skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While faster-than-light (FTL) travel is impossible through spacetime as PhD physicists know it (i.e. as "Relativity-confirming experiments reveal it"), there are forms of apparent FTL that have mainstream PhD acceptance, because they don't allow information to travel from point A to point B faster than light and thus do not violate causality.

The expansion of the observable universe itself being apparently FTL is perhaps the most interesting. If we point the Hubble telescope (and soon JWST) towards opposite ends of the observable universe, we observe extreme redshift galaxies receding away from each other in opposite directions greater than twice lightspeed if we measure according to "distance in light years" from earth. But no photons or information from a galaxy at one side of our observable universe can be sent to a galaxy at the opposite end: they are receding away from each other too rapidly, these two galaxies exist Beyond the Cosmological Event Horizon relative to each other and are forever unknowable to each other, and thus causality is not violated.

An advanced alien race in galaxy A might be able to beam a message to earth before galaxy A vanishes Beyond the Cosmological Event Horizon within the next 100 million years earth-time, and likewise galaxy B might beam a message to earth within the next 100 million years earth-time, but earth can't relay the message from A to B or B to A because they have already forever receded from each other and will soon both likewise forever recede away from us.
Also, would there be any legal difference if they wrote a browser plug-in/extension that provides additional information while you're logged into AA's site?
Yes, but not the apex of the "electronics industry".
> Amazingly, Hesiod was right about this behaviour

I don't see why this is a surprise.
Since humans have invented simple and painless birth control, this is no longer the case. Birth rates are falling across the world (including poor traditional societies), and are below replacement in many countries, basically in 100% of the Western civilization.
> it's not Apple's right to be the sole defender of the American people

They're not. They are (and want to continue to be) the sole defender of Apple iDevice customers. The American people (and in fact anyone else), can choose a non-Apple device, and therefore non-Apple ecosystem.

To me it all boils down to - is the app ecosystem a public commons or a private commons subject to the owner's T&C's? (for clarity - the owner is not the customer. The customer owns the device, but they do not own the ecosystem).
It's junior high. But with grown adults doing the teasing and bullying.
People have been whipping themselves into a frenzy for 2yr. That won't just go away overnight because they caught Omicron and it was fine.
After exploring this for a while, scrolling through these comments with the up and down arrows was a bit disorienting for me. The illusion of of navigating more than 2 dimensions persisted a little while on this page for me.
I absolutely love DynamoDB. Would definitely recommend the DynamoDB Book by Alex Debrie and Advanced DynamoDB Patterns by Rick H on YouTube.

Once you understand how to properly use dynamo and what it’s good at it you get so much power; at a fraction of the cost depending on your workload.

Was a breeze to setup multi region applications that utilize the single table design strategy.

If you ever need complex queries just use dynamo streams to power whatever search solution you are comfortable with.
Q: Why open source?

A: Because it's the right thing to do.
It's an active area of debate with archeology and anthropology. It's generally been assumed that hunter-gatherer societies were very egalitarian, but there's a lot of evidence that this is an over generalization.

We now have pretty good evidence of small-scale societies being very hierarchical and evidence of larger scale societies being extremely egalitarian. In addition, the general categorization of the political organization of these societies seems to be the most problematic thing. In just 200 years, western society has profoundly changed the way we self-organize so there's no reason to think these societies somehow remained the same for millions of years.

Instead we see evidence of deep experimentation in most societies. Some even varied drastically from season to season. For example, the Cheyenne (Suhtai and Tsitsistas) and the Lakota of the Great Plains in the 19th century would appoint a leader with basically absolute authority during the late summer for buffalo hunts. The rest of the year they were extremely egalitarian with no one holding any formal power. Similarly, many societies experimented heavily with forms of agriculture and hybrid forms of subsistence and would adapt their form of social organization to adapt to those forms of subsistence.

So yeah, it's problematic to make such a generalization. However, it should also be noted that many scholars have recently pointed out that the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest might've had a larger impact on the core debates of the European Enlightenment than past European thinkers did. People from the Pacific Northwest likely had a lot of experience living in large hierarchical urban societies like Cahokia (which at one point was larger than any European city) and their egalitarian politics can be examined as a direct response to this experience. Anthropologists have also documented what they unfortunately named "Missipization" that spread throughout much of Eastern North America after the decline of Cahokia, possibly bringing with it a wave of democratic forms of political organization.
All power must be justified.
Anyone who knows anything about VPN services knows that they don't stop people from looking in on what you're doing; they only stop people other than the provider from doing so.

Most if not all of the big VPN providers collect data and give it to law enforcement, which isn't exactly news to us.

Tom Scott had a pretty good video on what VPNs can actually deliver on, despite the claims of many sponsored content creators. He lost his VPN sponsorship because he pointed out, among other things, that you don't actually have guaranteed privacy with these services.
PT cruiser is an example of the opposite, which sought truck classification:
https://www.brakeandfrontend.com/tech-spec-retro-work-servic...

Chrysler specifically designed the PT Cruiser to fit the NHTSA criteria for a light truck in order to bring the average fuel efficiency of the company’s light truck fleet into compliance with CAFE standards.
With proper vaccination risk is at an acceptable level.
I still wonder why I peruse HN for this reason (as a non-SWE). It's incredible how the business world panders to software engineers.
I'd never heard of M-DISC before. [0] "Verbatim M DISC™ optical media is the new standard for digital archival storage. Unlike traditional optical media, which utilize dyes that can break down over time, data stored on an M DISC is engraved on a patented inorganic write layer – it will not fade or deteriorate. This unique engraving process renders these archival grade discs practically impervious to environmental exposure, including light, temperature and humidity."

[0] https://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/m-disc/
I honestly don't understand how any startup can even hope to compete if they don't offer remote options.

Hiring is incredibly tight right now, and I'm sure glad my options are "anybody within ~2 timezones" over basically only people within a 15 mile radius of my office because traffic is horrendous in my city.

Not to mention, how have companies not realized how to build robust remote company cultures over the past 2 years? My city currently has the highest hospitalization rates of any time during the pandemic, so hardly anyone is in the office anyway.

Just don't understand how any of these startup board members or VCs would be willing to invest in companies at this point that prohibit remote work.
If it was worth doing this, why aren't they doing that today for Android then?
No one said code needs to be artistic.

You have twisted my words.

I equated it to art as the physical manifestation of something that represents someone's mental imaging / modeling.
It is a judge's responsibility to literally judge whether a given application of the law is appropriate.

This encompasses every possible input including "what they believe lawmakers meant to say".

Edit: To get out in front of the obvious "Well what about when a judge just decides to do whatever they want??" response, I will say: That is why tradition, precedent, checks & balances, voting rights, and institutional trust all matter.
By this standard, there is literally nothing that can be called impossible. Perpetual motion machines can't be said to be impossible because, who knows, maybe there is a God and tomorrow He could flip the switch for free energy from off to on.
Well, technically time travel forward is easy.

And to say that backwards time travel isn't possible at this point doesn't make much sense. We don't even have a clear understanding of what time is, or why it goes forwards.

And the singularity should be around the corner, and that might present a computerized solution to emulate reverse time travel.
Looks like there's plenty of countries that offer remote work visas. https://www.letsdeel.com/blog/remote-work-visas

Seems like a problem that will eventually self correct as more jobs go remote and countries realize they have to compete with each other for residents so they can profit off of these worker's productivity.
Did they? They aren't exactly known for being teansparent.
I don't think it is an overloaded term... It just means that there is no office you are expected to go into. Those things you identified are just other dimensions that are also important.
This scares me, I don't want to be having these dreams in my 60s, do you know if there any kind of therapy? this is a bit like a mini PTSD
The effects and handling of covid are so bad right now that cops are substitute teaching in Oklahoma https://www.mic.com/impact/police-substitute-teachers-oklaho...

A shortage of truck drivers means the legal age for commercial truck drivers is being lowered from 21 to 18, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/business/apprentice-progr...

There is no getting back to the way things were right now and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional
Eh, even if so, how many years and millions of dollars before that is established in the highest applicable court and actually enforced? Until then Apple can do whatever, really.
The onus is more on HashiCorp here by this logic. Consul itself is open source but HashiCorp sells an enterprise version.
For any new lending the contracts get replaced with new ones referencing Sonia. Even existing debt facilities that get drawn down - the banks don’t want more lending under libor.

It’s a pretty painless substitution though
I think it's because Google started tightening the controls on their platform in order to make it more homogeneous like Apple. I think you can't legally say your phone is Android unless you conform to some Google terms. I suppose Samsung's own apps and store are insurance against such an eventuality.

Not that this excuses the low quality of their software. It's in all likelihood filled with spyware too. At least the hardware is good and has good support for custom software.
That's definitely an achievable goal with sufficient dedication.
You say /s but this is pretty on point IMO.
LG Ends Support for Lgsvl Simulator
There's companies that specialize in global employment*, either by being employers of record in the employee's country and managing all that means, letting the actual company that wants to hire the employee not worry about that. Some similarly assist with contract positions in such situations

letsdeel.com and remote.com are two such companies that provide this kind of service.

* well I should actually call it global HR, not employment.
None. Not even the Color Star CEO being a mysterious person named “Sir Lucas Capetian”...
Please, would love to hear more about your point about "(async, writing, Looms)" :-)

I'd just had the pleasure to work at a unicorn which started during the pandemic, but for whatever reason wanted to open actual offices mid-term. The result being that some teams were working more async-y than others.

And I immediatly felt, there's a need to explore how to sync teams in an async way, including many yet-to-exist tech-solutions.

So please, elaborate!
We do so many ineffective Covid rituals. If we just wore n95s when reasonable that would give us equivalent protection and eliminate the need for the other stuff. Outdoor making is so dumb.
The S&P 500 is also flat since October and up 16.3% in the last year. VXUS is down in the last year. If you want a simple strategy buy into an S&P 500 index fund and don't worry until you're closer to retirement.
IDK, their main aquarium is the entire ocean, and they still come up on land.
They provide a monetary return.
This is the sentiment I've seen many times on HN.
will there be? there wasn't any price paid for security/counterterrorism theatre under Bush. and most of that stuff never really went away, we just got used to it. we're not going to flick a switch off and "just go back to normal" after this. every time cold (both temperature and illness) season comes around, some stores will make masks mandatory, kids will be sent home from school for remote learning now that they all have laptops, etc. etc.
It's not shallow at all, it's rather the human shallowness being exposed, of which the article has lots.

For example, the article correctly claims that we don't really know how an octopus perceives these interactions with humans, as they're of an entirely different non-mammalian intelligence and social behavior. Next, the article strongly affirms they're about as intelligent as a racoon.

These two things directly contradict each other and show shallowness on our behalf. The real answer is that we have no idea at all.

The article continues to state that things like deceit and learning ability are rarely found in invertebrates. Which is plain wrong. They are found in creatures a thousand times smaller than an octopus.

Weak scorpionfly males pretend to be a female so that they get a food gift from a strong male, which they can carry to the actual female. Deceit. Some butterflies strategically place their eggs near ants after which the ants take the pupa (which is evolved to look like an ant pupa) and nourish it to an adult. After which the young adult butterfly goes: thanks for everything, bye now. Deceit. Camouflage. Deceit. Traps. Deceit. Mimicry. Deceit.

Beewolfs (which are wasps) navigate by beacons. Move the beacons and they re-learn the path. Learning ability. The absolute "dumbest" creature showing learning ability: earth worms. We're talking a handful of neurons. They drag leaves into their dens to feed on. By giving them lots of different leafs, they learn which types they want. They also learn to drag them in the right direction, as the other way blocks the den. It actually remembers this and gets better at it over time.

We are incredibly shallow in misunderstanding but above all underestimating the capabilities of animals and overestimating the value of our own definitions.

So the challenge is warranted. Perhaps another species is studying us and concluding that we're not a social species, because we all seem to sit by ourselves looking at some weird bar of bright light all day. Even in mass gatherings (cities) of millions, this weird species does not show actual social behavior. Nobody knows each other and actively ignores others.
Cloud providers are rarely in cities. Google's biggest region is in the middle of Iowa, Amazon's is in Virginia.

If you have a latency sensitive application (like multiplayer games) it makes sense to put a few servers in each of 100 locations rather concentrate them in a half dozen cloud regions.

As they point out elsewhere, the cost of infrastructure directly impacts their ability to pay creators on the platform. Doing it yourself will always be cheaper, and they hired the smart people to make it happen.
> Pandora: 752

Some streaming services are net-equivalents of terrestrial radio, where the user selects the rough genre but doesn't drive the program. Pandora's a good example.

Some streaming services are meant to be in-the-cloud replacements for your record collection, where you select the program. Spotify is like this; Pandora is not.

Their payouts should probably be different.

> YouTube Music: 1,250

That's astonishing, considering YouTube can function as a cloud record collection.
I just heard of Mosey, though I think they are focused on different states within the US (at least at first). https://mosey.so/
Yeah I think the steady state is that the number will very closely match the percentage of people that other remote vs. offices. I don't have a good sense for how that breaks down, but my sense is that it's over 50% that prefer remote, but not 90%.
Yeah, it seems this just isn’t recognizing the “end” of the domain part correctly :)
It was in service for 48 years. It was built in the late 1950's, so it is even much older.
In my experience, most people who complain about TS slowing down development are devs who've been working with pure JS for a while and haven't gotten over the (relatively brief) learning curve to adopt TS.

Migrations, however, are always painful:

1) You're going to end up writing code that ends up being difficult to type later; to the extent that you and every single other developer on the team is disciplined enough to avoid that, you may as well adopt the typing ahead of time

2) The support & tooling for managing "halfway" migrated JS -> TS projects "exists", but is obviously inferior to just "buying in" all the way

If you haven't put in a huge amount of work yet, I'd strongly suggest pivoting to Typescript ASAP. I don't know how Vue handles it but it performs beautifully for React.
> cops are substitute teaching in Oklahoma

Yes, this was covered in the documentary South Park, The Pandemic Special (season 24, episode 1).
Javascript is eating the world. Only WASM can save us now.
I am interested in this book, and will probably get it. It seems to come at a time when the Western governments, despite their gargantuan size, seem totally incapable of resolving their innumerable, largely self-inflicted crises. Plagued precisely by the questions of meaning which Hobbes ejected from politics, the West seems to be demonstrating that one can have both the Leviathan, and the State of Nature at once.

I’ve changed my views about a lot of things in the last decade or so, but seeing Hobbes as something of a villain has been constant. As a secular progressive, it seemed an overly pessimistic take on the possibility of political change. Today, as a (Catholic) Christian, and also a big David Graeber fanboi (these are not as radically incompatible as they may seem), I think that the State of Nature postulate, which forms the basis of Hobbesian thought, is not justified by actual human experience.
Congress weights cleaning up cryptocurrency mining in the US
Congratulations!

Lacking clear research (in this case, we lack intoxicated pregnant people to study, as you say), I tend to rely more on expert judgment to sort out the facts, bringing to bear their knowledge of physiology, anatomy, chemistry, and disease; their long experience with many thousands of actual people, etc. I have none of that. If I break my arm, that's my only experience with it.
I prefer full WFH myself, but I think a lot depends on the family situation, too. Some people have small kids and it's hard for them to WFH, though people are more understanding if some little kid walks into an online meeting yelling about something these days.

Other people just like the structure of it or they have a good desk setup at work and not as good a place to work from at home.
The CDC (formally Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has long tried to enter the gun control debate. That has nothing to do with their mission of communicable disease prevention. Congress has repeatedly voted to block them.
Technically, yes, but the FTC is not geared to enforce financial market rules.
Searching FTC rulings on ad exchanges, I found one example of a settlement in a COPPA case.
And by that do your mean the new baseline is now 2-3x what it was mid spike then yes it subsided
I've found a few places offering things like that, I think it would be pretty valuable from a recruiting standpoint, but not a lot of adoption. I think it's the next step after remote work - calibrate the hours per week according to your preferences, instead of one size fits all.
Perhaps, I think the risk level for death or hospitalization may be acceptable, but I'd love to see data about the risk level for long covid after being vaccinated.
Facebook is a special case with its own solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017171

Then you have a truth. The extent to which people want Apple to curate which apps they can install will control the amount of leverage Apple has to do it with. If people really want it, they'll put up a strong resistance to installing apps from other sources, even if Apple isn't forcing them to. Then Apple will have leverage to enforce good behavior. Or people will only switch to other high quality stores that also reject bad apps.

If it turns out hardly anybody cares, they won't. But then the argument that most people are buying Apple products specifically because they want a curated experience would disintegrate against empirical evidence.
There's a 15% off sale on stocks. If you are buying stocks in order to invest for the long term, that should make you very happy. You should be learning that stock market corrections or bear markets are normal and nothing to worry about.

If you invested money in stocks that you need in the short term, you are beginning to learn why you don't do that.
askonomm wrote remote worker, not remote employee.

A remote worker can be an independent contractor and easily not run afoul of employee/contractor distinctions, especially because a lot of those distinctions have to do with being at a certain place at a certain time, and being locked to one client.
For those of you who aren't statisticians: D. R. Cox was an absolute legend. Revolutionized the field of survival statistics with his proportional hazards model. Shares 50% of the credit for the Box-Cox test and all the giggles it generates in undergrads. Invented the Cox point process. A zillion other things. His contributions were great and he will be missed.

Edit: I have to edit my comment because calling him an absolute legend doesn't feel like it was doing him justice. I'm not kidding, I don't think I can state how important he was. He's in the top 5 statisticians of all time- everyone's ranking of top 5 varies but Cox is in the top 5 on almost every statistician's list- and will probably still be top 5 until the future is perfectly predictable and there is no need for probability and statistics anymore. There may never be someone that is as productive and with as impactful discoveries. Sure, there will be people that write more papers, but nobody will write as many great papers. Sure, there are other great statisticians that have a few great discoveries named after them, but there are none that have as many great discoveries named after them.
I disagree that addressing the core argument of your claim is "word lawyering".

Your original full claim

> Unless your job requires you to forcibly intervene between armed, violent offenders and their victims, I don’t see how this is relevant.

doesn't hold water when police are also not required to forcibly intervene between armed, violent offenders and their victims.
I dunno, I went into one of these really nice offices most days a week for awhile after it reopened in the fall. But the novelty wore off and I haven't been going in that much recently. But I do think part of this is that it's still a ghost town, so it's not that much fun to go in there. But that will change eventually.