skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-figured-out-a-w...

> To circumvent this dilemma, Fuchs and his team used something called a superconducting magnetic trap. A small trap made of tantalum is cooled to a critical temperature of 4.48 Kelvin (-268.67 Celsius, or -451.6 Fahrenheit).

> In the chamber, the particle is levitated. This consists of three 0.25-millimeter neodymium magnet spheres and one 0.25-millimeter glass sphere stuck together to create one particle around 0.43 grams in mass.

> The apparatus is suspended from springs in a mass spring system to shield the experiment from external vibrations, and the cryostat is placed on pneumatic dampers to limit vibrations from the building.

"Measuring gravity with milligram levitated masses" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2949 :

> Abstract: Gravity differs from all other known fundamental forces because it is best described as a curvature of space-time. For that reason, it remains resistant to unifications with quantum theory. Gravitational interaction is fundamentally weak and becomes prominent only at macroscopic scales. This means, we do not know what happens to gravity in the microscopic regime where quantum effects dominate and whether quantum coherent effects of gravity become apparent. Levitated mechanical systems of mesoscopic size offer a probe of gravity, while still allowing quantum control over their motional state. This regime opens the possibility of table-top testing of quantum superposition and entanglement in gravitating systems. Here, we show gravitational coupling between a levitated submillimeter-scale magnetic particle inside a type I superconducting trap and kilogram source masses, placed approximately half a meter away. Our results extend gravity measurements to low gravitational forces of attonewton and underline the importance of levitated mechanical sensors.
We also decided it was cheaper. It was expensive to keep whole institutional systems, and it was expensive to keep them in jail.

A lot of recent sentencing reform was motivated by the desire to lower the cost of running prisons, and started off Republican-led. Whenever people talk about solving mental health crises with jail time, no one is willing to put up the money.
One thing I like about this is that the author doesn’t talk in terms of absolutes. He assumes (correctly) that advice is not universally applicable and that each process needs to be traced back to fundamental axioms or requirements.

As a random example I’m right now trying to explain this to a large government enterprise customer.

They write “cold blooded” software, the type where they have a development project with a fixed budget and a fixed scope and then the code goes into hibernation for five years until they can “find the budget” again.

So of course, they picked the Angular framework, one of the fastest moving, most “hot blooded” frameworks in the world.

Angular might be the right choice for a startup writing highly interactive software. It is definitely the wrong choice for an org that thinks of maintenance as something that occurs twice a decade.

It’s these things that most fundamentally kill quality. Picking a framework, language, or even operating system because it’s “hip” or “cool” or the “buzzword of the year”. Not because it’s suitable for the project.

The thousands of cuts come later, but they barely rate in comparison to having your legs chopped off at the knees right from the beginning.
Could be that it is easier and less risky to get into Mexico. Plus, the cartels there are a wholesale buyer and have established supply and distribution networks from Mexico into the US and within the US.
I agree that people use emojis waaaay too much for this sort of stuff (see also: certain projects' commit messages, various READMEs).
> "Free market or not" is mostly an immaterial distinction imho.

I don't think this is the right conclusion.

What you need is a competitive market. An uncompetitive market doesn't work. But a government is going to be a monopoly, which is the thing that doesn't work, whereas a market has the possibility of being competitive even if it is possible to screw that up.

US healthcare is a case in point. The healthcare system is highly regulated and the regulators are captured by the incumbents, so the regulations are designed to inhibit price competition between providers and keep costs high because those costs are the incumbents' profits.

In order to achieve the benefits of competition you would need rules that actually facilitate it. For example, if providers were required to publish pricing and then insurance would deposit into your HSA 90% of the median cost of a procedure among every provider within 100 miles of your address (equivalent to a 10% copay), and then you can choose where to go. Now there is no such thing as "in network" anymore and the patient has the direct incentive to be price sensitive, which in turn requires providers to publish competitive prices. But we don't do that, because it might work.
"golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

So I'm not sure if that's evidence of metric boosting by a click farm, or anything else. Clicking on the question mark, it looks like it's not really a ranking of "where do searches come from", but rather "how popular is it in this region":

> Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
I generally despise having to do double entry bookkeeping in the first place, but when I do (in some situations you have to), I use ledger (or hledger). Way less painful than QuickBooks if you're also a programmer or adjacent.

> and believe it or not Github Copilot works REALLY well).

And yes, this is one area where LLM can help. That valley between "manually duplicating these near identical entries is painful" and "but it's not painful enough to warrant a custom generator". LLM is often great for that kind of boilerplate. Gotta doublecheck the bejesus out of it though.
I remember when this happened.

I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find quickly enough an article that mentions Rhapsody, the streaming service, as the other party in the trademark dispute.

However, I do remember the whole thing when it happened because I had just discovered the band.

Feels like ages ago
None of these points apply in this context. The context is that this project has been going on for many years, is popular (using the GitHub stars proxy), and has been criticized before. This isn’t a fourteen year old kid trying to make a language and being naive about what it takes to achieve it.

> I'm not saying the V people have always smelled of roses either, but this article is definitely part of the problem with the general drama and toxicity surrounding V.

Meh. Complaining about the tone is so boring. The author is a bit upset but no one is disputing their technical arguments (I’m relying on others since they know more about it than me).
Blaming Google for going anti-RSS is like blaming the rack when stepping on it. What did people expect to happen?

If you're looking someone to blame, blame the ones who evangelised Chrome and Google Reader when better alternatives existed. Back in the day we had Opera (the classic version) with amazing performance and built-in RSS reader. However, at the time, industry influencers promoted Chrome instead, a zero-feature browser with horrible performance (unless you had a relatively high-end PC with a multicore CPU, which was not the majority of users).

Many people (devs in particular, who should know better) use Chrome to this day.
Oh well, the browser market is as democratic as they come, people vote with their usage. The conclusion is that people just don't care.
> If that’s all you got out of college, it sounds like the problem was not college.

correct, college is a luxury turned bureaucratic requirement, the problem in some peoples life is their family or abuse or trauma. they have every right to want to get out of their situation without waiting 4 years to get something they could rightfully earn in 1 or 2, or even learn on the job
From "Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38246722 re: RSSI hacks, IMU Inertial Measurement Unit, Quantum Navigation; and Rydberg antenna :

> Does a fishing lure bobber on the water produce gravitational waves as part of the n-body gravitational wave fluid field, and how separable are the source wave components with e.g. Quantum Fourier Transform/or and other methods?
pf has had bad breaking changes at times, about which the BDFL says “we’re in a better place” but in general it’s stable.
His story is so sad and how it all shook out. I'm surprised he didn't get into the nuke program in the Navy. Definitely a shame no one took him under his wing.
not every job was dangerous, child labor in mines showed up in the industrial revolution

prior to that children were taught things that genuinely didn't put their life in danger, because they needed to contribute to their family or community's survival
I went years without consuming RSS until I discovered Fraidy Cat[1] here at Hacker News.

1. https://fraidyc.at
> However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers. You kind of need to insulate yourself to some degree.

If you need to insulate yourself to the degree that you ban someone for answering the question “V or Go?” with “Go, obviously”[1] then what’s the point of even maintaining a community? All you’ll end up with is a bunch of yes-women.

[1] Is V production-ready?—no. Is Go? Yes, for a long time.
Depends how far back you go. Human ancestors were nearly all fish, for example.
Is there anything folks are adding to Pico that adds a nice CSS grid? For dashboards and such.
Wow, that was weird. Totally weird.

Far better than I could do, without a doubt.
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That was an enjoyable read, and all of these bit twiddling tricks are great. Having said that I'm fairly sure that using Math.clz32 is faster for finding the bit index than using the Hamming weight. That also lets you iterate from the most-to-least significant bit if you want.

Can't blame the author for not trying that though, it's probably one of the most obscure and rarely used library functions in JavaScript.

(I will bookmark this article for the next time I need to iterate over bitmaps LSB first though)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
You don't need to throw everybody onto the battlefield.

The standing armed forces and reserve will need a lot of logistical support that can be done with little additional training. Plenty of people are forklift drivers and cooks in their day jobs.

That said, it's not like the SSA is really needed. If a war got bad enough to need a draft I'm sure congress would let the IRS fork over a list of 18+ males. Or even say 18+ males with certain occupations on their tax returns (i.e. Doctors).
Google is the only one that spams me, actually. Funny how they are "good" at filtering incoming spam but don't care about egress.
The Straight Dope Message Board, https://boards.straightdope.com/

Smart people from a wide variety of fields, high quality discussions on many topics, and good moderation. Been a member for like twenty years and it's always been informative, insightful, and sometimes even compassionate and supportive. A pretty tight knit place with many long-time regulars.

It's much higher quality than reddit, about as intellectual as this place, but broader in focus and a bit more civil, I think. If you join, be nice :)
"Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the balloon not only did not transmit data back to China -- it never collected any."
https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews.go.com...
I wonder what the reason for calling out the fact that it could be run on a Pi is. MUDs are not new, of course, so I guess they’ve been run on some very weak machines.

But, the license file seems to be 11 years old… I guess those older Pi’s are pretty weak.

Still slightly confused but less so.
So you don’t think being a police state is bad, but you also don’t think Singapore is one? What aspect do you think they are missing?!
This reminds me that I've always wanted to just record my own versions of audiobook.

For years now there's been a site where volunteers are creating free, public domain audiobooks...

https://librivox.org/
The weird thing is that they even hire all those singers to perform. The way it's done in my country is that there's an orchestra that plays the melody, and the people in the audience are expected to sing, which they always do :) But maybe that's because our national anthem is much better suited to be sung by a crowd than the American one?
Get ahold of yourself man.
The problem, and why we will never get these programs, is that no one actually wants to put up the resources to help drug addicts. If you've actually talked to the gen-x population that has control over these cities, you'll find someone that likes to pretend they're an enlightened progressive hippie, that scoffs at southern and middle american conservatives, but is just as selfish and careless. They harbour deep resentment at having to pay so much in taxes, and sabotage any policy that could move resources away from them. This kind of hands-off policy is exactly the kind that the gen-x Hillary loving house wives can trick themselves into feeling good about, while not costing them anything substantial.
Sentences, in a grammatical sense? No. Intentionally using buttons as signifiers of a specific thing? I think pretty clearly yes. I don’t believe “why Bunny dog” is a deep philosophical question, or necessarily a question at all. It might just be “these are interesting buttons I am pushing for fun.” But “belly ouch” is pretty convincing communication, using words.
Could you tell me what you think about people over process?
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform of the Future?
10 minute analysis from Y Combinator. Thanks Y Combinator team for sharing. Appreciated the reminder that the breakout iOS apps appeared around year 4 of that platform.
>Certainly, asking about them and , especially, asking the candidate to critique them is a very good question

...if you're looking to hire a code quality consultant that has not written any code since the 90s
I can sympathize with affirmative action when it started. In 1970 US was about 87% white, 11% black, 1% asian, and less than 1% mixed.

There wasn't that much immigration from Africa, so it was pretty clear who was descended from American slaves.

Now 10% of the US is two or more races, there is a much higher amount of asian people, a high number of people that count as white (middle eastern) but otherwise are treated as minorities. The whole system seems farcical for an admissions office to factor in which racial ancestry is worth of a bonus and white is worth of a subtraction.
Author here for your vintage computer questions :-)
Unfortunately, government is (part of) the problem, but also needs to be (part of) the solution.
There are tons of occasional recreational oxy users, and at that level the effect is basically a pure euphoria, blissful happiness.

Ironically addiction risk is also low if your usage pattern is 1-2 times per month, much much lower than someone who has been prescribed a small daily dose.
What has food habits to do with evolution?
He makes vague statements that insinuate an idea in your mind, you assume that's what he meant and respond to that, but then he claims that's not what he meant but doesn't clarify. He's just a bored troll, stop feeding him.
Love S&M 1&2, “All Within My Hands” being maybe my favorite from the two albums.

One thing of note: I essentially only listen to metal and classical. Everything else is dead boring to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The governments of China, Myanmar, Russia, and Iran would also like to firmly disagree that they are police states. Oh, and North Korea would like to remind you that it's a Democratic Republic. It's in the name, see?
Cruising across town sporting a Geiger counter on the dashboard, now that’s a real crossover between cool and nerd.

It’s a pity that a genius like him didn’t make it to the MIT and ended up arrested
This is a classic problem. The best example I have of it is probably Mozilla. They went out in the beginning to set up the open web. They won. Complete and total success. The web is uniformly open and standards based. The major browsers are open source and on open source engines.

Unmitigated and total victory.

So what's next? Well, that's what they're struggling with. What to do with a non profit that achieves its goals?
Counterpoint, those tests are really useful when you're working on a shared sub-component/library and want to understand the scope of a change, or want to be confident that what should be a no-op change from the caller's point of view is indeed a no-op.

But yea 9/10 times that a snapshot test fails, it's noise rather than signal.
David Lynch's presence has been haunting video games for decades
"The issue was detected by our new AI-powered vulnerability scanner"
No^H^HYes
> Then once they had everyone onboard reader and there weren't really anyone competing

There may not have been profit driven companies competing and that detail is mostly irrelevant. There was no shortage of alternatives like software running on your computer and self hosting options.

RSS wasn't designed to help companies make money. The demise of Google's competitors is irrelevant to the long term health of RSS. It was thriving before such companies tried to make money off of it.

People who didn't use Google Reader were not at all impacted by its demise. The RSS experience remained the same. It's silly to claim Google played a role in killing it.
I use them so much that I begin to struggle with languages which don't have something equivalent.
He keeps hopping from thing to thing
I'm tired of everyone blaming google for their woes. If your ecosystem is so fragile it will break because a single player bailed out, you were bound for failure anyways.
Getting rid of oil and cars would be much more likely to lead to civilizational collapse than climate change in my opinion.
I ran my own postfix + [lots more brain tiring things here] for 15 years with very few hitches and felt quite satisfied with my successful caveman lifestyle. But then I got too busy and settled on migadu and my gosh what a fool I was. My wife and I use email like SMS these days and always force commercial conversations to email. signal for the truly trite things.

I don't remember what I pay, not going to look it up, but the money for monetizing email is truly well spent: happiness base level permanently raised.

The only stupidity left in my email setup is Thunderbird killing off the ability to use emacs as the editor. Enshitification without revenue... genius.
I don't put much stock in attribution, but keeping an eye on what attacks stop when an adversary ends up refocusing their attention due to scandal and/or war is a pretty reliable indicator in my experience (and very difficult to false-flag).

Activity we previously attributed to the Russians didn't flicker when Russia invaded Ukraine-- but did stop very quickly into Israel's invasion of Gaza.
Fifteen years ago I made a documentary about homelessness (https://graceofgodmovie.com/) and one of the things that many of my subjects talked about was the "homeless industrial complex". These were organizations who ostensibly helped homeless people, while also advocating for policies that created more homelessness and more problems for homeless people, like restrictive zoning to prevent development, and laws against sleeping in public places. I never dug into the extent to which this was true, but it certainly seems plausible. The cost of actually fixing the problem would be putting yourself and everyone in your organization out of work.
Wow. I remember reading about this years and years ago and thinking this kid would have such a bright future.

Now I’m an old man and looking at this story my thoughts are more “this kid could never have had a chance in these school systems”. Strange to observe my own change in perspective too.
I don’t know much about it, other than knowing some of my favorite bands have huge followings there. Can anybody educate me how the Japanese metal scene functions? Are there certain genres that have a hold or is it totally diverse?
surprised you’ve seen this redirect method. i thought it was patented by google. the most obvious search only turns up an edgio patent. i’ll have to search harder

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140108674A1/en
Thanks!
The bulk of the cost is using OpenAI’s text-to-speech API, which is $0.015 per 1,000 characters. Oration generates both a full and summarized audiobook as well.

So far, I’ve found that service to provide a really good price and quality level, compared to offerings from AWS, Azure and other vendors.
If you happen to be an iOS user, give the app a try! (https://oration.app)
The iOS app is completely free for the time being, so we can focus on really giving our users a great experience. Eventually, I plan to introduce some paid plans but will keep a generous free tier.
Similar controversy surrounds whether Nazi medical research may be cited. I (ironically) cite no sources, but I believe the consensus is that they may be cited if a) they are methodologically sound and b) other studies cannot serve as a substitute.

I am personally of the opinion that “information wants to be free” and ethics is not a reason to ignore methodologically-sound, published science. Punish the researchers, perhaps
I guess my point is we allow people to buy handles of alcohol (a much more problematic and harmful drug) at a time, even though consumption at that rate is also problematic. So why should we treat marijuana differently?
But the difference in drug laws predates the arrival of fentanyl in the US black market.
The tools you listed don’t have to make a profit they are open source and can go slow.
If you think those principles got out of date then indeed I would not hire you.

Something like the "single responsibility principle" is just good software design to anyone who ever had to maintain any piece of software.

Quite extraordinary how commenters in this thread discard things as old without even understanding that core principles are as valid now as they were then.
It’s not bike shedding. It makes the writer look like an emotional moron when they use terms like “economic violence” for an export program that disrupts one small industry.

Do you consider cheese exports from France to be economic violence against Wisconsin?