skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which goes back to the parent comment about criticizing a company known for great UX. I don’t think Gitlab understands why people like Heroku. I don’t want to go learn a bunch of individual services and then figure out how to wire it all together. For simpler architectures, you can make that setup, extremely easy, which is where Heroku really shines.
They said the same thing to me about hackathons when we did 300, then 500, then 1000, then 2000. And I still think hackathons could scale more and benefit from doing so.

But it seems as if no one is bold enough to do so. YC is.

This quote from Sama echoes through my head constantly:
“The central learning of my career so far has been that you can and should scale up things that are working. The power of scale, and the emergent behavior that sometimes comes from it, is tremendous. I think about the potential energy of future scale for every investment I make. Most people seem terrible at this, so it’s another bug you can exploit.”
I see a few comments where people refer exclusively to satellite imagery despite the fact that this story is about RF-detection satellites.

Has Hacker News ever flirted with a "commenter did not read the linked story / page but is pretending they did" vote feature? There's obviously room for abuse even if it were limited to "reputable" users but I would use it on some comments on this item.
I think you basically have the right idea. An aircraft in flight is continually emitting sound (and remember that sound is air compression) - the sound of the engines, but also the sound generated just by moving through air; open your car window while on a highway for an demonstration of that, and yes as you say, the volume increases with speed relative to the air. At low speeds, engine noise will dominate, while presumably there will be a speed above which 'wind noise' is louder; this is certainly true on a motorbike for example.

These sound waves interfere with each other and if they're travelling at the same speed as (or slower than) the emitter, a lot of constructive interference occurs - i.e. the sound gets louder. Note this effect still occurs beyond Mach 1.0 - there's a nice animation here[0] that shows why.

As you say - a sonic boom-less aircraft has to somehow move the air out of the way quietly.

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/176446
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I would be happy to learn.

The evidence suggests otherwise. Nonetheless, amongst other violations, the 1984 Building Act was violated. The law was broken.
The real number is 7900:1, not 10:1. Also, you can flip you statement and come to a difference conclusion.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
I think Aaronson addresses that in 1.2.6 as the "obviousness objection", "a proof of P ̸= NP—confirming that indeed, we can’t do something that no reasonable person would ever have imagined we could do—gives almost no useful information."

To which he replies,

>>to make a sweeping statement like P ̸= NP, about what polynomial-time algorithms can't do, will require an unprecedented understanding of what they can do. This will almost certainly entail the discovery of many new polynomial-time algorithms, some of which could have practical relevance. In Section 6, we’ll see much more subtle examples of the “duality” between algorithms and impossibility proofs, with progress on each informing the other.
They've moved beyond that now. Shadow Fiend won mostly due to superior micro but their newer 5v5 bot has human-level "planning" and executive function.
The recruiting company sets the rules for their own interview process, and most developers have an abundance of companies to choose from.
The hope is that quantum computers will give us an exponential speed up on some problems, which could (again, hopefully) allow us to solve some NP hard problems. This can be extremely useful for scientific computing (e.g. protein folding) and engineering, where computers have to solve complex NP-hard optimisation problems.

It could also be possible to use the technology developed for the precise control and measurement of qubits to "rebuild" natural phenomena like the interaction of chemical molecules, something which is currently extremely hard to simulate.
Because videos of good quality quickly go from UFO to IFO and only the worst are left. Wheat from the chaff.
Yeah, I'm in the middle of editing a novel I wrote late last year right now. A big thing I figured out was it it okay to leave out some of what a final draft needs because I can do it later. Right now I'm actually adding more rich descriptions to a lot of my scenes because I just didn't bother originally, and simply not worrying about it let me focus on the things I knew I needed and now I'm fixing it.

Not trying to do everything at once makes writing prose way easier.
I fully agree, this should have been about it production app, not a development app which is already great on Heroku. Also see this post by the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26555617
Latest CERN Experiment Hints at Brand-New Physics
To some extent it is the evolution of the

* Image -> Text

* Image -> structure/shape

* Figure out hierarchical structure and graph nodes/edges from extracted shapes and text
Questions Your Software Backlog Should Answer
If it were flagged shouldn't the post itself read as (dead flagged)? That's been my experience with articles that were flagged off the front page.

I'm not seeing that here.
Diclaimer: I agree that loudly announcing one's political stance and trying to pursue it in a craft community is often more alienating than inclusive.

However, I want to ask how do we handle things that will always be viewed as political, such as trans or gay people? There is no non-political way to refer to a trans person- either you use a trans persons pronouns or you don't. And if you do either, you're making a political announcement in a group.
There is already a better Heroku and it's Vercel (previously Zeit) https://vercel.com/
I believe Vercel is the spiritual successor of Heroku.
I guess Heroku got bought by Salesforce and the founders/visionaries left.
Heroku should have moved to bill per seconds/milliseconds based on AWS Lambda functions like Vercel did later.
I am also struck by the list’s most glaring, and curious, omission. There’s no Orson Welles

Why is it that the deeper someone gets into a field/hobby the less accepting they are of other people having different tastes? You're not beholden to anyone for your preferences. You're allowed to like or dislike anything for any reason, even something as silly as the way someone pronounces a word or maybe the director's face reminds you of your high school bully.
William Mcquillan- Building Frontline Ventures
William is a founding partner at Frontline Ventures. Frontline is an early-stage venture capital fund with €250M under management and over 100 investments across Europe and the US. He was the youngest Partner of a European VC fund when Frontline was founded. https://www.onepercent.live/episodes/episode-27-william-mcquillan-building-frontline-ventures
I thought the January dip was from the end of holiday travel.
Maybe, but if a state actor has achieved this ability, I doubt they would make its existence public knowledge by stealing a few billion US$ in btc. That's chump change compared to the value of being able to surreptitiously crack the cryptographically secure messages of everybody in the world.

Note I'm not saying that I actually think someone has achieved this, I just don't think "no one is stealing btc" is a good non-existence test.
And the history of even having to get approval to publish code with encryption...
I'm seeing a full-length article and no podcast. (I am a paid subscriber to the New Yorker.)
In the abstract, the authors say

"""
Building on recent information-theoretic arguments showing that the principle of infinite precision (which translates into the attribution of a physical meaning to mathematical real numbers) leads to unphysical consequences, we consider possible alternative indeterministic interpretations of classical physics

"""

which seems to be the jumping off point to disregard strict determinism in that sense. So I guess it'd buy you out of the unphysical consequences.

Don't have aps access though so I can't say more (probably couldn't even with aps access :D)
If you're dealing with an unknown, confusing phenomenon, you don't know what the underlying hypothesis is. You don't know yet what constitutes rigorous testing and what is just wandering off into the weeds. So you need to start with seeing if the thing happens at all. You do in fact need to know whether the previous result was garbage before it can be productive to do a wide battery of tests. And "wide" depends on how sensitive to conditions your effect is, which you also don't know yet. Your closest thing to an anchor is the initial claimed setup, so start there.
Just curious.. how is this better than https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-program... ?
I wish the FCC would regulate how ISPs advertise their speeds and force reliability disclosures. It's impossible to compare two ISPs without actually subscribing. I know Comcast can offer me 10x the advertised bandwidth, but I know in practice that can vary widely.

I use Google Webpass (a microwave radio link). The speed is 100Mbps, and the service is phenomenal. I've had one outage in 3 years, only lasting about 6 hours. I had switched to RCN for about a month, as they had advertised 300Mbps for a cheaper price. The speed in tests was about that high (and actually even higher), but I was getting a lot of buffering when streaming videos, that made the service much worse.
That's the problem with people. They hate Trump so much that when he says up, they say down. I also hate Trump, but will call a spade a spade whenever it needs to be done. The CCP's behavior with this was very suspect. And look who benefitted and who lost from it.
The universe and biology are stochastic.
Or they can just consume any other US based media and get whatever the NatSec state thinks is the correct position.
Idk, this whole article felt contrived, but it's great that Gitlab aspires to be better than Heroku. We need that, since I feel Heroku has stagnated a bit, and it's cool someone is picking this up.

Heroku first and foremost gives me peace of mind about my production up. Someone handles that my app is running, someone cares that my backups are in place and working, etc.

And adding additional components and integrations is super easy to do, I don't need to know much about the underlying technology and how to run it.
How much money does MS have? Can they just buy any innovation they want?
I subscribe to the Unix Philosophy when it comes to groups/institutions, "do one thing and do it well" and "It just does exactly what it says on the tin and no more". My ideal knitting community is all about honing the craft and experience of knitting. Politics does not belong in a knitting forum. Besides being irrelevant to needlework, it's the most polarizing and contentious subject for a group to adopt. Why risk a schism, or make people feel marginalized based on an irrelevant worldview?

Sadly, contemporary activists want politics to permeate through every aspect of society because they believe that's the best way to advance their agenda. Maybe they're right, because it forces people to tribalize and it makes the 'enemy' in the culture war easy to rally against.
Looks great, the docs look fine to me, but I would love instructions on how to deploy these applications.

I imagine this will let Python devs create small web front ends very easily .
Do not think about "little balls". It's a fundamentally broken mental image that everyone was taught in high school chemistry. Already at atomic level things are adequedly expressed only as wave functions. Matter is not little balls made up of even tinier balls, but something altogether stranger - recall that matter and energy are interchangeable. I like to imagine the subatomic particles (like neutrons and protons) as beautiful rays of energy only temporarily trapped in particle form as ugly matter.
Declassified: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence, an Intelligence Empire
The tool could be extended to support Unicode, whereas AFAIK it would not be possible to extend it to support backreferences. Are there any other “regex” features that would be impossible to support?
One thing I like about woldtimebuddy.com is that you can share the link with others so that everyone is clear on scheduling. The one that always gets me is India, as they're an additional half hour ahead.
Check the list again:

27. Banshun [Late Spring] (Ozu, 1949) Japan
I'm not a lawyer but am I guilty because I want my human rights and my freedom of choice?

Should I blame you or any other person of spreading STDs for example? Or any other disease without intent or knowledge?

I welcome any legal advice because I have no INTENTION of HARMING anyone.
Non-AMP link:

https://theconversation.com/evidence-of-brand-new-physics-at...
>Does it install without user consent?

This depends on whether you actually consider a small precheckmarked box buried 5 pages deep into a installer you are intended to mindlessly skip through clicking OK to the tiny legalese text to be consent or not
I consider “occurred coincidentally”, “is a coincidence”, and “occurred by chance” interchangeable. They are all equivalent to the null hypothesis.

If my dice are loaded then the two 6’s weren’t a coincidence. They were guaranteed. So to say they happened by coincidence is to say the dice are fair (the null hypothesis is true).

Consider a typical English sentence: “was it just a coincidence that I saw Frank in town, or was he following me?” They are two alternative hypotheses to explain the same observation: In the first scenario, we assume that Frank was going about his business and just happened by chance to be in the same place as I. In the second, we assume Frank was following me and that’s why he was in the same place. The question is about the hypothesis invoked to explain the observation. “Coincidence” is a (null) hypothesis.
Yes indeed, Jean-Pierre Petit has a YouTube channel where he talks about multiple subjects. In a 2020 video, he made a small video describing the links between UFO sightings and MHD: https://youtu.be/56fGzcp6bIU?t=65 (Subtitles available).

For people interested, here is a video presentation in English about applications of MHD technology for aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVN7qf3DlX0

And here is a conference paper about the same subject: https://januscosmologicalmodel.com/pdf/MHD/2009-Bremen-aeros...
I'd argue this is a reductionist point of view.

COVID forced so many things, including an acceleration of a trend toward distributed advice. It's entirely possible (probable?) SF was the best place to start a company. It probably still is 2-10x better than the next startup hub for a complete outsider to break into startups. However, what I think is changing is that for insiders, ie ex big tech employees, or former founders, SF / SFBA at large are no longer requisite.
A British ship floats up to an uninhabited Pacific atoll in 1750, people get off, grab some coconuts, beach the ship, wait for the tide to go out, make some repairs and are gone the next day and no other ships stop by for the next 100yr because the first ship noted in their logs that the atoll was devoid of anything more useful than the beach.

From the seagull's point of view that may as well be a UFO sighting but with big white men instead of little green men.

If there's a lot of life out there in the universe odds of any one planet (ours) being interesting or low. If aliens show up it's likely for some short lived menial purpose. Like stopping to grab some nitrogen or measure our moon for their survey or whatever.

I agree we probably aren't being visited by aliens. But if we I suspect they wouldn't be all that interested in us.
It was not my intent to annoy you.

It is my intent to understand.

Edit: and let us be clear we are just two good people having a tough discussion. I just want to understand you and your position better.

I agree software freedom is more than a given person.

So far, I have not really seen the ideas put into question here, right?

One of the originators of those ideas is in question.

And that person has done things others don't like, right? (I think so)

From what I can tell, those things are not about the ideas.

In my original comment, I had expressed my sincere desire for there to be focus among the people involved to keep it all about the ideas.

Not doing that does hurt the cause, because people may find themselves unwilling or unable to be a part of things.

You are expressing that, yes?

Either that focus happens, or it does not, and we shall see.

Re: gcc

Stallman would say, fork it and do one better.

He is not wrong about that, FWIW.

That's the freedom part in play. Does not mean we get what we want. It does mean we can do what we want.
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Portability has ongoing costs for code that's changing
But didn't the problem really escalate when media scaled electronically with radio and television. Those mediums didn't include interaction like social media does, but it seems like the diversity of ideas (at least visibly) is inversely proportional to the scale of broadcasting.
This is not correct. Nokian Tyres was spun off Nokia already in 1988, it was listed in 1995 and Nokia sold its remaining shares in 2003. Nokian Tyres is still listed in Helsinki stock exchange.

Currently Nokia is focusing on mobile networks and patent licensing.
Letterlocking: Origami in Reverse
Can you explain what you mean by ‘for production apps’? Because some people are definitely using Heroku in production.
And in my experience, it's trans people, DACA recipients, people with dark skin, and people who identify as queer.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore wrote three excellent, eye-opening articles about the knitting wars:

https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-on-instagram/

https://quillette.com/2019/06/07/instagrams-diversity-wars-r...

https://quillette.com/2019/07/28/knittings-infinity-war-part...
I just decided to start talking on public forums. I had an old account in my password manager that I never used to make a comment. I do not understand why my above comment has been downvoted. It is my experience with the product.
A Biden Appointee's Troubling Views on the First Amendment
The result is three-sigma, so not yet there (5 sigma). As usual, interesting if true.
Political involvement is dominated by the privileged
I use Sublime Text for this or vim, depending on where I am (in a terminal or not).

Vim is easy if you type vimtutor in the command line and follow the tutorial for the next 30 min. After that, it will always feel like a simple notepad, at least to me it did.

For actual coding I tend to use VS Code. I might give IntelliJ a try again if I can manage to get a free trial again.
A lot of the issues raised in this post are well solved by commercial video editing software.

For instance, markers and scene detection / edit lists in DaVinci, or word by word editing with recognition in Descript.

I feel like the OP should
give them a try before
trying to apply the universal script hammer to this problem. The ffmpeg line alone is frightening.

Use of unix time instead of timecode is another problem here.

It’s cool that he wrote this but it doesn’t conform to any video standards in use.
> Political activism is important. Stand up for what you believe in. But political activism does not mix with an inclusive, warm, welcoming hobby community. If you feel so strongly about your political beliefs that you can't let them rest even in your knitting club, then for the sake of the knitting club you're going to either have to turn it into a political knitting club or watch it fall apart.

I disagree. Just about anything else is more important and productive than political activism. Almost all political activism (in America at least) is either pointless group therapy (e.g. Women's March), astroturfing (e.g. the "election fortifiers") or actually destructive and thus evil (choose your own "mostly peaceful protestors").

Activists have a tendency to indulge a totalizing vision of their activism. Many of the most hard-core activists would see a request to tone down their activism as akin to being asked to remove their limbs. Activism has become the core identity of some of these people.

And if activists' goals are actually achieved, activists usually have trouble letting go of their crusades, and so invent new ones or just become pure grifters. I can see no other explanation for why the most progressive institutions in America, universities for instance, are among those most frequently labeled as bigoted, racist, white supremacist or otherwise "problematic."

Yes, highly contrarian take, but if we ended all political activism tomorrow, we'd be better off.
beyond ridiculous.
I came to counter him with a joke, but the downvoters beat me to it. Anyways:

The vaccine is more like going to the gym. We could continue our ancestor's practice of trying to run from lions, which was possibly better adrenaline practice, and even mostly successful. We might not be scientifically certain of the long-term side-effects of going to the gym, but I'll just rely on the gym nonetheless. And good for you going to the gym too!
The significance of the proliferation of such technology is that there will actually be people and processes 'watching' the screen. To my mind this is fundamentally different than the knowledge that a few state actors had the capability but not the manpower (or desire) to do so.
Yeah there is no guarantee any proof would even show you how to create a polynomial algorithm for some NP problem. It could just show some logical contradiction that happens if P=NP is false.

Or obviously even if the proof does show you how to do it but the exponent is some insanely large number (see some of Scott Aaronson's other articles about "busy beaver numbers"), then that does not change anything practically either.
Pardon my layman ignorance on this, but they still need to surface pretty often right? And the diesel engines leave a distinct signature when they surface to recharge the batteries?

Watched countries argue a bit over diesel vs nuclear submarines and this is where I've been imprinted with the idea that nuclear subs are the only actual true stealth subs you can build. I may be wrong here, but the evidence seems overwhelming based on usage. Diesel subs are for homeland defense purposes and don't worry about the enemy knowing their whereabouts, nuclear subs go silent for months and everyone is completely clueless as to where they actually are.
Contrast with Stephen King:

https://youtu.be/EhwLqRQ8unM?t=136
In both proof of work and proof of stake people are doing work (using energy) in order to obtain money.

In proof of work you work to obtain mining equipment and electricity and then use that to perform the work of securing the network (nothing is “destroyed”). You are then paid for doing that work. The more work you do relative to other miners, the more you will get paid.

In proof of stake you work to obtain eth (for example) which then grants you the privilege to run validators. The more you stake, the more validating you can do. You are paid money for successfully validating, and charged money for failing to validate. You will need to do more work to replenish money spent on unsuccessful validation. Ultimately, the more work you do relative to other stakers, the more you will get paid.

It’s going to be a little more difficult than it is for proof of work to measure how much total energy is used by proof of stake, but it still should be doable. Maybe it will be less than the energy used by proof of work, but maybe not.
Unpaid environmental damages from fossil fuels are a $600B annual subsidy