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Perry Mehrling wrote “The New Lombard Street” covering all the new mechanics of international financial markets. It’s just as fascinating. He taught a course on the material called “Economics of Money and Banking.” I never felt I grokked the interplay between the Fed, USG, and Wall Street until I studied that course.

https://youtu.be/7iu5xWByF5g
I am afraid not. Turing awards are all theorists game, not engineers. He could get in the IEEE hall of fame though, I recommends.
I think the high speed there is due to the neutronium, not due to general relativity.
I read this book myself a few weeks ago. Ursula's work is great, it's strange that I never heard about her before.

I also finished another of her works, "The Word for World is Forest", just last week. This one is more about human nature. It is again brilliant, I could not put it down, and I highly recommend it especially to those already familiar with her writing.

I'll probably be picking up more of her books after I finish "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vinge.
So what about the sources he cites, are those also from freelance science journalists? Or are you going after the messenger because you can't attack the message?
I guess I’d depends on what “pay reasonably well” means. If you’re in the US, I don’t think you’ll be able to just walk into to any other career and make close to what you made as a developer. If you’re just looking for a decent middle class income, there might be more options, but it still seems rough.

I’ve been watching the local job market near me and it’s pretty dim. Some of the companies near me that usually hire devs aren’t really hiring devs right now, but are still hiring for adjacent business roles (think business analysts, etc.). There are a lot of management roles across all sorts of industries, but the better ones tend to want established domain experts.
I spent a lot of time on the electrical audio forums, maybe 2005-2008. I loved it. Steve was there, so was Bob, so was all sorts of other audio engineers, punks, hackers, the guy from Groupon, all sorts of people.

Steve was highly opinionated, quirky, even then, but rarely a dick (to anyone who didn't deserve it). I think he was just Steve Albini. Understandably, I think - the forums weren't moderated in the way hacker news is, it was a bit more like a wild west subreddit.
I find some humor in this being somewhat familiar with the history of clocks and watches. Forever the battle was making the most accurate time pieces possible, with wrist watches eventually reaching a few seconds per day variance before digital watches took over. And new we have something trillions of times more complicated and is performing worse
An ELI5 from ChatGPT, just given the abstract and the prompt "ELI5":

ChatGPT:
Certainly! Here's an "Explain Like I'm 5" version:

Imagine Earth is in a big cosmic playground, and there are some big rocks (called asteroids) playing around too. Some of these rocks might accidentally come too close or even hit Earth, which would be bad for us.

People have thought about ways to stop these rocks if they're coming right at us. One idea is to break the big rock into many smaller pieces before it reaches Earth. This is like breaking a big snowball into tiny snowflakes. But, there's a catch! When we break the rock, the tiny pieces don't just stay in one spot; they move around because of how things work in space.

Some scientists wanted to see how these pieces move and if they might still hit Earth. They used powerful computers to simulate what happens when the rock breaks apart. They discovered that the pieces form a shape that's like a squished ball (called a triaxial ellipsoid). How this squished ball moves and how many of its pieces might hit Earth depends on when and how we break the big rock.

The main takeaway? If we want to stop a dangerous asteroid, it's super important to choose the right time to break it apart. The best time is when the asteroid is closest to the Sun on its path around it. This will give us the best chance of having the fewest pieces hit Earth.

This research will be published in a science journal, and it helps us understand how to protect Earth from space rocks in the future.
Wodehouse is amazing. Tied with Pratchett for the best humorist writer in my opinion.

I've searched a lot to find more humorist writers but it's a very limited genre. Most comedy writing is too cynical for me. By contrast Wodehouse and Pratchett manage to be funny while also being uplifting.

Does anyone have any recommendations for not-too-cynical humorist authors beside these two?
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> Isn't modulating the light from a star the easiest way to transmit information afar? This would be the case if you want someone to notice.

We aren't doing that.
An app for language learning by reading books in the target language. It takes the book (any epub book) in the target language add inserts translations:

—Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.]

All of the existing apps that I checked only display translation upon clicking a word (like in Kindle), but that 1) doesn't work well when you're only starting to learn; 2) takes too much from the reading experience, and becomes a chore. Also, most of them only allow a limited selection of books.

I'm using it myself for over a month now, and enjoy reading with it a lot. I feel almost no friction using it, it's the usual pleasure of reading a book with added exploration of a new language.

The problems:

Translating can be hard or / and expensive. Cheaper / free translations are often incorrect, and struggle with idioms. DeepL would cost > 20€ for a long book. ChatGPT hallucinates, and adds to the original. I'm using Google Translate for now and it's good enough for me, but I don't feel it's good enough to charge for. It often mixes genders (as opposed to ChatGPT which can deduct them from context I guess), and occasionally mistranslates.

Would you want to use such app even with the often erroneous automated translations?
> There are a lot of management roles across all sorts of industries, but the better ones tend to want established domain experts.

Where do you see those? Can you give me some examples? Thank you for your comments.
Absolutely agree. Even basics like password manager instead of one password everywhere.

It is about the overall attitude. One cannot expect people to think about secure code, when they don't follow basic principles outside of the product itself.
Hydrogen is also being looked at hard by those who mine 800 million tonnes per annum of iron ore to meet the world steel demand.

That's a lot of annual fuel use.

See (for example):

https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green...

where you're looking at serious physical engineers dealing with moving Mt Fuji magnitude problems of scale with billions in the budget.

Contrary wise, see also:

https://www.riotinto.com/news/releases/2021/Rio-Tinto-Teams-...

https://www.riotinto.com/news/releases/2022/Rio-Tinto-purcha...

these being some of the largest, longest, heaviest trains globally.
Thank you for the input!

I had a quick question. If we provided a dual license, Elastic V2 and SSPL, would that help?

We're happy to clarify the meaning of third-party as "commercially competing with our managed service" once we have a website. Still, we likely won't edit the Elastic V2 license since it might risk creating a new obscure license.
The Mind Illuminated - Comprehensive meditation guide that comes at it for an non-theistic/religious/spiritual perspective. Everything you ever wanted to know about meditation without having to go through books about Buddhism or meditation which are generally very spiritual and can be difficult to read.

The Attention Revolution - In-depth guide to how to meditate without too much fluff. It basically directly goes into all the details of meditation practice as a thing you do and how to do it. Also very comprehensive and jumps straight into how to meditate.

The Practicing Stoic - Great overview of Stoicism with a lot of quotes from all the well-known Stoics compiled into one Book. I think it's a great introduction for anybody who isn't quite sure about Stoicism or what it's about, but it's also a great book to go back to as somebody more well-versed in it to refresh the concepts.
“Goodbye to a River” by John Graves.

The narrative follows the author as he takes a canoe trip down the Brazos river in North Central Texas during the late 1950’s. Along the way you are told stories about the people who lived and settled that area, during the old days.

For me, the book reminded me of the stories I heard from my grandfathers about the way things used to be.

I’d recommend the book just as a way to experience North Texas at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_to_a_River
Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite 'momentous' bid by Twitter to delay
~350cm³ for a tape, ~375cm³ for a 3.5in HDD, With HDDs being able to extend past the 18TB of LTO-9 tapes.
Anything not to do with STEM is probably biased. It’s the nature of those subjects.

The cofounder of WP himself says the site is compromised.

https://twitter.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1686396348159987712
Book two was such surprisingly good, because book one was bit tedious. The whole plot around Luo Ji and the small tidbit about siege of Constantinople was just too good.
I accept the credibility of the article because it is very well written (far above any twitter thread on the issue that I have seen), and it cites high-quality sources. In my experience, the news section of nature contains some of the best science journalism out there.
Great work, TYVM. I'd suggest submitting it to subreddits like InternetisBeautiful, MapPorn, etc..

If you want to monetize it, setup ads and a "adblock" detection script.
Yeah, they have been pumping out quite a few pointless headliners recently. My favorite is:

Volvo’s heavy-duty electric truck runs 12 hours a day with one charge break, can haul 74 tons -- Jun 29 2023

I also see there is a bit too much hype around LFP's by Tesla's fanbois who seems to believe that LFP must be the holy grail in the battery world b/c Tesla uses them.
> AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54% - in a specific MariaDB based benchmark.
Cellular automata apply the same rule across a grid, a bitgrid is an array of lookup tables, essentially stuffed between the cells of a static RAM. The RAM holds the values in the tables, and an latches maintain the state of each cell's inputs. Thus each cell in a bitgrid is individually programmable.

A provision needs to be added to be able to read and or write (override) inputs for debugging or other purposes, such as testing, updating constants, etc.

I agree that formalization is required. I've built an emulator, and hand coded some logic into it as a test, and can simulate a 1024x1024 grid at about 35 Hz on my desktop pc (half that on my laptop).

My near term goals are to be able to take an expression, run it through a set of tools to be written, and then feed it into the simulator, and run it.

I can guess at the energy required to change states, and thus get a rough estimate as to power usage/efficiency/speed, etc. If I get myself to the point where I've got a chip designed, I'm sure the EDA tools can give me far more accurate numbers.
Because we believe in "I did this this big thing X, that computer scientists love, which is public" > "I worked on a team and contributed to big thing Y, which is profitable but meh, and is private"
Interestingly being P complete has another unexpected consequence: it means your problem is going to be difficult to parallelize.

This is why parallel SAT solvers are barely faster than the usual ones.

SAT is NP complete, but a crucial step in SAT solving (unit propagation) is P complete.
Is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential#Value...
Do not judge for yourself because you are not a dense material scientist. Comments like these pose themselves as intelligent. But intelligent people know that they don't have the expertise to judge everything and do defer to experts in the field. And the experts currently are not able to replicate the findings.
> Unpredictable compression ratios weren't as much of a concern for me as physical failure.

totally. I just think that their quirk in how they advertise has pushed people away from using them at all is interesting.

As one guy said, "I can compress stuff on my disks as well, it doesn't mean that they have twice as much capacity, and shouldn't be advertised as such"

I thought people would have just kinda shrugged their shoulders and just went "I guess it is just a little weird" but it really has pushed people away.
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

This is what I wish Dropbox was, a simple layer that make interacting with your FTP server easy so nobody has to own your data. The end game is both to be feature complete with Dropbox and be able to change every aspect of the application through plugin so everyone can get out what they want from it. To do that, I’m making the core a sort of framework to build file manager like application.
Safely and reliably putting that much energy into a mass manufactured automotive battery in that short of a time period is a pretty extraordinary claim based on where we are today. So I'm going to have to put it into the "That'd be great but we're gonna need some extraordinary evidence" category for now.
correct. An additional chance of 13% to get cancer is a lot, because the chances are already quite high. Trying to downplay the risks of asbestos isn't helping.
You don't need any external accounts or services. You can turn on a dyndns service or a proxy service optionally, for convenience. You might need an account for those. You can and should wall the thing off.

What happens is, your photos only back up when you are at your house, or when you connect your phone to your VPN.
It’s interesting that they don’t compare to flash.

SSD’s also have a much lower carbon footprint than HDD’s. The electricity it takes to keep the hard disk platters spinning dwarfs the footprint of the NAND, including manufacturing.

I don’t think global NAND manufacturing is anywhere near the same storage capacity as disk or tape, yet, but I wonder when those curves are set to cross.
That's the whole premise of The Dark forest hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
> Taken from here: https://ubicloud.com/

Am I the only one getting a certificate error browsing there?
^ The most common misconceptions about NP/NP-Complete/NP-Hard, packed in one comment!

But seriously for anyone reading this, please refer to the other sibling comments.
While we’re talking about things working as they should, even when frequently the opposite is true… what a wonderful discourse this was between two people disagreeing and then coming to find common ground. Thank you for providing such a great example to all of us.
There’s The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.
What did Nature do wrong in this case. Be specific. And show us where the findings are replicated. That should be easy.
Nature has had a news section since 1869 [1]. There are many things to criticise about them, but the science journalism is not one of them.

[1] https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/1/issues/2#News
A websocket API for storing and querying GeoJSON features, it exposes a lot of PostGIS functionality. I built it originally for a client project as part of a data collection app and then wondered if it might useful for others as a service. Thoughts? I worry that it’s likely too niche.
Interesting that Intel's code for this includes numerous references to LZ4, as if that's the actual algorithm the hardware originally aimed to accelerate.. So seems like LZ4 and ZSTD are quite similar?

https://github.com/intel/QAT-ZSTD-Plugin/blob/main/src/qatse...
> Another Request for Hacker News and Dark Mode

s/for Hacker News and Dark Mode/for Dark Mode on Hacker News

> I don't want to install a js or pay for it

I assume you mean a JS injector extension when you say "install a js," you don't need a JS injector, but you do need a CSS injector. There are no features you should pay for on HN.

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Adding on to the discussion, I don't mind light mode in websites. HN is like a mid-2000's throwback website, there wasn't dark mode back then, but it's 2023, and people are used to dark mode. Why not give them what they want?
Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like
I think it's worth saying what NP stands for.

Nondeterministic Polynomial. Where "nondeterministic" basically means you get to try every single polynomial solution in parallel.
It always boggles my mind that there is this relatively well-put together effort at looking for extraterrestrial life in the stars that. . . just sort of ignores the fact that UAPs exist and are already here. It's this weird massive epistemic blindspot that tends to come across as smugly pseudointelligent. We should be looking for technosignatures from other bodies in our solar system in addition to what's done here. The signal might be stronger and at the very least it's much closer to where we know these guys are hanging out.
I think you could improve this section of the Readme to make this more accessible:

> Today, AWS offers about two hundred cloud services. Ultimately, we will implement 10% of the cloud services that make up 80% of that consumption.

> Example workloads and reasons to use Ubicloud today include:

> You have an ephemeral workload like a CI/CD pipeline (we're integrating with GitHub Actions), or you'd like to run compute/memory heavy tests. Our managed cloud is ~3x cheaper than AWS, so you save on costs.

> You want a portable and simple app deployment service like MRSK. We're moving Ubicloud's control plane from Heroku to MRSK; and we want to provide open and portable services for MRSK's dependencies in the process.

> You have bare metal machines sitting somewhere. You'd like to build your own cloud for portability, security, or compliance reasons.

This seems needlessly wordy. Instead you might assume that readers already have expertise or can look up terms themselves and simply list like this:

Currently Available Features

* CI/CD

* MRSK app deployment

* Etc.

Coming soon

* X

* Y

* Z

* Etc.
You are compensated for a few things in a job: The expertise you bring, the responsibility you take, and the stress the job poses on you. It seems to me that you need a significant salary bump. Not double but x10. It's not your responsibility to satisfy the requirements, neither you should take stress for it. Of course, you don't have the expertise to do it, but that's not your fault.

Given that the odds of getting a x10 salary are nil, I suggest you put all your efforts on job hunting. Answer all emails/calls with Okay now. Don't worry about the consequences of getting fired because that's the outcome you are hoping for.
It’s been probably a year since I read The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich, but the ideas in there have really stuck in my head.

The WEIRD acronym stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The thesis is that the Christian Church inadvertently created modern society by prohibiting polygamy and cousin marriage.

The topic of polygamy is what’s really stuck in my head. Polygamy is a more natural state for civilized human societies than we think it is. It may be to women’s advantage to choose an “elite” spouse she has to share because it could mean a better quality of life for her and her children than the alternatives. Chris Hemsworth could have two dozen wives if it were legal and social acceptable (and he wanted to), and his wives might be happy with that. But the downside (or one of them) is that it creates huge imbalances in society—men find it really hard to find a mate. They then do risky stuff to make it into the elite to try to attract a mate—steal to accumulate wealth or kill potential romantic rivals.

This isn’t in the book, but it made me think—are we back in that same position now? Polygamy isn’t *technically* legal or common, but you still have plenty of people who have many romantic partners—just not at the same time. We know the what the activity of dating apps looks like—a very small subset of “elite” men get an outsized proportion of likes and matches from women. It’s slim pickings for the rest of the men. Are men, unable to find a mate, going to resort to risky behavior to try to make it into that subset that are able to attract women?
Is there some good intuition why P-complete problems are difficult to parallelize? This is the first I've heard of it (but then again, I'm usually interested in more obscure complexity classes)
I was attempting to capture your (1) with "or a less populous neighboring town". :)

On (2)-- indeed, good for them. But that's a product of their own specifics and preferences, not a property of everything already being photographed as that is far from true.
I think you're forgetting that Amazon doesn't have a 100% conversion rate...
In the atmosphere? No. The GWP of methane is about twice as high as hydrogen, as far as we know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential
If you think about it carefully you’ll realise that a human being’s body would span a breadth of radii and therefore the parts closer to the singularity would not be able to send signals or matter to the parts that are further out, and that this would impede circulation and signal propagation.
Oh somehow I read it as administrationS, since I recalled a JOBS Act from Obama too.
"Fatherland" by Robert Harris, 1992. Alternative history detective novel
set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II.

"Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. I re-read this every 4-5 years just to enjoy the discussions about quality and why it matters.
Ah. I wasn't aware that people were claiming that-- I guess it was an effort to explain why there was apparent diamagnetism but no clear demonstrations of flux pinning.
The third part of the article compares their approach with an alternative of extracting hydrogen from methane, so they definitely aren't focused on using hydrogen to produce methane.
Some hard data:

" 47 percent of customers expect pages to load in two seconds or less. Beyond 4.2 seconds, conversion rates fall below a single percent"
I will concede that in my comment I went a bit too far in saying that the sunk cost fallacy requires a "net detriment" since as you point out, there could be a situation where someone's sunk cost reasoning is not detrimental but still fallacious. Although I think in the devised scenario, your choice to use rental desk A would indeed be reasonable. The rental desk will incur all the wear and tear while the identically owned desk can be preserved in good condition or perhaps resold at a profit. While in such a scenario you might interpret your desire to use A as irrationally based on the sunk cost, I think it more likely that some inchoate awareness of the true benefits would come into play. How about that. You're so smart that even your dumb decisions end up being pretty smart.
You run into a problem where the model needs to be exactly the same on both ends. If your model is a couple of MB then updating it on occasion is no problem, but if it's several GB then you DO have a problem.

Then if you want to decompress something that was archived 10 years ago you need to make sure you can find and install the old compression model.
So now where are all the usual Intel bashers praising AMD?