skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of a brown dwarf is enough mass to cause nuclear fusion of deuterium (roughly 13x Jupiter's mass) but not enough for hydrogen-1 (roughly 75x Jupiter or 0.08x the Sun.)

Planets by definition are anything that doesn't meet the deuterium threshold. Stars meet the hydrogen threshold. "Cold" in this context means relative to hydrogen-fusing stars. It's referring to the object's own energy production, not like measuring the surface temperature of a planet illuminated by a star.

That we are finding "cold" brown dwarfs now is observational bias. We already found the hotter ones because they're more luminous and detectable. "Near the sun" (up to about 250 light-years here) is also observational bias, we just can't detect cold ones any farther.
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And the original Starcraft 1 was the pioneer of the technique fwiw. They even let you set the input delay in the options to account for lag.
I'd like to know more about that 79% number. I would guess it's actually the case that PHP backends identify themselves as PHP far more than backends in other language x identify themselves.
Telegram doesn't store messages on the device, you don't need to "tell the other person's device" anything, it's deleted from the Telegram cloud.
True, but I doubt I want to use that on a simple string function. I'd actually much prefer to see the introduction of methods on strings ala Ruby and most other natively-OOP languages rather than calling the C-style functions with the strings as a parameter, but hey, it is what it is.
I had to look it up, because I'm curious too. It looks like volunteers are given images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. The volunteers then just look for moving objects. https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-wor...
@soufron, I agree with you.
It is shameful, to call uprising of suppressed -- against systemic unfairness -- as 'Telegram revolution'.

This is akin to stealing valor (basically stealing medals and pretending to be the honorable).

This type of valor stealing, is also happening when people call US border detention facilities as 'Nazi concentration camps'. For people whose family members went through a Nazi concentration camp, hearing such a comparing is painful.

For Byelorussians whose livers and kidneys were raptured by the beatings, whose loved ones are imprisoned -- hearing Telegram marketing spin is painful, like when their valor, their sacrifice is stolen.

Yes of course, without recording technology, in my view, we would not have successful type of investigative journalism that project Veritas has delivered.

Or, without cell phones, the ability of people of Belarus to share images of brutality with the world.

Technology, is helping to concentrate the will power of the masses, against well funded machines of system oppressions.

But the will of the people, their sacrifices, their sufferings -- is the driving force -- not Telegram
The human cells are on average much larger.

In general eukaryotic cells are much larger than prokaryotic cells, and most of the non-human cells in a human are prokaryotic. All bacteria for example are prokaryotic.

I don't think the fraction of water is higher in eukaryotic cells than in prokaryotic cells. I think water constitutes about 70% of both types of cells.
Zummo's is from my hometown of Beaumont, Texas. SW Louisiana and coastal SE Texas share quite a bit of that Cajun culture. I have unsuccessfully tried to persuade Zummo's to send their delicious Party Time Hot Links to my current home in Colorado. If you're here and you work for Zummo's, please listen to my plea!
In Xinjiang, the Uighur population are obliged to run a version of Android with surveillance software installed on it that is constantly phoning home about all activity on the device. So, even if it were possible to install a chat app that evades the Great Firewall, everything that one reads and types on that phone would still be sent on to the authorities regardless. Belarus is a dictatorship, but far less authoritarian in the digital realm than Xinjiang.
That's most of what the podcast covers. They quote MacNamara in The Fog of War as well.
> however, guests staying for a night in the twin bed room can’t sit in the pilot’s seat or “touch the instruments”, according to the hotel. A “transparent acrylic board” will separate the cockpit from the room.

So it's kind of like a minibar in your room, only instead of dispensing liquor, it dispenses 737-800 simulator hours.
> In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Indians, Africans and Coloureds.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_(South_Africa)

I was somewhat confused when I first heard about townships in the US ;)
You can't use it. A bit pointless then!
Possibly dumb question, but why not use notation like vol 2, page 50 instead of page 210?
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What's wrong with Pachyderm? Sounds like you are having a lot of pain with them.

I am not affiliated at all with Pachyderm, I am just curious about this problem-space.
I think the brown dwarf still fuse deuterium but then the question is - how can it be so cold? And if it is so cold - is it a planet. But then why is it so (relatively) hot? Could be that the new discovered object is (thus far) a missing piece on a spectrum between brown dwarfs and gas giants?
At least you can drink the liquor ;)
What was the revolutionary app during the Ukrainian protests? I remember reading almost the exact same article at that time, although then I was a little distracted because that revolutionairy app ended with Russia annexing Crimea. Guess that wasn't in the TOS?
I would like to add to your remarks that science actually says something along the lines of "Grant me these assumptions/axioms/miracles(i.e. space-time, causation, etc.)" and then I can give you a theory of gravity, statistics, etc. This I think is hinted at in Gödel's core insight from his incompleteness theorem.
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Per memory, Coherent 4.0 showed up around 1992-3, with TCP/IP and pseudoTTYs. X11 came along a little later. But by then it was too little too late: the Linux distros were already eating their lunch.

Same with SCO. When I worked there circa 1991-95, the company lost $250 in license fee payments to assorted other companies for every complete copy of Open Desktop that they sold -- fees for the TCP/IP stack, the compiler, the AT&T license, the Motif skin, CDE, the IXI desktop ... even purchasing IXI didn't reduce it by much. They tried to go head-to-head with Windows NT as a workstation OS on the desktop and nearly broke the company, then backed off to focus on enterprise sales and support contracts. There was no way they could compete with a solid Linux as a desktop option after the late 1990s. And SCO was a much larger and more powerful company than Mark Williams (by 1991 they had about 1200 employees worldwide and $200M/year revenue -- going by memory).
I went through is process a couple of times.

Usually they ask you to fill an online form and attach any evidence.
After that it always felt like a call center employee decided whether to start the refund or not.
If you write something smart, well researched, polite, and long, chances are that poor person will just skim through it and click “accept”.

Then on the other side the company has 30-45 days to object via their bank.

With big companies they probably think it’s not worth their time.

With small companies the bank notices about a new dispute probably go to an inbox nobody monitors.
Was this employee hired to press some buttons then bugger off for a few hours? Or were they hired to ensure some jobs ran correctly? Also, were they paid to press some buttons and work for two hours a day, or were they collecting paychecks as if they'd worked for their full shift? I'm going to guess they didn't voluntarily decline 90% of their paycheck.

You can absolutely argue that the job was stupid and should be automated (it should've been) - you can absolutely argue about whether that person was feeling societal pressures to work two jobs and felt like this was the only way to make ends meet. Both of those points are tangential, though - a lot of folks face them.

He still either fraudulently reported hours (if paid hourly) or failed to meet the expectations of his employment contract. And, in the end, it actually caused other people to likely do overtime to cover up for his skimping.
If KeePass's database file wasn't secure on it's own, then it would be quite useless.
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Great summary.
Probably good follow on reads would be the classical "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith and "The Competitive Advantage of Nations" by Michael Porter.

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You don’t need long exposure now that we have digital cameras, it’s better to stack many short exposures. It’s trivial to throw out the outlier values which removes the satellite trails, and other sensor noise.
Images with prominent streaks are being deliberately processed to only keep the bright outliers and delete the clean frames.
I don't think running older software automatically equals stability, and is a false sense of security. There are a lot of tools and techniques to automatically handle issues with software that are transparent to the end user.
maybe this would lead to smart missiles or a platform to launch them that can loiter near the battlefield, directed by a pilot or controller nearby
Yes. On the more academic front:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793915602253

On a more anecdotal front, Whole Foods is aware of this at the corporate level and so is (apparently) deliberately pushing for a more diverse employee base not to actually improve race relations, but to prevent unionization.

https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-t...
Given the relationship the current US administration has with Russia, it seems like Facebook would be a less welcome alternative for a pro-democracy Belarusian protestor.
Thank you! For some reason I thought they were pre-tax.

Edit - It seems like adjusting for whatever the fed funds rate is might provide a more accurate comparison.

https://www.suredividend.com/interest-rates-valuation/
That sounds like taking the claims of every strongman that their internal opposition is an external malevolent actor. The CIA would only be needed for sufficent state level resources such as training or large quantities of munitions beyond what they could source without intervention.

Dissent is very damn cheap with modern communications infastructure and can exist with and without it.

The only funding the CIA certainly provided was historical general purpose funding of computers and cryptography research. Calling it planned would certainly be a stretch.
The one thing I did not see in article or comments is that Telegram will have a bigger target on its back. Governments are not fond of communication channels they are unable to control.
Reminds me of the job where we'd have huge slowdowns in our massive SQL Cluster because some non-engineers in "R&D" "had" to run unoptimized, barely legible Access queries against it.

We eventually had to create a replica of Production specifically for such nonsense.

Well then we moved a lot more business logic that they "helped develop" that ran on a distributed platform closer to "real time" for the application, because it was very dynamic in nature, and couldn't be denormalized back into the DB and remain performant. So I had to build a new system for some of their ad hoc queries and teach them how to use it.

What eventually chuffed me was realizing the "R&D" person I was "training" on the system always wore a different three piece suit every day and at least in fashion signals was probably making a magnitude higher salary than me for slower, wronger answers than any system I worked on, but probably was great at throwing it (very slowly) into very fancy graphs in Excel and useless salesmanship.

There were a lot of reasons I already wasn't long for that job at that point, but that was a lasting lesson that quality and performance won't matter to certain styles of upper management.
> I’m kind of surprised this is actually a literal function call, I would have assumed std::move would be always inlined

The godbolt links are without any optimization.
Calling a detention facility a Nazi concentration camp is not the same as calling a grassroots effort a "telegram revolution". One is making an analogy to history, the other is using a vapid phrase to market a mobile app.
Wow! that‘s a fascinating video collage – thanks for sharing!
My bad, I was under the impression that they were trying to say the attack came from a single IP address only.
We* are still generally better at that, but there are many different situations so different users have very different experiences. Please file a bug, preferably with an about:memory report while the browser is using an uncomfortable amount of memory. (You can actually get more info using the Memory tool in devtools, but it's trickier to use and doesn't work after the memory usage has gone too far.) A profile https://profiler.firefox.com/ could also be useful -- it'll record what addons you have, for example, and memory use over time -- but we can figure that out in the bug.

* (I work on Firefox)
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>To me, for the web to win as a platform, standards are a must.

What does that mean exactly? What are the other platforms that the web is competing against?
Non-profits can and should make money. That’s a common misconception and a big problem for charities are people think they are being greedy if they are making money regardless of the impact of that money.

A non-profit just means profit isn’t their goal.
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I am also not a lawyer, but I think this sentence is what does it:

> actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States

Illegal isn't always a cognizable (ie: perceptible; clearly identifiable.) felony by a court. In this case, not only did the two hackers clearly commit a felony, the lack of reporting it lead to the exact same type of breach conducted by the same two individuals against another site Lynda.com.

That suggests they had clear evidence of a felony and knew of intent to commit future felonies. And the two hackers were caught and going through the court stuff now, they even plead guilty. So thats basically a slam dunk on a cognizable felony.
They tried to block all IP-addresses that Telegram app uses. It failed and many of other services also stopped working(Google, Github, Twitter, FB).

What Telegram did:
1. Started sending pushes from Google services with new IP addresses for their app.
2. They started using IPv6, turns out gov cannot detect them.
3. Also, they added support of SOCKS5 proxy to their app.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Telegram_in_Russia
Russian version has more details.
Haha no that's so 2012. To buy the $.50 dollar you have to use our app, that also happens to be a high end privacy invasion tool and we'll sell all our user data to the highest bidder!
Bear in mind that our species has only existed for a rough upper limit of 500 KILOyears. The first electric motor was built only ~200 years ago, and we've only been technically spacefaring for ~60 years. We went from first heavier-than-air flight to first space station in 70 years.

Our species has a thousand times our current age to figure things out. To unironically quote Dennis Reynolds from It's Always Sunny: we haven't peaked. We haven't even begun to peak. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7ifk26tJc)
Maybe these limits come through in the design of the jet as a whole, and would be a different story in a built-to-purpose UAS

That's what I'd suspect. A jet that's purpose built to be flown by a robot would likely be much more acrobatic, as you're designing for the engineering limits of the materials, rather than a human.

Regardless of the real answer, it's not making me feel like climbing into a jet cockpit and picking a fight with an AI.
In that case, how the heck could you have written a book summary without mentioning that? I don’t mean any disrespect to you personally, but this review seems like a bunch of cherry-picked points (whatever appealed to you) which might well completely side-step what the authors had in mind! We can consider this an exhortation of your views on your blog (which is okay to discuss), but it’s really unfair to the book/authors to pretend that it’s an accurate summary of their work that we’re discussing.
My first thought on hearing this news was the famous essay "The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment."

https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theo...

Basically it states that for a long time, sexual harassers were given a blind eye with excuses like "he's good for our bottom line." But it turns out this isn't true. It turns out people who act unethically in one way often act unethically in other ways, that (among other things) hurt the bottom line.
My grandmother used Tax Mix Plus several years ago. I personally found it a bit laborious, but she liked organising her reading. That was such a wonderful extension.

People on HN make the mistake of assuming that the mythical 'average' user will not use such features. And convincing them otherwise is so difficult. The folks who love your product will plumb every depth of it. Not everything needs to be dumbed down to the dirt.
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My daughter loves Roblox and plays all the time on Xbox (we restrict it to Xbox because of the lack of in-game chat). When you refer to the dearth of media attention, I guess that doesn’t include YT right? Roblox is absolutely huge on YouTube.
It's pretty silly to say that protecting workers is exploitative. You're essentially trying to redefine the word "exploitation" be reversing its meaning.
https://dicekeys.com/ may be more useful than the paywalled article.
I wonder where they are getting their numbers. The traditional unemployment numbers are "exponentially" 50% greater than the official statistics.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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I don't hire any pilots that don't have significant side project flight hours on their resume.
I'll do that at the restaurant next time
I wish it was more like 6 years ago, or whenever the Match buyout was. It's become hot people clickbait like all the swipe apps now.

The entire internet is being optimized to either outrage you or sexually arouse you as quickly as possible.
Ok have to check it out. Last I looked was years ago. And I was like...there's no excuse for this bad UI from such a great company.
If they had a FAQ I'd be looking for "How does ammonia power handle the many significant dangers of ammonia?" Except when extremely diluted that stuff makes diesel look like milk.
Exactly! Look at commercial game releases, it's getting to be where the game disc is merely a token to be able to download the "real" game code. Like laziness in movies today, "f-k it, we'll fix it in post"
Two thirds of all Americans don't have 1000$ in savings (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86455/over-two-thirds-am...), and of those that do have that amount available, most are in no way able to put down $1000 in one piece for meat.

It always comes down to the "Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness" in the end. Most of the stuff we are talking about here is nowhere near practically applicable for the majority of the population.
> Signal literally identifies contacts via phone numbers

that's so stupid.

why people here keeps arguing that Signal crypto is safer when its architecture is SO unsafe?
I'm hoping it will be valuable to use as a link to point people to. Right now, it's more effort than it's worth to rehash bits and pieces of the argument. I'm bookmarking it for future use.
It's because software design is guided by individualized, balkanized, competitive, hierarchical human incentive, rather than public incentive. The extraneous branching and churning of what amounts to the formal, ever-evolving definition of all human interaction and knowledge: one might define modern computing as this. To accomplish this branches must be deleted over time and unified in order to properly abstract and make infinitely useful the definition. Branches are useful in uncertainty, in areas where discoveries are still being made. Branches become impediments in settled areas and Babel-tower formation begins, increasing brittleness. It's the human-knowledge equivalent of Keynesian hole-filling, but the price one pays for this is software duplication, increasing computational complexity, and increasingly less interoperable systems for like things. Sometimes lightning strikes and we have to build all the rooms again, but that happens at the bottom of the tower up. I think the role of the State should be to unify these conditions over time, so as not to create extraneous noise, confusion, human-churn and suffering, and material resource waste.
I'm not disagreeing that (in these scenarios) EB would probably become paid-for, while Chrome never would. I'm just arguing that Chrome would become even more privacy- and user-unfriendly, which is the approximate equivalent of EB putting up paywalls. (Is paying with your attention and privacy better or worse than paying directly with money?)

Apple would continue offering a relatively privacy-friendly alternative — but would require you to switch OS to use it; Microsoft might fork Chromium, but I fear that they'd only pay lip-service to privacy.

Obviously these analyses are complicated by the fact that in both cases the forces that helped create Wikipedia/Firefox wouldn't disappear. If Wikimedia died, then people would put up their Wikipedia dumps online in their own MediaWiki instances. If Mozilla died, then people would either try to keep Firefox alive or try to maintain a set of privacy patches on Chromium. How successful they'd be is another matter...
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Right, but isn't precisely this "drag from left to right and get a website running" that leads to an endless stream of sites that get hacked because the developer was careless/ignorant enough to leave admin.php with executable permissions?
How many people know how to configure their local name server outside of the HN crowd?
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As some who works on server/data-center software for workloads with very high utilization I can concur that it seems hard to judge where AVX-512 would end up having a net positive or negative impact.

E.g. all that my server might be doing is running a webserver/proxy. Now 50% of requests might be using TLS, which requires crypto operations that could potentially benefit from AVX512. Other stuff might be using compression or erasure-coding mechansims that could benefit too. However all of those operations are very short and work on a few kB worth of data. Then they are interleaved by lots of other operations which would benefit more from the higher frequency.

So am I now better of having AVX-512 active or not? That's only something that benchmarks for the actual workload could tell.
Nearest known brown dwarf (actually a binary) Luhman-16 is farther away than Proxima but not by much (relatively speaking).

It would be interesting to know if a theoretical smallest coolest brown dwarf would be detectable with the current technology.
They're still usually asking for bitcoin.

A few months back REvil/Sodinokibi switched to Monero, but I think they're the only strain to do so.