skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protons and electrons are both Fermions, which means they can not have identical quantum numbers (have to obey the Pauli exclusion principle as mentioned elsewhere in the thread). In the case of a very dense system, like the sun, this can lead to an effect known as degeneracy pressure (which acts against gravity). Essentially you have filled all the lower quantum numbers and then adding an extra proton/electron to the system requires a certain amount of energy. It's quite handwavy but the degeneracy pressure of electrons is mostly what keeps a white dwarf from contracting, whereas in the case of a neutron star it is the degeneracy pressure of neutrons (plus repulsive strong force and other effects as indicated in the OP). This kind of high level discussion is often covered in first year astronomy courses auditing a MOOC like the following may be of interest (https://www.edx.org/course/astrophysics-the-violent-universe)
Link to paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I think Wirth's Law has already peaked as a trend. Lately the trend has been away from dynamic languages and fat bloated runtimes toward lighter weight compiled languages. The web stack (including Electron and friends) is the outlier, but eventually WASM could help fix that.
They moved it back to an employee who cares and was doing a good job without being a toxic coworker. That seems good for future hires as well as current employees of all kinds.
Both are banned, so it’s not clear what you are cynical about.
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This project actually made me think that, since the X-Window protocol is practically a dead-end and everything's gotta be made with web tech now (ugh), it'd be really cool to have a version of FF or Chrome that's smart enough to send some kind of render instructions between a server-instance and a client-instance. Process server-side, render client-side, like X-Window but for web junk.

(the notion that this is completely fucking absurd since those "render instructions" are called "HTML" and I'm just describing server-side rendering isn't lost on me, but it's not my fault things have gotten so bad that having a server-side browser forward draw commands from bloated "web apps" to a resource-light client might actually be kinda nice)
Contractual relationship thats a bit complicated.

I know she occasionally visits hn so I wont go into details.

That's definitely plan B.
IAPs are banned?
Ill try that for sure. Thanks for the advice!
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Just imagine how small your life has to be to object to the word "crazy" because it's "ableist". That kind of person is probably annoying when they're sitting alone and eating a muffin, let alone putting their thoughts on Twitter for the rest of us to be made dumber by.
Yep, this is exactly what I was getting at. Shadow is one of many examples of application streaming services which aren't limited to the browser and offer similar hardware (or even flexible hardware) at a lower price point.
You're totally missing the point. If the study relies on subject reported data then there's no proper control regardless of number of subjects. More funding won't fix that quality problem.
Investopedia, TastyTrade, then stuff like /r/stocks and /r/options, etc. Just view the Reddit data as a discovery portal that requires a more respectable source to verify your findings.
> Ironically, blasting the US for pausing the J&J vaccine was highly upvoted on HN, even though that was also expert decision making, and it was actually in the midst of the issue without the benefit of hindsight. I wonder why the topic of early pandemic mask messaging seems to attract downvotes on HN.

I suppose for the same reason that so many consider mask requirements an unacceptable intrusion on their most sacred freedoms: it's become heavily politicized, most people only "care" about issues to the extent that they're able to signal tribal membership, and moral indignation isnt any less addictive when it's detached from reality.
The Secret Ingredients of Design
If you like this, look up "superadobe".
If only we could render web pages server-side and send some kind of highly-compressible lightweight drawing instructions to the client.
Thanks for this reply!
The 3D building printer people still don't have a good way to do compaction. Something like the Lil' Bubba curb machine.[1] It's a simple little device for making concrete curbs. You put in concrete, and it compacts and rams it into the curb it is making, pushing itself along. Something like that is needed at the output end of the 3D printing arm.

[1] https://youtu.be/A06vfELMIK8
I understand it, I just don't find it compelling.

Second order effect arguments are often weak, in this case - not using a cleverly designed system that doesn't track them because it could make some theoretical person more comfortable with the idea of tracking in general doesn't hold up to me.

The point of this is that it doesn't track them, but still achieves the goal of exposure notifications.

It's like the seat-belts are worse argument - if people wear seatbelts they'll drive more dangerously therefore seatbelts are bad. These type of second order arguments can sound contrarian or smart, but they rarely hold up to scrutiny. (Similarly masks are bad because they make people touch their face or w/e nonsense was pushed early on in the pandemic).

The average person is tracked completely by modern web companies, telcos, and random apps and they give up that willingly already - how does privacy preserving contact tracing make that worse? I don't buy it.

It's more likely using services that preserve privacy by design get people to understand why they're different than everything else, and why that's valuable. When you dismiss them along with the bad ones you make it harder for people to make that distinction.
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Just look at the latest Mark Rober video on Youtube. Criminals can simply ask you to send the money cash in a box, hidden in books or other stuff.

There will always be a way to get illegal cash, ransomware just became much simpler with cryptocurrency. Now that the trend is here to lock your systems for ransom I don't think they will go away with cryptocurrency.
Dang, this is how crazy it has become. Looks like you can't say any word at all without it being some -ist
http://info.flightmapper.net/ is the gold standard for manual use, as far as I'm concerned. Would be lovely to have programmatic access to this data.

They say that they get their data from Cirium.
or you could look at it as a performance optimization that is actually valuable from a user's perspective.

or you could look at it as a tool to help the one-man shop make it through a tight cashflow situation that's coming down the line.
It's not like C++'s move semantics magically get rid of the necessity of copying data either.
From some the demos I've seen on YouTube, the Nvidia Jetson AGX would make for a really nice desktop. If Nvidia could release a desktop oriented ARM machine with its graphics chips integration, it could make for a really nice workstation.
3D Printed House from Local Soil
I was joking and didn't intend hostility. Sorry if it sounded like it did.
“Printing” means more than copies of webpages on dead trees. “Printing” means submitting invoices on online forms, it means sharing paywalled content with coworkers, and it means archiving web pages in a portable way.

I’m glad that this was posted, because more times than not I have to resort to cut and paste - or if I’m lucky just cropping out the two pages of content out of the 10+ pages of cruft when saving a web page to pdf.
Agreed. He also argued on Twitter that no one should need Linux containers because ELF exists. He ultimately backtracked to something like "well really we just need to go back in time and avoid dynamic linking of any kind and put everything in ELF binaries and then build Kubernetes off of that". Which I don't entirely disagree with--personally ELF kinda sucks and that's not the first thing I would do with a time machine and it also doesn't solve for isolation at all (container isolation is imperfect but I think it's worth something) and the whole content addressability and layer caching thing goes out the window (but Blow would also argue--and I quite agree albeit not so absolutely--that we don't need GB-sized binaries), but I can appreciate the simplicity of a simpler package format.
Like IBM circa 1968?
Statecharts and other variants of state machine diagrams are quite useful, but they serve a different purpose than sequence diagrams.

A sequence diagram describes an exchange of messages between different objects.

A statechart describes the states of an individual object and how it transitions between those states.
No amount of funding can fix this, at least for all use cases where apps communicate via google services between phone and app HQ. The average bank is not going to send data between bank and user via microg-operated pipes instead of google-operated pipes because 0.1% of their users don't like google.
Oh I think _they are_ getting into the radio chip business.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-bil...
Firefox is in the AppStore.
You should look it up for yourself, there are tons of articles saying that respirators were being used too quickly when things like putting the patients facedown were a better solution in most cases. This is before much was known about the virus and doctors were using the tools they knew about. Obviously they are still being used but much more sparingly than initially.
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Seems like an extremely minor gripe (as you mention, it’s all just bullshit) to be the top comment.

Though FWIW I’m unable to disagree.
I am very much in favor of making political discussions external. It lets me see who the activists are so I can avoid hiring them.
> Also worth noting that the baker in that case won because , in part, the gay couple were not denied service, they were denied a specific message. The baker was willing to sell them anything else.

To quote the dissenting Opinion in this case, written by Justice Ginsburg,

In contrast to Jack, Craig and Mullins simply requested a wedding cake: They mentioned no message or anything else distinguishing the cake they wanted to buy from any other wedding cake Phillips would have sold.

The "Jack" in question:

> William Jack visited three Colorado bakeries. His visits followed a similar pattern. He requested two cakes “made to resemble an open Bible. He also requestedthat each cake be decorated with Biblical verses. [He]requested that one of the cakes include an image of two groomsmen, holding hands, with a red ‘X’ over the image. On one cake, he requested [on] one side[,] . . . ‘God hates sin. Psalm 45:7’ and on the opposite side of the cake ‘Homosexuality is a detestable sin.Leviticus 18:2.’ On the second cake, [the one] with the image of the two groomsmen covered by a red ‘X’[Jack] requested [these words]: ‘God loves sinners’ and on the other side ‘While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8.’ ” App. to Pet. for Cert. 319a; see id., at 300a, 310a.

...

The bakeries agreed to bake & sell him these cakes, but without the specific messages he wanted. Jack filled charges against these bakeries, and the Colorado courts upheld the rights of the bakeries in this case. The Supreme Court in the Masterpiece Bakery used this case as the precedent, and I agree with Justice Ginsburg's dissent that it should not apply.

> The Court concludes that “the Commission’s considera-tion of Phillips’ religious objection did not accord with its treatment of [the other bakers’] objections.” Ante, at 15. See also ante, at 5–7 (GORSUCH, J., concurring). But the cases the Court aligns are hardly comparable. The bakers would have refused to make a cake with Jack’s requested message for any customer, regardless of his or her religion. And the bakers visited by Jack would have sold him any baked goods they would have sold anyone else. The bakeries’ refusal to make Jack cakes of a kind they would not make for any customer scarcely resembles Phillips’ refusal to serve Craig and Mullins: Phillips would not sell to Craig and Mullins, for no reason other than their sexual orientation, a cake of the kind he regularly sold to others.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

> Had that gone the other way, it would have had some icky implications for compelled speech/artwork.

This is addressed in her dissent as well.
I wonder if it will make sense to go back to multi sensor platforms. We could have a fleet of platforms in different altitudes, combining different sensors and comm tech. Might be better than to have a fleet for every specific wavelength (for observation) and radio band.
> the fundamentialist part is important

It's still outright wrong. Your experience with Christian and Jewish fundamentalists does not apply to Muslims. Please stop with spreading incorrect information about Muslims.

ISIS is a fringe group whom we don't give any semblance of credence to, and even they would not look down at washing machines "because it's a woman's job". This is plain ridiculous.

The secular West continues to group all religions together and marks any religious person as some sort of sheep.

Also, let's stop with this "identifies as" business. A person is either a Muslim or a non-Muslim. A person who does not believe in God cannot "identify as" a Muslim for example. That being said, the religion is open to anyone who wants to accept it.
>That doesn't mean one can't make moral judgments about which side is more or less evil, just that it's hard to be impartial

one would think it would be easy - just compare counts of innocents killed by each side. Unfortunately that would frequently make a "good"(winning) side look like a bad side and so they force other and more complicated criteria like this:

> it depends on what your values are.
Syntactic sugar is of course another form of abstraction and so you have to balance developer ergonomics with that added complexity. As you point out, Elixir's `GenServer` is a fairly simple wrapper module over Erlang's own `gen_server`. As new versions of OTP are released, the maintainers of the Elixir language must also update their own abstractions over those underlying Erlang libraries. It also creates a niche disparity between Erlang and Elixir which some Erlang developers might find superfluous. Coming from Erlang, it's easy to appreciate the syntax of Elixir even if it means getting over some old habits. Perhaps changing the names of foundational parts of the standard library would be less appreciated by those already familiar with OTP, and feel as if the mental overhead is being shifted to those developers rather than simply being ameliorated for developers who are new to the platform.

Designing a programming language is hard, especially when building on top of a 35 year old language like Erlang. As is often the case: if engineers could change the past without breaking everything in the present, we would have already done it. :)
Piranesi was very enjoyable and refreshingly novel. The setting, the "house" which is the real star, has stayed with me even though I read it months ago. While it may technically be a mystery, it felt more like a fantastic and exquisite space that you get to inhabit for a time an examine from every angle. It's short and light enough that it's not much of an investment — well worth the small risk to pick it up.

I happen to be re-reading Jonathan Strange and am enjoying it even more than the first time.
I'm not sure people who cannot afford a fast computer will be able to spend their money on a service like this.

I'm quite probably overlooking something and I'd be curious to learn what.
No - the industry abandoned CASE in the 90's and the pendulum swung back the other way. I worked for a company in the early 90's that bought into case hard. I never thought CASE was about the tool writing all your code - but they sure did! What a nightmare! I'd like to see CASE used to capture big-picture items, major information flows, configuration management handling and the like. I'd like to see UML diagrams dynamically generated from the underlying model. Utilize a query language to allow me to select a class and see what all it derives from and see what it interacts with - graphically. It's another way of interacting with a code base. That's the stuff I'd like to see us get to.
For either side (or really with anybody I don't want to talk about politics in general to), I just let them say what they want, but don't really acknowledge what they say other than "ah ok".

I tend to be a non-confrontationalist. There is no point in debating with some people - either because its not the right situation, I don't want to offend them (work/friends), or its clear they are hardliners that won't have a civil debate.
It's shocking that Paul G thinks this the future.

Casey Muratori said it well: Running a browser to connect to the cloud to run a browser to connect to the cloud to retrieve the contents of a single 2D page to recompress and send back to the original browser is now "the future of computing".

Perhaps we need a new "test", like the "Turing Test", but this time for when humans can no longer tell the difference between new technology and old technology. "Mighty", for example, is just a "dumb terminal" - technology we had in the 1970s. Yet it is called "the future".

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1387126330961981441
Apple started working with ARM in the 80s, eventually used in the Newton. I don't know that they did design directly, but they influenced the changes that became ARM6.
Nature has its ways of managing unsustainable population growth. Basically, starvation or disease. Maybe humanity is just at that point, and there's not a lot we can do absent some really breaking changes to how we live, work, and produce what we need.
Very few, capital cost to build and launch is quite significant, cost to operate is significantly less, but still substantial. You need a lot of subscribers to make this worthwhile and this is likely will be winner take most tech market. Left alone global LEO market would probably support 1-2 constellations. Given geopolitical nature it is likely that some constellations will be outlawed in certain areas. SpaceX will likely capture a 75%+ portion of the market everywhere it is not prohibited.

It is feasible to see project Kupier and One Web eventually getting competitive with Starlink 1.0, but they are not launching or innovating fast enough. By the time they are ready to start offering V1 constellation SpaceX will be launching V2 and testing V3. Long term the only real competitor is China because they have a large protected market and capable of subsidizing launch and scaling up incredibly rapidly.
You're not wrong that it's a bit of a tantrum, but after spending years working on a app and then being banned out of the blue without any recourse or even information, I think the author is entitled to a bit of a tantrum.

It's true that giving all details might lead to people gaming the system, but c'mon, a bit of details wouldn't be so bad.

This isn't some sort of fairly inconsequential website like HN or Reddit we're talking about, but literally people's livelihoods. This is like the cops walking in to your house to arrest you for theft, but they won't tell you what you stole, where you stole it, or how they know it was you. You now go to prison, have a nice day.

Perhaps they're right 95% of the cases. But in 5% of cases they're wrong, and bye-bye livelihood and many years of work down the drain.
Air Force research taps quantum computing
Maybe someone from Mighty can answer this: is user data encrypted (using E2E encryption obviously) when I am not currently using Mighty?

Obviously any architecture like this implies that user data is used unencrypted in the server memory, but I would not want my browser history stored in persistent media accessible to anybody besides myself.

In addition to history, perhaps the bigger issue is that I am kind of lazy and like to use my browser to store passwords. Are these regularly accessible from within the VM or is it stored encrypted with a master password like with Firefox or commercial password managers?
> "the difficulty would be apportioning the metering as we didn't have allocated parking spaces"

There are already various technical solutions to this. Most chargers now days are "connected" - ie have a WiFi chip or cellular modem built in to the charging unit. Identification/billing can be apportioned via a RFID card or app interface.

In future, "Plug & Charge" will make it possible for the vehicles to securely identify themselves to the charger for automatic billing, doing away with the need for an app or RFID.

If cost of the chargers is an issue (ie you want a large number of outlets but it's initially split between only a few EV owners who are willing to pay for them), then consider something like Ubitricity (ubitricity.com) where the outlets are "dumb" and the billing smarts are built into the cable which EV owners purchase.
I mean, with the fourth one, each pixel is only approximately square when white. A red, blue, or green pixel would be very rectangular.

That's what I mean. Because of the way subpixels combine into pixels, only some colors can be square.
Of course. The mods did try and fight the surge of idiots, but in my opinion there was just no stopping it. SA was too toxic with its history of "free speech", and the FYAD sub leaked over into other forums and the mods just coulnd't keep up. That toally toxic mindset just set en masse from what I remember. Even after the outflow to 4chan in 2003-2004, SA was never the same (and never has been). Eventually, when Digg and reddit came around they were better alternatives and I basically left SA at that time and it seems a ton of people did as well. SA never got as bad as 4Chan, but it had pockets that were almost as bad (such as the goon squad). From 2004-2007 I didn't really post on the internet at all.

Ill check on it a few times a year, and I keep up with some friends I made there, but now its just a shell of what it used to be with an old outdated interface.
Leaning on the culture part, I am sure we would find some great cost savings by improving human waste removed. Contaminating drinkable water is such a bad use for this and sewage is a huge part of the services part mentioned.
In most cases, yes, but it doesn't get rid of the complexity for compiler backends that can't directly target the real instruction sets Intel uses and have to target the compatibility shim layer instead.
That is good news.

From afar I loved the Donald! Wrecking the wreckers!!

For the rest of the world he was a much better choice than HC. She would have been dropping bombs, and using murderous robots just as Obama did. Much rather the USA is rulled by a selfish clown than some one who cares to use the horrendous weapons the USA has so many of.

Well done your friend!!