skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/formedia...
Note that the prediction of the light being brighter on one side did come out.
A number such that n-k is less than n+1
You completely missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that the average person doesn't utilise software on a day to day basis. I was agreeing with the author of the post above mine, who pointed out that to most people, "any kind of computing device is a black box built on magic". They have absolutely no idea how their devices work, and neither do they care to find out.
Black Hole Event Horizon Live: First Ever Image of a Black Hole Revealed by ESO
Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 Update)
This is not "psychological research", the research has already been done to get the human to fall for it. The dark patterns are designed to sell advertisement and product.

Framing it as simply "psychological research" is what I'd expect from a PR team trying to deceive its users. It's incredibly dishonest.
Black hole activity in galaxy M87
My Home Server – 2 Months On
Good video that correctly predicted the image and describes why it looks the way it does [1].

TL; DR The dark area is the entire surface of the event horizon, including the side facing away from us, plus some more due to photons missing the event horizon "directly" being drawn in. One side is brighter due to its being Doppler boosted.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
I'm not going to tell you to keep rotting at your current career/path, however I am going to say this could be a good opportunity to perhaps start your own side gig. Small projects for smaller clients, depending on the amount of free time you have. Considering you already have a job, you wouldn't be losing any money and maybe, just maybe it will blossom into it's own thing where you won't need the database admin job anymore. I say this as a 40-year-old, employed full-time in IT Consulting who's decided to finally get around to making comics and graphic novels.
I actually have done a fair bit of bakery in my life so I know what you mean, but I get the same satisfaction from writing programs. I'm not sure if all "office workers" get this, though.
Matthew Crawford has done some nice work addressing these ideas.

https://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1-2
No, there are special alloys and techniques for directly bonding metal to glass. In a lot of cases the approach is to keep the bonded area close together to minimize the distortion of the metal from the different expansion rates.

Materials like Kovar are designed such that it very closely matches the expansion curve of glass so that it forms a hermetic seal without any kind of sealant between the glass and the metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kovar
For me personally, it comes down to cost and acceptability. I would like to pursue nanodegrees but the cost is much higher than Coursera - which has a monthly subscription model. Also, Coursera has an expanding offering of Master's degrees from world renowned Univerities which employers will accept (my employer - a Canadian Bank will even pay for online masters degrees) but nanodegrees seem like vaporware, if Udacity goes under how do I get my nanodegrees verified? If the cost were lower, i could take the risk.
Thanks! Over 150,000 viewers right now.
The actual proverb, by an engineer (Paul C), is "there are two ways of doing things at Google: the deprecated one, and the one that doesn't work yet". Usually the deprecation occurred when a service outlived the original requirements and was no longer a great fit or not very usable. A good example were Babysitter and GWQ, which were eventually obsoleted by Borg.
> I also certainly cannot see any sensible argument for threading being harder than fork(), especially if you're just using it as a drop-in replacement where there will be no shared state after invocation outside of explicitly created communication channels.

Very well said. It's gets no simpler than this. I think all too often, people try and complicate things where they don't need to be. Always do the SIMPLEST thing that works well.
I'm a cyclist. I know how bad it is, but ppl know that they are doing the wrong thing now at least.
If the article is to be believed why does the USA feel the need to police waters 6,600 miles from its mainland. Surely their claim to this area is lesser when compared to Chain, Japan, Tiawan ect....
> That's akin to trying to switch everybody to driving a BMW. It's not going to happen.

Oh, it's not about capturing the whole share of computing out there. A lot of people are thinking about expanding the usage of Desktop Linux, and this is just an article about which strategies would be more effective than others.

Of course, you can have a different standpoint that Windows is just dandy and nobody needs to switch away from it. This article is rather focused on "when people are interested in switching, here's the kind of issues they face", and how to alleviate some of these issues.
The memory is not shared, but copied, so you don't have to care about concurrent memory access.
Hydro is finite... When you've harnessed 80%~90% of the potential, that's about it.
My old frames need replacement at about the same rate as the lens, so I don't really care.
I've seen some videos of people blocking wifi signals (both ways) with a cheap metal mesh. If you don't own the place you can put it on the inside. Only real issue is the image: it's like a tinfoil hat for your house! But you could put something more aesthetic over it again :) eg. embedding it in the wallpaper.
I'd prefer a shorter name anyway, if I were Amazon, the company. Who wants to type https://amazon.amazon over https://amazon.com?
pretty cool, I wished chrome did that. firefox is probably going to choose cloudflare (1.1.1.1).

I wonder how this plays out with local DNS (e.g. my ISP has some custom domains for me to use, and internal company network addresses)
Any word if Einstein's predictions are correct or refuted? There was word that if the shadow looked a certain way it could mean that relativity is incomplete.
Higher resolution official release seems to be: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/download...
We get to the next big battery breakthrough
Yeah I think it's interesting that the proof is being sold, when things like college degrees rarely get checked.
Is that gig as interesting as it sounds?
Source? Unless the encryption actually destroys information I don’t see why it would necessarily make the job harder for the rnn.
Unfortunately it's not so much me, but my friends in this case. If I want to stay in touch with a large group of past co-workers who are all in the same slack, it isn't feasible to convince them all to switch to a self hosted service.

Even in the case of those programs you mentioned though, aren't they still plagued by a slow/electron based client?

*edit: I just looked into Matrix. Looks awesome. Wish my friends used chat programs like this. I will try to implement this with some of my closer friends.
The commons typically concerns a shared public resource. PD normally concerns a decision that affects 2 players in a direct and immediate way. In PD both parties see every outcome as an immediate consequence of their decision.
This may be different from my phone to yours, but the eyes bounced back and forth on Safari mobile. This definitely took attention away from the article.
I'm 36 as well, I've always worked as software engineer (full stack, but front end oriented), and last year I changed role. I was lucky enough to be contacted by one of the big tech giants, and I discovered that the evolution of a software engineer could be picked among a number of different options.

I think your premise is wrong: "I can not switch jobs because it would mean to get back to junior salary". Why do you think that?

Of course, part of the equation is also your location. I don't know where you live, but if you're willing to move, you probably can find a lot of opportunities to sell your senior experience.

It's not really clear what is the advice you're looking for.
- Do you like your job? Stick to it and grow in your current role.
- Do you like your job but not your company? Change company!
- Do you want to switch to another job? Well, you probably won't choose something super different (e.g. a doctor!) but you with your experience you could apply for team leading roles, sofware (or infrastructure) architect, production engineer, developer advocate, partner engineer, etc.

My suggestion is to understand exactly what is your need / problem here, and to give it a name. Then start from there. You're a programmer, think analytically :) And don't think about bad choices (I don't think it was a bad choice, though) you can change what's next but not what you already did (yeah apologies for the philosophical sentence, but that's it)
Even crazier, Abir operated in Congo Free State (the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). That was a private, personally owned colony of King Leopold II of Belgium. At the end of the 19th century. Congo is enormous.
seems to be similar, but with some nice add-on features for not that much.
Stimulation doesn't need a lot of power, transcranial has been a topic of research for a long time. If you do it incorrectly, however your nervous system will build up an immunity by learning to ignore the external signals.
That its a black circle?
Zomato Annual Report FY19
Couldn't you type https://amazon. or https://buy.amazon. ?
My original point (which you don't seem to disagree with): It's on Hollywood to fix the misrepresentation of IT workers asap and produce some heroic characters from our field.
Oh, nice. Thanks for the clarification.
Does that image have a weird pulsing optical illusion for anyone else?
You're more likely to pay attention and double check some maths when writing out a $20,000 check as opposed to a $20 check.
Watch the first ever image of a black hole be livestreamed
Like PaulHoule, I have an old house, but with a new electrical system. It was proudly rewired by yours truly, with GFIs and AFCIs all over -- and an added subpanel.

Anyways, I use a set of powerline adapters with a second wifi router at the other end because the walls in my house are very thick (the studs are covered in shiplap on both sides). The throughput is fast enough to stream video on the other end, but I haven't put it to any measured test.

In the summer, I often take the whole setup to one of the outdoor plugins, so that we have solid wifi on the deck. So it can work quite well. Whether it will in any given circumstance is uncertain I suppose.
I too was duped into assuming the headline implied a carrier group. But then I looked up the stats for the USS Wasp and was surprised to find out that it can carry up to 20 F-35s (in addition to a wide array of other VTOL aircraft) and it pretty much looks like a little aircraft carrier. And it can carry 1600 Marines. I agree with your assessment, just was surprised to learn that “amphibious assault ships” are formidable weapons platforms.
> "But with the rise of Protestantism, work was ennobled. Martin Luther for the first time suggested that an individual’s work—whether it was making shoes or building churches—could be a way of serving God, and that the harder we worked (and, by default, the more money we made), the better God would be pleased.

> "That Protestant work ethic dominates in the US to a greater degree than almost anywhere else because it is a relatively young country without a long, prevalent pre-Protestant history..."

I've heard this theory of the protestant work ethic many times very recently. I grew up in what I think was a very typical American protestant culture, where, yes, work is ennobled ("all work is a high calling, not just clerical work") but I have never encountered this sentiment to the workaholic extreme that is being associated to it. Just the opposite was true: a huge emphasis was placed on the Sabbath commandment. Not in the legalistic, "it's a sin if you work on Sundays" kind of way, but definitely in the work-life balance, burnout-avoiding kind of way. Sabbath rest has always been centrally important to the brand of protestant work ethic that I came up in. Curious if others have different experiences?
Much of the country is headed for $4 gas
I wonder how it compares to the one from Interstellar?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26966-interstellars-t...
The first picture of a black hole
Relieved it isn't just me
Hotels and Motels in Auckland
1. Please do not import external resources from Google Fonts if you don’t have to. (Hint: You never really have to.)

2. If you want to use as little CSS as possible, simply use `sans-serif`. Otherwise try this font stack: http://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/

2. Fira Sans is actually quite nice, but please do not use `font-weight`s below `400` for continuous text. That’s really hard to read.

3. Since only the `300` weight is imported, the entire text will be thin – even headlines and `strong`.

4. Please leave the link text underlines for accessibility: https://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/link_text#underlinin...

bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com did a better job.
And the Metal Umlaut?
This looks very similar to markdown. I wonder how org-mode distinguishes itself.

> Org-Mode is Standardized

> the very widely used markup language named Markdown has many flavors to choose from

I believe the XKCD about standards applies here.[0]

The problem with Markdown is only real if you treat Markdown as a single language instead of a family of languages. You don't need to support multiple Markdown compilers. Just pick a particular flavor of Markdown to support for your project. I usually go with GitHub's.

Besides, having a standard doesn't stop others from adding unofficial features on top of that standard. If this happens to take off, maybe I'll be using GitHub Flavored Org-Mode in the future.

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
The costs are tiny because right now they not internalize pollution and social injustice. Yes, “local” is not an end on itself but the same is true for “global”. Right now the cost of sending a banana to the other side of the world in a container is small because we are jeopardizing the future of the planet by not putting a price on CO2 emissions.
Local food need to spend effort on Marketing because they are more expensive that monocultures, and the reason for this is that monoculture prices benefit from subsidies and not paying externalities. We need to fix this for the sake of future generations and if we do this local goods would be much more competitive and so much more effective in marketing.
TikTok Owner Bytedance Gets a $1.3B Loan from Wall Street
On 1803 and 1903 it's 3 to 4 times faster than MsysGit (WSL is ~1s on my laptops). It is possibly slightly faster on 1903 as my laptop running it is faster than the other for this bench, despite having an older processor.

Now in a Linux VM it's approx 10 times faster than even WSL. And that should probably be even faster natively.

So anyway WSL is really usable and if you really only started 10 processes per sec something is wrong. Maybe you are using a crappy antivirus (I've heard that Kaspersky makes WSL extremely slow)
Why Go (Golang)?
Yes, fascinating! If you shift the focus of your eyes from the outside to the inside of the hole, it seems to "pulsate"
Yes, reminds me of the Eye of Sauron.
The Dutch government at the time was sort of an anomaly in the sense that after kicking out the Spanish army, it sort of accidentally became a federation of provinces without a proper monarch and a relatively strong navy. Also, a lot of oppressed jews, protestants, etc. found refuge in Amsterdam bringing in a lot of capital. So in that climate of relative peace, tolerance, cultural intermingling, and trading, a lot of innovative stuff (financially, scientifically, etc.) happened in a short span of time.

Trade was indeed a big driver and the VoC basically was one of the first companies/multinationals that used the stock market to raise capital to build an enormous amount of ships that definitely had a lot of defensive/offensive capability. So the VoC was its own navy effectively. Ship building at the time was labor and capital intensive and required access to a lot of resources (e.g. timber). So capital and easy access to local trade routes (the rhine, baltics, etc.) was essential.

When these ships started bringing back goods from Africa and the Indian Ocean regions, people started making lots of money. Dominating the channel militarily and being able to deal with the French, Spanish, and British navies also was key. The scale of the VoC was simply unprecedented.
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results: Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
So much higher res than I thought (I was expecting a 3x3px black and white).

Does anyone know if this is aggregated over a long time so it's unlikely to improve with more observation? And what is limiting the resolution at this point?
See the first ever image of a black hole
One difference between a Tesla or Apple style event vs a staid, scientific one such as this. Starting in the evening vs 9am...
I get it if I move a bit when on an angle, I assume it's just my crappy monitor's viewing angles causing it.
That was prices offered to locals, not immigrants. By the time you deal with all the paperwork immigrants are worth less. However they work hard, and are happy to get those wages. Again, by our standards working conditions are bad, but to them they are getting rich...
Papers with scientific details are here (open access):

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_E...

Article in physics world with comparisons to simulations:

https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unve...
They wouldn't use amazon.amazon obviously. Some options would include www.amazon, store.amazon, home.amazon, {product_category}.amazon, ec2.amazon, aws.amazon, etc.

See how we're using .google for some examples (which fortunately is a completely made-up word, hence no contentions).
Observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624226
> an emacs thing that has never been seen in the wild outside maybe as a pandoc input

There are a couple of vim plugins. I don't know whether they're any good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/4ms4z0/org_mode_which_...
Discussion forums are one part of MOOCs that basically don't work at all. For technical courses that roll out on a schedule (which are probably not as common any longer), they're vaguely useful for platform issues and maybe some points of particularly common confusion. But they're swamped with people who are clearly way out of their depth, e.g. have no idea how to even begin to setup a required programming environment on their system.

From there, it descends into the absolute dumpster fire that is any sort of real discussion around less technical topics.
I think this is subjective, to be honest. Personally, I do my best work alone without distraction from others. While I do like being social over coffee or lunch, when I have to write code or prototype/tweak a system, I don't want talking, chatting, or other people's music in the background. This is what works for me. I turn on the Trance channel and grind it out. I can get more work done in half a day like this than in two days working with others. Thankfully, my job is largely dependent on what I can offer and not on pure teamwork.
> but now you have to establish some form of IPC

Shared memory for threads is a form of IPC too, except one where it's very easy to make a mistake, introduce concurrency bugs.

> I also certainly cannot see any sensible argument for threading being harder than fork()

You should read a paper or two on concurrency bugs. Including on those using explicit but shared communication channels, like CSP does.
Pretty much exactly what was predicted as to the livestream :-)
The additional pixel density probably doesn't add any details though. The original image looks like a smoothed-out version of a low-res image anyway...
What would .acto mean?

Also, ccTLDs are two letters long, not four. If it's three or more letters long then it's always a gTLD.
Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads
> If I was in the business of bribing politicians, I would allocate a lot more than $16k to the chair of the committee. Just saying. At least send all of his grandkids to the Ivy Leagues.

Why, that is classical supply and demand, Economics 101. If you can buy a service for $10, why would you pay $100? If $16,000 is enough to buy the chair of some committee you'd batter not pay her much more than $16,000 or the next time she comes around in some position where she has the power over some piece of legislation which might get in your way you'll have to dig deeper still. Not to mention the fact that your fellow lobbyists wouldn't like you for raising the going price of politicians, senators and committees and you'd be hard pressed to find another lucrative position in this market.
Pretty sure they could also put a website right at https://amazon/
There is still zero evidence that there exists such a thing as a black hole with all its fantastic properties. We have a picture of a red-yellow accretion disk and that's it. Black holes remain a mathematical artifact of general relativity and there is as much evidence of their existence as of crystal healing and astral travel. There is at best some evidence of very massive objects at certain points.
This blog post describes the stuff Interstellar mostly gets right, and the big thing it's lacking (a brightness asymmetry from the rotation of the accretion disk).

http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/03/28/imagin...
Note: I'm not making a political argument either way here, just a quick aside about the development of the world over the last 70 years.

Since the end of WW2 the U.S. has become, for better or worse, the world's stabilizing agent. Of course there are peaks and valleys - argue all you want about American intervention in the Middle East or South America - but broadly speaking world governments expect America to take care of business.

Huge swaths of modern society depend on the U.S. being a (relatively) honest broker and protector of "peace" - two notable examples of which, in fact, are Japan and Taiwan. The latter very arguably remains independent today thanks to American protection. If China chose to claim exclusive rights to the South China Sea tomorrow, it's unlikely that Japan or Taiwan or Vietnam or any coalition of coastal nations together - without American or pan-European support - could push back successfully.

All of this is shifting, of course, as nationalist movements gain momentum and confidence in America wanes but for the moment (and the immediate future), this is the world we live in.
I read a lot, fiction mostly, but I don't hear an inner voice when reading speech (and I don't hear a voice from the narrator if the books is written like a narrative). I could do that, if I wished to apply a voice to it, e.g. imagine that some friend said those words.

I wouldn't have it any other way. If I had to actually 'listen' to a voice when reading I imagine the reading would get terribly slow. Since I was a child I've always been able to read much much faster than any kind of speech or audio narrative. In elementary school I used to drop by the library every day, borrow up to four books, read them, get new books the next day. An inner voice would be like slow motion, it would take forever to read a book.

(And I was surprised when book commentors complained about e.g. names in a story that are difficult to pronounce. Until I understood that their inner voice is actually trying to pronounce it - which breaks up their reading.)
Notes on the challenges to the adoption of security keys
How is A/B testing anything other than the scientific method with a control and a variable?

The answer is: modern science has always used a form of A/B testing.