skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These numbers are wildly exaggerated, but isn't this also the wrong "direction" of relativistic time dilation? In the frame of the planet orbiting the hypervelocity star, the rest of the universe is moving at 0.5c, so the planet would measure all clocks in the rest of the universe to be running slower by a factor of 1/sqrt(1-0.5^2) = 1.15. Astronomers on this planet would measure stellar lifecycles (and every other physical process) to proceed slower, not faster.

You have it backwards (easy to do with such a thought experiment!). The direction of time dialation originally stated was correct. Clocks on a body moving at ludicrous speeds will be slower (to the observers present, who are able to look at those clocks) than clocks on a body not moving at ludicrous speeds. Which is to say, if you did a loop around the galaxy at light speed (hypothetical, of course) and came back to Earth and compared your clock with a terrestrial clock, your clock would be waaaay behind, and you would be younger than the people you left behind. This effect is measurable and provable even in the orbit of our own planet (albeit, at a miniscule scale). And so while your time did in fact move more slowly, the overall effect is that you time travelled into the future because everyone else was moving much faster. This of course assumes that you are able to escape intact, which is most unlikely (again, this is just a thought experiment, for argument's sake).

In your defense, I know how easy it is to get turned around in such a thought experiment. Theoretically speaking from the perspective of the par-luminal traveller, it's easy to think "my clock moves slower, so am I slower?" In a way, yes, you are! Your reality moves slower relative to theirs, and for those not travelling at light speed time passes more quickly relative to your time. Objectively speaking, a human lifecycle on a very fast moving planet will equate to many, many lifecycles on a slow moving planet, if all other things are equal. And so while you are truly travelling much faster, your time moves slower, relatively speaking.

Remember as a kid being told about a hypothetical traveller that enters a black hole, and at one point they become a long spaghetti string and then simply freeze in time? That's because they are moving much faster than us, and from the outside looking in they appear to be frozen. The light emitted from their mass is but an echo. They have moved far beyond the light that we see. From the inside looking out, the universe would move much faster.

Again, this is an extreme example used for clarification, but it might not be as extreme as you think. Consider a solar system that gets caught within the grasp of a black hole. Initially the tidal forces tear it apart, but over eons that mass might begin acting like a normal solar system again, and harbor life once more.
I also did not think anything but mksh to be appropriate for handling inotify.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-filesystem-events...
Flat Earthers
Interview with Thomas Gleixner on the real-time Linux kernel patch set
Some jurisdictions will let you deduct that from your taxes.
Any abloo-ablooing about startups only applies to the wealthy elite 2% of people who work in that domain.
I’m not one of those people who think that the US is broken (I’ve seen other countries, and am thankful for being born in NA) but the third-party-doctrine is one of the few things that just baffles me. How can a precedent which is so obviously malicious be allowed to exist?
Stuck for me! Dropped the W2 for an LLC and don't see myself looking back.

Not advice, just what happened. Definitely not for everyone.
So Turing-Award-worthy [1] AI researchers each gets the seat in the different big tech?

I cannot help but rootlessly imagine the sifi-like battle royal among them! The climax would be that Bezos flying around in his robot [2] invented by an mysterious teen AI hacker, and that's why Amazon yet to porch any of these shy stars.

Take a seat and have some popcorn!

[1] https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing
[2] https://youtu.be/8NHwvbVyKi0

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Edit: Different Bengio :-(
To what end?

If they were indeed upending terrorist plots once a year I could maybe understand.

What is the goal other than power and authority?
Have you considered looking into better insulating your home or alternative ways of staying warm than blasting the heat? I wear a sweater, socks, and sweats while I’m working from home. I guess this is heavily dependent where you live, though.
I'm on Firefox and it has a pretty deep blue for highlight color. Maybe it's an accessibility concern of the browser as opposed to HN? I don't think making the text lighter interferes with screen readers for example.
It not only doesn't say anything about the intended effect, it can't as it is designed, and the intention is different across the people involved - juries, victims, judges, and voters.
> There are no hard and fast rules that will readily determine whether a website is credible. I think that teaching people that they can simply look for .org in the URL and immediately accept a website as credible can do more harm than good.

> Instead, we should be providing everyone with the critical thinking tools they need to evaluate and assess sources themselves.

This kind of thinking is incredibly important. Many believe in only following one or two "credible" news sources instead of trying to get the point of view from a variety of outlets. Others like to block a list of websites which someone decided was fake news.

There is no easy way to determine what is true and what is false. In fact, most of the time there is no definite "right" and "wrong" - instead, both sides of an issue will have important pieces to consider. In fact, there's hardly ever just two sides to an issue, rather, a wide range of opinions.

I was not taught this in school. I was taught to trust .org websites.
Clock accuracy is tied to the entropy it creates
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I'd be fine with paying a tax "on the gains that the rest of society generated for you" upon me selling that land to someone else.

Just like capital gains on equities. I don't pay until I realize. I'm happy to pay some property tax in the meantime to keep gov't services running in the area.

But any other method is terrifying to me and makes me start thinking "What super rural state can I move to in retirement to buy a nice parcel and be seriously left alone these days?"
Its also common to not to explain things you think are obvious when initially talking but when someone asks you about it you clarify your position.
Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat
You could also reason that killing people is good for getting certain kinds of votes, and generating lots of wasteful and stupid appeals work is good for outside counsel. (Aka donors)
As far as I understand they are using a gene drive which is risky. Gerne drive is an artificial technique to force gene propagation. The risk lies in mutation + gene drive.
It's usually the other way around – bankers will pitch companies they come across if they think there's an opportunity, but not usually for super early stage capital because the economics don't really work. Pre-COVID, we'd all go to industry conferences and mingle, set up a meeting and see if we click after a conversation or two. That was how my team met a Series B company a couple years ago which later received an unsolicited bid from a strategic acquirer and we helped them through that. The process was very successful and actually a pleasure to work through for all parties involved - investors, management and buyer all walked away very happy with the outcome.

As for your side comment, I don't think there's a more specific name rather than "banker", but in my experience the big banks on Wall Street are not traditionally structured in a way that incentivizes relationships with earlier stage / smaller companies.

Since you're asking for differentiators, I don't meant to sound like an ad, but I work at Evercore, which is "the premier global independent investment banking advisory firm", as our website would put it. We're "independent" because we don't lend any money despite being a "bank". Admittedly, M&A advisory is the lion's share of what we do, but we're also hired by clients to help them secure financing or go public. We just don't have any skin in the game. The value we bring is the quality of our advice. We're more nimble and flexible, but we have the same depth of relationships as a big bank, which is what differentiates us.
Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3
Anyone else have a pattern where a nice well researched article turns into 'save on pocket' click and never come back to it? This is a classic target of such for me.
The only reason there's an office kept acclimatized somewhere is because the WFH was a temporary measure. If it's definitive, the office will shrink quite quickly.
I wonder what kids are doing these days.
Very long and convoluted post, but quite some interesting stuff there. The modules look beautiful, btw!

Just want correct the paragraph about VST3: it's supported by every decent DAW now. And since most people use a framework, like JUCE or iPlug2, for developing VST plugins, the differences between VST2 and VST3 (mostly) disappear.
That’s a good plan. I’ve been using a battery mower for a couple years now and don’t miss gas at all. It’s nice having a mower that just works. I hardly mind mowing at all now.
Agreed 100%.

Should be merged with UPS.

I also believe NBA should be nationalised. All teams should be owned by cities and revenues used to fund schools etc
About an hour before you:

>... I still have an almost instinctive aversion to all the sites with new TLDs that I come across in search results ...

(Among some other comments, that was just the nearest one.)

So, the likely answer is, "All sorts of people."

If I'm just browsing, I don't really notice them. I have a bunch of domains, and many are .us because it's nice and short with many names available.
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> Vaccines are tried and true over decades.

Can only become tried and true if you actually try it ;).
Risk = probability x severity. Probability is low but severity is very high: you die. Staying home and taking precautions like wearing a mask is essentially zero cost, zero effort, so why not do it? It’s like wearing a seatbelt. Cost is zero and it saves lives.

I don’t want to die. Sorry if that makes me a scardy-cat. I can live with that.
I’d like to check the math though because I imagine heating and cooling a building with hundreds of people in it is much more efficient than heating and cooling all their homes all day.
In order to know if anything you are reading anywhere is reliable you have to already be knowledgeable about the topic. It doesn't matter if you are reading about it on Wikipedia, a random blog, a printer book or a published paper. The thing about Wikipedia is that for most popular topics that you aren't knowledgeable about you can be sure they've been reviewed by thousands of users and kept somewhat reliable and up to date, unlike reading the same topic on a random blog or an old printed book.
Why is HN a venue for Dear Diary entries?
Yes. Henry George basically said it's too hard (utopian?) to just switch to everyone leasing their land, so a land value tax is a pragmatic approximation that still allows for the traditional sense of property ownership.
It seems like, barring some effect of the fluorescent marker gene on reproductive fitness, the proportion of instances of this gene in the male mosquito population doesn't naturally decrease over time. Given this, perhaps its possible this measure will eventually eradicate the Aedes aegypti in the Keys, through genetic drift.
This is a different Bengio: Samy, who is Yoshua's brother.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.
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Thanks, yeah I got the similar feedback from some other mates. I will consolidate the posts.
I guess, if IPster is useful, things will follow.
Those are all good reasons but there's one potential flaw: people, and companies, don't always behave rationally. I predict an awful lot of people are going to be going back to the office for no better reason than "the pandemic's over therefore we're going back to normal".
Yes, but people who have normal-ish vision don't have or know how to use dedicated screen readers. I could figure out how to have my browser or OS read aloud, but I generally don't want to have things read out loud to me. I just want to be able to read them visually.

I think my highlight color is set at the OS level, at least on my Mac.
It will stick if people refuse to go back to offices. I started working 100% from home nearly seven years ago and wouldn't take a job that involved commuting unless an astronomical amount of money was delivered up front. Simply no comparison in terms of quality of life.
On the other hand, consider that the screwworm barrier has been a huge success: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/north-ame...
Didn’t we learn this at the dawn of the internet?

Why is it slashdot.org and not slashdot.com? Because .org addresses were $10 and .com were $40 at the time
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SafarIE?!

Bahaha, brilliant.
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Do they still have to be US citizens? Or just has to be inside USA?
I almost feel like the obscure to most effects of joyce may be easier for gpt3 to generate than other things an only joycian scholars of which there are few would be able to tell
As they say, any map of social effects in the US degrades into the population density map of the US, as they say.

Normalizing by population density might help, but only in a limited way, because huge concentrations of people create different effects than pretty sparsely populated areas.
I was thinking like a game of musical chair. If you sit down too early to lose, but when the time comes, you better sell quick or you'll be left standing with nothing to show for it.
A lot of folks are saying a technical solution isn’t the answer, but I’d say it’s a core part of getting to the next stage.

I’d recommend reading James Clear’s Atomic Habits to get a high-level view of what your body/mind is doing when you reach for certain apps/impulses.

Personally, I’ve found that installing blockers like Freedom and setting up timed schedules has significantly increase my productivity and cut back on wasted device time. Fwiw, the “fun” parts of the internet turn off at 10pm and don’t go back on until noon the next day.

You can also set a timed block at the router level, set a password for the setting via a password manager, give the password to a friend, and then delete it from your manager.

I find by simply removing the easy option to engage, the impulse to do so significantly diminishes. It’s only after you’ve felt what that diminished impulse is like and see the effects on productivity that you can then take bigger steps to change your habits.

So, I’m a big advocate for technical solutions because they help reduce need for self control / impulse control by removing the option on a schedule you define when you are your “best” or “most optimistic” self. (Yes, they can be circumvented, but you can also make that significantly onerous as to be usefully frictive.)
If your home power bill went up by more than you saved on transportation costs you have a severe insulation problem. Like, ten foot hole in an outer wall severe.
Regressive taxes coupled with payments are a very powerful way to squeeze the lower ranks of the middle class, while preserving the rich and the higher middle class.
It seems to me that he received an automated response intended to scare away people intentionally abusing YouTube's takedown feature before YouTube has to commit a human to adjudicate the dispute and thus incur labor expenses.

The form letter doesn't threaten him specifically, it only states policy. He needs to justify his takedown request, WHICH IS REASONABLE. If he fails to submit justification, there could be consequences, WHICH IS REASONABLE; frivolous and disingenuous takedown requests suppress fair use and free speech.

He needs to defend his takedown request. This is reasonable, and he should do so.

Instead he's being a little bitch and playing the victim card. I suspect because it gets him attention from his followers and the social justice crowd who are always looking for opportunities to blame and be outraged.

References:

[0:50] "Basically what YouTube is telling right now ... is that if I do not give away the rights to two of my videos ... that another YouTuber has uploaded on their channel that is much much much larger ... so they're making YouTube a lot more money... and I guess they don't want to upset him"

This is all bullshit. YouTube never asks him to give away any rights. There's no evidence that the number of subscribers has anything to do with the policy email he received.

[1:30] "I can absolutely prove to you that I'm going to lose my channel on Friday"

He does not prove anything of the sort. He's just building his strawman case.
If you have someone living in your home, then your house is heated/cooled anyway. In those specific cases, energy use for office is a waste.

I imagine atleast 50% of people working have someone at home while they are working.
It's more accurate to say the 3rd party doctrine goes around rights, not just legal requirements. The 3rd party is forced to betray its clients to the government, even against its will.

In other words, this doctrine doesn't only let government agents do something they otherwise wouldn't be allowed - it also lets them force others to do something, pressing them into government service.
"All of the sections in this post describing some aspect of the toxic culture fail to deliver, and mostly just sound like entitlement to this specific maintainer's time"

How about this part?

"Taking Over People's Real Names

"The last straw concerned the policy about taking over inactive modules. About making it possible by default for someone to take over my very name, Aria Salvatrice, and releasing their own fork of my software under my name.

"That's right: if I'm inactive for just one short little month, someone else can just go ahead and release software under my name, my name as a person, with no process in place for me to reclaim it later, even if their releases have low quality standards, even if they add ill-conceived features that work against my long-term plans.

"I made it clear-as politely as I could, which was hard-that the policy was absolutely unreasonable. Absolutely no app store I ever heard of allows taking over names, much less taking over humans' first and last names.

"And in the domain of synthesizers, it is common to name a machine after the lead engineer. Bob Moog, Don Buchla, Serge Tcherepnin, Roger Linn, Ray Kurzweil, to name a just few well known pioneers. Many modules in the VCV library are named after their author, I am far from being an exception, I'm following a time-honored tradition.

"Open-source is no excuse. The code is open-souce, with a perfect understanding of what it entails. But my name isn't. That's why my logo is not directly drawn on the faceplate, but composited at runtime from a separate file: I'm trying to make it as easy as possible to modify my code.

"And while VCV is happy to claim ownership over the names of amateur humans like me, its "Ethics Guidelines" are absolutely deferential towards the moral rights to the name and trade dress of commercial brands: after all, there aren't many eurorack hardware makers, so they would never allow ports of their modules to be offered in VCV's store if they had to compete against counterfeit knock-offs impersonating them. But humans, now that's fair game?"

or this part:

[VCV's code of conduct now] says "public challenges to moderator decisions may result in a ban/suspension"

and:

"There's MiRack, a fork of VCV for Mac OS and iPhone. Any mention of it within the VCV community is immediately deleted, and its author is banned..."

To me none of this sounds like it has anything to do with "entitletment to this specific maintainer's time".
Yes.i have multiple chrome folders with bookmarked interesting articles (some of them with more folders inside).
Ah, yes! I knew a shorter one: sm 0 a9f4 <enter> g 0 <enter>
The Penal Colony. That story is etched into my brain. Ugh
My company is planning on moving to 4 days in, one day optionally remote near the end of the summer. It sounds like google will return to the office as well [0]. I think its tough to define a permissive WFH policy when there are some individuals that don't work from home well and have had issues with productivity while working remotely this past year or so. I don't think there would be an easy/drama free way to require some individuals to come to the office more often while letting others come in less often without severely impacting morale for those that were required to come in.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/google-ceo-email-delays-retu...
Meanwhile your reduction tactic can be used to claim entitlement to anything.

You have to give me whatever I want or modify your behavior in whatever ways I insist upon, because the only alternative for me to get my demands met is by creating the product from scratch and/or starting my own country, which is of course absurd.