skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum is not the most intuitive thing to discuss. And frankly a quantum theory without complex, solid maths behind it might as well be a fairy tale.

In the context of how atoms work without having electrons that lose charge and fall into nuclei, how different atoms absorb / emit different colors/wavelengths of light:

The simplest theory is that they just are this way. Just fix up the existing "codebase" to accommodate for this observed fact. So they just said electrons has discrete energy states and orbits to choose from.

It's literally the simplest way to accommodate the observed fact that electrons do not fall into nuclei.

It led to super complex Maths and predictions about black holes, and seemingly conflicts with general relativity. But, Can you think of anything more intuitive?
I'm waiting for the day when TSMC starts asking 30% of revenue for using their FabStore. Or ASML, for that matter.
As an American, I've never seen more than maybe 2-3 football fields next to each other. They're usually stand alone items so that is even rare. Imagining them in plural at all is something people likely do with a large degree of error is my guess, even for us American's that are familiar with the size of a single field. It's a awfully small unit for anything related to space. Even a kilometer which is ~11x as long as an American football field is a small unit for space.
Mandatory reminder of the Piracy Warning from The IT Crowd:

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
Build it on your own computer, rsync the result to your vps
See my sibling comment about the promising research and thanks a lot for the snarky, uninformed response.
Redis and Mongo have tried this - see https://redis.com/legal/licenses/

Officially they are not OSI approved but they go straight to the heart of the issue :

>>> has only two primary limitations. You may not:

Commercialize the software or provide it to others as a managed service
Remove or obscure any licensing, copyright, or other notices
Mirasol is such a neat technology. As far as I've seen though it's kinda awful at off-angle color/contrast/etc. I'm not sure if that's a product maturity thing or a fundamental tech limitation... but I kinda suspect tech limitation.
”The information highway will extend the electronic marketplace and make it the ultimate go-between, the universal middleman. Often the only humans involved in a transaction will be the actual buyer and seller. All the goods for sale in the world will be available for you to examine, compare, and, often, customize. When you want to buy something you’ll be able to tell your computer to find it for you at the best price offered by any acceptable source or ask your computer to ‘haggle’ with the computers of various sellers. Information about venders and their products will be available to any computer connected to the highway. Servers distributed worldwide will accept bids, resolve offers into completed transactions, control authentication and security, and handle all other aspects of the marketplace, including the transfer of funds. This will carry us into a new world of low-friction, low-overhead capitalism, in which market information will be plentiful and transaction costs low. It will be a shopper’s heaven.” -- Bill Gates, 1995
While I appreciate that joke (and likewise can't stand the ad loading of modern tv), OP may well use a stream box like a chromecast, roku, or firestick, or even a game console to do their watching through a plain dumb tv.
Liquid hydrogen takes 4x the volume of standard aviation kerosene. Coming up with on-jet liquid storage of hydrogen of that volume is a rather steep engineering hurdle. And hydrogen, liquid or not, will require some rather impressive storage and handling techniques at the airport.

If I were to bet, I would say that converting hydrogen to kerosene will be far cheaper and more efficient than trying to power long distance flight with hydrogen
The only compatibility issue for web development I've run into is database drivers.

For PostgreSQL, psycopg2 is not supported. psycopg2cffi is largely unmaintained, and the 2.9.0 version in PyPI lacks some newer features of psycopg2: the `psycopg2.sql` module and empty result sets raise a RuntimeError in Python 3.7+. The latest commit in on Github does have these changes [1]. Psycopg 3 [2] and pg8000 [3] (as user tlocke mentioned elsewhere) are viable alternates provided you aren't stuck with older versions of PostgreSQL. I have to continue use psycopg2cffi until I can upgrade an old PostgreSQL 9.4 database.

For Microsoft SQL Server, pymssql does not support PyPy [4]. It's under new maintainership so it might gain support in the future. pypyodbc hasn't had any activity since 2022, and no new PyPI release since 2021 [5]. The datatypes returned can differ between libodbc1 versions. On Ubuntu 18.04 in particular: empty string columns are returned as a single space, integer columns are returned as a Decimal. Also, if you encounter a mysterious HY010 error ("Function sequence error"), you may need to upgrade libodbc1 to v2.3.7+ from v2.3.4 using the Microsoft repos.

[1]: https://github.com/chtd/psycopg2cffi
[2]: https://pypi.org/project/psycopg/
[3]: https://pypi.org/project/pg8000/
[4]: https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql/pull/517
[5]: https://pypi.org/project/pypyodbc/
I never made the switch from 10 to 11 and everything I've heard tells me that I made the absolutely correct decision. (I only have Windows at all for my video games.) If MS discontinues support for Windows 10 or tries to force me to go to 11, then I will simply switch to only using Linux, video games be damned.
> That technically breaks ARM spec

It does not (or it wouldn't be there) and they aren't the only ARM vendor with TSO (Fujitsu also does it.)
Cloudflare solves this for free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati...
"If a user makes a request from Europe, and the apps run in US East, that adds an extra 100-150ms of latency just by round-tripping across the Atlantic."

laughs in Rural New Zealand

But seriously really enjoyed this article. I was always a bit confused how the recent influx of edge services handled writes/consistency, and yeah they all seem to have a single leader that routes writes to them - the edge is all about fast reading.
Sick and tired of getting flagged whenever I mention this one, there, it's an official link

Here the paper describing what awaits us: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/january-2022-cbd...

"Federal Reserve policymakers and staff have studied CBDC closely for several years"

It's not new, and the birth of Bitcoin is no coincidence

So please let us discuss it instead of trying to pretend this is a conspiracy theory
LandChad: Tutorials for easily setting up websites and services
> And FYI, they’d be subsidizing it heavily if any meaningful quantity of cellulosic ethanol could be produced.

I'm not so sure. That would introduce competition for the corn ethanol, and there's a fairly large constituency (those having their corn production subsidised) that would oppose this kind of measure.
The earth may have survived those changes, but not all its inhabitants may have. So there definitely is still reason to worry as far as humanity is concerned.

The major ecological shifts may bring change humanity does not bounce back from.
>>"The doomsday cult saying we are all going to die, or that every single heat wave and natural disaster can be pinned on extra carbon, are just yet another in a long line of apocalyptic predictors"

The problem with this argument is that 'humans' surviving, is different than 'our nice comfortable human society' surviving.

Yes, the human species as an animal that can survive by foraging, probably will survive. That isn't a great argument.
What? Sharing the difficulties you encountered is helpful for other researchers and for replication studies. The goal of a paper is to share your findings in a manner that is clear and helps advance knowledge in your field, and frequently the most important thing you can share is how you performed your experiment followed by why you chose to perform that experiment and whether it conformed to your expectations or not.

Having personally gone through a couple years of lab classes; no, not really. Lord knows your professors may try but at least in my experience the profundity is lost on students. You get a lovely tour of scientific concensus, but most people see the experiments as being fore-ordained or like a recipe.

To put it more simply university lab classes demonstrate so many things that are true that people sometimes never realize that science is a method for disproving things.
Note that LaTeX2e is just a set of commands, a bunch of which are absolutely ridiculous to use in plain LaTeX, and simply not used when using LaTeX in conjunction with XeTeX as engine, because XeTeX can do things that plain TeX just can't, and so all the insanity that LaTeX2 had to invent to make TeX "do things it was never designed for" simply aren't used when you're writing XeLaTeX documents. Like everything being Unicode by default, no packages/macros/special affordances required. Including not needing stuff like \hat{...} or \grave{...} because those make no sense when everything's Unicode: just write text. Or having direct font access instead of needing to go through the horrendously outdated TeX font metric concept.
If you want an inferior experience due to DRM you could absolutely do that. [1]

Please don't grease the wheels of the attestation hype train.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/n8ilcz/4kuhd_on_li...
I mostly agree... I'm not necessarily dogmatic about closed source software or services, but definitely in favor of always having an exit strategy, even if more painful.
i completely agree. use the right tool for the job. if you need significantly dynamic content, you should consider another framework such as rails (as the author indicates).

if netlify is being portrayed as the only platform to deploy a statically generated site from git commit, then i suppose yes, the sane defaults of these frameworks are not the right tool _for you_.
How would it be better? Lots of names for people & things include spaces, so file names related to those people or things naturally would also include spaces. John Smith's name is John Smith, not John_Smith or JohnSmith or johnsmith or any other mangling.
I note that on the books title, it says he is the author of this book:

https://archive.org/details/learnedpigsfirep0000unse

Which has an amazing title.
OpenAI will crush Sarah Silverman
What exactly are the problems that you think would have been avoided? As far as I can tell, the stumbling block to v6 adoption is just the fact that v6-only and v4-only hosts can't communicate without help, and you would have that problem in any form of "v4 with more octets".

Sure, v6 made a few other changes, but why do you think those are the problem?
Why can't you just plug a Linux box into your TV and use that?

Like am I taking crazy pills. I got fed up with the madness of all the streaming sticks, and putting in my password with a crappy remote and ended up dropping $300 on an old desktop from a discount computer store. Spent an hour throwing Ubuntu on it, and now bam, works like a charm.

I put the youtube, PBS Kids, and Disney+ (which we later removed) icons on the side so the kids can use it easy.

I can stream Hulu if I had an account, I can watch my Disney+, I can watch youtube, I can watch Netflix if I wanted to. Plus I can play steam games on it, set a fun screensaver. Loads of things.

The best part is I no longer have to try and put in a 12 character password with mixed case, numbers and symbols over a freaking TV remote.

EDIT:
Well this blew up more than expected. Many people are pointing out the issues with the quality. I'll be honest I don't care that much about quality, most of the streaming consumption in our house is Wild Kratts, and Bluey anyway.

Beyond that though is that I have to have a slightly worse quality, (meaning orders of magnitude better than the VHS I grew up on) to be able to own my computing device, to be able to have the freedom I want to use it. It's a price I'll happily pay. If they day comes that the streamers decide it's not worth it, then at that day I'll be turning it off and going to the Uncle Ted route of things.
Do you feel the same about traditional bicycles (not e-bikes)? Practically all e-bikes are limited to 20-25mph, so practically I don't understand what the difference would be between the two.

As someone who is trying to commute more with a traditional bicycle and less than a car, I would say that bicycles have no business being on motorways. In all but the quietest neighborhood streets, cars and bicycles just behave so differently. They move at very different speeds, and neither the motorists nor the bicyclist is ever happy when they need to negotiate on the road with one another.

Cities and states need to build up much more dedicated bicycle infrastructure, where bikes are separated from cars.
Well, the article says, Amazon already charges this wherever Amazon Publishing Services is available. The change is to extend this charge to places where Amazon Publishing Services isn't available. Then the article provides some background info about how Amazon Fire works economically. So, basically, not much new here.
> Pension/retirement arrangements where the contributions are defined but the benefits are not are a risk to the individual ... and if you get it wrong you don't have enough money in retirement.

I think this is slightly overstated. The most common outcome in this situation is that you work more, the amount of extra work being determined by the size of the error.

> In general my preference is that (as a society) we should prefer to impose risks not on individuals but on large organizations who can afford to employ people who take the time to assess those risks and make the necessary decisions, and who have the resources and timescales to be able to weather unexpected downturns. So I think defined-benefit is better than defined-contribution.

This isn’t a bad point, and is strengthened by the observation that pensions benefit from pooled risk. E.g. those that live longer are subsidized by those who unluckily die younger, so everyone on average gets away with slightly lesser contributions (or earlier retirements).

But it misses out on incentive mismatches with pensions. A pension administrator is probably not going to work at the company in question for their whole career, and their incentive career wise is probably not the long term maximization of risk adjusted return for this pension, but instead perhaps taking risky bets hoping they pay off for notoriety, or avoiding risk at all costs to avoid complaints.

And this dovetails into some really hairy aspects of pensions that aren’t often brought up.

For one, they generally punish people for alternative lifestyles. Imagine trying to be a childless person retiring early with a pension that doesn’t kick in until 65 because the typical person has kids and works that long.

Also, pensions can be discriminatory. Imagine having a disease that shortens your lifespan, like MS, or a higher risk factor for something like early onset dementia. It’s entirely possible you’re forced to contribute to a pension program you have every likelihood of not being able to benefit from in your natural lifespan.

For a more common example, women live longer than men. Should men have to contribute less for the same benefits then?
I’m confused about this page, is it just to sign up for updates for when the monitor ships? I don’t see any information on how much it costs or when it’s available.
Where are you getting that figure? Everything I had ever read on the subject puts the half-life at more like 500 (five-hundred) years. While doing a quick double-check for this comment, it seems there was one sample with the unexpectedly long observed half-life of 15,000 years, still a couple orders of magnitude less than a million years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA#Non-human_aDNA
And then be limited to 720p because you don't have the right DRM because Linux.
PyPy is for eeking our performance from vanilla python. Most dataframe libraries are already written in something low level like C or Rust (Polars) so you won't see gains (if they even run).
If you're talking about doing the playback on Ubuntu, you lose the high-definition. I guess it may not be important for you, but I expect someone who sunk a fair amount of change on a high-end TV to care.
Holding Occam's Razor constant, perhaps the meaning of "conspiracy theory" has been expanded.

Not everything has a causal chain that's 100.0% provable with publicly-available evidence. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
I’m not aware of any data that supports humans 120k years ago having a significant impact on the earths climate.

I think even our ability to start fire at will is conclusively known to be only ~50,000 years ago.
Can they just license the tech already and let someone make a laptop.

Outside working in the sun is the killer app for color e-ink
AFAIK, Google TV isn't.
By the way, the credit for hashing (the indexing technique for quickly finding items in a data set, not message digests) belongs to some person in China.

I never see this mentioned. For instance, look at the Wikipedia page on hashing; mainly some 20th century white dudes are mentioned there, and one A. D. Linh (Vietnamese-looking name) is credited with open addressing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#History

However, decades before that, Chinese character dictionaries used step-by-step algorithms for finding chinese characters in a dictionary, which are identical to hashing.

First you examine the character according to a list of precise rules, which have various cases. The cases assign numbers to parts of the character according to structural features, and those numbers are then combined to form a code, such as the "four corner code".

From the code, you can proceed directly to a page of the dictionary, where you search through a short list of characters that have the same code.

Unless there is prior art for that, that is where the credit lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-Corner_Method#Origin

"The Four-Corner Method was invented in the 1920s by Wang Yunwu, the editor in chief at Commercial Press Ltd., China. It was based on experiments by Lin Yutang and others."

The significant thing about the prior art also is that it was hashing non-textual, but rather graphical objects. A chinese character is text, of course, but the hashing method treats the features graphically. It's not looking at the etymologically correct radicals and components and using their individual code values, but purely visual features like crossings, boxes and dots.

Before the Four Corner method, there were existing numeric lookup methods for dictionaries, like using the 214 Kangxi radicals. That also a kind of proto-hashing method. However, the hashing function is difficult (you have to already know which part of the character is considered the radical and which radical that is under variation). The number of buckets is pretty large, resulting in long searches. The Four Corner Method is a refinement: you can hash any character without knowing what it its radical, and the code space is decently large to reduce the searching through collisons.
I don't have (all of) those services but they're not like for like comparable for any services using Widevine, e.g. Amazon, Netflix and Disney. A Linux install will give you access to L3 content using the browser (usually limited to 720p but you can get a 1080p stream out of Netflix using a browser extension). I think the poster was having a bit of a joke though.
It sure is me-market viable though.
The corn lobby are huge advocates for cellulosic ethanol because it means corn stover could also be made into ethanol.
Even on Uniswap, swapping 10,000 ETH ($18.5M) has just 0.9% slippage.

There is pretty decent liquidity for ETH and BTC at least, both on and off-chain.
On the Deferred Life Plan (2009)
There are a lot of degrees that fail to pay enough to cover the loans required to get them, e.g. teacher, speech language pathologist, etc. And that's a bummer because we need people like that. So we apply bandaids like PSLF to make those degrees viable. It's a mess.
This combo does the job for me: grafana + riemann + influxdb and collectd as the main agent. collectd bundles many plugins so you can watch logs, monitor running processes or have something custom [1]. This setup is very light to start with and can scale well (up until you hit influxdb limits :D).

[1] https://github.com/mbachry/collectd-systemd
> But checking the link out, it is pretty.

Yes, did you see the contrail effects? Pretty cool. And I own the game -- it's even cooler in action. And the explosions of cluster bombs raining on tanks... very satisfying!

> Incidentally, why is it that so many flight simulators are low-poly? I've seen FPS with amazing graphics, why not make flight simulators with amazing graphics as well?

For commercial games, I'm sure you know DCS and its amazing photorealistic graphics. I assume you mean indie games, and I think the answer is multiple:

- The authors want to recreate the experience from the flightsims of their childhood, which were all wireframe or flat polygons.

- Flat polygons can look pretty cool if well animated. They give a cartoon/retro vibe that many of us like.

- It's way faster to prototype and have something running on low-poly than having to deal with textures, shaders and whatnot, especially if that's not what the developer is interested in toying with.

- "Good graphics" in a flightsim can be very taxing! Developers probably just want to toy with their favorite planes, add some cool features, and have it running on a midrange computer. I can play Tiny Combat Arena at very high res with all effects maxed on a mid-range laptop from 2016! I think I probably wouldn't even be able to start DCS with this, let alone having it maxed.
He was an oddball, but he was my kind of odd and I will miss him.

The world seems strangely less friendly without him

TO this day, my kids don't pass a truck without checking for Large Marge!
It's usually just as straightforward to serve in NA and APAC as it is to serve in 10 different regions, and it's a very sane strategy --- I'm rolling out a Vault replacement inside Fly.io right now, which is in the hot path for booting VMs up anywhere, and my initial deployment strategy is just Sydney, Ashburn, and Frankfurt. So you're right, and the only nit I have is the idea that there's a conspiracy to get you to do lots of regions. I assume, like us, most cloud providers are equally psyched at the prospect of getting you up and running in 2 regions as they would be about 2 dozen.

The one thing to keep in mind here is that the software architecture considerations of going to 1 to 2 regions cover about 95% of what it takes to go from 2 to 10. To a first approx., the hard part is being plural, not how plural you are.
Kludge of Various Media?