skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps instead of just saying what standard explanations are “make no sense”, you could try elaborating in any of your posts.

Saying that an event horizon or photon sphere isn’t around the singularity of a black hole doesn’t make sense, either.

What facts specifically are you trying to articulate about spacetime geometry around a black hole?
> We destroyed it.

I haven't researched it, but isn't a large portion (vast majority) of lumber we use these days to build things from forests that we plant and grow?
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Just the fact that every well I saw on street view was from that company.
Gaia GPS on iphone requires a subscription to save USGS topographic tiles for offline use. That's an artificial limit on functionality using a publicly-funded resource.
The brain is made up of modules and happiness in essence comes from what can be characterized as two different modules. For alignment both modules need to register happiness.

The animistic or instinctual side of happiness triggered by drugs is not purely a module but it can be encapsulated into a concept called the the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. This pathway can be mechanically manipulated to make you feel a certain portion of happiness via drugs sex or the natural secretion of dopamine.

The thing about this module is that it lives separately from another module called the neocortex. The neocortex encompasses the higher functionality of your brain with things like higher order thoughts, perception and consciousness. The unique thing about the neocortex is that it can self actualize. It can see signals being sent by other parts of the brain and it can override or interpret those signals as false. This is what happens when you do something like exercise. One part of your brain tells you you're tired, but your neocortex overrides this and forces you to continue because you're aware that the feeling is an illusion. Exercise is actually healthy.

For someone to feel truly happy the mesolimbic dopamine pathway and the neocortex need to be in alignment. The dopamine hit must register AND the neocortex must validate that feeling as well. Signals of happiness from one module but not the other register as sort of an invalid false happiness.

For example when you're an addict and you're doing heroin the reward pathway sends a signal, but the neocortex denies it. The addict is generally unhappy even though he gets "high" all the time. For the parent poster, the neocortex is telling himself he's happy by "thinking" but there's no dopamine hit from the mesolimbic pathway. The in-congruence from both modules in the brain form a happiness that isn't quite real. To truly be happy you need both.

Also note that the brain additionally develops tolerance to dopamine so any feeling of happiness is relatively fleeting. You need to use different stimuli and go through long periods of "no dopamine" to feel happy. Humans are biologically designed this way by evolution.

I'm sorry to tell you this, because in general being aware of all of this generally makes people less happy. Ignorance is part of what makes all of this work, because it is your neocortex that is determining all of this. Knowledge of this influences how your neocortex chooses to override certain signals from the mesolimbic pathway... it's all very very meta.
We are not talking about energy, we are talking about waste disposal.

And not having money is not a excuse for burning trash. In part, because burning some types of trash (pretty much anything other than yard trimmings, including food) will make you and your community incredibly sick, causing you to spend more money in the end.

It's already illegal to burn trash in almost every jurisdiction on earth. I am just calling for the removal of content featuring activities that are already illegal.

https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/html/i...

Then, is censorship a solution here? fuck yes. Let's fucking do it. I am all for the censorship of that content. The less of it, the better. Will that inconvenience some people? Fucking fantastic. No ad revenue for the morons working against society, making residential super-polluting videos. They should be in jail, not on YouTube.
What Is the Time Signature of the Score for The Terminator? (2014)
> If it is to advance human knowledge the results should be shared.

It’s easy for us to imagine that this day and age there are no competing civilisations and that every country will wholeheartedly share their progress. I suspect China, as Russia and perhaps India at some point, sees itself as such a competing civilisation. We assume that those times have ended but i think they haven't. In this context China does it for its own benefit. I somehow doubt they are not already either actively probing, or considering probing, mars, the moon and asteroids. Japan does it - we know this thanks to, albeit anaemic, coverage in the western media. If China has even a little bit of respect for its thousands of years of history it knows that the next meaningful territorial and resource expansion is space and it is only natural that it will try to outcompete us. Secret or not from us it makes no difference for china. Colossus may have been secret but the science that lead to its development wasn't and thats more important than the product itself. Just as the uk had fertile ground for developing it and later on for developing many computing advances, China is now creating fertile ground for space tech. We should keep an eye on it, and promote news about their progress, so the average joe will understand that unless we invest even more in space development then we are on track to becoming a secondary civilisation, ridden by debt and petty goals.
Ehh...RawTherapee (and also Darktable) are certainly capable of editing, but I've found that in practice they require far more effort to get results comparable to Adobe or Capture One's RAW processing.
Just think about how many 10’s of thousands of hours the Max flew, and no pilot ever noticed MCAS.
> It feeds into the bigger question of: why do this stuff? If it is to advance human knowledge the results should be shared. It the results aren't being shared it's an exercise in nationalism with limited significance.

The point is to advance _their_ knowledge, not to share it with all of humanity. To establish a regular presence in space that they can build out from. If space is the next colonizable frontier, China would surely want to be getting in on the action as soon as they can. It's an exercise in nationalism in the sense that it's meant to advance their national interests, but whether it's of limited significance is for the future to know.
Yeah, Twitter is not about "content". It's a service that lets users scream into the void
Won't recordings of music put live performers out of business?

...I say this facetiously, but I think the comparison is fair. at this point: it is so cheap and easy and useful to do it feels impossible to stop.

$2 and an internet connection. When you are at that point, the game is lost.
The reason it’s relevant is because that is literally what a non compete is supposed to be for.
Paying to delay competitors could be a good use of money for companies in many circumstances. That would work fine for an individual from a financial perspective, but keeping talent away from work is suboptimal for society as a whole.
Any query that is even somewhat related to legal matters gives me pages and pages of law offices with very low quality almost identical content.

I was looking for traffic fatality statistics trying to compare taxis vs Uber vs average drivers and all I get are lawyers offering their services.

Great SEO work, terrible search experience.
IIRC it's supposed to represent 10ml of pure ethanol or (coincidentall?) approximately how much an average healthy liver can process in an hour.
The software solution was to disable MCAS if sensors disagreed by more than X. The FAA didn't release any data on how many flights landed successfully with MCAS disabled, nor did they address the scenario really at all in their report. Instead of using actual numbers, the FAA used Boeing-speak along the lines of "MCAS only activates in very rare scenarios." Not quantified whatsoever, just vague turn of phrase.

If MCAS only activates in very rare scenarios, then why have it at all? And if it's necessary in these scenarios, how safe is the aircraft if it's disabled?
The immediate counter example that comes to mind is the MRI but there are countless other advances in medical technology since the 70s.
Brain study suggests the workday needs to be radically restructured
Clearly not, or the wealth of the world would be constant through history.

I could argue that most wealth comes from optimizing the efforts to extract and transport resources, plus all the other optimizations on the paper shuffling we do after (e. g., Communication, entertainment, etc.).
Reminds me of Bill Burr's classic take on Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6fv9UUlQ8
Of course people today are training on copyrighted images, chanting fair use because people on the internet tell them it's okay, instead of finding groups of artists who consent to having their art be trained on.
Try that next time you stay in a hotel, or fly. Usually you pay more, often a lot more. But sometimes less.

Probably most SpaceX customers pay more. (Oh, you wanted it not tumbling?)
Good previous discussions that cover, if not "motivations" (unknowable mental state) then some "consistent patterns of observable behavior".

UDev & Gnome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416912 (8 years ago)

udev, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6066848 (9 years ago, same behavior reported)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203507 (8 years ago, community reports the same treatment)

I applaud Pottering's systemd projects as a masterful career move at the same time that I shake my fist at them, and how they build a path to undermine free computing.

They recentralize, and fragilize, the free software ecosystem.

They build features that
are not requested,
with the premise of small, incremental benefits
while taking away choice
by making the pre-existing standard
of interoperable decoupled components
difficult-to-impossible to continue to use.

This development pattern enforces deeper integration with their one blessed way, and tramples on the culture of the free software ecosystem,
which the project efforts take part in, in all but ultimate aim. They do things that should not be done, although he's effective in creating and pursuing opportunities that advance the interests of Red Hat and now Microsoft.

I like that free software has let me build and explore things without getting sign-off and approval from authority,
while the existence and strength of free software means I get to enjoy some of its benefits
even while using devices made by companies that do not pay-forward their free/open software founding roots,
specifically that developer system configuration escape hatches are needed on macOS, and Windows,
for competitive reasons.

The
ease of use,
breadth of adoption,
and
creeping (and unnecessarily coupled) integration with widely used software
are all small pennies, which "no one should object to",
thrown to entice
in front of the steamroller of
centralized control of plausibly all software running (boot, OS, & applications)
that makes founding fears of the free software community
more likely to come to pass.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Then again,

> users are not contributors nor customers,

and so

> "They are not _technically_ part of the "community".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538184
Does anyone know the same-person variance in gray and white matter volume, and if it has any measurable dependence on other biological factors (hydration and/or electrolyte balance come to mind as plausible)? And if any temporary[0] same-person effects are directly attributable to alcohol and its short term effects, e.g. hangover?[1]

[0]I presume if permanent single-person shrinkage was observed it would have been a big enough headline to have been noticed.
[1]Unless accounted for in sampling, drinkers would be statistically more likely to be experiencing transiently smaller brains from alcohol consumption or accompanying dehydration - if an effect exists.
A photographer friend of mine always used to get comments like you can take such awesome shots because you are using a DSLR (this was 10 years back). So he started taking two pictures one with DSLR and one with a mobile cameras at that time.

He would still get the awesome shots comments even with the pics he took with the basic mobile camera and shared them on social media.
One of the companies they sell them to is DEC, which I invest in. These old wells are still profitable but only for organizations with lower cost structures that specialize in handling these sorts of end-of-life regulations and maintenances. State governments subsidize them to maintain the wells long into the future.

https://www.div.energy/
> Fighting Words. In the 1942 case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court held that speech is unprotected if it constitutes “fighting words,” which are defined as speech that “tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace,” through the use of “personally abusive” language that “when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction.” Certainly, all racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other slurs could be folded into this category and prohibited by social media sites.

This entire section is just wrong. Fighting words are extremely narrowly defined, to the point where if you don't get punched in the face within a few minutes of saying something, it is not fighting words under law. The original definition of fighting words was laid out at a time when honor duels were still common, and that is the environment under which they were defined. Since then, every higher court decision referring to them has narrowed, not expanded their definition. There is no way a slur on the internet can be construed as fighting words as the law currently exist.
No - east-west Australia stretches further than eastern Ireland to western Ukraine.
And that’s an opinion, not a fact. Time zones are just a way of estimating when people in a location will be around and having a way to communicate who you’re using as a reference. You’re free to use UTC today, if you want to - but it’s not generally useful if you also have to manually map out “x is in England so he would be at lunch 2 hours earlier than me, but y is in Belarus so after my 4pm he will be leaving work for the day”
I think you are incorrect.
- Go is more popular but really is for a separate problem space.
- The Elixir community is very active on Slack, and elixirforum and there are more jobs now than there's ever been.

The elixir community has been focused on a few key areas.

- The nerves project * An open-source platform and infrastructure you need to build, deploy, and securely manage your fleet of IoT devices at speed and scale.

- https://www.nerves-project.org/

- Phoenix Framework and Ash-hq etc which has a strong emphasis on web development/and generating APIS

- https://www.phoenixframework.org/

- https://www.ash-hq.org/

- Data Science/ Machine learning / Data Infrastructure

- https://github.com/elixir-nx

- https://livebook.dev/

- https://elixir-broadway.org/
I wish I could. The thing is though, a lot of really shitty stuff is coming to a head precisely because people who don’t need to care tune out.

I don’t have a really great answer to the problems of modern media coverage, but burying our heads in the sand isn’t a good answer.

As a gay person, for example, things are rapidly trending towards the “first they came for trans people” territory. Is it even remotely wise for me to ignore the news given the ever-escalating attempts to eradicate fellow queer people from public life? Like, for no reason other than self-interest: I must pay attention.

I envy everyone on here who can truly disconnect. I really, honestly do. My only request is that you find a way to pay some kind of attention to what’s going on in the world, because looking away only emboldens people looking to do harm.
... Or will we? Anti-aging research is an area.
I'd recommend The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and A Scanner Darkly. Those on top of the 3 you've read should prepare you for VALIS.

> An unreligious friend read it and, evidently, became born-again christian immediately afterward

Super interesting. I could see the book having that effect on somebody. Not my experience, but it doesn't surprise me that it's happened.
The history of remote sensing is more or less a 50-year long series of events like this:

-Sensor system is designed and launched for specific mission goal

-Someone finds an unexpected and important use for the data, completely unrelated to the original mission goal

-Eventually a specialized platform for the unexpected use case is developed and launched

-Someone finds a new use case for this data

And the process repeats. LANDSAT 1 (formerly ERTS-A) was originally conceived to find undiscovered deposits of minerals. Turned out it was useful for a hell of a lot more than that.
Same here, though I grew up as a Mormon so it wasn't as much my own personal choice as it was a religious conviction. I'm an atheist now, so it is a personal choice now. I find it can be really enjoyable to be "the sober friend" at group outings—being the only one with my wits about me while my friends get super relaxed, outgoing, and nonsensical all of a sudden is pretty funny.

I don't think there's anything evil about drinking, I've just gotten this far in my life without it and figure "heck, might as well go for broke" at this point. I do believe that alcohol advertisements on TV and radio should be banned like tobacco ads were, though. The fact that I have been conditioned by ads since I was a kid to think that beer is delicious and harmless is unnerving to me.

Ideally, drinking ought to be a personal choice to exchange risk for pleasure. This only holds true when drinking is done responsibly, though. Irresponsible drinking can ruin lives, relationships, and hurt or kill people. Budweiser and Heineken may be required to say "drink responsibly" at the end of all their ads, but it's extremely obvious they don't actually care. At the end of the day, they make more money off alcoholics than responsible drinkers, so they and their marketing cannot be trusted. The incentives are too misaligned.
There's that old essay that says *power" is the strongest, most unquenchable desire by those afflicted from it.

(Shaw? Nobel prize speech iirc,
Acquisition<rivalry<vanity<power)
> But it genuinely hasn’t stopped cars.

I disagree; in fact, brake pads have stopped cars. ;)
I know it doesn't sound nice but harm to the artists is similar to the harm you do to hole diggers when they see you bringing excavator to your plot instead of hiring them.

Art is not digging holes. But some of it is and more of it will become it in the future.
One of the bigger accountants firms had a 180 days thing. Madness
It's not a power of two stride loop that's the problem, it is a sparse power of two access pattern. Or more accurately, it's the the cache lines congruent modulo the cache size divided by associativity that you don't access that is unused capacity in your cache.

Computers are designed almost exclusively around the idea of spatial and temporal locality of access, so it turns out this kind of access pattern doesn't happen all that much, and when it does it's often suboptimal code that's not worth a CPU designer trying to optimize much for anyway. At least not in the primary caches where indexing delay is critical so anything but power of two is prohibitive. It is good to be aware of though, and occasionally it can be noticeable and come in use.

I remember I found an issue years ago we had a supercomputer and the kernel was handing out memory to each process in powers of two when they were allocating memory, because it's memory allocator had a per-CPU magazine that would refill from a larger shared pool in batches, and those batch sizes were powers of two (with powers of two allocation sizes).

So each process would only be given memory that ever indexed into like 1/2 or 1/4 of the cache on its CPU. Other styles of workloads never noticed because you would have lots of irregularity, things allocating and freeing and context switching and all different activity on different CPUs. But on supercomputers you often have a pretty clean memory space with little other activity, and work kicks off by starting off ~identical processes on all CPUs and each allocate large chunks of memory.
And if Twitter’s user experience degrades to the point where King can’t Tweet effectively without a blue checkmark, then the platform is deeply screwed.
It took me a long time to understand why companies price this way. The reality is that many viable SaaS businesses have fewer than 100 customers. If each customer pays you 1 million a year that's a hundred million dollar a year SaaS business commanding a valuation of 500 million dollars or more.

The problem is that this SaaS business needs to find a pricing model which net's them 1 million per customer. Charging too little means the business will starve, too much means that customers won't sign up. Sales & Contract negotiations can help arrive at the right number. Guessing the pricing model after 1-2 customers can break the business if you don't have infinite VC money.
Here's the thing, where I live (Canada) spam calls have become so bad that (unless you're in my contacts already) I almost never answer the phone. The scams aren't even in English most of the time :/

Actually it's filtered so that only 3 or so of my contacts get through the dnd.

*Scheduled calls / expected calls from specific companies are my one exception.
Awful take
I use your ADS-B feeds quite often! Keep up the good work :)
> In LA, for example, the LADWP is test-driving a program where food scraps - vegetables, but also meats and fats - are diverted into green bins

Moved to SF from LA area. Sf does the green bins and it’s actually surprisingly nice to separate the compostable scraps out of the other trash. It keeps the trash bin much cleaner and much less stinky.

If I moved back to an area that didn’t require it, I’d still keep them separate and only re-combine at the curbside bin.
I didn't know it was so interesting. Here's a pic of a raspbian on a dell e6410

https://i.imgur.com/aD8WEzD.png
this is what desperation looks like