skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you should at least check out the relevant wikipedia page here

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

to see how strongly it conflicts with what you have written about it.

Among other things catalogued there, the Planck length has dimension of [Length], rather than [Time], and per Bekenstein [1973] (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.7.2333) "1 bit"[0] relates to the minimal increase in the area of the event horizon of a hairless, monotonically growing, stationary, spherically symmetric (or with some further assumptions, axisymmetric) black hole into which matter is being thrown. This remains contentious because black hole mass is continuous and not discrete (one can throw almost arbitrary wavelength photons in, for instance).

By contrast with what you wrote, if you look at it (e.g. via sci-hub) Bekenstein's PRD paper sure doesn't assert that a horizon area on the order of Planck area would contain "one bit", especially as he was aware of the content of the about-to-be-published Nature paper, Hawking [1974] (doi:10.1038/248030a0), which details the "explosion" of black holes with small horizon areas (and was additionally the first Hawking radiation paper).

Finally, if you don't like wikipedia and sci-hub, your favourite search engine will surely supply numerous discussions among working physicists (including peer-reviewed publications) of the Planck length and whether it is physically significant in any context other than Bekenstein's or close relatives (e.g. Loop Quantum Gravity requires that all surface areas are quantized, although not to integer multiples of the fundamental quantum, which in turn is roughly on the order of the Planck length cubed).

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[0] A modern semiclassical statement of this is: to leading order, the entropy of a black hole is proportional to its event horizon area at one nat per four Planck areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_(unit)
Data classes are awesome! No more boilerplate __init__(self) methods needed.

Another notable part of this release is type annotations:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0560/
The plastics problem must be addressed by standardised, washable, refundable containers that manufacturers can package their products in and put a paper label on.

The packaging industry is creating an infinite flow of garbage and recycling is just the distraction that this industry creates to stop us being enraged at the unstoppable flow of garbage that it creates.

The idea of single use plastic wrappers for food or any other product must end.

Also the idea of destroyable/recyclable non-standard container sizes must end.
Are there any estimates about releasing this technology for general use? Or does the (US) FDA insist on slowing down this type of diagnostic technology a few decades, or can we expect to see these as kiosks in every clinic over the next few months?
Reading your answers below, I feel you haven't really addressed the issue of breach of company policies / confidentiality, and specifically about people being paid for it. It is true that many people will, for free, help their friends get interviews at the companies they work for. This does not mean that doing the same thing for money would be acceptable to their employer.

To use a distasteful analogy: in the US, two consenting adults having sex is legal - two consenting adults having sex where one pays the other for the 'service' is not.

So I think there will definitely be a subset of companies and employees where this will be a problem. One way to allow this subset of employees to take part in your service might be to offer some (non-political) charitable donation in exchange for their time. That way they can contribute, feel like they did some good in the world, and still be able to say to their employer (if it ever came up) that they didn't receive any compensation in exchange for helping potential new hires.

Assuming for now that the basic business is legal, and that the only issue is compliance with company policies, another potential 'hack' might be to just let people get 'karma' that builds up in their account at The Lobby, that can be converted at any time into cash. Then the people providing this info could choose to 'cash out' later, when they leave the company, or use it to pay for intel about other companies when they themselves are looking to move

Feel free to contact me if you want to chat :)
That's funny because I'm pretty sure Windows has a setting that you can set it to NOT go to sleep at all when you shut the lid, but MacBooks DO NOT have this feature.
>“Computers equipped with this technology only take minutes to autonomously analyze a breath sample that previously took hours by a human expert”

The AI is impressive, but I'm equally impressed that a human can sniff someone's breath for a few hours and diagnose cancer. Amazing.
Thought experiment. Does it actually make any sense to recycle things now that are going to last 100s or 1000s of years? Shouldn't we just landfill them and later, when we need them, and the technology is orders of magnitude better just go dig it up and recycle it then? Why recycle now?
"Imagines"
I'm a bitcoin skeptic turning to bitcoin owner. For me, it's worth to look at bitcoin from gold perspective. You can pose similar questions to gold and try to answer them.

Can I transact with bitcoin/gold?

Is bitcoin/gold a good value storage?

What problem does bitcoin/gold solve?

Is bitcoin/gold solving trust problem?

Any answer for gold can be interpreted for bitcoin. Bitcoin is better than gold in many ways.

Bitcoin, like gold, is real. Crypto technology is real and works. Bitcoin is limited. There's a computer network running to support it. Bitcoin is not tulip.

Gold is still around. I don't think we'd ever ditch it. Why do we value bitcoin? I don't really know for sure. But I feel certain that bitcoin is real. And we need to do more work to understand it.
just switch to t-mobile. no taxes / hidden fees added to the advertised subscription price.
Tic-tac-toe comes to mind...
Ticketmaster Announces Data Breach Affecting 5% of All Users
There's a reason the crew already has oxygen masks.
Less than I expected at the time. While you can build a game where the characters have full physical models driven by a control system, it's much more common to just play motion-captured animations.
Even if the false positives were high, couldn't it be used as a first pass to indicate more accurate testing?
One exception: fermenting liquids can become super-saturated with CO2 even if fitted with an air-lock to vent the CO2 to atmospheric pressure. This might cause a rather messy surprise if you add powdered yeast nutrient to an ongoing fermentation and give it a lot of nucleation points.
> They then proceeded to tell them that they’ve never heard of me and that I didn’t ever work there.

I did that to my boss once when I worked at a temp agency, someone called asking about employment history so I dutifully typed the name into the computer and was like "nope, looks like they've never worked here." Right after I hung up the phone I was like "wait a minute..." Office staff wasn't in the workers database so we couldn't cut ourselves checks and I totally spaced on the last name.
Given how many people snore and aren't overweight, you have approximately zero basis for diagnosing someone over the internet.
this is ridiculous... it should all be sorted at the waste facility...
> I laughed a bit when I read that you use Oracle and don't have the budget for more people.

Why? Because you believe the former causes the latter?

There are many valid criticisms to be levied against Oracle the company, enteprise software in general, and especially its pricing.

However, it's important to remember that, for many businesses, it's either impractical or downright impossible to hire enough engineers to make up for to lost features of replacing Oracle with even somethig as relatively feature-dense as PostgreSQL.
This comment is very helpful, for anyone that hasn't had this experience, learn from this one.
Not public schools, and private schools in America at least easily costs tens of thousands of dollars each year.

(Public schools could use them, but need to provide them to so they don't deny education to students from poorer families)
It’s going to be tough for your consultants to stay truly anonymous. Presumably you’ll be issuing them 1099s, they may need to adjust withholding, they’ll have decide whether or not to incorporate in order to limit their liability, and so on.

Nor am I so sure this would be completely legal. It might run afoul of the honest services statute even as narrowed by SCOTUS.
Is the breakpoint builtin analogous to binding.pry in Ruby? If so...that is amazing!
I’m a little troubled that consumers would have an expectation that they may have to rely on that as a result of arbitrary rate increases. Do the vast majority of consumers know about those opportunities?

I’m definitely for consumers being wise about what they get themselves into, but I’m also of the opinion that a reasonable contract would preclude the addition of arbitrary fees. If I contract you to work for me at $80/hour, for example, I would not be particularly happy if you turned around and forced me to pay you $85, or be forced to pay some kind of fine.
I remember my first friends that posted a sign on their front door requesting people not smoke in their house. Then, I thought it so very bold.

I remember when the police thought beating up gays laughable, and my dad sneering, "Queer as a three-dollar bill." Now, I just attended the local Pride parade and the police were having a great time as participants.

We can look in the past at these changes, but people had to live their whole lives like that. Not really citizens, not really people. Anita Bryant was actually popular in my State.
How many developers are there at your company?
Monte Carlo Integration in 1D
(Off-topic: I'm considering a career change from software engineering to tech writing. I'd love to pick your brain about the field. There's no contact info in your profile, but I'm waltergr@gmail.com. Thanks for the consideration.)
> There is a solution here.

Rant: the solution is to learn how to read a recipe and cook without a paint by numbers erector set that has an unreasonable packaging:food ratio.

I’m fine with these services as a ‘gateway drug’ to independently cooking for yourself, but they’re insane as a long term thing.

(Not to mention that I have no idea how they stay viable in the long term, given their customer acquisition costs. If anyone makes it work in the long term it will be Amazon/Whole Foods.)
I do the same thing, but instead of spending my money I use junk mail that includes return envelopes (e.g. credit card offers, etc). Discover Card must have boxes of junk mail from me by now, I hope they like paying for its transit.
What is a rough estimation of the rate for wireless mode? I saw the 40 kbps figure for the cable mode, but nothing for the mic+speaker case. Yeah I know it would greatly depend on the hardware and the distance, but still, I'd like to know some ballpark out of curiosity.

Do you think this could be used to automate transmission of whatever information needed to pair two phones? E.g. to establish an ad-hoc wifi connection with the intention of sending some files (a la Lenovo's SHAREit, direct transfer without requiring internet connectivity), so the user doesn't even need to read some secret code from one device and write them in the other.
They're not off brand, they're Temper-Sealy or Simmons.
If you ask and confirm that they won't contact your current employer, then might it not fall under contract law?
FWIW, your listed skill sets look very front-end heavy to me.
> It was a hodgepodge of cherry picked science

Not all scientists would agree.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU

> motivated reasoning and slander against all of his female workers.

Only if you don't take what he says at face value and impute motivations which aren't directly stated in the text. The very need of this imputation to justify his treatment and the huge reaction, as well as the intellectually dishonest way in which the Google management and the left-leaning press engaged in hit pieces -- all of this smacks of ideological groupthink.

The very fact that people can reasonably disagree about the interpretation of the memo, contrasted with the outsized reaction are pretty damning.

Here's a feminist who disagrees with Damore's position in his memo, who lays out a cogent argument for why he's wrong, and there is systemic bias, but who thinks the reaction was a "little off,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA

Also, note that my position is that there is also some cultural bias in the programming field -- as a field. (Hackers in the HN sense have model train clubs as their cultural forebears.) However, this doesn't preclude that women within our current cultural context may well decide not to become programmers for their own reasons, and that some of this motivation may be correlated with their gender -- without there being systemic bias within hiring organizations.
The new Theranos Blockchain is already manufacturing diagnostic units.
I only get references from candidates at the final onsite stage.
The candidate can determine what they are comfortable with at all times.
There are good external recruiters out there. The last point is the most important one: know your worth. Don’t work with people you don’t fee you can trust.
Tragedy of the commons is the best argument I've ever heard for why we need government and the rule of law.
Google’s human-like phone AI feels revolutionary
Sure, but publish the numbers so we can decide for ourselves.
I have suffered with severe nasal allergies as a kid. And had a hard time smelling anything because my nose was stuffed. I realized that I developed a sense of "smell" in my hand. I could actually feel the air. And tell what it smells like.

For those who can't believe it, smells have a pH, humidity, heat capacity, temperature, density, and pressure to them. So if you can train your skin to be sensitive and concentrate on those things you can feel smells.

It was not long till I realized that people give off a certain odor. And those odors are often related to the germs on their body. And the food they ate. Sometimes I could even tell if the person was sick.

I never developed a method of detecting illnesses simply by waving my hand on the person unless I was acutely familiar with the sickness, but if we can develop machines to detect "smell" (a fact I did not know) then we can definitely detect machines to scan people as they walk through a door and tell what germs they carry.

Of course my dream powers are to tell what antigerm ointment each person should use.
Odd how the baseline mentioned in the article is better then human average. Why wouldn't the baseline be dogs, or existing non-breath tests?
Michel Foucault and the Order of Things
Facebook Is Making Its Biggest Push yet into English Soccer
Loomly.com Is Hiring a Full-Time Senior Ruby Developer in Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Actually measuring, or even hypothesizing about, the predictive capability of different models of varying levels of abstraction is something that happens disturbingly rarely in fields that aren't the hard sciences. I suspect an important (but not primary) reason for this is that most people simply don't have an opportunity to be exposed to the type of maths and analysis required for systems theory, and thus are extremely unlikely to surmise that something like systems theory is a distinct thing that can even exist.
Yep! But gene deletions happen in nature all the time, via even single nucleotide mutations that disable an entire gene. Mutations might be more or less likely for various genes, genes might have backup copies elsewhere, and what is even "a gene" can be a bit fuzzy, so it's not a perfect analog of what happens in nature... but the similarity to natural, common processes makes me feel a bit easier about this from a precautionary principle perspective.

(Compare, for example, to transgenic GMOs. I suppose a salmon gene being transported to a tomato plant could happen in nature, but it seems extraordinarily unlikely...)
It has to be a big help when developing a phone or tablet app.
> Fortunately, people have built-in biological CO2 detectors.

They’re not that sensitive, though, and the symptoms are ambiguous.
I've also been using ECC with a 1950x, but an X399 Asrock Pro-gaming board. I've confirmed that it works by watching errors when overclocking the memory.
I got asked for SIX (6) professional references at my last interview. Is that normal? Seems ridiculously excessive.
There a orders of magnitude less producers of one time use plastic items than there are consumers of them though, so it's vastly easier to regulate on the production end than the consumption end.
Perhaps they should contact the famous indian Microsoft support! They will gladly accept Visa or MasterCard
Yes, but won't that only work with apps compiled with X? If I wanted to use the Windows version of Firefox and Visual Studio or something in the panels of XMonad on Windows, would that work?
It's just faster for some things. I would have agreed with you before getting one, but now I find myself using it all the time, I don't notice until I touch someone elses screen and nothing happens.
The name of the mode escapes me , but they don’t sleep if you have an external display mouse and keyboard connected. I don’t normally use this mode as usually utilize the laptop hardware too when “docked” but when people ask I always help them with this and it works fine
I don't think the recruiter seeking a positive or negative review, so much as simply verifying claims made by the candidate or their resume. Something like...

> Tell me a little about Jim's day-to-day

> Sure... Jim is an above average junior software dev...

> Sorry you say junior or senior dev? Does Jim have team management roles?

You can give a glowing review, but depending how how Jim portrayed himself, the review can be taken by the recruiter as a net neg/pos. To directly address your question - I don't think there's much down-side for a reference to always provide a positives reviews. Just keep in mind that an experience recruiter will probably realize this too (they've probably been burned before), and have some clever ways to ferret out the key info they're after.
I was thinking about this issue recently. Surely part of this is a UI issue. How do I know what is recyclable and what isn't? Do I need to prepare it in some way before I put it in the bin?

Governments have control over regulating a great number of things. Why not regulate packaging by requiring easy to identify recycling instructions? Standardise the bin colours across a large area - ideally an entire country - to make sure it is easy to provide 1-to-1 mappings between graphics and target bins, then require manufacturers provide clear labeling of how to dispose of the packaging. Surely the manufacturer knows without a doubt what it is making things out of. They should also know therefore how to recycle it. If some materials are more recyclable than others, regulate in favour of the more recyclable materials. Single material packaging should be favoured over multi-material packaging. Should it be rinsed before being added to a yellow bin? Have standardised graphics to show those two things.

If governments provides some incentive/encouragement/regulation for businesses to produce packaging that is not only recyclable, but also easily sorted by consumers, surely that will solve a lot of contamination issues and promote better practices by consumers.
Ah. I thought you meant SSH port forwarding where the client is on IPv6.

Yeah, if the service has an IPv6 address only it's not going to be able to accept connections from an IPv4 client.
This is similar to Azure activity logs - in that they do not provide you log access to "read" actions.. only write/delete ones. However, Azure actually DOES keep those read ops logged. Though I guess, it's not similar in that: Azure still doesn't have an API to fetch them.. not even an undocumented one.
That’s a given. But I think we have to split the difference on this one and argue that these practices are deeply anti-consumer. If a contract is, in essence, an agreement that one party is free to do effectively anything, and that the other must simply pay whatever the other party demands, subject to change at any particular time, that is less of a contract than it is a pair of handcuffs and a ball gag.
Except of course that in that contract it does not spell out the surcharges that they add without you being any the wise until you receive your bill.
Reinforcement learning: Self-driving cars in the browser
I love python typing, and have been using it extensively in 3.6. Great to see it in the CPython core!

I've been looking forward to trying data classes, should be nice to avoid unnecessary code.
If you try to solve the hunger problem by producing more food... then what? Now you have an even larger population to feed.

To fix it, we need to reduce the birthrate. In the meantime, we can try not throwing away so much food. (There's already enough to feed everybody, it's mostly a distribution problem.)
It's easy to forget, because of the light hearted tone of the essay, that this was actually an incredibly brave thing to do at that time.
And nothing of value was lost
I use this train and it will be a pity to lose it. It's quite pleasant; you can often get a sleeper for less than the price of a flight. Unlike a plane, you can get up and walk around, work on your laptop, talk on the phone, charge all your devices from a real 110v outlet, and eat fairly decent food. The scenery is beautiful. (The onboard wifi does suck but that's no surprise; I solve that problem by bringing my own hotspot.)

That said, over the last year or two, service has been degrading to the point of the train often being hours late. Food quality, cleanliness, and general attention to detail have been slipping from constant budget cuts.
These days it would likely be best to implement pthread-win32 mutexes using WaitOnAddress.
That's actually clever.
Just a bit below two mid level developer salaries at Google.
If you can't make your own transistors to speed up the UI, then you're not full-stack... and no one is.
I doubt intelligence agencies are limited by the same standards.
Yes. Actually I was Learning How These Things actually work.
As someone who has worked in HR previously, this is great information for anyone approached by a recruiter. The whole industry is full of people just trying to pull together whatever they can. They are the used car salespeople of the professional industry.
I wonder if the added cost is worth it as far as freshness and quality are concerned. I know I'm not the typical case, but I never got a bad shipment from Blue Apron when I was using it. I really wish I could continue to use it but I just can't justify the amount of waste that piles up over just going to the store myself. I spend almost as much time unpacking and prepping everything for recycling.
Sure, it's just weird that he doesn't talk about the elephant in the room.
I saw some studies recently stating that humans' sense of smell is actually as good as dogs.
Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal
> _great_ at frontend, and _capable enough_ to build the backend

I think that bias says more about the particular kind of company you're in than the general label of "full-stack".
Mostly good advice, except that being able to execute the code in your head is a good thing. You know you have it bad when you can't do this reliably and have to break out the debugger.

(Of course, debuggers are useful too, but code that requires them is not good.)
So is there a secret tool? Or is this just an undocumented API call that people are only now finding out about?
This makes me wonder how many other APIs rely solely on obscurity to protect major features.
I did some experiments for pairing devices over WebRTC via sound [1]. The link has a proof-of-concept page that you can try to pair devices and transmit files over LAN.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/wave-share