skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, "most <insert any large group of people> are morons" is only true if you also believe most people in general are morons, which is a different conversation
> Absence of evidence

Your comment is wrong. Ferrets have been legal in other States for enough years to have SOME evidence for people that hate ferrets to use. It isn't there because it doesn't happen.
Some modulation and multiplexing modes are so crazy their inventors get called names for years. In the optical world there's Orbital Angular Momentum and it's a very strange mechanism... https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0...

I'm amazed at the progress of terabit Ethernet, soon 1.6Tbit/s in one server.
It would help, but maybe not enough. Humanity isn't the only reason the planet isn't covered in trees, they just don't grow in many places such as deserts, mountaintops, etc.
I think you meant KeyCloak not Keybase? haha.
American incomes - particularly in tech - sound so high for the rest of the world, but Americans have to account for healthcare expenses, pension contributions, "emergency funds" when you are out sick for longer time than the pittances most companies offer as "PTO", the insane housing costs, car payment and taxes on them.

Meanwhile, the rest of the developed Western world has the government provide healthcare, pension systems, actual sick time that also accounts for longer periods, public transport so you can get away without a car...
Nvidia in the Hot Seat?
Make them so that they automatically pop after a time unless they regularly receive a command from earth.
Not sure, but it occurs to me that some lab animals have reduced genetic diversity compared to wild types of the same species. Sometimes this is by design, to reduce variation, sometimes just because the way the lab animals are bred happens to make a few of them the ancestors of the general population (especially if you're buying all your lab mice from the same place).

So, they might have had a better chance of evolving behavior more optimized to the situation, if they had more genetic diversity to work with. Just an hypothesis.
While I agree, the problem is that the Black footed ferret already is endangered AND the legal ferrets have not crept into the ecosystem from beyond the arbitrary lines humans have drawn. So at both the micro and macro perspectives, you have no explosion of population.

Taking a large population of ferrets and putting them in some California farmland and see them die off might be what your conscience requires as "proper evidence", but it's ironically illegal to even perform the test. Much like the CA F&G, it's an ideological problem, not an evidence based one for you.
It's a letter from one particular FCC commissioner (there are multiple) on official FCC letterhead with his job title printed on it. You can view it at https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/15418235859... or https://nitter.net/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1541823585957707776 .
Douyin collects a fuck load data too, maybe less than TikTok one day once new PRC privacy rules come into effect. But that's somethign US doemstic politics have to sort out for their territory.

>promoting copious amounts of destabilizing and divisive political

Ant that's more fault of US political culture than TikTok being Chinese/PRC. IMO TikTok would like nothing better to ban politics from platform, but that's how you get the muh-free-speech types reeeing about PRC censorship. Large reason WHY TikTok/Douyin is successful is from lessons learned maturing in PRC/Chinese censorship enviroment - platforms are very good at censoring/filtering destablizing political content to focus on light hearted content that produce casual engagement and political serenity. Chinese social platforms are calibrated for stability, but when in rome... see all the western media campaigns trying to smear tiktok for censorship when it first gained popularity, of course now that TikTok as calibrated to political reality of US market, the "destablizing" narrative gets pushed.
What do you mean? the canary creation is free, and I didn't see mention of pricing anywhere.
> The only sale/transfer allowed without a NICS check is between two residents of the same state when the seller has no reason to believe or suspect that the purchaser is prohibited.

Say the seller transfers a gun they've owned for several years to an out-of-state prohibited person. The gun turns up in crime. The original purchases lies and says they sold it just one year after ownership to an in-state person, and haven't possessed this gun for several years. There's no requirement for sellers to keep record of who they sold firearms to, so it's hard to prove this defense wrong.
Project direction controlled entirely by core devs and the centralised exchanges that bless their output as "bitcoin" regardless of the fact it directly contradicts the original consensus mechanism for the project and the changes implemented by said devs fundamentally broke the utility of the project.

SEC and similar are likely granting BTC "commodity" status purely because it is so utterly controlled and unthreatening, completely divorced from its original intent of addressing the central banking charade, that any energy they can push into it is energy they won't have to deal with being directed to a legitimate decentralised cryptocurrency that actually works and over which no such control exists.
Did they not see the Matrix Movie(s)?!
There doesn't seem to be any actual demonstration of an attack. Just a bunch of discussion of various types of attacks with the implication that there might be something or somethings out there that are susceptible.
Seconding this.

Basic auth is easy.

The hardest parts are OAuth, SSO, MFA, OWASP Security, tracking metrics correctly. Good lord.
also password policies, account takeover detection/prevention, user device/session list management
In my mind, GNNs are designed to solve graph problems, in the usual case, with message passing, that enables (I'd emphasise the aggregation step) to "do ML on graphs".
There are still plenty of forums out there from what I've seen. I'm a participant in forums related to mountain biking, fishing, guns, electronics, etc., etc. Now to be fair, some of them aren't as active as they used to be (the fishing one stands out in this regard), but there are still people who post and participate for sure.
A bureaucrat has never created a solution, so thinking UBI would solve anything is naive at best. Why not go for something simpler, like make basic life cheap and efficient so people can live with very little work? Bonus point: no need to take (steal?) money from people to implement.
This is funny :)

I post all tweets myself. If I had a bot capable of doing that and also post all the comments I have posted here over the years, I'd take over the world.

So, I'll take the compliment.
We have a ton of dead humans in the ocean, it isn't considered a national embarrassment, I don't think. Accidents are sad, but their inevitability is something that everyone understands.

I don't think we should colonize Mars, at least given what we've seen there. Currently, it appears to be a big, empty, inhospitable, far away rock. Getting there and then terraforming it would, I guess, require figuring out how to live in space long term, at which point why bother going down the gravity well? Once we've figured out how to live in space... there's plenty of space in space, just stay in orbit (maybe we'll have expensive tourism on planets).
Thank you for pointing that out, we've corrected that in the article!
According to this, it can take 10ms (not 100s of ms) and only for a very large read (like 32MB).
https://i.gzn.jp/img/2021/06/07/reading-from-external-memory...
Full article:
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20210607-reading-from-exter...
Nice try.

From history of aviation known, in USSR in 1920s tried to increase productivity of all production in similar way.

They accepted ANY suggestion and pay for them average few pennies (for more economy effect paid more money). And said, documents shown thousands suggestions and payments, some people made hundreds suggestions per month, and this was significant increase to their salary.

But this lasts only few months, because people for these pennies suggest mostly useless things and in some cases even harmful.

For example, in planes construction used oval aluminum tubes, to save weight and to make slightly less air drag.
One suggests to use cheap steel round tubes. Aluminum was expensive, so this was extremely economy effective, but plane load decrease about 20% and speed decreased also about 20%, and this was not acceptable.
Russia tried to opposite of it in the 90's: orbited a mirror to warm Siberia: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/12/science/russians-to-test-...
Roe v Wade was always under threat. Even RBG knew it was a bad ruling.
Fine, I accept that, my humble apologies.
Monopsony in the US Labor Market
... like you want a burner phone.
Interesting, but the title borders on linkbait, making it sound as if an important institution, MIT, is formally proposing launching a giant fleet of bubbles into space. Nothing of the sort is happening. The reality is much less newsworthy, much more mundane: A group of researchers at MIT is exploring a radical new technology to cool the earth. In other words, this was an ordinary day at MIT.
I recently went back to practicing on my msx machines programming z80 assembly. More precise; when I wrote a lot of msx software in the 80s, I typed in hex opcodes directly without knowing the mnemonics. I still remember that it is a little rusty; it is fun to do still. You don’t need to remember much and because the computer (z80, graphics chip, sound etc) will never change, I find it quite refreshing to do.
One step further: they needed a larger cube. Seems like the study reasoned that providing unlimited food/water ruled out "resource scarcity" as a cause for decline. Space is very much a resource.

It's no different than the naïve reasoning around government-run housing projects: "You have food, water, and a tiny space to live crammed among 1000s of other people--what more could you need"? Didn't this spawn aberrant, violent, unhealthy behavior too? Wasn't (at least in theory) part of the solution to stop doing ultra-ultra-high-density housing? (Given, it's not like the government executed on re-housing all the project-tenants into lower-density housing--they often simply dumped them back into the streets.)

TL;DR: It's mostly obvious why ultra-high-density projects (and prisons, and concentration camps, and slums) set people up for failure; 256 tiny nests in a 4.5ft cube sounds a whole like a housing project.
It's a cycle. You get cool chips, then hot chips, then cool chips. For example, the Snapdragon 800 was a hot chip, then 801, 805 chips ran cool then the 810 had terrible heat problems. We're in a "hot" cycle right now with 888 and 8 Gen 1 phones typically having significant throttling problems.
how long did it take to change in the past though? Seems this would cause the change to occur quickly vs. over millions of years.
Ugh. When I was in junior high and going to the school library to use the Apples, of course I wanted to write games. I kept asking the teacher how to make moving graphics. Needless to say, nobody knew.

At some point I got clued into shape tables, plotted one out, and then called upon it in a program. It was no faster than a sequence "drawto" statements. At that point, I had my answer: You don't; at least not on an Apple.
I think that messaging and how it is presented is quite important. In that regard, Trump was absolutely trash at communicating anything and set back several decades of public policy progress in so many ways.

For example, when the TikTok stuff happened, it was always led with "CHY NAH IS AWFUL" followed with something to the effect of "WORST TRADE PARTNER EVER".

Instead of calling out things like the coordinated and well integrated industrial espionage operations that are ongoing, he chose to go with stupid explanations of why he was doing stuff. The fact that the CCP and private industry work closely together on wholesale intellectual property theft and knowledge transfer to benefit state backed enterprises are pretty legitimate grievances.

As the Big Lebowski told us... "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole."
Yet you missed the obvious fact that science doesn't even have a good definition for life, in fact it's a hard problem in the philosophy of science. You could say that the replicating mass of cells will in the future become a human being and that is not true of a sperm (unless it later goes on to fertilize an egg), but a sperm is just as "alive" as a fertilized egg.
I recently saw that TikTok is moving all US traffic to Oracle servers [0] as to mitigate any potential claims of the app being a threat. Would appreciate anyone expanding on the implications.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/17/tiktok-oracle-us-traffic-c...

My view of TikTok isn't so much that it's purpose is to be used as an threat; but rather a way to create an (insanely) lucrative e-commerce market in the same what it's being used in China. [1]

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Move-over-Alibab...
>Maybe. I had to buy 5 different USB wifi NICs on amazon, all of which were supposed to have the right chipset, before I found one that actually worked.

First: plug that device, check dmesg. If it says it has an issue on firmware, tether your smartphone and run

fw_update -a
If I remember correctly the book "on killing" discusses this very question--the short answer is that hand-to-hand combat is far more terrifying because it has an innate, animalistic psychological component. To see the face of someone who wants to kill you is far more traumatic than a metal tube from the sky. That tube does not hate you. That tube won't show up in your dreams.
The oceans will boil before air conditioning, McDonald's Big Mac, and a new iPhone each year are taken from the hands of Americans. Mark my words.
eV's are very commonly used in Chemistry and Physics. They're very convenient for talking about the energies involved in chemical (or nuclear) reactions. Assuming you're looking for energy in kilowatt-hours, just divide by 2.25*10^25
The moderator guidelines are guidelines not rules. A community of people has the right to ban people for any legal reason.
Can you give a good example of how one of bitcoin’s “managers” changed bitcoin recently?
Perhaps I'm jaded, but I'm always a bit skeptical when Alphabet touts privacy as a feature of one of their products.
Mining BTC doesn't get you voting rights at all. The core devs will still make pants on head retarded changes and the centralised exchanges will dutifully trade their trash output as if it were really bitcoin, mining just gets you the right to maybe profit on rubber stamping their trash depending on market conditions.

BTC has no mining. Only rubberstamping.
Math as structural science is tangential in [[almost-all]] cases.

Maths inasmuch as WP can cover it surely didn't make heaps advances in the last decades, except perhaps in the pedagogy department (that I can source, but it is literally decades) and category theory to give the whole thing structure (also pretty much cut and dried as soon as Bourbaki, I believe, though reception may take a while).
Sort of. You can keep using the product version from when you last paid (the beginning of the sub not the end). So if you were annual then you actually have to downgrade to a 1 year old version. It's a really wonky system. I was pretty upset when they switched to it but I love their products enough that I gave in.
The thoughts around information theory, entropy, compression, emergent behavior, and the intersectional limits of all of them are quite reminiscent and memetic to those who are interested.

Complexity is fuckin cool.
Seems like a badly-designed cache.
It is worth noting that the author works for crypto...
Doing this will speed it up: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-datab...
And what about the non-democratic world?

Do we want every country to run nuclear power plants?

Would you want foreign governments and countries running nuclear plants in your country?

One way to help with that would be to have nuclear plants in trusted countries, but will they stay trusted and will other countries accept being dependent on a one sided dependence on power?

Those questions are (in addition to cost concerns) why nuclear is not a tech i see helping the world moving forward.

Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to production on both hemispheres. That way we are all interconnected and keep trading even if long distance trade becomes verboten.
> I just can't believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military/civilian complex infiltrate it for somewhat unknown purpose.

You mean the same country that also just overturned Roe v Wade AND Miranda rights ?
Haven't heard of that before. Typing it into Wikipedia, I got https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar-based_code which explains it in so much as "To compress a data sequence x=x[0..n], a grammar-based code transforms x into a context-free grammar G." (Very helpful, love it when they use pseudocode with single-letter recursive variable definitions which needs accompanying text for it to make sense... and the text isn't there.) There is an example given on the right in image form, which looks like recursive dictionary-based string substitution:

"We hold these truths"
compressed: we_holdQ5ths
Q=Rse we_holdRse_5ths
R=Se we_holdSese_5ths
S=_th we_hold_these_5ths
5=tru we_hold_these_truths

This method isn't described anywhere nor was the original included, but this seems to be the algorithm used.
Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?
Hello HN, who here doesn't use a phone and what do you use as a replacement?

I've been using my phone less and less these days, and it feels like a chore to use a modern phone now. Touch interface is slow and imprecise, apps and webapps are slow, bloated, and keep removing useful features, adblock on some systems are clunky or non-existent, VoIP and SMS are basically dead, the interface changes nearly every year (on android at least), and many other small grievances. I can get things done so much quicker on a computer with a keyboard compared to the touch interface on a phone, using a keyboard and a full desktop environment is so precise, quick, and just enjoyable to use.

However, I am still hanging onto my phone for a few legacy uses, what are some good replacements for these:

* Mobile wifi
* VoIP
* SMS

Also, I am still interested in mobile computing as a concept, I've looked into the pinephone and that may be a good replacement for me in the future (keyboard attachment, linux apps), but am fine completely ditching mobile computing and just carrying around a small, light laptop if I can't find an ergonomic mobile replacement.

Anyone ditch their phone, how do you get by without it?
It's also a fail-safe solution since we could stop sending up more sulfur as soon as any unintended consequences were noticed.
This is not at all what RPCs were. And plenty of frameworks use "isomorphic javascript" (i.e. Javascript on both the front-end and the backend) -- Next, Nuxt, and many others.
Paper has been removed?
"This paper has been removed from SSRN at the request of the author, SSRN, or the rights holder."

It must have been too good ...
In a crisis the name of the game is triage: solve enough incidental problems to buy yourself time to deal with systematic issues. This proposal, ignoring whether it's suitable or not, appears to be squarely in triage territory.
I'm not sure why we don't do this; not just the privacy is an issue but the fact that China bans so much US internet like Facebook.
But you have to trade it away to buy the machines. That's very different from giving power to the people holding lots of coins.
Yes, and of course after WWI the French in particular largely took the lesson that forts work; they just need to be bigger, better, and more numerous.
Geoengineering in general is a high risk. But one aspect of this form of geoengineering, unlike pumping something into the atmosphere, is that it can be reversed quickly.
> More knowledge and options are always better.

That's not even true in theory. Given a simple problem A, when adding more options, at some point, choosing among the options requires more effort than solving the simple problem, if only by brute force. There's a reason why RDBMS sometimes skip indexes.

And in practice, GP is right: with humans, too many options eventually only distract from the problem.
> sitting inside our houses

No, but the attitude is staying inside the atmosphere of earth, usually on land, and at or close to sea level. That is what we evolved for, and we are effective there. Nearly anywhere else, we're talking super big, thick, heavy, clumsy suits and, still, lots of just outrageous dangers.

> anything of interrest or importance.

Dying on the moon or Mars is not of much of either.

Instead, for the moon or Mars, we can get a lot of interesting and important work from research, engineering, and construction of robots able to do real work on the moon or Mars.

For more work that is "interesting", and maybe "important", I'm busy at it everyday, without considering the moon or Mars.

Actually, so far we've done pretty well with robots on Mars. For our next effort, we need a way to clean dust off the solar panels.

Our robots have given us some really good data on the sun, Mercury and Venus, Jupiter and its moons, Saturn and its rings, each of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and now the boundary between our solar system and deeper space.

The Japanese have done well with robots getting samples from some asteroids -- with some interesting data, e.g., where at least some of the amino acids could have come from.

For something really interesting out there, how 'bout the results from a really big gravitational wave telescope?

For humans? I'm just fine, close to sea level, on land, in a house, with an Internet connection, just fine right here, thank you. You are welcome to my slot on any rocket to the moon or Mars, very welcome!
Perhaps obvious, but the title would be less clickbait-y if it were “MIT researchers propose…”
I had a similar device for the snes, "action replay" cart. It explained how to figure out codes for yourself. Me and a friend spent a day trying to get street fighter 2 to allow us to play as boss characters (Vega etc).
We got as far as the screen showing the correct portraits before the fight.
We were 11 at the time. It must have been very child friendly
We looked for a xamarin dev last year and couldn't find one. I'm not surprised listings are awkward.
NCERT Exemplar Problems (For In-Depth Learning) with Solved Examples and Answers
Chinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars
Ask HN: How can I make Mail/Messages links open in Incognito by default?
Whenever I click a link on my computer (e.g, from email or Messages), it opens by default in my browser of choice, but never in an Incognito window.

Nearly 100% of the time, I want it to open in Incognito, which I use whenever I'm visiting a site that I don't need to be logged into. My current workaround is to right-click the link, copy link, switch to my browser, open a new Incognito window, paste in the link and hit return. While this doesn't seem like that big a deal, it's actually a lot of clicks (11 key presses) — compared to just one click to open a link normally. Additionally, it puts the pasted link into my pasteboard manager, which is unnecessary and annoying when I go to retrieve a snippet that is now further down in the stack.

What's the best way to handle this? I've considered switching my default browser to a different browser that completely blocks cookies and forgets history all the time, but it seems like there should be a better solution.