skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every tech company executive in the USA is not required to operate as an agent for one political party by threat of being disappeared. Our entire internet is not locked down to prevent political dissidents from sharing their views. Our government doesn't pay to flood our social media networks with astroturfing to create the illusion of popular support for its policies. These things add a more serious tone to the conversation, don'tcha think?
> At one class at my university (an early chem class) the author of the book was also the professor of the course.

I came to the comments to make this point. I had several professors with massive egos that made you buy their crappy book for their class. I remember on at least a couple of occasions the book wasn't even used!

At the other end of the spectrum, we had professors which used regular tech books for the textbooks and supplemented with lectures as appropriate. I much preferred this approach.

Frankly, the entire US higher education system is a racket and is long overdue for disruption.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_...

Trump admin tried to restrict its use, at least among government/military, and perhaps predictably he was accused of racism/sinophobia...but the threat was just as real then as now.
I'm going to engage because there's nothing pathetic about these guys.

I bet many people said people like "Thomas Edison", "The Wright brothers", and "Steve Wozniak" were "sad and pathetic" like you say as they tinkered on their projects.
ITER is a bit too optimistic IMHO. For example I've always found the "UNLIMITED ENERGY" on their website a bit funny https://www.iter.org/
True, but if we can crack fusion energy, we can stop burning fossil fuels and we might even have ample energy to extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
On a somewhat related note, Mazda has said a few years ago that they will be staying away from touchscreens. I'm not sure if they've followed through. https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
thank god for nitter
Teams only show 4 streams at a time on Linux, the video/audio quality is mediocre and the video quality in the webclient is worse than the one using an Electron container, probably to force the app. Screensharing always tends to get stuck after a while, and they ignore any requests to start supporting Wayland, even while it takes minimal changes(update Electron).

Nowadays it's easy to setup your own conference server, and use webbased clients that don't require yet another Electron container. For instance, Galene(https://github.com/jech/galene) is an excellent resource-friendly SFU built on top of Pion(Golang).

Shameless plug: I'm the author of Pyrite(https://github.com/garage44/pyrite), an alternative WebRTC frontend for Galene
> we, as a culture, have a problem seeing and planning across generations

From a political perspective, there is little incentive to plan further ahead than the current administration.
New Research into iOS Apps Tracking
Ah, yes, I can see it now, but that option is almost invisible for me. I have to operate some scroll buttons at the edge to see the words "ASCII Extended".
>>The 2020 presidential election monitoring project successfully recruited a diverse group of 732 registered voters in three battleground states: Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina. It preserved more than 500,000 ephemeral experiences on Google, Bing, Yahoo, YouTube, and Facebook. These are the fleeting experiences that Big Tech companies use to influence votes and opinions worldwide and that are normally lost forever.

>>A preliminary analysis of the data shows that Google search results (but NOT search results on Bing or Yahoo) had a significant liberal bias – enough to have shifted at least 6 million votes in the months leading up to the election.

You need to know the methodology being used to understand the results, as they tracked ephemeral experiences using surveillance software with volunteers.

This guy needs a website team in the biggest way. It's hard to find the information and it's scattershot. It's very frustrating because the work he's doing is solid. Don't let the shitty web presence deter you.

The Rogan podcast was awkward af but he does provide a lot of substantive content if you're open to listening.

https://www.aibrt.org/index.php/internet-studies is probably the most coherent site, but there's no salient tldr breakdown, to learn more you'll need to watch the videos.

https://youtu.be/-7qT_38iRSc is the most comprehensive video, but I'll need to spend more time later to gather better links.
Plate tectonics has everything moving, so although I am an amateur, it seems the fact that the British Isles are moving away from Europe doesn't prove much.
Ukraine and the Threat of Nuclear War
I wonder if the accessibility as far as the media goes to Facebook staff and willingness to engage with the press exposes Facebook a bit more than TikTok.

That's kinda a scary situation...
I do. Great to give the first upvote (or click 'vouch') and later find the submission with lots of comments on the frontpage.
Qplasma. Supposedly, with Qplasma > 20 Qtotal should also be > 1 with current magnet tech.
Do you have an idea of what your ideal life would be?
> bet for sustainable and clean energy

The best bet for sustainable and clean energy is to stop using fossil fuels and figure out how to deal with the economic consequences.

I feel this optimism around this far off solutions for decades has been just a detrimental to climate action as out right climate denialism.

Growing up in the 90s I was always told "everything will be fine, since we'll figure it all out with technology". It wasn't until decades later, when I kept hearing this promising but seeing CO2 emissions rise that I looked into the details and realized how incredibly in danger our society is, as well as how nearly impossible to solve this problem is at this point.

The reason we shouldn't put our enthusiasm into it is because it's a distraction from the fact that we may already be past essential limits in our climate system and if we want any chance of survival as a civilization and potentially species we need drastic action now.
As a European, I would be happy to ban TikTok, but also Facebook and all its subsidiaries (Instagram, WhatsApp) and Google and all its subsidiaries.

It's not like others are better, but those three are the worst when it comes to spying shaping public opinion only because they are the biggest and most powerful.

If I had to choose who will influence the public in my country, let it better be some company (or government) that has my country interest first, and not China or the USA interests.
We are in the galactic habitable zone.
Fun fact - solar energy production over a year only differs by a factor of 4 between worst and best reasonably inhabited places.
I am not oppressed. My work does not depress me. But the key point of TFA (and Seneca's letter that inspired it) is that the details matter less than you think: the "oppression" of the Box of Daily Reality comes more from the way you think about it rather than its actual contents.

There are plenty of days when I reflect on how it was just another day, same old same old, completely predictable. Granted, I don't have to put up with the BS of a regular job, which eliminates one aspect of the Box of Daily Reality for me. But then again, I work (mostly alone) from home, and so my days involve very little physical interaction with anyone. Equivalent to the suffering of slave labor? Probably not, but just a different element of my particular Box of Daily Experience.
No thanks, don't need any more authoritarian moves from presidential over reach. Privacy laws for companies making X$ in yearly revenue is much saner approach.
Let's stop putting sugar in water; that should solve most of the problem.
It's also one reason most Senators are millionaires.
It’s not we’ll defined in the post, but there are some easy examples.

Rainbow wallet is just working on a wallet with nicer UX: https://rainbow.me/

OpenSea, Coinbase, FTX - basic exchanges supporting the market.

Trezor and Ledger make nice hardware wallets.

If you’re specifically asking about companies that have their own token for something, I think urbit’s use of NFTs as IDs for their network is a cool use that makes sense.

The automated money markets are also pretty interesting and not scams.

On the NFT art side, BAYC has been making cool stuff and owning one of them is basically an entry ticket. The community membership aspects of this are more interesting to me, the art and it’s associated status is just what enables that.

I know less about city coins but I like the idea of a way to incentivize a group to do what’s best for the city - could be a way out of NIMBYism. It’s interesting at least.

Cryptocurrency has utility in its current state, but it’s a frontier. I think the Bitcoin for open minded skeptics post does a decent job discussing it.
Either that, or cost-savings.

One off-the-shelf touchscreen... vs. lots of little custom-molded and printed analog parts that have to be assembled by costly robots or costlier humans. Big savings, I think.

Whatever the case, it sure isn't because people like touch controls in their cars. Holy shit, what a universally reviled "feature."
>didn't all data just go to the NSA.

"all" is so general that I think it's kinda hard to really address that.
It's for the purpose of making it natural; and there's no need to delay it.
Did you notice the most likely reason? Slightly to the right, of the line of bollards, there is a small patch of road and another strong white line.

Kind of almost 1 meter, ( 3 feet) wide.

So it thinks the tiny patch between the bollard, and the right most white line, is the right driving side of the road.
There is an obvious difference though. As an individual, you provide a small amount to a collective pool kept by a third-party. You can't do much with the effective amount, but the combined wealth of all of an insurers premiums is quite a large amount of money.

As an insurer, you're essentially a deposit-only bank with some special cases that allow you to withdraw (make a claim). You have a large amount of money that you can now invest and make actually meaningful profits. What you trade for that is the assurance that should someone require a large sum of money for a loss, you will pay for it.

I don't really now where people get the idea that insurance companies are just sitting on the stacks of cash they pull in from premiums. You have a minimum reserve you have to keep to assure you have enough to cover claims, just like a bank doesn't have your cash on hand all the time. (You all should watch It's a Wonderful Life sometime.) The long run expected gain from a "properly priced" insurance product is net zero (in reality its usually a loss). They make money off your money, not directly off selling insurance.
Certainly not Western Europe.
So? Those stories are interesting.

Disney is like any other BigCo. They have a million stakeholders pulling things a million different ways and they need to chart a course.

Finding Nemo could have been a hilarious comedy or it could have been a drama that criticizes modern society (depending on which way you want to spin it). Replace the clownfish with disabled vets. Replace the turtles with some hippies in a bus. Replace Dory with a stripper. Replace the sharks with a biker gang. Replace the whale with a rent-seeking small town police department. Replace the dentist's boat with a greyhound bus across the country. Etc, etc.

But they didn't, they chose to stick a kid's movie with what is a fairly heavy adult plot line at its core (and they distanced it even further by using animals). Why? That decision making process is its own story.
And the house always wins.

There is no self-respecting, intelligent way to use Twitter.
Full self defrosting is right around the corner, if regulators don’t block us it will be GA within a quarter.
Spoiler alert, yes!
Yes. Of course you probably wrote this because people are saying that deaths with Covid are not the same as deaths from Covid.
These remotes (iClicker) are in widespread use for large lecture hall classes at major universities. I don't know why they can't replace it with an app or something, but supposedly the point is that they work as an attendance measure because they only work when you're physically in class.

They're about $30 used and there's a large supply of them because you don't use them in higher level classes. IMO not the worst scam in academia compared to $200 book and homework combos
Yet the site does not have access to biometrics. What point are you making?
The metaverse is a new word for an old idea
If we're using price as a proxy for environmental cost, it seems irrelevant whether it's paid up front or over time.

Lifespan certainly matters, but the financial structure doesn't.
From the post (emphasis theirs):

> Our mission is to make app logic accessible to the entire team, including developers, designers, and stakeholders. Using state machines and statecharts as a common visual language, the software development cycle becomes more collaborative, eliminating handoff and tightening the feedback loop.

For me the more interesting benefit is how it might help an individual developer with designing/coding complex machines in the first place. Many devs value instant visual confirmation after each tiny code change, in a tight feedback loop that leads to a smooth, creative flow state. The GUI side of front-end dev is usually done this way in frameworks like Next.js. Using this new Stately editor via its VS Code plugin might create similar conditions when working on core application logic.
> One of my favorite theories on why time feels like it accelerates as you get older is that your brain tends to only store unique memories.

My theory is that it's less that it only stores unique memory, but it is always trying to resolve things into generalizable patterns. Kind of like a compression algorithm - but in this case not always accurate or reversible.

For me, time during the pandemic has been flying by because every day is nearly the same. Wake up work, maybe excercise in the evening, play video games, sleep.
I think their house was made of earth (rock).
Ask HN: Why does SpaceX want to launch Starship from Texas instead of Florida?
Show HN: ValidKube – Validate, Clean and Secure Your K8s YAML
perfect, that'll keep the motorists at home!
>In my world, the ability to recover your account if you lose everything is a hard requirement for any product that is meant to reach mass adoption.

I don't think it matters as much for messenger attached to your phone number. Even if you lose all your conversations you still can be reached by the same identificator and most of your contracts are stored in phonebook anyway.
That's a coverage artifact - if Google is manipulating politics in favor of democrats, then the only coverage you'll find is going to be on the center to the right wing platforms. American media in all its glory.
They just join the labour force like everyone else. They'll just be 41 doing the job that other people did at 21.

I have a friend whose family weren't wealthy but they tolerated him playing video games and bumming around not doing much else for 15 years after he finished uni. He eventually had to get a job. Sure, he's behind his peers in terms of salary/career advancement now but not by so much where I'm even sure he made a mistake by avoiding work for so long.
I refuse to download TikTok because I think we've reached peak social media and don't need another app that siphons off data and turns it into gold ingots. Besides, TikTok videos leak out into other platforms and you can tell by the little logo in the video that it was ripped from TikTok.

It's just Vine 2.0[1]. Many Vine videos got ripped and re-posted to YouTube so we have a small piece of internet culture surviving the death of an app and preserved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
Seems like that only works in full screen mode though
I'm not really sure about that. The promise of fusion power is so great that it would be idiotic not to throw money at it.
The US was spending a billion a week in the Afghanistan war.
So a bug in the HD Radio app which has some very poor process architecture/sandboxing if it can take over the whole interface.
> theories on why time feels like it accelerates as you get older

My theory is that everything takes a little longer as you get older, but in very small increments, so you don't really notice it. E.g., getting ready in the morning takes just a few seconds longer each day as you get old and slow down, but you remember it taking a set time, say 30 minutes. Then one day, you're up to 40 minutes, but it still feels like 30 to you. Aggregated across your myriad daily activities, and you're either getting the same amount of things done in a day, but your day is "shorter", or you're just running out of time altogether, because "where did the time go?" So, you perceive that time is moving faster, because you're getting less and less done in the same span.
Does your native country use a different language and you have something set to it on your phone? I had a Korean friend get freaked out by similar, but we figured out that he had something fingerprintable set to use Korean even though his interface was set to English.
Even without fuel, geothermal still has constraints. Where can we build it? What are the build costs and costs to run (maintenance, staffing, etc)?

I doubt we can scale geothermal indefinitely. Fusion might suffer from similar constraints, but afaik, doesn't need "much" space or specific geographic structures.
I can understand that perspective. There's always a personal and professional decision and tradeoff, ideally done in a conscious and informed manner, of specialization vs generalization.

My world is drastically different than the mean HN poster I think; but I'm fairly convinced that by number of people it employs, it may be the more common one. There's just a lot of boring but eternal business applications out there.

FWIW, I've been a "PeopleSoft person" for 25 years now. So from that perspective I'm specialized, but I would not call it a dead end. In that time I've also worked with Windows Linux AIX HP-UP; with DB2 on mainframe and unix, Oracle on Unix and Windows, even MS-SQL once. On premise, hosted, and now even cloudy. Done development, database administration, system administration, upgrades, performance testing and tuning, data disaster recovery, infrastructure architecture, etc. So I've led a wonderfully diverse, interesting, challenging and satisfying career - inside a very specific niche ecosystem :) . Around me are respected professionals with DEEP and profound understanding of that ecosystem, who do their job exceptionally well, consistently deliver client value, and most of us find our own kind of variety. None of us feel "exploited by the employer", for what it's worth (I have fair control of my career and direction), and are generally satisfied with our chosen lot in life.
2^255 - 19, describes the finite field over which the elliptic curve is defined.

The "keyspace" in the sense of valid public keys is really defined by the order of the curves generator, G, which in this case is approximately 2^252 ish. Due to the curve having a co-factor of 8.
Mazdas don't have touchscreens, incidentally. It's one of their design constraints.
I'd say you're well within your rights to reject it for any reason, but particularly if you WFH you will interface with it a lot.

And teams is kind of annoying for those reasons and more, although for me it is a tolerable pain.

But you also have to weigh up whether the pros of the role outweigh that con as well, otherwise you might be doing yourself a disservice by focusing on that one issue.
China didn't specifically "ban" US social networks because they were US social networks. The companies themselves didn't want to comply with Chinese laws so they cannot operate there.

It's the same as Facebook now threatening to leave the EU if they have to comply with EU data protection laws.
Has been like this for a long time before brexit and was surprising to me too when I moved to the UK nearly 20 years ago. “Europe” in colloquial use in the UK usually refers to mainland Europe, not the British isles (or even Ireland)
You missed the joke, which was about covid.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/01/06/spacex-deploys-49-more...

This had 48 satellites, so definitely a dedicated launch.
But the thing is that any movement of tokens on the blockchain is public for all to see. It removes a government's ability to do things in secret. With centralized systems, shady stuff is happening all over the place. Systems get hacked all the time, funds are stolen by ex-employees without anybody noticing.

It's naive to not see how corrupted and hacked the majority of modern centralized systems have become... Big companies are constantly paying off hackers to avoid DDoS attacks. All this stuff is happening silently and constantly behind the scenes. Adding a layer of transparency to money transfers can go a long way.
It's also possible to decode this data with an RTL-SDR receiver:

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/displaying-live-weather-and-traffic-...
Check out the below learning materials.

[1] https://teachcomputing.org/home-teaching
[2] https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/teaching-resources/home...

Some of them are worksheet based and help kids learn critical thinking , logical reasoning. I liked a activity to make the kid draw different houses he/she sees around and group it based on some characteristic.
WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
Because they own the facility? Otherwise, they have extra cost of going through a government facility with extra regulations and oversight.
Time will inevitably put these long serving boomers in the grave. I have a hard time thinking the next generation, growing up in a more multicultural, tougher (economically), progressive time will share the same values.
>> That's a really sorry state of affairs. We should be able to trust our OS to work only towards our best interests.

Yes, It's sad that browsers offer better security than our OS. I also like to point out that browsers pioneered tabs because the GUI toolkit and DE developers failed to do a good job at opening multiple documents well.

Another case pointing to failure with our OSes is the fad of running in containers. This is an extra layer doing what the OS should be offering.

The problem is our OS security models are a relic from the 1970's.
You don't need a chat bubble
>Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline,
Curious, not sure I know exactly what this graph looks like. Also looking for this, it's hard to find. Some graphs certainly show an increase since 2000. But they are poor sources I wont share.

As a Canadian, I find this source acceptable. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...

Which this source and others say the opposite. That the problem is getting better.

Keto's re-emergence was in 2017 or so. So not really included in the data. Keto is also not a widely accepted diet, so impossible to account for in wide data like this.

>which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period.

Take this for example: Again 2016... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/

Or a more recent one: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltex...

Modern science is very clear that it's sugar that is causing cardiovascular disease.
Vine FAQs
Humor can sometimes get through.
While mostly being angry they can’t display the crassness of the new even richer class.

The Guilded Age on HBO right now is a great show about this.
Nothing short of amazing, an extremely small budget made up for a very large dose of ingenuity and craftsmanship, what's not to like?