skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you have a misconception about GR here.

No, you do. Everything I am saying is taken straight from GR textbooks--mainly Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler (1973) and Wald (1984)--and peer-reviewed papers, such as Hawking's original paper on black hole evaporation. You need to go read them.

> In GR, spacetime isn't just an "optical device" that delays rays cast in an absolute reference.

I never said it was. The paths of light rays in GR are determined by the geometry of spacetime. "Optical illusion" is one way of trying to describe the effect of that in the case under discussion. But the effect is there regardless of what you call it.

> In relativity, the behavior of light rays is actually closely related to interpretation of time and space. You can't separate the two.

This is just another way of saying that the paths of light rays in GR are determined by the geometry of spacetime. Which is true, but to figure out what that means in a specific scenario, you need to properly understand the spacetime geometry in that scenario. You evidently do not.

> In fact, the definition of (relative) local time is given exactly by the rate a "light clock" ticks when communicating periodically to a "light clock" located elsewhere.

There is a limited set of scenarios in which this works, but that limited set does not include the case under discussion (Alice falls into a black hole while Bob remains far away). In general in GR, there is no well-defined way of comparing "times" for spatially separated observers. The only well-defined time is local--proper time along a particular observer's worldline.

> Alice falls into BH -> Alice approaches EH -> Alice's BH evaporates -> Alice finishes falling into the BH

I never said that was the sequence of events. It isn't. The correct sequence of events is (note: this is what happens to Alice, Bob does not see all of these events--see my other post in response)

Alice falls into BH -> Alice approaches EH -> Alice finishes falling into BH -> Alice's BH evaporates

If you don't understand how that happens, you need to go study GR textbooks. The model that gives the sequence of events I just described has been well understood for several decades now--Hawking published the first paper using it in the 1970s.
You know how to read though?
http://www.natives.co.uk/videos/ufc-228-live/109132
If gravity isn't a force, how does it accelerate objects?
Judith Merril might be familiar to anyone from Toronto. The Toronto Public Library holds the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/merril/
Within go this is not an issue, because go dependencies are source based. Outside of go, assuming compiling a c compat lib, is more tricky, but I don't immediately see why go generics can't reduce to the intuitive pattern you'd get from selective/sparse template instantiation in your dependency before it's included.
Alternatively just get Firefox, use https://ffprofile.com/ once, and stop dealing with Chrome.

Ta-da, no more spyware.
It's cool but I don't know if I would want additional latency (especially in the case where they are currently going to sleep) plus possibility of turning them off at the wrong moment to save $0.2 per month.
Not obviously no. I could propose some reasons it might, but they'd require delving into pseudoscience in a field I'm not familiar with.
I first heard of the Mellotron when trying to track down some unique-sounding music I first heard in a pocket83 YouTube video.[1] Found out a Mellotron was used after googling a bit and seeing their albums show up on a Mellotron review site.[2]

After emailing the band via the contact email on their website multiple times with no response, I still have yet to find a way to buy the music. Regardless, it's an interesting sound!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxde5KX3zjA

[2]: https://www.planetmellotron.com/revs11.htm#sklenik
> Even acquisitions that included consumer-facing products like Beats, Beddit, and Shazam (pending approval) were ultimately about the technology behind the products.

Err, Beats? Their technology was shit, Apple bought a millenial brand.
The most famous football (soccer) player in the world was outed? No, he wasn't. He got several kids already this way. Good so.
Is it also not somewhat equally likely someone who wanted to remain unknown to mask their own lexicon so as to make it harder to detect who the real author(s) were?

If someone were to do something like this, would it not be in their interest to assume someone else's lexicon or, at least, coopt the lexicon of others in general to throw of the lexicographic 'scent'?

In other words we can't only make the presumption that this is the author(s)' natural language.
The cost is in the horizontal drilling, not the actual fiber equipment. Why it could be done “then”, with electricity and twisted copper pair, but not now, is what irks me.

I could use symmetrical 10G right now for software defined radio experimentation. I presently have 100/5, and it’s the 5 that is the issue. Without fiber, we’ll be stuck with horrible asymmetry.
Also the history view is a lot nicer than chrome, which is better than Firefox. Firefox's history pane is borderline unusable (search doesn't sort by last visit, it sorts by day and alpha or something weird like that).
One reason I still use git grep is this: I have some minified .js files in the repository, which I don't want to be included in grep results. So I mark the files as binary in gitattributes, then git grep just says "Binary file foo matches".
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/242219/
The iPhone doesn't stand out as customizable because, compared to its current competition, it's not. But it's massively more customizable than what was on the market before, thanks to the app store. Yes, it's software-based customization, but the hardware is so strong that that's still huge. Again, if you compare to Android, the options seem limited ... now. But compare to the then current state of the art, where you could install custom software, if you could find it, but few people actually did. Apple enabled a staggering degree of customization that we take for granted now.

I don't think Apple's going to create modular cars where you can swap out hardware or that just come in a variety of form factors. If they create customizable cars (if they get into the car biz at all), it'll be through software. Tesla already hints at some of the possibilities here: on the same hardware platform you can upgrade your autopilot or performance, even your range. (I have a 60D, which has a 75KWh battery. I can order an online software upgrade to a 75D for $2K.) That's just what Tesla already does. I can't imagine what Apple might offer, but the possibilities are intriguing.
I have been given a job offer with a car company to work in their research division in which they plan to develop more electric vehicles to take on Tesla.

I am still on the fence but the job sounds interesting, its just that its a big corporate and I am skeptical they will be able to take on Tesla's monopoly on electric vehicles.
If I understand the situation correctly, at the UCs most workers are not contracted out and are rather a unionized public workforce see AFSCME.

"AFSCME Local 3299 is the University of California’s largest employee union, representing more than 24,000 employees at UC’s 10 campuses, five medical centers, numerous clinics, research laboratories and UC Hastings College of the Law."
https://afscme3299.org/our_union/about_local_3299/
Thanks. Like I said, the code is truly unpleasant to see. But I can summarize the concepts that create images like these.

It boils down to some number of iterations, where each iteration is addition of some shape (having some properties) to the canvas.

Those properties include the type of shape (dot, line, polygon), size, position, and color.

The number of iterations, along with the type of shape and its size determine the density of content on the canvas.

The other properties have their obvious effects.

The magic, if there is any, is in choosing ranges of acceptable property values (randomly). For example, if you make every property be a random value between the min and max acceptable for that property, you generally end up with some variation of noise. It's not really artistic in my opinion.

So what I did was play with narrowing ranges of acceptable properties, especially tying those ranges to the previous values of the previous shape (that was drawn on the previous iteration). Position is the best example. The first iteration would have no previous shape, so its position would be randomly somewhere on the canvas. But the next iteration would some random distance from the previous one, within a range that itself might have slightly randomized boundaries. That would result in clustering... which is generally pleasing, but ultimately monotonous. So I would provide some % chance of a "break out", such that the new position could be totally random rather than related to the previous.

I applied the same concepts of managed, previously-related randomization of value ranges to the other properties of the shape being drawn on the given iteration. For color, I might have it vary only one channel of the RGB, and only a small amount. But again, I would have a low % chance of a completely random/new color. And one of my favorite little additions was the complementary color chance. Once in a while, the next drawn shape would be close to the complementary color of the previous shape.

Finally, since "tuning" the randomization boundaries and exception chances was a bit tedious, I added a layer of similar randomization behaviors to the boundary rules themselves. That means that some images could be total chaos, and others could theoretically just be a single blob of garbage in one spot of the canvas.

Like a "good" photographer, I let it generate hundreds of images. Then I chose some that I thought were compelling. The rest went in the trash.

I have considered training a NN against famously popular and unpopular paintings, hoping to teach it how to recognize art that other people would like. Then I would setup a pipeline of generate-judge-keep/delete-repeat processes that should churn out abstract art that would make me famous and finally prove my value to the world. :)
I created the same app in Vue and React (Part 2: Angular)
I have a feeling that:

a) Elon is having a mental breakdown

b) Titan will die because of design by committee
Interesting. I put more weight on the authors caveats about this method, than on the method itself, which is fine since it was I think just presented as an example of what could be done.

Also, if the person most likely (by this analysis) is actually the one who wrote the op-ed, it was either:
- the POTUS, which seems unlikely (although who knows)
- the secretary for the POTUS, who types his tweets as well
- the one person in the President's circle who he cannot fire
Unfortunately Vivaldi inherits some of Chrome's bullshit, like if you want to print something it will try use Google's awful cloud print thing tied to your account.

It even has the flag for this account-consistency feature. Who knows if it will be enabled - would you even notice if it was?
5 Lesson's Learned from 200 Blog Posts. – The Blogging Musician
Seems dubious.

On the methadone program I'm on, before they could start the treatment, I had to take multiple toxicology screens to show I was addicted to heroin. These places are incredibly worried about opiate-naive individuals overdosing, which can happen even with the small initial doses on these programs. Note that this is in the UK, which has a much less litigious medical culture USA as well...

Not to cast aspersions on your friend, but have you considered that he may be lying to you about only using recreationally, and using this story to explain why he's on a treatment program? One thing about heroin is that it's pretty much impossible to use regularly without becoming addicted. As a heroin addict myself I know that unfortunately deception can easily become a normal part of your life.
Using CDNJS with LibMan for ASP.NET Core 2.2
Trademarks are inherently geographically limited. They apply in regions where the trademark holder does business under that name, not over the whole world.

The bizarre part is trying to apply their trademark to an area of business that is not related to what USPS does. USPS does not play music gigs. There would be no danger of someone confusing USPS with a band. Trademarks are also limited to the line of business that the trademark holder operates in. This is why Apple Computers and Apple Records (the record label for the Beatles) were able to operate without trademark conflicts for decades until Apple Computers started getting involved with music and then needed to come to an arrangement with Apple Records.
Your live depends on facebook?
I'm guessing the final golang solution will be like this, but with both runtime/boxed and static/typeswitch implementations generated by default, and some heuristic specializations between composing them.
If you consider hunter-gatherer societies, people were probably a lot more active by your definition than people are now.
I could not make it up.
Came to me as non fiction via an inhabitant of northern Maine.
> What matters in the end is what the observer sees, which, according to you, would be (for Bob, far away):

Not what you said. What Bob sees is:

Alice falls into BH -> Alice approaches EH -> Alice reaches EH/Alice's BH evaporates

In other words, as I said, Bob sees Alice crossing the EH at the same time he sees the BH evaporate. Bob still never sees any light signals from Alice that were emitted below the EH; those signals are trapped inside the hole and never escape. In Hawking's original model, those signals, along with Alice herself, hit the singularity and are destroyed; they cease to exist, so they never come out again even when the hole evaporates away. An open question is what the correct model will end up being when we have a full understanding of quantum gravity; but whatever that model ends up being, it won't validate the particular issues you are raising.
This question sounds so silly I wonder if it's a strawman argument.

Can you have any advanced device that doesn't contain anything made by 50% of humanity? no.

This comment is sent to you from Asia and 7000km away from Beijing.
This isn't a "software upgrade" it's a "software lock" on your hardware that they will remove for $X
I think some of the SUV numbers come from the classification of vehicles as SUV that really aren't SUVs in the traditional sense.

I have a Kia Niro that is classified as an SUV by the manufacture and insurance company. It gets about 50mpg in the summer. I look at it and compare it to my old 1984 Chevy Citation II. It is almost the same size and the Citation was a "hatchback". Look, your crossover is a station wagon, and a lot of SUVs are just hatchbacks.
Or consider Woody Allen's perspective on health science in his futuristic comedy "Sleeper".
Actually, I change my statement upon rereading the paper: If offspring is "distributed
the same way as the parent subpopulation", then B12 would only produce B12.

In other words, if subpopulation B11 is chosen by A, then B11 would produce B11, this reducing the variability, not increasing it.
Whether it would be better is a really interesting question.

For this specific case, I think energetically enforced regulation would be clearly better. But in general, I'm not so sure. The American system of "let people do what they want; if there's harm, they can sue" allows a lot more room for innovation than a system of up-front regulation.

I think the difference for me lies in the extent to which an issue is a) in a stable context, b) causes significant harm, and c) is unlikely to be fixed through market mechanisms or self regulation.

Here, since consumer privacy is basically an externality to these companies and the market is an oligopoly, I think stronger regulation is a pretty good bet. But in general I think private right of action is underappreciated. Especially class action suits, which aren't burdensome for most plaintiffs.
While we're here, I'd love your assessment of the xmarks alternatives

I really miss having synchronised bookmarks between chrome, chromium, and firefox. All my bookmarks live / fit in the bookmarks bar, and synced bookmarks were a deitysend for seamless movement between laptop/desktop/vdi/work/home/etc.
please embed the faq on the submit page and the reply page and these problems will go away and this conversation can stop happening
> The desirability of an individual is often strongly influenced by heritable traits.

I don't disagree with you, but that is not what the paper states, and that is not how the paper defines desirability.

I am not saying that the paper's definition is correct for a broader understanding of biology. Rather, the paper's stance is to generate a simple model and to prove an argument within that model. I am saying that, within the definition that the model is using, the model is internally incorrect.
For ripgrep, you can achieve this via a custom ignore file, e.g., `echo '*.min.js' > .ignore`.

Another approach I've seen people take is to put `-M300` in your ripgrep config file, and then any super long lines are automatically omitted from output.
This seems much more related to the specific political economy of government health institutions and their interaction with electoral systems, than a specific causal attribution to systems based on capital. That is to say, there are many failure and success modes of a government response to drugs that are orthogonal, or at least only loosely correlated, with the specific marker system that is implemented.
Yes, there are no possible return values. But there is a unique vacuous total function because no return values are ever needed. A function can be considered as a set of ordered pairs, one for each value in the domain. Since there are no values in the domain, no pairs need exist.

Another way to look at it is as a constrained subset of the Cartesian product of domain and codomain. In this case the domain is the empty set, so the Cartesian product is empty too.
> they will be able to take on Tesla's monopoly on electric vehicles

How is that statement supported by sales data?
Russia is authoritarian country. All elections are fake there.
XML-separated values? Fortunately no: command line program for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting and joining CSV files.
Parent poster is confusing his own blood with “mysterious coppery liquid”, even after wiping it several times off his fingers. That’s not a good sign.
This is not actually true. The right to withdraw consent, the right to object and the right to be forgotten are all different. In the first and second case, the company has to stop processing the data, but they don't have to remove it. In the last case, they actually have to remove the data. The removal of data has a caveat that the company doesn't have to do it if it would be onerous (but what that means is left up in the air... so we'll have to see some judgements before we know exactly what it means).

In the case of Equifax, they are a third-party processor. Under GDPR, you would have to be informed if the processing was necessary under contract basis. Once the contract is finished, you can request that your data is removed and the original processor must inform all third party processors. So Equifax would be required to remove the data. For legitimate interest or consent basis, you can ask to be removed at any time. You don't have the right to be removed wrt data collected for regulatory reasons.

I think the key here is that Equifax (being a third party processor) does not have to respond to you if you say "Please remove all of my data". I think you have to go to the original processor (which sucks, because you have to track down how they got your information). I may be wrong about that, though (the company I work for doesn't collect 3rd party info, so I didn't pay much attention to that part of the law).
Whether Ive is a visionary is ancillary to the point. The vision of the robotaxi has been had by many, including myself long before autonomous vehicles were regarded as anything less than science fiction. What matters to Apple and everyone else is execution.

Robotaxis will be more personalized than privately owned ones. Rather than be limited to a single one-sided fits all form factor for all your transportation needs, you'll be able to call upon the optimal vehicle depending on whether you're commuting, hauling a load, going on a road trip, spending a lavish night on the town, or sending your kids to soccer practice.
To be fair, if McDonald's did want to move into the HN snark space, buying out existing contributors would be an effective way to go about doing it.
Apple has run out of steam. What do we have to look forward too; the iPhone 20?
Thanks fo linking bookmark-archiver here. I liked the sound of reminiscence but unfortunately it requires bleeding edge python and tries to integrate the webserver (and many other things that don't need to be). It's a matter of taste I suppose but I couldn't get it working. bookmark-archiver just works on all my systems, old and new.
And as others note, that would be a reasonable social science paper, but "flimsy oversimplified model that might explain a phenomena" does not a mathematics publication make.

It's not made clear (and others mention) that the paper has changed a lot, so it's current form is different than it was originally, and it appears that the author tried to sneak it in to at least one journal, without normal peer review.

That's not good science.
Hi, thanks, very interesting.

I think a good litmus test for an argument is whether you approve of things that such a view can be logically extrapolated to imply.

such a view - What 'view' are you taking me to hold? You can with some precision tell what is a 'logical extrapolation' of it or not? I'm not sure what you mean here. (Except I suspect you mean something like Kant's categorical imperative.) Sorry. I'm unable to see what view of mine you've extracted and then extrapolated.

And here you must certainly realize that your argument can be used, and indeed is used, to justify the most heinous of ideologies.

Which argument? Saying you must certainly realize that your argument seems just a condescending bluff. No....well, I'm not sure, I don't know what you are calling 'my argument'. Maybe if you filled in the dots here a bit; I don't know what you mean. (You know nothing about me. I'm a huge fan of Sam Harris' book The Moral Landscape. I say that because going by what you're saying about my 'view'/argument, you've put me in the opposite camp to that.)

Ultimately,

It's fascinating what that word's doing. (I'm not sure exactly) Sandwiched as it is between 'moral self assuredness' and 'moral absolute'..

most people look through a revisionist lens of times, both past and present

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

The thing you won't find is slavery persisting in areas where it became uneconomical.

Is that at all surprising?

Well, I don't remember any abolitionists in ancient Greek, Rome etc. It was just the natural order of things, an accepted part of life, necessary to civilization.
Survey author here. We didn't have the time to correlate device/browser/etc. to other data points last year but we did use the location:

https://2017.stateofjs.com/2017/front-end/worldwide/

Also I'm curious what kind of nefarious "bullshit" you think one can do with browser statistics. Market special weight loss pills uniquely targeted to Safari users?
"The Little Black Bag" was also done as an episode of Night Gallery. I saw this first before reading the story.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660832/
I agree with you that there is a difference in variability between generations.

I agree with you that the variability has been reduced in the second generation.

It seems that we both disagree with the original paper, then, as it states

"If sex A is relatively selective and will mate only with the top most desirable quarter of sex B, then all of the next generation will be offspring of the more variable subpopulation B1"