skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AirTags are different from other Bluetooth trackers like Tile because they rely on Apple's U1 chip to provide complete functionality. Functionality is limited in iPhones that lack the U1 chip, and it's even more limited in non-Apple devices. You need an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to set up AirTags because they require the Find My app that's only available for Apple devices. You also need an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to put AirTags into Lost Mode or find your AirTags on a map because both of those functions require the Find My app.
You seem to have a fun answer to this. Please, enlighten us!
Doesn't this go against the whole point of bitcoin by relying on a central entity that prints, validates, and transfers the notes?

Wondering if this requires a money transfer agent license in the US, since you are holding funds in custody and issuing scrip?
See also - Arma 3 benchmarks comparing different malloc implementations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmeMxEel4M
I kind of understand this from an e-waste angle, but why (as a consumer) do I care if different phones use the same cable? I only have one phone. Even if I get a new phone every year, unless I’m switching back and forth between iPhones and Androids, I’m not having to buy new cables. If I go to a public place, and need to plug my phone in, I can already do that regardless of the connector on the phone end. If a friend is over and they need a phone charger, there’s only two possible needs, and I’ve already filled them. Apple charges license fees on Lightning, but I can already buy a nice third party cable for like $10.

Why is this so important as to require a large scale device maker to redesign their entire product line, and make millions of existing cables obsolete? Genuinely interested in the reasoning behind this, what problems is it solving?
There is zero chance that an iPhone with a USB-C port is going to allow phone-to-phone file transfer. You have the cause and effect reversed.
They're also creating a packaging center in Italy

https://gamingnews.cyou/here-is-intels-plan-for-europe-a-pac...

And an R&D center in France

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/eu-new...
Well, with Amazon's co-mingling, you can't be sure that even brand cables are authentic.
We invaded germany in 1940s and we've been occupying it ever since. You know like how the soviet union invaded germany in the 1940s. But then they eventually left. We didn't. We are still there. Hopefully germany will become a free nation one day. We talk so much freedom and sovereignty and yet we deprive so many of freedom and sovereignty.

> they are claims devoid of proof, references or even arguments.

It's basic history. Do you need references for ww2 and the occupation of germany? You are only responding like this because it's the obvious truth which you don't want to confront.

Imagine if china or russia was occupying germany and forced them to subsidize chinese or russian companies.
It could just flip much more slowly and maintain ~1g, with minimal course correction.
"depending on who gives you the note you might trust that they have done this for you"

There is absolutely no way I would trust that - because even if I trusted that person's integrity I would also need to trust that they themselves had the technical knowledge to reliably make that confirmation. And that they hadn't made a mistake.
Not that complex... Right.

It's complex and costly enough enough that France keeps losing out. It's ridiculous, really, because there is no good reason for this. It's a mix of lack of self-awareness and ideology.

France is not an isolated case, though. Many countries are like that, sadly.
> semiconductor manufacturing supplies

Which supplies specifically? Aren’t the big ones just silicon and solvents?
Go ahead, I have it public for a reason :).
> It doesn't matter if the end client is submitting queries in plain text (protected in transit) or this fancy encryption

It's not just the query that is encrypted in this case, but the data being queried. From MongoDB's description, the server never receives or stores plaintext data, and the query results can only be decrypted by a client who has the same key that was used to encrypt the data in the first place. From a compliance perspective, that's amazing if it works. It means the server is never storing or processing anything but ciphertext.
Depends on what you mean by useful for the world.

One response could be volunteering for a Wikimedia tech project, another for a charity etc. Another may be to offer tech support to the old people in your town.

Figure out what kind of thing you'd like to help first and then look for projects. Or figure out the type of work you want to do and then look for openings.
Github organization: https://github.com/binpash

Github project: https://github.com/binpash/pash
That’s called interest on the Marshall plan.
> financial connections are one excuse to spend more time interacting.

And it's not sufficient. Most people will buy products imported from China without ever interacting with Chinese people (or their culture) and Chinese will export products to the rest of the world without ever interacting with foreign cultures and their ideas and viewpoints. Tell me how a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany helped build ties between the citizens of either country, aside from the politicians who got rich off of it and turned into apologists.
Easy solution would have been to backstop your secrets in a cloud storage account run by a firm that you can call on the phone and talk to a Unix engineer in California.

It would have been a pain and we would have made you jump through all kinds of weird hoops and I would have to be personally involved… but we’d have gotten you in.

After 21 years of this we’ve seen all of this - customers die, people are in comas, admins get fired… we’ve helped everyone and treated them like human beings.

And yes - it does cost a bit more than backblaze.
Sadly, our feet are no match for them.
I’m surprised a company doesn’t sell the product for a lower price... Oh, the US prevents this due to patent laws? Then diminish the patent rights... Oh, that would stifle innovation? Hmm, I imagine mandating lower prices might have the same effect.
"the market of manufacturers will naturally consolidate until the generic is only available from a single manufacturer."

That's called a monopoly. And while it is a natural tendency it's also a point of regulation. By preventing monopoly you keep the desirable part of capitalism (competition) without having to enforce less palatable anti-capitalist measures like direct price controls.
All One Needs to Know about Priors for Deep Image Restoration and Enhancement
RISC-V research center do not build 5nm chips at industrial scale.
And without 5nm chips at industrial scale, RISC-V research is useless.
But they may be very suboptimal. Most likely, they are not Thunderbolt or USB4 capable. Also, there is no guarantee that they can supply higher wattages.
Cool idea, and the notes themselves look really nice. How does it work if I were to give someone one of these notes? To 'claim' the BTC (assuming they aren't passing the note around between people indefinitely) do they need the private key from the original owner of the note?
> knowledge that brings us nowhere. If someone could answer to this "and so what?" in a meaningful way I would be glad to change my mind.

Devil's Advocate: Could that not also be said for many astrophysics discoveries including:
- Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe and galaxies
- Kepler's discovery of 1K plus exoplanets
- Hubble telescope's ultra deep field

None of these are practical pursuits that provide us with new, widely used technology (or at least investing in them is not the most efficient path to said practical technology). Instead, they provide us context on where we sit in the universe. Starting from Copernicus, the constant realignment of our perspective that we are not privileged observers in the universe (disproving geocentrism, heliocentrism, and galactocentrism), have been essential to the development of modern secular humanism and providing us context on our purpose (or at least an effective tool to knock down foolish purported purposes espoused by dogmatic leaders).

So I guess I am taking issue with your narrowly defined purpose of science. What is an "everyday problem" worth solving through fundamental research?

If however, you include these philosophical benefits of fundamental science, then I agree with you.

"Have we had a case where the Higgs boson changed anything in our life?" I think nails that the reason why we shouldn't pursue a LHC++. It has neither benefits from providing us practical tools or new technologies to advance society NOR does it aid us in philosophically contextualizing where we sit in the universe.
It was also hated by other EU countries:

>President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that Nord Stream 2 is not in the EU's interests.[19] Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have questioned the different treatment of Nord Stream 2 and South Stream projects.[19][20] Some claim that the project violates the long-term declared strategy of the EU to diversify its gas supplies.[21] A letter, signed by the leaders of nine EU countries, was sent to the EC in March 2016, warning that the Nord Stream 2 project contradicts the European energy policy requirements that suppliers to the EU should not control the energy transmission assets, and that access to the energy infrastructure must be secured for non-consortium companies.[22][23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2
Reading SLA can be complicated but it definitely pays back both in terms of money and reduced risk.
Here's a dissection of S3 SLA as an example: https://alexewerlof.medium.com/dissecting-the-s3-sla-26421dd... and Amazon is quite good.
As of 2018 (and it's gotten a notable bit worse since then if we look at absolute numbers per year), it stood at 29 per 100,000. This is four times higher than the U.S homicide rate by the way, and the U.S homicide rate is itself considered high by the standards of other developed nations.

In the other hand to be fair, Mexico isn't in the top ten of most violent countries by murder rate. Most of those top ten aren't war zones either, while Mexico technically is.
A password manager mitigates other threats that a spreadsheet in iCloud Drive does not, such as a program just directly reading it and ruining your life. And, anyways, password managers give you auto fill which is a significant quality of life improvement.

A memorable password is not a bad password, if done right. I have a password for both my google account and Apple ID that's easy to type because when you're in device setup you can't auto fill and so random passwords are a huge pain
> iPad OS 16 also adds virtual memory for the first time on an iOS device.

I have also seen that claim, but I have a really hard time believing they didn’t have swap before. Like hell, I’m sure they must have used memory compression as well..
This story would make more sense if you mentioned that he did not have a lightning cable with him. My iPhone X is currently plugged into a USB-C charger, no problem, but it's using a USB-C -> Lightning cable.

It's the cable that's the issue.
I think they are jackdaws, not ravens
India Loosens Rules to Promote Switch to Clean Energy
On par with nuclear weapons? Downright evil?

You’re being absurd.

The technology exists, and it’ll get better. Pretending that it doesn’t exist or banning it won’t make it go away — it’ll just be used by the least scrupulous and most powerful.

Disruptive efforts like this are most upsetting to anxiety-ridden people who think that if they could just control things firmly enough, everyone and everything will be safe.

That kind of thinking doesn’t actually work, though, and it produces a stiflingly rigid, oppressive society that deserves to be upset occasionally.
They are on it [1], but it takes time.

[1] https://on5g.es/en/ec-sets-targets-for-european-digital-sove...
How can I ensure that the Bitcoin on the note isn't corrupted in some way such that it might not be accepted by certain exchanges - Bitcoin that has been through a tumbler for example. Will your mobile apps by able to perform those kinds of checks for me, or will that require me to take extra steps?
15Y boy hailed 'hero of Ukraine' for saving Kyiv with his toy drone
Objective analysis. Cuban, Musk, and others have developed fandoms yielding coverage that portrays them as 'saints' (an overly positive light). With fandoms comes some degree of polarization as non-fans present their counter-points.

Cuban found there is margin that can be squeezed in the pharma market due to being a high margin product with inefficient distribution. He moved on a revenue opportunity, plain and simple.
Carmack is a great empiricist, meaning he pays a lot of attention to how things work in a running system. All of his engines provide rich facilities for record and replay as well as running benchmarks.

timedemo <demo file> uscache

The DOOM3 source is here https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3

There are lots of facilities for recording and playing back demos. The author could record their own gameplay and play it back in realtime vs running timedemo (which plays back as fast as possible).

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/neo/framew...

2865: cmdSystem->AddCommand( "recordDemo", "records a demo" );
2866: cmdSystem->AddCommand( "stopRecording", "stops demo recording" );
2867: cmdSystem->AddCommand( "playDemo", "plays back a demo",
2868: cmdSystem->AddCommand( "timeDemo", "times a demo",
2869: cmdSystem->AddCommand( "timeDemoQuit", "times a demo and quits",

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLA42q3myCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIhRmdz2cI
Exactly this. Europe is a gerontocracy. The worst part, full retirement of the baby boomer generation, has yet to unfold. Elderly care is already in crisis mode. Moreover, the generation now entering the workforce is even smaller than the one preceding it. Add to this the expensive political delusions about how to best fight climate change.

Perhaps Germany is economically strong enough to stomach it, but in general moving to Western Europe is like boarding the Titanic. It is a beautiful ship, but the journey does not have a happy end.
Because it's not an open standard any only support low-power devices. If we gimped USB-C to only support 5 volts, it would work everywhere too.
Manufacturing anything large is an international affair these days.

https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2020/inside-high-tech-m...

"ASML has five manufacturing locations worldwide. Our lithography systems are assembled in cleanrooms in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, while some critical subsystems are made in different factories in San Diego, California, and Wilton, Connecticut, as well as other modules and systems in Linkou and Tainan, Taiwan."

And you can assume those factories depend on sub-assemblies from lower tier factories which are made in even more places.
The only time I was motivated to code outside work was when I was working a pretty boring software job (backend dev)

I ended up moving to a much more interesting job in a niche area and haven’t felt the need to work on code outside work since my main job is already interesting enough
Well I never thought the Transformers would be big with Germans
Yeah -- similar. Open Dime is focused on securing a single key until it's tampered with; we use a multisig with timelock instead for a couple reasons; (1) the chips we use are simpler and entirely powered via NFC (2) our notes are intended for broad circulation over a long period of time.
> a thread about someone asking about password management solutions for an organization of 10k employees, and someone recommended 1Password, which I already find hard to believe it could ever make financial and operational sense.

Ha, these costs are a DROP in the bucket for businesses at 10k employees.

> "can't we just hire someone else do that in-house, part-time? It would cost as much or less, but at least we would have a lot more control over the system and we wouldn't be at the mercy of a company that treats us as cattle."

Good luck with this. You're missing things like:

- Maintaining the software (upgrades, etc.)

- Maintaining the hardware (you buying bare metal? cloud? who's upgrading servers? etc.)

- Hiring/firing costs

- Do developers want to work with a system that isn't GitHub and be productive?

- etc. etc.
Link to the preprint:
https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf

Coindesk articles:
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/new-research-unea...
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/the-decentralized...
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/even-giants-start...
I dunno. I've already burdened my parents with plenty of things, and so have my siblings. I don't know that I want to make them responsible for storing random bits of paper they may or may not forget about.
>No, the Dutch and Belgian governments are saying you CAN play the game as long as it's changed to remove gambling aspects or is sold as a gambling product with all the consequences that entails.

In other words, they're saying that you cannot play the game.

>Activision Blizzard doesn't want to do that. Not the fault of governments

If I were Dutch and wanted to play the game, then it wouldn't be Blizzard stopping me from playing. It would be the Dutch government. That is quite literally their fault.

The Dutch government is saying that they know how I should live my life better than I do.

>And as for the (im)possibility to develop games that follow the laws of all countries: that had been successfully done for decades. It just doesn't involve predatory microtransactions

Yeah, good luck with that. Hope you have some extremely deep pockets to fund it yourself, because nobody's going to invest in it if the projected returns suck. Video game prices have stayed at the same level or even decreased over the years while costs to develop have gone up, because players aren't willing to pay the inflation adjusted price for them. They also expect way more complex technical work on the games.

And even when you make all that work the players will still jump to games like Diablo Immortal instead, regardless whether your local government bans the game or not. Getting around region locks in gaming isn't exactly new.
What I find most disappointing about this is the extremely vague ask. “Do something, anything” coming from technologists? And trusting that politicians will not twist that as supporting their own agendas?
Then you have to toughen up the internal tissues so that blood vessels aren't ruptured by high-pressure blood (which can cause strokes, permanent vision loss if retinal arteries are affected, etc). High blood pressure also affects kidney and liver function, amongst other things.
Setting it up is the smallest part of any competent operation. Capacity planning, monitoring, planning for outages and recovery, updates, backups - including testing for recovery -,… is what takes the effort. Setup is almost always on the happy path. When things go wrong, you start over. But once you have a substantial investment in terms of data stored, that is unlikely to be an option. Now you need to figure out and solve the actual problem, which likely requires intimate knowledge of how the system works. Nobody acquires that knowledge by browsing the quick start installer docs.
> You need decades just to replicate this. Now you need to move 100+ of such material chains.

Better get started right away then.

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today."
That's only 7 days ago. I might be wrong, but I think Python betas are not like RCs -- they are changing things, not just polishing.
Yes sorry, I totally agree. I realized just now that I got confused with indentation and assumed that the comment I was originally replying to was saying that it doesn't make sense to pay a recurrent fee for a domain. While instead he was saying that it doesn't make sense to use a blockchain, and I agree on this. Unfortunately seems that I can't edit my original comment to fix the misunderstanding.
> I don't think Doom 3 has a benchmark mode

id Tech games have "timedemo" mode, where they replay a pre-recorded demo as fast as possible, and report how many FPS it was able to process. These were very popular benchmarks long ago.
Is this from Unreal as in Unreal Engine?
we need to get rid of the two party system.
Use your arrow keys. The sliders are the graphics. You'll see once you move around a little.
How does multiple orgs reduce costs?
That doesn't matter. There is absolutely no work required to show a progressive image on an interlaced device.

The opposite is not true; you can never recover the information you've lost by acquiring motion pictures with an interlacing device.

Historical note: DVI (which was HDMI but without audio) was invented for CRTs.
so you want bitcoin as non-fungible cash?

isn't that a counter to the whole point of a cash-currency?
As an engineer, my sole concern is making things useful in everyday life for real humans.

However, I need the tools science gives me. I need scientists and mathematicians to think about how the universe and logic works, so that I can know how to make it work for people.

Quantum foam will almost certainly feature in some product down the line.

Edit: there have been some instances of engineers working out solutions before the science existed by trial and error (steam locomotives before thermodynamics, airfoils before those were understood), but knowing proper theory upfront makes it much easier.
Thanks, will read it. The data unavailability is a bit of a bummer.
Adult Children of Work-Visa Recipients Forced to Return to Parents’ Countries
During my recent visit to Virpazar (Montenegro) we saw fireflies in the fields. It was such lovely sight. The locals say it's a sign of very clean water sources.
You don't use RES already?
:) This is a really interesting conversation, because we keep aligning on some things and then reaching opposite conclusions.

I agree that Markdown has loose validation rules and a low entry barrier for writing, and having a low entry barrier for writing is nice, and I do think it's a good example, but just in the opposite direction. I think that Markdown's inconsistent implementations are one of the format's greatest weaknesses and have made the ecosystem harder to work with than necessary.

I generally feel like when I'm working with Markdown I can only rely on the lowest common denominator syntax being supported, and everything else I need to look up documentation for the specific platform/tool I'm using. It's cool that Markdown can be extended, but in practice I've found that Markdown extensions might as well be program-specific syntaxes, since I can't rely on the extension working anywhere else.

Markdown is saved a little bit by virtue of it not actually needing to be rendered at all in order to be readable, so in some cases I've taken to treating Mardkown as a format that should never be parsed/formatted in the first place and just treated like any other text file. But I'm not sure that philosophy works with mapping software, I think those formats need to be parsed sometimes.

This might get back a little bit to a disagreement over what simplicity means. Markdown is simple to write, but not simple to write in a way where you know it'll be compatible with every tool. It's simple to parse if you don't worry about compatibility with the rest of the ecosystem, but if you're trying to be robust about handling different variants/implementations, then it becomes a lot more complicated.