skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> after that they can become Quark stars (if such things exist). We do not have enough knowledge of quark degeneracy pressure to be able to tell.The only known signals are black hole mergers

That doesn't matter. The derivation of the neutron star maximum mass actually doesn't require that the star is made of neutrons. Anything that responds to the strong interaction (including quark matter that for some reason is not bound into hadrons) will do. The key point is that physicists have modeled such objects using basically every possible equation of state for strongly interacting matter, and the maximum masses all lie in the range I gave (the reason for the range is that we don't know the precise equation of state, we only know it's somewhere within the range we've modeled). So even if quark stars exists, they will have a maximum mass somewhere in that range (which might not be precisely the same as the maximum mass for neutron star matter).

> how do you know the object is compact? Our telescopes do not have anywhere near sufficient resolution to distinguish that.

Sure they do. We know the object at the center of the galaxy is confined within a radius of less than about 10^13 meters; we know its mass is about 4 million solar masses. The only way to pack that much mass into that small a space without an object being there that would be easily visible to our telescopes is a black hole.

> what sort of events would that be?

X-rays and gamma rays emitted by hot matter falling into the hole. See, for example, the list of stellar mass black hole candidates here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_holes#Stellar_bl...

> The only known signals are black hole mergers

Not at all. See above. You really, really don't know much about black holes, do you?

> You are forgetting the objects on the other side of the black hole.

Huh? We were talking about a single object falling into a black hole. An object on the other side won't be able to see that object anyway; the hole will block its view.

> They need all the mass nearby to make a black hole, but time dilation makes such mass unavailable.

Incorrect. You are peddling misinformation here; you obviously do not have a good understanding of the actual physical model of black holes based on General Relativity.
> Did you tell spectrum you had written to the AG and senator?

When the deputy AG responded, they copied Charter (this is standard for regulatory complaints).
> I can't tell you how many people I've met traveling abroad who learned English by watching American shows and films.

That essentially encompasses everyone that learns English well. It's the exception that doesn't aggressively use English media to accelerate their learning of the language. On a basis of living in the language to learn it, consuming US & British culture through media is the single best and easiest way to do it (if you aren't able to constantly be around other English speakers). Plus, it's a lot more fun than doing it solely the rote way.
A double negative in English often is used for emphasis, not to create a positive:

"Not no-how, not no-way!"
Or you can use Firefox
“In the near future, atmospheric CO2 will be recycled to create organic fuel”

That’s been around for quite a while already; you’re describing a tree.
I agree with you but for the general social medial user updating the DNS records sounds scary and complicated. And for such user even if the idea of owning their own domain might sound compelling, how many will simply forged to renew the domain, be done with it and move to the next facebook.
Chinese in many respects is a more explicit language. Variables are generally required to "wear their types on their names". All the disease names contain the word disease (imagine if we must speak of "rabies disease" and "AIDS disease" as opposed to "rabies" and "AIDS"). Country names in general contain the word country, so you can tell from the name that France (lawful country) is a country whereas Chicago is not - something left implicit in English. (There are exceptions of course)
> They simply cancel each other out

They don't! "I ain't got no bread" means "I haven't got any bread". If they cancelled out it would mean "I have bread".
Ask HN: Why did I receive a reply from startup school – to add co founders
I submitted my application without a co founder. but I go this as a reply - "We noticed you have not added any co-founders to your Startup School application. If you have co-founders, please invite them to fill out their profile and complete your application."

what does it mean? I know, y combinator people strongly advice on getting a partner, is it like a band handed way of saying add a co-founder to be considered?
The opposite extreme happens too, many English/Australians have trouble distinguishing Canadian and American accents (especially North-eastern US). Conversely Americans may have trouble distinguishing New Zealand and Australian accents.
Imo this is an incredible project. I wasted thousands of hours playing flash games as a kid, glad to see someone is interested in preserving them
Fortune 500 companies are vast agglomerations of different companies, fiefdoms, practises and teams. The same company could hold world leading teams and teams making every mistake going.

And the legal department will be jerks if the latter get the spotlight.

Please launch it - I hope it will do well.
Or just use JSONField, because that’s exactly the reason why it exists.
>The entirety of the Americas south of the US border speak the languages they do because of the rape and genocide of their ancestors on a colossal scale.

How was that different north of the border?
No. My argument is kind of the opposite. I am here countering the point that gaining knowledge is a monotonous function with respect to "goodness"/value. We need to be cautious and acknowledge our lack of knowledge, when we move ahead.
You are free to use duckduckgo.com, bing.com or several more alternatives. Your metaphor is invalid.
Since cable companies are already a monopoly, they aren't really decreasing the number of competitors. They are just replacing the one incredibly bad ISP with a somewhat less bad one.
Japanese uses three distinct character sets in writing: Hiragana (a syllabary), Katakana (another syllabary) and Kanji (Chinese characters). Hiragana and Kanji are usually used together to write native Japanese words, whereas Katakana is used almost exclusively for loanwords.

Katakana syllables are either bare vowels, or consonant+vowel (with few exceptions), meaning that transliterated words must be contorted to fit the syllabary (the "lossy algo" referred to by the parent comment). So, something like "kernel" in English becomes kaa-ne-ru, and "subsystem" becomes "sa-bu-shi-su-te-mu".
Practical Security for the Prudent American
Maybe there were additional reasons, but tbh the answer you gave was very bad and probably would have been grounds enough to not hire you.

>"Sure, everyone thinks you're a tech company or a search company or whatever - but Google is an advertising company, and thats it. All the other stuff distracts from the fact that youre just the most profitable ad company."

When given the opportunity to demonstrate nuanced thinking, you've boiled down a really complex and large thing into a simple platitude. "Google is an advertising company, and thats it". Really, is that the full story? You truly think that?

I mean if that were the case and you wanted to be genuine you could at least dive to another level and explain why or how.

And for reference it probably would have been okay to say 'No, I'm not sure what kind of company Google is. I know that you guys do X and Y, but I know there's some other stuff too, but I don't have any insight because I don't work here'
Not in front of the pigeon :(
> ...but the state is asking it to come up with a transition plan.

Apparently they need to come up with some orderly plan and not just give them a nice "f-you, its been fun."

Not too sure how motivated they'll be for it to be orderly as they have zero incentive for it to be though...
Taking results of 5% false positives coming from a tool with a 80% confidence level as anything other than "it worked better than expected" is misinterpreting the results.
Given how many times claims such as these have been brought under question, and how easy it is to make a mistake in this discipline, a single, uncorroborated publication is insufficient evidence.

Truly extraordinary claims require truly extraordinary evidence, and this one smells fishy, too. [1]

> Our interpretation
of the phylogenetic tree constructed from 16S rRNA
sequences (fig. 1b and SI table 3) suggests that isolates
41_AG11AC7 and 46_AG11AC9a are likely Staphylococcus
species, which are not known to sporulate and are also
common microorganisms on the human skin.

> The authors also fail to present negative control
sequences to confirm that the DNA sequences presented
within this study are not the results of laboratory or
reagent contamination, rather than contamination that
likely occurred in 1995

They didn't even do any control runs to calibrate their experiment! Sounds like junk science to me.

[1] https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/...
There's a point where the hairsplitting becomes a little unseemly, maybe, even with the most pigheaded interlocutors? The guy is dead, there's a recording of him abjectly begging for mercy. Nobody does that other than under duress even when it turns out the duress was probably not physical and was misrepresented as such.
Because those are opt-in, they will never break your existing code.
It’s pretty simple in Hungarian. The orange fruit is called “narancs”, while the color is “naracssárga” (“narancs” + “sárga”, where “sárga” means yellow).
Let this be a warning to young developers tying into proprietary platforms.

(Not one mention in TFA of http://homestarrunner.com, for shame)
There's an implicit assumption in most of these discussions that beating Google Search is a matter of money and scale, and while there are some evidence for that (e.g. unreasonable effectiveness of having lots of data), it is not a certain conclusion, it is only a conclusion if your goal is to beat Google by making an incrementally better classical search engine. It is indeed hard to beat something by offering something "about the same", when the cost for the consumer is already effectively zero from a monetary perspective.

But this doesn't rule out someone coming up with a disruptive, radically better search. Take this as a thought experiment, somewhere out there, is another Albert Einstein, working on his magnum opus, an AGI based search engine. He has a mind blowing advancement in AGI, like GR was in Physics, that will completely eclipse classical search AND deep learning approaches AND he knows it.

Demos shown to investors are mind blowing, and he quickly raises enough funds to launch a competitor. There is whisper and talk all around the valley. Google tries to make an acquisition, but he and his investors turn it down, because they can see how valuable the tech is. By the time Google realizes their offer should have been much bigger, it's getting traction and taking off like a rocket ship. Now Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Amazon, Microsoft, are all looking to acquire it.

Yes, there are arguments that being the "default" is hard to dislodge. But Chrome dislodged IE. Google Search dislodged AltaVista and Yahoo. iOS and Android dislodged Windows. But better technology if it is better enough and marketed correctly can convince consumers to switch. Remember, Chrome was fighting a common refrain that "browsers are done, and who needs another browser?" Efforts like the Chrome Comic Book (https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html) and eye-catching early Chrome ads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0) was able to overcome consumer inertia of having IE pre-installed.

When the iPod, and a rumored Apple Phone was proposed (but before it was first demoed), we had the same naysayers claiming that a new upstart in a space they had never been in before couldn't possibly defeat the established players like Blackberry or Nokia.

But if you create a sufficiently, radically better product, you in effect, create an entirely new platform or market, NOT simply a competitor within the existing market. This is what any hypothetical competitor to Google Search has to do. They need to change what Search means. It can't mean SERP and PageRank, there are marginal gains to be had. It has to be a radically different kind of search experience.
Yeah... this article defended libraries on the grounds that they are simultaneously a great place for kids to have story time, a safe place for teens, and a place where 2/3s are homeless, struggling with addiction, or recovering from addiction.

Now, we don't know the actual breakdown of that 2/3s group, and there certainly are homeless people (including homeless children) who are not addicts and benefit immensely from the public library system. But it's not a great sales pitch to tell people that children's story time will be colocated in an area populated largely by "current and receiving addicts", and people who are 100% in favor of paying for meth addiction treatment centers may reasonably question why we'd store our large and expensive public book collection there.

Keep in mind, if libraries feel unsafe (perhaps because they are unsafe), wealthy people will find somewhere else for story time and books, it's the low income populations that will be denied this essential resource.

This is partly why, in my previous comment, I wanted to emphasize that many of the branch libraries around SF absolutely do feel safe, and are very welcoming and clean places for kids.
What regulations are Google violating? Being a monopoly isn't grounds for fines or antitrust.
Also the place where something like Google - massively useful to the whole world - was born.

Awful indeed.
The cost per megabit isn’t really comparable across ISPs. They use it more as a market segmentation than anything else.

In Seattle, I get 100mbps for $60. Or 1000 for $80. (Paying $90 for only 20 up is insane ;)
> I've noticed how casually people say, "that should be illegal" nowadays. Usually it's half-joking, but it expresses a real sentiment about how even mild transgressions are seen as legal matters.

It’s because civilization had to break down our social norms that guided humankind for thousands of years, so that we could build vast and functional social structures outside our local society and families.

A company of 1000 people is an insane achievement in human history. Ancient Rome may have had a senate, an emperor and a few generals to run the army, but in realty, there wasn’t a single sociopolitical structure larger than a few hundred people, and there really hasn’t been, until after modern times.

To do this we gave up the importance of local community, family and such, and devoted ourselves to the modern nation state. Sure there have been countries for a long time, but they used to really just be about taxes and security, and not really local security because nobody gave a rats ass if a town burned an alleged witch.

In return we got individualism and freedom. 300 years ago you would have become whatever profession your dad had, if you were a man and married if you were a woman. Today you’re free to build your own way through life.

This meant that the state suddenly became responsible for a lot of things that families and communities used to take care of though, like determining what is and isn’t allowed. Which is perfectly fine by the way, in a democratic society that values that freedom and that individuality.

The people you talk about, don’t value their freedom though, they have just really gotten used to the state being their mommy/daddy. Which is incredible dangerous but it’s also the inevitable outcome when we increasingly let radical leftists and right wingers and their identify politics dictate our public discourse.

Freedom is provocative, because not everyone agrees, and that’s just fine, but today, we’re have both leftist and right wingers wanting to use legalization to dictate virtually everything based on their identity politics.

It’s really quite terrible.
Against a pre-authorized list of networks, identified by their PLMN (public land mobile network) IDs stored in the SIM card, and cryptographic keys that the network uses to prove that it really is the network that's authorized in the SIM card. There are two network functions inside the core 4G network responsible for authenticating users, checking what services they're authorized to access, and handling them as they move across towers or roam into/out of range of the network. More here: http://www.3gpp.org/technologies/keywords-acronyms/100-the-e...
So what is the Default Mode Network doing during daydreaming/"inactivity"? Nothing at all?
While I agree with your concern about Google's enormous market share, Google isn't the sole owner of web search, and you're free to use another search engine instead. I've been using DDG exclusively for about two years already.

It would make much more sense to regulate ISPs, as people are "stuck" with them and don't really have the option not to use internet.
> AND...vgo is better than dep. Let's not forget that.

Facts not in evidence.
Katakana [1] is one of the two syllabary writing systems in Japanese, with Hiragana [2] being the other. IIRC katakana is the one where every syllable starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel, so transliterated loan words with consecutive consonants end up growing vowels in the middle. They also have kanji (characters), and various romanization systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese). It's really amazingly inefficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
> Are they getting hurt? I guess not.

I absolutely disagree. In Google's case, their service have become an integral part to using the internet - and the internet has become an integral part of daily life. So such a block would absolutely have consequences.

> Note that locking them e.g. out of a phone they bought before the ban is something different - that would be a breach of contract from Google side.

Then it would as well be breach of contract to lock me out of the Play Store until I agreed to an updated ToS. Apparently this can still be done if the old ToS contains the right clauses. So I suspect the phone ban would work similarly.
Work is for losers.
Offhand, I don't think I actually see 12+ movies a year on average.

In recent years it's mostly been Marvel films + a random other thing that I also happened to be interested in seeing (E.G. Incrediables 2).
You also have to realize how internal politics plays into things like this. Who wants to work on maintaining their mobile web browser when it's not going to get them the promotion? Thus it falls on the least skilled/interested.

This is why Google has products stagnate for years before it is finally euthanized, allowing a completely new iteration of it to take place.
Well if they just abandoned it they would be leaving a lot of money on the table. They own all that cable plant, the head ends, etc. I don't think they can afford to do that.
> it is the language of great literature

The overall sentiment of your comment is good but I took issue with this particular statement. English is _a_ language of great literature. There's great literature written in basically all languages, you're just less likely to know unless you speak them.
Again you're finding objections not in the words that were actually written, only in the in the ones you have injected. Here's the full paragraph in the original comment:

>For example, a B-17 could fly with only one outboard engine running. But the pilot could barely hold the rudder in position to do it, and would trade off with the copilot. Women don't have the lower body strength to do it. Flying a damaged B-17 is just not possible without the leg and upper body strength.

It's clear that the commenters recognizes that flying the aircraft pushed male pilots to the extremes of their physical ability, "...the pilot could _barely_ hold the rudder in position..." Furthermore this is in reference to combat situations (a plane with 3 of 4 engines damaged). You're complaints about this comment do far have been that it:

* Denied the existence of _any_ women that could perform these tasks. This wasn't claimed, see the "dogs have four legs" comparison.

* Claimed that women couldn't fly "normal" WWII aircraft. No, the commenter highlighted a combat scenario of flying a damaged plane that pushed pilots to their physical limit.

* That the average man could be a pilot. I don't see where this is claimed in the original comment. It actually states the opposite, that piloting in combat demanded peak physical performance.

Again, the Motte and Bailey only exists if you're injecting some other message. The point is simply that piloting a WWII aircraft in combat was physically extremely intense and demanded physical ability beyond typical women (a point corroborated by your evidence that even most men were rejected for their physical condition).
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It's called respecting your audience. Everyone probably looked like from a 1970s movie in the room.
If you ask why my floor that was white is now orange,
Well I quite like juice, and I last mopped my floor in July.

Came up with that one allll by myself.
The problem isn't that they can afford it, but the fact that they have essentially implemented a vendor lock in for the majority of their products, and have implemented vertical integration in a way that they can very easily expand through acquisitions and their own product listings.

They have a monopoly on what people see when they want to find something, and can use that to point you to google properties, or should they expand into further ventures such as selling their own goods, move you away from other retailers.
This is especially funny if one remembers the genesis of fringe benefits in the US. Those proliferated after, in the years of WWII, the government moved to cap salaries paid by companies. The companies, looking to attract best workers, started to offer a variety of fringe benefits - health insurance, lodging, life insurance, free food, free clothes ("uniform"), etc.

The regulation treadmill never stops, there's always a need to introduce new regulation to fix things broken by the previous regulation.
> Because wealth inequality is massively harmful for society.

Nope.

Hunger, poverty, lack of education, lack of access to medical care, etc.. is harmful to society and leads to revolutions and whatever root cause leads to those is to be fought against.

Except that wealth inequality isn't such a root cause.

Wealth inequality isn't and has never been a problem except in the minds of utopian ideologues, collectivists or people with a basic jealousy problem.
Could you elaborate on why Enterprise above Pro?

I'm no entirely familiar with the differences and I've been planning on buying a Win10 Pro license, so any advice would be helpful :)
I see no discussion of security implications. Of course, frequently if you're cloning a repo you're about to execute out of it anyways, but not always.
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How would you calculate that? With market rate interest? Standard rate of inflation?

It's not a metric people look for when valuing companies.
GP referred to the Norman (French) invasion of England.
That’s just a supposition but I guess 9/11 was the big trauma that sets new standards.

You can be hit at home, going to work or else.

Of course crime existed before, but the enormity of that tragedy moved the cursor I think.
This threads title is literally targeting another nation......
By 'collude' I just meant worked together. The operative legal word is 'restraint of trade.'
One Woman’s Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
I also grew up spending a lot of time playing those games.
I say good ridance to the flash video players, but seeing the screenshots of those games, it makes me pretty sad to think that so many of them might be going away.