skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breakthrough Material Perfectly Absorbs 99% of Electromagnetic Waves
Shrinking a Postgres Table
"Absorption-Dominant Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding across Multiple mmWave Bands Using Conductive Patterned Magnetic Composite and Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Film" (2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202406197 :

> Abstract: The revolution of millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies is prompting a need for absorption-dominant EMI shielding materials. While conventional shielding materials struggle in the mmWave spectrum due to their reflective nature, this study introduces a novel EMI shielding film with ultralow reflection (<0.05 dB or 1.5%), ultrahigh absorption (>70 dB or 98.5%), and superior shielding (>70 dB or 99.99999%) across triple mmWave frequency bands with a thickness of 400 µm. By integrating a magnetic composite layer (MCL), a conductive patterned grid (CPG), and a double-walled carbon nanotube film (DWCNTF), specific resonant frequencies of electromagnetic waves are transmitted into the film with minimized reflection, and trapped and dissipated between the CPG and the DWCNTF. The design factors for resonant frequencies, such as the CPG geometry and the MCL refractive index, are systematically investigated based on electromagnetic wave propagation theories. This innovative approach presents a promising solution for effective mmWave EMI shielding materials, with implications for mobile communication, radar systems, and wireless gigabit communication.
Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off
Usually you'd delegate that to a CF worker. Your logic can be fully implemented by you. No single user gets a direct access token, but rather uses your preferred auth mechanism.
Rust 1.83.0
The fact that kids are going to circumvent the rules means that it's going to be a wild back and forth between companies and the courts when they do.
War Stories: Diablo's loot lottery was almost a turn-based affair
Is this material useful for space travel and also quantum computers?
Show HN: Bearlytics – Open-source web analytics you can self-host
I recently tried to self-host Umami and Plausible, and failed so spectacularly I decided to build a Django/SQLite web-analytics platform myself.

These other open-source tools are great, but are incredibly difficult to get running yourself since there's no incentive for those companies to make it easy since they sell managed hosting.

Is Bearlytics better? No, but it's certainly simpler, and everything I personally need.
Yes, people and their inventions belong to the Malign Realm and are completely different from animals and nature, which belong to the Wholesome Realm.
Want to give a clue on who the culprit is?
Just need to use this with some recordings of Majel Barrett, make a voice interface for Claude's computer use agent and we'll be all set.
But they are better informed about and better placed to exploit the things that are profitable. The rest is just background noise.
>Maybe you are so concerned because you get your information from MSM

Dr. Oz IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

It is impossible for anyone, in any field, to be a domain expert, no matter what their experience or qualifications, if they spend the amount of time he does chasing fame and fortune on talk and news shows.

A domain expert must be immersed in their field constantly, not shooting their own show, appearing on Oprah twice per week, going on book tours, and running for office.

After throwing away all of his education and training and the lifetime of professional development needed just to stay current (nevermind get better) in order to pursue fame, a first year med student probably knows more about health than doctor fucking oz.
Column Store Databases are awesome
jail is for us peasants. the corporation will likely have to pay a fine & lose the trademark if found guilty.
Scientists unravel how squirting cucumbers spew their seeds
> Indirect involvement can still be ok within the confines of a license agreement for using the actor's voice.

This assumes existence of a license agreement or likeness/right of publicity law that prevents unauthorized use. But this is far from the case.

Companies have shown willingness to use actors’ voices to create synthetic voices without permission, compensation, or regard for their livelihoods. [1][2][3]

[1] https://animehunch.com/popular-japanese-voice-actors-band-to...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/eleve...

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/morgan-freeman-calls-una...
> Magazines can make a similar comeback for niches like fashion and arts. But they will probably be funded rather differently from the ad-filled old media products.

This has been attempted in the outdoors world for 20+ years. E.g., Alpinist[0] and The Surfers Journal[1]. It works, kinda. Alpinist now has more ads and is a smaller physical size and lower-quality paper than it was at the start. I think it's also had a couple close calls with bankruptcy. I wasn't reading TSJ over a long enough time span to tell if they had similar issues.

[0] http://www.alpinist.com/
[1] https://www.surfersjournal.com/
I work on frontier models directly and I I wrote a guidebook for folks like you.
https://ravinkumar.com/GenAiGuidebook/book_intro.html

It has a mix of concepts and hands on code, and lots of links to the best places to learn more. I'm keeping it up to date as well, about to merge a guide on building applications, which is what it sounds like you want.

Here's my Google scholar if you want credentials
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Oq99ddEAAAAJ&hl=en...
The IPv4 charge is a good one!

I thought this was to allow them to be more relaxed about the limit (5 per region) which is how they used to control fully free services that cost them.

But an increase for sure - they did note the supply of free ARIN allocations was gone
Yes it was uncommon for me too. Our teacher in electronics back then did give us a multiple choice test because we asked so persistently. He wanted proof for why the option was chosen though. I thought he was just taking the piss but for one answer I could use proof by elimination and he accepted that. That proof was probably more work than just adding up a bunch of resistors, but it was also more fun :-)
Old Computer Challenge – TC 2048
Australian Senate approves social media ban on under-16s
> They also have nothing like Cloudflare and dozens of other large cloud services companies. Europe has a cloud so basic and primitive you'd think they were a developing economic region still struggling to grasp basic software development.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

If you think Europe, which has United Internet(Ionos), OVH, scaleway, and many others is a developing region, you have never seen the hosting market in an actually developing market.
From experience I'd risk to say that whatever you get initially will be hard (not impossible but hard) to change later, so I'd always try to negotiate terms to be as comfortable as possible before I join.
Can We Design Our Way Out of the Subway-Surfing Crisis?
The cult of the 'Spoons': Inside the Spartan, cavernous pubs that divide Britain
Do you have any details? I was about to move all my services off from vultr to hetzner due to the much better pricing
> there are plenty of other languages that support that way of working

I'd use them if I could, but I'm trapped in Python for several reasons. If I could use Rust, Ocaml, etc., I'd do that. But my choice is between untyped and typed Python only, and I strongly believe that typed Python is much better.
For people's image being used without their permission: strengthen U.S. right of publicity laws with private right of action, enabling people to sue for unauthorized use of their voice or likeness.
It says mmWave just, though.

How is it absorbing instead of reflecting energy?

Do things store energy when they absorb [mmWave] EM? As phonons?

Twisted Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes store energy;

From "LG Chem develops material capable of suppressing thermal runaway in batteries" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745154 :

> "Giant nanomechanical energy storage capacity in twisted single-walled carbon nanotube ropes" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01645-x :

>> 583 Wh/kg

From "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775612 :

> "Sm2O3 micron plates/B4C/HDPE composites containing high specific surface area fillers for neutron and gamma-ray complex radiation shielding" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02663...
"there are more houses in my area, therefore there are more houses everywhere" is illogical. i wish it were true in the seattle area. also, there will always be more houses today than 50 years ago in a society with an above zero birth rate.
Be asbestos as you can be
This sounds like an RNN with extra steps.
Technically, wouldn't a simple "Hold on, I'll call you back" test call stop that?
Introduction to the Bytecode DSL
I've slogged through both "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". Her model of human nature is soulless, IMO.
In % terms though?
Sounds like a completely legitimate use though. Hetzner were widely telling people about that 20TB limit, so why would they be surprised when people use them as CDN boxes?
Not really- even very thick carbon is quite flexible…. It works great for applications where you want that like bendy sailboat masts and front forks on bikes, but it should be cored or replaced with something else if you are looking for stiffness
CoralRing does not produce garbage, but it cannot control what other parts of your application choose to do. It will hand to your application a message without producing any garbage, now if you go ahead and produce garbage yourself then there is nothing CoralRing can do about that. Ultra-low-latency applications in Java are designed so that nothing in the critical path produces garbage.
I think most people in America are more wary of foreign sounding voices. If the person on the other end sounds like a good ol boy, they get more trust.

Scammers don't have to sound like a specific person to be helped by software like this.
I wrote a couple of these books (and published them as open access)

Here's my one on computation probability. The code and math here underlie "AI". It's the same fundamentals, and even code libraries (Jax, pytorch etc(
https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html

I also posted my more specific guidebook to the fundamentals of GenAI above. Hope both help
I did not write this comment [video]
Probably just your opinion being shallow.

I mean, come on, coming to Go and of all things complaining about brace style? Coming to Python and of all things complain about syntactically significant whitespace? Coming to Lisp and complaining about parentheses? This is so old.
I was curious and checked if they are still using Hetzner. It appears not, so I can share who it was. It was https://artstation.com. Basically heavily oriented towards serving static images, so the CDN could have been really expensive. Doing a reverse IP lookup on cdn.artstation.com servers now resolves to Cloudflare and it has cloudflare headers on the response.
AWS EC2: 100GB included and then $90 per TB.
GCP Premium Tier: $120 per TB
GCP Standard Tier: $85 per TB

That's a bunch of money...
That doesn't explain a 20x regional pricing difference for the same service (outgoing bandwidth). It's either a malicious change to extract exorbitant rent from customers (hostages at that point) or buying enough bandwidth is whole lot more expensive than they calculated and it reflects costs to provide the product (a virtual machine a specific traffic cap).

If its mostly the later case they really fucked up their customer communication. They should care enough to provide their customers with time to respond and transparency to (re-)earn the trust a hosting provider requires.
I saw a startup doing exactly that: https://modernaizeapp.com/
Enron tried this in the late 90s/early 2000s.

That didn't work for a number of reasons (cooking the books), but also network bandwidth is not fungible. Unlike commodities such as oil or natural gas, bandwidth’s value is highly dependent on specific factors like location, time, and network conditions. This variability makes it difficult to standardize bandwidth as a tradable commodity, complicating efforts to create a seamless trading market.

There are a few in the crypto/DePIN space poking at this problem. I remain highly skeptical.
It pays US$0.70 for every US$1 it gets, it's in their financial reports quite easily to see.
How long is the session active for? Do you store these photos on your servers?
I completely agree with you. This is just a web front-end, and there's nothing new about it. However, it's very easy. It's not easy to create something like this.
Your traffic bill is increasing by 471% and that's not OK.

Bill increases don't have to be catastrophic to be bad. Remember that businesses/startups range from being well funded to not-funded-at-all-trying-to-survive. Depending on the country, 20€ can be a lot of money.
For me its about things to not do on my phone.

I disabled Safari (via parental settings), use an email account that auto-forwards everything to my main email, thus I can only send email from my phone, but not receive any (the inbox is always empty and I don't check my main email on it).

I only have apps that I use to input things into the phone (writing, taking photos) and I eliminiated everything that isn't designed to end at some point.

No Instagram or any of the likes, only WhatsApp, but muted so I have to proactively check it. I do use a news reader, which is subscribed to the RSS feeds of the sites I want to follow. No algorithmic curation of that content, and no ads (unless I open the sites that the RSS items link to).

Keeping one's sanity away from the side effects of tech these days is quite a technical job, somehow ;)
No, no, it is much too burdensome. Let me take this burden that it does not crush you, brother world2vec.
I think that the mention of the billions from Malaysia relates to the story covered in the "Billion Dollar Whale". I really recommend that book.

Many celebrities ended up involved, and it's a story that wouldn't be believed if it were fiction.

At the center of the tale is Jho Low, the wild-spending financier who burst onto the scene in 2013 by backing “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Scorsese and DiCaprio’s $100 million look at financial fraud and bacchanalian excess. As Low’s influence in Hollywood grew, scores of celebrities partied on his private jet, drank his Cristal and accepted his lavish gifts (DiCaprio landed a $3.2 million Picasso and a $9 million Basquiat), at least until his elaborate embezzlement scheme unraveled and he became a fugitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_s...

https://www.amazon.ca/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/...
Smuggling files on the nose
paragraph 2: please be concrete, this claim is interesting but completely unsubstantiated as currently stated
Australia to ban under-16s from social media after passing landmark law
> But even with technical measures, there are a nearly infinite number of ways to screw around.

Indeed there are! I was in high school around 20 years ago, and our computers were “locked down”. You couldn’t install anything (or really run any unapproved binary), access to system tools was disabled, and every time a computer rebooted, it would wipe a clean image to the HD so no changes would be saved to disk.

My friend and I figured out how to bypass the lockdown before boot, and made a floppy that did so. Removing evidence of tampering was as simple as shutting down the PC. From there, we added a menu to the bootloader, put it on a CD, wrote a simple Visual Basic app launcher on the CD, and included Quake 2/3, GTA, Worms, and a handful of other games that could all install or run from the launcher, and then sold the CDs for idk $10 a pop?

We also learned that every computer in our district (that we had access to test on) used the same admin password for all the remote VNC access, which was fun. And the same password (different from the VNC password at least?) for all of the networked printers in the district - on football game day, we printed hundreds of our school’s logo on a rival school’s printers, with the logo being just barely off-white.
Fast RPCs Using Shared CXL Memory [pdf]
https://www.manning.com/books/experimentation-for-engineers
The Bug Nobody Is Allowed to Understand
Every platform already requires a phone number because it's effectively illegal to have an anonymous account. Now they will require ID card uploads too.

Actually it gets worse: there are companies that video-call you and require you to move your card around and wave your hand and show your face on camera. This will be required to get a social media account.

BTW I'm 2 years old, on Hacker News, and Australian. (Or am I? Probably not, but how does dang know he's not about to get fined 50 million dollars if he doesn't ban me immediately?)
Hurts unions involved in ships/shipping because they have a vested interest in keeping the system as inefficient and shit as possible.
Doesn’t this essentially prove that if there is life outside earth, almost all of it will be carbon based? As opposed to silicon based.
It’s not trivial to teach someone about a subject we don’t understand ourselves.
This is a pretty interesting approach.

It looks a little more noisy at a far distance because the convex shapes read like faceted reflections.

However, if I’m understanding this correctly, it greatly reduces the overdraw problem with other splat methods which would make this much more suitable for realtime use cases.
I think culprits is a poor choice of words since it means someone suspected of a misdeed. I could perhaps understand using it for example for someone that tried to store a petrabyte of storage on a consumer unlimited storage plan. But in this case Hetzner set a specific data usage amount you are paying for so using that amount is not a misdeed.
I’ve tried other 3d modeling software (blender, fusion, etc) and picocad is the only one I’ve been able to actually pick up and use without unsuccessfully spending hours watching outdated tutorials. I understand it’s not apples to apples. Just wanted to say thanks and this is an awesome tool!
In Germany "phone plan" is written as the literal translation of "mobile radio tariff", as a bundle of price and terms.

So it's not unexpected to use the uncommon in English meaning of the word to describe these changes.
Is this a valid complaint? I hear people talking about "cosmic truth" all the time. I've participated in plenty of dorm room discussions and online debates about religion and the nature of things. The upshot seems to be that we're all free to come to our own conclusions, and given the inconclusive or unpersuasive arguments, we end up with idiosyncratic beliefs rather than orthodoxy. Is Chesterton just nostalgic for a mythical time when most people believed roughly the same things?
I wonder how one would do DFA minimization with that though. Implement regexp functional equivalence testing so I will not have to! :D
I agree (but at times have spent too much time customizing Emacs because of the emotional appeal of exercising this control over my personal software environment).
It’s weird to me that people look at a technology and then assume from their reckoning that they know all the uses for that technology immediately. Most technological progress happens because someone notices a creative use for something that already exists which nobody else has noticed.
Wow, that makes me so happy to hear. I'm no 3D modeler myself so it is very much built from a beginner/2d perspective.
Tidal is in a downwards spiral because they are running out of money, Apple subsidisies Apple Music with profits from other parts of the company.

The pot splitting model Spotify uses is definitely not good but the major labels are the ones with all the power, without pot splitting they wouldn't accept licencing to Spotify because they would make less money.

At every filthy corner of the music industry you'll find a very sore spot: the big 4 labels control this industry. From fucking with artists where contracts requiring artists to pay back all "marketing and fees" before any royalties are distributed, royalties split usually 80:20 or 70:30 for label:artist, forcing artists to make their songs viral before they can be released (without much marketing support from the labels, the only reason they exist).

It's a passion industry, and just like any other passion industry it's fraught with exploitation. Just look at game development, underpaid, overworked, because there's always someone else with passion to make a game.
More so I wish to voice act a line and then have the bot mimic it with a different voice but with the same contextual voicing.

“I’m going to kill you” could be delivered (laughing jokingly / seething with rage / ominously and creepily). I’d like a bot that can mimic the delivery in a different voice.
I'm not sure Paris has one of the best public transit in the world or maybe that's just an indicative of the sorry state of public transit worldwide. I mean I wouldn't call world-class a system where just a single failure easily strands 1 million people halfway to their destination and where trains are delayed and cancelled routinely, often without information given to passengers.

I'm in favor of more public transportation, but if you think people use car willingly in and around Paris, I don't think you've tried it; it's so bad that only people with no viable choice will use a car. Or maybe you could explain (for example) how my sister in law was supposed to carry her two baby kids to the daycare using an overcrowded metro (and bonus, through stations without working elevators) or how my brother was supposed to carry the equipment he was using to constructions sites he was working. And then you've got all the places where taking a car is a 30 min trip vs 2 hours by bus or public transportation (thankfully the Grand Paris initiatives are helping a lot there).

For now, removing cars in Paris just push them around the city, because the public transportation network isn't ready.
My thoughts immediately go to all the queer kids in rural areas who stand to be cut off from the only support networks they have.
> Pointing out that the majority of programmers today have the mental equivalent of scurvy is somehow condescending

You can (and many people do!) say the exact same thing in a different tone and with different word choice and have people nod along in agreement. If you're finding that people consistently react negatively to you when you say it, please consider that it might be because of the way in which you say it.

I'm one of those who would normally nod along in agreement and writing in support, but your comments here make me want to disagree on principle because you come off as unbearably smug.
His role in The Day After is the one that always stands out in my mind.
I've seen the linux version (available on itch.io) run on the steam deck but haven't tried my self. Lots of keyboard and mouse required to have a good time. :)

It does export to obj/mtl which is usually importable into most other softwares
I still own a Klein Performance ‘81 and an Adept Comp that has its own amazing story. Love Klein bikes. In fact, I kind of expected this article to be about Klein since it also came from MIT in 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Bicycle_Corporation
Four Ways of Bumping Go Major Versions in Your Go Project
IPv4 charge caused me to have to redesign some things and cull servers for some projects.