skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A simple piano, as demonstrated in a video on Prelonic Technologies’ website [1], is created by first printing a set of piano keys onto a piece of paper using a standard laser printer. The back of that sheet is printed with a circuit layout using conductive carbon and then sandwiched with another printed conductive sheet and a small NFC chip in-between. Unlike Bluetooth which can be power-hungry (think of the limited battery life of your wireless earbuds) the NFC chip draws all the power it needs from a smartphone placed atop it. When combined with an accompanying app running on the smartphone, the paper piano can be physically played, producing notes through the device.

[1]: http://www.prelonic.com/products/PIP.html
That and significant differences in performance for more complex operations like the aggregation framework
Stainless steel still corrodes under harsh conditions.

One of the mechanisms for why stainless steel is has low reactivity is through passivation. The elements mixed into stainless steel alloy quickly form a thin oxide layer in normal atmosphere which prevents further corrosion similar to aluminum or titanium. That's good enough for structural use but not the same as actually chemically inert elements.

There is also aspect of what happens in more conditions like being pulverized to the nanoparticle size or vaporized and deposited at few atom thin layer.

Silver and copper actually have better thermal and electric conductivity than gold, but they don't have the other good properties gold has.

Also it's at the bottom of periodic table (usable part) which might be important for certain interactions and correlates with extremes of multiple properties. There is one more row lower, but most of those elements are radioactive, not occurring naturally or both, which eliminates almost any practical use, complicates research and introduces new weird properties.
> "The specific settings matter a lot.".

Yes, and in the case of deep RL, the ability to to get "lucky" random initialization seems to (still) matter a lot.

I work in real time control systems, which are roughly decision making under uncertainty problems. A lot of the RL research has become noise buoyed with large marketing budgets.
Interesting, but why not just use vanilla Postgresql? JSON support is awesome now.
The advertising industry wants a word with everyone, because that's what advertisers exist to do. Getting people to pay attention to what people are willing to pay them to signal boost.

Whether or not that's better off for the person on the receiving end is often entirely orthogonal to the entire arrangement.

See:
The Tobacco Industry
The Dairy Industry pre-FDA
The Sugar Industry
The Media Industry
Some corners of the Supplement industry

Also see:
Lobbying and Psychological anchoring

You, in fact, picked the absolute group of people to prove the virtue of taking someone at their word. Go look for the old Thalidomide adverts, then go read the rest of the history of it.

Point being: always consider the source, and incentives. There is always an angle.
They should just go back to pure Win32. First thing to port: Teams.
Seems pretty impossible to enforce otherwise with how the web currently works.

At some point the website is sending you HTML and JS to be interpreted on your computer.
I wager it's more to avoid the "what, a 3rd dose?" reaction.

"Booster" is more positive than "we told you it would be immunization, but actually it's partial and limited, and you have to do it again. Woops, now again".

Especially since people have been talking about a 4th dose.

In the context of distrust of the pharma industry, it would be easy to have the social networks to claim pfizer is trying to become the netflix of vaccine and sell shots as a service.

So they are very careful with the wording.
A young friend in medical school around 1996 was one of the first to diagnose 'Internet Addiction' in a student at the UofIowa. Missing classes, forgetting to eat, losing sleep, all classic addictive symptoms? I don't know why folks are dissing this; disfunction is disfunction.
Only here on HN.

In the real-world, people love the product just as much. The only complaints I hear are about the working conditions.
Each successful varient tends to be the ancestor of the next successful varient.

That means if you develop a vaccine against any successful varient today, it will be a closer match than one made last year.
There are also pam modules that can dynamically block repeated failed ssh login attempts. Pam_shield, for example defaults to blocking by null routing the ip, but you can drop in whatever action you want. There are other similar pam modules as well. I like a pam based approach since it isn't trolling log files, but directly controlling the auth.
The question is more on whether you want to pay government to give you health care, police, fire protection, education, child care etc. Or would you want to pay somebody who primarily wants to profit from you. Who will look after your health better? The one profiting from your bad health or the one who looses money if your health is bad? For-profit health care profits from your bad health. Government loose money when your health is bad if they finance health care.

It is pretty easy to see the health outcomes. Americans have for-profit health care and they have some of the worst health outcomes in the western world. Scandinavians all have socialized health care and some of the best health outcomes.

There is no natural law that says government must be corrupt. Corruption varies immensely between countries. Nordic countries have some of the largest governments and lowest level of corruption.

But regardless, you don't necessarily need to reduce inequality through higher taxes. You can also push legislation benefitting regular people more: Stronger unions to give workers better bargaining power. Worker representation or corporate boards so they can better influence how companies are run. In Norway where I live, we have worker participation in company decision making as part of the constitution.

The idea that only shareholders should make decision about how a company is run is just a political decision. In Germanic countries there is a long tradition of seeing companies as part of a community and having a wider responsibility to that community beyond maximizing value for shareholders.

We have a choice. The way an economy operates and is optimized is a choice. It is not a law of nature.
That would depend on where you put the traffic light, and the operational state of the light...

an Unneeded, nonoperational light (which alot of regulations are) would be the root cause
> Again, we don't accuse people who spend most of their free time reading sci-fi books as being addicts, even if taking their sci-fi books from them would send them into a state of withdrawal while they found something else to replace their reading "addiction" with.

Parents and adults did do this back in the 90s, at least to me. I read books when I didn't have computer access and both were considered 'problems'. I had books taken away and was forbidden from reading because I would rather do that than socialize. I know I'm not the only one either.
Again I'd posit that those steps were a consequence of a much deeper rooted issue. Yes the people doing the test were directly responsible by virtue of being in the control room at the time and making these decisions but in a culture of secrecy and bootlicking, what else do you expect?

We can argue about technicalities all day long, but in my mind Chernobyl had the following critical issues:

- The crew was kept deliberately in the dark about the weaknesses of the design.
- The crew had the ability to disable all the safety measures and bring the reactor into a very unstable condition.

Are you seriously going to place the main blame on the crew? They were pawns who made bad decisions in an environment where they were missing crucial information. In my mind, the buck stops with the people in power who discouraged the questioning of superiors, encouraged checkbox ticking exercises and withheld information by default.
Spammers are part of the equation. But I think Amazon's business model is a big contributor as well. We'd have less of a problem if the entire Amazon store were actual Amazon listings, instead of randos being allowed to put up co-mingled garbage and gaming the search/review systems with no consequence.
China feared to be hiding missiles in shipping containers
Really? This doesn't look like good news to me. It's fairly positive on the effectiveness of boosters, but negative on the original doses. That would still suggest a COVID spread through the vaccinated population (the bulk of the population) with vastly less social distancing that the first year of the pandemic. The US and Europe will not get boosters to even 40% of the population before the new wave's peak.
Promise-based async/await with Ably's JavaScript SDK
Is there a good case for why someone who doesn't use twitter would create an account and use it now? Trying to figure out what organic growth for them looks like.
How do we know it's epigenetic? Is there a way to tell?
I see conrollr
Ask HN: Why don't we dispense with code in favor of types?
With type systems becoming ever more powerful and in some cases approaching Turing-completeness, the distinction between code and types seems increasingly artificial.

How feasible would a purely type-only language be? any thoughts are welcome
Oops... I read this as "The Serverless hell", not joking.
A fun way to easily circumvent this:

1. Hey Siri, turn Voice Over on.

2. Tap the message once, making Voice Over speak its contents.

3. Tap the screen four times with three fingers. When Voice Over is on, this gesture copies the last spoken phrase to the clipboard.

4. Hey Siri, Turn Voice Over off.

There's no way to block this without breaking accessibility. You could split a message up into multiple items, which partially solves your problem, but the more items you have, the more annoyed actual Voice Over users become.

A similar (although more involved) attack could be used to extract Kindle books. There's no way for Amazon to prevent this, one of the primary screen readers for Windows uses GPL without a CLA, so a proprietary accessibility API is out of the question.
An entire new hospital was built near me since this all started. It has fewer beds than the one it replaced (granted, the planning was done pre-pandemic).
>Suppose I found a way to make synthetic oil for 1$ per barrel from atmospheric CO2

Funnily enough that's part of the plot of Metal Gear 2: https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/OILIX
I think splendor gets more interesting if your opponents are also trying to be strategic. You can see what color chips they are picking up, which lets you know what they are aiming for, which influences what card you want to aim for or reserve. Mid game, you can see what colors other people are missing and try to corner colors to give you room to breath and pick up cards. You can also see the set of colors people are holding to see which of the 4 final bonus point cards are being fought over.

I like the game for what it is. I'd say, surprisingly strategic.
I see. Seems like an useful feature for many people.
Maybe it's more about thermal insulation than energy storage.
Probably I took a look at the data linked and I have absolutely not idea how he came to that conclusion.

Like if you pick a age and week and then compare the age group+week specific death rate of fully vaccinated to the death rate of the same age group+week for unvaccinated people and it at least nearly always (I haven't check all data points) very clear that the death rate for unvaccinated people is worse.
DisplayPort cables don't carry PCIe lanes.
I started with Consider Phlebas because I wanted to see why people raved about the Culture series. I found it kind of tedious and slow, and although I finished it, I wondered what all the hype was about. I'm thankful that I picked up the second book though (Player of Games) - because I couldn't put it down; it was fantastic. I've stuck with the series since then (Excession was another highlight). I'd would like to revisit Consider Phlebas at some point, I think I might enjoy it more now that I have more context for the story.
Yeah, it's so tiresome. It's my device, I should be able to do anything if I want to. Then Android comes up with some API to let apps subvert my will. Who cares if the app doesn't want to be screenshotted? I'm the user. What the app wants doesn't matter, it's never mattered. I could fight this by rooting my phone and using custom implementations that lie to the apps and only pretend to be secure. Then Google comes up with hardware attestation and now there's no way to fake things anymore. It's like we're the enemy that the phone is being secured against. I barely have words to describe how much I hate these companies and the way they try to control me.

We have free software everywhere except phones. I wonder why organizations such as GNU aren't working on free software clients for these popular services like WhatsApp and Telegram. The potential for a positive impact is enormous.
Ron and Rand Paul constantly bring this stuff up as well.
Is it? Some of it sure, but the rpi foundation has the patches, someone just needs to upstream them. Which has fallen on various members of the community, who's hands are somewhat tied by being a 3rd party. Instead of doing this work, they spend time forking debian. What would be nicer is if those patches just landed upstream so debian, ubuntu, fedora, suse, etc all worked out of the box. So, sure there are some firmware blobs but that doesn't stop the GPU/etc from working upstream. There is a whole linux-firmware project which ships the binary blobs for the wifi/bt/etc, not only for the rpi, but for random x86's/etc.
It was clear to me he meant prior to taking the psychedelics.
Using FreeBSD’s Pkg Audit to Investigate Known Security Issues
The idiom "ferret away" means to store something in a secret place, and the idiom "ferret out" means to find something by careful searching. Seems like a pretty good name for a database.
Hey fellow Swede. The obesity is getting worse though. And during winter people do eat a lot of fatty foods. Almost as if they're compelled to do so.
After following the account for a bit it was mostly just spreading rumours like "Baldwin deleting account because of Epstein trial" when in reality it was most likely related to the shooting. I can understand that it got suspended by people probably reporting some of these tweets.

It was far from a factual tracking of the events.
I disagree. The website you linked to shows speed-ups on MI250X between 1.6x and 3x higher than A100. The theoretical memory bandwidth speed-up between MI250X and A100 is only 1.6X (3.2 TB/s vs 2.0 TB/s). Thus, I'd say they are seeing the advantage of higher FP64 compute in those applications.
Anywhere in EU, for one. I can't find the exact info at the moment (Google gives me a bunch of completely irrelevant stuff), but it's definitely true.
Yeah seems like a mix between a ORM and a Database, not sure how much they can let postgres solve. But I agree when I look into it, it's bit less scary then a competely new database.
It is pro-capitalism... I am pro-capitalism. I think capitalism is awesome

Sure business will do what they can to pump shareholder earning, the check on that is market competition. In this instance various government regulations , and laws prohibit or limit that competition that would emerge in a freerer market

Insulin in particular was part of a EO package that was going to open up competition (and lower prices), the EO package was rescinded by Biden
> Gold does pollute-but it’s probably a lot less polluting once it’s out of the ground.

How could you possibly think that? Most gold today is produced through hard rock mining, which involves either enormous pits or tunnels. Many tons of ore is crushed and processed with either cyanide or mercury to get a few grams of gold.
What if like, we're just in a raindrop in some cloud in another universe? Woah. It's like the allegory of the cave man.

Have fun with that!
Cloudflare acquires Zaraz to speed up websites with a single line of code
yeah I turned that off in dev tools, but why author it that way in the first place, what possible motivation...?
It's about doing things for money, not with the money itself. Moving cash around does not benefit anyone. My biggest fear is tax avoidance with crypto. You lose the main way to continuously return the money into the "people money pool". People say governments waste and steal money, but it's a people problem and this is the best mechanism we have
Betting is the next battleground in sports streaming
I never get them.
Yeah, they were not clear :)

“It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last month. “There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.”
can someone kindly ELI5 what exactly is software defined silicon ? is it another term for FPGA ? or is it something more capable than that
Intense dreams have toppled empires.

Knowing the experience was triggered by a known substance doesn't mean you should throw out the entirety as some sort of manufactured sensation separated from reality.
Sonos announces plans to make its products more efficient and repairable
Deleting messages was alreday supported in telegram for years. They just added the option to partially delete a whole conversation (whereas you could delete only the full conversation, or messages one by one).
On managing others: learn how to walk before you try to run a marathon
Current browsers don’t support infrared images.
But why would the signal to switch on the light ever leave the building?
> all remain obsessed with case numbers and not actual hospitalizations and death

It's a balance. E.g. Germanys current trouble is a direct consequence of official policy that had a core of "we only care about hospitalizations now", but ignored "... and based on case numbers and other statistics, what will future hospitalizations look like if we don't change anything about our approach" - not helped by election campaigns and politicians publicly admitting they haven't understood this whole "exponential" malarky yet. You really need to consider more than just one number.
Is there a good reason that they haven't updated their vaccine for Delta, which has been out for much longer than 3 months? Over 99% of cases in the US are Delta now, which the original jab wasn't designed for.
Apparently there are more ways! You can provide your phone number so people can find your Matrix ID from their pre-existing contact phone number.

Seems like it has everything a non-technical person would want.
"Remain obsessed" with transmission of a highly contagious virus that has shown significant ability to mutate at scale? That sure seems worth being obsessed about. When it mutates to spread past all current defenses then consistently kill because we failed to stop current spread it will indeed be "depressing".
Papyrus: A rich text CRDT from 2012
Is Amazon involved or funding? Saw https://www.percona.com/solutions/build/cloud-database-servi.... and https://partners.amazonaws.com/partners/001E000000eh7tyIAA/P...
I am afraid to tell you that you have been partially deceived.

What usually happens here in Italy is that someone comes out (it is at least 30-40 years that this thing comes up regularly) with a new, better method to "insert" truffle spores in tree saplings and is wishing to sell you (for a dear price) these trees.

Only, for some reasons in your particular patch of land (which is regularly "approved" after having made - BTW expensive - surveys and laboratory checks/analysis on the soil) this doesn't happen (after 5 years, and they tell you that is too early) then nothing happens after ten or fifteen years and by that time you can't find the seller anymore or even if you can they will tell you that yours is one of the rare cases where it didn't work.

Anecdata of course and I sincerely hope that some other people had more success, but from my experience in the local agricultural district I know rather well, people that report success are maybe 5% (and likely they are IMHO lying).

Besides - at least here - land is usually raided by wild boars that - like pigs - are very capable at finding truffles.
Only a single anecdote but my wife falls into the category of “I won’t buy from Amazon anymore because it’s probably crap or counterfeit”.

Starting to see the sentiment seeping from the early adopters to the early majority
That’s a weird way to phrase your second paragraph, considering hospitals have been close to full very recently in parts of the us.

https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization
This is neither about transmission nor severe disease. The study itself is a lab test to see how the new virus holds up against the vaccines, their suggestions about protection are still conjecture
My cyber-insurance won't insure me if I use Office 365 but does with G-Suite
> lots of money to "the rich" (aka, seed funding)

No, you're conflating two different things, targetted seed funding for r&d, and just giving money to wealthy people
> 5 years ago you couldn't even start your car remotely

Of course you could. There have been remote car starters for 20+ years. They don't rely on internet nonsense to work either.
Thinking seriously about this, I will ask, were these different dosages a work of collusion between these companies and the government because they were so unsure of the reaction and efficacy at a specific dose? Was it, in effect, a huge "clinical trial"?

Between Pfizer and Moderna what is the difference other than dose? Didn't they use the same mRNA? So what was the science behind them choosing different doses? Were they guessing or were they colluding?
Yes of course, but just like we can't say "it's not deadly" we can't also say "it is deadly". That's not to say we shouldn't be prepared, as you said. I think most epidemiologists agree with that.
I would advise against storing data in ES. But it is a nice store for read models among other things.
You are right that it was never about "the economy".

It was merely a trope to market the new rules as somehow being beneficial to the general public who was about to be fleeced, so they didn't protest and riot and let it go through. No different from the Grinch's claim to Cindy Lou Who that he'd be fixing the tree and bring it back - just say anything to keep someone who sees they're being robbed from raising the alarm. Except with the real story here, the Grinch's heart only keeps shrinking.
I used to use `#!/usr/bin/env bash` for this reason (Linux / MacOS + Homebrew user) but have been bitten a few times by bash version differences when I write a script that is later called by a system utility like launchd (which doesn't inherit my PATH) that goes with /bin/bash instead.

Because the backwards compatibility tends to be good, if I'm writing a script that will be run non-interactively, I will usually write a fixed `#!/bin/bash` shebang just so I can be sure that it run with the expected bash version on Linux or Mac.
> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information".

That is newspeak pure and simple.
> The code outlined a process for enabling new features by verifying cryptographically signed licences

This smells a lot like laying the groundwork for locking processor features behind a license key. Get ready for a monthly CPU license plan...
That is a good example. Off topic, but what is the reason to post the event to SQS and then to RabbitMQ? Why not take the events from SQS directly and take the action?
Modern life is rubbish: we don't need all this packaging
I'm torn between considering this terrible as an end-user, and being happy that this is painful enough that there might finally be enough oxygen in the room for actual competitors again.