skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two pieces of evidence for you to consider. First in the Carrington event, telegraph wires glowed red in some places in the north. In the 1800s wires were not in buildings, they were usually routed through windows in the operator rooms so no harm come to those buildings. Building wiring came decades later. As you may know a CME is long wave radiation and would normally only affect very long wires and potentially not as harmful to household length wire.

The second piece of the puzzle is starfish prime, which was entirely unexpected. It caused transformers hundreds of miles away to burn up and of course satellites to cease to transmit near the area of the blast. Scientists are clever and they could find simple ways to greatly amplify the effect. The discussion about grids going down is good enough to get people to talk. But there is more to the story than what they led us to believe.

If you were to take a high yield weapon and encase it in something like high density polystyrene it has a high hydrogen to carbon ratio making it's ions faster. Protons are many times more massive than electrons so electrons will be stripped off very quickly and travel very far leaving two very large opposite charge bodies flowing at relativistic speeds above the victim civilization. Bare charges are notoriously hard to keep together and they expand very quickly in all directions. This causes a great deal of current above us from the negative charges and the positive charges. A single coulomb is a massive amount of charge to try to keep together. If you had a single coulomb bound and then released, the explosive effect would be enormous.

Amplifying the effect with tons of this material means hundreds of terajoules of energy converted directly into electrical current which is a very fast moving wave, much much faster than a cme. This means that it will affect short wires even only a few feet long.

There is not just one of these weapons but dozens or hundreds. With a blanket dispersal it would affect huge areas.

Unlike conventional nuclear war thinking where blast effects are considered, this tactic is based on fire damage. The result is the destruction of a civilization with moderate amounts of nuclear fallout.

I really hope these fears of mine are unfounded but electricity is not easy to argue with. When man decided to apply its knowledge of nuclear energy into weapons research it took upon it's mortal hands instruments of it's own annihilation. Please read Rev 6. And Rev 17-18. For a bonus read Dan 5. Then you will know what to do when the time comes. Peace be to you and may your flight to safety be sure.
> No one really paid for it given that taxes didn't go up.

The US has settled for an equilibrium where things get paid for with debt an money printing, making it very confusing to work out who is paying for what. That isn't a reliable signal to use. Someone ate the massive losses that were being realised, no new wealth was created. It just isn't as clear who because the situation has been confused to the point where a simple connection can't be drawn.

Probably the damage is being spread amongst pensioners or something. Or, quite likely, the sort of people who eventually decided to vote for Trump. People who think they're getting a good deal don't vote for candidates like that.
What real estate do you think those people would buy if the condos weren't build?
Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm
white nationalism is a literal threat to America as I understand it, which is a whole contiguous US that is not at civil war.
I do not see any difference from Russian-speaking Ukrainians with first hand experience in Azov, C14, Svoboda, Pravy Sektor and various western mercenaries against them, that's happen in wars. The point is the military reason behind the action.

WWII bombing was mass bombing, with no precision target, '60s missiles are far more precise and absolutely not that cheap nor abundant and there is no military reason to mass using them even if you have a significant stockpile to bomb a residential area if this area is not filled by enemy forces. A practice mercenaries always use in war, regardless of their nationality, because that's the classic asymmetric war.

If I succumb to Russian narrative (curious, since I've cited western governmental sources to sustain my claims not TASS or Ria Novosti) you equally succumb to Bernaysian western propaganda. Being from EU BTW my own interest in on the Russian side, our major supplier, fellow European till the Urals (so Moscow included), not on the USA/UK side since those two equally do their best to pick our tech&talentsm put us one against each other (a thing we do remarkably well, shame on us for that) and do countless more or less discrete criminal and not criminal actions against us. The USA after WWII have transformed my home country (Italy) into the Mafiastan just to stop CLN Alta Italia (the major Resistence body of the country) to really becoming a democratic government, the UK help very well fueling corruption (a significant local weakness) by all means and imposing a redesign of public school to form a new kind of citizens unable to reason and act as Citizens. That after the UK itself have funded mussolini to became a dictator, that after Wall Street have founded hitler till the first year of WWII at least. Saying USA an UK obviously I'm talking about their ruling class, not their citizens that equally pay the price of their ruler business against their own interests.

Just consider a thing: EU countries can only blame themselves for their status from world superpower to a disaster, BUT Russians never invade US, while we try invading Russia few times, USA and UK and the world their ruling class represent have do so, few times. Even from history we are on opposite sides. And that's history not russian propaganda.
It's a rather unusual layout. Matias makes an even more expensive one handed keyboard that's essentially half a keyboard and then holding space lets you type the other half. I'm not sure why it's still so damn expensive.
It seems to me this is the case in so many cases. Whether it is smart contracts, geopolitics, or relationships trust always seems to be where things break down.
Tim Cook is nowhere near the product guy that Steve Jobs was but Steve Jobs is no match for Tim Cool when it comes to being a CEO of a big corporation. Apple has slowly adopted the Tim Cook doctrine the last 10 years and it has made Apple an 800 pound Gorilla that is also swift on it’s feet. Apple Silicon is the ticket to a 10T market cap and beyond. Their chips will instantly give them a huge advantage, from laptops to cars and AR/VR.
The ideal would be a universal basic income where if you make bad bets, you start back at the UBI level. There is no special bail out for someone based on how much they lose, simply a constant, level bailout for everyone.
This thread is ignoring one point - how social media companies manipulate the posts/tweets/reddits to create more engagement while promoting the most flaming and toxic debates and participants, since again it create more engagement.
It's not that the fault lies on anonymous participants who can't behave. Their behavior is promoted by algorithms that look to trigger a response.
Elon offer to make Twitter algorithms open source are one great step towards achieving a better Internet, even on social media.
I would assume that true of most of the senior devs in bigger companies I worked for. They just follow the normal get process every time and never have to consider rebasing or cherry-picking
Yes, `--pure` helps (and `env -i` can also help) but that's not the hard part of finding them all. It only really helps when there's no conditional logic or no options that can lead to the execution of different programs.
Execution for pissing everyone off doesn’t count as cancellation?

We know who Alex Jones is. Louis CK is out there getting awards. If “we know who he was and the things he said” means you’re not canceled, we’re in very good shape.

> Athens may have executed him, but they didn't deplatform him.

You get what a hilariously scary and silly statement this is, right?
Thanks, but that is not my site. Mine is darekkay.com and it isn't indexed by mojeek.
There is also the micro plastics issue to solve, before widening the scope of plastic applications.
In Ireland, bid to restore birthright citizenship gains ground (2018)
These syntheses can give powerful grounding to the ideas you get intuitively across dozens or hundreds of applications driven papers. They are useful.
This article comes across as an ad for DecentraWorld in disguise. The author shrugs off Monero and other privacy coins because, “In reality investors, traders, fans, and regular people that purchase and trade cryptocurrencies are not using privacy currencies, they are using the most common currencies.” The author then spends the remaining article writing about “other solutions” but only mentions DecentraWorld which sounds like a bunch of crypto services built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Why doesn’t the author share the same criticism of DecentraWorld as he does for privacy coins? Why would “investors, traders, fans, and regular people” use DecentraWorld rather than privacy coins?
The Battery That Flies
I agree thoroughly that's why tge pairing with Twitter would be marvelous.
What does he do in the BSD space? I always regarded him as Linux tracing/performance god.
My favorite is `ts`!
It adds a timestamp at the beginning of each input line.

I often use it with tee to save the log output of any command.

$ ping google.com | ts '[%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%.S]' | tee /tmp/ping.log
[20220416-21:57:20.837983] PING google.com (172.217.175.78): 56 data bytes
[20220416-21:57:20.838391] 64 bytes from 172.217.175.78: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=6.028 ms
[20220416-21:57:21.817189] 64 bytes from 172.217.175.78: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=9.621 ms
[20220416-21:57:22.818339] 64 bytes from 172.217.175.78: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=9.443 ms
[20220416-21:57:23.823126] 64 bytes from 172.217.175.78: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=8.921 ms
Mh, try to set a kind of protocol/netiquette is normal, reasonable, being a bit kind and polite in general similarly is a good and normal thing, but more than that is just erotic practice of some managers. The same in the real world send a two rows email with 45 lines of signature telling about thin air on privacy do-not-print-me etc
Just because you use async/await doesn't mean you can't use Promise.all.

In fact, my immediate intuition with the await examples was to parallelize with Promise.all.

await Promise.all([/* build promises */]);
I am the only one who may say that.
From the article:

>The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers, which form one-dimensional, spaghetti-like chains. Until now, scientists had believed it was impossible to induce polymers to form 2D sheets.

ie: the existing polymers use 1D chains, not 3D.
The protective detail of the Secret Service are masters of what they do, and they know how to optimize their capabilities against a potential enemy's weaknesses and strengths.

My respect for SS capabilities declined greatly earlier this month after it was revealed 4 highly trained agents including one on the First Lady’s detail were accepting bribes from bogus DHS agents with high powered weaponry who are likely foreign agents. A postal inspector figured it out, not the SS.

If SS can’t discern an obvious threat and ethical violation, how good are they at the other tasks they are supposedly masters of?

Another question: why do they have anything to do with investigating counterfeit currency? That particular responsibility should be reassigned to another agency at Treasury or FBI so Secret Service can concentrate on their core mission of protecting the president.
I think you are taking him too seriously and being maybe being a bit harsh. He is a mix of John Oliver and Johnathan Colbert with a bit of more precise shades of Veritasium.

He is primarily producing entertainment, and there is no harm in that. But he does it with a correct scientific background and some humorist tones not everybody appreciates. It's not a purely scientific channel, sometimes he get's some things wrongs, mostly on his opinions about the economics of projects.

The only thing I found too many, easily dismissing in this thread, is that when he makes one these busted videos he is also daring to make a statement and they are not random ramblings.

For example his first video of SpinLaunch, if you ignore the tone is a much better analysis than the one from Scott Manley, even if Scott Manley is a much better source for anything else related to Space.

Can you point me one of those egregious errors he made? Because I looked at this whole thread out of curiosity, and every single commentator criticizing him, did not provide a single concrete example.

It's a new genre...Scientific Entertainment ( bit still scientific) Not sure everything in this short life of ours, needs to be taken so seriously:-)
I've been looking into this as I'm building similar per resource scoping for conjure.so's API.

GitHub has 'OAuth Apps' and 'GitHub Apps' [0]. The former's scopes do not permit such granularity (eg the `repo` scope gives access to all repos of the account [1]).

The latter is much more granular, allowing the user to select specific repos to grant permission [2].
The 'GitHub App' owner can see their installations and also determine if the user chose access for all repos or on a per repo basis.

Netlify does such granular installation and will prompt you if you don't see your repo listed in their dashboard to check permissions.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/getting-started-w...

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-oauth-ap...

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/managing-github-a...
I think this conversation gets away from itself very quickly if you run with generic terms: data, prediction, and so on.

People think that NNs/ML/etc. works, and now the relevant questions are philosophical: if it works, how.

But it doesnt work. In very silly trivial ways. It's only taking averages over historical data. And all it can do is that.

As soon as you are alive to what thinking about things requires (ie., a live embeddedness into an environment, imagining scenarios, etc.) it's trivial to expose the magic show. It isnt philosophical, it's quite literally just broken and doesnt work.

I cannot ask GPT, "do you like what i'm wearing?", or "what would it take to change your mind on drug legalisation?" -- and so on. Indeed, I can't ask it, "if I have seven eggs, should I make a cake with 6 and keep the 7th -- or should I just use 7?".

I can't ask it anything which actually requires it to reason with concepts, because it doesnt have any; and I cant ask it about anything around now because it is just summarising what text has already been produced.

The whole AI hype industry has a vested interest in the philosophy here, ask its premised on everythign working. Almost nothing works. The idea that GPT presents any philosophical challenges is nearly absurd; about as many as a shredder at a library.
The planar sheet structure is compared to linear polymer strands, not to a 3 dimensional cube polymer.

The strength advantage would be more like layers of carbon fiber cloth compared to loose fiberglass fibers. Even with the same resin the sheets have a significant advantage structurally.
Ask HN: Would you choose good pay or more interesting job?
I am an ML engineer from eastern europe. About 8 years in the industry in total, 4 in ML. I am torn between two offers.

The first is full remote, flexible, $120k+ a year total comp, and involves being the main and only DS guy for a small startup. Great pay (4x my current totalcomp) and perks. The ML I am going to do is kind of boring. This role will probably give me good business experience.

The second one is an office job with relocation to Portugal, making ML/CV for cutting edge industrial robotics, working under a very strong professor. But only $45k total comp. Maybe they can give me $80k a year tops (still negotiating).

Most of you will probably want to jump in and yell: "Over 2 times more money? That's a no-brainer!" The problem is that I basically never cared so much about a job as I care about this second offer. It's literally the first time in my life when I heard about a mission and didn't consider it BS. Usually, I nod along to missions and visions, treating them as kind of a pretense game we play, where companies try to imitate early Google or something, and we pretend we are not seeing it. But this time it really hit me: a job where I am needed, the product is important, the business is selling something real, the people seem so cool we spent most of the interviews joking.

I have never had such a hard choice between jobs in my life. Usually I choose based on long term returns. But here long term returns are good for both options, but in different aspects. For my financials the first one is way better, for my skills the second one is way better.

What would you choose? Have you had experience choosing money over opportunity or vise versa, and regretting it?
Yeah, the Foreshadow attack leaked signing keys, so you could attest to a modified program running outside an enclave. I think other attacks didn't get that far though
This entire website is advertising for scams.
I still worry about these types of drugs and their threat towards the human condition.

Whether we create a "Soma" type drug from Brave New World which in little doses provides enough pleasure to forget our painful addictions, are we actually solving problems or simply inhibiting them so long as the drug is used? Does this now create a new dependency on another drug that can lead to other life ruin?

I'm a firm believer in the duality of the world. The pain we go through in terms of alcoholism/anxiety can be life's cruel way of teaching us. In other words, the pain doesn't leave until it's done teaching you(in one way or the other). Having friends and family who coped with alcohol and are extremely anxious, you can see it as both the best and worst thing that has happened to them.

To make real change away from alcoholism or anxiety, there's much more work than simply inhibiting the pain or providing more pleasure outweighing it. I believe this is more alongside the self and understanding one's purpose as both of these things are typically "symptoms" of the bigger human condition problem.
Github already has per-repo scope, and has supported that for at least several years AFAIR.
here's a real world example I use all the time:

const wait = (ms = 500) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

then:

async function () {
await wait(1000);
}

Perhaps it's hard to grok but it sure is a handy one-liner.

Of course in newer versions of node we can now do:

import {
setTimeout,
} from 'timers/promises';

await setTimeout(100);
He had no political capital against the lobbyist who had the democrats in their pocket too. Clinton also tried passing health care reform with a Democratic majority and failed miserably.

At least Obama got something passed. Now, even though I personally would pay a decent chunk of change for health care if I decided to go into independent consulting, at least it’s an option now. It wasn’t before.

He would have made money on the speaking circuit from some group of people regardless of what he did.
Yep no processing fee.

Same as with Venmo, if you paid a fraudulent request, that'd be on you. There's nothing to recover because the transfer was successful.
Strangely, the textual description is a more sensible design than the image examples.
Consider having children.
+1 for Sadhguru. He is awesome. Search him up on YouTube.
The author is not a client but a user. He doesn't pay GitHub, and is certainly not entitled to having a day of internal engineering workforce (costing in the tens of thousands of $) fixing his mistakes.
> Why not eliminate the possibility of the worst fears of cancel culture so that becomes moot and society is improved?

Indeed why not? It’s glaring to me that when I read these arguments, the solution to cancel culture never seems to be to limit the ability of employers to fire at will.

The only reason cancelling works at all is that you can be fired for any reason or no reason at the drop of a hat, with little to no recourse, and at great financial loss to yourself with the potential of losing your food, shelter, and medical care in an instant. People have been begging to change this system for a long time for this very reason.

But why does this system continue to exist if it has the potential to be so destructive? As far as I can tell it serves wealthy elites like large corporations very well. They enjoy having this ability to ruin your life by firing you. It’s the best leverage they have!

This is why the whole cancel culture debate is so fascinating to me. Generally speaking the people who are so upset about cancel culture are the very people who are standing in the way of eliminating the worst consequences of it. Instead they ground their position in the idea of free speech, but paradoxically the principles of free speech preclude any solution to cancel culture, because such a solution would restrict free speech!

I’m really waiting for the day that cancel culture warriors recognize the root problem here: that we built our society in a way, on purpose, to give people (business owners) this great power over others (employees) as a means to control them. If I can be fired tomorrow and still have food, housing, and healthcare then getting fired isn’t going to ruin my life. The flip side of that is employers won’t be able to fire their employees for any reason or no reason, and that seems to be a bridge too far for some of even the most ardent anti cancel culture warriors (see if Musk would ever advocate to curb his own ability to fire his employees).
This is a very cool tool - another case of disability features benefitting everyone. I would probably consider it seriously if it was available 5 years ago; I wish more keyboards also had mice sticks. These days I start feeling hand strain quickly on flat keyboards, even with a lot of stretching, and need to run home to my Kenisis Advantage.

As an aside, doesn’t sound like Bluetooth work well with Mac:

> TiPY is not automatically connected to my Apple MAC or MAC Books after I switch it off and on again?

> With a connected USB C cable, TiPY is always recognized.

> Third-party keyboards only connected to Bluetooth are never recognized by Apple after being switched off and must be reconnected.
I'd say the solution is trust, and it works remarkably well.
> I presume everyone here is talking about creating branches in the main repo and requesting review before merging the branch to master.

Regardless of whether someone is pushing to a branch in the upstream repo or pushing to a branch in a fork, the workflow is the same either way. At worst, it just means adding a remote if you want to check out someone's code locally.
He's getting downvotes because he's persistently overgeneralizing from his unfortunate, legitimate lived experience to a bunch of dogmatic claims about the fundamental nature of the pull requests that contradict many other people's own lived experience.