skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paris’s paper tickets work until you keep it in your pocket next to your phone and the strip demagnetizes. Happened to me twice before I figured out what was happening.
[Factoid] was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
Any president that doesn't put an entire race of people into camps is better than FDR in my opinion.
No it's more like at some organizations the culture is very apathetic and the mean dev there has very low throughput. So you can be "10x" merely by caring to the level a professional should. And ironically in those situations it's the low throughput devs creating all the tech debt, with their copy pasta and infinite one off solutions.
Yikes, this hit very close to home for me.
The US was the main driver behind those treaties. Amending, formally pulling out or just straight up ignoring them is mildly embarrassing, but in no way a showstopper.
Maybe about 1.7km/s at 75km apogee [0] for a low earth orbit of around 7-8km/s at 200km.

Then a regular(ish) rocket housed inside the centrifuge launch vehicle would separate and make up the rest.

0: https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1458467841779253253
And it also has accessibility issues. HN is text-based, but the podcast is audio-based. That means some part of the population will be unable to interact with it.
Cheers for the great comment mate! I replied to you initially and I am still learning about this very vast topic, I try not to take a partisan approach to this stuff as it is obviously important, always trying to update my understanding and I do change my position as I learn new stuff.

It's interesting to hear that the recycling processes have changed, how recent of a change is this? I took my viewpoint from what seemed to be a overwhelming amount of (what I consider to be non-biased) resources, around the panels "being" recyclable, but not actually being recycled. And I don't think it's unreasonable to be wary of toxic waste given the entire purpose of this thing is to clean up our energy system etc.

I also wasn't aware of the decommissioning being bonded, cheers for that.

Do you think there's a difference between (what I assume for you is) the US and other countries progression along the lifecycle of solar? I feel like in Australia where I am, a lot of the articles I'm seeing are bringing up that what you've mentioned as solved problems, don't seem to be here. I will admit though that we are fairly useless being an economy that derives so much from coal exports.

Yeah so the pricing thing I do understand, but I also just think it's important to continue nuclear as an option anyway for future improvements and general management of brain drain.

Cheers for being chill, I find topics so divisive these days, I never mean to come across and ignorant of other opinions and I try to engage and not just be a "this is my tribe and I'll die on this hill", this problem is too important for it to be a "I'd rather be right" type deal.
Ah. Thanks for finding this. That makes more sense. Bacteria that are attracted to cancer cells are a fascinating concept.

It is very exciting to see another tool in the toolbox to achieve higher cancer cell therapeutic specificity.
I would have expected to see an Atari ST, but it's nice to see an Amiga used here...
More often than not, it's people that care about how to create abstractions that amplify their productivity.

That is only possible if they can spend some time building abstract stuff that cannot be explained to non-technical stakeholders, which is not possible with sweatshop engineering methodologies like Scrum, or when you promote the smiling bozos that completed their 5 person-minutes Agile crash course to management.
This is somewhat related to eidetic memory (which the article points out is sometimes used interchangeably), you might find it a curious read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
I recently did, it has been mostly a good transition.

The only thing I am slightly miffed about is I couldn't get recording working in HDR games. The colors come out completely ruined. This is on a windows pc.
The technical assertion is impossible with current technology. It would be a huge breakthrough in computing architecture. You can't have a trustless relationship with a CPU.
That’s the problem. Some parts read quite simply, others require decades of study (and even then the top legal minds in the US can disagree on what the word mean).
According to the government, 0 people in prison, but there are many with convictions on their records that the pardons will address. The burden of a conviction extends beyond incarceration.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminal...
Or maybe it would not be as popular as is today

And what about the other 400 distributions based on Debian? There are many differences between them not just firmware

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?ostype=Linux&categ...
Mate, there was an entire event for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q90v9FLXi1E
If not most
Recreating macOS’s Drift Screensaver with Rust and WASM
I downloaded the files directly from the library if I recall correctly.
My work PC & laptop are running Linux due to development reasons and the first thing I had to do on them is setting up basic functionality such as trackpad scrolling and mitigating weird window behavior and wallpaper resetting on monitor sleep, and it is still a subpar desktop experience compared to macOS or even Windows.
I have found myself in this archetype before. Management wanted a feature, went to the architects and got some INSANE estimate that couldn’t be justified by the revenue that would be coming in. Management felt like they were being told to fuck off with crazy estimates and they weren’t completely wrong.

I was asked to review the proposal by a VP, came up with some simplifications, presented it back to the same architects and we delivered it for 10% of the anticipated cost and the feature was profitable in year 1. It’s had no defects because it was a simple design.

Sometimes you need people who can speak to managers and engineers with credibility to get things done.
Also visited rome about s month ago, no issues but only traveled by subway and used mu credit card.
I've always been curious about that as a kid: how's the magnetic strip encoded, on the ticket? Couldn't find any articles on that after a quick search.
This is the year of Linux on the desktop!
Seems like that is another different article about the paywalled one
Ironically, Pixels are the best phones to de-google, they are the most usable and private phones on the market.

In the case of GrapheneOS, some say it with a Pxi can be the most secure phone on the market.

Checkout:

https://GrapheneOS.org

https://CalyxOS.org

Even without ROMs, it has GMS just like every other phone, at least you don't have to deal with any bloatware or tracking from any 3rd party manufacturer.

And no, Apple isn't that much better either.
My two most hated statistical words are

1. Significant. "Statistically significant" just means "we think we measured something more than random noise because this wouldn't happen by random chance very often", a usage completely unlike any other usage of the word in English. I think it should have been "statistically suggestive" because that's all it is.

2. "Predict" - 99% of "predictions" are just inferences. They don't actually provide information that we didn't already have.
> "I also thought that having a borda count as the method of eliminating the "last place" choice in each IRV round would be kinda nifty."

That is a real thing. I don't remember the name for it though.
Should we segue into a discussion about the Nigerian Princes who flood our email inboxes on a daily basis?
Note: the pardon potentially isn’t really the big news, directing DOJ and HHS to reexamine the scheduling of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act is potentially a much bigger deal going forward.
This is a weird take considering that simulavr is still taking preorders and doesn't plan to ship until 2023. They both have non-existent products right now

Or maybe I'm wrong and they are already selling a product? I didn't see it on the website.
heroku was never touted as an edge platform, where are you getting this idea from?

There have been many trends in software, some stay, some go, some evolve

Maybe you are conflating "edge" with "serverless" and over applying the latest buzzword? None of the technologies you have mentioned are "edge" and telecoms have been doing edge since before it had a buzzword.

It's all about deployment and running infra. The "edge" has a lot of complications, and while closer in spirit to the early internet, we gravitated towards centrally controlled compute because it is much easier to manage and maintain at scale. See other comments for why
The system in London works well enough when you are staying in the city. But the gates are difficult to use if you are traveling with luggage. And I don't really like having to validate the ticket twice on each trip. I prefer a honor system where you can simply board the train without any additional hassle.
Kiwix is an amazing project.

I used a similar approach for https://wikiscroll.blankenship.io

1. kiwix dump

2. unpack to HTML

3. process with cheerio to create json files

4. Create git repo and push to github pages

Works well for infinitely scrolling content, it's just Math.random on top of static files.

https://github.com/retrohacker/wikiscroll
Bush II caused much more harm by starting two unjustifiable wars. The victims just weren't American.
See also https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/what-are-the-odds/
True! But it might also grind the company's ability to release features to a halt creating a stagnant stock price and an underwhelming IPO because they chose to avoid the hard work of migrating, refactoring, and simplifying, or setting a culture of maintainable code preferring more easily marketable (and probably more fun and less failure prone) feature work that also looks much better on a resume.
Especially if you didn't know which one you were going to get. Plug it in for a big surprise! (From a verifiable manufacturer who has their customers' happiness and enjoyment at heart)
Being assertive is fine, but surely starting off with telling an officer to go fuck themselves as your opening gambit is a bit bold?
It will be interesting to see how well it holds up to prolonged testing. There have been numerous previous attempts at this sort of thing and they have all failed. It turns out to be highly significant because the added cost of preparing, testing, inspecting, and then replacing any damaged parts in contact with the liquid sodium adds up to a considerable expense that challenges the business case for the reactor in the first place. Good that this is being worked on, but bad they seem not to be aware of the serious problems other molten sodium reactors have faced.
Mentality change on marijuana? Well down that path already.
It's so bad it's kinda cool. Gives me Lindows Rock vibes.

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSdRTOh2jeA
I don't know what you're talking about
Ironic considering the hostility of free market evangelists to any sort of industrial policy.
Probably on the 7A.
Just like how they did it with the 6A, which was a bad deal because how off the Norma Pixel 6 was on sale.

Other choices with a headphone jacks are unfortunately limited, you have Sony, but their phones are super Expensive, not well supported and availability isn't the best.
If the problem was ballot exhaustion, couldn't that have been solved by doing what Australia does, i.e. asking voters to rank all the candidates? That doesn't seem like a problem with instant runoff voting itself.
Sure, at that point nuclear power is cheaper building and maintaining that grid.
Oooh I know.

Cacheless
Stuff leaks across the boundary in a stimulus dependent manner though. So it's basically setting dStuff / dt = Stimulus. Monitoring stuff-levels then allows it to monitor area under stimulus curve. Quite fascinating if you ask me.
Don't give them new idea for a new Sharknado Spinoff Sharknado: The Rising Shark
> Fedora is such a clear choice for those who want to use GNOME without all of the non-standard crap Canonical insists on tacking onto the DE and the overall environment.

I think you've gotten unintentionally close to answering GP's question, and your own.

By virtue of Fedora being the literal upstream of RHEL and getting lots of attention from the RedHat guys, it is (IMO, YMMV) both a big testing ground for new RedHat software, and also pushes new software versions and features probably more aggressively than any distro except rolling release ones.

Keep in mind, software like SystemD, NetworkManager, D-Bus, the PAM implementation most distros use (Wikipedia claims some use the BSD openPAM implementation, can't find those though), PolKit, and others seem to have pretty big financial or engineering support from RedHat. Fedora ends up effectively being "the lowest common denominator" in the sense that most other distros end up being "like Fedora but with <x> replaced with <y>".

The sometimes bleeding edge feature set and use of new functionality (like Wayland, systemd-resolved, pipewire off the top of my head) can make it a bit less "beginner friendly", potentially, than a more conservative distro. It also makes it very appealing if you want to understand the "technical side of Linux", since anything you learn on Fedora will probably transfer more easily to other distros than vice versa, even if Fedora is more convoluted and full of cruft.

That's my takeaway, at least. Compared to Arch, a given release of Fedora will have about as up-to-date versions of major software, with the benefit of release engineering. Rolling release is a drug not everyone is strong enough to take...

edit thoughts: I want to be clear, the projects that RedHat either started or is heavily involved with usually have a lot of community involvement too. I don't want to minimize the importance of other contributors, just pointing out RedHat does a decent amount of work in several low level components of "GNU/Linux"
From your link, the FTC says:

> "Meta already owns a best-selling virtual reality fitness app, and it had the capabilities to compete even more closely with Within’s popular Supernatural app. But Meta chose to buy market position instead of earning it on the merits."

I don't buy that VR is so young, we're a couple generations in now on multiple platforms. There are still new entrants in the space, which is good, and they would be negatively impacted if there were less established independent developers. Facebook had a head start, and they're trying their best to lock up the market before Apple/others enter it.
The 10x engineer identifies common subproblems across different problems, and then creates a layer of reusable code which becomes a library. Then uses this library to write code 10x faster.

The 10x engineer tries to standardize problems and solve them en-masse.

The 1x engineer sees every problem as a different problem that requires a different solution.

The 10x engineer talks about abstractions, the 1x engineer talks about concrete implementations.

The 10x engineer believes in investing in productivity. The 1x engineer wants a visible solution right now.

The 1x engineer never has time because they're too busy making themselves less productive by owning more and more code to maintain. The 10x engineer is always looking for code to remove and refactor, and making the solution as small as possible.

The 10x engineer will talk about programming language features and libraries that promote reusability, the 1x engineer only talks about tangible stuff.

The 1x engineer talks about their car and weekend, the 10x engineer talks about technology.
Japan gov't asks firms to raise wages to match inflation
> and pardoning those convicted of simple possession without preventing somebody tomorrow from being arrested for simple possession.

He is also directing the AG and Secretary of HHS is reexamine the scheduling of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act which is the process in law which is needed to change the legal regime applicable to it without Congressional action.

He’s not a dictator who can rewrite law at a whim.
Yes, of course higher salaries incentivize people to grind leetcode and tolerate office politics who otherwise might not.
Check at the bottom: "More information: Kaito Kikuchi et al, Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals, Science (2022)"
I’m not sure but currently planning 16 or 18.

The internet is a terrible place.
The purpose of voting is to deflect responsibility for failures of governance to the governed. After all, they're the ones who put those people in charge, so they're responsible. It's also to take away much of the historic reasoning for revolutions. Who is being overthrown when it is the people who elect the government? The fun trick with representative democracy has been the weaponization of psychology to control the possible outcomes of the public electing their leaders.
Chat log exhibits from Twitter vs. Musk case
WhatsApp didn’t need a big team. Just one counter example.
No, he needed a Steve Jobs. “Real ground breaking computer engineers ship!”
This website seems like it was made by someone who doesn’t know very much about computers
I find the font very visually appealing at larger (heading, not enlarged paragraph) sizes, but agree even then it’s harder to read than more common choices. The part I think most makes it difficult is the very high x-height to cap-height ratio, then the very low descender to everything ratio. That already makes different letters harder to distinguish, even they didn’t all have very similar curves and understated distinguishing features. It works really well for 1-3 branding words, and it’s very visually striking. But I wouldn’t consider it for much beyond that.
Noise dampening? Yeah plenty exist. There's a hard limit of about 30db reduction passively unless you also plug your mouth, nostrils, and wear a helmet around your skull. But noise reduction/dampening does not mean the same thing as active noise canceling.

For ANC you need a microphone very close to the ear and some sort of chip to process that and apply it inversely to the speaker. There would just be too much delay if the sound waves have to make a round trip more than a few mm
Yes, it's quite easy in sh:

[update: same program also works in python and ruby]
Please change the headline to "Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals" per Hacker News guidelines.

From the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
There's power efficiency reasons to prefer a more modern CPU. It's not that you need the speed, at all. It's the nanometer / process size. The more tightly packed the transitors are, the shorter distance electrons have to flow and so requires less energy.

This watch is more expensive, by a lot, but will also consume more battery than other current generation watches.
It is a shame that until now the software industry has not figure out how to reliably perform automatic memory management or GC. Unlike the auto industry the manual transmission is going to a dinasour route compared to the now default automatic transmission.

I am giving this analogy since Walter has a degree in mechanical engineering and he has correctly made the GC a default in D but not mandatory, but the choice somehow is not popular in the software industry.
>> Does NTFS really have a 4GB file size limit?

No, but FAT32 does. Exfat, on the other hand has a file size limit of 16 exibibytes. That, combined with exfat's cross-platform mounting (NTFS has a lot of limitations in this regard) makes it a superior formatting system for flash based offline file transfer.

On a network? Use zfs+ or something.
I don’t have a gaming pc and I never leave the house. But at the same time I’m very tempted to get this! All I do is play Stardew and Minecraft.
Influencing tip for engineers: Help others see what you see
When your expertise applies to the qualitative aspects of a product or service, it can be a challenge to articulate the importance of issues. Here's an approach that may help you.
For your mother, chromeOS with it's support for android apps and very low maintenance is probably better.

One interesting use case for linux is if you want to run early stage stuff developers wrote. Thats easier with linux.

Maybe there's some practical value in that for non-developers. Not sure.
It's almost like they're not the same people in the same group.
> Yeah, but hopefully the symbolic value adds to the momentum for actual decriminalization, sooner or later.

He’s directed the officials that are empowered by law to change its status without Congress doing anything to begin the process by which that would happen. So, its not just a symbolic act that may effect that sooner or later.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl7484
Fully legalizing marijuana does require legislative action. The executive might have the power to ask the FDA to remove it from schedule 1, but by international treaty (ratified by the legislature) the US is required to enforce restrictions against marijuna according to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
And a lot of it, apparently

> The nano factory is currently in the Netherlands, in the middle of its first trial producing liquid bouillon, a cooked stock packed in a bottle. Unilever says the factory is making around 300 tons of bouillon per eight-hour shift.

If I'm google correctly a 40ft container has 70m³ of volume (i.e. 70 tonnes of water), but can produce 300 tonnes of liquid bullion (~4x the volume of the container) in just 8 hours.

I suppose they're not boiling it for as long as a homecook would?
Such an amazing piece of writing. I think it's also the longest piece Wired ever published.
Using manim and Python to create animation
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That seems like a really bad sign, tbh.
More and more cities like Sydney and Singapore accept credit cards NFC for payment. Tap and go, zero setup required.
The website refers to Office 365 as "Office 360". That's not a typo, of course.
> That's because the editors they worked with, and others he discussed such things, had a pattern to cross off specific things (regardless of whether both author and editor agreed they were bad), and those "crossing offs" revealed not just an editorial hand, but also an underlying ethics/ideology behind what they chose to focus on...

That's obviously not exclusively true. Otherwise the sole purpose of the editor would be pure ideological shifts. That would be dumb. Ergo I conclude most of the edits are just competent editor edits.

> Way to miss the whole argument.

And I'm saying the author seems like a sensitive soul that has jumped the gun far too quickly. His argument is incorrect.
Show HN: Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus
You can easily work 13 hours a week if you are willing to enjoy early 20th century living standards! The gains from productivity are distributed between extra leisure time and extra material benefits.
Kpatch is fully open

https://github.com/dynup/kpatch

But if you mean the Kernel patch packages themselves, then you are right, looks like there are no free patch packages that one can just download and use.
In its current state, it might be quite lethal by virtue of causing opposing troops to burst with laughter.
Ask if someone in your team could pair program with you. This is 100% the fastest way to get up-to-speed in large codebases
A stalemate between staff engineers isn't a technical problem.

Sounds like the bright line is the problem.