skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little confusing to me.

Could the gravity not be the parabolic reflector? The actual black hole itself is creating the "dent" in spacetime and the gravitational lensing is "pushing" the forces in a parabolic manner. Since that gravitational lensing keeps things focused for a very huge distance, it could keep the beam collimated, no?

Sorry, I love this topic, but I don't know much about physics. This might be a really dumb question.
From https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/wormholes-quantum-co...:

> There are no lessons to be learned about quantum gravity here. There are no lessons to be learned about traversable wormholes or whether they exist within our Universe. There are not even any lessons to be learned about the uniqueness or capabilities of quantum computers, as everything that was done on the quantum computer can be done and had previously (without errors!) been done on a classical computer. The best that one can take away is that the researchers, after performing elaborate calculations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model through classical means, were able to perform an analogous calculation on a quantum computer that actually returned signal, not simply quantum noise

They simulated a toy space-time model, which had been previously simulated on a classical computer, on a quantum computer. That's really it.

The toy model has wormholes.

That does not inform us as to if the real universe has wormholes.

The novel thing is really how they used ML to boil down the mathematical model into something that could run on a quantum computer.

Yapping about how they "created wormholes in a lab" is 100% a publicity stunt. They could have written instead that they simulated wormholes in a lab, which would have been more honest and they should have pointed out that anyone can simulate a wormhole on their desktop computer as well.
Pretty much everyone understood that your phone would scan itself for illegal porn, which is accurate.

No one wanted that, regardless of how the implementation worked.
Ask HN: What's the best way to attract new readers to my content?
I run a website/digital magazine about a specific topic and I want to attract new readers. It is free to read and there are no ads, so I am not doing this for money.

I tried with Facebook and Instagram ads, and running giveaways, but nothing worked as expected.

Does anynone have any suggestion? I can invest on this (I paid for ads and giveaways prizes), but I'd like to try something new and not the same things that don't work.
Surely you understand that some systems don't have a in vitro model. Particularly , the biological response and interaction is the unknown. I'm working on such a project now. It'll likely require many dozens of large animals if not hundreds to collect some semblance of data to support human use. I would consider anything less unethical and irresponsible development
Don’t forget to include mice studies.
This strikes me as an utterly pointless thing to say. It could be rewritten as "it's not useful unless it's useful"
On IPv6 this would be a solved issue. With SLAAC the router just broadcasts Router Advertisements and all the machines just automatically configure their addresses, which are fully predictable based on their MAC address (if you have privacy extensions disabled). The router has no state to keep and as such the network can be scaled up "infinitely". Just pick a random /64 prefix and set up radvd (or systemd-networkd) to send the router advertisements.
> they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch just like they did to the Hi-Res music industry.

... so, they... didn't? Plenty of those services, including Tidal, probably the most prominent one, still exist.

> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.

This is the top comment in this thread right now, and I'm guessing it's because the readers of Hacker News value satire. If Apple's ecosystem is so bewilderingly excellent that nobody in their right mind would choose anything else, why did Apple start offering a bunch of their services, like Apple Music and Apple TV, on other hardware ecosystems?
The context of the text you quoted seems to pretty clearly be about Apple selling their own software, e.g., as a publisher, not as a distributor. This whole branch of the discussion thread is, after all, about whether Apple adding end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups is "sherlocking" other cloud backup providers (spoiler: no).
There are no royal "titles" in germany, just people with a strange surname. Calling that dude a prince or his name a title is just wrong.
There doesn't need to be any external pressure. Companies can and do layoffs even when they're doing well. If a line of business just isn't profitable or they this they can be just as effective with fewer staff or they want to outsource headcount. Happens all the time it just doesn't get headlines.
>Besides, it’s so funny when people use “rent seeking” as a pejorative

"People" including anybody from Marx to the left, all the way to Friendman and Hayek to the right, including Adam Smith...

Sorry, rent-seeking is milking assets without producing value (or with only minimal investment/maintainance costs). It's the opposite of a functional market.

>Like, yes, the reason my landlord bought this house for a lot of capital up front was that they believed it would be profitable rent it for much smaller amounts for a long time. What, am I supposed to feel entitled to use the house for free?

No, you're supposed to not want an economy where people don't mouch off of standing assets, but actually contribute to making value (and products and progress and stuff).

Rent-seeking 101: "Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline."
> APNs can only relay messages up to 4 or 16KB in size, depending on the iOS or iPadOS version. If the message text is too long or if an attachment such as a photo is included, the attachment is encrypted using AES in CTR mode with a randomly generated 256-bit key and uploaded to iCloud.

Only the attachment encryption key and URL need to be encrypted to each recipient.
It's less "disruptive tech" and more "tech that didn't work and reported incorrect results".
Commonlisp has rationals as well (355/133) though division doesn't generate them by default.
I'm usually that guy, or at least I try to be. Some recommendations:

** Try to avoid insults like

fake quote> They are a bunch of liars _or_ morons

in spite you think they are a bunch of liars _and_ morons

** Avoid oneliners

Try to expand the explanation to 3 or 5 paragraph. Explain clearly what they did, what they claim and the difference. I try to use a ELI25 level (the reader has a technical degree, but not in the subject).

** Explain if it break some physics rule

Some articles make claims that break a physic rule. Some even give a wrong explanation about how they are somehow not bounded by the rule. Explain what they are breaking it. Try to give a high level explanation (like it breaks the conservation of energy) and a low level explanation (exactly in which part they are miscounting the energy).

** Expect to make a few mistakes.

I always make a mistake in a detail. Luckily most of the time someone will make make a comment fixing it. Acknowledge the error, thanks the comment, and remember it

** If it's bad enough it will be reposted :(

The good part, is that you can reuse your comment, with all the fix contributed by other users, and perhaps improve it a little.
"gigafactory" just means "factory" right?
Ask HN: Paid users of Dalle/Midjourney/StableDiffusion, what do you use it for?
Can someone say more on this point?

If there is a "Revolution Plan (WIP)" document shared amongst a few agitators, and someone in power gets their hand on it (and its "checksum" or whatever), then can they figure out _who else_ has it?
This is because there's a lot of uncertainly about who the 'good guys' were in the Cold War, or even if there were any.

Ends don't justify the means and there were very bad means in both sides. Probably I shouldn't be using past tense either. When there is an existencial threat to a whole country's way of living, I don't think you will find many nice guys in the game, more like those giant wheels.

But I have no uncertainty over who are the very bad guys now and then. At all.
Dumb myth that capital and hard work have any connection at scale. You’re suggesting the power to control attention is earned through merit or labor (or making a “not all” argument) which is obnoxiously wrong
If Photos iCloud sync is turned off[1], you can use Image Capture to download and delete photos from the phone to a Mac[2].

[1] I assume because then it's guaranteed the photos are stored on the phone, not just links to the iCloud versions.

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/image-capture/imgcp100...
> most of you are probably using ipv6 through your mobile carrier and don’t even know it!

My mobile carrier provides dual stack (with NAT in the IPv4 side). So no problem with any kind of site. Are there operators who provide IPv6 only? Haven't really read up on that topic, but I guess that requires NAT64 because the average user needs to reach IPv4-only sites. Does that generally work well?

If yes, why can the poster of the submission not use that on his Hetzner instances?
the universe just expands, then contracts due to gravity into a single black hole, explodes (big bang), and we start again
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It's not necessarily that it's beneath them, but more that they have so many options available to them.

Imagine you have 10 companies that you are willing to consider:

- 5 of them are willing to immediately bring you into a serious interview

- 5 of them want you to take a coding test or some other pre-interview step

Why would you bother with those last 5 companies? Just go for the companies that respect your resume enough to bring you in for a real interview.

Those latter 5 companies will lose out on a lot great candidates due to their filters.

I can tell you having worked on tech hiring at scale and having AB tested a lot of these things across many companies, you lose a lot of grade-A candidates with anything beyond bringing them in to interview.

The thing about hiring though is that no single company really notices their own inefficiencies. Everyone has their own filters and their own method of incorrectly rejecting great candidates. However, they ultimately hire people so they feel their process works. They don't really know if they could be hiring better people or hiring people faster.
That is how throwaways work..
I sometimes wish that the following words would require a license to be used - and such license could be suspended when the words are being used in a negligent or nefarious manner:

all, always, none, never
Most media sites lower their paywall for archive.org for altruistic reasons. I wonder if there is some kind of compromise where the paywall only goes down after X days (presumably most interest occurs within the first few days publishing). It would still service the archival mission, but would diminish the use of the archive as a bypass of the paywall. It won't help if the basic economics aren't there. And maybe the free-readers wouldn't read anyway on average if the paywall remained (the old napster argument). But it might be a good compromise on the margin.
I'm glad you made it through that experience, and hope that things have improved considerably since then.

I've never been seriously suicidal, but I did have a period of bad depression/OCD where I experienced what I later learned is called "derealization", where I felt cut off from everything in life and as though I was viewing the world through frosted glass. Once I received help and left that state, I was struck by how much it felt that everything I cared about was already gone. I can only imagine there's a similar feeling when people die by suicide.
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Le Carré does provide a much more realistic depiction of tradecraft than Ian Fleming, of course, who is to tradecraft what the 60s Batman TV show is to realistic detective fiction.

I would not say that the point of le Carré is to realistically depict tradecraft. He's not a realism antidote to Ian Fleming. There's not really all that much tradecraft in a Smiley novel; they're much more about human relationships, and about the moral bankruptcy of the Cold War enterprise.

Le Carré is much closer to literary fiction than Fleming, who is a genre hack. Not so close as to be tedious; the books are all fun to read. I'd push back on the idea that le Carré wasn't aiming for art, though.

(If tradecraft is what you're after, by the way, what you really want is Hoffman's "Billion Dollar Spy".)
step-by-step tutorial for object tracking with YOLOv5 and ByteTRACK to track players on a football field
Same here. I actually still have some of the code for a few of my intros and demos, but I look at it now and it's like just total gibberish to me. That knowledge is LONG gone from my brain... I can't even remember how to compile it anymore!
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A combination of feeling unable/hopeless to attract a mate, or being super satiated by the super stimulus that is freely available highspeed internet porn, means men no longer have to suffer the crap we needed to suffer in order to get the money we needed to support/attract a mate.

The best part is society's typical response cry "Man up, what a loser" -- More likely to bury a man than get him to rise.
How often is "sometimes"? How regular is "sometimes"?

I ask because Tomato for example makes this relatively flexible so if you work certain hours but different per day that's easily done with just regular configuration through the UI. I have it set up to completely block the work WiFi on weekends for example.

If it's something like an on call week or something like that I would still set it up and only temporarily disable the entire rule if a page comes in that needs attention. If during pager week you basically need constant access consider whether this is a place you really want to work. If no efforts are being made by everyone to reduce the amount of pages I would strongly suggest you don't want to work there.
Experienced candidates know why these filter questions are necessary and are going to wonder what they're getting into if nobody is asking any.
Lately I've found FaceID can't handle my 'first thing in the morning and haven't had my coffee' face. I'm not sure if it's me or if Apple updated the algorithm.
Adsense does do personalized ads. Search for “gym” and it will show location based ads.
https://archive.is/K2GP5
If you were someone that was a defendant in a case like this where another case finished before you that ended in prison sentence, the natural assumption would be yours is heading the same way. The psychology of that must be intense. If you're the type that accepted that fate, you can start making proper plans for your incarceration too. But these are people that scammed others, so I would assume not the type to accept that fate. I'm curious how strong the temptation to flee would be?
EU browser ballot. Cookie consent nags.
2 of the last 3 years, the outdoor air quality has been so bad due to these forest fires that it was unsafe to exercise outdoors and kids fall soccer season has been delayed by 1 month until snow fell in the mountains to put out the raging forest fires.

Do you think that's bad?
Because when the protesters weren't the truckers, the truckers would be the ones being blocked by the protests. So, yeah, I strongly suspect that the truckers were fine with the law banning protests that blocked the bridge, until they were themselves the protesters.
Correct. Or for more complex questions you could feasibly model it as guessing a point in multi-dimensional space. For example, if the answer to a question is a single word, and your loss function is the mse of semantic similarity between the guess and the true answer, but you, the student, think it might be one of 3 words, you could take a weighted average of the vectors representing those words in latent space of a large language model to minimize your mean squared error, where each of the weights is your estimation of the probability of that word being correct.

Sorry was that’s very wordy but hopefully you can get the point.

An easier to understand, but perhaps less sensible example would be to do the same thing in a quiz about arithmetic, so 5+5=9 and 6+2=7 is less wrong than 5+5=10 and 6+2=1.
Like everything else, depends on your interests I suppose.
I'm not outraged, just surprised at how confidently people will say statements that are near impossible to justify. Eg the Eiffel Tower "is not typically thought of as an example of 'a beautiful thing'". ... What?? Citation needed? Did you conduct a survey? Why do you think you know what most people think? And to state it just as a fact. When, opposite that discussion is the fact that it's one of the most internationally recognized buildings _ever_ -- to confidently say that none of those people see it as "a beautiful thing" and only as a symbol of Paris?? I'm perplexed :P I don't even a little bit follow your logic.
Can you link that thread? It sounds quite interesting
I'm sure it's not simple. It would have to be backed by some public policy.
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> 30% of revenue from sales of digital goods after the first $1m (15% before).

Not quite - if you go over $1m in revenue you pay 30% on all revenue in the following year.

I honestly believe that if the App Store were to start now, they would feel entitled for a cut of all physical goods transactions that happen.

I don't believe Apple produces 30% of value when someone (hypothetically) signs up for Netflix on an iPhone. Apple's App Store actively hinders value creation when they prevent Netflix from using their existing saved credit cards to re-subscribe a user on an iOS device.

> Do you think I begrudge the 30% I paid, any more than I begrudge the rent I pay for this house?

It sounds like you saw value in something, and you paid for it. A competitive product would be able to stand on it's own and developers (and users) could make a decision on what product they wish to use - I'm sure that a lot of developers would continue to use Apple's payment infrastructure because they find it easier!
I've seen that I expressed myself in a confusing way when I said "heterosexuality doesn't have to be the default, and that era is ending", I don't mean, LGBTQ identities will become the majority, what I meant was, the assumption of heterosexuality will no longer be made. In the same way you shouldn't assume people's handedness because, though you know most people are right-hand dominant, you also expect that any group of people of a significant size will contain many left handed people.
I'm not following how it's not encrypted yet also not available.

Are they saying that it's a plain text file that merely has no name or other identifiers associated with it?

That still sounds not good enough to me. The file contents will have gobs of indentifiers in it.

Is it really flatly impossible to fetch the file without the key? Really? I somehow think this can only really be how it's intended to work, and not an actual physical limit.
Lensa/Stability AI scrape artists' work without consent, including signatures
> I don’t expect engineers to fix the business strategy, but I expect them to consider it when choosing to join a company or to stay.

For many companies, you cannot be qualified to make this determination.

Let's say I interview at a farming tech startup. They tell me that there are X million farms in america, and Y million have told them they want the crop software they're building. How do I make that determination of whether this is a viable business strategy? I'm not a farmer, I do not know enough farmers operating large farms to gather that data myself, I have to trust the company to represent this truthfully.

This even applies to things like CircleCI, where the product is something an engineer can understand well. I know what tools I as an individual developer use, but CircleCI is targeting enterprises, which I decidedly am not. I have no clue how some enterprise shop works. Again, I have to trust how the business present itself.
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This sounds a bit exaggerated. Until they don’t offer a Dropbox-like folder sync on desktop (Linux and Windows), I’ll keep my Tresorit subscription
> ads designed to test an hypothesis.

Just so we're clear on this:
Experimentation on human subjects without consent and informing them is an ethical violation. It truly doesn't matter how justified you think your particular research question is, or how small you would rate your ethical transgression.
se non è vero, è ben trovato
What if there are other solutions, like managing the forests in other ways, that does not make air quality be at unsafe levels for 1 month a year.
I disagree. She was the CEO and ultimately had the most control. She also did the most lying to investors.

We don't know what SBF will be charged with yet - but how would we feel if one of the other employees who did more of the actual transfers/faulty accounting got more of a sentence? As long as it clear that the CEO (in this case SBF) knew about the wrongdoing I think it is fair to hold them to the harshest sentence - even if they are not the "mastermind".

It's not like Holmes was a random former actress they found to be a clueless spokesperson. She was a smart person with plenty of resources and education.
...what? Why are you spreading baseless FUD?
This is worthy of expansion into a blog post or similar discussion piece. Public discourse has long been weaponized for economic or political profit, but otherwise well-intentioned people keep falling for the same tricks over and over.
Well put. I often see people who are not depressed who use optimism towards depressed people, because optimism will cancel out an ephemeral despondency as it doesn’t really require evidence or reasoning beyond “it’ll get better”. Depression is too well bunkered in for something like that.