skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I read this correctly, the black hole binary is about 40 million solar masses and could be five times that. Our own black hole at Sgr A* is only a tenth of that.

This has to be a really rare occurrence. Hopefully, it won’t be behind the sun when it coalesces, though that won’t hide the gravitational effects, of course.
I recall this is the exact purpose of Spectrum.chat, though it can't interoperate with Discord, it's a new chat network. It allows making conversation threads available publicly and indexed on search engines. I've seen it in Google results a couple of times, but it doesn't look like it has caught on much, likely because of the network effect required to make a closed chat software popular.

Oops... looks like it's been shut down.
Web3 doesn’t care about privacy
In web2, we are beholden to centralized entities that monopolize and profit off of our data. Web3 promises to release us from these shackles by enabling everyone to access data living on the blockchain.

While it is certainly appealing that institutions no longer have the power to hold our data hostage, it is still important to ask: what does the public and transparent nature of web3 mean for our privacy?
This reminds me of an unrelated but interesting story an old Art teacher told.

She spoke of someone else submitting three pieces of artwork for a job or college app, but the person only included two pieces of art in the envelope. A letter was also included, which suggested the third piece was on the outside of the envelope. On the outside was a stamp, which was hand-made but good enough to get the package delivered.

As I think about it today, I doubt that would get you a job or access to college, but it’s an interesting story. And, it was impressionable enough that I’m recalling it 30 years later.
Did you know it's actually C++?

You would never guess from the Arduino docs/examples; it's all written for kids so it can feel like you are actually writing some super simplified C like scripting language like PAWN.
The ads you are talking about are called "remarketing".

Generally they work very well, better than audience category targeting. To work the best you have to set them up so.

If they are following you post purchase it often (but not always) means the marketing personal have not built a negative audience on a purchase confirmation flag to exclude this behaviour.

It may or may not matter depending on the ad pricing. Some ads you only pay on a click, others on views shown. Obviously the latter wastes more money while if click cost its not such a problem however if volume is great enough to effect your ads likelihood of being clicked it might effect how the ad network displays your campaign.

Basically ads are only as good as the product & implementation. And without trying to sound elitist many of the people setting up and running these campaigns are less technical than they should be and a bit useless at their job. In the same way there are amazing coders vs guys that do the bare minimum pasting other people's scripts as all they can do.

Odds are these campaigns are still making money overall on following the people that didn't initially convert so the companies are happy to keep them running as is.

TL:dr Most likely the ad manger has done a poor setup in remarketing.
Doesn’t matter if you buy, advertising is as much about creating brand and product awareness. You see my company name enough in a favorable ad, you create a positive association in your mind eventually.

Sometimes it takes years…
You're assuming facts not in evidence, such as that we don't have policies for unsubscribing, or that we're sending spam in the first place. To be clear, we've never complained to anyone except on behalf of customers who complained to us that they weren't getting our mail.
The flip side is that before, when the rules were lax and everybody could send email, everyone would get at least 10 spam mails every day, more if your address was online somewhere. Where now most people get one a week.
If you keep calling Bitcoin digital gold they're going to start taxing it like gold. Goodbye long-term capital gains.
> In fact, I have to wonder what it is that I "am" anymore.

I have gone through a similar transition since the summer of 2020.
Is it cheaper than Transferwise?
I wouldn't call an organization that makes companies 'fold over instantly' toothless. Companies fold if they are in the wrong or even if things are in doubt, because losing at arbitration is an indelible black mark.

I know those 4 letters got me a full refund the next day when brought to the attention of the parent company after failing to deal with a local franchise owner. Before hand having followed the ACCC guidelines trying to get the order back on track (and creating the paper trail to ensure there was no doubt I was in the right).
> Georgia with invasions that launched during a prior olympic event

At least in case of Georgia, this is incorrect. The "invasion" was initiated by Georgian advance on Tskhinvali, and as a final result of this "invasion", no territorial changes have occurred, and the Russian troops haven't moved anywhere they haven't been for centuries already (including all the way up to 2008). If the goal was to invade Georgia, how come when it was all done nobody moved even a mile closer to Tbilisi, and even that clown fool Saakashvili was allowed to continue to embarrass himself in the same role?

What, exactly, was the goal, and the result of this "invasion"?
Ask HN: Poor Scroll Sensitivity in Linux Chrome vs. Windows – Help?
When using Chrome on Linux I have noticed the scroll sensitivity of Chrome to be lower than it is on Windows/MacOS and also other native Linux windows/browsers (like Firefox).

In the following videos, I do one mouse wheel increment then a mouse wheel flick.

Here is a video of Chrome (right) and Firefox (left) in Debian Wayland Gnome 41:

- https://imgur.com/xhlfG9X

Here is a video of Chrome running in Windows:

- https://imgur.com/lcEgfS9

You'll notice that in Windows, a single scroll increment in Chrome moves the viewport to the top of the second list item while under Linux it barely clears the title bar.

It appears that scroll sensitivity under linux is half that of Windows and inconsistent with that of other native Linux windows.

Anyone know how to fix this?
This is...exactly right.

You could say "it's already happened" as a first approximation but this isn't really true because the statement implicitly assumes there is some kind of universal "now" that can be used as a reference point for timing things.

No such universal "now" exists. That's why the question "What's happening right now on Mars?" makes no physical sense. "Now" is a function of both when and where you're standing.

The question "What's happening right now on the other side of my living room?" also doesn't make any physical sense. But the difference between reality and our perception of it is less easily detectable in that case.
> We've made a real mess in some third world countries with the cash spigot.

Has there been a comparable scenario of direct cash transfers to poor people?
Classic example of regulatory burden in action. Any firm small enough to not have a legal team can't compete.

Edit; to be clear I'm not saying this results from some legislation, although you could make that case. Just that scale has many benefits and the principle of regulatory burden obtains!
> Or if they're so mild you don't think you have a cold, you might go out and spread it more.

Yes, Jevon's paradox could exist in this instance.

> This would be a genius evolutionary play by the virus

It's not sentient. It's simply filling niches.

It would be a net benefit if, in US culture, we normalized health being a priority (including taking time to recover and not spread to others, whether a cold or flu or COVID-19).

> Ok wow downvoted.

From the guidelines:

>>> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

I've noticed here and, if I recall correctly, in other COVID-19 threads that sea-lioning comments tend to be downvoted. I expect this is because people are tired of science denialism, whether it is couched as "just speculating" or as "just asking questions."
Code editor for HTML5 games:
https://ctjs.rocks/
https://godotengine.org/
The tainted coins are the same as lost coins. There's already a solution baked into bitcoin for that (divisibility).
It takes quite a long time to get through Universal Paperclips, I'm sure we could stop it in time. ;-)

Source: I did it 100 times
I think Latitude historically comes first when spoken or written because of the rule of ablaut reduplication, which makes it more natural for the 'a' sound to come before the 'o' sound when using phrases like this. For instance, 'bish, bash, bosh' sound natural/correct, but 'bosh, bash, bish' sounds wrong.

I get the order wrong when working with geojson with embarrassing frequency...

http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/a-hotchpotch-of-redup...
Currency is created through lending; this works even if the currency is theoretically deflationary.
I vote we go to the moon. It’s closer and it has water. Aka Artemis Base Camp
I love catalog shopping. Facebook is like that but even better!
Milton Friedman came up with that idea. The EITC was a compromise solution because Friedman's approach seemed too radical.
I'm just wondering how this type of thing effects businesses that have an external presence, but also have an app just to make things nicer for apple users...

Does Netflix have to pay %30 of their subscription fee if someone downloads the netflix app? I highly doubt that.

I'm genuinely curious because I know nothing about the apple ecosystem. I don't own any apple devices, yet I inherited an app that was removed from the app store. A bunch of my customers want it back but I haven't had much success yet.
Clickable versions of those URLs:

https://imgur.com/xhlfG9X

https://imgur.com/lcEgfS9
3DS Max. It has bugs that have been unfixed for 20 years... I make models for Microsoft Flight Simulator where it is the only software that can export models correctly; there is an unsupported Blender exporter, but I'm not enthusiastic about learning that product from scratch; it has many of its own idiosyncrasies.
Not the parent and not sure what s/he meant, but one could imagine software that borks when there are invalid (but nonobvious) characters in the filename, for example. Or file permissions or other extended filesystem attributes / resource forks if somehow you can get them delivered to the teacher that way.
MyFy – Start, Finance, and Run Your Business
MyFy is a mobile app which helps entrepreneurs to crowd-source capital through group savings, market their business and sell online, receive orders and payments, track and fulfill them, and keep verifiable records, to qualify for a credit score.
Does not work with any app however the website itself seems to load, old and new
> The government is the least efficient resource allocator ever created.

Why? And are you sure? Are there any statistics on the matter regarding this particular program?
>Except Oatly.

Reminds me of this scene from Pirates of the Caribbean..

Norrington : You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of!
Jack Sparrow : But you have heard of me.
It's not a new thing. I was a sysadmin for a small ISP back in the early 2000s and we had a hate relationship with Spamhaus. They were militant, trigger happy, and very difficult to work with. It was an ongoing headache.

I figure that places like spamhaus are a good part of why gmail took over.
1- We’re talking about boosters, not vaccines in general.

2- Sorry you’re unlucky. But even fully vaccinated people there are going to be cases like this. Such is life.
This is completely valid, but if you go hunting for an IP block that has never been used for spam at this point you're going to be looking for a long time. It should not be the #1 consideration when choosing a hosting provider just because someone abused their IP block in the past (possibly before they even owned it). In any case, trying to run mail off a VPS would be stupid and that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying we don't all need to capitulate to paying Amazon or Google to forward our outbound mail, and it would be better if we did not, even considering the struggles attached to bucking the trend.
You can regulate things like higher education. IF you limited the size of loans, or made them government loans you could cap the price. You could also control interest rates with regulation.

Using Australia as an example, I went to a good University and had a government loan for the courses. I am 2 months away from paying it off (humble brag for me). But it was a government loan with no interest. So this is a good example of government offering a service to a point, that the private sector wouldn't ever touch.

If the US government offered a 0% loan for education up to 50K and required payment only after reaching a certain income threshold, that policy would put top down pressure on expensive courses. They'd still exists but the bulk of everyone would be doing a course they could pay off and the competition would change the market.

Likewise, I've recently been thinking about labor productivity with women returning to the workplace. Having kids is bad for families budgets (child care is a killer). Caring for kids keeps women out of the workforce.

I think if public schools offered pre K care from about 18 months to kinder then you'd have parents being able to get back to work and you'd permanently reduce childcare costs. I suspect it'd pay itself off a few times over. Similar to building quality infrastructure.

The problem with that second idea is that it would cost a ton upfront and the payback would be over the medium to longer term, like infrastructure.

People are bad at long term choices and there's the trend of populism in politics at the moment. Which doesn't help anything.
https://snapdrop.net
I'm still not sure why the NES Virtual Console palette was so dark. My most guess was that it was trying to stay out of the automatic-brightness-limiter range that CRT TVs at the time had. This way the dynamic range between levels was preserved. Oddly none of the other VC emulators had that issue, so maybe it was just incompetence.

3DS VC improved things a bit with each colour palettes tuned for each game, though it brought it's own weirdness.

For pretty CRT gaming, I still recommend the Wii. It's straightforward to hack and install retroarch on and you can benefit from the component video out with many cheap and nice TVs. RetroArch can still be a bear to configure for novices, and the Wii can be a tad underpowered, but the good IO makes up for it. It also has oodles of plug and play controller options.

Sadly there's not too many other ways to take advantage of the 240p Y/Pb/Pr on consumer TVs with emulation.
> Unless Omnicron dissociated it, worse experience == more viral load == more infectious; vaccine reduced (and potentially for some elimintated) viral load and thus reduced infectiousness.

I'm not quite sure what you're stating here. You disagree with the conclusions here and believe there is evidence that vaccinations significantly impact community transmission of covid? If so, could you provide references to that evidence?
If we knew that the Nile was lush, green and wet ~11,000 or 9,000 years ago... that maps to a way more wet level not "thousands of years of rain" as was stated in a few Docs - but maybe a tidal lapping...

If a planet were to be inundated on a regular schedule by comets, or asteroids which caused tsunamis as your primary inundation-threat -- the best architectural style are the angles of all pyramidal structures

the structures of the irregular machu picchu blocks, werent for earthquakes (only) -- perhaps they were for deluges. Massive tsunamis - but they failed because it was crops that failed - not their walls...

Their math survives for us.
No actual examples of the changes given in the bios.

I suppose I could go and look at the wikipedia change logs myself and verify if it is truly what the article said.
I don’t think the shingles part is significant. Getting shingles is only common for seniors and there’s a vaccine for it too.
GiveDirectly has studied this, and it's absolutely not making a "mess". What makes a mess is foreign aid directed at corrupt, large-scale, government- or NGO-driven "development" schemes. Giving cash just leaves the choice as to how to use the money to those who are best equipped to make it.
So he's assuming all poor people with children are drug users? That's not very nice.
Economics theory as taught in U.S. universities literally says that tax cuts to the rich are overall beneficial, that welfare is bad and unemployment is bad, it actually states that equality is opposite of economic efficiency.

Capitalism is a religion, they believe because they grew up told to believe it. We have found out that the theory is almost entirely made up and rarely reflects reality.
Did they request this marketing message through a "nice email exchange between humans"? Or did you automatically sign up this person for marketing then expect them to manually contact you?

You are wayyy to smart not too see the abusive asymmetrical theater of that scheme.
Ask HN: Best Books on Risk Management?
The real issue is that the ledger game is a dynamic system. Just because the currency issuer credits certain persons’ accounts in one round doesn’t mean that those accounts won’t sooner or later be depleted in future rounds. The obvious example is how a UBI will assuredly drive up rents as landlords move to capture the additional capacity to pay. Frankly, the day that UBI passes Congress will be the day the rentier class realizes this.

To use Taleb’s terminology, the rentier class have made themselves antifragile. Look how they’ve benefited from political chaos be it financial crises or pandemics.
I've abandoned SEOogle for DuckDuckGo 3 years ago... Couldn't be happier.
>"With black hole mergers this energy release/conversion is in the form of gravitational waves that we then detect!"

FWIW, these gravitational waves are too low in frequency for LIGO to catch. The paper says it would be within detection range of LISA (the ESA's space-based laser interferometer), but unfortunately they haven't launched that yet.

However, there's a related effect that could be measurable some 5-10 years afterwards:

>"They should, however, leave an imprint on spacetime itself, a sort of relaxation of distance and time dubbed gravitational wave memory, which could be detected over many years by monitoring the metronomic pulses of spinning stellar remnants known as pulsars. “It’s a very tricky signal to measure,” Ransom says, “but that would be definitive, a total smoking gun” of merging supermassive black holes."

https://www.science.org/content/article/crash-titans-imminen...
Unconventional Statistics with Dice – Expected Minimum Roll from 3 Dice
Worse, I've seen a lot of code that just uses the variable name "ll" as an array of two numbers and make no attempt to clarify which is which. Saved a whole 4 characters by not making it "latlon". Then you get to guess what units they're in.
He will reveal an update within 2 weeks so we’ll see! Waiting on the orbital test of starship in the net few months!
My memory of what happens when they are caught is that that “<something something>, stress, grandma, sick, boyfriend/girlfriend, dog, car, flatmate <something something>, I’ve learned a lesson, please let my attempt at cheating slide.”

Faculty gives compassionate consideration and everyone moves on. Used to infuriate me.
Seems to me like there was a simple solution
I like running my own mail server but I don't want to waste time on filtering spam so mismatches with ptr and hostname are an instant rejection from me.

A PTR match is a very strong signal that I am looking at a hosted server or business connection which is configured to send email and not a compromised windows PC on consumer dsl which used to be a huge problem. ISPs supply those dsl ranges to blocklists as well.

When I first started hosting my own mail it was on an old repurposed linux PC on ISDN in the early 2000s and even then my ISP offered configurable PTR records along with static IP in a small business package.

I moved my family email vps to a different region recently and it took me a few seconds to update the ptr records for ipv4 and ipv6. It seems a very low bar for such a strong signal that you are dealing with a mail server and not some random compromised machine.
I wonder how much time has been wasted by devs who get the order wrong. I know I've been guilty of it so many times. It's really frustrating, but I like that someone took the time to write down which order goes for which software- this is a nice reference.
I haven't had a chance to review the study yet (but look forward to doing so); I'm stating my current understanding.

Delta allowed for breakthrough cases; the rate was dramatically lower than unvaccinated overall (I handled reporting on some these stats in our region).

I haven't been as involved since the start of the omnicron variant, but my understanding is that the relationship still holds that prob(infected | vaccinated) < prob(infected | unvaccinated and no reported prior case).

COVID-19 intensity of illness was (and may still be?) associated to the relative infectiousness of an individual to others in their network (across the entire episode). So an asymptomatic individual (vs. presymptomatic before intense illness) was less infectious overall.[0]

> Question What are the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 G614 viral shedding in incident infections in association with COVID-19 symptom onset and severity?

> Findings In a cohort study of persons who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after recent exposure, viral RNA trajectory was characterized by a rapid peak followed by slower decay. Peak viral load correlated positively with symptom severity and generally occurred within 1 day of symptom onset if the patient was symptomatic.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Why did you underline half of the definition and pretend that's the whole thing? (hint: the "because" is important)
I thought Outlook.com email was free ? Or is that something completely different or a different class tier that isn’t included in these discussions for whatever reason?
I doubt this holds up in other languages though.
> it's likely still faster than the shell command above.

That's not a shell command any more than running "python" is. `jo` is its own executable.

And doing the sub-commands are not necessary; `jo` supports nested data natively.
Well wasn't clear whether there's a logical AND or OR between the two. In case it's OR, would you say that interventions in china[1], iraq[2], Somalia[3], Kosovo[4], Cambodia[5] would be justified?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Yazidis_by_the_Isl...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaaq_genocide

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide
If something stalls then everything else behind it stalls or stuff behind it diverts stuff elsewhere. There’s signals for the data being available and signals for being able to accept data and such things.
Talk about over simplifying. We could move a very long ways to the left in economic policy and still be nowhere even remotely approaching communism.
i enjoy watching big companies like Adobe being under the radar of the internet community
Um... Considering this is barely front page in an uncommon hour that HN is not very active and today is Sunday?
I use Yandex. Not a heavy user, but perfectly happy with it.
$15/yr for the premium version that removes ads. The original game that doesn't connect to the internet is removed from newer versions of Windows.
Thanks, how can I do that in the OP? Does HN parse MD?
If you genuinely believe that people being able to engage in a frank exchange of views hasn't changed anything... how did Orange Man get elected? :D