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The presentation is nice, most of the parts are true, but the core part of the argument is dubious, closer to crackpotology than to science.

* The environment in the core of a neutros star is weird.: Yes

* There may be strange matter in the core of a neutron star(i.e. matter with a lot of strange quarks).: Looks like a posible assumptions. It make sense to avoid the Pauli exclusion principle transforming some down quarks to strange quarks.

* Strange matter is stable outside the core of a neutron star.: Very dubious. The calculation with quarks are very difficult, borderline imposible. We barely can calculate some properties of a proton or neutron or other particles with 2 or 3 quarks. I strongly think that without the high pressure it decays to normal matter.

* Strange matter is contagious and will convert normal matter to strange matter.: Very dubious, as before.

* Does saying "But then again, may be not." at 6:23 allows you to present a very dubious theory like settle science in an alarmist video?: No. It's important to distinguish clearly what parts have a overwhelming experimental and theoretical result, and what parts are almost baseless speculations. Mixing them is bad for science popularization.
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I think you're arguing against something I didn't say.
It’s hard to justify an investment that has both significant market and technical risk as a VC. SBIR is a great mechanism to help fund technical development when companies are too early for investors and too applied for academia.
>Calver side-steps this user bias.

Well, no, it just means users won't update at all, because every version could be breaking...
No offense to those who think that being watched while you work is a good thing, but it does surprise me how this topic has popped up multiple times in the past few weeks and how many HN'ers are on board with having someone(even their boss) watch them as they work.

I'll let my manager watch me as my work if I got paid in proportion to the amount of supposedly increased output. Oh, what's that you say pointy-haired boss? I won't be paid more for letting you spy on me? Oh, okay, FU then. I wouldn't even give an at's rass about "productivity" if it only serves the employer. Valuing productivity for its own sake doesn't seem like a healthy perspective to me.

In a way, I'm speaking from experience. I had a boss at one point that we all had to "watch out for" because he'd visit all the engineers every hour or so, look over our shoulders, and ask us for an update on what we were doing. We got a lot done, yet we were all underpaid and our work wasn't particularly valuable. I'm sure he got to go to his bosses and assure them of their ROI. (EDIT: lol, now I'm remembering how this same company wanted us to do standups, which gradually devolved into status updates for management)
Mark Lucovsky, one of the original Windows NT kernel developers, gave a talk called "Windows: A Software Engineering Odyssey" at USENIX 2000 talk with a lot of historical details about the Windows code history and development processes:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix-win2000/invitedt...
It sounds like you're describing the internal big data platform "Cosmos", something which has been made publicly-available as "Azure Data Lake Analytics" and which has no relationship to "CosmosDB" other than a similar name.
Wrong. I could tell you stories Buddy, you would not believe. I could complain, but this could easily backfire and could get me and people who benefited from SBIR grants, into trouble. So no, nothing happened and I just dreamed this up when I was smoked up.

I just submitted another SBIR application. Not a really happy about would I delivered in the application, but in the end, to use the words of two of my friends who got an SBIR I +II "It is not an open race". Unfortunately. So the other option is to get funded for the project is China. They shit you with money there if you bring tech.
"This license does not allow this Software to be used in a commercial context. Users wishing to use the Software in a commercial context should contact the copyright holder for an alternative licence.

It is further prohibited to use this Software or a substantial portion of it in a competition or a similar competetive event"

No thanks, you can keep your 150k lines of C++.
Yes, our first company (Ksplice) got an NSF SBIR Phase I.
We had bootstrapped the company, and the grant was definitely helpful!

(Having said that, the application process is pretty onerous and so are the bookkeeping/timetracking requirements.)
The standard actually has a definition of the range of permissible behavior for UB:

Permissible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment (with or without the issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic message).

However, an update to the standard made this definition non-binding. It is still in the standard, verbatim, but compiler writers have interpreted that to mean they can completely ignore it and build compilers whose behavior goes way outside the "permissible" range.

See https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/07/a-one-word-change-to-c-s...
can you elaborate on how those two things are related?
I have no problem with a person who doesn’t like to be touched saying so. It’s just good manners to respect people’s preferences. And it’s good manners to be attentive to people’s reactions and adjust accordingly. We should all try to respect each other’s boundaries.

But I object to people who insist that a common behavior is deviant, wrong, or offensive simply because they don’t like it. Social norms should not be dictated by an loud idiosyncratic minority with extreme adverse reactions to normal interactions.
Semver really isn't good for anything. Do you trust it so much you'd deploy patch increments to prod without tests? Minor increments?

I've said it before: software is too complex to be described by three numbers. Write tests and read the changelog. The version doesn't matter at all.
Yes, a so-called 'expert in valuing companies' who doesn't do any actual investing himself.
secretary is probably the biggest one
Education systems are designed to train people to be workers, not to be worker-owners of co-ops. There are a lot of skills required to start a co-operative company that people just don't tend to have. There is also a lack of financing options for worker co-operatives because financial institutions tend to view them as risky (even though they are I believe more successful on average than private corporations). Most co-ops are bootstrapped with funds raised by the members themselves.

So, in short, our economy is built around a dynamic where many people have very little and are therefore essentially forced to work for those who have a lot. The precarity of those who would benefit most from being part of a co-op is largely what prevents them from being in one. This precarity is a boon to the wealthy in society, who can benefit from having people compete in the labour market. Thus, no one with the means to change the circumstances -- such that co-ops are simpler to form -- would ever want to do so as it would hurt their position.
> It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are.

Presumably partly for this reason, a bunch of "new" drugs are minor modifications to some existing drug to secure a new patent and create a new branded product whose modest advantages over the old drug (if any) are inflated by the marketing machine into being some kind of revolutionary advance.
I teach it. Treat it as learning a new language where you’re also learning new attitudes.

If interested let me know and I’ll give you a free 20 min intro via zoom.
"Pros: Received an actual written response (months later) with detailed rejection reasons"

Yes, this may be indeed helpful. But many reviewers browse your application only. Let me phrase it this way: An idiot and google is a very dangerous combination. He gave an argument about costs and was basically two magnitudes off. And I explicitly wrote that is mass produced (10k units) this item would not cost 50k but 300-500 US$ per Unit. But yes, he googled it and found that a single unit with many features would cost 50k US$.
> You have a monopoly on the thing that wouldn't exist if you hadn't put in the money to research it,

My question was how expensive would drugs have to get before we could stop claiming they wouldn't exist otherwise. Is your answer infinity dollars?

> There is no "negotiate prices" with single payer, it's just regulating prices.

There's no "negotiate prices" with a single company having a patent/license to manufacture the drug either. Yet you were happy to count that under "market working as it should", but when people join together to bargain collectively (in the form of government), then the market is broken. How curious that the Market is only said to work when corporations have all the advantages and consumers have none.
Very rarely have I gotten deep enough into a project and not had to pop open the hood. How the lower level abstraction implements things is often important and often leaves you with no practical choice but to depend on implementation details. These are just unavoidable realities. “Hiding implementation details” is one of the great lies of abstraction.
If you are suggesting using Python is same as using JavaScript, you missed the point too.

In this case, JavaScript's syntax is very similar to Jsonnet. Or at least what is shown in the example can be accomplished in a very similar way. (maybe except anchors, which can be replaced by variables)
Hedging is like insurance against improbable events. Some people, though, have been known to commit insurance fraud.
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I'm looking for an app like https://heyfocus.com/ that has a bit more advanced capabilities.

Basically I'd like to be able to block a class of websites (reddit.com) all the time and then block another class of websites (netflix.com) from 7 am to 7 pm.

So I need the ability to have multiple blacklists of websites on different schedules. Does anyone know of a good app to accomplish this?
Huh? It is your contention that replacing our current system with...the court system would be less expensive?
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Np. One of the many nice things of having a website not laden with overwrought design and javascript (ironically). I updated the script to deal with keywords in the title as well, in my parent comment.
I specified subset, and it's from my experiences over the years.
The stock being down in the months after an IPO generally means the company raised on good terms as they were able to get more than market value for the equity they sold. That’s unrelated to whether it’s fundamentally a good company.
I don't think the statement "men and women are different" is bigoted. It's what comes after that statement that matters. But I understand that the statement itself can put some people on guard, because it is very frequently followed with, "therefore [insert stereotype/generalization/justification for ____]". What is the specific purpose that the difference, rather than the similarity, between men and women is being highlighted? If it's to discuss real verifiable biological differences, sure. If it's to use "biology" to speculate and extrapolate on issues that effect someone's life directly (i.e. being able to participate on an equal footing economically, politically, and socially) then I can see why people find it upsetting. It's the intention, not the phrase itself.

On the topic of the draft. Actually, the same people complaining about women being denied combat roles are the same people who think women should be included in the draft. There was a HackerNews thread on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19242191

To summarize, in 2016 an amendment to include women in the draft had broad support among Democrat and Republican leaders and women in both parties. However, it was fiercely opposed by conservative law makers, and ended up being stripped from the final bill in a procedural move.
Just as a data point, Ruby 2.3 is the version in the current Debian Stable (Stretch). Debian is currently in a release freeze with 2.5 in Buster, so it won't be this way for long.
Are they playing realistic (at least to some degree) simulators or just games like fortnite?
You need a large space open to attach the rocket to, and it has to be at the center of lift. You can't have one fuselage and put the rocket to the side, because then the balance would change drastically when you add the rocket, and you can't put the rocket under/in the fuselage because it's very large.
Unsure whether this one’s related, but there’s a similar scam run on https://airbnb.com.longterm-listing[.com] as well.

I got that one from a listing on OpenRent (UK private letting site), when I contacted them they tried to get me to book on “Airbnb” in order to view it and sent a bit.ly link that redirected to that phishing site. Add /rooms/586795 for the listing, it’s still up.
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So how do you stop bots from submitting fake data to sign up forms or trying to brute force password fields etc. on websites?
By over, I meant over and above, fwiw.

I think RPC is a dreadful network programming abstraction. Anything that makes you think it has the same QoS as local calls is just a trap, stuff that works in development and fails horribly in production. Errors, latency, timeouts, retries etc are first class concerns once you bring in the network, far more so than local.
I wouldn't be surprised if the stress that this kind of surveillance is inducing leads to lower productivity and less succesful projects overall -- a constant "North Korea" in your head might cause more depression, more overthinking and less creativity for finding solutions in the long term.
>is not a "waste of taxpayer money"

If the premise is that inefficient markets and long time horizons inhibit investments that provide a net-return, then why does it need continued taxpayer funding?
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reminds me of the beginning of e-commerce with all kinds of shady websites before amazon, paypal and now stripe came.

gumtree is probably the one who is going to have to reimburse all those people.
I am neither a lawyer nor experienced with anything serious, but accordingly to how copyright is often a relevant topic in this "everyone is creator" era I believe that to be derivative you need to change the purpose.

rewriting the parser to make a background image for a desktop could be derivative as being "artistic" is not anywhere near the intention of the original creation. So the picture could be MIT and the code the picture shows GPL.

In general how you use something is more relevant than how you produce something. A human translation with heavy restructuring of the code and improvements can be derivative (maybe) putting it inside a pipeline (be it a transpiler or a contractor) wouldn't.
> NYTimes is the main reason I've been on the search for some kind of feature for HN (addon? greasemonkey script? ANYTHING) to auto-hide articles based on domain or title matches. Does anyone have a solution?

You'll leave an orphaned article info table row with this approach but you can hide the article row itself with uBlock Origin procedural filters[1].

Add the following to 'My Filters':

news.ycombinator.com##table tr tr:has([href*="nytimes.com"])

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...
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Yeah, it was truly a power shift from landed aristocrats to bankers, merchants, and lawyers. Poor people more-or-less stayed poor. And think of it, the entire French Revolution juxtaposed with the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism.

I think you’re right. Progress is a marathon, every minute, every day. And it’s slow.
No, but I know two people who had SBIR I+II grants. Again, this is not an open race. The mathematical chances that you get it are 10%. The real chances as an not insider? Probably below 1%. But ask. What do you want to know.
They only revolutionized web development because web development had ignored half a century worth of PLT.

Again, it’s a great step forward, but largely a great step forward for a realm that was quite far behind. I don’t consider that to be revolutionary unless if you’re wearing blinders.
This program is great. Massively helpful if you have risky technology. It was our primary funding source for the first few years.
I don't know anything about the man or his success record, but as an academic he may not wish to be accused of conflict of interest by promoting companies where he has a personal financial stake.
It's a misnomer because it's not actually Linux (nor does it even wrap/include Linux in any way), just like how Wine isn't actually Windows (if it was Linux, then Microsoft is blatantly violating the GPL). Most charitably, it's less "Windows Subsystem for Linux" and more "Windows Subsystem for Programs Compiled for Linux".
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You have to press for the refund. Refunds usually cost money to issue, so they would avoid it unless necessary.
Yes. Absolutely. Not only that, but just living in accordance with their own preferences prepares them for future jobs, since future jobs are second-order effects of changing cultural preferences.

I didn't set out to work in software. I just did stuff that seemed fun on the computer and the rest of the world agreed that this was a thing we wanted to keep doing.

I'm a designer, and the rise of mobile devices as a replacement for the computer is illustrative of these changes. There are roles in a modern design team where "I don't know a damn thing about how desktops used to work – my default way of thinking is how this would work on an iPhone" is a cognitive feature as much as it's a shortcoming.

I expect this will be true of many things, AR/VR being one, mmorpg/highly-online-third-space being another. I feel old for only caring about offline singleplayer campaign. The next generation of game designers will mentally default to fortnight's group interaction model. In this way, deeply understanding fortnight etc is absolutely preparing kids for the future of not only gaming, but document authoring, telepresence, and who the hell knows what else.
Hey HN, we created Nanoblog because we wanted to keep our users up to date on our progress but found long-form blogging too time consuming. Nanoblog supports automatic posting from a buffer and crossposting to Twitter so it’s easy to write posts in batches.

We’d love for you to check it out, and give us any suggestions for improvements. Thanks!
Get a US Partner and give him 51%. Possible.
VCs invest other people's money, who want to see a clear path to profit. They can't afford to invest in long term risky bet like space or fusion energy. VC is not the right model for space investment. Nothing sad about it.

It's also hard to crowdsource a space venture. Government's funds such as DARPA's or billionaire's such as Elon Musk's or Bezos's, or Paul Allen's in this case, make more sense. So our best bet to advance science is to have science friendly government in place. That or inspire rich people to be interested in science.

As an exception, there are segments that receive substantial investment, such as small rocket launch. Many many companies emerged in recent years such as Rocket Lab, Firefly, Relativity, Vector, Astra. Investors clearly see the market in near term for small satellites.
Before <safe_language_of_the_day> came out people managed to shoot rockets to the moon...
Nice article, it would have been nice to add a word or two about manifold embedding though.
I am a bit surprised to hear that this is true in your common case. What problems are you usually solving and what tools are you usually using?
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and on top of that, there is a pervasive risk that a patient's provider (doctor or surgeon) may drop 'out of network' without any notice to patients. If you ever schedule surgery in the US then you need to confirm on the day of the surgery that all the attending doctors are still in network, meaning that your insurance will cover it.
Anecdote: I've found that developers tend to be more productive - as in producing higher quality code, in shorter periods of time - when the environment they're working in encourages shoulder-surfing - that is, we set up the physical environment such that developers are mostly in a circle, and should one wish to, one can easily swing ones chair around in a circle and see the groups activity on each screen.

This has its detractors - sure, unless you've worked this way, you might find it intrusive that any dev can shoulder-surf at any time - but after a few days it rapidly becomes clear that such a configuration encourages developer participation, and more particularly: honesty about what is going on.

Too many times, dev teams I've managed have been tripped up by the one guy who doesn't like to share anything and rather prefers to work privately without any oversight - well, those guys don't last long in an environment where everyones work is equally open for shoulder-surfing. And I have found, anecdotally, that the most productive devs really don't care if you shoulder-surf - and in fact those that openly invite it, are a net positive effect on the teams own morale. People really learn a lot faster, and are seemingly more motivated to share their work, when the cubicles are set up for observation and not privacy.

Just an anecdote, but I've seen this, effectively, in action over 3 decades now and its just something I insist is a great way to build a developer team. Those that resist it, usually don't have good reasons to do so, either ..
Have you tried Lineage OS?. It's an open source Android distribution, it doesn't include Google's proprietary stuff (Google Play services and such, even though you can include it if you really want to) and works surprisingly well.
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Admins and secretaries are largely indistinguishable beyond the reduction in some stupid tasks (now delegated to office managers or workplace resources).
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