skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I quickly did a back-of-envelope calculation using [0] for source of mass and diameter of the universe.

Then I used the formula given in [1]: r = (2 G M) / (c^2).

You have: (2 * G * 1.5 * 10^56 grams ) / (c^2)
You want: lightyears
* 2.3548373e+10

So about 23,548,373,000 ly of SR, while the radius of the observable universe is given as ~46,500,000,000 ly. So the ordinary-matter ratio is about half the density of a black hole. Not quite there, but still _much_ closer than I would have thought!

If we account for not just ordinary matter but dark matter (a ratio of 4.9% to 26.8%) the picture is different:

You have: (2 * G * (1.5 * 10^56 grams + (1.5/4.9*26.8) * 10^56 grams) ) / (c^2)
You want: lightyears
* 1.5234355e+11

So the SR then would be about 5 times larger. But I have no idea whether dark matter would count towards the black hole mass and SR, and I don't know if anyone does.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

(The scientific calculator I used, which is awesome every day is "units" btw: https://linux.die.net/man/1/units)
The 17 Year old making travel Germ Free
Currently implementing this pattern as we speak.
"in the NY Times, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Youtube"

One of these things is not like the others.
I work for a company that's about 30th in terms of H1B's. All around me, I see degreed engineers -- many with their Masters -- doing clerical work that a sharp high-school graduate could do. I'm not talking about a few. I'm talking about dozens. There's nothing about what they're doing that requires specific engineering knowledge. They only have to be conversant about what the actual engineers are doing. So the effect is 2-fold: the fact that his arrangement exists puts downward pressure on wages for the skilled jobs, but it also takes great opportunities away from people who would have gotten those jobs a few decades ago.
>Shutdown your servers? Wipe your SSDs and storage buckets? Remove your DNS records? Should it be permanent? If not then they're just subsidizing the costs. If it's soft-limit then its just a warning, and if you just want a warning then billing alarms already exist in every cloud.

You know. When I hit the storage limit of my SSD it doesn't wipe my data. It just ceases to store more data. When I rent a server for a fixed price and my service is under a DDOS attack then it will simply cease to work for the duration of the attack. If there is a variable service like lamba that charges per execution then lambda can simply cease to run my jobs.

You can neatly separate time based and usage based charges and set a limit for them separately. It doesn't even need to be a monetary limit, it could be a resource based limit. Every service would be limited to 0GB storage, 0GB RAM, 0 nodes, 0 queries, 0 api calls by default and you set the limit to whatever you want. AWS or Google Cloud could then calculate the maximum possible bill for the limits you have chosen. People will can then set their limits so that a surprise bill won't be significantly above their usual bill.

Your comment is lazy and not very creative. You're just throwing your hands up and pretending there is no other way even though cloud providers have created this situation for their own benefit.
FYI welding arcs do as well.

You can actually generate UV with very low voltage if you have the right semiconductors. That we regularly deal with tens/hundreds of volts without incident is quite astonishing.
Nothing very interesting but there's 3 replies I can see, you have to click on the body of the tweet to expand the replies, whereas clicking on the comments button starts your own reply.

Yeah, Twitter is terrible.
>In my experience most kitchens don't actually own them, they rent them with a maintenance and supply cost attached to them, which get very costly.

Most kitchens can neither in-house maintenance nor wash dished by hand (because health code) if the machine goes down. If you can in-house the maintenance and can afford to wash dishes by hand for a week while a new widget ships from China then commercial machines are cheap enough to own (up front cost not withstanding).
Let me explain how online events are like online sex
Is it a good decision by Trump administration?
The House Antitrust Report on Big Tech
A 3x capacity increase is huuuge but a >10x cost increase is prohibitive except for applications like aircraft.
That's how I remodeled my bathroom. I opted against materials that require grout lines, among other things. It looks boring and utilitarian but its a hell of a lot easier to clean.
> It's possibly to believe in God and think that God is too busy with the cosmos to be concerned with our tiny lives.

A counterpoint is this idea:

Imagine how much awe you feel on realising that the awesome scale of the universe is nothing to the even awesomer scale of God who can give personal attention to everyone's tiny lives throughout the entire universe!
Sorry, I have this one: http://www.swopperusa.com/swopper-classic-high/
Now this poses the question - if they made such security claims regarding the T2 chip, and if the T2 is effectively unsecure and unpatchable, are people who have devices with Apple T2 entitled to a refund, or at least compensation?

Didn't this become false advertising?
> At the same time, if a program

There's no "if" here.
Turn Google Docs in to a Website. That’s about It
We've put together a thing. You can build sites from your Google Docs. Works really well for Product Documentation atm, more templates in the works.
Future citizens don't vote today. Current citizens do. It's simple.
I think we're in agreement. What I meant by no practical implication was that if I'm an atheist and then I learn that there is in fact a God, but he's either too busy, limited, or otherwise uninterested in my life, then I can shrug off that information with no negative consequences. It doesn't matter to me if there's no God or if there's an uninvolved God, except as an academic question (ie no practical implication).

But if I'm an atheist and I learn that there's a God that cares about me or my behavior then I will likely have to change my lifestyle. Maybe I'll have to start praying, or giving charity, or stop stealing, or start dancing around a fire now and then so that the rain comes, or marry in a certain way, etc.

It's no surprise to me that the popular versions of God-belief out there describe a God that's very involved in Earthly affairs. Because otherwise, what's the point?
Didn’t Maxwell Technologies already announce a similar breakthrough a few years ago, and isn’t that why Tesla bought them?

Some patent lawyers are going to wake up to some good news today...
Tips on Implementing Observability
I can't mess it when I edit DOM and browser restores it as it was.

I may have <ul> in <p> (we had it in 1978), I may have <a> in <script> (and it works like comment), I may have <pre>\n and don't worry that it disappear each time I save document. I may have nested <script type="foo"> tags [1].

DOM supports it. XHTML supports it. HTML breaks my content on save-load.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/59548670/5554075
I've 2+ YOE. I'm interested in Distributed systems and functional programming. I like working in Scala.

Location: Mumbai, India.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Scala, Python, JS, Database.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PDplAiUW_OmxrnXTz6nnWyAXJA8...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thatyogeshgupta

Email: 07yogeshgupta@gmail.com
This is cool, but croc[1] offers the same interface, but with much, much lighter code and an overall better experience (and documentation). It's been posted to HN before[2].

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503077
Bathrooms need to look nice. Tile floors, walk-in showers, fancy sinks, these are all status symbols.

The maid cleans the bathroom anyhow.
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style site for durable/sustainable products
> but how much is "enough"

Indeed! My wife literally eats lemons like they were oranges. Probably something for us to look out for!
Is that it? I think it might be "no matter how many times we legalize torture, it will never become truly useful".

Studies show torture is simply not effective. Similar to how surveilling all communication is not effective.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/security-...
Sour orange pie is a thing though (tastes much like key lime pie).
>The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents.

This is the same argument that is used to justify slavery. You don't want to go there.
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
> plenty

Actually, just one, the desktop.

In virtually every other market, Linux is either dominating or has a firm share.
Running a Spore-inspired evolution sim for 7 days straight [video]
I got interested in how often the chemistry prize goes to biology/biochemistry.

2011: quasicrystals
→2012: G protein-coupled receptors
2013: modelling complex chemical systems
2014: super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
→2015: studies of DNA repair
2016: molecular machines
2017: cryo-electron microscopy for biomolecules
→2018: directed evolution of proteins
2019: lithium ion batteries
→2020: genome editing

So let's say 4 out of 10 (2012, 2015, 2018, 2020). My initial assumption that biology would dominate was wrong, and the chemistry prize seems to have been going to very diverse topics in chemistry.
We are facing record unemployment so people are having this happen to them across the board. The people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic but are struggling to find work because of the abundance of H-1B holders also "haven't done anything wrong".

The question now is do we continue that flow of labour while jobs are scarce, or stem that flow while we get back on our feet again? On this, the Trump administration appears to have made a tough, but rational choice.
Bad hardware compliance is only part of the problem. With higher speeds all the user facing stuff, like cables, connectors, power without noise - all start to matter too. You know how 100 mbit ethernet works well even with crappy connectors and crappy wires, you literally don't need even a twisted pair for it, but pushing gigabit ethernet over that doesn't work reliably anymore or even at all. It's very much a universal problem with higher speeds. And the notion that "you can make any speed reliable and fool proof" is just absurd denying physics.
Hey sisama, thanks for sharing this.

So, I highly doubt if Software Engineering salaries would follow a Gaussian distribution. My guess is that it would have both a fatter and longer tail than Gaussian.

Not an expert in statistics, but that's the case, wouldn't it push the 95-percentile wage level even higher?
Because you can’t loose much but gain much with such behavior.
I know this is naive but I have a lot of hope for Racket in this space. I'm just hoping it gets more institutional support for making educational tools with it.

The line numbers definitely help you imagine the computer mechanically reading and executing the lines. I wasn't taught with BASIC so in the few times I've had to modify a program with meaningful line numbers I have often used make or similar to just put them in for me. I'm glad someone likes them, I never understood why they existed!
Momentus to become the latest space stock, valued at $1.2B in SPAC deal
Actually not too much work. Some protocols (I can’t recall which, none of the above) work by sending either the data or its inverse along with an extra bit saying whether it was inverted. Very easy in hardware but has nasty error amplification (an error in that bit causes many other bits to flip), which may or may not be an issue.
What sort of cold start time do you get with that out of interest?
MS dominates the server side in corporations too.
This is just pure xenophobic drivel. There are people of different levels of talent in a large population set. Your characterization speaks more to your attitude than the millions of people that you malign.
I am not sure I agree with this statement in the absolute. I think about art, and artists as a musician myself.

One advantage of copyright is that it does, indeed, give artists recourse when people use their works without compensation. The photographer whose picture was copied and pasted onto an advertisement. The musician trying to sell their first album.

You could argue that litigation is too costly for an individual, which may be true, but this is one reason artists choose to sell their images via Getty. They gain access to a marketplace, and Getty handles licensing and enforcement, which makes it easier for artists to be fairly compensated for their work.

This isn’t absolute either: there is enforcement too aggressive (ask any Youtube creator), or limits too long (Disney).

But I cannot help but think that, with no copyright whatsoever, then the little guys will have a harder time protecting themselves from folks who would otherwise like to use that art without compensating the creator.
There are specific exceptions for compatibility. Android Java never tried to be compatible, various required APIs were replaced or are just flat out missing from the runtime library.
The Walls of the Waldorf Astoria
quota alllow everyone in the us per quota. hence the name. i don't see what is racist. i'd say it is fair. the problem is that india is just too big and there the dream of any indian studying IT is sadly to emigrate to the us to work there. i wish india would be a nice place to work and live so that millions dont feel the need to leave.
20 jobs at Coinbase, 1 at Facebook, 2 at TrueCar in the front page. Amazing diversity.
In 99% of the US by area, $170k would be a very good salary for a software engineer too.

Silicon Valley is a statistical outlier compared to the US as a whole for salaries and for cost-of-living.

Most of the software engineers in the US don’t work in a place with $170k salaries and $1m+ homes. For most of the US, salaries are 1/2 of that and homes are 1/4 of that.
Yeah well, actually I liked that sort of stuff and my daughter like that sort of stuff.

Some kids do like the puzzle aspect of things. And specifically small exercise like this can be fun or not for kids who normally dont like puzzles, if you create the right mood.
Create endless 3D worlds using your voice with Anything World
Do you have a source for retail investors demanding ethical options from indexes and etfs?

I could understand ethical concerns affecting folks buying the stock on its own, but don’t believe that most know exactly what’s in the broad etfs targeted at the middle class (myself included)
Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Tech Leader to Run Our Engineering Team (Remote)
Most every state sells or gives away the voter rolls. This has been a tremendously annoying issue for decades.
Open-source Chrome extension to quickly access context-based browsing history
Apple Targeted by Records Labels for Distributing Music Piracy Apps
Kind of via a callback or a chord. But as others have said, these special paths get dicey depending on your broker.
'B' moves back an entire word, '{' moves to the previous paragraph break.
H1-B holders cant start companies anyway. It’s a temporary migrant worker visa.
Did you know trump was a millionaire by age of 8
Mojo Lens – Augmented Contact Lenses
I washed dishes, by hand and with the industrial machines, for a couple of different sorority houses in college long ago. The machines worked well, but required supervisory maintenance like would be expected for most industrial equipment. They also take a while to heat the water chamber to washing temperature.

A good friend of mine has an under counter version of the Hobart (https://www.hobartcorp.com/products/commercial-dishwashers/u...) machine in his kitchen, as well as a conventional consumer dishwasher. The commercial machines are electricity hogs, unless you use them constantly. He only uses the Hobart for dinner parties or entertaining. It is a nice setup.

Speed Queen will sell you a nice domestic version of their laundromat front-load washing machines for about a 20% premium over a high end unit at Home Depot or Lowe's. Our family is considering one. (https://speedqueen.com/products/home-products/front-load-was...)

Edited to provide product links for clarity
Work in Hamburg and Amsterdam Fashion Cloud (Node.js and Django Developers)
These factors don't come close to negating the incredible convenience that USB has afforded me over the last couple of decades. So, the committee must have done something right.
There are a million ways to do it, but dpkg-buildpackage has been here for ages and if all you need is rebuilding a package for your personal use and for your current system and architecture and don't mind installing builddeps into your system, it's definitely the easiest.

The other options are good if you need to ensure the package will build elsewhere, or if you need to cross build for a different architecture (which you might need if you're running a multiarch system and you need to patch a library like Mesa that's still needed by some 32 bit apps), or if you don't want to clog your system with build deps or something like that.

Last time I needed to do that, I used cowbuilder, but I'm not really an expert in this area, I'm just a Debian power user, not involved with the project directly.
So, draining talent from less successful countries with a desperate need of this talent is a ‘moral imperative’ to you?
Hit nearly $15k MRR in September
Covid-19 hasn't been the most generous of times. We are a productized design & frontend code service on subscription and last month at Draftss we had some remarkable achievements. Here are some open stats to look at:

MRR: $14,769

Total Customers: 38

Unique visitors: ~2500

This has been the highest ever MRR we have ever achieved.

How did your product/services perform during this pandemic?
Citrus aurantium are used as a source of synephrine, a stimulant similar to ephedrine, which also interacts with various medication. According to OPs article, grapefruit works in a different way.

This article also mentions grapefruit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655712/
"Just a regular guy" etc. There's nothing wrong with being just anything.

You need to stop treating everyone in the world like a member of your scrum team or something. Understanding people's "skills and interests"? They're just people for crying out loud, speak to them. And no, there's nothing wrong with being "just a person". Stop being so analytical and desperate to have everything conform to your fantasies of what the world should be like.
The thread is in the body of the tweet. Here is the start: https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1313620262768635904
Attributing Palantir's stock poor performance to "karma" is obvious slant and wishful thinking by the article author.

Palantir's lackluster stock performance is directly explained by the company's lackluster financial performance. That's all it is, and yes, it is a non-story.

It's infantile to suggest that Palantir's stock is doing poorly because it is "evil" by some subjective judgement of the author, or because of Thiel's unforgivable support of president Trump. These two things could be true and the stock would still be skyrocketing if Palantir's financial performance supported it.

Investors just took a look at the balance sheets and decided (correctly, imho) that the company simply isn't worth its rosy original IPO valuation of $41 billion.

As an aside, if you're a software engineer and worked in the valley over the past decade or so, you noticed that Palantir has been trying to make a big deal out of itself, projecting a glamorous romantic image of its technology, talent, and success.

Since then, many of us have encountered some of the many engineers who left the company over the years, and especially over the past 5 or so years, and have come to realize that much of that was myth-making, smoke and mirrors.

Palantir seems to have an inflated self-image, and that has reflected in its branding and marketing to potential recruits in the past. It has also reflected in their original incredibly optimistic IPO valuation, which was simply unjustified by the volume of business they do.

However, all of that still has nothing to do with them being "evil". If they managed to sell their "evil" technology to more companies, their stock would be skyrocketing. Their problem isn't that potential customers see their technology as "evil", but as less than compelling value offer. Due to their high burn rate and governance structure, investors now share the same opinion regarding their stock.
I'd agree with this. I have often sat with coworkers and we have accomplished a lot but all those times it is because we chose to.
What is the secret-sauce for React.js Library leading website development?
Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps
The consequences frequently are an attempt to punish people and often justifiably so.

If someone says something racist, homophobic or sexist, then yeah, maybe I want to punish them by not buying their product or not voting for them or whatever.

But we can judge the response on its merits too.

Being thrown in jail for criticism of the government? Not ok. (Reductio ad absurdum, btw... no one has suggested that what someone says gives you carte blanche)

Boycotting homophobic sandwich restaurant?
Totally fine.

Firing your employee for something they said on their own time?
Exceptionally murky and very much case by case.
Congrats. This technology may be the start of something very big.
Or a cheaper, more durable, but less efficient version in 10 years.
I'm sure if they are doing it, it makes some sense. All the die hard fans will just buy the game on day 1, regardless of price so why not milk them as much as possible? Do that for 2 or 3 months and then drop to a more acceptable price for the rest of the audience.

I dont think they're really losing any potential buyers by doing that.
What? The simpler answer is that professional investors concluded it was a bad business with shrinking growth opportunities at the end of the current administration.

https://www.profgalloway.com/palanthiel-the-uncola
Consider also the vortex water-wall arc lamp, in which the cooling water (deionized, so that it is a very poor conductor) runs inside the quartz tube. It is swirled so that there is a gas-filled space along the axis, through which the electric current flows[1]. I have seen powers up to 100MW mentioned.

I recall reading somewhere that David Letterman wanted to use one on his show to melt a small car, but the manufacturer thought it frivolous and did not cooperate.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280621958_Modeling_...
> Because our society does not allow us to perform cost benefit analysis on a child's well being

I hate this sooo much! Having children really makes some people entirely unable to think. I've heard people entirely willing to outlaw any form of encryption to "protect" their children from pedophiles despite the likelihood of getting their identity stolen, bankrupt and unable to feed their children being significantly higher than a pedophile targeting their child even now, and would increase by several orders of magnitude if we suddenly weren't allowed to encrypt things like e-banking and email.
Will do, just purchased on kindle. Thanks for the recommendation.
How to Create Your Own Programming Language – Part 2 – Syntax
Where are you getting "losing a quarter of their value overnight" from? The stock is still up from its initial listing price. If you're talking relative to peak private value, virtually nothing has gone public anywhere near private valuations and Palantir's public valuation is a bit more than a quarter lower. This has nothing to do with the "middle class" or "ethical options" and everything to do with public markets actually scrutinizing things vs private.
I just use pass. https://www.passwordstore.org/
Someone actually hacked together a TT for USB3. It's unobtainium for mortals but it exists https://www.via-labs.com/product_show.php?id=96