skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps also practical for intersecting applications: "These Superabsorbent Batteries Charge Faster the Larger They Get: In the lab, the prototype quantum batteries are charged with light" https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-battery :

> Previous work found that matter could act collectively in surprising ways due to quantum physics. For example, in "superradiance," a group of atoms charged up with energy can release a far more intense pulse of light than they could individually.

> In the past decade, researchers have also discovered the reverse of superradiance was possible—superabsorption, with atoms cooperating to display enhanced absorption. However, until now superabsorption was seen for only small numbers of atoms.

[…]

> The new device consists of a reflective waferlike microcavity enclosing a semiconducting organic Lumogen F orange dye, which the researchers charged with energy using a laser. Ultrafast detectors helped the team monitor the way in which this dye charged and stored light energy at femtosecond resolution. As the microcavity size and the number of dye molecules increased, the charging time decreased.

Could a combo PV photovoltaic, storage, full-spectrum e.g. LED product for outdoor and/or indoor applications be created with super absorption, , and superradiance?

Maybe also wrap the thing in thin film (and/or graphene sheets that throw off electrons) to harvest energy off the thermal gradient around the unit; and shape it like self-cleaning petals.
Looking at the paper linked to in the article[1], I'm having a hard time not dismissing this immediately. There are several implications to this theory:

- Information has mass.

- Information cannot exist at absolute zero.

Does this mean that bringing a hard drive to absolute zero changes its mass and erases its contents? Does the information somehow come back after the drive is warmed up? Also there are many ways to represent information: magnetic charges on a spinning platter, electrical charges in SSDs, physical impressions on metal, graphite on paper, etc. Do all of these get destroyed at absolute zero? I don't know how that's reconcilable with the rest of physics.

1. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794
(I made some edits to the previous post, as I figured out you may have talked about people working with you rather than clients)

> I have no issues getting my enterprise customers to configure SSO, so there's no practical reason for me to support password login.

I'm not really sure what you mean when you say SSO. We use Google workspace at work, and use the sso in several of our products. Still, since workspace admin prompts us to relog every damn time, some colleagues use the service account to perform workspace actions. That's a hole of course, as the service account is not supposed to be used for user actions, but it's also more convenient.

Another example, of which I'm guilty, was my previous work's VPN 2FA policy, which my team conveniently skipped with a script doing the oauth call. Of course, not everyone did the script properly (because prompting for your password takes a couple more lines), and so some of us may have had their credentials in the bash file.

This kind of shortcuts is hard to avoid for technical users, and so the golden rule for security in my opinion is that it should be easier to do the right thing. Unfortunately, each person has a different definition of friction, so it's not an easy topic.

> What do you mean by invasive security practices?

It's obviously a personal criterion. To me, invasive starts when people want to get in my phone. It's not really arbitrary, since my phone is a piece of garbage that has no security, but it's a personal thing since others may prefer to have a phone solution.
Just this once, I want to contribute a "view from the inside" on how things work in Russia [in my opinion].

Sure, some people are hoodwinked by the propaganda. However, a weird misunderstanding is that "if they new what the Truth was, they would surely relent".

From what I've gathered growing up in Russia, that's not quite the case. I don't know why, but a lot of people here have a very apathetic view on politics. In that even if they knew all the "real truth", they wouldn't go into "fight mode", but would instead go into "man, same shit as usual, our life's about to get harder" mode.

I've just chatted with some friends who don't support the war effort in any way and are just as dismayed as your average European Joe (Giuseppe??) (and they have relatives in Ukraine too). What struck me really hard is that once again I had a glimpse of this weird mentality, whereby the person laments being in bad circumstances and start doing a lot of planning (and hoping) on how to deal with the coming misfortunes. Taking control of the change and nipping the said misfortune in the bud is just plain out of sight!

With this in mind, the problem that needs to be solved, in my opinion, is the "victim mentality" in the population, rather than the "misinformation", since "solving" misinformation would seem to push people into the usual victim loop.

Just my 2 cents, and I'm no one and my opinion is based solely on more than a decade of life in Russia.
Unfortunately, they seem to have the attitude: we have standard libraries. Any library you need is already bundled with the default install of FPC/Lazarus
It would also help an adversary that only needs to know your one password.
It is perverse that vehicle registration isn't limited by law to at-cost fees.
Thank you - we'd love to see more OSS support from FPGA vendors too and we'll be watching closely for any developments there.
1. Try passwords until you get locked out

2. Engage with IT to unlock

3. Reset password flow

4. Iterate on new password as the complexity requirements you fail are slowly revealed to you

5. “Password cannot be the same as previous n passwords”

6. End up with an even more forgettable variation

7. Sign in again across all your now-invalid sessions across a dozen apps and devices.

8. Apply liberal amounts of 2FA + push-based and email or txt confirmations to the above for extra hate from users.

9. Repeat forever because obviously there is no better way to do this, but GraphQL and NFTs are going to save the world, let’s work on those instead!
Full schedule out - https://github.com/dipy/dipy_assets/raw/main/DIPY%20Workshop...
Bitbucket Server and Gitlab have this feature and it's quite useful for very large pull requests as you can easily see the folder structure of the file you're reviewing, for that bit extra bit of visual context. Bitbucket's search box is slightly better because it also does a code search within the PR, it helps you quickly find specific words (say, a class name) across all the changed files. Gitlab's only does a file name filter.

Though relatively late, I am glad it's coming to Github, more people can benefit from this kind of pull request presentation.
> Employers who ask their employees to sign immoral and usually illegal non-compete clauses deserve whatever they get, honestly. Employers should expect their employees to go work for competitors when they leave.

That's my point as to why employers want to immediately stop access to employees who leave for competitors.

> An ecology management company fires and ecologist and they clutch their pearls when that ecologist goes and works for another ecology management company, instead of McDonalds!?

You can word it that way, but what can and does happen is that employees leave and steal confidential processes or information to boost their own value at a competitor. Many people agree with you, until they start their own company and theft happens to them, draining their work straight to a competitor.
Everything is amazing, nobody is happy
I'm a native english speaker and I think you're mistaken. Both are correct. "Wear a gun" is less common but carries an important distinction.

I like this usage right here:

> A gun holster is an accessory which is designed to allow someone to wear a gun on his or her body.

https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-a-gun-holster.htm
Over the past year I've taken to just buying my music and using plex/plexamp for the streaming convenience. I'd have a hard time going back to other streaming services after getting used to the convenience of having control over the entire chain. Buying music also serves as a nice way to spend digital credit from Amazon.

It ends up costing me about as much as streaming.
Basically the Stasi of Russia, no?
I don't notice the texture at all.
Got a favorite source for same? I'm bewildered by too many options and not enough comparisons.
Pedantry that isn't needed. Offering such things is unneeded unless someone is asking for better wording.
Cause they can manipulate the market and don't have to give 30% of their income to an unchecked monopoly
> Because employers see how some employees act as they depart, even though they don't act similarly around their coworkers

It's fun, because in my experience, departing employees are always playing ball, while employer starts doing stupid things.

In France, we have 3 months (!) of resignation notice (and it usually really lasts 2). I've always seen departing colleagues still working the whole notice. However managers start asking stupid things "please prepare demo for this prospect, it should take you one month and a half, so 2 weeks to spare!", "hey we need this feature, you're the only one who can do it, please code it before you leave", but rarely "write documentation for everything you did".

> Employers also see trusted employees smile and leave for competitors even after signing that they would not do that.

What? Such clauses actually exist and are actually used?

In France, such a clause requires (ex)employer to pay at least 50% of salary during the period where the (ex)employee isn't allowed to work for competitors (I can't see how this can be a fair agreement without that compensation), but companies pretty much never enact those clauses, because well, they don't care about employees going to the competition /that/ much
I mean you can't blame them for prioritizing in a manor that brings the most shareholder value. Also you can remove the FSD option right before delivery, so it is a moot argument. Either way your not getting a car any time soon.
I'm not sure what the fed does that a giant national bank doesn't, at least if you're looking at an old school bank like the Bank of teh US. They lend to other banks! They print money! They buy assets!
Temperate is in the eye of the beholder :-) Pretty hot and humid in summer for my taste. That said, Asheville in particular often gets pretty highly ranked among small cities to live in and it's probably more comfortable in the summer than many other locations in the state.
Have you eliminated all red meat and air travel? What about buying things that are resource intensive. Almond milk?
I've read stuff before about Shopify's use of Nix. Since this post doesn't mention Nix, I take it they don't use it in this department of the company?
Use it to exercise Advent of Code. Much more fun than leetcode and it has an ending.
That's cheap compared to the Bloomberg terminal. High quality news is not free (news is not necessarily the same as journalism).
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia (2019)
It seems a bit reductive to me. I'm also not sure oil and gas extraction is simple in quite the same way growing avocados might be.

It has a thread of internal consistency but it's not super convincing to me? Just comes off as someone who hates Putin, which is fair, but I'm not sure that makes it accurate.
And you misunderstood me, if you've got a good LAME rip you will not be able to distinguish it from a FLAC rip off the original CD. You'll be using several times the storage for no perceptible improvement. While disk storage is cheap the physical storage of those CDs is not nor is the time required to handle the CDs to rip.
That doesn't work.

In a department I worked in, there were no scheduled 1-to-1, just a weekly slot that was guaranteed to be available if requested. Nobody ever took it. The manager thought it meant that everything was fine, while in reality he had no idea about how people were doing or how they were feeling.

Nobody wants to come to the manager with problems when he's the one with the power and they don't have a trusty relationship with him. And you don't get trust if you don't communicate regularly.
This will be great. As it will allow me to offload code to compute shaders without switching compilers.
I signed up!

I just wanted to say thanks for including a time option; I'm a night journaler but I also try to keep a clean inbox, so being able to get the prompt whenever I choose was great.
I don't think Putin has anything to fear regarding a traditional invasion by Nato, so matching any build up is meaningless. It is clearly just an explanation of why he needs a lot of troops withdrawn from Ukraine. That can explain giving up gains after clearing "Nazis" and freeing Russians so they could flee to Belarus, etc.

Probably he is planning for the likelihood that the weather, etc, makes any sort of seige on Kyiv completely unmaintainable.

In early days I thought he might try a blitz approach on Finnland and would still be careful if he pulls troops out. He should have learned that would be stupid by now, but he is also arresting anyone who might think clearly.
very interesting. Seen some research prototypes years ago and some references to really fancy equipment with it, but not anything directly DIY-able.

Probably hard to describe, but how much resistance can it actually present? Some others had quite big motors, I guess even with modern BLDCs there's a clear limit of what can be done in that size?
I think there is an inversion here, though. The question implicit in this context is not whether the map is the territory, but whether the territory is the map. Now one can see these as homophonic statements, but is this the case? When is it or not?
First of all, Desktop linux barely works on the hardware it is designed to work on.

Let's say that because of some miracle, Linux becomes usable on M1 macs... and people start buying M1 macs to run Linux, Apple will have incentive to lock the bootloader (which they don't currently do) so that people are forced to run macOS only... because their profits does not come from the hardware itself but the "ecosystem" (a.k.a. vendor-lock-in) they have built around it.
Yeah I want to know that too - I'm not so much suspicious, he's obviously done something amazing - more I wonder if he really has 12 pcie buses and they are they really wired in a way that they can be hooked up in 4 different orientations? (and what is the signal integrity like?)
More like matter is an expression of information imo
But Putin and Co don't seem to have the tools to create a dynamic economy or a disciplined society. They may admire China; they can't follow the pattern.
The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs [pdf]
As the de-facto Security team - the main concern for me isn't so much "lock everyone out immediately" aspect, it's the reduction in the number of sets of credentials for people. It is a benefit in the onboarding/offboarding process, too - it's one less thing you need to go in and manually turn off accounts.

People suck at remembering passwords, and even if you go and give them Password Manager tools like 1Password/Lastpass/whatever, they'll still tend to re-use the same password they use for their personal email, and that random service that recently got pwned.

It's worse when they have credentials like AWS IAM Keys that are while not difficult, are inconvenient to rotate. Those are likely to just sit around on someone's machine and get leaked inadvertently in logs or test code.
A dress code could require wearing a gun (i. e. wearing both a gun and a holster - when someone puts a vest on you say they're wearing a vest even if the vest only touches the shirt - ditto shoes and long socks) and nothing else and it would still be a dress code. I would even say that a policy that you can wear anything is a dress code in the same way the unlicense is a license.

I think that undercover or plainclothes in most cases has enough rules that it constitutes a dress code, even if you think a dress code needs to have rules about more than one article of clothing to be considered a dress code.
Did you also blame white people after Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people? Or when Stephen Paddock killed 61 people?
probably but that only makes it even dupier
Why is it perverse? It's a tax like many others?
Bitcoin ATMs Declared Illegal in UK by Financial Regulator
> Historically, this sort of thing ends only when the leader is killed.

Or Russia wins
Don't even have to be that specific, the investors in and customers of every airline, but especially budget airlines that fly holiday destinations = sociopaths.
Seems to me like he has lost that and becoming just an angry old man playing with people's lives because he can.
It's betting the US Gov won't back those notes. umm what's stopped them before.
By any measure Russia is the laggard in that part of the world. Forget the US. Just think about how countries do for themselves. China, Japan, South Korea, Tiawan, Singapore, Vietnam have all found a way to go forward post WWII. Russia is still stuck on the file labeled pre-WWII and worse they like that file.

Here's a true story. I worked in former east Germany after the collapse of the wall. Upon entering I ran into an amazing amount of interest in a nobody (me) that seemed vaguely like intelligence or politics snooping. Looking back it was in over my head outside my gig.

At any rate I visted what looked like a university that had a bar or some such across the street. Out of sheer curiosity I went in for a beer knowing no German. After I stuck out like a sore thumb I attracted several locals taking German/Russian. The first thing they did was remind me with a puppet show of fingers of how our V2 was shot out of the air (powers 1960 incident).

After the wall down... and that's what's on the brain? Here's what we could have talked about:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/summary/

See literature prize. I've read that book twice but stopped 60% of the way through both times. It's depressing, and yet profoundly interesting.
Is it just a moral panic? Because these kids, who are bright enough to build their games and virtual worlds in Roblox's arcane tools, are spending hundreds of hours to create content for a multi-billion company and seeing nothing for their efforts. (In fact, many spend money to promote their worlds, so they are paying to work.)
Uh, no. Non-Jewish citizens are not required to have a Jewish wedding. Jewish citizens are.
The "Chinese model" is as old as civilization and has been implemented and collapsed many times in China itself. If Putin establishes a new czarist dynasty in Russia, it will end up just like the last one.
You Cannot Always Win the Race: Analyzing the Lfence/JMP Mitigation
Which is why we also use 2FA. You are using 2FA right?
The author's complaint is really against authentication in general rather than SSO. Different sites and services have always and will always use their own authn/authz methods, simply because it isn't a generic problem that can be abstracted away. You can outsource parts of it (show the user a username/password form, validate credentials, verify email, check 2FA) which is what all these SSO providers aim to do.

Also the examples they mention are all just badly configured applications, which can easily be fixed.
I think (you read it here first) that the first step towards actual planetary defense will be the moon. That is: humanity's first, actual, somewhat working system realistically able to defeat an incoming asteroid will consist of moving the moon. Not that that is easy - absolutely not. But it is genuinely something that we can prepare for. We can start building an infrastructure on the moon for vaporising moon rocks, providing thrust. Energy can come from sunlight. You could well argue that moving the moon is nigh impossible. It probably is. But it is (1) feasible and (2) an engineering challenge. The most daunting one ever faced by humanity, but the pay off is equally great: we get to save the planet.

The key point is that the moon can easily stop incoming asteroids. It reduces the entire problem to "simply" moving the moon. Which is something I think is achievable with roughly today's tech.
Does anyone have more context on why “unable to retrieve their xDS configurations.” led to ” Traffic Director-managed clients deprogrammed as the configuration was removed” ? For example, Envoy will keep its configuration forever unless 1) the configuration has a ttl or 2) the server itself sent back empty results. Was it the case that TD config uses ttls, the server was actually sending back empty results (frightening), or is this a behavior specific to grpc?
This is super simple atoms at a millionth of a degree above zero. It has no practical relevance to influencing the outcome of a chemical reaction at normal temperatures. But, it's not every day you can demonstrate a new way to tune chemical reactions, even in extremely specialized environments like these.
UI quality is much higher but the bindings are all third party software, not official Google products.
RISC-V J extension – Instructions for JITs
They are used in different ways - search for recursive resolver vs caching public resolver.

Running your own recursive resolver will almost certainly be slower, on the order of 2x latency. I should test it...

Also, DNS-over-HTTP and DNS-over-TLS are not available with all DNS servers, but can be readily enabled to secure the last mile when the upstream public resolver supports it.
I Had to Mass Convert OTF Fonts to TTF
Most outages have more than one cause. It’s true that Firefox had a nasty bug but it’s also likely that they’d have resolved the problem faster had a clear notification that GCP had upgraded their infrastructure right before the outage started, especially if that had an easy rollback option.
I think it’s unfair to say they barely break even, if they do then it’s because they’ve decided to spend so much.

Looking externally at the company they’re listed as having 50,000-100,000 employees. That’s a lot of people to employ for a audio streaming service.

I also happen to know their cloud commitments (I know a guy) and they are large enough that it starts to make a lot of sense to invest into physical hardware.

I’m talking so much money per year that it rivals the GDP of some countries.
I feel dumb asking, what’s the common use case for FDB. And how does it compare to Redis?

I’ve read lots about how fantastic FDB (and unique) but I’m struggling to understand the use case / problem to use it for.
VPN is easier to set up, manage, and troubleshoot. Connect to LDAP, set up groups, flip the switch, done. You'll have to use it for vendor or 3rd party access anyway, so may as well use it for the rest of the org.
Here is the percentage of the combined wind + Solar + Nuclear + Hydroelectric on some grids in the East & Midwest, along with their instantaneous direction of growth/decline at 5PM CST on 3/11/2022:

ERCOT 57.3 \ Electric Reliability Council of Texas
MISO 41.9 - Midwest Independent System Operator
NYIS 50.6 \ New York Independent System Operator
SPP 44.4 \ SouthWest Power Pool
PJM 42.4 ↗ PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD, OH, IN, DE & Chicago)

...and at 6PM CST:

ERCOT 48.7 \ Electric Reliability Council of Texas
MISO 40.7 \ Midwest Independent System Operator
NYIS 50.1 - New York Independent System Operator
SPP 37.5 \ SouthWest Power Pool
PJM 41.5 - PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD, OH, IN, DE & Chicago)

So you can see, that, particularly in wind-blow Texas and middle of the U.S. (SPP includes Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska), the penetration of renewables + Nuclear is quite dynamic.

More details at:
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...