skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a physicist or even anything more than a bachelor's in anything - though this is my understanding.

Many depictions of the big bang show the entire universe - something which may not have a finite volume - collapsing to an entire point.

It might be more illustrative if you imagine when you look at one of those drawings that it is in fact "merely" depicting all of the space within a finite volume today collapsing to a particular point in the past corresponds to the big bang. Conversely, things arbitrarily close together in the big bang can be arbitrarily far away now. There is no "center" of the universe, it's more like the shriveled up balloon analogy. Draw a bunch of dots on a blown up balloon and let it deflate, everything gets closer together but no one point is the center. So it doesn't make sense to ask "where were we 12 billion years ago?" The answer is: closer to everything we can see.

This explanation corresponds to a universe whose shape has zero curvature or negative curvature. WMAP and other experiments have suggested the curvature of the universe is very close to zero, but even a slight deviation above or below has dramatically different implications.
Of course masters of their trade can create quality work by overseeing the process from end to end.

That doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity to divide up tasks, build assembly lines, and lower the job difficulty so it is accessible to more people.
Thanks for doing this, Peter.

My I-140 is approved and my wife has an EAD. Are there any restrictions that would prevent her from opening an LLC and getting paid for her freelance work through it?
Prefect: An open-source software workflow management system
California is building a high speed rail line. But there is an enormous amount of reflexive opposition from NIMBY's, Conservatives, and Libertarians. To tell you how bad it is there are 100 year old train tunnels between New York and New Jersey that must be replaced and Republicans have killed the projects to replace them _twice_ simply because they are rail projects and passenger rail is 'bad'
>So the only actual example I was able to google here was the last one: and I have to say, is that it?

125 examples (so far) of regular people losing their job or being threatened for thoughtcrime: https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404647160942598
Not my project but this was posted on HN a while ago. Looked really good, built in Go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421243
Websites connected to databases of aggregated professional critics works pretty well, for example metacritic.com.
This is a bit of a loaded question. It greatly depends on what kind of IDE you need. iOS/Mac apps Xcode, Android apps Android Studio, Web stuff vs-code, atom or anyone of another handful of apps. Each one has specific markets.
This must be an American thing. In Europe it's pretty rare to find tech companies that do whiteboard questions and/or leetcode. The usual standard is one meeting with HR and the head of engineering (and/or a senior engineer) that ask you: tell me about yourself, what do you think about OOP, distributed systems, how to scale servers, Solid principles and some common patterns. If any, they invite you to an on-site meeting with the team to see if the team likes you... and that's all.

I'm not talking about FAANG (because, honesty, 99.9% of us don't work/will never work for a FAANG. And this includes HN folks as well. So it's pretty useless to take FAANG as examples of anything).
The Hubble telescope is not a deep space probe being so close to earth and doesn't use the Deep Space Network to communicate.
I’d guess they don’t really realise the impact it has.
Par for the course in PHP
> The actual footage and pilot accounts are consistent with submarine launched weather balloons, halo artifacts on IRST systems, and similar banal explanations.

Consistent according to whom? And is that already a forgone conclusion?
Good point, I was speaking of European experience.

But still, here with a really fine train grid, the train is much less efficient due to the many stops and many changes you have to make to get somewhere :( It can take up to 2-3 times as much time to get somewhere by train than by car.
Isn't who owns the capability more important where it is based ?
I did this just a couple years ago when I found a Cube while traveling! https://i.imgur.com/H8UxYCj.jpg
Ask HN: What makes a project on an entry-level dev's resume stand out?
I'm a Poli Sci major getting a minor in CS (long story) and am curious what I can do project-wise to make them stand out from the crowd of simple CRUD to-do lists.

I'm currently working on a web app [0] to track my running data, but it has a long way to go and is frankly fairly useless at the moment.

[0] https://github.com/John123Allison/RunJS
> Just because you bought a cartridge with a binary and a license to execute that binary on a switch doesn’t mean you have the legal right to back it up and play it on your PC.

Do you in fact! As long as it is your cartridge and you backed it up yourself, you can legally emulate it. (You cannot use someone else's dump, nor can you share yours.)
People don't like Java for the same reasons they don't like Jira. It's all the culture surrounding it.
If someone is (a new student) taking fully-online classes abroad - why would traveling be a necessity?

It seems like the extra moving would erode any savings gained from not having locality matter?
Am I understanding it right that there’s only mobile clients for stoop? No web client? I don’t want to read newsletters on my phone :/.
> But how did the author get to the rest?

I would say:

- a recursively iterative process of compressing billions of dimensions down into a very small number (typically < 5), using mostly predictive heuristics (a highly sophisticated but often incredibly inaccurate process which is typically invisible to the one doing it, and usually observers as well)

- aggregation
Other side of the Moon would impose unnecessary communication complexities without much optical benefit. Earth-Sun L2 point is much better because Earth's shadow blocks most of heat from the Sun, plus the probe needs heat shield only on one side to block remains of heat from Sun, Earth and Moon.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Sun...
Yeah no doubt they can save money but no getting around the sheer amount of mass you need to move to maintain humans.
Sorry, I got my online Steves confused and meant Steve Sailer, not Pinker. For one, there aren't any professional journals for which Steve Sailer's ideas about race, IQ or the Holocaust would meet their standards. Second, doctors often get consent for case studies on their patients, and only give pertinent details like sex, age, or complicating medical conditions if absolutely necessary. Case studies are meant for professionals to peruse in an effort to better advance the field they practice in.

A personal blog where a psychiatrist divulges his patients' sexualities and relationship issues to pontificate about polyamorism with his laymen blog readers, including Steve Sailer, is not the same thing as a case study in a professional journal.
They served 20 people poorly and got 20 bad reviews. How is that brutal or petty?
no surprises here
it seems to be credential stuffing anyway, so unless you use the same password for every website (unfortunately lots of people do), you should be safe.
What I'm not getting about this is how you check cause and effect. How do you know bad reviews cause restaurants to stagnate? Call me crazy, but maybe restaurants stagnate is because they're bad. They also get bad reviews because they're bad and people might not go to the restaurant becaues it's bad. There's no explanation in this article of how this is overcome. Also, they're talking about 0-4 reviews and 5-10 reviews. I could imagine that's the sort of number of reviews that restaurants' family and friends could be leaving when a restaurant opens.
I am from Slovenia. We have had confusions with Slovakia, which is a source of a few jokes here, so just to disambuguate :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
Limited. It's permissible if you are truly just in the U.S. temporarily but the longer you are in the U.S., the less credible this is.
Please don't gut a working rare classic computer :(
>The weirdest part to me isn’t the concept of an advanced alien civilization visiting earth but rather the notion that they crash so god damn often which kinda undermines the whole “advanced” part or means that visitations are so ubiquitous that the law of large numbers comes into play that would make crashes actually likely.

...Maybe the uncomfortable truth is, after interstellar travel is achieved we'll just default back to fixing bugs in production.

But more on topic, I haven't heard anything that might be interpreted as a "manned" craft crashing since rosswell, so maybe a more fair comparison would be "how often do we crash random drones?"

Also, being easy to track assumes that whoever built it hasn't figured out any more advanced stealth tech given a 1000+ year head start on us. I think some of the pilot accounts reported active radar jamming when the objects were pinged, so I'll ignore arguments related to tracking until some new data surfaces.
More specifically, Priority Mail Express comes with a money back guarantee where any delay would entitle you to a refund on your shipping fees.
lots of people pretend they don't understand in this thread
Thank you for responding, I am genuinely curious how other people see the world.
I don't use RSS but I assume web based RSS reader executes automatically.
Interesting! I think I had heard that but I hadn't connected it to my subjective experience before. Cool to know that I may have been experiencing what was literally happening on a physiological level.
It is sometimes said of the 21st century that it is an era of customization.

If we take that notion as the gospel truth, there is no part of the computing stack that can survive as a stable, uniform standard, including the base architecture.

But computing as a whole is resilient to such changes. Having a special hardware instruction is a competitive advantage if it's used, but it tends to exist as implementation detail and doesn't carry the weight of an end-user feature. A chip design can target some subset of applications, but software fallbacks are expected, and software developers increasingly don't attempt to optimize to the hardware, making it a commodity.

In that light RISC-V arrives at a time where it's very unlikely to matter. A decreasing share of applications will need to look that deeply.
You could do a line or pool in 2019 for as little as $17 even slightly off-hours, fwiw. Your point remains well taken.
Now they do
That makes no sense for a satellite in orbit around the earth outside of the atmosphere. It would never point at the sun. The only issue is that the earth would periodically occlude the area of observation.
Yes, but let us not compare a 50k used Cessna to a 500k Cirrus?

They rely on a Continental that was developed in the 80s (so quite new) - but doN’t you still have to adjust the mixture manually (e.g., manually adjust the air to fuel ratio)?

I mean, the cool stuff you are describing can easily end up at 500k-2MM USD with a fully trained private pilot...
So did I! Did you work with Trevor, or Alessandro?
French here. I am really interested in why you find Europe attractive when India has some big tech hub in Bangalore, Singapore nearby and the US with a large Indian community. It seems to me that in every aspect Europe is less interesting than one of these choices
The G4 Cube was not Jobs' first cube computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube
> They conveniently forget the fact that such egalitarian viewpoints have more or less assured a stable 75 years in recent world history. Nearly a century of peace in large parts of the world - this has been a great achievement unprecedented in the last 500 years.

Isn't a large part of this from nuclear detente?
Since this option is obvious, perhaps it would be better to understand why they are doing this rather than posting an inane comment.
Planet gets new images every day.
and regarding the two third of Latino Americans?
A Game Dev's Reaction to the Xbox Showcase
Yes, great recommendation!
There's a bunch of these companies getting more traction right now.

Joby Aviation, Kitty Hawk Aero, Wisk, Terrafugia, Opener, Lillium, probably more.

Its already been mentioned here how regulated this industry is, and they aren't going to be able to pull the Uber model of asking for forgiveness instead of permission.

Guessing some consolidation is coming up.
This says half of all missions to Mars have failed.

https://astronomy.com/news/2018/11/a-brief-history-of-failed...

I guess my point is off world missions could have a lot of unknowns and a lot of failures. But no one really knows.
DeepMind’s AlignNet Learns Stable Object Representations Across Time
Now, what happens to the "conventional" in Paul Graham's independent-minded world?

Can you be independent-minded in the wrong way? What if you're not independent-minded enough, according to someone?
That's literally the job of a CIO/CTO - manage technical capability of the company.

If you have a bad CIO/CTO - you're screwed long term.
Pretty much every single switch game has already been dumped and will continue to be dumped and every single game +updates fits on a 5TB HDD. And I've never heard of any particular RCM vulnerable switch not being able to play specific switch games either.

So what you've said doesn't make much sense to me.
Our galaxy and that galaxy were already far away from each other 12 billion years ago, even if they started at the same place 13.8 billion years ago.
As an American, a significant influx of Americans into a country that offers cheap/free health care would significantly burden your health care systems. Americans eat bad diets, don't do great at exercising, and we rarely visit the doctor until our medical conditions are already critical (on average).

That said, there might be good opportunities for other OECD countries to take advantage of healthy and educated Americans who are fed up with our inability to affect political change for the better.
It might be observing the resize event?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/resi...
Try JetBrains. They feel snappier to me than VS Code. YMMV.
I don't understand who all these people are who are having bad experiences with Amazon. I only ever buy products that have the Prime label and have plenty of verified positive reviews. Stuff always arrives very quickly (often the next day), and I have literally never had a fake product mailed to me when I do this.

One time I bought a used product from Amazon and it was a little beat up but it still worked.

Another time I bought something that was clearly manufactured and sold from China, and sure enough it sucked, but I just returned it and it was no big deal.
It's probably not worth the cost. Even though the numbers would seem large to us, at their scale it's probably not.
> In compliance with the new ruling, GitHub is now relying on SCCs to establish necessary data protection for all

That means: "our last industry hack, Privacy Shield Framework, was shot down for the second time, making it dangerous for us. Now we use the even more dubious one, until it is shot down too"

more on SCCs gaps: https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/insights/gdpr-the-most-frequen...
You used example industries of legal and financial and even in those, passion and innovation are force multipliers. The domain-specific systems in these industries are every bit as ill-defined and open as software, it just looks very, very different. As a layperson to these industries, most people are only exposed to the pedestrian mainstream aspects, kind of like being exposed to only the teenager manning the Geek Squad desk and bringing them a WinPC to defrag to "speed up".

Dig not that many layers deep, and you'll expose the ill-defined and open systems in those industries. This is true nearly everywhere in nearly any human endeavor. This is why the Japanese kodawari concept (meticulous care in craftsmanship, design and service) is even feasible across an entire culture for centuries and counting. Once you really start caring about the customer, your entire center of gravity in your relationship with them changes, and you start stepping through the process through their eyes to anticipate their needs and empathize with how they likely feel through the process you set up for them to go through.

This is very different from the Western "attention to detail" concept. Personally for me, the Western concept has less of a connotation with focus upon caring and empathizing to "listen for" the details, and more upon a situational awareness to "watch for" the legalistic steps of a spelled-out procedure (perhaps rooted in an Industrial Age paradigm?).
Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass. I miss the workstations of yesteryear where you could do everything with just a serial console. Another example of technology actually getting worse over time.

Even hardware that is made to be run headless ("server-class") is hopelessly broken. They give you a proprietary graphical console that isn't even just a VNC server but has to be accessed with a web browser. And, if the server is more than a few years old, some deprecated, unsupported plugin like Java or .NET will be required. I have an old Dell R710 whose remote console I will never be able to access, because it only works with Java 6 (or so I'm told, I'm certainly never trying that; I wouldn't even know where to begin to try to set that shit up.)
Yes. Search "Medical mask" on Amazon. Lots of vague, enthusiastic 5-star reviews. Then read the 1-star reviews:

Link advertised as Medical Grade, CDC approved, CE certified but the box that the mask came in didn't have ANY of the advertised verbiage. On top of that, box had had non-sterile printed & non-CE (non certified). FRAUD advertisement!!

Ordered these believing they were medical masks as described on this page. What I received was clearly labeled "Non-Medical Masks" and had a different part number than the number listed here.

Ad said masks were made in USA. They are made in China.

I bought a medical mask and when opening the package it says NON-MEDICAL-MASK

I ordered these, because they said they were FDA approved. I received a different brand that is not.

Only the 1-star reviews matter.
Local TV Meteorologists Are a Secret Weapon in Fight Against the Climate Crisis
Imagine a form that is split into two sections, each of which has to be filled out and signed by a differemt person. The first person filling and signing will implicitly also sign the empty fields of the second person, and the second person will then change those fields to have actual values. The author of the form can specify which fields are allowed to be changed after which signature, and a validator would have to check that those constraints were observed.

EDIT: You may have come across forms with fields marked with something like “don’t fill out this field, it will be filled in by the clerk processing the form”. That’s one kind of use case.
Hi Peter, thank you for your time.
I accidentally ripped my certificate of naturalization in half. How much of a risk is it to keep the halves and not get a new one? New one was $555 last I checked; is there any reprocessing or is it just law of supply/demand?
What would be the point of a review if it had zero impact?
> if we were to see all phenomena in all their various shades our brains would explode when we try to combine or compare two or more phenomena as we do

Or you would achieve some level of enlightenment.
> The impression I have is that their business model is geared towards building one thing, learning one technology, and then exploiting it for as long as possible with minimal evolution.

Like 99% of business is run like this. So... It's hardly surprising.
Sadly I think that unconsciously for many Americans it means « less brown ppl », highly skilled or not
It's a joke. As is the story it is posted on. Enjoy.
It’s not clear to me that most of the drownings were related to inability to swim. If you dump a few hundred strong swimmers in water, unexpectedly and all very close together and panicking, then add that a bunch of them are kids (many of which may well hav been able to swim, ordinarily) then I’d expect a bunch of them to drown. Ever accidentally get in a little knot of people in the water? Makes it harder to swim. Now put some people under you and others trying to swim past you and wait where the hell is my ten-year-old and everyone’s screaming and tugging and pushing and your suit is wet and heavy... I don’t see how a large percentage of the passengers being unable to swim is necessary for a whole lot of them to drown.

[edit] more to the point, do you believe crowd-crush deaths occur because those crushed foolishly never learned to walk?
The idea was to just dip your perigee a bit into the atmosphere, use the aero surface to change inclination, but not loose enough speed to put you apogee into the atmosphere as well.

Voila, you are now in completely different orbit, one that a conventional spacecraft can't achieve due to the delta-v requirements an inclination change would require.

Also once you have don this, you can put your perigee above the atmosphere by a short OMS burn.
Show HN: 100% Staking Efficiency Decentralized SLA Contracts (DSLA Protocol)
Only place in the US I can think of that matches that is rural Alaska. Lots of little islands and communities where bushplanes are a primary transportation mode.

I remember seeing a row of houses built along a grassy strip that operated as a runway. Like their combined backyards were literally the airstrip.
For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable.

Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is the current Nintendo flagship console. Thankfully the Switch seems to be selling amazingly, which should mean Nintendo don't really care that much.

Another factor is that you will likely need a pretty beefy PC to play games in full speed, and compatible controllers.
What's going on with the Sanford-Lorton connection?
Stealth doesn't work like you think it does, stealth doesn't makes aircraft invisible to radar, it makes them practically invisible to radar targeting systems as in it lowers and changes their RCS enough to not be considered an aircraft by the system that tracks them.

And while their stealth tech might be much more advanced than ours, and provide true EMF absorption (as long as they have some sort of internal heatsinks because you can't break laws of thermodynamics) that tech wouldn't do you any good when you enter the earth's atmosphere you'll be lit like a christmas tree.
Policy question: do you support merit based immigration? Do you think this will benefit the tech industry and the economy?
Ok - maybe those hating me for the comment: FAA validation for my German license took a day and I got a plastic card license after 6 weeks with a preliminary one right away.

Changing ownership of a plane took me 6! weeks with the LBA.

I guess that there are potentially 10+% of all planes in Germany operated with an American N-registration (owned by a trust) because the maintenance overhead and paperwork headache is so much lower.

Imagine registering your German car with a German license plate in the US and setting up a German entity so you could pull that off - how big would the difference in pain have to be?
How would this catch this particular case, were you just put the same thing back in except one has a small "8 GB" sticker on it?
The railroad is centered around cargo. And the American freight rail industry is in fact pretty healthy and profitable, unlike passenger rail.

Now consider viewpoints like this Economist article: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/07/22/high-speed-rai... "America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it" and you get why passenger rail is discouraged.