skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny to see words like "isolation" when so many people use their phone for what they'd more likely describe as "solitude," but also "protection," and in many cases things like "connection," etc.

So instead of allowing ourselves to be railroaded by someone's unfortunately one-sided choice of descriptors, maybe we should ask:

- Pacifier _and also_ therapeutic assistant?

- Adult _and also_ continually developing human?

Otherwise, playing one side of the dichotomy is by its nature demonstrating something far worse than a smart phone, which itself is a practical ocean of different engagement levels, options, and tools. It's demonstrating a single engagement level, a single option, a single way of using a tool.
I disagree with the author's view that any project that isn't used by other people is a waste of time. Does that mean that all homework projects in college are a waste of time? Or that beginner programmers should skip writing simple programs and jump straight into writing a sellable product? Of course not. The point of those projects is to learn, not to make anything that will change the world. If a project is enjoyable to you and you learn something useful from it, then it is not a waste of time.
Not sure about the weather comparison with the UK - its a lot wetter but the weather is more tropical (ie we get the rain in massive downpours, not drizzle).

House prices are very very high relative to wages and the quality is deeply average. Comparing house prices to London is not very logical, as the wages are nowhere near the same.

Dealing with covid - compare the death rate to pretty much anywhere. That was the point and what we wanted.
> Some of these conversations, Ben, I just find them delightful. We have these five whale customers that we’ve talked about, these are active conversations. Active, daily things and in that, the teams are now saying, well, what about the ultra low voltage threshold for the thin pitch library that we’re going to use in this particular cell? “TSMC is giving us these characteristics, you don’t characterize that corner.” Okay, guess what? Go characterize the corner! “Your PDK isn’t as robust as the Samsung or TSMC PDK is to describe the process technology for my team to simulate.”

I get where he's going with this but if you're ever on the other side interacting with a vendor you should be very careful about what, if at all you disclose that their competitors are doing. Vendors notice what they learn from your teams and if they know it is leaky they will not disclose things that make the technical side easier.

At a past gig we used the be the central point of contact for our vendors because we kept a strict firewall on the technical side between different product lines and SoCs.

The first instinct of most engineers when you're trying to evaluate something or get the best performance is to say "X does Y, why don't you do Y" or "X does Y, how can we get similar results" and you've just disclosed something and that vendor will notice. On the flip side if you build up that trust and are known to not disclose you can be read in on things that normally wouldn't be shared. This can be incredibly valuable when you're trying to close on a key technical issue under schedule/time constraints.
I’ve always suspected this sentiment to exist somewhere— essentially “death is the great equalizer (and thus good)”—but don’t think I’ve seen it until now.

It’s always been obvious to me that the problem with singular focus on inequality is precisely this — the easiest way for everyone to be equal is to be dead. This is appalling and a strong argument against a singular focus on inequality.

I would say the same thing about wealth. The easiest way for everyone to be equal is for everyone to be poor. So, make sure your preferred economic policies don’t follow this adverse incentive and just “cut the tall grasses”, so to speak, and just make everyone poor and/or limit upward mobility.
I don't think "the news" is actually all that good at informing people. "This happened and then this happened, and now for the weather" are facts and information without context, and without any real meaning.

I haven't watched the news for years, or read the newspapers. I do real articles from magazines and newspapers and books and such (from HN, among other places), which are far more useful. I don't really know what's going on in Ukraine right this moment, but most will have forgotten that in two weeks time anyway, so what's the point? Instead I spent some time reading up on the context a few weeks ago.

The news is also strongly biased towards negative events. The classic example is that "plane crashed" is big news, but that planes are actually very safe. "Man spills pint and gets punched" is news. "Man spills pint and it's all fine" is not. etc. It's not a particularly good reflection of reality.
I really enjoyed that book, there's also this earlier work by Edward O. Thorp and Claude Shannon - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf
Why don't you just travel in time and get the news from the future?
I'm curious to see how this would be implemented without building a China style Great Firewall which would be a very slippery slope.
So you genuinely believe that doxing the Russian aggressors is a bad thing?

What principle would this go against exactly?
The Ukrainian govt is officially using it.

Spreading FUD in this time does no one any good.
Brief History of Mathematical Thought was good, as was Music Of The Primes.
Very interesting. IIUC, the spiral antennas were... polarizing the signal, such that the Wi-Fi antennas couldn't "see" it, I think?

I'm curious how big the antennas (and effective output power) was in Afghanistan. That's pretty cool. I can't figure out what regulatory domain they're in, I wonder if they have one lol...
This is asymmetric warfare. Whether or not it's "good" in a vacuum is kinda irrelevant. This may enable Ukraine and its allies to make life miserable for the soldiers holding the country under siege.
The Geico ad at the bottom is fantastic! I take it they're somehow invested?
It depends what you mean by "secret." At some point, people decided that maybe we shouldn't be willy nilly broadcasting our SSNs, e.g. it used to be your driver's license number in many states. But given how widely it's used, most people (rightly) don't assume it's a deep dark secret.
I used to be anti mix. Now I'm 100% on the train. The simple fact is that the extra stabilizers and emulsifiers that are added to the mix don't detract from the flavor and texture at all, if anything enhancing the texture. Mixes are engineered to consistently reach a desired result. Krusteez pancake mix is a permanent staple in my house. If I feel like baking something like brownies, or a cake I'll go out to buy a mix on my next shopping trip. Cookies are probably the only thing I won't bother due to their simplicity.
DNS error, can't read the article.

Second, why do people in Ukraine need VPN? This isn't an uprising against an authoritarian government. They need internet.
Have they tried taking out an ad in the New York Times or asking nicely on HN? There's a certain art to getting your Google account back.
To solve a problem about 23 years ago I wrote a programming language + interpreter. It was meant to be a simple language to write phone surveys in, so basically a kind of DSL for a single purpose. The programmers who built the survey taking system that would use my language discovered they could write much of it in the language itself, which surprised me a lot. Was a really fun project. No idea what happened to it.
It's literally used in an official capacity by the Ukrainian govt.

Also, you're breaking rules here with your accusations.
There are few books with more eureka moments. Mine was discovering functional closures and object instances are two sides of the same coin.
EU finances the purchase, delivery of weapons to Ukraine
One comment there points out some differences with the operators in pg, which I don't entirely follow honestly.

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/a0d681bb2432eebc
To be fair to Microsoft,* there was customer pull for “desktop everywhere”. I remember asking 20 years ago at a city council meeting why they planned to spend so much on Exchange/Outlook rather than, say, Netscape.

The answer was that the Netscape icons looked different from Microsoft’s so lack of training costs would make MS cheaper. Sounds like bullshit but back then there was enormous learned helplessness when it came to anything computerish. Walk to any desk in most companies and there would be a stack of books to explain it all.

One of the best things about the iPhone was that it jettisoned all that crap and acknowledged that people aren’t idiots. The stores still offered free “training” for the fearful.

* strange, I know, as they were rarely fair to others.
Government of Canada prohibits Russian aircraft to enter Canadian airspace
You can swap keys on Windows too. So, hooray! You can use Windows on any of your machines!
I get your sentiment, but treating it like second hand smoke seems a bit silly. There's no health risk if a stranger on the train wants to be on their phone instead of talking to me.

Before covid, I went to a few speed dating events with a "no phone" policy. And no one had any trouble with that. We also already have "no phone" on occasion, like on quiet cars on trains.

So do we need cell phone free spaces enforced by law instead of social politeness? What spaces should be cell phone free.
No, just a general curiosity.
Nim never looked even close to Python for me, no matter how hard I squinted.
Google should reply: "Pull out of Ukraine and we will think about it"
Cells may be analog, but DNA is digital -- with error correction even (or error deletion at least). I don't know the details of the epigenome, so maybe that isn't digital?
That's not true. You don't need an ID to be protected by the Geneva convention.
I already live my life under this understanding. Regardless, I wish to continue experiencing the world for as long as is possible.

Could it be that an idea of self-worth tied to a metaphysical immortal soul stems from an attempt towards acceptance of death? What happens if that death is removed from the equation?
NATO is only obligated to get involved in defensive wars (and then, only for attacks in certain geographic areas.)

That doesn't prevent NATO action in other circumstances (likely, resulting from Art. 4 consultations rather than Art. 5.)
How to Checkmate Putin
And what’s left is essentially wireguard for logins. People love wireguard for its simplicity because it doesn’t use certs and PAKEs and whatnot. Yeah there are valid criticisms and I’ve critiqued the work as well in other comments. But the “this is utter shit how could anyone imagine this is a valid idea” is not productive.

> Honestly, this discussion isn’t worth the time.

That’s my point. If it’s not worth your time then let others who are interested discuss rather than just pissing all over the author’s project.

> - Softkeys are available—in fact, iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows 11 all do webauthn by default, without the need for a hardware token.

That’s not soft keys it’s “platform authenticator”.

When I say softkeys I mean keys managed by a user agent such that they can be portable, like is common with ssh. SSH is popular because it’s gives users the freedom to easily elect their security posture: do they want a user key that can be deployed to different devices or are they super paranoid and want a device key. Do they want a software agent to manage soft keys for them and it can handle the device security and hardware crypto engine support. Not your concern, not the protocols concern, not the services concern: it’s the user’s concern.

Wireguard has soft keys, too.

WebAuthn’s crowd and browser implementers on the other hand seem fixated on making sure users never have the option to deploy the protocol in such a way. That’s the problem.
There's a lot happening here, what a wide ranging post! Thanks for stimulating the mind.

I'd separate aging research from attempting to solve Alzheimers, PD, cancer, and other maladies. Cancer is ever-present, sorry to say but most people who read this have some small amount of latent cancer growing slowly. Maybe we will harness the immune system and new powerful drugs and techniques to remove cancer more and more effectively, until it becomes like infectious disease: a threat to all, but usually treat-able.

For aging research, however, we're in a different realm. Assuming someone didn't die from any common malady or old-age related ones, let's say they live to 105. What's likely to kill them then? Well, it could still be cancer, but it could also be solve-able issues like falling and breaking a hip (we could invent machines to prevent or lessen damage from falls). It could be cardiac events, strokes, things where the cardiovascular system has been through so many "duty cycles" that the parts reach their expiration date.

And this expiration date is where I think we'll struggle most. We need to make our hardware last much, much longer if we're to achieve immortality as biological-only entities. The valves of our heart, the vessels of our brain and heart, the operation of the lungs, the sensory organs, the kidneys and bowels: these parts need a lot of extra "lubrication" and "TLC" over our lifetimes if we're to get past the "Age Limit" which is probably around 120 years old.

I'd hesitate to put too much stock into aging research at present. It's in its infancy, and until it ages to maturity, it's going to be an over-hyped area for rich people to dabble in, but I doubt 99% of people living now will ever reach escape-velocity and reach immortality.
> But even Germany has found this courage.

If a bit late, but better late than never.
I worry that it's not about one big red button but gradual escalation.

Somebody decides that using tactical kiloton Nukes is the way to go and other side would not dare escalate further.

A lot of people think if they do the big fearsome escalation, then the other side will back off. Everything up to this point indicates this is Putin's logic. He may be over committed now - what option other than finishing invasion does he realistically have that preserves any goals or prerogatives? In some ways the rational thing, from his perspective, is to keep escalating until other side acts "rationally" and backs off.

It's all a giant game of chicken, and I am not convinced that all state leaders anywhere let alone everywhere are rational and fearful enough.
What would you expect the world to realistically do?

If you respond with nukes its nuclear death for everyone.

If you respond with forces it's still prob going to be nuclear death for everyone.

So uh... Yeah?
Democracy isn't a Boolean value, it's a cluster of loosely related concepts and practices.
No it's not, it's entirely chromium based, anything unique to edge, is reusable by chromium project, n vice versa for chrome.
I did this late last year. Got it within the month at MSRP.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps5/register-to-buy/

The only issue is that there aren’t a lot of PS5-exclusive games.
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
BS Company
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ve been looking for long form news.
https://archive.is/unLGg
>Still requires a chain of consent. No world leader is operating the missle silos themselves.

You can't be sure how strong the climate of fear inside the Russian chain of command is. Consider the common bystander effect: almost everybody is expecting somebody else to act and do what's necessary but inconvenient and potentially lethal.
> Singapore: 170

that seems suspiciously high compared to the other countries. Maybe it's all the VPN users from china?
How much should we watch? Serious question.

Because we can completely fill our days with what's going on in Ukraine and yet be able to do very little about it at an individual level and I'm really not sure that's good for someone's sanity.
And now that they are banned in a whole of EU, too.
WhatsApp how to protect and safeguard your privacy for our users in Ukraine
There’s alot of stuff stuck in the shipping channel or backlogged.

Not the same commodity, but as an illustration, I just got a bunch of 4k computer displays direct from an OEM. Normally we get stuff like this 30-60 days after manufacturing. These devices were tagged as last July and received a week ago.

I’ve been told that lots of stuff gets stuck waiting for final package assembly. (Ie the monitor stand, cable or even manual) Although chips aren’t end user products that have to have accessories, many require packaging or other subcomponents that may be lost in the mail.

Additionally, contracts prioritize certain customers, and many manufacturers don’t have good processes to deal with diversions. If you order 20,000 widgets, they may not stop shipping until to hit some high water mark. So when the US government say “emergency, ship me your widgets now”, your order gets “stolen”.

COVID response activity is winding down, so I’d venture to guess you’re going to see a lot of cancelled orders and chaos. Imo, you’ll see prices of consumer facing IT gear crash in the June-August timeframe as schools and students are flooded with gear, only to surge again as component makers retool.

Also, like gas prices (quick to rise, slow to sink), I think you’ll see manufacturers keep prices high in the many markets that are controlled by little cartels. Why sell Ford some chip for $1 when they are paying $12 today?
Context: BS Company are a member[1] of the open source "AgStack" initiative, as previously discussed[2] here on Hacker News.

[1] - https://agstack.org/members/

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086701
How is the response on HN puzzling and troubling?

I mean, HN got more polarized during 2016-2020. The issue in question is really, really important to people on one of the poles, and thus becomes an issue to people on the other pole.
IR light aka IR radiation is radiated heat. Our bodies generate it.
That's exactly how it worked in the first cold war. The Prisoners' Dilemma was formulated to model the consequences of nuclear exchange.
That's for Putin to decide, like it or not. Just like Hirohito decided to bring the United States into WWII.

That's what I mean, this kind of decision is made at highest levels of government, and meanwhile the rest of the country is fed propaganda to drag it along. (The conspiratorially-minded amongst us notice the weak state of American defenses at Pearl Harbor in 1941. If the Pacific Fleet had decisively repelled the Japanese attack US isolationism might have continued.)
The investing strategy for longevity companies is probably 49/50 have -90% returns but the you can't miss the one that actually achieves something.
Hi are there any updates for cyber issues, I read that Anonymous are causing issues for Russia whilst Putin does a Hitler and hides in his lair.
> it gets annoying to encounter the inevitable “If you do so well, how come you’re not rich or famous?” retort;

Do you actually get that question? Sounds dumb since “hard things” and “things that will make you rich” are some sort of classic Venn diagram.

Seems like a waste of time to answer since asker doesn’t know logical syllogism.
You should read Exhalation by Ted Chiang mild spoiler, but it is almost exactly what you're talking about, and a beautiful piece of writing.
It amazes me that the form factor of a phone has stayed with us for so long. I genuinely thought there would be some brain-computer interface by now that is invisible and we could interact with Google et al when we needed to quickly summon information about a topic / situation.
Judge Strikes Down Elite Virginia High School’s Admissions Rules
Why not hire part-time developers?
The narrow waist falls out of the end to end principle because when you push all the intelligence out to the ends, there is often only one reasonable intermediate/substrate; and all narrow waists in your article, whether TCP/IP or text formats, are driven by end-to-end concerns. The narrow waist is the special-case of the more important principle. Anyone who thinks about these issues will be thinking about end to end, so at the very least, you should discuss why you think narrow waist is more fundamental and important than end to end.

BTW, all NAPs are available online as a federal government body, all you had to do is google the title, no need to buy it: https://www.nap.edu/read/4755/chapter/1

While we're linking things, 'commoditize your complement' https://www.gwern.net/Complement is very relevant to web browser dynamics, and 'bitrot'/'bitcreep' are relevant to upgrading systems and choice of standards https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars .
Ukraine is lost.

Russia too.

Ramp up defense to the max and stay with it.
For a long, long time.
Do show strength, that is of utter importance.

Do not threaten their geostrategically important entry points they already took back in the last years.

Direct help to Ukraine is risky, but morally unavoidable.
Make the Russian pay for it heavily, but that also means the Ukrainians pay heavily.
And there is always the risk of that bright light over the baltics.

The Ukrainians may be a bit more than pissed, but the Russians would love to have hands on Odessa, Charkiw and Dnipropetrowsk among other things because of the weapons manufacturer there.
I say hands on, they don't need to be there personally.
That is what they mean with disarmament of the Ukraine.

You may get a puppet regime there and that admirably tough little fucker Wolodymyr Selenskyj out alive.
Oh, and yes, about two to four million Ukrainian refugees that somehow seem to prefer western decadence over Russian brotherhood.

That is what I meant with the Ukrainians will be a bit more than pissed.
They are fucked, plain and simple.
But then again, all smaller nations that trust global Powers are fucked sooner or later, aren't they?

Get those bloody Euros, especially Germans, get their shit together on their own in the long run.
I know that sounds impossible.
I have to know, I'm one of them, albeit one of their rarer specimen.

And for a long time it was a good idea for the US not to let them left without supervision.
They were responsible for two World Wars, remember?
But there is no other way, they, especially the Germans, have to bleed a bit to stand on their own.
They are cowardly and comfortable but for now stinking rich, so stirr them up.

Pray Putin dies early in his bed, with or without the help of some less paranoid fraction of the apparatus.
I doubt the latter.

If the Russians want to make it on their own, now with a grey Tsar after they had it with red Tsars and before that with real Tsars, or for that matter with the Chinese, let them do it until the arctic melts and they begin to catch the scent of danger there.

In short, do Cold War 2.

And never forget, whatever you do, the Chinese are watching carefully.
So show them what may happen.
No business, even if it hurts badly.
Field Stripping the AK-47 Rifle
The protests last couple of days feel way scarier than a year before, this time I pussied out going to Gostiny Dvor and decided to put some stickers on instead, as did other people - you can find one every several hundred meters in SpB.
But why would anyone buy anything with BTC?
In neuroscience absolutely, from behaviorism, to the cognitive sciences, to modern techniques of every grain size. Psychology is still awash though in pseudoscience.
Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)
You seem to know Putin very well. Better than I think any outsider has a right to claim.

The real reason why this happened is utterly irrelevant, but you seem to be a bit stuck on that subject as though there is a possible justification to be found there.

> No country respects the sovereignty of another when it feels threatened.

There was no conceivable way in which Ukraine was a threat to Russia. Full stop.