skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space expands everywhere, also right in front of you, it is just a very small effect over short distances. Two points one meter apart expand away from each other with a speed of 0.07 nanometers per year. For short distances electromagnetic and strong forces just pull everything immediately back together as things want do move apart. Over larger distances, think the scale of galaxies, gravitational forces keep the stars, the gas, and all the other stuff together and prevent galaxies from expanding.

But once you move beyond the scale of galaxies and galaxy clusters there are no longer any forces strong enough to counter the expansion of all that space between galaxies and so in general the distances between galaxies are increasing. There are still exceptions, in clusters of nearby galaxies gravitational forces can still bind those galaxies together but with increasing distances between galaxies the expansion finally overpowers gravitational attraction.

It is important to remember that not only are all forces becoming weaker as distances increase but also that points are expanding faster away from each other as their distance increases. As said, two points one meter apart move away from each other with 0.07 nanometers per year but two points one kilometer apart move away with 70 nanometers per year because there are a thousand meters in between them, all of them simultaneously expanding at 0.07 nanometers per year.
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Please no recruiter phone screens. It's just a choreographed dance where everybody knows what's goin to happen. The recruiter sells you the company about x, y, z values that nobody cares about. The candidate says something about looking for bigger opportunities and challenges.
BMW late 2000s were like this. Maybe still are.
It’s a monopoly? Kryder’s law may have ended, but HDD prices were $40 a terabyte two years ago.
And what problem does keyless entry/start aim to solve?
I love the choice of the word "could" for this title. Makes it sound like the plot for a science fiction book X-D
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> People at Facebook are focused on building products that help people connect and have a positive impact in the world.

I don't remember seeing that last part before! Does this mean that they don't want to connect people who (they believe) will have a negative impact on the world?
Surely OP isn't working on all projects all the time, and could "archive" some in FLAC form?
There is also Vimb [1], which is another keyboard-focused web browser. It also runs on GTK+ and WebKit2. How does Next compare to it? (Except for obviously being more suited for scripting and having Lisp support.)

When I was trying Vimb for myself it suffered from frequent WebKit («WebView crashed») crashes. And also its performance seemed to me worse than, say, latest Firefox Quantum or Chromium — it was consuming much more RAM when using many tabs or opening extremely large web pages (few megabytes of html with many pictures in it). Although it starts a lot faster than the latter two.

How does Next compare to Vimb with respect to performance and crashes?

[1]: https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/

EDIT1: minor change of wording
it's ot, but still...

> Microsoft's UI strategy

at the moment I really think that they do not have a strategy.
I mean they even have Xamarin.Forms which is another XAML variant.

which ups their UI stuff to 4.
I do not see any of them being deprecated at all.
Uhhh, no thanks.

I have no desire to increase the amount of people who have control over my working environment and getting in between my employment contracts that I negotiate with potential employers.

Having only one entity that can screw up my working conditions (the employer) is much better than having 2 entities that can screw it up (both the employer and the union.)

When dealing with a single entity, the relationship is clear. I negotiate with them, and offer my work in exchange for a contract that we both agree on.

It would screw up incentives to have a third party who has significant control over my mutually agreed contracts.
Why didn't you invite Mozilla to the real office in Vilnius, Lithuania where ProtonVPN was actually being developed?
I've seen first hand people high up in startups monitoring what their employees say in assumed-to-be-private chats to each other. Technically it was part of the employee agreement that nobody read.

It's not a perfect, but one way to tell that the startup you're in is monitoring you is that they hand you a computer with your login already created. If you're opening up the Apple box yourself then it's much more likely to be free from keyloggers, etc. But don't trust shared sign-in stuff like Google Apps for Business to be private.
What is your definition of "the supply of parking" for a given area? I don't think the number of available parking spots in that area is a good measure, since people can always park just outside the area and walk in.

Instead, I think a good measure of parking supply for a given destination point could be the sum of available spots, weighed by their distance to the destination.
> Describing your personal phone as a "burner phone" seems odd and possibly telling that there's something else there.

Doesn't seem odd to me, in the context of a) a former employee sensationalizing the situation and/or b) hiding behavior from any employer.
> One contractor, who works 50 to 60 hours a week in Google’s marketing division, said TVCs are treated as “collateral damage” who can be hired and fired on short notice to help the company achieve business goals quickly and cheaply.

well yeah, that is the point of contractors ...
As someone who has experienced both, it is the sudden unexpected movements that cause motion sickness. And if I am tired, my mind cannot coordinate between the movement I see to the movement I feel.

And now I realize that in the first case, it is a personality issue where if I am stubborn/stiff/unyielding, I will get annoyed at unexpected movements. I find this to be true also with my wife :D
Presumably you could describe this as a theory of levity. For happy spacetimes.
Back when I was consulting I had MORE job security, because I had more than one "employer." If one dried up for some reason I pretty much always had someone else lined up looking to pay me to do some work.

My least favorite part of being an employee is goals/reviews. I much preferred just saying, my rate is $X this year, you can pay it or not.
So then this most certainly isn't a burner phone situation, because Facebook employees wouldn't actually "burn" these phones.
As long as they’re not susceptible to replay attacks.

If they are, just do a stakeout and then replay it later in the day to gain access.
You have a high quality phone given to you from the company you work. Since you don't trust your company, you fell the need to buy another phone that will depreciate in a couple of years. You also need to carry another brick in your pocket or purse. Just to be able to talk freely. Sure it is a burn phone.

I have wifi access when I'm on my company, but I don't feel the need to buy another phone just to be able to speak freely.
yeah as said, only when you do, but on angular you probably need to do.
however I had good luck with vuejs which basically was relativly small.
I also tend to do lazy loading pdfjs or something really big.
I have a 200 GB or so SSD in my gaming computer. Yeah, I basically just install one AAA game at a time.
I'm not sure that your comparison between getting eyeglasses and visiting a town for what most people would consider a vacation are even remotely the same thing.
Awesome to see more and more folks putting their energy into, well, energy.

Have you considered how much good individuals can do by making better choices for the environment versus how much good we can do as a society by implementing things like a carbon tax? Many (most?) of the barriers to dealing with anthropogenic climate change can only be overcome with sufficient political will. It might be better long-term to urge people to vote for the "right" policies than to fall into the trap that individuals can fix the world's climate through lifestyle changes alone.

Bill Gates outlines the problem here:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-clima...
I used some Decawave UWB hardware years ago and even in somewhat complicated environments (though walls, multipath, other RF stuff going on) they were accurate within 5-10%.
"...the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in."

I hope anyone worth their salt quits. As a hiring manager, it would be hard to overlook "fully buy[ing] in" to FB after how apparent it's become that they're fundamentally evil.
Or maybe they know it'll look too dumb and thus suspect a framing attempt, so it's 3D class after all.
1. No, but one must be aware of limitations before making decisions

2. Yes, of course, and thriving, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous

3. One of my points is that because of limitations of time resolution of our current data sources, we really don't know.

4. I'm not sure what you mean

5. Again, we don't know. More importantly to this point, you're looking at less than <.001% of time series data and treating it as a trend. This could very easily be a transient spike.
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The difference being with Python you gained in prototyping speed but were losing (at least at the time) on execution speed, whereas in D you get rapid prototyping while keeping very high efficiency.
I'm sure this problem can be solved with blockchains ;)
lol, so did I :)
SpaceX lost a rocket booster during landing
Well, that's easy: I pick the side of "stop fighting stupid imperial wars already". There is nothing which obligates "us" to be at war, to whatever degree the United States represents any sort of a coherent "us" at this point.
JSON is a really bad match for this. XML or sexp-based approaches (like EDN) would be a much better approach.
It would only be good for the programmers who kiss the ring and the already priviledged. It will screw over everyone else.

I will never ever support an organization that puts up artificial barriers to what is currently a very open work industry.

I would join the group just to sabotage it if they tried to keep out bootcampers or people without a CS degree. Anyone should be allowed to program.
The actual documents the UK Parliament pried out of Facebook are here.[1]

Excerpts:

Exhibit 172
–
Discussion of changing ‘read call log’ permissions on Android

From email dated 4 February 2015

Michael LeBeau
–
‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a
permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going
to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in-app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for
improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’

Yul Kwon

‘The Growth team is now exploring a path where we only request Read Call Log
permission, and hold off on requesting any other permissions for now.
‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.
‘It would still be a breaking change, so users would have to click to upgrade, but no permissions dialog screen.

[1] https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...
Regardless of questions of what should or shouldn't be done, there is a serious issue with reifying generic types with type parameters that support subtyping, as the JVM does. It requires deciding on a variance policy (to determine the subtyping relationships among the generic types), and different languages choose different variance policies to fit with their overall design. Reifying generic types in this case would bake a single variance policy into the runtime, which would hinder the ability of different languages to share data structures. If the type parameters do not support subtyping, this is not a problem, and, indeed, when generic types will be instantiated with parameters of Java's upcoming value types (that cannot be subtyped), they will likely be reified and specialized.
It means the natural means of sequestering carbon are being overloaded
I'm not sure what you mean. We collectively built the roads, for example, and the guard rails and road signs; it's hardly impossible.
> I've heard somewhere that companies like Stripe would rather have false negatives than false positives in hiring.

The top tech companies can reject 10 good candidates for every 1 that they hire because there is a massive surplus of engineers who want to work for these companies and so time to hire for them is actually reasonable.

99% of tech companies don’t have the overwhelming surplus of good applicants to make this work. So when they try they see time to hire jump from 4-8 weeks all the way up to 6-12 months without any real decrease in false positives.
> I don't feel the need to buy another phone just to be able to speak freely

If you aren’t whistleblowing, that’s reasonable.

Companies have every tool available to pursue NDA breachers, trader secret stealers and insider traders on their hands to chase whistleblowers. Phones are cheaper than heavy litigation and the threat of prison time.
Where did I ever say that?

What oppression are you even talking about?

I don't believe in using force to gain compliance of the citizenry

We do not live in that ideologically pure world.

You are the sort of person who let businesses discriminate based on race, because you shy away from having the force of law protect the politically weak?
I think "have a positive impact' is referring to the products, not the people.

Facebook has/had a near-religious devotion to the idea that connecting a globe of strangers is inherently good. I strongly disagree.
I do exactly this. I lined a cookie tin with foil, and tested it by holding the closed box (with the keys inside) next to the car. It didn’t unlock. Then I opened the box, and it did unlock. The box has to be closed (lid fully on, no gaps) or the car will still unlock.

Of course this only foils overnight theft. I imagine it would be trivial for someone to follow me from a car park to a public location and sit next to me to get the key signal from my pocket.
I feel the same because of the YouTube changes, I used to browse videos and end up in unexpected places. That is no longer possible, i get only related videos that are either sponsored, older videos i haven't finished and nothing else. I personally am not grumpy but am actually happy that I spend less time on YouTube. Slowly but surely I spend less and less time online and I see it as a good thing.
That is a pretty staggering amount of uncertainty. The US for example looks like it could be anywhere from 0.5% to 4.5%. That is something I would like to know with more certainty before undertaking any major public policies.

From a simple triage standpoint it would seem that focusing on developing economies would hold the most promise. China and India are the likely leaders and given the population and current state of development could get much worse.
If you use macOS, Safari since Mountain Lion has consistently hit all three of those checkboxes for me, you might want to consider giving it a shot.
Surprised but glad it didn't explode after it fell over. Apparently they plan to use it for internal projects, which I took to mean the in-flight abort test of the Dragon.

I seem to recall that the Block 5 is targeting >10 reuses so even if they flub 1 in 20 landings going forward that's far from the end of the world in ROI terms.
If you want proof as to how taboo climate science skepticism has become, look at how quickly (less than ten minutes) my sourced, rational comment in this thread was down voted and flagged.

Flagged! For skepticism!
> In exchange for the $30 an hour, you get a meaningless phone call from someone who works there every couple months and access to a terrible health plan.

And you no longer have to pay $9 of social security and medicare employer taxes, right?
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It's kind of ambiguous. Could be "products that (help people connect) and [that] (have a positive impact in the world)" or "products that help people (connect and have a positive impact in the world)."
Maybe he's already doing real research, and that stuff is a side "business" to allow him to continue to do so.
I tested the demo and it seems the associated javascript function to prompt someone to install a software is no longer present in Firefox (netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege).

I question the utility of having this delay behaviour by default, worst that can happen is you accidentally start a download AFAIK, which you can just quickly delete/cancel afterwards.

And, there's browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen too.

I much prefer Chrome's behaviour of starting the download and you instantly can see the filename and size in the bottom as soon as it starts and can then choose to either open it or show it in the file manager.
Have you considered the possibility that - if you don't have anything to offer them - you're doing them a disservice?

If you're not prepared to offer money, connections, collaboration, or anything of value, it sounds like you just want someone to validate your idea for free.

Beg them, I guess?
It amuses me, because a significant percentage of these consultants are foreign workers brought in for the explicit purpose of increasing supply and suppressing domestic wages. Now the domestic workers are fighting to improve the wages of the people brought there to hurt them.

I want to be clear I'm not intending to say anything negative about the domestic or foreign workers. It's just an amusing situation imo.
That doesn't do any summoning anyway, so please email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be sure to see it.
Excel also gives people the comfort that they can track what goes in and out and adjust easily.

Giving up that control is hard.
I actually negotiated my pay with the hiring manager. I have no idea what the agency was paid.

I got the invitation directly from the large company I was consulting for. They explained to me that they didn't work directly with freelancers; they had processes in place to prevent TVCs from being retroactively deemed FTEs (and compensated for withheld benefits). Therefore, they put me in touch with an agency whose only function was to hire freelancers as W2 employees and rent them back out to the company. I don't recall exactly: I think the agency's only client was the firm I was consulting for. They might have had 1 or 2 more. The whole we-only-exist-because-bureaucracy was pretty transparent.

Funny story: one of the TVC restrictions was that you could only be one for a year. (At the end of the year, you had to either convert to full-time or take 6 months off.) Partway through the year, my client decided they wanted to switch agencies. Thousands of us got an email that basically said "As of next week, you legally work for Other Agency. Your day-to-day work will be the same."
Let me explain: if you want to read your work email and access work files on your personal phone at most large companies, you need to install a mobile device management app like Lookout, Microsoft Intune, etc. These have deep spying permissions on your phone. Burners are just a phone without that.
FDIC is not just a dollar limit, but also per bank. Someone can have CDs from multiple banks, all in one account. Millions of FDIC insured money is easy these days.
I'm sorry, these are very specific projects. A lot of creative work on the server side.
My guess is that in terms of a time vs. money trade off, buying a new drive and shelving the old one is the preferred method of archiving. The maintenance required to convert all files to some compact format might be enough of a PITA (however minor), that it's simply more worth it to buy a new drive.
They are rebooting the .NET AOT story after the 3.0 release.

It was discussed during this week Connect(), on the ".NET today and tomorrow" Q&A session.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Connect/Microsoft-Connect--...

The video is not yet available though.
There’s actually another category: type reification WITH type erasure! https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language/blob/master/re... (search for default_of)

Well, kinda cheating since the language’s about inlining these away. But technically true...
This article is really funny. Reading things like employees comparing Zuck to Hitler was over the top but still funny. While the media circus in the US revolves around US elections, let us not forget about Facebook's role in the UN documented genocide in Myanmar or in the election of Rodrigo Duterte who ran death squads as Mayor and is killing people left and right.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/27/facebook-bans-military-m...

The comment on Sheryl Sandberg as an icon of the left is also funny because she's still a capitalist that leads an authoritarian organization. A real leftist would fight for democracy but that's the level of discourse we have in this country.
Identity politics ruined it. Even thematical subs.
10GB is an order of magnitude less than what GP referenced.. I don't mind being limited to having tens of games installed on a 500GB drive.
I have the same preoccupation about internal wifis at my past 2 employers.

Slack I always consider as something my employer can see freely.

For other means of communications, when I am on a company device and private network, I also have some paranoia that conversations are not private.
> With Google's mission to remove the URL from the browser...

What evidence is there for this? I searched and I couldn't find anything.

Is this[1] what you are referring to? Because that, in my opinion, is just a minor UI change -- not a fundamental shift in the browser experience, as you seem to imply.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/28/chrome-experiment-hides-se...
No doubt whatsoever. A lot of those "Facebook is listening to my conversation" claims come from the fact that they'll associate people based on network locations, IPs, etc.

For example: You're at your friends house with the Facebook app, your friend clicks on an ad for socks. The next day you start seeing ads for socks despite not having any sock-related activity. This is just an oversimplified example.
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Dude you do not know the laws in my jurisdiction. Get over yourself.
> “Again [it's] the female card that has caused so much damage in such a short time, not just at Facebook,” another poster wrote.

I don’t think I’ve ever read such a deeply toxic comment in my life. On the surface polite, but underneath such a corrupt worldview. Good on Sheryl for just surviving in an environment with people like that.
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It's easy to argue against! "None of those communications, including the ones to employees, were necessary in the first place."