skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be kind of a masterpiece.

Try the direct links on this page to each PDF:

https://www.gitec-forum-eng.de/the-book/

He goes into good detail on the magnetic pickups, and also has quite a bit on the vacuum tubes and high voltage amplifiers that go with them.

For tubes a good place to start would be the "Input Tube":

https://www.gitec-forum-eng.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/po...

He starts with a comparison to a solid-state FET, which may be most useful to "assist the solid-state-expert" but the discussion gets less technical from there and ends up recognizing some of the superstition that has persisted to muddy the waters into the 21st century.

I could go a little further on this little topic and it may clear up a little superstition if there is any interest.
Precisely. It is interesting it is not more given the history and proximity to Morocco. It is interesting it is not less given the expulsions and forced conversions.
It’s not the pursuit of growth that matters, but the achievement of growth.

Companies need to grow in places because they will inevitably be shrinking in some places (as customers age or churn out, as competitors come in to compete in segments, as new substitutive goods compete for wallet share).

Even if you want to stay the same size, you will have some amount of growth in your strategy (or you’ll fail).
Something I would like to add to my original point, and why I think this is "anti trust". During the last 10 years there has been a proactive move to remove controls and visibility from advertisers, moving towards a black box algorithm. At the same time Google have a (near) monopoly on search advertising. The supposed "auction" between advertisers is closed book and controlled by secret algorithms.

Google are the ultimate beneficiary of the auction, but don't show how it operates, what the other bids were, and how they reached a value for the placement.

On top of that as the advertiser you have been forced to give Google your full revenue numbers in order to play this game.

In my opinion Google needs breaking up, they should not be able to operate as both the marketplace/exchange and the vendor when they have a monopolistic position. The advertising marketplace/exchange should also be regulated in the same way as financial exchanges.
We use tons and tons of pharmaceuticals whose mechanism of action is poorly understood at best or in a few cases not at all.

We are even able to predict whether other compounds might work without knowing why just based on structural similarity.

It’s ideal to know the full mechanism and it obviously aids engineering but there’s no reason you have to wait for that to use something. People used fire for millennia before oxidation reduction reactions were understood.
Cupcake Land – Requiem for the Midwest in the Key of Vanilla (1987) [pdf]
This optimistic view of the Islamic world is, sadly, inaccurate. For example, as of 2013, an overwhelming majority of Muslims wish to make Sharia the law of the land:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-m...
“Tech Genius” Comic Strip by Tom Gauld
My best ever manager was both. Radically transparent but also a human shield against the onslaught of political bullshit that was going on. He made it clear what we were up against, stood tall for us but also told us when he did all he could and we were going to have to deal with whatever decision was coming down from on high.

Day to day shielding from nonsense wasn't his best feature but it was a contributing factor in having such a productive relationship.
Hadn’t it been thoroughly studied and understood for over 100 years at that point? Ben Franklin was studying it, after all.
My thoughts as well. Thought it might have been the same Node UI library being used, even.

Not that this is a bad thing. Blender's is quite nice.
This is unironically a very good point.

The intolerance that many trans-rights activists show to those who don't accept that a man with a 'female gender identity' is a woman is similar to the intolerance that many followers of Islam show to non-believers.

No-one on the gender critical side has been beheaded yet, but there is a surprisingly large "kill the terfs" movement that parallels the extremism of Islamists.
Yes. That one sucks too. They both suck. It's not a zero sum game, religious beliefs are not a good basis for societal norm regardless of the name of the religion.
Or C++

/gasp
https://imgflip.com/i/76qp89
A bit off topic but I would love to see the conciseness of the python polars API make it into rust. Mapping custom functions over a series is incredibly painful.
> For Wolfenstein 3D at least

Not just Wolfenstein 3D, the same thing happened even with the Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus

But that law was retarded and they recently repealed it. It's now okay to depict fictional nazis and nazi iconography even in Germany.
I disagree it’s a very limited setting.

We are constantly moving to less constrained problems. What used to be a very limited setting is now perhaps a somewhat limited one. The options aren’t binary chose of using A* for pathing in a video game or AGI, it’s finding ever more generalizable solutions to ever wider range of problems.

The thing is as processing power keeps improving we need ever fewer limits to active human levels of performance from these systems. I don’t think AGI is just waiting for sufficient flops, but I think that’s closer to the truth than we want to admit.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23541379/lenovo-thinkbook-... says: "Just don’t expect Kindle battery life out of a laptop like this since you’ve got the overhead of running Windows on its 13th Gen Intel processor (and up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage) rather than a simple e-reader chip. Lenovo’s estimating up to 21 hours of battery life from its 56Wh battery using the E Ink screen, and it isn’t providing context about what kind of content can run for 21 hours at a time."
Those formulations are indeed more common, but also equivalent to the ones I gave:

- "Loss of purchasing power" is a fancy way of saying "people don't want your money as much as they used to", i.e. low demand for cash.

- Similarly, "economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduce" are complicated words for "people more and more prefer to hold on to the money they have rather than exchange it for other stuff", i.e. increasing demand for cash.

The reason I phrased it the way I did is that it helps highlight how a recession is the way out of inflation.
There are ways of storing hydrogen in metal hydrides at room temperature and pressure. This makes a LOT of sense for people who may want to have an option of buying stored energy - such as those who live in apartments without access to the terraces where solar panels can be deployed.

If these metal hydride storage is used similar to how changeable batteries are used, it is conceivable that you could drive up to a place like a fuel station just to change out your metal hydride storage in a matter of a couple of minutes and perhaps even get additional supplementary units packed at the back of the vehicle if they intend to go on a long journey.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2021.6161...

There has also been recent advances in using Boron Nitride for storage - a perfectly safe chemical.

https://www.geelongmanufacturingcouncil.com.au/2022/07/innov...
People expect their assets to earn 7%+ per year, both via individual retirement accounts and taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions. If that assumption is not met, then those debts cannot be repaid, which means someone (or everyone) has to take a hit on quality of life. This is politically unpopular because people get disappointed when their expectations are not met.
And the impact on the pension system. 5 more years will easily mean 15-25% higher payout that needs to be funded.
In this case, it’s not so much the mechanisms of pharma we wouldn’t know, but what it is we’re even trying to cure - not having a definition of the disease or it’s symptoms and yet trying to engineer a cure would be pretty insane.
Rename Lisp to Heap-p, Polyp, Matrixp, or Affinep
I'm describing games like World of Warcraft, where I spent WAY too much time grinding for some elusive drop to get to the next quest in the chain. It's amazing how many wolves you can kill in Azeroth without finding a single paw :D

I would've gladly paid money to skip that bit and get to the fun parts even then and I was a mostly broke student at the time.

Now I play mostly story-driven single player games that don't rely on fetch quests to pad the runtime. Or games that really don't have an ending like Factorio, Dwarf Fortress and the like.
Yes, algebraising your control flow to become independent of implementation details like that is a possibility. Of course, you need a language that makes that a) easy, b) performant.
I've said it in the past and I will say it again. "Gender affirming" surgeries will be looked at in a couple of decades the way lobotomy is being looked at now.

This is a clear result of the over-representation of the left in popular media and educational institutes, resulting from the previous over-representation of the right.
> troubled social media company

I think it's interesting that this is the new narrative about the state of the company. I don't recall this being a common consensus before the acquisition, but likely tied to the financial revelations made public during/after the acquisition.
This pessimistic view of Islam is equally inaccurate. From your own link:

> In most regions, fewer favor other specific aspects of sharia, such as cutting off the hands of thieves and executing people who convert from Islam to another faith.

Just as most Christians believe that Christian values should guide the law of the land they live in and just as most Christians don't support setting bears on children that mock priests.
I think the uncomfortable reality is that managers deal with a workforce who are not actually aligned to business outcome incentives (no meaningful ownership stake, usual reward of harder work is more work, etc) which ends up taking a lot of “work” to manage (finding quick fix issues and cheap rewards for workers, mythologizing the work, intimidating performance outcomes, getting workers to talk with them about issues instead of with their peers, etc)
> The idea that software doesn't need maintenance (for any reasonable definition of maintenance) is ludicrous.

Fortunately this idea is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
Fuel cell vehicles sill need hydrogen to generate the electricity.

Hyrdogen has about 80% losses from electricity to wheels. When 55kWh of electricity is used to generate hydrogen and that is used in a Toyota Mirai to move the car, only 11kWh ends up at the wheels.

If you do that same with a Hyundai Ioniq 5, all 55kWh (minus some transfer losses) get to the wheels.
>When that something that you want to quit spending money on can be characterized as "other people who I don't identify with"

Everyone wants to spend money on something or someone they identify with. It's not like the left has showed any leniency against those it deems unworthy.
Any good resources to get started
Probably not unrelated to the ideological offenses of new ownership.
> 1. I always thought that common vulnerabilities like Spectre were a problem with implementation (a certain way to do speculative execution) rather than with the ISA. How is RISC-V ISA supposed to solve these kind of issues?

They are implementation dependent but the architecure can help. It can provides guarantees about the ways in which speculation is limited and provide features to help software isolate speculation (if you download the arm ARM here: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest and look at section A2.2.1 which lists post v8.0 architecture additions you'll see a whole bunch of stuff around speculative execution for instance.

The RISC-V ISA doesn't inherently resolve these issues, indeed I don't think it says anything on speculative execution, provide certain features and and guarantees to help isolate it (like arm does).

> 2. I do not understand how openness of RISC-V makes it easier to find bugs in the ISA. For example, ARM ISA is fully described in a publicly available documents. What is stopping a security researcher from analysing the ARM specification and pointing out issues at the ISA level? Or do they mean that it's easier to analyse open-sources RISC-V implementations rather than ISA spec?

I don't think the ISA openness helps you much or at all here, researchers analyse x86 and arm all the time and publish results. I think they're mixing up open ISA with open design and with the latter, yes it does make it easier for external parties to find security issues.
>No, their suggestion wasn't convincing.

I disagree, but given that it's a subjective technical decision I don't think we're going to be able to find any kind of objective call as to what the right decision was.

The problem is that all technical decisions involve balancing the requirements of multiple parties and if your ethical framework is "Gnome is all volunteers they can do what they want" that makes them completely immune to any sort of criticism. Yes, I concede that they are free to do whatever they want, but that doesn't free them from criticism.

But hey, if you want to come up with some kind of objective moral framework for us to work in that's fine.

>Subjective as in, not based in any provable facts.

Do you think that the choice to not implement XDG-decoration is based on probable facts? Because it is also a subjective call. Maybe go read some lesswrong until you have a better handle on how to deal with subjectivity in debate: https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
The coming wave of next-generation gene therapy and its implications. I think it might not arrive in full in 20-50 years, but eventually a point will arrive when we will be discussing reversion of somatic mutations and its implications for aging, and wrestling with what it means to be a "bad person" when the means of changing self and personal identity are within society's ability. It's one thing for our notions of justice and worth to point to ideas (implicit or explicit) about a particular person as an immutable quantity; it's another to not have any excuses, environmental or genetic, for changing that, even deep into development, especially when aging is slowed dramatically. Society is going to have to wrestle with some deep issues that aren't being addressed at the moment.

Am I working on it? I guess I don't know how to best do it in terms of my abilities, opportunities, and impact (writing? nonfiction or fiction? research? if so how?) and also feel pushed out of the loop in some ways that I've tried.
If this mattered, then we should just limit everyone to 30 years. Why stop there?

This is insane thought path under the guise of caring for the planet.
Subby submitted the wrong part of the title:

> Content moderation teams in Singapore, Dublin see job cuts
>Eg we need to allow Wal-Mart to open bank accounts

Walmart is allowed to offer bank account in the US. They can even buy an existing small bank and spin it up tomorrow.
I'd guess there's a race condition that causes the eyes to end up closed, because the 'delay' can sometimes be less than 150 and `blink` gets called while it's already executing (so `src` ends up being the blink version). A simple fix would be adding `await` to `blink()` if that's the case!

BTW, I made a vanilla JS version for fun, without jQuery or promises (untested)

function blinktimer() {
var avatar = document.querySelector(" .avatar ");
var srcBlink = '/images/dadi-avatar_blink.png';
var blink = function() {
console.log("BLINK!");
var srcOpen = avatar.src;
avatar.src = srcBlink;
setTimeout(function() {
avatar.src = srcOpen;
var delay = (Math.random() * 11000) | 0;
setTimeout(blink, delay);
}, 150);
}
var delay = (Math.random() * 11000) | 0;
setTimeout(blink, delay);
}
Ask HN: Which subjects do you plan to learn in 2023?
Subjects that are on your to do list and you wish to learn in order to expand the horizon of your knowledge and capabilities.

Do you have specific books or courses that you plan to use for learning those subjects?

A brief explanation regarding why you chose to learn that subject would be helpful.
What are other examples of things we engineer before knowing what they are? I’m honestly having trouble thinking of any.

And I think it’s a shame we haven’t considered what the limits are on “intelligence” very much. Knowing them has been immeasurably valuable in software engineering and algorithms, for one.
Ideological offenses like not paying rent at offices?
You're right, I shouldn't be generalising.

> Lots of Muslims do not believe that Shariah law should be applied.

I feel that one big difference of Islam is that it makes the rules very explicit, from how the government should be organized to the last detail of how you should wash your hands (and how often). Christianity, on the other hand, has very few concrete regulations, but instead a ton of metaphysical, mystical and ethical things from which people are trying to deduce those regulations.

So Christianity was easier to steer away from being a concrete manual for life to being a philosophical thing, a matter of choice that people who live within secular ethical framework can voluntarily practice. My question is, if you do the same to Islam will it still be Islam given how deeply the practical instructions are ebedded in it?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I have a rather rudimentary education in both topics.
An open ISA merely allows anyone to implement their own core without worrying about getting sued.
I wonder. Why are this classes still opened to muslim students?

Seriously. Why?. What's the point of all this drama?

Teachers risk entire careers. Risk decades of hard study and even their lives, to show students concepts like free speech and different points of view.

Students don't seem to appreciate the effort. Each single time, somebody will feel justified to use this situation to feel outraged and punish the teacher. Their families will use it politically and ask for public lynching. Is always the same history.

Wouldn't be more wise for the university to apply a self-defence stance and made muslim students to pick a different class. Period. No exceptions?

Save yourself all the bullying, and the undesirable publicity. Why to be forced to burn valuable human resources in a war that is not your war?. Why universities still accept the role of the dummy punching bag in this history? They should know better.

Wouldn't be better also for muslim students not to force them to choose between the university and their families?
> With a startup you can always try to pivot

You can do this in gamedev as well.

A high budget example would be Fortnite which pivoted to a Battle Royale version of the original, vastly less successful, game. A lower budget example would be Proteus, originally a failed attempt to write an RPG that pivoted into something quite different.

Discord is an example of a game company pivoting from a failed MOBA to a more traditional tech company.
Nationalists and communists have these grand top down views of their economies. The problem is that they ruin a lot of smaller industries in pursuit of their grand vision. Capitalism turned out be be a superior system and it's not top down!

The best way to solve this "tragedy of the commons" problem is through a tax where a market system can determine what should be changed.

Yes, the article is not a realistic solution, but neither is closing coal plants (without replacing them with something else).
They should do the math and show us by making the full case.
Ask HN: How are you doing your computing?
For example;

- What OS are you running daily?

- How do you manage your computer?

- How do you manage your homelab( if you have one)?
Impressive. It’s not that intelligent with typos however. I asked it “what is ozontel?” and it answered “ Sorry! I have not learnt enough from this website to answer this confidently. The below links may have an answer to your query”
Electron was discovered 1897 but the first lightbulb was 1802.

There are more examples as well, as another user has commented, we didn't know what fire is until relatively recently but we have been using it for thousands of years.
Average tax rate in the US appears to be less than 20%
They are not "for complete marriages," they are questions that when asked and answered make the participation feel emotionally/romantically close to each other.
We have a very clear objective for a lot of this AI stuff. For the rest like the Stable Diffusion stuff it’s play.
Great point that consulting provides a window into the processes of various clients and across industry. I apologize .. did not mean to be insulting. It is not my cup of tea as I do deep tech/infra, but I appreciate how solutions are what generate value for individual firms.

Comment was really there to help kickstart discussion on what jobs/sectors/companies will continue to hire (e.g. someone posted an insight that defense demand is strong). I still have my job at a big name tech firm but I don't know how others (or myself) will be able to get a job at the same/similar brand (doing AI/infra) in the next year. As others have commented, companies benefiting from low-interest, high demand will be under belt-tightening for a while (not even sure if we will be out of this mess in a year).
watch the movie/documentary called "Indie Game" on Netflix
Community building, got a couple of books i want to read
Shell Script Basics
Well structurally taking Twitter private has increased expenses by $1bil (the interest on loans) against last year's ~$6bil in revenue, so that alone is going to change the health of the company.

On top of that Musk has given guidance that he expects revenue to fall from $6b in 2022 to $3b in 2023. (This seems dramatic TBH)

I don't think there were revelations (this is all public info), the transaction just changed the fundamentals.
Their argument that Turing machines cannot be free from immediacy doesn't make sense to me.

They say that "there are no actions that emanate from the historicity of internal organization". I have no idea what that means. Is this an argument about free will? If so, what would be the magic ingredient that saves human brains from immediacy? It can't be memory, because Turing machines have memory as well.

From the article:

> it is generally assumed that input-output
processing is performed by some sort of algorithm that can be
implemented on a universal Turing machine. The problem is
that such algorithmic systems have no freedom from immediacy,
since all their outputs are determined entirely—even though
often in intricate and probabilistic ways—by the inputs of the
system. There are no actions that emanate from the historicity
of internal organization. There is, therefore, no agency at all in
an AI “agent.”
It's britneybitch.
It's directly tied to the $1B/yr in additional interest payments being incurred by the debt used to finance the acquisition. Twitter pre-Elon was profitable. Twitter post-Elon is bleeding cash.
I recommend medical imaging as a subset of those. But perhaps unlike robotics and computer vision, there’s less possibility to learn as you go.
Sounds like a tactic to get the landlords to evict Twitter rather than work through the original lease.