skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to your actual question is rather simple - Maxwell’s law. But there’s a more interesting point in your question “how do you reference a signal?”. If you want to really understand this, Id read about diff mode and common mode signals.

Layman answer:

the signal is not DC so you can reference it to itself.

More specific:

The EMF must cause a current in the antenna (Maxwell’s law). This current causes the antenna to have a potential gradient along the length of the antenna. You can define any point along the antenna to be “ground” and take opposite ends of the antenna. (or not; ground is a conversion)

The receiver itself is just a fancy amplifier, it doesnt need a reference (you can keep everything as a differential value) but if you want to keep things simple, you can transform a differential signal to one referenced to an arbitrary DC point. Choose a battery terminal and call that “ground”
Ist that similar to the US? You basically only have credit cards there. Even debit cards run on the same network these days.
And taking down the world with them.
That's going to be tricky until we invent windmills powered by hot air.
Maybe for some, but it's never been a thought that's crossed my mind.
We are in such great danger that we need to do many positive moves in parallel to save our collective asses...
This stupidity in Ukraine endangers millions.
I almost took a different path for my PhD and made it about capturing the knowledge that went into the creation of software. Can we see what people worked on, what they touched, how it came to be… in conjunction with the things they were also learning/consuming/reading/talking about so that we could bake that into IDEs. Right now we just see text files; the most we have is a git blame but you have to keep pulling the thread. It’s also very hard to traverse across blames in time. I’d rather use past knowledge to both know what’s related to some part, as well as how it came to be to determine where it should go next. I’ve always felt there’s meat on this bone.

The early days of Lighthouse IDE seemed to veer a bit into this by they since diverged.
So you spend all your time looking after dev infrastructure? Can I ask how many devs there are where you work?
Misusing terms in a concrete manner to make this conceptually obvious:

Imagine a receiver that is, with respect to some reference, at 100V, receiving an RF signal with a peak to peak voltage of 1V. The receiver is detecting the signal alternating between 100.5V and 99.5V with respect to ground. The receiver only 'cares' about the -0.5 +0.5 part. From the perspective of the receiver there is a signal oscillating around 0V; the local reference (Earth or otherwise) doesn't matter.

In the real world RF systems may need, or at least benefit from, earth reference. Particularly at lower frequencies where antennas are large, transmission lines are long and power supplies are imperfect common mode currents emerge as a problem and it becomes necessary to tie down these elements to a reference. That doesn't change the nature of the RF signal however; it's an alternating current that appears 'on top of' whatever the prevailing reference happens to be.
Johns Hopkins Beast
> Then put the comment into a review queue anyway.

> What are the downsides?

Unless you're a professional moderator that is paid for your moderation... time.

The primary thing we have a finite amount of....

No blogger with a blog post of substantial views is well served by a system that requires any moderation on their part at all.

Link to a thoughtful and dedicated moderation platform and let that community decide if your thoughts are worthy of sharing and discussing.

Saves everyone time.

Here's a thought that just struck me, let me try it out:

By not having a comment section you reduce your blogs filter bubble, because without knowing how people feel about your writing your blog post simply becomes a single entry in the aggregate "wisdom of crowds", once you engage a comment section you begin to locally meta cognate on what people think of your position and you end up with less original and diverse thought for the dedicated aggregators to surface.
I'm not seeing where kazinator said that "people in Austria should have their rent calculated based on the population of China and India."

Can you point out exactly where they said that?
The younger generations seem to have long abandoned it, first in favor of Instagram (I know it's also a FB property), then to others - i.e. TikTok, etc. At least in the US.

The only people I see still regularly posting personal updates to FB are older people.
Sorry pal!

I remember playing Halo in my early 20's, and chatting with a guy from LA who was 34. Wow, he's so old, why was he still playing video games.

Here I sit in my late 30's...still playing games when I have time, denying that I'm old, despite the noises I make getting up and random aches and pains.
> But you can't easily interact with files on the system outside of Linux subsystem, which made it more or less useless for my purposes.

It’s possible in file explorer via \\wsl$, but that is not always supported by applications so it’s not 100%.
> Nobody was proposing to expand NATO

“We reiterate the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance” June 2021

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm

Also for those “flagging” my verifiable facts:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/politics/igor-danchenko-arres...
Can you help test Caremiles – Making Climate action personal?
My favourite instance of this is the Brabham BT46B, which used fans to suck the car down onto the track. Not cheating by any means — they never tried to hide it — but nevertheless a very creative interpretation of the rules!

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f...
Naur on Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
> Why is that not an option?

Because the vast majority of android users only download apps through the play store.
That kind of context switching sounds like it's horrible for just about everyone (including the business).
Congrats on the launch.

Hopefully this will be the last pipelining language I'll learn.
and quite a few on the Guitar Hero thread earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30852542
Oh yeah! Totally different type of Tetris though, kinda like... I dunno... rugby and Australian rules football?
HN has @dang!
"...a fun gag was to put a Neon lamp in front of the transmitter horn antenna"

Years ago, I used to go on field trips in a convoy of vehicles with a group of radio amateurs and we used 2M (146MHz) TXs into 5/8 whip antennas on the vehicle roofs and attached to their tip were NE2 neon indicators which would glow whenever the TX was keyed on.

At night the neon glow seemed to hover above the vehicles as if suspended in mid air (it was difficult to see the antenna in the dark). A light suddenly appearing out of nowhere used bemuse other motorists. Trouble was it also attracted the cops although they never took any punitive action.
Canada will ban sales of combustion engine passenger cars by 2035
Wow. I've purchased more than a few bottles of ducosate. But it looks like you're right:

Reevaluating the Use of Docusate in the Management of Constipation
https://www.drugtopics.com/view/reevaluating-the-use-of-docu...
Notes:

My first encounter with this paper came from this thread:

"programmers spend most of their time trying to figure out and understand the system"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30860135

There are numerous interesting observations from other readers.

One of my favorites is:

mikewarot writes

> The main value of a software company is the mapping of source code and problem space in the developer’s heads [In linked article]
So, JSON has non-string values in other positions (as elements of arrays, or values in an object). Wouldn't your argument also lead to the conclusion that we don't need numbers at all, since we could get by with

{
"foo": "42",
"bar": ["1", "2", "3"]
}

There's also the issue of values with multiple equivalent string representations. I want 42.1 to equal 42.10 and 42.100. I also want {"foo":1,"bar":2} to equal {"bar":2,"foo":1} but with just strings you don't get that:

{
"{\"foo\":1,\"bar\":2}": 1,
"{\"bar\":2,\"foo\":1}": 1,
"42.1": 2,
"42.10": 2,
"42.100": 2
}

should have 2 keys but has 5
Will be following now, thanks.
Congratulations if you have security that would recognize the issue and be able to do something about it other than just blame Duo somehow! In my experience most technical people don't actually recognize the problem, like many other real security issues, and are more like security theatre-goers.
Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin Among Patients with Covid-19
Nowhere is this more evident than in the treatment of endometriosis.

It seems like even gynaecologists are woefully ignorant & untrained in this disease, leading to so much unnecessary suffering by women (my wife included).

Guys & gals, if you or your partner suffer from endometriosis, listen up!

* Find the best gynaecologist you can that specialises in endo & can perform excision surgery.

* Burning off the lesions (ablation) is not an effective treatment. Excision surgery is by far the most effective current treatment. Unfortunately, it seems like many gynaecologists do not have the training to perform this surgery, and therefore don't even mention it (lest they lose your valuable business).

* There is absolutely zero evidence that pregnancy "cures" endometriosis, despite doctors continually repeating this myth. My wife's awesome gyno told us - and you can research yourself - that this is absolute rubbish.

https://theconversation.com/pregnancy-doesnt-cure-endometrio...

It causes me to wonder when I go see a doctor, what else are they ignorant about? I like to think I can defer to their expertise, and set my mind to other things. Maybe not.
Hint for people writing wills: when you give a certain percentage of your estate to a charity, they have a reason to engage deeply with the executor. It's actually kind of a pain; they can demand a detailed accounting for the sale of various possessions. The detail goes beyond what the primary beneficiaries are demanding. Instead, give a fixed amount.

Worse, when you disburse money from an estate, you also need the beneficiaries to acknowledge the disbursements. This is easy when the beneficiaries are family or when the amount is large. But the last piddly disbursements? Many charities won't bother to acknowledge the last small amounts.

But when you give a fixed amount to a charity, all these problems go away. If a charity is to get $50K, then once you send them a check, they have no more "dog" in the fight. And they will happily sign the needed documents for the large hunk of money.

Source: my sister has dealt with this far too often in the last three years.
There were a number of very interesting items in R17, the one I have been keeping an eye on since they started the study group on it is:

> Non-terrestrial networks (NTN): following the Release 16 study, Release 17 introduced 5G NR support for satellite communications. It includes two distinct projects, one focusing on satellite backhaul communications for CPEs and direct low data rate services for handhelds, and a second project adapting eMTC/NB-IoT operation to satellite communications.

Specifically, "satellite backhaul communications for CPEs"

i.e 5G from LEOS direct to a CPE, perhaps a small Starlink type antenna out the window?

Very interesting.
> Data centers are a hard sell in general because they don't really provide too much benefit to a community.

The Netherlands is already the home of some FANGs (AWS has a few edge locations in Amsterdam) and dominant hosting providers such as Cloudflare.

I'm sure they'll be able to overcome the loss of Facebook.
Haha, nailed it!
No worries. It is not meant to be quantitative. For a few years of my career that has been my experience. For this type of software, if I'm making the decision on what technology to use, it won't be any GC-based language. I'd rather not rely on promises that GC works great, or is very tunable.

One could argue that I could just tune my services from time to time. But I'd just reduce the surface area for problems by not relying upon it at all -- both a technical and a business decision.
Dextromethorphan HBr? It's definitely sold on its own in the US.
The numbers must be that terrible
Don't forget to cc: your state and national legislators. They are the only ones who can actually fix this.

In your letter, point out that any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government, and do they really want the competition?
There are a couple of blogs I read that get good comments, but most either do not or have the comments closed. The commonality between the few with good comments section is that the topic of the blog is relatively niche and the commentors tend to have deep subject matter knowledge.

It's worth noting one major exception to this pattern: Marginal Revolution (https://marginalrevolution.com/) is a very general blog, has a large readership, and still gets good comments on it (a lot of trolls too).
I personally prescribe loads of painkillers, including the whole range of the WHO ladder, and many of those patients have liver tests. It rarely happens that we have to discontinue Tylenol due to hepatitis. I see people on NSAIDs with kidney failure every week. So again yes, Tylenol is toxic. But from personal experience, it's rarely a clinically relevant problem.
You seem to be conflating level 3 with level 4.

A level 4 car would, by definition, never require you to take over while the vehicle is in motion. This level of automation operates safely with nobody in the driver's seat.

A level 3 car requires a driver to pay full attention and "zoning out" would be unsafe behavior on behalf of the driver. Level 3 is considered by many to be dangerous given the human propensity to zone out despite being responsible.
> As well as tons of new information that gets data-mined.

Client side encryption is basically impossible; the decryption key has to be in the executable you ship somewhere, or at least sent to the client after a connection with the server. Perhaps some encryption tiering system could work to keep unreleased locked content locked for longer but I don’t think anyone has gone through that trouble yet.
Or, quit Facebook and avoid needing to use any natural resources at all.
I've been using Facebook more lately but not as a social network. I've bought and sold a few items on Facebook marketplace. I also now belong to a few obscure technology groups that only exist on Facebook and I have a Quest VR headset.

I also use it to see which relatives are now Qanon or Qanon-adacent.
That's not quite what I meant by "what are the downsides" - I was specifically referring to this system of proof-of-work-required-for-comment-submission, not comments in general.

I agree that moderation requires time, my question was if there are downsides of adding a proof-of-work system specifically relative to the same system without proof-of-work.
It’s “basically solved” in the sense that everyone gave up on distributed OSes and used k8s instead.
We have the best Play store customers... because of jail.
The author for "Scary Go Round" comics (which are turned into books) has great conversations with his commenters:

https://badmachinery.com/comic/those-longjohns/#comments
Any time I need to get into my work account, the MS Authenticator app on my phone demands that I give it my thumbprint or enter a PIN.
I remember the sex, tech and sextech journalist had a domain, vb.ly, listed in Libya because of the .ly suffix, much like oreil.ly is today. When the PTPB found out she talked about <GASP!>sex</GASP!> they pulled her domain.

So yes, The Swedish government could revoke your domain because they're the government.
This is not a very good article, and I would not recommend it beyond simple use cases. The problem is that there is no right way, it depends on the usecase and the magnitude of numbers you're comparing. See e.g. https://bitbashing.io/comparing-floats.html as a better referenc.

The fundamental difficulty of comparing floats is that the format ensures a near constant number of digit of precision regardless of the scale. This is very useful for most calculations because it means you can calculate without worrying too much about the amplitude of your numbers. But it means that the smallest representable difference between two numbers gets bigger as numbers get bigger: that's why they are called floating point.

That's why using tolerance, etc. is not so reliable: because the tolerance will depend on the magnitude of the numbers, even by doing those simple tricks. In particular, it is important to understand epsilon is only "correct" around 1, i.e. a + eps != a is only true of a is close to 1. More precisely, epsilon is the smallest number such as 1 + eps != 1.
I know mod-worship is fashionable around here but... bullshit.

One mod wasn't sufficient to keep bots at bay on a podunk PHP forum with hundreds of members 15yr ago. It's not sufficient to stem the tide of far, far better bots that lurk the internet today. There's other mechanisms at play.
If you are using ProtonMail, you might want to check out their Proton Calendar. Still waiting for Proton Drive (beta) apps to see if it might partially replace Google Drive or Dropbox.
"it works more quickly. That’s the only difference"

I'd like to see a paper from a reputable journal saying that MDMA is just a quicker working version of Prozac.
A plastic bag’s 2000-mile journey
Could you explain issues you have run into by ditching the smartphone and the solutions to those issues?

A few things come to mind for me:

- 2-factor auth (SMS or app based).

- Banking (in the UK now a lot of online purchases must also be verified through the banks app).

- Navigating in your city (public transport + just finding places by foot).

- Anything else you've come across that assumes everyone has a smartphone.

Also, what benefits have you found through ditching the smartphone?
You need to get access to the raw entropy stream in order to characterize it and test it under a number of different situations. At Cryptography Research, we did a number of reviews of hardware entropy sources.

You have to look into behavior during very early startup (power on reset), suspend/resume from low power states, under high heat and thermal shutdown, as well as stable operation. You look at different samples of chips to look for production variation. You build software models that try to simulate the underlying hardware behavior to see how close they get to predicting outputs (which is a bad thing if it works too well!)

You then review how the system processes this entropy since ideas that look good to hardware engineers (like a string filter) are actually really bad for entropy. You analyze the path for side channels or race conditions that could leak raw entropy across process boundaries.

Anyway, here are the reports:

https://www.rambus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IntelRNG.p... (1999)

https://www.rambus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VIA_rng.pd... (2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20141230024150/http://www.crypto... (2012)
One of threads is reviewing code as well, which would be done later on anyways.. among other benefits. I'm invoking commodore64 days for the second time in a row now - back then, during the war, as kids we didn't have much comouter lying around so few of us gathered around a single one and learned and tinkered with it. It was awesome since everything bounced out loud from multiple brains. XP in general is alright but maybe not all of the time, as with anything.
Waymo sues California DMV over sensitive self-driving safety information
As someone also with ADHD, I can relate in a lot of these respects. The idea of doing pair programming every fucking day would ruin me. I really don't mind collaborating or discussing with people, because I think that's what our brains are great for, but not in the pair programming sense, and not every day. In my last job, I was very open about this, but my manager seemed to basically brush it off and pull up a chair whenever he felt that was cool. "Time for pair programming". Bleh, thankfully I burnt out and got fired.

I've been following a very similar path as you describe in your last paragraph, and I'd be very curious if there are other similarities that differ from how others write code.

By chance, do you struggle with eating sounds in offices to the point where you panic?
It's bonkers how cheap. Less than many hotels, and includes food. You'd have to be moderately wealthy, but not ludicrously so.
That would actually be extremely interesting. I remember there are some peaks under the hood of the AOL and Prodigy backend and it was fascinating.

Both Prodigy and AOL I think have fallen into Yahoo's hands now. I wonder if there is a "Department of Ancient Online Services" space at Yahoo.
It might be easier to start with older or simpler/slower buses. ISA, SPI, I2C. In some ways ISA is very different - latching multiple parallel channels together instead of ganging independent serial lanes. But it makes sense to start off simple and consider the evolution. Modern PCIe layers several awesome technologies together, especially FEC. Originally they used 8b10b but I see now they're using 242b256b.
That's only true so long as Apple can maintain their App Store monopoly.
I HAVE tried being a multibillion dollar company, but I'm having issues getting multiple billions. Other than that I think I have the rest taken care of.
So GitHub repositories are being harassed by bots that police their language? I assume GitHub is going to ban their IPs. If they don’t, it’s another symptom of their decline.
> you create an exciting universe of optimizations that are essentially impossible when using boxed types

Couldn't JIT do this?
The rendering can be done relative to the camera position though, can't it?

So for the graphics you just subtract all world coordinates from the camera coordinate, and cast the result to float; for the game physics and AI, you work directly in fixed point.
Ah I wish but work uses backend TypeScript and that's also a very popular option nowadays so I don't see myself being able to easily escape that anytime soon.
Andreas Kling is a legend. He and his team really bring back the hacker ethos. Grind on hard problems people, instead of grinding on leetcode.
The owner of the app, Whitespace, is listed on Google as having their headquarters in St Petersburg. Could it be related to this: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...? Google has suspended payments to Russia as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the many sanctions results from that (like kicking many Russian banks from the international payment system).

Whitescape also lists a location in Estonia, which obviously isn't a problem, but if Google doesn't know about that (or thinks you're misleading them) then you might still be screwed.
I think a large part of the problem is that they're building renewable power as fast as they can, but are still heavily reliant on Russian gas for electricity. So building this data center would increase their reliance on Russia.
The Pain of Finishing Projects