skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual the answer is - it depends, but we could estimate forces in question. Assuming my math is correct, at 67 kilometers getting 1 meter closer will results in gravitational pull difference of 137kg. At 40 kilometers, this number increases to ~623kg. I am assuming bad things will happen somewhere between those two ranges.

F = G * (m1 * m2) / r^2 . G = 6.674 / 10^11 (m^3 / (kg * s^2)) | m1 = 5 * 5.972 * 10^24 kg | m2 = 100 kg

Only r in the equation above is not a constant, so we can compute F(r) - F(r+1) to get a difference in force that being 1 meter closer to the black hole would make at a distance r. Basically, this is the difference between how hard your toes would be pulled down vs your heard if you curl into a ball.

Distance Force Force + 1 Diff in kg
1 1.99286E+17 4.98214E+16 1.49464E+16
1000 1.99286E+11 1.98888E+11 39797421.92
10000 1992856400 1992457888 39851.15023
20000 498214100 498164282.3 4981.767364
30000 221428488.9 221413727.7 1476.11612
40000 124553525 124547297.6 622.744272
50000 79714256 79711067.53 318.8474585
60000 55357122.22 55355277.03 184.5191277
70000 40670538.78 40669376.79 116.1990494
I could not disagree more. No handset manufacturer ever dared to make the demands that Apple did, including full control of the software with no ability to customize or even pre-install apps. It was completely unheard of, but that's what they got Cingular to agree to with the first iPhone. And they maintain that control to this day.
One thing I wish every immediate mode GUI library would show is how it handles complex script like Thai, Arabic, etc. because it's quite hard to get it correct, but it's also the hard requirement if your application need to support those language.
Nvidia has something like that.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-latency-display-analysis....
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
I 100% agree with you
they just don't want to maintain that code path anymore for whatever reason. its their product, their choice. you're just along for the ride.
Ginormous update sizes are definitely a regression. There has been some reporting on this recently and I can't remember the details, but I believe it is due to a wanting a combination of: cryptographically verifiable updates; atomic updates (avoid the risk of a partial update); and shipping the dyld shared cache directly.

These aren't insurmountable limitations, but it seems like Apple chose the path of implementing these in a simple way (at the expense of bandwidth and storage). One would assume they would want to then go ahead and figure out how to implement this with a slimmer delta update, but who knows.
“Fake news” emerged literally minutes after Trump won the election, in a seemingly coordinated way on most cable news. They were saying it in their most serious journalist voice, to imply that Trump voters were duped into voting for him. Then shortly after it was appropriated by Trump himself, and everyone wanted to disavow the phrase, which was deeply hilarious.
>Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s
The article is written by Bjorn Lomborg (president of the Copenhagen Consensus)

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Copenhagen_Conse...

So the title could be be re-written, "Shocker: Climate sceptic is sceptical about climate report"
Professional color books (e.g. the Munsell soil books [1]) are a good example here. Screens use different, more restricted color spaces and are additive rather than subtractive.
I also have some books where the opposing page is used to hold the corresponding translation, so you can see both the original and its translation simultaneously. That breaks the page-at-a-time model of most document readers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Munsell-Soil-Book-Color-M50215B/dp/B0...
Those aren't the CEO of the company with a vertically integrated supply and retail chain
We do not have to choose. The far-left/far-right dichotomy is a false dichotomy.
Deleted 5000 lines of code from a project yesterday! And I am feeling very good about it :)
I’ve heard from authors that typing someone else’s entire novel helped them to understand the craft (and then they went on to write their own books, not based on the novels they typed).

And of course musicians learn other songs before they write their own.

But, copy/pasting an article, and then tweaking a few words to make it more unique, doesn’t seem like a great process for learning the journalism craft. At least not on the same level as the two examples I brought up.
I've always enjoyed making little apps with Immediate mode GUIs. It's a shame that they aren't as effective as retained GUIs for more complex apps.

When I was still programming in Rust FLTK was the only GUI I used that both worked on my Raspberry Pi 4 and was something I felt like I could grasp. I'm not sure if that is retained or immediate or not. I wish the OS maintainers would all get their act together and create an api that made creating cross platform GUIs easier. You can't blame people for using Electron when you see the state of desktop GUIs

1. https://github.com/fltk/fltk
Free refills on sodas with waiters waiting to pounce and refill your cup every time it's 1/3 down from full, can be added to the list.

Also, soda servings in excess of 20oz (already huge!) to begin with, regardless of refills.
Sexual abuse of young girls is a deeply ingrained feature of Taliban cultures, and the Western revulsion at it was and remains a major motivation to fight.
what best way to "to preserve end-to-end encryption" than shipping a technology that can bypass it anytime?
Apologies if you found the comments rude, I was just joking around :) tone doesn't always carry well. I do appreciate your thoughts, and thank you for a vigorous debate!
As soon as you want to do anything remotely as complex as the web does, like say arbitrary UI element sizes with scrollable overflow, you immediately have to do the same thing CSS 2.1 rasterizer engines do.
That's not "pretty much like a wiki". That's the antithesis of a wiki. You've just described what the wiki was created to replace.
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> A new way to prove ownership is gaining acceptance

> The media can be anything digital, including art, videos, music, gifs, games, text, memes, and code.

Problem is, all of the above can be unavoidably clone-able and can be still redistributed via an analogue hole via a direct source copy, screenshot, sending the file and conversion. Best part? Those NFTs have ZERO use whatsoever.

Therefore, those types of NFTs are completely worthless and most of all useless.
News organizations that use wire services have contracts with those services that dictate how they use their articles. Often they contract the wire agencies for only certain type of content, and the price depends on how many categories and how in depth of content they want (e.g. full articles cost more than ticker lines). The details can vary, but usually articles ran verbatim are attributed to the agency, while articles that are merely based on articles from the agency are not attributed to the agency (in part to protect the agency in case the article turns out to be incorrect or etc.) but instead include a note at the end that they use content from the agency.

For articles run directly, it's part of the nature of those agencies and their contracts with their writers that the byline goes to the agency rather than the original writer (which is often multiple people anyway). This attribution is so common that back when newspapers were set in lead, and still sometimes today, a special ligature was used for AP, and sometimes for UPI and AFP as well.

Newspapers also sometimes run content directly from other newspapers, in which case the byline will list the author and original paper---and this is done under a contract with the other paper, either money changes hands or sometimes it's a mutual sharing agreement.
Fascinating. Motorola has been part of some very significant things in history (not just because I'm multi-Amiga owner).

From my outsider view, it seems the companies who really invest in R&D make the best things happen. Unfortunately the best doesn't always mean the most long term successful (depends on many many more factors than just the quality of the product).

I would love to see a world where it was fashionable for companies to proudly devote 20+% to R&D. It seems instead like R&D is 2% at best, and marketing (or legal... patents) is 18%.
Could you possible share the source to your two examples? I'd love to see how much is accidental complexity vs actual complexity, compared to how web UIs (and other similar paradigms) can be built almost in an almost fully declarative way.
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If a journalistic institution's goal is to advocate for a side, they are motivated to report on when the other side is doing something radical and not when they're doing something sensible. The opposite for the side you're supporting.

I don't know if it's more or less charitable to suggest that they're primarily driven by revenue. The incentives are basically the same in that model, except the lean is audience-generated rather than centrally controlled. You'd expect more extreme positions on both sides, which is consistent with what you're saying.

A combination of both best fits the evidence, I think. You write controversial articles about both sides to get clicks, and write about the center of your side to get political support. So you get people on both sides with very skewed views (the far) of the other, and who think of their own side as idealogically diverse (the far) but grounded in reality (the center). If the media landscape is primarily liberal, you'd expect it to look the way you're describing it.

I really like that conclusion, because it's perfectly consistent with my experience. I don't really have evidence to support this, though, and I'm not sure how to go about getting any.
>Sure, that's possible, but the opposite is also possible: it might be wrong for most programs we actually write.

We could confirm this though! It's not like we can't find out if a given program halts or is inconsisent. Godel talks about it in his letter to Von Nuemann.
Agreed. Skill comes with practice, but the on-ramp is steep today, and seemingly getting steeper.

Even while todays tools can do so more, I remember my first 16k microcomputer with nostalgia.

It booted immediately and into a simple known state.

If you got onto trouble you could switch it on and off again.

It booted into a REPL, a ROM-based BASIC.

The language was simple, immediate, and with accompanying manuals discoverable.

It could immediately let you program things that seemed to matter to you; text, simple sounds and graphics where all easy.

The first way to use it, and the first entry point it gave was programming it.

You could load programs from disk, but it was obvious that they were things that could be made - and taken sometimes taken apart (although some where understandable, some weren't. And that was a prompt to learn more).

The hardware was easy to get to, even if it wasn't easy to understand, some of it was visible (like the memory mapped display).

I help juniors without a lot of technical background today and there seems to be books of lore to digest before getting to something tangible.
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>> For instance desqview would have run on some imaginary DOS like system that would have been created in the power vacuum of the mid 80s.

>It'd be DR's MP/M, or Microsoft's Xenix.

Agreed. Similarly, Microsoft gave up on Xenix once AT&T was allowed to enter the computer market, but had it not gone all-in on OS/2 then Windows in the latter half of the 1980s, Microsoft would surely have at least pushed its concurrent DOS outside its Europe OEM niche.

>One prediction I haven't seen is MSX. MSX had the potential to commoditize the home computer segment (and leech money out of every manufacturer the same way they did with the PC)

I considered mentioning MSX in my long reply but did not because the absence of an IBM PC would not have affected its success. In the UK, MSX was an also-ran compared to Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, and BBC/Acorn. In the US it appeared despite everyone in the early 1980s expecting/dreading the inevitable Japanese invasion of the home computer market. MSX only became significant in markets like Japan and Brazil where, for one reason or another, competing Western home-computer standards were not significant. And it never moved outside the low end; MSX never precluded (for example) PC-88, PC-98, or X68000 in Japan.
>I don't think the IBM PC pushed Apple out of enterprise sales. Apple didn't want to go into those places.

Apple absolutely did want to go into those places. But not at first.

Apple began in 1977 by aiming at the hobbyist market; basically, people like Jobs and Woz's fellow members of the Homebrew Computer Club. (Despite selling electronics parts, Radio Shack always aimed—or, at least, claimed to aim—at small businesses with TRS-80.) VisiCalc came out of nowhere and suddenly made the Apple II—the only platform it ran on for its first 12 months, because Disk II was a ridiculously better floppy system than any other home computer—a business machine. While corporate IT buyers never made bulk purchases, and Apple never built up a corporate sales force, the II appeared on a lot of desks as people saw what VisiCalc could do and rushed out to buy it with their own money or departmental funds.

Apple's intention with the Apple III in 1980 was to offer the successor to the II that would fix all of its faults regarding the business market, such as lack of native 80-column displays, lowercase, numeric keypad, more RAM, and larger storage. The III was a bust, though, and people kept buying the II. The PC in 1981 destroyed the already anemic III sales, and completely ended corporate II sales.

>I haven't any direct evidence, but I managed a medium sized corporate network of Macintosh computers in early 1990s. Their attempts at telling a coherent story for business systems was a bit of reality distortion field, Sculley-style. Ironically, their network server play was a partnership with IBM, rebadged RS/6000 crates.

Completely different world. By that time Apple had long since given up directly competing with PCs and clones in the mainstream corporate market, and focused on the areas it remained strong in: Graphic design, publishing, and other "creative" markets. The Apple-branded network servers were one of the brief times it tried to widen enterprise sales; Xserve is another example.

>So hmm, maybe sufficiently counter factual to play in this alternate reality -- but I think it would be more likely in business systems to see network of workstations from Sun or Apollo take some wins.

Yes, that's something I could have mentioned in my list of alternate paths. Not Sun or Apollo workstations on every desk—far too expensive—but after 1985 or so X Window or NeWS boxes on every desk is viable, and then perhaps something like Sun Ray. We could have had in 1995 everyone being able to walk up to any terminal at work, put in a smart card, and have their current desktop appear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

> The Bodo League massacre (Korean: 보도연맹 학살사건; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺事件) was a massacre and war crime against communists and suspected sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection with communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War. Estimates of the death toll vary. Historians and experts on the Korean War estimate that the full total ranges from at least 60,000–110,000 (Kim Dong-choon) to 200,000 (Park Myung-lim). The massacre was wrongly blamed on the communists. The South Korean government made efforts to conceal this massacre for four decades. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers; public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death.
McDonald’s has had the $1 menu for how many years? Even the brokest of the broke can manage to splurge on a $1 cheeseburger, $1 small fry, $1 Coke. Compared to $2.50 for a USDA subsidized school lunch which has none of the chemicals that make McDonald’s addictive.

Access to fast food, even for children, has never been easier.
I believe the New York Times would threaten to sue you — if they noticed you and cared enough (which I assume they would if you were operating a large enough site).

But also, when you post content to Reddit, you've granted them a (non-exclusive) license to reproduce it as they please. If Reddit's okay with Buzzfeed's reprinting, then I don't think it would legally been seen as stealing either.

In any case, your objection seems to be that plagiarism and repurposing of content (legal or not) fulfills the same evil end: profit from the labor of others. Sure, I'm not necessarily arguing against that. But I'm pointing out there's an additional element to plagiarism, which is the implication of independent, original reporting. To use a screenshot from the investigative article, which shows the Reuters and the Snopes version of a Supreme Court ruling:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-08/13/0...

By restating Reuters' assertions without attribution, Snopes implicitly implies that it has done the independent reporting and research (e.g. calling up the attorneys, downloading and reading the court docket). And the apparent "fact" that this Kentucky court clerk is denying licenses based on her religious beliefs becomes significantly more established "fact" when two different journalism outlets have independently confirmed it.

Snopes ostensible speciality is gathering and summarizing established facts, which includes filtering through the noise of fakery and also, redundant information. Committing plagiarism is not just immoral, but a direct attack on Snopes' reason for existence, and that what makes this situation especially notable beyond "Doesn't everyone do growth hacks?"
Why aren't they good for more complex apps?
It's now an established standard but uptake could have been slower and more piecemeal or even remained niche to this day.

I think at worst it's trivially arguable that many lives were saved by mandating it thus such regulations were a huge net good.

You are free to argue that this isn't but it's silly to argue that it's illegal because your theory is unsupportable.
If you constrain yourself to having public transport be self-sustaining in the funding department, you’re probably right. I don’t see a particular reason to think that that constraint is some kind of necessary, inviolable condition.
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the details, but a couple of years ago, I was writing a rather complex SQL query for my boss to extract some information from our ERP database the ERP software itself was incapable of providing (it was a kind of crappy ERP system, I suspect, not being an expert).

After much head-scratching, coffee-drinking and intense screen-staring, I came up with a query that gave the desired results, but took about an hour to complete.

I have only run into SQL performance problems very rarely, but this was an obvious stinker, so I dove in, using MS SQL Server Management Studio's query explainer to figure out what was going wrong. To my mild surprise and great relief, I did find the solution, I only recall it had something to do with JOINs (HASH JOIN? Is that a thing?). The query went from ~60 minutes to less than a second.

So I learned that SQL performance tuning is not black magic, although it's not trivial either. Fortunately, most of the time, my SQL queries run sufficiently fast it's not worth the effort to make 'em faster.

But damn, going from ~60 minutes to less than a second with just a relatively minor change in the query was probably the most effective optimization I ever did. :-)
As someone with experience in the veterinary industry I highly recommend pet insurance unless you can afford paying out-of-pocket for surprise procedures. It can be expensive.

Also, be sure to take your pet to a vet at least once a year for annual checkups and preventative care. Do not wait for a reason to go in. So many people call in to have their pet looked at when some weird symptom appears, only to discover that their pet now has an issue that could have been prevented if they had been visiting regularly.
Based on a Facebook survey where people self-selected their education level, in which a significantly larger proportion of respondents claimed to have a PhD than would be expected (compared to a random sample of the US).

Still an interesting data point which could be worth following up on with a more rigorous study, but easy to see the potential for skewed results.
"No video with supported format and MIME type found."

Apparently it's serving zero-byte mp3s?
You’re missing my point.

The Taliban are hardline, repressive and familiar. There is most definitely an overlap between the worldview of the Taliban and the local population, including how they view the role of women. They are just more extreme and militarily organized.

The US are foreign and have very little in common with (or knowledge of) how the Pashtuns live. Maybe they have a small amount in common with urban, secular Afghan society.

If the Taliban were grossly unpopular across the entire society, how are they able to make the gains they are?
Here's an example Snopes article questioning the authenticity of the photos on Hunter's Biden Laptop.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-hunter-biden-porn/

They have not updated the fact check.

Here's a story with a video in which Hunter Biden himself claims Russian drug dealers stole another one of his laptops for blackmail. And 'The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f**ing sex!

Source with the Video:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881213/Unearthed-v...
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It's 85°F in my backyard right now, I can remember several summers where the night time low in mid-August stayed above 85 (or 90). Those are miserable days.
Hyperstitions – Ideas with “apocalyptic feedback cycles” [pdf]
I was looking at the glacier above Joffre lakes (north of Whistler) on Wednesday and thinking that it will probably be gone in my lifetime. It looks smaller this year than the last time I was there four or five years ago. I looked for photos of it this time of year in the past, but my Google fu failed.
So that Harvard facility -- from what I heard (when I worked for Moto) was that it was built for the main purpose to give to one of the Galvin family members to manage. They built it as an engineering and manufacturing center, and was expecting a bunch of engineers that worked at Libertyville to move out there. Problem is that was during the dot-com boom and people would rather get a different job then relocate to the middle of a corn field (actually a lot of people bought out in Crystal Lake, causing a housing boom there, which later collapsed when the Harvard building was shut down).

Then they outsourced manufacturing (the phones were no longer bullet proof after the outsourcing / offshoring). So they made Harvard a distribution center. They were hoping to also be able to pull workers from Rockford, but that didn't really work out either.

At one point, after Moto sold the building, an investor was going to turn it into the worlds largest indoor water park. That never panned out either.
File -> Share -> Airdrop is the closest thing I have found, I am sure a preview is in the works ...
The one where the logic is the most clear, in straightforward imperative style, is also the one with the fewest bugs. Nice one!