar with the examiner
I'm assuming that, as CTO, Parag had been in the room for all major company decisions for quite a while. I'm also guessing that the C-level conversations about this reorg had been happening for a while already, while Jack was there.
Well I don’t work on that any more but T5 is in California so probably not.

You could try it by using a DSLR on a stand (stack of books?) hold up the glasses (by hand or whatever), try draping a black cloth over camera and glasses (no elastic or anything, just the cloth — you’re trying to be realistic). See how it looks, and if it looks realistic.
I wonder not so much about retail customers as commercial ones. The Hertz-Tesla deal is spectacular, but what about all those dirty diesel Transit vans? Container trucks? The latter in particular need to manage the 8-10h maximum legal shift of a driver with a full load.
From your link:

To recover an old account:
- Go to the profile of the account you'd like to recover.

Sad part is that there is no link to recover, even if I knew my Facebookuser ID which most people don’t, my mapped URL name didnt help either.

Most innocent victims of VoIP phone numbers (like me) are basically S.O.O.L.
Childhood Yarns Told in the Dark Led Diana Gabaldon to Write ‘Outlander’
Or, you know, 2014.
https://archive.ph/6V76S
I don't know about you but I don't want my PTO to even be able to be cashed out. I'd rather have 30 days of PTO required by law and the company gets dinged for not letting me take it.

The US seems to have a culture of overwork where even being able to just get the PTO paid out feeds that's cycle. Work 80 hour weeks or you are shunned by the co-workers. Want to take some PTO? Nah, just get it paid out man!

We have to break that cycle.
Opinion: Pseudo-Ethics in the Surveillance Tech Industry
> Outsourcing culture. Nobody wants to nurture talent.

Also, outsourcing moves the blame to someone else if things go wrong. (and things in infra go wrong nearly constantly).

The problem with this kind of thinking is ofcourse, that there is no risk taking and innovation in suchs an organisation..
Are We Ready? Inventions That Were Ahead of Their Time
GaN is way worse for higher power levels, thus absence of it in high power power electronics.

I haven't seen GaN transistor lower than 100mOhms, SiC is easily there.
That's your opinion based on your disapproval of Bitcoin.

Care to share why you are negative on Bitcoin?

I believe most people confuse Bitcoin as an alternate means of payment instead of what it really is which is an honest sound digital money system, with a transparent monetary policy from now to infinity AND a censorship-resistant payment network built on the most secure distributed computer network ever created by humans.

Bitcoin is not competing with Visa or Mastercard. It is competing with all fiat currencies, as well as any other security or property that is used as a store of value (stocks, bonds, real estate, etc).
Exactly. I'm sure this has been discussed for months in the board. Maybe even was the reason he was appointed CEO.
"Productivity numbers", much like GDP, are mostly worthless because they don't measure what you are producing. If you pay one person to dig a ditch and another person to fill it in, the productivity numbers will be higher than if no ditch was dug, but have you really produced anything? The metrics we use don't just measure what we are calling "productivity" and "economic growth" but also drive and influence our collective behavior. When these metrics are flawed our behavior in pursuit of changing these metrics also becomes flawed.
You think the outback’s bad? Try getting it to work over AT&T copper in heart of Silicon Valley!
> Just so you know, I'm fine with calling "arm" what is between shoulder and wrist.

Great. Since that's actually what it means, in ordinary English. What you call "actually correct" "in anatomy" is professional sub-language and has no bearing on this forum. (Or any other, besides fora for professional anatomists.)

Edit: Sorry, replied to your first paragraph before even reading the rest and noticing that you actually agree... I was already slightly annoyed by your previous post, so wrote hastily. I apologize.
IIRC from Dorsey's departure announcement, his successor has actually been at the company for a long time.