skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Black holes "evaporate" over time -- by emitting Hawking radiation. This is probably where the information goes, in my layman understanding.

No, the Hawking radiation and evaporation is exactly what causes the problem. If black holes were forever expanding, we could simply say "they have a structure inside that we can't detect, but that structure preserves the information; but, since it's past the event horizon, it will be, even in principle, forever beyond reach of our understanding and experiment".

However, if black holes eventually disappear, it means you have something like book => unknowable inside of the black hole event horizon => something observable outside. The problem now becomes that, from Hawking's discovery, the "something observable outside" is random thermal radiation, which can't contain information by definition. Hence, not just something unknowable, but a paradox (an inconsistency in the formal model).
> The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them.

That’s because we don’t have adequate privacy safeguards in modern western society.

> Privacy and anonymity are absolutely not orthogonal.

Privacy and anonymity are not synonymous. I can have a private conversation with a friend. That does not require anonymity. In fact it precludes anonymity because my friend and I know who each other are. Privacy says nobody else knows what we discussed or even that we had a conversation.

> KYC?

Know Your Client? This is a new term to me but sounds like an authentication concept. Which is compatible with privacy but precludes anonymity, by definition.
How is that even relevant? Your phone was trying to onboard you to a _free to use_ feature. If you can’t see the difference here, then I suspect there probably was a button labelled “fuck off” and you didn’t see that either. Honestly.
Yup, I live in San Francisco proper, and my only choice is Comcast cable. Looks like the current promo pricing for 1200Mbps is around $70/mo, but I can't quickly find what the normal price is. And I assume the uplink is something abysmal like 25Mbps.

(I'm on Comcast's Business service, $250/mo for 1000/35 [long dumb story why]. Most of the time I see under 600 down when checking on speed test sites, and real-world speeds downloading large files rarely exceeds 250. I expect real-world speeds on the non-business service are even worse.)

It's pretty embarrassing that this is the state of things.
Reputation is a short cut. And it's super common in every human discussion. Whether it is the HN heroes of pg and Musk, or this guy, we can look at someone's reputation and get a sense for their abilities.

Also, credentialed doesn't just mean academic credentials.
Layoffs hit Wells Fargo's home lending unit
It's not what you think. The concept isn't "oh ha ha, here's 'music' that has no sound, smoke that!". It's that while you're sitting there with the performer doing nothing, there's still sound going on around you. Creaking chairs, water in pipes, bus going by outside the venue... If someone makes a recording that is literally a string of 0 bits, they're doing something different than Cage's piece. (EDIT: Although while listening to that recording you the listener can experience the sound of the space you are in. So perhaps it would be the same thing, in a way.)

Cage was interested in how -- or whether -- accidental and incidental noise could be incorporated or experienced as music. 4'33" is just the most notorious (and probably starkest) expression of that idea.
Yes this is good actually. We don't want to end up like Windows.
The Federal Reserve Conspiracy, it's short and mostly collect former USA President's memories and few other public archive, just connecting the dots.

In terms of switch between liberalism->keynesianism->neoliberalism honestly I do see much of substantial change in élites terms: liberalism have made very few very rich and create a big mess. Those behind this school of though just want to protect their fortune and so they push another school of though, keynesianism, witch formally is a radical change, but in practice is the old game of the two horses [1]: when their cleptocratic system collapse and people start to move around a potential revolution (Socialism) they just pushed some who "do the right thing" witch actually was a way to save failed private corp with public resources. Some of the puppet colonize socialism to transform it in a red fascism, some create nazi-fascism. Both disperse/degenerate the "new" socialism. Keynesianism alone was not sufficient but generate enough economy to face a war and overthrown the table to start a new game. That new game is neoliberalism witch pick some aspect of false socialism with classic liberism. Now we are in a similar situation: neoliberalism have reached it's cyclic crisis, people unrest, unionize, protest, we are heading to a rush of civil wars, so it's about time to overthought the table again, an external war silence potential civil wars and justify the crisis, the urgency justify a kind-of new keynesianism, witch is now the Chinese system, a false socialism again.

It might be a bit hard to condense in a post, but if you skim-re-read the late '800 till today economic history seeing how it touch the politics all brick will enter in their right place...

[1] to being sure to win in politics you run two puppet-horses (a system party and an anti-system one), apparently completely different, one against the other, in practice being from the same puppet-master they just intercept discomfort created by the previous government generate an alternation of powers who impede the ascension of third party parties.
> The last spiderman was something around 200gb

That is not true at all? Spider man was like 70gb , miles morales was like 40gb
The DAO debacle showed that it's not really irreversible.

Thought experiment: a bug is exploited tomorrow which locks forever $50 billion worth of ETH, including of prominent VCs/users/exchanges.

You will see suddenly how consensus crystalizes to do a hard fork reversion of the exploit.
This is a good post with all of the right reasons to be skeptical. However, with the really fringe stuff like this, I feel that the answers could come through intuition.

On that note, her central premise is that we can't study black holes. But I'm feeling more and more convinced that the universe itself is inside of a black hole. If that's the case, then maybe we can study the inside after all.

On a whim, I searched for "hawking radiation hubble constant" and stumbled onto a bunch of stuff like this (the Download PDF button works):

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0017/v2

I'm not a physicist, but if I assemble a bunch of ideas, I can make a bunch of insights like: if black holes evaporate faster as they shrink, then maybe galaxies slipping outside of our observable universe is causing it to become less massive, which is increasing its rate of expansion. Someday we may see everything shooting away from our reference point faster and faster until we ourselves pop, like reversed spaghettification.

But then again, that doesn't seem quite right, because the galaxies slipping away from us faster than the speed of light probably don't experience anything catastrophic themselves. And also the galaxies might not actually be moving away, just more space has been constructed between us and them like a balloon stretching. I feel like without a solid understanding of this process, it's going to be hard to understand black holes.
And after reading the whole article, I'd like to add: it really helps to treat these protocols like APIs. As in, if you're building an XMPP server, you wouldn't want to expose the actual clients as resources, for example. You'd instead just send each message to each connected client and present them all as one single "client" to other users and for the purpose of s2s federation. That would eliminate an entire class of issues, like messages getting lost, AND improve the user experience at the cost of a slight, barely noticeable spec noncompliance.

I do a variation of this for ActivityPub in my project already. Except I don't implement c2s ActivityPub at all.
"If you read the full answer, you would see that his position is that doing that is better than not doing it. If you are correct that it is even more difficult to do so, then his position is that bitcoin is even worse than gold in this regard."

Yes, I did read the full answer. And yes, (according to him) it is.

Yanis is a marxist, as others in this thread point out. Point 10 in communist manifesto, calling for a state central bank, is incompatible with both gold and bitcoin, and pretty much any other form of personal money beyond maybe some petty cash.

""10. A state bank, whose paper issues are legal tender, shall replace all private banks. This measure will make it possible to regulate the credit system in the interest of the people as a whole, and will thus undermine the dominion of the big financial magnates. Further, by gradually substituting paper money for gold and silver coin, the universal means of exchange (that indispensable prerequisite of bourgeois trade and commerce) will be cheapened, and gold and silver will be set free for use in foreign trade. Finally, this measure is necessary in order to bind the interests of the conservative bourgeoisie to the Government."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Man...

Communist Manifesto, Demands of the Communist Party in Germany / 10 Demands

"Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. But, in truth, Karl Marx was responsible for framing my perspective of the world we live in, from my childhood to this day. This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in “polite society” because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off. But I never deny it either. After a few years of addressing audiences with whom I do not share an ideology, a need has crept up on me to talk about Marx’s imprint on my thinking. To explain why, while an unapologetic Marxist, I think it is important to resist him passionately in a variety of ways. To be, in other words, erratic in one’s Marxism."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufaki...

Lots of weasel room here. But basically, Varoufakis doesn't believe people should have personal financial freedom. And he makes a good case for it!

But no thanks.
YS forever. SU had some good covertapes, but YS was a way of life.
If it's a transfer using your authentication details they might put the transaction on hold or call you, but, no, they generally aren't liable with the processes they have in place unless there's significant negligence. The college might have been the one authorizing the transfer here to the wrong party. Banks can't or don't typically verify all of your vendors and clients and transactions. They provide the money pipes.
program transformation (collections/tools/categories)
With a simple and lean signaling p2p protocol, with sufficient nodes at that speed (and support of diffserv), popular live streamers with a few thousands of viewers could part from twitch/youtube and similar.

For broadcast, namely the scale above (for instance a public TV channel), if I recall properly, IPv6 has many broadcast IPs... just need the IAPs of a "telecommunication zone" (state, country, etc) to manage to work together at that level. I think IPv6 multicast is "too much" for IAPs to handle though (the whole "subscription"/"unsubscription" propagation for domestic users, not limited to CDNs only).
Cool read !

Moved into a new apartment which (unbeknownst to me at first) also has the capability of 25 Gbps with init7, unfortunately that was before getting a locked-in into a 1 (or is it 2?) year contract with my current provider (1000/100 Mbps, so I can’t really complain). Looking forward to having that contract expire and upgrading though, but then the issue is going to be how to distribute all that bandwidth properly over the house (most devices I use are still 1 Gbps OOTB) :).
E2e encryption to prevent that peaking didn't really debut until the 2000's, as that's right when the crypto wars ended. Spam was actively fought in 1990's, and then improved measurably into 2000. See projects like Hashcash in 1997, anti-spam tool.

So your premise doensn't make sense with that timeline. Right when consumer privacy measurably improved via encryption availability and the end of related legal challenges is right around the time spam improved as well.

Which is to say, there is no correlation that's logical b/t the two in my mind, but if anything the timeline invalidates privacy improvements -> worsening spam without more evidence.
> But it's sad wearing some costume wins you a spot on a cringe comp whereas being discriminatory toward groups of people doesn't just get ridiculed but is actively celebrated.

This dichotomy isn’t based on reality. Posting a joke about AIDS in Africa on twitter can get you banned (and cost you your job!). That’s worse than being included in a cringe compilation, doncha think?
Doesn’t seem to work on iOS 15.4.1
Ask HN: How do you give advice?
Could you share your stories and thoughts on what you do to make your advice easier to accept?

I'd like to know what contributes to making advice well-received by others.
I’m a curmudgeon, but I still think the gaming industry has a lot to answer for in terms of power consumption. Steam even has a ‘Earth Day’ banner today, why should probably read: ‘turn off your PC’.
I believed you enough to defend your claim on Twitter. And then Stella proved you wrong: https://twitter.com/blancheminerva/status/151783630034220237...

Your claim is somehow going a little viral. You have a responsibility to try to correct it.
> Still, I am eagerly awaiting the day when someone conclusively nails the obesity epidemic down to something as simple as gut dysbiosis.

On average, what is the daily caloric surplus (calories in - calories out) for Americans vs. the rest of the world? I suspect going for exotic/complex explanations for obesity may not be necessary, therefore think change is gut bacteria is an effect, not a cause of obesity.

Lot's of other places have a high-carb diet (staples are rice- or corn-based), and yet do not have obesity crises because those areas also have low mechanization, high levels of menial labor and walking
Over the past 10 years, inflation in India has typically been ~5% [0] and the currency has also fallen against the USD at ~4% per year [1], so I don't think this is a good idea.

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/india/inflation-cpi

[1]: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=INR&to=USD&view=10Y
The car did not crash. Rather the money you paid for it has now become worthless (unridable). But that money has not disappeared, it's on somebody's bank accounts. Such rhetoric is very deceptive.
250W is what a fit human can put out continuously, it's nothing.
A router with a 25G uplink and a bunch of 10G sfp slots will set you back $600

There's benefits to 25G (certainly when transporting 4K video around which needs more than a 10G nic), whether that's worthwhile for a typical home is likely "no", so unless you've got hundereds of employees in an office it doesn't feel very useful.
Airlines substitute busses for planes as pilot shortage persists
FDR's Rural Electricity Cooperatives did a lot to electrify much of the midwest and rural south, along with the creation of the TVA. I doubt anyone would want to rely on the current major providers, Comcast etc., who have such a bad track record, to accomplish this. Municipal broadband sounds like a better option:

> "The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, hundreds of which still exist today. (wiki)"
You can buy CDs from a Vanguard brokerage account that are yielding about 50% more than the equivalent durations offered at gsbank/Marcus: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FixedIncomeHome
Consensus opinion seems to be that peak annual inflation already is behind us and mostly it was spectacular because of low March 2021. If inflation increases in the remainder of 2022, all the economic forecasts, and the federal reserve policy, are totally wrong.
They pretended to be the vendor and probably got the college to "update" vendor payment info to the fraudster's controlled account's details.
People are able to distinguish between "Karen" and "a Karen". It's no more of a problem than my dad had with people distinguishing between his name "Bill" and "a bill".
It's a consequence of stakeholder capitalism. When companies were publicly okay with just being amoral profit maximizing entities, they only engaged in politics for a near-term, transactional benefit. Now that it's fashionable for them to publicly take positions on political and societal issues, politics must be discussed along side business.
Nvidia Shield TV Pro has no ads, and it plays anything you throw at it without a transcode from a service like Plex/Emby/Jellyfin. All subtitles also work flawless without triggering a transcode. For my money it's the best and I've tried Roku Ultra 4800, Apple TV 4k, Fire Cube. Tons of edge cases.

Shield just works.
Beautiful & compelling presentation
I guess crypto haters are trying to prove to themselves their vision.
When you say the “whole imaging stack,” which one do you mean?

EHT imaged M87 with four teams working independently using different methods. Each of those teams used algorithms that were published and validated before the EHT results were published.
Same here but I had a much more cynical view of the oracle issue that it is by design aimed at eventual and total financial destruction of most participants. This cynicism were fueled further by the ideology that justified this for some great adoption that was promised even further back.

You can have decentralized systems but because monetary wealth accumulation is centralized by nature, and any decentralized system that introduces monetary accumulation and inflation reverts to a centralized state.

A good example of this is Bitcoin. Those with the most liquid currency (fiat) can buy more hardware that centralizes wealth. You simply cannot have an MLM scheme without a pyramid.
Formal proofs will not save you if the assumptions are wrong. You can formally prove a bug that you thought is a feature.
Have you looked at smaller ISPs?

I live in rural BC and I'm was able to get 80Mb for $35 using a no-name internet only provider with no contract.

If I went with one of the big cable companies I would be paying at least double for the same thing
Layer 1 is not for normies, but abstractions on that can provide any functionality that they need.
There aren't many (any?) services that are offering Bluray quality 4K HDR streams but even those are only 140 mbps. I would think 1 gigabit down should cover most families handily, especially when you consider most streaming services are more like 20 mbps max.

The main argument I see is "if you build it they will come" i.e. we won't see higher bitrates until connections like these are more common, but for now gigabit has even fairly extreme use cases for video streaming pretty well covered.
> Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work?

We work with gis/satellite data. Nothing groundbreaking technically, but we aggregate it into products that are useful for social science researchers who aren’t comfortable with or don’t have the computing resources to use this data by themselves.
As of my last look a couple of months back, the extensions for Pascal in Code weren’t particularly usable. Omni Pascal may get there. There’s a language server in development but I don’t know anything about it.
Price at the time of tweet: $71.57

Price at closing yesterday: $1,005.05

That would have been a 14x gain, in roughly 4 years. Not bad at all.
Disclaimer: we are at the hairy edge of my knowledge here, so what I am about to tell you could very well be wrong.

Hawking radiation has never actually been observed. It is just something that pops out of the math if, as Sabine rightfully emphasizes in her video, you make certain assumptions. And one of those assumptions is that you have a fully-fledged black hole, i.e. an object that actually contains mass beyond the event horizon. We are used to thinking of this assumption as having actually been confirmed by observation, but it is not actually true. No one has ever actually observed a black hole, notwithstanding that we've ostensibly taken a picture of one. That image was of the radiation emitted by an accretion disk, not the black hole itself. Black holes themselves are, obviously, impossible to image.

So we don't actually know whether black holes actually exist or not. The only thing we've directly observed is their gravitational effects, and the gravitational effects of an actual black hole are indistinguishable from having all of the mass of the hole actually resident just outside the event horizon. What actually happens at the horizon is beyond the reach of our current theories because there both gravity and quantum effects are significant, and we do not yet have a consistent theory of quantum gravity. Everything we think we know about black holes is actually the result of taking GR and QM and framming them together in some ad hoc way by adding simplifying assumptions which may or may not actually be true.

This is the point Sabine was trying to make: the black hole information loss paradox is not a problem with physics, it's a problem with our current theories. We simply don't know how the universe actually behaves in the presence of extreme concentrations of mass/energy. The only thing that the BHILP actually tells us is that either GR or QM -- or both -- are wrong, mere approximations to the actual truth in the same way that Newtonian mechanics turned out to be an approximation to the actual truth (one that happens to work extremely well in weak gravitational fields).

But no one has a clue which one is wrong or how despite 100 years of effort. And one of the reasons for this is that we have no data, and no reasonable prospects for obtaining it. So we may just have to make our peace with not knowing.
It’s to prevent any possible chance of brute forcing the value. 64 bits is vulnerable. 128 bits is impervious, and probably won’t ever be vulnerable. But 256 bit crypto keys are common.
The monthly payment of 28%-38% of gross monthly pay is harder to get to with the rising interest rate and rising home prices. You’d be looking at over 50% of your net take home pay per month (yes, over half your months paycheck, especially in high cost of living areas). They are fucking pricing everyone out other than investors or existing home owners that can tap into home equity.

And rent is nearing 1900 nationwide. How is that even reality?

If people just started killing landlords and investors I personally wouldn’t give a fuck (I’m kidding, not advocating this, but that’s how bad actors these animals are).
Depends on the audience. This sort of immutability is still deeply loved by the blockchain idealists and the criminals. And more casually by all the people who love them some victim-blaming.
It would be good if there was something similar for the other constructs, like statements, loops, calls... That would become a "C" to natural language translator. I wonder how hard it is to turn:

for(int i = 0; i < x; i++)

into "declare 'i' as int and assign '0' to it; while 'i' is smaller than 'x' do ... and increment 'i'."
> which helps avoid centralization into entities with massive ASIC or GPU clusters.

What about centralization into entities with massive CPU clusters?
Inflation continuing to increase doesn't necessarily mean the policy is wrong. You need to consider the counterfactual: how much would it have increased without these measures?
If you're looking into XMPP for a social network, you might be interested in movim.eu (based on XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP) and the efforts to combine ActivityPub and XMPP:

* https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia/

* https://inqlab.net/2022-01-17-activitystreams-over-xmpp.html