skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "mind games" is specifically about getting me to say something I can't stand behind.

Cool, that's a great clarification. I agree with that characterization of "mind games", and its obviously 100% legitimate to stand your ground in those cases.

One reason I think these things happen is because people go straight from school to the corporate world where they expect to be told what to do and never develop their own agency and feedback loops for higher level goals. In a big org it can be hard to see the forest for the trees. Silicon Valley youth worship doesn't help either as it takes time to get enough experience to learn the myriad different ways things can succeed and fail. Young managers often feel they need to have all the answers and control everything rather than realizing the job is really about understanding individual strengths and giving everyone the right incentives and well-defined goals (appropriate to their competence level) to work together and produce output greater than the sum of the parts.
It's maybe very surface level advice, but I've found that by expressing things at a detail level the audience operates at and tailoring for them a bit, you can ensure they'll follow along. You probably do this already, but it's surprising how many people do a deep dive and break out raw data, charts and walls of text and try and bore their audience to sleep.
I see this stated often, but it doesn't seem right to me. Almost any professional with a job offer from a Japanese company can get a work visa. Incoming software developers (and other in-demand workers) can probably rack up enough points to qualify as an HSFP/高度人材 and get permanent residence after 5 years. With enough points you can get it in one.

Meanwhile in the US, H1B issuance is not only more onerous but only accepts some 30-40% of applicants last I checked. And this is the "specialty occupation" visa for skilled workers! Japan really seems like the easier country to immigrate to from what I've seen.
What you describe can be achieved by the app opening the page via the system browser. I don’t see any benefit of using a tab in the app instead. The swipe-left gesture at the bottom makes app switching super fast, making rapid switching between app and page a better experience than dragging and re-opening.
Coping with Copilot
Had they wanted to empower Morrison to regain control of the account they could have. They decided instead to maximise benefit to the inter-state dispute by making him look like the twat he was. Yes, he got to spin china fear but he also alienated a lot of his chinese vote by his overall behaviour. I don't judge this one a win for his strategy/team.

You seem to want a lot more than the tweet sequence provides. Maybe, thats a critique to put in-band?

The topic is important, and interesting. Maybe there are better discussions.

(the agency he works for, ASPI, is a very partisan player in defence/strategy discussions.)
SETI participants recognized early that we would only ever be able to pick up signals meant for us. So, those would not look like noise.

It is why few take it seriously. Why would anybody be putting that much effort into trying to get our attention?
Something which I think is unaddressed is the high participation of pension funds in what has been a very frothy stock market/PE market. We're already seeing the main growth stocks take big corrections in the face of central bank rates and the end of mass QE, and this comes at a time when large portions of the workforce approach retirement age. Already, the most exposed start ups (gig economy) are rapidly scaling back operations, and I think there are many more tech sectors that will face the same in the coming 2 years. That will equate to a significant destruction of value right when withdrawals should be ramping up. This shortfall will have to come from public funds and will still lead to a drop in consumption for a significant part of the population.
I'm not sure there's an advanced "free market" bealthcare system in the world we can use to even make that comparison.
Disney won't be being paid for stuff that is compulsorily bundled with a plan.

Disney will only being paid for stuff that's an add-on to a plan - and even then, they'll probably only get half the revenue.
This looks great. Now if only KinD supported Podman!
I wrote an article comparing the algorithms and usability of different cycling apps!

https://jakecoppinger.blog/articles/the-best-apps-for-bicycl...
Starlink seems to be as much real business as a way for SpaceX to raise money.
> Isn't that the basic objection to dark matter, that there's nothing in it that's falsifiable?

I don't think that's case, at least to me it seems that the basic objection is some vague discomfort with the idea, not an issue with the falsifiability. And dark matter is clearly falsifiable, it has already survived many observations.

The CMB power spectrum would look entirely different if there was no dark matter.

Gravitational lensing in certain areas in the sky wouldn't look as strong as it does without dark matter either.
Every time I read web3, I get a little taste of vomit in my mouth.

Let me ask you this, if this wasn't complete farts, why would you need to call it 'web3 games'?

What do games have to do with the web, and the so called "future of the web"?

Games provide value through entertainment. They can have a line connection to other people but it's not the premise.

“I think the idea of creating digital assets, and then taxing everyone for all the transactions around them is a good model,” Kan said.

Mind blown.

Here is the reality... Huge amount of excitement and false tales of freedom being meddled into just about anything they can, for the benefit of snake oil artists.
Because we can tell whats going to happen sooner or later and don't get all giggly when some bimbo on tv or politician says the world will be a Utopia where we get rich by being cool people and all have playboy models in bed with us. When Gas and technology prices skyrocket and people find it entertaining, then nothing good is on its way. RaspberryPi had to hike up prices for the first time ever but you think awesome and quality made battery powered vehicles are just around the corner and with and afforable enough for the majority?

Hell if I know, Right now is the best time to focus on personal lives and relationships or all this mass bs will never let you be happy... None of it matters for us..
EPUB3, yes. I don't think I have seen any EPUB2 having problem (except if it's missing encoding declaration)
What's clear is that DNSSEC was, and still isn't, in use, https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/curve.fi

This would have immediately prevented any DNS cache poisoning attacks from most systems.

Today, curve.fi is still vulnerable to exactly the same attack as earlier in the week.
The distinction between parasites and symbiotes needs to be made here. Too many in society are parasites, despite portraying the impression they are symbiotes. I'd posit entire industries fall into that category.
filtering vibrancy?
Vivaldi keeps making solid improvements with each release. It's become an indispensable research tool.
Don’t the next gen satellites require the new Starship for deployment, which is still nowhere near ready for launch (they aim for a first test launch by the end of this year, IIRC)?
> I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games/politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master

They’re just part of the game. If you want to do well in any position you cannot neglect them.
As many others have said here: 20% of the people at these big companies are not just doing nothing, they are getting in the way and providing negative value to the 80% who come to work to honestly try and get something done. It is bad for the company and the industry to be paying these people high six figures to be useless. It is unpleasant to work with them (if you even notice they're there) because it makes your work seem pointless.

If you asked the employees who the 20% were, I bet there would be consensus. They could be found and removed easily. It would also include plenty of managers and directors, it's not just leaf nodes who can be useless.

But the big tech companies are absolutely terrified of being seen as talent-hostile by firing low performers. So instead they will "turn up the heat" and hope the problem solves itself. They will complain that their employees aren't working hard enough without giving them any reasons to work harder or removing any obstacles in their way. As leaders they should be ashamed for not owning and fixing this problem.
You can spread out a given collection of N antennas as wide as you like to get better angular resolution, but you lose signal strength at the target. Radio astronomers use big antennas and look for a long time. That doesn't work for communication.

You can add more antennas, but those cost money. So, you use as many as you can afford, and space them out according to what you need. A too-broad antenna array on a satellite would have one set of problems, one on the ground others.
AFAIK iOS Kindle App can't read AZW3. It's converted to AZK. Amazon probably don't have AZW3->AZK pipeline.
I love this framing, those percentages match up 100% with what I saw on the inside of a FAANG company.
Sorry, a lot of my close friends here in Canada were met at a previous company I work at, which was full remote.

Yeah, with kids now I don't make many friends and it's definitely a byproduct of my new life: for friendship to form I need a family with similar ideas regarding educating kids, similar interest in hobbies, close by and with kids of similar age.

It was hard with requirements when it was only me, now it's basically impossible
TOML is basically INI. It adds nested sections, but it is not so obvious how to use them. And the data model is more complicated, with sections first, and in each section a key-value map.

YAML has a data model like JSON, but it is disqualified for me by the syntax ambiguities.

The easiest thing is if people could just write JS (or Python) object literals, but restricted to plain old data, and without the ability to call functions etc.. JSON5 gives exactly that.
Instead of using cryptocurrencies to add independence in games why couldn’t a platform like Steam do the same thing? The trading card system is quite close. I have a real hard time understanding on how to use cryptocurrencies to create interoperability when game publishers could do it already or just make a standard API with the games you want to partner with which would probably end up being a competitor to steam. NFTs being bought and sold also needs to go through KYC and AML and that’s a nightmare to games with any in game currency since they don’t want to become money transfer authorities for obvious reasons such as money laundering. So just making an interoperability layer that just goes to points going to buying a game would best way to do this instead of this unnecessarily convoluted system that has downtime that you can’t control and variable prices on execution of contracts. Also slowdowns.
You said you're concerned with "thugs" using knives to do bad things. That's where you seem to draw the line. I am afraid what you'll try to restrict when you see the reports about these people breathing air.
In India, the most significant difference is caused by the caste system. Within this system, the lower caste is considered genetically inferior, lazy, and never completing any hard work. It is perhaps a self-fulfilling prophecy as what is the point in working hard if the hard work will not be recognized. In China, people work extremely hard and are proud of it. This can be attributed to Confucianism and communism. There is a 996 culture in China. That is 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week. Cultures are very different indeed.
One way to do decentralised relatively spam-resistant reviews:

* Allow anyone to review.

* When viewing other people's reviews, you rank them by how similarly they review places you and they have both been to. Ie. Do you agree with them? If you agree with them, then weight that users reviews higher. If they rank places highly that you think got 1 star, then rank them negatively.

* This approach can be done on the complete review graph, so you don't need to have reviewed the same places someone else ranked.

* The downside is you can't see any meaningful reviews till you write a few yourself.
I remember reading this a long time ago and feeling the magic...

Now I work in RF and there's no magic at all. It's the expected outcome. The explanation at the bottom of the page is probably (roughly) correct.
May not be the case where you live, but 2 is definitely legal in the US (although obviously very rude)
Sort of, but not really. This is like reorienting yourself in midair by waving your arms in that it doesn't change your velocity, just your position. So while something like an ion engine can get away with absurdly low accelerations because they build up to large values over time, this gives you an extremely low velocity with no way to increase it. And in space with a high enough degree of curvature for this to work, you need to be moving at a very high speed in the first place to not immediately fall into the source of the curvature.
This version of Podman is blazing!
Let's say you're deciding on a washing machine. You're arguing about washing machine A ($500) vs B ($600), and you think B will last twice as long as A. Your partner would prefer to save $100 now even if the machine breaks later on, and doesn't want to back down either.

The cost of choosing washing machine A is that it breaks at some distant time. The cost of arguing about washing machines is wasting an hour every week driving to a laundromat and paying $10 a wash, plus the hard-to-quantify strain on your relationship, for an argument you might not even win. In this situation, the hidden third option of dragging out a conflict that you might not even win could end up more costly than choosing a bad option, even if you're right.

In software this happens a lot. You burn opportunity cost trying to argue for a perfect solution instead of aligning behind a flawed solution.
The next step could be the OS taking control of HTTP and allowing only the native browser to receive a HTML content type.
Fight for Your Right to Rootkit
There's http://openplacereviews.org/map?q=4/39.97712/-34.98047 and it's integrated with OsmAnd.
My idea was to simply have the phone screen off, one always running app tapping into the RTSP stream on WiFi then offload it every few minutes. Could have a smart power supply hooked up to drain the battery to low digits every now & then. Smart batteries with programmable functions & voltages would have been a boon for so many legacy electronics
Researchers Find Overlap in Pathology of Long-Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Ethereum Upgrades: Understanding the Merge and Ethereum 2.0
Anyone have a year for this? It says 1994 at the bottom but that's just the addendum.

Related:

A Story About ‘Magic' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740579 - July 2021 (1 comment)

Hacker Folklore: A Story About ‘Magic' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21385180 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

A Story About ‘Magic' (1994) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9102110 - Feb 2015 (60 comments)

A Story About ‘Magic' (1994) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7472328 - March 2014 (1 comment)
That classification is rather arbitrary and not yours to make.

That's kinda the whole problem with it

And it's kinda nonsense, isn't the point of the nutty airport security to catch people in a terrorizing act?
Your statement implies dark matter cannot be falsified by a contradicting observation, because it (dark matter) hasn't yet been observed. But if it doesn't exist, then it will never be observed. So it, therefore, can never be falsified?

If I'm straw manning you, it is unintentional. How would you propose dark matter be falsified?
> There are no factory feedlots in Argentina

If only this were true.

"Images of cows on pasture are still common in Argentina’s guidebooks and on postcards and butcher shop windows, but cattle production now largely relies on the feedlot"

https://grist.org/sustainable-food/in-argentina-factory-farm...

or

https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/cattle-industry-argentina-ch...
At the moment. Bandwidth will decline relentlessly as subscriber count increases.
Inducting artificial scarcity to seek rent seems like a parody of capitalism by some 20th century communist. And yet here we are
I suspect friction in the bearings is the culprit and allows for this "defiance of laws of physics".
I've been using SailfishOS for 3 years now as my daily driver, never had any problems with calls, sms or mobile data. Roaming or not. It is not a fork of android but if you get the paid version you get android app support on it. At one point I even got microg on it to see if my banking application would work and it did. Officially they support a very small number of phones, I think only some sony models.
I have not found the published paper yet!

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) insights through molecular biology

https://researchpod.org/health-medicine/chronic-fatigue-synd...

Edit: Add paper for ^^^ above;

The effect of IL-2 stimulation and treatment of TRPM3 on channel co-localisation with PIP2 and NK cell function,

in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
Is DuckDuckGo a good choice for privacy-minded search engine?
ASAP Utilities was my weapon of choice when I was deep in excel data extraction work. But I think that should count as "auto aim" in a sport setting...
I think the motivating factor is an idealistic vision of eventually moving beyond Steam's corporate DRM and percentage cut taken out of all gamer and game dev transactions. Innovators are usually reluctant to entrench the incumbent monopoly firm (recall how IBM was regarded). Agreed that pragmatically speaking Steam may be able to stand up something more efficient and functional than any crypto aspirants in the short term.

There was a similar debate on potential interoperability between the dominant social networks and Youtube etc, people wanted an open source, open-governance transfer standard that various networks could plug in to. They didn't want Facebook to own that standard, and now that has evolved into the ownership question of the "metaverse".
That's actually pretty standard for copyright infringement - and this goes well above copyright infringement. Impersonating someone to steal or defraud a company or person is definitely illegal, and seizing the assets used to commit fraud is a reasonable response.

If there were grey areas (e.g. the cloudflaresucks.com example given above, or a parody), I would get the concern. But this seems pretty cut and dry
> What about battery replacement?

I don't think any e-readers are designed to be user-replaceable except the very first Kindle. As for DIY replacement, I don't really know, sorry.

> A replacement battery manufactured shortly after the reader is going to be as bad as the one that came installed by the time I need it.

Is it? I was under impression that battery mostly degrade with cycle count. At least, there are plenty of people still use Kindle from 10 years ago.

> [...] warranty replacement is a solution.

Then I think you are mostly limited to Kindle or Kobo. Most other e-reader or e-ink tablet are mostly shipped from China so warranty and replacement are going to not be as good.
I don't have access to the paper right now, but the abstract is off to a very bad start.

> any curved Riemannian space must be a subspace of a larger flat host space

This is not even wrong. Yes, you can always embed a Riemannian manifold in a Euclidean space. In fact, there are infinitely many ways to do so. But this is extra structure that you can choose to impose, if you want to - it's not intrinsic.

You might as well say that every string must be a substring of a larger "host" string.

> the 4D Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor is identically equal to a geometrical tensor associated with the complementary subspace of the host space

Impossibly vague. Yes, sometimes things are equal to other things. What tensor, and associated how?

> Einstein’s field equations are automatically geometrized, with the stress-energy tensor expressed in terms of the contracted complementary tensor

This is a tautology. The Einstein field equations relate the Ricci tensor to the metric and the stress energy tensor, and the Ricci tensor is a contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor. This remains true even if you rename the Riemann curvature tensor "the complementary tensor".

But the deeper problem is this: the entire point of general relativity is that physics does not, in fact, care what coordinates we use. And this is built into the mathematical structure of the theory - there can't be any such thing as the "the coordinate basis vector approach to tensor calculus", because tensors (properly speaking: tensor fields) are, by definition, coordinate-independent objects.
Art is what i point my finger to and say, this is art.
Wow, imagine curling up in your cozy, carved-out dwelling deep underground to read manuscripts by candlelight...

or more realistically, to hide from violent sieges on the city
I'm not so surprised by this. In my country, the conventional smart-box TV & partial on-demand solution (owned by Fox, ad supported, having evolved from legacy premium TV) starts at $90/mo. As on demand streaming companies build out libraries to rival such services, I'm not surprised they'll be eyeballing similar pricing schemes.

What saddens me is that our premium TV service was initially offered as ad-free for this price, and they crept in after not that long.
At this point you may as well expose SQL to the client?
China overtakes the US in scientific research output
They need that revenue just to keep building replacement satellites.
Kobo doesn't have wireless sync for third party book. That's a killing feature for many people on Kindle.
Hasn't changed. Amazon has demonstrated some intent to do this in the future though, by deprecating MOBI and enabling the EPUB-over-email thing. The Pearson post mentions:

> Amazon has announced the retirement of its proprietary MOBI file format for eBooks, and a transition to the EPUB format for use on Kindle devices and apps.

which makes me wonder if they know more than we do?
Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
It would be wrong to describe it as a game. More like "ponzi scheme with an interactive component"
The US accepts a lower percentage of H1b applicants because the number of H1b visas is capped. Other entry routes are less restrictive—most notably via family reunification.

If immigration to Japan were to increase substantially enough, most likely things would change and it would not be so easy even for professionals to get work visas.

And keep in mind that the bulk of US immigration is not of professionals, but of unskilled workers and their families. The fact that the US is able to use immigration to fill population gaps at every economic level is the main reason that it is not facing the same demographic problems that the rest of the developed world is facing.
Each paragraph is a non-sequitur from the next. Can you elaborate?

> immigration is just colonial appropriation

Thank you America for colonially appropriating me from starvation under communism.
Could you explain how one can use Wise to accept credit card payments for a SaaS website?

Or just point to the relevant pages on the https://wise.com/ site.

Do you mean to open US bank a/c via Wise, and then use it with Stripe or similar to accept credit cards?
> Combined with Calibre

I'd imagine something like < 1% of Kindle owners use Calibre, so presumably the value prop is... an e-reader that works well without needing any external software.

Most people just buy books from Amazon I expect, so they don't really need multi-format support.
Previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416735