skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> while the natural rate of growth of a biological system is O(e^t).

The theoretical growth rate; in practice this is impossible to keep up due to biological resource limitations.

> The universal speed limit dictates how much of the Universe humans (or whatever comes after us) can ever visit, because of the Hubble constant.

So unless every point in space was an "agar plate for humans", ready to serve us and house our breeding, we'd run into resource limitations far before any theoretical maximum due to finite c and expansion.
Looks like a Dell XPS 13.
I believe the truth is that it is as hard to integrate an existing software solution as it is to build an integrated software solution from scratch. The latter will also be much more focused to your specific business needs, and will be able to evolve along side your business.
Father of head of Scientologists explains how he and his wife escaped
Try Kurose's "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach". The points you mention are not the focus of the book but get touched on the way, plus it's extremely accessible. I vividly remember reading it as a CS student and being happy that I finally reached a satisfactory level of understanding on the topic.
> I build my own Linux containers and run my own Kubernetes cluster.

you build you own images...

for the uninitiated:

image = visible through `ls /var/lib/docker/$storage-driver`;

container = visible through `ps aux | grep -P "(docker|containerd)"`
I think it would be also fair to say that the comment is about a principle - which are generally applied.

I happen to agree with the principle though. But I think, ultimately, you therefore have to take a stand on what true meaning is.
Inventing the Internet (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet) is a fantastic place to start

Innovations in Internetworking
(https://www.amazon.com/Innovations-Internetworking-Artech-Te...) is a great collection of papers that help you understand the original thinking behind each protocol

The Elements of Networking Style
(https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Networking-Style-Animadversi...) explains why you see only 4 layers in the real Internet while ISO slices it into 7 and all the fun parts os standard bodies while retaining a unique sense of satire
I personally prefer mouser over digikey.
The Elusive Frame Timing (2018)
Hope your daughter gets better soon. Have you thought of writing a blog or journal? I think this info will help other parents in search of answers that aren't able to get their child in cutting-edge medical facilities.
Please don't post ideological battle comments to HN.
Dumbphone user since 2006 here. Non-Luddite. Main reasons for avoiding the switch :

1) When not using computers for work [or chess] purposes, I want to spend as little time as practical staring at a screen. I have lots of non-computer activities to attend to [gardening, studying, home maintenance, etc etc] and a family to look after.

2) I am a strong adherent to the notion that one is well-advised to maintain awareness of one's surroundings -- what I'd call commonsense alertness -- and my observations of folks using smartphones in public suggest to me that their use diminishes situational awareness because they are a distraction.

2.5) Corollary to the above : I want to set a good example of prudent behavior for my kids, which to me includes limiting recreational computer / phone use [I realize this sounds snobby, but you should see the kids in my neighborhood -- like elementary-school kids -- constantly with their faces buried in phone];

3) Last and also least : expense and durability : decent dumbphones are nearly indestructible and if I distruct one, a replacement is less than $50. Smartphones, on the other hand, tend to be fragile and expensive.
And they are cheaper to accelerate, because of lower mass.
It’s undemocratic AF but that is the one good thing about the House if Lords... if anyone there messes up their family will need to deal with it. Of course Tony Bliar wrecked that too.
how is the experience on mobile? Especially Android?
I've been reading "where wizards stay up late" which is a great history of the internet being built. It's less focused on protocols, but a really valuable read for telling the story.
Any theories as to why those "boomers" are so angry?
It's the same logistics as an American thinking twice before naming their baby with the Cyrillic alphabet. It's a foreign language that will probably not play well with domestic systems.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
It is pretty common for Asian people to use a phonetic version of their name in latin alphabet in the West. Would it be reasonable to do the same in reverse with your western name? Would it even be accepted by banks/government institutions?
AMD and Nvidia both have better drivers than Intel, although admittedly Nvidia only offers proprietary drivers.
Have they added a way to turn off spellcheck suggestions yet? Compiling with newer gcc feels like some monty python skit:

#include <stdio.h>
int main() { retrun 0; }

$ gcc a.c
a.c: In function ‘main’:
a.c:2:14: error: ‘retrun’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘setbuf’?

Say gcc, why don't you try 'setbuf' yourself before suggesting it? Ugh...
Which sector?
Panalpina Ropes in Christian Wurst as Regional CEO for Europe – Logistics
Rigetti Computing [1] uses it for a variety of their projects, including their high-performance quantum computer simulator called the QVM [2], and their quantum compiler.

Some of their use of Lisp has been presented in more detail at the European Lisp Symposium. You can see it in the Cutting Edge section of the proceedings [3].

[1] https://www.rigetti.com

[2] https://youtu.be/f9vRcSAneiw

[3] https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/static/proceedings/2...
So, let me get this straight. Bay Area creates legislation like building codes, permitting, increased minimum wage etc. that makes it very expensive to open and run a restaurant. That is probably reflected in the food prices, which makes subsidized food at work an attractive perk. To counteract this problem, even more legislation is proposed.
I agree with that :)
Though after a while I personnally traded simplicity* for more customization and performance and switched to openbox and now i3.

Edit:
* Well no, "simplicity" does not exactly mean what I first thought it did. I guess I mostly traded ease of configuration / usage. Openbox and i3 are more difficult to approach but they don't lack on simplicity at all.
> Maybe Americans and European yuppies can pay a couple of extra bucks for their Gap t-shirts and Gap can insist that Indian factory owners install air conditioning instead?

Like they weren't already overpaying 100x+ for them. Maybe Gap, H&M and others could cut their margins a bit...
The slowness was very apparent for me too. I used to keep restarting the shell (Alt F2, then r) to get it back to normal speeds(this doesn't close the running applications).

In Wayland, they removed this shortcut. I've since switched to KDE.
My son was born in China. His official name uses the Latin alphabet, and this has caused him no problems so far. He is not a Chinese citizen, but his birth certificate (issued in China) carries his name in Latin characters.

I don't know if it's possible for a child born in China, to two Chinese nationals, to have a non-Chinese name on their birth certificate.

But I'm surprised you think this is ridiculous. What happens in the UK if you want to name your child:

- With only Chinese characters? or

- With regular alphabetic characters (A-Z) but also including some ancient English characters like wynn (ƿ) that have unicode code points but are not easy to type?
Just curious -- what was your PhD in? I know some experimental researchers who get 4 hours of sleep only doing their PhDs, I can't even imagine being able to do both at once.
My bet is that it doesn’t: customs will likely stop the delivery and notify you of any outstanding charge.
Ask HN: What are your open office rules?
At the risk of sounding petty and nit-picky...

I hate it when companies start their marketing about how shitty their main competitor is. Really? You couldn't muster an elegant elevator pitch without throwing some shade first?

Granted this seems to be a 'alternative marketing' page ("Why Zulip?") that calls out Slack directly... but, then again, so does the main page of the site.

If you can't define what your product does without namedropping a popular alternative first... C'mon man.
Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN. This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
We should seed the universe with tardigrades. It sounds like they deserve it.
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reminds me of a post on 4chan says that he named his kid '--;drop table users;
"1. Just because some tests have a higher number of false positives does not mean all tests have a higher number of false positives"

No - this is a math problem. As you do tests on low prevalence populations (inherently what you're doing when you say 'excess tests'), positive predictive value drops. Sure, it will drop more for worse tests, but this is a trait of all tests.

"2. For those tests that do have a higher number of false positives, the well educated (and paid) professionals are aware and should have measures in place"

One of the problems is distinguishing between "This thing is here" and "This is a clinical problem". For example, if I give you the (highly sensitive) PCR test for C. difficile, you may very well have C. difficile in your guts. But that doesn't mean that's what's making you sick.

Similarly, there are a number of cancer screening tests that will detect cancers that will kill you decades after something else does - including, potentially, the surgery to deal with said finding.
People are talking about secure alternative matrix/riot, mattermost, zullip... not that i have anything to do with them but Wire https://wire.com is pretty impressive (you can geek out on haskell backend).

In small org we have been using riot/matrix and it is great. Works well but it is more like modern IRC. It doesnt have too much ui sugar. Mattermost on the other hand looks cool but had slow clients and there was some bullshit with push notifications requireing some enterprise server license. Hope its no longer the case - i mean why would you want chat without notifications?
Re : increasingly at odds : I'm not sure this is true. I guess it's hypothetically possible that, say, card payments will be replaced by phone-facilitated payments, but for the foreseeable future, it seems to me that absence of smartphone distraction [provided one has easy access to internet elsewhere] promotes greater, not lesser, connection with one's surroundings. [Except, of course, that 'Minority Report'-type targeted advertising and other commercial tracking functions aren't available[?] to the non-smartphone-user]
Sounds like the inverse of what some Asians, who have 2-letter surnames like “Ng”, have to put up with when systems expect last names to be 3+ characters. Though I don’t think that minimum restriction comes up in major govt systems.
> We don't see it because we can't; we don't have the technology.

Why are radio telescopes insuffient?

Given what we know, humans building a Dyson sphere would be pretty obvious to anyone looking, simply by the waste heat. We'd have to take specific measures to actively avoid detection. It's not even clear how that's possible, given the second law of thermodynamics.

Positing that civilizations are everywhere but hiding seems the more extraordinary claim. It just takes one "person" sending one message to Earth for the veil to be broken.
All sorts of people from non-English extraction will have the same problem.

I've known a few people called Zoë (enough now that I still know the alt-0235 short-code for it on windows), and inevitably on their licenses the omit the diaeresis above their name.

It's really a version of Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names[1] writ-large, by government.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
"Would it even be accepted by banks/government institutions?"

No. You can choose a Chinese name (or have one chosen for you) to make life easier for your Chinese friends and colleagues, but your bank account etc. will use your real name.

The name on your bank account is likely to be on of the below, depending on which bank you use, and what type of day the teller is having:

SURNAMEFORENAME

FORENAMESURNAME

FORENAMEMIDDLESURNAME

And you need to know what it is, because without the correct name it's impossible to receive inbound bank transfers, or to link your bank card with WeChat/AliPay. Your name is not usually printed on your bank card, which you are given as soon as you open the account.
Pretty much ripped off Civic https://www.civic.com

Wonder how the price of CVC is impacted today...
Do you have to solve that horrible Google captcha for every invocation of the demo? What's the point of that?
A vote result arising in the context of a great many voters having been persuaded by a sophisticated propaganda attack consisting of lies, misrepresentations, and half-truths, where the attack originated from a foreign power aiming to create chaos and confusion among its enemies is not a fair vote and should not be given the legitimacy that a fair vote deserves.
Little Bobby Tables https://xkcd.com/327/
Please don't post uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There will never be a better work environment for me than that job was.

Sometimes what you really need to do is get up and play some Asteroids. Or fix it, as the case may be.
Oo nice I didn't know serverless worked with Python! Thanks for the heads up :)
Follow the RFCs. Even if don’t read them in their entirety, you will have a frame of reference from which to dive deeper.
why are there so many (and seemingly exclusively) negative posts about china on hacker news?
Emacs from scratch: Comes close to spacemacs with minimal config
My CEO was proud of his rapid firing skills, and the only people he kept around were the people who built his tech-debt ridden system in the first place, or put in 60h+ a week. For such a young company, the Github contributions were full of ex-people with a few hundred lines of code. Like, if you have to fire so many people you hire, then fire the people who are hiring everyone, or treat your employees better so they actually feel like doing good work for you.
Emacs can embed gtk widgets https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXWidgets
With Cyrillic, because of it's proximity to Latin, there may be a way to have a 'standard transfer pattern' set of rules, whereby Cyrillic<->Latin can be done with clarity and consistency. But we'd have to get our act together ...
I’ve got an application in for W2019 after a failed attempt in S2018.

I submitted for W2019 on Day 1 and keep refining it.

I’ll give YC Review a crack and see if the feedback adds value.
I do believe the idea to be a tech company first, and a wtv else company you actually are second is quite unique and novel and not widespread.

It's very different to say "We build things that make X product" or "We build things that provide you with service Y". Then to say, "We make product X" or "We provide you service Y".

We clean floors...

We build floor cleaning technology that we then use to clean your floor more quickly and for less money.

It's very different. It means you'll need to really invest in tech, hire engineers and scientists, put money in R&D, understand how technology is built, the cost of it, how to iterate on it, and leverage it. While at the same time integrating your business in actively using it, driving the tech based on the exact concrete needs of the service or product you target, etc.

This is hard to not half ass, to really commit to this mentality, and have everything designed around it is hard.

It's also higher risk, higher reward. If you fail to build useful tech that does end up delivering a better product or service to more people for less money, you might lose out and have ended just spending all your money on trying. If you succeed though, your growth will be massive, and your tech an unprecedented competitive advantage, you'll get bigger and bigger and eat away at your competition. And then an article will say, why do big companies get bigger, because they invest in tech.
Dispute Erupts Over the Ownership of Bitcoin.org
Sneak Peak: New Orbit Homes Designs and Display Centre – Coming Soon
Hardly. The article turned midway from explaining why Pop_OS is well designed to why should Gnome not remove a feature from their project.
You may be surprised to learn that New Zealand has some of the poorest rights for tenants in the developed world.

In most of the US, Europe and other Western countries lease holders have rights to continued lease and reasonable modification of properties (repainting, etc.).

In Germany for example, many apartments are rented without kitchens, and with plain white walls. It's expected lease holders will decorate and install their own fixed furnishings and return the property to its original condition when they leave.
Really enraged? I'm not exactly sure what "progressivism" is but seems like accepting financial responsibility for one's own lunch and/or supporting the local deli is far more akin to conservatism.
"The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols" is what you are looking for →

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf

Excellent summary of the same by Adrian Colyer →

https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/22/the-design-philosophy-of...

You can also read "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson to get acquainted with how it gained momentum.
Koreans' full names usually consist of 3-4 syllables, thus, a large number
of databases in Korea simply were not designed to store long [western]
names. It does hurt sometimes. For instance, my company uses the first 3 characters
of my _given name_ as my _family name_, and the last 3 characters of my _given
name_ as my... well, given name. They simply could not store my full name (17 bytes)
to their database.

-ss
From that, the scariest one is: "People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points." (i.e. some names are not doable in Unicode)

My god man, if you can't be done in Unicode, you'll have to live in a hut somewhere as 'the internets does not want you'. Might be an interesting idea for those who truly want off the grid, as they can't be 'on' the grid in the first place!
All: please don't do threads like this here.
It's a Google Fi data only sim, so nope no real phone number. I do have a number through Google Fi and Google Voice, which usually works for 2fa but not always. The phone number goes directly to voicemail always.
What if the big bang was a white hole?

I'd butcher the idea if I tried to explain but..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqGI1mSqo
Hanlon's razor?
I’d apply the same logic to everything. I’d also forbid money transfers to/from tax havens and ownership of property/companies by entities in tax havens or other countries that don’t reveal beneficial owners... There’s a lot of abuse happening, and it mostly involves the same few countries. The rest of us (i.e. employees and small business owners) end up paying so much more.

(By “forbid” I of course mean “tax so heavily it just doesn’t make any economic sense”.)
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
You wish —jellyfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
Alcohol does not provide the massive utility that comes with modern smartphones.

There are ways to reduce cell phone usage without going to a flip phone.

But, if this is what works for the author then I support it. Removing certain apps and disabling notifications will work wonders for most people though.
This is good point. But there is possibility of not running play services. And i dont only mean lineagelineageos without play services and apps from fdroid. I am sure Amazon or Microsoft would hop in to provide competitive google alternative. I mean amazon already has android store and if microG can do it - they can do it.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9905030.pdf

"On the Gravitational Field of a Mass Point according to Einstein’s Theory" by K. Schwarzschild, January 13th, 1916 (English translation)

Black holes are fiction. The whole mess started with people misunderstanding Schwarzschild's paper. Yes, there's a singularity in the math, but you can avoid it by changing the origin. This is one of those cases where conventional "science" has been gummed up by human foibles. (And the concept is so damned romantic and compelling. And that movie! It was like the opposite of "Jaws" for sharks.)

If you can't read the paper don't bother arguing with me. If you can, show me where the math says "black holes". I'm pretty sure it says "translate the origin and ignore the singularity".
Just signed up and had a poke around, created a few cards. I have to agree it looks excellent.
Perhaps the tardigrades have already done that.
The horses that draw carriages in New York City, have similar restrictions [1] and [2]:

1. Carriage horses shall not be worked whenever the air temperature is 90 degrees fahrenheit or above.

2. Riding horses shall not be at work more than eight hours in any continuous twenty-four hour period.

3. Carriage horses shall receive no less than five weeks of vacation or furlough every twelve months at a horse stable facility.

[1] - https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2006/new-york-city-adm...

[2] - https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/horses.pa...

We as humans can do better when it comes to other humans. We should.

To quote Ben Harrison:
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison)
This is pure political theater and a distraction from real issues. This has two possible outcomes:

1. The "Progressive" majority on the Board of Supervisors passes it and Mayor Breed vetoes it, giving Progressives yet another "you're a shill for big tech!" line of attack

2. It doesn't make it out of committee and everybody quickly forgets what an ass Aaron Peskin is

Just ignore it and donate to reform-minded leaders like Theo Ellington, Sonja Trauss, and Christine Johnson.
Reading the design philosophy was a life changing experience for me. It's really incredible how much we take this incredible system for granted.
Black holes do indeed have practical applications. Small black holes are perfect mass-to-energy engines that don't require storing large amounts of antimatter. You just feed them whatever scraps you have on board and use the Hawking radiation they produce as energy source, e.g. for accelerating your ship.
You do understand that taxes on strong economic base like restaurants is what pays for street cleaning and infrastructure improvement, right?

But, yeah this is stupid.
What about summarizing the entire movie? That's an instant NO from me. I've literally not watched movies because I've seen the trailers and feel there's really no wiggle room left plot-wise, I know it all.

I very actively avoid all trailers for movies that I'm going to see. Modern blockbuster trailers just ruin the movie.
There is something like that for security started by F500 companies: https://www.bsimm.com/

Their report breaks down some stuff on what should be done on what maturity level and then it shows data on how many actually are doing it.
Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to Act Fast
It's an economic superpower, and it does plenty of things worth criticizing.
"Up in the air on your own and you can do whatever you like. I flew 400 Spitfires and occasionally I would take one up and go and play with the clouds, which was so delightful and lovely, I can't tell you how wonderful it was"

(From the video embedded in the article)