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Show HN: Large Numbers Hypothesis Revisited
I was reviewing Dirac's Large Numbers Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis) and decided to give it a second go, now with measurements of fundamental constants more precise than 100 years ago.

And I stumbled upon a value for Hubble's constant that's uncannily close. Here are the full calculations.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1K1qoUFvqZp1fWbpcKJWq63nflgwS0ZHh?usp=sharing

Meaningless, or meaningful coincidence?
Adding /s is not fun at all, but some people don't catch even when it should be obvious.

On a serious note, for example, first seasons of GameOfThrones were absolutely unavailable for legal purchase in my country. Is it ok to torrent it if they don't want to sell it to me anyway?

Another example: when last seasons of GoT became available for legal streaming, they were available only in Russian dub. Is it ok to torrent the original English version if they don't want to sell it to me anyway?
Good context! I encourage others to read squarecog's linked comment.
> Another consequence of thinner phones is less protection. Drop your phone once, and the chances you shatter the screen are high.

How does thinness decrease screen protection? On the contrary a reduction in thickness also usually involves a reduction in weight, which decreases the impact force from a drop.

Personally, I'm fine with protection through external, replaceable accessories. No matter how sturdy, scratches on the screen are inevitable. With a glass screen protector, you can throw your $500+ device around carelessly, and replace the $15 protection after a few years or if it breaks.
Was hoping there would be more of a numerical comparison to various strategies when scaling and a comparison to other strategies such as say self-hosting :(

(aws has a useful place and a use, but obviously spawning a new vm for every query would just maximise cost over time)
Window management is still horrible in Firefox, meaning if I want to close all Hacker news tabs in all open windows no add on seems to handle it properly.
Chrome has added built in search of tabs across windows though, would love the same for Firefox
My SO just got a new iPhone recently and only just realised she missed out on a 1 year free trial for Apple TV by 2 days. What a shame, they should really advertise this deal more.
Yeah that's weird.

And the pricing is always very separated from the actual product descriptions. Try figuring out how much an instance with the right amount of RAM and CPU you need actually costs! Maybe that's intentional, though.
We have a simple way of doing this for our one office of about 70 people. A message to slack the day before asking if you’ll be at the office the next fag and a hand up emoji if you’re going to be there.

The main problem with this is people forgetting to do it or not paying attention to it. There have been a few days I’ve gone in to find far more people than I’m comfortable with. How do you solve this problem?
No, the death of a parent (depending on one's relationship) can be incredibly devastating. It is certainly appropriate to bring that to work, because it will almost always impact one's performance.

Is it strange for folks to talk about a newborn child, or marriage at work? Conversely, what about infant death or divorce? Can you bring your "whole self" or just the good news?
Your point is well taken: I want to argue with you that Camp 2 will never be seen as correct, but as I see restrictions lifted despite the large number of unvaccinated individuals which remain, I can't help but wonder if it will actually play out as you say.
Well it's a lot easier to find meaningful work when one has superhuman abilities. Unlike many in our industry, I am not deluded enough to believe that my talents are particularly special. Further, since I'm not a billionaire like Stark, I have to find a job that I can support myself with foremost, which means meaningfulness takes a back seat. It is very unlikely I would be able to find both.
And we have SameSite in Cookies, and Allow-Origin in headers!
the future is a walled garden stepping on a face, forever.
> It also means the existing un-mutated virus has far less of an opportunity to "experiment" and mutate further.

You seem to be ignoring the time variable. If wide-spread vaccination slows the spread, then the spread lasts longer, unless and until the virus is totally eradicated.
One takes a rather different tone in a pointed and deliberate "fuck you; strong letter to follow" than in a resignation letter that's mostly polite BS, as is typical.
How will you convert this to a billion dollar company. From my perspective you could never have a better lockin than slack. Because all employees use slack and when they roll out this product as a feature then you will have a difficult time convincing others that they should use a separate app for communicating their work location.
https://platformio.org/

You still need a toolchain, compiler, drivers, operating system. Arduinos won't read your mind and neither will Debian.

Having said that, since you are knowledgable in these things you can absolutely package PlatformIO as a Debian package and maintain it. I would certainly use that. As is, just head over to https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/installation.html... and you'll see the one line you need to install it. It's literally easier than installing the Arduino IDE.
There Is No Debate over Critical Race Theory
Conservation efforts, curbing emissions, etc. - that's all good and has its place, but on its own it just doesn't seem feasible to motivate enough people for a long enough time to make enough of a difference.

Reducing amount of CO2 we emit is good, finding a way to capture/convert released CO2 is better, but there is Bezos-level wealth waiting for the person who invents/discovers an actual use for it. I hope this X-prize helps encourage that style of thinking.
He's hardly a professor. He's contributed no meaningful research in his field and by my own recollection he only ever appears when he makes headlines for saving something extremely racist, or extremely harsh.

He's a divisive figure and a celebrity "philosopher". A literal nobody. It comes to me, and anyone else with experience an academia, that such a washout would never make tenure. Even at a "woke" academic institution.
Another HN user did a write up on Homebrew[1] that I agree with.

My main gripe is that Homebrew would regularly break my Python virtualenvs with linking errors. Meanwhile on Linux, I have virtualenvs that I created 9 years ago that still just work.

These days you might be able to sidestep that issue by not using Python from Homebrew at all, but installing and managing it with Pyenv instead.

[1] https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-pack...
>Harvard doesn't support Palestine

I read this differently. Figured that his point is that Harvard is willing to block his career based on an academic disagreement surrounding Palestine. Instead of engaging with his perspective and providing, well, a collegial environment for this discourse, they've undermined his academic career (while still benefiting from his speeches, tutelage, and instruction).
He spoke about Palestine and not getting enough condolences for his mother's death. Neither of those subjects jump out as "corruption".
I didn't take it that way, but the news was published in the newsletter.
Universities often offer decent benefits, including pensions in some cases. Also, state and local govts tend to do this as well (depending on your state)
There are a few issues here.

1) COVID-19 is not a static, singular disease. Now that it is circulating widely in the human population it has the potential to mutate, as it already has several times. SARS had a mortality rate on the order of 10%. MERS was above 30%. Part of the miscommunication seems to come from camp 2 assuming that things will largely continue as they are, while those remaining in camp 1 are saying "If we let this keep going, things could get much worse".

2) What about people who aren't healthy and young? Do we just permanently shut immunocompromised people out of society?

3) Developing a vaccine is not the same as actually getting the population vaccinated, as the last six months have demonstrated. Nobody in camp 1 wants society to stay locked down for its own sake. If 99% or even just 80% of the population was vaccinated, I think you would find a huge majority of camp 1 move to camp 2. Unfortunately the attitude of camp 2 has turned out to be the biggest obstacle to actually getting that done.
What’s the motivation to lift dangerously heavy weights?

Is there some trade-off to be gained vs. the long term risk or injury?
> carbon sequestration [will] likely require energy

Yes, but that doesn't mean we won't need it.

Take air planes. We can't just put batteries in there: too low energy density or something (I'm no physicist, but they won't fly very far is what I gather). But by capturing the CO2 (at exhaust, or atmospherically) that they put out, we can have both airplanes and a stable climate -- assuming it's all done right.

Who wants to have a wind turbine in their back yard? A nuclear power plant? Who lives near that hydro plant in the middle of nowhere? We could instead capture CO2 away from people if power is cheap, before sending the rest down a slightly lossy transmission path.

Driving regular passenger vehicles electrically is definitely less energy intensive than capturing the GHGs that a combustion engine produces, so it would obviously be counter-productive to use capture technology for those sorts of things. But we can use it for other things like chemical processes that produce a GHG as a byproduct where it's hard to capture (new buildings using concrete, for example) or when we don't have the technology to get rid of the emissions.

Right now, the quickest wins are from emission reduction. This capture technology is something we need to have ready for the next phase of keeping our natural habitat stable.
Wait a minute. Are you saying that the animals in the Amazonian rain forest produce more CO2 than the plants within it consume? Do you have any data that shows this?
I think some are focusing on his mother's death; it's the straw the broke the camel's back but the root cause is apathy towards him.

They are however, ignoring the part where he was declined tenure for no good reason, and despite being a professor at other prestigious universities. He was also paid badly and was treated poorly when it came to sabbaticals.

In other words he was sidelined for no good reason. This is sad.

There are some questions though, why did he leave Princeton? I mean what difference does it make if you're at Princeton or Harvard, they are both great schools.
Oil is about $75 per barrel and world wide we consume about 35 billion barrels per year. Reducing $100M worth of oil barely makes a dent.
Does copy/paste work between the host and the VM?
I would work on this problem for free. Climate change is an existential threat to my life in Southwest Oregon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72p58Iy6u7M
a tweet eulogy seems like an easy peformative act.

likely he suspects that colleagues are afraid to publicly associate with him because he is too left wing / unapologetically Black / hot topic for Harvard.
Did the premise of FAM seem like a really algo-derived mashup to anyone else? The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived, similar to Netflix's Bright.
Sigh. Reminded me to check if I have canceled my subscription which was free and extended but never used. Turns out they charged me a month already.

I wonder how many people will have set and forget on their Apple TV+ subscription charged on their iTunes Credit or Credit Card without ever checking.
The biggest problem with Elon and it's not just him or his fault is that the biggest barrier is our political systems. $100M is like a small city's annual budget. In Ashland, OR the city budget is $140M/year with about 20,000 residents. This prize is not going to solve anything. Even if Elon spent all of his money on this prize, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to how many resources our political systems control. As much as these well intentioned billionaires try, they're never going solve anything important.
You might be interested in: https://www.vagrantmanager.com/
Pin your home brew versions and upgrade at non-critical times and you’ll be fine? I’ve been doing this for years and not had any issues. :shrug:
Yeah it's odd. Especially for those of us whose moms weren't such wonderful blessed martyrs (eyeroll). Doesn't really bolster any particular point either, unless maybe it's about careerism in the department, but otherwise seems petty: "My mom's death didn't get enough likes." Would've been good to expand on the theme maybe. Although that would've incurred costs to the current brevity.
Comedy gold right here.
How do you disambiguate "long Covid" from the very real fact that people are incredibly suggestible.

My father-in-law was convinced he had long Covid. He talked about it all the time.

He was never diagnosed, but he had a cold near the beginning of the pandemic and he decided it was Covid.

He claimed he could run up and down the steps at the park before getting Covid. Now, he claimed, he was always breathless. I exercise him and he'd be convinced exercise will do nothing because of his long Covid.

Of course when he got tested he had no antibodies.

But it's not just that. During the height of the pandemic, did you notice yourself, or notice in others, that people were always thinking Covid was coming on? Every little pain or weird breath and people became very worried.

The brain is incredible at turning normal sensations into symptoms. We don't realize all the sensory input we're constantly discarding until we start becoming hyperaware.

The incentives for the media to hype long Covid and for researchers to find long Covid is incredibly intense. Every shred of evidence will by hyped to the moon. Every other person you meet with a panic disorder or heart condition will have a story attributed to Covid. Ordinary people will have absolutely zero way to contextualize the true risk.
I wrote to Dr. Pepper HQ. They replied with a list of "nearby" locations where I could get Dr. Pepper in caffeine-free diet form. I'm located in Silicon Valley. Here's their list of locations:

Livermore CA 94551

Morgan Hill CA 95037

Elk Grove CA 95758

Soledad CA 93960

Sloughhouse CA 95683

You have to go way out in the boonies to get it, apparently.
Preach! AWS is overrated.
It would be my choice to have a _slightly_ thicker phone, but as somebody who is looking to move to the iPhone after a decade on Android, I like the option to have this in a bag or something for the days that I have more heavy usage.
Yes (via VMware Tools)
This sure is a garish looking device. They also are trying to be clever and not show how thick it is.
Can't say anything about being 100% back with smell, it seems more like some got back and then long plateau where I am now.

My story - had covid in february 2021, +-flu but complete loss of smell. But not for taste - all major tastes were there (so salt was salty, sour sour etc.) but all the fine tastes (ie you barbecue a fine steak without any seasoning, and its amazing) were gone. The result was food that didn't taste horrible, just incredibly bland. I was super sporty, and started again almost right after it.

Smell was gone 100%. I used a home made 52% apple brandy bottle to test my smell continuously (very strong alcohol smell, strong fruity by-smells), for maybe 2 weeks it was like breathing fresh forest air, actually OK if I didn't consider what it meant. No alcohol smell. Then it gradually came back, same with fruity flavors.

After 6 months, I would say I have my smell back. But it feels like its quite toned down, all the smells are rather mild. Did some test and my own perfumes don't smell so great anymore. Some other previously great smells are mild or not so great anymore. At least nothing smells outright horribly, and all food is OK to eat (since smell affects our tastes greatly).

Smell is probably the least bad sense to lose, as long as its just about some % loss and not making many fine things smell like rotten shit.
I believe Taiwan also has currency exchange controls.
I have those. At least in my case, it's a premature ventricular contraction. What happens is that the nerve fires too early, and the heart muscle says: "What? LOL, no. I'm still on my coffee break." But blood keeps arriving at the heart, so the next beat is stronger because it has more blood to move. They can get strong enough to hurt a bit.

In my case, it seemed to be caused by Claritin. When I stopped taking Claritin, I quit having these. Years later, just recently, I've started having them again.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Your symptoms may be something else.
Condolences for his loss, that's always terrible to deal with.
Finance is an excellent place to start. It's very common for IT directors to report to the CFO - not the CIO or CTO, but the chief financial officer. CFO's are (ideally) great at saving money, and it's likely they will begin to do so by pinching pennies within IT. Think about that - someone who has an entire career around a specific discipline(finance) directly governing another discipline(IT). They cannot hope to make informed decisions based on the current state of the industry unless they are neglecting their primary responsibility of finance.

tldr; yes, "starting with finance" is a good way to transform IT.
For a system I built, which had some similarity, we used Go and postgres with Interactive Brokers running in a headless Docker container (with virtual X) to provide the ability to trade.

It was pretty cool for something that took a couple of days and I believe it still works that way.
I tried a graphical VM on my Mac but it was too slow. How are you getting around that?
> The second season, for some reason, has dropped almost all of that and instead just focused on the characters' personal problems

My favorite episodes out of both seasons involved the back-story for Carl Longbottom, the older Sci-Fi author working on the staff.

It felt like the first time they have shown a real character development focus instead of just presenting a group of humorous stereotypes.
I think it is one thing to "bring that to work" and another to expect condolences.

Weren't there truly any better reasons to resign? If no, then I think Harvard is really a good place to work.
It's pretty standard for West, I remember him complaining the Summers (president of harvard) didn't send him a get well soon card quickly enough when he got cancer.
Harvard was founded to train clergy. It is named for a clergyman.
To others in the apartment, and potentially, the entire neighborhood if a fire gets bad enough. Don't be so literal.
That sounds like the kind of thing you should do on the advice of your doctor, rather than on the advice of a stranger on the Internet.
Me too. The data transfer costs would be the killer for me (video conferencing).
'no possible summer salary'

Summer salaries are usually paid for by research funding raised by the professor from outside sources. Typically you make sure your students are supported, then travel and operating costs for your group, then if any funding is left over, you can pay yourself summer salary.

Is the university preventing him from raising funds? If he is not raising funds, then the expenses above could be unmet. It's hard to get tenure without covering your costs.
Most commonly RC battery packs are referred to as "1S, 2S, 3S," etc. indicating how many single cells there are in the pack wired in series. Those are also individually rechargeable via a low-current charging cable.
This seems like an ad for vantage more than a cost-savings tutorial. Can anyone talk about what specifically vantage is doing to identify cost-saving areas?

Otherwise the title is misleading. Mods, can you update the title to be the actual title of the article?
What we need is a cryptocurrency that is somehow mined by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.
Considering the source you posted shares a home with anti-science COVID deniers, I'm not sure it's worth bothering to read the article.
Maybe, and maybe the other person with a similar experience is also to be understood as similarly persona non grata, for those with more insight into the circumstances.

This is definitely one of those "could be full of shit, or might barely even be scratching the surface and is actually quite restrained" kind of letters. It's hard to tell without more info.
Maybe religious people are less likely to offer condolences because they think the deceased are in "a better place"?
https://archive.is/L3ujH
kind of ironic that cornel west releases his resignation letter and meanwhile we get some new account calling him a nobody. at least use your main account to say such things.

anyway - addressing your comment itself. doesn't he now have tenure at UTS? Wasn't he also tenured previously at Princeton and Yale? hardly a nobody lmao
I can kinda see how this would make sense in the case, as long as the iPhone has Lightning, you will have to bring that charger anyway. Though this might be a good way to ease people in by selling two versions.
Also remember that at the same time Google did everything they could to make sure Firefox market share would be as low as possible.

See https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686 and the billions spent in Chrome marketing, bundling with other software, and the free ads on Google properties.
Depends on the tree.

Empress seems to be the ideal candidate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-02/we-alread...
A lot of Storm was written in Java, but the "core" was written in Clojure. There wasn't so much a "decision" to dump Clojure as much as a community "opportunity" to do so. My understanding is that Alibaba, one of Storm's production adopters, did a clean-house port from Clojure to Java, which they called jstorm. They then donated/offered that implementation to the Apache Storm project, and the project decided to base the Storm 2.x line on it. So Storm 1.x still has the Clojure core, with lineage to the original Backtype release, but 2.x is sourced from jstorm. A big focus of Storm 2.x was high-scale performance, latency, and backpressure management. I also heard that some folks in the open source Storm community suspected it might be easier to find contributors/committers for Storm if it were implemented in Java. Meanwhile, Heron sprung up as a performance-focused Storm alternative with API compatibility to Storm, before Storm 2.x took shape.
Yes, it's actually a bit better since "Obamacare" but still pretty ridiculous. Another is simply finding an employer who agrees to a part-time engineer. I'm typically on 3-6 major projects at any given time and it seems pretty obvious that simply dropping to 2-3 and working half the time would be a pretty easy adjustment to both sides -- but most management considers this unthinkable for some reason.
Its almost as if Microsoft desires a unified vision but is unwilling to make the sacrifices to get there. That's just not gonna happen when its an episode of Too Many Cooks
You are right, I didn't write out my intention clearly. People should bring life experiences like that to work-- probably shouldn't keep a scorecard though.
You aren't kidding. It isn't the norm, but I've had a viral bronchial infection for almost 2 months now. All you can do is wait and suppress the symptoms.

As a side note, having an unrelated cough during a respiratory pandemic is not a good time.
Well, reason is seen more as weapon than path to truth: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to... (https://archive.ph/cvWMc)
To patch or not to patch: That is the question
The only problem is their god awful "welcome to the new version! we care about privacy!" screen that comes up every other time you open the browser. I don't think anybody has ever seen one of those and thought it was delightful.
I thought the exact same