skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, actually, like, it's actually really intuitive I feel like:

From the perspective of an object accelerating, newtonian physics works totally intuitively. If you had a rocket that could accelerate at 1g indefinitely, you just go faster and faster and faster and you get to any destination you want (even far away!) pretty quickly. And it would be a rather comfortable trip! You'd have Earth-like gravity the whole way.

It's really only the observer's perspective that things get confusing. When an observer watches something accelerate, they see it never going faster than the speed of light, no matter how fast it "actually" goes.

The trick is time. Time for slow things passes faster than time for fast things. A clock on a very fast rocket ticks much more slowly than clocks on (relatively) stationary things. That's how the paradox is solved.

Let's say you wanted to visit the Andromeda galaxy, which is around 2,500,000 light years away. If you had a rocket that could travel at 1g indefinitely, you'd get there in a comfortable 29 years! However, observers on Earth would see the trip taking around 2,500,000 years.

If you'd like to play with these numbers yourself, feel free to check out this neat calculator (not made by me)

http://nathangeffen.webfactional.com/spacetravel/spacetravel...
This almost seems like a hit piece that’d be written by my rural Appalachia in-laws that cry out in amazement that I don’t get multiple acres and a water supply for a $500k property instead of a studio apartment and believe that everyone makes much more money just by moving to the city.
There is both the "interference pattern" on the target wall made by individual photons over time, which we can directly observe, and the interference of the photon's wavefunction with itself, which we cannot directly observe. I was referring to the former. We know the photon interferes with itself, via the wavefunction as you describe, but this interaction is entirely unobservable and invisible to us, and in that sense, we don't understand the ontological status of the wavefunction and what it's physical status is.
eBay is marketplace where sellers and buyers transact on their own terms - sellers set their own prices and buyers choose from multiple options to purchase things. Uber is not a marketplace - drivers do not set their own prices and riders cannot choose from multiple options when selecting a driver.

If Uber wants to be treated as a marketplace and sidestep this new law, it needs to make significant changes - if drivers are truly independent contractors they should be able to set their own prices at a minimum.
Except Uber doesn't dictate how you use the app, they set parameters on how you can use it. They also don't tell you that you HAVE to take all rides, but if you do not meet a quality bar or are abusing their product then they can kick you off it / revoke your access...

The only difference here is the payment. And to that end, if Outlook supported the ability to transfer money then it still wouldn't make Microsoft your employer...
> The more you look at the e-waste that is being generated and dumped (often in developing countries, or.. out of sight of most westerners) the more you realize that increasing repairability/re-use/longetivity of devices is important for the planet.

This is based on an assumption that making the device serviceable is actually going to help with this. I'm pretty sure that's just an assumption, mostly based on a hope that we can keep consuming like we do and somehow not wreck the planet if we just pick a phone with "fair" in its name.

> That's essentially whats happening with iphones, because Apple refuses to give customers the option to take their phones to reputable repair shops by prohibiting suppliers to sell to repair-shops, or in some cases using DRM to prevent repair.

Apple actually takes the old phones and is fairly good at recycling and/or refurbishing them. If you're going to toss your phone with that being the case, I somehow doubt you'd repair them either.

> Why do you assume that the phone has to be bulky? That's simply a lack of imagination on the part of designers..

I can imagine a phone that's also a horse and a vacuum cleaner, but it's not imagination that helps. Extra demands restrict options.
> A surprising amount of stuff, for example, came out of Chicago between the 80's and 90's.

The Dallas / Ft Worth area has a similar cluster story around early 3D gaming, thanks heavily to 3D Realms and then id Software. Companies like Ritual, Hipnotic, GOD Games, ION Storm, Gearbox. Then you also had Ensemble Studios, Terminal Reality and others in the area. DWANGO down in Houston was heavily built on what id Software did. Dozens of small indie companies spawned in the DFW area thanks to the foundation put down by some of those companies.

"Commercial real estate firm JLL found gaming companies are on the rise in North Texas. According to JLL, nine colleges offer gaming degree programs that help build a labor pool in North Texas. The firm counts 87 gaming companies in North Texas. That’s nearly a third of all gaming companies in Texas, which only trails California in the number of design and development studios."

"It used to be that Austin was the de facto answer for game development in Texas. But actually, Dallas has a rich history of game development companies going back to id Software," explained Bettner. "That spawned a bunch of studios in the area."

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Gaming-Gaining-Ground-in-No...
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I meant good enough for the business.
It is rare. The reason Uber and Lyft don’t have the same “work outside the network” problem that Wag / Airbnb does is because when you want a ride you want it now. If you had to wait for your “personal” driver to free up, you’d be waiting... or have to deal with scheduling in advance.

You schedule dog walks and lodging in advance, so it is quite tempting to cut the middle man out once you find what you like. Not so with transportation.
Ask HN: when to reach for Rust?
My point was that there's not an unlimited supply of low-skilled jobs. The fact that if you're qualified for one, you're qualified for another isn't really relevant when they can be very hard to find in some areas.
If you're a developer interested in Elixir, check out https://elixirforum.com. It is such an inclusive community and I find most people on there to be quite genuine!
Fake success is simply failure waiting to happen at best. At worst, it's fraud.
Because they make the rules, and they like to have their own office. Life isn't fair.
With fake memory mapping it would not access the same memory, but you'd still run the same code, right? So the timing/details of access may change a lot, but the profile of executed code would be still meaningful. For example, if you run a loop with range checks, and a loop without them, it doesn't matter what's happening in the loop, as long as it stays consistent between the runs - you can still tell things about the loop overhead.

Or did I miss something more nuanced?
Couldn’t your isp watch traffic to pull out SNI information?
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Does this not count as detection of an event horizon? Or is it just considered strong circumstantial evidence?

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
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An animation of the orbit as it is known right now: https://twitter.com/tony873004/status/1171917219485192192
It's not really random, the value of stock has more to do with popularity of stock than the data people like to analyze.

As long as people keep buying a stock, it's price will continue to go up. Same thing the other way.

Now also keep in mind I can sell stock and you buy it, and we can both make money as I bought my stock lower than you.
> I guess we do live in a post-truth era.

Lawyers and representatives have been making stretch arguments for the entities they represent for centuries. Did you really expect the company's legal group to not try and argue around this? Why do you think they have jobs?
My trust in most things is pretty much broken at this point.

Are you me?
It's almost as if it didn't matter how crucial the work you do is, and instead what you make is determined by how much leverage you have and perhaps in part by how close to the money you are.
"Place blame" has one definition. It is not used in the manner in which you earlier tried to accuse me of "placing blame". "Starve" on the other hand, is used in multiple ways, one of those actual definitions is to be deprived of resources. It does not always mean "dying of malnutrition".

I showed you multiple links that show evidence of teachers being deprived of resources, aka starving. If you can't accept that, then you are not arguing in good faith and I'm through trying to have a discussion with you. Please try to abide by HN guidelines in further discussions.
Err, that isn't a correct understanding of physics, I believe. The ship wouldn't need to reduce its output as it gets faster relative to some other object in the universe. It can happily keep accelerating at 9.8 m/s for as long as it likes (or has fuel). No passengers would get squashed.
How did you learn that?
Lyft and Uber put forward good faith proposals [1] to fix this...They did bring a lot of labor groups in on the last year and worked with the government for that.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-F...
A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java
I ambiguously said “words”, it’s true — but what I was referring to is precisely the moral deadening that this state of constant heightened emotion must bring about.
Another thing to point out: our 6% - 11% difference is already quite low. Netbricks [1] has a similar comparison between a Rust and a C network function (only the NF, driver in C in both cases) and they find 14% (LPM) to 20% (synthetic NF) difference.

Fun fact: we've a system where Rust is faster than C despite still using more instructions, so yeah, neither instructions nor cycles tell the whole story...

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~apanda/assets/papers/osdi1...
You have already started a political debate with your first comment, whether you wanted to or not.

But I just want to notice that you seem very willing to command other people's money based on the most casual of observations and lot of emotion. That will not lead to a good place, policy wise.
You’re ‘Raised Right’ When You’re Poor
It seems Wall Street is not all that worried about AB5.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER/

Looking at the 5 day stock trends, it seems up compared to last week.
You aren’t “clocked in” in to Target, McDonald’s and Walmart at the same time though. I imagine many of these drivers are marked “available” on lyft, Uber and probably some delivery stuff all at once.

I’ve always wondered what would happen if legislation required them all to open Go their API’s so drivers could use some “app to rule them all” that talks to lyft, Uber and more and helps them choose the best assignments....
So you can flag personal descriptions in an area as suspicious. I am part of a neighbourhod watch, and it is amazing how many people are flagged for pulling over to answer thier phone; for circling the block to find a parking spot; for using a public restroom but not buying anything.

This is not a good look for society when normal, legal behaviours are redefined as reasonable suspicion.
A majority of drivers are part-timers (80% in this study [1]) would lose their ability to work for side money...

Who are we really subsidizing here?

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/2/17924628/uber-drivers-make-hou... (FWIW, I don't agree with all the math on their earnings, but there are a lot of other reports out there on that)
There's been a bifurcation in employment: high-skilled and low-skilled employees are most in demand. The service industry is hurting for people. Hotels, restaurants, fast food places, etc. In fact, the NYTimes recent wrote about the hotel industry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/travel/hotel-jobs.html
That paper states that the accuracy could be as high as 95%. Apple has sold over a billion iOS devices with WiFi radios in them. I'll let you Google the base-rate fallacy for yourself, and decide if that risk is worth it.

Edit: make that over 2 billion

Edit: also, "proven secure" is impossible.
With the intimidation of a tech expert, the Ola Bini case hits a new low
Then they perma-book the conference room and use it as a de facto office.
I have set same policy to my kids one on teenage 16 and she is perfectly happy with keys-calls only phone used rarely
But having all high end features and enough freedom at home
But yet almost no social networks exposure by choice
Your life or death scenario is an edge case with its own special complexities which should not be lumped in with discussions of the vastly voluntary choices we can make.

Karen's and my 2019 FOSDEM keynote (and accompanying podcasts) discuss her struggles with the medical device industry and how those struggles relate to the larger set of choices related to technology that we make. This isn't an issue that lends itself well to short-form discussion. The issues are quite complex:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/full_software...

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/bradley-m-kuhn-ka...

http://faif.us/cast/2019/jan/13/0x60/

http://faif.us/cast/2019/feb/19/0x61/

http://faif.us/cast/2019/mar/12/0x62/

http://faif.us/cast/2019/mar/20/0x63/
Without going down the rabbit hole of Constitutional Law, I’ll just point out that there are folks on the Federal Supreme Court that disagree, in principle, that courts should be making laws.

That aside, if you think it’s a shallow criticism in this case, why do you think it required legislative action to have any effect? In other words, if this wasn’t legislation from the bench, ab5 is a noop.
Geometric mean over their "fastest measurement at the largest workload" data set actually shows that Rust is faster than C in this benchmark
Unsafe is purely a rust directive. It doesn’t affect LLVM IR output AFAIK
I though there was a word for that: arrogance, especially when mixed in with ignorance. I.e. that's both arrogant and ignorant. Not an idiom, but direct and clear. I'm afraid there's a trend of not calling things by their name because someone might take offense.
> For example can we use a space elevator to start higher/faster (or, I don't know, balloons? a catapult or railgun or something?), laser power delivery from the ground, so we don't have to carry all the fuel, and an orbiting way-station for refueling, etc.?

These methods will all help with the first 1% of your problem, getting off of the earth.

But you need so many orders of magnitude more energy to reach the kinds of velocity needed to get to another star in less than a million years. It's just an unfathomable amount of energy per kg. Put simply: if you can get to another star, getting off the planet is nothing.
Not to nitpick in your post, but for CA this would be at 30 hours for the benefit of healthcare. CA Industrial Relations still classifies 40 as full-time, so unclear on what benefits are tied to that
To me, this is a lot like someone a hundred years ago asking, "what other job on the planet allows children to work around heavy machinery for half an adult wage?".

No one here is saying that people shouldn't be able to drive for a rideshare company. We're saying that people who choose to do that should at least be paid a minimum wage for their time and given basic worker protections. If you oppose this kind of thing, you should probably also oppose minimum wage laws in general (which is a valid opinion).
Maybe doctors and lawyers just know better than to talk finances with outsiders.
Oh yeah, they 100% know of all the shit drivers do to get out of cancellation penalties on their end. My favorite is when I actually had to use the "driver is going the wrong way" option when I was looking at a map and had a driver decide to go north up a highway when I was very clearly south of even his starting point.
What if I told you that nobody is under any obligation to consider such an extreme opinion, without even an attempt at factual support?
The threat in 500 mln years is that all CO2 will be used in shells of see creatures. But considering how good we are at freeing more carbon this issue should be easy to fix.
> Mr. Snowden claims he began collecting files after James Clapper's testimony, but in fact he began 8 months earlier (third point in the Executive Summary, page iii).

I don't think I've ever heard a normal human refer to him as "Mr Snowden", and just for interest, what reason could you possibly have had to memorize this specifically cherrypicked reference?

Are you an Amazon FC Ambassador when you aren't attempting to defend your agency?
It very likely did cause harm:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1963031/pdf/brm...

https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/_WMS/publications/wm...
> I'm looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).

I just realized I have no real concept of how many stars there even are within, say, a 100 light year radius of our sun (I guess that's a more realistic thing to find out than the number of planets).

A quick search provided some estimates and they're kinda... disappointingly low, at around 20000 stars. That's a number where some "1% of 1% of 1%" kinda filter quickly ends up in a scenario where a planet fitting all our criteria might simply never be in reach. For something more "realistic" (I know, heh!) like 20 light years, there are only 150 solar systems. I've seen different numbers and have no idea how they're calculated but for the usual astronomic scales which quickly go into "billions" territory, it seems we're kinda stuck with a comparably small list of candidates.
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> from your payroll system

The payroll system is a 3rd party here. Which is pretty normal, there are a lot of different taxes and things that need to be tracked, and it's easier to let a specialist handle that.
This is an interesting read about the hotel industry. I don't think it disproves the idea though that there are people who want to low-skilled jobs who can't find them. For instance, from that article:

"The popular Mackinac Island in northern Michigan has only 500 year-round residents but approximately 3,000 jobs in the summer months. Delays on the approval for seasonal worker visas this year forced one resort to temporarily close its restaurant."

When it's their "season", they're probably hurting for staff, but when it's not, all those thousands of people are out of work and need to try to find a new job...
Uber and lyft have to dictate the price the end user pays. Nobody would use the service if they had to collect bids from a bunch of drivers each time they wanted to go somewhere. As a result they wouldn’t have an effective pool of customers needed to attract drivers.

I agree with others. These “gig economy” jobs are a different classification of worker that doesn’t currently exist. Dunno what the details should be but they aren’t quite contractors and they aren’t quite employees.

California could have taken the lead and helped define this new classification...
Uber doesn't tell drivers where to go or when, drivers are free to go whereever they like (but Uber does provide incentives and information on where demand is)

Uber regulates what cars are acceptable the same way an Ebay seller has to maintain some standards in their store. Similarly Ebay also verifies that you can even be a seller on their platform, just like Uber does with background checks, DMV checks, etc.

To your last point on subcontracting...I'm not even sure thats part of being a contractor or employee so its neither here nor there.
> There's an MVNO owned by the Canadian ISP tucows called Ting, I used them for my primary mobile service for some time (I would still but I wanted access to Verizon's 700 and 800 Mhz bands for better coverage at my residence so I switched). Anyhow last time I checked they've since added several awesome (and self configurable via their account dashboard) features like multi factor auth settings for # porting, comprehensive forwading options, port locking, locking a line to a sim or device, among other security related overlays to their service some assible via REST API, IIRC. They offer live, immediatly accessable by phone call, north american based (US/Canada), friendly, usually native english spreaking knowledgable support agents and start their minimum service tier pricing at $6/line/month with the ability to toggle (block) voice, sms and data services for each line. For < $90/yr you can configure a pretty secure dedicated line for 2FA.

Wow, I use this company for my elderly father for a resounding monthly bill of ~$7/8 for years and had no idea they were also Tucows.
Is this level of precision actually necessary in a well-maintained retail store?

I go to and use the Home Depot app in part because one can search for the aisle and section that any item is in for their particular store, and quickly find what they're looking for. The store near me is kept very well maintained, and the combination of aisle and section has never been wrong.

Attaching a radio beacon to a storage container or duct tape would be interesting, but it's just as useful to know that it should be in aisle 7 section 21, where I can go ahead and find it.
The reporting around this law is absurd.

Despite how it is covered, the law notably fails to do ANYTHING to help gig employees as it just codifies existing case law.

What this law does do is carve out exceptions in that case law so that gig employees have LESS protection.

This law could have been paired with other real protections for gig employees but that did not happen. No minimum wage guarantee extensions, no rights to organize, no improvements in access to the safety net...etc

How do people let our politicians get away with claiming they are protecting people with a bill that does nothing but erode those protections?
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This is a great explanation and should be displayed somewhere on the site.
Is there actually a "split"? I've always imagined it more like parallel strands that were always distinct but had overlaps. Like in the cat case, it's undetermined whether I'm on the cat dead or cat alive time-line because both are "overlapping" in the part of space-time where my brain is at the time of not knowing the cat's state. Then when I make a measurement, the two strands no longer overlap.

With Wigners friend there are also these two branches all along, but they overlap where the friend hasn't yet looked in the box, they then go apart in the part where the friend makes an observation, overlap where Wigner hasn't looked at his friend yet, but then they are distinct again where Wigner has looked at the friend's state. Similarly to how particles and light take all possible trajectories at the same time (path integral formulation), we could think that in the space-time places where the branches overlap, all compatible pasts are equally valid, at other space-time locations the particular strand extends back through the past to just one of the cat states, so the state seems collapsed, but the stand also led through the overlap area, so you remember the time where you didn't yet have the "which branch you're on" information.
Envoy has a proven track record in Mesh deployments, whereas in NGINX those primitives have to be built from scratch. On the other end, NGINX has proven track record as an Ingress Gateway and therefore it is the natural technology as an APIM solution.