skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assume we are starting with, IIRC, ballpark 14 billion years since the big bang.

Well, to get to life, we have to have chemical elements more than just the hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium that came directly from the big bang. So for carbon, oxygen, ..., iron, have to have some big stars form, burn, and explode.

So those galaxies from 12 billion years ago didn't have much time -- ballpark only 2 billion years -- to form the elements of the periodic table.

Coming at it from our end, IIRC our planet and solar system are about 5 billion years old.

Give it, after the big bang, 4 billion years to the periodic table and another 5 billion years for life. So, that's 9 billion years, 5 billion years ago.

So don't expect much in Little Green Men ET from more than 5 billion years ago.

Since we started 5 billion years ago, we are ballpark only second generation life in this universe.

Net, mostly what's in the Hubble deep field images is too old to have much in life (anything like ours). To have a shot at seeing life, don't look back more than ballpark 5 billion years.

Since stars are burning out and the universe is expanding, are we also about the last generation of life?

Yup, it's amazing to look back 12 billion years, to see galaxies already there, with quasars and, thus, likely supermassive black holes. Amazing to guess how such big black holes formed so soon. Lots more that's amazing. Still for life, only look back about 5 billion years.

Disclosure: I'm not an astronomer!
No, you can remain outside; the only requirement is that when you enter the U.S. in TN status, you do your TN work.
Starship is a technology that will enable the colonization of Mars, but also many other things such as large-near earth O'Neill Cylinders, manned exploration of the entire inner solar system, far more massive space telescopes at a fraction of today’s cost, high bandwidth low latency satellite communications all over the world.
Ah, cool! It’s fully possible I’ve been doing it wrong, or seen it done wrong, or at least that my experience is colored by older and less capable databases.
Relevant for you: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/
Forever employee spotted. Every company that uses Shopify instead of developing their own e-commerce site considers tech as a cost. Health care insurance companies are not interested in joining the advertising, SaaS, hardware tech biz. For them IT is a cost. A mandatory cost that supports the business in the same way legal and finance do. If you took away the insurance policies but only had IT, the business wouldn't exist.
Is it possible to sponsor EB3 for the remote employee outside of the US who I want to transfer to the US next year via L1? Any docs/articles that you can point me to?
I got a hard-anodised aluminium oven tray which was bent at the corner. These things are solid, no way it was bent in transit unless it was by heavy machinery - if you slammed it in a van door I think you'd just break the door. Contacted seller and arranged a discount but it was a pain to do and going through the Amazon systems seemed janky. It was a case where the product worked, it was really just aesthetics, but I wasn't paying full price for a [factory] damaged item. Saved some product miles at least.
Much like life at the top of Mt Everest. People go there for a few minutes at a time, but nobody can imagine living there.

I've argued, put a colony on top of Mt Everest first, as a kind of kindergarten step. If that works out for a year or so, then we've solves some of the problems of a colony on Mars.
Because Trump usually speaks in huge unpunctuated sentences? When did Steve jobs randomly say "Good genes, good genes" while explaining how good he is at nuclear
5% cash back by using an Amazon store card is one reason.
Until they regress because of SEO people trying to game the system.
That's not true. The Titanic was never competing for the Riband as it couldn't hope to compete with the Lusitania on speed. (That was made up for the movie.) The Lusitania was not a Hospital Ship, it was still a passenger ship at the time of its sinking. The Britanic, Titanic's sister ship, was a hospital ship that was sunk by a German mine in WWI. Maybe you're mixing the two up.
It's only a flop if you assume that collecting billions in government handouts wasn't the whole point in the first place.
Sounds like saying “the sands from beaches around Florida” to pluralize code to me. How much is a single code?
> redundancy against certain kinds of biosphere ending events

Self-sustaining Antarctic base would provide redundancy against many kinds of biosphere ending events.
> Why, at the government level, do we not look at best practices worldwide?

I've seriously been wondering why there isn't a field of study dedicated to comparing government policies across countries. I'm sure such a field of study exists, but I have no idea what the name of that field is - does that fall under public policy? Comparative politics? The fact that I can't put a name on it is the very problem as it shows the field (if it even exists) has very little influence on public policy (unlike say economics, which has the Council of Economic Advisors, CBO, BLS, Fed, U.S. treasury, etc).
The problem is political.

Corporations have way more money than the rest of is in politics for just this reason.

Because, as you say, at the end of the day companies will seek to lower their costs.
The function is non-negative on [-pi/4, pi/4], so you don't need any assumption about area meaning "signed area."

Your math is wrong on that problem. The integral of sin^2 over [-pi/4, pi/4] is (pi - 2)/4, which was one of the options. The functions sin^2 and cos^2 only have equal integrals over properly aligned quarter-cycles like [0, pi/2].
I honestly don't see why it matters, those platforms will become echo-chambers of people that don't want to nor are going to listen to your voice anyways. It is the equivalent of shouting in the dark, everyone thinks everyone else is listening to them, when the reality is everyone is just talking past each other thinking they are getting their point across. That is the problem, in the current environment no one wants to understand, they want to make their point. If those systems alienate a reasonably sized voice they will platform on another system and become an echo-chamber for the other side and that's the real problem is everyone thinks they are the majority opinion because they live in their echo-chamber.
I’m American, this is just my take on it.

I don’t think fish / fishes is quite right. Look up “code” in the dictionary and you get at least two different senses of the word:

1. System of substituting letters/words/symbols/etc. for letters/words/symbols/etc, e.g. “morse code”. Countable noun.

2. Computing program instructions. Uncountable noun.

This is not like fish / fishes, because “fish” is countable—I can have one fish or two fish. When talking about computer programming instructions, I cannot have one code or two codes, but I can have one line of code or two lines of code. Just like I cannot have a bowl of one thousand rice, but I can have a bowl of one thousand grains of rice. Rice is “uncountable” in the grammatical sense even though it seems like you should be able to count it.

In Indian english, my understanding is that for the second sense above, “codes” is correct and “code” is incorrect. In that sense it is probably similar to “data”, in the historical usage where “data” was plural (in modern usage, “data” is often considered singular).

So, “The codes are on my hard drive.” makes sense to Indian english speakers, and “The data are on my hard drive.” makes sense in historical (say, early 20th-century) English. There is a singular version of data, “datum”, but rarely used.
I'm older too. Maybe the issue is if the central premise is vapourware or components/add-on features So maybe if the author automated the metadata collection, ran some filtering on it and then had a fitness pro sanity check the results? I agree that this oft-recommended "idea validation" process sounds a lot like this scene from Silicon Valley, without the clarification at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1QPXyebhiY&t=8m26s
It's ridiculously expensive and many large scale deployments have consulting arrangements because of that very reason you shared.
great points.

we can start with the things that we agree on. racism for example is a rather obvious one (although there will still be differences about what that means).

and with the tools, how to have a calm discussion and the related aspects that you mention. those things are learnable. learning how to communicate, how to listen to others, all that should be part of education
> come to my company and replace our 96-core SqlServer boxes with SQLite I'll pay you any salary you ask for.

I also had a server with 96 cores until we realized a developer had inadvertently made a query happen every time a scroll event fired... it was a nice chunk of chance saved.
Soo, several dozen out of 1600? Like .3% of their workforce?

Not sure this is newsworthy.
There's a tangent on this in Carlota Perez's Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Basically you get this phenomena of "two moneys" - rather than the economy acting as a monolithic entity, a new socioeconomic system grows up around the new fundamental technologies, and then goods/services/assets that are connected to the new economy (tech companies, programmer & data scientist salaries, Silicon Valley real estate, SV daycare prices) inflate rapidly while everything connected to the old economy remains stagnant. This sucks if you're trying to manage daily life in the new economy - you may be making $600K/year, but a crappy house is now $3M. It's pretty awesome if you're in the new economy but buying something from the old economy though. A new TV is about an hour of compensation for a mid-level Googler; a cruise to Antarctica is about a month's worth.

The usual outcome of this situation is something far worse than high inflation. Instead, you typically get a financial crisis, then war and conquest as the new technologies are applied to weaponry.
I have heard that too, but us it really a big deal to have 65KB+ keys these days?
ITT: triggered software developers who think their life is deserved because of meritocracy
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/opinion-analysis-court-re...

> Roberts then went on to the second step in the court’s inquiry. The Duke memorandum, he observed, concluded that DACA was illegal and should be terminated because it made DACA recipients eligible for benefits such as Social Security, Medicare and the ability to work legally in the United States. Roberts declined to weigh in on whether the Trump administration was correct in concluding that DACA was illegal

I suppose we are in limbo here
Thanks, this looks good feature wise. I am a bit concerned by the dated look of the site and screenshots. It is not cheap either, at $249. Fortunately, they have a trial so I can kick it around and see if it is worth it.
To the first part, I meant that the range of possible worlds is very broad. Resources aren't a limiting factor. Facebook could continue to do facebook regardless of financial burdens placed on them. If not, someone else can. This wasn't the case for most monopolies of the past. In the past, there was a real concern of "oops. We killed smelting. No more steel."

To the second part... I don't have full answers. I would like this scenario play out to a free media outcome. Decentralisation, and ideally, a lot of commercialisation too. More wikipedias, WWWs. Fewer FBs. Disintermediation. Commodification of bottlenecks like youtube has... owning the relationship between video maker and video watcher. The ideals that made the internet work in the first place.

That's not something a politician can give us though. No one decided that wikipedia or WWW would win. It happened. What I want from politicians is a laundry list:

(1) Trustbusting. The Facebook's acquisitions of whatsapp & IG should never have happened, for example. Youtube should be split from Google (and adwords from search... off topic).

Also, modern antitrust needs to recognize the economic realities of these businesses. This isn't a railroad monopoly or Bell. There are no capital costs and there is no major danger of harming the public interest by sinking the industry. Social media will exist whether or not FB is worth $1trn. That money does not represent "capital" in the productive capacity sense, it just represents earning potential.

(2) Different rules for giant companies. Rules should apply only to designated giant companies. The biggest problems are size related. Be explicitly skeptical of size. Data laws. Copyright enforcement. User content liability. Fairness requirements. etc. A normal regulator will enforce the monopolies which create the underlying problems. We need an explicitly "large company" set of rules, including tax rules.

(3) Much stronger fair use and public domain rules. A complete rethinking. Eg, if a politician gives an interview... this should be public domain or under extremely strong fair use protection.

This is another area where we need to consider modern economic realities. For said political interview, you could preserve most of the financial value (and incentive) with a copyright limited to one week.

(4) Non-consumer rights in regards to monopolies. If facebook, youtube or amazon ban you, this is a public matter. It's more akin to blackballing than "please leave this bar." Everyone needs protections from monopolies, especially non consumers. Once companies are in that size range, they need to

(5) Data use transparency laws. FB political advertising is an extreme example. Half the shit they do wouldn't stand the light of day. Some of it is borderline treason. Shine that light. Full data dumps of ads, targeting criteria, etc. Publish ad matching algorithms. Give the public access to everything the advertiser has access to...

... the list gets long.
I wouldn't generalize that to all western cultures. America, for sure -- that goes along with the superficial "How are you?" questions where nobody actually even wants an answer. Superficial politeness for the sake of superficial politeness, even if that means deceit, lies, and laying down groundwork for later disappointment.

But many places that would be considered poor form because you are setting up for disappointment later (when the truth comes out), and the thinking is "why would you do that to someone?". In those places, kids might be forced to say thank you, but not that they enjoyed it.
I've never understood the fascination with quantum key distribution in particular. QKD has no advantage over using normal public-key cryptography (PKC). Key distribution and encryption are solved problems when implemented correctly. QKD is an expensive, exotic, finicky, Rube Goldberg complicated way to do something that PKC has been doing just fine for decades.

If in an unforeseeable future, some PKC algorithms are broken by quantum computing, there are already drop-in replacement PKC algorithms that aren't broken by quantum computing, so we still don't need QKD.
I always keep this paper from NBER handy https://www.nber.org/papers/w24085, especially this chart: https://imgur.com/h8Fo8yx. Stocks are in fact held primarily by the wealthy.

This is a separate question though than whether they are also very important for retirement accounts. You are 100% right about that, even though middle-class retirement accounts represent a small share of the overall market.
I switched mainly to eBay a few years ago. No inventory commingling, and the users generally post seller reviews associated with the seller instead of on a generic product page.
Motivated Intruder – Red Teaming for Privacy
Just had something similar happen to myself a couple months ago -- bought some good condition used Galaxy Buds Plus (released 2020) sold by Amazon, received Galaxy Buds (Non-Plus, released 2019) inside Galaxy Buds Plus packaging. I had zero problem returning the item and getting a full refund, but I do wonder if the person who did this got away with it.
We should talk. It sounds like you'll have a good argument for a green card which then leads to citizenship. The question is which path to take in the short-term and the strength of your background likely would allow you to get an O-1 through your own company or another.
Yeah, since Foxconn isn't using it:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/12/21217060/foxconn-wisconsi...
Captivating documentary. Thanks to the author. Also thanks for staying consistent with pronunciation too. Surprised it would bother the Russian speakers so much at all. Oh, well, the designers back in Ukrainian SSR would not dare to name it in Ukrainian manner either.

There seems to be some unintended irony in the naming. There was a popular sedan car Moskvitch [1] (masculine for Moscow resident), and Zaporozhets [2] (masc. for resident of Zaporizhia in Russian). Both of these cities had resp. car factories. However, Kharkiv, had none, instead it had a tractor and tank factory... The product is literally out of the league, so is the name Kharkovchanka (fem. for resident of Kharkiv in Russian)

I'd guess the choice of masculine for a car name is in line with masc. for 'automobile' in Russian. Meanwhile, the feminine in this case is, perhaps, for fem. 'machine' in Russian. Just a guess.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskvitch_402

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets
The current zeitgiest is that taxes are Unamerican and tax evasion is American. Until that is fixed proposing solving problems with taxes is a pretty empty approach since people are happy to elect tax evaders to the highest office in the country and joyfully utilize services that are offered by companies that are famous for their tax evasion (Apple, Amazon, everyone honestly).

I think taxes aren't really a solution anyways - fines might be but taxes would hurt honest players just as much as dishonest ones. What they did is (AFAIK) illegal and needs to be punished, if it isn't then there is no incentive for them to correct their action.
Umm... 20$ an hour, meaning 3200$ a month, would be quite a nice salary in a lot of Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, ...). You get people with BAs or MAs in comp science who have been developers for 2-5 years.

While I'm sure some will say that 3.2k is ridiculous in country X, I personally met people in all of the above countries working for less while being more experienced.
Personally, what I miss is translucency! I'd really like to see translucent electronics make a comeback, it was always neat to see the inner workings.
People cite this as a reason so often, but is it really so hard to remember the number 32? The boiling point of water is something I think more people tend to forget, but no one ever cites that as a reason to use SI... It seems like the crux of the argument is just that the US drools and Europe rules and haha aren't Americans so stupid?

Fahrenheit is honestly more useful, because 0 is uncomfortably cold and 100 is uncomfortably hot. Trying to figure out what temperature I need a jacket or AC for in Centigrade requires a lot more memorization -- and it's something I deal with far more on a day to day basis...
The first astronauts will explore more of Mars in their first few days than rovers have done in 50 years.

Mars likely had life and we won’t be really sure of what kind and it’s history until we get boots on the ground. Robots are great for very limited tasks, but take decades and billions to design, build and deliver to do what a scientist can do in an afternoon. Right now we have one rover that bern failing to dig a hole fir nearly two years.
That's right, USCIS is starting to schedule in-person appointments again and it's first scheduling those whose appointments were cancelled.
Oh the memories...this was something similar, but just an innocent RESET ATA command.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mandrake-linux-9-2-kills-some-...
If nothing had been seen, the implications would have been spectacular.

Experiments worth doing are worth doing no matter the result.
It's often paid content and it's pushed to you I suppose.
It depends on whether your data is confidential as well... I have been known to send a full SQLite dump to a small app that needed a lot of local data.

You can store it in localStorage and read it making your reload be a lot smaller. If it's not in localStorage, you can just request a fresh copy of SQLite from us.
Do you have to pay tax in USA though?
This title is so misleading. I got to the end of the article and thought - wait this is it?!
LIquid: The soul of a new graph database, Part 1 Engineering
I suppose the irony is that, had it delivered on quality, it might have lived on as a high-end niche machine for Apple. But when the flaws in the acrylic started being reported, it seemed the emperor was not yet ready for his closeup....
Understanding the Effectiveness of Video Ad Measurement
Really not at all.
Charging the card and not yet shipping is a scam.
I agree with your take as what the article is really meaning.

I think what trips me is that the article is not expliciting these caveats either. I fail to find a good analogy, perhaps it would be like explaining how sitting around is bad for your health to an audience including wheelchair users.

Sure, it wouldn’t be a false statement, but you’d try to address the elephant in the room somehow. I just wish people don’t get weird advice ideas for depressed people in their life reading the post.
There are strong political incentives, when a party wants to run on a platform of reducing taxes, to create as strong of a negative association with taxes as possible.

Here are some ways you might seek to achieve this, which you may have seen before:

> Taxes would be as manual of a process as possible, even for simple cases where the government already possesses the information needed to file from your employer, your bank, and from stock exchanges. You'd do everything in your power to ensure automatic filing, where no human even actually needs to be in the loop to run the manual computations, doesn't exist, is structurally hard, and if possible, is never allowed.

> Allow and support predatory ecosystems of tax-preparation software or force people to hire accountants in order to navigate the complexity on their behalf - the more odious, expensive, and memorably bad these measures and systems are, the better.

> You'd exploit your lack of need for simplicity in the tax system to provide kickbacks to special interest groups in the form of targeted reduced taxes for those who supported your election, as well as creating myriad carve-outs and deductions for key voting blocs, perhaps manual laborers and farmers in swing states. This incidentally also makes taxes more complicated - a bonus.

The last issue of rewarding constituents is bipartisan, which is part of the reason why this is treated as a low priority issue for one party despite the status quo the other party enables being pretty obviously bad.
How about a web browser?

The Nytimes.com front page is 4.66 MB. A Quantum McEliece key is 8373911 bits (per wikipedia) or almost exactly 1MB. Therefore if my connection to Nytimes.com was over McEliece based TLS -- it would be a 21% bandwidth increase. I doubt I would notice.
Mobile app idea #79: Account Receivable Bot
If you do that, you'll never have to worry about getting scammed at Amazon again, since they'll probably close your account.