skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was slightly frustrated when reading the article a couple of days ago, and now, when reading these comments. Most likely, there is nothing exotic here. Most likely, it is a black hole as everything heavier than a neutron star is most likely a black hole. Lower mass black holes should exist, and perhaps, we have finally found one.

The next most likely possibility is that it is a neutron star which would suggest that our understanding of the mass limit of neutron stars is out. This is entirely possible as the physics of neutron stars is pretty extreme, but it seems a lot less likely to me.

Now, I'm happy to keep an open mind as we don't know for sure and we haven't previously found anything in this mass range, but calling it a "black neutron star" implies something new and exotic when it probably isn't.
> Problem: I am hungry right now and can't/don't want to cook

Solution: Pot noodles
Solution: Learn to cook
Solution: Granola bars
Solution: Walk around the corner to your local taco store

Anything but "vc funded disruption of something humans have been successfully managing for thousands of years".
you have to adjust those FBI stats for the fact that black people are 13% of the US population
I'm not into speculation but your speculation about SA, says more about you than it might say of him.

Since we are into speculation now, it seems you dislike(d) SSC? What stopped you from expressing this opinion instead of pointing to another source? I'm actually interested in how the current cultural divide seems to be rooted in individual psychological traits, think this example might have some insight.

PS. I'd actually love to see some of these critics
Actually domain joined Windows machines tend to keep their state when they can't see their domain controller. You would probably find, depending on config, that updates stop all together.
Wouldn't this create so many jobs? There are many jobs in Canada that can't exist because of how expensive it is to hire people (which coincides with how expensive it is to live in Toronto). Subsidise that, and many people will be able to be delivery drivers for restaurants and avoid paying rent to Uber, or hire help for their homes instead of having to go to specialized firms.
@soylentgraham: You should check out the recent releases of https://boardgame.io/. The tutorials are now rewritten with a focus on the plain JS client (no React).
Doesn't matter, it's the perfect crime...

The encryption is done on the user's machine using their processing power, and there's virtually no downside for you (either they pay and you decrypt or they don't and you just dissapear).

Ransomware will be an issue for years to come.
I have been testing the OpenJDK builds, afaik it's usable. It's still in heavy development though
Does that mean you have to find a greater edge to cover the house edge?
I've used shutdownBlocker (cresstone.com) and a related checkbox in TinyWall to deal with updates, with great success.

Thanks for another way to keep my sanity!
> Classic composers never wrote albums,their large forms were symfonies and opera - whole pieces of separate parts.

Albums, in the idealized form (there are, of course, lots that are collections of basically disconnected singles, too) are “whole pieces of separate parts”, like symphonies or operas (or, I suppose, soundtracks.) People who lament losing albums aren't talking about package-of-convenience collections of singles, they are talking about pieces where, while the individual songs may stand alone the same way each planetary theme in Holst’s The Planets can, but they also form a single thematic work with an arc and movement across the whole body.
> Can you explain the fact the net worth of a typical white family is $171,000 and the typical net worth of a Black family is $17,150?

how many young poor black mothers have children too early (16) with gang members who end up dying from gang violence? isn’t that a modern day common black narrative?

how is a poor white person any worse off than a poor black person? they have same access to all resources. it’s systemic poverty for poor people. it has nothing to do with blacks.

some blacks bootstrap themselves out and make it, most don’t. how broken is the system for those that make it out? not very.
The FBI's last attempts at breaking crypto rings found that these guys had 24/7 technical support and a phone number you could call that would actually have a person on the other side.

Friend of a friend said it was probably the most "customer" focused organization they've ever fought against
Are you sure it's not just a habit? I've been using FF devtools for few years without issues. There are even some things chromium devtools dont have. Only time i use chromium devtools nowdays is for testing/audit (lighthouse).
Not sure if you challenged or agreed. You somehow did both?
ARM also allows you to change the endianness.

ARMv7: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

ARMv8: https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0024/latest/armv8-register...
I have never used Rx libraries. What are the cases where you have low friction coroutines such as loom (no "coloured" functions afaik) where you want to use RxJava? Handling backpressure? Modelling complex flows? Honest question
Doesn't "as" stand for a temporal relation: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+as

"Because" would be casual, in my book.
Most of the time, the insurance guys will just negotiate on your behalf (lowering costs) and handling purchasing of the crypto.

They also won't tell you how much they paid out...
As they say in the industry:

It stands out like dog balls.

In a good way. I’m Australian and it’s quite emotive seeing that.

Well done, it’s really beautiful.
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He was using that as a simple example.
> I'd organize and have everyone quit; let them figure things out.

Be careful here... due to "freedom to choose" legislation targeting unions, it may be illegal for you to "organize labor" in your state...
VLC ?
Each time you want an encrypted session you need to make a request to the government third party key signing service that, with your public key, the public counterparty's key and a government generated key for your session, a new key for the session is produced.

It's possible but potentially expensive and has issues with who gets keys on international communication. And it's also dumb.
BTW, are there any available services but very easy to use for non-programmer? I know Amazon polly and Wason, wason maybe better they got a free demo page which you can use, but for Amazon polly, u have to pay and know how to code and use their API, any other very good alternatives?
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Ha.

Whenever I think of New York I see the New York Magazine logo in my minds eye.
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I don’t think you can dismiss the problem of plate tectonics so easily. Vast amounts of the former surface of the earth are now several kilometres under our feet. That’s not something you can wave away.
Also it’s not reasonable to compare species fossil hunting with artefact hunting as equivalent. T-Rex as a species existed for 18 million years, with total cumulative population numbers estimated in the trillions or thousands of trillions across huge geographic areas and time spans. We have fossil fragments for only 50 individuals. That’s a staggeringly minuscule sample for a species spread out over a considerable span in both time and space.

An ancient civilisation might have existed for only a few thousand years, less than the blink of a geological eye. Unless you were to look at exactly the right strata at exactly the right layer you’d miss them completely. As a result it makes much more sense to look at environmental level effects, massively expanding the scope of your available evidence.
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Old software will have been tested on CPUs with weaker memory models.

Also, Multi-threaded programming is hard, so the really long tail probably already is buggy on x86. Surfacing their bugs more often may be a blessing in disguise.
Don't forget hemp.
Considering how thoroughly Facebook has locked up the market, I can't imagine they will stay away for long.
I agree that per capita numbers always tell a more accurate story. Anyway here's a great resource to make those adjustments: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?d=ACS%205-Year%20Estima...
> We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to unlock the encrypted data and the return of the data they obtained.

I assume you read that though before you replied, right?
I love how this asshole is clearly just trying to modify policy in reaction to what he thinks people wants, rather than doing the right thing from day one, because he obviously has no idea whatsoever how to do the right thing.
I like the way TinyWall deals with updates.

One checkbox, and the update service fucks right off.
Yea, I really hope Mozilla will allow me to use FxA OAuth anytime soon to solve that issue.
Sounds cool! Will check it out later today.
PlantUML is simply awesome. There is no other langauge that supports so many diagramming features. I use it for more then half decade now on all projects. You can create interface mocks, timelines, mindmaps, gant charts, uml diagrams, graphs, OOP diagrams, whatever really, if it was invented, it is in plantUML for sure, or will be. Also, devs are VERY responsive, if you have a good idea, they will for sure implement it.

The only thing that is going on my nerves sometimes is that you can't preciselly say position of elements and being happy with how concrete, albeit more complex diagram draws, is somewhat trial and error (you change direction, change arrow length here and there, change element order etc) but eventually you will make it likeable.

Other thing is that syntax differs a lot between diagrams and I always need to check out manual, no matter how much I use it, it just doesn't stick for me. Thankfully, this is all very easy to do.

For those on Windows, I created chocolatey package [1] that installs all dependencies along with PDF manual and you can have it on your CI or local server as simply as `cinst plantuml`. There is also vscode and mkdocs plugins that are great so you can just insert plantuml diagram strait into markdown between other documentation (alternative is to prerender images which I also did in the past, and is very fast as plantuml regenerates only changed stuff). If you need mkdocs bundled with all this and other nice stuff, check out mm-docs [2].

I must honestly say that this is one of the best FOSS projects I encountered and that it definitelly needs more recognition and support.

[1]: https://github.com/majkinetor/au-packages/tree/master/plantu...

[2]:https://github.com/majkinetor/mm-docs-template
It sucks that you are now unable to take advantage of poor immigrants because they are not in desperate need of money. It is nice that they have temporarily escaped their cycle of poverty. Instead of complaining about how they are wasting their lives by not working (and reciting the poem The Educated Man's Burden), you should instead pay them their actual worth.
Probably just a way to justify a new contract for Netsential. Notice most of the leaked info is damaging to witnesses and victims, not the police.
Because the windows shutdown option is in the start menu, which you see constantly. The Mac shut down option is in a menu which I almost never click. To me, that indicates the designers have different ideas about how often users want to shutdown/restart. Apparently lots of people disagree though since I got downvoted a lot (which I don’t think is what downvote is for, but whatever...)
What is the point you are trying to make though? Are you saying to make a cotton tshirt a chemical reaction takes place and 2700 liters of water is destroyed and is no longer water?

The Aral Sea, a place I have visited, was dried up by digging to redirect rivers that filled it to irrigate crops.

Now, let's say they made tshirts instead by pulling the water out of those rivers. They'd make the tshirt, and dump the dirty water. That dirty water would then get cleaned, evaporate and rain into the soil or rivers, or get dumped into a river directly.

Maybe you meant "potable water." Using potable water for tshirts is good - not bad. After making the tshirt, the water is no longer clean. You can't make more tshirts with it, you can't shower with it, you can't drink it. Just like the water in lake michigan where my city gets its water from.

When we need 2700 liters of water per tshirt, we need to make more potable water from the lake. We build bigger industrial cleaning systems. They are more efficient, and the water becomes cheaper. That factory that paid for the extra water, helped pay for those cleaning systems, and made the water cheaper for people.

Now, here's the biggest lie made of eco-spin strawman. The 2700 liters. Most of that is to water the cotton plants, so they can pull carbon out of the atmosphere and give us that sweet oxygen and stop global warming. Are you saying that growing plants is bad because it uses water? Well, let's cut down the rainforest then!! That's a lot more plants than the tshirt water.

As far as pesticides... We're not eating the tshirts buddy. "Pesticide use" is bad because it gets into our food. It's not bad on its own. You know what else kills insects? A bar of soap. If you stop showering you'll save the insects and the water.
I like this book: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/ – it’s not so garrulous. Good for quickly looking up concepts.

Also check out the various community resources. The #python channel on Freenode is good. On Reddit there is https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/
I agree for the mental health checks that there should be someone trained in mental health present, but you also need police present just in case the mentally ill person because combative, funding shouldn't be reduced, perhaps it should be increased to train police in handling the mentally ill or the police force should have professionals on the clock.
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This seems to be a pattern in society that has been spreading for a while. Most of our institutions were designed for some proportion of good faith participation. We've totally lost that, with the various hard and soft cheats in academia, with abuses in politics, devaluation of the degree, etc.

Part of it in the article's case is modernization. We could further democratize science with credentialed forums, but we'd have to allow people to publish with freedom, and upvote quality research regardless of our political leanings, and that's just not happening in US society right now, across the board.
> "Is there a Rust + wasm version of Svelte yet?"

Here is a Svelte starter template for Rust (webasm) + Svelte:

https://github.com/HugoDaniel/svelte-template
I like Spotify.
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This just illustrates how incredibly important solid backup strategies can be. A big university should be able to figure out how to make WORM (write once read many) backups of their data. A million bucks buys a shitload of cloud storage or physical airgapped tapes...
Cool! Keep it up! I will give a try on this.
I think the comparison goes somewhat like this: selling one CD puts X dollars in the creator's pocket. How many times need a track be played on Spotify to generate the same number of dollars? The answer is 471, I think.
The old reason was because in radio ads, saying the domain with the dash was confusing.

A friend of mine just registered a domain name with a made-up spelling of regular words kind of like "leet-speak". The two of us are the only ones who can type it from memory, which is not good.
I am confused by your response since it seems to agree with my post but you used words that indicate you think that they do not agree. Did you mean to reply to someone else?

I am saying that that the ransom is hilariously small compared to what they would probably be able to get. So, when they realize they can actually ask for a number that is not a rounding error they will probably increase the number/outcome of attacks. They are criminals robbing people at gunpoint and only asking for their pocket lint. Once they all realize they can ask for a wallet and get it, I think the number is going to go way up.
This is terrific!
You might want to set aside the anti-American prejudice, as you've got your facts completely wrong.

T&G, the New Zealand kiwi company (founded in 1897 by an England-born immigrant to New Zealand) started marketing their fruit as the kiwi in the US in 1959. This was presumably to get a leg up on their Chinese competitors and to associate the fruit with New Zealand instead of with China.
From a quick skim, it seems like just another phone?
I've heard about contracting companies that talk people into getting work visas and then will send people over even though they might not be the most qualified, and when people get here, usually alone, they are trapped and can't switch companies and also miss home. I'm not sure about the economic component, but at the ground level I've heard pretty bad stories (granted not the end of the world), and the primary winners are the large companies that have large supplies of cheap labor, while all of that could be avoided if they took the time to properly sponsor someone or just hire locally.
That's the one, right?
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Would evidence of an ancient advanced civilization on earth be cooler than dinosaurs?
You don't have to outperform to have a viable strategy. Harnessing small returns from multiple un correlated sources is a perfectly viable plan.
Earth has an interesting property, where it’s got just enough gravity to hold water and air in just the right amounts. And just far enough away from the sun to provide heat and cold. And that special magnetosphere to protect delicate life from being ionized by cosmic rays.

You’ve gotta wonder if lava and plate tectonics has melted away all traces of any previous civilizations. Like, the entire crust would have to become an inferno.

Maybe when the moon formed, from another planetary body colliding with the earth, that this cosmic event destroyed all previous civilizations on Earth, and made the planet inhospitable for a million years.

And maybe if that civilization became space faring, if they left technological artifacts elsewhere in the solar system. Like on Mars. Or in the asteroid belts.

Or perhaps, they were able to see the incoming collision, that they jettisoned from the solar system, and went to another star system in search of a new planet to call home.
Its not just Chinese. Same applies for restaurants / local fast food places in India. They're lightning fast. If you're used to the pace of service in US, your mind will be blown when you travel to Asia.
Recycles fabrics, like fleece made from PET, leeches ridiculously large quantities of microplastics every time you wash them.

Wool, cotton, linen and hemp fibers seem like the way to go to me. Synthetics have their place and their uses, but there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing".

And I'm sure people will start whinging about how much water it takes to grow cotton, but they will conveniently forget to mention all the shit caused by synthetics.
I used 100 as the scale factor and used different weights for benchmarks A through F, defined by the original YCSB project here: https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/tree/master/workloa...
Body armor might save your life, but it doesn't make you invincible to bullets. If you take a bullet with body armor, you're going down.

You're no threat whatsoever. You have no power in the situation, you can't get it under control, mitigate the threat, and so on.
> instead of having the library authors go and update the library, you need each team responsible for one or more binaries to go and take the new library and release a new version of their binary.

Wait, so you're telling me dynamic libraries are a way for distros to ship their org chart?

Maybe it's time in 2020 for automated and deterministic builds to allow anyone to ship a library update and have dependent packages being rebuilt automatically if needed.
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Hi! It depends on how far you want to go. For this project, we did a lot of exploration, because we had Google-scale infrastructure. Replicating all the exploration will need a lot of GPUs (in the 100s), replicating all the experiments that actually went into the paper maybe a few dozens. Training something similar as what's in the demo with the code we will release takes 1 V100 :)

We can't release the internal training set, but expect a dataset of a few hundred thousand images (e.g., openimages) to be sufficient, maybe even less (AFAIK this has not been explored in a controlled setting).
People saying “defund the police” are not advocating the complete elimination of police forces; they’re advocating for the elimination of the 75-90% of things that police spend their time on that has zero or negative ROI for society. “Responding to legitimate crimes” is not one of those things.
But enviromental effects billions of years ago could have be by any cause. They might indicate something, but much more solid would be real artifacts. Structures. Chemical compounds, etc.

But yes, the question is, what trace would our civilisation leave, if abandoned today, in a billion years, if the tectonic plates move in those timescales?
Are you saying cotton and wool aren't stylish? My wardrobe is exclusively cotton, linen and wool. I don't know (m?)any people who wear mostly synthetics. Maybe garment fabrics vary more by region than I'd assumed.
Focusing on one piece at a time is how we do logic. You need to defend the weakest link in your case. Or are you suggesting that the various pieces of systemic racism are not themselves racism, until aggregated together?

As for one-off events, it seems like just a matter of degree, not principle. Though surely genocide continue to have negative affects on the victimized group to this day.
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I will agree on the lack of other apps (MS whiteboard is a joke), but I happen to really like OneNote. I will say, at least from my experience support is good. My power supply had a failed main cap and was arcing badly when plugged in. MS support shipped me a new one, and asked I ship the old one back when I received the new one.

I hate to say it, as I used to be part of the Slashdot anti M$ brigade, but they made a solid piece of hardware. The only thing I can fault it for is lack of a trackpoint; I spent too many years getting used to my fingers not leaving the home row to move the mouse.
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