skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be possible to make a font that combines these with ligatures, right? It’s kinda sad for these to be limited to one app.
Apple and other companies reportedly bought gold from illegal miners in Brazil
Adventure Rider is now creating ADVrider Journal... also a quarterly-ish publication I really enjoy.

https://www.advrider.com/subscribe-to-the-advrider-printed-j...
A much bigger entity, but I know the European Bank has 2 datacenters (Amsterdam and Rome), connected by 2 separate backbones going through completely separate geographic areas and they switch from one datacenter to another every 6 months to test out their DR. In fact, they have been doing that for decades.
There's some quality offerings for such people on https://gchq.careers/ as well, for the non US folks.
> I'm not seeing the explanation.

It's in there:

> But my impression is that a lot of labs that were interested in the general idea of beta-amyloid oligomers just took the earlier papers as validation for that interest, and kept on doing their own research into the area without really jumping directly onto the 56 story itself. The bewildering nature of the amyloid-oligomer situation in live cells has given everyone plenty of opportunities for that! The expressions in the literature about the failure to find 56 (as in the Selkoe lab’s papers) did not de-validate the general idea for anyone - indeed, Selkoe’s lab has been working on amyloid oligomers the whole time and continues to do so.

So labs wanted to work on this for their own reasons, not because of this result.

> Did the 56 Work Lead to Clinical Trials?
> That’s a question that many have been asking since this scandal broke a few days ago. And the answer is that no, I have been unable to find a clinical trial that specifically targeted the AB56 oligomer itself

So there weren't even any wasted clinical trials.

Basically his point is that maybe this drew some extra researchers into that area, but it was a worthwhile area anyway. The fact that nothing worked isn't particularly relevant because nothing has worked for Alzheimer's anyway.
> remove the resizable bar requirement

They'd have to add support for changing the base address register. The easy default is just mapping all the memory directly. It's a lot more programming work to transfer data when you only have a 256MB window to work with. No use sticking with a limit that PCIe hasn't had since 32-bit.
Have you played be chat? It actually is a real problem. Anyway, why not try to enforce security on both sides? EAC will literally fix 99% of the malicious issues…
I’m much more interested in my actual work than personal projects. Is that so weird?

And it should go without saying that sharing employer code could be considered theft.
That's not supported by our system sadly. It's this or enter an SMS code.
If you have travelled on I5 and have seen all the farm owners with their placards, you will soon realize their water rights are iron clad - they are a vote bank and their economic output is significant.

So, in conclusion, CA will:
1. Let the ground water deplete and ground sink
2. Bring in migrant workers from outside / illegally to work the lands
3. Take away water from your showers and toilets

But they will never move these industries out of Central Valley. Now I need to find a public ledger to record my predictions.
They are saying if you download an application (e.g. vrchat.exe) from the internet than it can steal your passwords as soon as you launch it.
Having great end-to-end tests are awesome for this exact reason. I spend 99% of my time adding new cool features instead of fixing bugs. While people I work with spend all their time complaining and moaning about all the bugs that keeps popping up in their production code.
It's trivial to bypass EAC though..
But now you're into the Service-as-a-Software-Substitute problem. I can't usefully use the VRChat client without doing that.
Some Japanese brands are "galvanizing" instead of proper electro-galvanizing. Here is investigation into Mazda, legendary for rotting into nothing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mazda3/comments/adioma/polish_autom...
There were no clinical trials targeting this result. From the linked article:

> Did the 56 Work Lead to Clinical Trials?

> [snip] And the answer is that no, I have been unable to find a clinical trial that specifically targeted the AB56 oligomer itself

It was industry (well short traders) that led to this being uncovered:

> He was originally hired by two other neuroscientists who also sell biopharma stocks short - my kind of people, to be honest - to investigate published research related to Cassava Sciences and their drug Simufilam, and that work led him deeper into the amyloid literature.
Are these all done by hand? That’s a stupendous amount of custom work.
I agree. I was being facetious.
Meet two researchers bringing VR to psychedelic therapy
Didn't actually put fiber close to every address. Maybe certain parts of the city but really not much.

I live in midtown where the city hasn't gotten around to undergrounding the wires. In theory that means it's easier to put in fiber. In reality it means no fiber and cable internet that get flaky when it rains or if the wind blows.
It’s trivial to bypass, not sure if it’s that trivial to evade getting caught though.
Kodak to Use Film Manufacturing Machines to Make EV Batteries
But OTOH, what even is the scientific value of the original paper if they cannot provide a clear protocol with a substantial chance of replication?

“Here, I did this magic trick, but I’m unable to tell you sufficient detail for how it works!”
It's still common today. The de-10 nano of mister fame leverages the hard processor to great affect.
The Pop-11 Programming Language
So it seems like the FCC has a $20.4B[1] fund across approximately 61,766 CBGs[2], or ~$330,279 per CBG. The fine was for 768 CBGs, which would then represent ~$253M of the fund, i.e., the fine was ~1.6% of the funded amount.

So I don't see how the fine makes any sort of sense.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904

[2]: see [1], see "Census Blocks, Associated Census Block Groups, and Reserve Prices (zip)", the larger of the two CSVs, the number of distinct values in the "cbg_id" column. There's a second CSV in the ZIP, and no documentation whatsoever, so I have no idea what that's about. You can include it in the calculation if you want, but it isn't going to materially affect the outcome here.
I thought VRChat was all about hacking things together and tinkering with VR, from my impression of the people I've met in there.

They're going to lose a big portion of their clientele
That's not what VRchat's blog post say at all, though.

"Every month, thousands of users have their accounts stolen, often due to running a modified client that is silently logging their keystrokes as well as other information. These users – often without even realizing it! – run the risk of losing their account, or having their computers become part of a larger botnet."

People running a backdoor client and getting their passwords stolen? That doesn't sound... wrong?
Not sure. There was a pretty incremental path from earlier mechanical computing devices, like Pascal's Pascaline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator towards more and more sophistication. Then you have electromechanic devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer#Electro-me... then the first fully electronic devices, etc.

There were some groundbreaking innovations happening in reality, but merely sped up the process; without them incremental progress would have eventually gotten us there, too.

In general, in a high dimensional space incremental progress is incredibly powerful. That's how we train neural networks, and that's how evolution works.

Courage and genius still help speed things up, when you can get them. But they are seldom absolutely necessary.

Slightly related: https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2016/Boudreauxprosp... has a good point about pool noodles. Pool noodles were a minor invention at some point. Nobody really needs pool noodles to get through the day, but they do provide a bit of utility (otherwise people wouldn't buy them). Lots of small and incremental improvements in the economy look like pool noodles. But taken together they really add up.
That can already happen if a car parks without centering itself forward-and-backward-wise between the front and back cars.
I understand that, but how would I do in crash with an SUV if I were on a motorcycle and are those street legal?
Once again — I can understand wanting to program this hardware, but who's programming it in C, rather than writing directly to the metal in order to squeeze every cycle out of these?
No country (including the US) has "world dominance". However all countries have more or less influence and soft power on other countries.
Indeed. Our institutions are severely degraded, if not horribly broken. I hope it is not irreparably so, but I am not optimistic. The signs of societal and imperial decline are everywhere these days and we do not seem to be able to meet the challenges, many existential, that lay before us.

I'm not sure what to do.
I'm pretty sure your previous employer also treats its code as confidential.

The premise of this post is indeed terrible.
This would make a great hacking mini game. I got my average of 12 down under a minute so it's definitely engaging.
I gave my DNA to 23 and Me at the age of 19 or so. They won't dispose of the data. They say it's due to California law, which I'm sure is not untrue, but it feels like they're taking advantage of it.
Right, but how many far-away people can you care about? There's the distance factor and then there's the quantity factor.

When there is a major disaster, you will
see people with very differing opinions
drop their "simple" conflicts and work
together.

This is true, and one of the best parts of human nature.

But does it scale to tricky, nuanced, thorny questions?

A natural disaster is an entirely unambiguous event. We all think, "Earthquake bad. People trapped under rubble bad." and want to help them directly or indirectly. Some of us help more vigorously than others and some do nothing, but we all agree that the earthquake is bad and we would like the poor victims to suffer less.

It's harder to scale this cohesion up to tackle issues that are actually thorny and nuanced. Look at how fractured many countries were regarding COVID-19 and the vaccines, for example. Or the eternal Israel/Palestine conflict. Or whatever.
Exactly. High speed internet is no longer a novelty. It is necessary for most people who use the Internet/stream video. A municipal, “no frills” package that is just a slow DSL connection would be inadequate.
> are you really arguing that America didn’t benefit off the stolen wealth of other nations?

Land by itself does nothing. Japan proved that land is not a crucial factor.

Bill Gates' wealth didn't come from land.

> mix capital with labor

This is also not necessarily true. Slavery was certainly applied, but the wealth created thereby was minimal.

The common factor with wealth creation is free markets. None of the other factors you mentioned.
There's nothing in the employee handbook where I work about bribes^Wgifts.

I have significant indirect power over a lot of purchasing and impositions^Wrecommendations for clients.

Send me good whiskey ;)
Let's see how long it takes them to add microtransactions/NFTs now that they locked it down. My guess is <1 year.
> Kudos!

Thanks!

> I don't think I ever would have broken out of my local optima to discover that program.

It really is the answer to what is the most knuckle-headed thing one could try, but I was curious what Rust-with-the-guardrails could do.

> My 'trie' variant is now the fastest Rust submission

Cool. Very interested why this is the case.
You can crash people quite easily in game without any mods by just loading an overly-complex avatar. There is the content gating system, but quite a few people just turn it off, hence the crashing.
Is Food Waste Convert to Organic Compost Machine Possible?
I’m still not a doctor and still hear about it, so - pretty ambitious.
It's not so compact anymore!

Using 64-bit registers, or any of R8-R15, requires a prefix byte. The single-byte INC/DEC opcodes have been repurposed for this. And for performance reasons having to do with how it affects the flags, you don't want to use INC/DEC (now two bytes) at all.

So now the very common operation of incrementing a register takes at least three bytes, four if it needs the prefix. Legacy instructions have been made invalid - depending more on the whims of Intel/AMD than whether they are actually useful - but still clutter up the opcode space.
You're going to make me look this up, right? :)

I seem to remember it was Ecuador, but you might be right. The Earth bulges near the equator.
I'd like to see a sample of this garbage.

How much (by weight) is plastic? How much is seaweed? How much is ocean water which is stuck in the plastic now?

Things like a 1 gram bag could easily get 100 grams of weed growing on it, which absorbs 1kg of water. It's now very difficult to weigh that 1 gram which is now only 0.1% of the total mass.

It's also not obviously clear that removing the weed-covered bag from the environment is a good plan, if you're removing 100 grams of biomass for each gram of plastic removed.
The act is from 1920
But in Romance languages you have to plan out very complex sentences. I mean, you don't have to, but it's what people do.

The real answer is that deeply learning grammar as a child makes you think in grammatically correct ways to begin with, which means that when you start vocalizing a sentence, it's already queued up in grammatically correct form or very close to it. This is why we should teach children grammar grammar grammar and almost nothing but grammar, using poetry for memorization, reading to expose them to grammatically-correct texts, and writing to drive grammar home. And some 'rithmetic.
In general, I found it helpful to not look at 'free markets' as a binary Yes/No thing, but as a continuum with lots of different aspects. Free markets are best, but markets that are only slightly freer are (typically) already slightly better. Incremental improvements help.

For example, mobile phone connectivity is still very regulated, but in many countries competition seems to be much fiercer there than for home broadband.
Wow, that's amazing! Thanks for the link. Makes me want to dust off the old Quest 2 and play some VRChat to meet some nerds :)
Hmm... all older films?
Show HN: Open Source Keyword Research Tool
I just released as open source a keyword tool I built, probably the first usable thing I release in open source. Hacked together on the weekends, still a work in progress.
and yet here you are responding in a thread with the conclusion clearly stated:

>means it’s past time to reform a large chunk of academia.

And you're taking exception to it, but now just claiming you're actually not, that these one sentence "you're wrong" responses are really something much more modest.

Out of interest do you work in the field? Have ties as a graduate to one of the departments? Or are you completely disinterested when assessing the research?

If I have an interest it's that quality research is performed that advances human knowledge with some kind of efficiency of the resources spend. ie fund something that is being done properly and well to some effect over something that has been shown to be run by those who seem to be utterly incompetent or fraudulent shysters or something else that engenders zero confidence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cass+sunstein+site%3Astatmod...
Awesome stuff. How did you validate your tool? Also did you validate before or after MVP?
I am sincerely impressed by how much effort you put into this, this is exactly the kind of content I am hoping for when I come to HN.
Leap seconds are added because the Earth is slowing down. Are you angry at celestial mechanics?
I appreciate this reply, thanks.
It's a reference to the movie Fletch. The main character is an investigative reporter. In one scene, he poses as an airplane mechanic. The real airplane mechanics are not very convinced, and he tries playing it off by saying, "It's all ball bearings nowadays."

https://youtu.be/SjJYNZirQCU
That is a much more reasonable question that I think would be up to the journal, and you as a reader.
GPS-SDR-SIM
I grew up in East Germany. Socialist workers' paradise!

I can tell you that jobs sucked compared to comparatively capitalist West Germany.

(Basically, capitalism might or might not be bad; but incremental improvements to it have a much better track record that trying to switch to a completely different system.)
Well, I've got basically no code that I can "bring to the interview". Would be happy to be looked over by someone with this philosophy however.
Isn't that what subreddits are?
Yeah, still fine with loading a modified kernel32.dll as long as it is EV signed for example.
> In a similar vein, the new minecraft reporting features (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/addressing-player-ch.... ) affects private servers as well, and it's not an opt-in by the server admin.

What does this mean? Do users not connect directly to private servers? Does every minecraft client have to authenticate with a central server before joining a private one?

Or is it just an on-by-default "use official banlist" option?
What is Clubhouse?
Another problem of silicon production has toxic effects on the environment in general aside from carbon emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond...
There is a lot of waste from the software industry too. In the past developers would squeeze out every last drop of performance out of a hardware platform. Now we use the horribly inefficient frameworks, we don't vectorize, we interpret byte code. There is so much room for improvement.
> It flummoxed Miramax

It flummoxed Harvey Weinstein! May that creep rot in prison.
Not me. Canadian "tech" has 0 talent left. We're all working for the much better paying american mega corps

Even shopify is getting bled dry
Oracle is a master of vendor lock in, and has so many products that almost every large enterprise has them somewhere in their stack.
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
See also: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/
Possibly part of aggressive anti-NFT movement?
I disagree with you. According to you, that means I shouldn't be able to speak.
I haven't read anything by her, but the line "best finest surgeon, come cut me open" from the chorus of Surgeon by St Vincent comes from this book, and I think it's great (the music helps).
If you can take down the whole network, it isn't a single person's fuck up. Its the whole organization's fuck up.
We'd still need tens of thousands of these plants. From [0] it's mentioned that

> According to Andreas Sizmann, SOLAR-JET project coordinator at BHL, a solar reactor with a 1 km2 solar field could generate 20,000 L/d of kerosene, which could fly a large 300-body commercial airliner for about seven hours.

According to [1] there are about 10000 planes in the air at any moment (excluding private jets, military, and cargo planes):

> Back in 2017, FlightAware determined there to be an average of 9,728 commercial airplanes in the sky at any given time. Of course, that number fluctuates on a minute-by-minute basis, given that planes are nearly constantly taking off and landing.

Doing the math of 10000 × (24 ÷ 7) gives us 35285 of these one square kilometer plants, or about 12% of the area of the entire state of Nevada.

So it might be actually doable from a back of the envelope math analysis, but it'd be quite a big endeavor to scale a facility that large.

[0] https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/first-kerosene-made...

[1] https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/number-of...
That series was horrifically dystopian, and should serve as a cautionary warning to avoid that path entirely.
Coinbase Faces SEC Investigation over Cryptocurrency Listings
Too bad that you need SI for the program counter, and DI to emulate some addressing modes that the 8080 could do but x86 can't.

Even if translating code ahead of time, "LD (BC), A" needs to be emulated as something like "MOV DI,CX; MOV [DI],AL".
The fact that the CTO was replaced so quickly is not just a sign of scapegoating (which I am sure it is), but also the truth is that so many of these C-level tech executives are utterly incompetent at their jobs, and it takes a crisis for many to realize it. The C-levels at so many large companies are akin to high-level political appointments at government agencies. It's a good thing the lower levels know what's going on. In any crisis, the know-nothing C-levels are first to be ejected, where they can go look for their next appointment.
Of course! Around here each utility generally has its own pipe, and often they take different paths. There’s a mix of underground and above ground. The neighborhood is roughly 80 years old.
An telecommunications outage, by itself, is not an immediate threat to life or limb to you, and you'd need to exhaust other reasonable options to communicate before that emergency provision comes into play.

(Many hospitals do also have ham radio operators as part of the disaster plans and operate during their drills.)

INAL, contact ARRL for farther questions.
That has always been my take. It explains how they always perform to spec even across unimaginable distance and time.
To save everyone the mystery: it's an article about Georgism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
The wrong part is that somehow EAC will help prevent that. It won't.
> These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

never seen that work in practice.

> They should know which client (or at least that a modified client) is being used.

That's the modified client's job, not the original client's job. if the modified client is intentionally trying to be hidden, then its not going to show itself. Which is the cause of the whole everything

> Extensions

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/what-is-udon already exists

> But if there's already a vibrant community of mods out there

is there a vibrant community of mods? besides, they have actively told people to bugger off if they use a custom client for a while now, by the sounds of it (e.g. the two mods I could find, both said that you will likely get banned for using them)
> Truffles are so aromatic, that just a sliver can infuse a small bottle.

I don't know if I've only had low quality truffles, but basically all the truffles I've had in my life have been very mild and wouldn't be able to flavor a small bottle of oil.
I for one have been very interested of late in the history of the USSR the Soviet Republics themselves and the style and achievements they put forward. I don't think this needs to be understood in the sense of nostalgia.

More than that I think it is important to understand the social decisions that lead to outcomes we despise. As you say, the kids who initially ran these railways had peers or passengers who now call the shots in a society we deeply disagree with. But at the same time we can marvel at how grown up a 10-15 year old can seem while shuttling around holiday travelers.

Somewhere along the way the Workers' principles were displaced by people who sought power over them. Often it is in others' experiences that we can start to understand ourselves, whether by contrast of complement.
I don't blame them but it shouldn't be an easy oversight to make. Profiling should be mandatory. And good profiling tools should exist. We are all flying blind when we code without profiling.
This is a fantastic game.

I’m curious, did you use a special coordinate system for the hexagons or did you just make it work without any sort of coordinate system at all?