skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this suggestion ain't it.

What's your basis for this claim? From the declared strategy, it seems perfect for abuse as a surveillance tool.

> Most EU countries already have a de facto mandatory electronic ID for every resident.

As stated elsewhere, my country (Ireland) does not. It's attempt at a mandatory electronic ID (MyGovID/Public Services Card) was ruled as unlawful (it's still available, but cannot be required to access government services).

Strategy link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
So many companies are hypocritical about this and I don't know why they don't get called out on it more. My social feeds are flooded with rainbow avatars from accounts like @MercedesBenz and their unwavering support for the LGBTQ community, but a quick look at @MercedesBenzME shows no rainbows in sight.
The "if a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it" analogy that opens the article is quite on-point. Since sound is a human concept that only happens in our brains (or other brains that might act the same way), a tree most definitely does not make a sound unless someone is there to hear it. (It makes silent air pressure waves.)

In the same way, any "objective" reality that underlies quantum physics is not really perceptible by the human organism. We cannot perceive the behavior of individual electrons or other subatomic particles without measuring tools and, as Niels Bohr showed, those tools are only "showing" what they measure. They aren't showing the full, underlying reality.
Companies are just a table where some people put money on it with the idea of taking more from it later. The rest are strategies to make that money grow.
That scenario plays itself out time and time again.

1. Base technology arrives and is adopted en masse

2. Some entity wraps it in an easier-to-use interface

3. After some time, that interface becomes the de facto standard

4. Developers who started developing after #2 and especially #3 don't understand how the underlying technology works or even that the wrapper is just a wrapper

I'm reminded of how many Juniors I trained that didn't know jQuery was itself just a Javascript library and not a language in and of itself. None of them knew much of any of the underlying Javascript it was wrapping. I'm seeing the same scenario play out with React and Vue right now as well.
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That's not true for PHub -- Just went to confirm and the first option is bank transfer, the second is crypto. What percentage of people who pay for PHub do you think even own crypto? My guess would be <1%.
I worked for a company that rented a new expensive floor in the heart of NYC to show "growth" to other investors. We were supposed to spread out for the optics, when potential investors did a walk-through.
You want to make it even worse?
I’ve always been supportive and even excited about what the technology promises, but when I reconcile it with any use cases, I simply can’t get behind the valuations we see. Excluding it being the main payment vehicle for banks, institutions, and individuals (I strongly disagree with this prospect), all the other use cases become increasingly niche. BTC at it’s peak was at a 2 trillion dollar market cap. Gold at the same time was ~10-12 trillion. I respect lindyness and 3000+ years of gold being the best store of value, is enough confidence that BTC isn’t gonna be the next big thing - if it aims to replace it.
Imagine a future where the vast majority of work is automated. Most of this is computationally expensive work, such as training large neural networks, and the average program takes a substantial amount of resources to run, comparable to paying a human worker.

In this scenario, labor power has been replaced by GPU power, which can be measured in terms of electricity. Everything from ordering a meal at a restaurant to building a house to designing a new computer system can be measured this way, and the price of everything is tightly coupled to the price of electricity and the price of compute.

Under these conditions, it might make sense that programs/robots would incorporate smart contracts or participate in some sort of generalized proof-of-work system to finance themselves. Running a program would require currency as input to cover the computational cost of actually running the program, even if the program is open source.

That's where I see this going. Traditional currency is great for incentivizing human labor, but the problem is it's not designed to be programmable.
>It’s. Just. Not. That big of a deal.

Yup. Total crypto market cap is less than a couple of large S&P 500 companies. The SNR is just so insane in that community that it seems like a bigger deal than it is.
It was definitely not boiling but hot from tap, so could be about 60°C, and, yeah, somehow the windshield did survive it. It's probably not that bad because you actually pour the water on the frosted windscreen so most of the heat would dissipate already before actually reaching the material.
> Doug Berman, the founder of Great Plains software

I believe that's Doug Burgum (now governor of North Dakota).
I've actually done it! People mostly don't care, but it's a somewhat small team...

Most people just see a wire protruding from below the chin, as my camera is positioned above my face/head and pointing downwards at me
The article mentions several of the laws surrounding ferret ownership citing the year they were passed. In so doing, they seem to imply that because it was so long ago, the justifications for the laws no longer lack validity. I don't see how the age of a law necessarily calls its relevance into question, particularly as it pertains to the behavior of animals.
Tbf, I'm not denying that it is a programming language, but rather that I was discouraged from using it because my parents did not view it as programming.
Scenario: a country-wide blackout occurs. You're haggling with local farmers for food. Which has value to them, bits on a hard drive or solid gold?
A lot of it is wordplay. They want to give the impression that they didn't need to do the layoff, as they do have money, but it was the prudent thing to do.
I’ll sell you that contract up to what I can finance it at.
The continued existence of gold as a store of value (and to a lesser extent silver) contradicts this model. Very few economic transactions are denominated in gold, either as a medium of exchange or a unit of account.

There is a small amount of industrial demand, but this is far too tiny to justify gold's gigantic market capitalization. Valued on industrial demand alone gold would maybe worth $100/oz, yet today it trades at $1700/oz. And it has held a lofty valuation more than half a century after all major economies abandoned any gold standard behind their fiat currencies.

The only possible explanation for gold's continued valuation is that it's quite possible for assets to exist as money-like stores of value without necessarily needing to possess a functioning role as a medium of exchange or unit of account. Moreover what we can see is that store of value assets are highly path-dependent. Rhodium has similar properties to gold, yet gold is far more widely used as a store of value. The sole explanation for this is because of gold's historical narrative.
Mine is more physics-y.
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>>a lesson from the initial skepticism and dismissal that the schoolboy’s counterintuitive claim had faced:
>>“It points to the danger of an authoritarian physics.”

Key point there, at the very end, worth taking on board (which is different from listening to every willfully ignorant nutter).
I think bitcoin is about as difficult to transact as gold, although in ideal circumstances cryptocurrency should be easier to transact than gold.

However, gold has a fundamentally stronger argument for its value. Gold is useful: it has unique physical and chemical properties.
Thanks, I forgot to put in the last couple sentences! Just added -- should be deployed in a couple mins.
> Cremation, burial, they sound like you are assuming some colonization.

You don't need a full-blown colony for either of those. You just need a furnace or a shovel, respectively.

> Well, there won't be any colonization -- humans just can't hope to be in space very long without serious harm from low gravity and high energy cosmic rays.

We don't really know that; our only datapoints for long-term habitation are "Earth's surface" and "microgravity in low-Earth orbit". There's a pretty wide range of conditions in between that, and plenty of possibilities for mitigating both; that's indeed one of NASA's objectives in resuming manned lunar missions: to evaluate long-term habitation and actually collect that missing data.

> Solution: As in the current Mars robots, have some clear scientific objectives, develop some good instruments, and fire the rockets. Develop the robots along with the instruments so that it will be easy for the robots to work with the instruments. If we can have self-driving cars on some city streets, then we should be able to develop some robots effective in space.

That's what we already do, and it severely restricts the quantity and quality of science that's able to be done. It's a stopgap until we're actually able to get "boots on the ground".
Right, your parents were the ones making that assertion (implicitly if not explicitly).
I was alive during the era and almost no one had commercially released games on their phones. For one thing, storage was incredibly limited. For another, the cost was incredibly high vs what you got - not just the game itself but the actual cost of a plan that would allow you to download the game to your device.

Towards the mid-2000s we started getting some rather elaborate 3D titles but then we ran into the problem of a numerical keypad being a pretty bad control scheme for anything more advanced than simple arcade games or turn-based titles.

The one market that pre-smartphone phone games did well in was Japan but they had some very high-profile franchise tie-ins and otaku are well-known for buying almost anything.
Just one letter off from introducing people searching for waterproof clothing to top-of-the-line CPU architecture.
Crypto has social effects (wasting energy production capacity, scams, wasting computer hardware and chip fab capacity) outside of its economic effects that do make it a big deal.
Was it cash or stock?
They are both bad.

> Dr. Hu says that an accumulated body of evidence shows a clear link between high intake of red and processed meats and a higher risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and premature death. "The evidence is consistent across different studies,"
Given that is at-will employment in much the US I don't know how much recourse you can get, or how you would even calculate damages.
How does this comparing to the ESP8266 families which is even cheaper, P2040 is taking the IoT space by storm.
Thanks for pointing out krisp.ai -- was wondering how it was possible so many youtubers complain about not using A/C while streaming to avoid noise... Does everyone simply not know about krisp.ai?
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I see Unity lasting a long time. There are basically only two companies to consider if you want to make a 3D game: Unity and Unreal. Unity is so much easier to pick up for newer game developers, which means Unity will always have a funnel of new users that will help the company stay afloat. The decision to use C# is a major factor in Unity's success. Not only do you get the benefit of an existing ecosystem, and you also don't need to worry about the insanity that is C++. The biggest threat to Unity is probably Godot achieving a Blender-like success story where Godot achieves parity with Unity but is free.
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On the other hand, it's further away from the lips so maybe there's less mouth sounds.
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Are the requirements really 19 times harder though? Or at least N times larger, so that it requires 19 times more people? I most sincerely doubt it.

The reason there was 19 developers is probably because someone pulled the number 19 out of their ass.
RPI Pico is irrelevant in my view.
Seriously checkout RISC-V equivalence (there are many, I like the ESP32-C3)

Linux on RISC-V is real, china is using & standardizing on it. Ditch arm, skip RPI, ignore STM-32, and scoff at TI, .. RISC-V is the future.

While you're at it - skip micropython, skip the OS Linux - use RUST and target RISC-V directly.

The cost of RISC-V is cheap and will only continue to plummet, nothing in the IOT space is going to compete with RISC-V except absurdly expensive niche proprietary solutions that were engineered before the blackhole-esque super-nova gravity hole that is RISC-V which is happening right now in the IOT space. I'm not even sure those will survive, ..

The RISC-V options are only going to continue to increase. I say this because China is using RISC-V for most of it's future everything, it's basically the national chip and there are literally tens of thousands of developers & engineers coming out of school into this ecosystem every single day.

Do not use micropython, avoid all these runtime debugging headaches.
Yeah, it might take you a few months or even years to learn RUST, but the concurrency, the power saving, the deterministic behaviors - oh joy! The headaches you will save, the extra rest at night and reduced stress will increase your lifespan.

Qemu RISC-V for emulation + testing and you'll save yourself a ton of time only deploying and supporting code that works. Full simulated environments, you can test in parallel in the cloud, few platforms can do that! RISC-V + RUST it's a joy.

Fewer crashes in the field-- and let me tell ya! .. when you're doing anything IOT that is the only thing that matters - never having a crash in the field, that's better than chocolate cake.
And it arguably lead to a strategy game I spent a fair amount of time playing in my youth. Thanks for that!
Citizen identification falls under the responsibility of my country.

EU is neither my country nor it will ever be. Therefore, no EU digital Id for me.
I believe they have first-party and community content.
TL;DR? My best attempt:
The federal law did not give authority to EPA to control the type of energy (fuel) used. It only had authority to set emission guidelines.
> Games are so monetized now that some are now borderline (or ought to be considered) gambling. At least there is still some amazing creativity coming from independent development studios.

In their defense, games have gotten an incredible amount larger and more complicated without adjusting the price of the games since the 90's. We're effectively paying half the price we would have in the 90's due to inflation.

I don't know that people would buy them at inflation-adjusted prices. Adjusted from the early 90s, a game would now cost ~$120. And that's discounting the difference in development costs. The latest Call of Duty had a budget of $250M; Ocarina of Time had a budget of $12M, which is ~$21M after adjusting for inflation.

I don't love the direction either, but they have to make money somewhere.
Kraken had proof of reserves at least in January.
Marketing has pushed a lot of Youtubers towards LDCs like the Blue Yeti, which are great in a studio setting but pick up lots of background noise. For some reason everyone considers the SM7B as the way around that (despite being overkill and overpriced for their applications), which is a broadcast dynamic. Dynamics can handle fan noise and busy streets no problem.

There are less expensive handheld dynamics which are suitable for Youtubers, like the SM58 (very few of them use that, but it's ubiquitious in live sound and with processing can sound very decent). Sennheiser and AKG also make good stuff. If those don't provide enough isolation there are ENG dynamics that are designed to handle interviews in the middle of loud protests and such.
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FWIW, as someone who is generally pretty left-leaning and not at all libertarian (more policy, please), I still find Reason a rather valuable resource, very different from the "fake news" kinda rags. They put out good articles that may skew free-market, yes, but often serve a perspective vacuum when it comes to renewables journalism.

A lot of renewables reporting is rah-rah hypemongering that slants sensationalist and unrealistic, which over the long term has the side effect of making the public more and more cynical as most of the exciting developments they hear about (solar roadways!) never come to fruition for reasons they never bother to examine, because the articles are more marketing fluff than actual analysis.

Reason at least provides a sobering counter-narrative and forces advocates of renewables to better examine and defend their positions and/or identify weaknesses to address. It's almost like a good peer review process.

I appreciate what they do, even if I'm not their target audience.

Edit: And I think renewables/emissions/carbon targets and things like CAFE standards are always being double- and triple-guessed. They are political games, not scientific projections.
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Is the viscosity of ionized air lower than air?

My understanding is that the ionized air is used in tandem with electric field to accelerate plain air (non-ionized) by collision/friction. In other words, the ionized air is being used as a gaseous propeller.
To me, the stronger government intervention is taxing the use of cryptocurrencies (or pretty much anything except dollars in the US) when buying something with it. There is a capital gains tax event that happens if you buy something with BTC, for example. So you have to pay extra to use non-dollars for transactions but also a regular person's taxes would become extremely complicated if they used non-dollars for all their transactions.
Coinbase Will Reportedly Provide Crypto User Data to the US Government
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Hackers hack things up. That’s not always about building, unless you have an extremely loose definition of building. Anyways even hackers need critics.
> Especially when using headphones, other people don't want to hear your meat sounds. They don't want to be constantly reminded that you're made of meat because they're trying their best to pretend that they aren't either.

A reference for people who just think this is worded weird:

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
I think this is a reaction to the tone set by the headline, which seems to ask "why don't people use this far more cumbersome alternative?"

That said, the assessment of pros and cons in the article is less stereotypically oblivious and more nuanced than the above would suggest.
I agree with your point, but consider the following:

1: Cryptocurrencies can still operate over distributed mesh networks or sneaker-nets in a semi-doomsday scenario.

2: With gold, it is difficult to verify its authenticity vs some impostor alloy without the necessary tech/knowledge.

Edit: the bottom line is that in a doomsday scenario, people have little use for bitcoins or shiny yellow rocks.
I saw that in the 90s but people were definitely doing it in the 70s as well. I am not aware of any stories of cracks or shattered windscreens because of it, though I am sure that if you do that with boiling water and not-so-frozen windscreen often enough, you would get that result :)
> We can transmit some orders to some robots, have them work for some hours, usually longer, and then transmit the results back to earth. Sorry the speed of light is so slow; ask Congress to do something about that?

Why yes, we can ask Congress to do something about that - that "something" being to invest in manned missions. That's indeed what NASA is working to do and has been working to do for more than half a century.
We recently got a significant amount of referral traffic from coming to our website https://simplea.com/Home from example.com. As example.com is a placeholder website with no external links on it, how come we’re getting traffic from example.com??

Is this a spambot faking the origin? And more importantly is there a way to avoid this (other than creating a filter for unwanted traffic?

Thanks for any clarification
Several years ago I was working at one of the largest tech companies in the world, and there were rumors of layoffs in our org. We had a huge all hands meeting (over 1000 people in the room), and at the end the VP asked if there were any questions. I straight up asked him if that was happening. Every eye in the room glared at me in surprise. He assured me that was just a rumor and we had nothing to worry about, and "as far as he knew" there were no cuts upcoming. THE NEXT DAY they laid off 100 people. I was not laid off, but I started looking for other work because he lied to my face. About 2 months later I was turning in my badge and was very blunt on my exit questionnaire about the reason.
I like the video in the article quite a lot! The gentleman speaking in it is one of the scientists working on the project, and manages to convey an excitement and basic idea that the layman can kind of understand, as well as some fun history. Wish more articles could have this kind of interviews!
How do these IEMs with their passive seal compare to active noise cancelling headphones for the purposes of unwanted noise attenuation
Indeed! I remember being irked about Unity only being on Macs and seriously thrilled when it finally got a Windows build.
Not scientific whatsoever but when I worked in my high school's canteen, we'd put hot water in the Slush Puppie machine to recover quickly during rushes and it sure seemed to work faster than cold water.
It was Business Professionals of America. At the state competition there were only 5ish people competing in C++ out of >100 schools. We didn't actually have any programming classes or activities within my school.
Is LinkedIn the New Facebook?
A hate speech comment was reported on LinkedIn, and in a few minutes below message was received:

"
We’ve reviewed your report
Here’s what happened

Thanks for reporting XYZ’s comment. A member of our Trust & Safety Team reviewed the comment and found it does not go against our Professional Community Policies.

We understand this is not the outcome you expected and want to share some additional options that can help ensure a safer experience on LinkedIn.

If you don’t want to see updates from XYZ in your feed, you can unfollow or mute them.

If you’re connected to XYZ, you can remove them as a connection.

If you want to eliminate all interaction with XYZ, you can block them. Blocking means they won’t be able to connect with you, view your profile, or see your updates.

We don’t notify members when you unfollow, mute, remove a connection, or block them.
"

- Did some human at LinkedIn really saw the report? Do they really have such bandwidth available to reply in few minutes with a message containing name of the offender 4 times?
- Is LinkedIn actively pushing inflammatory content just like FB?
- Are they using common AI of some sort to handle "Trust and Safety", and are equally broken?

It seems time to exit LinkedIn permanently.
Asana is hot garbage. As much as I dislike Jira, Asana could be argued as worse.
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This is the problem with humans: They have a hard time recognizing conceptual scale without examples.

A _swimming pool_. Literally more readioactive crap from outerspace hits the ocean every year than this.

And no, The absolute volume does matter. That is non-sensical and nonsense. There's more uranium in sea water that humans would put every "pollute" it with