skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This is the property that makes gravity special and the property that makes tests of gravity challenging. It is known, in a different context, as the Equivalence Principle. Einstein referred to it as his "happiest idea". It is a postulate upon which General Relativity rests.

I've spent a meaningful chunk of my life working toward improved EP tests. So far, humans have been able to test it to the ~10^-14 level, with no violations yet discovered.
>Gravitational waves are weird

Are they though? I know there is a lot of math behind how exactly gravitational waves behave making specific predictions that stem from GR, but even in the Newtonian sense, something like gravitational waves would necessarily exist. That is, even under Newtonian laws, if a body emits a force like gravity which drops in strength with distance, and if that body moves back and forth in relation to you, you would necessarily experience waves of force.
I hear ya. I am only now getting a little better about working through my project directory. I am not sure if that what it was, but house projects helped. It seems I get more invested if I do fair amout of prep work. Otherwise, it is too easy to let go.
You're right, they're not the norm. But is it not correct to say that mass shootings very much are?
Fair enough, I removed this sentence. Looks like it was distracting from the core of the message.
> there are many companies and roles which require you to show the actual number of users, or the load of the service that you worked on

Really? What do you base that statement on?
Ah yeah, great feedback. We should make that more clear.

For the moment it connects directly to the database, in order to keep the Map up-to-date. But copy-paste schema exports are a good idea.
Brave Browser is Chrome with that built into it.
Likewise there is a lot of US talent that wants to work in some place that isn't the Bay Area.
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What I'm wary of is having to install a shit app from each bank that I have a card from. I'm pretty sure that will be the outcome if they're forced to allow alternative payment apps.

And please don't tell me they won't be shit, I know how their web sites work :)

On the other hand, it's annoying from a "hey that's an evil monopoly" point of view that Apple makes money on every payment I make.

Cannot win i guess.
> Was waiting for app stores to be tried on anti competition law.

The Apple App Store is clearly a lot different from the Play Store; since almost all Android devices (and all Play-capable devices controlled by Google) support sideloading and alternate app stores.
Without getting into a semantics argument:

They do have a satellite program.

They don't have a launch program, that mission will launch from Japan on a Japanese rocket.
I'd bet a large part of the reason is cultural. For just about any American high school student who's been exposed to the mainstream culture their entire lives (including myself at the time), the idea of missing out on the "college experience" (i.e. mostly partying) that just about every conventionally successful person they've ever met will have gone through and instead going to "small salary vocational training" would just be completely unthinkable and depressing to imagine, especially if all your friends are following the usual path. I suppose it's possible this may change with Covid-19 but I still don't quite see it.

Edit: could any of the downvoters explain their reasoning? I guess this could have come off as facetious because I mentioned partying or something, but I'm completely serious -- why wouldn't cultural reasons be a major factor?
I’m curious how much it would cost to get something taped out and produced at this node size (Per wafer) from SkyWater. I have seen the groups that do wafer sharing for a low volume runs, which seems like a good idea if you have a couple grand and want your own silicon.

I wonder if this could make it cheap enough to crowd fund custom chips?
Gravitational waves (radiation) are not that weird. They're kind of like electromagnetic waves.
If you accelerate an electric charge it will radiate. Likewise a mass should radiate gravitational waves.

Two objects gravitationally orbiting each other will spiral into each other due to the loss of energy to grav radiation. This is due to the finite speed of light. Basically each object 'sees' the other object slightly behind due to light propagation.
Racism, hazing and other abuse taints medical training, students say
Came across this link and found it awesome at first look. Has great potential, keep this up. Just downloaded Mac version and testing. Have a few feedback’s already, do you have a link where I can share feedback
I’m a little frustrated that all the doctors seemed to have gotten this wrong. Using steroids was completely missed and ignored as a treatment for severe patients, as I understand dexamethasone was only shown to help people on oxygen or ventilators. It seems everybody was focused on covid being a respiratory disease, when in fact it looks like it’s actually circulatory.
I know I'm probably in the minority, but I really like things as they are and I'm just not interested in change here. The iOS and App Store ecosystem work extremely well for me, including changes like forcing developers to allow users to sign in with Apple anonymously versus email, Google, or Facebook.

I understand Spotify's complaint about competing with Apple Music, and that does have merit, but at the same time I kind of just don't really care. Spotify is also in the process of ruining podcasts by making them exclusive to their platform, so no real love lost here for me.

W.r.t Apple Pay and NFC - for the love of god don't fuck with this. It's a perfect implementation as it currently is.
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micro is really good! It installs quickly and provides for just the minimal set of features to be used as a goto editor for small tasks at the terminal.
Casting the US as a well-intentioned but endlessly stumbling military adventurer is naive at best and naked propaganda at worst. The US has been responsible - intentionally - for atrocities beyond any you mention here. A podcast you might be interested in, assuming you really believe everything you wrote and are operating in good faith: https://m.soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-13-the-always-st...

What say you about Libya, where there are now open-air slave markets after the US intervened six years ago?
I've been using Geany since I moved to Linux, is the fastest loading editor I've found. Great editor!
> It's way less painful these days if you're using UEFI.

Interesting. My experience has been the opposite; I've had much more issues with UEFI than I ever had using BIOS, even when after disabling Secure Boot in the settings.
That would be incorrect, as Unicode defines the two forms to be interchangeable. You'd do a decomposition before doing a search anyway in which case both forms become the same code points (which ones depends on the decomposition type).

The correct way to handle this is by tagging the text with a language tag, as has been mentioned in other replies to the parent post.
They make up 25.3% of the admitted class but would probably make up 75-80% of the admitted class in a system truly based on merit. 4 out of 5 strong applicants are rejected simply because they're Asian American.
Not how airbus numbering works, in general. The A400 is older than the A350, for instance.

The first was the A300, and at that point the number was supposed to mean the passenger number, though as it turned out there wasn't much demand for a 300 passenger wide body at the time and it was scaled down. After that, the numbers became more or less random.
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> “It’s disappointing the European Commission is advancing baseless complaints from a handful of companies who simply want a free ride, and don’t want to play by the same rules as everyone else,” says an Apple spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “We don’t think that’s right — we want to maintain a level playing field where anyone with determination and a great idea can succeed.”

So Apple competing against niche apps with its own applications while also not having to pay the same fees is what it believes is a "level playing field" then?
> So I should want to live in this great theoretical democracy where the will of the majority means the government can legally discriminate against me?

What kind of society you want to live in is up to you. Just don't pretend that you want to live in the kind of society that our Constitution and laws describe, if you actually don't.

> I have a strange feeling you wouldn’t feel the same way if the Democratic process infringed on your liberties.

According to our Constitution and laws, it can't. The fact that it often does is a sign that our so-called "Democratic process" is actually not respecting our Constitution and laws, but is instead based on arbitrary exercises of power. Adding more arbitrary exercises of power to the mix does not help fix that problem.

> Do you agree that I shouldn’t have been able to buy a house in a certain neighborhood because the “Democratic process” allowed racial covenants?

Do you think such covenants are allowed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

> Or that my son shouldn’t have been able to go to the school that he was zone to and instead wait on people to decide that it was okay with them even though I was paying taxes too?

Do you think that policy is consistent with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
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I’d just say that English is a obscure and difficult language. :-)
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-insight-behavior-black-hole-ce...
Twilight was the largest and longest running illegal software compilation series in the 90's and early 00's in Europe. With over 60.000 discs pressed every month with the latest apps and games. It had significant following among (aspiring) IT people from about every sector (music, video, image editing, developers, gamers).
> The decisions for security measures didn't come from them.

This becomes philosophical, but the contract certainly contained security requirements (whether those are "adquante" can be argued) and they certainly required audits, which were done. But yes, the health minister is not an IT security expert, thus details are delegated.

> If they could get more info from people, they would try.

As the French try and Norwegians tried with their central approaches. If they wanted they could have made it closed source (like anything else they did before, thus nothing special) could have done more hand wavy design documents, could have done development away from a public repo with public issue tracker, ...

They (and yes, this was to a notable part driven by the engineers, but supervisees could easily overruled) conciously made it open and transparent.

There is hardly anything more they could have done within that project. (Spying activity by German intelligence/BND, "state trojans" (Quellen-TKÜ), ... etc are serious topics and yes, some "security experts" (i.e. Wolfgang Schäuble) demand mandatory tracking apps, but don't see that as being far from a mainstream oppinion in the government.
Also Kakoune

http://kakoune.org/
I used to use Ubuntu for server. Not choosing Debian because of shorter support time and old package.

And then Ubuntu botched some updates on their LTS version. Also they automatically start services after installation. I might want to reconfigure stuff before starting services.

So here I am, with Centos, reliable updates and if I need exotic application, I ran it under docker or podman.
I think the big reasons gravity is different are as follows:

* very weak (many orders of magnitude less strong than the other forces)

* no positive/negative mass 'charges', the gravitational force is attractive only.

* works via curvature of spacetime (according to Einstein), instead of the exchange of force particles (e.g. instead of by jiggling fields)
The facial recognition case is a terrific counterexample. That's totally the right thing to do, and much less dangerous.

Note that MSFT isn't denying the use of Microsoft Office or Outlook to the FBI et al. That's essentially what GitHub's employees are asking for. They're denying the use of a tool which can be directly used to do harm, until they're sure it'll be used appropriately.

If a tech company were supplying software that was a key enabler for ICE's cruelty (such that ICE's cruelty would be significantly hampered without the tool), by all means they should stop the sale.
> Does your government have much of an open source culture?

I would say no. Some years ago (2012) I was somewhat hopeful. I attended a conference hosted by "Friprog senteret" (Free software center) called GoOpen. "Fripro senteret" was a small but very effective organization that got great publicity (the crown prince held a speech together with the Wikipedia founder etc.), and in general open source and open standards seemed to something people cared about, at least when informed about problems of lock-in etc.

A few years later (2014) Friprog-senteret was de-funded, and it just seems like the whole society drifted towards convenience over privacy/ethics etc.
This is real institutional racism in my opinion. There are enough reason why Asians tend to do better than other groups without using explanations provided by neo-nazis that grade humans by intelligence or whatnot.

But it just plainly is racist against Asians. There is no greater good to be defended here that isn't a lie. And they even have a history of discrimination with quotas, although I tend to classify AA as not being racial quotas. But if people are measured unequal due to their race, they only affirm that race exists and that they don't treat everyone on their merits. I don't see advantages here.

As I said, logistics of knowledge are so cheap, that good education can reach anyone. Maybe a teacher is missing here, but it is a solid start.
Narrator voice:
“It had not all been thought of.”
This may not happen if Spotify didn't speak up.
https://timetoplayfair.com/
I heard that story and I did not understand its meaning until today. I wonder how many small insights like that I may be missing.
So we can argue theory all day long. Do you think a “democracy” should have the right to imprison someone who marries someone of a different race or if two consenting adults decide to have sex?

In this case at hand. Do you think someone should end up dying because they can’t get healthcare because of prejudice against the trans community?
I find myself somewhat procrastinating, I end up reading up HN posts and comments when my work task is utterly boring and repetitive and when I learn nothing new from it. When it’s something repetitive the hardest part is to get myself started. When there is an interesting problem to work on I don’t procrastinate. Can anyone explain to me how is this emotional?
I love doing the dishes and that is repetitive too but at least there is a phisical element in it. I think I am alergic to bureaucratic processes but I do somehow see their utility, they’re just not suited for me.
Because you can get out of them again.

A sink, to me, has the connotation of something being removed from a system.
Huawei set to lose Brazil- US will fund Brazil 5G under 1 condition: Dump Huawei
This: "For us, the 8th of May is above all a date to remember what people had to suffer. It is also a date to reflect on the course taken by our history. The greater honesty we show in commemorating this day, the freer we are to face the consequences with due responsibility. For us Germans, 8 May is not a day of celebration. Those who actually witnessed that day in 1945 think back on highly personal and hence highly different experiences. Some returned home, others lost their homes. Some were liberated, whilst for others it was the start of captivity. Many were simply grateful that the bombing at night and fear had passed and that they had survived. Others felt first and foremost grief at the complete defeat suffered by their country. Some Germans felt bitterness about their shattered illusions, whilst others were grateful for the gift of a new start."
So... it actually is a DDoS attack ;)
American investment companies are free to do what they want, and similarly Japanese companies are free to take American money if they want.

I'm personally of the opinion that plays like this will ultimately drive people into the arms of the Chinese, Saudis, etc. and further reduce America's influence in the world, but that's only my guess on the matter.
Not sure if this is from the same book but I've heard something similar about "lunacy" being linked to the full moon.

The reason there is more crime and wild behavior during a full moon is not because of any gravitational effects of the moon etc. Rather, we are descended from tribal peoples who celebrated the full moon with wild parties. Said parties led to intercourse which led to children etc.

Not sure how valid that is but I've always liked the idea.
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This is incredibly petty - I'm not used to seeing things like this on HN.
The switch is 3 years old and - as the other comments have noted - this technique is much older. Yet, on a website for self-styled hackers, so many are learning about it for the first time. Did people really care that much?

If the device depends on write-once ROM that was written in the factory, is that also anti-consumer?
This is probably cliche at this point, but that's been my experience at regional burning man events (never been to the big one, but regionals are a lot more accessible).

While their reputation as hedonistic orgies of sex and drug use is overblown, burns are certainly friendly to psychedelic use. Aside from the fact that you're around lots of stuff to explore, there are also spaces that are set aside from any loud music or overwhelming stimulus.

Also, while I can't speak for any other events, the burns I've been to always have an area called "Sanctuary" that's run by volunteers and provides a quiet, relaxing place for people experiencing anything from anxiety/exhaustion to those having a trip that might be a bit too intense. They have people who are trained/experienced in calming people down, cold water, snacks, etc. so you've got a safe spot to relax if you find yourself in an uncomfortable headspace. I'd imagine they probably stock some emergency benzos as well but I have no idea if they actually do. Just seems like the go-to treatment for trip-related anxiety or panic attacks.
Yes, I became aware of that effort. And I applaud and look forward to them.

The problem I see in long term is: if there's no inherent property of iPhones that make them unhackable by aftermarket efforts I don't understand why there aren't more efforts or more success. Any given model of iPhone has many more units out in the market than almost any given model of android device that is officially supported by aftermarket efforts (ie. LineageOS, postmarketOS, etc).
> choice of representation, or ambiguity thereof, does not follow from any particular understanding of what is and is not "innate"

Perhaps "innate" is not the right word, but what I meant by it is simply that, in the view of LGBTQ individuals and supporters, sexual orientation is the same kind of property of a person as biological sex is, whatever word you want to use to describe that kind of property.
Sure, good point. I’ll bite. The first sentence Wikipedia “monetary contract between two parties” definition leaves out the trading bit you include from other places.

Here’s what the Financial Accounting Standards Board says:
(https://www.fasb.org/cs/ContentServer?c=Page&cid=13510272100...)

Imposes on one entity a contractual obligation either:

A) To deliver cash or another financial instrument to a second entity

B) To exchange other financial instruments on potentially unfavorable terms with the second entity.

Conveys to that second entity a contractual right either:

A) To receive cash or another financial instrument from the first entity

B) To exchange other financial instruments on potentially favorable terms with the first entity.

Sounds like insurance fits in this category. I die next week, you pay me a million dollars, and I’ve only paid you $100 (or whatever small premium)

Furthermore, any agreement can be traded if someone sees an advantage in the trade and can rely on the agreement to hold.
Just because someone’s not doing the trade doesn’t mean it’s not trade-able. I guess it could be explicitly prohibited but even then I could see a Dane in the above insurance example securing a home loan because they have this insurance, and would be able to pay out upon death (for example) as a normal thing.
No. My understanding is that they are generally even safer. The public doesn't seem to like them as much, though.
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I'm not procrastinating I'm practicing Intermittent Dopamine Fasting.
yup, coursera's 'learning how to learn' mentions _just_ that in the first week of the lessons. excellent, excellent, excellent course, btw, _heavily_ recommended.
I put in the work to study GR from Susskind' theoretical minimum (fantastic lecture series: https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/general-relativity/20... ). I still don't understand GR.

Yes I can now say "oh gravity is '''just''' curvature on a lorentizian manifold", but what in the world does it _mean_? My current picture is something like this:

A Lorentizian manifold looks locally hyperbolic, so we need to imagine a light cone. Now the curvature of this manifold tells us how we need to distort light cones at different points to build up the full space.

How the fuck do I visualize this? Is there some way to embed this in low dimension to play with it? For example, to understand regular curvature, you can play around with a sphere and a cone to get a feel for curvature ~= angle deficit ~= loopy deficit ~= holonomy.

I don't know how to visualize the curvature of space-time, and I'm completely unconvinced I actually understand it beyond squiggles on paper. I'd love a way to embed and visualize this. Please tell me if you know how!

As an aside: It is definitely possible to get a feel for _hyperbolic geometry_ by playing HyperRogue: (https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/) --- A free roguelike set in hyperbolic space.

What I don't grok at all is the _curvature_ across hyperbolic spaces, analogous to how a sphere has _curvature_ across flat spaces. I'd love to know how to get a feel for this.
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Visualizing backend learnings is difficult. I was brainstorming over the last week how could I make the entire eBook where you build the blockchain from scratch more... "user friendly".

So I created this MVP tutorial and would love to hear your feedback on it. Is this a good step forward? Would you like to see more tutorials like this and with more steps?

What would you add?
It should be the graviton.

No experimental detection and none expected any time soon.
Yes that sounds unnecessary confusing.
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It can write, build and debug code. It's an IDE.
Red Hat 5, Gnome 2.6 and Geany was the standard at my uni for C/C++ firmware dev. Good times :)
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lol there is a trade embargo between the U.S and Cuba, there isn't a naval enforced embargo from all nations to Cuba. Please check your facts. Cuban citizens trade with other nations in the surrounding areas openly.

source: Cuban family and emigres. Please don't talk to me about communism without reliable data.
By throwing them in a gladiatorial death-match with the Jewish applicants, of course. The winner has an athletic character, and is therefore real Harvard material!
Considering the variety of animals that seem to show this behavior, isn't it possible that mammals, specifically humans, are "encoded" with that same random search pattern? I'm not sure how you'd test for it though.