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To me, the concept that there is another universe, beyond the Event Horizon, is a little silly.

However, for fun, I once thought of a science fiction scenario for a novel.

I thought a Black Hole, can be used as the instrument for a wormhole in space. An Einstein-Rosen Bridge, that connects our universe to another universe, in the multiverse.

But there are a lot of plot holes in this idea. If light cannot escape the black hole, then you somehow need to go faster than light, to traverse the wormhole, and to escape it, when you cross over to the other side. So, once you exit the black hole, then you land at the other side, and there is a whole other universe there, with its own set of stars.

But, this will also allow other people from another universe, to cross into our universe, via this black hole.

Then how does such a black hole form?

It starts with a very massive star, more massive than a Neutron Star, that roams around our universe. Then, in an adjacent universe, another very massive star is wandering around also. Think of our universe as a bubble, and the adjacent universe is another bubble. These two massive stars, will distort the fabric of their bubbles, at the edges. The two stars will gravitationally attract each other, and they will basically punch a hole through each bubble. And when they collide, the mass from each star will form the structure of the wormhole. They won't explode on contact, but instead, it will now form a bridge between two universes.

For millions of years, they will dance around each other, until they finally find a stable orbit, where both are spinning around each other.

Think of this as a binary star system, where the two stars are rotating around each other, so fast, that it forms this virtual wall. This virtual wall, is the structure of the Einstein-Rosen bridge. And in the middle, it is gravitationally neutral.

And this wormhole structure, will now allow regular spacecraft, that can travel faster than light, to traverse the wormhole, and emerge on the other side.

Next, I just have to add the other parts of the story, like the bad guy, the love story and love triangle, and some good guy that is searching for himself. And with that, I'll have a blockbuster novel that I can turn into a live action movie.
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Humans are notorious for not being as smart as they think they are.
Donations are more valuable than part-time development. You're not gonna write some Python script that does for them what they could have done with a $500 check instead. Troubleshooting their back-office CSV imports won't pay for fences to keep poachers off reserves.
Even Hayek, so beloved of Thatcher and Reagan, sought to regulate and price externalities due to failures of the free market:

“Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, or of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories, be confined to the owner of the property in question or to those who are willing to submit to the damage for an agreed compensation. In such instances we must find some substitute for the regulation by the price mechanism.” (From Road to Serfdom)
> We seen competition not working in many sectors

Agreed!

I don't think car manufacturers is one of those sectors. Even if you take into account the periodic scandals (emission test, having to recall cars because they were literally killing people[0], etc) that pop up, cars have gotten massively safer over the past 50 years

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...

((hey, wait a minute. Doesn't that mean we already have a legal framework for cars killing people?))
You knock on my door and I write down that you visited me.

Why is it somehow reasonable to compel me to forget that interaction existed?
> Filtering out which parts are factual and which parts are superstitious nonsense is where the science comes in.

Literally, and in the historical sense. That's pretty much how the Royal Society got started.
You'd also have to argue why you need to store the IP and not just a hash of the IP if it's just for fraud prevention.
Ah, a perl user ;)

For those who don't know :

"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris." - Perl man page
It's hard to make optimizations, because you cannot make a lot of assumptions ahead of time on how the code is going to run.

For instance, one can override most of the builtin functions like len().
1. Energy does actually escape black holes

2. The jets are not matter originating inside the black hole. They are are matter that is accelerated by the black hole then slung away. It’s a similar mechanism to how we accelerate some of our spacecraft (by flying them close to the mooon or Jupiter) but with much higher energy levels!
Completely agree with your points. Every time one of these articles comes out it just fuels the FUD factor for Smart Home from reputable companies.

Especially in the last year or two when many of these articles focus on the physical access exploits of cheaper manufacturers. If someone is going to break into my house just to ransomware my thermostat, or upload new firmware to my Gen 1 Alexa... someone needs to explain to me how there are not more high value targets/things in either of those cases. Even for surveillance purposes.

Hardware is hard. I think many small IoT companies have figured that out, the larger ones have known it for a long time. Security is harder, but that's why it's important to buy from someone reputable (e.g., the "default password" fiasco on cheap DVR wired camera systems)

Disclosure: I work for a large consumer IoT company.
"IoT hack: how to break a smart home… again"

This is not a reasonable headline if you believe that is all the article is trying to get across.
If the speed of light of this universe was raised significantly, is there some point where black holes would be impossible to form?

I assume if the speed of light were lowered black holes would become far more common?
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If physical distance to customers is no longer a significant problem companies will switch their priorities to other aspects like physical distance to potential investors.
I think the phone maker will using software to make sure your phone is beyond tolerant in 2-3 years.
> From the outside perspective, all the information and energy sits on the border

Are you sure that's known? What kind of experiment would settle that?
The site doesn't work for me at all, just a blank white page. No skill involved in mentioning that.
I think it is accepted wisdom for small SaaS startups, not a universal knowledge. For a company like Optimizely with the established user base, possibly it is smarter to go after 100 enterprise customers, rather than 10,000 mixed ones.

I personally strongly disagree with such tactics and I think this might lead to the company collapse in far future. By cutting out small users, you are wiping out testers, that pay to use your product and provide a valuable feedback.
Instead of cutting out the smallest customers, they should optimize their offering, so that small users are being served completely automatically, hands-off, with only email support provided.
Morals, ethics?
If you do not care about version of android, https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/ASUS-Zenfone-MAX-ZC550KL-Andr.... For me, it is feature complete (one of the most important feature being the small price tag).
> ...Jython...

Which is Java with Python syntax...
In this case, a few breathalyzers were not calibrated correctly, but the officer responsible for testing them claimed to have done so. Now every device and calibration procedure is called into question, as their results may not be as verifiably precise as required by law. The device itself is not claimed to have been tampered with.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/10/20k_dwi_cases_c...
keeping it top secret and only cracking very high profile targets with the technology

Of course. The "big guns" are not to be used lightly, as the saying goes.
probably because being legal is not a sufficient condition for being ethical
people would be able to select with more confidence that their children with someone would come out the way they like.

In other words, a eugenics profile.

Why stop at dating apps? You could put the data mortgage applications, insurance profiles, and more. I can imagine some of the conversations wouldn't be too far off this:

"I love you, but with a 22% chance of our kids having brown eyes and a 56% chance of high cholesterol, I have to end the relationship."

"The bank denied the application, because you're at a higher risk for a myocardial infarction by the age of 50."

"My car insurance rates will go through the roof if I put you on my policy because you're genetically predisposed to drive more aggressively than me."
And C was considered a high-level programming language...
The jets come from outside of the hole.
Honestly, the only sane contingent on the Brexit<->anti-Brexit spectrum are weak remainers. The rest are either crazies with a near religious fervour (at the extreme ends of the spectrum), those chronically incapable of seeing any point of view other than their own or the easily duped. Some people are all three.

Regardless, the first rule of executive club is to shift the credit and shift the blame - such that you get the credit and somebody (or something) else gets the blame.
My guess is that only a few years after this tech, we'll have better tech that can give your child the desired genes no matter who your partner is. And then we'll have a new age of reproductive competition the likes of which the Earth has never seen. Not a utopia, that's for damn sure.
How would you be able to check that the genetic information that someone has on their profile is actually theirs?
Phones are feature-complete now.

The second iPhone was 10 times better than the first ones, but now you can hardly tell the difference.
> This would be a statistic that would jump off the charts and trigger Apple to essentially develop a solution straight away.

How, though? If the only information Apple has is that their SE scheme is broken, how is that supposed to help them develop a solution?
I have nothing against cannabis, i support its legalization. This stuff was marketed as particularly potent and really screwed with peoples minds after long term use.
Another thing I hate seeing is that even when you have an unlockable bootloader (like my LG Stylo 2 Plus), good luck finding a custom ROM for it. LineageOS? I can only wish. For the most part, only LG's flagships get any love - and even if it became available I'd have to hope that it doesn't implode the way CyanogenMod did. I don't have the free time to port it myself, either.

At least LG's Android skin isn't bad.

I spent a while on XDA, and that whole scene seems horribly broken. I ran an older phone rooted for a while, but keeping up with root and security updates got to be a real pain.
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The simple logical answer to that is that it is clearly impossible to blacklist.

The more specific answer is:

git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"

git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com

Also, looking up, you can undo a rebase with reflog, so even editing commits with an interactive rebase may not be enough to purge a git repo of identifiable information that people have entered.
Yes of course, I know that and I already donate to good causes. I am just looking for a win-win situation where I get to have fun developing something that helps out people to preserve nature or help out people.
"They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore."

Gattaca
If GDPR was enforced, the manufacturer of such devices would be heavily fined, right ?
There is no “purge”. People with bad genes can still have children, and will. However, over time as societal awareness grows it becomes harder. Two people with bad genes might mate less commonly, however a person with great genes may settle for someone with bad genes, producing OK children.

To me this is good, and is basically what happens now only a lot less efficiently.

Genocide is completely unnecessary, and is basically for governments with bad agendas and impatience to wait for genes to improve naturally.
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It's odd to read that I think too much about details, then read you complain that people don't think enough about all the details of what might go wrong.

Abstractly, what you say makes sense. It's been the heart of much of the opposition to ecosystem intervention for decades.

But when it gets down to the details, the question is, when should we try to intervene?

Your comments appears to be "never, because we don't know the consequences."

Which is fine. There may be good reasons against it. But if you justify it with a story line better suited to a science fiction movie then how much weight should we place in your opposition?

Or, going the other direction, what sort of response would you want which would make you feel more comfortable about the plan to use RHDV1-K5?
The names of the devices are practically in the clear in the article. First in the picture of the PCB, there's an obscured "Z?p?Box", and googling rather quickly yields the Zipato ZipaBox -- and oh hey, the logo on the PCB matches the one on the site: https://www.zipato.com/product/zipabox

Re the light bulb, you can see the strings "mi-img" and "yeelight", so it's pretty definitely a Xiaomi Yeelight, maybe this one: https://www.gearbest.com/smart-lighting/pp_361555.html

The Zipabox retails for 199 EUR, Yeelights are ~15 EUR a pop on Gearbest... Definitely not the cheapest, shadiest and worst IoT devices.
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He was, after all, a professional writer. He brought in the perspective of a user who wants to use the computers and, occasionally, needs to program them. He always tried to be a couple years ahead of the market, using stuff that'd be insanely expensive for just about anyone, but that suppliers sent him because being featured in his column was a great sales driver.
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I think Optimizely is burning an important bridge of theirs. But thanks to decisions like this, small companies can raise on the back of SMB market.

Optimizely picked stability over the crazy growth (and fluctuations in revenue).
Additional discussion of one person businesses from about a year ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535
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TIL: I am the ultimate human.
"I am friends with a Nazi" != "I am a Nazi"

I'm not sure what more to say, this seems axiomatic. If I'm friends with a vegan it doesn't mean I'm a vegan or support veganism. We don't all excommunicate our racist uncle from thanksgiving, etc.

I guess though you're just arguing for the sake of it, since the whole point of the article is you have to be friends and tolerant of bad people to help those people improve... thereby reducing the number of bad people.
Man, very well done. That’s the best html game I’ve played on mobile. Super addicting, and the radiators are an interesting twist! My strategy was to hold them until I get a heated floor.
It would be nice if they made their online (browser-based) streaming service actually work. Or at least work for more than a few days before they break it again.
Aren't the detected gravitational waves evidence that black holes exist?

I mean, don't the waves measure a merge up to the point that both black holes are inside a single Schwarzschild radius? And if so, isn't that very strong evidence that the things merging are black holes?
Good point. For a number of years every few years there have been something that requires a lot more power. Offhand I can think of e.g. heating, fridges, televisions, microwaves, cooling, PC desktops and consoles (over many generations).
Using DNA to predict the likelihood of a behavior or IQ is on a collision course with the ghost in the machine doctrine, which assumes our intelligence, character, what we become is solely or predominantly the result of our environment/culture/education. I wonder how far research in that field can go before it is decided that the potential outcome would be politically unacceptable.
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Except their advice wouldn't even stop the attacks they outlined.

> Always change the default password. Instead use a strict and complex one. Don’t forget to update it regularly.

Good advice, but it won't stop the password from being sent over HTTP.

> Don’t share serial numbers, IP addresses and other sensitive information regarding your smart devices on social networks

Again, good advice, but it won't stop the device from storing WiFi credentials after a hard reset.

> Be aware and always check the latest information on discovered IoT vulnerabilities.

I wish I could, but they haven't named a single device that anyone can watch out for, nor have they shared any way that the average user can check for these vulnerabilities.
Like Microsoft products haven't driven people to despair ever.
My main reason for learning to play the piano is being able to compose or better express myself through music. I was "intuitively" learning to play the piano for 2-3 years, going through periods in which I would just sit at the piano and play the keys I liked, find the keys that corresponded with the sounds in my head and just letting go and having my hands move in the directions they wanted to. I got pretty cool results and loved the depth of my music, but I realized that I needed a teacher to make the next step.

Being guided by a teacher was invaluable and I recommend it to everyone. Mine focused on improvisation and music theory and i realy loved it. I was moving forward much faster than on my own. Unfortunately I lost trust in my teacher, after finding a little song on his youtube channel (he has a channel on which he teaches stuff with synthesia videos) that he shared a week after my first session with him, which resembled very much what I had been working on at home and shown him. I was really bummed out, never had the guts to ask him how that happened and stopped returning, because he kept asking me to play stuff that I worked on at home...and eventually I stopped playing alltogether.

After reading this article I got excited again about piano playing. Just found this awesome channel with lots of high quality synthesia teaching videos, including one of my favorite songs (Ab Ovo by Joep Beving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRV68k3-jo )
It's interesting to compare this with HN karma. Karma is similarly inflationary, for the same reason: HN would incentivize a very different kind of dialogue if you only gained karma that someone else lost. The difference of course is that there's not a market that I know of for buying into or cashing out of karma, although it's easy to imagine how this could emerge.
I imagine you’re trying to illustrate a problem, but the solution is very simple: You simply implement government regulations that allow for cut offs so that people born way before the eugenics era aren’t disadvantaged unfairly. You could even have the cutoffs occur in phases, such that more recently born children have more scrutiny compared to ones born in the previous generation.
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I’m just not comfortable with this. Maybe I’m just getting old and maybe I have seen too many movies but I feel uneasy about our children and maybe us having another “grade” put on them.

I’d like to think this would be good so maybe some one will comment how this won’t eventually go too far.

If altering starts happening which I would imagine it will at one point will be no longer human (and maybe that is a good thing).

Maybe at some point like in the Altered Carbon series it won’t even matter and it will just go back to money (or maybe it will always be the case as the ultimate grade).
We need many more examples like those ! Thx !
You should look at Seafile
I think you're being a bit cavalier about an issue that has massive philosophical and moral implications.

Maybe we can build a site like that, but you've ignored the question of whether we should build it.
Here's my wild prediction for the 21st century: before 2050, China will replace its one child policy with a "you have to be at least this tall to ride" policy - only people with a genetic "score" of X or higher are allowed to reproduce. Every couple of years, X is bumped up, and the next generation is a bit smarter, prettier, and stronger than the previous one.
>impatience to wait for genes to improve naturally.

Improve relative to what?

The ideal human in 12,000 BC was a furry mess who would hunt mastodons with their nails.

The ideal human in 4,000 BC was a farmer that could bend double in their waist to plant and pick produce from the ground.

The ideal human in 1,200 AD was a bow legged hugely muscular chest that would stand being on a wet saddle for a week at a time.
> It is not citizenship, but residency.

I think it's both.
It's interesting how free software drove huge advancements. In the early 386 days few people used Unix because a seat license would cost more than the computer.

At first I thought we were attaining a critical mass, when enough free software was available for us to build even more, better free software but now I realize it's more like an exponential curve I can't quite see where it ends.

And if feels great.
The standard argument trotted out is that it's "up to the reader" to discern when they're being fed codswallop - because to tell them that they're reading nonsense would be an affront to their intelligence.
OK, so let's check whether that holds up: Suppose petrol was taxed at 1000 EUR/l and diesel was taxed at 0.01 EUR/l. Do you think that that would lead to less consumption of diesel than in the no-intervention equilibrium with the seller receiving payments below the no-intervention equilibrium price?
You don’t see the humor (at least) of a privacy regulation requiring me to learn more about the consumers hitting the site? Previously they were so private I knew nothing but an IP.

Now I’m instrumenting my systems with geo lookup databases which usually also include much more fine grained data (such as home/business) than that.

In any case, your original point was to just not interact with those people, which requires active filtering and isn’t the same thing as saying ‘just don’t watch that tv show’ in that it demands actions on my part due to behaviors and preferences on someone else’s.
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Don't forget about Amazon Local Register, a common theme among all these failed and summarily canned offerings is Amazon was going up against an industry where the core business was relationship based between vendors and venues/businesses, with small margins after everything is said and done.

Amazon seems not to want to eat its lunch forever outside its artificial book subsidies. If a product isn't net positive within 2 years, its off to the chopping block.
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I've been using all sorts of IM clients.

Recently, started using utox and qtox. On utox, I've random crashes and the Android client Antox is not that robust either.

There seems to be no way to disable notification in qtox on linux (gnome). I've tried doing everything including setting my status to busy, disabling it via gnome control center but notifications are still there.

I am a programmer and I like snooze all notifications.

Then there are apps like wire, the signal which often either need phone around or huge electron apps.

Is there any IM app which works on iOS, OSX, Linux, Android. These are what my family uses.

We share some private stuff which I do not want cloud service to retain.