skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be a major discovery even with 5-sigma, given that it confirms what everyone thought anyway, namely that there are quite a lot of tens-to-hundreds-of-nanohertz gravitational waves, enough to support the idea of a stochastic background?

That is, "General Relativity's right about gravitation yet again". Interesting, because it's yet another way of confirming the theory (at the linear level and a flavour of the equivalence principle), but not at all startling.

What's intriguing is that pulsar timing arrays ("PTA") like NANOGrav, CPTA, EPTA, InPTA, PPTA etc may be seeing more gravitational waves than expected. Assuming the sources are all SMBH binaries in ~month-long mutual orbits, then maybe there are more SMBHs than expected, or they binarize more commonly than expected or earlier in the universe than expected, or through some unexpectedly popular channel other than galaxy mergers. Pulsar timing arrays appear likely to produce increasingly useful data about galaxy formation, mergers, and evolution.

I think that having both LIGO (Hz-kHz, so ~stellar mass) and PTAs (~nHz, and much larger mass) giving views into different parts of the spectrum in gravtiational wave astronomy is pretty major. That LIGO appeared to work at all was awfully cool; and now we have these large international PTA collabs appearing to work too. I am tempted to compare high-end early 20th century optical telescopes at the dawn of radio telescopes: same electromagnetic spectrum, but sensitivity to different wavelengths, with different wavelengths associated with different phenomena and different objects.

PS: I like InPTA's set of cartoons at https://twitter.com/InPTA_GW/status/1674208503395934208 (thread).
It's not quite as a dramatic a difference as it appears - most petrol engines are going to be in the region of 30% efficiency, vs an electric motor at ~80-90% (or perhaps more?). Still, talking 5000Wh equivalent to 250, or a 20x difference (which is about in line with most real vehicles, I think? 1 tonne battery packs vs 50L fuel tanks)
Who does a government serve?
Its citizens, or its brand / self?

Citizenship was the world's first labor union.

Inherited citizenship is nepotism.

People love their children (genes).
> This is the cold truth

No, it's not. It's emotionally manipulative propaganda that is thinly-veiled political ranting, and so is your comment, and neither belong on HN. Stick to interesting, intellectually stimulating discussion, please.
The various ones for CPU microcode, drivers, OS images, firmware, firstparty and third party app store updates. Any of these has the power to sign code that will compromise your messages.
I'm sorry, I think I missed your point. The paper is focused on a language that can do fully in-place FP for a broad class of programs, with the checks done at compile-time.

I believe jq code is interpreted, so while it might be able to mutate some values in place, that doesn't mean the interpreter wouldn't allocate and release memory.
I'm not really following your comment about "more functional style".

Which are you saying is more functional? And why?
Strawman; nul-terminated strings are horribly slow for nearly every application. Hence I assume (especially given that they are using c++) that they are using length-accompanied strings rather than nul-terminated ones.
Ah, they edited it. Must be why I'm eating downvotes now :)
Yes, I did that extensively and ended up using reflection only. The code generation/generated is just hard to maintain and the tools that generate the code (and read the code) are hard to maintain as well. Currently I'm using code "reading" only to extract documentation so no more code generation.
Car buying is going to be a challenging market:

* There are a number of entrenched vendors in the space already for both new and used cars.
* Car companies and dealerships are working to eliminate the "invoice vs MSRP" price gap that was people used to negotiate a car purchase. That doesn't mean that gap no longer exists, only that car companies and dealerships are just unwilling to negotiate below MSRP. They are only willing to negotiate the markup over MSRP, which in many cases is ludicrously high.
* Some states have taken to legislating away the possibility of selling cars outside of dealer networks. Most with the intent to block Tesla, specifically, but they may also limit opportunities like what you are proposing.

There may be pockets of underserved consumers, but they are likely to have structural issues (low volume, high touch requirement, poor credit, legal concerns, etc.) that make them poor/undesirable targets for the established vendors. That usually translates to small market opportunity, limited upside availability, or both.

If you can figure out a way to completely disrupt the current model, you may be onto something. Tesla did that successfully with direct sales, and it worked until they started running into legal and legislative roadblocks precisely because of their success.
dang so this means that just like my 30yo 4GB hard drive is to my 4GB RAM phone… we ain’t seen nothing yet if we’re still counting these metrics?
Sure, but GP was talking about religion. I've never heard of a religion encouraging its followers to eat meat. The biggest ones generally discourage at least some kinds of meat.
So the defense you suggest, is for everyone to never accept updates to any software again? Are you serious?
Historically, (roughly), ads paid for the newspaper content and subscriptions (and newsstand sales) paid for the physical paper and distribution. But advertising rates have also gone way down (and classified ads, which were a huge money-maker, are basically gone) so it's not really comparable.
Is collecting a shipping address because PayPal's JavaScript is broken legal under the GDPR?
Yellow pages is regulated and static - the same for everyone.

Perhaps this is the answer for how to treat google? Regulate them heavily and ensure they show the same thing to everyone?

Interesting suggestion you're making.
would appreciate resources on fine tuning
They did try a model but it failed at the euqivalent of 2000m I believe
yep, that’s why it’s free.

If it was good, then they’d charge for it.

…what they (and everyone) is gonna do is play with smallish models to iterate on the process for relatively small expense and earn karma.

Then pay big $$$ to make a really good model for internal use and/or an api that people have to pay for.

Tldr; it’s free. It’s by sales force. You should expect it to be a) crippled and b) a loss leader for a paid product.

Not judging; it’s a fair strategy. Just saying: salesforce is not a company that just gives hundreds of thousands of dollars away for nothing.

If you want a good free open model, you’re kidding yourself if you think a corporate giant is going to kiss you on the head and give it to your for free.
That’s not true, higher priority interrupts could drive higher priority tasks still. That’s the premise of RTIC which also supports futures.
Will the Biggest Tech Merger of All Time Go Through?
> The Mac Pro almost seems like a product that Apple didn't care about, but had to announce by WWDC to save face in their transition schedule to Apple Silicon.

This is mostly correct. But it’s also mostly a product they haven’t cared about for approximately a decade. Two revisions, one completely rejected by almost all of its target market and positioned exactly opposite to the new offering. They know there’s a non-zero customer base they want to supply here, but every other part of their business is contrary to supplying it. The only reason they really care to supply it at all is network effects, and they also realize that’s way past diminishing returns. I think the only reason they even bothered besides prior commitments is lineage at this point.
Is some going towards contract film crews creating video content? e.g., Bertie Gregory's films?
Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
I’m not paying for the clickbait, mate.
Its biggest problem is that it sucks. Go back to basics and value add.
That's only true under the orthodox economics misconception that consumption (destruction) equals value ("broken windows" theory of value).

The best economics can only tell you how to convert value into different units. It can't tell you what value is.
What’re some models and hardware combos we can run now? I am avoiding to go to OpenAI with my office’s stuff and can use some gpu(s)
Scientists Find Evidence for Slow-Rolling Sea of Gravitational Waves
I can imagine that if there is FTL or teleport technology, it could have trouble upon arrival at a planet, because at that point it has to switch to a different mode and deal with gravity and air.

If you're teleporting many lightyears, it would be difficult to hit the target exactly - for example, if your distance is off by 0.00001% of the total, you could end up inside the earth.
One of my cats has the IQ to play Tetris, for sure. I know what will happen if I connect a brain/computer interface to him and let him at it. The other cat is fucking retarded though.
> starting to lose the good people - the ones you want to keep around.

Right, because telework is only beneficial for the good developers, because most outside of the top 20%/10%/5% won't be able to compete with low-cost international labor enabled by telework.

Telework is quite clearly a way to cut down on the middle class while enriching a small elite class of workers, and comments like this show those who think that they're in that class.
Is there a good reason why Base63 (nopad) doesn't exist? Ie Base64 minus the `-`, so that you almost get the density of base64 (nopad) but the double click friendly feature.

I was reviewing encodings recently and didn't want to drop all the way down to base32, but for some reason the library i was using didn't allow anything beyond base32 and bas64 variants, despite having a feature where you can define your own base.

I thought maybe it was performance oriented. An odd prefix length like base63 would mean .. i think, a slightly more computationally demanding set of encoding instructions?

Either way i basically want base58 but i don't care about legibility, i just wanted double click and url friendly characters.
Seems like a missed opportunity to make it Gua.
Unfortunately, US authors generally are shy of fanwork collaborations, due to a minor controversy in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction#...

>Also noteworthy is the series of Darkover anthologies published by Marion Zimmer Bradley, beginning in 1980, consisting largely of fan fiction extended into her canon. These books led to a much talked about controversy. Bradley read something in a fan story that meshed well with a Darkover book she was currently writing, so she wrote the fan author, Jean Lamb, offering her "a sum and a dedication for all rights to the text." In a 1991 Usenet post, Jean continued, "I attempted at that point to _very politely_ negotiate a better deal. I was told that I had better take what I was offered, that much better authors than I had not been paid as much (we're talking a few hundred dollars here) and had gotten the same sort of 'credit' (this was in the summer of 1992)...a few months later I received a letter from Ms. Bradley's lawyer threatening me with a suit."[52] After Bradley's death, more information has come out supporting the fan's story.[53]

>The rumor, however, was that Bradley had a skirmish with a fan who claimed authorship of a book identical to one Bradley had published and accused Bradley of "stealing" the idea, and the resultant lawsuit cost Bradley a book. Either way, her attorney advised her against reading fan fiction of her work. Versions of this incident are credited by many to have led to a "zero tolerance" policy on the part of a number of other professional authors, including Andre Norton, and David Weber.

The only author/fan collaborative project I'm closely familiar with, Homestuck/Paradox Space/Homestuck 2.0, did not... entirely... dissolve into recriminations and lawsuits, but was not terribly profitable.
It’s really the credit card fees that make it non-viable. That and it’s hard to charge someone $10 to read a $.99 article, and promise them they’ll have $9 in credits they can use in the future. That and network effects.

If I had the option to pay $1 each time NYT or other sources pay-walled me out, they’d have a lot of my money.
Coming from mobile indie games, I was thinking ads (which I now realize steam doesn't allow) and mtxn. Despite whatever moral qualms people have with this type of monetization I can say there are many multiplayer games that would not be possible without them (or VC funding).

I agree that for most games, the difference in installs between free and not-free is many orders of magnitude.
> here named "ogsudo" although I'm not sure how "gangsta" sudo really is

It's a joke.
The company supplying water to millions of Londoners is in deep trouble
They contacted me recently about licensing one of my photos, but the amount offered was pretty weak and not worth the invoicing and transactional emails.
That's not the point I'm making and I have to say it's pretty outlandish if it seems that way to you.

The point I'm making is that it's not because an organization is "not ready" that remote work is not permitted. Implying there is some set of steps or purchases they need to make and then they are ready. It's because the people who can make the decision don't want to.

I thought that I repeatedly made it clear that I made no value judgement on the remote work and didn't claim that is a bad decision to make.
It's not child hate, unless you count the sarcastic younger generations' dark jokes. For me and my wife, it was a rational decision. We never enjoyed kids much, we have careers that we wanted to fully pursue, and other people are having enough kids to make up for our lack of 1-2 more. We're also convinced that the world is overpopulated. What's the advantage of being 9 billion or more against being, say, 5 billion? The happiest countries in the world have lower population density, so the resources aren't as strained, and the natural beauty is still afordable to all. Dwindling gradually shouldn't be as disruptive as we're made to believe.

That, and also the glomy future our kids would have had. The biggest culprits of climate change and pollution aren't giving signs of stopping anytime soon (even more with the recent demagogic resurgence), and while we'll be dead in a few more decades, the younger generations will live in harder times than we did. Not having kids is also an abstentionist stament, because people who want more kids overlap significantly with people who don't care about the world they'll be leaving to those kids.
Software configurations for managing large amounts of academic papers?
I'm seeking recommendations for reliable software configurations that streamline finding, downloading (from varied sources), organizing, and formatting academic papers for my e-reader. What are your experiences with different workflows / configurations in this scenario?
Yeah, makes sense, I was just running through my train of thought to eliminate all other possibilities. I agree with you.
The Byford Dolphin happened at much lower pressures and the remains were in very disturbing shape.
Lets put on a manager hat for a minute (this might not sit well). Your manager could have been coasting along with your performance and not really giving good or any feedback. Then you inform them of upcoming absence which may have triggered a couple paths:

1. Panic that you are going to be out, they start looking at your work output in a haphazard way to figure out how to cover while you’re out. This looks like random slack micro-management and inspecting what you’re doing when they haven’t been.

2. You’re not a top performer, maybe mediocre or bad and the manager has been avoiding delivering the feedback because they are lazy and coasting. I’m not saying you are or aren’t, please don’t take it as an attack. It could even be a perception by mgmt. Maybe this event triggered them to actually look at your output and they realized something doesn’t add up. Maybe clear the air about this to see.

(pretend you’re an asshole VP now who thinks like this:) Are people actually delivering stuff and doing work or is work a side hustle amongst many other things people are doing like while taking yoga, sipping lattes, and staring at their phone. It could be others that have built up a bad perception in upper mgmts eye.

What should you do: do the steps the IANAL commenter said (@relaunched). Send emails for everything to confirm project statuses, timelines, expectations, interactions, etc. This is what they do on their side for a PIP. Do not violate company policy (aka give them an easy fire) with things like sending company data (emails) to yourself if that is against policy. FMLA is legal protection around taking leave for having kids and other things, look into that. Open up a convo with HR about FMLA (email papertrail) even if you don’t think you’ll do it.

It sucks you have crappy management. Also congrats!
Can't be honest about being taken aback without getting crowd downvoted by trigger-happy Rustaceans. You don't have to be that defensive I was honestly surprised by the choice of language for the application.
I'm glad you enjoy the game! Thanks for the great feedback. Making it a daily is certainly a viable design choice, though I'm happy the players have the freedom to enjoy as much content as they'd like.
Lion's Mane is thought to help memory. There are a lot of foods and supplements that can help your brain heal.
If you think about it, there have to have been WAY more people who accomplished great writing, theoretical thought, social comentary, even technical advances, that were never recorded in a discoverable way, than the number who are known from history.

Almost all "famous" people where not only men, but from wealthy families, or became the beneficiaries of wealthy patrons.

Even "the" Buddha was a prince. Whould we even have Budhism if he had been born a pauper?

There are certainly examples of people who rose from poverty to become historically significant, but you do have to wonder how many we'll never hear of...
Is there a reason you censored parts of tool names? Your link lists the uncensored version.
> Aren’t zero knowledge proofs cryptographic signatures?

No -- at least not in the sense that RSA uses. Zero knowledge proofs verify computation not data. The zero knowledge property means you can verify a computation ran without revealing its input. Some researchers call it "moon math."
How scientists are saving this tiny Nevada fish, one cooler at a time
I thought Asana were Xooglers?
I appreciate that this product is geared towards a narrowly-defined type of user. But I'm genuinely curious why would it be more appealing than a Studio with a Thunderbolt enclosure?

PCIe configuration of the 2023 Mac Pro: 1
Two double-wide full length x16 gen4 slots
Two double-wide full length x8 gen4 slots
Two single-wide full length x8 gen4 slots
One single-wide half length x4 gen3 slot preconfigured with the Apple I/O card
and up to 192GB RAM.

Meanwhile, a typical real-world workstation mobo like the Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE offers: 2
7 x PCIe 4.0/3.0 x16 slot(s)
Up to 2TB RAM

In my use case, I require 512GB RAM (next stop 1TB) and plenty of cores for heavy parallel build action, a Blue-team graphics card, 3 cards of fully-populated Asus Hyper M.2 X16 and a high-speed NIC, plus some life-improvements like a 4-port USB-C card. Requirements that seem to outstrip the capabilities of this new machine.

Hey, I love the appearance and feel, and I'm used-to and productive with MacOS on desktop. Up until iOS and newer cousins took over Apple's revenue sheet in the early 2010s, the x86 Mac Pro was a permanent fixture under my desk and a reliable partner. That plus a well-specced Linux box and I never had to worry about being out of action. But since that time, my impression is that it and Mac on the desktop in general feels like it's in decline, neglected, it's software increasingly abandonware, Apple's conception of the target market is every-more narrowly defined and on a just-enough basis, and perhaps most important of all the system's first allegiance no longer to me.

Maybe I need to accept or re-conceptualize that Mac Pro today is just for a narrow group of content creators, at least for the meantime...

1 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213661
2 https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/wo...
It's the oxymoron of their business: a perfect search engine would show you exactly what you need, exactly when you ask it. You would never be available for advertising, because the search engine would already find exactly what you were looking for if it's a product.
Isn't that mostly because of the power imbalance between the record label and the musician?

That is, the analogy you're really looking for is whether Spotify works for the record label.
Most of them at least were released on DVD though the version I got for cheap at a library book sale would require doing some magic with an old version of Windows and I haven't bothered. But there may be a newer version. But yeah, like the early days of CD-ROMs it's sort of one of those things you think would be great to own and you don't really do much with it.
> It's a good concept, it just needs a champion big enough to build a standard process that is elegant and painless and then onboard the largest news sources to kick-start the ecosystem.

Like some sort of HTTP 402 response? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-10.4.3

I still say the web would be better than it is now, if microtransactions had been built into protocols ASAP.

Free begat ads begat tracking begat walled gardens begat centralization begat destruction of a diversity of market players
I have such fond memories of going to my grandparents house and looking at the rows of yellow magazines sitting on their bookshelf. My favorite was an issue about the Loch Ness Monster.
Somebody walked away from a live terminal with a ruinous transaction pending on the press of an enter key?

Where did fault truly lie here and what protocols would prevent this in future?
Very good point I haven't ever seen posed before. And here's another angle: the unconditional felony possession thing is extremely convenient if you're looking to frame someone. Whether it's drugs, CP, or some other material.
The number of parameters seems meaningless when the training sets are dogshit and hardened old gum chipped from the shoes of Gregslist and FleaBay.

OTOH, there ought to be a construction in the form of an web app that can pinch out nonrepetitive, coherent ~100 page trashy romance novels in the style of any author given name with open source or specific text(s) or transcripts with enough original input volume: Churchill, The Unabomber, psycho happy kindergarten child development IEP manual writer, The Dude, Walter (agro gun nut), Bob Ross, Grace Hopper, Ayn Rand, LBJ, The Dalai LaMa%, Hitler, Kanye (Ye), Bhad Bhabie, and the King James Bible. Ethical and generational safety features be damned; it'd be generating fucking^2 art for hilarious entertainment purposes. How does one stretch training input to something that might involve human/computer output validation to discard sticking on repetitive nonsense?

% He never saw that one coming Ow^(3 + i).
additional thoughts - my theory is that google’s tools show you what is necessary to make you buy ads, not the truth. so i am looking for reliable sources.
The difference is LAN v/s internet. Doing anything on LAN is a solved problem for pretty much all software. The experience deteriorates severely once you access over the internet. I continue to use plex behind nginx on a rented server, but the experience is nothing to write home about.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2550

Note that this RFC also supports lexicographic sorting for negative numbers using the 10k complement notation.
What's a title troll?