skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical challenges I'd like to see more discussion on from IMEC:

- Superconductors are lossy with AC signals, is this loss not a big problem?

- Cooling things is very expensive, is this approach not simply transferring the costs to the cooling plant?

- I imagine that having a superconducting interconnect represents an impedance discontinuity, effects like the large kinetic inductances in superconducting materials have large ramifications on signal integrity. Any comments on how to deal with these problems? I worry when I see the words "top-down approach" towards this problem because from my experience it should be driven bottom-up. Superconducting circuits are not just: 'Oh it's lossless in DC, everything is great!' You have new limitations on trace dimensions because if you go too small or you drive too large a current you kill the superconducting state.

- NbTiN with amorphous Si as the barrier. How sensitive is the system to stray magnetic fields and stray radiation? If one of these structures switches into the normal state can it reset itself like sc photon detectors do or are the phonons trapped and the structure is latched in the normal state?

It's nice to see people working on this.
In the olden days, we transferred files using the RS232 serial port between computers that had no compatible media.
Time Blindness Loud Calendar via iOS Shortcuts
Side note: Just checked are non-Android Linux OSes targeted by this spyware. Apparently, there's no public info in favor of such. So probably, nope. It looks mostly targeted against Android and iOS only.
Why in the world would obtaining a Snowflake employee’s credentials allow you to then obtain Snowflake’s customers’ data? Doesn’t this imply that people working at Snowflake can see all of the data that I put in it?

Admittedly I don’t have much experience with Snowflake, but as a baseline I expect better from a “cloud storage giant”.
The tax haul from a house is almost certainly higher than food grown on a semi-arid steppe like Colorado
Restart your browser? I use this site frequently in Firefox on macOS and have no issues.
I thought maybe the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Steemer carpet cleaning company might be a descendant of the Stanley steam car company. But it doesn’t look like it - the carpet cleaning company just wanted a memorable name, and a nostalgic name for a ridiculous but charming machine from 40 years earlier fit the bill.
> Oops. The FCC says I need a cover page. Let's try to appease them.

Yet another reason I hate when things I own try to enforce laws against me: there will be cases, like the author's, in which the law doesn't apply but the thing doesn't know it.
Second time this week in which I've seen "civil society" used in a headline on HN. It's such a blunt euphemism they may as well write "the good guys".
Close after 10-60s of complete inactivity, don’t use JS bloatware and allow for range/etag requests should go a long way though. The issue is people setting fixed timeouts per request which isn’t meant for large transfers.
IOCs: https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Communication-ID-0...
Trains are capable of carrying “parts & subassemblies.” The question why Boeing hates public transportation so much still stands.
Apple used 8-pin mini DIN connectors for serial. The author might not have had the right cable.
Also, replace the ambiguous characters like D/0 or 3/8 to something a bit more recognizable like D becomes d and 8 becomes X and then do a find-replace after the OCR process. Was there really a need to write the OCR software from scratch?
I've found that wearing $10 off-the-shelf "musicians" or "high fidelity" earplugs in such spaces helps my ability to hear/understand a lot.

Yes, the stem sticks out, and everyone asks about them at least once, but I usually say something about wanting to "prevent tinnitus" and that it helps me hear them even better and they usually don't ask about it again.
I use Firefox on Mac and work on the site, and I have to say that I’ve never seen that. Something to do with an extension maybe?
Well, my wife doomed the city by holding our kids hostage. Sorry, city, guess you’re on your own. I tried to stay.

[edit] I mean on the bright side a doctor of that era wouldn’t have been able to do much about it anyway. So.
Why didn't the Big Bang become a black hole?
> Could you explain what other copernican moments have you experienced?

There have been quite a few, I've written about them my books I've written about my adventures around the world [1].

- You really don't need much money to live, and if you're happy doing inexpensive things, you can be a very happy person without going to work much at all. A ~$300 day at Disneyland is a surefire good time, but if you enjoy a walk in the park throwing a Frisbee around with friends just as much... you'll have a lot more time to enjoy life.

- Be careful with debt. The reason so many people in the western world go to work everyday is because they get the debt, then have to work to pay it off. Go to a country where debt isn't really possible because the economy can't support it (Argentina, Mexico, Mali, Angola, etc.) and you'll see everyone has TONS of time to live the life they want. Play guitar, play with cousins, hangout on the beach. Little work, lots of living.
No sane person will go to a soul-crushing job for weeks just to buy a new iPhone.. but because it isn't that obvious, everyone in developed countries actually does.

- You can live whatever life you want, and don't worry what other people say. If it's your close friends or family you can certainly take input and advice, but random people telling you stuff is pure noise.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Books-Dan-Grec/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27...
Of course for you personally 6x4=24 hours of work is better than 4x8=32 hours of work.

The math is so simple, obvious and scewed that I don't understand why you wrote your comment, what is the informational value.
> In 2020 it admitted it hacked into one of its competitors and agreed to pay a $10m fine.

Lol, if an individual does this, you're going to go to jail. A company does this? Tiny fine. What a world we live in.
>By definition they cannot escalate

As they keep saying. If they mean it, too, nukes will fly.
I wonder how people would feel if the races were reversed:

"The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Democrat, middle-aged Black women residing in three liberal states, California, New York, and Minnesota, which are focus points of contentious anti-policing and gun control battles."
Case in point: A new car released 8 years ago, but with incremental upgrades (i.e. Mitsubishi RVR in NA), still won’t have the same fundamental design considerations around safety or fuel efficiency as a more recent model.
RAG with Groq and Llama 3
Probation Expectations
Or in the case of "manheim", simply laziness and assuming that autocorrect would somehow assume he wants the city, which is spelled differently, vs the company with that exact spelling.
> automotive infotainment project

I haven't heard that story before. Got any references?
Just changing the delimiter would probably thwart most efforts like this. I self host so am not limited to the + character. So, I currently use name-subaddress@domain. I could easily switch to using underscore as my delimiter. Or I could just use subaddress@domain. This is dead simple and I don’t even have commercial motivation. Good luck!
Bullshit. Tesla, a US company, has been the leader in Chinese EVs until very recently.
Come check out some of the array languages[1,2,3], or perhaps the retro-computing comfy vibes of a system like Decker[4]. Some of us still appreciate code as poetry.

[1]: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

[2]: https://www.uiua.org/

[3]: https://code.kx.com/q/learn/tour/

[4]: https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html
At least based on the wording of the perpetrator, Snowflake really did have the system designed in a way where a single administrator account gives you carte blanche to everything.

> On may 31st, Snowflake released a statement in which they claim that they are investigating an industry-wide identity-based attacks that have impacted “some” of their customers.

https://community.snowflake.com/s/question/0D5VI00000Emyl00A...

This gives credibility to both Ticketmaster and Santander stories.

Wow! Could be one of the biggest dumps of all time if the threat actors did everything correctly?
In the realm of startups and business management, few voices carry as much weight and insight as Ben Horowitz. His lecture, “How to Manage,” part of the How to Start a Startup series, distills years of executive experience into a concise, impactful message. Horowitz emphasizes a critical perspective often overlooked by founders: the ripple effect of their decisions. This blog post unpacks the wisdom from Horowitz’s lecture, offering a guide for founders and managers to navigate the complex web of impacts their choices create.
Late thirties. Though I spoke to my parents and they seem to have the same view, late sixties.
Look at all the comments from the web devs saying they don't go out of their way to disallow this. Their situation is about the same as here.
Saudi Fund Joins $400M Financing for China AI Firm Zhipu
Many paid ebooks are in a low-quality format too. I've bought Kindle books from real, well-known publishing houses that had obviously not had a single proofreader go through after their OCR. A motivated volunteer would've done so much better.
It hasn’t happened before but never say never. What we do do though sometimes is contribute our own transcriptions to Gutenberg first, then use that as a base for the Standard Ebooks version.
Nonsensical question. You invent things with brainpower, not money.
Very, very old faxes used to be purely analog. Since dial-up was invented, however, faxes are fully digital. If you've ever used a fax machine, you'll notice the classic dial-up handshake noises. Faxes are modems and vice-versa: any PC with a modem could send and receive faxes. It was a commonly advertised feature back in the day.
As usual, organizations with giant databases do not compartmentalize the data.
The CP/M side didn't have any terminal software. Both sides had methods to set 9600/n/8/1 on the printer device.

On the PC side, without PROCOMM, it would be possible to "COPY COM1: FOO.TXT" but I don't know how 9600/n/8/1 could be set in advance (IIRC setting it as a printer to force the baud rate altered the device so it could not be read).

Generally speaking, all of the pre-PC microcomputers implemented serial ports, which is the first choice in pulling data off of them (including binary data with XMODEM and its variants).
Here's the expense that doesn't change: That will cost me a month of vacation days. Yeah, I can afford the money, if I choose to. But the vacation days are a huge opportunity cost. For me, at the moment, that's two years of no other vacations. That's expensive.
At least on iOS, you’re given a “Hide My Email” option when you’re on a sign up page that generates the new address right when you need it.
in this case (which shouldn't happen because it requires that you merged things that don't belong together - see accidental duplication), at least the one changing the method has all information on his hands and doesn't have to keep a potentially complex graph of copied code in his mind.
Yes, it's a bit silly! The reason the score is so off is because we use the Flesch Reading Ease algorithm[1] to calculate it, which was designed for the US Navy to be able to score technical manuals. It works very well for most prose too... except highly modernist prose!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Reading_Ease
To be fair, they've extended that deadline a few times already (and it's mirrored elsewhere, as another pointed out).

I know Google graveyards a lot of things, but in the Stadia case, they truly went above and beyond to make customers whole again. They refunded every software & hardware purchase automatically, in full, no matter when you bought it, and also provided save game exports. That means people got to play those games on Stadia for those few years, then got all their money back AND some free hardware (Bluetooth controllers). It was a failed Google experiment, but all us guinea pigs got some free entertainment and swag out of it. Kudos.
Tesla gets two to three times more in US and California subsidy cash than BYD gets from China. You don't seem to know what you're talking about.
NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first cancer vaccine
Pac-Bayes – The Machine Learning Summer School in Okinawa 2024 [video]
The advantages that I value are that case sensitivity means I can use shorter filenames, it makes it easier to generate programmatic filenames, and I can use case to help in organizing my files.

> Are you saying you actually want to save "Book draft 1.docx" and "Book Draft 1.docx" as two separate files?

That's a situation where sensitivity can cause difficulty, yes, but for me personally, that's a minor confusion that is easy to avoid or correct. Everything is a tradeoff, and for me, putting up with that annoyance is well worth the benefits of case sensitivity.

I do totally understand that others will have different tradeoffs that fit them better. I'm not taking away from that at all. But saying "case sensitivity is undesirable" in a broad sense is no more accurate than saying "case sensitivity is desirable" in a broad sense.

Personally, I think the ideal tradeoff is for the filesystem to be case sensitive, but have the user interfaces to that file system be able to make everything behave as case-insensitive if that's what the user prefers.
Again, some things aren't worth fixing, and they build up. The fabric on my headliner detached. Quickly went from "foam slightly exposed" to "sagging across the width of the backseat". Car is worth less than 5 grand, would be almost 1 to fix. It's a good thing I didn't, because brake troubles cost about as much and were necessary to fix.

I think a lot of waste goes into maintaining cars cosmetically.
Author here. Admittedly I didn't explore this avenue very deeply. I was more focused on accomplishing this with parts I had on hand.

A quick search yielded this result, which does confirm it's absolutely possible to adapt the drive: https://vintagemacmuseum.com/reading-powerbook-2-5-scsi-hard...

(My way might be more fun. Ha.)
Ironic the media spent years debunking his laptop as disinformation and now its being used in his gun case as evidence of his crimes.

So much for having “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation. So much for “it could be that I was hacked.”

Almost four full years after Big Tech suppressed The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s abandoned “laptop from hell” with its evidence of influence-peddling, drug use, and other lurid activity, the device will take center stage in the first son’s federal trial on gun charges next month.

Special counsel David Weiss’ team made clear that it intends to use data from the notorious hard drive as evidence against the now-54-year-old.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/hunter-bidens-infamous...
Your daily evidence that modern Russia is essentially just an organized crime ring with oil reserves and nukes.
> Biden has a non zero probability of dying before the election (of natural causes). Plus DNC nomination is a super pac driven process. Math might just compute.

So the odds of Biden dying, times the odds of Michelle Obama wanting to run, times the odds of the DNC not picking Kamala Harris—the current VP, times the odds of Michelle Obama actually winning, might work out to 4%?

...uh... I don't even know what to say about that.
I don’t block so that I have an evidence file in case I need it. However, I do not ever respond, so it’s effectively the same experience as being blocked.
Don't you need case sensitivity for this part?

> I can't just autopilot a path name, I have to consciously hit shift when tab completion stops working.

On a system that's case retaining but not case sensitive, wouldn't "pr" autocomplete to "Projects"?
"Civil society" implies the existence of uncivil people; it's good guys vs bad guys, not civilian vs military. If Ukraine targeted civilian organizations in Russia, the headline wouldn't call it an attack on "civil society" (but Russian media might.)
All the restaurant order/pay app developers have pivoted to making the flip-around kiosks that charge 20% and up for tipping now, so the QR code app game is dying off apparently. :\
Also it's a 30 year old Apple laptop - there are tons of resources available on how to do things with them.

But, this worked with what he had at the time, so, eh, fun times.
My APU2 died few years back and haven't found a decent replacement. Instead I use a Lenovo Thinkstation M720Q off eBay with the PCIe x8 riser and Intel 2 port 10GbE card. You could also fit a 4 port 1Gb card too. The thing idles at 18-19W which is less than the big white rectangular Verizon "trash can" router which idled at 22W and has horrible WiFi (I use a Unifi APLR.)
If you do an image search of the impacted devices, they all seem to be Windstream branded.

Not sure if that's enough evidence to say it was them... but I don't see another ISP's logo on these things.
That's... fascinating.
And this surprises you about Google - why? They have censored conservative sites and results for years.
Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout
Yeah, cars are a tragedy of the commons. They're great if you're the only person on the road: you can get to anywhere you want on your own schedule. But then everyone rationally chooses to drive, which makes it a pretty crummy way to get around. Not to mention all the externalities and inefficiencies involved.
Our volunteers pick what books they personally want to work on. Those books have to meet our collections policy criteria: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/collections-policy
>Everyone did; any experienced user had to seek lighter alternatives at some point.

Ha! No. For some users, their PC is just a tool, a white good, like their washing machine or their car. Do you think every car owner also knows how to change oil, brake pads or fix fender benders? No, they pay a profesional service to take care of it and once they see it doesn't run like they want it to, if they have the money they sell it off or take it to the junkyard and buy a new one, not keep it going forever through endless fixes and tinkering.

If a new washing machine is $200 do you spend $70/hour on a handyman to fix your broken one? Same with computers.

>Tell that to a musician I know

Exceptions that prove the rule. Without any context and what exactly a "old and slow" laptop means and what a person's income is we can talk here all day, as that skews from person to person.

If someone is broke AF then it's normal they'll keep their HW going for as long as possible if and less $20/month means skipping on food. But if someone makes a healthy income, they'll chuck the 6 year old laptop in the trash/ebay once it starts to be too slow for their standards and get a new one, instead of spending precious time learning about installing Linux and alternative foss apps, when they'd rather spend their precious time tinkering with their Harley or going to the beach and spend $1000 on a new laptop that works the way they like it out of the box.
I mean, sure, but it does thwart the vast majority of users who don’t even know this is an option. Most people don't know you can have an email from someone other than the major providers, let alone on a custom domain or selfhosted.

At the end of the day, nothing will thwart a determined person. But that’s not the goal. If it deters the vast majority of your users from making duplicate accounts, then it’s still a success.

Perfect is the enemy of good, after all.
Years ago I met a guy at a dinner party who had done some work for DARPA around super conducting computers. The big appeal was energy efficiency and speed: 100s of GHz and ~99% energy reduction.

One critical limitation is that information transfer from superconducting to regular wiring is relatively energy intensive, so a superconducting CPU won't actually result in advantages for input/output intensive processing. For processing heavy jobs though, if you don't have to shuffle data around the speed and energy savings will be very attractive.
- "a reading ease of 74.9 (fairly easy)"

Yeah, that's a very unnecessary misuse of AI.

Is there an open-source human rating site for serious books, in how difficult they are to read—how tedious, how erudite, how much pain you have to go through to get whatever reward you think you get at the end? With Ulysses near the edge of one axis, Moby Dick demarcating another... Surely this is all common knowledge to bookish people, but, where do they write it down?
Search instantly brings up tons of articles on the subject. Are you sure you're not just being paranoid?
Half the trees in my neighborhood are missing.
How long would it take to explain to someone who just wants to voice/video chat with their friends how they can set this functionality up with the same ease as discord? And how much will it cost for them to do that?
Here's a list of their customers that they provide: https://www.snowflake.com/en/customers/all-customers/
> They usually come from a "I went to school, so I know what educators need" perspective, which is often wrong.

Change it to "I knew that educators would need if they were like me", and it (surprisingly) gets mostly correct. For example in the past, I volunteered to prepare talented pupils in math for studying this subject at a university, so I do claim that I have some experience in education.

I think I know some things about what would make sense for educating children, but the kind of people who actually become educators are a quite different kind of breed than me. So educators would likely not like my ideas (they don't fit the political climate and/or desired style of education), even though I think they do make sense (and would dogfood them). The latter is evidenced by the fact that I was told by work colleagues that they would love my ideas to be put into a textbook form. Thus, my ideas seem
to fall on much fertile ground for an audience of gifted parents who would love for their children to become gifted, too, than for people who become educators.
But that behavior would be noticeable in the original download, which would be evidence itself.
Strength training with heavy compound barbell movements at least 3x/week, LISS cardio 3x/week.

Eat sufficient protein and fiber from whole food sources.

Try to get good quality sleep.

Basically try to hit these: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
> They may still wish to own a house, but that's not demand, that's dreaming (or what you might call latent demand)

Again this is a matter of where you draw your boundaries. Latent demand is still demand which exists just demand withheld from the market (ie priced out).

>Of course – at which point it ceases to be supply

But it is still supply which exists, just supply which is withheld from the market (ie not supply for sale). This is why I made the point of "supply" and "supply for sale". You're never going to help home prices by building more houses, if what you build is withheld from the market, because, if we use your definition of supply:

>it ceases to be supply.

Do you disagree?
That's a great idea, congrats! Can it connect to multiple email accounts, such as personal and work accounts, in a single view? And what about privacy?
Superconductors do not generate heat for a constant DC current. Computers are very, very AC, and you do get heat production anytime the current changes.

It is, IMO, a bit dubious whether or not anything is truly flowing in a superconductor at constant current. Electrons don't have identity, so the 'constant flow of electrons' can be rephrased as 'the physical system isn't changing'... and the degree to which you can tell that there are electrons moving about is also the degree to which the superconductor isn't truly zero-resistance.