skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend looking into LIGO and other similar experiments. They use laser interferometry to accurately measure the distance between two points, to an extreme degree. From LIGO's website:

Gravitational waves cause space itself to stretch in one direction and simultaneously compress in a perpendicular direction. In LIGO, this causes one arm of the interferometer to get longer while the other gets shorter, then vice versa, back and forth as long as the wave is passing. The technical term for this motion is "Differential Arm" motion, or differential displacement, since the arms are simultaneously changing lengths in opposing ways.

As described above, as the lengths of the arms change, so too does the distance traveled by each laser beam. A beam in a shorter arm will return to the beam splitter before a beam in a longer arm--as the wave passes, each arm oscillates between being the shorter arm and the longer arm. When they arrive back at the beamsplitter (where they re-merge), the light waves no longer meet up nicely; they are out of phase. Instead, they shift in and out of alignment for as long as the wave is passing.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
Should professional sports have gender balance?
Women seeking jobs in Bill Gates’ office were asked sexually explicit questions
I understand "don't take any bags as we deplane down the emergency slide", but the hold is weird. I'd probably get arrested in the process of being like "No the bag with my important possessions I keep next to me on purpose is coming with me"

They were probably rushed off due to being unsure about fire hazards, and people digging through carryons for wallets and stuff would probably slow that down a lot, considering how long a normal deplaning takes.
Yeah, you can have a waiver for inherently risky activities. You can't have a waiver for your recklessness in dealing with risks.
yea, maybe they're thinking it'll look like a combination of both- using smartphone secure element and less trust in settlement of the transfer. It sort of makes me think of the xkcd comic though: some EU official was like "just make digital currencies settle offline, how long could that take, a year?" https://xkcd.com/1425/
Dumb, but earnest question: if space itself changes, how can the distance change? What is the distance a measure of, if not space itself? What's the yardstick, speed of light?
Yes, but if you have the cash in your pocket, it's not. Robbery is not hacking, and you can confront your robber. Hacking allows nerds to dip into thousands of pockets with hardly a chance of getting caught. The modern world and its youth seem to be very eager to live the digital life and give up all under the guise of "I have nothing to hide" as justification for surrendering liberties. Government centralized digital currencies are the beginning of the end. Europe was heading for the dark ages again, and this will only speed it up.
HN isn't intended for discussing things proportional to their moral value. It's for discussing things that are intellectually interesting. This story is interesting to many HN readers because of the technology involved (carbon fiber subs) and the entrepreneurial risk taking / hubris.

There might be a good discussion to be had here about refugee ships, but you'd need to find an angle of intellectual interest.
Also, The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I - The dataset and timing analysis [1] was published just today.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16224
Vision Augmented Language Models: Computer Vision Through the Lens of NLP
Show HN: Open-source in-browser code editor and REPL in 10+ languages
I am super excited to open-source the code executor behind logicboard.com - an in-browser collaborative code editor.

The backend is written in Elixir+Phoenix and implements a WebSocket API to execute code in docker containers.

Next steps include making this more secure, I am considering Google's gVisor to implement better isolation between containers and the host kernel.
"Not sure about this one but sounds to me like an 8"
Vassalization: How Russia’s War on Ukraine Transformed Transatlantic Relations
> studies have shown simply having a black-sounding name makes you equivalent to a white-sounding name of an order of magnitude less qualification.

Can you link to a study showing this? How did this study define what an "order of magnitude less qualification" means?
There is no "actually" because you are still addressing distribution. It wouldn't be hard to have another AI that analyzes outputs for copywriter infringement and culls them as necessary.

Would that satisfy you?
Reddit cannot survive without its moderators.

I think it can survive. Turn a profit? Probably not. It would have to hire on a massive centralized moderator team and operate much like Facebook with the key difference being all those moderators would have to hit the ground running on an already massive site vs the organic growth of FB. It would be very bumpy and risk causing even more turmoil. They would be applying very generalized moderation rules to all subreddits and I suspect that would drive even more people away. But that is my opinion from an outsiders point of view as I have never had a Reddit account and only moderated small forums by today's standards.
The underlying important question is what do you define as equality?

Equality of outcomes, or equality of opportunity?

This is a very slippery slope when some definitions are not equal, or stated, as we’ve come into a recent crisis of definitions being rewritten unnaturally (I understand the meaning of words change over time, but there have been recent inorganic changes, I’d argue)

The classic opportunity of outcome is proven to be doomed, and is not aligned with your imperfect world assertion.

I can get behind equality of opportunity, which I’d argue affirmative action’s impact was antithetical to this vision.

We’ve come to a point where the new generation is being held accountable for something they had no hand in.

We shouldn’t be trying to treat these diversity reports as a checkbook that needs to be balanced.

I heard something that resonated with me, and will probably get me downvoted to oblivion (if it hasn’t already happened):

those that want to look for racism, will find it.

Once a certain area is solved so to speak, some groups tend to look even harder, and we get to a point now where we have this ever-widening definition of what racism is, the goal posts ever expanding, and this endless loop is our culture eating itself alive.

I shouldn’t have to say this, but this doesn’t imply racism doesn’t exist. But it does imply that our definitions of it have radically evolved, and perhaps is being used for ulterior motives outside of “equality”
Is it even possible for Russia to engage in an all out nuclear war at this point [0]? I don't want to find out, but it is an interesting question.

[0] https://wesodonnell.medium.com/russias-nukes-probably-don-t-...
> a more honest appraisal about what the real obstacles are for Black and Hispanic students

Different cultural and ethnic groups value different things. Virtually nobody who clamors for more black and Hispanic representation in Harvard's undergrad class, for example, also clamors for more Asian representation in the NFL, even though that disparity is much, much greater, with only a single-digit number of current players.
Could one devise similar detectors for time dilation and expansion?
Curiously the share value of COKE has not plunged today. (+0.21% as we speak)
This is my usage:

Jun 2023 1171
May 2023 822
Apr 2023 2451
Mar 2023 3700
Feb 2023 3632
Jan 2023 5664
Dec 2022 1245

I found that most of my searches are in my phone actually.
> The judicial branch does not make laws.

> They interpreted existing laws for a particular case, gave their judgement, and applied the existing law.

This is not how it works in common law jurisdictions. Common law judges can and do make law. This is called case law (or common law), in contrast to statute law that is enacted by the legislature. That goes beyond just interpreting statute law but also making new laws where they do not exist. Common law offences, for example, are crimes declared as such by judges even when there is no statute criminalising that conduct. Most of the existing contract law has been made by judges rather than by legislators.
"S" must be 9, since, if it was 8, "E" had to be 9 + carry, giving "N = 0", which is already occupied. So:

9END
10RE
-------
10NEY

Let's have a look at "E + 0 = N", there must be a carry involved, from which follows (considering 0, 1, 9 are already used):

N = E + 1, N < 9, E < 8

Considering "N + R = E", which must produce a carry:

N + R > 9, E < 6, E > 1, R > 4

So "E" must be in (2, 3, 4, 5), also, substituting "N", there's this interesting notion of

(1 +)? E + 1 + R = 10 + E
I think there are two different kinds of innovation: doing new things, and finding cheaper ways to do existing things. The latter case tends to be about either interesting insights about the actual value that let you find a better point on the cost curve, or entirely new manufacturing technologies that let you bend the cost curve entirely.

Trading away safety for cost isn't usually an innovative trade-off by itself, and making that trade-off without any interest in quantifying it is a red flag.
slightly related, emacs also includes an sqlite client / view now.. I find it funny to see everybody chasing the same need, and unsurprising since.. it's always good to have sqlite close to you.
The Limiting Factor is one hell of a piece of engineering. It is exactly the kind of engineering rigor that you would expect for a device like this.
Wow. If you want to quickly see the insanity of this: https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY?t=550
What happens if someone gets caught outside during one of these events? Are they deadly?
I know you've asked for pointers to materials and not direct advice, but since there is also direct advice being offered:

Make a continuous effort to manage your expectations. Your idea of what it should be like to have a kid (especially past the baby stage itself which people tend to expect to be tiring and limiting) may not match the reality of the kid(s) that you have. My kid is not neurotypical, and it's taken me a long time (and I still have work to do) to get over the fact that my experience won't be like what other parents have, and that our family life isn't like what I remember when I was a kid. I'm happier now than I was when I was dwelling on that.

I really hope that this is useless advice for you and that it's better than you expected! But taking nothing for granted, and going in expecting that things may be super tough will be good for everyone's mental health.

Also: Being a good parent 80% of the time and a bad parent 20% of the time ('bad' meaning letting them watch too much TV, yelling or being short with them, etc. obviously not causing them real harm) is doing really great and you shouldn't beat yourself up for not being 100%. It's absurd to expect to be at your best 100% of the time. Nobody is!
There is an algorithm for everything in aviation. If you suspect your landing gear is not functional, you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation. Then you have another algorithm (they call them procedures) for how to land without gear. The airport likewise has a checklist of everything to do in this case. All of these procedures are hard won, the NTSB uses every hull failure and fatal accident to analyze what went wrong and how to create a better procedure.
You can not even bruteforce an AES-128 encrypted zip, let alone 7z or rar with stronger algorithms. (Given a decent length password obviously)

> There is value in introducing barriers, even when imperfect.

Not when they are completely ineffective and introduce other issues.
You can give poor people money, but that has nothing to do with black people. Black people aren't asking for money because they're poor, they're asking for money because the country was built with their ancestors' uncompensated labor, it was entirely legal, and the descendants of their owners still enjoy the fruits of that uncompensated labor.

You can also give poor people money, but changing the subject to poor people instead of black people is an instant smokescreen.
That isn't the stated purpose of most gas taxes, though. (The stated purpose is funding roads programs.) Intuitively, EVs still need to use and pay for road use. It's probably better for legislatures to explicitly pass carbon taxes (or similar things like cap-and-trade programs).
> ... when black people call the police, there's the non-zero chance that they're the ones who end up getting shot.

In the US, isn't that the case regardless of people's skin colour?

This example springs to mind for me anyway:

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/verdict-in-polic...
But `localhost` is also an alias specifically for the loopback address (typically `127.0.0.1`), so "serve on localhost" can reasonably be interpreted as "serve on 127.0.0.1" which will only be available to other programs on that host, and not to others devices on the local network.
For one specific private university. If you consider every state university and College, I expect far more people are impacted by affirmative action
Or an Asian name maybe?

The ruling is about college, not job applications. It's actually the other way around in universities when it comes to black applicants. As another non-American foreigner it's bizarre to me how many "anti-racists" are shocked by a constitutional court affirming that discriminating based on race is unconstitutional.
They could easily both be telling the truth. He could have been pressured into it by his father and told his mother he wanted to go while telling a more distant relative his fears caused by his parents
Just to echo what other people replied. Law is over rated.

If people are really interested in doing something - whether that's discriminating against Black people or discriminating in favor of Black people - they're probably going to find a way to do it. Laws will make a difference on the margins but if there are motivated people then they are going to start trying to work around this ruling today.

The biggest effect of this ruling is that it's a marker to let people know that opposition to affirmative action is serious. That will have more of an impact then the ruling itself.
I don't think a lottery system is a replacement for affirmative action, it would still not be representative of the racial makeup of our population.

And if rewarding hard work were the only criteria for admission, then legacy preferences wouldn't exist, either. That is the sort of thing affirmative action attempts to balance out.

I don't have an answer, and I hope that all who have earned an opportunity are rewarded. But whenever I see that a group is under-represented relative to population, I have to wonder what the reasons are and what can be done to help.

I am OK with having to work harder if it means someone who has had fewer opportunities, resources and support than me – not only in their lifetime, but for generations in their family – gets a boost.

It seems some are afraid of having to work as hard as someone who was not born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
So untrue. The best resource for preparing for standardized tests is Khan Academy. It is free.

High school grades on the other hand are getting inflated now, because of parental pressure, now that colleges are abandoning standardized tests, and relying more on GPAs. High schools don’t even have a standardized curriculum. Comparing GPAs across high schools make no sense. Within the same school it may make sense though.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...

Why would White students choose to claim non-White ancestry at these levels if it's going to disadvantage them?
For a given video length, there will be some youtube video urls without roman numerals, and with low digit sum, and atomic number.

I first search this on Google

"0:00 / mm:ss" site:youtube.com

Where mm:ss is the desired length. Then I used some Javascript to scrape the results, finding only youtube urls without roman numbers, and print them out sorted by digit sum and atomic number

I've done it a few times, never had a situation where there was no suitable url

As for the color hex, if it's not suitable, you can regenerate it
It's like a trailer or preview of a song or something, I want to listen to the song immediately and will have forgotten all about it by the time your overhyped single release has happened.
> They gotta eat, how do you propose to feed them?

A better pricing model. Nobody is opposed to paying them. Most people used Cent because of the cost. Instead of trying to capture that value they intentionally refused to capture it.
Name a single unfair right that whites have over others, today?
Capital primacy is maintained by the capitalist state, i.e. the monopoly on violence. This is literally military might.

I don't necessarily disagree with your later points. I do, however, disagree with giving up.
it's why i basically only search reddit for anything, which has its own problems of inauthentic posting/advertising/spam
So stop being a coward and record and leak those conversations.
(Unfortunately, it is a 1-hour long video and I don't have time to watch it over).

The problem with 2 is often that the database is too far away from the view, hence, what you prioritize to sync might not be the most important thing the user interacts with. That's why there are ideas of syncing via GraphQL API because GraphQL is largely driving by client-side views, so it should have more knowledge on how to prioritize. But that often fails too.

This is not a problem if you are doing multiplayer semi-synchronous collaborations because the states of each player are mostly up-to-date. It is problematic if you are doing asynchronous collaborations and only sync with the server sparsely but have large amount of data to sync.

It is not a well-solved problem, but luckily I think the product surface requires this kind of "prioritized sync" is pretty small.
The 'systemic privilege' you're looking for is culture.

Unfortunately, the treatment is even more complicated than the diagnosis is simple.
Are there theories? Yes!

Do they require a long list of impossible things to work? Also yes!

There are entirely valid solutions in general relativity which allow for an object in a pocket of spacetime with other spacetime warped around it in such a way that, more or less, space is moving but not the object.

However achieving the arrangement of spacetime to make this happens requires many things which are impossible, aren't known to exist, or require something like all the energy in the Universe to achieve.

Also there are no valid known solutions that transition from normal space to this special spacetime arrangement, so it could only exist if it always existed.

So it comes down to: we're pretty sure such things are not actually possible but we know where to look and what problems to solve if it were. Occasionally we see a paper which removes some of the impossible things from the list.

It's one of those "unlikely but maybe someday" kinds of things.
Branson’s Virgin Galactic to fly its first customers to space today
True, especially considering that a lot of accounts on Yahoo and AOL (basically part of Yahoo and does this same policy) are likely a decade or two old, so they may have passwords of like 6 characters and no 2FA, because that was super common back then.
Probably not just the size of the hail that hit it, but where the big pieces hit it. At a first guess they're using tempered glass, and that's a lot more likely to fracture if you hit it near the corners than the centre.
Mathematically yes, actually probably not.

I'd suggest looking into Alcubierre Warp Drive, cool story on why the guy came up with it and shows how to wrap spacetime around a spaceship to make it go faster than light.

The ship wouldn't go faster than light because it wouldn't move at all, the spacetime around it would.

The channel below has quite a few other videos on the subject. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ed4v_T6YM
If you don't consider reactors a tech solution you must be focusing on the contrarian angle.
> Plus, call me picky if you like, but having a reputable brand name behind my purchase gives me extra peace of mind when it comes to reliability.

I hope the author realizes that Amazfit is owned by Huami which is a sister/sibling company of Xiaomi. And as of 2021 at least, they were the 3rd largest smartwatch maker after Apple and Samsung.[1] I'd expect their build quality to be at least quite decent on average, and my n=1 $60 Amazfit Bip is probably 4 years old now with absolutely no issues.

> I’m aware that there are cheaper alternatives out there like the Amazfit range but these watches were either too complex, or too basic, there was no middle ground.

AFAIK nearly all the fancier options can be turned off from the app. And apart from a very few models with (I think) 8 segment displays all of them satisfy the author's criteria of notifications + other features.

I sometimes wish Amazfit would advertise more because every "I want a simple smartwatch!" discussion ends up with "Aah I wish Pebble existed" comments, folks paying $$$ for Garmins/Fitbits and people bemoaning the battery life on Apple/Samsung watches. Just get an Amazfit Bip (original or S).

1 - https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/11/30/amazfit-becomes-third-...
Its content will suffer, yeah.

It's already kind of a cesspool and the new generation of mods will have less power and less engagement.

I think we'll stop revering its content so much but it's too big to go away completely. It doesn't have the size or momentum of Facebook to remain that relevant, but I still can't see average people abandoning it anytime soon either.
Where to Start With: Iain Banks
The comments section of this submission are the perfect example of how far this site has fallen. Bunch of blub programmers worried about whether Racket is the most popular or can be used for their crappy day job.
And they have said that support revenue is up 17% YOY for 2022!

They are doing just fine with it, but they want MAOR.
There's actually a built-in Academic lens they provide, although I haven't really used it much, favoring my own "Research" lens. It's not very sophisticated, but since I'm mostly into research related to health, I use this a lot:

arxiv.org, nih.gov, researchgate.net, *.edu
Well kept secret: If you want to get things done, keep the scope within something you can actually do.

If you are unhappy with the fact that you planned to do more, then congratulations, you can just get things done again!
Can't comment on the macroeconomic trends, but personally as a consumer, hotels are more attractive than AirBNBs for <1-week stays due to cleaning fee and chore lists ($250 cleaning fee per stay, still have to clean up the house and pack the garbage out). Most of my travel is solo for work for 2-3 days so this nudges me towards hotels.

For 1+ week stays AirBNBs make more sense (family vacay, larger house with children), though it seems like the house owner lists the same house on VRBO and for whatever reason prices it slightly cheaper there, so I just book it at the cheaper place.
anecdotes are not data, which is what the parent poster supplied.

i'd imagine the averages are down across the country but that doesn't mean things are cheaper everywhere, esp. if you're in a high COL area and they know you can pay