skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings a better case to buy your own "master" domain(s) that you actively use and park your ideas on the subdomains. I would park it in a subdomain of one of my main 2 sites - either my personal blog or freelance company. So I have idea1.mydomain.com, idea2.mydomain.comm idea3.mylongerpersonaldomain.com. Might take a damage on my SEO but an idea so early on are most likely found through personal content creation with links to that site anyways.
Yep, this is going to bomb big time in the next year or even less. No doubt there will be fodder for another HN post..
This is one hell of a (good!) question in Astrophysics (or even just in regular Physics for that matter!):

"Can a Black Hole suck in another Black Hole?"

And what happens, if they do?

If a single Black-Hole inverts Space-Time (and I'm not saying it does, and I'm not saying it doesn't!), then what happens when you put one inverter of Space-Time -- next to another?

Does the inverter add to the inversion -- or cancel it out?

?

(Side note here: In the above example, if it turns out to be a cancel, then that's a violation of Math's time-honored and cherished "1 + 1 = 2" law, because in that case "1 + 1 = 0" (!) (A scary thought, to be sure! <g>)... but that's a side philsophical discussion!)

That is, does the inverter invert the other inverter?

?

You see, that one, in theory, could go a number of different ways...

That is, if Black Holes have polarities along an axis, the way planets have magnetic fields along an axis which gives the magnetic north and south poles of a planet -- well, if so, then it might make a difference (for the above question!) -- as to how the Black Holes in question are oriented with respect to that axis!

Of course, if there is no such axis -- that is, no axis along which particularly concentrated magnetism, gravity, or other force ran, then Black Hole orientation -- probably wouldn't make much of a difference...

I can't honestly figure out what would happen...

But, it's one hell of a great question in Astrophysics, isn't it?

And it was asked by a kid, no less!
As mentioned in the post, we built this using Electron + React! Which means it can be ported over to those platforms if needed.

At the moment, we're more focused on building a product that our current users (on Mac) love before prematurely expanding to other platforms.
So you'd place value in a cryptographic signature from the author that ties the piece of paper in my analogy above to the photo of their real life signature? How much would you value that at, given that anyone else can acquire and enjoy the exact same photo of the signature that you enjoy, just without the piece of paper saying "this photo that everyone can see and enjoy is owned by andypants"? If the value you'd place on that piece of paper is above zero, why? (Genuinely curious).
I thought you could at least get around it by installing firefox nightly and creating custom extension collections.
That is why I mentioned it being dependent on the user's hardware and software. "Use a different desktop environment" isn't really an acceptable solution. I don't think it is fully ready until the overwhelming majority of users can move to Wayland without having to give up their current hardware and software.
> It is a real problem. We're trying to get to the bottom of it but the system seems vague and opaque and we have no idea who's doing the actual blocking. I do think some publicity might help us reach folks who are in charge of these school firewalls, which seems to be run by IT providers. In addition to kids posting, here is a screenshot of schools posting on Facebook groups also confused by it: https://imgur.com/a/YzFEEmp

> Many schools have decided to start filtering out sites such as Replit which allows students to code in the browser. Some schools have called the site a "distraction" as kids are choosing to learn computer science and programming as opposed to working on other subjects.

In this quote, which schools called your product a distraction? Why ask HN to sign a petition with no further information?
Awesome idea! Can I use it for replaying a full REST-API action?
Another possibility is thoughts which just don’t fit into the shape of structure within a human mind.

Can an octopus mind, for a body with eight limbs but no bones, ever be accurately emulated by a human mind?

Are there truths we can only reach with an exocortex (pen and paper included)?

Are there thoughts whose time or space requirements grow exponentially with respect to some measure in a human brain anatomy, but which could be linear in some other anatomy (existing or hypothetical)?
Sounds like Repl.it should offer an educational version with basic filtering.
Any kind of circular data that repeats itself. In the case of wheel factorisation, it is a wheel "rolling" over the number line.

Any data structure will do. Either a circular one or one with O(1) access time. It is the concept used in the article with a vector mask repeating every 15 elements.

It is a technique. I have just always used a circular list for it :)
Consciousness is not a material phenomenon anyways. To me it seems plausible that consciousness and matter are produced by the same code.
There are plenty of cases where I want to own a thing, but make someone else responsible for managing it. And if they fail or go away, I want to know that I can hire someone else to manage it instead.

If the app is hosted entirely in the cloud, _everything_ is gone if the provider pulls the plug suddenly. If the app is hosted on a device that I own and the provider goes away, it will probably still keep working for a while. Worst case, I still at least have the option of hiring someone to crack it open and extract the data to import someone else.

This is such an important concept that it even has its own field of study and practice called "business continuity." Many business have legal agreements with customers and partners _requiring_ this.
I found Dockerizing my app really early to be a good bridge to k8s.

Build container locally, test, push. On Linux box, pull the new app container, stop the old app container, start the new app container. Separate nginx reverse proxy also in docker so if you’re fast enough you don’t drop any packets.

I’d say docker is worth using from the get-go, but if you are most familiar with raw Linux probably just use that for your first iteration.
Unlike the US navy reactors, civilian reactors don't swim in coolant.

Yes, power levels make difference there, but there is no inherent advantage of smaller sizes in this context.

If reactor explosion happens even with small reactor sizes, containment building makes no difference unless you size it to contain even an explosion, which will make it even more expensive. And you will still have to deal with meltdown products in the end.

If you have enormous amounts of coolant at hand, you can equally well cool a bigger reactor too.
I did a little experiment and yielded , what to me was expected, results within seconds. I pretended I was at a Starbucks and I heard them call out my grandmother's first name for her coffee order. I googled her first name and the name of the town the Starbucks is in--no state or other info--just two words.

I scroll down, swipe through a few pictures, and now I have her life story in front of me. From that I can go down the rabbit hole and easily construct a phishing profile that I can use on her family members.

I just assumed everyone already knew you could do this.
I have been watching these threads forever. I personally like Mongo and wanted to added some real life perspective to it.

In the end it is a tool which fits some scenarios.
We take privacy insanely seriously, my prior job was actually as a privacy preserving messaging protocol researcher. WebRTC is by default encrypted. Right now its not e2e encrypted due to bandwidth constraints, but we are working on adding this to the app. Additionally we do not require you to share your phone numbers or your contact list in order to use the app.
I was thinking of the alternative being a website like google reader. Yes, you give up control of the data about your reading habits, but you know the scope of what you give up.

For what it's worth, I agree that the traditional model gives up all control. I'm not a fan of that either, and I go to some lengths to isolate processes from each other. I certainly wish we had saner desktop OSes.
There is the mentioned dropping of Postgres support. Postgres is much more popular than MySQL in open source circles, which makes me wonder why go with the latter. Sqlite is still supported, which makes this even more strange. Also, Ghost used to be a single-site publication platform: You would set up a blog with an admin user, and that would be it. Now it's a platform for creating multiple sites, and anyone can do it once you have installed Ghost. The default installer does not ask you a question to turn this off; I couldn't find it in the configuration options, either. The last time I was updating to current version of Ghost, between trying to figure out MySQL and finding out where to customize the site & user options, I gave up.

Thanks for putting the hard work into Ghost, but in the last couple of years, it went from "easy to use self-hosted blogging software" to "publishing platform with highly specific requirements", which is quite a change.
People have proposed the idea that consciousness is the building block of the universe and not matter. See Itzhak Bentovs book Stalking The Wild Pendulum.
Thank you for the support! In case of any other questions, I'm happy to help.
Not everything is as it seems.
The reading passages of standardized tests are not just dull but intentionally full of filler and awkward phrasing, to throw off the reader. Paul is good at conveying his ideas succinctly
> If engaging with interactions is taking too much time away, one could simply, not engage with them.

This choice isn't always as simple as it sounds. There is, strange as it is, a real reputational risk to be known as a disengaged open source maintainer.

It's a real PR risk to have a demanding open source user who personally emails you then takes to Twitter to denounce the project if you don't engage. It's also definitely a risk for a paid, proprietary project too, but for some reason it doesn't seem to happen as often.
I always felt that much of Kurt Vonnegut's charm was due to the simplicity. If that ties in with what you were saying.

Of course that doesn't imply the images and ideas are simple.

Similarly, I always thought Tom Robbins tried too hard to be simple and sci-fi.

A poor man's Vonnegut, and a Lazy man's Pynchon..heh..
>> spaceflight missions where the command stream can be hijacked by anyone with an SDR. Yeah, not happening.

An SDR attached to some serious antenna hardware, enough to get into the sidelobe of an antenna pointed at the legitimate command network. As for rockets rolling, that isn't handled by ground commands. That sort of stuff it totally within the rocket's internal systems. The ground staff have very little control until the second stage has done its thing.
This does not seem helpful to me. Part of the value of opening the calendar is seeing the day plus the week, to recalibrate priorities based on upcoming meetings as well as immediate meetings. I have desktop notifications for immediate upcoming meetings. If I wanted, I could set my calendar to one-day view and only see today's meetings. But I don't do that because I don't want that.
>Haha this is the guy who writes like an SAT exam question. It is very flat and boring, unmemorable.

However PG writes (and philosophically/socially I disagree with a lot), he has had a large following for his posts / essays, aside from his YC role (from people who have nothing to do with startups). That's hardly what you gain from being "flat, boring, and unmemorable".

Besides, you have missed the point. He is not arguing for plain style as opposed to literary flourishes or fun jokes, or whatever you consider not flat.

He is arguing for clarity as opposed to flourishes for flourishes sake, academic obscurantism, and so on.

You can write simply without it being "boring and unmemorable". Hemingway over Tom Wolfe, or Hume over Nietchze.
Actually, I am not aware of anything anywhere that says that about the 1800s as the Church's stance, but rather that we should keep God's commandments (such as those the Lord gave in the sermon on the mount (meekness, the Golden Rule), the 10 commandments, honesty, etc). The scriptures (and Handbook) are open for all to consider, as are the talks given in our 2x/year General Conference, decades of official announcements, etc, and that is what I at least have found influential, and am working at. In any large group there is a variety of imperfect individuals, of course, who like me are not official reps.

The principles of US Constitution, and honesty, and doing what Jesus Christ actually taught, are really important doctrinally for the Church.
Isn't the danger now that someone could call into your bank and say "I forgot them exactly, but the answers are just random strings"
Works fine for me in latest Firefox. I've never had it not work in a specific app. Though, sometimes the keyboard crashes and doesn't come back up until a restart (that could be the fault of my Ryzen Hackintosh, though).
It was my understanding that OCaml without a global runtime lock had existed for quite a while and could be optionally enabled, but in practice only made things slower as it significantly slowed down garbage collection. — was my understanding wrong?
A good portion of these don't seem to work, for example the "iOS Homescreen" or "Fakebooker" ones.
Of course that's still the case. Children are little shits and don't care if they cause everyone else a lot of work to undo whatever it was they thought was funny that day.

I know this because I was once that kid, and the universe gave me my comeuppance when I had to be a school system IT guy dealing with kids like me.
And for a lot of people, the lightbulb goes off once they realize what 'tty' stands for...
Your complex jokes will be assimilated with the rest of your pitiful meme based culture.
The official auction has the artists wallet address listed and you can verify on a block explorer that its legit.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/first-open-beeple/beeple-...

wallet address: 0xc6b0562605D35eE710138402B878ffe6F2E23807
smart contract address: 0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756
Personally, i agree with everything you say. I was mostly just trying to figure out why, that seemed like the likliest reason.

Schools tend to be not the greatest at computer security type stuff. Just wholesale blocking the site seems like something schools would do rather than actually do something useful.

My experience at least, i tended to break the restrictions on my school computers and mess around when i was bored of what they were teaching, usually because i knew it already. If they have a problem with kids doing this, maybe those kids aren't being challenged enough and are looking for their own challenge.
There is also MeetingBar [1] which is free and open source [2]. I would say there is one feature that none of the competitors in this space have done is auto join next meeting. This sounds easy, but it is actually hard [3]

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/id1532419400
[2] https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar
[3] https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/issues/30
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding how "just add AI" is going to make electronics simulation 1000x faster.
Is scientific computing getting some revival with the advent of quantum computers?
From what I could see the niche is relatively small and not well paid, with most jobs somehow tied to the public sector.
Not sure how Julia factors into all of this. I don't think the programming language makes that big of a difference, ultimately.
Very interesting field at the intersection of all my skills, but I'm hesitant to get into it.
Pump-and-dump should be the first assumption. I think we get a bit fantastical to assume we live in a high-crime spy novel.
Spacetime is mathematical abstraction, not a real thing. Photon changes trajectory because of differences in conductivity: light propagates a bit slower in stronger gravitational force.
What about Dirac's words ~ there being a fundamental size where any experiment will disturb the subject non negligibly, thus science can never speak causally prior to quantum measurements.

This has little to do with humans. The photon is irreducible yet is our (anyone's) smallest investigative tool.

Would you ever modify the meaning of exits in this context? The planet with rocks could be traveled to by something physical. In QM, the causal relation is broken due to measurement by any physical object we know of, down to fundamental particles.

If there is no physical setup -> it does not exist. Right?

Or maybe Popper is 100% wrong?
> Do you plan on using it for anything in particular?

It's hard to believe, but I use that thing everyday, haha.
To me every problem is a nail solvable with my DSL hammer.

> are you just creating it as a passion project.

I want other people to use it, but it took a while for me to
be truly confident that it will work and the underlying math
is sound (that 2-d languages are better than 1-d langs). So
just in the past week formed a corporation
(https://publicdomaincompany.com/) and growing the team and
are actually going to try and make a good user experience
and help people use these technologies to solve their problems.

> Would love to hear your opinion about this conjecture.

I always think of code now in 2 and 3 dimensions. To me
after many years this is just second nature but it's not an
obvious thing and not sure I've ever met anyone else that
does this. I gave an early talk about it in 2017
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVtDlbOUMA) at ForwardJS
(there should be an actual recording out there on the web
somewhere but I can't find it).

Traditionally all programming languages are 1-D, read by a
single read head that moves linearly from start to finish
(with some backtracking, but always just along 1 axis in
order), building up an AST and then going from there.
There's no reason it has to be that way, it's just the way
things developed with our 1-D register machines.

Human beings do not process language this way at all. Not
even close. If you have a physical newspaper by you,
pick it up and pay attention to the way your eyes parse
things. You'll likely notice a random access pattern, with
your eyes moving constantly across both the x and y axis,
and you parsing the semantics by things like position, font
size, layout, etc. To me it's so obvious that this is the
way computer languages should work. Their shouldn't be lots
of physical transformations of the code, using cryptic
syntax characters like ( and " and [ and { as hacks to
provide instructions to the parser. Code should be written
in accordance with a strict grammar, yes, but it should also
be written in way pleasing to the human eye and the way
human brains work.

We should make human languages that machines can understand
instead of making machine languages that humans can
understand.

Anyway, I'm rambling on and on, but this is the bigger idea
than simply the tree notation implementation, which is
really just a subset of a whole new world of possibilities
in 2d and 3d languages. (here's another recent one
showcasing the new possibilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=145&v=vn2aJA5ANUc&feature=yo... — when I write Tree Code I see spreadsheets and vice versa)

Also, when I play with legos now I see code, and when I write code I see legos. That's a hard thing to communicate and an early tool I wrote called Ohayo shows it off a bit, but need to write a single function that takes a tree program and spits out a lego vis (something like LDraw), and maybe that will help explain the idea https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/33
Surprising the number of ex shades players on here - I used to play a bit but via the internal network (I worked for telecom gold back in the day)

Later on we had an ex phreaker working in TEC who had been busted for Prestel hacking, one day the Internal Security guy who had busted him - met him at work and almost had a heart attack.
https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/based.cooking/issues/64
I'm not aware of large standalone projects that depend solely on it. Multicore is backwards compatible with stock OCaml though and 4.12 ships with some stub Atomics (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/4.12/stdlib/atomic.mli) which makes writing programs that can work on both easier.

We also maintain some projects on top of Multicore that are pretty interesting:

* Domainslib - channels and task queue that makes using parallelism via Domains much easier: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/domainslib

* eioio - very much a work in progress but enables high performance direct-style IO with fibers and effects. Backs on to io_uring on Linux and is designed to also work with IOCP on Windows: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/eioio
> Like, lemme get this straight: you expect a six figure salary, full autonomy to solve problems as you see fit, and _also_ bite-sized, well-scoped bug reports/features.

> riiiight

He's got a point, "Agile" has turned into micromanagement that makes us look like children.

"agile" is a buzzword that gets people out of the institutional inertia and hurt feelings otherwise associated with a push to rebuild software development process. Whether the or not the outcome of an "agile" restructure is the true One With The Tao agile is not the point of the buzzword.

I know the party line is that any iterative development is tautologically agile, but on the outside looking in, I see agile in practice as processes meant to support a team talent distribution weighted more heavily towards the junior side than are otherwise sustainable.
It would be neat, but it's impossible, because Gemini explicitly forbids any request types other than GET, or rather a practical clone of GET that isn't called that because there isn't anything else anyways. Without a POST or other support for sending larger bodies, there's a ton of interesting stuff you just can't ever do.

If they know they don't ever want that to be possible, well fair enough it's their protocol, but I don't see the point of a cool feature like identifying clients explicitly by client TLS certs only when clients can never do anything but view documents and maybe do a simple search anyways.
I am not sure what is the exact use case. They could be using it for a non-critical data warehouse which could easily be recreated.

If you can deterministically determine your use case and are confident that mongo will fit it - it might be a good idea.

My concern which mongo is that is if you push the feature set, it will start falling apart at the seams.

Even though Postgres/MySql have some issues which can reduce the velocity of your team, if you absolutely want to be sure about data integrity and want full flexibility of evolving use case, they might serve better than mongo.
The blockchain is the public ledger, where the ownership message is stored. The CA simply verifies that the message is actually from the artist.

Tangentially, perhaps the blockchain could be turned into the official registry of the CA, too. Wouldn't that be better than a privately managed database somewhere?

I think a global decentralized trusted ledger will become an important thing in the future (whether NFTs specifically are a legit use case or not).