skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the theories is that inflationary cosmology leads to inflationary cosmology: where one universe's big bang's inflation leads to pockets of inflation that can extend beyond the universe they came from -- effectively creating their own universe. Then a big bang extends from that, which repeats into their own inflationary systems, which repeats into their own system, etc. It's a theory from the 80s IIRC.
Put frankly, you're out of touch with how south america works. Things you would never expect can be paid in installments here. People just don't have heaps of disposable cash.

There's litterally lines at the atm 2 times a month, pay day. The rest of the time people are day to daying without cash in their pocket.
Insurance is not a magic industry that turns sustained losses into profits.
> but I don't actually know if they hold the copyrights

According to the page you linked, they do:

> In addition, some developers have directly assigned their copyrights on Linux to Conservancy, so Conservancy also enforces the GPL on Linux via its own copyrights in Linux.
I'm never buying another Google device after the customer support horror I went through for my Pixel C tablet.

I guess the customer support horror I went through when they canceled my phone number out of the blue in Google Fi is also factored into that decision (took two months to get my phone number back), but to be fair, that wasn't an issue with their hardware.
There is a lot of education research done in both public and private schools. Everything from the school lunch programs to textbook paper has been invested, in practice it’s largely ignored because education is very highly politicized. Mandates for more testing are pushed by companies that administer standardized tests etc etc.

Something as simple as testing which Math textbook to use is never part of the process.
How long until packaging makes Python the new PHP?
Not entirely true. Hookless function components can be called as regular old functions just fine
Having done both -- there is as much problem solving in digging a ditch as in building a web application.

And that's not denigrating programming, it's pointing out the reality that physical work requires mental effort too.
wait, what? Are you seriously saying MOND is an overfit and LCDM isn't? MOND is gravity + 1 free parameter, and this theory adds one more free parameter. Conventional dark matter generates a "distribution of dark matter" that is set on a per-galaxy basis, so each galaxy gets its own parameter space. The classic rebuttal against the MOND is that LCDM has the freedom to explain galaxies with "too much" and "too little" dark matter, which gets to exactly that point.

Whatever you think of MOND, dismissing it as an overfit model, given how LCDM works, is really strange.
I remember Google also had something similar a long time back on Google Webmasters (apparently now integrated under Google Search Central - https://developers.google.com/search ) with SiteMaps - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/... . But it required a Google account. Glad to see the beginning of a standard emerging that anyone can use. Pity that Google is ignoring it though.
This is part of an interesting trend in technological & human development. Massively expensive & highly specialized tech is being made common place & cheap more & more often, and perhaps more quickly.

So, yesterday's "treatments" for people with problems are becoming today's augmentations for otherwise healthy people.

--In years past, you might have a cardiologist prescribe the use of a constant heart monitor for a few days to track & diagnose issues. Now, you can get a cheap device that does that-- among other things-- for yourself. (Yes, the expensive specialized versions are still better)

--Glasses were for people with vision problems (or simple fashion) but now are in the early stages of AR, and (relatively) mainstream use for simple augmentations like music listening and personal assistants.

I'm sure I'm missing lots of other examples.
At least RedHat backports security patches.
> Well, I'm not sure UBI really solves the issue.

You can't just say that and then not say why you think that.
Buy puts on the new Bitcoin ETF that launched today (BITO)
Google Launches New Pixel Phone with ML Front and Center
> as those who would otherwise invest in capital are uninterested in seeing its value captured.

There are only so many places you can park your money
That camera band - sand bar, whatever the hell it is - is one of the most atrocious smartphone designs I've ever seen. Extraordinarly stupid on the part of the designers. Phone designs should be pursuing a flush camera segment design, not an approach of how obnoxiously can we make that part of the phone stick out from the rest.
If the profit margin is 2% but it increases to 3%, that’s a 50% increase in profit.
> Temporary variables are certainly really tedious in many situations:
const string = "hello"
const capitalizedString = capitalize(string)
const paddedString = leftPad(capitalizedString, 5)

In that situation, one shouldn't use temporary variables (or at least too many of them), but rather just chain the functions

const paddedString = leftPad(capitalize("hello"), 5)
Stack overflow's reply to "why do you not support ipv4" is more or less what you describe:

> It's just a lot of work for honestly not a lot of gain just yet. Things like HTTPS and HTTP/2 are far more impactful for users. We'll get to IPv6 eventually, but it's unlikely to happen any time soon. There are simply far more impactful things we can do with our time on the sysadmin front for the foreseeable future.

> This is something everyone on our SRE team would like to do. We just don't have the time yet, even more important things are in queue.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/348224

Other services sit on giant heaps of ipv4 space and see it appreciate. For them, price increases are wonderful, because it means they can charge higher rents for the ipv4 space.
I’m not sure if it’s people don’t care or don’t have much of an option, especially if they lock into an ecosystem. There’s just a lot more choice on Android devices and the various trade offs.
Yeah, they are great but usually for commercial use — usually big, expensive and heavy. If you have a big yard, there’s a gap between a battery powered blower or weed whacker and gas.

Personally, i think battery powered lawn gear is winning the consumer market as it is, banning stuff is just forcing people to accept inferior solutions for their needs.
> Investment happens anywhere there is a chance of positive return.

Thats not how it works. Taking a higher percentage of returns, can leave the returns positive, but the expected value of risks negative.

EX: To make a simplified example, imagine that you can invest 10$, in an investment that has 50% chance of giving you an additional 11$.

That has a positive expected value. But if you put a 20% tax on the winning, now that investment no longer has a positive expected value, even though the returns in the wining case are positive.
"Same idea".

With iron-air, you charge by splitting rust to iron and oxygen, vent the oxygen, keep the iron in the battery; discharge by oxidizing the iron with oxygen from air. How do you get the iron to rust fast enough? How do you get the oxygen through the membrane and into the electrolyte fast enough? High pressure? Maybe you need thousands of cells in parallel to get much current flowing?

With hydrogen-air, you charge by separating water into hydrogen and oxygen, venting the oxygen, refrigerating and condensing the hydrogen into insulated tanks underground. (It slowly boils off, according as how good your tank insulation is; underground insulation can be very good.) Bank the removed heat? Discharge by boiling and then oxidizing the hydrogen to water vapor, condensing that to a tank for later, maybe using heat from condensation to help boil the LH2?

So, for iron you need to pump air to high pressure, and probably heat the iron. For hydrogen, you have to liquify it after it is hydrolysed, and move heat around a fair bit, and capture both H2 and (probably) H2O.

The Chileans are building a liquified-air (O2, N2) storage system. That charges by refrigerating and condensing air into insulated tanks, and pumping the removed heat into a heat reservoir. Discharge by boiling, using banked heat and latent atmospheric heat, venting through a turbine. The turbine needs much less maintenance than a steam turbine, because nothing gets hot.
Holy cow was this unreadable. It kept pulling me in with something I was interested in, then never clearly explaining before jumping to the next thing. I oddly sort of enjoyed the whimsy of the writing, but I came away with essentially no new information.
No. It's a cool experiment, but I would say the project as it was envisioned is mostly dead. It's well over 100 years old.

However, there is still an interesting idea about teaching it to school children as a first second language, because it's so well structured and easy to pick up that kids can start actually using it very quickly. The idea is that it primes the brain to be ready for more than one language, which is the steepest part of the multilingual learning curve. There's an exponential decay to the challenge of learning the n+1 language.

But what you're telling me about Toki Pona is that it might actually be better suited for that. If a classroom full of kids could be conversant in a second language after just a few weeks or months of instruction, that would achieve this goal much more efficiently.
That's exactly the issue -- you want your local meeting at a particular local time, and if you schedule it in UTC, the meeting shifts by an hour twice a year.
>This is the price we pay for our history.

"Since they were racist in the past, we get to be racist NOW!" At least you admit you're not morally against racism, you're quite for it, just targeting Whites is perfectly OK.

>You might think it's unfair

There's no "think", it is logically and factually racist, unfair.

The reason why you're seeing this more and more is because White liberals are the only self-hating subgroup [0].

"Remarkably, white liberals were the only subgroup exhibiting a pro-outgroup bias—meaning white liberals were more favorable toward nonwhites and are the only group to show this preference for group other than their own. Indeed, on average, white liberals rated ethnic and racial minority groups 13 points (or half a standard deviation) warmer than whites."

[0] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-wh...
I love the openness of android, and the explicit permission to root your phone.

But iphones have amazing longevity. The iphone 5s you mentioned came out in 2013 - which is 8 years ago now. Back then Obama was still in his first term. Maybe it is way too slow to handle the most recent version of iOS, but I'd rather a phone vendor that releases operating system updates for 8 years than a vendor who releases updates for only 2 years (like you get with certain android vendors.)

Last year I replaced my iphone 6s with an iphone 12. The thing that astonishes me is that I didn't need to. After a battery replacement, my 5 year old iphone was still running fine. It still runs the latest OS, and it ran every app I threw at it with aplomb. I really only upgraded it as a personal indulgence. Its still in use by a friend.

I'm absolutely on board with complaints about apple's lock in. I'm disgusted by some of the documents that came out in the epic court case, and I wish you could easily root iphones. But it feels like a stretch to complain about their longevity.
I had a Pixel 1 and loved it but switched to an iPhone circa EOL Pixel 4 because I couldn’t wait for 5/5a.

Is the 5a worth picking up? Im not a fan of iOS and Android has a killer feature in Work Profiles. Id like to switch back.
used to love pixel phones, my first smartphone was a google nexus and had one until pixe 2.

Then one day I needed Google support for hardware… It was terrible. Just to contact them was multiile multi hour wait calls until I could get it RMAd and had to stay a week without a phone… then I switched to iphone and guess what, it has the same apps… except I know if something happens with my phone I can just take it to a apple store and have it checked right away
Would LOVE this if you had English / Mandarin available!
I suspect in GP's case there was something blocking the intersected range. That should work perfectly.

The poetry author doesn't want to support package version range overrides like yarn does [1]. His call I suppose, but I think it's the one major flaw in the otherwise giant step that poetry takes forward.

[1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697
I get the idea. For what it's worth, I think 'totalitarian' means one party has 'total' political control.
> 1,200 an hour!

I've always been mildly curious, my first thoughts were "Less than I thought!".

Hear me out (criticism of my thinking on this is very welcome):

In LA's Ktown, a Domi (a job I had no idea existed just a few years ago... google if curious) charges a base rate of $100/hr, plus tips. For the client, there is no guarantee of nudity or any physical contact, though it's of course up to each individual what they're willing to do (and for how much).

From the perspective of the client, $100/hr buys you in-person company in a public setting with someone young, conventionally attractive, dressed skimpily. The person will (pretend to) politely listen to you as you talk, (pretend to) smile, (pretend to) laugh at your jokes, pour drinks for you, (pretend to) agree with your opinions, and, if they choose to, drink with you.

The market supports that price ($100/hr!) for work that does not require ANY sex as requisite. I imagined "entry level" sex work would be priced ~10x (min 7x) over work done (skimpily) clothed and in public, and that, like many other goods and services, "luxury" would have a multiplier over "entry level brand" between 5x and the stratosphere. (I guess with cars it's ~3x.)

These assumptions yield a price of $5k/hr for "luxury brand sex work", ~4x the empirical data. If we assume that "luxury" has a multiplier of just 3x (but I bet it's more!), then the ratio of the market price of sex work over somewhat similar (companionship, paid to be pretty and objectified) work done clothed and in a public venue, in the same city,... can be at most 4x.

Only 4x?

This is what shocks me! :)
It's important to understand that you can't go by major version numbers in most fixed-release, long term support Linux Operating Systems, like RHEL, Debian, or Ubuntu. There is often deeper investigation needed.

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-backporting-and-how-does...
I believe the goal od netburst architrture was to brute force beat its inefficencies with clock.

> With this microarchitecture, Intel looked to attain clock speeds of 10 GHz,[7]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_(microarchitecture)
It just shows how terrible JS as a language itself.
> I read these sort of objections all the time and all I can think is that if we took the "change almost nothing about our tools - think of the juniors!" approach advocated by these folks

Weird, when I started programming I wished there were a pipe operator and I never understood why it didn’t exist in most languages.
Copyright and taxi-medallion laws are grossly immoral examples of regulatory capture that impoverish and endanger the public in order to provide a much smaller benefit to a small number of "exploiters." YouTube, BitTorrent, and Uber Cab were able to improve this situation, making them very popular despite greatly angering the exploiters. Similarly for, say, marijuana sellers. Doing illegal things that are nevertheless ethically upright and very popular may pay off for a business, as it did in those cases. Or it may not.

It's less likely to pay off when the illegal things are instead unethical, unpopular, and harmful to the public, at least if you get caught—and when they involve betraying the people closest to you, you're probably going to get caught.
Slow phone here - It’s not a bug it’s a feature for my muscle memory safari-> news.y… habit lol
Yes absolutely. You would be redistributing the software with the TV. That said, I can't imagine anyone would actually file a lawsuit in a situation like this.

More worrying is whether Costco and Walmart could be sued under this theory. Vizio sells very few TVs directly.
>Among 13-year-olds, in 1984, 8 percent said they never or hardly ever read for fun, rising to 22 percent in 2012 and 29 percent in 2020.

http://archive.today/2021.10.14-112558/https://www.washingto...
Yeah I mean, if you commit negligence or malpractice (which are serious, not like the client didn't like your work) you're liable, so you need insurance. And you can still go to jail for actual crimes. But the creditor/bankruptcy liability is nice and basically free.
An open hardware, extensible 65c02 based computer
Thanks, how does this compare for matrix multiplication and logistical regression to other machine learning specific cores though, like a GPU or one of those Google Tensor Cores? These Alibaba chips don't seem like they'd do very well at those tasks, but are just great all purpose CPUs
“ I realize that this article is quite long, and unfortunately this is the short version. Much nuance and history is lost here, even though the post is already long enough that it is destined for the limbo of a bookmarks folder called "to read later". Despite the fact that no one will read more than the next 3 paragraphs…” - pro tip - if you want to make the article shorter and easier to read don’t spend an entire paragraph blabbering about how long it is and how nobody reads anymore. I bet if the author had aimed to be succinct, the article would be half the current size and much quicker to read and understand.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the FDA just wanted everyone to be able to hear properly? I get that they are a policy institution and "hear better, implement it however you like" isn't much of a policy, but an almost-directive (buy whatever you want) seems to be rather decoupled from any health related issue which is what an hearing aid is for.
Ask HN: Career outlook in tech without a CS degree?
Hi all. I'm a mid-20s Economics major who has been thinking about transitioning into software engineering, and am wondering what the long-term career prospects are like for someone without a CS degree. That is, even if I managed to find an entry-level job, would I ever be taken seriously for promotion?

For background, I'm currently working in finance, but have been coding as a hobby since grade school and have started to think about making a career out of it. My sense is that some tech companies are willing to hire people without CS degrees if they have the requisite skills, but I wasn't sure what their attitude was toward the same people after they got their foot in the door. I imagine a CS degree has both substantive value and signalling value, and wasn't sure how disadvantaged I'd be to lack that background.

Thanks in advance for your input.
Use 'position of power' to argue that systems are biased in favor of a group, not against it, then use that positive bias as evidence for the groups power.

Brilliant.
I'm talking about the failure mode of a nuclear plant exploding.

Windmills and solar farms can be dismantled and moved. Nuclear plants, once a catastrophic failure happens, infect all the land around them for many miles and there is ~nothing you an do about it. See: Chernobyl.

That said, this is extremely unlikely given everything we know now and how technology has progressed. But the 'uninhabitable wasteland' is the failure mode people are worried about.
> So Friday-Saturday is a workday in Hawaii, but not in Australia. If you ask someone to schedule a meeting Saturday afternoon, will they think that's fine, or think you're crazy? Depends if they're Hawaiian or Australian.

This is correct, but it doesn't show that there isn't disagreement about what day it is. It shows there's a (potential) disagreement about whether today is a workday.

Moreover, you're just re-describing a problem we already have now. If your business, based in Hawaii, wants to plan a meeting for Friday, and someone from New Zealand is supposed to be on the call, you're going to be disappointed to learn that they don't plan on going to work on what for them is a Saturday.

So this is in no way a problem solved by time zones, to the extent that it's even a problem. At least if you're in agreement about what date it is, the people in New Zealand can get back to you with a straightforward description of the problem: "sorry, we quit for the week at 5 on Friday, you'll have to schedule it earlier or bump it to next week".
I don't disagree with you. I'm just trying to very clearly state that the "worst" failure modes are not equivalent.
“It understands the difference between a recorded message and an actual representative on the line.”

If it can really understand that hold music stopped to play a periodic voice recording of “your call is important to us” is still a recording (and not have the urge to smash phone at the wall) I’m completely sold!
I noticed that you've asked a couple folks in this thread on their thoughts around that Square memo, digging a bit more into their thoughts. Wondering if there's something specific you're trying to understand around people's thoughts?
What does this have to do with lending to retail though? How does this particular regulation prevent those from happening again?
You are right that he can't unilaterally relicense the kernel and that it will likely never happen, but Linus is in fact against the GPLv3, see debconf 14 Q&A: https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840
This would be an interesting analysis - agreed!
> unfortunately but unsurprisingly leads to chronic under-investment in the means of production, as those who would otherwise invest in capital are uninterested in seeing its value captured.

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly you got the math backwards on this one.
> I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life

Yet you buy into the most intrusive of them all... an Android device.
perhaps the topology of spacetime and usual assumptions of some kind of constant (or no) curvature everywhere as apposed to something with more complex curvature?
Sounds like quite a naive statement. The scope of this project is huge. there are so many different systems at play here. Some are so legacy they go back to Tudor times.
> the only workable way forward with minimum wage increases.

>> In the short term, obviously.

> how to shift the system.

Well one thing is to have the federal reserve slowly increase its discount rate over fixed preset intervals, say: to 25% over the course of 5 years. At some point, nobody buys bonds at the discount rate anymore, and the fed is no longer necessary for banking operations (originally the fed was supposed to be "the bank of last resort" but it is more like "the source of money printing" now). You'd have to figure out how to make the fed no longer necessary to run government programs, but one can imagine if we cut out the cronyism, actually taxed corporations, and decreased our military budget by about 25% or so, we would be able to do just fine.
It is also dangerous for a man as well. Some report being robbed or have their picture take upon arrival and blackmailed. It would be beneficial to both sides if people didn’t have to hide what they do.
> I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort

I hope you hate capitalism then. It's all about supply and demand. As a gay man with some friends who escort, their rates are much lower, both for obvious reasons (it is ridiculously easy for most gay men to find other men to have sex with) and less obvious ones (IMO there is much less of a stigma among gay men for escorting, and at least friends I knew who did it expressed little shame at doing it).