skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note to people who haven't read the paper: This isn't seriously about building a nuclear bomb destroying super-ray. The authors even admit that this is waaaay beyond our current technology. The whole paper feels like a con attempt by the authors to talk governments into building smaller muon colliders as an intermediate step. Of course these smaller colliders could also be used to study concepts of a higher energy collider that could produce anti-nuke rays. But for the most part, these smaller colliders would be incredible physics discovery machines. Muon colliders are basically the holy grail of experimental particle physics. They offer higher energy collisions than electron colliders because muons are much heavier, but they also offer higher precision than proton colliders because muons are elementary particles. The difficulty is sourcing and accelerating them. This is insanely complicated, which is why noone has done it yet. But if you can talk some government knobheads into building it to study forced nuclear disarmament or whatever, the reason why they do it doesn't really matter.

In some sense the authors were already successfuly by triggering all this discussion here on HN about the purely theoretical implications on geopolitics (rather than the very real, down-to-earth implications for modern particle physics).
Both provide some protection against phishing sites, where the phisher needs to maintain their access.
If you look at the technical requirements, 1000 TeV seems impossible since LHC is at ~13TeV even if we optimize it for a weapon instead of science.

Not sure how to get a dollar figure if the tech isn't remotely possible.
A strategy you can follow is - Start with not budging to tell the number in your mind. There is typically a range of salary defined for each level. Let them make the first move where the recruiter will typically start with low or mid (if you did very well in interviews) value in the range. Negotiating 10-20% higher than that can be a tactic but avoid being too pushy.
RSS readers dime a dozen, nothing feels close to Google Reader + Google+ (circles lol), having friends on your contact list who were RSS users automatically linked to your reading social circle.
Ask HN: Where's the .txt TLD?
How can i be that there's no .txt top level domain ? With all the other rather stupid TLDs, one for plaintext content seems relatively sane.

Yes, I totally discovered the lack of txt when I wanted to register plain.txt ;)
At the consensus level the accuracy is high. At the read level there's a lot of room foe improvement. Currently running r10 routinely for surveillance purposes. Seeing per read quality score average of 15.
I think people should implement their own ideas and systems first, prove it to us, and then preach about why a competing idea/system is wrong. To me, it makes zero sense to tell someone they're wrong, when those people are seeing results.
Ask Huberman with Dexa.ai
I honestly don't want that type of overprotective caring that cares so. much. about you that it restricts you in meaningful ways.
You've got to respect high level trolling, it's an art form.
Apple just launched a new open-source programming language
I'd imagine that kind of advancement would bring forth genetic engineering, clones and droids to perform physical tasks.
> I know that the average software engineer in Silicon Valley makes roughly 120K a year salary.

Even allowing for inflation since 2016, this seems like a terrible way to start negotiating a salary: you just proclaimed yourself "average" and anchored yourself to a low number.
It makes sense that people who want priests also want kings.

If I were living in the first century, I'd probably try directing them to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frogs_Who_Desired_a_King

As someone living in the twenty-first century, it'd be tempting to suggest they grow a pair and respond to their insignificance in a vast and uncaring universe by imposing their own meaning on their own lives, but it doesn't take much reflection to realise that, as natural followers are unlikely to read even Kierkegaard, the message would likely be much better received by sticking to tradition and its frogs.
As expected, the example application given is only one option, and this is basically a long-range radiation death ray:

> We are certainly aware of the fact that this kind of device can not only target the nuclear bombs but other kinds of weapons of mass destruction and also, unfortunately, any kind of living object including human.

If I understand it correctly, from skimming the paper, this depends on the beam passing through earth without interaction and then "emerging" (starting to interact) at a precise point. Is that how these beams work at least in theory, i.e. will a "perfect" beam emerge in a point rather than distributed along a line due to the process being probabilistic? Of course, getting the beam perfect would then be the next challenge.

(Conveniently, this part of the problem seems to have been left for a separate publication.)
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What would happen to nuclear power plants, in the event a Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam would hit them?
1. Just scroll through all remote jobs and see what you can find that seems like automation should be able to handle. I literally review some 500 job postings a day to find opportunities like that. What can be automated is going to be based on your own capabilities and experiences. Ideally, it is something in which you have a bit of domain expertise.

2. Do your work. Deliver your work. But not too well. Be a bit unreliable. Never go the extra mile. Be the person who seems disinterested or disengaged. Ace your main goals, but fail your stretch goals. I want to be the person they trust enough to give work regularly to, but someone who they see no future potential in. The reliable cog in the machine unfit for any other purpose. Find ways to do things better, but don't share them. That is how you get your time back. Someone who does their work but is otherwise nothing special gets no attention.
I think that law is basically Newton's second law of motion. F=ma essentially tells you that anything that decelerates a lot, such as a very fast spaceship crashing into the rock of your planet, pushes with an awful lot of force before it stops.

Edit: to be slightly more pedantic, the right form that still remains true with relativity is F = dp/dt, i.e. the force the spaceship would exert is equal to its change in momentum.
Thank you for reading it for us. It's not uncommon these days for one to comment on a piece of writing after glancing at the title.
It is a psychological bias called availability heuristic: https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/availability-heuristic...

They use funny example in this article:

When asked if falling airplane parts or shark attacks are a more likely cause of death in the United States, most people would say shark attacks. In reality, the chances of dying from falling airplane parts are 30 times greater than the chances of being killed by a shark.

Would be interesting to check if today people would estimate the risk of being killed by falling Boeing door higher than shark attack - bias predicts they would.
so many issues straight away

> should you complete 70% of your goals to 100%? Or should you complete 100% of your goals at 70%?

explicitly addressed in various articles and books. you average your scores across objectives and KRs to get a score. So the answer is both, looking for average score of 0.7

> if your key result is "migrate 100% of users to the new system" and you only migrate 70%, guess what? Now you're stuck maintaining two systems in perpetuity

so you're going to migrate all of your users in a big bang moment?? hell no. it'll be bit by bit no matter what. of course you're maintaining two systems, that's a sign of a good migration, not a bad one. the KR just helps you get done with it faster

of course there are valid criticisms of okrs, and many (most?) teams get them wrong.

but saying "okrs are bullshit" has become a common trope for new-age companies who use that as a way to differentiate themselves. do you really think Andy Grove and John Doerr are bullshit artists?
Do we have any or any significant number of Roman tax receipts? Most Roman/Greek texts that we have had to survive until ~1000 AD. If a text was available back then there is a reasonably good chance that we have it (or rather a medieval copy of it), why would anyone waste time copying tax receipts though?
"Most people think negotiating well is just looking the other person in the eye, appearing confident, and asking for tons of money."

Yup. That's the way to go as a freelancer. You announce your rate and either they book you or not.
I think the beauty of the mid-internet era was the aggressive personalization of it: the connections I made galvanized careers and friendships, celebrities seemed closer and more human, ideas seemed worthy of debate in your small corner of the world. As these became KPIs for companies, they drifted into the realm of the inhuman - the algorithm ultimately decides who meets who, what gets brought up, who gets listened to.

I will say that I find discord to be a breath of fresh air, but I haven’t really found a true community there, more like disparate groups of people who share common interests but rarely first names. The internet today is either terrifyingly closely related to your first and last name or a hall of mirrors hidden behind myriad layers of post-irony. The veil has been shattered: either you sign up for “real” talk with people you will never know or settle for a blanched façade of communication with real-world acquaintances who refuse to really show themselves for fear of what that might mean.
Is it to create a set of easily gameable measures so that you can get your performance review bonus?
Honestly, I think the best you can get is having a competent manager who understands the work and people well and gets the need autonomy and trust from the company. That's hard though and there is no magic wand for the CEO to make all managers "good managers".

Maybe we keep introducing these approaches as an industry because it makes the worst cases less bad, even though it hurts teams and individuals doing well already because ultimately pushing the floor up makes a bigger difference. Not sure if that overall change is objectively better in total or only seems that way because the horrifically bad teams are what catches your attention.
Project management is about organising people. And people are hard to organise.

So they all work as well as they can depending on what your situation and goals are.
Bob Shaw, “Ground Zero Man”, I think. Not exactly with aliens, but the main idea is same. Upd: also known as “The Peace Machine.”
Outside North America, receiving text messages is always free.

Receiving calls isn't necessarily free when roaming.
> There's a plethora of sms verification providers where you can pay a trivial amount (eg. 50 cents) per verification, and have tens/hundreds of phone numbers available. This isn't stopping anyone who's mildly determined.

But that's the point: If you're really determined, nothing's gonna stop you.

How much on the freedom vs. restriction scale do you want to get pushed to the right for "security" before it's too much? Or is it okay, because it's not inconvenient to you?
Helping teams know what to say "no" to is the real power of OKR.

You do that by having the entire organization's O and KR roll up and cascade down. My Objectives directly roll up to my parent organization's Key Result. My parent org's Objectives rolls up to their parent's KR, and so on to the top. Then, you have the top-level check downwards if the sets of OKRs still make sense in their entirety.

Unfortunately, I have never seen any organization I was with ever do this...
> people used to learn parenting from their communities, families came together when a new baby was born to help out and teach.

Right, and still do. That never went anywhere. That is still how it is done.

Since the dawn of man a small group of, predominantly young, people have set out into the world and left their families behind, but we saw a temporary aberration where that rate rose as people left for college, often to never return. While that trend started seeing a meaningful reversal by the late 2010s, those of average child rearing age today would have been the young adults most likely to leave around the peak migration.

We're still not talking huge numbers. The large majority of people have always stayed close to their parents, but enough people separated from their families that you can write an article about it. Particularly The Atlantic, which caters to the type of people most likely to leave their family behind.

Clearly we do teach parenting, from families, to the community, to even under the direction of formal institutions – so perhaps the takeaway is that the Atlantic's primary audience thought they knew better when they were 18 when they left their families behind, never befriended anyone older with children where they ended up, and now are feeling the consequences of their actions as they have children of their own?

> People want to be taught how to parent, just not by the government.

Keep in mind that the article is focused on America. Government is the community. Understandably, things are different in China (or whatever overlord it is you live under).
Nearly everything in this space is OSS. From the aligners to the assembly and the databases.

Last I checked 23andMe didn't perform whole genome sequencing but looked at some number of point mutations. It depends on what information you want. Eg for the sake of interest of actional genomics data.
This. I draw a line between 1) sites where the author of some content is very visible and 2) sites where you need conscious effort to check out who wrote something (like reddit, HN, wikipedia). The former is social media. The latter is just web 2.0.
And don't forget to solve 10-stage captcha before eveey page load!
To aim the beam to targets on Earth you have to build it in space and be able to maneuver that pretty large Death Star. Probably just a ring instead of a sphere.

The invisible beam is probably a non starter for movies. If somebody will put this idea on screen they'll find a way to make neutrinos visible.
Be gentle with the Apple Vision Pro [video]
Not yet, but I've been meaning to watch it.
LLM generation of a new Tao te Ching
It's not that I think Andy Grove is a bullshit artist, it's that I'm pretty sure the person assigning the OKRs isn't Andy Grove.
This is actually a great plot for a supervillain in a movie. Simultaneously detonate all nuclear weapons on Earth, albeit at 3% of it's power. That would seriously fuck us up.
To anyone wondering like me, the Nintendo stock is at all time high.

So I think poster is using lowest form of wit.
It’s likely also a function of the market / location / network incentives.

May own anecdote is that I almost never receive spam sms despite having nothing in place beyond whatever my service provider does.

Spam mails make it through two+ layers of filters (service provider + my own) more often than I get spam SMS, and I have to trawl the wasteland that is the spam box once in a while to ensure important mails have not been missclassified.
"You can't manage what you can't measure" is the _fundamental_ fallacy of management.

Management involves soft skills and subjective judgement. You cannot eliminate that and pretending that you can kills companies.
This is the long term schedule for LHC [1] where you can get an idea about the plans for runs, maintainace and upgrades. The current plan is to run with HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) starting from Run 4 (2030) until Run 6 (2041). These plans will probably be extended because of different factors, but this gives the overall plan for LHC. And also why we start thinking about the next collider because it will take decades to be designed, build, commissioned and tested. This will require huge amount of efforts, community built and collaboration on a global scale.

[1] https://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/schedule/LHC-long-term...
Most office HVAC seems to be awful. It’s incredibly rare for a meeting room to have sufficient ventilation. I find it incredible that ventilation is an afterthought or a candidate when it comes to needing save costs.

Worse, hotels have copied offices in not having opening windows which I can only guess is primarily motivated by cost savings.
Yeah, seems like the downsides are:

* 3% explosive yield

* Likely a dirty explosion, spreading radioactive contaminants.

* The area where the beam is targeted (couple meter radius) gets a 1 Sv/sec dose, for about 100 seconds. "compared with the U.S. Federal off-site limit of 1 mSV/year"

I'm also curious if anything inside the earth gets dosed by the beam? I don't know enough about neutrinos to speculate.

Also, wouldn't one assume that these bombs have neutron shields on them, to prevent accidental triggering by the stray neutron source? Hence, they'd really need the beam to target _inside_ the bomb, not just near it.

Finally, skimming the paper, I didn't see mention of the energy levels of the neutrons they expect to hit the radioactive materials. Most radioactive isotopes don't have a large cross section for fast neutrons. Is it expected for this hadron shower to generate thermal neutrons? Otherwise, the beam would need to be several orders of magnitude stronger...

(Not that the idea isn't cool as fuck)

EDIT: Thinking about it a bit. If I understand the paper correctly, the beam has to be at 1000TeV to penetrate the Earth and hit the target, so you can't decrease the beam's strength and mitigate the above issues. But if the beam could be PWM'd, then you can effectively do that. And if you can lower the effective energy of the beam, then it might be possible to spray a slow and steady stream of neutrons inside the bomb, slowly decaying all the radioactive isotopes. It would take a lot longer, on the order of months, and would probably be detectable, but at least there wouldn't be that pesky issue of turning it into a small dirty bomb...
Sometimes I dont click youtube video I am a little bit interested in for the sole reason of knowing I will have to be marking "not interested" on associated reccomendations over next few days.

Its insane I have to click non-interested on 50 skiing vids instead of just telling it "I dont want skiing vids on my feed"
> Maybe I should’ve worded it differently. I wanted to say that it’s better for the users not to rely on an unsupported and poorly designed platform like the free Google Voice service.

But that Romanian SIM card I bought at a roadside kiosk on a boozy weekend in Timisoara without any ID is fine?
In my experience, but I know I am unconventional, half-organized chaos. You do need motivated, good people for that so. The chaos bit is those people figurong out their stuff themselves, while the organized bit is szrict following up on deliverables, relevant deadlines, flexibility on not-so-relevant ones and, this is crucial, step in in to provide guidance, support decision maling and coordination between peoole and teams. If the latter means setting up a dozen 30 minute meetings between two people, the be it.

Only gets you so far so. And needs everyone being aware of customer needs and requirements.
Typically momentum is thought as mass times velocity, and since photons do have momentum, there was a desire to give them some kind of "relativistic mass".

In more recent times, it has been seen as easier to use just one concept of mass, and to redefine momentum entirely. So, photons have a mass of 0, and we don't need to specify "rest mass". But they do have momentum.
> Commodore would use the previous generation (or two)

Reason for picking 68000 was bargaining power you had when owning a chip Fab.

"Live with Dave Haynie - Commodore Business Machines C128, Plus4, Amiga" - BilHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZT209i-3Lo Dave reveals Commodore was paying $2.5 per 68000 Hitachi CPU compared to Apple $8 from Motorola.

_$2.5_ per CPU.
True, but of course Magisk is not part of LineageOS and is yet another part of the system you need to take care of (for instance, you usually need to remember to uninstall/re-install it before/after every OTA update).
OKRs are good for solving the problem of communicating strategic decisions in a meaningful way in large organisations. Without such a device, it is common for people "on the ground" to not have a good understanding of the priorities of people several levels above them, with the result that they can do great work and still not move in the direction the company decided to move in. It is easy to misunderstand that and trash OKRs when you're the "leaf" in an organisational tree. But ask your manager, or their manager, or your VP or CEO, and they'll tell you that they need a device for effectively communicating to everyone in the org what the priorities are.
The energy in the paper is 1000 TeV, ten times as much.
Hehe, that's funny :)
This is awesome! What is the performance like? particularly around WASM compiled Whisper.
> Why don't we just issue everyone PIV smart cards?

Particle Image Velocimetry?

Penis in Vagina?

Pentium 4?

Edit: Hah! Personal Identity Verification!
I think it's mainly the intensity of the sessions. You've got someone on the other end of a call so you don't really chill and take it easy. Creates some urgency to get the thing done and you're just a bit fried by the end.
bullshit management is bullshit management

that's a company/people problem, not a tool problem
it’s disappointing that people have to go such lengths in order to have a mobile device that is not conspiring against their wallet or ballot
Is this a festschrift paper?
China on cusp of next-generation chip production despite US curbs
https://archive.ph/oQkAq
I think so much of the commentary misses the point. Goals drive focus, they help folks say no and ask "how does project x help get more sign-ups?". If nothing else it's a communication tool. If you want to get another team to do something, show them how they'll succeed at their goal and help yours too.

The opposite of a system like this means - every VP has an initiative they're trying to push and now there are 50 new projects to maintain and eventually sunset.
An Intelligent PDF Reader for Scientific Papers
It's 10 Tesla magnets that are called ridiculous. The paper also requires 1000 TeV, not 100.
Width：79.50 mm - thats insane and clearly not comfortable to manipulate with.