skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a cryptocurrency enthusiast and think that it sucks that it empowers scammers to steal. But you know who else empowers these scammers? Apple.
All the stuff around a black hole and in a black hole is under a lot of tidal forces and will be crushed and crumbled.

Imagine a blender. According to quantum mechanics, using a blender for an hour is an unitary transformation, so it will not destroy the information, and it's an invertible operation, you can reconstruct the original items. [And even a classic blender is invertible at the molecular level. It's only not invertible if you consider the friction and other average macroscopically properties.] Anyway, after an hour of blending, you will get a horrible homogeneous mix.

But (if the current models are correct) a Neutron star is very different in the crust that is a few km near the surface. It has many levels with different properties that are called "nuclear pasta" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta and one with graphics that explain the names https://astrobites.org/2017/10/05/nuclear-pasta-in-neutron-s...

Going again to the blender example, it's like a bad blended mix, that has foam at the surface, a liquid in the middle and solids at the bottom.
Erasing your regional accent probably goes a long way. I have a pretty strong Maine accent and it’s hard to suppress.

I don’t think I could fake a true bourgeoisie affect though, partly because I find it so repulsive. But also I think you have to have had grown adults as your personal servants as I a child to really nail that sort of bored/unconcerned affect. Where you truly consider certain people to be beneath you. They see you as an NPC. I’ve seen it, a handful of times.

I guess there’s a professional class in between too where the attitude is in between, you treat people with a friendliness that doesn’t seem superior, but also is guiltless and free of guile, lacking in any suspiciousness which speaks of a person who has never truly been hungry and not had food, or has considered breaking the law as their best option, or lived in an area where there was a lot of crime.

I don’t know why all that comes out in your speech but it does. Truly lower class people are reserved- they don’t volunteer information, because they don’t trust you. Upper class people don’t either, because they don’t have to care what you think, and they don’t consider you an equal. In between, people tend to be more talkative.
Strange is definitely a case where the journey is more important than the destination. The pace is languid to the point of lethargic, and then rushes through an ending that's almost literally a flurry of flapping birds.

I really like your analogy. I wouldn't have put it that way, but it beautifully evokes what the novel felt like to you. It's a helpful case where I can say, "Ya know, if it's not grabbing you 20 pages in, maybe don't bother." (I resent all those times people tell me, "Oh, you just have to slog through the first novel/first season and then it gets good.)
I've been tracking every expense for over 10 years ever since I got the iPhone 3GS.

At first I used budget apps I found on the App Store. I eventually made my own in 2013 that got moderate success but I never had much time to work on it. I decided to create a new app using SwiftUI and to add syncing and sharing budgets with other people.

I've always preferred to enter transactions manually. It adds friction to spending and I find it helps me be more mindful of my spending. I do plan to eventually add the ability to link bank accounts for people who prefer that.

It just got approved for the App Store a week ago. I would love to get some feedback. :)
It kinda reminds me of Dick's Drive In burger chain up in Seattle. They pay workers above minimum wage, and give them some pretty decent benefits. There seem to be way more people working in Dicks than any other fast food place too... yet somehow they manage to do it selling little cheap burgers, and can still afford to add new locations.

https://www.ddir.com/employment/
About 15% of personal computers in the U.S. now.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...
This is a stop-gap before the web apps are rendered server side and streamed to the client. Not as HTML and JS, but as 4/8K 60FPS video, like Stadia or Xbox cloud. The reason is simple, your smartphone, tablet or laptop can already view a Netflix HDR 4K stream but still cannot render Gmail or Figma with acceptable performance. You can also do things like remove ads and telemetry which the service providers would really you rather not.

The app will display exactly as the provider intended, all compatibility issues will be eliminated, and the performance will be entirely uniform and in the provider's control, provided by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Stadia for gaming is OK, but Stadia for Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Visual Studio is much more interesting, coming to your browser tab soon.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame"

https://m.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases...

My favorite example
There's so many crazy gotchas in android permissions, though... eg, most users won't know that there's a connection between wifi and geolocation data. That's a non-obvious connection with a real trade-off: the app might have some interesting wifi-based functionality, but in exchange the app authors might harvest your geo data.

Consider the permissions for the lowly keyboard app...

A proper understanding of fine-grained permissions basically requires a working knowledge of how that permission might be or has in the past been abused.

And ultimately, fine-grained permissions are probably answering the wrong questions. The user expresses some basic trust via the initial app installation; what permissions ultimately help with is deciding whether or not to keep trusting the developer. If the app ask for lots of unexpected stuff, it's probably malware and should be uninstalled. If the permissions seem reasonable, the app is probably fine, and the user just wants to delegate responsibility to the app to do what it needs to do to get shit done.

It's really /all/ about trust. If you can't trust a random app, installation is a high-friction event. Check the stars, number of users, read a bunch of recent reviews, carefully go through permissions providing access for exactly what's needed. If you /can/ trust a random app, you can just install it, use it to read the fscking QR code and go on with your day. The need for trust is why we've ended up with centralized app stores with stringent content policies, and all the false positives that come along with it.
it seems like every time I open Calibre it wants to autoupdate.
Really didn't expect to be reading about literal containers on HN.
Are there good stock plays off the back of this event or is it not protracted enough to invest in without buying special instruments?
‘New users would be best served by a "commit" variant that simply updated the HEAD commit in place.’

Isn’t this what `git commit -a` does? Or do I misunderstand?
> A lot of support for racial equality is lost because it is too reductive and invalidates the experience of potential allies in the majority

There was a study on that recently:

https://osf.io/tdkf3/
VueJS – Reusable Data Fetcher Component
Ask HN: Layouts for a Split Ortho Keyboard?
I finally got my Moonlander keyboard, and I've been considering alt layouts. Any suggestions/experiences with alt layouts on this or similar split ortho keyboards?

I write some Python, and am attempting to learn Doom Emacs with Vim bindings (am happy to switch to "holy mode" if that's easier)
For now. What happens when Linux or software that runs on Linux starts competing more broadly with Apple?
> the hiring managers judged the candidates from higher social classes as more likely to be competent for the job, and a better fit for it than the applicants from lower social classes.

What if applicants from higher social classes actually are better fits for the job?
The description I have heard is that a black hole contains no matter at all, it is all energy expressed as infinitely(?) warped space and time.
You would deorbit the sat and let it burn up into the atmosphere. In orbit, you can't really "drift off into" space like you're saying here.
> If the bet fails, you are left with a profitable stock, as it does have solid fundamentals

Could you explain to me what these fundamentals are?
Guessing the big issue is delay in shipping of components/goods.

And for critical items bidding up the price of transport will pass those to consumer or force reorganization of the supply chain to other avenues (local or other shipping).

Medium term it's a big hiccup on the global JIT economy.
An actually sane VCS would stash your changes when switching to another branch amd restore the stash when switching back, at least by default. Git instead handles this in a way that introduces a handful of potentially data shredding gotchas.
This is probably also true in the UK that has class lines often built around geography and therefore accents. In the US people with southern accents are viewed by many others as having a lower socioeconomic status. Things get more interesting when the history of the modern Boston accent comes from popular British speech trends hundreds of years ago and co-opted by the aristocrats of Boston, so what is an oftentimes low-caste Boston accent today was meant to be a high-caste accent around 1800.

The ridiculousness of it all is staggering
>“That’s free will: were you to rewind the tape of world history, to the instant just before you made your decision, with everything in the universe exactly the same, you’d have been able to make a different one.”

Huh? Why?

Shouldn't it be the opposite?

As much as I have a personal will, I will continue to will the same thing if we replay the situation -- all other things being exactly the same.

I don't chose something at random. I express who I am, based on my life story in space time.

To make a light example, if I'm a person who prefers Big Macs over Chinese, I will pick a Bic Mac if I'm asked to make such a decision, no matter how many times we rewind and replay the universe state.

Free will is not about me suddenly picking some random alternative. How would that ever express who I am (and thus, my, _my_ personal will?).

What's "free" about this free will since its inexorably tied to my space-time history? Well, it's exactly the fact that it's my space-time history, and can't be altered based on some external factor.

It's not "free" as in arbitrarily changeable, but free as in "expressing me and only me" (that is: my space-time history who made me what I am).
nah it's worse, prompts for a manual download and update.
Ports for big ships have historically been constrained by geography- ideally you need a very deep, well sheltered bay.

A shore with shallow waters for hundreds of feet simply make for very costly places to unload, and get treacherous in rough weather.

On top of that, coastlines tend to be the most densely populated regions. Building up infrastructure for a new harbor sounds like a nightmare to get through zoning, let alone an environmental impact review.
As someone who worked under horrible conditions because I couldn't leave (sponsored H1B), thank you.
> The "flip-flop" occurred very shortly after it was demonstrated that they were transmitted by aerosol particles.

This is both false and doesn't make any sense.

1) There was ample evidence of the distinct _possibility_ of airborne transmission, certainly by March. Medical culture has a severe problem with confusing "absence of evidence" and "evidence of absence", and the cost-benefit tradeoff of mask recommendations given what we knew back then was crystal-clear (and there were people loudly and consistently saying so throughout).

2) The CDC and Surgeon General (of "Seriously people, STOP BUYING MASKS" fame) have claimed[1] that the "flip-flop" was due to a change in concern about asymptomatic spread. It's not a coincidence that this is the _third_ distinct (and often mutually-contradictory!) excuse I've heard on this thread: because the real reason is basically down to systemic cultural rot in the field (especially at a scale that large and politically-influenced) and no one wants to admit that.

> 3. This event primarily demonstrates the difficulty of communicating science---a "this is the best advice we can give now based on our limited understanding" is treated as permanent, universal truth by the general public; any later changes in that advice is "insane" and "deeply poisons the well" of trust.

Scientific consensus changes all the time, and no stigma is (or should be) associated the work on the earlier, less accurate model. That's just what science _is_. I'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse or accidentally so, but my point is obviously that the initial no-masks assessment was insane, and based on a shoddy interpretation of both the science of the virus and the fundamentals of how public policy works.

[1] https://www.axios.com/surgeon-general-reversal-face-mask85e2... .
You can both take a look at Amadeus for dev (Amadeus is the biggest GDS) https://developers.amadeus.com

More info on API here https://github.com/amadeus4dev/hackathon-starter/blob/master...

Disclaimer I work for Amadeus, but actually never used this API service, I'd be interested in your feedback
I guess it depends on if you consider suburbs rural too. There's plenty of ~40,000 pop cities in the middle of nowhere
I like that but race and gender blind admissions will lead to a huge number of East Asian males which won't be tolerated.
These kinds of articles are typical when they don't cover the anglosphere. The writer even mentions that he worked for the newspaper "The Hindu", which supports the opposite political party compared to the one in power. As someone who self-admittedly covered the health sector for 20 years, they missed out a few critical points (ignoring any kind of political party one supports) -

1. Healthcare in India has concurrent jurisdiction. So the states have as much control over healthcare and public hospitals as the central ruling party. There are states which are ruled by one political party, and there are those ruled by opposite party. There is no pattern of COVID impact based on the ruling party.

2. He talks about the history of poor healthcare in India, but doesn't mention anything about abolition of the corrupt Medical Council of India (MCI) which controls the quality and numbers of doctors trained per year, among other things. [1][2]

3. No mention of failure to follow social distancing guidelines - there are widespread reports and anecdotes of people getting lazy and not following guidelines about wearing masks and social distancing after the first wave subsided.

[1] https://thewire.in/education/an-opportunity-for-reform-of-mc...
[2] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/justice-lodha-co...
for what it's worth, maybe it's compensating _too_ many people, you can also pay $10/month and have ad free YouTube (_and_ YouTube Music, but if you're worried about compensating too many people avoid it, its model is just like Apple Music and Spotify)
I wonder if there are socioeconomic indicators in writing style, too. I wouldn't be surprised if there were, even if we consider only text in which grammar and spelling are correct. (As a small example, there are ways to sound more or less like a mathematician, even when writing about topics unrelated to math.)
Note that the 2D page is nowadays often an entire application instead of just a bunch of text and images. If the protocol to access a machine in a dumb terminal fashion becomes an application programming environment of its own, maybe you need dumb terminals to access that protocol in turn.

Then there is the bloat issue. If websites were designed as lean as news.ycombinator.com, there would be no need for mighty. But they aren't. Instead we have js framework upon js framework, lots of tracking, ads, etc... you can make lean stuff using web technology, but you can't make it using the most popular frameworks. elm had this precise problem. They made their library really fast and really lean and people were like shrug, while flocking to the popular and bloated frameworks.

IDK it seems to me that Chrome and evergreen browsers have led to a stagnation in innovation of the browsing model. I feel like Mighty is a breath of fresh air. That being said, should Mighty ever become powerful, they'll likely benefit from funding maintainers to make js frameworks even more bloated so that even more people use their product... which means that they might do it. On the other hand, large user bases using products like Mighty might be a wake up call to website and browser developers that lean-ness is a real user demand, and maybe fixing it on their end, similar to how people taping up webcams led to builtin mechanical shutters.
It doesn't work like this. If you nudge something in a circular orbit by 100MPH, in general it moves into a very slightly higher, lower, or more elliptical orbit. For a typical satellite in LEO, the size of the "nudge" you need to get it to "drift away" is comparable to all the rocket fuel that went into getting it there in the first place.
I mean I wouldn't want to perpetuate something that I hate using myself.

It's not unethical, like if I were to build software for a cigarette company or something.

But if I hate chatbots, no matter how much I'm being paid, I shouldn't be building chatbots. That said, obviously there's a dollar amount at which I'd be swayed.
Show HN: First attempt using no-code to build a service for new startups
For my SaaS product www.poirot.app, I collected more than 300 directories, blogs, slack, and discord channels where you can submit your startup, so this service came naturally from my submissions. Also, this is the first project/task I made with no-code tools. Any helpful feedback & suggestions would be much appreciated :)
There is a simple and comprehensive solution to this problem which SpaceX has already implemented for Starlink. Simply put all of the satellites under 600 km altitude. Anything at that altitude will fall out of orbit in a few years due to atmospheric drag, unless it continuously boosts itself up. And before you ask: no, collision debris is not ejected into orbits that decay significantly slower than the original orbits, just due to how orbital mechanics work.
Yeah it's wild how the use case for 90% of users is "convert epub/mobi/whatever to azw3 and upload to kindle" and doing that is buried in several right click context menus... I'm comfortable doing it now but it seems as easy as having a left pane for books in my "library" and right pane for books on my device
The article already contains an eloquent critique of this option: its semantics are too broad and inflexible to cover that use case.
> How does pure oxygen kill you? What’s the mechanism?

Oxygen is highly toxic to the cells in the human body, but not generally under standard atmospheric pressure. Breath pure oxygen while >33ft below water and you’ll quickly experience oxygen toxicity, ultimately leading to death. Yes, that’s generally specific to divers, but even pure oxygen at standard atmospheric pressure can have health impacts.

More information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
Agreed, I'm very happy with their Kobo support.

A great discovery for me was that Calibre can convert to KEPUB (subset of EPUB tailored for Kobo readers).
I remember the infinities of black holes being a challenge to explain to my artsy friends after reading A Brief History of Time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the curvature of space around - and within - a neutron star substantial enough that euclidean geometry doesn't really hold anymore? The volume of a basketball is the surface area x R/3, but is that true of a neutron star? I was under the impression that the difference between Euclid and actual was statistically significant, to the point that you get the wrong behavior if you don't account for it.
As still so many people don't get it:

1) Don't make your business dependent on Google
2) Don't make any of your data dependent on Google (don't use Gmail, Workspace etc)
3) Don't make applications you build dependent on Google

Hint: If you can't migrate away from Google within a working day, you're doing it wrong.
Android certainly has an acceptable POSIX component when it's not artificially broken.
"I'm guessing the building a separate "rocket that nudges dead satellites out of earths orbit" is extremely expensive?"

Yes, at least as expensive as launching the original satellite, if not more (because it has to have the ability to intercept).

Also, just adding a little nudge doesn't really help. It changes the orbit slightly, but it isn't like an additional 44 meters per second (which is what 100 mph is) of velocity is going to make the derelict spacecraft achieve escape velocity. You'll just change the shape of the orbit some. You need to add an additional ~ 3300 m/sec (7400 mph!) in velocity to get to escape velocity.

Decreasing the velocity, such that the derelict eventually de-orbits and burns up in the atmosphere is typically much less expensive. A few hundred m/sec would probably do it, but it depends a lot on what orbit the derelict starts in.
Related:

Open letter of support for community members targeted by Jon Pretty

https://github.com/scala-open-letter/scala-open-letter.githu...
If you give a satellite a shove, it will end up on a slightly higher or lower (or eccentric) orbit depending which way you shove.
It won’t keep floating off endlessly into space unless you shove it with enough energy to get to escape velocity.
> Maui-Covenant's original human settlers lived on a beautiful ocean world whose most notable features were the motile isles which migrate to the equator every summer. The isles were herded by dolphins saved from extinction during Old Earth's final years.[0]

Good reason to take care for the dolphins now, eh? Science fiction is great for reflecting, and for exploring what might be, to help guide us into the future. And it can just be fun, of course.

Caring for another group can have long-term benefits (but is not the primary reason to do kind things, I feel), a recent example of which is the many Irish people who donated to the Navajo COVID-19 Relief Fund[1]. Blindboy (from Limerick, Ireland) on his podcast remembers his dad telling him the Chocktaw gave money to the Irish during the famine in the 1800s.[2]
Curious, I looked and found numerous articles about this, including [3].

[0] https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/Maui-Covenant

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/xjgrfa-navajo-amp-hopi-families-c...

[2] first ten minutes of episode 136: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blindboy-podcast/i...

[3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-america...
Fair enough, I should work on changing My tone. Thanks for the feedback.
Practically all US regional accents, especially if thick, register as "lower" than Standard American English spoken with a generic or newscaster accent.
> don't want to support YouTube or Google

AND the content creator as well.

Disc: Googler.
Im kind of amazed at the lack of search engine innovation. Why can't we explicitly rate results and have them be personalized to us(goodbye quora and wikihow)? Why can't we add tags to results, such as "ad bloated" and have that be taken into account for rankings?

It seems like such an obvious next step, but google is too rich for its own good at this point and doesnt need to do anything.
>I am at a point that I will just refuse to engage with the platform and only play a video by copying the video id into the url:

n.b. that if you have `youtube-dl` and `mpv` built with lua support,

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...`

Just Works. Also handy for red-band trailers.

Further, you can also do things like

mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=5qap5aO4i9A # chilled cow

which is very nice inside a tmux pane or something.