skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, there's a shared budget for temperature, magnetic field and current. If you're sufficiently close to the critical temperature, it only takes a small current to "blow the budget" which turns your material back into an ordinary conductor/resistor. If you remove the current or lower the temperature, there's a nonzero switching time before the material will return to its superconducting phase.

There are some neat applications of this phenomenon in superconducting electronics. Cryotrons use transformers to produce large fields from small currents to switch a higher-current-capacity line from superconducting to normal. N-trons and other "current crowding" devices perform a similar trick using currents in a pinched region attached to the high current line. I can't remember the precise details, but different superconducting films are more or less inclined to "localize" the normal-phase region induced by local current/heat.

Sadly, those neat devices are apparently quite finnicky because switching emits heat into their environment, and also depends on temperature of that same environment. As far as I know, cryotrons are used for high power electromagnets to rapidly and safely dump the energy -- they don't appear to be useful for superconducting computers, for example.
I honestly can’t wait for the day when we’re all only using IPv6. I know that day may never come but I’m curious how everyone would deal with being unable to block dynamically changing addresses.
Hard to learn doesn't mean good.
Testing the above "104 degrees" example in Firefox just now, I get:

Last year MIT handed out 104° to wombats

Pasting back into Emacs, "M-x describe-char" says:

code point in charset: 0xB0
...
file code: #xC2 #xB0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
...
name: DEGREE SIGN
I really don't understand the "critical package" dichotomy. Why not 2FA for everyone? If it's a best security practice, just say so. Set a cutoff date after which every PyPi author needs to comply. Targeting only the authors of popular packages feels weird and arbitrary.
JSON-LD example, tips for setting up your structured data
Why make up something so easily checked? From the HN rules:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like.
It's also an example of the dharma of /newest – the rising and falling away of stories that get no attention:

HPE releases urgent fix to stop enterprise SSDs conking out at 40K hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706968 - March 2020 (0 comments)

HPE SSD flaw will brick hardware after 40k hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697758 - March 2020 (0 comments)

Some HP Enterprise SSD will brick after 40000 hours without update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697001 - March 2020 (1 comment)

HPE Warns of New Firmware Flaw That Bricks SSDs After 40k Hours of Use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692611 - March 2020 (0 comments)

HPE Warns of New Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40k Hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680420 - March 2020 (0 comments)

(there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035934, but that was submitted today)
Any car with more than one person in the vehicle should have VIP access. That's at least twice as efficient use of space and natural resources as one person in a 2-ton SUV driving to work or wherever.
UTAH SAINTS! UTAH SAINTS!

;P

(It would have been more fun if we'd spent the past month with clickbait like "What is Orgone Energy, Anyway?"
But the Chromatics version is even better.
Taxis (including Uber/Lyft) are worse IMO. In the bay area, many schools do not have school buses, then maybe we should invest more in school buses to reduce cars on the road (HOV lane or not). At big companies which have buses to shuttle employees to the office, many parents cannot use them because they have to stop at a school, etc.
Sometimes the result actually results in millions of humans getting cancer as a result of inaction.

In most of the world (Canada, EU, Korea, Japan, etc.) sunscreen is regulated as a cosmetic, but in the US the FDA regulates it as an OTC drug. The last time an ingredient was approved for sunscreen use was in 1999, and in other countries there are more active ingredients with better properties than what is currently approved for use in the US.

The problem is that a good deal of the US approved list is basically off limits because they've since been shown to be unhealthy, and what's left on the list has challenging cosmetic properties to the point where people can't be convinced to apply sunscreen every day, because formulations do things like become oily and don't play nice with other cosmetics, or show up as chalky white pigment on any remotely dark skintones. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/new-sunscreens-for-uva-...
Krita, SailfishOS, Calibre, Audacious, AsteroidOS, OBS, VLC, KDE (though I prefer a tiling WM, I have to admit Okular is superb). Qt is cross-platform too, and its FOSS and proprietary friendly.
When we start looking at life at the level of physics, chemistry, and biochemistry, the absolute beauty of the system begins to appear. The complexity is on a scale that's difficult to imagine or even unimaginable even to those trained in the fields, and there is a feeling of wonder that words can't capture
PDFs are indeed a bit scary.

A few months back I was triaging a GH issue where someone had attached an .rtf of their failure log and I was definitely tingling at the thought of opening it.

I felt a bit paranoid doing it, but I curled it down on a different laptop, went offline, and then checked to see what `file` thought. It reported that the file was actually a PDF and I was almost certain it was a spearphishing attempt.

(I'm not a committer on this project, so I probably wouldn't have been the target if it was.)

I finally convinced myself to go online to fetch a PDF -> plaintext converter package, go back offline, and see what it found inside. (Though I wondered if the converter itself would ignore or could be vulnerable to the same kinds of exploits.)

It ultimately just looked like an appropriate log, though I never directly opened it. I decided to risk coming off as paranoid and told the reporter not to do this going forward (and they promptly/happily replaced the attachment with an unformatted copy/paste--better than getting pwned).
Along those same lines, Visbiome and homemade kefir (the kind at the store isn't technically kefir) helped me out immensely.
"Network effects" seem to be a fairly compelling reason that "two highly correlated and intertangled financial systems" is the most we'll get, not two fully separate ones.

As long as people can interact with both easily, they will, and a lot of the risk/rewards will get tied together. Things move up together and down together.
> As for cargo-vet vs 2fa, as the article mentions (but I think bears emphasis), they solve different problems.

I disagree.
On the surface and a technical level cargo-vet and 2fa do different things, yes. However, the intended effect here is very similar. PyPi is asking some authors to use 2fa because they want to avoid popular packages getting compromised. Cargo-vet tries to achieve the same end result through a different method.

> A lot of this article also seems to boil down to some sort of slippery slope. 2FA today, package signing tomorrow, the end of the world next week? I'm unconvinced.

While unlikely, it does bring up the question of how much control a package index, or similar org, should be able to exert control over contributors. In theory, its their index and they are hosting your code for free so they can do as they please. On the other hand, they are the de-facto standard and are, in my opinion (perhaps a bit far fetched and certainly not as malicious as Google) the Play Store of the python world.
Why don't we use machine learning to find phages?
I mean that's not a forced cost, that's a cost you've chosen to burden yourself with. I've done WFH in a rented room before and I made it work. It wasn't a life of luxury but I didn't feel particularly cramped. I was already living in that room and already had a computer desk set up.

Worst case scenario you're always free to find another employer. I'd be willing to take an effective $800 pay cut for work from home (if I didn't have it already, that is). But I suppose you prefer to be in the office, and that's fine.

Did you plan on living in that room forever? If it was too small for you to comfortably work from home in I imagine you'd have been moving out sometime soon anyway. At worst the job just made you take on that additional expense a bit earlier than you'd have preferred.
It's up to users of the tool to ensure they comply with the law.

Just like you somehow restrain yourself from photographing someone else's picture and then selling it.
I’m waiting for a 200+ DPI OLED monitor with something like 4500 x 3000 resolution.
Oxide and Friends is good despite Twitter Spaces, but On the Metal was great. I hope to see it return.
Case to consider: Taxi, Uber, Lyft, etc? Those have 2 people, but only 1 person is really traveling to the destination most of the time.
This has certainly been written here on HN a thousand times already, but here again are the basics for thinking about business (software or otherwise):

1. A business is not a product, project or a program. It is an entity designed to provide something people need in return for money such that the result is beneficial (profitable) to the business.

2. The question you should ask when thinking about business is “what can I provide, at a competitive price, that people (or other businesses) need to buy.

3. So why do people need things? Answer: sustenance, pleasure, efficiency and convenience, solving an important problem, or ability to make something else of value, ie. a tool. These are things that provide “value” to the buyer.

4. There are subtleties in (3) that can be exploited if you have lots of experience in a specific area. For example, a chef may know of things, tricks or tips of value related to cooking.

TL;DR In summary, it doesn’t matter what kind of product or software you are building, or whether you use a SaaS model or other business model. What matters most is that the business is designed to build something of value for lots of people that results in a healthy profit. The “idea” has to be the solution to the value problem.
Oh yeah. Whole reason I joined HN. Can I have some money?
How different in this regard is an IPv4 address versus an IPv6 /64 block? (And similarly, any bigger IP block belonging to an ISP.)
This is an AI/ML system by Meta which can separate recorded music into four “stems” - drums, bass, vocals and other. It’s not the first one (Deezer open sourced Spleeter a few years back which is now widely used) but I think the results from Demucs are super impressive - it sounds much “crisper” than previous systems. Kind of blows my mind that this is possible!

On my M1 Max it runs at 5-10x real-time if you pass a “-j 10” argument (and makes it real hot, lol) so it’s fast enough to be usable. You can also try it out online e.g. here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/demucs

I thought I’d share this as in the Kate Bush thread someone was talking about being able to get acapellas for tracks.
If you plan to code for many years, it's definitely worth it. But it has a steep learning curve. It could take you a few weeks before you feel like Vim is not actually slowing you down. But past that point, you will continuously gain productivity and will eventually refuse to use anything else. I've been using Vim for almost a decade and I'm still learning new tricks that boost my productivity.
Indoor or outdoor?
I wish USB-C single cable solution would become standard on all screens, along with a built-in USB/BT hub. Then we could revisit the idea of thumbstick PCs. I am not a big fan of laptops and would gladly carry a Mars bar-sized computer with me instead.
I'm not familiar with this concept. What exactly do you get during these "office hours"?

Is it an online call with someone knowledgeable about the contents of the selected book, who can answer questions about it?
If we're talking about domestic farmers, they're going to get caught at the same rate regardless of what you tell grocery stores and restaurants to do.

If you mean international farmers, I think it's obvious you'd have to apply the same rules to imported food, so no they won't simply buy food that doesn't follow the rules.

But also, even if we did require grocery stores and restaurants to use certified farmers in some way, that wouldn't be hard at all! That's not even in the same ballpark as requiring scientific proof of chemical safety.
I got this from the article too. This couple was incredibly connected.

But.. they lived and worked in a field for 40 odd years, why the hell couldn't they take advantage of it? This isn't like Dad getting his frat bro son a job at Goldman.
Its actually top down and bottom up at the same time. All of biochemistry operates on the basic rules of physics which determine how the chemistry happens with feedback from the surroundings/system as the top down part
An HN perennial:

2 years ago 52 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192651

3 years ago 34 comments]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729115

5 years ago 19 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155394

7 years ago 29 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683778
I run an online community, with my own developed software. We use lots of different tools to prevent spam, harassment, etc. We use different APIS to check IP, ASN, email for previous spam behaviour, use of disposable email domains, etc.

We have a team of moderators and as mentioned before you can "smell" something brewing. The words, to whom they are directed, etc.

A couple of years ago we started using Perspective API [0], a Google service
"Using machine learning to reduce toxicity online". We use the toxicity model, trained by Google and The NY Times. Basically we submit the text of posts and replies and receive a score. We do some account history calculations and if it's past a certain threshold then moderators receive a notification - we can't read all posts in our platform all the time but this helps a lot.

The community itself helps too, and the reporting tool is used when things happen that we aren't aware.

[0] https://www.perspectiveapi.com/#/home
Okay, well that's not Matlab lying, that's you not understanding how the tool works. It would be like saying that 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 evaluating to false is a lie, because floating point numbers don't accurately represent real numbers as a concept. But floating point numbers aren't actually real numbers, and integers in Matlab (they're actually stored as floating point doubles, is that a lie too?) aren't actually mathematical objects.

You have to work within the constraints of the tool. Matlab makes it very clear upfront that the semantics of the language mean that naked numbers are in fact matrices, because everything in the language is a matrix. Maybe you feel that's not a good representation, but it's not a lie, and in fact it's very consistent and useful in the context of the language itself.
way down in the article they mention that it's unclear if it's meant for (or capable of) "dazzling" or "blinding". Dazzling means saturating the sensors so they can't see during saturation, but blinding means burning the sensors so they're broken.

I suppose the answer depends on whether lasting damage is done.
Sounds like this needs to be tested by the supreme court. An unborn kid can't each be a kid, a passenger, a foetus, inside the mother, and outside the mother at the same time.

Their ruling would probably be that the kids needs to be removed from the womb by the mother for the duration of the journey, whereupon it will be safely secured in a child seat in the second row, then placed back in the womb once the journey has come to an end.
https://1lnfej4c7wie44voctzq1r57-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Which tropical island, specifically?

It sounds horrible, I'm sorry that happened to you.
Meat is good for you
There was another commenter who made the same mistake. I was going to correct them but thought better of it, then made the same mistake myself!
Bored on vacation, what's the best way to learn synths in 2022?
"Bottone, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, pointed to her stomach. Even though she said her 'baby girl is right here,' Bottone said one of the deputies she encountered on June 29 told her it had to be 'two bodies outside of the body.' While the state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not."

I would be extremely surprised if the state's transportation code specifically called out "outside the body". Also I don't think it would make sense if it did. What's the functional difference between an en-wombed child and a recently released one in this situation?

I say they should let her go in the HOV lane.

The Texas Department of Transportation says the HOV lane can be used by "a vehicle occupied by two or more people" and nothing in their list of exclusions precludes pregnant women.

https://www.txdot.gov/driver/managed-lanes/high-occupancy-ve...
Which is exactly OPs point. If they’d brought it forth with just the name “code” it would have been just as dumb as these guys complaining about code-server. Which is exactly why it ended up vscode, which is destiny enough that it possible both to market, distinguish and protect as a brand.
3:2 is 16:10.66, so basically the same as 16:11.
agree, and i think Target has the best system i've seen by far.
> Kiddie poolers are not removing cars

I car pooled with classmates and their parents as a kid.
AI is an unattainable goal, not because we'll never create it, but because "what is AI" changes over time as we figure out how to do things, and give them their own name. Decision trees, machine learning, deep learning - each of these was "AI" at some point, but now that we can do them the magic is gone and "AI" has become more distant than it was before.

(Heavily paraphrased from a longer post I read years and years ago, no idea where)
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Selective billing, though?
I know in some countries callers pay for all outbounds but I don't think it was all possible unless one would set up those premium rate numbers...
People keep throwing this word around... yet the board accepted the first offer from Elon with no negotiation. Nobody is suing twitter board for this.

Who does that? Even new grad negotiates their offer...
You might be interested in Meta’s Demucs, which can split a song into drums, bass, vocals and other stems. It’s really very impressive, I can’t quite believe such results are possible!

https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

You can try it out at https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/demucs if you don’t want to install it. If you google “source separation” there are a bunch of hosted services which mostly use either Demucs or Spleeter (which was an earlier, good but not as good, system from Deezer)
Isn't this just for non-logged in users? Needing to sign up to edit is a non-issue, you don't even have to provide an email address.

Almost no website, HN included, let you submit content without a form of registration, Wikipedia could block all non registered users and still be "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit".
Muslims are less than 5% of the UK population, so Islam can at most account for only a small part of the decline.
I went down this path to madness a few years ago [1]. HN discussion [2]. Nowadays, I use IntelliJ for everything.

[1]: https://blog.d46.us/zsh-tmux-emacs-copy-paste/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002527
What are the cases where a range block is the best option? How is discriminating based on ISP justifiable at all, barring technical noncompliance?

It's irrational because it goes against a stated principle of Wikipedia.
Currently, from Wikipedia's perspective: zero difference, we block the whole /64 (or bigger, depending on the ISP).
You can’t just use it willy nilly.

Agreed, that is what I was trying to convey.

As an aside, I sat in police dispatch while two of the senior officers were playing light-sabers with their HT's on transmit to create feedback "music" for the dispatcher yes on the repeater main frequency of whom was the biggest software pirate I knew at the time. Kids will be kids.
I'm a job hopper; similar situation to yourself, although I'm not feeling particularly great in my current position (couple of months). My plan is to continue job hopping* and absorbing as much industry knowledge as I can until I get tired of it, possibly around ~40 (talking about 10 year plans) and then go to a large established company and spend the next decade hopefully rising to the top.

I have three rules in no particular order:

- I always let my manager know where I stand and when I decide to start looking for other options and if there is something that can be done about it or not;

- I never leave in the middle of a delivery cycle or when things are rough for the team;

- I'm always available for a reasonable period after I leave, in case I'm needed.

The last company I worked for, C-level position for almost three years (that started as a 6-month consultancy gig) I let them know almost 6 months in advance that I will be stopping working for awhile and that we should work together on a strategy. They did business as usual for half a year, having secret meetings to hire a replacement (even though I offered to participate) and ultimately failed.

Then they asked me to help them for 2 more months, and because it was a sabbatical break, I agreed to help. They ended up not paying me for those 2 months, basically blamed me for a bunch of unrelated stuff and then cut all contact (I feel this was all rather unnecessary). They later contacted me to help them, I did as it was an urgent problem and it took a short amount of time, then they just stopped saying anything again, but I'd help them again if they had an emergency and it wouldn't tax me.

Why the long story? Well, I think those 'rules' are worth sticking to even if the other party turns out to be complete garbage and I think it's more important for you to reconcile with your 'job hopping' than to worry about what others might be thinking about it.
There is no similar technology which would allow such a powerful laser in a satellite. While it's possible in theory, for now it's science fiction. No launch vehicle has enough capacity to lift the necessary power generation.
... to pesticide manufacturers, no. But say, a GM tomato[1] that had added nutrients seems like it could make someone rich? I'd be happy to throw a few in my salad.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_tomato#Im...