skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Touch one what? If you put your hand, whatever it's covered in, through a black hole horizon, you're not going to get your hands back (unless you let the rest of you fall through too).

You can have a very mild ("no drama" conjecture) black hole event horizon for ultra-massive black holes. The curvature at the horizon gets gentler with higher-mass, so you can envisage an indistinguishability of the tidal/shear stresses at the horizon versus the tidal/shear stresses in empty space many many light years outside the horizon. You still won't get your hands back.

The horizon isn't actually any sort of surface (nothing bounces off it) but you should sure feel the lack of nerve impulses returning from whatever bits of your anatomy are on the inside if your brain is on the outside. Ouch. Also, the horizon is likely to be sufficiently "sharp" that on lots of reasonable orbits above it that let you dip your hands in (without all of you falling in too), your hands will be fairly neatly and very rapidly torn off. (It would be fairly easy to misjudge the exact location of a horizon though.)

I suppose if you have a sufficiently small black hole (and ignore the extreme hostility of the environment near it) then if you have lots of "shielding" it is plausible that you can move the location of the horizon (from your perspective) such that your hand can go to where the horizon would be without the shielding. I don't think that would really count as "touching", though. It's a little like blowing on the surface of a soap bubble then waving a pin around where the film was (and returns to) in the absence of the blowing air. "Look, I didn't pop it!" It's not like putting a bit of scotch tape on a balloon and putting a pin into the tape ("look, no pop!").
Yeah, Whole Foods in particular often lists the price "per item" (one package of 14.5 oz at $8.25 "per item" and another of 12 oz at $6.10 "per item") which makes a mockery of the unit pricing law. I wrote to the A.G. a few years ago but nothing happened.
Walmart targets the market, it isn't a good or bad thing. Walmart is sort of an ersatz bank for under-banked folks and folks on the margins.
Americans think I sound British.
British think I sound American.
Siri fails less often when set to British instead of American for me, but still fails too often regardless.
But the company was profitable before the VCs "restructured" it to basically steal (legally) everything they could. That's how the Vulture Capitalists work, there are other comments detailing this. Just because you can make money doesn't mean you should.
How that is possible when inflation adjusted wages have stayed flat lined or decreased?

I thought wealth follows power law which means eventually it concentrates so much that poor becomes poorer in absolute sense.
It does not, but indeed I was referring to the music used in the skating programme.
How dare you speak in absolutes relative to your lifestyle / lived experience. This is the Internet. People will read way too far into it and get mad.
i would imagine radio broadcasting is a high fixed cost business, so if the largest player/cost leader went out, not sure what that says about the economics of the industry and if small players will make it
Yeah. My original iphone still runs just fine. It is ten years old.

But I don't use it! It gets no security patches.

If I wanted it for alarms, notes, etc it would be fine
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I really wish they'd dispatch with the standard "minimize/maximize/close" trio of controls and change them to something more interesting. Close is fine, but I'd rather it be a bit harder to use. I don't need to suddenly close something, and it far more often happens that I accidentally close something. Seeing the Amiga video, a foreground/background button could be cool. Or maybe "make transparent while I hold the mouse button down". Or any number of other things. These days I just maximize my windows, then alt-tab (or equivalent for Mac) through my windows. Only rarely do I do things side-by-side, and would rather have some tiling capabilities rather than having to do it manually.
In no way am I supporting or agreeing with unfettered inherited wealth and you're making an obvious statement. With that being said, someone with high intelligence and a strong work ethic does have opportunity for success, especially in the US, more so than someone with average intelligence and a strong work ethic. Of course other factors come into play. That is basic common sense.
On the contrary: experiments show that even in a completely merit-less, artificial environment, we still get a power-law distribution of wealth (there is just no specific agent who'll be the one ultra-wealthy one).

More relevantly, you can manipulate this model in various ways to create either a less exponential curve with no completely poor agents, or undifferentiated equalness. You can code in things like income tax and so on.

The single most effective way to make the curve (on completely meritless income, remember) cease to impoverish anyone without cause, is to apply an incredibly tiny WEALTH tax. Then it takes care of itself, and you can jack up your 'income' all you want, and hey if you spend it all then you don't pay wealth tax! It requires about three percent each cycle. Not 50%, not 95%: 3%.

This is in the total absence of effort, merit, or indeed quality of labor or thought. If you would like more income and you're a special snowflake, by all means work harder and smarter and have more income. If you spend it, you'll have a lot of fun, and if you hoard it, it will eventually dwindle, but you'll be in a society where you can easily make more.
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Well the author did say “if you have a different vision, or opinion, about what Learn Vulkan should be, don't hesitate to contact me as nothing is set in stone yet”, and while I think that may have been primarily about the book/website combo I think now is a perfect time for you to contact the author (contact details on the page) and ask them about including Vulcan compute on the site.
>However, everyone still wants the hot girl and the jet.

No. Just give me a functioning society with a solid safety net and adequately funded social services in place, and a life of reasonable means that will allow me to grow old in peace and comfort, and which guarantees my children and grandchildren and their grandchildren's grandchildren the same benefits.
It's because word problems are nothing but obfuscation. Here's the same problem written out in conventional mathematical notation:

(-60 + 70) + (-80 + 90)

Boy, that's pretty straightforward isn't it?
You listed 3 ways in which the model is "unrealistic". However, it seems to me that neither of the ways that are supposed to be more realistic will actually help the talented against the lucky.

Maybe you disagree and can expand why do you think making things more realistic in some aspect will make it behave better for the talented (especially on the high end of income distribution).
You are distorting the argument as well.

The correlation between money earned for work and the relative value of that work is rather low. There is no "group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society". There is only "society", nothing exists in a vacuum.

Do you think Steve Jobs could have achieved what he did had there not been any firefighters, primary school teachers, steelworkers, lumberjacks, bus drivers, janitors, soldiers, etc to indirectly or directly support his liberty to achieve his dreams? Do you think factory workers in China have had any impact on Jobs' success? All of them earn less than he did. Are they somehow lazy and deserving of their situation?

The reduction of income/power inequality isn't a bad thing that the poor, lazy masses want in order to get rich doing nothing. Quite the contrary. The point is to raise the standard of living of people doing jobs that, if some part of society had their say, would probably not even be paid. Reducing the wealth gap doesn't mean you can't be successful anymore.
Wouldn’t they keep everything important in the cloud?
The very point of white nationalism is precisely to worry about the randomness and fragility of the current ethnic and national divisions.
Couldn't agree more. I've made the switch some time ago and couldn't be happier. In fact, I wrote an entire textbook [0] and a novel [1] in Markdown (and I wrote about the markdown-to-print workflow here [2]).

I still use Google Docs, but more as a distributed note-taking thing, be it docs or spreadsheets, than for "production" stuff; especially for things that benefit from being version-controlled.

[0] https://github.com/ggambetta/computer-graphics-from-scratch

[1] http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/the-golden-legacy.html

[2] http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html
Hmmm, that's pretty sweet. As an S8/Samsung Gear/Spotify user I'll have to serious consider switching to iPhone/Apple Watch/Apple Music... thanks!
Any idea how it works behind the scenes? From some of the details, I assume the mapping is gps + sensors + something like Photosynth or this: https://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-09/buil...
Datacenters everywhere would freeze over and the digital ice-age would begin.
It’s “kerning”, not “keming”.
Wasn't there a huge leap in capabilities between series 0 and even series 1? Surely we can be reasonable about how timelines work with breakout technology. Getting 5-10 years out of a watch seems like an admirable goal, but expecting that to happen with tech in it's infancy doesn't seem reasonable, nor conducive to actually accomplishing that goal.

I also don't completely understand the tone, this dev is measuring the installed base of different models. If their users are suddenly < 5% on the seminal model of the watch, then screw halting progress for 95% of your users just to hold on to that 5%. Expectations shouldn't be measured in years, it should be measured in adoption base, and optimizing for where your users are. And that number is going to wildly swing based on maturity of the tech, and that's going to change over time, so trying to throw out a year range as table stakes to apply forever is just a little crazy.
>I'm not sure what to tell you, people who have built organizations that employee thousands of people have contributed more to society than average. If that needs further justification then I'm not even sure how to respond to that.

A very large portion of those people have contributed more suffering to the world, and continue to do so through the continued exploitation of the worker class and lower classes.
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Interesting question

We know how to disrupt an industry (paper maps->google map, cd music -> spotify, etc) but to "end" a business means to reroute a human need/weakness toward something better (healthier, creative, etc)

In my country, the Slow Food Movement by Carlo Petrini successfully "ended" the Fast Food industry in the 80', by promoting the culture of good food.

As we're living times of technological solutions, I'd invest my time building an artificial mentor, a conscious entity that learns ethics from us and helps us to make good use of our life.

ej
This describes the purpose of the (paid) resource available at “The Great Code Club” [1].

Marc-André Cournoyer has put together several different projects:
- 2D/3D Game
- Database Engine
- Virtual Machine
- Backend + Frontend Framework
- Neural Network
- Language
- Server
- Real-Time Web Engine

Full Disclosure: I am a happy customer of Marc Andre’s “Owning Rails” [2] workshop. No other affiliation.

[1] http://www.greatcodeclub.com
[2] http://owningrails.com
I don't think we overestimate people necessarily, I think we overestimate how much they desire to spend their time thinking about the same things we do.
Unfortunately it is not suited for drinking everywhere, even with a passive water filter.
Your reply finally gave me a reason to register a user account. You had me trying to remove a non-existent smudge from my screen for nearly a minute.
The original title is longer, has less information, and higher emotional content.
The EU's standards often just transcribe the standards agreed at a global level, though [1]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/u...
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> Are you saying you don’t find the point convincing because it’s vacuous?

I'm saying the article's objection that the "results are built into the design" is indeed vacuous, because this will be true of every mathematical model.

The question is how well the model's results match reality, which can yield insight on reality.

That said, there is of course a "spectrum" of tautologies. Models with simpler input parameters should carry more weight, because they would yield clearer insights and would be easier to match against reality. Models with complex input parameters are not only less likely to match reality, they don't yield much insight into fundamental causes.
It's a classic example of the just world fallacy.
I've found the overall utility to be pretty huge, at least for me.

1. My default face includes my next appointment from my calendar. This is really useful.

2. Notifications are GREAT. Meeting coming up? Call coming in? Text? Important email? Something else (yeah, okay, I even let a game send me watch notifications)? It's useful to me to have this on my wrist.

3. Even better: Being able to easily acknowledge or even reply to texts from the watch is super, super useful to me. A good chunk of the appeal here is that I'm a cyclist, so I can do this at a stop light without needing to pull my phone out of my jersey pocket, but it's also great generally.

4. Quick access to things like timers, weather forecasts, my calendar, etc -- again, without reaching for my phone -- is a real boon. The way Apple has implemented this is natural and easy.

5. My initial use case was running + bike notifications, because my OG Pebble had died (which I always used when riding) and I was training for a half. I tried a lower-end Garmin, but it was pants. The S0 Apple Watch + the Strava app was GREAT for this, though.

6. It's hard to overstate how useful the watch is for remote control of music on the phone. I use this the most when I'm on my cycling trainer, but it's also great just generally, because it's always RIGHT THERE.

7. Finally, I will admit that I use the "make your phone emit a pinging sound" feature VERY often, because I tend to misplace it in my house. My wife, bless her heart, is very nice about not pointing out how often the resulting chime turns out to come from one of my pockets.

8. Ah, forgot about ApplePay! It's SO convenient from the watch. Using it from the phone is good, and still faster than a chip card (US), but paying from the watch is nearly frictionless. I love it.
Having built models like this by programming before [1]. I think you can only "prove" things about the system you construct. Meaning, in reality it has (or could have) little to no basis. That being said, I think building models that reflect something we know can be valuable in providing insights - just ahouldnt be used as proof.

Also 0.62 is not near average depending on simulation count / size. That's a pretty significant margin (>20%) above average.

[1] https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea...
Good to know, thanks for your response!
Right and I was asking if this is from experience (i.e. you went through the system or worked in the UK or with UK-educated people).
I am not german but I have observed a general trend with british media/BBC is they amplify anything that devalues germany/germans in general, not sure why.
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I tried to explain ( or briefly mention ) something similar that luck plays apart in one's success in job interviews. I thought I was being humble, and in truth I do think luck plays a part in many ways.

After a few times I stopped mentioning it. It is clear the world doesn't buy this idea.
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I think building a web server is a good way to learn (teach) HTTP protocol.
They should have prepared better by bringing a parachute \s
Yes. Take note, the music sync to watch can be absurdly slow. It does it over bluetooth for some reason, and needs the apple watch to be on a charger.

LTE with apple music works as well. Other streaming services such as spotify aren't yet supported without a phone.
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I don't think the education system is at fault. Mental arithmetic is a skill you need to practice, and since a lot of us either spend a lot of time at a computer or always have one in our pocket, why would we?
It's pretty much frowned upon to be in any way proud to be a pale skinned European; mainstream media demands we feel shame for all the oppression we did in the centuries before our birth.

That said, I don't understand how I've can be "proud" of which country you were born in, makes no sense to me.
The important feature here is that it was unconstitutional due to Article 10, which delegates all other powers not laid out to the states. If it were unconstitutional because of some other clause that'd be the end of it at least until a different interpretation of whatever clause came about. With Article 10 however it just means the federal government needed to find some clause that gave them the appropriate constitutional authority. It doesn't work for everything but it does work for a lot of stuff.
Almost like I typed it with bad keming, huh?

http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_term...
I would say we have already reestablished a de facto aristocracy.

The richest live like kings. Actually they enjoy a level of luxury that even the richest kings of old couldn't possibly have imagined. They basically live like gods, with virtually unchecked power, influence and wealth.

For one of the more extreme examples, consider this private dwelling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)

It is possibly the most lavish private home in the world, and it overlooks the absolutely crushing poverty of Mumbai's worst slums. The sheer level of cognitive dissonance is mindboggling.
Exactly the same reasoning can be used to justify monarchy.
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Some time ago there was a post on HN where they had an even simpler model (not based on talent). Everybody was given an equal amount of capital at the start. Then at every tick of the clock, everybody would give 1 dollar to a random person (if they had the money). After many iterations, an exponential wealth distribution resulted.
https://vimeo.com/166807261
I'm not going to lie, most of my reason for wanting to post was to type the word "keming".

Welcome to the comments!
> Attempts to defend CTS only show that his reciprocal contempt for them is well deserved.

What attempts are these? I honestly haven't seen many people defending them. The few people I know of that are associated with the security industry here don't seem to have a high opinion of this whole endeavor.
> It's technically possible, but retrofitting old code rarely happens.

Yeah. A more realistic solution might be auto-translation of existing code. Here[1] is an example that replaces declarations of arrays, and pointers used as array iterators, with macros that enable the code to be compiled as either unsafe C code or "safe" C++ code (bounds checked and iterator use-after-free safe).

Determining in general whether or not a pointer is being used as an array iterator, or a pointer to an array is not trivial. It sometimes has to be deduced from context. Which may be why it doesn't seem to have been done already?

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...
There should be laws that allow people to sue for damage if wrongfully taken down.
I started to learn Lisp, and struggled after trying to use:

- Quicklisp (lisp package manager)

- ASDF (builder)

They are very complicated to use and understand.

Then I abandoned Common Lisp...
I agree. The important thing for a port is to be able to do it one small chunk at a time, so that you know you're not changing behavior. Then after the port is complete, you can start adding all the bells and whistles of the new language. There's no benefit to the port if you don't take the last step.
It’s strange this article effectively pins the attack on Iran, but doesn’t mention Stuxnet/Olympic Games, a malware attack on Iran that destroyed nearly 1,000 of their centrifuges[1].

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxn...
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Are there historical examples of societal collapse due to wealth inequality?

(Honest question)
See also, like, every economic model ever.
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You seem extremely invested in the notion that the Watch is silly and bad, so it's not clear why anyone would try to convince you otherwise.
I think this was some lazy paraphrasing on my part. I’m pretty sure the latter is what they meant. Personally, to me, it sounds like ones of those business idea myths that may have some bit of truth but it’s mostly a viral spin.
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if you'd argued that the Docx format is unecessarily verbose, well that's a possibility (Although the problem is that MS are dealing with 30 years of legacy here, it's not a simple task. One of Word's better achievements is that I can generally open 20+ year old documents and they'll render just like they did back when they were created)

but to say that .docx is a binary file format, nope, it's a zipped text file format. If you parse docx you unzip and use an XML parser, you don't use a binary parser.

.doc was a binary format, but that's not been a default file format for Word in the last 15 years.
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But sqlite is a dependency for many other applications, lots on platforms that probably don't have good Ada compilers, so sqlite wouldn't be as useful if it were written in Ada.
It is not ironic because the UK government did not want to leave the EU. A majority of UK citizens who voted in the referendum want that.
Romans 9:21-23

https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Rom%209.21-23
This is the closest that I could find - https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala

Need to find some time to look more and actually try and work thru it.