skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thanks for your response!

I have the impression that the reason the data for a single event is so large is because it is ambiguous, i.e. the uncertainty of a possibly incorrect interpretation forces you to store a lot of analog values (so that the interesting events can be checked or re-interpreted later on), and this size is what forces you to store a lot of data, and this forces you to triage for interesting events.

Assuming this is correct, then if the uncertainty of the tracks and their energies could be decreased, the data would be much more compact (i.e. only store location, momentum, energy/mass of incoming and decay particles as opposed to all the possibly relevant for later analysis ADC values)

Assuming that this level of correctness could be achieved by solid-state track detectors [0], where the particles leave tracks throughout a solid material, would it not (in theory) make sense to 1) continuously pass a such a detector material above and below the collision point, 2) at high speed slice, 3) in massively parallel etch, 4) microscopically examine the accurate tracks (bubble chamber style) 5) digitally store them compactly by the above assumption that the event size in bytes would be much lower if we only needed to store few but exact parameters per event 6) remelt the preferably low melting point etched track detector material 7) feed the erased etched track detector back to the collision point in a continuous fashion.

Either the speed of the material should be quite high or the illumination zone or collision point engineered very compact. Different collision bunches would be disambiguated because the tracks point to a different origin point (since the material has moved in the 25 ns @ 40 MHz, so for sub micrometer collision point that is 40 meters per second! obviously the detector would benefit from being designed to steer the collision point so it alternates to different positions)

Obviously the biggest issue with this approach is needing a huge facility for parallel etching and inspecting the slices

the cooling time should not be an issue, since the circular buffer of remelted material could be made arbitrarily long

do you think it could make sense for a future detector to temporarily store the tracks physically in a solid-state nuclear track detector ?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_nuclear_track_dete...

Edit: I forgot to mention that energy could then be determined from the change in curvature as the particle loses energy
Or the SOCKS proxy built into OpenSSHD...
Apologies; I just find it rather absurd that thermal energy could be stored in what apparently are water tanks, for months at a time, without losing most of the energy to conduction/convection with whatever surrounds the tanks.

After all, if we could do that, then certainly the same materials could allow smaller houses in cold climates to maintain a comfortable temperature throughout an entire winter without needing any active heating.
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Also ACI (Azure Container Instances)
Love it, works like a charm.
Thank you! You're very right. I've not communicated well. Please allow me to clarify.

I should rephrase: this is the first experience I've had of what is commonly described as "community". I hope that clarifies matters. I am not describing a community encountered as an artifact. I am describing the experience of being a member of a community. I hope this helps! Do let me know if I can help clarify more.

The comment to which I was responding took a very narrow view of what defines a community. The definition offered is one that would have been obvious to an illiterate serf a thousand years ago - people nearby they have no choice but to cooperate with for basic survival. For the most part, you had two choices: membership or death. And membership meant conforming.

Some might consider such a choice coercive. Such a person might even consider the circumstances that require that choice tyrannical.

I have offered a much more expansive one, where a person can be a member of multiple communities non-exclusively in a way that allows them to find communities that suit them. This formulation, unfortunately, can be seen as dismissive of the value of the communities of the past.

This is a very understandable viewpoint. After all, the expansive definition would seem to do away with the basic tenants of the narrow one. Yet, it's perhaps possible that this view could become even more correct than it already is! There's absolutely value in what even the narrowest of definitions would consider a community. They teach the value of belonging, of collaboration, and of many hands making light work. It just might be worth considering that there could be other lessons to be learned in this world that might not be fully captured there.

After all, humans are not TCP/IP. Capital-T Truth is not always easy to come by. There are still people in this world who consider (for example) failing to say the right ritual words at the right ritual time every day to be a grievous error in need of correction.

In a world where the obvious truths of the past are today's errors to be progressed beyond, we are presented with the wonderful opportunity to let endless forms of community bloom most beautiful. That we might learn from this glorious array what can be progressed beyond and how.

Though I understand if some would prefer not to.

Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart, for the opportunity to engage.
Neither do big parts of the US. Most residential buildings in New England, New York, parts of the Pacific Northwest... even the Bay Area.
You can pick up a vintage Seiko Bell-Matic for cheap on eBay, and presumably some others. Anything new (like a new JLC Memovox) isn't something people would classify as a "fashion watch" -- they're luxury watches. A fashion watch is something like a Gucci or Daniel Wellington.
I really don't think he means it in the deep philosophical sense of unique personal identity but more the fact that if the situation has been different whoever his grandfathers descents were (if any) would have radically different options in life.
I literally just started a job that corresponds exactly to this. "We need really good principal engineers and we'll fight to get them."

(We're hiring, btw. Email's in my profile.)
Just hard work. Making it look natural and pragmatic is a non-trivial discipline and dare I say, rather thankless work.

(I’m assuming you meant to convey a slightly negative connotation through “mathematical”. Though I myself do like PS too)
Not sure why that parent comment was flagged, he was just pointing out the fact that companies value profit, everything else is optional.

Is that not allowed to be uttered around here anymore?
I find it funny how YC is focusing only on places where the majority of the world won’t or can’t easily work (US visa policy is atrocious and getting worse every year + raising xenophobia in recent times) and China isn’t an easy country to navigate if you don’t speak Mandarin, let alone succeed in as a foreigner (for a variety of reasons).
Asia and Europe are big places as are Canada and Australia. Time to think broader than just US+China!
Same. Giving error "Corrupted content error" on Firefox 61.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
The internet is just if not more free than it ever has been.

Maybe the way you choose to use it has changed?

For me, I have more access to free information, than I ever have.

Im trying to not let this fall into a snarky "use Facebook less" reply but it's pretty hard not to when you're making claims like "the internet is not as free as it used to be."

The fact the mainstream signed on and wanted centralised services over many decentralized and democratized services isn't a suprise nor is it an indicator the internet is less free. Simply that it's got some new citizens and they happen to want to do things a different way than you would like.

Don't get me wrong Google, Amazon, Facebook etc having such dominance is frightening and worrying for their own respective and distinct reasons but let's not lazily frame it as the internet being less free.
Caring about human rights is silly?
>I'm curious about this line of thinking. Do you think your specific consciousness was being held in reserve somewhere, and it would have been placed into a mortal body regardless of when it happened?

No I don't.
With JIT compilation, wouldn't byte compilation become redundant? If yes, a JIT could significantly reduce the complexity of Emacs (contrary to RMS's comment).
The value and equality of human life is fungible. Doesn't really matter who is who.
Some people, even in tech, are so afraid of being alone (often subconsciously) that they lean heavily toward group collaboration as a sort of security blanket. Outside-point-of-reference studies like this are really useful as aids in getting them to loosen up and let the people they e.g. supervise have some quiet time.
fwiw, critical theory is distinct from intersectionality. Intersectionality is more or less a 21st century concept. Critical theory dates to the Frankfurt School's work as far back as the 1930s. And conceptually, they have very little to do with one another, other than being "left". Critical theory is largely a Marxist critique of culture, targeted at all totalitarian systems - fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism (why they say capitalism is totalitarian is worth reading). The term "intersectionality" was first used in the late 1980s, one of the first shots of third wave feminism, but really didn't hit vogue until a decade or more later. Totally separate things.
> An even bigger issue I have is the huge reliance on mocking which leads to completely brittle tests and code that can withstand no change without all hell breaking lose.

In my opinion, unit tests should only cover code that doesn't have any side-effects or interact with external dependencies. For example, suppose you have a method that handles a HTTP request, extracts information from that request, create a database query, query the database, processes the results from the DB, generates a HTTP response, and then sends the response back to the client. You can easily factor out the parts that don't have external dependencies into their own methods. For example, you could pass in a HTTP request as a parameter to the method that extracts information from it and then returns that information.

If you unit test those methods, then you would have coverage for everything other than the actual interaction between the HTTP server and client and the interaction between the server and database. Those cases can then be covered with integration tests where an environment is set up that runs test instances of the HTTP client, server, and database.
So... are you an Australian? Only Australians know how deadly dropbears are.
There was also something about "Muslims in concentration camps" - but there's another link in this very thread talking about how Uyghurs are being put in camps by the PRC, so I'm not sure either how speaking truth to power got flagged.
I know that the gilding feature has been a major part of the Reddit culture and I can also understand that the rebrand now somewhat destroys that.

But dear god it's hard for me to comprehend how people get so angry about this stuff.
You could use Karabiner[1]. No need to do the “different language” hack, just make a big pile of key remappings that only affect that particular keyboard. It’s pretty easy to target just one input device with that.

1: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
You develop upper body strength just by doing bouldering. Seriously, don't wait until you think you have enough, just go out and do it. It may feel foolish at first but you will pick up technique which won't happen on a pull up bar or hangboard
Just using SSL connections doesn't cover it, for two reasons:

1. You can't force MySQL to only accept connections over SSL. You can only enable SSL, and set specific accounts to only allow SSL logins. This means that any sort of "unauthenticated attack" on MySQL will work -- if you can exploit MySQL without a valid login, enabling SSL for users won't help you.

2. Amazon RDS supports using SSL connections, and will issue your MySQL server an SSL cert from their certificate authority, so your client can validate the server. It does not, however, support client SSL certificates, for the server to validate the client. Which means the only thing SSL connection is doing for you is encrypting the connection -- it's not in any way validating the client, and anyone can download the RDS region's CA certificate and then connect/exploit your MySQL connection normally.
is this opensource?
> Everybody's gonna do business in China! Everybody! In some form or shape.

Well, if China lets them.
Yet this is exactly what they preach... smh

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-paral...
I've not heard of any hospital taking a person's house to pay a medical bill. Typically it goes into collections and on your credit report. Now a lowered credit score will affect the ability to get loans, possibly needed to effect repairs on a home, but that is a bit more of a stretch. And if it goes to court then wages can be garnished, affecting your ability to pay a mortgage -- but I believe that garnished wages are limited.

Oh, and if you pay almost any amount on a monthly basis towards a medical bill, then that can keep it out of collections too.
This is more of a question to @rauchg and others who have used now one. When I use now within the AWS realm, are the AWS services when used in conjunction with Zeit Now containers subjected to ingress/egress costs? As it does sound like I am using a different cloud as far as AWS is concerned
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Ok even if i don't like those actions a startup shouldn't worry about those issues. I might have political views but I don't bring them to work.

If something is so bad then that's for the governments to sort out, we are just here to do our best to make profitable companies.
I think taking frequent breaks during long hour sitting session is also equally, if not more important than how we sit. I usually set a "Pomodoro Timer" for 25 minutes and walk around the room for at least a minute during the breaks.
Congrats! You seem to be doing great!

As you just mentioned work successes, I would suggest that you also take good care of personal relationships.

Think about those people that have a good heart and with whom you have a healthy relationship. Consciously cultivate these relationships, if some time pass without seem them, take an extra effort to meet them.

When I was in my 20s I beber thought about it (and might even think that it was an odd advice), but now close to 40 I see how it matters.

Good luck!
For underground storage, it's basically just brute force. Or rather, a riff on geothermal.

For building-scale storage, there are two factors. One is obviously very good insulation. Both for the building, and for the heat storage. The other is storing latent heat in a medium that changes phase, usually liquid to solid.

And yes, that's the idea. In summer, store heat from solar collectors, and from air conditioning. In winter, use that heat, plus PV electricity.
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Not really. For people that work with social networks and social dynamics it was an obvious game changer. (Not obvious to invent, obviously, but once shown, anyone who understands the space could see its brilliance.)
Mandarin isn't strictly necessary to live in China. Plenty of my laowai colleagues only knew a few words and got along just fine in a tier one Beijing, which admittedly is a bit behind Shanghai and Shenzhen.

The only thing that really drove us out was the pollution (a huge problem in Beijing that is supposedly finally getting better).

Given the US visa policy, as bad as it is, still attracts far more many foreigners than China, at least. More than most countries actually even by per capita measures.
> Why wouldn't they get their hands on that?

They wouldn't because most of the western democratic countries are now actively preventing China from stealing their technologies. US with the empowered CFIUS, with the latest defense bill. Germany just prevented 2 key companies from being taken over by China. France drafted anti-takeover measures (aimed at China) amid foreign investment boom. EU is actively seeking to put up united front against Chinese investment by end of year. And yet Sam Altman is just going to give China free knowhow/technologies.

> make the lives of chinese citizens better

Are you not aware of the sesame credit enacted by the Chinese government? Facial recognition in cameras installed everywhere? Millions of muslims in reeducation camps in Xinjiang? Are you proposing we give this government even more power and innovation??

If anything, the Chinese government can take over a private startup quickly, and use the tech against Silicon Valley companies.
I dont have hobbies. I stare at a screen 40 hours a week then go home and sleep a lot.
Perhaps I am being a bit obtuse, but I think while I personally agree with your line of thought, the original thought is a hypothetical that could never happen anyway (we can't wind back time), so it's kind of a moot point in either case, as I'm fairly sure the OP didn't mean it like that and was just using it as a contrast to demonstrate to people how immigrants benefit from migration and are thankful and feel lucky to be in a country such as the US.
1. It's not about empowering everyone on the planet, it's about creating companies which become billion dollar unicorns

2. The probability of Unicornism is directly related to the size of the market you can access. US is the biggest single market on the planet.

3. Accessibility of markets: While EU is the second largest single market [0] US companies have entered european markets just fine. On the other hand, to operate in china, it's best to be a chinese company. Hence, to fund growth on a global scale going native in china is an obvious move.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries...
They can ship Google certified phones based on Android forks as long as they pass CTS[1]. You don't really think the Galaxy phones are built on top of unmodified AOSP, do you? Many[2] manufacturers[3] provide[4] SDKs[5] for their phones on top[6] of the base Android SDK.

[1] https://source.android.com/compatibility/cts/

[2] https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/sdks

[3] https://developer.motorola.com/tools-kits

[4] https://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/opensense-sdk/opensense-ove...

[5] https://developer.sony.com/develop/theme-creator/overview

[6] http://mobile.developer.lge.com/develop/
> So Microsoft does one good thing and that is supposed to absolve them from all previous underhand trickery? Very unlikely.

This is not the first good thing they've done.

> Microsoft has a lot more building to do.

Maybe in your eyes. They've redeemed themselves with a lot of people.
Yea that’s one of a few plausible scenarios. However a real founder of this app would find a way around those contracts.
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When did vue.js conquer the world?
Agree that the rhetoric is extreme, but it's a fairly extreme situation.

I wouldn't worry about the idea that old people skew fiscally conservative; they are typically enthusiastic socialists, at least as far as redistributing money from younger people to pay for their ever expanding benefits.

They aren't just over-represented in perception; they are a self-interested bloc that is over-represented in terms of redistributive policy. The furore that emerges whenever someone delicately suggests that we means-test benfits so middle-class oldies (and above) can't help themselves to the public pot (well in excess of what they have contributed) is proof of that.

The fact that children (who have had almost zero opportunity to shape their current financial situation) now live in poverty at a substantial higher rate than 65+ people does suggest something a bit closer to "complete disregard". The political position of about half the country (or more) in most Western countries is a strange combination of rugged individualism applied to others and an outsize enthusiasm for unearned handouts for oneself.
If you want to make it in China then yea, you probably shouldn't be too hung up on human rights. It's not some universal concept that has applied throughout the world for our existence so it's quite rude to pretend like China has to bow to these systems of human rights we developed without china's input.
Caring about human rights is not silly.

Expecting capitalists (the economic class, not the ideological faction) to put human rights over returns on capital is, if not silly, at least naively optimistic.
I'm pretty sure Marriott and Benz stand up firsthand to their owners and in their list of priorities access to chinese markets is more important than human rights.

Given our worship of capital I'm amazed global emancipation of slavery ever happened. But I suppose that was only because new financial markets and industrialization created lots of better opportunities for capital investment than slave labour force - hence the market for slaves dwindled.
I feel like status ought to go in its own table since it future proofs against other things having the same statuses - easier to refactor application logic and the table to be polymorphic than pull statuses from a potentially large table and do the same.
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It’s not hard to understand if you just take a look at stats in the past few years on where recent startups are founded, and where VC money goes.

Language barrier is not an issue for YC - they can just hire mandarin speakers like Lu Qi. I’m sure YC China would get mostly Chinese employees.
Large companies have vastly more influence on governments than regular people. It's unethical to just turn a blind eye to "those actions." Companies have leverage and should use it.

Are you seriously willing to work for anyone, their politics and actions be damned? Have you heard about the concept of the "Good German"?
Elon Musk needs to hear that. Stop doing business with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund!
Regarding #1, disagree. In C, a function call is just a request to send the instruction pointer to another point in the memory space. In C, code is treated as data, which is how it's treated in hardware.

C++ introduces virtual functions, and when you make a function call, you're no longer going to a single place in memory, you go to where the class's virtual function table tells you to go, effectively jumping to a memory pointer. This is pretty helpful, but it's an incredibly different way to think about code. A function is no longer a set of instructions in memory, it's a logical representation of functionality.

And yes, I know in C, you can set a variable to a function location, and then jump there, but it's painful to do and you have to do it explicitly, so it doesn't really create an abstraction.
Bunnie Huang would be awesome. I'm talking about the role, though. Not necessarily the titles. (Edit: That's not a diss... it's just my ignorance. I mean as far as I know Bunnie would be great for the titles too, but I just can't defend that position because I don't know enough about that level of position). I suspect the titles were just Qi Lu's ask, not a requirement for the position(s).

Admittedly Bunnie is mostly a hardware guy but I think he would also have connections and sensibilities in software and China is pretty big on hardware too.
Companies should, and do, take an active role in the world around them (both positively and negatively)
Lol, what makes you think they can’t invent their own
Pointers, conceptually speaking, are not hard.

Pointers, in practice, are hard. Even C-family compilers cannot safely reason about them in many (most) cases.
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Come on, Kira. WTF.
You're probably right. Every now and then a revolution is actually appropriate.