skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who says that there was nothing before is spouting nonsense. Any honest scientist will tell you that we don't know what happened at the Big Bag, much less before it. The math of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces workout to a unified path as you reach Big Bang energies, but except for a split second after the event. That's because gravity has to be accounted for and we have zero idea what gravity is. Worse, we have two theories: one that says that gravity is transmitted by a particle (that we can never hope to test ) and one that says that it bends spacetime (that has no mechanism in the Standard Model). Until this is resolved, you can't make any statement about at or before the Big Bang.

On a side note: quantum physics seems to suggest that the universe abhors the idea of nothingness. Emptiness has a vacuum energy that generates particles from "nothing." It seems happy to let "something" happen as long as it happens in a way conserving opposite effects (spin, charge, etc). One idea is that a mirror anti-matter Big Bang "exploded in the opposite direction," which is the balance to this one. But, it will all be speculation until we can explain the Big Bang's behavior, itself.
If you have an app that is literally attacking you then you are probably compromised. Even with wayland technology to contain hostile apps is grossly insufficient for the use case.

I would be surprised if this weren't as true in 2030 as it is in 2020.

The OS with the best isolation primitives is probably Solaris. It would be hilarious if 2020 Solaris was still better than 2020 Linux.
Yeah, there is a pretty distinct line from Winnipeg to San Antonio, separating light from dark.

If you look at a population density map, it looks quite similar: http://dafi1637.blogspot.com/2017/10/united-states-populatio...

I think that explains the immediate effect. You can of course then wonder why the population is distributed that way, but I feel I've done enough here :)
They also tend to generate a ton of RF noise if not properly filtered.
I don't think a guy like Justin lacks conviction. Justin.tv required huge conviction. If you don't recall, it was founded in 2007 -- just prior to the financial crisis -- with the unique idea of allowing people to live stream on the internet. Today, live streaming is just a feature of Instagram, Facebook, and other major services. But in 2007, it was revolutionary. Twitch was the breakthrough, but it took four years of grinding to get there [1].

In the case of Atrium, I'm sure that the investors would have had plenty of board-level conversations about the potential trajectory of the company. The decision to shut down and return funds was likely endorsed by the investors, if not proposed by them, who would doubtless remain extremely keen to invest in whatever Justin comes up with next.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/justin-tv-shuts-down-to-le...
"The Adventure Zone" role-playing podcast set one of their seasons inside this zone, which gave an elegant narrative reason to remove cell-phones from the story.
Indeed they were. I had that exact setup. Overclocked the hell out of them. Unlike the 550 MHz someone else suggested, I'm 97.6% sure I only had them clocked at 450 MHz.
Some observations I'd like to share based on my experience journalling for the last 5 years.

* Brevity is important. With journalling, it is very tempting to go off on a rant. Feels good at the time but its usefulness declines rapidly with time. Short notes that encompass your state of mind or emotions or feelings with some context and timestamps go up in personal value with passage of time. I keep details and rants in my separate running log files.

* Summarize regularly. Every once a few months when you have down time, summarize your notes and make observations. My favorite bit is to find an old note with a sidenote/annotation and see how I look at the same things differently or still have the same mindset.

* Use timestamps. I have settled for a yyyymmdd-topic-title.txt for filenames. Contents in each file are stamped [yyyy-mm-dd] with optional time of the day. I have under 50 such files and they seem to encompass all facets of my life that I journal.

* Use plain text. Everything else will go away. I now use notational velocity/nvAlt with simplenotes sync for my topic wise notes (I also check in these files into a separate git repo folder for backup). I keep Deep insights and running lists in that git repo's wiki. I've recently also started keeping and checking in monthly yyyy-MMM.md files for a running log of thoughts. Helps maintaining a timeline to find recurring patterns. If some topic becomes worthy enough for sharing via a blog post, it gets its own markdown file that I can edit and customize for publishing.

* Reduce friction. I think this was the big one to overcome. By the time I would get to writing, I'd lose perspective or details to write. I now use a throwaway app (google keep) to write down my reaction, emotions or interesting facts as close to encountering them as possible. Then I can expand on them or discard them when I get time.
More numbers doesn't necessarily mean that it's more accessible though. I'm not trying to say that IRC is the most user friendly or accessible and I have no doubts Matrix wins on this front, but consider that the IRC server was just sitting there for years not getting that much attention, I only learned of its existence through Rust for instance. The switch to Matrix caused huge amounts of advertising for both the IRC server and the upcoming replacement and I saw articles and discussions on this way outside the normal Rust/Firefox/Mozilla circles, and it didn't just come at once either, as once Mozilla decided on Matrix as a replacement there was another set of articles hitting the rounds.

P.S. that post mentions internal engineering/ops teams switching from Slack to Matrix, that'd boost Matrix numbers if they weren't using IRC already. Perhaps that's an accessibility issue if Matrix was offering features that Slack had and IRC was missing.
also an hammer is simple, this does not extend to being useful for your job.

IRC is quirky and requires either a mentor to teach you the quirks or some study. this is not a deal breaker, as also email is in a similar situation and it works somehow there.
Indeed, Clio is absolutely crushing it. They closed a monster $250M round last September - and this is a company headquartered in Vancouver, not San Francisco, so the bar for raising that kind of money is truly up there.
I’ve been finding it increasingly difficult to find blog templates that don’t do infinite scrolling with no way to turn it off. It’s not impossible, and most blog themes still have an option to turn it off if they’re included, but I’ve noticed it’s increasingly difficult to find themes without it. It seems to be the cool thing to do. But for setting up a static blog using the template, it’s a non-starter. Plus for all the aforementioned reasons: CTRL+F, linking to content, following a link and then going back, SEO (although some do SSR — still this is a non-starter for a statically published blog that just generates the pages using the theme)...
More like an hour of a good lawyer time. Mine charges $350/hr. But your point stands. I don't see how his work could be done with "templates". Most of the time I pay him for contract reviews.
To expand on this, floating point works for 95% of programs. It is the 5% that needs exact accuracy/precision offered by arbitrary precision libraries. Most programs hardly exhaust the entire range of your typical floating point usage range. For example in a GUI you won't be able to easily tell the difference between 100% and 99.9999999% by eyeballing.
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Yup, it's pretty close: https://www.legalzoom.com/forms, https://www.legalzoom.com/attorneys/legal-documents-review.h...

RocketLawyer is even closer to that: https://www.rocketlawyer.com/legal-documents-forms.rl/
I've spent some time in the zone. There's cell phone service in a good bit of it, but it's not great.
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This tech won't be used for payment processing. It will be used for governments to get a decent idea where people are going while being able to track them if they switch to a new card.
I meant conviction with regard to Atrium. Was responding to the idea that he could've stuck it out and burnt through the money persisting as opposed to something new.
> what's the brightest thing the federal government is doing?

There's a cynical joke in there somewhere.
I chuckled..

and I live here...
> UTC would be great if it weren't for how everyone wants to think of E.G. 8AM or 9AM or whatever as a common start time

You mean people want to think about hours in a way that is useful to them where they live? Doesn't sound crazy.

If everyone moved to UTC you wouldn't solve any real problems. Sure, everyone in New York could get used to their day starting at noon or whatever (to what benefit?) but if you wanted to schedule a meeting with someone in spain (or california) you would still have to figure out the time change to make it a reasonable time for you both.

Any way you slice it, you're just pushing the problem around to different places.
Seems like a great argument for ensuring those are handled correctly, so you don't get bit by a maliciously named file.
I don't disagree with you, but as far as I'm aware the study was talking about "numeracy", not math.

From the Wikipedia article on "numeracy":

Fundamental (or rudimentary) numeracy skills include understanding of the real number line, time, measurement, and estimation.[3] Fundamental skills include basic skills (the ability to identify and understand numbers) and computational skills (the ability to perform simple arithmetical operations and compare numerical magnitudes).

More sophisticated numeracy skills include understanding of ratio concepts (notably fractions, proportions, percentages, and probabilities), and knowing when and how to perform multistep operations.[3] Two categories of skills are included at the higher levels: the analytical skills (the ability to understand numerical information, such as required to interpret graphs and charts) and the statistical skills (the ability to apply higher probabilistic and statistical computation, such as conditional probabilities).

A variety of tests have been developed for assessing numeracy and health numeracy.

That's just basic arithmetic, not any of the heavy math that you described. I'd argue that for a lot of CRUD apps, numeracy as a skill is quite important - though that's not relevant to the topic of picking up programming languages/concepts.
It could potentially be used to prevent people boarding without a ticket.
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In most places you get a reusable NFC card.
What is it if you exclude the elderly and very young?
The internship I was assigned in college was a local junkmail mill. I was supposed to sign an NDA at some point but never did. Apparently they were able to use FOIA requests targeted at localities to get a lot of information for mail campaign targeting that all got put in a big database. Seemed a little sketchy.
The information that seems to be lacking on a number of these resources is rate of change. While cumulative numbers are useful, rate of change date would provide a better picture of what’s going on. You would also want to have control of the reporting period (day, week, month).
That would make sense, that and it is talking about the past more than the present in many ways.
The way you use data is taken in to consideration by the law. If I take a photo outside and you happen to be in it then thats legal. If I follow you around every day with a camera pointed at you then its not legal anymore even though its the same data.
If you actually care about an actual threat, yes, that would be awesome. My point is that the most vocal advocates aren't that, that they want restrictions on fossil fuels regardless of AGW and this is just the latest pretense, so they have to demonize any easy way out.
I believe Ray Dalio when he says it's the end of the long term debt cycle and like 1937 again.

I actually think the Fed is kind of happy to have a virus as cover for this move.
>Lots of data sets would be significantly less valuable, and lots of industry standard analyses unachievable with those identifiers out of the picture.

I'm fine with this.

>As long as there is no Personally Identifiable Information (which, no, metadata, location history, medical claims, transaction details, don't count).

Currently. Hopefully the stroke of a pen will eventually change this, and soon.
I recognize that my position is uncommon, but I am in favor of what I call "2-DST" (two minus DST), a position which recognizes that DST is fundamentally backwards. Fewer daylight hours in the winter means we should turn the clocks forward in the winter, not the summer!

"2-DST" is permanent daylight savings, except we additionally set the clocks an hour forward for the winter (just like we do now, in March).

More opportunity for sunlight. More outdoor activity in the evenings. Less electricity. Less crime. Better for most businesses and most people.
y, I use an automated tool to issue/renew them and all of mine that I checked were listed as OK.
Good too know. FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself - what good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.
I had never heard of this trick. I love it though. Reminds me of using a hole punch to make a double sided floppy disk from a cheaper priced single sided floppy.[0]

Of course there was the AMD multi-core CPUs that had some of the cores disabled via software and sold at cheaper prices. Of course there were software hacks available to re-enable those cores.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-sided_disk
I often click on stuff by position and not by text so moving stuff around is really bad for me.
that's a concept that reminds me of Roadside Picnic.
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Maybe it can also kill for-profit health care. A person can dream...
I was about to post the same question
But I have similar question would love to hear community opinion on this
We are 100,000 years overdue for a major upgrade to the information technology known as money.
That's a fascinating comment, thank you.

I personally suspect the engineering challenges might pale next to the challenges of political organization.

Quite simply, the continued human expertise and organization necessary to manage and sustain such a system is far, far beyond anything we have today.

We can't even manage to globally reduce CO2, and the recent government responses to coronavirus have led a lot to be desired, to say the least.

Just because you put people up in space habitats doesn't mean they become any less power-hungry, any more cooperative, or any more peaceful.

You say we'll have the engineering in 1,000 years, and I could buy that. But read Aristotle's Politics from 2,400 years ago, which is concerned mainly with political stability and revolution, and he might as well be describing people today.

I'd like to see us manage "spaceship earth" a helluva lot better before I have even the remotest faith we could manage space habitats politically. Heck, we couldn't even manage Biosphere 2, remember?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My guess would be that the land is not as conducive to farming west of that line, both in terms of soil and weather. So early settlements didn't occur there, and thus cities did not emerge from those areas.

The cities that did evolve in the West were based on different resources: ports around the ocean, mining, oil, railroad stops etc.
The law was based on Wirth's article, A Plea for Lean software, [1], which was discussed at [2]

[1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

[2]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8301511
There was a promise at the time (still active, I'm sure) that if your computer discovered a signal from ET, you would be listed as co-discoverer of alien life. I still remember watching the screensaver crunch through work units with the tiny but real hope that the data on my computer had that signal.

Even at the time, the prize seemed a little unearned, since all you had to do was click through an installer. But it was still an incentive. Probably the greatest lottery prize that's ever been offered.
You could immediately fund the CDC to "absurd" levels, such as by giving them say, 100 billion dollars. I think that would be far more effective than rate cuts which are likely far more "expensive" but won't actually help.

Though, I want to see the current CDC leadership out. They should not have silently removed their total tests done. The world needs to see their current incompetence as a lesson.
Wasting? God, this site is full of bubble-boy dolts.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for. We've had to ask you about this more than once already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just out of curiosity: there was a thread on Matrix, started by a dev of an alternate homeserver implementation[1] (also covered later by [2]). He pointed out (1) incomplete spec preventing 3rd party implementations, and forces reverse-enginerring of the reference (2) project/spec ownership problem.

I think (2) is already ironed out, but not sure how the protocol spec(1) is doing. How are community-based servers doing? I heard Matrix is intentionally putting implementation ahead of spec, which isn't exactly nice...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365968

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19417791
The US learned in 2016 that information is a tool of war. Defending oneself against the encroachment of zero privacy operators is going to have to be fought with information as well. Laws have no teeth, which will continue to be the case indefinitely due to Citizen's United.
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Ah man... it's just old enough to get a legal drink in the USA.
Can't wait for the post mortem
I always find these arguments kind of weird. Whether we turn or stop turning the clocks forwards/backwards doesn't mean we have to keep business hours the exact same, or even keep them static.

Must be a US thing, what with all its timezones. China has a single timezone, and doesn't observe DST. Do you think that means people in the extreme west of china have to wake up at the exact same time as people in Beijing?

In fact, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time), the Xinjiang region of China has two timezones used concurrently. I guess people just wake up twice: Once at 7am, and again at 7am two hours later :)

Anyway my point is, you could have the US go on a single timezone and stop observing DST. Ok, well, you don't have to open your business at 8am across the country… if your new TZ is based on Austin TX, you just open at 8am in Austin, 7am in NYC and 10am in LA.

Want to give your employees more daylight in winter? Shift business hours by an hour.
Why do you think it never pans out?
There are so many different variations that there is no way most other states do this.

For a good summary of how different states handle party registration and primaries checkout https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primar...
Their DNS system failed? How?! Unless DNS stands for “Do Not Sell”
Pretty light on information.
They'll also steal anything that isn't nailed down. Wheelbarrows, plump helmet roasts, you name it.
But it's a B2B SAAS and it's in the cloud with edge processing and probably AI.
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Is every bitcoin company run by ex cellphone store employees? Just the exchanges?
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Well, it used to be. Before they discovered headers...
Pretty ironic that he later came to call maximizing shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximiz...
Plus, the Chinese are most likely lying to "save face"
>3. Space habitats are more convenient and cheaper to move between than leaving or even entering a gravity well like Earth's.

I have always thought that this would be a much more efficient way of living off Earth. Sci-fi wants us to believe that we can teraform planets. All they ever talk about are the atmosphere generators. However, they never address the reason the planet didn't have an atmosphere to begin with. To me, the research into generating artificial magnetic shields is the place to be. Generating those fields the size of a planet will be orders of magnitude more difficult than for smaller sized ships.
What's needed is a large delta between the value of the work and the value of the currency. It's not a requirement that it be completely wasted computation, that's just how it happens to work right now.

Protein folding, where the value is speculative, cumulative, and difficult to cash out, is an excellent candidate. Especially since the ability to realize the value of a given fold is diminished by openly publishing it, which is a requirement of proof of work; the folding computation thus becomes a positive externality of the cryptocurrency, since everyone can use that knowledge as an economic stimulus.

I'd like to see someone try it.
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Wireguard doesn't respond at all (not SYN/ACK stuff) if not provided with a correctly signed packet.
This means you can't scan for wireguard ports without already being configured for them.
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They noted in the article they didn't spend all $75M and that they are returning some to investors. That was probably part of the decision to shut down quickly to get some money back to them.
Thank you for being responsive! That said, the language quoted by the parent doesn't appear to grant "ownership" as the parent implies, unless I'm missing something? Still, it'd be nice to have it clearly stated.

Secondly, do you know if there is a place for founders to find ToS like these? Or do you just copy them from providers with CC licenses? A while back there was a project with lawyers annotating legal licenses in a wiki/git that was a great idea.
Thank you for the kind words!

I like to say that anyone with a good old ThinkPad and an internet connection can mint fortunes and build empires :-)
templates for common cases make a lot of sense, but $300/mo isn't going to get anywhere for "all you can eat".

$300 might cover a simple contract review, maybe by volume you can cut that in half - so if you are talking 1-2 "tickets" a month, maybe you are covered. Sounds risky to me in a back-of-envelope way.

Of course, a bunch of people are trying variations of this idea.
Can we please change the title to "World's biggest meat company linked to 'brutal massacre' in Amazon rainforest"?

Since Amazon the company is one of the most commonly discussed topics on this site I think the extra word will help to avoid derailing the conversation.
By re-negotiating I mean in terms of quoting billable hours. A rule of thumb for a typical Postscript scraper was around 20 hours end to end (dev, testing, and integration into our workflow system).

The problem we have with a lot of client files is that they look fine but printers don't care about "look fine", they crash hard when they run out of virtual memory due to poor structure. And usually without a helpful error message, so that's more billable hours to diagnose. The most common culprit is workflows that develop single document PDFs then merge them resulting in thousands of similar and highly redundant subset fonts.