skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course but remember that it grows exponentially with the number of bits. Every bit you add one bit it doubles your usable size.

The visible universe (according to Wikipedia) is 8.8 * 10^26 meters or about 5.4 * 10^61 Plank lengths. That gives us a log2 of 205.1

In other words if my maths is correct if you want to represent the entire visible universe down to the scale of the Planck length you need 206bits of resolution, or 4 64 bit integers with a lot of room to spare.

And if you don't actually aim to simulate subatomic particles you can get down to millimeter resolution with "only" 100bits.

And that's not even taking into account that, our universe being so empty, you can probably fudge super large distances a bit (having a lower resolution at scales where the universe is mostly empty). Nobody is going to notice if Andromeda if a few parsecs closer than it should be.
If they are moving on what we imagine as "up" or "down" directions. If it's moving on any direction people actually expect them to move, they are not very flat.
Well is it one of the most expensive? MBA baseline could be had for 1000, the one I’d pick with 16GB for 1200. I challenge you to find me anything with such high build quality, screen and inputs, not to speak of a chip that is measurably the fastest and most efficient for any task you still want to do locally. I’ve been away from macs for couple of years, but these M1s are IMO a game changer.
You don't need to leave the United States to renew your passport. Your country's embassy in the US can do it for you.
How does one emigrate to Switzerland?
I don't know, it's certainly been the pattern I've experienced with Slashdot, reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Mac, Firefox, Chrome, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Android, iOS, and so many other services and software that I'd be sitting here all day counting them all.

First, I find something which suits me.

Then, it starts growing from under me, typically in the direction of bloat and feature removal.

Then, the usefulness to abuse ratio drops gradually.

Then, I'm faced with having to migrate or simply abandon yet another platform.

It's a serious issue, but I believe we can overcome it with just this sort of approach combining FLOSS and dogfooding.
If anything USA ebike laws are the most lenient in the world
You avoided explaining your timeline error. Why?

From the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33521655

"Before July 2015, Iran had a large stockpile of enriched uranium and almost 20,000 centrifuges, enough to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the Obama administration.
...

The agency's director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted "a co-ordinated effort" on "a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device"."

August 30, 2012: The IAEA reports that Iran increased the number of centrifuges installed at the Fordow enrichment plant and is continuing to produce uranium enriched to 20 percent in excess of its needs for the Tehran Research Reactor.

There are numerous indications that Iran did not live up to the deal for many years from credible sources that are NOT American.

But if you want to keep your head in the sand, there's nothing I or anyone else can do to change that. You've got your version of the truth, and I've got mine.
> like asking Morrocans why they don't fund an Alpine ski jumping team.

Ski jumping is a Nordic event not Alpine. There are a fair number of Morrocan Alpine ski racers.
I'm a DevOps engineer living in Europe with 10+ years IT experience. No formal education.

What's the best path to work and settle in the US with my wife?

What's a good but reasonable salary that I could achieve?
Amazon’s big holiday shopping advantage: An in-house shipping network
> straight-up calling bullshit on someone is socially unacceptable

I think it's not about social acceptance. It is unacceptable because if you call them bullshit without giving good reasons why you think so it is not advancing the discussion in any good way. You are not contributing anything except your personal opinion.

If you do have good reasons to explain why you think they are wrong you don't need to call them names because you can just provide the correct reasoning instead.
I've started corporate entities in several countries, and Switzerland wasn't exactly hard.

People seem to confuse the cost of doing it with the initial capital required. In Switzerland, as in Germany, there's a little version and a big version, GmbH and AG.

Speaking for Switzerland, you need CHF20K to do the GmbH and 100K for the AG. But you actually only need 50K cash for the AG because it doesn't all have to be paid up.

In terms of legal difference, there isn't really any, according to a couple of my Swiss accountants. It's more that if you risk 100K (it's still at risk even though it's not paid up) your business partners might see you differently. Having said that Google went for the little one.

Now if you are starting a business, chances are you are going to need 20K in some bank account anyway. Even a very small business needs some funds. The cost is simply the notarizing cost, ie the cost of making it official, and whatever your legal guy charges. Not much, and it gets done pretty fast. More than 100USD though, for sure.

The UK was super easy as well. Here you just pay the accountant and he does the Companies House stuff for you. You can probably DIY it to save a couple hundred quid, plus the capital requirement is £1 or some trivial amount.

Other European countries don't make it a whole lot harder. I think the difference is greater in how easy it is to establish your new business as a viable entity. Customers, suppliers need to be open to doing business with you, and that varies a lot across locations and industries.
The "state of the art" in residential door locks in the US is also rather poor, to the extent that only a modest skill level is required to defeat them. I'm not sure why it is that European homes and businesses usually employ much higher quality locks, I suspect just that burglary via lockpicking is more common in Europe, but it can be difficult to get a high-quality residential lock in the US if you want one without paying exorbitant fees to a locksmith for a commercial contract.

All this said, FBI statistics on theft show that lockpicking (I believe all lock bypass methods are included in this count) is fairly rare at only a percent or so of burglaries. Up to maybe 3% if you generously assume that cases where 'doors and windows were locked, entry method unknown' were all a lock bypass. They don't break out doors vs. windows, and my suspicion is that windows are actually a large portion here because many older residential windows (and even newer ones) have pretty defective locking schemes. It is more common for the burglar to simply have a key (they don't drill in on why the burglar has a key, perhaps a hidden spare or someone known to the victim).

So in a way all security concerns around smart locks are probably somewhat moot, even with them having a somewhat poor track record for secure design. It's more useful to think about this in defense-in-depth terms, and that's where my concern about too much HA involvement comes in. An HA system, from one perspective, would ideally form a unified control point for all security devices in the home. The problem is that, for one attack vector, this reduces the "layers" of defensive measures to only one: access to the HA platform.

A situation where a burglar could potentially gain access to your HA and simply unlock the door and disarm the alarm is much more concerning than having a lock and an alarm which are independently controlled. Beyond this, for home insurers to consider an alarm as contributing to security it needs a UL certificate, and while I have not thoroughly researched this, I get the impression that the UL certification scheme is generally hostile to having alarms that are "too extensible," because it introduces a large number of new potential bypasses as well as reliability issues (this may also be an issue with your police department's false alarm program).

All of this said, if you do have a burglar alarm, having a private security company respond is not a bad idea. There are often security companies that will do this "for free," only charging you if/when they actually respond to an alarm. They will generally arrive before police and because they are being paid for their time they are often more attentive, and will do things like guarding the home until you return if a door or window has been forced and is now insecure. Their written report can also be very helpful when you go to the police and insurance.
For every fake story, there’s a real one out there that’s spiritually equivalent.
My idea for solving this revolves around the same concept as the "Snooze" feature in Gmail. When saving, estimate the timeframe you hope to read it: 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, "someday". Then condition yourself to read what's in your daily inbox, as opposed to chasing the shiny thing.
Yes, I managed to get tripped up on the INT/INTEGER primary key distinction as a new sqlite3 user, and the idea of using the SQL standard to replace it would be great.
No matter the size of the company, having an unconformist accountant is not going to go well for anyone.

Aside: Michael Munger has a good Econtalk screed on the 5 buildings that a University considers most important here: https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-the-future-of-hig...
I'm sick of seeing titles like this one. Why can't Switzerland simply be Switerland instead of a clone of the Silicon Valley?

We all have our own cultures and different types of innovation can spring from each one of them.
The problem with Stockholm is that you'll have to rent a place to stay, which is a nightmare.
Inline images are explicitly "not wanted for Gemini" per the FAQ: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html
What context would exonerate Coinbase of fostering an environment that results in 75% of its Black employees feeling discriminated against? And if that context existed, why didn't Coinbase mention it in their preemptive rebuttal?
While Wikipedia may be technically correct, there's nothing new here. The U.S. has been supporting Marxist terrorists in Iran (PJAK, MEK) for quite a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93PJAK_conflict#Uni...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran#T...
There's a lot of mind-reading in this essay, and basically no humility.
> I'm a fluid dynamics researcher, and I'll tell you the money these people spend on "aero" and "weight saving" and "higher drivetrain efficiency" stuff is 99.9% snake oil. Unless you are among the top 1000 road bike racers in the world.

So, biking audiophilia.
He was hired at the same conference at which he showcased Redux for the first time (as a byproduct of the content of his actual talk, which was time-travel debugging), so it's unlikely it directly gave him the cred necessary to get hired, since he was already in the hiring pipeline.
There are good unions and bad unions, the idea of a single union culture is ridiculous.

Secondly, you appear to have linked to a google search.
But please do live in common sense and apply proportionate safeguards: when you notice a changed mole go to the dermatologist. When you cross the road look both ways first, even when you "know" there's nothing coming. And when you're living in a pandemic take sensible measures to reduce the risk to you, and especially to your fellow citizens.

[belatedly saw your later remarks about Neanderthals] - agreed, this new info about genetic heritage doesn't itself warrant acute panic, but it's easy to seem glibly dismissive of all risk. Keep safe, and with luck your local medics will get enough rest that when you arrive at their doors with some non-COVID condition they'll be able to help.
Not sure which of the many of their offices you are talking about, but the main Googleplex looks to be on a superfund site from previous semiconductor manufacturers - not an ideal agricultural site.

Edit: Link to map: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/toxic-plumes-the-dark-...

Used to live in HMB, but don’t recall a creamery. Definitely some cool small producers in Pescadero still.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U is, according to leaked benchmarks, not too far from M1.
>> CSS and algorithms? Come on.

I'm not sure what you are missing here - I'm not directly comparing CSS and algorithms. Rather, I'm pointing out that the lower layers have tools that better allow their devs to express their intentions. The front-end does not do this well.

>> I absolutely remember those, and they didn't work around the problem at all...

For who? You? They absolutely solved several problems that existed with the Web stack. Why do you think they were created and used? I agree, the download requirement sucked, but that was because the plugin model of the browser sucked.

Your perspective seems too narrow here. Imagine if someone told you that you could build sites with your vanilla Web stack (HTML/CSS/JS), but you were not allowed to use 3rd party packages? Trust me, if Steve Jobs could close your Web stack too, he would. He would also close your hardware stack if he could. They are the least open company of them all for devs. Again, thank goodness for port 80!

>> I am so grateful to Steve Jobs for effectively killing those technologies...

Wow. Who are you to make a blanket statement like that? Are you suggesting that all the devs and projects that used those plugins simply didn't have a strategy and rather were too lazy to just learn the HTML/CSS/JS stack properly? Btw, many of these devs have a background in native development, which is typically a much more rigorous CS training - HTML/CSS/JS is not beyond them.

>> Libraries are good, though JavaScript is in great need of a rich standard library...

Agreed. You're making my point further. The Web stack is far behind native development in so many ways. However, port 80 is such a big deal (for bypassing OS politics), that it remains crucial that we try to embrace and improve upon it.

>> Hacks are arguable: how many were really necessary, and how many came from people who refused to learn the language well but pasted code samples from the web.

You're still making my point. This is an issue largely unique to Web development. With proper libraries and a more organized dev stack, these issues haven't existed for decades in native development. However, it does mean the Web community has conducted some really great experiments, which the original poster discusses.

Look... If you want to argue that the Web is great for static web pages, I will give you that. But only because its largely not complicated. However, if you want to argue that the Web is great for Web apps and positioned well for future software projects, then I would suggest you spend more time in the native world to gain a better appreciation for how much worse Web dev can be.

Finally, I believe front end development is not great no matter where you look. It's clearly a difficult layer to get right. This is why I stand with the intentions of the original post. The Web can build some great user experiences. But they are difficult to build, lack a consistent dev experience, and too often are full of hacks to get them to work.
Israel is by no means an angel either.

1. Assasination of Jacob Israël de Haan (1924), a Dutch-Jewish diplomat, for attempting to make a peace deal with the Emir of Mecca - his plan was a Palestinian state in a Jordanian federation, the Zionists would drop the Balfour declaration and any claim to a state in exchange for unrestricted immigration. He was assassinated when leaving a synagogue by Avraham Tehomi (who admitted to it much later), on the orders of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who later became the 2nd President of Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Isra%C3%ABl_de_Haan

2. King David Hotel Bombing (1946) where right-wing Zionist terrorists attacked a British HQ located within the hotel killing 91 and injuring 46. The leader of the perpetrators, Manachem Begin became the Prime Minister of Israel in 1977

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

3. USS Liberty (1967) where Israel deliberately attacked an American Cargo Vessel killing 34 without any repurcussions:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

4. Deir Yassin Massacre (1948) where 110 villagers were slaughtered, some members of the perpetrators were at a later time, absorbed into the IDF, one even became PM of Israel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

5. Document [1] from IDF archives (1948) which after translation states:

"In the villages lying between Nahraiya and Tarshiha there are no foreign troops for the time being.The villages are armed and ready for action[2]. Your orders are to occupy, kill the men[3], destroy and burn down the villages of Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and al-Nahr."

[1]https://i.redd.it/e8q5ore6vi231.jpg
[2] Ilan Pappe notes that the villagers had no proper arms, only for hunting purposes and people who served in the police; without Arab troops that were absent they stood no chance [2] In April 1948, the Intelligence of the Hagana defined men as anyone above the age of 10

6. Palestinian Exodus "Nakba" (1948) was an expulsion of 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their Homeland during the war and establishment of Israel in May 1948, these includes testimonies of massacres, rape and looting:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-is...

7. Assassination of Folke Bernadotte, (1948) UN Mediator for Palestinian Refugees by Israel's Zionist Paramilitary Group, Lehi. The killing was approved by the three-man 'center' of Lehi, one of which, after the assassination, became 7th Prime Minister of Israel (Yitzhak Shamir). No one was convicted for the assassination:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte#Assassinati...

These are just some of many incidents.
This article recently featured on HN may be of interest to answer your question:
https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap...

io_uring allows for better utilization of fast storage.
It's not a defense of pg. That comment is paraphrasing a well-known meme about the Rick & Morty cartoon [1]. Someone wrote something very similar about Rick & Morty (though it's likely that it was itself a joke parodying R&M's toxic fandom). So I'd say it's an attack on pg's fandom.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a...
I know that feeling. It's led me down some dead ends. Proof of correctness, 30 years too early. Ragdoll physics by spring-damper methods, 20 years too early. Mobile robotics, which never took off. Legged robot locomotion, which only works if you can lose a lot of money on it.

I once thought Gopher was the future, that spread-spectrum would beat TDMA, that video over the Internet was too inefficient to be useful, and that web design, like book design, would stabilize and become routine.
It’s a simple matter of geometry. The bar is too high for the light to effectively light the road.
I have recently joined a FAANG company. I am currently working remotely in Canada (where I am a citizen) but they would like to bring me to the US in 2021 on a TN visa. I can choose to relocate any time from January to July.

I would like for my wife to be able to work in the United States. My understanding is that if I get on an H1B visa she would be able to get an H4 visa that allows her to work.

My question: Since the H1B is a lottery, is there any advantage to me moving to the USA ASAP (Jan/Feb) so I can try to get in the lottery for 2021? Or would that be too late and I would probably end up waiting for 2022's lottery anyway?
it all really depends on what happened there. some things are undefendable
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a...
You didn't show me anything though. I've read those articles, I mentioned one point (actually I mentioned at least 2) but I've surely considered the others and many of the articles you mention are in fact cherry picked to cast Amazon in a bad light. Which is why I mentioned they don't make up systematic abuse.

That fact that you're trying to position this as you showing me the error of my ways when, no, in actuality I've considered the angles and still very much disagree with those positions says a lot more about you than it does me. I'm against unions, pro corporate in many cases and think Amazon goes above what they even have to.

I find this interaction pretty representative of the problems in online discourse. Namely that because I hold a widely different position to you, you assume I must not have considered multiple sources or am letting my biases talk for me. I assure you I'm pretty well considered in everything I write.

Please take your "virtue" elsewhere.

Edit: In fact thinking more about it I think your assumption even violates one of the guidelines here on HN which is to hold your opponent's thoughts in the most charitable light. That is it's on you to assume that I have put the thought in and considered multiple narratives instead of me being intellectually lazy.
> No country would ever allow inspection of absolutely ALL MILITARY SITES,

Nobody asked for that. They asked for inspection of sites that show radionuclides emissions or specific heat signatures indicative of enrichment. I believe these are detected from satellite and environmental sensors. See:

https://news.mit.edu/2018/explained-detecting-threat-nuclear...

Update: Yes, this can be detected from satellite imagery:

http://www.princeton.edu/~aglaser/IT009-Glaser-2010-iGSE-New...

> The UN atomic watchdog certified the Iranians were following the deal until sometime after the U.S. pulled out.

Source?
These companies are so determined to keep people from legally scraping their sites that they don't care that they're walking all over the ADA in doing so.
As someone that studied and lives in Toulouse this I disagree. We have good universities, but the best one is in economics. The whole city works around Airbus. When they aren't doing well the whole city is doing terribly. Most software engineers here work for subcontracting companies that are heavily linked to the aerospace business. Finding different lines of work recently have been really hard due to those subcontracting companies looking for new contracts outside of the space. Unless there's a solid political decision to implement more research facilities outside of the aerospace industry then other companies will start coming. But for now compared to places in the region such as Montpellier I find we're really behind other cities.
Hi Peter

Thanks for doing this! I am currently on a J1-Fulbright (with 2 year home requirement), and was planning to apply for an O-1 in future (once I have a few years to resolve and obtain funding for a startup idea). I've been told by Fulbright that it would be damaging to future applications if I am denied a 2 year waiver. Is this true, and is it likely that a waiver will be granted with the new administration? Is it too late if I intend to graduate in June 2021?

Thanks for your help in advance!
Wouldn’t a DO instance that makes an M1 machine comparably underpowered actually be really expensive though? It might only be the case for Apple’s ecosystem apps, but iOS devs seem to be seeing M1 laptops build apps faster than an iMac Pro for example.
Sure, ETH is at the top on university world ranking and there is a long history of innovations and nobel price laureats.
I realize you copied the list but I would argue that radar was not invented in Silicon Valley.
Non-Americans who can't rapidly figure out what's intended from the context.
Well, any reactionless drive also hase massive implications for making mankind multiplanetary, even without taking any interstellar implications into account. You could move huge amounts of cargo and personnel just with a heavy electricity source (solar panels, nuclear reactor) but without having to care for the even more massive amounts of fuel otherwise needed!

It would make interplanetary and orbital settlement not just possible but easy.
Interesting - what’s the power consumption on it?