skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a remarkably stupid article.

We already have almost all of what nuclear clocks can deliver. The existing "super" atomic clocks are just too complicated and expensive to make it worth deploying them. Smaller, cheaper, lower maintenance is what we need. And there's no evidence a thorium clock would be any better on that front. Not, honestly, that there even seems to be much market pressure pushing in this direction.

Of course, anyone who actually works with NIST or its counterparts might well want all the accuracy they can get, so it makes sense that they'd get excited! But that is not most people. The list of potential applications in the article is utter hogwash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31500342
Steve Jobs said almost the same thing about the Segway. He said it we would design cities around it. How often do you see one in use? The reality is that most people don't like to cycle. They like to drive. They like to be protected from the rain, cold, heat, and other vehicles as they move from place to place. Especially if they have kids, or elderly passengers, or have to move stuff with them, or have to travel any appreciable distance. eBikes are good for out-of-shape people who think they want to start cycling, and not much else.
While it's disappointing, it's not exactly a surprise. Doctorow's been talking about "the war on general computation" for years. For about the same length of time, I've been saying that governments would eventually seek a monopoly over computation in the same way as they currently hold a monopoly over violence: it doesn't disappear or become physically impossible, but it requires registration, licensing and reporting, along with suitable punishments to deter those who would seek to usurp the monopoly.
I generally don't need to be reminded of the things I did as a child. Anyway, what am I going to do with these things, put them in my closet to burden my heirs?

If I see something useful that also reminds me of my parents or my childhood, all the better. But it has to be something that's integrated into my life, not something that I'm attaching to my life because I'm afraid to give anything up.

edit: I do have to say that there might be a subtext in the article that I agree with. The useless stuff that your kids will have to deal with after you die is probably also useless to you now, so you should deal with it now.
Certainly there are bad bikers, too. Probably bad joggers.

To a large extent, it is the same in all cases. The heavier item has more responsibility to pay attention in mixed use areas. The really dangerous vehicles should be separated and put in dedicated lanes.
I watched the whole thing, and it was a bit weird, at every moment I felt like "well, huh, some of those previous sketches missed slightly, but this one I'm watching now -- they've really caught their stride!" So, I think it is good, slightly confusing, and good.
I've been thinking about this too. I don't think this really exists. I think you really just have to use self control to avoid using the browser.
You guys had atoms? When I was a lad, there were only photons.
Every time I see the templated yaml used widely in devops (see helm charts for example), I'm reminded of this sort of XML used for declarative programming. It was terrible then and it's terrible now.
With very rare exceptions, even giant stamp collections are worthless. Stamp collecting is all about collecting, not disposing.

Sure there are catalogs that detail the "listed price" of a stamp, but that's the dealer price to you, not the price they'll buy it at (which is likely < 10%). Buying stamps is really easy, selling them (for their actual value) is hard. (I guess this is true for collections in general.)

Apart from the selling issue, is the searching issue. You might inherit a collection of a few thousand stamps, but it's unlikely to be sorted by value. Which means it has to be examined. By a professional. Which takes time. So there goes any value in it. Which is why a dealer will only pay pennies for a whole collection - it'll chew their time separating the wheat from the chaff.

Best thing you can get any collector to do is dispose of all the value in their collection, or clearly separate the value from the rest, before they pass.

Now me, I have books. Lots and lots of books. The kids will love inheriting those... :)
I think you vastly over-estimate the value that engineers produce. A good portion of this value is predicated on the reality that consumers and businesses have cash to spend. These days, most tech revenue comes from advertising, hosting, or consumer services. If consumers stop spending, consumer services contract which will cause advertising budgets to tighten.

The only relatively safe haven in tech during a recession is cloud services as long as the cloud enables companies to reduce head count and cut costs. Otherwise capital expenditure budget cuts would hit clouds as well.
When I read “Everyone” in your post, bells went off on my head. It’s too broad a statement. You could offer me a 2M home in the Bay Area, and I’d auction it off to charity. A 5M condo in Manhattan and I’d do the same. You can only say there are enough people with enough money and determination to bid up property in certain areas. Two very wealthy people bidding on one property can take it to astronomical levels, but they are not “everyone”. There are more people who want to live in the Bay Area than there is affordable housing. The number of people who want to live in the Bay Area, though, is a fairly small percentage of the US population (ignoring the homeless who seem to love the Pacific Coast).

Most places in the US are already “good” places to live, if you come with the right attitude, e.g. immigrants looking for a better life. After WWII, GIs dispersed themselves all over the country. They had seen (sometimes too much of) the world, and were open to, and happy with, anyplace in the US that gave them a job, a house and an ability to raise a family. They knew how bad it could be and counted on being able to improve wherever they moved to in the US. And they mostly did, thanks to a solid economy, a stable political system and pure moxie. Same with non-wealthy foreign immigrants. Making the most of what you have generally leads to a pretty nice life anywhere in the US. Even Canada :-).

Internal mobility in the US has been on the decline in recent years, perhaps a sort of generational timidity combined with familial inertia has led to certain highly-populated areas experiencing irrationally high housing costs.
This is very regional, you cannot generalize across a country the size of the United States. In my city motorists stop immediately if you even look like you might want to cross the road. I've even inadvertently caused someone to get a ticket myself because I didn't look before stepping off the curb, and as soon as I did that the crosswalk became mine. I would have just let the car go, he was pretty close, and it would have been unreasonable to force him to jam the brakes and screech to a halt, but by putting my foot in that crosswalk I made it illegal for him not to stop, and the cop 100 feet up the road whipped out and wrote him a ticket for it. Cops around here like to do that.
Everything slows down. Almost every CFO wants to be more cautious.

Some companies get more aggressive, since they want to seize the opportunity in the marketplace and possibly get talent for cheap. This typically has pros and cons for the employee.

However, during recessions is historically when the actually cool stuff is built.
Find companies doing real things that generate cash flows and try to target them as best you can. Read their blogs, talk to their SWEs on social, build a mini-version of what they do if you. This isn’t just a time waste, suck-up effort, it actually helps you learn the sector of the industry you are interested in. Someone will think it is impressive.

NOTE: hacker news suggestions that “this will only impact those bottom 90% plebe developers” are bad and even if true would only be helpful advice for the top 10% (who typically aren’t on hacker news anyway)
I live out of a carry on bag mostly. My stuff is pretty minimal but the heaviest things I own are the books. I have some really weird old ones too, like one for learning german from 1939 and another on how to survive an atomic bomb from 1946. Just weird shit that's hard to find and hard to let go of.

I tend to like doing book trades though so it pays off on my travels.
Worth mentioning the N-Gage, which got a Wordle port recently, powered by SDL2:

https://hackaday.com/2022/04/08/wordle-comes-to-the-nokia-n-...

I remember the N-Gage being lambasted when it came out, but recently I realized that those same people also lambasted the iPod, and maybe I can't trust those people's judgment about tech. You know, the Slashdot crowd.

Maybe it was a good system that was just poorly positioned in the market against the Game Boy Advance. $200 for a phone + gaming system doesn't sound so bad, and the more recent comments I've heard about it are along the lines of "underrated system that was ahead of its time". It was competing against a $100 Game Boy Advance, though.
Right. So now the question is -- are you able to give a physical example of physical (continuous) processes which can create a discontinuous output from a continuous initial state, in a finite amount of time? I think this is a sort of Zeno's paradox...
I don't really care about how a group feels about me when that group's defining characteristic is the determination to control other people's lives and bodies.

It is very clearly a movement centered on controlling women, because the pro-life movement has aggressively worked to reduce access to birth control, and undermine or limit effective sex education.

A person who wishes to stop abortions should have as their primary goal the reduction in unwanted pregnancies, after all that is the safest and least controlling approach to reducing abortions. However all the evidence shows that pro-choice legislators and activists are the people who actively work to reduce the rates of unwanted pregnancies.

Pro-life means working to ensure that women have less bodily autonomy than a corpse. It means that forcing rape victims to give birth, even if they are children for whom birth is potentially lethal (because they're "too young" to make such complex choices). Or just to needlessly kill women.

The states that are most aggressively "pro-life" also tend to have the highest maternal mortality rates, the lowest child support, the poorest funded education system. None of those match any claims of being "pro life", they indicate that the only goal is control of women.

I'll believe "pro-life" actually means that when I see pro-life politicians making sure child birth is free, that child care is available to all including low/no income, that quality housing is provided for low/no income families.

I'll believe "pro-life" campaigners are anti-abortion for reasons other than control of women when they are as aggressively working to reduce unintended pregnancies as they have done to criminalize women.

I'll believe "pro-life" campaigners believe life begins at conception when they start child support, life insurance, etc at conception as well.
We need an HNShowDeadDrive
Most states don't have a minimum speed limit or only have it on limited access highways. There will be a classification for slow moving vehicles with additional stipulations. Most states also have an AFRAP rule for being as far to the right as practicable. The key point is that practicability may require being anywhere in the lane depending on circumstances. If you have the right of way people without the right of way have to yield and drive safely. Driving behind a bicyclist in the lane to avoid debris is no different that driving behind a combine taking up 75% of the entire road.
What if they sell 10 dollar bills for 30?, and make large hiring corps "foot the bill"? Hm.
No not really.

I'm perhaps one of the odd HN users. I'm religious and don't really have too much attachment to material wealth.

I make decent money right now but there has been times in my life when I have been poor. I was born in a third world country and know what it's like to survive on little (it sucks but not as much as you think).

If I lose my entire fortune and life savings tomorrow, I'll be fine. I'll flip burgers, deliver pizza or wash cars if I have to (though I doubt the west will have such a massive crash, but who knows?).

My happiness doesn't derive from my comfortable clothes; it comes from being with my loved ones, especially my fiance.

I go to Mass regularly and volunteer at Church with her often. One thing that's been very important for us spiritually is willing the good of others (this is what love means in a Christian sense) and when you do this often enough, you stop putting so much emphasis on your salary, your iPhones and Macbooks.

I'm not saying this to come off as "morally superior" , au contraire, it's to simply share my experience; If it comes off that way, I apologize.

Finally, allow me to leave you with one of my favorite poems by Charles Bukowski.

"don't forget

there is always somebody or something

waiting for you,

something stronger, more intelligent,

more evil, more kind, more durable,

something bigger, something better,

something worse, something with

eyes like the tiger, jaws like the shark,

something crazier than crazy,

saner than sane,

there is always something or somebody

waiting for you

as you put on your shoes

or as you sleep

or as you empty a garbage can

or pet your cat

or brush your teeth

or celebrate a holiday

there is always somebody or something

waiting for you.

keep this fully in mind

so that when it happens

you will be as ready as possible.

meanwhile, a good day to

you

if you are still there.

I think that I am---

I just burnt my fingers on

this

cigarette."
This is what I think of when all of these headlines about boomer-to-millineal wealth transfers come out every few months.

How is this a good thing? How does this wealth transfer help decentralize the wealth in the US?

The only thing I’m probably being left is a vintage collection of HGTV Magazines and piles of depreciating assets.
This approach is actually best for learning/studying anything Eg. Martial Arts, Mathematics etc. Regular, Mindful and Consistent practice without over-straining is the key. Intensity should pick up only for key events likes Exams, Tournaments etc. and maintained only for a short duration followed by relaxation.
I am using Contabo for the last 8 months. So far I didn't find any issues.
I feel like a lot of the biodynamics people (especially wine producers?) have a vested interest in selling it as "organic plus" and skip over the whole "horoscopes for grapes" part until you really dig
The Trouble with Q Quotes
Yeah, we said that in the 90s too, that was the thesis of high-minded bullshit from the era like the "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace". Look where it got us.

There is no sphere that is outside the government's control. None. Create one, and the government will come round to enforce its will on it.
You could just delete the apps you don't want.

https://android.stackexchange.com/a/231279
We lose money on every transaction, but we make up for it on volume!
> Then you d have a team that delivers rather than state that we must lose the client because his need overlap our 20% "moving classes around more logical namespaces" clean code.

Which sounds like something that happened zero times ever. The problem is rarely that there's too much tech debt work, it's that client requirements take over dev work right up until the product goes up in flames (at which point the client you meticulously built features for disappears along with the rest).

Since you're rejecting handbooks, how do you define "unbearably crappy?" Perhaps it's when the devs have already started looking for new jobs? And then, if it's unbearably crappy and you start cleaning up and a client comes with requirements, do you drop the cleanup work?
Take the Swaps Off the Balance Sheet
> I've biked in one hundred degree weather...

Most people sweat just standing in 100 degree weather, so maybe you are unusual?
The chair I'm sitting in cost me $20 at an estate sale a few houses down from where my parents live, because the wife died and the husband wanted to move to florida.

I do not look forward to the day my parents die because we have a history of accumulating material possessions and there will be a lot of cleaning.
I'm not looking forward to dealing with my parents stuff, a major reason(other than their death) being that taste seems largely generational. They both seem to love giant wooden cabinets...for everything. They both have monstrosities of a TV stand/console/shelf, etc. It's actually nice quality, but nobody I know my age or younger really likes stuff like that. I can't imagine I ever will.
That's a bit over the top, don't you think? And you make it kinda personal, calling me an asshole for suggesting that we'd all be better off if we built actual bike infrastructure. I'm very courteous to other road users, whether they be driving cars, riding bikes, or walking. I'm not the asshole in this conversation.
Saying that something exists in one system does not imply that it does not exist in no other system. At best, it implies it it does not exist in some other systems.
We are still hiring at Fractal (NFT marketplace for gaming assets). We're a revenue generating company with fewer than 15 team members that just raised $35m in new funding. Founded by experienced founders. https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is/
Google Workspace SAML can now send group membership details
@ 0:47s - Faces of 100x coder.

@ 0:04 - 0:05 - Watch a 100x coder typing speed.

@ 0:37 - 0:38s - Watch a 100x coder typing speed.
I saw you said you worked at Quanta in SLC. I'm trying to figure out who you are. Help me out?
I saw a couple of episodes of Dr Steve Brule. Pretty good. And I guess "Too Many Cooks" really deserves some love. It was incredible. I guess this stuff is from Tim and Eric?
For a moment I had a mindfuck and then realized it's a table, not floor.
I used to go through two phones per year simply because I'm clumsy. After two years, I'm still on my first CAT.

There are definitely downsides, but the durability is something else compared to other phones.
oops

I found that she was an SRE engineer at uber, later she change corse to full time writing at some newspaper agency, what a change.

From physic to software engineering then fulltime writing, not anyone can do that
Around a decade ago I saw an old guy flying one of those (some biplane replica) off of a racetrack for the runway in a school field and asked him what he thought of these newfangled drones and his reply was "I'll shoot them down!"
Poster here. This is a neat feature [especially for internal apps IMO], and I feel that the reason for this launch is Google's long journey of getting Zero Trust ("BeyondCorp" in their lingo) to the broader business market.
It was tempted out using cheese
If your application can also use clear text TCP sockets, then stunnel becomes an option.
I wonder if digitized objects will hold same sentimental value as real ones. What if taking a picture of a vase or a postcard, or even 3D scan of a toy you cherished as a kid, will help with keeping memories and not agonizing on the decision to junk it.
That has exactly zero to do with the lumber. Nothing at all. In fact heavy dense lumber would transmit sound better than a light wood.

I have a new house built from this 'crap' wood you distain, and you can't hear people in the next room because it has sound deadening materials in the walls.
I also “invented this idea” from scratch in a series that exists solely in my mind where I abuse a variety of free services for unintended purposes.

I could seemingly never explain the concept to other developers in a meaningful way or cared myself to code these out.

Anyway my quick summary in this is just think of a dialup modem. You connect to a phone line and you get like a 56k connection. That sucks today, sure, but actually it’s kind of mind blowing for how data transfer speeds worked at the time.

You know how else you can send data via a phone line without a modem? Just literally call someone and speak the data over the phone. You could even speak in binary or base64 to transfer data. It’s slow, but it still “works,” assuming the receiving party can accurately record the information and hear you.

That seems to be what this main topic is. Using a fast medium (video player) to slowly send data over the connection, like physically speaking the contents of other data. But there could be some problems with this approach.

Mainly, YouTube will always recompress your video. For this method, that means your colors or other literal video data could be off. This limits the range of values you can use in an already limited “speaking” medium.

if this wasn’t the case, we would like to use a modem connection. Just literally send the data and pretend it’s a video. However, where I left off on this idea, we appear to be hard blocked due to that YouTube compression.

We can write data to whatever we want and label it any other file type. (As a side note, Videos also are containers like zip that could be abused to just hold other files)

But YouTube is an unknown wildcard that changes our compression and thus our data which seems to invalidate all of this.

If we somehow convert an exe to an avi, The YouTube compression seems to just hard block this from working like we want. If we didn’t have that barrier, I think we could otherwise just use essentially corrupted videos to become other file types if we can download the raw file directly.

(steganography is a potential work around I haven’t explored yet)

Without these, we’re left to just speak the data over a phone which compresses our voice quality and in theory could make some sounds hard to tell apart. This leaves us in the battle of what language is best to speak to avoid compression limiting our communication. Is English best? Or is Japanese? What about German? Which language is least likely to cause confusion when speaking but also is fast and expressive?

This translates into what’s the best compression method for text or otherwise pixels in a video where data doesn’t get lost due to compression? Is literal English characters best? What about base64? Or binary? What if we zip it first and then base64? What if we convert binary code into hex colors? Does that use less frames in a video? Will the video be able to clearly save all the hex values after YouTube compression?
what's funny is firecracker, the underlying tech fly is using, was created by AWS

only used by Lambda at the moment though, not in ec2
Ray Dalio: We're headed into a period like the 1970s
Or, the article is precisely about you and you don't realize it. You might not be the son in the article. You might be the dad (hopefully with many decades of collecting yet to go).
I am fortunate to live in a country where there are lots of people below me on the totem pole. There is a delighted recipient for literally everything we have outgrown.

Pretty much everyday is council day here - you can leave whatever you like, whenever you like, by the kerb and it'll be gone by lunchtime. While it's painful to see so much need, it's gratifying that everything finds a new home where it will be used.

[broken stuff is especially in demand - it can be fixed and reused - there's an active trade in collecting broken appliances. Large stuff, like furniture will be collected by charity organisations.]