skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The synthetic paper we use is laughably difficult to tear -- it more readily deforms and stretches instead. You need to cut across a trace.

I like the idea of a note "humidor" with included cutter -- instead it's fireproof and includes EMF shielding.
How does gifting to non-crypto savvy family change whether the note works offline or not? Because they don't understand it so they don't verify that it wasn't spent? Sorry I don't follow, and I'm not just trying to crap on the idea.
The article is arguing that for all intents and purposes there is one objective reality, as science points out (otherwise it wouldn't work). The question tends to be, is this a sufficient explanation of objective reality, or is it still biased somehow.

I think the observation holds, and somehow society is putting way more value on subjective reality, especially around personal identity. One of the features of science is removing subjectivity, and proving something with the least amount of personal bias.
The best lossless format is the one you can decode back to the original image. When evaluating them, there is an implicit assumption that the decode step will happen a short time later, but that's not always true. Will there be JPEG XL decoders commonly available in 40 years? Will the code even compile then? As a thought experiment, try to find the lossless encodings from 40 years ago and see if they can be faithfully reproduced. (or even 20 years ago, remember JPEG2000?)

Framing best in terms of file size or encoding speed is a really use-specific framing, and not ideal for preservation.
I hate these economic arguments. They throw around big numbers to scare you away but really they aren't big. Let's look at the LHC, which cost $4.75bn to build and costs $5.5bn/yr[0]. This may sound like a lot, but also consider that it took a decade to build ($0.5bn/yr for the first 10 years). Then consider that it is a joint multinational effort. If you're a member state (European) here's what your country contributes yearly[1]. The highest is Germany which does 20% of the member state contributions, at a whopping total of $236 million/yr (it is in CHF, but it is almost identical to the USD so I swapped). The US gives some grants in the half billion orders but I am having a harder time finding good logs.

The other thing I hate about this is that the numbers reported in the article are clearly inflationary. The use the precise phrasing " It’s entirely possible that the price could swell to $100 billion." while highlighting the big number. Well let's check another source. CNET says $23bn. So that would require a 5x over budget, which would be quite high. I know HN loves Hossenfelder, but she is overly pessimistic. At least in my group of physicists, we don't know other physicists who like her much (not that I hate her, just more ambivalent). Pessimists are good, but they shouldn't dominate conversations the same way optimists shouldn't.

Either way, it is clear that this type of money is very small when we are discussing country budgets. It should not be inflated and should not be sold as if there is a single country buying it (which it is well cheap enough to be done. Hell, Bezos and Musk could each have one, or several. Hell, there's at least 20 billionaires that wouldn't have issues building their own and funding them for significant periods of time).

So the real question is if we should build it, not the cost. As a former physicist, I do think the argument for building one is weak. It is correct that we don't have any great things to test. But there are reasons to do so. We need to consider it will take at least another decade to build, which theorists will hopefully come up with something in that time. If they don't, we can still test precision levels which is highly helpful. But there are other intangible things that are hard to evaluate. Anytime we humans tackle difficult problems and push the boundaries of what we can do, we learn a lot. That's where spinoffs come from and we've seen them in every major scientific endeavor (NASA, CERN, LIGO, and many more). Also, what happens when you put a bunch of smart people from many countries in a room together? There's political advantages (and why I think it is a shame Bush killed the American accelerator). There's also the fact that if we stop doing this, we'll lose talent and skill. So yeah, the upsides aren't crazy good like finding a new fundamental particle, but it also isn't that expensive. That's the real conversation that needs to be had.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-d...

[1] https://www.lhc-closer.es/taking_a_closer_look_at_lhc/0.cern...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/science/cern-wants-to-build-a-new-23-bi...
This is an incredibly challenging problem so I imagine if you have any chance of coding it you probably know what you’re getting yourself into.
Watching the demo, how is this more than a glorified Slack workflow to a generic ticketing system? The only additions I can see are lifecycle events that update your ticket and the postmortem reminder?

This could be easily done with an engineer/tech following a runbook/doc that's linked in the alert. Cutting tickets, creating a slack channel, escalating, and/or setting up a bridge can be done in minutes (and most alerting systems can automate that).

IME, defining the and enforcing the process is more important than the automation.
Also ticks the HDR box!

As I comment elsewhere[1] it also has an experimental fast mode in tree that is crazy fast, using AVX2, NEON, or fallback.

Hopefully Microsoft patenting the thing someone else invented (ANS)[2] doesn't gum this all up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658871

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31657383
I think an unrecognized part of this is the crazy variety of foods we've become accustomed to via restaurants.

I don't mind cooking from scratch. I find it rather fun and relaxing. Fresh ingredients are problematic, though. I can store a ton of frozen/canned food that's good for a long time and eat what I want, or I can buy fresh ingredients and then I'm pretty much locked into those choices whether I want it or have time to cook or not.

Places like TGI Fridays, Chilis and services like Doordash give people a huge range of options that you just can't replicate without frozen/canned foods. If I tried to buy ingredients to make anything a Chilis can, the vast majority would spoil before I could cook them. The food would probably be better than Chilis while it was around, though.

We got used to getting what we wanted, instead of what we had. The only way to replicate that is long-lasting food.
> the entire "aaS" industry generally is in the ballpark of $15-$30/user/year

That's $1-3/user/mo. That's very low for SaaS. You may get that for indie products or bulk pricing (for thousands to millions of users, e.g. end-users).

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I was also on the side of hands-on operations in SRE and it earned me no friends in that org to be sure. But I like to think that point of view is still basically correct. The "annealing" people have been working on their wacky automaton for more than a decade now and a critical reading of their publication reveals that it still fundamentally doesn't work.

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/prodspec-and...
Yes very much so. You need to focus on long-tail search phrases and develop differentiated content.

Hire an SEO early and do NOT outsource this to an agency. They will bleed your budget and deliver very little.
I had a 9360 which had a “nose cam”, but two iterations later they did it right. 16:10 display, camera in the right place, ultra thin bezels and no notch.

I also need to mention that this thing is light. Lighter than an iPad pro, lighter than any MBAir.

(But I’m still getting the MBAir, because it’s fanless. Fanless still beats no notch.)
I think historically it's been a challenge mostly related to precision optics, given that semi production is more or less like exposing photographic paper from a negative, through a lens using a light source.

With EUV the challenge is the crazy difficulty of generating the required light source at the right intensity and focusing it. At that wavelength things behave differently, to say the least.
That's just an interpretation of the some of the paintings.
Interpretations are a very subjective assessment and change over time.
For instance, the same paintings are interpreted as representations of extra terrestrial creatures.
I would be with you except for the "Disclaimer: Not really a kernel dev of any sort." bit at the end. Skepticism from people not in the field is far less meaningful (as is booster-ism, for that matter).
> anti-democratic behaviour

You will have to be more specific, "democratic" is a grossly overlaoded term these days. When you write "democratic", do you mean "in accordance with the will of the majority of the population", or do you mean "in accordance with the will of unelected EU bureaucrats, the US Department of State, and media elites"?
We do have a bunch of manufacturing knowhow, we still make things - just not consumer goods.
A $4 item costs $4 to ship, making it $8 to get it on shore.
I looked it up so you don't have to: FNG means "fucking new guy"
Haskell for all: The appeal of bidirectional type-checking
Auto manufacturers are already doing this.

https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/blog/mexico-as-a-new-capital-...
This part is why I hope x86 has a long life ahead of it. Everybody and their dog have their own standard for things in ARM-land.
> JSX' awkward attribute (re-)names

The attribute renaming is a React feature. JSX doesn't rename attributes. See here for example https://codepen.io/lucideer/pen/jOZvwVz?editors=0010

> only expressions in brackets but full function calls in loops (map)

Not sure what you mean here. Function calls are expressions - they work bare in brackets & also as method args (like the arg passed to the map method on an array prototype, which is called while "loop"-ing that array). This is all Javascript functionality, not really specific to JSX in any way?
That's simply not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...

Manufacturing in the US has imo been surprisingly resilient, and when it comes to components it's remarkably easy to order just about anything from a US supplier, perhaps electronics being the exception.

Europe only retains its place because of low labor costs in Eastern Europe. Western Europe is in real trouble after years of policy push for "Services Based" economies.
2 years total at time of offer, I'm just coming up on 3 now (a few months away)
I think a lot of information could be treated like pollution, in that it is easily created, spreads quickly, and becomes harder to clean up the more people are able to learn of it. I have to wonder if forging on like this will have a net positive effect on society, or if these kinds of developments are just fated by human nature.

In a perfect world, what should have happened was a separate team inventing a reasonably accurate deepfake detector to the world before the deepfake producer gained prominence (differential technological development), but interest, productivity and excitement on the researchers' part to release their work first seems to have foiled that.
Or maybe for them, it's like drinking water, no interest for them to talk about something they consume "naturally"
Frustration: Escaping a Turing Tar Pit with Forth
Sorry, I’m not specifically trying to be negative, these were just my honest first reactions. If they can do it, more power to ‘em.
Well, eight, because you'd have two each for diesel and each of the three octanes.
I'm not defending github specifically, I have no experience with the customer service and have no reason to beleive they are or aren't garbage. I'll assume they are garbage.

To be fair, what do you expect the first representative to do/say? They responded in 3 hours, and it's unlikely they can do much beyond escalate this issue internally. We can't expect them to say "We're going to do sweeping changes" at this point.

Github in the past has done sweeping changes for things such as youtube-dl. They created a large blog post about it, including having both programmers and laywers review every DMCA request, and allowing the most minimal amount of changes to comply, etc. That type of response takes time and coordination.

Even cloudflare with their CEO/CTO can't offer sweeping changes in a HN comment. There's layers to this. You can only really expect damage control from a HN comment.
I would be interested in reading those if you wrote them!
Learning array programming is something I'd like to do one day. Is there anything more approachable than APL and k?
That was a typo, I meant /user/month.
> when you are talking about spending UPWARDS of $100 billion, split over 10 years and over a dozen countries.

FTFY

Honestly, these are country budgets. That's not an insane amount of money. It is Germany spending $2bn/yr at the 5x inflated budget but $500m/yr at the estimated cost (23bn).
Alternative history: EU actually makes micro-B mandatory back in 2009, and as a result USB-C never gained traction because all phones were forced by law to use micro-B.
ID.me's Pandemic Growth Spurt Led to Frantic Hiring and Security Lapses
Do you think governments are trying to encourage companies to do what they want?

Or are companies telling companies what they want?

Why do we have a situation where companies have so much and are given so much, and the people have so little. But pay for government largesse.

If you ask me, Intel and all those companies should never have grown so large. But, if you have to spend that money, why not use it to create a genuine home grown solution? Where is the German Intel? Wouldn't a German Intel provide the resilience you really want?
> I mean this respectfully - why would you release a cryptographic method of transferring money - without going into detail of how it actually works? That's kinda the entire point of cryptocurrency, that we have a way to be mathematically confident the money is safe - but you didn't tell us the math. Especially on HN were a lot of the audience is technical enough to want to and be able to verify it to some degree.

As noted, the app will be open source as will the (brief) Bitcoin script for audit. For the sake of simplicity 2-of-2 multisig that downgrades to 1-of-2 multisig over time should capture the essence of how these notes work.

> Also, if your servers go down or you're hacked or rm -rf dir/ * happens, will all the notes become unusable? Are we relying on you to maintain servers indefinitely?

Nope. Users can always claim funds after the expiration date of January 3rd 2029 using the user key stored on the note.
You can build your own cable by buying a "USB-C trigger" (as they're called on eBay), it's a board with a USB-C port and a power delivery controller chip that's preconfigured for the specified voltage.
I Faced Politics and Death on My First Software Project
This is interesting to read, I'm curious how this diverges/converges from the observation that:

In the West the words for referring to someone formally are words that used to refer to the nobility exclusively (Mister, Misses in English comes from 'Master, Mistress', Monsieur, Madamme in French, Señor, Señora in Spanish, derive from 'My Lord, My Lady' respectively).

So in the West, the cultural transformation was more than mere equality of political voice, but more, that 'we are all nobles', and (domestic?) political history in the West is the ever expanding circle of this inherent nobleness of all (arguably right down to trends in current American social issues).

'Rights' was something that, in the West, was first contested between the nobility and the King, then in the modern period between the wealthy merchant class and the nobility/royalty. James Madison, one of the American Revolution leaders, writes explicitly about how the masses are incapable of the requirements of absolute democracy. So there's definitely something to it when you point out that 'Democracy' in the West wasn't immediately interested in conferring a voice onto every Tom, Dick, and Harry (we'll just set aside the status of women and slaves)

You might be off about 'latter half of the 20th century' bringing electorialism to bear, rather the late 19th century/early 20th century was when, finally, the proletariat started demanding its rights, e.g. The Mexican Civil War that saw the establishment of collective farming lands, the struggle of labor and unions in America and Europe to secure worker's conditions backed by the threat of socialism (which, from Marx himself, is about endignity [ennoblement] of everyone's time), all of which, funny enough, have been desolving since the 90s (NAFTA eradicatd collective farming in Mexico).

Democracy in the West is more than a mere political configuration, its also the cultural precept (however divergent in interpretation), in stark contrast to what you're describing is the history of this idea in China, where, dare I say, the idea of ennoblement stops at a hard boundary unlike in the West.

P.S. I don't know a Chinese language so it may be that the words for formally addressing someone also share this genealogy of descending from terms formerly meant exclusively for nobility.
I assume that the reason for not making Lightning an open standard is that the thing on the technical level is really tightly coupled to iOS. On electrical level it is mostly an “two-lane” HS USB. USB-Lightning cable is basically wires, but other kinds of Lightning peripherals use weird protocols that are highly XNU/Darwin/iOS specific, mostly because that was the simpler implementation (looking at how things like AirPlay/CarPlay works show that Apple does not intentionally produce proprietary interfaces, but they use open standards as long as there are open standards and just invent the simplest thing when there is no applicable standard).
So the golang quic module will need to implement it .

I have been using quic with golang and am looking forward to trying this out
I’m not saying this is a good situation. But your attitude is the attitude nearly everywhere. “Don’t move to Seattle; it’s pricing the locals out!” I even see it outside of classic HCOL areas. People in Missoula, MT, a small city in a mostly rural setting, even share the sentiment of not wanting people from, say, Seattle moving there.

As a young person, if everyone approaches the topic with this attitude, where am I meant to live?

The reality is that there is a huge shortage of places to live that are truly great. This isn’t my fault, as I’ve not been alive for long. It’s not my fault for hoping to live somewhere with a good quality of life. Is an isolationist attitude really going to solve the problem?
Ideally never
MathBox² (2015)
I'm hoping it helps the transition to other forms of transportation. The US has hamstrung itself to being dependent on foreign autos and oil for nearly all necessary transportation.
I'm so glad that toil has been automated.

Now all I need to do is learn this new Domain Specific Language and find all of the exact configuration parameters to express my specific needs. Oh except this tool has leaky abstractions under it, and those tools also have their own DSLs and configuration parameters. And the tools under those do, too. It's all turtles, all the way down.
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’
JPEG XL supports 24-bit integers/32-bit floats per channel.
I agree on the agency advice. If you're in a very technical topic space, they can't be relied on to write good content for you.
This is xscreensaver debacle all over again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412081

Of course many distros will just tell the upstream to pound sand, and more power to them. When I'm perfectly happy running the version that shipped with my OS, I DON'T want your updates. Just leave me alone.
In that circumstance they don't need to be online. The recipient can scan the note entirely offline, get the private key, create a transaction and broadcast it to the Bitcoin network when they are online.
It isn't people leaving. It is stupendously huge growth.

The number is also lower for eng-ftes.
Is that because some places have 230V and neutral, while others have -115V and +115V (yes like in the US but in Europe)?

There's a single neighborhood in Rome where that happens and car chargers don't work. The "solution" is to request a three-phase 400V connection: the utility company can't deny it and it must be 220V to neutral.
It surely is! Back in Bulgaria as kids, there were tons of fireflies at night; now, I can't recall seeing a single one in so many years!
I would add creating WWW as a nice side product of CERN. I am sure they do much more in their highly specialized fields, ie seen tons of stuff open sourced (but I am not an expert on this so can't say how usable it actually is to other physicists).
right finger surgeon is gonna go live in city of 30k, hopefully, people get paid to break a finger daily so he can make a living there...
> Has domestic manufacturing ramped up in the US since covid?

Yes[1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN
Yes, that's still a red flag, at least to me. It's not my money though.
Pizzaiola aims to robotize the humble pizzeria
> For the sake of simplicity 2-of-2 multisig that downgrades to 1-of-2 multisig over time should capture the essence of how these notes work.
> Users can always claim funds after the expiration date of January 3rd 2029 using the user key stored on the note.

Interesting, thank you. That does seem more reasonable to me. Best of luck with your project.
Personally I don’t find an ethics violation. If you’re meeting your output expectations who cares how many hours you work. I certainly don’t as a manager at a large public company. I fully expect most ppl are getting some amount of personal stuff done during the day, or power napping between meetings. Just don’t be a dick and make the rest of the team pick up your slack.
to me 5 rounds means 5 separate days. 1 day of interviewing and another day of a second test, is not absurd, I'd still probably refuse though :D
Ah, I should read to the end before commenting. Happy to know the house is still standing.
Isn't JPEG patent-encumbered technology?
Well, yeah, there's an intentional effort right now to crush demand because folks realized supply chains don't normalize in two financial quarters (see: "transitory").

All of COVID seems like a case of impatience.

The fact that the pandemic would last years was kind of obvious by late spring 2020 -- when in the history of humanity have humans ever experienced a pandemic that didn't last for years/decades? (I'm not here to debate masks or whatever public health measures; that's entirely tangential to the point that pandemics don't just go away after a few months.) Pandemics do end. Just not in a few financial quarters.

The same thing is happening with "Transitory Inflation" now. The supply shock IS transitory and things WILL normalize, but only in the same sense that pandemics do eventually end. Shit takes years, not quarters.

I think by 2024-2025 we'll be in this weird state where supply is back to normal but where there have been years of policy aimed at crushing demand.
Great stuff. Good luck with your product. I imagine we'll need it later but for the moment, I think we're too small to be worth your time.

Would have loved to have run into you guys when/if you were looking for seed investment though
voice typing strikes again
The book "The Road to Eleusis" has some proof, obviously it's a biased interpretation but it's still interesting to consider.
That is a bit misleading. If a woman doesn't buckle her child's seat belt she can be charged even if somebody hits her car. In this case she started a violent argument with another person and it resulted in the death of her child.

Also, the article was from years ago. The charges were literally dropped despite an indictment from a grand jury.