skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the 6 Stand Cold reduction Mill of the US Steel, Gary Works, they needed a system to control the pairs of 9000 HP motors that drove the top and bottom rollers to stretch cold steel inches thick.

Solid state electronics, and even tubes, weren't up to the task.

Earl Pace was the Westinghouse engineer to figured out how to do it. He used a set of Synchronous AC motors to take the incoming 3 Phase, and drive a set of DC generators. The technology to control the field windings on the DC generators was just within reach. So he used the biggest SCR systems of the day to drive those. Driving the field windings allowed you to zero or even reverse the output of the generator.

In effect, it was one of the largest magnetic amplifiers in history.

Those generators then drove the DC motors on 6-stand.

Some of the control circuitry used Magnetic amplifiers when they need to have multiple isolated inputs. The amazing thing is that they can pass DC signals to about 1 khz. (They had a 10 Khz drive signal)

All of this from 1964. I repaired some of the control modules back in the 1980s, which is how I learned about it all.
Why doesn't Chrome UI elicit the same reaction from the community?

I get the feeling that many people have, that FF is following suit with chrome in terms of UX (and other things), rather than innovating[1]. There is some truth to that, but I do feel like FF tries out some nice things in their UI.

I'm currently running on FF on MacOS, and I find it incredibly hard to come up with any legitimate criticism of the UI, but it does help many apps that MacOS forces a top menu.

Yes, there are little things, like tabs are now buttons, and container tabs should be easier to use without first reading a guide.

[1] And maybe many vocal HN'ers objection is directed at the mere fact that innovation is attempted.
In a fiat money system, the government simply prints more money to pay off the debt.
That isn't always obvious to people, but it's true, even with things like housing.
They're unlikely to tell you, at least not the level of satisfaction a nerd message board demands, for some of the same reasons we don't know about all the anti-abuse mechanisms on HN; because attribution and obfuscation (like abuse/anti-abuse on HN) is an arms race/cat-and-mouse game.
I know that, in the mid-90s when I was working at AOL as their Sr. Internet Mail Administrator, we had accounts on the other major providers systems -- Prodigy, CompuServe, etc.... We also knew who our counterparts were at those other companies, and in fact it was Ed Raven at Prodigy who lead me to interview with Jay Levitt at AOL, and I got the job.

At different stages, it might make sense to be more careful with how you let people sign up for your service, and who you let sign up. But in our case, it was beneficial for everyone involved to know who their counterparts were and to have accounts on their systems.

Among other things, this let us build up tests for our systems that could quickly determine if there were major delays in getting e-mail from our systems to theirs, and if the delay was likely to be at their end or ours. And if it was at their end, it was to our benefit to notify them of this fact, because it was also impacting our own customers.

But I can only speak for my personal experience.
So if I wanted to train a model on imagenet, when and where it would be transferred to?
This is off-topic for this thread, but I didn't know how else to reply— thanks for this [1] comment. I'm going to dig into McChrystal's book at your recommendation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30599612#30602787
You are correct. In 2020 the federal reserve removed the reserve requirement. Banks no longer have to have assets to create money.
Tether dominance in stablecoin land is down to like 40% or less. USDC alone is close on the heels of marketcap and nobody has issues with that one.

For Tether fear uncertainty and doubt, you kind of need to make a standard of where it stops being top of mind. Even Tether’s problems are only that its maybe 70% backed by fiat in a bank account, not like 10% or anything similar to the broader financial system.
I just use keyboard shortcuts to snap the window to left/right side or to expand again. I've been pretty happy with this arrangment and never need to drag the window manually.
Yup, he is still around :)
I'd call Thundernetes a "spin-off" more than a pivot, tailored to the folks that want full control over their game servers, compared to the more "SaaS" model of MPS (code name "Thunderhead").
Have you tried the MPS service recently? We've done lots of work to improve startup times.
Money is the API of a market. A market is a protocol for massive heterogeneous multi-agent coordination. It’s effective because it requires minimal transfer of information between agents.
Just a side note. I don't know how the sex offender registry works in the UK, but in the US, it can be rather punitive. People can be placed on a sex offender registry for sleeping with their 16 yr old girlfriend/boyfriend on the day of their 18th birthday. Some have been convicted as sex offenders for simply receiving nude photos from their underaged significant other. I have even heard of cases where prosecutors have tried to try underage kids as adults for having nude photos of themselves on their phone.

This can then follow them the rest of their life. Being fired for failing to notify your employer could be a case as mundane as that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/201...
Also Bellingcat recommends Yandex: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
Link to the actual video: https://mobile.twitter.com/bnonews/status/150827208205180928...

It finally all makes sense.

Now I know why everybody hates Chris.
In fact, the specification even guarantees that for all the bitwise operators.
Show HN: KevaIoC: Lightweight Spring-Like Java IoC Framework
You disregarded the ignorance in ops comment which implies agreement.
Did Google change its maps domain so it can get your location across all google?
Correction: I read up on the story to refresh my memory, and Clippy does use a form of nanobots. I was mixing it up with another story, that just used a timed hyperlethal pathogen.
hard disagree here. Let us look at Windows and macOS for a second here, and exclude Linux, because Linux (rather, Linux + your favorite DE) is realistically the issue (due to KDE, GNOME, and a gazillion other types/styles). If you design around a given language for the most recent versions of a native OS, you'll never have issues. Both macOS and Windows include common libraries that map to their respective styles. Microsoft, for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/ (link on bottom if you want to drill down to code).

"What about users that want to customize things?"

Give them an alternate path. The browser loads slightly slower (the same as now), and they still get their ability to customize. The rest of us can use the default, faster path.
I'm sorry, but your narrative is beyond twisted.

Greeting someone with two kisses (a typical way of greeting in Spain) in a public conference in front of many other people is not sexual harassment. In fact, I already suspect you know that since you also commented "For all we know, it could be a misunderstanding due to different cultures" in this same thread.
In any case, if you really consider that sexual harassment I'd welcome you to report it to the authorities and see what they have to say about it.

For any future readers, this is what this throwaway account is falsely reporting as sexual harassment: https://twitter.com/syrusakbary/status/1202362342555545600

> In fact, report me to the authorities

Sure thing, I'd love to. Would you be so kind to share your real information so I can do so?
Impostor-syndrome is very very normal (I'm 20+ years in the industry and still have it), so rest assured you're not alone. What's most important is that despite negative self-talk you're able to learn the ropes at the pace expected by your team lead and manager.

You don't know what that other Junior Engineer's story and history is. They might not be as Junior as they appear. I've hired "junior engineers" who have been programming since they were 8 years old. Even star engineers will often be overtaken by an even hotter burning, faster shooting star engineer. It's the nature of the industry that you will eventually work with what appear to be savants. There is room in the industry for mere mortals.

Regarding getting "soft booted"; As a manager I would never call a reassignment that. I might refer to a reassignment as "aligning an engineer's assignment with their talents". Sometimes I realize I've thrown someone into the deep end and they need to be pulled out of the water and given something a bit less intense; mea culpa. If someone were truly under performing I would be putting them under formal coaching.

Negative self-talk is dangerous when it leads you into to a downward spiral of under-delivery. I've seen engineers that literally self sabotage because they talk themselves out of actually delivering as expected. They constantly focus on "learning" so much that they never put what they've learned to use in delivering their assignment. They're obsessed with catching up so much that they never even start.

If nothing else, deliver what is expected to you. If you don't understand it, ask with help breaking it down. Every hint, or vague request by a manager or lead is likely a softly stated expectation. Ask for clarification: when would you like this done? how long do you think this should take?

Regarding wasting a lead's time, in my experience (as a lead engineer at one time, and on the receiving end of lead engineer's guidance) they will tell you when you're wasting their precious time. In fact, my technical mentor once told me, "first time you ask a question I'll show you how to find the answer. Second time you ask the same question I'll show you were to refresh your memory. Third time I'll tell you RTFM".

If you're doing poorly, it's likely that you'll be told in some way or another. Otherwise, If you can, don't try to read too much into things unsaid.
“This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, " -Paul Thibado, professor, physics.

Title is awful ofc but the actual scientist of course never claimed this.
Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards
Long winded article whew

I have a good grasp on the abstraction necessary to accumulate value abstractly

A lot of financial engineering that comes naturally to me requires alot of inspiration to people I need to collaborate with

Understanding how money or currency is a proxy, a glue to get exchanges of value to occur, really require some bending of thought, for a lot of people

The velocity or multistage component is hardest for people
Same. This past week I went to a place where they are charging $18 for a chicken sandwich that used to be $8-9. I couldn’t believe it.
Elden Ring is published by Bandai Namco, which makes it an AAA game; Bandai Namco is larger than Ubisoft which is where most of the "AAA = bad" games are from.
Search through messages doesn't give any context or even let you jump to the context. Very unresponsive scrolling. Notifications have been unreliable for me.
I'm currently writing (almost finished) a book that's designed to get people into a junior level IT position as a systems administrator (in an environment with public Cloud infrastructure): https://upload.academy is the platform it will be launched on (also my platform.)

I'm hoping to enable people to get into this amazing field of ours so that they can enjoy a better life with better options and long term economic prospects.
It takes work to keep the diode at a lower temp.
Personally, I wouldn’t trust these boards as routers. There’s so much testing that goes into professional networking products that these boards (and drivers) just don’t have.
Money is persuasion. You can use it to change people's behaviour. Once people lose trust in money then it is no longer persuasive. This is when authority starts resorting to violence instead.
Some errors:

In https://www.networksfromscratch.com/2.html

"Remember that when someone presses button 0 the output is set to -5v and when someone presses button 1, the output is set to +5v."

This should be 0v, +5v.

"We connect two output pins on the letter writer to two input pins to the input pins that were previously connected to the buttons."

This sounds really weird.
What's interesting is that this is how long it used to take, till around about 10 or 20 years ago. The USPS increased speeds during the early days of email to try to stay relevant.

Maybe it worked for a while, but it no longer matters now - no one sends stuff by mail if they are in a hurry.

People seem to have forgotten that faster mail was only like that for a (relatively) short time.
It seems odd to mention Feynman here even if he did say it. Surely he wasn't the only or first person?
If you get this working it would be interesting to compare the latency of AWS vs. something else. It might not be as different as you expect.
How long have you been out?

What's your relationship with your parents like now?
So he didn't keep copies of his own work and we are supposed to feel bad he didn't have an offline back up? Nope, he messed up.
I can't do VSCode anymore.

I want to make a big stand about Microsoft and free software and tracking and whatnot, but I can't here. I break those rules at work all the time during time crunches.

It's kinda petty, but the bits of screen real estate it steals around the sides of the screen are too distracting for me after having gone full vim for a while. You can hide most of it, but the activity bar keeps showing back up after doing something like opening the git/file explorer/etc panes.

The IntelliJ line is a bit better, you can hide everything pretty easy, but I don't always have a corporate license for those, so I tend to avoid depending on them.
Can you list off some successful web dev projects using Haskell right now?
I think there was one point in like 2005-2006 where I had Linux running with multiple monitors and I had found one winmodem that I magically was able to get working. I want to say I was using openSUSE. I had no idea what I was doing but I sure worked hard at experimenting and trying random things!
Where I live it is $2000+ to rent a 1 bedroom apartment, which is about the same as the mortgage on a 4000 sq foot home on an acre that we purchased this past summer. I’ve been thinking that everyone that can will start buying since rent prices are crazy high.
Yeah I'm glad you asked, I do have a question. I read that comic linked above, it was incredibly horrifying, but as I kept reading, something felt off about it. The guy who wrote it is clearly a professional writer and he uses many common manipulative tricks to engage the reader, and that bothers me a little, like he isn't being completely honest.

So I did some research and it seems most of his facts check out with what other people say, but I have to wonder particularly about the part where he claims that they forced him to scream at and abuse his parents in exchange for holiday time. Do you know anything about that really happening? Did they really force kids to act crazy in front of their parents in order to ensure they got locked away at Elan for longer? I haven't heard anyone else corroborate that part.

Edit: actually a read your other comments and it seems it really was as bad as this comic book says. Controlling what you were and were not allowed to say to your parents is crazy.
Surely he was joking.
Well, at least with Teams you can use the web app, for Zoom has to be installed, and at least under Linux it's a complete train-wreck. Incidentally, I have the issue with 100% CPU usage during video calls with Zoom, while Teams (in the browser) works just fine.
It seems like these places have nailed the brainwashing of the parents. Most of these parents seem like normal, rational human beings that are basically getting the cult treatment and ending up drinking the whole glass of Kool-Aid.
He's doing what he was hired to do: Keep the USPS solvent.

Every single decision I've seen him make had just one goal: Save money.

It somehow because a political thing, because that's what we do these days, but it never actually was.
I went to the Leys school in Cambridge as a border, and it was by far the worst experience of my life. I was burnt out for a decade and I turn 40 this year, only recently having gotten over the resentment. Much of this article rang familiar. Those British boarding schools are intended for upper class misbehaving teens who won’t conform. There’s no intent to educate, they’re trying to ‘break’ the pupils. A common tactic to sidestep accountability is to give authority to the older pupils. I can’t even think about it without getting angry and upset. They beat me to the point my whole upper body was black. I twice attempted suicide in the dorm only to be stopped and beaten more. I was sleep deprived to the point I could hardly stand. It was freezing at night and the older boys in the neighboring dorm made it a habit of sneaking in and hitting us (hard) with bats and hockey sticks. Enough, I choose not to think about it anymore. But I was unable to function in British society after that. My hatred for the people was to the point I couldn’t even speak. To this day I refuse to buy British product. I left a few years later and I’ll never go back to England.
Personally I enjoy games that bring a good challenge with the tools provided. The existence of IAP gates those tools or artificially inflates the challenge e.g. buy level boosts because the game purposely give little experience.

I find giving myself unlimited resources (e.g. with cheat codes in the old days or with credit cards today) greatly diminishes the experience. At that point, why even bother playing? There's other mediums of entertainment that makes colors splash on monitors.
Your Kid Isn't Bad at Math. Here's how to help.
You have to pay for fixing poor game design or balance.
The parents get brainwashed by these companies. It's like a cult mindset. They've got the script down perfectly, preying on the parents insecurities and fears until rational people make irrational, fucked-up decisions.
As far as I can recall, yeah. By the way, I found this [0] implementation in pseudo code.

[0]: https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/upload/0/01/Ellipse.pdf
The best book that I have read in the computer science.
Really? You've never booked a ticket on a flight and your seat had been sold to someone else? The same thing happens at some concerts too.
I assume that the initial hype was mostly paid for and then the payments stopped at some point, so the hype stopped too.
Does anyone know why North America uses standard drywall for interior walls? It's the same in hotels, and whenever I visit it freaks me out a bit. I don't want to hear what's going on in the room next door. In Europe, interior walls between units are typically made from concrete or masonry which is much better at sound proofing.
My comment was from 3 hours ago when the post was flagged and disappeared from the front page. Looks like it's been unflagged since :)

Question still stands.
And Ford was a clear anti-semite. For all we know, he's probably alluding to some jewish conspiracy fantasy of his.
No description though
Faith is belief without evidence or belief in the presence of contradicting evidence - people don't "reason their way" into faith, they rationalize. C.S. Lewis is popular because he uses humanist principles to spin a fundamentally authoritarian, controlling religion into something easier for the modern mindset to rationalize. The GP's perspective is extremely accurate - child indoctrination is religion's primary mechanism to maintain it's power and control.
This is a good mental model which I use from time to time to evaluate if something is money or not.

> stocks, real-estates, and gold are all assets

So what infers the quality of "asset" on these things? IMO it's their intrinsic use value. E.g., I could build a house to shelter me on a land, gold could be used to build electronics, stocks generate cash flow. Most of these assets are natural resources which humans need to lead a good life. So there is a natural demand for these resources regardless of whether they are used as currency or not.

Said this way, I just don't get what's the intrinsic use of a bitcoin? I totally get the intrinsic use of ETH; I could use it to execute a smart contract i.e., it's a currency to get some computation done. What is the natural demand driver for bitcoin? I just don't know.
He was fired when they discovered that he had not registered. They discovered that after investigating him in response to another "situation".
cosmetic cash shops is actually the best thing to happen to video games. i remember back when most multiplayer games were pay2win! now that's not a common thing anymore thanks to people paying for cosmetics
It’s older than that, I remember using it to describe loading mp3s to iPods without using iTunes.
It's kind of amazing to think that the system that underpins an awful lot of human activity is a collective delusion.

This is one problem gold bugs seem to gloss over: sure your currency might technically be backed by gold (or whatever) but that's only the case because there's an enforcement mechanism on the humans involved (ie the government). And that government only exists because the people collectively will it. So there's really no difference between this and a fiat currency.

It gets even funnier when Crypto Bros start proselytizing about blockchains. Here one tiny part of the system has been replaced a simple consensus by computers. But that's where it ends. As soon as crypto (including NFTs) meets the real world, meaning if you use your Bitcoin (for example) to purchase something (weird concept I know) that isn't on the blockchain as well then you've just added a trust requirement where collective delusion has to act as an enforcement mechanism.
Sure, it doesn't have to be unlimited resources, you can give yourself however much you feel would balance the game to your fairness level. I just meant that it's one way to remove IAP gates as you mention.
Couldn’t the user just use a !bang for that?
and I’m not going into the sex stuff, but yes that was going on as well. Less with myself but it was all the way criminal.

Shame on me for not going to the police. But as a young teenager you just don’t know.
Is anyone else disturbed at the sheer number of people in this thread alone who are coming out about being forcibly sent to one of these camps?

And I'm thinking that statistically HN's demographic probably swings more towards nerdy, well-behaved white boys from two-parent families who are middle-class or above. Not necessarily who I would have thought would have been at harm from this scam.

So, if the demographic I believe is least at risk is coming out in such numbers, how many kids are really being taken like this? I'm scared this problem is even bigger than the few media stories are making it out to be.
The only houses I've seen decrease in value are custom mansions in the $10m+ price range. It's similar to custom cars. People with that much money for a house are likely to build their own.

In the $500k-$5m range I don't see any houses losing value. At least not on any significant scale. Given a 30 year time period, and no other outlying issues (oops, your house is in a liquefaction zone), your house is going to increase in value.