skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That story is still true today: we only have artist renderings of the black holes and do NOT have real pictures.

The data manipulations that this EHT team did to process their raw data - is NOT acceptable from the perspective or a correct scientific experiment.

They got their images only when they allowed themselves to creatively interpret data from their telescopes

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https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=1177

19:37

What you can do is to use methods where you [have] do not need any calibration whatsoever and you can still can get pretty good results.

So here on the bottom at the top is the truth image, and this is simulated data, as we are increasing the amount of amplitude error and you can see here ... it's hard to see ... but it breaks down once you add too much gain here. But if we use just closure quantities - we are invariant to that.
So that really, actually, been a really huge step for the project, because we had such bad gains.

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They also deleted multiple critical comments from that video presentation.

E.g. "Pratik Maitra" posted multiple comments that later disappeared.
Less terrible site: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/indian...
> You can help someone try to commit a crime and even if they're not successful, that can be a crime.

Sure, but in this case it seems like he didn't even help. He decided on his own to back out of that.

If you promise to help, then don't, it should not count as "furthering" the conspiracy.

> I also wonder what might have happened to that other user whose account they tried to access had hey been successful.

Not sure, but it would presumably be their fault that the password was crackable. [edit: reworded slightly]
As near as I can tell, the only benefit that consumers will see from 5G is that it will resolve a real problem with the cell system right now: capacity.

In very congested areas, the total supportable capacity is already being completely utilized. This is why people in very congested areas experience call drops or problems with network availability. 5G would go far to resolve this.

However, that's the only consumer-level benefit that seems realistic to me, and it would only be noticed by the people in dense areas. All the other stuff, such as increased speeds, etc., appears to be nonsense.
Out of curiosity, do they give you a publically accessible IP? Or is the connection NAT-ed?
While gothic cathedrals are among the most sophisticated buildings ever created, this is still just a relatively small damage, and no life is lost. The French will absolutely rebuild it, and the best experts and sponsors will be proud to be part of it. See Dresden's Frauenkirche and basically all of Nuremberg.
Maybe 200 years from now, we'll see the 9 years of delays for the new BER airport in the same light:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
That's not true at all. Lots of the actual Matlab code (i.e. code written in matlab) is available. But none of Matlab itself is. That's where their value is. Octave has fairly easily replicated a huge amount of the mathsy part, but is their GUI or plotting code any good? Not when I last tried it.
Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Romans
> “I would like to offer to anyone who has had such demeaning experiences including those who felt were dismissed by management or HR to email me directly,”

This is such a fucked up thing to say. Basically, "if you have damaging information like this, please send it to the top, so we can most effectively suppress it. Don't tell anyone else. Definitely don't use our normal channels, they are not effective."

It really proves that this particular HR department is not set up at all to handle the situation, and that their strategy for dealing with this is just to wing it. There's no process here, just damage control.
Because the plane wasn't designed that way in the 1960s, that's why. They can't change it without designing a different chassis, which means it's a different plane and a whole new type rating that pilots have to be trained for and certified on.
The thing that makes me most excited about self-driving cars is what with a little bit of coordination these kind of smoothing techniques could be applied with even a modest percent of cars with the capability.
Radio telescopes are way bigger and heavier (large dishes required). Even more importantly, usually many radio telescopes are used together for interferometric observations. They require exquisite calibration of the distance between the telescopes, which can be pretty difficult in space.
I'm kind of gobsmacked that anyone working in a modern office hasn't learned to touch type. The payoff seems so clear to me.

Thankfully my parent (mom) was an amazing typist (scientific secretary) and encouraged me to take typing in high school. This was just as personal computers were coming around (Apple II, IBM PC). I was the only boy in the class ... which was fine by me (hey, I was 14). When I began college, being able to type papers without hunt-and-peck was a clear win, and as terminals/computers became the norm the advantage proved even greater.

FWIW, I'm considering trying out a non-QWERTY layout and so far the Workman scheme looks like the best-of-breed; the designer is an engineer who gave it real analysis and it's wisely thought out, IMHO.
I think “abuse” is an ill-defined enough term that I’m not sure it adds clarity to this discussion without setting out a definition. Its an important subject and might be a really important lens through which to view this, but as someone who has been searching for a really clear-cut definition of “emotional abuse” since my childhood, and who has seen a lot of acrimonious conversations about it since then...I worry that the framing adds more smoke than light to the discussion. :(

Do you have a good definition? One whereby a scrupulous person can confidently judge “am I acting abusively?” correctly?
Hi- I'm one of the main editors of the JSON Schema specification, and we and the OpenAPI Technical Steering Committee are actively working together to re-converge the specifications.

OpenAPI 3 was developed while JSON Schema progress was stalled due to the prior editors leaving and a new group of us (eventually) picking it up.

OpenAPI 3.1 will most likely include a keyword to allow using standard JSON Schema as an alternative to their customized syntax, and hopefully we can achieve full integration on OpenAPI 4. There are also some other ideas being explored for improved compatibility in 3.x.

Standards work is hard, but the relationship between the OpenAPI TSC and the JSON Schema editors is quite healthy and we are making good progress.
I don't think that's accurate. There was a whole lot of:

"Ok, remove the support scaffolding"

"Oh crap it's falling! Put it back, put it back!"

followed up by a design tweak.

Or the King/Bishop decided that they wanted something different and the design was changed.
Yeah kind of cool. I believe tools like that came from either mass opt-out tools by the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance.

http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
Chrome Delays Requests on Slow Connections, Even with HTTP/2
Unencrypted chats by default.

Self-written encryption.
Using old.reddit also lets you read the entire comment, which seems to be truncated for me in the new UI
I hadn't heard of them yet. The front of the chassis isn't my favourite, but that thing looks surprisingly great.

If it's that economical, can take a beating haul a lot of anything it will be amazing.

Would definitely interest me if I moved out of the city.

(Though I had to chuckle a little because the bulk of the upper body frame/rollbars look like something my dad half-assedly would put together on a weekend—only at first look, mind! https://www.bollingermotors.com/#image-gallery-64)
>The actual length of a coastline is infinite when measured with an infinitesimally small measuring stick.

>In actuality, the concept of an infinite fractal is not applicable to a coastline; as progressively more accurate measurement devices are used

The notion of the length of the coastline, and why I think the question is apt as well, is that regardless of the fractal paradox, the practical answer is that there is an answer that is accurate enough to satisfy the business's or the customer's needs.

The analog for software projects, from my point of view, is scope, and it's generally one of the biggest problems with projects that take too long. Product and various stakeholders take outline broad, high-level scope requirements that may or may not actually be informed by the realities of building or delivering that piece of software. They generally kick the can down the road and take a "I'll know it when I see it" type approach that winds up drastically changing things at some arbitrary point later on on the project.

A rough measuring stick for scope always means that the answer will be longer, however, small measuring sticks for scope are absolutely impractical. What's needed is the understanding from the business that refining scope increases development time, and the high-level broad scope that is sufficient at the beginning of the project is not sufficient at the end. Many businesses want to run with the assumption that their broad scope and the estimates that go with them are accurate enough to bring a product to market.
https://mathics.github.io/ is open source partial clone. Frankly with out a source of income it wouldn't be what it is today.
My only memory of the HGTTG puzzles was that early on in the game, you would have an opportunity to feed a sandwich to a dog, but at that point, there was no obvious motivation to do so. However, if you didn't do that, then much later on in the game, you would die aboard a miniaturized fleet of spaceships that would be devoured by the still-hungry dog.
You are so fortunate to have options for your ISP! Where I live (in a good sized city), my options consists solely of Comcast.
But surely you miss the anomalies that might exist high in the atmosphere and which are actually responsible for the violent meteorological events (such as temperature inversions).
8K is such an insane waste of processing power.
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Hi- I'm one of the main editors of the JSON Schema specification, and one thing we are doing with the next draft is making it easier to build extensions for things like code generation. We expect to work with the OpenAPI folks on this as it is very relevant to their interests :-)

Also, we and the OpenAPI Technical Steering Committee are actively working together to re-converge the specifications.
OpenAPI 3 was developed while JSON Schema progress was stalled due to the prior editors leaving and a new group of us (eventually) picking it up.

OpenAPI 3.1 will most likely include a keyword to allow using standard JSON Schema as an alternative to their customized syntax, and hopefully we can achieve full integration on OpenAPI 4. There are also some other ideas being explored for improved compatibility in 3.x.

Standards work is hard, but the relationship between the OpenAPI TSC and the JSON Schema editors is quite healthy and we are making good progress.
The real issue is coverage, not highest-available speed. It doesn't matter if Verizon puts up a tower that lets you download 10GB per second if you live in an area that Verizon doesn't care about servicing.
Yes and no. Those large dishes on earth require massive support structures. In the zero gravity of space large dishes can float virtually unsupported. There are spy sats with extremely large reflectors. The biggest geostationary ones can been seen from earth, meaning they have reflectors on the order of 100m+ in diameter. Turn one of these around and we would have a very capable radio telescope, much as how a redesign of another spysat program gave us hubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-202

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
There are many times where you don't need 100% correctness (e.g. prototypes, or edge cases that in practice are never hit) - I'd say it might be more accurate to say that Rust makes it harder/less convenient to take out technical debt.

I discovered a bug that could potentially be triggered in the codebase where I work, but never has. It's about 5 years old.

You don't actually always need technically correct - sometimes you want practically correct, where "practically" covers a huge spectrum.
Microsoft spent that money to stop the bleeding that their last non-corporate OEM (HP being the only other OEM making devices, and those only targeted to big enterprise) was likely to either go bankrupt or switch to Android because of the race to the bottom of cheap Android (and Android knock-off) hardware changing the phone market. Microsoft buying Nokia was a much a symptom of the problem as an attempt to correct it.

The platform didn't fail for lack of fans or for lack of merits, it failed as much because hardware is a tricksy game and Android played that game better and didn't anger the US Telecoms while doing it. (Microsoft had the US Telecoms actively avoiding trying to sell Windows phones, which certainly didn't help.)
This tradeoff obviously can’t be evaluated without considering quantities. What percentage of your bug load is reduced, at the cost of how much development time?

That said, it’s not that simple. There are threshold effects (more than X amount of time = your company is dead) and intangibles (how do you feel while programming).

But anyone making a blanket statement without considering these things is participating in a dumb internet argument.
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That's interesting. But why would this be different than just adding comments to code?
Nice to see that Sony is still dedicated to hardware, knowing that streaming is a pipe dream in the USA, and will continue to be so in the coming years.
My only choice for internet in a reasonably urbanized area is Comcast. No one has run fiber to my apartment building. If someone wants to run fiber and set up nearby 5G cells, and can provide internet service that is competitive with Comcast, I don't see why I wouldn't switch.
'Not considering software a cost center' is a necessary but insufficient condition for healthy estimation. A software company often appreciates you more, but is still susceptible to the other myriads of management pitfalls.
Or one of the very nice crop of 3rd party API consuming apps.
That depends heavily on the location.

In many suburban developments, the power/communication lines are all buried underground. It would probably be much easier to install a couple of microcells around the neighborhood than to dig up everyone's lawn.

I was lucky enough to live in a neighborhood where Verizon initially installed FiOS. It was a massive undertaking. They had to trench every street in my development. I was young at the time, but I remember thinking how massive the effort was considering not every house would even sign up for it.
I thought it was just me with the "who cares about 5G" attitude. Just give me better 4G coverage. Give me another tower in my area so my cell service isn't out while they work on the only one that serves me. Give me coverage that works at my neighbor's house too. I have poor coverage, but 700 feet away he doesn't have service.
I have some experience with carbon composite construction. His statement about the 787 initial production is eerily similar to other stuff I've seen. I'm not saying it will end poorly, but let's just say we don't know nearly as much about how carbon fails/ages as we do about aluminum. Carbon is an amazing material, but I've seen a lot of cases where during initial production people realized they needed extra material here and there, and various process improvements to prevent delamination and eventual catastrophic failure. It may take a few more years, but I wouldn't be surprised if those initial aircraft find their service lives to be much shorter than promised. Unfortunately we may never be made aware, however.
JSON Schema has "$comment" as of draft-06 or -07 (I forget, which is funny b/c I was the one who added it).
> Scheme

don't know. But Lisp Machine Lisp and then Common Lisp.
A slightly different event, but when Embraer accused Bombardier of being illegally subsidized by the Canadian government, Bombardier said "no u" and made the same accusations against Embraer. IIRC both companies ended up getting fined
Anything is possible, as long as you are in a position to negotiate the contract your way. I personally chose 5 days 6 hours over 4 days 8 hours because I can work in the afternoon (hate waking up early) and 8 hour days are making me really unproductive.
Slightly related: I remember a beautiful glossy issue on beating Dragon's Lair. Absolutely thrilling.
Definitely phones can't replace all weather satellites and things - not yet anyway! But for many severe weather events that actively harm property and life, such as severe thunderstorms, can be aided with smartphone sensors. For example, barometers in phones can detect initiation of rapid convection that may lead to severe thunderstorms. In many places this rapid convection may start where there are no weather stations, and cannot (yet?) be detected by satellite.
Anything where research skills might be useful, really.
We still have many brilliant engineers. The problem is that the brilliant ones from that age have all retired or died, and the brilliant ones these days didn't go into aerospace engineering, they went into other fields. Even when I was in college 25 years ago, we were making fun of the Aerospace Engineering majors as being in a dead-end field where they could look forward to few jobs and lay-offs. It's only gotten worse since then, I'm sure.

The pay and career potential and job security is much better in computer science and engineering, so that's where all the brilliant engineers have been going for quite some time now.
kixi.stats is very nice, but Incanter has been unmaintained for a few years.
Folks should check out this article that explains how Facebook intentionally did not pass along privacy metadata to developers. Shows how a lot of the so called "breaches" happened. Hint: they weren't breaches, it was privacy violation by design. https://medium.com/@six4three/deceit-by-design-zucks-dirty-s...
>Before the internet, user experience was considered of little value because most users of systems were internal employees of companies.

I'm skeptical of this claim. It would help if there were a year, considering it's not clear if the author means the modern Internet, the ARPANET, or when the modern Internet became widely available to a larger group of people. Based on the mentions of Excel, I'm inclined to believe it's the last option I listed.

The MIT AI lab and other research areas come to mind as places that cared about how the programs were operated and whatnot and these weren't exclusively used by employees. SHRDLU comes to mind. While I'm thinking about it, the Apple Macintosh also does.

I don't believe I was familiar with this Given-When-Then model beforehand, but I also think that's because it's somewhat natural, or at least seems natural. The author has failed to convince me why this is a bad thing. I suppose I can see why these larger business practices are poor, but that has me failing to see why this particular practice is singled out.
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> the real reason money is being poured into 5G appears to be to replace the last mile / home internet.

In order to be a realistic alternative for internet service, the cost would have to come WAY down. Using the cell system for your primary internet feed right now is prohibitively expensive.

I have a hard time believing that the cell companies will actually lower their pricing for 5G. It seems more likely that they'll do the exact opposite.
Interesting. I was hanging out at a wedding with someone right around that time frame who was one of the lead engineers on the 787 rollout. He too had similar comments about safety. He told us that the 787 was failing it's FAA tests, but since the head of Boeing's relationship with the FAA was a former FAA tester, he "helped" the FAA rewrite the tests so that the 787 would pass.

I told him he may want to consider being a whistleblower, but his response was "well the AirBus didn't pass their FAA test either until they rewrote the tests".

I still look at the overall safety numbers and realize that flying is still safer than driving, but it sounds like it could be safer still.
It will depend on a bunch of things (codec used, encoding parameters, size of the screen, etc.), but most likely yes.
I'm not sure the password being crackable means it's someone else's fault because someone chose to use their identity to commit some serious crimes.

Pretty sure the fault also lies with the person who would have used their identity too.
> If your physiology is near enough to averages, than all the differences are neurological or mental.

Independent control over the last three fingers of the hand is one of the places where there are some pretty important anatomical differences between people.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=anatomical+variation+fi...
Dunno if there are enough genome hackers here to care, but I have been longing for something like this my whole bioinformatics career.

Criticism even more appreciated than praise :)

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/609396v1
They didn't explain the actual reason until literally the last sentence
They were only allies of convenience and everyone knew that. They were allied to Hitler up until he invaded them.
It’s apparently called sediment accumulation.

If you can suffer through Quora, some answers there:

- https://www.quora.com/How-were-ancient-cities-built-on-top-o...

- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-ground-level-of-Ancient-Rom...
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Me too, my shoulders feel all pinched together and my back feels hunched over when my hands are super close together in the home row position
I wish they make it run at a stable 60fps instead. You have to have a large screen or sit close to the screen in order to benefit from 4K. I can't imagine how large or close a 8K screen needs to be for any benefit at all.
Note that "Understanding JSON Schema" has been updated for draft-07 and is now under the aegis of the main JSON Schema project: https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/
Not really, the fiber installs were faulty and will be removed in repairing the street damage. This really was a worst possible case effort by Google in that the fiber infrastructure isn't usable by anyone only a few months after it was "installed".
Ajit Pai has exactly zero credibility.
Thanks!

> 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

Why is that for the optical photons, when it’s “deeper” than just a higher frequency as you answered elsewhere?
"admits" seems to be a frequent weasel word these days.

You identify the issues with someone's story that you don't like and then you make a story about how they 'admit' those things.

God help anyone who actually 'admits' anything these days as to some people that must be instantly discrediting.
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I have attended a live session from him and also spoken to him.

He did live coding for the demos where for any session of similar complexity the speakers just copy-paste pre-written snippets. It shows both his genius as well as the capabilities of Mathematica.

At one point, his code wasn't doing what he thought it should. His reaction was that of a pure engineer, with no trace of masking or downplaying the issue.

He was asked the same usual questions around open-sourcing, et al. His answer was simple and sensible: That what they are doing cannot be done without a commercial setting. He said that he would rather do a better job for the customers than spend time on anything else.