skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think electrolysing water into hydrogen using excess solar in the winter, then using that directly for heating in the winter would make a lot of sense.
He did bring a lot of tech expertise! The guy taught himself rocket science. There's a quote from Tim Forstall somewhere, recounting an anecdote in which he happens to one night receive a call from Elon Musk, many years ago, asking about the properties of some obscure metal Forstall happens to be an expert in. Musk was researching it for use in his rockets.
Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on phones of 10 people
> I found that my normally good navigational skills were totally scrambled, because the ocean was in the wrong direction.

I experienced this recently while staying on the North side of Cyprus. If I headed east or west the sea was on the wrong side, compared with where it is at home (south coast of UK). I also get confused when I'm in the southern hemisphere, and the Sun goes across the sky the wrong way, and shadows lengthen on the wrong side of objects.
Ancient Siberian dogs relied on humans for seafood diets
> In the absence of humans, earth is just awaiting another mass extinction event

Spoiler: the next mass extinction event is already happening, and it's caused by humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Microsoft closes off two avenues of attack: Office macros, RDP brute-forcing
> And they could "disrupt" them as well with a cheap signal jammer near the receiver.

Amateurs aren't running around the country placing transmitters near all the government comms. Also there's many types of encryption (onion routing for example) that depend on being able to intercept communications at multiple locations. Also there's still metadata that can be learned even without being able to read the comms directly, for example who's broadcasting at any moment. Even amateurs were able to figure out when Russia was launching missiles at Ukraine even from their encrypted comms, if you have a more advanced surveillance system in-country you can learn a lot more.
Hydrogen is quite difficult to store, so one would have to factor those costs in the before deciding.
That $100 machine is more powerful than some CAD workstations we had fifteen years ago. A Celeron N4020 is hardly a powerhouse by modern standards, but it'll beat a 15 year old Xeon with the same core count hands down and doesn't even need a fan.

It's terrible how we have such low expectations of hardware just because it's cheap. Cheap hardware has become incredibly powerful but its owners are forced to struggle with laggy, bloated applications because "well, it's cheap, what did you expect".
> big chunks of the internet ... particularly before smart phones

Then, IMEI numbers.
They probably encode information in the code itself then, perhaps source/destination or similar. Perhaps to allow "offline" operations?
Started out strong, but when Star Wars came up, I had to tap out. All things considered, it's been a long time since I've seen an authentic honest-to-god conspiratorial rant like this though, that was fun.
A more sneaky use case is for reverse shell payload when you have code execution :)
I'm right-leaning but CNN is not universally bad. You should be paying attention to who the writer is more than what platform it's published on.

Full hatred of one news website versus another is as absurd as complete allegiance to a single political party no matter what they do.

Fox News and CNN are both legitimate news sites.

Also since when is being anti-China a US political party issue? Last I checked it was one of the few things with broad agreement among US political parties.
> Best case would be to demilitrize Ukraine, make a deal with Russia and go back to what is was before. Accept that Russia felt threatened by NATO, address this. De-couple from the US, make Europe strong, create our own army and nuclear deterance, but not expand towards Russia. Make proper contracts with them and adhere to them. But this is not acceptable because of PUTIN=HITLER arguments.

Would not the best case be to demilitarise the country that’s currently committing genocide in Ukraine?, and not to validate their ‘might is right’ beliefs?.

Anyone ‘decoupling’ from the US is a mistake, the US carry’s they biggest stick in the yard and it’s the only thing ‘might is right’ countries like Russia understand.
This post hits home. It's true that if you want to make a more framework-ey library it is easy to end up maintaining a lot for controlling the developer experience. It is really sobering since it means a limit to reuse.
Unless there is a trick I don’t know, can only do distillation with gravity. Otherwise, liquid water floats with the gas.
Assange was _hunted_ - not "hunted" ...
By that time, he had sold almost all of MSFT. He was a ~2% owner. That sale was a lot more similar in scale to a hedge fund selling a large block of shares than to Jeff Bezos liquidating his holdings.
SimpleX ensures data and meta-data privacy with no sender/receiver identifiers
It was Paul the Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus
To start, we'll neglect the bosonic degrees of freedom (the displacement of the atoms themselves) and look at only the fermionic DoF (the electrons).

Water has 8 electrons (which QC can treat exactly without any extra work) in a number of orbital. In general we need 2 qubits per orbital.

Most QC demonstrations so far were performed using so-called minimal basis sets, which have a small number of orbitals and thus give inaccurate results. A better approach would be to take a large orbital basis, do a classical relatively expensive Hartree-Fock calculation then use the orbitals from that to do the QC. This technique when done on classical computers is called MRCI (multi-reference configuration interaction) and is the gold standard in Quantum Chemistry.

So, provided we can pay the cost of doing a large orbital HF calculation (and we can do that for fairly large molecules), we can get pretty good result using n electrons in n orbitals MRCI. So production electronic calculations of water molecules would take about 16 qubits per molecule.

The more frustrating problem is that the number of electronic interaction terms is N^4 the number of orbitals so that we would very rapidly need extremely deep circuits which are not feasible without error correction (which involve using like 8 actual qubits for every calculation qubit). There are proposal to use plane wave basis sets (N^2 interactions) but then we need many more orbitals and thus many more qubits.

We are in practice very far from QC having a significant impact on real-life quantum chemistry. It's not at all clear that we'll ever be able to do QC on a molecule the size of a typical drug, let alone a protein.
My parents divorced recently.

Watching two of the most important people in my life gradually grow to resent each other to the point where they can't stand each other's presence was hard for me even as a thirty year old. I can't imagine what this experience would have done to me as a child, so I'm thankful that they stuck together for as long as they did.

In the end I was actually the one who suggested that they should separate, and I'm almost certain that if I didn't they'd still be together today. But in hindsight I'm glad I did, even though I felt immensely guilty about it at the time, and going through the whole separation process with them brought me to the brink of depression. They're a lot happier today than when they were together.

This whole experience has really left its scar on me. I shudder at even the thought of ever getting into any kind of romantic relationship myself, let alone marriage, due to fear of having to go through something like this myself, which statistically speaking is much more likely than I'm willing to risk. Even putting aside statistics, the truth is I see enough of both of them in myself that I can easily see myself playing either part in a similar situation down the line.

Thankfully I'm an introvert who actually enjoys being alone with my own thoughts, I have several close friends, money, hobbies, and had a fulfilling career up to this point and have recently embarked on a new journey bootstrapping my own business that deeply excites me. So I have little reasons to doubt that I can find plenty of enjoyment and fulfillment through other means in life.

I haven't told either of them though, because I know it will break their hearts. So far I've been evading the topic whenever it comes up, since at this stage in my life I have plenty of plausible excuses. I don't know how long I can keep this up though.

I know both of them want to see grandkids, and I still dread the day when I have to tell them it's probably never going to happen. The best I can do at that point is probably to make up some other reason why, instead of telling them the real reason: them.

I know they're not going to take it well regardless, and if we get into some heated argument I can totally see myself losing control and letting the real reason slip out, and that truly terrifies me to my core.

Thank you for reading up to this point. I'm not expecting anyone to hand me a solution, or for a solution to even exist. But just writing this out and putting it out there has been really cathartic for me, so I hope reading this might be helpful to someone else in some way.
Seems like the FAQ makes a distinction between running the default container and running custom containers. From the description it seems like when using the default terminal app it is a container, not a VM, and when running custom containers it is in a VM: https://chromeos.dev/en/linux/linux-on-chromeos-faq#am-i-run...
Embed is in C23
Overall he sold about 44% of the company. He had about 45%.

The guy above was telling me this would drive the price down. You know what actually happened though. The share price went up.

The "billionaire shares are imaginary meme" is just a rhetorical trick designed to confuse the economically illiterate.

The only interesting thing about this meme is figuring out where it came from and how it was so efficiently pumped into the public consciousness.
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No no. No no no.

(borrowed from Caitlin Johnstone)
Previous:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557492

^The twitter post is more informative.

It's an alarming trend against users. At least the ISP could propose a reduced subscription fee when TrustPid is used and an alternative "normal" price for users that opt-out when signing the contract, but it wont happen.
It feels like I'm reading an article on Netscape browser that says, "AI is still useless."
> Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient.

This is very much not "known". Some people believe it, but nobody knows.
I'm pretty sure the Hamilton Morris podcast would like to interview your friend. Anonymously, of course.
https://www.patreon.com/HamiltonMorris
That's not really resolving .. though is it? You need both the original path and the output of this function, and one of them always still has .. in it.

Interesting nonetheless; thanks.
Wow at

> Lemoine maintains that Google has been treating AI ethicists like code debuggers when they should be seen as the interface between technology and society. Gabriel, the Google spokesperson, said Lemoine is a software engineer, not an ethicist.

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
Coordinating people is hard. Moreso at night. And while breaking the law. That’s the sophisticated part, discipline.
given how horrible OSX is I think KDE (or even gnome or xfce) is better
I literally hired him in Google Summer of Code to create an ML project.

Most people have no clue who Blake Lemoine is and are making up stories, pretending like their hot takes are deep insight.

Many people are doing with Blake Lemoine what they claim LaMDA is doing with anything: consuming symbols and spitting them back out in some order without understanding what they actually mean.
Was thinking same.
Drug molecules are much too large for near term QC, let alone the interaction of two of them in a solvent. We're talking thousands of qubits and circuits millions of operations deep.
I've never drunk cold-brewed coffee. According to the article, cold-brew has "less acidity and bitterness".

I happen to like coffee with fruit and citrus tones. I'm not a coffee bore, but I have understood that coffee bores refer to that fruitiness as "acidity". Does that mean that cold-brew would be less fruity? The authors take "acidity" to mean "pH", which is obviously easier to measure than "fruitiness", but I wouldn't describe the taste of e.g. spirit vinegar as "fruity".

Supplementary question: why's it got to be a picosecond laser? They say that a nanosecond laser's pulses are too long, and cause heating. How hot does it have to get for that to be a problem? Can't you just cool the brewing vessel?

Supplementary supplementary: can apparatus for doing this be built at home? How much ps-laser power needs to be delivered to the brew? At what wavelength? You can get handheld picosecond lasers for things like mole and tattoo removal, for under $100; would one of those do the trick?
> but for most people, work has got to be the worst place to find meaningful relationships and purpose, hasn't it?

why?

it's not the best or the worst, it's one of the many places people spend time.

it also depends a lot on people's age, when I was young I made friends with people I worked with of my same age and at first experiences like me, we are still friends.

Now I mostly am there to do my job, meetings and be the "uncle" of younger co-workers.

is there a particular reason why college or the gym should be considered a better place to form bonds, except for people expectations?

> You can be made redundant in a moment and lose contact,

or you could move and lose contact...

or you could keep in touch because you became friends.

There's no general rule.

> there's money, an explicit hierarchy, and competition

I believe this mostly boils down to cultural differences, where I am from co-workers rarely compete fiercely and hierarchies are mostly not very deep, work is not organized like the military here.

It is probably less efficient, but it makes the work more stable, so people work at the same company for much longer on average and they do actually consider co-workers friends or at least people you have to interact with everyday, so why not make the best out of it.
French and in IT? Good god.
Mỹ Lai doesn't belong on that list. It was straight-up indiscriminate rape-and-murder of an entire village--and is just the best documented episode of many in that war. The tactical or strategic justification for the action was a stretch, at best. If anything it should be grouped with German actions in Belgium in WW1, or the Japanese in Nanking.
Show HN: Vssshield, a Rust project to mitigate Windows ransomware
Care to justify?
A lot of the first digits are actually used for parsing. It's not a fully unique number.

USPS labels (and other labels from other couriers) are an incredibly fascinating subject you would never care about until you work in the industry.
best advice I ever received

1. get the start right, the opening line(s) are the only ones which should be scripted and rehearsed. This just gets you and the audience into it and not allow nerves to play a part

2. follow some sort of story arc, usually three parts - problem / implication / solution

3. do it and then do it again, it is one of those skills which definitely is advanced through reps, even without consciously training the skills. You basically realise that the fears you had were irrational

good luck to all new speakers out there!

3.
> Theory of mind is a two way street.

I've seen quite a few articles of late on something called the Double Empathy Problem which I think encaptures this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
I've worked on 21s before.

It's my understanding that there are multiple theoretic reasons for using Fibonacci numbers:

* The bigger they get, the further apart they are. That is helpful because estimating big things is less accurate than estimating small things.

* If the estimate gets to big, the next step is to split the task. Humans tend to err towards splitting things 50/50 (? I don't have an actual source for that) so it's generally more helpful to split a task into a slightly smaller and a slightly bigger subtask. Fibonacci numbers make that very easy, and recursively possible.
That is a very strange question. Who in this discussion has said that you having solar panels will make it worse for the majority?

What comments in this discussion are saying is that solar panels won't be cost effective, for some or possible the majority of people.
Good point, its not just Amazon though. One time I ordered a case for my wife's new smartphone and it took more than a month till it arrived. Which sucks with the 2 weeks we got to send orders back in EU. I knew the case was more expensive than directly from China but I wanted to receive it quickly hence I ordered from a local shop. So we had to wait a month till she could use her new smartphone.

After nearly month (and I emailed the guy twice already without reply) I ordered a leather case from UK which cost twice the amount of money. I got it within 2 days. I put a claim with PayPal (he wasn't responding) for the case I didn't receive. It was accepted quickly.

A few days after that the guy emailed me claiming it was due to illness at his company, and that he'd send ut ASAP. A few days after I got it in the mail. Its still rotting somewhere in my house. I wonder if he saw or cared about my claim. Given it only cost him a couple of USD I figure he'd just write it off instead of asking for return.
> My experience is that the touchpad on Chromebooks is high quality and really nice

Have you used the really cheap ones though? I have had very bad experiences with the touchpads on ChromeOS devices used by schools.
In north-west eu maybe, in south-west not so much; I have had solar for 20 years in different houses in the south and it covers more than enough all year round (we are off grid). During the days, summer and winter, you can switch on whatever as it will never run out; during the night it obviously depends on the amount and quality of batteries. I have had 1 moment without power and that was a rare event for that location: snow covering the solar panels.
You know whenever there's some TV history show about the early days of air flight, they show some old footage of a bicycle-powered helicopter or a ten-winged contraption crashing into the ground?

That was pretty much early 2000s web development.
With the wide spread use of SSL that is unlikely to be useful for pretty much anything.
Climbing - you already go to gym so are in above-average shape. Its a sport for 2 usually. In pre-covid (and pre-children) times I used to organize 1x per week a climbing session on our local meetup-like web. Usually 4-6 people showed up, often new ones.

Eventually you will meet interesting people. Even some girls who may have similar mindset to yours. I've met more (former) girlfriends through this than any other means, and eventually my wife.

I consider it the best sport out there due to mental aspect of it, especially on rock (and ski touring in winter). But if thats really not your cup of tea, look for other sports. Team ones, or some course where you end up with bunch of others. Just expose yourself to the crowds, even if its not that pleasant for ie introverts (like me).

Doing above, I've regularly ended up with more close people than I could possibly manage to keep friendship with. Also non-trivial number of ladies were keen to meet for other adventures like hiking, ski touring etc. Tons of people are wanting to do these sports, but they need some buddies.
Its not Amazon solely which does this (with Amazon Basics) its mostly dropshippers.
Neat. I have no trouble believing Stephen Wolfram could be out of touch with the current state of QM given he's been busy with his physics project and what not. And he's a terrible speaker. That podcast was the longest in Mindscape history due to that.

I think part of his view is also partially based on the Wolfram Project multiway causal graph framework and its implications on the measurement problem. It's an interesting podcast if nothing else. Not very comprehensible, but interesting nonetheless.
"Conflict of interest"?

Understandable, but still weird: Is it our job to enforce work quality and productivity from our colleagues? Has "The Man" made us turn on each other?

I found that managers (representing the business) are not primarily focussed on eliminating underperformers; instead they are trying to have work done within the constraints they have - recruiting and retaining competent employees being a major constraint in today's workplace. It is management itself that wants you to work around and cover for weaker colleagues. Your boss is likely operating on a macro level, trying to defend the entire team through the ups and down of corporate restructurings.

I have realized that it was my own ego acting up, wanting to be seen as 'better', and complaining about 'unfair' work distribution. The honourable path is to try and enable the weaker team members, there are always tickets they can handle right? If you carry a heavier load, make sure it is reflected in your salary accordingly.
The point is “if there is nothing better or less bad, then we have to go for it”. Shouldn’t stop us from looking for something better though.
It depends on the cold brew, they all have different tastes.
Gnome turns 25...still no image preview in the filepicker
>A few minor stutters

I consistently get a single stutter around the March 2016 mark when doing a page reload even on pretty powerful hardware.

...but I see not when scrolling the timeline back, suggesting some sort of caching issue perhaps
sleep debt is not something you need 6 months to cover, more like a long weekend or a week max if something obscure had happened (ie 2 month long drug binge running at the limit of exhaustion)
IMO this coupling happens mostly on purpose. It's just vertical integration, Apple style. It seems to be in the interest of "engine" makers to make people think that a smaller engine without an editor can't succeed, and that there's no possibility of having a standalone editor. They want control of the whole stack.

Game development in general has been plagued by those things. Everything uses proprietary formats, little interoperability, lots of custom stuff. All the parts that aren't proprietary came from the outside (eg: audio/video/image formats) or was leaked by generous developers (Quake MD? and BSP formats being used in newer games/libraries).

I would personally love to see more people working on editors that can be used by multiple engines, so that we can see more focused engines grow too, without having to create a whole editor ecosystem. And also editors would grow themselves, and editor-makers would make one without having to make a full engine. I really think it's possible.

> ...controversial indeed :D

I think the article writer is flat out wrong on this one. The Doom and Quake engines are definitely... well, engines, even though they were only reused later. Sure you can have a more spaghetti "game without engine", but I'd draw the line whether it's reusable/logically separated or not.
I think you are right, https://www.register.it/ is offering free domains for 1 year since some time.
As per the comment:

> it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other device including my phone.