skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting property of the speed of causality, that it is fixed independently of the observer (as in, any observer will measure the same speed).

Our mechanics allow only one such speed, and if you try to use one that doesn't have this property for causality, you'll get all kinds of paradoxes.

But it's probably something that can be solved. All said, the reason we assume causality moves at that speed is because it agrees with the experiments.
Maybe if you stick with Intel. My AMD "budget" laptop (Ryzen 4500U, 6 cores) blows away a much more expensive Intel laptop I bought only 2 years ago. It was less than half the price.
How about the CEO refusing to align with far left politics? Whether you think that is good or bad, that could well be the reason for them leaving, but it doesn't actually mean that there was overt racism.
Well stated, as expected. That said, it's heavy on features and light on benefits (which include often undesirable side effects).

For example, in PG's world unbound-thinking has value. It is generally seen as a good thing. Do the same within a religion and you're a heretic. Worse, you could end up dead.

Perhaps he'll do a follow up? To explore the benefits (and friction) for individuals, as well as teams and organizations. Maybe even go so far as to address diversity beyond the conventional paradigm (i.e., race, gender, etc.) That would be great.
I started at Bell Labs in 1978, I am a research fellow for a large telcom presently.
> Is Switzerland better than Silicon Valley for software developers?

The entire article compares data between Switzerland and other EU countries (the accuracy of which is a whole another topic), and then this is used to compare Switzerland against Silicon Valley?
Wouldn't running linting and code formatting tools on every keystroke (as I prefer to) be intolerable over the network, with even minimal latency? Perhaps I am misunderstanding what actions are local, and which are remote.
> hey, why is your reality the correct version of reality?

Exactly, it is about the question "why?". Why are your reasons for believing something more plausible. But that is not the mindset of an emotionally charged person.

Was the election rigged? A Trump supporter would say "Of course it was". But a judge in Pennsylvania had a good response to Giuliani (who was trying to argue it was): "... Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here".

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-pennsy...
Regardless of merits of your PPP loans as corruption argument, what I’m more interested in is what “high grade” corruption would look like in context of a trade union. Is an organization like UAW, of half a million members, and $200M of annual revenue capable of “high grade” corruption? What does it look like, if indicting 15 members including ex president ain’t it?
Any reactionless drive might as well be FTL. The limit to traversing the universe isn't the speed of light it is the rocket equation. As long as you don't mind rather intense time dilation, you can get anywhere as fast as you want with enough fuel and ability to tolerate sustained acceleration. Remember: you can go any speed you can accelerate to, it is everything else that can't go faster than light.
Don't get me wrong. I wish I could dedicate half my time just to tweak the performance of my apps. I love them fast too and optimization is quite fun.

But there's a cost - my apps will suffer in other ways and won't be able to offer other features.
"Proving innocence" is as tone deaf as their autistic CEO

(who in the article is quoted himself as saying his behavior is because he's on the spectrum.)

Brian Armstrong shut himself in because he doesn't want to deal with it. He doesn't know how to deal with it. All of Coinbase's actions are guided by the consequences, for example, they never needed to address their flash crash because they just needed to placate customers while they were closing a 9 figure funding round announced a few weeks later. They aren't worried about precedent, they are worried about keeping the ship afloat long enough to sell shares to Robinhood traders. This strategy works.

They can also create an inclusive environment that allows them to address underserved markets more accurately. They didn't.
> Also note that just because media keep repeating the Palestinian myth doesn't mean it is true. The has never been a Palestinian country before 1948 when Israel was created.

I don't get the point here. Whether it was named Palestinian or not, it doesn't change the fact that Israel occupied those territories! We are talking about land, not names.

Well, in those books that you read, was it mentioned why Hezbollah was created and what it is doing now? Would you say they are terrorists but Israeli government is not? And what would you say if someone acts directly in a terror operation or via proxies? Does it matter?
Ha! This was unintentional, but I’ll leave it for context of your comment.

Edit: alas, with your comment removed, this is nonsensical; I’ve fixed the typo in parent.
You had me at synecdouche.
Omega-3+Fish+Oil:+Benefits,+Side+Effects,+&+Uses+|+Health+Lines
Article https://archive.is/Ny044
I used Zotero when it had the web capture and highlight tool and stopped using it when it was removed. Have they added such a tool back in or are there any alternative or plugins to recover this functionality?
I may be able to share my experience here since I went through multiple TN1s.

You'll satisfy the citizenship requirements but will have difficulty proving significant ties to Canada if you don't have a bank account, car, home or family still in Canada.

Typically speaking you'd have some of these ties if you were a resident of Canada but it doesn't really follow as a hard requirement.

As long as you satisfy the border officer that you have the intent to return home to Canada after finishing your contract, you will most likely receive a TN1. It becomes easier if you're a current resident.
I don't see it replacing anything until it can do 100% of what a regular consumer needs.

I always hear these tech journalists or reviewers saying they mostly use an ipad now because it can do 99% of what they need to do. But for that remaining 1%, guess what? They still need to have a computer. So while I guess that means you could spend less on a computer, you still need one. Even if it's for that 1% of tasks.
This looks great, and way more capable than simply "prototyping and testing" as you put it on your web site.

How did you get sqlite3 to index JSON? I don't see anything in the product that does that. I'm searching through your source code now but I don't see anything specific.
Related discussion also on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25226464
Really? I generally found that in a sequence of ~3 interviews for a position, the order will generally be

* a personal interview (i.e. the one for sociability - mostly with HR people)

* a more technical interview (generally with tech people who don't answer questions about non-technical stuff)

* an interview with stakeholders (i.e. a potential future boss, or a department head who can answer questions about long-term career development, perks, etc.. This also tests for sociability)
I had posted a comment concerning The Edge Foundation and Brockman's extremely close (in some cases almost coincident) relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which has been flagged.

Since one of the main complaints when the Epstein issues at MIT, Edge, etc. arose was "we can't hold all these scientists responsible for associating with obvious sex traffickers, how were they supposed to know?" I can only assume everyone against sharing that information now is doing so specifically to provide the same plausible deniability for associates in the future.

Brockman should be a persona non grata in scientific circles for the rest of his life. His publishing agency and foundation are founded on dirty rapist money and should be burned to the ground. Anyone still lending them their name should be shamed and censured.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...
I cannot take seriously anybody who says "content" instead of "works" or "consume" instead of "read".
The most radical solution would be to grow revenues without growing the company

Some investment firms already seem to be able to grow revenues without growing the number of employees.

Growing revenue without growing employees is probably a good thing for many reasons if it's possible. However w/r/t the investment firms, imo many investment firms can grow revenue without hiring only when the bottleneck constraint on their revenue is just their reputation.

As their reputation grows, investment firms are often able to do the same thing but with a larger quantity of investor money. Perhaps their reputation also helps on the other end; maybe some can make the same quantity of deals per unit time but as their reputation grows perhaps they become better connected so maybe the deals get bigger and/or more profitable.

In other industries you have to produce a higher quantity of goods or services in order to get more revenue, so this may not generalize.
I don't understand the premise here. Most of their Black employees left, not their far left employees.
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As far as I can tell the NYTimes was unable to find evidence either. There's no corroborating witness, emails, slacks, voicemails, statistics, or anything else concrete that you can point at in the article. It's a collection of accusations and color to lend them credence.

When a group of people say they see smoke I tend to believe them. But I'm also not a national news paper. I'd have like to see the NYTimes get some concrete facts before making such a serious accusation.
Its hard to think of a more homogenous industry / group of individuals than the HN / SV startup founder clique.

The length that people will go to to pretend that it isnt another rich boys club that leans somewhat conservative (sorry "libertarian") is interesting in itself.
Does Pocket work for Medium and/or Twitter? I'm not too concerned about indexing my entire base of knowledge, but I do often locally save a bunch of articles to maybe read on the weekend when I have some time.

Saving Medium blogs and Twitter threads locally just doesn't work, so I've pretty much stopped reading Medium and treat Twitter as purely ephemeral.
If you have a packed lunch available but your lunch break isn't for another hour, you aren't "starving yourself". Degrees matter.
Well, if you map the contents of the unit circle (|z| < 1) through 1/z you can reach any point |z| > 1. So there really is no need to give unique names to anything beyond 1 as it's already contained in the proverbial nutshell of the unit circle via 1/z.
DEMOSCENE

I don't think anything else needs to be said.
Part human, part machine: is Apple turning us all into cyborgs?
It’s not uncommon in the biggest urban markets to bring your bike indoors overnight. The ability to easily lift the bike and carry it upstairs or just pick it up so you don’t sully the carpet is important.

Low weight isn’t just for speed.
1. Nope, BW greens are not a counter for the population and businesses to behave in a conservative way. Also, BW greens are kind of special, Kretschmann and Palmer are seen as pariahs in the rest of the german green party. They aren't even very green, e.g. they are quite supportive of the local BW car industry which the rest of German greens wants to see gone yesterday.

2. Yes, the French and Italian speaking parts are quite different. But thats less than half of Switzerland, and the big spot everyone seems to be drawn to seems to be Zürich.

3. Yes, but that is just a reason, not a counterargument. Also, costs are TWICE as high in certain areas, i.e. personell and stuff that is not imported from the EU.

4. I don't know what you are doing, and of course I do wish you all the best. But beware and remember that the costs will be high. Switzerland is much more automated than the neighbours, because noone can afford hiring people.
"By the way, I still had access to swift.conman.org even after it was patched, I had all known system credentials plus there was a kernel entry using portknocking."

I know what port knocking is.

I don't understand, however, what the writer is trying to convey here.

At first, I thought he was suggesting that he found a remote root exploit in knockd and was using that to gain entry ... however the article makes clear:

"A new thing I've learned though—portknocking, something else to look into."

... that they are not using port knocking.

Perhaps the attacker is suggesting that he installed a port knock daemon that gave a root login entrypoint ?
GPT-2 answers what is Web Scraping
Ask HN: Are you using EC2 metal instances?
Hi there! We have been using EC2 virtualized instances for hosting our crypto exchange. We are wondering if using EC2 metal instances would yield better performance. Is there anybody using EC2 metal instances? What's the performance like compared to virtualized instances, and what's your use case?
Don't know why you felt the need to tell me that? Swiss people are in reality not that multilingual, the foreigners are (because they know native+french/german+english language).
"You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it."

(1994)

"Yo, Jeff, what's this about selling books online? The books.com guys in Ohio have been doing that for years!"
By skeptics!
"To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already know. You need to say things no one else has realized yet."

Oof, first paragraph and he's entirely wrong. That's rough.

One of the most worrisome aspects of the world's take on science lately is that reproduction of published results is considered the work of dullards and thus unworthy of funding.

By definition, reproduction of results is not novel, and yet it is (or at least really should be) one of the single most crucial aspects of a shared scientific method.

This is profoundly bad thinking by Paul.
Previous gen (4800U) was 15W TDP by default (configurable between 10W and 25W).

This new one (5800U) was not yet officially announced.
Where Will Consumers Spend the Most on Black Friday?
It's amazing what we call "lean." I used to run Netscape 2.0 on a 486 with 20 megabytes of RAM.
When I think of how America centric the Internet is, CAPTCHAs are usually not at the top of my list. There is so much else wrong with the internet when it comes to being basically designed for North Americans
I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month
Two problems I think. First, the kind of bear and the age of the bear. The size and strength of bears range widely. Fighting a sun bear is somewhat reasonable. Fighting a grizzly, on the other hand.....

Second, video proof. I know this kind of things probably aren't taped, because the people are busy fighting for their life. But, still, I'd be skeptical before I see some proof, that a person fought and killed an healthy adult grizzly (or some other comparable types) without a firearm or trap.
Makes sense. The real story with M1 isn't so much about how amazingly innovative Apple's CPU design is (although it is pretty good), as much as how Intel has rested on their laurels for 5 years.

Now, if only AMD could bring back that ARM Zen design that they cancelled a few months before Ryzen 1st Gen...
I agree with the other commenter. Not only the laptop is not yours, but it is likely that whatever you do on it is being watched and recorded.

But because everybody is responsible for their own mistakes, look for proxy servers. This is a type of website that will access other websites for you and will serve you the content. They are also watched and recorded, so keep this in mind.
> A lot of people enjoy watching a new marvel movie once or twice a year while the movies themselves are more or less reiterations of the previous ones. People seem to enjoy the repetition.

Honestly, I would argue against this. While they tend to do simplistic plotlines that are similar to the previous, they're very visibly different and so do not trigger any of the usual "I already watched this." that I get from watching sitcoms.

Though, I do agree that people at times read essays because they reiterate your thoughts back to you, but as you say I'd agree that its more comfort/shared-experiences than the content that they've already seen (ex: reaction videos). At times, I've done this because I know an article will be able to provide an alternative view on the topic to further fuel my own reasoning, or simply helping to ground my reasoning more into words.

But, I do think an essay that is obviously what I already know would be boring. If I had to read an article about basic programming techniques, I'd be likely bored, due to having seen it all before.
I'd be curious about a legal opinion, but as far as I understand it, the restrictions would only apply to actual commercial products. But he isn't actually selling the cheese as far as I know (only selling a video how to make the cheese).
A little bit everyday.

http://www.appleseeds.org/Press-On.htm
If you're looking to the Oxford dictionary then it sounds like you're just making a semantic argument. I was hoping to learn what the metabolic difference is.
I learned a lot by trying to make Go talk to ALSA without using any existing C interfaces. Just happy exploration goes a long ways!
I’m not arguing they had a good business plan - clearly they did not. All I’m arguing is that they were very good computers for the price, both in terms of software and hardware.
2 dry erase boards,

Favorite text editor,

Draw out the systems at play, choose a salient aspect present in many of the nodes, take a stab at writing about it over the course of several days/weeks/months.

Got something interesting as a result? Start a newsletter.

It seems to me that the best results come about after contemplating things for a while and then having a conversation with someone such as on a forum or internet-chat and sharing the dialogue with others. Easier to follow and usually more impactful than long-style writing on one's own.
How do I edit the title to something sensible?
The NYT are not the police/FBI. They do not have access to those things, unless employees are able to exfiltrate said info at significant personal risk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/milk-wars-whats-at-th...

In Australia, there's basically a cartel of 2 supermarket chains (Coles and Woolworths) and they control all retail pricing of groceries.

https://www.farmdrop.com/blog/how-supermarkets-ruined-dairy/

In the UK there are more players, but the game is essentially the same.

Price-fixing by colluding with the competition is illegal in both countries, but regulation is effectively powerless. The supermarkets are both politically connected, and in a position to cause voters pain.

The position might be different in the USA, I don't know. I would suspect not - this article suggests that Walmart has considerable pricing power: https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-low-price-strategy-t...
The question of what a crosswalk is can be surprisingly contentious despite attempts at federal standards! In my city there is a situation where the police department and the transportation department currently define "crosswalk" differently, leading to some rather bizarre situations with police reports and attribution of fault (e.g. pedestrian crossing in something the transportation department considers to be a crosswalk but the police department does not, such as a marked bicycle crossing, because their definition is stricter).
You can scale the problem down:

i.e how do you organize a small group of roommates:

* collect money for shared expenses

* nominate people to be responsible for particular roles

* establish a shared understanding of acceptable behavior

There is no 'best way' there is are going to be ways to maximize for certain desired qualities (i.e prosperity as defined by productivity, health, growth) or minimize for certain unwanted qualities (i.e injustice) and these may happen over different time scales - some approaches may provide short term prosperity but long term misery if left uncorrected.
I was willing to support the general message Brian Armstrong put out, but with the added context and chronology I cannot.

I would say that this kind of mission statement can only work if done at the beginning, as reacting in response to the work environment described by their employees was doomed for failure.

I know many people like Brian Armstrong, and the investors. They are all cut from a similar cloth and they honestly have no clue how to react. They don't know how to get women on a panel, they don't know how to get qualified people of color in positions to change things. They are just told what they did wrong and just shut themselves off from it. The very people with power to change anything get marginalized themselves. And yes, some - not all - of them actually are not interested in inclusion or really are racist and sexist. But for the former, there is room to empathize with these kind of people to steer their energy in more productive ways.
"Only" a million and a half 100% preventable Covid deaths. Unlike tobacco, a single deep cough puts people in danger.
The primary advantage of the US is cultural. It is not just the anomalously high risk tolerance and wealth, but people who attempt audacious goals tend to be celebrated. Americans shed the Tall Poppy Syndrome that is a very visible feature of virtually all other European cultures, perhaps because the US was predominantly settled by "tall poppies".

After years of working in various parts of Europe, I think it distills down to this. Sufficient talent, desire, and capital exists in Europe -- it is missing no ingredients -- but society there pervasively and subtly undermines anyone who dreams of attempting something really bold. It is a shame.
I’m fine with my iPhone and iPad, but my MacBook Pro is a PITA. I own a MBP 13” 2018 with 8GB of RAM. For starters:

1. Windows 10 via Bootcamp boot faster than macOS — on an Apple machine.

2. What’s wrong with a tiling manager? Why I need a third-party app to organise windows?

3. I saw in another HN post that an Apple engineer was patting themselves on the back for the memory mama garment. Then, why the hell at login macOS uses more RAM than Windows?

4. I can’t use Docker for Mac. The same dev environment with Docker and WSL2 on Windows 10 via Bootcamp works fine. I mean, it still sucks because of the limited RAM, but it’s fine. On macOS it’s way slower, and the fans go crazy.

The hardware — except for the keyboard and the Touch Bar - is fine. The touchpad is great, the screen is fantastic. But Apple needs to work on the operating system; just don’t touch the shortcuts. Those are fine.
Independent thinking itself isn't a virtue. As someone else pointed out, prisons are full of nonconventional thinkers. The Time Cube guy has independent thinking out the wazoo.

New ideas, like speech, are good or bad on their own merit.
> I saw someone riding a cargo ebike with a kid on it and went home excited to get one. Then I discovered it weighs over 70 pounds

I mean… I wouldn't expect even a normal cargo to be lightweight, an ebike would only add to that.

70lbs is on the low side for cargo bikes, to say nothing of cargo ebikes.
Let’s not forget: Bar associations (law). American Medical Association (MDs).
Meh. She can't actually implement what she has claimed.

This is Iran's LEADER:

https://apnews.com/article/a033042303545d9ef783a95222d51b83