skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and I know (and like) Eric and Ralph... but this is philosopher scientists and computer scientists looking at mechanical engineering (and material science) problems. Similarly, there was a lot of work at MIT on doing micro scale motors and turbines, which just work very different due to Reynolds # scaling, heat dissipation, and other issues.

Realistically, you need a demand side on this sort of work for functional and realistic solutions to take hold (iterate and improve). Right now Moore's Law has driven semiconductor logic to the point where very little else can economically compete. Thus there's little investment of resources... or even accurate determination of markets. At the same time many people view nano (and micro) machining through Moore's lens, when in reality the low dimensionality, isolation, and fault tolerance of electrical/digital solutions allows for much more design independence/flexibility and complex system development.

Imagine the vibratory harmonics of a mechanical computing system. There would be literally millions or billions of coupled oscillators. What about stiction/frictional losses due to surface chemistry/tension? What about limiting thermal noise effects? It's complicated and there's no money in it :^)
A pivot wasn't necessary. She could have avoided it by recognizing when the writing was on the wall for the company and working towards a graceful shutdown rather than doubling and tripling down on their failures.
As another comment said, patients' tests were apparently run on regular machines, so the patients weren't harmed.
>And your body won't tolerate the change either.

Source? If I'm understanding correctly you're saying that people experience physical withdraw symptoms for sugar?
I wanted to create video games.
"The type of arguments this person likes to make" seems ad hominem to me. Being wrong about global warming doesn't make him wrong about this unrelated topic.

Also, his coauthor on the current book has impeccable credentials as perhaps the leading honest broker in the field, so these comments feel a bit like looking for a weak flank to attack.
Go to Java for the climate, NASM for the company. (Or was it the other way around?) In any case, even Windows programming in NASM is easy!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790747
They used to promote fission power as "too cheap to meter". They were lying then, too, and knew it.

There is no physical possibility of Tokamak fusion power being cheaper than the most expensive method in current use anywhere.
"Big Tech’s tools will never dismantle Big Tech’s house."

This is a JavaScript library that runs sites on a rented server. Might as well be in the cloud.
> I've been told a "moral lesson" of going ahead of schedule being a bad thing too many times to count.
What the fuck could be bad about going ahead of schedule?
Federal law can't regulate commerce unless it's interstate commerce. So the wire in the wire fraud part is the handy jurisdiction claw so that this is prosecuted by SEC.
Maybe contact @pud and turn his old https://fuckedcompany.com/ website into an online museum for that swag.
that's great, the US has more guns than humans
Highly doubt that this will reduce the amount of mining in the world. Eth miners will mostly just switch to a different shitcoin. As long as BTC is dominant, mining will keep wasting gigatons of power. And how exactly would anyone dethrone BTC? The first mover advantage is everything, and nothing else has it.
Sympathy has nothing to do with it. The fact that the defrauded investors didn't do more due diligence also has nothing to do with it. The question when it comes to fraud is whether Holmes intentionally deceived the defrauded party, and was that defrauded party harmed (again, I'm not a lawyer, just my understanding). With the investors that was clearly an unambiguous yes. With patients it's much more of a gray area on both the "intentionally" point and the "were they actually harmed" point.
Sending fraudulent people to jail for a long, long time is fundamental to running a healthy society. One of the reasons the US is a decent place to live compared to other countries is because we actually prosecute frauds and criminals here.

Let's start seeing some other countries around the world start doing this, like India, Russia, and China. My 80 year old mother was recently tricked into wiring money by Indian scammers threatening her. I'm really sick of this shit.
The job itself is not too bad. I've become inured to crappy work over the years.

What kills me is the relentless manner in which work attempts to make inroads into my personal time. I hate late-night meetings, especially those that start beyond 11 pm. I hate the fact that most of my co-workers are online and working well past bedtime, and on most weekends. I hate that most think nothing of installing the office messenger app on their personal phones to "be more available". The (pre WFH) office commute, while it was a pain, was an effective moat between work and home. WFH has since brought down that moat.

The other thing that gets my goat is the "peg yourself at 100% CPU all the time" culture that Agile has fostered. Before Agile took over my world, I found that my best ideas came during downtime, when I was able to explore the codebase and play with it. There's no downtime at work anymore.

What keeps me going is the fact that I need the money.
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As an outsider, there are multiple syntax/languages and architectures right? As a beginner, what’s best to learn? I’m scared of getting stuck in a situation where I know something we’ll but I’m unable to apply it to the space I want to understand ( RE/binary exploitation on x86/64)
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Why? What are some good resources for a novice?
Sorry this is for my own curiosity because I know nothing about US legal system, but I was watching this documentary recently about Bikram Choudhury, a yoga guru who was being prosecuted for several sex crimes and also had an arrest warrant issued against him. But in the documentary he successfully managed flee to Thailand then Mexico. They even managed to track him but he just said fuck off and that was that. Did not face any jail time and now he is back to conducting his Yoga sessions.

My point is what stopped Elizabeth Holmes from doing something like this? She surely knew what was coming her way and she is kinda unscrupulous too, so why didn't she run?
> it is impossible to avoid a diet in western society that relies on high quantities of sugar as a lynchpin for mass produced food

"Western society" as in the US and maybe the UK?

Because in most other countries people do not rely on mass produced food to feed themselves.
I want to be able to use this as a complication target.
This is not at all how journalism works.

Journalism requires editorial freedom, who pays the bills should have literally no impact on reporting; this is true even when with meta coverage of the publication or owner in question.

Anything else is not journalism.
I think the complaints about SEO spam are valid - but - I think msweibel and pg misdiagnose the challenge. The challenge is that you are dealing with an adversarial system, and, the better your search engine is, the more widely used it becomes, the more valuable it is for your adversaries to find ways to game your rankings.

Any new niche search engine will go through a small window of time where they have the luxury that none of the sites they are indexing are spending all their effort trying to reverse engineer your signals, and optimize against them. I'm incredibly skeptical that they can remain useful once people all the SEO efforts of various marketers start to be turned against them.
sighs... Why Germany?
Discussing the economic viability of cattle ranching right now is a little like lung cancer patients debating tobacco subsidies. Maybe we should stop doing the thing that's killing us entirely.
> Is non-sweetened cereal hard to find in your supermarket or something?

They aren't. Cheerios is a popular option, it has 1G of sugar per serving. You go up quickly to around 5G/serving for cereals like Wheeties. But milk is where you really get killed: 12G of sugar in one cup of skim milk.

A plain bagel will run you 4G of sugar also. If you are trying to keep your sugar intake to the recommended less than 36 grams a day, it is tough. And then there are the sugar substitutes that may or may not be good for you (e.g. monk fruit in supercoffee).
"Assume readers know the basics or will look them up ..."

I am taking a different approach with a new form I am experimenting with - the "Iceberg Article":

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html

The idea is that there are two complete treatments of the subject - the "tip" which is highly compressed and the "body"[1] which is fleshed out with notes, pictures, examples, subscripts, etc.:

"In this way, a concise and complete treatment of a subject can serve as a gateway to an extremely deep and rich well of content that does not distract from the parent work."

[1] Yes, I did start off properly referring to it as a "bummock" but I got sick of both reading and writing that word.
Both 1) and 2) are testaments to the effectiveness of Apple's marketing/propaganda, which has historically been their strength. Steve Jobs was a marketing genius.

The M1 may be a nice processor, but do people actually need a nicer processor? Before the M1, were iPhone users really going "gee I really could use more cores"?

Sure, faster tech is always better, but I'm of the position that the M1 craze is >95% marketing propaganda and <5% genuine "this is a qualitative and necessary improvement to my user experience".

Apple enthusiasts definitely want to believe that Apple is constantly innovating and ahead of the game. And there are a lot of them, notably on HN.
Very good question and long discussion. But the short of it is that people favored experiences over things with their spare income. A trip to Disneyland instead of a new TV. Now Disney seems too dangerous for many, so they buy more TVs. This is the most dramatic shift in consumer preferences ever.
have you ever seen a toddler on sugar? it transforms one into a werebear
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Maybe it doesn't count as added sugar but it should appear in the nutrients label, no?
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> The Justice Department was only interested in the case because Theranos operated in a highly regulated industry with lots of government oversight.

I don't think so. I think there were very powerful investors and others associated with the company (like board members) who were stung and embarrassed.

> SaaS and consumer tech startup founders lie and cheat and blow up investor money every day and no one really cares.

Do you have any roughly equivalent examples on the scale of the fraud and the people associated?

> All the wealthy investors gain nothing from Holmes going to jail. In fact the lengthy trial only drags them into the spotlight, which they'd rather stay clear of.

I disagree with this too. It's a good way to clear their names as it were ("we aren't greedy gullible idiots, she tricked us"), and a great way to send a message not to cross the ruling class.
For regular commits, sure, but for snap-shotting your work, I think it's fine. The backup branch would never be shared with anyone else, as you'd either push it to your own workspace/fork or to a clone on a mounted disk.

For this type of ephemeral backup of code-in-progress, I think storing it in git would be really convenient, because you'd just use standard git commands to find what you're looking for without having to deal with another tool.
The big shortage seems to be in microcontrollers and power ICs, not the kind of stuff you'd want to fab on TSMC.

Putting an STM32 onto N7 would be nuts.
I have mentioned above I’m in favor of shortening copyrights. I have my reasons, but I’m also asking to hear more compelling and clearly stated reasons than “I want free stuff” or “it’d be better for everyone if things were free” or “it should be free because big media is already rich”.

> I think that the majority of people who are invested in this issue imagine that they are just one bestselling book away […] The idea that someone else might re-upload and unfairly profit from their own habanero sauce snorting video, that they worked so hard to perfect, is anathema to them.

I wouldn’t be quite so glib. The history of copyright, and the state of the debate today, is far more interesting than your assumptions here. First of all, the driving force behind updates to the copyright law in recent years is big business, not TikTok memers. Second, the economic sectors of Information (based on copyright protected code), and of Media and Entertainment (based on copyright protected artwork), are larger than utilities, construction, education, and corporate management combined, for example. This is a large and core part to our economy and not something that is primarily being discussed because of a few artists with little more than hopes and dollar signs in their eyes.
Asahi is known to biased to anti nuclear for a long time. Japanese readers may consider the bias.
No apology necessary, thank you for the pleasantness in hashing it out. :)
>> test results where in general correctish, they where just not gotten in exactly the way it was claimed, which was also not noticable less reliable or anything.

Guess they just answered the question of "If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?".
For letting themselves be defrauded?
About 15 years ago, I worked at a small tech/political agency in DC. We got a new office just off NW 16th & K near the lobbying & financial areas. While I was setting up the server closet, I found a rolled-up blueprint from the office design. We unrolled it and... turns out it was built by Enron. Ken Lay had just died, so we always kinda-sorta felt haunted by his ghost.
Are you sure this is still true? I thought nowadays it's mostly what supplements they put in the feed. These supplements are sold exactly with this kind of promise.
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Orangeburg pipe is the tar paper stuff. It's a time bomb. Not only does it break down with use it also flows (flattens with gravity/overburden pressure, bends over unsupported sections run through walls/floors, etc) over time as well, especially in a hot environment. So even if it doesn't get much use it will collapse and/or stretch and break.
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I migrated off AWS in December and closed my account. With the outages, they are likely looking at revenue shortfalls. Outages don't scare me, but their billing practices are already uncomfortable. This may make them prone to be more stingy about bill forgiveness. Bill forgiveness is inherent in the unsafe billing model which makes even having the account open even more of a huge liability.

I'm done.
Have a life means different things to different people, but in the end the point is the same. Make friends, do hobbies... things that make life actually enjoyable.

Is cooking enjoyable? Sure, but spending so much time on it every single day can be a serious burden
The thing is, the metal has not been bare for a long time now.
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Evolution experiments in the lab mimic natural evolution. The ratio of functional vs silent mutations has also been used to characterize the evolution of viruses under natural selection.
I did not like that limitation either and get around it by using the Yubico Authenticator app with three separate hardware tokens configured with the same shared TOTP seed. There's also path to reset your root account access, btw.
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I disagree with you strongly.

I went on a 0 added sugars diet for one year.

My breakfast was primarily toast made from Natures Own brand bread (which is available at Walmart supercenters for a very affordable price), yogurt, and eggs.

I make my own yogurt which is EXTREMELY easy to do (I hate to do any cooking and prep and even I can do it). You basically get some yogurt from an Indian store which has live culture (you can eat it or throw it out, but you just need a teaspoon as a starter). You boil milk then let it cool to lukewarm temperature. Stir in the starter yogurt. Then put the light on in your oven and put the yogurt in over night. By next morning it will be yogurt. The purpose of leaving the light on in the oven is to keep the oven warmer than room temperature. You don't need to do that if you don't have cool nights where you live.

Dinner and lunch were usually pasta, grilled, cheese, or tuna. BTW, Rao's pasta sauces have no added sugar. They are available for very cheap at Costco. Canned Tuna, ground meat, and fish are also good to get at Costco. Rice as well.

Speaking of Costco, get Raw Honey there. Great prices.

For snacks I suggest nuts and fruit. I consume a lot of bananas and oranges. Also mangoes when available.

Honestly, the only time I was effected by not eating sugar was when people invited me to dinner or restaurant. In those circumstances I often had to just eat what was offered because I could not control the inputs.

Saying it's impossible to avoid sugars is a cliche spread by lifestyle agitators. Its only true if you basically want to autopilot through your life ... then yes ... sugar free food will not fall into your open mouth. Sugared foods will fall in.
Is sugar bad in high doses? Yes. Is anything bad in high doses? Oxygen - check. Water - check.

Let's try to be more moderate, lest one day there is a ban on poor dihydrogen monoxide...
Digital processors are not needed for "basic agricultural computations" nor for communication. A ham radio can work and transmit/receive information without any typewriter-like automation (both microphones and manual Morse code don't require computation) and you can do all the calculations needed for ordinary agriculture on an abacus if needed.

In any case, the extremely precise machining in large quantities required for any reasonable mechanical computer means that it's not a low-tech or high-reliability replacement for electronic computers, it's a very high-tech future solution to the limitations of current electronic devices. We can't make such devices now, we'll hopefully be barely able to make them in the future, but in the case of infrastructure collapse we'll lose the capability to make these advanced mechanical devices before losing digital devices.

And nowadays computing is so ubiquitous, that every horrible scenario would still leave us with huge amounts of computing power lying around. Soldering together devices out of scrap electronic components is a much more reasonable way of doing post-apocalyptic computation than any of this mechanical computing tech; If there was a real need, nowadays you could extract a dozen usable processors from a crashed car or modern kitchen - even excluding computers and smartphones, so many modern devices have random processor(s) that are more powerful than what people used as their primary computers some decades ago. Things like wireless headphones and washing machines have chips that could be sufficient for so many computing needs. Apple's Lightning to HDMI cable has a powerful ARM processor inside. etc, etc.
>12G of sugar in one cup of skim milk

None of which is sucrose, or added.
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Since the link is just to the user's profile, I think this needs a bit more context to justify the submission title. I.e. how do I know/verify this is 'a fake GitHub user'?
Ooh I used to have an amazing Kozmo keychain. When I lost those keys I was more upset about losing the chain than my house keys!