skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whereas science used to be done in a relatively small number of labs, with little communication between countries - there are now thousands of universities and commercial labs in every developed country doing research. And that research uses machines that measure thousands of variables at high speed.

And the median value of that reasearch is zero.

There is literally too much research being done. Because of perverse incentives (in both academia and industry) there are a fair number of results that are not useful along with some which are simply wrong. I believe we could easily cut off the bottom half of the research being done and the appreciable impact would be to increase the sum total of knowledge of the species.
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I just want to say it's incredibly refreshing to read comments from someone looking at the big picture and providing thoughtful optimism about where things are headed.

Thank you for your comments.
If Beethoven is on that list, so is Prince. If Thomas Hardy is on that list, so is Toni Morrison. Mozart could write a 5 voice fugato, and Quincy Jones can score out an orchestration without even sitting at a piano.

There is no shortage of exceptional people changing how we think about and interact with the world. Again, it just doesn't look the same as it did in the past. You might not like them -- I really don't care for Thomas Hardy's writing and Freud is largely cast aside these days -- but that doesn't mean they aren't geniuses.
What Are Thermobaric Weapons? and Why They Should Be Banned
I did native app development on-off from about 2010-2018, with at larger apps. Today I see little reason to have 3 code bases with the same features. You got 3x the same problems. Ok, there's Flutter and React Native, but their web code transpilation isn't great. Web Views (both in browsers and in apps) are just a super major technology with excellent developer tooling such as live reloading. Capacitor would always be my first choice today.
> The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate, we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years.

Growth rate of what? It is important to be clear. Growth in energy consumption is not the same as economic growth. Total energy consumption per unit of GDP is not constant but is in fact on a downward trend[1].

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...
Microsoft: We didn’t mean to show anyone ads in Windows Explorer
Right so then the question is a legal one about what counts as a "personal device" rather than a technical one about github auth or ssh keys or whatever. I think this reinforces the point of the person you were replying to.
Which works until you are out of battery, and then you have a lot of extra weight to carry uphill with greatly reduced peddling efficiency. At that point why not just have an e-bike with no peddling at all? Saves weight, battery lasts longer, can still walk it up hills.
> There is a long list of deadly terrorist attacks using homemade explosives

But they used well-known and readily available compounds. They don't attempt to use novel ones. It would just make the attack way more difficult to execute.
Off topic but this post will attract Kinesis users... Does anyone know how to deal with ghosting on the Kinesis Advantage?I bought a used one but quite often it repeats the letters that I press and that's not how it's supposed to work. I haven't used it in years but it would be interesting to fix it. I know it's possible to change the controller, but how do I know if that is the issue?
Nobody will defend your time if you don't do it yourself. Company's will take-take-take from your time not because they're malicious but just because they need to get stuff done and the monolith of a corporation doesn't pick up on nuance and feelings at a micro scale. I've seen this play out time and again, particularly with people who always want to be responsive or helpful. They burn themselves out.

Fwiw the teammates whom I consider to be the most indispensable are not the ones who know the most details. They're the ones who are the most adaptable and able to take on more responsibility and lead with creativity and urgency. This typically means that they're good at defending their time – they often have the indispensable knowledge that the author writes about, but only pull it out when they really need it, because they know that their real value add is in scaling themselves and their teams.

(Also fwiw, I've had a very similar career trajectory to the author based on the article's first paragraph so I feel like I understand the signals that they're writing about)
Polish guy here. And Lem fan, too. Ask anything you want.
Amazon is the new ebay.

I still remember the good old times when ebay was mostly honest regular people selling used stuff online. Then "powersellers" appeared. Then things get automated. By now, e-bay is mostly new items but with horrible service and almost no safety checks.

That's also why GPU scalpers love both ebay and Amazon Marketplace.
> 1. Who does the hard/dirty jobs in this society? Farming being one. But also construction, sewage, trash, ad inifitum. There are a lot of undesirable jobs and while maybe some people would be willing, I doubt our needs could be met when the same individuals could just work an easier job for the same reward.

Think about what you're saying here. Why don't the people who do these jobs currently not just work at an easier job? If the answer is because they live in a societal trap that prevents them from exploring better options then clearly there is something worth examining here. We shouldn't support social systems that rely on exploitation to function.

Personally, I am not convinced that "progress" is an unmitigated good that should be pursued at maximum speed and efficiency, so I am not convinced that all of these undesirable jobs are truly necessary for society to flourish. For the jobs that are necessary, I think people would do them, even without special compensation, because the costs of not doing them would rapidly become apparent.

I don't agree that socializing all means of production is the best antidote to what ails us, but I do think that "all-in" on capitalism has failed as a general policy. I would like to see meaningful limits placed upon any private entity's ability to consolidate cash and market share across vast swathes of the earth's surface. As it is the financial health of local communities are at the whim of a handful of multinational juggernauts who let their pools of capital trickle across the globe in arbitrary rivulets. The result is that the members of most communities have little chance of effectively competing in local markets, the mom and pops get replaced by the walmarts and the starbucks and everyone is stuck working to move the fruits of their labor upstream and out of their community.

Alternatively, some sort of "basic income" could potentially alleviate some of the pressures, but I see this solution as more of a temporary band-aid.
Tell HN: I'm covering every major development in humanity's return to the Moon
What if your don't teach them and they stay?
To Catch a Falling Satellite
There has never been a case of nuclear powers directly shooting at each other. The risk of escalation would be very very high. This was covered in a good video (towards the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBARgW_vHVE
Configure Visual Studio to Name Private Fields with Underscore
For 6 years, I've worked for a outsourcing firm which has given me 7 days of vacation, and only FOUR US holidays. It wasn't until this year that they expanded that to 10 days, and STILL won't give us Christmas Eve. (The company I'm placed in gets a week and a half at Christmas, full stop.) I'm a very senior person for the company, and I'm sure I'm one of the largest PO's they have. Please come talk to my management about how "any" company doesn't offer "at least" 2 weeks of vacation.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong. This situation works for me very well, but the average vacation situation in the US is abysmal.
Worth clicking for just the image of the memory-board they've built. Unlike most pcb's, it's stark & open, hardly a passive component on it. Really wild to see so much open boardspace. They have 8 dimms here. I suspect it's basically just an FPGA acting as a CXL memory controller, but perhaps there's more.

They compare themselves versus RDMA over Infiniband (56Gbps) which makes sense as it's the competitor. It's not clear to me whether they are using their CXL switch in their tests, or whether the CXL memory is directly attached; I'd be curious to know what the performance hit is for switching. But the idea of massive fan out memory is definitely compelling!

Medium term, I imagine we'll be seeing variants of stuff like this with HBM stacks onboard. See the recent UCIe chiplets alliance[1], with AMD, Intel, TSMC, Samsung, others. To tie it back to my first comment, this would just be a modest modern microminaturization of this wide open sparsely-populated huge PCB... just put this whole thing on chip. It'd make a very large (capacity), very small (footprint) memory module.

It's unsurprising that this company is claiming some patents over this technology even in the press brief. Hopefully the core ideas of CXL are allowed to germinate & grow, without the ecosystem immediately becoming IP overencumbered.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/universal-chiplet-interconnect-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30538809 (92 points, 12 days, 26 comments)
> Source: I work with Gen Z teens extensively

It's not that I don't believe you, but that's not a good source. Please provide some actual data to back up your statement.
Uhh on McMaster I think I need a flow meter with range around 0.3 L/min since I’m designing something new and not replacing, and there are separate check boxes for 0.25-0.5, 0.2-1, 0.1-0.6, … etc. with 3 different units mixed in.

If you know exactly what you need, then yes. But if you’re messing around on home depot needing like a 3 7/8 “ish” screw but-maybe-a-4-will-do the McMaster system would stink.
Why is that absurd? The catholic church did some pretty horrible things in the past, too. But they changed (and still have most of their churches and land) and it seems, so did the Tibetian Buddhism. So like I said, it is complicated to reverse expropriation, but if it is possible and the tibetians want their temples back, it would sound right to me, to give them at least some important ones.
Just curious, what would you expect to happen if they did?
Top programming languages: Java takes an unexpected leap forwards
Binaryen implemented partial evaluation at the beginning of this year https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/4438
Probabilities and statistics don't work like that. Between 2011 and now there's been loads of earthquakes in Japan, in most months, many stronger than 7.0.
I don't know that I can recommend Reddit as a legitimate news source. You'd really have to make sure you're hitting the right subreddits. :/
Interesting now I will make sure never to use my smartphone for payments.
They don't seem to be EV
Using ultrasound to control neuron functions
> 5HT2a

You sure you don’t mean 5HT2b?

I mean, anything can be toxic with enough dose, but the b-subtype agonists seem a lot more toxic than the a-subtype agonists.

(Fun fact: 6-APB, a “research chemical” recreational substance became an actual research chemical because of it had better 5HT2b selectivity than what was previously used in lab research)
There is no copyright infringement when an engineer studies a competitors product and pretends that their design is independent?

I don't know if this is a real thing or not (I can see it being real in smaller companies, but incompetent when it comes to these things so what do I know), but that's the case described.
Compare: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-i...
You got communicators and tricorders instead. You're welcome.
I'm not going to defend the quality of the analysis, but I'm not sure where the "LA as #1 at 12" is coming from. In the article LA's per capita murder rate is 15.79 per 100,000, and it's #2.

In general though, to support your devil's advocate thesis, you'd expect the states with the largest percentage of the population residing in urban areas would be the states with the highest murder rates. That would not be MS, LA, KY, AL and MO. So if the urban population is causal, you'd have to explain why the top states aren't NY, NJ, CA, MA, and NV.

Perhaps there's a case to be made that urban Democratic leadership mixed with Republican state and Federal leadership was the problem, but that seems like a pretty complex relationship to establish, and doesn't align with the narrative.
> And while you might think that assembly language is ipso facto an indicator of vintage, I think having at least one assembly language² in one's experience is helpful for having some idea of what the computer is actually doing.

These two statements are not contradictory. We've stopped teaching CS using assembly language a long time ago, but we still do teach assembly in OS or computer architecture contexts, which is totally fine and should continue.
I used to work in sales and I remember one of my coworkers who was a really good salesperson, but they wanted to get off the sales floor. They had enough and just wanted to move on to a managerial position. The pay was about the same, but the hours were better and it was easier to get time off.

He had applied to openings twice and each time one of the "lesser" salespersons got the job. When I was leaving I asked one of the managers why this person wasn't getting the job - they had experience, they had loads of knowledge, they had solid people skills and excellent sales figures. The answer was - "we can't lose him as a salesperson".

It kind of stuck with me - what happens if you're too good for the job you have. What happens if you've "overfitted" yourself to the current role... It's one of the reasons for which every year or so I start getting an itch to try something new. A new company, a whole new role within the same company, just something else. In the last 8 years I had 9 jobs at 7 companies and each time I got a raise, I got more interesting projects, I managed to do more interesting work and met a bunch of new people. I know this isn't for everyone, but I know I'd never want to be indispensable. I want to be replaceable as that's the same rule I apply to my roles. Really good read and I'm afraid I'm seeing another person like that in my current role...
Absolutely. We are just bad at geography and obsessed with China.
No I dont want to give you my email to get the Updates. I am not even going to scroll 3 feet down to see if you have anything more to sell me.

Or is this "Web3"? It all makes sense now.
I don't think Solaris is Lem's best book, although that is the conventional wisdom.

I highly recommend Fiasco and His Master's Voice. Fiasco starts with quite a long intro vignette that has little to do with the rest of the story. If its too boring just skip it. (Although I think it's well worth reading).
This article was from 8 years ago… anyone have any updates on progress or testing of this system?
Call me crazy.

I think ghosting might make a good take home test for anyone in a senior position.

It's mild adversity.

And senior position filling will rarely benefit from haste.

How a candidate handles ghosting might provide a look at their communication skills, comportment, and temperament.

Good luck.
Interesting exercise, perhaps the harmful molecule generating AI still generates helpful molecules because molecules harmful at a certain dose may sometimes be very beneficial in a (much) lower dose. And the other way around of course.

Perhaps we should simply have one “biologically active molecule” generating network. The dose will ultimately determine the toxicity.
> The move to create a Jewish state in Palestine was primarily led by Jewish fundamentalists who wanted to return to their God-given promised land

Most founders of Zionism were secular/atheists. Theodor Hertzel, Jabotinsky, Weizmann. Most of them were definitely not fundamentalists of Judaism that's igonrance.

> it was not a necessity by any measure (as proved by other victims of the German Holocaust)

Nothing is a necessity. Jews could have indeed done nothing and not even try to escape the holocaust (most of them did just that in fact). I'm still not sure what point you're making. No nation is a necessity, life itself isn't a necessity.
It is very clear that bosses have had good luck bluffing or calling other people’s bluffs and many just do it as a matter of course. I bet you won’t quit over a 5% discrepancy in pay, and I’ll just ratchet that up every review period, and hope you don’t notice when that climbs to 10% under market.

It’s kind of the same game landlords play. I always find it somewhat amusing when a landlord forces a business out of a storefront and then the storefront sits empty for six months or a year. How long is it going to take you to break even on that?
"...Ultrasound has been used to non-invasively manipulate neuronal functions in humans and other animals. However, this approach is limited as it has been challenging to target specific cells within the brain or body...

... we use calcium imaging and electrophysiology to show that hsTRPA1 potentiates ultrasound-evoked responses in primary neurons. Furthermore, unilateral expression of hsTRPA1 in mouse layer V motor cortical neurons leads to c-fos expression and contralateral limb responses in response to ultrasound delivered through an intact skull...

...Collectively, we demonstrate that hsTRPA1-based sonogenetics can effectively manipulate neurons within the intact mammalian brain, a method that could be used across species..."

"Sonogenetic control of mammalian cells using exogenous Transient Receptor Potential A1 channels"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28205-y
Yeah, this seems of very limited utility. I wonder what the overlap is between the two readerships.
His Master's Voice, not Solaris, should be the novel Lem is known for, imo.
How do you handle the case where Technology X is being deployed because the C-suite was gifted Super Bowl tickets to deploy Technology X?

I have been in this exact situation. I left the company as a result; kickbacks and graft aren’t my thing.
What is that big trend? Video? Humans love watching things, eyes are our primary sensory input.
I think you’re missing the OPs point. He’s saying that the ability to lend and borrow with interest is a fundamental precondition for human economies. That’s why economic growth is not optional.

Just look at the past 100 years. We have observably created tremendous value since 1922. We can make the whole pie bigger, it’s not just one set “value” pie that never changes.
I wonder what a Vortex86SX counts as. It's not Intel, it's closer to a Pentium, but lack a FPU.
Love this, and love that there's more going on in this space. Three questions:

1. SAML?

2. SCIM?

3. In your domain model, do users belong-to organizations? Or is it a has-and-belongs-to-many sort of deal? Can I configure that?
As someone once wrote about Lem's heritage and making it into cinema: Solaris is the only one with enough sexual context to show to the viewer, other works just do not have enough of it.

I'm just rephrasing this from memory. The audience may be different now and possibly can accept less sex (this is supposedly a new trend in cinema).
Nothing to make sense of. It's all a scam.
Even without the obvious scams like the empty notebooks, searching for books about a specific disease is a gamble. The majority are crap from snake oil salesmen, promising miracle cures or "10 truths your doctor doesn't want you to know".
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium

> The antiproton can thus orbit the nucleus for tens of microseconds, before finally falling to its surface and annihilating.

From the research article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04440-7

> The resonance parent states (37, 35) and (39, 35) have microsecond-scale lifetimes, whereas the daughter state (38, 34) has an Auger width ΓA ≈ 21 MHz (ref. 7; Fig. 1b)

The life of the antiproton here is too short to make an interesting chemistry experiment, but it's long enough to measure the spectral lines.
The Workaday Life of the World’s Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
I'm not sure I've sufficiently communicated the background of my moral ambiguity here. I came of age during the War on Terror; the years where Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria were the primary fronts for Western military power. The brutal necessity of the Western world standing up to aggression against dictatorships was not so obvious during these years; from my vantage point of Western media the impression was that dirt-poor suicide bombers were the biggest risk to our civilization. And we were dealing with those with an aggression that at best left a dubious aftertaste.

One could be excused during these two decades for erroneously assuming that the world has for the foreseeable future moved on towards trade and economic competition, rather than wars of aggression. With nuclear weapons ensuring the balance. It was probably naïve, but not helplessly naïve. Against this backdrop, regularly seeing weddings and maybe-civilians bombed from drones on dubious intel, it doesn't seem like a childish or cowardly stance to just turn one's back on the weapons industry. I'd call that a reflected decision.

The same reasoning is almost palpable in European politics, which made a 180 degree shift away from this in the two weeks after Putin dispelled these notions. My point is, it wasn't obvious from where I stood that we would be back here today. Now that we are, the calculus seems clearer.

Maybe with a more measured US-led use of military force since 2000, Western defense politics wouldn't have required so much hand-wringing.
Yep can confirm, I lived in Christchurch through the quake and aftermath. Aftershocks multiple times a day for months afterwards.
Why would it be illegal to use IPC to communicate from one GPL executable to another non GPL executable?

Files are interprocess communication too. If files are fine and other forms are not, then it starts to get into an argument of speed making something illegal.

Not only that, but network communication is IPC and that would imply that it's fine to have a GPL program go to another computer holding a non GPL program, but not if they are on the same computer. There are a lot of holes in this argument.

Not only that, but any program that can't communicate with other programs (do drivers count?) through file formats, networks operations or anything else is probably limited anyway.
Putting mass in space as a weapon is just a silly scifi idea disconnected from reality. Even with modern reusable rockets, launch costs are still extremely high, especially if you need enough platforms to hit time sensitive targets. And the platforms wouldn't be survivable. There are cheaper, more effective ways to fulfill the mission.
Meanwhile xyz is a perfectly legit tld for sites about 3d printing, cnc machining, 3d modelling, etc. But get stigmatized and prejudged through no fault of their own. It's like name racism.
Yes, and this is a great opportunity for profiting at a lender's expense.
I found this website to be great when looking for new books: https://findabooktoread.com/
I couldn't help but think of homeopathy with the above sentence.
> I've been informed that before this conflict started, there was nothing offensive about this linguistic difference (between saying "Ukraine" vs. "the Ukraine" in Russian)

The Russian and Ukrainian languages don't have the definite article, so there is literally no way of saying "the Ukraine" in either.
I would never use a company that thinks I’m a child that needs a bedtime.

This also assumes everyone wakes up in the morning and has a normal schedule.