skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At far distances gravity is higher than expected for black holes compared to regular stars.

If it doesn't follow the square-cube law in the far field, it violates conservation of energy and creates a whole bunch of situations that don't make any sense. The farther away from something you are, the heavier it would appear to be. The event horizon of a black hole would shrink as you got closer, because light coming from far away would be pulled more over the longer distance. Neutron stars would appear to be black holes if you were far enough away.

Gauss' law for gravity says the total flux through any enclosing surface is proportional to the enclosed mass. If the gravitational potential decreases at 1/d and the area increases at 1/d^2 the mass must increase. That fact also makes it irrelevant if this is something that only happens for black holes- if you're far enough away, the enclosed mass will make it look like a black hole. That means that this effect would be apparent at measurable scales. Tungsten motes would look like miniscule black holes and asteroids would not emit light once you were far enough away.

The Triangulum galaxy is ~2.7 Mly away and ~2.6 kly wide. At 5 kly the rotation curve is totally unexplainable with conventional mass and gravity. If the strength of gravity falls off with 1/r past that distance, the flux enclosed by a 2.6 Mly sphere would be 1000x higher (d^2 area times 1/d flux density) and the apparent mass would be 1000x higher.

General relativity would have quite a few things to explain if galaxies caused more gravitational lensing the farther away they were despite not having any more stars. The fact that we are seeing significant, unignorable effects at the edges of galaxies means that those effects should be FAR larger at even fractions of the distances between galaxies.
Ask HN: What frameworks would you advise for such a product?
Hi. I'm working on building an independent music rating platform. I'm a humanitarian who only knows design. I have only superficial knowledge of web development. The task is to launch an MVP.

The requirements for the website - rating system similar to IMDb, user profile, block with reviews, comments etc. The ability to rate not only the entire album, but each individual song in it, and that the user has the opportunity to put a rating for the album, regardless of how he assessed the songs (ie, the album score is not automatically calculated on the arithmetic mean based on song ratings).

I've heard of Bootstap, AngularJS. Can I use them? Are there any no-code solutions for such a product? Or is it better to concentrate on finding a technical co-founder?

Thanks :)
Would the USSR have won against Germany if the US was not involved?

And what if the US joined the Axis powers in the war?
To answer the question: it'a a retroactive downplay of the USSR after and during the cold war.
I don't see it. People in WWII, today in Syria, etc. felt the same about their lives as people during peacetime? Personally, I perceive the current world as very different than a few years ago.
Paragraphs 77, 78, 81, 82, and 83 specify Google tracking.
Someone should re-write "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and make it about the Chinese banks instead of the IMF

because they definitely read the former book as an instruction manual whether it was true, whether those practices had major effect if they were true, or whether it was completely untrue
A little afraid to ask what may be an obvious question, but what exactly does the shortage consist of? Computer chips aren't generally interchangeable and I assume they're mostly purpose-built. Is there a shortage of raw materials? Or is there a drop in fab capacity?
Ask HN: Good Telegram groups/channels to follow?
I'm aware that a lot of HNers here are fond of the messaging platform Telegram, especially for its groups and channels. Although there are a lot of good and productive groups and channels on tg, discovering them is not very straightforward, since there is no listing(unlike matrix) or recommendations. So what good channels are you following or groups you're participating in?
"reason you had fun doing GPU programming is because you already knew about the interface of vectors so you had no problems working with them"

Actually no.

I had to relearn them pretty much completely, as I forgot all the abstract lessons before. But I had fun doing so. Because my brain saw real world use.
Interesting, thanks. I think the fact that some of these advances are very spread out doesn't necessarily mean they are unrelated. It would have been very slow going in terms of change and iteration back then.

Prefrontal Synthesis is a lot more recent and generates a lot of material evidence (in comparison) so I think it's easier to see that there was a common cause behind the subsequent developments in material culture, which fall under the umbrella of Behavioural Modernity.
Do you really think what you're suggesting doesn't map to "taking away" to the people involved?

News flash: People aren't stupid, and you're not that smart. NFA tax stamps aren't still a thing because people don't see the tax loopholes as a ban or infringement on the 2nd Amendment. They absolutely do. They've just grudgingly accepted there may be some positive utility to it. What you're talkong about is nothing but velvet gloved taking by policy.

And other posters are right. It'd be a shitstorm.
Psychologist here. Yes, that is correct. Without the inversion, it is sometimes also referred to as "emotionality" or even "negative emotionality". "Neuroticism" sounds pejorative to many.
I always thought one of the lyrics in this song was the most sensible thing I'd ever heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKti7QixnJI

"Say something once, why say it again?"

Maybe personally I'd like to see "Elon Musk says he has Asperger's" exactly once on HN and never see it again.

That's what "personalization" means to me, but maybe it means something different.
See [1]. It's a lot, I don't fully understand it myself. I find it convincing enough to say it's scientifically grounded, in the linguistic sense at least. I wouldn't say this research is grounded in the biological sense (not the five factor model anyway, perhaps the concept of "personality" is though).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Hi...
> how we can grow food and increase fertility and volume of soil by incorporating more species and doing less work

It still loses in profit per investment to modern industrialized farming, so (almost) nobody cares. If you want people to care - tax soil degradation.

Turns out with artificial fertilizers and modern technology neither work nor soil degradation is as important as quick adaptation to market forces and economies of scale.
Because the US emerged with supreme reserve currency status, supported by its reconstruction approach? To the victor go the spoils.
Speaking of which, the Raspberry Jam Tree, also called Jam Wattle, of western Australia, does not grow raspberry jam, but smells like it when cut with a saw.

No plant nursery will sell you a Raspberry Jam Tree, but you can buy seeds on Etsy: "Acacia acuminata".

They are interesting also because the leaves (which aren't leaves, but "phyllodes") and bark have a high concentration of interesting tryptamine alkaloids.

There are many other fascinating details about A. acuminata. Millions of fenceposts in Australia more than a century old (and more every year!) are made of its wood.
It does highlight the problem with having the origins of your supply chains in a potentially unfriendly country.
Presumably something like the representation of signed numbers being implementation defined (instead of two's complement as is virtually always the case nowadays).
That reminds me of this video[1], where Americans are asked questions you'd think they'd easily be able to answer. Such as...

Q: Who won the Vietnam war?

A: We did. Wait, were we even in the Vietnam war?

Q: How many sides does a triangle have?

A: Damn. Four.

A: There's no sides... One?

Q: How many World Wars have there been?

A: Three.

Q: What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki known for?

A: Judo-wrestling?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF9hhKWwZrs
Random example from searching right now: https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/unsigned-integers-and-...
Is there an experiment that shows the entangled particles are NOT set before they are separated?

It seems to me that it's fairly easy to explain why one particle correlates to the other. Both of their properties are set before they are separated. We just didn't measure those properties beforehand.

I've read and watched a lot of quantum physics on youtube. This kind of refusal is always elusive, as in nobody has an experiment to negate this explanation (or maybe I miss it).

Wave-particle duality is another one that doesn't feel real, especially when we fire one electron and we say "electron interfere with itself". It seems we think of it as a wave simply because the electron is too small for us to see. And that's it. Somehow we come up with this convoluted explanation with catchy name "wave-particle duality".

This one is also elusive. Is there an experiment that refuses this explanation of how wave-particle duality isn't real?
>Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness.

First off zero explanation does not validate other explanations. Second off what you said is strictly false.

Much of neurology research operates on physically manipulating the brain through material means including brain surgery, drugs and even removal of certain aspects of the brain.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

Subjects with Material damage to the brain where the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain are physically severed display behavior that is consistent with two consciousnesses existing in a single person.

This is physical evidence that your consciousness is tied to physical and biological material. It further implies that because this consciousness is material based that consciousness can be recreated by simply simulating the material structure that creates it.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

The blue brain project is a research endeavor with the first step goal of emulating a full mouse brain and consciousness on super computers by using models of cellular neurons.

This is real material based research on consciousness that is funded with a lot of money.
That’s a really hard problem to solve.
To me, incognito means, "I'm out in the world, and possibly identifiable, but I am not broadcasting as much information about myself as I typically would." For example, I'm not sending my typical logged in cookies. That's exactly what I expect incognito mode to do and, I believe, exactly what it does.

If I'm out in the world incognito, that doesn't mean I can't possibly be identified. A close look at my face might still let someone figure out who I am, despite my Dick Tracy hat. It just means I'm putting in some effort not to allow my identity to be known.

This seems like a great metaphor for what incognito mode does.
Are We on the Brink of a New Age of Scientific Discovery?
My understanding of the phrase "toe the line" was to express that someone is technically within limits but is intentionally testing the boundaries of their limits, but apparently this is not accurate. TIL.
Try government work. I was in state government for a long time, trying to make it work. It doesn't. Unless you're a contractor.

They get all the development work, and then regular staff have to try to actually get things working, and maintain it, not knowing how or why it was built that way, but by then the contractor is off doing something else.

During the last failed project I was in the middle of, in 2003 (mostly as an observer, because I actually worked there), I was making around $42k/yr, and the guy in the next cubicle was making $200k.

He knew different things than I did, but I also knew different things than he did, so the difference in pay was because he was a contractor, and therefore considered to be valuable.

Whenever I got a chance to actually do something, my stuff would slip into production and actually work, silently and forever, so I never got to be a hero by coming in on weekends to perform miracle rescues when everything blew up. Because it didn't. One reason that I was never considered to be an asset.

Anyhow, there's government all over. Exactly every town has it, every county, and every state, and there are lots of companies already set up to feed on it, and usually always looking for bodies to throw at it. You can find a niche.
If I were pointing fingers, I would point more to React, NPM, webpack, and just the crazy world of frontend development in general.

But yeah, a browser is almost like a second OS running on the machine. Only it's built at a higher level (abstraction-wise) with much less focus on optimizing resource usage compared to a proper OS.
I am sure someone with an IQ of 130 probably has better luck understanding coding than someone with an IQ of 100. To say that IQ is ill-defined and of no predictive power, is wrong.
What do you think about psilocybin's effect on openness? Are there other studies that produce such marked changes in personality?
Historical note for the readers: Flurry is a subsidiary of Oath (Verizon Media), the online advertising conglomerate, and was at one point said to be feeding app-supplied data from 2 billion devices into the hands of the conglomerate.
There are no F150 models in the US that weight 7700 lbs or even close to it. The heaviest one is 5517 lbs.

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...
IQ strongly correlates with SAT score, IIRC. If you have a 148 IQ, I bet a capable tutor could train you to score a good deal higher than 1060.
We have been slowly changing over to AMD instances on Azure, it's not a huge savings but it's enough to justify it unless you have a specific need for certain CPU types or licensing.
Botanically, practically nothing we call a berry is a berry except blue-. And practically every other fruit is a berry. The word is a wastebasket.

Today I learned that papaya is closely related to cabbage.
We know my genetic info is being used today in research that cures disease and saves lives.

I sleep well knowing that.

You're saying that there is a "good chance" that some time in the future US insurance companies will illegally use this info to deny people insurance.

I disagree with that probability analysis. Time will tell.
The instant I read this headline I thought... Ruby on Rails.
for technical postitions, i am sure IQs cluser around 125-140
Yeah. The standard avoids obvious guarantees because of some computer you never heard of. And then compiler writers use the standard as license to mess with the guarantee on _your_ computer.
Functional languages are harder to learn than imperative languages, a big factor that I didn't see in this comment thread.

With imperative code, you can just spell out a for loop which makes intuitive sense. With functional code, you need to do so recursively, so you need at least some understanding of recursion, and perhaps even category theory for more complex examples or languages like Haskell.

Just that kind of complexity over an imperative language alone is why I surmise that functional languages haven't reached as much popularity.
As an example: HN feed on telegram: https://t.me/hackernewslive
Falcon 9 is a huge deal. The combo of capabilities and price tag is unique in the entire space industry.

Prior to advent of Falcon 9 Block 5, people would automatically associate "big rockets" with "extremely expensive".
Side note, maybe as technology removes barriers to access to resources that used to be gated by social graces, extroversion and agreeableness are changing in importance. In other words, in a world where machines outcompete humans, what used to be successful traits among humans aren't going to be always the fittest in the new environment.
Nothing that the users do will correct a company culture that actually has the wrong way to operate the car described in its manuals. This is the kind of communication that pervades the company, top to bottom. I don't know if they fail to understand how their cars work, or if they deliberately exaggerate.
> While natural selection is commonly thought to simply be an ongoing process with no “goals” or “end points”, most scientists believe that life peaked at Welwitschia.

Is this (joke) because it's a living fossil with a long lifespan, or something more?
> I think for a lot of people the privacy issue really is about concern that their behavioral information would be sold and disseminated.

People are only concerned about the things they can easily conceptualize. Google certainly hasn’t done anything to make it easier to understand behavioral ad targeting, probably because they didn’t want to be in this business to start with (they only moved into it during the dot com crash when they were pressured to get a business model together) and because they maintain relationships with intelligence agencies, allowing those groups to collect information they wouldn’t be able to get legally.

On several levels, Google benefits directly from hiding their real business model from the users whose behavioral information surplus they exploit.

Just because people have been slow to catch on doesn’t mean their Incognito disclosure isn’t inaccurate and downright misleading. Google doesn’t get points for hiding opt-out behind the labyrinthine settings toggles. Until the entire data collection process is opt-in, they’re exploiting user ignorance.
Yeah, I'm gonna stick with it. I've never heard _anyone_ pronounce GNU as "new", so my mind was fairly blown.

Sibling comment to yours helpfully points out the "new" pronunciation is only for the animal, not the open source initiative.

Either way, I blame Gary Gnu. Or maybe I thank him, for getting me ahead of the curve on pronouncing GNU.
I just imagined what if we have to consider other civilizations for our posts and what they might be offended by.

For example, the civilization of Dune is offended by any mention of complex "thinking machines", so any programming topic to them would be like an article full of dick jokes.

Imagine we get visited by aliens, but no matter what we do, they get gravely offended, and we can't understand why.
Lambda layers – package size and code sharing
> What is the meaning of 0 to 60 in 4 seconds when there's traffic anyway?

I take public transit and don't own a car ($500/m parking, insane insurance rates in SF, cars broken into within minutes in daylight), but drive rentals/carshare-by-hour periodically. Merging and accelerating onto a freeway from a rate limited entryway stopped to 60 is somewhat useful while keeping up with flow.
They are actually useful vehicles in rural places.
but some courses are easier than others though
I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be better with some regulation regarding this. I'm not sure. But it kind of goes hand in hand with the whole repairability thing. And unrepairable devices have more externalities...
To me, the obvious answer is Hollywood, and the fact that the US (especially post Soviet collapse) has emerged as the obvious long-term benefactor.
The hertz bankruptcy was just weird. My understanding of it: They have massive loans with their cars as collateral, when the pandemic started, used cars went down in value so their creditors margin-called them. Hertz didn’t have the money and couldn’t come to an agreement so filed for bankruptcy. Used cars returned to more normal values so hertz isn’t really insolvent anymore so will probably get to survive bankruptcy.
Unbound has a block list feature and there are several other options. None are quite to the same level as far as I know, but the rest of OpnSense makes up for it.
I hammer maybe 1-2 days a week (3 max). Then I either cruise control and completely chill the other days.

If stuff really needs to get done though, I'll hammer.
Yes, if you're going to cash buy, you can frequently get a better deal off the sticker price by agreeing to finance and then simply paying the loan off. How you structure things really depends on priorities though. Normally I buy the car (through financing) but right now I prioritized low monthly payments during financial uncertainty, so I leased. If things are different in three years, we'll either buy a new car or buyout the lease-- I made sure the lease buyout price was something we would be comfortable with: the TCO came out to only a little more than if we financed a purchase w/ higher immediate monthly payments, and I judged that a slightly higher TCO is worth the current ability to keep monthly expenses to a minimum.
The leftist woke mobs are the ones who went after that professor (and many others).

Travel too far right or left and authoritarianism is always the result.
And massless. Light follows a geodesic in GR. Also i don’t think intrinsic curvature is well explained by the ant analogy. The apparent force isn’t to stay in the manifold but to stay on the geodesic thru space time (which is free fall).
Same here on both counts!
they are positively correlated. your outlier does not invalidate the relation between the variables.
It's a half-truth. Yes, for you to be an employee, they must do all of that.

However, in practice, a remote worker can move anywhere, create a company (in the country where they live), send invoices and get paid. The catch is you need to take care of more taxes and admin work and there are none of the employee protections. You're essentially providing B2B services.

So, there are no legal issues for your old employer, as long as you're comfortable with that. It's mostly that employers would rather own you, as that gives them certain rights and benefits vs. just purchasing services from a contracting firm.
I've done a few small projects in OCaml. It's a brilliant language that I deeply enjoy using. But the situation for newcomers and those who don't have established patterns is bad. It's hard to do anything nontrivial from scratch, and the community doesn't seem to have any consensus around dependency management, builds, project structure, and so on. Make and autotools may work for you, but it's not like your setup is on the ocaml.org homepage, reproducible by an application developer in five lines of shell commands.

It's common now in some language ecosystems for the default tooling to just generate all this stuff for you, and you move on to writing code. So if you're e.g. a JavaScript developer who is interested in functional programming, and you're used to npm or whatever, it's a difficult start.
> But if you log into Chrome and then open an Incognito window, are you still logged into your Google account for Google sites loaded in the Incognito window?

No, you are not.