skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unusually strong neodymium magnets" were a popular young-adult toy in the late 2000s to early 2010s. I had them both in flat discs and little balls.

Now that I have a baby crawling around I pray that I haven't misplaced any in some crevice of the house...
> the wisdom of insisting that damn near everything be built from scratch, even the database system.

NIH is literally software cancer. We've done it dozens of times and it hasn't worked once...
Silent Stars: These are the workers you especially don't want to lose
Could you just be more specific about the storage method you're hoping I'll find on google? I know that there are a number of "viable" options for massive population centers in theory (or even in limited use today), but to call it a solved problem is, to my knowledge, incorrect
Interviewing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. I think take-home assignments have their own tradeoffs such as time investment by the engineer or the (I'm assuming) increased chance of cheating. You also still run into the question of what a standard take-home assignment should look like, and how to prevent take-homes from becoming a game in the exact same way leetcode has become a game.
I have working PDP-11/23 in my possession and last couple of months I’m trying to convince myself that I have enough soldering skills to solder four additional memory lanes on its backplane to increase memory limit from 256KB to 4096KB. Otherwise even though I install a processor able to work with 22bit addresses only 18bit addressing will be available.
So are they still using a steam engine to generate the electricity? Will the design of the steam engine working with this reactor be revolutionary?
Nobody is going to be willing to fork over the building maintenance fees (which will continue to increase over the years) after their mortgages are paid off.
That level of coordination among human beings has only been possible a handful of times in all of recorded history. And most cases involved wars or absolute autocrats, or both. Good luck forming any kind of an agreement between hundreds of thousands of independent companies and individuals across multiple countries. I can’t even get my wife to agree on what to order for lunch.
It must be there somewhere, a friend recently told me it’s in AUR - and I replied with “I don’t have mp3s anymore” he sent a screenshot of just under a TB of music.

I guess some people just moved to streaming (me) and others stuck true to their roots
Starting to wonder if Tesla is the biggest pump and dump of all time.
It's quite likely some people will come out of reading this thinking we should stop sending people to grad school. Shouldn't we instead take this as a signal that it needs improvement?

Grad students are one of the very few subpopulations of humanity allowed to take on extraordinary epistemological risks; a kind of immune system of our civilization. I'm not even talking about some elusive notion of "progress", just [intellectual] societal health. It would feel to me like a tremendous loss if we let go of such a component of society.
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) for open source projects
1) I think it's worth removing all gender-based forms of adversity from every field. These do exist in STEM fields in the forms of biases and microaggressions. It's not evil - it's human. It's just what naturally happens when a field is dominated by one group and our minds forms patterns. We must always take a conscious effort to combat it.

2) Women may not be interested (organically) in certain STEM fields. It's still worth figuring out if we can change that. Only after understanding what it would take should we have a discussion of if its worth it. The benefits are real. Every field could benefit from having more diversity in perspectives - just like every species benefits from having diversity in traits.
Among other reasons, you have to also consider the “winner-takes-all” type of network effect here: any new platform, however great the hardware & tools might be, will today have an extremely hard time luring developers to it’s non-existent user base, while at the same time users won’t be as attracted to the platform due to the lack of apps.

This is a vicious cycle for newcomers, and at the same time a virtuous cycle for the incumbent(s), further cementing their dominant position.
I'm looking for a small, hassle-free machine for my SO to play Cities: Skylines on. The screen would be wasted since it would only ever run docked, but if it turns out to be powerful enough, I'd be very tempted to get one.
>Not really, Capitalism have also been observed to do its thing without democracy as well

Prove it

> the USSR had lots of progress as well, but it doesn't make Stalinism a good system

Not morally or ethically, which I'll remind you, yet again is what we're talking about. Stay on topic

>Slavery? Racism? Colonialism? Property requirements to vote? Women suffrage? Supporting brutal regimes in the name of corporate profit? Famine while still exporting? Exploitation fueled by Capitalism's profit and growth motive? Climate and ecological disaster? People dying in the US due to lack of healthcare access?

Prove the causative relationship between these things and capitalism, and that they make up 80% of capitalism's history, your original assertion. Why did they exist before capitalism?

Why did many of these good things fail to happen before capitalism? Why do they happen virtually everywhere afterwards?

Capitalist countries are the most ecologically and climate efficient per capita and quality of life.

Exploitative compared to what and where?

Examine severe illness outcomes, pharmaceutical research, medical innovation, and general health of the US (meaning, US citizens have bad health habits) vs elsewhere before you make such ignorant comments.

>Come on, you're the one preaching, it's your duty to prove your extraordinary claim against history. Capitalism is like 400 years old.

Which is why it's remarkable how much progress has occurred under it in such a short period of time, literally my point

>Native American's societies for example thought of people being forced to wage labour their entire life for someones else's enrichment to be not much better than being a slave. Certainly not "freedom" in any case. Not to even mention their thoughts about the concept of private ownership of the commons, as in private property.

You continually speak authoritatively about subjects you clearly do not have any insight into. Native Americans practiced slavery & conquest. Native Americans had private property. They also hadn't invented the wheel and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people a year on top of pyramids. You're regurgitating well known popular myths. Stop deviating off topic

>What explicit examples?

China under Pooh's new crackdown on private property and capitalist tendencies vs it when it opened and extended private property rights. Estonia post-USSR. Zimbabwe vs Botswana. Just a few, modern ones, if we want to go back to the 18th and 19th century the trend was nearly universal in the west.
Even the original Setun machine worked that way, as it turned out, if we believe Willis Ware's contemporary report on Soviet computers.
I was a bit disappointed. I though they were going to implement their entire system using stored procedures. That would be “single dependency”. As it stands it is “all my app tier dependencies and postgres.
"No time soon". I'd be careful. I remember when Bill Gates said we would never need more than 128Kb memory. Crypto is giving huge incentive to speed up the development of quantum. We could get to 1 million qbits faster than many think.
The issue with the textbook market is that the people that pick them (departments, professors) don't actually have to pay for it. If colleges were forced to subsidize even a small % of textbook costs, we'd see an order of magnitude reduction in prices.
Cue the org-mode brigade! (Of which I consider myself a member.)

I haven't used FreeMind specifically, but when I hear hierarchical organization with folding, I remember the rabbit hole that I fell into 20 years ago...and still haven't climbed out quite yet. From Shadow Plan[0] on Palm OS, through so many others, and landing at org-mode for the last decade or so.

0: http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/downloads.html
I have never seen this meme
Siri, brake.
None those will ever happen unless developers/app companies for a union of some sort.
Did I say anything to indicate otherwise?

In my area nearly every high school including the one I attended offered great programs that for many lead to careers in the trades.

I know several people who were in one of the trades programs who decided it wasn’t for them and seemed to wander aimlessly just like many of my friends who went to university.

Maybe the issue isn’t opportunity for training or trades vs university?

On a side note a skilled trade career can pay very well, but is it reasonable to expect everyone will be a union-member or own a business? Union support seems to be declining in the US and owning and running is business is not for most people.
> So you think as long as the user can choose to leave, the platform is no an intermediary. I strongly disagree. Even if the user theoretically can choose, we have to consider the asymmetric information, high switching cost, and monopoly power that are so prevalent nowadays.

Some platforms rise to that level I think. Youtube is one example. Email doesn't really have that problem. Anyone can install an email server, and there are a huge amount of options (many of them "free") for those who don't want to run their own mail servers. Email is still a competitive space with different companies offering specialized services targeting people who want privacy, low cost, mass mailing capability, tracking features, etc. Email itself has a ton of competing communication protocols. There are plenty of folks who prefer to communicate over chat or by text. You can even keep an old email address and forward anything sent there to another one or use a separate email address for sending, but get replies at your old address. Switching email addresses is about as easy as it gets.
Me too, after using Android auto on one car it's a must-have on any new car for me. Better nav system, Google assistant, Spotify, podcasts, messages. Turns my car into a drive able phone.
ITYM "cachet" not "caché".
It's pretty easy for us to rotate keys now, since new WireGuard peers are extremely cheap to bring up (part of the point of the post is that for most of the last year, that was the opposite of the case, and a new peer was a very painful thing to ask for). But rotating WireGuard keys with Fly.io makes about as much sense as rotating the OAuth2 API token `flyctl` uses (the token is strictly more powerful than the WireGuard key), and people generally don't do that.
WSJ Editorial Board: The Message of Canada's Trucker Protest
Its not the tooling keeping people away from wanting to work for Netflix though. People want to work where they have creative freedom and reasonable expectations.
It looks like the article focuses much more on how the processes Apple employs are expensive, laborious, and challenging – which make them difficult to replicate.

> Pretty much no company, big or small, can afford to do these things. Yes, Apple has done a great job building many of these products and yes, consumers have come to love many of these difficult-to-manufacture features. But you are not Apple
And it's well worth noting that the iPhone came first, not the wave of developers. Apple provided the platform and potential, they put in enormous resources and effort to make the iPhone work out, to deploy a phone in a new manner (bending the telecom providers to their will). What existed for developers before the iPhone (the languishing Windows desktop, much amazing)? If the developers are the primary, why'd they have to wait for Apple to make everything possible?

It's because the developers are secondary. Apple is the primary, the key to it all.
Verbena is a plant... commonly used as a fragrance for lotions and creams.
This wasn't clear from my rambling above, but I don't think we are thought policed more than people in China, not at all. They are certainly limited in what they can do in other ways. But us having to appease to mobs or change scientific findings to not upset some subset of emotional people on Twitter is not progress, it's yet another cut in a death by a thousand cuts spiral we are in right now as a country. It would be nice to not have that added to the pile.
>TikTok is just a new pig at the trough.

This issue isn't a bee stuck in my presonal bonnet, but this is a fraudulent response that convinces nobody that didn't already agree with you. I'll explain why.

The people complaining about TikTok were probably complaining about the others for ages too.

Those complainers were shouted down with some version of "well, they're not THAT bad."

Now there is one actor that is seen (at least by some) as worse than the others. The difference in the actor is being raised as a reason to care about their actions (and maybe renew concern about the category of actions at large).

Your response that their actions are not novel is either ignorant or perpetuating a fraud.
Moden laptops ALL have dedicated low-power video decode. There is no modern laptop that will use 4W decoding video on the GPU. EVERY single modern laptop has a video decode IC that is optimized for mobile usage. Hell, AMD laptops even share their iGPU desgins, loosely speaking, with some smartphones.

> It is consistent with Apple's video decoding power requirement over the years. May be slightly lower given at one point it was 250mW. You could do your own measurement on your macOS with powermetrics utility.

No, you can't. powermetrics on macOS is not granular enough to do that. If you figured out a way, please be explicit on how you did it.
Ah, I see, so host and producer but not owner. Good to know!
Yeah, I was struck by the article when I first read it too. I suspect the author warrants a closer look; great writing.

I've always been intrigued by mathematicians, which is probably the best label for Pitts. That world can be as virtual as it gets. Based on his fascination for Principia Mathematica, I have the sense that Pitts may have needed the world to fit into a neat representation that he felt he could navigate. Perhaps when he found it didn't, he lost 'faith' and became untethered from it.
Idea : Offer enterprise package for companies to scrub bad review, but also offer premium account to see unscrubbed reviews. Win-win.
Different types of wealth have different Zakat values, and not all wealth is subject to Zakat (e.g. the value of your home does not count towards Zakat). For example, currency, including fiat, gold, silver and other precious metals, is at 2.5% annually. Livestock has a different calculation, and so does produce.

Bitcoin and ETH combined are over 1T USD, much more than the figure you quoted. That's 25B annually, imagine how many lives that can change. Not to mention gold, which is at 11T, so 250B annually. Insane money that can revamp the entire planet.

It's strictly superior to have a system based on Zakat than the insane income taxes that we have today.

> Neither Zakat or US welfare spending includes discretionary charity.

Zakat is the bare minimum required for Muslims to pay per year. Islam heavily encourages discretionary charity, called Sadaqah. Both approaches are complementary.
If you are an 80's kid there was a G.I. Joe toy based on this.

https://www.3djoes.com/skystorm.html
Yeah, I would argue that almost every market/segment in America is dominated by a cartel or monopoly.

Even things like commodities have hidden cartels and monopolies. Oil may be a commodity, but the refining facilities are most certainly cartel-owned. Agriculture is seemingly not a cartel, but ADM and Cargill dominate certain aspects of the supply chain and processing.

Instead I would argue that iterative game theory of free market economics would stabilize to a cartel or monopoly. Once one of the open competitors determines an advantage, and/or has substantial access to near-free capital (um, what's the interest rate of the last two decades?), then they can acquire their competitors.

Then they can apply barriers to entry such as regulation and lockin contracts with equipment suppliers and the like. Look at the practices of Intel to lockout AMD. Look at how Microsoft exerted power on PC makers. Once you are big, you can influence the suppliers and distributors to lockout competitors.

As long as size is an intimidator (and it almost always will be except to extreme examples of markets), it will be effective. The only time it helps is when it slows response until an upstart using an entirely different supply chain and technology (like Tesla) gains such a fundamental advantage they can't stamp it out.
I was told my apartment complex is owned by JP Morgan directly and managed by a California company Sares Regis. They've done a respectable job with upkeep in the 20 year old buildings and grounds. Maintenance, security, cleaning, utilities have worked fine or been taken care of in a reasonable timeframe. The apartments are a little cookie-cutter generic but that's fine with me.
Unrealistic price for providing content which technically you don't even own.
I no longer have access to send you the exact dates, but it was along the lines of what you can see here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63464398/new-date-return...

I just tried it in my Safari and it seems to give you an "Invalid Date" which it doesn't in Chrome.

Not sure if it's a bug, maybe a design choice. Anyway, in my case I received dates from a backend and was supposed to visualize a chart with them and some supplementary data, so I had to parse them and at some point we learned that the chart was broken for users in Safari because they'd get "Invalid Date" after parsing.
Few weeks ago I actually installed WinAmp because I needed that nostalgia dopamine hit of Milkdrop visualizer and those sweet skins. I downloaded some mp3 files from a YouTube playlist using FFMPEG. Unfortunately none of the mp3 worked. I think it was an encoding issue. Then I remembered the last time I faced a media file encoding problem was close to a decade ago.

We take granted how good VLC or MPC-HC as software are.
This french dude has been building a GT40, documenting everything along the way on its youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminWorkshop ( in french )
ReBCO tape is the specific high-temperature superconducting material they're using.

Another important material is FLiBe, which is a liquid that I think absorbs the energy from the fusion reactor. I don't really understand the properties that make it particularly well suited to the task, but I gather it's important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_barium_copper_oxide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiBe
> Given Musk's email about SpaceX being close to bankruptcy, how will this affect them financially? Can SpaceX survive without a bailout?

Musk clarified that stance on Twitter. They are not in fact close to bankruptcy. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1465793233729069063
For cryptocurrency wallets, replay attacks aren't a possibility because they wipe themselves after a few attempts.
ultrasonic for sharing instantiation
Wean is large and horrible, but 1. I can't find any evidence that it was ever the largest and that never came up when I was a student (I did hear it won awards). 2. Philosophy is in the Humanities department which is in different buildings.
If utilities gave them any other way, I'm sure they'd be using it.
I don't know about lithium in compost, but in general, composting breaks down many pharmaceuticals (again, apart from certain chemo drugs). Composting does destroy some anti-cancer drugs like Salinomycin.

PFCs may accumulate almost regardless, although I assume composting helps. After all, composting can break down gasoline, diesel, and TNT - though of course you shouldn't add them to a compost bin! Quoting The Humanure Handbook (4th edition) page 115: "About half the sewage sludge (biosolids) produced in the USA is applied to land, providing a significant opportunity for contaminants to enter soil systems and to bioaccumulate over time..." And page 117: "For example, brominated fire retardants were still found at almost eight thousand times higher concentrations than background concentrations in soil samples twenty years after the last application of biosolids. In another study, fifteen out of nineteen pharmaceutical drugs were still present in soil six months after being irrigated with contaminated wastewater."

So PFC accumulation is already happening but not because of composting. It's happening because sewage sludge is being added to farm fields and new housing developments.

This is part of why I cook with clay (in solar cooking) and stainless steel on the stovetop. That way my nutrient loop (eat, excrete, compost, grow more food) has the absolute minimum of PFCs and other contaminants.

For more information, read chapter 10 of The Humanure Handbook (4th edition) by Joseph Jenkins.
The "illegal" thing they're referring to is fiduciary responsibility. The board and officers of a public corporation have a duty to do what is in the best interest of the shareholders. The question then becomes what horizon is "in the best interest" of the shareholders.
The board will say “yes” in their response cc’ing the leadership.
Moore's law added 5 zeroes to the transistor count in 40 years. Deep learning compute does a similar feat in just 5 years. So my uninformed guess is encryption could be cracked before the decade is out, but if not still in most people's lifetime. Way before this happens BTC has either lost its value or its ECC has been dramatically upgraded.
sharing instantiation (ultrasonic)
How to hack SPF, DKIM и DMARC [pdf]
Kind of a tangent, but is anyone else pissed off that Android doesn't offer a way to simply disable the microphone system-wide? It could be toggled in the notification bar in the same way that Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. can today.

I have to use Zoom lately, and my solution is an old Android tablet that I don't use for anything else. I opened it up and physically disabled the built-in microphone. I use a headset for meetings, and simply disconnect it from the tablet when the meeting is over.
I was coming to mention this, though I think my memory goes back to some LISP machine (and was related to car/cdr and related encoding if I'm not mistaken)
Ten things we know to be true (2009)
This document has existed at a number of URLs over the years. Previously:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111230141753/http://www.google...

Numerous previous submissions, though no substantial discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The linked study that he consulted is behind a paywall. From context, it sounds like this is specifically referring to negative mental health outcomes due to PhD studies, which is not all grad school. The title seemingly can't possibly be correct as written, given schools of public health and medicine exist and have to produce some net positive benefit. It's not like public health globally hasn't improved since we discovered the germ theory of disease and medical licensing became a thing. Making some small number of people depressed isn't nearly enough to offset all of modern medicine.
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They're obligated to act in the interest of shareholders. That usually means profits, but could very well be other things.
Charging for API compatibility issues sounds like a dangerous precedent.