skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They say that if we use two entangled photons and let them fly far apart, then pass one of them through two filters, and the second photon through the middle filter, the first photon will be affected - it will get a chance to pass though the pair of filters.

I don't think that can be correct. This would allow FTL communication of information. I could put the filter in the path of the second photon when I wanted to send a 1 and leave it out of the path of the second photon when I wanted to send a 0. In the 1 case the other side would sometimes see the photon pass both filters. In the 0 case the other side would never see the photon pass both filters. Combine this with a little error correction and you have a channel for transmitting arbitrary information faster than light which would violate the no-communication theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

The MinutePhysics video you link describes a different setup with only one filter in the path of each photon. This gives you some information about the probability that other photon got past its filter but it doesn't let you transmit anything.
How so? It's a fairly common model for each individual apartment to have their own owner, and a body corporate run by the owners manage common areas.
Fair! Those seem like reasonable stats for a cool setup.
For all the press coverage, I have no idea what his company does.

But regardless, one shouldn't be surprised that a CEO that was all about self-promotion is accused of unsavory acts.
And you think that ingesting PTFE is somehow worse than an actual PTFE implant? Why you insisting it must be a digestion study? Do you make such requirements for everything you interact with? Has someone done a study on using paper straws? Or plastic plates? Or metal spoons?

Do you understand that when you eat PTFE it comes out exactly the same way it went in?

Even powerful acids can't do anything to PTFE, what makes you think the body can do anything to it?
> How is it not? If my options are crap, crappy, super crap and super-extra-duper crap... It seems helpful to know which one is the least crappy.

It's also helpful to know that they are all crappy, which this didn't show.

This is a relative study. If instead they set up some reasonable objective criteria and ranked each news sources according to it, that would be useful. I may see that CNN scores only 20%, and Fox News scores only 10%. Yes, CNN would be better, but it would also tell me not to waste time on either.

> As an aside, are you willing to share which news station you don't put in the crap bucket?

I was a news junkie a decade ago, and weaned myself off of it. Things have likely changed since those years so it would be hard to suggest some now - I've heard sources like The Guardian have gone downhill, for example.

In general, print sources are way better. Even a mediocre print source tends to be better than almost all video/TV news. Radio is somewhere in between.

McClatchy DC[1] was one resource I would recommend in those days. It's a "general purpose" news organization and one of the few mainstream publications that often covered items neglected by the rest. Most hadn't heard of it, but the parent organization owns several well known print newspapers.

I see they filed for bankruptcy in 2020. I don't know if they've been able to maintain the quality.

As much as I dislike the NY Times, it's still way ahead of CNN/Fox/MSNBC.

[1] https://www.mcclatchydc.com/
Well if we coat the earth in lye global warming will take care of the rest. Problem solved.
I feel your despair, but from the other side. I don't know how anyone could watch the surveillance videos of Fulton county and not conclude their was voter fraud. It's absolutely mind boggling.
Connection drops have not been as big a deal as I would have expected. But Blazor takes care of that for client side detection, automatic reconnecting, and providing hooks for showing a basic "connecting" UI. There's not a lot you have to implement yourself - the websocket transport is largely abstracted away (unless you specifically want to dig around in there).

That said, I've polished off some of the rough edges with some additional handling. For example, if the user is not directly interacting with the app right at that second of a connection drop, I won't immediately show a loading indicator, so there is no visible difference in the app UI (it just looks like everything is still fine). If the connection reconnects before they interact with it again, they'd never even know it dropped, if it doesn't I then show the loading indicator (which appears after a second or two in any case if the connection is taking longer to reconnect).

If you can cope with the slightly different paradigm of an always connected socket, there are huge upsides to using this framework, and the dev loop can be very fast with hot reloading etc.
SQL or a graph database to build a social network with recommender?
graph databases
- fit the use case of a social network
- databases like neo4j have real-time recommendation capability
- but a lot of them are not open source and I don't wanna get locked in

SQL
- even meta uses mysql as their primary DB (but I know they have a custom graph DB built on top)
- ACID compliance
- have more resources
- but if I use a SQL database I may need to build a recommendation system separately
I scrape the heck out of my cast iron pan using a bit of chain mail I keep by the sink in order to clean it. I do reapply oil and heat as you suggest. Do you reckon I'm missing out on some benefits of cast iron because I scrape it so relentlessly?
Yeah I expect that will be the case. However I like to hold judgement until there is public proof. I'm just way too far from this situation, or any public scandal, to have any idea what is really going. My version of innocent until proven guilty.
The data doesn't back this up in any country I can find.

A quick google search yields a few results, each pointing to the same conclusion:

https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution/attribution-...

> Meat and poultry, a combination of four animal food categories, Beef, Game, Pork, and Poultry, accounted for fewer illnesses, but for 29% of deaths.

Poultry accounted for the most deaths (19%); many of those were caused by Listeria and Salmonella infections.
This rate is partly due to three large Listeria outbreaks linked to sliced processed deli turkey meat; the last such large outbreak occurred in 2002.

Produce, on the other hand, accounted for 27% of deaths. However, it's important to distinguish here that produce accounts for 27% of all deaths, but animal products accounts for all of the rest. That's 73% of all food borne illness coming from animal products.

You are far more likely to die from food borne illness caused by animal products; especially agricultural animals.
have you tried Azure Durable Functions? just curious if youve evaluated all the durable workflow solutions out there and what you came away with
Cast iron is fine once you get the hang of it, but I find myself just using my stainless steel pans exclusively. I also wonder how healthy the polymerized surface really is (would love to hear from anyone who knows).

You can effectively make stainless steel non-stick with correct use of a neutral oil and either cooking at a slightly lower heat and/or keeping the contents moving. Have to be ok with some oil though, for most foods it shouldn't be a problem.

It's not teflon, but I haven't come across anything that sticks to the pan in a consequential manner. Scrub with stainless steel scrubber to clean, done.
Absolutely right, excellent point. This is one of those things that I logically know to be true and yet doesn't stick with me ... emotionally? Something like that.

I'm mid-40s and I do some side contract work and game/Discord with late-20s/early 30's people and folks will be talking about something annoying or unjust, and I'm completely unjustifiably disappointed that no one ever even thinks to mention "hey, we could skirt the rules and just go full hacker on this."

(Note: no one ever do anything illegal, I'm more talking the sentiment than actually inciting naughtiness)
I mean, yeah, what else would you have expected?

You're lucky that it was only hand written. Some people get that printed on their boarding pass which means it will pretty much always happen to them.

I had a special sticker placed in my passport by Australia because I left my passport laying on the counter while having work gear inspected and paperwork. Didn't realize it until attempting to check in, and then left all of the gear with my coworker while I ran off to get the passport. When I returned with it, the official that was "helping" us with our gear placed the sticker in my passport. Everytime I returned to AU, I got the special screening minus cavity searches. It was my own damn fault, and I was never rude to anyone about it, but yeah, I probably did look a bit shady running off after leaving a stack of large pelican cases. Oh well, that passport has now expired and the new one is sticker free.
OK, I don't think comparing research to the defense budget is at all useful, but comparing JWST research to fusion research IS. So I'll stand corrected on US money.

However, ITER is a global effort, so it isn't just the US budgets we have to consider, right?
Or, if you're HP, you market something that seems like the best of both worlds, and then gouge the value in two years with a firmware update, and/or shenanigans with consumables.

That's what I expect with the machine in the OP.
Worse is it'll stain your cabinet / storage or anything it touches.
41ms to draw a single quad seems incredibly slow, even on ancient hardware - I recall being able to do drawing quite a lot faster than that to a crt even on an old 4MHz z80 cpu in the 1980s.

Is the slowness maybe from the IO to the display or maybe something else?
You’re going to run around talking about whether racism exists or not based on an article that’s literally “anecdata?” This will persuade nobody who doesn’t already agree with you, and will make legitimate efforts to reduce discrimination look bad.
This is always so surprising when you start digging into a single technical object like that and discover all its complexity and diversity.
Make sure to read the first few YouTube comments for the full humor
> what happens if the company goes down?

It's open-source. What's your concern now?

https://github.com/planetscale/database-js
Health concerns around animal products are not dramatically reduced between organic and non-organic agriculture.

It's better, but it's still not good. I don't drink organic alcohol, either; it's harmful to your health no matter how you slice it.
I'm quite looking forward to the GPD Win Max 2 coming out next month. It's exactly the device I've been wanting for a couple decades.
That's a problem of social media a such.
Remember the Tide Pod challenge?
You are aware of the various privacy laws in a lot of countries?
Analysis of APT41 2021 hacking campaign
There is a difference between tracking activities (bad enough) and reading everything you type.
I can definitely see how a company built on Elixir, like Supabase, would offer this as part of their product.

Phoenix Framework gives you presence and CDRTs out of the box. I’m not sure if they’re also using Phoenix, but there’s a well-known, heavily used open source solution for the core of this offering and I’d be shocked if they didn’t at least study and/or borrow from it.

Edit: yep, according to the page they’re advised by Chris McCord, the creator of Phoenix.
I literally received one of these today. When I clicked the spam button in Gmail it asked not just if I wanted to "mark as spam" but also "mark as spam and unsubscribe." I clicked the latter, and it took me to a seemingly real intuit.com url. It was pretty weird and I wasn't sure how the spammers pulled it off. Seeing this article is real serendipity.
Not being a disjointed mess of unrelated software helps too.
the keyboard is so small, why not just use your cell phone? yes your on screen keyboard is far from ideal but it has already built some muscle memory. typing on a tiny keyboard with a non-standard layout is just painful.
I'm curious what made you more productive. Was it not having to use those vectorized libraries?

I write machine learning code, so anything compute intensive is done with specialized libraries and the Python glue code usually has little overhead. Sometimes when writing complicated pipelines I spend a lot of effort on optimizing data transfers (between CPU and GPUs, between GPUs on the same server, between GPUs on different servers in a cluster, etc), but that effort has little to do with Python limitations (or so I think).
He did something new and innovative. Someone on the internet was upset. It was too much the author promised never to innovate again. Seriously progress will hurt people’s feelings and affect existing industries. That’s ok
Please forgive my ignorance. Is it right if I say the password seems to be available on the client side?

import { connect } from '@planetscale/database'

const config = {
host: '<host>',
username: '<user>',
password: '<password>'
}

https://github.com/planetscale/database-js
What happens in tiktok app is very much tiktok's business and their IP.

Are you possibly conflating tiktok tracking its own users within its app with somehow it gaining access to the OS itself and tracking users at that level? That is clearly not happening as far as what is publicly known as much as stories like this want you to believe for it to be the case.
Difficult climbs are a different challenge to altitude. It's climbing vs mountaineering.

For example I believe Cho Oyu (8188m) has few if any technical climbing sections - you basically walk up. That's a very different challenge to a technical climbing. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(climbing) for more info.
I do miss my n900 best portable computing experience I ever had.
I think the security model or rather lack of a security model, would have done it in in the end even without Microsoft's help.
Now that I'm back in front of a computer instead of a phone, I looked up: https://www.bankrate.com/investing/annuity-calculator/

It suggests that for an annuity with a 2% annual growth (which at least maybe approximates "flat real rate of return,") for 30 years, it'll give you about 3.7%, not 5%.
FWIW, the method in that xeiaso link (using resident keys on a security key) can be done with the cheaper "Security Keys" from Yubico, and doesn't need the more expensive Yubikey. -- The cheaper security key can be used as a FIDO key as 2FA for many websites; or even for stuff like Linux login.
Which is why I tell people that if they're getting their news from TV, they're doing it wrong.
IMVU had nicer graphics 15 years ago.
A sewing machine can be used for repairs and alterations. I think this is what majority of sewing machine owners do with them most of the time. A lock stitch machine and an iron is equivalent of having 80% of power tools you can buy in Home Depot as far as garment care and maintenance goes (and a cover stich/serger combo pushes it to 99%).
What is frustrating is TDD evangelists insisting everyone do purist TDD in their regular development (like the guy being quoted in this article).

You set your standards as a team of what you will consider acceptable tests and as long as the dev submitting the PR meets that standard why does it matter if they did TDD or not? TDD is a means to end, it's not a religion. As long as you write tests that meet the standard it doesn't matter when you write those tests.

The level of micromanaging that TDD evangelists seem to want in people's workflows is infuriating. It's literally cultish.

Edit: I realize this came across more negative and abrasive than I intended. I think TDD has some good parts (primarily around gamification of writing tests and giving a serotonin hit whenever a test goes from red to green). I practice TDD around 50% of the time when appropriate, but most people who have worked in the industry that TDD as sold by purists is impractical and adds negative value.
Even if the 'bug' of limited time off is solved, I think people's valuation of their time is still pretty high. The trains/airships would have to be quite nice (read: heavy, expensive, possibly less efficient) for you to be willing to spend so much time in them.

On a sillier note, I wonder what the fastest speed you can reach is, in terms of timezones/hr.

My guess was a polar route like ANC-HEL, but there don't seem to be any direct passenger flights. Condor flies ANC-FRA seasonally, which is pretty much exactly 1 hour time difference per hour of flight. Another possibility is TAS->URC, at 1.2.

The author's routes, YVR-LHR and YVR-NRT, are both 0.8-0.9 hours difference per hour flight time, depending on direction.
Arch wiki is precious. But the reason for quality of OpenBSD documentation is unlikely to be the same as Arch wiki's. The article even mentions the problem with wiki's. Arch wiki clearly shows signs that it is collected together by people looking for solutions. Articles often contains discussions on contentious or confusing issues. OpenBSD documentation on the other hand, is prepared along with the application source, often by the same developers. That is a much better solution IMO to ensure documentation quality.

That said, I'm happy that Arch wiki exists. It has become the defacto place where people elaborate their solutions for Linux.
Australian company says its AI predicts suicide attempts in prison
> iOmniscience’s facial recognition software was believed to have been used by Hong Kong police during the 2019 protests, but the company says police bought it to track down lost children.

With the prison application the assumption that will be made by the market will be that this technology "works" and will likely be deployed with insufficient follow through, unitended consequences, and used to supplant any actual therapists, etc.

Promotional sheet: https://iomni.ai/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/iQ-Prison-1.pdf
The article wasn't convincing to me. It's basically he-said she-said and the reader is responsible to decide which is more realistic.

He thinks Musk just blurted out the Hyperloop idea because that's Musk's style. Probably true but that in no way debunks his continued circus tour and world wide stomp to promote the preposterous idea.
this is the second time i’ve seen this float through /newest. OP, can you help me understand? why is this interesting?
The difference between land (and natural resources) and gym memberships, 401ks etc. is that you can make more gyms and companies and investment fhnds, but the supply of locations and natural resources is limited. This means that land functions as a monopoly (hence the board game!) whereas 401ks and gyms are non-monopolistic.

Owners of monopolies stand to benefit from not just a reasonable return on investment, but an excessive return on investment proportion to their contribution to society.

Many countries and societies have handled this in different ways, such as the idea of the commons, or Norway's taxation of oil extraction, or land value taxes and land leases.

> You feel like you are salty that you couldn't get a hold on such a resource in time.

I am a software developer, and as such am able to comfortably acquire land in a good location and provide for my family. However, many of my generation are unable to, unlike previous generations, because the good locations have all been taken by the previous generations. This is why we see enormous poverty next to enormous progress, because late comers to the party are so far behind as to be basically unable to "get on the ladder". The ladder is being pulled up before their eyes.

A great solution to this is to tax the excess economic rents that monopolies create, rather than taxing labour and capital. Henry George is the most famous proponent of such a system, and you can find out more here: https://www.gameofrent.com/ or at astralcodexten's book review of Progress and Poverty.

This means that those who contribute to society through labour and capital are not discouraged from doing so, but those who leech off others through monopoly rent extraction return that rent to the society that created it in the first place. This is a far more just and equitable solution.

Of course, many existing monopoly owners (e.g. landowners, and particularly property investors) hate the idea, because people tend to act in their own self-interest to the disadvantage of others.
Medium will just randomly delete your account and all posts in my experience. I was hosting the most innocent little batch script with a tutorial. The only way to go is self hosting in my opinion. Get a .com for $1 at 1&1 (when it comes to domains always do .com or nothing) and a $1 /m unmanaged VPS.
Congratulations. You discovered makefiles or memoization.
They're going to heavily lockdown WKWebView after the Instagram and Tiktok revelations, probably in iOS16.1. They may even remove it entirely and force people to use SFSafariViewController (heavily locked down web browser, opaque to developers other than URL). Best of luck to anyone that was using javascript injection for legitimate purposes, others have ruined it for everyone by abusing user trust.
Additionally, the idea that we could kill everyone on earth or kill everyone x times over is based on the idea that we are rounding up people and putting them in perfect concentric circles based on optimum detonation height and having everyone in the kill circle.

I mean, yeah, we could do that with the gun ammunition and kill everyone too, but it's ultimately a meaningless number.

Nukes are very very expensive to build and maintain. They are very destructive. But there is a lot of emotional arguments tied up in this that makes rational discussion about what actually happens almost impossible.

Radiation is either hot and thus has a very short half life or is long and also not particularly dangerous. The only element that straddles this line is cobalt. Hot enough to be dangerous, long lived enough to seriously impede life returning. To date it isn't known if anyone really has cobalt bombs, Russia might if anyone does.

But that's the closest thing I've ever seen that's a potential long term mass area denial weapon.
Eh. Not a fan of the small keyboard on the GPD, but I'd take that over my phone's keyboard any day, especially for programing.

I have 10 years' of muscle memory for on-screen keyboards, and I still find them absolutely painful to use for anything other than a few words. When sending text messages, I use voice transcription (with the awkward "exclamation point", "newline", etc.).

If I were to use this, I'd set it up on some surface and just 2-finger type it like old-timey authors did on their typewriters.

And, FWIW, 20 years ago I jerry-rigged together a few gender benders and a null modem adapter so I could use my Palm Pilot to interface with VT100 terminals. Using Grafiti to send control characters and navigate TUIs was... interesting.
What could go wrong? Tourism climbing has already trashed Everest.

Why wouldn't anyone carry a Sat phone or GPS Nav transponder anyways?
“All we are not stares back at what we are.”
I think the big question is, what are the event handlers doing exactly? I'm definitely not defending any of these companies but it just seems fundamentally unclear what gets done with the data. The presumption is that the event data is passed to some private storage against users' consent. But for all we know it's also possible there are automated filters in place to detect sensitive information and drop/obfuscate it. Still, I wouldn't count on that.

I will say that it doesn't look great to have a `keypress` listener on the window/document...certainly that's not used for anything good.
No guns were allowed at the rally