skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In effect, all the energy the black hole sees over the lifetime of the universe hits the Cauchy horizon at the same time, blasting into oblivion any observer who gets that far.

I don't understand that. It sounds as if the reason all the stuff reaches the horizon "at the same time" is because time slows to a stop at the horizon. But doesn't that also apply to the "observer who gets that far"? How can the observer overtake all the other stuff?

Maybe I should stay clear of articles dealing with GR; I'm clearly not clever enough to understand them.
Thank you! I'm much better now.
I’ve been considering quant for a while too. What you mention about latency sounds like HFT, market making strategies? Instead of that I’ve been looking into momentum and mean reverting stuff, and my best friend being a profitable trader gives me the confidence (hopefully not misplaced) that we can automate him away and scale the strategy that he has already developed, or at the very least setup a system that receives weekly input and can operate by itself with low maintenance requirements.

I’m curious what was your journey into quant from software development… did you studied statistics and data analysis? Saved to have a ton of capital before starting? Open a quantconnect account and profit? :)

Thanks and congrats!
Space at the scale being discussed here is uniform, so no one direction should be "more populous" than another. The "empty" here designates an area without stars easily visible from Earth. Our local area is denser in our galactic plane, in the direction of our supercluster, etc. But 13 billion lightyears in ANY direction should look about the same.
This is semantics, but the payor in a commercial transaction is normally considered to be the customer / purchaser regardless of whether anyone anywhere extends credit to them. It is their name on the account.

The credit card issuer doesn't appear in the vendor's accounting system, they count the payment as having been made by the customer purchaser. It is only for relatively limited purposes (ones that approximately no one ever thinks about) that the credit card issuer is considered the payor. The merchant vendors generally don't care, don't know, and don't record. As if they are going to care whether the customer uses a Capital One credit card or one issued by his or her local bank.
Both go hand in hand with trust. When you compromise one you poison the other due to lost trust.
It sounds to me that people are split on whether or not SCM should include things like issues and wikis directly, or let others solve it.

Considering this is the largest point between fossil and git that I can see, maybe we should just make it so git has the capability to expose an extension API for plugging additional capabilities like this in.

Then we could probably all use git and just be happy. You could theoretically use fossil's issues and wikis with git.
This is good stuff, but very little of it is specific to node. It’s more of Tao of Web APIs that happens to use node as the example language.
My complaint can be summarized in: I'm a human, my desktop must be my digital companion. Since I have a single brain, that do anything, without compartments, my very same hand caress, steer my car, take a fork, use a hammer, type on a keyboard etc, I do not want a "compartmentalized" tool.

For instance I want to take notes about a contact, for instance a colleague with whom I have work and friendship relationships, so I want to have in a single place contacts details like phone numbers, addresses, perhaps birthday and other anniversary reminders in my agenda, projects we are involved included eventual reports, mails, with some relevant/on-the-table easy reachable/highlighted etc. For what masochistic reason I can't have all those things together on my desktop? For what masochistic reason I can't have also others views of similar information together on my desktop, like see grouped all issues of a project coupled with relevant peoples involved, personal notes etc? Why I have to find "dedicated" apps for anything, non integrated, sometimes almost impossible to integrate, with duplicated and separated contents if for me, for what I do, for my brain all information are the same?

That's my complaint. An OS must be a single "application", under it's own user control, flexible, moldable, easy to bend to our desire without demanding a gazillion SLoC for anything. Emacs offer that. Classic SmallTalk workstations the same, modern systems do not. They are just cargo ship for individual containers, because that's positive to sell individual container, service etc, while depriving the user to handle and manage his/shes own personal information.

Unix already offer a small flexibility, thanks to CLI/scripting composability of individual simple commands, but graphic systems on unix have essentially a sole IPC: manual cut&paste. Nothing more, so even early unix GUIs violate unix principles. That's why unix is limited and limiting respect of classic Xerox workstations or LispM or modern Emacs. Emacs itself is a GUI, but being text based that GUI can be manipulated as the user want, easily, at runtime, modern widget-based GUIs or WebUIs can't, WebUIs can be customized a bit injecting js/css etc but that's not that "easy" nor "live", nothing a casual user can do.
Firejail: Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
I'm pretty sure that the way it worked is the vast majority of wealth accumulated with the King and 7-10 people close to the King. Everyone else... was not important to the King. Capitalism is simply an economic system where regular people can own the means of production. It is not about distributing rewards. That is the language of a feudal economy.
> On the other hand, I presumed we'd get back to that later in the story.

Right, if it's a Chekhov's Gun (or even a Brick Joke), then that's different. I was wondering if it would turn out to be another AI that was trained on other PRs too or something, but it didn't seem to actually pan out. It just seems unnecessary to make "Chinese reviewer has bad English" as the third sentence in the whole thing. There's hardly any character development for the researcher (basically this comment, going drinking, calling the the regulations alarmism and having a husband are the only times he's really mentioned outside of his actual research), so it doesn't seem particularly salient.

Certainly, I'm not calling Gwern racist, just that if you're going to make "racist asshole" (or anything, indeed) an important part of a character, it needs more than a throwaway, otherwise you risk that instead of making that a feature of the character, it just feels like part of the cultural background.

The laziness and drinking, for example, is clearly defined with a return to it to delineate the extent of it, and it's important to the plot.

On the other hand, him having a husband is a throwaway, which simply indicates that being gay is so unremarkable that no further comment is needed (quite rightly).
I'm not a sql expert but I've used sql for over 20 years and I think I've only used one type of join. It's not even syntactically specified as a JOIN- just
SELECT * FROM a, b, c WHERE a.id = b.fid AND b.id = c.fid

I think this is known as an INNER JOIN? I dunno, I came from science where cross product and filtering are approached in a very different way.
I wasn't aware this is a named phenomenon, thanks!
Also, smoking is socially neutral at worst, arguably even positive. You don’t stop seeing your mates because you really want to stay at home chain smoking. In fact, you probably smoke with your mates.

On the other hand, the constant drip feed of dopamine from social media sites does make people care less about real social interactions.
Or an pretty horrible character, giving horrible advice... Generally not a great moral beacon, with all things done and all things advocated like bashing children against rocks and so on... Then again, what can you expect from ancient tribal religion...
God.. beyond the sad but obvious pattern. It seems the web is just a incoherent runaway. New "platform" > bubbly phase > distortion for bad incentives (money, fame, else) > rot > abandonment for next "platform".

It was fun to observe that during the myspace days but it's getting annoying.
Pet Sounds is revolutionary because it spawned The Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-jp6nbsM
Related to this, I never knew just how bad the Sega Genesis composite signal looked until I switched to RGB. It may have the worst composite signal of any system ever.

Europe had RGB so I wonder if that was part of the reason the Mega Drive (Genesis) was so popular. The SNES doesn't look (much?) better than the Genesis when both in RGB, but SNES composite is much much better than Genesis.

https://youtu.be/tT9OnPjQKWY?t=116
That's not usually a problem. You can transfer a registration with N years remaining, the new company will charge a one year registration and you now have N+1 years covered.

The only time it becomes a problem is if your new registrar doesn't support N+1 year registration - your 8-year example means you need to find someplace that supports 9- or 10-year regs.
Father, daughter die after e-bike goes on flames in India
What do you like about being human?
The Japanese art of living with a purpose
Been trying to signup to tiktok for years now every time I get

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name')

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwWV3BWXAAQ5cKD?format=png&name=...

When signing up with email. Tried with multiple browsers, multiple email addresses, multiple devices. How are other people signing up?
Some languages are very dense, others break things down in more lines. Some languages care about hard to control details of your computer's working, others handle that automatically. Some languages come with builtin validators, others let you write any kind of trash and try to make sense of it.

Personally, I suspect the number of bugs per line is defined by social and psychological factors, and what changes from one language to the other is the amount of effort one has to put into testing and debugging. But well, none of this is obvious to me.
Sure, but the RGB standard did not survive so the Amigas are for all intents and purposes limited by composite out of the box today.

Again everything can do anything.
I really like Sloop John B. The rest of Pet Sounds is... completely boring and dull to me.
It's a point about the ethics of exerting control over different versions of ourselves. It's not some procedural technicality.

>demanding sex in order to give an actress a part in a movie

There is nothing coercive about this.

>offering food to a starving man in exchange for his kidneys

Unless it's an emergency, where the starving man does not have the time to make/entertain offers on the wider global market, there is nothing coercive about this either.

In an emergency situation, different rules apply, as a consequence of the physical space we each take, which displaces others. This exclusionary effect creates a duty to render help in an emergency, as opposed to abusing one's position in such a situation to exploit others.

>buying all the food in the market to drive up the price from people desperate to not die

There is nothing coercive about this, and in practice, it's impossible. This should certainly be guarded against by individuals, through means like securing long-term food purchase contracts through co-ops, or by growing one's own garden, but that doesn't imply that it's a form of coercion which we have an ethical right to employ coercion to remedy.
I am pretty sure that it is safe in 99% cases, but it is up to you to risk that 1% ;-)
Yep. Lately, it seems like a lot of people think “native” means “not web technologies”. Way to many people think that Jetbrains apps are native because they are written in Java.
It really is wild. You can decide exactly what you want to be shown by how long you spend on a video. You can literally feel the algorithm working alongside you, like you're using river currents while paddling in a kayak. Fucking crazy.
Huh? I have the stereo mix (and the mono mix) of the album and it's recorded nearly perfectly from an audiophile's perspective.
Up until 2013, Pizza Hut was the largest buyer of kale-to decorate the salad bar
Back when the first digital cameras were coming out in the mid-90s (the type that saved to 3.5" floppy disks), a friend of mine and I were playing with QTVR. We had this brilliant idea of making websites for real estate listings to offer virtual tours. Turns out, in the mid-90s and its state of online capabilities, we were 15 years to soon. Nobody, and I mean not-one-damn-person that we showed our demo to understood where it could go.
Free fbs doesn’t work with recent versions of python (>3.6) [0]. You need to pay or migrate. This can lead to security issues because recent packages don’t always work with older python versions.

[0] https://build-system.fman.io/manual/#requirements
It comes from the “residual” of a linear regression.

So you take some obvious variable like the market basket of stocks, do a regression, and then do your machine learning on the residuals.

The reason is that you don’t get “credit” for doing whatever the market did, you only get credit for doing even better.
Everything can do anything, you need to look at what the majority did.

And not even 0.0000001% of NES/Famicom owners had a keyboard and a disk drive and out of those probably 0% did any coding since Nintendo to this day does not allow you to run what you want on your hardware unless you hack it.
Tesla’s laser windshield wipers published by the US Patent Office
Show HN: Catch layout and spelling mistakes at pull request time
I think your mistaken, the only reason DDG took off, at least in the circles I’ve visited (open source communities, privacy focused, politics, etc) is the freedom to research anything in a safe way.

Think of it another way, “who cares about privacy?” Probably those searching for “unacceptable” ideas.

If they censor, who’s to say they wouldn’t turn you into the authorities for “wrong think”.

Their value proposition of privacy was damaged by this BECAUSE they want to limit your search results.
> We are not the strongest, nor the biggest, nor the fastest, nor the best hearing, or the best seeing species.

That is not strictly true. Even leaving aside the tools argument (a human on a bicycle is vastly more energy efficient over long distances than a wildebeest, for example), our sight and hearing are actually pretty good compared to the rest of the animal kingdom.

For a certain range of tasks, we have the best visual perception of any species. Our eyes themselves are pretty damn good for close-in and medium range work. The pattern recognition processing that input is very, very good due to our big brains. Tasks like being able to detect a tiger moving through the underbrush. Color vision is also very good (at least in daylight) to better pick out ripe fruit and such.

Our directional hearing is better than owls who hunt at night for a living. We can better measure the angle at which a sound source is coming from with around twice the accuracy of an owl. Again due to big brains and very complicated audio processing. The folds in your ears are there for a reason. We aren't as sensitive as other creatures like deer, who can steer their big ears (basically parabolic horns) in a particular direction.

And hand-eye coordination is far above any other species, even other primates.

Don't sell yourself short!
Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
Hey HN, Josh here. I’m a frontend developer at a devtools company, and I keep noticing obvious mistakes like typos and accessibility problems make it into production.

I wanted to find something like pagespeed insights that would run against commits when they were first pushed, instead of after changes were deployed

That’s why I built Website Linter, a zero-configuration tool that scrapes pages on your site to find layout, spelling, and accessibility issues. It also gives you screenshots of the above-fold content across multiple device sizes.

Horizontal and spelling errors are easily overlooked during code reviews, which is why they enter prod often. Website linter helps you catch those issues as they appear instead of weeks later.

Under the hood, website linter uses:

- Lighthouse to get performance metrics and screenshots for different device sizes

- Pa11y to find accessibility issues

- Chromedp in Go to get HTML nodes that are larger than the width of the screen

- Fuzzy (in Golang) to find spelling errors on a trained dictionary (using a cleaned version from the words_alpha.txt file here: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

I built Website Linter by re-using the infrastructure from the startup I work for, but you can use it on any internet visible page. Would love to know if you try it out!

To see what it looks like, visit here: https://webapp.io/website-linter-report/0 for a sample report (netlify’s homepage) or install webapp.io on GitHub: https://github.com/apps/webappio/installations/new and go to the “website linter” tab in the webapp.io dashboard after signing up.
What if I am very secure about given topic (e.g., balding), so I feel very comfortable joking about it, even "at my cost". Should I disregard the fact other people might be insecure about it, because I don't mind people "doing unto me" such jokes?
Can ProRes be decoded at full bit depth on Windows now? The original decoder for Win would only decode at 8bit, and that was after Apple finally relented to offering a decoder for Windows at all.
I have a spare Android tablet I keep around for website testing. I installed TT on it, didn't create an account.

Probably the only good thing about it is that you can jump right in, without a login wall spoiling the fun.

I also don't get the "algorithmic panopticon" effect so many are claiming, but maybe it's because I've already seen the curated, good quality stuff that gets shared on Reddit and Twitter.

In TikTok itself, I feel like I'm having to trudge through a giant pile of garbage first. Imagine if Google/Bing UI made you load and view every single site, instead of just showing a list of page titles.
A whole article about The Beach Boys’ genius and not a single mention of Kokomo.
Researchers Say They've Developed a Method That Can Train Anyone to Be Creative
You’re missing the point. Folks aren’t reacting to being called out for “racist and sexist” statements, but California imposing its view of what constitutes those things on a global platform.

“Who gets to define racism” is a critical question: https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/

> Rather than actually dismantling white supremacy or meaningfully empowering people of color, efforts often seem to be oriented towards consolidating social and cultural capital in the hands of the ‘good’ whites.

Likewise for “sexism.” My mother’s feminist credentials are unassailable: she got a college and graduate school education and had an independent career as a writer in a deeply Muslim country in the 1970s. But by Twitter standards, many of her views would be deemed “sexist” from her sex-negativity to her view of motherhood and its burdens as a defining characteristic of being a woman.
There are so many red flags here, it's not even funny anymore.

* a third party has barely restricted, deep access to all customer data

* the "SuperUser" app can apparently have logged in users idling around in a VM, waiting for someone to come along and use it without any automatic logout and re-authentication

* a single account accessing 300+ customers in a few days doesn't trigger any alerts

* they detect a compromise, and do absolutely nothing about it for months, except letting the third party order a security audit; they patiently wait for a report; they don't even audit the access logs

* only a screenshot posted online triggers an audit of access logs and a public response

* they still try to blame the third party and the security firm for their own (basically outrageous) inactivity

All of this by a company entrusted with the most critical gatekeeping functionality of systems, used by many large enterprises and expected to have top notch security.
You ask your coworkers, "have you seen this before?"
I think the closest to that goal is GraalVM. It can run LLVM bit code for the C parts while can natively run Python. Since the whole thing is java and java byte code can be compiled to wasm/js by teavm it should work even know though it is definitely not streamlined yet.
Wow, epicly bad project name there. Maybe take it one step further and call it “Google Search” or “Microsoft Office”?
There are facts and then there are options, but somewhere in the middle is taste. To me taste is like a fact that you can’t prove, and is also difficult to discuss because it’s hard to communicate about. Basically, I believe taste exists, but only to other people who have taste.

Obviously there’s plenty of room for subjectivity, but what I’m trying to describe is a certain feeling, a certain wavelength, that I think is hard for people to get who aren’t already there. Coincidentally software engineering is another realm where there’s definitely this mystical taste, but again any time you try to shed light on what you mean it’s like people almost intentionally try to torpedo your attempt at making a point.

In the end though the music and the code speak for themselves, and Pet Sounds to me really is the ultimate. It’s uncomplicated yet emotional lyrics. Each song’s melody is just so catchy. The whole thing has this romantic early 60s American feeling. The album makes me think of George Lucas’ American Grafiti but as music. It’s simultaneously nostalgic but to me still feels fresh.

I think very few bands today could make something so masterful. I just absolutely love that album.

I don’t know though, when I was reading the review I felt sorry for the person. It seemed like they were far away from this sense of taste. Comparing love supreme with pet sounds is like comparing a sandwich to some really complicated culinary masterpiece. Both are good, but they’re very different.

Sometimes it’s more pedestrian things that are done really well that are what is most impressive to me. If it’s critically good but also has mass appeal then you’ve done something very impressive.

Or I guess it’s also like comparing Hemingway to Joyce. Clearly Joyce is on another level as a writer and I enjoy him very much. That being said, if I had to pick whose head I’d rather be in for an hour or two I would pick Hemingway.

So any way, love supreme is good and so is Joyce, but so is pet sounds and Hemingway. To me though, ultimately pet sounds takes the cake for best album of the century, but it’s really difficult to explain why because it comes down to taste. If you try to make music and you try to balance all these different elements: ambition, mass appeal, melody and harmony, etc… it’s just basically perfect.

Also I don’t think this just because it’s old and important. I really just like the album.
I don't understand what your definition of coercion is, if withholding care upon receipt of payment is not coercive but demanding payment to avoid harm is. They're materially the same thing: you're paying to not die.

You can't really argue with deontological positions given they're axiomatic, so there's probably no reasoning I can give that you would consider.