skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The curvature depends on the mass of the earth, but it _doesn't_ depend on the mass of the photon/ball.
A non-universal language doesn't imply extinguishing other languages.
What's telling is that in your original post, you stated:
> Why did it take months for the government to be recommending face masks?"

But all of these links you posted are dated after the April 3 recommendation by the CDC for the public to wear masks. https://www.livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-corona...

"Based on the best evidence available at the time, it was not deemed that that would have a significant impact on whether or not a healthy person wearing a mask would contract COVID-19," Adams said."
All of this is rationalization. It's just planned obsolescence. Nobody on goddamn Hacker News is a Luddite. The Luddites weren't even Luddites the way you're using it, which is just a slur for an imagined cranky old man as afraid of technology as Phil Hartman's Frankenstein's monster is afraid of fire.

The economics are that you want products that you sell to be rendered useless as soon as possible, barring the possibility that the customer becomes so resentful that they switch products. So you claim that features that will eventually destroy a product are necessary to make it appealing, you hide the costs of replacing the product through purchase schemes and equivocations about the environmental impact, and you denigrate older models as horrifically, irresponsibly dangerous.

> Of course, there's always going to be the complainers bemoaning the changing times.

This is a vapid argument that can be used to defend anything from New Coke to the Holocaust.
A lot of the castles and palaces have been donated to "the public" that maintains them as tourist attractions or museums. Also Europe is not like the US, where you can just build in a lot of unincorporated areas, so building a new luxury home out of sight of the castle on your property is most likely impossible as well. I'm not 100% sure about this, but my guess is that the presence of the castle might even devalue the land in a lot of these cases, ie you would pay more for an equivalent amount of "empty" land.
probably.

I used to wipe the first times I used my bidet, because I didn't trust it.

Now, I don't trust toilet paper anymore.
I can't imagine how this applies to the whole earth. Assume there is 'top' and 'bottom' of the sphere, don't know how they do navigation in space, but assume it is like the usual earth maps. So how the things on the bottom get drawn to the earth, while they should go into the other side. Clearly there is something I don't understand, but I don't know what it is.
They're tiny, they're valuable, and they last a decent while.

Of all the places to point fingers at waste problems, this is a strange one.
It's also one hell of a lot easier to reinvent a shitty wheel than it is to learn a good one. Add that to the phenomenon of temporary hacks becoming permanent nine times out of ten...
Yes - and it's observable in every rocket launch. When an astronaut is pushed back against their seat, they feel artificial gravity caused by the exhaust behind them inflating faster than the Earth normally does.
It’s a very small amount of plastic and metal. It really doesn’t matter.
used to know the pdp11-05 bootstrap by heart .... I'm not sure it matters - I can imagine that 2 lots of 2x4 can be done with 2 hands in 2 operations would probably be faster ... but it's kind of moot because the front panel was marked in octal so that's the way one learned it

I think that standardising on 8-bit bytes and power of 2 words is what pushed us to hex as a standard notation
It not that I don't care. It that I am realistic about the situation. I would rather have Linux native options for my games rather than a translation layer. However for that to happen there has to be a viable market.

In some ways I think a translation layer will make it less likely there will be a Native port because devs will just rely on the compatibility layer. I am aware of counter arguments to my position and I could be wrong. We will fin out in time.

> your assumption that the translation layer is all that counts assumes driver parity between os'es. both for 3d & game streaming, there are significant performance and capability differences between os'es.

Nope I never said that the translation layer is all that matters. But given everything else being equal (it normally is btw) it will always have lower performance.

One native games Linux and Windows performance stats is roughtly the same framerate (if both games are using OpenGL or Vulkan). The difference in performance is 1-2FPS. If the game isn't native then then there will be a penalty in using a translation layer and compatibility issues. This aligns perfectly with what I have observed.

> i'm not sure why you'd spend so much effort so loudly making your personal point about your expectations on a day when others are happy & revelling in the ongoing progress & hope & freedom & opening of possibilities that they want to see.

I've left a comment on a website it isn't a huge effort. It takes me a few minutes to write a reply at most.

In any event it is important for people to be informed by the pitfalls. This is mainly because I've seen many people tout all the positives of alternatives without people informing people of the potential pitfalls.
No, they can’t. Flash an image of an animal for a microsecond in front of a child. They won’t “see” anything. One needs to “see” many, many versions of something before you “see” anything at all, nevermind learn something.
I mostly agree with you except that the experience of every reader is different. What we find boring because of our over-exposure to similar themes might be exciting for someone who is encountering them for the first time. So if those readers are your targets, then I don't see anything wrong with GPT-3 aiding us.

In any case, do you mind recommending me some novels that you find exciting and do a good job of describing character and other details without being boring or generic?
Initially it was about the step count.

Now, the small screen is useful for alerts and such.

I've even used the "find my phone" feature a couple times.
Been there done that.

I got an electric razor from Philips, for ~40€ (it was on sale).

It has already lasted a year and shows no sign of wearing.

I can clean shave without cutting myself in any way. It used to happen from time to time with both the safety razor and throwaway razors.
I'm not totally familiar with French law on the matter, but, it's likely that, in addition to needing period-accurate materials, you also have to use period-accurate methods. This is what makes it expensive, since very few people are familiar with obsolete, 4-500 year old building methods.
Your size in X, Y, Z isn't equal to the total distance you've traveled, so why would your size in t be the total time you've traveled?
> jacques_chester 3 hours ago

> Sweden has been the poster child for folks trying to wish away the danger of allowing a relatively dangerous, highly infectious pandemic to run its natural course.

Also:

> jacques_chester 3 hours ago

> I didn't say anything about Swedes wishing away the pandemic.

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For posterity.
Why not plain text? org-mode or similar?
In this country, at least, the speed limit on motorways is 120km/h, so that should be fine. It’s probably aimed primarily as a city car, in which case the range should also be okay.
Genuinely don’t know where you got that idea
No, if you are robbed you aren’t the victim. No more than you are the victim for tripping on your shoe laces. You make choices and those choices have consequences. Don’t tie your shoes? Trip! Go out in a sketchy area late at night? Robbed! You put yourself in the situation, and if you didn’t like the result, you change your actions. Seeing it as something done to you I think is the exact opposite of the main message.
> this makes google docs / office 365 a moderately lower friction version of everybody working in their own documents and copying changes to a master doc with version history, which has been a supported workflow in desktop word for quite a long time.

It’s more than just this. There is a big difference between authoring parts of the document alone, and being able to see the current state of the document as a whole at all times live while people are writing it.
I have a solid method of producing biochar without any infra at a small scale.

I'd be willing to do the lab and field work if somebody wants to help build experiments and test theories.

So far I don't see any negatives to where I have applied biochar.

The positives could be anything but my guess is the trial needs to be long term.

Hit me up on YouTube or my contact page on my blog (link in my profile).

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

TL;DR lets test ideas on growing food together, subscribe if you are into this stuff.
Summary of the biggest problem with digital currency managed by central banks:

Central banks can use negative interests in order to force people to buy stuff. In the current system people would just withdraw cash in order to avoid negative interest rates if they are too high/low. In the future people will be forced to pay the interests or buy stuff. Governments want to use this mechanism in order to control the economy.

If digital currencies managed by central banks really do get approved, it is like being forced to use Facebook.
I highly recommend this series of podcasts. I think i have listened to nearly all of them now. Melvyn Bragg is an acquired taste, at first i didn't like the way he interjects very much but now i am used to his style it's fine.

The main attraction is the calibre of his guests who tend to be excellent. Some people have had problems with the direct downloads in the UK, i think maybe only streamed in the UK. I find it odd (ironic?) that it can be easier to get BBC content abroad!

I particularly like the physics podcasts. The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximal[1] is one of my favourites.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/topics/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eo...
Ok, great opportunity for me to ask a dumb question that's been bothering me for a while, for practical reasons I won't go into.

How is gravity like a force at all, even in Newtonian physics? It seems like mismatched units. Gravity is an acceleration, not a force. F=ma, right? So if gravity were a force, it would produce an acceleration that was dependent on the mass, and it doesn't, so it seems to me like the only sense in which gravity is a force is if you define force as "something you can't see that makes things move", which is a pretty useless definition.
Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?
I've been reading about people who have chronic conditions, some of which can be quite challenging. I'm currently going through something relatively minor myself.

But it got me wondering, for those living with a chronic illness (not necessarily terminal), how do you deal with the stress of it?
Once you become consciously aware of their emotional manipulation techniques you can watch without being impacted. Still a waste of time, though.
This might be all thats left of someone's time travel experiment
Ask HN: How can an experienced Front End eng. earn some extra income?
Is there any demand for quick gigs? Although I work full time with front-end, backend, ci/cd, etc... I don't want to commit to long term projects on my spare time.

A few years back I used to develop banners for advertising, shitty job but quick cash.
Mathematics of Tape Recorders
I have suspected this, but have not read any specifics.

I can actually recommend this, which should not have the micro-plastic issue:

https://www.jqdsalt.com/our-salt/

“Our brine is naturally sourced from an ancient, untouched sea called the Iapetus Ocean (predating the Atlantic) trapped below the Appalachian mountains. Our salt is free of contaminants and heavy metals that may be found in other oceans. Gleaned from the earth by an underground brine aquifer, the salt is then processed naturally using the power of the sun and gentle mountain breezes.”
Sadly, the fact that they are small and dark-coloured, tend to travel at night and have the instinct to curl up in a ball when in danger (which protects them from all of their predators, but not from cars) all work against them...
How would spacetime know to contract right to the center of earth?!
You can carry sledgehammer just about anywhere as long as you look like you're supposed to be.
I work in tech, and people are very surprised to hear that I use IE. When they ask, I tell them it's because I do not like where "modern" browsers (and software in general, but that's another can of worms...) are going. IE11 is the latest browser to have things like user stylesheets and per-zone security configuration by default. It's a small rebellion, but nonetheless an act of opposition to the increasing corporate monopolisation and bloat of the web.
For all the people saying "they are tiny" "it is such a small amount of plastic" yes but that is not the point. The point is about the greater trend to make products less repairable by the end user.
This article seems well written but not critically examined.

Based on the data presented, the article seems to conflate “correlation as causation”. Specifically, there is no mention of eliminating selection bias.

Typically if people are currently fortunate and aren’t in need of social safety nets, these people are both more likely to be happier and, given the lower risk, they can afford to be politically agnostic.

Meanwhile, when people are in need of social safety nets/political change in general, they are likely to be less happy with their current lives and also more politically opinionated.

So while the article’s data says: political agnosticism is correlated with well being, the article’s narrative incompletely/incorrectly creates a causal link between being politically opinionated and a level of well being.
Gauge Theory Gravity
Ask HN: Good resources on learning how to write
Are there any good resources available to write high quality technical content (tutorials/how tos/blog posts)?

I wrote a couple of pieces here and there but I always had the feeling of getting stuck in the middle of the article, making it a tough grind to actually finish it.

How have you learned to produce good educational content? Are there any good resources available?
If you are frustrated by politics but do want to know what the US government is doing, might I once again recommend the Federal Register. https://www.federalregister.gov/

You'll find some stuff that probably affects you that isn't being reported on at all. The "Proposed Rules" section is always interesting.
If Biden says it's not, then the right says it is, all the headlines pick up this back and forth, another conspiracy story runs, starts a new cycle of nonsense, and soon there is nothing left in the discussion, but many more people see headlines.

Instead, simply not getting sucked into this game, and instead putting out other stories or plans, like how one will deal with COVID, or the economy, or our allies, helps suffocate the story.

The latter is a wiser move, especially given Trump and co's like of conspiracy talk.
Was it salted or unsalted butter? From experience it's mostly unsalted in Japan which shouldn't be left outside of the fridge.. Unless it's a big house and you go through it in a few days.
So the short answer is that we love Cadence but it is no longer our project. Uber team has full control and we are not part of Uber basically. Keep in mind Cadence is a project for Uber first and foremost. But Cadence and the team are super great.

The long answer is that we see Cadence as a great part of our lineage. We felt that our vision for the open-source of Temporal was much different than what Uber sees for the project.

Now that we have a production grade release, we are slowly phasing out Cadence support. We will still provide free support to any Cadence users who need help migrating to Temporal.

I can’t speak to your situation without knowing more. I will say if you would ever like a hosted version of this tech, Temporal is the way to go. I am happy to answer any specific questions too!

ryland@temporal.io
It's not a nice house :| and the location is quite coldish year round, so I wouldn't say it's a great location either.
Great tool, I wish they documented its architecture in this series of books:

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
Gravity is a force that acts due to mass just as the electromagnetic force acts due to charge.

Since gravity acts in a magnitude directly proportional to the mass being acted upon, it just so happens that it manifests as an acceleration since the mass cancels out, unlike EM where acceleration due to charge does not cancel out the mass.
Why are we linking paywall articles?
Contests:

https://www.ioccc.org/
This is so absurd, I left SF last month and I still can't fathom why anyone would spend that much money to get a house there. I guess if you are stuck there because of work, and work pays really well? But I can't see any other reason why you would pay that much money for a place that is not that nice.
Jesus Christ I passionately hate dishwashers.

My roommate uses our full height dishwasher all the time. Except he just throws stuff into it and I regularly pull dirty silverware out of it. Sometimes dirty dishes too.

The thing is, you're supposed to at least brush dishes, silverware and pans with a bit of water before putting them into a dishwasher. If anything, not to clog the dishwasher drain with small bits of food (it happens, I know because guess what? It f--ing happened).

But once you get your hands wet to brush the dishes... You might as well do them.
I have heard in person, multi millionaires joking about shooting people in the back of the head within the company open office and during business negotiations.
The connection with the Unicorn Tapestries is interesting [1] [2]. I've seen them both.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn

Edit: Fixed link
> Facebook and it’s messenger platform is likely to be the only one meeting the threshold.

I would be surprised if none of Google's chat services exceeds 100M MAU, even if only users in the USA are being counted.
I am a senior engineering manager for machine learning in a large ecommerce company. As an engineering manager, all of my stakeholders do not care or consider code quality or tech debt. Period. At all.

I have to burn bridges, cash in hard won favors, and be generally super pedantic and unpopular any time I have to defend technical quality as a worthwhile goal. I have to give presentations, scour months worth of incident postmortem data and exhaustively lobby for every single millimeter of leeway to protect technical quality. It is universally viewed as the number one thing “getting in our way” and preventing us from having greater delivery speed or agility to experiment with new features.

This article seems to describe a fantasy world where technical and product leaders care about code quality and are supportive of the efforts required to maintain it.

I have never encountered any place of business where this is remotely true.
Regarding power supply noise, specifically, the easiest way to get rid of it is pretty simple: use a battery instead of AC.
This is right, yes. The distance (aka interval) formula for the flat 4D spacetime is

dist^2 = (c * seconds)^2 - meters^2

So to compensate increase in 1 second you indeed need _c_ ~= 3e8 meters.
Moreover, products designed to be repairable have low repair costs, and don't require uncommon expertise to repair.

You don't need a specialized shop staffed with electrical engineers to replace the batteries in your TV remote.
Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI
I once did some napkin math to figure out how many Teslas worth of lithium ion battery have been made (total). I was expecting dozens, but came up with low thousands. (Gotta factor in the case, after all.) Still insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Worrying about the environmental impact of AirPods is like legislating shower flow while turning a blind eye to the useless millions of acres of lawns and the water they suck up (1.7 trillion gallons vs 234 trillion gallons). Dumb, a bit insulting.
According to Newton's equation, gravity's force is F=(GmM) / r^2. Those are the gravitational masses. The mass in F = ma is the inertial mass. The fact that they are the same is remarkable. If it weren't for that, different mass objects would feel different accelerations due to gravity.
I constantly flag paywall articles, because I know that most people will just comment on the title without reading the story.
Apple probably sold more a hundred million airpods by now. Sure, it's not the biggest problem but it would make a difference. Plus, they have a history of making less repairable products so I think it's stil good to try to convince them to do it better.
Enjoy the wealth of nations until the seas rise at least...
It is actually that video that helped me!

The thing is, I watched the French version and I didn't know an English version existed, that's why I didn't post it here, French speakers are, I believe, a minority.

And BTW, the French channel has an 8 part explanation of the maths behind general relativity that is the best I have ever seen. It is on a level above most pop science video since it actually shows the equations, tensors, etc... but the explanations are actually quite accessible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2BBldgKpo
Newton's first law provides a guide: "Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it."

So, the definition of a force as something that causes an object to change its movement from a "straight line" comes to us from Newton's laws.

> Why does the existence of a transformation that makes movement under a supposed force actually follow a straight line mean it's not really a force?

It's not just the fact that the transformation exists that means we don't really consider gravity to be a force. It's that the transformation exists, and provides useful predictions about the universe that turn out to be backed by experiment.

Under the theory of general relativity gravity isn't a force, because the fundamental premises of general relativity assume that gravity is actually a distortion of spacetime caused by mass.

We say that "gravity" isn't a force simply because the predictions made by general relativity have been validated by a number of experimental observations—at least on the macro scale.

> For the other forces (e.g. electromagnetism) can we say that there's _no way_ to exhibit a transformation that causes charged particles travel on "straight" lines?

I'm certainly not an expert, so I can't really comment on this. My best guess is that there doesn't exist any such transformation that causes charged particles to travel on "straight" lines that makes experimental predictions as well as our current scientific theories.
What about a less ambitious goal: fuzzy keyword search that displays the dependency graph and cumulative build time of each node in the package graph (activity stats on hover)? Users can assess for themselves whether a simpler library meets their needs, but this would make the relevant information more accessible.
This is about relativity. We're going straight in space-time, but space-time itself is curved because of the heavy mass nearby (the Earth). This is visualized by the rocket curving towards the planet in the video, and the bent sheet experiment where the balls spiral towards the center.

So we're curving in towards the center of the mass of the Earth, but the reason we don't end up in the core of the Earth is because the surface stops us. The Earth is "pushing" us away from the center, and that's the acceleration. It's accelerating you off your straight line path, and this is the deviation from the geodesic.
I'm currently moving my Trello/Kanban stuff in Gitlab. Seems to be going OK so far. And I can make easy add-on via API