skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Football players are already compensated on a vastly unequal scale, much more than software, since the difference between a messi and a b league player might be more than anywhere found in programmers. Also football is a creative labor, as every moment poses a problem which is unique, and you have to solve it in real time.

If you or anyone can stock shelves 100x faster, and the skill wasn’t copiable easily, they would for sure earn a lot more than the average worker. Hell, they can patent it and earn royalties.
check out this teardown of the new 16" macbook pro: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Tea...

everything inside the chassis that isnt pcb, heatpipe, or fan is part of the battery pack. it takes up almost all the otherwise unused space inside the device. how would you design a battery door for this chassis that doesn't decrease the size of the battery or make the whole thing much bigger?
How do you design an e-voting platform?
For math arguments sake let's assume YC offers no value other than the cash?

Would you say such companies are worth more the $2M on average?
Some investors don’t want previous investors to exercise their pro-rata. Depends.
I'm not seeing it. Where's the leak?
Here's a video about the factory and sausage-making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWP32tCPv_w
If you are interested in the history of precision engineering. I can highly recommend the book titled "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World".[1]

It does into detail on how precision manufacturing was created from the beginnings of the industrial revolution until today. The book has some funny anocdotes from history, and despite being quite long i found it easy to read.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectioni...
It’s not quite as great as it used to be, but the provinces do have a history of changing corporation laws in their favour.

And often get their liability insurance paid for too.
Speaking as a recidivist greybeard, not sure why you'd think we'd have anything to do with something as callow and unproven as Javascript.
SQL isn't "a language". It's a family of incompatible dialects. The ISO standard costs hundreds of dollars, and nobody follows it anyway.

Or if there's a specific proprietary dialect we're supposed to compare GraphQL to, then name it. I've used a lot of them, and they all suck in some way or other. I bet we can come up with lots of awful issues with any of them.

Is this cheating? I feel like I'm attacking someone with both hands tied behind their back:

- All GraphQL implementations agree on how many bits an integer has

- All GraphQL implementations agree that null is not a string

- All GraphQL implementations agree that strings are UTF-8 (and that "UTF-8" means actual UTF-8 and not some BMP-only subset)

Interfaces with gratuitous incompatibilities are never good because of them. That's simply a method of vendor lock-in. "Best Viewed With ___" badges weren't indicators of technical quality, either.
Yeah there are concerns about methane being released from melting permafrost. I can't find information about how old the permafrost is - but my understanding is tens of thousands of years old. I also can't tell if the methane itself is old, or if the methane just forms rapidly with all this newly thawed rotting vegetation.

https://www.vox.com/2017/9/6/16062174/permafrost-melting

There's evidence of times in the distant past where climate has changed very quickly, but all those predate history. There are some that even predate humanity. Here's an interesting one from ~12k years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
> it should be smart enough to slowly charge all night

I have a Sony which does this (XZ1c, stock firmware)
It seems to me that the fundamental problem Facebook is dealing with is that it's one thing for a start up to create a product that basically flouts regulations but makes a great product. It's quite another thing to be a company the size of facebook and release a whitepaper saying "Hey guys! Let's flout regulations!".

It's a flaw in our current regulatory regime that companies that perform egregious exploitative practices in their infancy essentially grow out of accountability. But thinking you can use the same trick as an established company is nuts.

After they announced they were informed by governments that that won't be happening. So what we have left is they're committed to the idea because they announced it, but all the "frictionless" part is gone and they're going to have the KYC and money laundering checks as everyone else. Their only advantage is their existing customer base in an unrelated market - or to put it another way, can they illegally leverage their monopoly in social media to enter a new market. Great.
Not the best word choice. s/iconoclastic/singular/
The principle is: the universe has been fine-tuned in order to ensure that life arises.

1. The only forms of life that we know about are on a planet with plentiful water and carbon dioxide.

2. Planetary dynamics may favor the production of such planets by the evaporation of gas giants.

Ergo, the rules of planetary dynamics appear to favor habitats for life as we know it.

This appearance may be just an artifact of our limited survey of life in the universe, but it's all we have.
> End-to-end encryption is still a very challenging problem almost everywhere except for direct connection server-side TLS.

Is this the case with WhatsApp and Signal? Their implementations have been working great. Why can't email work the same way?

> There is plenty of evidence that actually interfering with email is in fact something that happens.

Please cite examples. I know Avast antivirus used to obnoxiously tamper with the emails sent by users in order to spam other people with its own advertising.
According to wikipedia, Venus' atmosphere is about 3.5% nitrogen and its pressure is about 91 atmospheres. So, technically Venus doesn't have a lack of nitrogen (it appears to have about 3 times as much as Earth), it has an extreme abundance of carbon dioxide.

Something interesting I didn't know is that apparently Venus has almost no plain oxygen.

Mars, on the other hand, doesn't have much nitrogen. Perhaps that's attributable to the relative lightness of N2, which would be more prone to float off into space than the somewhat heavier CO2.
In Fortran there aren't aliasing assumptions as in C, given that they are forbidden by the type system.
> Some graphql queries don't even hit the database.

Except in the sense that the SQL engine is itself part of a database server, that's easily true of SQL queries in an engine that employs FDWs (or, potentially, even store procs, depending on what I/O facilities are available to them), which can also reach to a vendor endpoint and fetch data transparently to the client.
Are those fees also present for transactions that are refunded immediately before they batch (i.e. testing). Let's say a stripe IP wasn't whitelisted on the server and started being denied coming back, causing transactions to fail. If I want to do a quick live environment test on this it now costs my client money, which is not ideal.
Great advice thank you. Where are you finding the spelt and whole wheat?
There's disagreement around whether "Wuhan Flu" is a good way to name the disease. There are arguments for and against it, but which argument people prefer is strongly (entirely?) correlated with their political commitment, so tossing a phrase like that into an HN comment is political flamebait.

Edit: here is an example of the sort of low-rent, repetitive thread that such things lead to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886052. Would you please stop feeding this here? It's the sort of thing this site is explicitly not for.
Covi 19 Wfhlj – High Paying Apple Affiliate Program Will Make You Income
Elixir/Phoenix developers will get a lot of mileage out of the ability to quickly collect and inspect stats like this. This is really great and solves ~50% of the use cases for an outside error monitoring service while also making debugging specific instances easier.
No experience or knowledge to share there, but they're owned by PayPal, so I'd ask around to see if they're any different.
Yep, that's a fair assessment.

If you want ultra-simplicity and don't need clearsigned tokens (i.e. signed by a third party), you can get away with just using Branca. PASETO covers both use cases.
Found a successful company, but I suppose that is also "have a shit load of money".
Yeah, it seems like we have people with a lot of energy and even with some knowledge but without overall organization, those resources go to waste.

And altogether, we suffering, people are dying, through the lack of coherent, overall planning. The problem is a lot of institutions and processes are oriented to the Federal Government providing this overall leadership and the last few years of "starve the beast" policy making has degraded the Feds as a directing force, with the domination of polarizing ideology just icing on the cake.

State have had cobble together their own ad-hoc response, hobble by not expect this and also by not knowing what legal authority they're acting on.
Is there a public log of comments and users that have been banned under this policy?

Just looking at the comments you responded to in those searches, they all seem to slant one direction -- stating that HN overmoderates anti-VC rhetoric. I can't find a single person on the other side complaining, so it seems to just prove exactly what I was saying earlier.

Can you find a single example in your moderation history where you called out an anti-Democratic Socialist comment for flamebaiting? Or where you found someone deriding wage workers and their inability to climb the economic ladder? There are plenty of these comments on HN, at least as many as the opposite, and yet I can't find one comment in your history that responds to them.

Is it possible that your political bias is affecting your moderation? Have you become the very thing you sought to destroy?
I think the position sounds valid but it misses the point.

Perhaps a more interesting discussion would be, why don’t more services use SQL as an API standard?

Maybe it being better or worse doesn’t matter?
> I don't think anyone claims that nuclear is safer than solar

This branch of the comment thread started because
arcticbull claimed, with two separate sources, that nuclear is safer than solar.

The major examples of nuclear being less safe than solar involve invoking nuclear plants designed in 1967 (Fukushima) and 1972 (Chernobyl). At the dawn of the nuclear industry [0].

People are claiming that nuclear is safer than solar and they are accompanied by statistical evidence that nuclear is absurdly safe. The evidence is also considerable that by 1975 they'd figured out how to design a safe reactor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_power_history.svg
Would you mind sharing which company?

It'd be nice to have a place where companies which are struggling right now can post ads.
Riseup.net has a fairly extensive discussion:

https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security

FSF is a bit more to the point for the casual user:

* https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

It is not always clear to the casual user if they are using gpg1 or gpg2. You pretty much always want to use gpg2. This is a genuine issue with the gpg ecosystem.
Open Source Coronavirus (Covid-19) Dashboard
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. These threads are all the same and we're trying to avoid endless, angry repetition here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Principles of Programming Languages – Lectures – Matthias Felleisen
Maxim's MAX038 (no relation with the 8038), a single chip analog multi waveform generator that goes from 0.1Hz to 20 MHz. Maxim discontinued it in the early 2000s but never replaced it.

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/analog/clock-gen...
Terminal servers were a good idea back in the 90s. All that is old is new again.
His point is accurate if you include asians as a minority group. I suspect you're talking specifically about black people.
Yeah, all the bluetooth headphones I know of have to be charged after a day or so of usage - I wouldn't call that fantastic.
You're right. A no investment incubator would kind of suck but there are pay to play incubators?! Reverse investing? Makes no sense, but your scenario would be better than that. Nothing wrong with a Harvard scholarship.
Device lifts sauce and maintains shape
Industrial machines with a 1% acceptance rate? We're talking about YC, not Startup School.
You appear to have not read this thread.

The point is about making encrypted email easier. PGP is not the answer, its tools are awful as stated in OP. SMIME can be the answer, but the paucity of CA for personal certs is an issue. That is what we are discussing in this thread.
these death rates come from published research if anything the death rates over across all age groups are even lower - this is a very common observation as initially most non-symptomatic are missed.

there is a very strong age dependence with this disease, and probably many other risk factors - predisposition to pneumonia etc.
Apparently a notification will show up when optimised charging is enabled. I’ve never seen it, because the functionality also requires Significant Locations and other location services (listed near the bottom of the page) to be enabled.

That seems to me to be quite unfriendly to privacy. And given that I always charge my phone overnight and use my phone’s alarm function, it could simply use that as the target time to finish charging to 100%. No complicated location-based ML needed.
I use this idea in embedded work, where the code is split into "modules". The same firmware source is shared amongst various differing pieces of hardware, each of which utilise a different subset of modules.
It says changes the default. Could this be chosen manually then. Can I set up the same behavior on High Sierra?
http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/api.html#horizontal-filtering-r...

But I still prefer Hasura GraphQL on top of Postgres
I created an Account just for this thread.

I spent time working as a Credit Analyst for an Economic Development Firm (AKA we made SBA 504 loans). I would like to note I am no longer in the industry, however I do have contacts still. I've spent some time on the phone discussing the program with current lenders.

The SBA does not just hand out money with no strings attached. The actual 504 loan program (general small business loans) have strict requirements that are adhered too. There are size constraints, business type constraints etc. and (some of) these constraints extend to the PPP. I can't say for certain but it is entirely possible this firm doesn't qualify.

As for the PPP, I believe the max loan amount is 2.5x monthly payroll. I can imagine that 200M burn rate is not purely salary. But safe to say they can apply for a maximum 500M. Is that an exorbitant amount of money for a firm with no revenue? Probably.

But in talks with those in the industry, the main concern is Construction Companies. In the markets I'm in, construction is still underway, so these companies are applying for PPP while still maintaining a constant revenue stream. They are essentially getting free employees for 2.5 months, while still being relatively unaffected. That will most likely change if the economy enters a larger downturn as construction is usually the first to go.
At the end of the first dot-com boom, there was a place in San Jose called Consolidated Office Supply which bought the furniture of failed dot-coms. They had a warehouse which covered an entire city block, full of used furniture. Looked like the warehouse from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I bought furniture there for something I was starting up. Very cheap, and they delivered.
I feel like this thread is tongue-in-cheek to make people realize that "run any query on the client side" is a terrible idea, and that's exactly what most GraphQL installations offer.

As a penetration tester though I like GraphQL, it's a very handy data exfiltration engine. By default, there's no authorization, no authentication, and it even comes with introspection. One query and I get your entire schema! This trendy movement will be far worse for data security than SQL injection, unsecured S3 buckets, or misconfigured NoSQL instances.
Believe it or not, but it has come up in a bunch of conversations with enterprise users! :)

Can you do everything you do with graphql, but also with sql?
There are a limited number of slots available for these sort of services. It would be great if everyone could utilize them, but since that’s not possible it seems the slots should go to people who can use them most. I’m guessing HN readers skew significantly younger and healthier than the average victim of coronavirus, so it would be a shame if a service like this prevented people who really need remote pickup options from using them.
It's light on details, but yes this is interesting. You are selling ease of use, so some user testimonials about their experience would help.
Yeah, I think you're right, I had trouble following the article.
Einstein wins again: Star orbits black hole just like GR predicts
Ask HN: What inspired you to learn maths?
I recall enjoying learning algebra at school and it seems like something I could find interesting again as an adult, but in order to persevere in something one needs an interest. What made you interested in maths? Were there any lectures or books you read that inspired you to dig deeper?
I skimmed through your homepage and I frankly have no idea what you do and who it is for. "International bank-to-bank payments" implies that it's some sort of service for banks.
The whole point of modern cryptography is to take all the oodles of rope to hang yourself with and hand it over to the cryptographers, to leave just the absolute minimum amount of rope with the application developers.

JWT is the opposite of that. It's essentially a reenactment of the bad parts of 90s crypto, including RSA and NONE ciphers.
I really appreciate this entire race frankly.

For a desktop computer even mid tier 3700X is now "good enough" even for someone with aspirations towards solid gaming.

On home use front CPUs seem to have outsprinted their usage cases.
This comment seems needlessly user-hostile, much like the same DRM you are railing against.
Wow, this looks amazing - I'm so jealous of the elixir / pheonix ecosystem! The built in telemetry is the killer feature IMO as generally one would have to use an external system such as NewRelic etc to get this info.

Awesome work by the folks behind it - now I just need a project idea for which I can try this out :)
Does this help with neck posture? My neck is bent forward quite a lot, but my back posture is fairly decent...

Also...I'm skeptical about these as I've heard they train your muscles to be lazy – the brace does lots of the work, so when you take it off old habits kick in because you're muscles can't do the same job the brace was doing.

But I guess the limit of 20–60 mins a day is to prevent that?
I don't think that's how you calculate it. You measure the Full Charge Capacity against what it's originally rated at. (What I've seen online is that the original capacity is 8790)

In your case, that'd be 8587/8790, or 97.7%.
During one of the last few hurricanes, Tesla did an OTA update that unlocked extra range for people trying to leave.

I seem to remember it being something like the hardware capacity is one number but there's a software upsell that you normally need to pay to unlock full capacity. But it may have also been a "we'll push the normal operating parameters to give you this extra boost", don't quite remember.
Hey there - would love to have a chat with you about some of the issues you're facing and make sure we're tracking accordingly.

Care flicking me an email at dalan@stripe.com or DMing @StripeAustralia?
In the geosciences there has been a bit of research in the past 10 years using Structure from Motion techniques on images collected from normal cameras suspended from balloons, if a drone isn't available.

Both of these papers discuss making 3D models of topography on the scale of a house and yard. You can also probably get colors mapped onto the surfaces.

(Note that I believe both use AgiSoft structure from motion software, which is probably expensive. I have no idea what the FOSS options are.)

[1]: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/10/5/...

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Micklethwaite/pu...
Not only API, mostly backend. Walking graphs is inherently more expensive, to avoid cycles, than walking tables. Graphs are only for lazy people which cannot remove their up and side links from their data.
It's called normalization for a reason
It appears that the two US companies with > 1 million employees are Wal-Mart and McDonald's (counting franchisees).

Obviously a lot of people don't like them, but it's not obvious to me that they would naturally break up into more focused parts.
> If founders say something along the lines of YC decides after term sheet, it basically means no.

Why would it basically mean no? It seems like the new policy makes the answer "Maybe, and there's no way to find out until a lead investor has signed on the dotted line".
Ask HN: How to create a company bank account during the quarantine?
Banks are closed. What do people suggest I use to open an account without going into a bank ?
A thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4059356
I tend to be a good writer and able to express specific feelings easily. Should I learn to code?
My first programming projects were scripts and modules for eggdrop. Every now and then I get a nostalgia flash. :) Surprisingly, some of those are still being used... 20 years after the last release.
Earth atmosphere is 0.04% CO2. Why does Earth have such little CO2? Is maybe used by life on early Earth?
It's a longer discussion than I have time for now, but in short: it creates ethically worse people (unnaturally selfish) without them being any more 'rational' (just as subject to biases as ever). And it creates worse societies, eg. the US. The two feed back and forward to each other, making for a downward spiral very hard to arrest.
On a related note, how do people pronounce the Intel 8088?

Eight oh eight eight? Eighty eighty eight?
>> It's not enough to hire and you just stay somewhere cheaper and commute into YC for the program.

As I understood it, the original intent was just to pay living expenses while doing the program and developing a minimum viable product. The intent was that the makers would own the company. It has strayed from that for better or worse.
It's pretty common, i heard realvision say traders make most of their money when crashes happen.
Look no further than OpenSSL and Windows SSL.

These libraries doing the crypto, often managed by the OS, are upgrading the TLS protocol and ciphers on the fly with most applications having no awareness of what's going on.
It's been really fun and inspiring to see what Stripe has done. Well done and well deserved!
I don't think there's any opportunity anymore. The market is super saturated, capital has dried up, and only insiders have a shot at funding. The cards are stacked against outsiders.

I've lost hope on the Silicon Valley dream and decided to just use my big brain to make money in public markets, which is surprisingly easy given how much effort the government puts into pumping up the stock market.

I used to think YC was great, I applied several times, but YC doesn't really represent what it used to anymore (to me at least).

Just my 2 cents.
That seems like an amazing deal. Can you drop a link to Shadow? That's such a vague name I don't have a lot to go on. I am interested to dig into the details of this deal. Is there some kind of Acceptable Use Policy or is it more like a pay-as-you-go VPS?
That seems pretty disingenuous given that the Great Depression was the lynchpin for World War 2 which directly resulted in the deaths of 75 million people.