skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "The processors his team built were made using the flexible thin-film semiconductor indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), which can be built on plastic and continues to work even when bent around a radius of millimeters."

It's not the plastic that conducts, instead it is the foundation which the conducting material is built upon.
Of course but the problem is the relativism -- every business thinks that exactly what they do is the ethical way that should be sanctified.
Second letter? Unless you meant to say Facebook.
TLDR: Home Assistant and their community are experimenting today (June 15) with a Matter Workshop, where they will connect a ESP32 dev board to HA via matter.
> A sufficiently detailed design document is essentially indistinguishable from code.

Stealing this one. What a great quote!
Plus, a lot of that gas consumption is spent commuting, which makes people miserable. Murdering the daily commute is a good thing Covid-19 did, although I don't expect it to last long (WFH-ers will get fewer promotions, despite working harder, and eventually RTO fetishists will rule the roost).

Very few people want to "consume gas". They want to be able to live decently and have meaningful jobs. Unfortunately, in today's market, that usually means a shit-ass load [1] of driving.

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[1] You don't want to know how much time I spent deciding whether to use the more conventional hyphenization ("shit-ass-load") or the version with better cadence.
Agree. I would also prefer if universities focused their funds into subjects that leads to long term benefits, whether that is economic growth, better social cohesion (less polarization), etc.

In other words:

- More funding to STEM, at least the profitable parts.

- More funding to the parts of humanities, socal science and law schools, who's work help bring the nation together, find common ground and reduce conflict.

- Partly cut funding to institutions that do not provide such benefits, and to institutions with too much administrative overhead.

- Completely cut funding to institutions that actively promote social conflicts.

To make it easier to reach these goals, without interpreting each goal in a politcal light, change the funding process as follows:

- Add an x% corporate tax, earmarked for science & education.

- Set up a board, where representatives chosen by those companies that pay the above tax (proportionally to the tax paid) make up 60%, former highly trusted academics 20% and representatives chosen by the sitting government 20%.

- Have this board govern the expenditure in the ways that maximize the benefits defined in the charter above, while having some checks and balances to prevent corruption.

- Encourage grants to be given in larger chunks than today. Direct grants to students should be the exception, and not something a student would apply for. Rather such grants should be awarded in a similar way to how the military grants medals for exceptional performance. When a research leader identifies a particularly deserving candidate, he/she can recommend that this candidate is granted a special individual scholarship, due to exceptional performance and ability. Leaders who repeatedly send spurious recommendations should be discouraged from doing so.

- Instead, institutions or high profile reasearch leaders should be given grants based on historical performance, and be trusted to be able to find the right students themselves. (Within some framework to prevent corruption.)

- Once granted, funds should only be revoked in the case of breech of confidence. Renewal should happen early enough to allow continuity.

The goal of the above proposals, would be:

- Prevent public money from being wasted on wasteful or destructive activities

- Reduce time spent on research grant applications, so that students and employees can focus on the actual science.

- Encourage academic freedom and promote integrity.

- Make sure institutions educate the kinds of students that are in demand in the job market, and the scientific results needed to promote economic growth as well as a more robust state.
Consider another point of view then: how many people struck it big on their second, third, fourth startup?

Off the top of my head Uber was Travis' third startup. Does that make him a quitter or a perseverer?

At my age I known plenty of tech entrepreneurs who've been at it for 10 years with no big hits. Statistically some of them will eventually make it. I doubt I'll be able to say sincerely they were the ones with more grit. But I'm sure they themselves will say it for me :)
I had a relative that was a child during WWII and they had some very distinctive (borderline maladaptive) 'quirks' ....

One of which is they would never take the last item of anything from out of the fridge (eggs, cheese slices etc) and would become irate if anybody else did. They (much like your grandmother) were also unable/unwilling to throw anything out 'just in case'.
Not that i think we should, but then why do we regularly bail out other industries that continuously undermine regulation?

At least these guys wear their heart of the sleeve
Which whining? From the article:

>It’s too early to despair, many physicists say

or

>“I very much doubt that in 20 years, I will say, ‘Oh, boy, after the Higgs discovery we learned nothing new.’”

The whole article is about how the upgrade to the LHC will give more precision and more data. Even if it was whining, critiquing and bickering over the status quo very much a cornerstone of science. Your annoyance looks like something coming from a place of dogmatism..
They could also make job more attractive. I certainly know people who have the skills and passion to be attracted to the idea of a postdoc, many would even accept the pay they're currently offering. What they won't accept is being worked to death on bullshit tasks irrelevant to their research and being treated as free labor by their superiors.

Treat postdocs with respect, give them plenty of autonomy and freedom to focus on their research, don't make them work long hours or use them as servants, and you'll no doubt find many people willing to take the job without raising the pay.
Well at least I wont have to spend hours trying to pass Google's I'm not a Robot test in an attempt to get a passport and out of the UK.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330482
Honestly, when you're down to 2nm it makes quite a bit of sense to start measuring in Angstroms.
I'm genuinely curious, does the work you are hiring for really require a PhD? To put it a different way, if you and the current employees in your job all started immediately after finishing your undergrad degree would you be any worse at your job?
>Paying more/longer requires more money. Where does that money come from?

Cut the number of postdoc positions in half, double the salaries of the remaining positions, and make it much more competitive to get a postdoc. The purpose of a postdoc is a final training step for someone to become faculty. Only people who are clearly faculty material after finishing their PhD should even attempt a postdoc. Unfortunately, many professors take on postdocs who have no shot of becoming faculty because their lab runs on the cheap, experienced labor they bring.

Remember, the replacement rate for academia is exactly 1 postdoc with faculty aspirations per lifetime of each professor. Anything >1 and academia must grow exponentially to accommodate every single postdoc who desires a faculty position. Most professors have >>1 postdoc over the course of their careers, which means there are way too many postdoc positions in the world.
State laws in some places make franchises a better worse deal. I invest in one[unnamed] company that has a few franchises, but they are regional and the state laws where they are makes running franchises not a good deal so they are no longer doing that and looking to buy bake the existing ones. They are looking to expand to new states though where the laws are different and so they may start selling franchises there.

I left McDonalds 25 years ago and I have no idea what is current. Back then about 25% of all stores were owned by the company with the other 75% franchises. The corporate owned stores were for sale if you wanted a franchise (assuming you qualify), and were in a known location so fairly low risk. The company would also buy out your franchise a good deal when you were ready to retire.
Right. Because the tax due on $0 net is $0.
The SEC regulates any security issued by any company which is offered to US investors (is my understanding). If you allow US investors to buy something and the SEC deems it a security, they regulate it and you have to abide by their regulations or there can be enforcement actions. You don't get to escape jurisdiction by putting your business outside the US. For example, here is the SEC's guidance for "foreign private issuers" https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/foreign-priv...
Whitby residents vote in favour of ending second home ownership
That's not the problem we face though.

Consider the following:

For all terrestrial phenomena that we have observe so far we have a theory of everything.

In order to put matter into a state where it behaves in such a way that you can tell the difference between two competing theories that describe the world, you have to build the LHC. Anything less than that and the theories all are perfectly good at describing what we see.

I think there is a tendency to misunderstand LHC and it's high energies as somehow being "brute force". High energy really just means small structures. It's better to think of it as the worlds best microscope. LIGO is the worlds best ruler. So we're measuring the world and it's matter to an unfathomable precision and we do not see meaningful divergence between theory and experiment.

We know there is more out there, but it's not stuff we can study on earth. That's the single biggest problem.
It’s insane how much of my youth was literally wasted on dumb video games. It went way beyond normal levels of entertainment. Luckily after a year or two of college they started to lose their allure to me. But I knew many people that it seriously impacted their adult life. People dropped out of school and changed majors because they could not quit WoW, for example.
For the purposes of getting fired, sure. Prison time? Not in a free country.
It's really more like watching lazy lions getting eaten by heedless hyenas.
Debateable. The reason rich kids turn into such pieces of shit isn't material abundance (since, after all, anyone born before ~1990 in the middle class also experienced material abundance) but the unearned high social status and the impunity that comes with it.

Deprivation and poverty, on the other hand, fuck people up severely--often, through no fault of their own--and there's tons of empirical evidence showing this.
the article text says they achieved 60 fps, which might be sufficient? there’s a demo youtube video in the article as well.
Space won't work for the kind of physics the LHC does.

The fundamental problem is that collider physics relies on being able to create collisions of exactly known quantity as your input (eg in the LHC's case, proton-proton collisions at a 14TeV centre of mass energy). If you don't control the input, you can't extract any information about the output you detect, in the same way that you can't create a simulation of snooker by looking at the balls on the table, without knowing how they were set up before being hit.

The other problem is that to probe the frontier of particle physics, you need truly immense statistics to get enough of the incredibly rare collisions. Think bunches of hundreds of billions of protons colliding tens of millions of times per second. The upshot is that you'd not only need to build the detectors in space (which are thousands of tonnes with extremely precise electronics that need whole server farms plugged directly into them to process the terabits of data coming out each second), but you'd also need to build the entire collider in space too.

Even then it's a rather pointless endeavour, since the colliders require a colder temperature and higher vacuum than even interstellar space, nevermind within the solar system.
Tetris?
In my experience it is not one or the other. You can experiment first and then document, or vice versa. The point of documentation is "writing is thinking". The act of writing forces you to think through your ideas in ways that other modes of thinking do not. This is especially important when you are working on a team and need to share your ideas.

I agree that sufficiently detailed design documents are indispensable from code and should be avoided. However, clearly documenting the why, what and how of your work helps align everyone clearly. It also helps an individual clarify their ideas to themselves. It is hard to write clearly & succinctly. It takes time & practice, but I find it essential.
Are the folks who allocate funding unserstanding of this predicament, the possibility that it will take 100 years to discover anything else?
The Zire series are cheap, coloured and powerful. :)
This.

This author, who should know better, is suggesting that the only "success" is a new discovery.

This is patent nonsense. Every time a hypothesis is ruled out, and every time a hypothesis is ruled out with greater confidence, the experiment has succeeded.

What is true is that discoveries drive public excitement and public support for additional funding. That is a political problem and it is solvable. If Western governments can find the public support for trillions in military expenditures, I am confident that it can be found for the comparably meager budgets of the scientific establishment.
Satellite Detects Largest Release of Methane in the World
Why would someone new accept more blame? For past actions?
> First, intention of Ukraine. Not "condition" for independence.

These are the same in the followed legal events (see below)

> Second, that was also based on the promises made in the Budapest memorandum

The Budapest memorandum was signed in 1994. The Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine was signed in 1990 and it pre-dates all further legal documents that led to Ukraine's independence. All subsequent legal documents and events are predicated on respecting and referencing the declaration of 1990. The Constitution of Ukraine of 1996 references and follows the Act of proclamation of independence of Ukraine from August 24, 1991, which in turn follows and references "Implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine" [1]. Implementing the declaration means following and executing all intentions of the declaration, that's why I said above that "conditions" and "intentions" mean the same thing in the underlying legal procedures.

> Seeing that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

you forgot to add: after a prior armed coup against a legitimately elected president in Kyiv. The coup, among many other things, violated the right to a political representation of the people's voice who voted for that president. In case of president Yanukovych, these were the people of the eastern Ukraine, including Crimea, who were deprived of their right to a democratic process in their country.

> And third, the Ukrainian SSR had sovereignty before it declared independence ( nobody "granted it sovereignty"), de jure ( being a component of the USSR with at least nominal, if not real depending on the guys in Moscow, autonomy) and de facto.

Blatantly false, the Ukrainian SSR had certain autonomy under the Union, as did a few other european and asian SSR's, but it didn't have sovereignty [2]. This is the whole reason the Declaration of 1990 exists in the first place, as it was the means to declare and begin a legal transition to a sovereign state. And in that sense sovereignty was granted to Ukraine, because there only are two ways a nation can obtain sovereignty: either by fighting for it in a war or by coming into a peaceful legal agreement on mutually respected terms and conditions. In 1990, the second approach was taken and the terms and conditions were declared and signed by all parties in the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of...

[2] Under the Soviet one-party model, the Ukrainian SSR was governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through its republican branch: the Communist Party of Ukraine. No decision of the government of Ukraine (Council of Ministers) was adopted without approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Rep...
“Money is just sitting there that isn’t being used … and there’s these projects that aren’t moving anywhere as a result,”

What money?!? Lol. Headline should read, “People with 10 years post-secondary education not applying to jobs paying less than corporate entry level jobs.”
You really should try reading the economist for several weeks. They are pretty dry (not sensational) and filled with analysis. They also do a much better job than most American mainstream publications about giving space/content to the rest of the world. It's a pretty dense magazine and I don't think the "masses" read it.
Honestly? Probably the device you already have, via emulation - old Palm hardware is definitely a rabbit hole, and it's worth dipping a toe before you dive in.

CloudpilotEmu [1] is a free emulator that runs in a web browser, and works very well on smartphones. It's what I use when I feel the need to scratch my Space Trader itch, and it's definitely where I'd recommend starting. There are any number of repositories still active of old software you can run with it, and I'm sure folks will chime in with their favorites to give you some places to start.

[1] https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/
Why call for regulations when existing laws are not even enforced? If you run a stablecoin that claims to be backed in a certain way and it turns out to be a lie, that is fraud. If you promise guaranteed returns on an investment without disclosing risks, that is fraud. If you embezzle funds, that is fraud. The real problem in the crypto community is that existing laws aren't enforced. Why not start by applying them before calling for new regulations?

I am reminded of this video by Milton Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgaPVO8aw8&t=63s
I think Western academia is mostly reliant on immigration. Few natives would accept the low pay/high workload combination that is a postdoc, but for an immigrant from a third world country it might be an amazing opportunity. Same reason most fruit and berry pickers also are immigrants.
Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
Basically an account can have either one owner and one person with a permission to access it OR it can be co-owned.

If you just have the access permission and the main owner is incapacitated or dead, your access is not valid anymore and it's a huge hassle to get access to the funds.

You want the co-owned style where both have equal rights to the funds on the account. The easiest way to check it is just to contact your bank and make sure it's set up that way the exact terminology seems to vary a bit between banks.
Tell HN: Security Incident at Dynadot
It seems there is some sort of a security incident at Dynadot. We have received an email asking us to change our passwords. The email contains a broken link so it was definitely slapped together rapidly without any testing.

Attempt to login with an old password triggers a password reset flow. The website and the API for dynadot are down.

No official information is available.
I can't get a girl

'Cause I ain't got a car

I can't get a car

'Cause I ain't got a job

I can't get a job

'Cause I ain't got a car

So I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car

Don't you know where you are
Any tips on how they're doing DNS64/NAT64? Last I looked, TAYGA was a way to do it with a linux edge router. Do folks use Google's DNS64 resolver?
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The SEC War on Greenwashing Has Begun
That's $13 billion for the hardware, and $1 million per day in electricity assuming a cost of $0.01/kWh
Stop hitting yourself, you're mad that someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, in fact, does not know what theyre talking about. Just keep walking.
You have to continue executing the 51% attack forever, or else when you stop, the network goes back to normal. And about the worst thing you can do during such an attack is prevent transactions from confirming. You can't unilaterally rewrite the ledger, you can't steal money from people. So saying you "own the network" while executing such an attack is... pretty dumb.
Is this situation also reflected in gradschool
and phd applications, or is it as competitive as ever?
Yeah it makes perfect sense for a woman to maximise their time and resources to their fertile years, and not shift that over to older age.

Funny also how nobody is looking at the expense gap, if women are making the same money as men, then obviously they should share expenses 50/50 as well. How many couples actually do that?

Women are underrepresented in the top level of society, but always turn a blind eye to the fact that they are underrepresented in the bottom of society as well.

Women should get the same share of rewards as men, but not take any of the risks? How does that make any sense?

If women are taking place in the boardrooms, are they also going to increase their share in prisons? Among homeless? Premature death?

And self actualisation is having children anyway, so women are already at endgame. The reason why men work so hard with careers, is because it enables them to have children and start a family, not because it's just fun to play around with money and power.
>selecting for an alcoholic

That's really stretching it, having any disdain for any alcohol consumption. Having a drink in a bar to decompress after work is hardly being an alcoholic.
The only ever video game idea I had was a VR hand dryer simulator crossed with some Guitar Hero and RPG elements. You can build it up with historical hand dryers and funky toilet locations. It doesn't really matter around what activity the core gameplay revolves if the end result is fun.
This feels like that Futurama episode where Farnsworth discovers the last particle and descends into panic, realising he has nothing else to do. However, in my opinion, asking why there's nothing else is also a valid question to consider, even if we suspect there's something more to what we've seen so far.

Also, perhaps it'd be a tad bit more accurate to rephrase it `particle physicists`, not `physicists` -- even though it's totally exaggerated anyways.
4,5 years as a PhD student, then 2,3 years as a postdoc then 5 more years to get tenured... modern slavery isn't it?
"There's a shortage of Lamborghinis!"

"Oh? At which price point?"

"At the $4000 price point! It's a travesty!"
I believe they got a lot of good data about the proton, it helped with that...it's just a good instrument in general. There's other virtues. And you think a particle isn't good enough? Realize how important the electron was to you eg reading this? There's still time for more work.

But like the age of discovering new continents is passed, now it's subtler things. Like the time when the center of Africa was unknown, but the Americas and Australia and Antartica were known.
> Paying more/longer requires more money. Where does that money come from?

From defunding shit research. And don't give me that crap, you know exactly what kind of research you could cut without anything of value being lost. Start there.
It's a question I share, so I'm happy to see answers popping up.

As for my personal experience, I've read parts of "Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia" and "A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000 - 323 B.C" by Marc van de Mieroop and have quite enjoyed both.
They both seem to have favourable reviews.