skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings up a question I have had for a while: what is the life story of a photon shot at a black hole?

From an outside observer, presumably you shoot a laser at a black hole and if your photons don't hit anything on the way to the horizon, they never hit it either but just approach asymptotically as time goes to infinity.

As, a photon though, you don't "notice" crossing the horizon and in a measurable amount of time you go from being emitted to hitting the singularity.

Black holes don't last until infinity though, they evaporate in a large but measurable time. (let's say 10^100 years, it depends on time and how the universe dies and how big the black hole is, but whatever, presuming it happens it is some extraordinarily large number of years)

So... as something falling into a black hole an outside observer will watch you infinitely slowly approaching a growing horizon until at some point the growth goes negative and you watch the horizon falling away from your friend the photon until at last the horizon disappears entirely and releases the photon to go about its merry way to hit something sometime around the heat death of the universe.

In other words, if you are a conscious very resilient little particle doomed to fall into a black hole... do you really appear from the outside to be falling in until the black hole evaporates? Do you experience going through the event horizon like it's nothing and hit the singularity in a few hours by your own watch...

Or is a black hole sort of a time machine to the end of the universe where in the short process of falling in you get to watch the whole history of existence pass you by and you come out at the end having never crossed the horizon in what was for you a very short ride.

Or is there some third option where from the outside it takes an infinite amount of time for you to fall in, but that infinity "for math reasons" actually takes place and passes in a Zeno's paradox kind of way at some distinct point in your timeline and you meanwhile pass the horizon and hit the singularity in short order and are no more?

I don't really know anything but these are questions and vague thoughts I have had. The central question is reconciling the outside apparent infinite time to watch something cross an event horizon with the finite lifespan of evaporating black holes.
Well that's a completely stupid thing to hire him for. He never shaped a difficult community LOL. What an absurd thing to even begin to believe. Did they spend ANY time on 4chan at all before hiring him?

It was obvious from the moment 4chan started and got a huge exodus of SA users from FYAD, that 4chan was the worst place on the internet by a mile. No hindsight needed, not even close. Everyone knew that and its not some kind of secret. 4chan was the worst from the moment it started.
Vegan butchers: Could one be opening on your high street?
just tape it to the molding.
There's already Li-Cycle and Redwood Materials. No obvious reason why they couldn't scale.
Would be helpful if you could support this with some links and evidence. I monitor this issue a lot, and haven't seen anything that presents added privacy risks, at least not yet.
> In particular, I was itching to learn more about handling concurrency in Elixir. This, of course, led me to GenServers.

Might be a nitpicking here, but GenServers aren't useful for concurrency. They just manage state, and only process one message at a time. If you're using this as a cache, your reads will be bottlenecked by however quickly the GenServer can handle the read requests.
> A free will is a healthy will, in the sense that our decision mechanism is not broken by e.g. drugs, electrodes or mental illness.

Isn't the drug example a contradiction? If my brain was healthy ("free") when I decided to take drugs, why would the resulting drugged state be less "free"? After all, it was my "free" choice to take the drugs and alter my mental state.

Edit: Also the definition of "mental illness" is somewhat nebulous and not historically fixed. Homosexuality was at one point called a mental illness.
Based on the comment about the electronics, GP is likely referring to Kate Matrosova, who perished in positively appalling conditions, even by the very low standards of winter in the Whites.

She died just off the Star Lake Trail, having ascended to the ridge via the Valley Way, which hits the ridge line at Madison Hut (4800', or much lower than the summit of Washington at 6288'). My partner and I have bailed off pretty much exactly her route in the summer when the winds were too high for our experience and fitness levels when we popped up out of the lee side of the ridge line on Adams.

Anybody who wants a really well researched case study should read Ty Gagne's book on her trip and the subsequent rescue attempt.

Incidentally, my partner and I climbed Washington on a guided trip the weekend after she died. The weather was so good the guides had their cameras out to take pictures. The extremes in the Presidentials are no joke, as stated, but can also result in some beautiful days.
Yep. Sadly, I'd say that even now you might want to spend your travel dollars elsewhere.
Likewise, this caught my eye: As in C++, function definitions no longer need to give names for unused function parameters.

Goodbye UNUSED() macro!
you missed that as the article says, if women bring up salary issues, then that is seen as very negative. so in order for a woman to be able to change that, the rest of us need to change our attitude towards women about money first.

you can not expect a person to speak up about something when they have to fear negative consequences. we first need to ensure that there are no negative consequences, and then assure those affected that this change happened. a way to do that in this case is by stating salaries up-front.
It will have effects on hiring. Different people will self-select to apply.
It’s not that you, as a user, need to upgrade, but Apple could upgrade the SOC in their machines each year. It’s like the phone, small incremental updates each year. If you wait a few years to buy a new one, the change feels dramatic.
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If the Wikimedia Foundation stopped development or decided they didn't like indieweb, it wouldn't affect this site; worst-case scenario, they could just move to something else. That independence is the point of indieweb, not to specifically avoid software from other people or corporations.
This was rather interesting.. I haven't read Gladwell that much but I'm leaning towards the column's message.
> Even clang’s automatic vectorizer (which I have a high opinion of) is not doing that kind of stuff with multiple independent accumulators.

I think it does? I see Clang unroll reductions into multiple accumulators quite often.
> Debasement eventually shows up in the form of inflation of consumer goods prices

Sure. But nominal price inflation doesn’t matter to the poor as a class, but to those on fixed nominal income (e.g., many retirees, or people dependent on benefit programs with fixed rather than indexed benefit levels.)

Real increases in prices of goods disproportionately in demand at lower income levels matters to the poor, but that’s a different issue than general inflation.

> And inflated housing prices makes it nearly impossible for future generations to ever own a home, depending on the city.

Real increase in housing prices (or, more to the point, increases in housing prices relstive to a particular poor persons income), which has nothing to do with currency debasement/devaluation or general inflation, makes homeownership less accessible.
Like most things, you build up to it.

You start software development with "Hello, world!" and then you do more, like getting input from the user, storing it in a variable, then eventually you're using classes and working with objects, then you're tying together a bunch of classes and working with APIs.

No one just "studied" how to create a gas turbine and wah-la, it was made. The entire process of literally everything was one learning exercise after another. We started by using rocks as tools. Here we are, having built better tools from experience and a lot of trial and error and fooling around with things.

Hell, Lego are the same exact idea.
> Unfortunately the warranty on your product has expired and we do not issue refunds for products outside the warranty period.

If you pressed me I would admit that yes, in some exceptional cases we issue refunds for products outside of warranty but we're not doing so in this case because [whatever, the product broken due to misuse, etc.].

To say I am not issuing a refund or that I do not issue refunds on out-of-warranty is truthful or reasonably so. It's perfectly possible to communicate that without being rude or claiming to be "unable."
Maybe they are just using the fawkes app
So it is ok for the government, through their spending power, to make your business unsustainable where it was in fact very sustainable pre-covid? [0][1]

First they shutdown the businesses because of COVID and then they make it too expensive to reopen them. And your tax dollars and your children's tax dollars have made it all possible.

For those who do not own a business, would it be alright if the government came and took your job from you which caused you to loose your home and savings without any compensation or a way to regain the loses you incurred? It is really no different.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/09/it-pays-to-stay-unemployed-t...

[1]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett...
Wasn't the issue of black hole information loss the subject of the Hawking-Thorne bet that Hawking eventually conceded (that black holes didn't destroy information)? [1]

(This may be a separate issue; I'm genuinely curious).

[1]: https://physicsworld.com/a/hawking-loses-black-hole-bet/#:~:....
I've always wondered if a far-sighted person wouldn't be better off with a huge monitor at a distance.
This product was clearly designed for a pre-M1 world.
It seems not in this case, as this person hired a diverse team as measured by gender, race and sexual orientation. I'd venture there are multiple approaches to seeking interpersonal compatibility and some of those approaches tend to have better outcomes than others. It seems good to try to learn from people who practice those more successful approaches.
What about a t-shirt that says ‘the devil told me there are only two genders’?
http://w3.uwyo.edu/~jimkirk/guidance.html

Has the wav file as a link. Entertaining to hear randomly from my phone because it somehow got into my iTunes library in the 00s.
“Postgres is adding the ability to query for similar vectors with kNN.”
Well, now, that's interesting! Maybe I will go this year after all.
This is like a parody of the current state of affairs in modern web development. Except it's actually serious.

Sigh. I am so disappointed in our industry that tools like this even need to exist. It really makes me want to quit programming entirely.
It’s pretty ambiguous, though. In tests you usually complete all questions. Why should you in this instance only complete the first and the last task?
Yeah it's great. I've recommended 2 people get these laptops and i probably would have got one too if there was a 15 inch one.

I'm just hoping there are some more surprises in store with that slightly bigger battery.
yep that's pretty close (and cool on turbodbc, we normally don't get control of that part!)

for saturating network, afaict, it gets more into tuning around browser support for parallel streams, native compression, etc. we've actually been backing off browser opts b/c of unreliability across users, and thus focus more on what we can do on the server..
i agree. though a hundred hours would do more good.

either way, the article reaches about the same conclusion in a quite direct way.
My mind automatically interpreted that spelling as "unstable". It turned out that "unusable" matches the context better.
> C++17 is mostly supported.

For essentially any other language this would be an absurd thing to say. For those languages you wouldn't consider a feature added until it was supported by the reference compiler
Fair point. I mean 400K vests in 4 years, I am still in year 1. But as you say, slugging it out, will probably put me a better place to take bigger risks down the line.
No, it was general purpose and the direct predecessor of the initial UML and RUP versions. Here is a summary in case you're interested: https://www.ivarjacobson.com/publications/books/object-orien.... Objectory was the name of the method, the tool and the company as well. The tool supported the whole development process with fully cross-referenced model versions for each phase, model integrated editors with a kind of transclusion (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion), and a very powerful document generator; even round-trip engineering was supported. Unfortunately the tool vanished when Rational both them and you barely can find anything about it on the web.
(1) Sure, but installing more memory works as well and is typically possible without upgrading the CPU a la (2). I'm also not really sure what (3) is about--I'm a bit familiar with WorkOS, but I'm not familiar enough to understand how Mighty is competing.
On the third photo in the article, there is NAND chip pinout. And it is striking how tightly pins are packed, despite so many being "no connect". In fact, out of 48 pins on the package, only 18 are actually in use (24 if we count duplicate Vcc/Vss).

And that's not an outlier. As far as I can tell, this is a very common NAND chip pinout. I wonder - why was it done that way? Physical security feature? To make data recovery more difficult?
I thought Jonathan Strange was ... OK, and Piranesi was maybe a bit better, or at least cuter, and mostly redeemed because it was short and didn't try to turn itself into an epic. I've found both books to be finely crafted, but unable to really deliver, like a dessert that looks amazing but just tastes like cake.
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I can run a https client and ssh on a esp32. There is no reason Element (chat app on electron) would use half a gigabyte of RAM for some text, a unicolor flat theme, and some realtime video call. It's just experiment over experiment, we've lost the art of making simple software.
I suspect a lot of this sort of illiquid asset inflation is a bid to cache wealth in difficult to track forms. The last decade of interest-rate-driven income inequality has turned into a corresponding wealth inequality, but some combination of inflation and leftist swings in the government could threaten that wealth.

Remember Terminator 2, where a prepper Sarah Connor had a shipping container of guns buried in the desert? A smattering of fancy houses in politically disparate jurisdictions stuffed with art and sealed copies of SMB might be the modern upper class equivalent.
qt-console is great, but it's not a notebook, ie. you don't have cells you can go back to and edit. It's more of a classic console, with great readline emulation and ability to display images easily.
Okay, that's reassuring. I'm starting to think I'm trying to do everything too well. I agree with your broader sense of productivity. I'm hitting most of my needs/wants everywhere else. It's mainly my work that seems to lag behind. It might be a combination of putting too many things on my plate and overestimating myself. I got my stress under control this last week thanks to following most of the tips given here. I'll spend this new week focusing on adjusting my expectations and workload to see if that helps. Maybe I've been rushing things.
Why do you think this was too late?

14 days is the the CDC's window for contact tracing and self-isolation, based on how long it takes symptoms to show up after exposure. This seems in line with that.
> India's fundamental problem is that it is overpopulated

In the early millennium, while traveling for several months in India and being shocked at the situation in states like Uttar Pradesh, I would occasionally ask Indians I met if overpopulation was not seen as a problem. The response was often that India’s mighty population is what will let it throw its weight around globally in the 21st century, and claims that India is overpopulated are a Chinese or Pakistani (or both) plot.

I wonder if this belief has only strengthened with the more nationalist government in recent years, and the even greater tension with China.
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The use of the Qt backend is only temporary to get native style quickly on every platform. In the future, we would use a native windows and mac bckend.
I guess nobody wants to leave money on the table either. Easier to cut prices than hike them.
Yep, that's exactly what I've heard as well, and it makes perfect sense. I'm actually silently hoping 128gb would fall into the 'mid tier' - like it currently does with the old Intel iMac 27''. You don't always need a $15k cheese grater when all you're looking for is just a bit more memory on a Mac platform...
One one hand the whole enterprise was doomed to fail. How do you go about determining if the Linux kernel maintainers are susceptible to accepting bad patches? It’s such an important project how does one A/B test like that?

But then for UMN to not even take the steps to try and even get Linus’s blessing or figure out a way to do this but do so anyway for the past year or so is rather damning. That there is a possibility of redemption is an olive branch to the faculty and students that I don’t think needed to be granted. Greg KH is a better man than I am for I would have issued a lifetime ban to the university and that likely would have tarnished it and the students involved and the faculty as well. The reputational damage alone would be devastating.
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Had the same question. Eventually when everyone's on M1, why would I still need Mighty?

I assume users who can pay $30 can get a new M1 Mac? and assuming the next set of Apple silicon will be way more performant, do we even need something like mighty built on electron?
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Also things that can easily be sold off for close to face value, like iTunes gift-cards.

I think the IRS scammers still usually ask for something like that instead of cryptocurrency, because cryptocurrency is a bit too hard for their marks to figure out.
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Never mind, learned that there's a time limit for editing.
Designer bags have gotten extremely expensive. I'm talking about the $8000-10000 bags. The thing to do is to buy an expensive bag, use it for a few years, and then sell it for a profit, so basically people are now looking at is as an investment.
Has Thomas Sowell talked to any panhandlers lately? I'd say the floor on minimum wage is at least $3/Hr if one can sit on a curb with cardboard and earn that much.
>What would you say...you do here?
Ah I see in that case you would have to do something like this -- otherwise CDNs are the way to go. Was wondering about that
You can probably run them on a modern CPU, though. An i5-5400K runs at 340 gigaflops... single-threaded.
I have a copy lingering in my shelf for a couple of years now and just started a private project to implement the algorithms in Rust the other week...
I can't say for sure what qualifying is, but it isn't hiring a guy who allowed child porn on his site for years.
Sure, you can't run a 1990s-era HPC application unmodified on a GPU, but you can write applications that are functionally equivalent (take the same inputs, produce the same outputs) that do the heavy lifting on the GPU.

The latest DoE supercomputers are mostly GPUs. Summit has around 10 PFLOPS on CPUs and 215 PFLOPS on GPUs.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/supercomputers/summit
It seems like installing electrical and plumbing could be a lot easier if a 3D printed building was constructed with all the necessary channels for utilities already there in the walls, and all you have to do is feed wires and pipes through the routes and connect everything. Similarly, finish work is simpler if you don't have to put sheet rock up, and can just use the existing wall texture.

I think the bigger advantage to 3D printed architecture, though, is that you can make drastic changes to the design of a building without having to consider whether a contractor with the necessary skills is available to do the work or spend any effort trying to communicate the design to another human. For example, if I'm an architect and my client wants their living room to look like a gothic cathedral, I could design their living room to look like a gothic cathedral without having to worry about whether I can find a builder who knows how to construct a vaulted arch ceiling. I'd just have to make sure it's within the capabilities of the construction machine and conforms to structural requirements. That opens up a lot of possibilities, especially when it comes to organic shapes, curves, and non-right-angles.
For statechart diagrams see: https://xstate.js.org/viz/

Note that in addition to being editable, they are executable and can be used to implement state transition logic in node/browser JS code.

The visualizer is used throughout XState's docs.
It's reasonable to say you're unable to do something because it's against the law and doing it would make you a criminal. Equally its fair to say you 'can't' do something that would go against your morals.

That is not equivalent to what's happening here. There is no law preventing Google reinstating the account, and corporations don't have morals because they're not people. The only thing preventing them doing it is that the employees involved choose not to.
CDNs are great unless the content can change / be deleted / contain state information, in which case are bets are off
I love that they wood frame the interiors for insulation and walls.

Could have just built a wood frame house. Quicker, faster and more roomy.
This doesn't really work for software.

Often the more you pay an employee, the more he (she) starts believing in their own "rockstarness". And as everybody knows, rockstars don't have to work, they get paid just for the sheer fact of being so awesome.

(This is one reason why underpaid software developers are often so much more effective - see H1B, outsourcing, etc.)
For me, with Firefox and uBlock origin, it does not autostart. Maybe that's a workaround for you to.
The web has become so slow that we need to rent out NASA supercomputers to process those CSS files and decide where the DIVs and SPANs go. What a world.
Even if it can't overcome the rotary's efficiency limits compared to piston engines, it's small and smooth and only used a small portion of the time for long trips.

If a bigger/heavier engine could charge the battery more efficiently, but you only use it 1% of the time and the other 99% of daily commutes you're draining your battery to carry a bigger engine around, is it really more efficient?

Hopefully someone at Mazda has run those numbers and they figured that for a range extender, this was the best solution.
"I don't know Chris Moot and know a little bit about 4chan."

Ok well you should probably just sit out the conversation then if you are so ignorant of the situation.
Lots of assumptions in your comment. They happen to be very wrong.

Maybe as a default position, you should assume less about someone’s credentials based on hand gestures and haircuts.
I think you may be casually dismissing the entire field of game theory.
Yes, we use static typing and everything is statically known within a single file.
This allows to preview each control on its own since they don't depends on their parents.
i mean i will inject my opinions when i have to use these things in anger, right now it is just a raw list for future usage. i do put little stars or warnings against some items when i have an opinion.

you're welcome to PR in some commentary on each of them though. or fork it and curate. its open source knowledge :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoATf7xGoUY
> If its really 'that good', people will slowly pick it up.

Empirically, that's been happening?