skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discovered transhumanism around the turn of the century. I thought I'd found a treasure trove of insight. I was all about it for 3 or 4 years. Told people who weren't interested all about it. It was really easy to believe in radical transformation of the status quo in those days. There was a feeling in the air that the advent of the Web would solve everybody's problems, end scarcity, make everyone rich (especially us) and propel the stock market upward from then on.

Well, that feeling was short lived. It wasn't too long before I decided futurism in general was not an analysis of where the world is heading, but what certain communities of sci-fi nerds and techies wanted to happen, and believed they themselves could or would make happen. And that's fine I guess. But I was much more skeptical that their hockey-stick takeoffs would happen, at least in my lifetime.

What's happened in my lifetime so far is you can get more stuff delivered to your door, and faster; and computers got smaller and better at the same time. Ok. Well, computers were already getting smaller when I was born. Maybe they can get smaller. I'm not sure what that looks like. The display is probably a light pair of reading glasses. Maybe the computer is a wristwatch. Or a nose ring.

And then maybe later the computer goes inside you and injects into the optic nerve. And hey look at that, there's some transhumanism, I think. But I doubt anyone living knows how to do that. I'm just rambling now...
$4k Open Source High-Speed Atomic Force Microscope Is a Nanoscale Imaging Marvel
How to Plan a Layoff with Care
Considering you apparently don't know the difference between novelty and obviousness, I think you should stop now. In particular, what "obviousness" actually means and how it's been interpreted in patent law for the past 150 years.
Sure, we used to have one of these in each home to drink cool water:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botijo

It doesn't work if you add decoration because it needs transpiration to cool the contents.
It's likely these records are still better than anything else out there because DSD is an extraordinary format for audio and they were still pulling directly from the masters (if anyone trusts that clarification of the story at this point).
We have had widely used public key infrastructure available in database products since the 1980s. Perhaps you weren't paying attention?

Cryptography obviously has use cases. Real customers have been paying for it since long before the advent of digital computers. That has little to do with the scammers, grifters, and ideologues pushing cryptocurrency schemes.

There's not much novel about blockchains. It's a clever bit of mathematics, but so far no significant commercial value. You should read the NIST overview.

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final
Why would they? England itself is only a minor part of the British Isles. They would however have a chance of being part of a broader Commonwealth of Nations, were it not for a troublesome Declaration they circulated in 1776. This is why claims to "independence" should not be made carelessly, and why official U.S. policy is especially careful to avoid them wrt. Taipei.
Seems like a baaad idea lol.
While I am a fan of prediction markets, I understood the main argument against them is that they create perverse incentives for people to engage in extreme acts to profit from the outcomes.

I wanted to create markets for things like individual airline flight delay insurance, and a futures market for airline tickets, but all of these are regulated as futures with the same barriers to entry that protect stock exchanges, and there are some rules in insurance about not being able to take out insurance on someone elses' property for related reasons. It's a moral hazard. Betting on politics appears to be framed in similar terms, but the counter arguments would be interesting as well.

I gave up on prediction markets years ago, but if there were a darkweb prediction market for smart contract cryptocurrencies, that would be the most subversively interesting thing to become real in a while.
Fair enough - it just gets annoying here quite often,

"join waitlist"
"not your region"

can't think of an etc... :)

OP: Best of luck with the chatbot anyhow...
Agreed. The smartphone market ruined the idea of cybernetic augmentation for me. It made it clear that any augmentation would inevitably have to be sold and maintained by some company, and I couldn't think of any companies I'd trust to support hardware in my body.
Revenue is a bad predictor of future value for a network effect business (here a literal network). VC is supposed to seek high risk / high reward investments over 5+ year periods - especially ones that have a self-reinforcing moat like a physically distributed network.
I just can't have any sympathy for people who move to the most expensive places in the world and complain they're expensive. Get a different job elsewhere and you'll live like a fucking king if you have FAANG chops. Plenty of excellent places to live in the US that aren't SF, NYC, or LA.
Ask HN: Which developer conferences have you attended?
Which developer conferences have you attended over in last 5 years ? Tell more about it
That is a cool site. But it is really lacking in regards to plastic (and they do seem to acknowledge that). I would love to see an expansion of the site to include various different types of plastic.
With everything that's happened in the past decade, don't we know that already by know?
I bought a Thinkpad T40 for new back in 2003 and used it for just shy of 10 years. It's single core processor meant that the web by 2013 was unusuable, but I could get by on the 1024x768 screen and upgrade the memory. It forced me to use script blockers, but for everything else that I used it for (data analysis, text editing) it was fine. I broke it by accident just before its 10th birthday and ended up replacing it with an X60 which was not much faster. But docks were cheap for it, and I was still able to do my research and get a successful 1/4M grant. Which got me a new computer.

I fondly think of those two machines which achieved far more than they had any right to. And honestly I sometimes think if the internet and some other bits of software weren't such a mess they'd probably still be fine for most day-to-day things.
A couple of weeks ago I had a customer router which wouldn't update its ARP table unless a system performed exactly the IPv4 Duplicate Address Detection "Probe" and "Announcement" steps defined in RFC-5227:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5227.html

Even for failover of a cluster VIP, which is needlessly strict. That's the strangest ARP behaviour I've seen in a while.

Also, if you're on Azure, setup two VMs in the same subnet and watch ARP between them. They actually aren't in the same subnet and there's something doing Proxy ARP between them with a MAC like 01:23:45:67:89:AB or something like that. Cursed.
Depends on the signal level and the impedance. For speaker cables, all you need is a big enough gauge to carry the current. But for low level signals, especially less than line level (magnetic phono cartridges, microphones, guitar pickups) a good quality cable with proper impedance and low capacitance can make a big difference. If you look at professional studio and broadcast supply catalogs, you will see mic cables with a specified capacitance per foot -- that's a spec that engineers look for. And I can personally vouch that an expensive guitar cable sounds better than a cheap one -- I was a skeptic until I tried one, and compared it with the standard cable I had been using. The difference wasn't subtle.
For me, only occasionally, but when I do it’s often a huge help - can save an immense amount of time not re-doing that work. Most of the value is in helping align my thoughts as I go though.
Ah, so there's a confusion in regards to terminology. My understanding is that a nuclear family and a multigenerational family aren't the same thing. From Wikipedia:

"A nuclear family, elementary family or conjugal family is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. It is in contrast to a single-parent family, the larger extended family, or a family with more than two parents."[1]

From the Miriam Webster site:

"Well, yes. Nuclear families—the term refers to a family group that consists only of parents and children—are nuclear but in a sense of that word that's now much less common than today's most common uses of nuclear."[2]

I take it you mean "both parents + any number of extras" with your definition?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/nuclear-family...
Actually I got it backwards.

Believe it or not I don't have a smartphone and find my life is perfectly meaningful w/o it (e.g. there is nothing convenient about using cellular streaming in my car if I have to drive a few miles from home for it to work.) so I was thinking about streaming from the car audio system to headphones and not the other way around.

But generally it is the smaller, more mobile device which is going to have battery problems, which is going to be the phone if you are streaming from a phone to your car.
What's the story of how gizmodo is still around? I thought Peter Thiel killed them off.
I don't know if restaurants use it, but irradiated ground beef is a thing[1]. It has been offered by Wegman's supermarkets[2] and Omaha Steaks[3].

Omaha Steaks says they use it (only) for ground beef because, "Unlike solid cuts of meat, the potential exists that surface bacteria may have been mixed within ground beef."

Wegmans has a cooking temperature page[4] that gives lower temperatures for irradiated ground beef than for regular ground beef.

So that's one way safe + rare is possible.

Another way is sous vide. It's a "low and slow" cooking technique, and germ-killing is a function of both time and temperature[5], so it can achieve safe + rare. It's definitely more trouble to cook your burgers for 1-2 hours, though.

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[1] https://ccr.ucdavis.edu/food-irradiation/are-irradiated-food...

[2] https://www.supermarketnews.com/archive/wegmans-offers-own-i...

[3] https://www.omahasteaks.com/servlet/OnlineShopping?Dsp=5707

[4] https://www.wegmans.com/final-cook-to-temperature-charts/

[5] https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Safety
An alternative data-driven evaluation would be welcome, I'm sure!
I have small portable machines stuck to my body that monitor my blood sugar and inject insulin as needed. In this sense for me transhumanism is here. This stuff keeps me alive and keeps me healthy.

I think we'll start seeing a lot more genetic modification that will go hand in hand with biological/machine modification. Just sticking technology in us quite often triggers immune responses that our body fights, these things will have to grow hand in hand.
> You can tell by listening to the shimmer of a cymbal, or a plucked string fading to silence.

I don't think this is true. A long time ago I was involved in the headphone audiophile community and people were always using the shimmer of a cymbal as how they could tell the difference between MP3s and Lossless, Analog vs Digital, CD vs SACD or whatever. Then they'd do a blind test using Foobar2000 and start saying the whole blind testing methodology is flawed because surely they can hear the difference under normal listening conditions with their $1000 headphone connected to their $3000 amp using their $2000 DAC.

My favorite quote was from somebody who said "Nobody in this community cares about music. They only care about their equipment."
I don't think anyone is confused on this point.
Technology and Humanity: Making Healthy Music
good strategy :) And having a strong community really helps with "be honest with yourself"
This is so funny. Company touts no digital, then goes on record saying yeah we used digital, completely ruining their reputation. Meanwhile I'm over here still mourning OiNK.
Sure, if the artifact you prefer actually exists and you can confirm it in a double blind test.
> Nothing prevents a group of people working together without a corporation

Practicality of the legal system does, given modern finance. Any Fortune 500 company has hundreds of thousands if not millions of owners. Listing them all on a contract would be impractical and suing them would be equally impractical.

> I'm fine with denoting the newly formed entity as something other than a person, and with not giving it the same rights as its owners.

Well, we already do that. Corporate persons do not count as natural persons under the law. If you’re frustrated that a law doesn’t specify that, that’s a problem with that law not a problem with recognizing corporations as named legal entities.
These look like cement board SIPs, I'd like to see how much better these are than the standard plywood panels.
That will be almost impossible to prove. Especially as he provided an all-cash, take-it-or-leave-it offer based on publicly available financial data. He has access to lawyers and financial advisors to warn him against potential misstatemrnts on Twitter's part.

If they signed off on it, he has no case. If they warned him against it, and he went ahead anyway, he also has no case.

The judge will rightfully wonder how this isn't anything other than a attention-hungry blowhard trying to get out of scoring the most comical own goal in business history.
A digital recording has to be mastered with the understanding that it could end up getting played on a car stereo, on a bluetooth boombox, on cell phone speakers, in bluetooth earbuds, at a dance party with a DJ or on a hi-fi stereo setup that looks like the one from the old Maxell "blown away" ad. A recording on a vinyl record doesn't. The person mastering a record doesn't need to care about bluetooth earbuds, car stereos, cell phone speakers, boomboxes, and only marginally about DJs at dance parties. They can tune their mixing and mastering decisions to just the case of a hi-fi stereo setup with an enthusiast listening. They have to make fewer compromises because there are fewer cases to handle. The format enforces those constraints. You can't just ignore that.
From the manifesto:

> But it is obvious that modern [REDACTED] philoso- phers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psycho- logical needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satis- fies the drive for power. More importantly, the [REDACTED] hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior).

Without looking, what should [REDACTED] be replaced by?
Nyquist isn't about such assumptions at all. It is an information theoretic value, based on the provable claim that there is zero information present in the original analog waveform that is not represented in the digital version.

Yes, your filters, DAC and speaker wire could still create a less than ideal listening situation, but the fundamental aspect of the Nyquist frequency is not concerned with any of that.
Would appreciate an easier way to download and run this! The steps on the readme are pretty long, at least for me (Mac user)
Any opera houses you'd recommend?
Please look at the data.
So damning https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1555591600004386816
Nova Labs makes no money from onboarding hotspots. That goes to the Helium network. You're just counting network billings as Nova Labs, when they are two separate entities.

I think Nova did the right thing by getting out of the manufacturing business, so that those hotspots can go sub $100.
He won a case against the government representing himself so I think he would be on good footing. He is a professor where I graduated and even the faculty told me he was interesting to deal with. Post QC is his main focus right now and also he published curve25519.
Heh.

So, no, it was always a Mac/Linux place and around 2019 is when the team grew large enough that some new hires asked if they could get a Windows machine. That's when it was written down: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/3a47ff...

This was after the GitHub acquisition but I know for a fact there was one engineer who really wanted a Windows machine but IT was not interested in adding it to the fleet as we were already heavily Mac/Linux.

(Source: I work there.)
UI Vision? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/uivision-rpa/gcbal...

iMacros? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imacros-for-chrome...
There are no technical details in the post

=> https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975 The (pre-print) paper.
> And it would mean that they're all on a level playing field - everyone would be using MoonRay so there wouldn't be an obvious technological advantage.

But if the improvements to MoonRay drive down production costs for movies, the entire industry wins.
>Unfortunately, safety code practices are highly dependent on your field and its practices, and I'm not aware of a good book or course. You mostly learn it by osmosis when joining a team that develops safety-related systems.

You should have lead with this. Every "use a safe language" or "follow these guidelines" post that comes up when the subject of safety-critical software comes up needs basically this response.

Also, you will almost never be designing a safety-critical system in a green-field domain where no one has ever done anything like that before. So, there will be standards. You can learn a lot by reading and following the standards.
Can we create the “perfect” farm?
> Can you point to the paragraph where Musk waive due diligence?

Here it is mentioned in his own legal filing [0]:

> 60. Believing that due diligence processes can be costly and inefficient, the Musk Parties instead focused on bargaining for contractual representations that the information they relied upon in deciding to acquire Twitter is accurate.

Also, by definition, due diligence is something that happens before signing a contract.

[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/musk-...
This is actually about our browser and web tracking protections within it around third-party scripts on other websites. From the post: "Microsoft scripts were never embedded in our search engine or apps, which do not track you. Websites insert these scripts for their own purposes, and so they never sent any information to DuckDuckGo."
Audiophiles:vinyl::HNers:Privacy

This is no different than a section HNers fooled by companies like DuckDuckGo and VPNs
> Imho OKLab should be the defacto standard for designing with colour

Agreed. It's a little challenging to make color picking UIs and programmatic interfaces I guess. Before seeing oklab in action, I never knew just how distorted a typical HSV picker is, it doesn't map to our vision at all.
> The reverse-engineering solves one mystery about the flip flop ... Looking at the reverse-engineered schematic, though, explains that a sharp pulse on the J pin will act like the clock, sending a pulse through the capacitor, turning off the transistor, and causing a high output. I assume this behavior is not intentional, and J inputs are expected not to transition as sharply as when I touched it with a ground wire.

This paragraph caused chills to run up my spine. The fact that they used AC coupling on the clock line seemed clever because it saved a couple of transistors, but the fact that they depended on J and K always being "slow" was cringeworthy. If J and K were somehow not slow, the device would become "not a proper flip flop." And yet it went to the Moon, so I guess they knew something I don't.

One other thought: When Ken grounded the J line, he was attaching it to essentially zero impedance to ground. The clock line will never have zero impedance, but it's reasonable to expect it to have lower impedance than regular signal lines. The sensitivity on J and K might be more a function of signal impedance than rise/fall time per se. Of course the two things are not unrelated. Potato/potahto.
>The fallout of the MoFi revelation has thrown the audiophile community into something of an existential crisis.

Don't worry, the crisis will not last long. Audiophiles will find a way to get over it and buy some better cables that would have revealed they were using a Digital source all along.
Nova makes no money in the sale of hotspots.
Cult of Mac blatantly plagiarising Mac Rumors content
No, he's your comrade, he’s very effective at stopping things.

https://nimby.report/preston

The language he uses makes him a left-NIMBY, but that’s just what they look like in cities. Found in NYC too. In suburbs the same people switch to talking about property values and 50s rural neighborhood character.
Apple’s New Map, Expansion #16: Israel, Palestine, & Saudi Arabia–Now in Testing
*permitted to dispense with
Ask HN: Is unethical not to inform a user of a possibly forgotten subscription?
For example, if a user is subscribed to an app but hasn't used it for a month, should they be informed? At what point does it become unethical not to inform them?
This how humans have been taking notes for most of the time. Why did the author thought this would be a noteworthy topic for a blog post?
I've got some pocket money on Coinbase for online purchases (from old ETH-mining on my GTX 1070 a few years ago).

Still a relatively low probability of total collapse within the next 12 months, right?
I'm not sure if this is particularly revealing. The biggest gaps in that graph are in italy, greece (poor, abysmally low birthrates), and sweden , denmark (rich, demographically better). The "ideal" number is probably influenced by peers, by family, by culture etc, it does not reflect true desires. That's why every country has a higher number of "ideal" children, but in reality people seem to have less kids, because they want fewer kids (a case of 'watch what people do, not what they say'). At least , i think people in sweden and denmark, do have the number of kids they actually want.
> Every single product I've bought from them (router, motherboard, monitor, etc) has broken

Has broken in what time frame? Because if it breaks within the first year or so, I'd understand it, but tech breaking/malfunctioning after the standard warranty time expires is pretty common in my experience. I've only ever bought one laptop from Asus but it served me well enough for 4 years, until the battery went haywire and ballooned to thrice its size.
An instrument amplified by vacuum tubes does have a distinct sound, "vinyl" also has its own signature.. magnetic tape is pretty analog too. All of these signature sounds can be digitized/discretized at sampling rates that preserve the vinyl crackle or tube warmth or combinations. To me it seems like marketing and the consumers justification of their susceptibility.
The history in this blog post is excellently researched on the topic of NSA and NIST cryptographic sabotage. It presents some hard won truths that many are uncomfortable to discuss, let alone to actively resist.

The author of the blog post is also well known for designing and releasing many cryptographic systems as free software. There is a good chance that your TLS connections are secured by some of these designs.

One of his previous lawsuits was critical to practically protecting free speech during the First Crypto War: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

I hope he wins.
I've always said computers have been so powerful for ages that it doesn't matter what the average home user buys anymore.

I just upgraded from my trusty 2011-built i5-2500K, not for any performance reason, but because the motherboard was getting flaky with random poweroff events and difficulty powering on again. My new i5-12400F doesn't really feel much faster. (I'd upgraded the old system along the way with better GPU and SSD)