skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Joscelyn Godwin

>Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day.

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https://i.imgur.com/fnwNhmi.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/BiQE7fh.png

Wow - thank you for bringing this to me.

When I was 17 I astral projected and went to space and heard the Music of the Spheres.
Yes. If you have a "FSD" Tesla, you're still supposed to be in the driver's seat and are the responsible driver--whatever claims the company makes to the contrary.
There’s a company called Biobeat that sells a patch you put on your chest for continuous 24-hour blood pressure measurement [1]. From what I’ve heard it’s in clinical use and works.

1. https://www.bio-beat.com/cuffless-blood-pressure-monitoring
DEF CON's response reeks of petty; characterizing dmitry as a "subcontractor" rather than a volunteer for spin purposes, and the choice to remove Entropic's logo from the case based on this budget dispute.
Strongly beg to differ. Blocking a bike lane is $100 here, ticketing the lanes of cars parked in them can and should provide a nice revenue stream to the city
This isn't about posting, it's really about controlling access and accountability. The SIM issue is the one that should be causing the concern.
> WDW

Thanks for the answer! I asked because I'm legitimately curious which parts of the country/world use such draconian contracts. It's a new concept for me, and I know that my lived experience isn't a uniform, unbiased sample, so I'm especially interested in examples to the contrary.

> all hotels

Not in the slightest. The last ~50 hotels I've stayed at in the western half of the US haven't had anything so crude in their terms and conditions. I usually selected them by minimizing cost amongst hotels least likely to be lying about cigarette smoke and lock quality and greedily abandoning those who did lie. That does serve as a form of sampling bias, but it's not particularly selective, and regardless I'd expect that ~50x examples to the contrary suffice to demonstrate that "all" is a gross exaggeration.
Methylating is like acetylating. It's kind of a go-to thing to try in medicinal chemistry.
> for making a plane that _averages_ the inputs of the two pilots to arrive at an overall control output, without any real warning,

For what it's worth, the 777 does the same when there is too much opposing force on the yokes. At least on Airbuses, there is an aural warning.
Ask HN: Book Recommendations in SF – Science for Kids and S for Adults?
Hi HN,

I’ll be visiting San Francisco in about 4 weeks and am hoping to get some book recommendations. Here’s what I’m looking for:

1. *For my kids (ages 3 & 5):* I’m particularly interested in science books for young children that are only available or easiest to find in the US. I’d love to bring back some unique and educational reads that might not be readily available in Germany.

2. *For myself:* I’m a machine learning engineer with interests in linguistics, philosophy, theology, natural history, and epistemology. If you know of any extraordinary books in these areas, especially those that are hard to find or are particularly renowned in the US, I’d love to hear your suggestions.

3. *Must-Reads:* Finally, if there are any other books—across any genre—that you consider a must-read, I’m all ears. Whether it’s fiction, non-fiction, or anything in between, I’m looking to expand my library with some great reads.

Also, any tips on where to buy these books in SF would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
> You're paying for trash and encouraging the ad-littering business by even acknowledging it exists.

This feels like a "you participate in society" argument. Yes, it'd be better if all intrusive ads were banned or heavily regulated. But that's not reality and I can't simply withdraw from the internet in protest.

>If you consider advertising bad enough to pay money to get rid of it, why would you pay that money to the business putting up ads?

it's a calculus of "energy spent" from fighting vs value gained from "giving in". There's fortuntaely more value than "remove ads" so that's how I justify it.

>Because you refuse to leave their client?

because I can't leave the client. I've been de-googling for the past year or so and I realize the main two things I can't leave are

1. Youtube, because it basically has a monopoly on video content.

2. gmail, mostly because there'd be a huge burden ediing almost 20 years of accounts all through the web to leave. From random sites I visit once in a blue moon to my banks and bills. I'd have gmail haunting me for years even if I dropped it today.

If there's one thing that has a reckoning coming, it's Youtube.

>Because you don't want to acknowledge the scary world of choosing something better?

I do it all the time. There is always friction so I think it's a bit dishonest to phrase it as "choosing something better". Firefox still has quirks with translation and the occasional weird interaction with factors like video calls, even after days of researching tweaking settings and installing extensions. Picking up PC gaming still has tons of configuration issues and hardware considerations compared to popping in a disc into a console. There's simply a lot of intersting information I miss out on from not browsing reddit, things that the other 3 forum social media (including HN) just don't catch. It's never objectively better.

>reflect on what you're paying for and how these companies sucker you into buying it.

I suppose you can criticism any bill with that logic. Water is a natural resource, why am I paying for plumbing? video games are just code, all code should be free, why pay for video games? Why am I paying $100 for this art commission when someone in Venezuela would do it for a dime (disclaimer: this is probably a very wrong conversion)?

Some of these are societal (we're never going to escape taxes, some of these should hopefully be so you can support other workers instead of exploiting them. It's your call either way, but I won't fault someone (especially someone decently off) for choosing convinience of entertainment over some grand stand against "the free market".
It sounds to me like they were mad at Dmitry for including an "easter egg" in their badge firmware that solicited donations to a Bitcoin address.
WOW!

CNN is aware of the importance of noscript/basic (x)html?!

This "lite" domain is really interesting.
It doesn't necessarily show that Urchin was great, it is an example of the dumbing down of software that happens these days.
I love the space theme. It's beautiful. The only 2 things I'd change would be the name and also have a link to the git repo on the site.

I could really use this a lot. I have a never ending stream of content to convert and minimize.
I know zero about Shanghai but the first time in visited in August 2008, my friend that lived there said if I had visited just 2 months earlier it would have been a totally different experience because I'd have heard incessant car honking. He claimed the government banned honking your horn except in an emergency and then actually enforced it so that everyone got the message quick. Honk, get a fine.

I was impressed since I didn't hear any honking. I can't imagine that being enforced pretty much anywhere else in the world.
> A parent's support should be unconditional.

I agree.

It's not "meeting expectations", I look at it as a concern that one can become self-sufficient and do well in life, regardless of the path.
There are multiple ways government contracts (and contracts in general) are billed. Blanket statements about billing for government and non-government contracts are not accurate.
Battery tests are important, but so is how it fairs on battery (what is the performance drop off to maintain that), what’s its performance is ant its peak and how it long before it throttles when pushed.

The M series processors have succeeded in all four: battery life, performance parity between battery and plugged in, high performance and performance sustainability.

So far, very few benchmarks have been comparing the latter three as part of the full package assessment.
I wasn’t going for the best possible security, just something better than leaving stuff in your room. The post I responded to wasn’t about securing stuff, but detecting when hotel staff had looked at it.

I practically live in hotels, including in Vegas. If you lock your bag and check with the bell desk they aren’t going to open it. If you’re staying in places with bags accessible to anyone find a better hotel.
https://archive.ph/4mxX1
IIRC, some years back a white hat hacker guessed his twitter password - which was "yourefired", and contacted the Trump team to inform them of this weakness.

They then briefed Trump on picking a password with letters, numbers, and special characters, etc. - like "maga2020!", which is what he went with.

For whatever reason, he did not use 2FA. So I'm not at all shocked they got "hacked" if that type of carelessness is the standard.
It used to be that all-lower-case brought to mind bell hooks, ee cummings, kd lang…

Now it’s a signifier for e/acc narcissism and grift.
Any chance this could add launching windows to specific positions/sizes and/or, more importantly, to specific spaces?

It still feels nuts to me that we have all this stuff and yet when entering/exiting 'work mode' I have to either leave everything running indefinitely or reposition all my work apps every time I launch them.
These are the first few sentences of the article:

> Cadmium is bad news. Lead and mercury get all the press, but cadmium is just as foul, even if far fewer people encounter it. Never in my career have I had any occasion to use any, and I like it that way.

It seems clear that he doesn’t want to work with cadmium, regardless of the compound.
The premise of ‘tech people’ not at all succumbing to the same shortcomings as any other human is utterly language and the source of so much undeserved hubris in this industry. Developers are some of the worst, ‘illogical’ people I’ve ever met, especially when it comes to anything interpersonal.
I for one like your pun.-

PS. Regarding your username, fan of Fortran 75 meself :)
> the act of "getting to know" someone, necessarily involves sharing things that are a bit more "real" than the typical glossy surface conversation people tend to have.

I think that's the point: you want to create an environment where the interlocutor, when they want it, can, if they choose to, do it.

> doing one's best to make sure such openness is reciprocated, and that the other person's heart is in the right place.

How is that not exactly what is done? Are you saying that the article explains that if the other person does not answer, you have to put a gun on their head and scream until they comply?

What kind of socially immature persons are taking so much offense when someone just asks you a slightly personal question in a social meeting where the context is to bond with interlocutors? Just answer politely in a way that show you don't want to go there, and the other person will act accordingly. But pretending that the author of the article is wrong just because they did not jump through hoops to cater your personal snowflakeness seems so closed-minded.
Yes, as long as nobody's being paid off by Big Gay.
We're really gonna exhaust every option we have before we build new housing.
Truth in the philosophical sense is subjective but this is simultaneously true and completely useless. We deal with the universe usefully only by putting a limit on the fuzziness we accept.

> Bigotry or racism or violence or ... are all totally subjective

These are all trivially objectively defined to the satisfaction of reasonable parties. What you do to people who try to deliberately play in the margins and rules lawyer is just save time by banning them right off.

> completely inappropriate as tools to suppress speech in any free society

You can't do any of them on this forum because a forum that allowed it would be trash and we wouldn't be having this reasonable discussion there.

It's completely reasonable for a society to limit dialogue around open bigotry and violence. You push said discussion out of the public eye where its both less apt to spread and less likely by dint of its secrecy to seem to others like a reasonable and acceptable thing. Note how hard it is to promote your shit via Gab vs Youtube.
You're not alone with this desire, and I still haven't found a good solution. I want to bookmark all apps and windows when working on something and recall them all later when I resume work. How is this not yet a thing when do much real work involves using so many different applications?.

There is an app, Workspaces, I think, but it's not useful enough to bother using.

Probably should be a macos feature one day
> such as I think Signal is compromised by some five-eyes "crossing the border" fuckery

Would you mind elaborating?
I have a 365 AMD laptop.

The battery is great if your doing very light stuff, Call of Duty takes it's battery down to 3 hours.

Macs don't really support higher end games, so I can't directly compare to my M1 Air.
a sudo like wrapper for this could be pretty cool.

still will capture when processes unexpectedly try to connect to the network for the first time and there is some value in that. even if the popups aren't great.
Looks just like Narcan. I think some design work needs to go into making sure these are never confused for each other. The result would be likely deadly.

I think they need some differentiating shape or like assigned danger colors for the most common emergency nasal applications.
> The event being named after a US military meeter to indicate how far away the US is from nuclear war should already be an indication.

It's a clear reference to the movie WARGAMES more than a direct reference to the real world US military itself.
A 3,300-Foot-Tall Battery May Become the Tallest Building
> Sure, making things cheaper is always better. I'm just responding to the word "monopoly" which seems to get tossed around whenever anything is expensive without any thought on why it's expensive.

Paying hundreds of millions of dollars to settle antitrust claims sounds like a monopoly to me.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/how-mylan-ended-up-with-a...

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/behind-the-epipen-monopoly-lo...

https://www.courthousenews.com/10th-circuit-asked-to-revive-...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pfizer-pay-50-mln-s...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/epipen-maker-...
The market does not optimize for high ideals like consumer-friendliness.
Android does manage SD Cards as storage expansion very well though. The OS is only ~4GB and will run off the fast UFS, primarily because it would crash if you were able to disconnect it, but it will pop up and offer to move app data, photos, and videos to the SD card at various points to help manage space. I love smartphones with SD card slots.
IMO the problem isn't so much cameras everywhere per se, but rather how the data may be shared or centralized or otherwise enable abuse.
Apple doesn't want customization or third party parts. Google hated storage space from day 1 with Pixels. Motorola I haven't looked at in a while, they were a mess last time I did. Samsung realized they could remove microSD from their flagships and charge more to anyone that didn't go down a tier.

And most of those phones still have SIM slots. Putting microSD inside the same slot as the SIM is a solved problem.
"AMD Strix Point expected to debut in October, claims AOOSTAR" was a new headline I've seen. Seems about right that laptops (higher margin parts) land a few months before the SFFs.

I'm excited about the strix halo that has more cores, double the GPU, and double the memory badwidth (to keep the GPU fed).
This is the best advice in this thread.
Why would they retest and recertify so they can sell half the product they used to sell? What company is crazy enough to lose that much money?
It’s supposed to provoke an emotional response
IIRC the author works in pharmaceuticals. I would be unsurprised to learn that cadmium is rarely used in the production of medications.
Arithmetic division as a service. Brilliant.
You're certainly welcome here but you're not going to get anywhere by attacking the mainstream/majority view. I'm not saying that the majority view is correct, just that group dynamics ensure that if you challenge it in a provocative way, you'll get rejected the same way an immune system rejects antibodies.

If you want to participate successfully, the only two ways I know are either (1) avoid contentious topics, and/or (2) be careful not to provoke. This may be unfair but there's nothing we can do about it and it's the only thing that has any chance of working.

I've written about this in the past in case any of it is of interest or somehow helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious.

To add a kind of oddball one, fried instant noodles are a great item to have a few of when camping -- not because you can eat them, but because in a pinch the noodles are pretty good firestarters, especially when you're having a hard time finding small pieces of dry wood. And you can use the seasoning packets as a source of at least some electrolytes in a pinch.
"Kind of an interesting idea that the OS/window manager is what should be responsible for tab support, not each application."

I agree completely, and even popup menus, sidebars and other sections of apps could/should be handled above/outside the app, for consistency, flexibility, etc.
I can't believe people are still falling for energy vaults "innovative concepts". Using gravity to store energy only makes economic sense if the costs per ton of mass that your system can store is very small. That is the case for pumped hydro where you essentially just have two lakes filled with water. A water filled skyscraper however is orders of magnitudes more expensive per volume of water than building a dam to create a lake.
Here it’s the same except for the rent going down. They just wait until the place is filled. It’s grim if you don’t own a home.
That's not Simpson's paradox!

> In fact, while the new flow worked great on mobile, conversion was lower on desktop – an insight we missed when we combined these metrics.

> This phenomenon is known as Simpson's paradox – i.e. when experiments show one outcome when analyzed at an aggregated level, but a different one when analyzed by subgroups.

There's nothing strange about finding out that some groups benefit and others lose out when diving up you data. You're looking at an average and some parts are positive and others are negative. Where's the paradox there?

Simpson's paradox is when more button presses lead to more purchases. But then you look at desktop vs mobile and you find out that for both desktop and mobile more clicks doesn't mean more purchases (or worse, more clicks means fewer purchases).

That's why it's a paradox. The association between two variables exists at the aggregate level but doesn't exist or is backwards when you split up the population. It's not a statement about the average performance of something.

I would add a 7th A/B testing mistake to that list and it's not learning about basic probability, statical tests, power, etc. Flying by the seat of your pants when statistics are involved always ends badly.
From what I understand... it's possible that while Dmitry may have wanted to help Entropic, what ended up happening is Dmitry burned bridges for Entropic. Entropic by now has no choice but to come out with a statement since from their perspective, Defcon was already throwing their name under the bus, basically saying Entropic exercised bad faith and incompetence.
For healthcare it might be getting to the point where the numbers are nearly incomparable. PPP seems like it'd be more inappropriate than usual for measuring a particular industry. US healthcare is known to be quirky.

Although there doesn't seem to be any obvious evidence here that the US could be lagging behind. Per-person the US is still a bit of a productivity outlier to the upside. When they aren't legislatively restrained they tend to work hard and in an organised way.
Thanks for trying out, I'll update the code and/or the README to fix this.
I heard they got canceled this year
Haven't heard of that one. But neffy uses 3 mg of epinephrine.
> In a system where healthcare is socialized, you also get strong incentives to introduce policies that can reduce that cost. Examples would include the UK's ban on cigarette branding, introducing a tax on sugar in soft drinks, and banning smoking in public spaces.

Strictly speaking the incentives don't change much. People have a strong incentive to stay healthy no matter what system is in place, and the insurance companies have a strong incentive to make sure people know about the risks of sugar drinks etc.
You should try not to talk so confidently about things you don't know about -- this statement

> if AMD used the same 33w, nobody would buy their chips because performance would be so incredibly bad

Is completely incorrect, as another commenter (and I think the notebookcheck article?) point out -- 30w is about the sweet spot for these processors, and the reason that 110w laptop seems so inefficient is because it's giving the APU 80w of TDP, which is a bit silly since it only performs marginally better than if you gave it e.g. 30 watts. It's not a good idea to take that example as a benchmark for the APU's efficiency, it varies depending on how much TDP you give the processor, and 80w is not a good TDP for these
> people like that would have to be convinced that mass-producing electric cars was more important than preserving local forests

As though there isn’t a glut of underutilized parking lots littering literally every American metro where the local forests were bulldozed decades ago

> paying workers prevailing wage

Subsidies are there to pay for wages and for automation to be less reliant on labor costs, of which China automates waaaay more than the USA does

> running a low government deficit

Industrial subsidies have the potential to pay back far more than the government puts in, and would be much smaller in size than other boondoggles the US government pays for

Honestly I think this is all just excuses and China just took advantage of the incompetence of our leadership to leapfrog us. Since when did Americans not want to be #1?
The USA has fairly robust personal property laws. Each state is a little different, but for the most part, you have a right to defend yourself and your property, including removing trespassers from your property.
Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.
It’s an amazing boost to quality of living that most urban Americans don’t even realize they’re suffering from.
Mere software difference
You are conflating censorship by the govt and moderation of a privately run forum.
To be fair, there are a lot of hackers who work and/or worked for various intelligence agencies, either directly or as a contractor.

Some of them are people who have also clearly been hackers before and after their work there.

Was it weird? Absolutely. But let’s not pretend the government doesn’t hire hackers. It’s our biggest employer.