skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a bit interested in astrophysics, so I can't vouch 100% for this being accurate, but it's my understanding:

The universe isn't the penny, it's the balloon. Physicists believe we are living on the surface of a hypersphere. One important consequence of this idea is that the big bang didn't occur at a specific point in our 3D space, but at the center of the sphere.

Furthermore, the concept of a balloon expanding vs. deflating is a bit of a misconception. The argument used to be that whether or not the balloon is expanding, depending on the rate of the expansion, gravity could eventually win out and cause the matter to collapse back together (big crunch scenario). The problem with that theory is that we now know that galaxies are speeding away from us at a growing speed that (not sure the exact details, probably based on red shift in light from nearby galaxies). So the idea of gravity winning out was not based on evidence, just one of a number of possibilities, but the evidence proved it wrong beyond a doubt.
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That's definitely crossed my mind. But my direct experience working on embedded projects have been related to writing low level I2C/SPI/Other serial parallel protocol driver for peripherals. Don't think I want to get stuck in that either.
Telegram bot api still give error 502 and description of bad gateway
couple hour ago telegram servers in some area was down and now it's back to normal except telegram bot api
Iran, North Korea and Syria are examples of countries that are a significant threat without having any Western arms in their arsenal, and operate outside of Western soft powers. The West is far from being the only arms supplier in town, and when countries can’t rely on Western political, technological and military support, it is very likely they will attempt to pursue WMDs to make up for it (as done by all three) and use assymeteic warfare instead of standing military (as done by Iran and Syria).

Israel was under a US arms export embargo up until the late 60s, for all intents and purposes.
Israel was never shielded by the West - there has never been direct military intervention in Israel’s favor. This, combined with the trauma left by the holocaust only couple of decades prior, and the calls to the destruction of Israel - unprecedented that a country had its legitimacy disputed like this in world politics - have made it pursue nuclear weapons.

It was the threat of those weapons, in part, that brought Israel closer to the USA (see the emergency airlift of US military equipment to Israel during the war of 1973). No one wanted a desperate, nuclear state with its back to the wall.

Today, Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia behave in line with Western interests because they feel embraced and protected. In the face of an imminent threat from Iran, they rely on Western arms and support. Show them you’re taking this support away for matters of public appearance, and the only choice those countries would have is to develop WMDs, both for deterrence and as the ultimate bargaining chip.
If people really wanted a level playing field the only solution would be to remove children from their parents at birth and implement a state controled education system from that point to your active life.

But most socialists are ok to take from other to give until it touch their family.
RSS readers are fine, there's tons of them available. There's no need for it to be built into a browser or email client and there's definitely no need for it to be a hosted service. Firefox did the right thing. Open source, dedicated RSS client software is readily available and likely needs very little maintenance at this point, so we don't have to worry about useless middle-men getting bored.

Every site I've cared to "subscribe" to has an RSS feed somewhere, so that end of things is still alive and well. I don't see any reason for them to stop either, I still end up at their site (assuming they only publish links) and that's all they can hope for.
I wonder how this compares to bcachefs: https://bcachefs.org
I don't often listen to loud music in headphones, but if I have headphones on where I need situation awareness, I'll be quick to remove one --- usually the one I expect to be closest to whatever I might need to hear (most often car traffic).

Windows down in a quiet (electric) car is pretty amazing too, even in a traffic jam.
Anyone understand why if I get the name twice I’ll remember it forever but once is maybe 1/100. And then it’ll have to be an interesting name...
Well I'm the founder of a startup, funded, and actively hiring. I'm considered old myself(late thirties), so I see the value of experience.

Going through the variables.

A - no.
B - no. I tried that in my previous company, it won't work unless everybody buys in.
C - no.
D - yes.
E - toss up. The average age of the management is in the late 30s, the average age of the whole team is in the mid-late thirties. No twenty plus young kids(rarity in startups nowadays). We've seen shit, made many mistakes, so we're hopefully on the way to becoming better managers
F - hell yes. Both founders have kids. Principle is "Work hard, and go home"
G - Unavoidable
I - Blockchain

Please reach me(check my username)!
Now I'm curious. If lying in general is a terrible idea, how does the person whose name was forgotten benefit, otherwise what makes the terrible lie worth it?
How is it even possible to detect dark matter, if it doesn't have EM interaction, weak interaction and strong interaction? Probably some ultra-sensitive gravity detector which could detect a single particle? Sounds like impossible for current technology. So we could have those dark matter particles orbiting with crazy speeds around our planet, sun and everything else without any chance to reliably detect them. But still there are experiments to detect them, does it mean that scientists expect some kind of interaction, may be rare?
Bad advice. Networking is a high cost low value activity. It’s a pre-internet strategy for building trust in the absence of information about competency. Today anyone can find anyone they’re looking for. Today on the internet there are many businesses and people who make money by amplifying others with new or novel things, or some value.

Just build things you care about and share your work online. Give it to the amplifiers and let them amplify. Good will come. In the internet age “networking” is for losers.
They're all using flexbox except for the Media Objects one which is using CSS Grid. I would still use flexbox there.
Agree with this, assuming price and risk of death are within reason.

For 30 minutes, I can just take some sleeping pills and be done with it, really.
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Although I'm not yet retired, I have been thinking about something similar. When I was younger, I loved learning new languages. Now I find I'm less able to learn so quickly, and I'm more interested in getting things done. I'm interested in building things that are reliable and will last, so Haskell has been interesting to me. However, there is something about Common Lisp and Racket that keeps drawing me back, even though I tend to favor static typing. (Maybe Typed Racket is the answer?) My everyday language right now is Python, but I'm looking for something that feels more solid.
The book "Phi" might interest you, it's written by an influential consciousness researcher, Giulio Tononi.

There is one example in the book, I believe, where a person is consciously blind, and is completely convinced they're blind, but when asked to walk through a hallway filled with junk and obstacles, the person passes through the hallway without a problem. When asked, "how did you avoid those obstacles?", they answered "luck", "small obstacles", etc...

It almost seems to me as if consciousness serves a social function. The mind's eye is blind, but the unconscious eye isn't. Yet, they communicate as if they were blind.

I wonder if there are more cases like this one, whether they lose their ability to communicate in all/most similar cases.
Definitely treat anything written by Heiser like any other marketing document, identify his interests at the time of writing first. And sure you can say that for almost anyone in this business...
Around where I live, kid trailers for bikes are pretty popular.
Success needs time, go back to your projects, listen to your users and make progress they love.
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> But that’s indirect; we know there’s supposed to be a particle associated with it, and that’s what the hunt is all about.

I think is the is the most important line in the article. Why does it have to be a particle? That's a large assumption. We've conceptualized everything in our models so far as waves/particles. Maybe we need a different concept.
I managed to discover that on my own when bored and walking around both in the dark and while waiting for a ride to arrive. Although it was a different technique.

I noticed that I could make a continuous sound and it would correspond roughly with the distance and gave me a one-dimensional relative distance detection from my head. A 'hissing' sound worked best for continuous reading while being subtle. It was pretty easy for me but it might have to do with being on the autistic spectrum and hypersensitivity.
You know how in Pokemon they keep on teaching you "don't tackle your problems alone, learn to depend on your friends?" That's what networking is.
Peterson is a controversial figure for many reasons at the moment. I've taken the Future Authoring Program, and although I have no data to back my feeling up with, it is thorough, and very helpful.

I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment...

I can definitely recommend the Future Authoring Program (and the Past Authoring as well).
You make a excelent point. People in power positions trying to take advantage of näive.

The recipe here, is that you create a untrue image of a "Emerald City", where everything is possible for the people that work hard, show them the great Wizard of Oz as a example of what you can acomplish, and wait the dreamers like Dorothy to pile over in order to fulfill their dreams. You will have hard-working, starry-eyed workers accepting almost anything.

Sure, the Big Corp™ also use a gaming system to its own advantage, making a feist from the naive.

It's ok to be skeptic when in your environment they actually swallow the dreamer type. We always need to be smart, detect what's really going on and adapt to the environment.

Sometimes you just wasnt lucky to find a good fit for you. But whatever happened its good to survive not only the outside world, but to fight for your inner fire. The thing that will make you move on with a sense of purpose. But of course you shouldnt let people take advantage of that, and a lot of people will actually try, not only professionally.
On iOS that would be a three hour process, you’d need to have a very patient and persistent kid!
"Academic success" as a useful proxy because of how it predicts income, health, longevity, and so on [1], [2], [3].

I'm not sure whether "fake science" in the absence of obvious, easy-to-google evidence is mere intellectual laziness, or if you actually believe that because some people are successful (by many reasonable measures) without an education that this somehow means that education itself is not valuable. In either case, here you go.

[1]: https://www.luminafoundation.org/files/resources/its-not-jus...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435622/

[3]: https://www.mpg.de/10795685/longevity-education
Not just educational outcomes. More money has massively diminishing returns to happiness, health, fitness, longevity, creative output, ...

The biggest constraint is often individual people’s time/attention; additional money is only slightly (if at all) helpful for the already rich.

But a little bit of money goes a long way to help people who are not eating well, don’t have a place to live, need to work 3 stressful part-time jobs to make ends meet, ...

Massive inheritances (dropping someone tens of millions of dollars or more) are one of the greatest problems in our society. The top marginal tax rate for inheritances should be 90%+, and we should be cracking down hard on all the sneaky ways people hide gajillions of dollars for their descendants. Maybe with an exception for small family farms, since presenting farmer sob stories is one of the biggest ways billionaires have figured out to market their intergenerational hoarding.
This was me pointing out the word "natural" is loaded BS. Whatever one's view is on whether a baby should be delivered by C-Section or vaginally (which should depend on the circumstances, obvbiously) "natural" as a description is really silly. We aren't cave-people. We are incredibly thankful for it. We don't consider it a good thing to watch our children die and will intervene in all kinds of ways animals can't to avoid it. Anyone touting "natural" for anything, especially childbirth, should be treated with extreme caution.

Look how it's done:

If you're a fit, 19 year old mother with a healthy, correctly oriented fetus vaginal birth may be preferable to c-section.

Take "natural" the hell away from all of it. It's a sign of thinking being replaced by emotion which probably isn't a good idea if you think evidence based medicine is a good idea.
No, that is what makes bad networkers insufferable.

Really, when you network the goal should be to share and absorb information about who is doing and interested in what. Some time, which may be anywhere from milliseconds to decades, you might remember somebody who is going to benefit from that connection (could be you, could be somebody else, could be the person you talked with) and so you suggests the parties meet.

The people you complain about, and I agree with you 100%, are those who are focused on a particular goal, in the short term.

Human connections are like any other investment, if you try to get results this quarter, you will ruin everything. If you can wait ten years, you can get the world...

Networking is about give and take, providing value and making connections.
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It isn’t. Someone I know (who hired me at one of my jobs) is an expert with people. He’s had many Successful exits and somehow always has a team that loves to work for him that’s great at their job. Knowing him has led to me discovering way more teams I could work with.

It’s great and very helpful to people like me - who are less effective at building that network of people. I think it’s great these people exist. They’ve been a multiplier on what I can do.
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I think it is important to work for as many different companies as you can during your twenties so you can figure out what is important to you. Then spend your thirties trying to find your way back to your favorite environment so that you can spend your forties in it.
I don’t know how I feel about this. At some point this just seems like BS, a rigged system where the crimes of the rich and white are “too complicated to prosecute” while the crimes of the poor and the minorities are so simple and easy.

Please. One day this system will collapse on itself.
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At a very high level you're wanting management, but really you're expecting someone else to solve your problems for you. These companies don't work like that. You have to find a problem and hammer it down.

If necessary (but only as a last resort) spend an hour each day increasing test coverage. That is just something you can do that will probably also yield further ideas.

Second, if you're at google, get a mentor. They probably have an internal tool for that, maybe even something hr-like.
This discussion arises because we collectively wish for a completely secure (as in does not unlock unless you want it to) yet near-instant unlock mechanism.

It's not that OP worries they might be doing something sketchy enough that law enforcement would go through those lengths. The issue is that Face ID's difficulty to crack is a function of time, not knowledge. Thus, it is not the holy grail we seek, and if you have anything of interest on your phone, whether political, corporate or just illegal, it's not even an option if you wish to secure your system.
It's not just galaxies it's also the interactions between galaxies and while you can tweak gravity to handle galxey rotations it doesn't work for those bigger structures, though dark matter does work for both.
Hacker News isn't all about tech or startups. It's about things that interest the tech & startup crowd.
Without splitting hairs, I think we should avoid normatives when speaking across the board about merit. For example, "should be rewarded" is a bit of an odd phrase given that the market and other factors will affect the degree of the reward. You can be a very accomplished scholar, but make very little because the market doesn't reward that kind of stuff. Plenty of things escape market reward and it is profoundly erroneous to elevate the market to some kind of supermetric of human worth or merit and reduce all valuable activity to the profitable. I certainly prefer fairness over unfairness as a general principle, but fairness has its place.

Whether luck is involved or not is of little interest to me. I think we obsess too much about money and tie it too much with human worth. In part because we like to think of ourselves as meritocratic, some of us feel compelled to justify our wealth differences to ward off the envious (plenty of that to go around). I'm not sure how you tie this into creating a "best society". I think arguments can be made that intersections of money and power/power and ambition are the most dangerous. Indeed, an argument against democratic republics is that those with a lust for power will tend to seek office and once they have it, believe they are entitled to it because they merit it as a result of their own actions. Hereditary monarchs, on the other hand, know fully well that they didn't ascend to the throne through their own efforts and that they are in a position of responsibility w.r.t. their people. (Note that most monarchies were not despotic despite the folklore because they were checked to varying degrees by tradition, the lords, the Church, etc, and were guided by advisers who brought their knowledge to the table, thus divorcing expertise from that bounded and constrained power.)
This gave me an idea, I will try to learn this for night vision :D
You don't want to be that guy who blew the whole op because you got killed and left behind accessible evidence. No one wants to be that guy.
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The event itself is being held at the same hotel, the Ritz-Carlton, where Mohammad bin Salman was detaining and allegedly torturing various Saudi elites. Surely that should have been enough reason to generate negative press. Western politicians shrugged it off pretty easily.
I agree but there was no special tech involved or anything specifically interesting, it was a normal gun.
Yeah it's double patronizing. It's worse than just coming clean and shifting the burden to yourself by acknowledging your poor memory skills.
>If you do cocaine you can practice harm reduction by washing in acetone, and if you have it available, cloraform.

I'm gonna be real with you. A product that's washed like that, especially by an amateur at home (e.g. you or me) doesn't sound like something I want to sniff up into my nose.
you will not pry my cisco switches from my cold dead hands
Did they make the script's source public? I'd love to run this for myself on some of the numbers pretending there is a warrant our for my arrest because I owe some ridiculous amount of back taxes.
check out whalebrew it is similar to your project
For about a year, I smoked cigarettes. Taking a smoke break with your boss, and their boss, is one way to be noticed, stick out from the pack, and advance your career. Other methods are healthier.
Really you can't assume culture one way or another. Conservative futurists assume that the social norms and traditions will stay forever when that wasn't the case even centuries ago. It brings to mind science fiction from the 50s which assumes their values will remain. Living cultures are fundamentally a Ship of Theseus - while some aspects may remain you can't assume - even what they hold most sacred.
Do you have a source that proves people become self centered or is that anecdotal? I know people who have done cocaine and they haven't drastically changed because of it.
"fight for your inner fire" -- I can agree with that 100%.
> dating

Sounds more like pre-marital cohabitation (which is also already common), but perhaps with a more explicit and formalised sense that this is a time-limited 'trial phase'.

I wonder why this goes together with reduced expectations; I can imagine it leading to a resurgance in the belief that marriage is for life, by reducing the number of impulsive and semi-informed marriages. But maybe that goes hand in hand with the rejection of some less-realistic romantic ideals we have about the role of a life partner?
That's exactly it. Nobody knows if it's impossible or not, but there's no way to find out unless experiments at least try, to whatever effort/cost we deem reasonable.
Stony Brook University is one of those special universities which although from an academic perspective not that famous, but in Systems software, they are top-notch university.
Juniper switches are the only ones for me
But they also assume culture will just change in the way they want as opposed to having to be changed. That is probably the larger mistake.
Ask HN: What stage do startups typically fail?
We all hear that well over 90% of startups fail, but when do most die off (e.g. before series A, or later on after multiple rounds of funding)? How much more likely is a startup that has made it past multiple rounds of funding to succeed?
That reasoning is correct if the investment is risk-free.

But what if you are investing in stocks or corporate bonds or a broadway play or a promising health technology company like Theranos? There is a non-trivial chance that your reward will be less than 0 - and it could even be a complete wipeout. The low capital gains rate is meant to encourage people to put money at risk rather than sit on it.
Based on that example and your support for lowering taxes, I think we may have a more basic disagreement.

I think good societal change, whether it's improving the quality of the life of the ghetto, or whether it's improving education, is better driven by the government than by rich people taking pity on the rest of us.

LeBron's experiment is laudable, but a sustainable solution will come from the government, which is the only entity that can truly direct the money of the entire country (via taxes).

Whether the true problem lies in education or environment, I see a significantly higher tax rate on the wealthy as the easiest way to sustainably improve our situation.
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Small note on that one: you probably want to include an e-mail in your about field.

I have and don't receive much spam.