skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dark matter and energy are irrelevant, no matter what percentage of the "stuff" in the universe are made of them. Greater than 99% of the things you or I experience from day to day are the result of the electromagnetic force. We experience gravity pulling us down all the time, but that's like one continuous note contained within a symphony. Some of our electricity is produced by nuclear power, but that's hard to pick out from anything else. A few people have lived through a nuclear explosion, which probably had a profound emotional impact on them. Perhaps you've seen the glowing, radioactive paint that they used to use on watch-hands to make them glow in the dark (probably from behind glass in a museum, if you have). But everything else, all of the things you can detect with your senses, comes from the interactions between electrons and photons.

Dark matter doesn't interact with either electrons or photons, and neither does dark energy. So they're irrelevant; they can't be used to explain the behavior of the EMDrive, because the EMDrive is made of matter.
cmd is pretty darn fast. PowerShell leaves a lot to be desired on the performance end though, takes a few seconds to load up the prompt. :/
> I am Canadian, my business exists only in Canada, and there are only two types of laws that apply to me. Canadian laws, and treaties that Canada has signed on to comply with.

If you decide to sell a couch to someone in America, you have to comply with American tax laws, American import and customs laws, American consumer laws, American patent laws, American copyright laws, American trademark laws, and any other laws involved with doing a financial transaction with someone in America. The same logic applies for Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Japan, etc. Pretending otherwise is naive, and if you don't believe me then try to sell something patented in America to an American.

The key question is what happens if you break those laws. In most cases you will be given a fine, and if you don't pay then you will no longer be allowed to sell goods to consumers in that country. If you continue to break the law then you are probably breaking an international treaty on border control or customs, which means that you could be extradited or tried in your own country. Some of the laws I mentioned above are mediated through international agreements, but the fundamental point is that if you break their laws they can place sanctions against you to stop you from doing business with them.

Of course, for a couch business things would probably never reach that level. And for an internet business you probably would just be IP blocked or something similar.

> No other country in the world can just make some "arbitrary" law that affects me. Unless my country agrees.

But it only affects you if you make the positive decision to do business with a country that has those laws. If you don't decide to do that, then you don't have to follow those laws (obviously). You can't have it both ways though (the benefit of having access to a market without having to follow the laws of that market).

In the case of enforcement you're right that they wouldn't have the right to compel to you to pay a fine, but they can in theory place sanctions against you. So if you continue to do business with sanctions in place then there is a process for extradition through international treaties.
If a similar law to GDPR was introduced in other countries such as the US, complying now would probably cost considerably less than dumping business in every country that does it and complying with all the laws only once you can't operate sustainably as a business anymore.
That sounds like a good person to avoid working with at all costs.
I was firmly Yanny for the longest time, but now I'm hearing Laurel "by default" now. But I can easily hear both throughout most of the slider. In the middle it sounds like two people talking over each other.
yep I can imagine an alternate reality where you move into a new town and are socially outcast online by a facebook policy where you must have at least one facebook friend in common.

imagine going out of state for college and then not being able to add the hundreds of people you’ve met to your facebook friends list because you’re not already connected on facebook with at least one person in common.

people would just spend more time on another social network, where they can connect.
'I think there's a real reluctance to put a precise dollar figure on how far we'll go per person toward "universal coverage of everything", but that's precisely the conversation we need to be having.'

This is only a thing in the US.

In the countries with sane public health systems, they have zero problem saying "Look, we've got this much money to spend, we think this way of spending it gets the most bang (roughly speaking, QALY's) for buck, so if you want more coverage hit up the private insurance market" [1].

And you know what, those private insurance markets work great because they actually have to provide meaningful value beyond the public system in order for consumers to bother using them.

As a vaguely relevant side note: Goddam it's difficult for me not to get angry about the diabolical state of the health system in the US and I don't even live there. There should be marches on the streets about this. You could radically improve the lives of the vast majority of 300 million people without spending an extra cent of government money on health if you just stopped being so goddam dumb about it [2].

[1] For instance, here is the website of the public pharmaceutical supplier in my country-- NZ-- who've hired lots of phys and maths grads I know: https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/about/your-guide-to-pharmac/fact....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Tangential pro-tip: "begging the question" has traditionally meant something very different: [0]

[0] http://grammarist.com/rhetoric/begging-the-question-fallacy/
Pieces like this get posted all the time, and the comments are always the same. Folks who don't think college is worthwhile bring anecdotes, while folks who know that college is worthwhile bring facts and data, which show very clearly that the financial returns to education are very real and very substantial. And that's just the financial returns, it doesn't even touch upon the social, personal, etc aspect!
I had a decent Motorola smart phone that was well under $100, and did everything I could want. I replaced it with a far more expensive Pixel XL, mainly because of the nice camera, display, and CPU. But all the basic functionality was on the cheap phone.
Style and format are important tho, would you like your docs written in haiku, or as a single three hour light opera video?

Embracing an archaic grandstanding pose and an academic look when much more easily grokkable formats are available just doesn't help get your message across that well. And when there's one of this roughly monthly I'd personally love to at least see less of them.
Isn't this supposed to be an app for secure communication? Theo would have a conniption.
The world is full of bulls**t jobs and you might have one
More generally: What gets watched gets seen. What gets seen gets attention. What's gets attention receives action.
There's no reason to think using machine learning will always require lots of math and theory. In it's infancy (ie, recent popularity) as it is today perhaps, but eventually I expect the field to have tooling that abstracts away complexity that is unapproachable to the masses. For example, there's plenty of complicated computer science algorithms, data structures and design patterns that have been abstracted into libraries and applications. Databases and browsers are good examples of that. Frameworks such as Unity for game development and Rails for web development as well.

When you really need to build something customized, knowing how things work under the hood will be required, but most cases will probably be addressed with pre-existing solutions that you configure and glue together.
Interesting, I hear yanny almost all the way to the left.
the parent specificly refered to jobs being created for privacy officers or sth. i m replying to that. Also, the too many different VAT regimes can create a huge accounting mess if you are selling in many different EU countries, hence the existence of payment processors and relevant startups.
Muqtada al-Sadr: Iraq's militia leader turned champion of poor (Al Jazeera)
> Your evaluation of the impact of the law on your project is lazy

That seems a very pejorative way to describe it. You can say the same thing in terms of "you could probably keep operating if you put a lot of effort into understanding the details of the law" which kind of proves the author's point: this creates work for people and why should someone do that work for no return? Where does the presumption that people owe EU citizens these services at a higher standard than the rest of the world is content (legally) to accept?
Not sure, as I was dropped off without an owner's manual, but from what I can tell, it has something to do with loving God and serving those around me.
Then you do not know and/or understand the huge body of work around these theories that support them. These are hard to understand for people not familiar with physics. But especially for GR there are experimental confirmations that are absolutely spectacular (Mercury's apsidal precession computed precisely, time delation by gravity measured by placing atomic clocks on mountaintops and airplanes, etc., observed gravitational waves, gravitational lensing...). And noone was so far able to create an experiment that managed to falsify that theory (it is a perfectly falsifiable theory), but not for lack of trying.
I have to wonder how many HN comment anecdotes are related to HNers just getting older.

Yeah, I'm meeting fewer people than I did in uni. I use Facebook less than I did in uni. As I get older, it takes more and more effort to meet people. Easy for me to see downward trends in Facebook when I don't plot them against downward trends in novelty in my own social life.

But then I moved abroad at 25, I'm almost 30 now, I'm meeting new people (immigrants and locals) every month, and Facebook has become useful again for growing acquaintances into friendships like it always was.

HNers like to grandstand about how they rediscovered how to call people instead of messaging them, but that's still something you do with your closer circle, not acquaintances in 2018. And that's a personal issue if you had to quit Facebook just to relearn how to call mom or your best friends. I certainly don't relate to that.

It's like people who condemn Facebook because they got addicted to scrolling the news feed. Seems like condemning Netflix because you can't stop binge-watching. At which point do you take responsibility for yourself?

Aside, SimilarWeb, like Alexa, seems pretty useless for metrics. I remember gaining 100k+ Alexa ranking by installing the Alexa toolbar on my own machine and visiting my own websites as usual. Never looked at Alexa ratings since.

I guess I'm getting anti-Facebook fatigue. Especially when the predictable HN comments are things like "I quit Facebook and now I go outside again. Everyone needs to try this!"
When this article came out a few years ago, I reacted as you did. Whatever number of years of experience I've gained since then has taught me, with extreme clarity, that the author is correct about object oriented programming.
Law Enforcement can track a phone with 'silent' SMS messages designed not to alert the user.

well, that's something i didn't know
Satoshi Careers launches to help the blockchain industry hire
Everything that you wants to know about PCI DSS
Generic name is Erenumab
Glad to know I'm not alone. I feel as though I've probably abused my ears over the years with headphones and concerts. Plus I've had several experiences where I haven't heard high frequences that were unmistakable to others.

So I end up interpreting the Yanny/Laurel thing through the lens of a pre-existing anxiety regarding hearing loss. I have no idea if that's actually the right way to think of it, but nevertheless it's where my mind goes instinctually.
That Grove book is on my TODO list. Thanks for the reminder. As real leadership / management books go, I thought Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull was both interesting and entertaining.

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp...
Really? I hadn’t read that, I just assumed it was based on Tacotron/WaveNet.
FACT: Most Americans have a Magnesium deficiency (hypomagnesia).

FACT: Magnesium deficiency can result in migraines, among a host of other symptoms that seem to be exploding right now.

FACT: As with a calcium deficiency (most Americans actually don't have a shortage of calcium), you can't tell if you're deficient with a blood test.

FACT: Eating plenty of greens and nuts is of limited effectiveness, due to the shrinking quantities of minerals in these foods.

I'm willing to grant that not all migraines are caused by magnesium deficiency, just as soon as skeptics who get migraines show me they're supplementing to rule it out.

I predict in 50 years we'll look at migraines the same way we look at goiters today.
That was a fun read. Many parallels. Head-scratching behavior and a bizarre adherence to the lie even after confrontation.
>...it diffuses throughout the room...

That was the lesson I was taught yes. But consider how much scent would have to be released to smell that same smell for 70 years, across the whole planet.

I've read some articles on this linked here, and I see that there are many claims about what is happening, but in one PDF linked above this statement was made.

>The role of PSC particles in converting reactive chlorine gases to ClO was not understood until after the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985. Our understanding of the chemical role of PSC particles developed from laboratory studies of their surface reactivity, computer modeling studies of polar stratospheric chemistry, and measurements that directly sampled particles and reactive chlorine gases, such as ClO, in the polar stratosphere"

I get that science has to extrapolate effects, because they simply can't sit in the sky and test the air all day long, it's not possible. But go look through history, how many times have scientists thought they understood something until later they changed their minds when more data was available.

Note the source and timing of the ozone hole discovery:

>* Joe Farman of the British Antarctic Survey discovered the Ozone Hole in 1984"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobson_ozone_spectrophotometer

Within 1 year of discovering the "ozone hole" they had an answer that hasn't changed to this day, based on computer modeling from the 80s.

>*Total ozone was lower in these months [in 1984] compared with previous observations made as early as 1957."

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyq...

We have a record of only 27 years of likely minimal data (from what I have read, no one was looking for a hole) where a difference was only discovered at the end of this data set, to which all the conclusions we have now are based. And everyone replying to me is saying this is absolutely settled science? No room for questioning this at all?
I still don't understand why Pypy hasn't been adopted by Google or Dropbox (the standard bearers of the Python ecosystem) as a forward looking investment.
It is constantly underfunded (https://pypy.org/py3donate.html) and given the potential for the work that's happening, I don't understand why these guys don't write cheques for a few hundred k.
I’ve been scammed on the internet, but %-wise it’s comparable to credit card fees.
I’ve heard nothing but raves for scan and go at Sams Club. I wonder if they’ll keep it for the warehouse clubs?
I want to believe the same way I suspend disbelief when I read S.F. -Its temporally applied. Stop reading the S.F.? no time travel or FTL.

So my wishes aside, I feel like this is very tenuous, and is going to come down to "better measurement isolated an effect causing this" more then "there is now a tractable reactionless drive at scale for big things"
I've been surprised by the number of my wife's peers (mid-late 20s women) who no longer use Facebook, or only use it for messaging and to share photos.
And when you do have issues, the costs tend to be significantly higher than than the yearly limits.

The main benefit is that it makes the appointment costs reasonable enough that people will actually get them.
Then why are people mad at me for asking about it? Plenty of other commenters claim I am stirring the pot, how is this possible if there is no controversy?
It does get outsourced. I worked on a team that did a dsp/crypto multi core chip. The funny part is 90% of the team has now moved to US because they got paid better.
How GDPR applies to USA based businesses?
I think Weev and AT&T us a better example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
The practice is called orthotropics. I can vouch for this user's experience myself, have had difficulty breathing for many years which led to poor teeth and a narrow palate. Once I received a palatal expander i realized how important it was to keep tongue pressure flat on the roof of the mouth. I practice regularly now and have seem improvements to teeth, breathing, and facing structure. It's a shame this stuff isn't taught more. You can find more details in this video: https://youtu.be/eh9OqEd5z1k
I dunno if it's still true, but it used to be that every process running in your X11 window had access to every keystroke from every other application. Like, say, every password you type into a terminal window or browser... If it _is_ still true (and I've noticed a bit of recent discussion asking why Ubuntu 18LTS is switching back from Wayland to X11 which hints to me that it might be), then your apps are _very_ much not "pretty well isolated"...
But they are up front in notifying those applying for positions that this is the case. This is acceptable as far as I am concerned. You know before hand what the responses will be. When they do not give any such indications then they are unprofessional.
Is this a joke? I get migraines and one of the most obvious triggers is not eating for long periods of time.
> It seems that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that

What gives you that impression? It seems the opposite to me.
> "The problem is to determine what matters."

Spot on. Problem solving is relatively easy, the hard part is problem identification. As a rule of thumb, The Five Whys is a wonderfully simple (but effective) tool for problem identification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
thats not it. From my understanding people say that because that is how the UK regulator has dealt with cases in the past. But there is a different regulator in every EU country
What happens when you start at the far left, then move gradually rightwards? I find that my brain's interpretation is quite sticky -- I can hear Yanny quite far to the left, and Laurel quite far to the right, depending on where I begin.
> a large part of the negative coverage stems from irrational fear or misunderstanding of AI...

Irrational? No. At the heart of this demo is deception. After the deception comes "impressive tech" and all the rest.

Booking hair appointments is one thing, but we all know these systems will be babysitting our children, teaching them new things, and responding to their verbal prompts.

Emotional development in children is crucial for psychological health. FAKE synthetic emotion is not healthy, it's not cool.

Having "Googlers" at the top of the ethics pyramid for AI systems in our homes, is worth a healthy dose of fear and loathing. "We are Google. We don't need to fake demos [of our fake human voice]" is precisely why Google shouldn't be dictating the terms of AI standards around ethical concerns and communication disclosures.

This is about more than hair appointment bookings.
I'm not seeing the usage here. What would need a (very very) performant temporary storage that you could not achieve with io volumes ?
This is really exciting to see! I had assumed that they would be launching most new instance types with only EBS storage so this is awesome that it looks like this will be coming to even more instance types too.

The bottom of the article mentions "PS – We will be adding local NVMe storage to other EC2 instance types in the months to come, so stay tuned!"
Weird, I hear Laurel all the way until the last tick on the right when I start hearing a very distorted Gailey. To the right of that it's all Laurel

I suspect this has to do with frequency aliasing and high frequency hearing loss.
> being limited to C5 to start

I3 and F1 instances also have NVMe SSD instance store volumes https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ssd-inst...

Here's the full list of instances with instance storage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Instance...
Exactly.

Trivial example: what matters, low costs, or effectiveness?

If Congress keeps telling its Generals to cut costs for the army, eventually the Generals will surplus all the equipment and send all the troops home.

At this point the army is certainly lower cost, but might not be much use defending Capitol Hill.
>"...far more thought went into its conclusions..."

Well I did some research, I don't really agree. The "ozone hole" was discovered in 1984 by Joe Farman, and the cause was concluded by 1985. Not of lot of time there. And how many people have the resources to independently verify this?

I am sure there's likely a computer model that could be used right? That is how it was done in 1985.
Maybe most people who get migraines know this already, but I've been taking feverfew extract daily for a few years now and it has reduced my migraines by about 80%. I used to get a few a week, now I get one about ever 2 months.

It really has helped me live my life much more fully. Migraines are truly awful.
See my above comment
How to deal with a micro-manager
Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free
Is there a native Signal client that isn’t an Electron abomination?

It is clear at the point the Signal desktop people has no idea what they are doing and cannot be trusted to write a secure desktop application.
I used to work for someone who thought he was the new Steve Jobs.

If you can see through the lies and manipulation tactics it can work out but some people will not get out alive if they can’t adapt.

One thing I noticed was that rude language or sexual references were kind of used as a calibration technique to try to gauge people. I am sure he did this and many other little subtle tricks unconsciously as he wasn’t really that clever. Manipulating people was his talent so to speak and he seemed to enjoy to have a little puppet theater around where he could play with people as he pleased.
Just wanted to thank you for this answer. I never knew about OpenSSH escape sequences and I've used ssh for years.

https://pleiades.ucsc.edu/hyades/SSH_Escape_Sequences
We use i3 instances for some workloads which are great, I just wish the CPU was as powerful as other instance types.
That's my question too. It seems more Facebook users are migrating to Instagram. They did announce 150 million people now use stories. My experiences could be biased, but it amazes me how many Instagram users don't know it's a product of Facebook.