skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the only thing that weighs twice as much; everything else does too.

I would imagine the atmospheric pressure would be the most noticeable consequence of this.

The article notes that the planet is substantially larger:

> K2-18b is very unlike our home world: It’s more than eight times the mass of Earth, which means it’s either an icy giant like Neptune or a rocky world with a thick, hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

And the Wikipedia article for "Super-Earth" mentions something relevant:

> a planet with 2 Earth-radii and 5 Earth-masses with a mean Earth-like core composition would imply that 1/200 of its mass would be in a H/He envelope, with an atmospheric pressure near to 2.0 GPa or 20,000 bar

For comparison, the atmosphere on Earth (sea level) is approximately 1 bar.

It looks like the apparent atmospheric pressure on such a planet might be similar to being approximately 200 kilometers below the surface of the ocean on Earth. For additional perspective, the Mariana trench is (I believe) the lowest point on the planet, and is only like 11 kilometers deep.

So I guess what I'm saying, is that the apparent doubling of one's weight would be an insignificant concern in the grand scheme of things.
> It's expensive to pay nearly double for a phone

Now you're just being dishonest. You know right well that a flag ship Android is near the same price.
Serious question - Do we have the capability to send human life there now?

Obviously its going to be a one way trip. And it would require a generational ship.

So could we build a ship that held 12 people initially, 6 couples, all who were allowed to have 2 children, so 24 people max, and could we load it with enough supplies to last over 100 years?

Even if the group that eventually arrived had no way to sustain life, and they just went there for a quick swim before dying... is it possible?
> It honestly doesn't seem likely that they'll change that anytime soon as I haven't heard a single person complain about storage in the last 3 years. While nobody felt that 8/16/32gb was enough.

I'm currently on a 64GB plan with 200GB iCloud subscription, but I share the plan with family. I'm almost at the point where I'll have to upgrade to the 2TB tier (at 3x the price), so I hope they introduce something in between.
Social media linked to increased risk of mental health problems
There are people working on the basic technology [0]. It's going to be quite a while before we visit nearby stars though. Even launching a probe that has a reasonable chance of successfully visiting (and communicating back to us!) this star system is probably not going to happen in the lifetime of anyone currently living.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
More interesting is what the people who will go to their local book store to buy it with cash will also buy, but we'll never know.
I know at least in some situations it goes like this:

A group of people have been living off the land for centuries. At some point a government comes in and takes the land from them to sell to a factory owner so the government can profit. With no land to farm, working at that factory becomes their best option. But the workers get abused. Women get raped. Their pay is stolen. Still they don’t have a better option. They try to unionize. The government police come in and kill the union leaders. The people keep working there because they have no better option. That does not mean the situation isn’t horrible.

It’s not enough to say they chose this job freely. A lot of coercion goes on. How prevalent is this stuff? I’m not sure. But don’t assume most sweatshop workers just decided this was best with no coercion. People like you and me aren’t paying much attention and a lot of bad stuff happens when we’re not looking. It doesn’t help that corporations benefit greatly from reduced labor prices and so the media and advertisers don’t want to talk about these issues.

Here’s a great documentary on some of these issues:
https://youtu.be/PxFwA-jw3X4
Neat, I didn't know Naughty Dog also used Allegro CL, in addition to Racket:

* "RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c

* "Functional mzScheme DSLs in Game Development"
(MzScheme was the name of the main PLT Scheme interpreter that was renamed Racket)
http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2011/functional-mzscheme...
accelerating at 1G to the mid point, then decelerating at 1g, will mean you’ll get there in about 15.8 ship years, or 115 earth years.

Spend twice as long on boats though (32 years) and you can do about 10,000 light years.
Did they research news media and social media?
Do you really need a citation for the common knowledge fact that teachers are one of the most low paid professions in America? Do you not know that many of them have to take up second jobs in order to pay their bills? You can read about that here, or by doing a Google search:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/06/...

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/repor...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/02/21/why-oakl...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/04/...

Did you miss the entire #ClearTheList campaign last month for when teachers started up school again? If so, the tl;dr is that teachers were having to ask their friends and family to buy school supplies for their classrooms because the teachers could not afford to do so themselves.

Amazon, ironically, created an entire section of their site for such lists. Does it not seem even a little bit of a problem to you that Amazon, one of the richest companies in the world, with some of the richest employees in the world, rather than using some of that wealth to help the teachers, actually created a service where Amazon actually profited off of the fact that these teachers needed assistance buying school supplies?
Its depressing that companies would rather ratchet up pay than give better vacation, family care packages, or flexible schedule / location policies.
>First, in my opinion distributed BEAM is mostly intended to run on a network which is fast and more reliable (such as local network). While in theory it can also work on a less reliable/slower network (e.g. geographically dispersed machines connected via Internet), in practice you might experience more frequent netsplits which could cause various problems, such as worse performance or less consistency.

This is exactly why I wasn't excited about LiveView[1]. It felt like a step backwards in terms of human-centric design. Another tool that makes us consider our network bars first and our life second.

In general, I'm kind of disappointed that Elixir isn't leading the way on decentralized and offline-first technology, but I guess it's a limitation of BEAM running on small/low-powered devices?

[1]: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Every retail trader I've talked to, wants to start with $1000 or less and make $300-$400 per day. Literally everyone. After they lose their 50th $1k, they still aim for the same. It's like an addiction to gambling.
I think the idea is that would impact more than just the politics, it would actually impact the rate of interest banks and others pay, so there is incentive to disregard the politics at least to some degree.
I’ve tried the Dragonfly on my phone and tablet and it was very unstable, and to my knowledge it was the only one to buy from friends who are far more knowledgeable on that than me.
Sadly, there has to be lots more that are undetected
impossible for me to have at home because i never have time to cook...
For the companies in question, the senior engineers making bigger contributions are earning $400k+.
How does this problem relate to the post topic at hand? I can’t find the connection between “Duo doesn’t support TOTP and security keys” and “Duo phone method bypass for $4/mo”.

(Incidentally, Duo does support OATH-TOTP and Yubikeys in native mode.)
In my experience, you have to make remote working a high priority in order for it to work well, otherwise remote employees end up treated as second-class citizen. People have to actually base their workflows around it, and not the office.
So I can understand if smaller companies can't accommodate it - after all a lot of business simply isn;t managed that well. Large ones definitely should.
I apologize for the slight against the C++ standard people.

I do like your comment about the ABI needing to be extended to improve FFI features. I feel that way too. Also think that a clean (non clunky) method for FFI is exactly what C has needed for a long time.
That's what wormholes are for...
It's amazing how people still believe government laws will protect them from spy agencies.

The CIA spied on the Senate and nothing happened.

Naive in the extreme. So naive its hard to believe the opinion is genuine and not Astro turf.
I wasn't taking an option. I just never got an offer from a public tech company. Not from a lack of trying - mind you!

I'm pretty confident if I was making 2-3x what I am now - I would stay with that. As it stands - I cannot afford to continue living in silicon valley on this current salary.
Notes on the Question – What Is a Startup?
It was an anonymous AMA, author specifically stated he was "inside" so not Doctorow
https://llogiq.github.io/2017/06/01/perf-pitfalls.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/second-edition/ch13-04...
For the clueless among us, is he suggesting that the Fed pay immensely profitable businesses money to borrow money from the Fed? Wouldn't that literally be saying "give tax payer money to incredibly profitable banks and organizations for no reason"?
Eccentricity is a measure of how elongated/oval shaped your orbit is, eccentricity of 0 means a circular orbit, 0.5 is "very elongated orbit" (that is coming relatively close to the sun, then going very far away, think deep space comets) 1 means a parabola escape trajectory, and anything higher than 1 means a very fast escape trajectory.

The fact its eccentricity is 3 means its going through the solar system extremely fast (relative to the orbits of other things at comparable distance), and is going to exit again after slingshotting around the sun, that means its origin is extremely likely to be extra-solar because we know of no real mechanism for a body to generate such extreme speed while originating from within the solar system.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Kepler_o...

In this image, red has an eccentricity of 0.7, green 1.0 and blue 1.7, the sun would be the focus. The the green and blue "orbits" never return, just like a parabola/hyperbola never curve into an ellipse, think of a graph like y=x^2.
> Number porting should require an SMS to the existing SIM with the ability to respond NO to cancel the process and flag the request as fraud (e.g. whoever made the request on the carrier side should be flagged, to fish out compromised support reps).

Better yet, a YES text should be required with a port
I decided to be mostly cash now rather than stocks. I just can not buy stocks when they are this high as I worry what is the upside. Stock markets fall the most as soon as we enter into a recession and they recover fast so I want to be prepared.

I am likely too soon though...
>Just curious, did you have the same feeling towards the many decades when law and finance new grads were making $200K-300K (and many still do)?

Yes. The difference (aside from the fact that this particular post is specifically about SV, not about law and finance) is that I have never seen lawyers, doctors, or even investment bankers (although yes I have seen Wolf of Wall Street) be so casual about the fact that their salaries are so high. In another comment in this thread, someone suggested that having an extra $5,000 disposable per month was not a lot of money. That is absurd to me, and I have never experienced any of my doctor or lawyer friends have that same attitude.
Bollocks. Once a crypto exchange is gone your money is gone.
Such returns would not be possible if they grew to a certain size. By closing the fund, they can keep it small enough to limit scaling issues.
People have been calling for a recession/big market correction since around 2012. At some point an analyst will be right and then they’ll hold the throne of “this analyst predicted the last recession... hear what they think now” until the cycle repeats itself again.

Those that have been around a while know this whole story plays out on a loop over and over and over :-)
I would assume if we can figure out accelerating to near the speed of light, we'd also be able to make a viable rotating spacecraft to use centripetal force to solve that problem.
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I'm not a new grad (I was one of those 'new grads' getting a high salary, but that was years ago), but thanks for being so dismissive based on my perceived age (which isn't even correct). Nice age-ism. If it's dicks you want to measure: in my career, I have personally been responsible for over $2 million in sales of contracts and helped another company implement a $1.5 million software implementation in half the planned time. I still don't think it was at all a meaningful contribution to society.

If you don't want to continue the discussion, that's fine by me.
- Yes, it's fixed. It's also a complicated function.

- A quantum mechanics wave function does not necessarily have a wave length or a frequency. It is a different concept from waves, although classical waves are a consequence of it.

- In QM all particles influence all of space. It is also too small an influence to make any difference.
Hi all, I made a dashboard to easily track prediction markets (via the PredictIt API) and news (via the Contextual News API) for all of the major candidates.

What it does:

-Easily see a graph of a candidate's chances (say Biden) of winning the presidency, nomination, IA, NH, SC, NV with some news

-You can add a graph of any market (something you can’t do on PredictIt’s current UI)

-Stack: Postgres, Express, Node, React-Redux, SemanticUI (React), ChartJS( React)

-You can also add any PredictIt market to any chart

-APIs used: PredictIt, Contextual News

-Works better on desktop but all functions can be accessed on mobile; give the first chart ~10-15 seconds to load and if still does not appear, refresh

NB: PredictIt Contracts are binary options that will mature to $1.00 if event occurs or $0.00 otherwise. Thus a contract trading at 35¢ can be thought of as a market consensus of roughly 35% probability of occurring.
Here's a possible solution to this problem. I'm still workshopping the idea, so feedback is welcome.

The review process must become more transparent. The reviewers and their assessment of the work must become public when the paper is accepted and published. This in itself will prevent some nefarious citation-begging.

In addition, some guidelines could be mandated concerning citations to be added or removed. For example, for each reference you want the author to include, you must explain why it should be included. Not just "this has been done before" but "the work you describe is similar to the work done on p.4 of [new ref.] but differs in X,Y and Z and is still novel because of invention/method A,B,C. Therefore, you build on their work and should cite them."

To the others in this thread: remember that peer review is often an iterative process and the authors and reviewers have multiple rounds of review in which the authors can choose not to implement some suggested changes, such as adding citations. This is often a small debate. The editor of the journal has the final say and can overrule the decisions of the reviewers (publish / reject) if there are good grounds to so.

Also a small note: the reviewers are selected by the journal editors based on expertise. That means, especially for smaller fields, that many prominent papers are written by the reviewers simply because they are the experts. It is easy to conclude that this leads to bad behavior but it is often the case that there simply are no other papers available with such specific details. Of course, this is not an excuse for malicious actors which are also rampant.
So, I make no claims as to its accuracy, I'm just putting this out as food for thought, but here's another possible metric:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
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I don't. Most free market thinkers aren't the GOP talking heads you see in the news. Those guys made their fortunes via regulatory capture, war and protectionism for the most part. Frankly it seems they have ridden that train into the ground the values of conservatives can only bend so far before voters start asking questions the politicians can't answer. Only socialism can provide the level of market control that the corporatists crave. Notice how firms got 'woke' all the sudden? Do you really think Pepsi is all about social justice?
What defines a recession? Contraction of business right? Not just inverted yeild curve.
thats why i choose to be an overnight failure. only takes a few minutes. super easy.
Eccentricity describes the shape of an orbit. 0 is perfectly circular. Between 0 and 1 is elliptical. 1 is parabolic. Above 1 is hyperbolic. So an eccentricity of 3.0 is hyperbolic, which means the object is of interstellar origin. (Picture the shape of a hyperbola in your mind. An object on that trajectory can't come back to the same point.)

With the uncertainties that come from fitting early observations, these numbers can change as more observations come in. At 1.07, it would still be possible that the final orbit turns out to not be hyperbolic. At 3.0, that's much less likely.

What makes this discovery exciting is that it would be the second object of interstellar origin that we've discovered in our own solar system (and both discoveries are fairly recent). That's a new class of object to be studied and presents an opportunity to learn something new. The fact that these two discoveries are temporally close suggests that we'll discover many more as our technology and technique improve.
I bought a pop socket and never looked back. I’m fine with large phones now, this one being my first. It was entirely unusable out of box.
If the goal is to seed life, why not send something already alive instead? Though I don't think we know what to send that would be a living colony still by the time it arrived, even if we knew how to send it exactly. And it'd probably just die when it arrived unless we get a much better idea of what's there already.

An artificial intelligence would likely be the best bet actually, but there's a bunch of challenges there we don't actually know how to solve either. Maybe in a few decades there will be fewer unknowns at least.
Just dropping in to say that “legislation from the bench” is a charged, shallow criticism that says nothing except about the critic’s own political philosophy. The fact is, courts have been legislating from the bench for as long as we have had courts, and before then — the U.S. inherited its judicial traditions from England, after all. California is a common law jurisdiction. The essence of common law is that courts create law in the course of issuing their holdings.
Google Reprimanded by Australian Electoral Commission over Investigation
This is my Alma mater (I am not a medicine). But I wasn't able to find the actual scientific article. I could not even find a press release from Goethe university, Frankfurt.
In SF that absolutely is a middle class house.
And you are also a founder of a fashion company which is even more about selling a temporary sense of worth than what Apple does.

How can you criticize Apple when you are doing the same thing?
Hey, I like that idea.

Maybe it implies that every interstellar mission is just an in-flight rescue mission.
One very positive thing I gleaned from T. Boone Pickens is the importance of share holder rights. As someone from the polar opposite side of the political spectrum, I feel that's one area where we'd find common ground.

I've always been curious how he felt about tech companies where the founders have disproportionate amount of power (relative to their holdings).
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But then the driver is at the mercy of the aggregator App. It's the same problem as working with Uber or Lyft directly, really.
Some caveats per Marina Koren https://twitter.com/marinakoren/status/1171873631808438273

1. This planet probably doesn’t have a solid surface

2. Being in the “habitable zone” doesn’t mean a planet is habitable

3. The detection is of water molecules, chances are the water only exists as vapour in the atmosphere of this small gas giant.

4. If you ask 10 astronomers about this you will get 11 opinions
Virgin Orbital are doing something similar - satellite launching from a 747.
You've led a fortunate life, if you've never had a phone utterly and completely destroyed or lost. Having the SIM ruined is a rough time.

I believe t-mobile has a nice requirement of being able to mark you number as "show up in the store and show your ID"
That's interesting in theory, but as far as I know our interstellar propulsion technology hasn't advanced significantly at all in the last 50+ years. You can't do theory in a vacuum forever. I'd argue that unless we launch an interstellar something, we're never going to see any technological advances in the field.
I believe the last 2 points because I don't believe that credible military personnel with long and distinguished careers, would tarnish their reputations terribly for no apparent gain, especially near the end of their lives.

Check out Philip J Corso or Robert Salas, but there are , many, many others who have blown the whistle including Walter Haut the public affairs officer during the Roswell crash (and recovery).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell

https://www.disclose.tv/capt-robert-salas-ufos-shut-down-nuc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Haut
Just an observation: half a century ago or so, things like that were possible; those shops would have employed people who could lead you to where the item was.

Said person would even have directed you to a competitor’s shop if they didn’t sell the article you’re looking for, and might even have done that if they did sell it, but didn’t have it in stock.
Number of results for "flounder" site:theguardian.com is 2,500, however "flounder" site:bbc.com returns just 81.

Clearly flounder is a hot social justice topic (if I follow your logic).

PS: flounder was just the first nonsense word I tried.
>This line of thinking can be used against almost any form of labor protections

If the government really care about worker well being then the government should directly help them, instead of using company as middleman. For example by providing universal health care or universal basic income.
Something like a Newton's cradle with different radii? One to deform on impact, another to take a sizable portion of the force?
This is regularization. Once that's solved, humans have no intrinsic advantage.
So long as you're carrying all the fuel on you, right? If I can launch 1000 auxiliaries that resupply you and a 1,000,000 auxiliaries to resupply the 1000 auxiliaries I can go up farther.
This is my solution as well since it lets me indirectly secure everything with a physical second factor and not worry about migrating things when changing phone numbers such as when moving countries but some services don't accept gvoice numbers.
Also assuming no acceleration or deceleration time in this made up impossible scenario. In the more likely scenario where we can get to a fraction of the speed of light using current technology we do have to account for both factors in both time and space probe weight.
Except when they are not.
https://www.history.com/news/ufo-sightings-speed-appearance-...