skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I am not strong on mathematical part of GR, so feel free to disregard the rest of this idea, if math's the sole thing you are looking for.

A thought experiment: imagine we have a clock, falling into Schwarzschild black hole. Obviously, any real clock would have some non-zero size in all space dimensions. Here we will be concerned with just two: r and any orthogonal one. So for simplicity let the clock be a simple rubber-like oscillating ring with a fixed k and infinite resistance to tearing. (You could also take infinite k, but I'd argue that would not be physically meaningful in this setup)

As the ring is closing to the r = 0, its oscillations will slow down and come to a halt due to physical stretching along the r dimension. What I am trying to say is that maybe these oscillations make more sense as the measure of time for the ring people, than what a numerical value of proper time tells us. In a similar way the time singularity at the horizon is nothing special for a freely falling observer.

I am unsure how to interpret the fact, that the number of oscillations per proper time unit is going down though. Seems to be quite the opposite of my original note about the volume, yet something is ringing.
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp

I had to search "Lastname, Firstname" to find myself. Also note the "expired" checkbox.
My home connection has a data cap now (fuck you comcast) so the first 5g provider to sell a real unlimited plan will get my money.
Maybe someone will copy and paste it for us
The ISS is 'about' 500km away, that makes it fairly easy to visualise for me.
We need to be really careful with reporting supposed suicide clusters.

The most famous recent case in the UK - Bridgend - turned out to have been caused by reporting of it. That is, a few deaths happened, then sensationalist news reporting happened, and a lot more deaths happened.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756004/

> There was a possible suicide cluster in young people in Bridgend between December 2007 and February 2008. This cluster was smaller, shorter in duration, and predominantly later than the phenomenon that was reported in national and international print media. Further investigation of factors leading to the onset and termination of this series of deaths, in particular the role of the media, is required

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/0227-5910/a0004...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/02/reporting_bri...

I'm always surprised, alarmed, at the very poor quality of reporting on suicide coming from the US. It feels like US journalists just don't care that the words they chose can cause significant harm.
Anyone know of any water filters for home use that absolutely 100% filter out microplastics? Brita has no mention of it on their website, and I'm guessing if they don't, competitors most likely don't either.
Got a sorry message, with the above url thingy, not sure if it's conclusive

Waiting for more clarity.

Anyone ?
>Then finally you can say with a straight face that 20% of estimated time is for unforseen circumstances.

This is how I always have done it across multiple jobs and I always called that extra contingency. Depending on the project I sometimes had to ask for over 50% of the total as contingency. If anyone queried it I would explain that it is very likely we'll need it based on my experience of many other projects.

Then the client would either accept it as is, or they would want to split the proposal into "what we will definitely pay for" and "what we will pay for only when it is actually needed" which is also fine for both sides if proper progress reporting has been agreed in advance.

Someone could think that no client would agree to such a contract as it would open them to be taken advantage of by an unscrupulous supplier, but at the end of the day what matters in business is trust. If a client doesn't trust the supplier they shouldn't hire them. And in all my previous projects I never met an engineer or developer that would deliberately use up the contingency time when it is not needed as everyone knows the availability of this extra time might come very important towards the end of the project.
changed - pardon my ignorance!
>There is a good argument to be made for each (even the skyscraper)

I'm curious...what's the good argument towards replacement with a skyscraper?
Why Stack Is Moving Its CI to Azure Pipelines
I love getting off the beaten path, but there are one of a kind things to see in those popular destinations. That's why they are popular.

Venice for example stinks, is crowded, and covered in bird shit. I would never go back, but I'm happy I visited before it sinks into the water at some point.
You can try: http://www.arrl.org/advanced-call-sign-search

I don't know if they include inactive licenses though.
Calling it a "really fast camera" elides much of the actual difficulty. We're trying to tag individual wavefronts of light at different telescopes, record them, and then play them back at a central "correlator" with the appropriate delays so that the waves come to a focus.

For a wavelength of 1.3 mm, we'd want the time tagging to be better than a quarter of the wavelength at least - say 0.3 mm. The speed of light is 300 mm/ns (a foot per nanosecond is the shorthand beloved of circuit and chip designers). So, for 0.3 mm, we're going to have to get down to a wavefront tagging accuracy of 0.001 ns.

No clock is going to get there, but if we can get ~close enough, we can use a procedure called fringe fitting to determine the clock corrections by looking at the wavefronts. (Does it line up this way? How about this way? How about now? Yes, it's as laborious as it sounds, but computers, eh.)

This is all in the calibration of data, before we do the Fourier inversion to create images - the magic of radio interferometry is that we can record the signal to disk while preserving phase. Optical photons can not be recorded and played back with phase preserved - optical interferometry has to split up the photon streams and send different parts to be correlated against streams from other telescopes, so you run out of signal quickly. Meanwhile, we can record radio waves at the 27 VLA dishes, say, and play them back for correlation on all 27*26/2 = 354 baselines, no problem. That's why radio VLBI is a thing, but not optical VLBI.

Even as a professional radio astronomer, the underlying physics is deep and almost magical.
Multiple 8K 90Hz VR streams for the whole family to play Roblox 2025, all running off a personal hotspot.
If you've ever had inside knowledge about any stories that were reported on my journalists, you very likely noticed that they got a lot of key facts wrong.

The phenomenon where you then still keep believing every word written about other topics is known as "the Gell-Mann amnesia effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

As for the topic at hand, it's good to remember that "Gender situation in STEM is pretty good" is not a story. That never gets published. Not because of any political agenda, but because it's boring and non alarmist.
Ajit Pai seems to think it's about: Rural Connectivity. Fiber Infrastructure. National Competitiveness: https://youtu.be/jKbAdEVOaDY?t=406 (Ajit starts around the 8 minute mark)
OP: This is not on iPhone but on a MBP

They weren't referring to their phone, but being able to, quite reasonably, have control over what their MacBook is making outbound connections to.

> there's even corded dumb phones one could use.

That's a somewhat facetious and unnecessary remark. And you know, not everyone has a POTS landline these days.
I have a list, but this is somewhat optimised for technical people

hackernews
indiehackers
twitter
reddit
linkedin
stackshare
> Stereo headphones all the way.

I've done both, and (for me) it's the opposite. You're probably right for "accuracy of sound", but when gaming having a bunch of powerful speakers making sound effects gives a better "experience". :)

eg You can feel decent sized speakers with your whole body, which you're missing when using just headphones
Customers who call banks to know a balance hit an automated system. The kind that end up calling instead of checking online/ an app AND end up needing an operator don’t use chatbots

Same with your retail example.

And a million others.

And take your second example, with dresses.

What kind of events does it understand? There has to be a limited number of event types it knows, it’s awful that there are infinite types of events, the bot understands practically none of them compared to infinity, and you have to guess how to frame your query to fit in its bag, instead of having a list with a search box for event types.
Promoting negative emotions is a lot easier than promoting positive emotions. To a very large degree the platform of the right is currently heavily weighted toward provoking fear and anger, negative emotions easy to stoke in people.

This might change and we may have an ascendant party on the left with a primarily negative message eventually. And I'm not saying the current left never does this. But at the moment the right's playbook fits existing social media better.
A Collision of Light
I cringe at the "modern" aesthetics that someone might wish to inject into that place.
And it looks like the annotated rust code (with commented out invariants) and f* code for that example can be found here:

https://github.com/denismerigoux/rox-star/blob/master/textin...
Rejecting on the grounds of no technical basis? I'd like to see more on that. I would hope when NASA raises a flag with the FCC it's taken with sincerity.
Malware has a definition[1] :

> Malicious computer software that interferes with normal computer functions or sends personal data about the user to unauthorized parties over the Internet.

Taking up a couple KBs of space to do nothing is not even comparable. From a moral standpoint, was it okay from them to install that extension on people's computers? No. Was it malware? No.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+malware&t=h_&ia=definition
Why should someone who doesn’t fear death be allowed to share the road with people who do? They have much less of an incentive to drive safely.
I found this case study by the author, linked from the article, more interesting: https://blog.merigoux.ovh/en/2019/04/16/textinput.html
I am not, and have never been, a user of Facebook.

But I have to say, that statement means nothing. Mocking people for their poor choices may be in poor taste, or unfair, but it does not mean one is willing to take advantage of them.

It's all he has done since that reveals that he is actually willing.
What an awesome space, and too bad it's lost for good.

It makes you wonder why more priority wasn't placed on retrofitting it with sprinklers. Yes, sprinklers do change some things, but not nearly as much as everything burning down.
It would blow through your allowance if you downloaded something at that speed, constantly. Maybe other people understand it differently but I’ve always understood those ads as like ads for a top speed on a car. You’ll never go that fast normally, but you can if you need to.

People will continue downloading < 1 MB per request, it will just be much faster
> "forget" your phone in a friend's bag.

Are you going to forget your credit cards and ATM cards too? Give up on flying? Driving new cars? Driving in non-rural areas? And good luck finding a job nowadays without a cell phone or an internet connection.

In 1985 I could fly without showing ID to anyone, including the person I bought the ticket from (back then airplane tickets were printed on paper). I could drive anywhere without my license plate being tracked by default and without having to worry about the GPS in my car (because there was no GPS). And I had a reasonable expectation of privacy, enshrined in law, in my phone calls and snail mail correspondence (there was no email). Today all of that is gone.
Here is a story about the woes of interpreting statistical distributions:

I have two habits when I estimate: First, I like to give a range or even better a triple estimate of "optimistic", "expected", "worst case". (And btw, you should expect things to weight toward the pessimistic side, because you always find new requirements/problems, but you rarely discover a supposed requirement is not really one.)

Second: I like to break down a project into tasks of just a few hours and then add everything up. I usually don't share that spreadsheet with the customer, but it helps me a lot. Pretty much always it gives me a number higher than I'd like, but which is almost always very accurate. A couple times I've ignored the result and given a lower estimate because I really wanted some project, and it has always turned out the spreadsheet was right.

Well, one time I combined these two approaches, so that my very finely-chopped estimates all had best/expected/worst values, and I shared that with the customer. Of course they took one look at the worst-case total and said, "How can a little thing like this possibly take 2 years??" I didn't get the work. :-)

EDIT: Btw it feels like there is a "coastline paradox" here, where the more finely you estimate, the higher the max possible, so that you can make your estimate grow without bound as long as you keep splitting items into greater detail. It'd be interesting to see the math for that.
Driving a semi-truck remotely? What could possibly go wrong!
Slave labour was never cheap. Buying slaves was always very expensive because being able to keep the fruits of someone else’s labour was always a great way to make money. And natural resources are nice to have but if you don’t have them but you have money (perhaps gotten from productive industry) you can just buy them. Singapore and Hong Kong went from poverty to the first world in a generation based on good institutions and sound economic policy. And again colonies were never a big deal for the metropole economically. The Nordic countries didn’t have any colonies of note and they did just fine economically over the 19th and 20th centuries. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was doing worse economically than the German in 1912, but not much, and it wasn’t because of the lack of colonies. The Netherlands’ economy basically didn’t notice the loss of Indonesia, ditto Belgium for the Congo. Natural resources just aren’t that important. Equatorial Guinea is swimming in oil and its people are poor as dirt because their government because it’s governed by a kleptocrat. South Korea was a bombed out hellscape in 1954 and now it’s a first world country. That’s not because of natural resources, it’s because of export led growth, same as Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. None of them are particularly blessed with oil or minerals. Switzerland’s natural resources are hydropower and beautiful scenery. The beautiful scenery is a bigger deal economically. Saudi Arabia is sitting on the biggest oil fields in the world and once people stop caring about oil the country will go to hell. Norway is also sitting on loads of oil and will be just fine because their economy isn’t all natural resources.

Natural resources just aren’t that important.
Yes, we're not going to do optical VLBI soon, but the reason is deeper... I just wrote out a long comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674563
Throwaway accounts since I don't have any info with me. I thought of something similar, but for news. Basically, a summary attempting to make everything as neutral as possible. I am not sure I would see a use case for a book -- but I am just a random person on the internet.
Great information here. It's really interesting that Germans only use Elementary for half-day.

I wonder if over-education of younger kids in the US is leading to some kids feeling stigmatized towards education in general. There seems to be a growing trend of trying to teach kids things before they're truly mentally ready. Everyone I know is sending their children to head-start preschool type things instead of normal day care. The result seems to be that children are mostly just being made to conform, and they are merely memorizing for purposes of adult approval and some kind of reward or lack of punishment (similar to teach a dog a trick) rather than actually learning.
yes, that was my point. If it was a larger margin like in other countries more Canadians would.
More like "move fast and break people" vs " dont break people, move at an appropriate speed."
Very much so. Sure, the headline speeds of 5G are nice (and indeed currently with the right 4G deployments and equipment, you can certainly get some phenomenal speeds today), but like all major network upgrades the primary benefit for typical users is aggregate capacity. That seemingly pointless headline speed doesn't quite happen when you've got 100s or 1000s of people in an area, what it does result in though is a usable speed for all of those people instead of an unusable one.
I think this is a great point. With fast internet, my fear is that websites will load more and more crapola, eating our bandwidth, so basically we will indeed be buying 3 minutes of internet per month.
> I have zero experience seeing women in STEM treated badly. I'm sure it exists, but I've never seen it.

It's like you've never read any HN threads in your life.
> Hopefully, ad networks don't have much of a profile on me.

You can find out:

http://bluekai.com/registry

has a tool that shows you what data BlueKai/Oracle have on you (or any of their third-party branded and unbranded data suppliers).

> I'd like to keep it that way. I feel that keeping a permanent profile on my interests without my consent is wrong, and I take measures against anyone easily building such a profile on me.

That's why we have (and should have) the GDPR.

These cookie countermeasures are annoying for application developers...

> Wouldn't a good compromise be to deliver ads that are relevant to the content I'm viewing

Yes. These are context-sensitive ads and they're by-far the most common.
Panasonic was developing a weather model incorporating data from airplanes that was supposed to be really good. But I think most models are based on physics rather than ML.
> in this case pocketing $15/BTC

minus fees and commissions (trading being negative sum is always worth highlighting)
Code-level specifications (sometimes called contracts) that can be verified by various means (including manual deductive proofs, and automated solvers) exist for mainstream programming languages. The most mature ones are probably JML for Java (verified with https://www.openjml.org/ and various other tools) and ACSL for C (verified with https://frama-c.com/). C# has Spec#, but I'm not sure it's still used.

It is still unclear how best to use such code level verification, as the effort required grows very quickly with code size, and it's unclear how much sporadic verification of properties that are easy to prove actually improves correctness, but this is all still ongoing research.
The Twitter fortune telling thing comes from a person posting as many possible predictions on their timeline, then deleting the incorrect predictions, leaving what looks like a string of correct guesses.
Geofencing and Investigatory Datasheds
Great take. Also good to remember that a Temple of Jupiter once stood where Notre Dame is. After that was destroyed, a basillica stood there, and then a Romanesque cathedral. That last one, which was nearly 700 years old, was torn down to build the Gothic style Notre Dame.

The people who built Notre Dame tore down what to them would have been ancient history. Those other buildings were hundreds of years old by the time Notre Dame was built. 800 years ago, Notre Dame was the change that destroyed a 700 year old historical building. And the new construction was built in a super-modern style. They didn't try to make it look like the old building they tore down, they built it with the most modern techniques in a super trendy style.

Much like death and rebirth are cornerstones of the Christian religion that Notre Dame represents, death and rebirth are fundamental to Notre Dame itself.
The biggest problem is that engineers tend to think in man-hours and managers think in calendar time. If I say a project will take 2 days, it'll probably take 2 days, but it might span 4 calendar days because other things are going on.

The biggest thing that has helped me here is to keep a running list of my tasks, an informal Gantt chart, and show it to the manager whenever they ask me about an estimate. This helps me communicate in a way they understand.
The ship of Theseus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
A good portion of cable isn’t even 1080p/i. Many cable companies squish things down to 720p/i to minimize bandwidth and shove more channels into their lineups.
Pet theory: this is entirely explained by unknown systems not behaving as expected. As developers, and unlike e.g. carpenters, we are constantly using new tools with effects we haven't yet experienced. Then we have to yak-shave to get around their heretofore unknown kinks. Then the time blows up.

If and when you're using known features of a known framework, and that's all you're doing, the estimates are accurate and the work is completed quickly.
Nice to see this is still in development. I wrote GLWF bindings for two languages and it was pretty easy to grok. It's also absolutely essential if you want to have an UI in a language without support for GUIs (like golang). Just use the OpenGL backend for the immediate mode UI lib of your choice (dear-imgui, nuklear, ...) and GLFW for the window setup and you're golden.
I've always been kind of baffled why women would want gender neutral bathrooms. Men's bathrooms are fucking disgusting. The few times i've had to use a women's bathroom, they were always beautiful. They were clean, there wasn't shit smeared on the walls, there wasn't a dude standing next to me making conversation while staring at your dick. Not to mention, piss trenches. You've never had a real public bathroom experience until you've stood in a line of 20 dudes all pissing together into a trench built into the back wall of the bathroom.

I just don't understand why you'd wish access to this or would want your space turned into this.
My view is that tons of buildings in Munich that we view as "historic" are mere recreations of the originals that were destroyed in World War 2. Notre Dame will be rebuilt, and it will merely be a part of its long history that it survived the fire. People will always long for how something was before, but unfortunately, that's not life.
> I can't be looking down every 2 seconds to position my hands correctly or find that one key.

Agreed 100%. I bought 2 blank keyboards[0] a few years ago. I relish the looks people give. I usually follow up by asking "Do you know how to type?"

[0] https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/
I'm also interested in learning more if you have references/links you'd like to recommend.
Resolution isn't an indication of image quality. Just like megapixel chasing in photography. Sure it's 4k, but it's heavily compressed, just like the terrible audio quality you get still to this day. They aren't streaming you 100GB.
And then, a couple of years down the road, your ISP will silently begin to throttle your connection once you reach 1TB per month. :(
But the 4G towers have less bandwidth than the coax network. So if everyone used 4G for home internet speeds would be worse.

With 5G and recent increase in cell tower coverage. We are almost there.
And Linux desktops taking over Windows / Mac?
I would guess that's fiction imitating reality. I'll only generalize about my own race's behavior here, by saying that most people reading this are probably white and therefore less likely to have useful input into your question.