skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see "sensitivity" plots for the various methods we have for observing gravitational waves. The horizontal axis is usually in terms of the frequency of the wave and the vertical axis is how sensitive we are to them. This article is about "nanohertz" waves, which means their wavelength is roughly 10⁹sec × speed of light, i.e. 30ish light years. So, it seems we can detect really "big" gravitational waves. If you look through the aforementioned plots you will see that sensitivity drops off significantly for "more astronomical" wavelengths, so there are definitely scales at which we can not detect, as you suggested.

There might be some interesting ways to introduce very long gravitational waves as solution of current discrepancies in our understanding of cosmology, but they are also probably introducing more discrepancies than they solve. I would guess people have considered these ideas, because "cosmological scale general relativity" is pretty heavily researched and mainstream.
I meant invest into other equities, such as the public stock market, not invest into paying down the home principal.
Wouldn't be surprised if that was next Outlook feature.

Cue someone making some horrible error because some crucial information didn't survive ChatGPT->ChatGPT round-trip
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There are now officially 10 year car loans, 40 year mortgages.
Ah I see what you mean, I was talking more about “editing” in the sense being able to fill all kinds of form entry and edit them and other text.

For example, I want to have a “check” in a form by clicking, not by dragging an “X” onto the box.
> In my "LCOL" flyover area I'm seeing $30+ pizza and $18 burgers, along with $10 beers at bars. It's insane.

"$30+ pizza and $18 burgers" doesn't say much when you consider that there's a huge price/quality range between basic and premium offerings. For instance, a $18 waygu beef burger at a gastro pub doesn't seem very out of place at all, but a $18 mcdonalds burger would be outrageously expensive.
I think he ran out of good ideas. Electric vehicles and computer-controlled rockets would've happened eventually, but he had enough money and insight to light the fuses at the right time.

He found two bits of low-hanging fruit, picked them, and started taking random useless actions when he couldn't find more.
I mean, this is a Venture Capitalist forum of discussion, is it not? The focus on ycombinator / Hacker News is almost always going to be on business models and profits?

What are other reasons for TEMU to be doing its actions? We've definitely seen dumping before in terms of a business strategy so its a thing we're familiar with, at least from a US-lens / perspective.
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It isn't just companies. For example, one of the most central parts of downtown Seattle is owned by the University of Washington[0], a government institution. Some of their leases are structured as revenue share on the real estate. This is both an asset they borrow against and a source of income.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Tract_(Seattle)
pre-nups obviously should be mandatary - it would remove any stigma from the process and ensure a fair deal for all. Think of how much $$$ would be saved that would otherwise go to divorce lawyers, not to mention reducing the level of acrimony which always escalates when one party feels the other is trying to gain advantage
shrug

It kind of depends on your mortgage rate. If your rate is low it technically makes more sense to invest your money, as that'll have a great return. If your mortgage rate is high, you might be better off paying extra each month against the principle as it'll drastically reduce how much you pay in interest over the course of the loan.
No. Max withholding on RSUs is something like 22% so I have to make up the difference or owe tens of thousands at the end of the year.
Generally no, and i don't think anyone was thinking we were talking about sites that only the writer sees? Otherwise what's the point of running a server?
A cultural, environmental, historical, and scientific disaster. The ramifications of it will be around for hundreds of years.
Agreed, although most companies in Oxford never really matched living costs either (well, housing costs) - Oxford Uni pay staff comparably to other companies in the area (like Elsevier or Oxford Computer Consultants). Let alone the low salaries in academia there...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/123058-there-s-class-warfar...

The denial is strong in some people.
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Disposable income as an aggregate doesn't show a income-level class (my point). Unfortunately having up to date information on economic status given the income level is hard to get.
Usually when there is cognitive dissonance involved with the command. Parents might tell you being gay or smoking weed sends you to hell, but then when you finally see examples of people that meet these definitions your parents espoused but aren't presumably suffering the harmful effects they claim, you start to question their judgement and the entire belief system they saddled upon you. Teenagers don't usually act out just to act out. They don't argue to you the sky is red when you say its blue, they will argue breathless over it though if you claim its red when they can go outside and see that it is blue.
Clarified: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113679

> Ah I see what you mean, I was talking more about “editing” in the sense being able to fill all kinds of form entry and edit them and other text.

> For example, I want to have a “check” in a form by clicking, not by dragging an “X” onto the box.
> Currently trying to buy a Corolla Hybrid (base).

I wanted to buy a Corolla Hybrid, but the wait list was ridiculous, something like 9 months. Toyota has major supply chain issues.

I ended up getting a (non-hybrid) Honda Civic for under $30k. I still had to wait a month though.
WTF is "typical" supposed to mean? It's in the source, too, which is a tweet. [edit: and apparently a personal email to CNN?]

Teacherman @jboyd33488892
Replying to @Markzandi

Is that extra $700/month a mean or a median?

Also in the replies from @David_Charts:

Hourly wage gains have exceeded inflation vs. pre-pandemic:

+20.5% wages of prod & non-supv workers
+17.4% inflation (CPI-All)
+15.5% inflation (CPI-Core, ex food & energy)

Yes, workers have more purchasing power now than in the vaunted 2019 economy.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?graph_id=959796
Paying off your mortgage with an interest rate less than inflation is a mathematically verifiable horrible idea. You're short the dollar deeply. Keep that short position for as long as you can because on a long enough horizon you'll be right so long as the Fed continues to manipulate the market.

That doesn't necessarily mean lever up. But it does mean take that extra X% you'd put into your mortgage and place it in some CDs/Bonds/whatever. Or even better, if inflation is still higher than the current rate you could even use it to buy an investment property and then pay that off as slow as possible as well. Let the banks hang themselves being long the dollar!

Debt is only bad when you're losing. The problem is it takes a level of sophistication to understand when you're winning. Hence, the need for Ramsey-type all-or-nothing solutions.
you’re mocking his weak references but you’re not offering one yourself
Good read indeed.

Brings back memories of the 1000's of Japanese made IC's I've seen in my life. Nec (uPD...), Toshiba (TC...), Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Sony custom IC's, Yamaha sound & video chips, OKI, Ricoh, Sharp & others.

Come to think of it, most simpler IC's (voltage regulators, 74LS logic, opamps etc) back in the day was US (TI) or even EU made (Philips, ST).

Especially Nec had extensive databooks (late 70s/early 80s) with everything from CPUs (including V20, V30, or 2nd source like Z80), various types of memory, peripherals like LCD controllers, that famous 765 floppy controller, 4-bit microcontrollers, early DSPs (7720 family), etc, etc.

If you're into this stuff:

https://Bitsavers.org

has a nice archive of databooks like these.
How about both groups suffer far more than they should in any civilized, modern society. It’s not a contest which group is screwed over the most, let’s instead focus on why/how/what and solve.
Yeah that's one of the insane things that will happen.

Very soon everyone will in effect "hide" behind an agent that will take all kinds of decisions on one's behalf. Everything from writing e-mails to proposals but also to sue someone, make financial decisions, and be a filter that transforms everything going in or out.

I can't imagine this world really. How the hell are people going to compete or stand out? Doesn't it seem that what little meritocracy existed wills soon drown in noise?
Oh he had plenty of spotlight time. He's just been slowly descending into nonsense.

My theory is: he's surrounding himself by people who put him on a pedestal and will therefore only be yes-men. In such a situation I imagine that you lose track of what's a reasonable way of thinking, and possibly remove the few remaining sensible people out of your life because they tend to disagree with you.
Warmly remember taking his computational geometry in undergrad. It was the most engaging and mathematically creative class I took in college.
> As a parent with kids, I really don't know how folks are getting by with the prices of everything. I know folks who keep eating out, buying new vehicles, and even building new houses and I'm left scratching my head wondering how they afford all of this.

I hear you perfectly. What I did a while ago was to fully embrace a more frugal lifestyle where attention and time are the most valued. So consumption went to a minimum and all that. Now after prices jumped up we’re where we started and despite being frugal we’re left with a lot less. It is quite unsettling to be honest…
My parents lived much more comfortable lives... grandparents even more so...

Interesting how you stopped at "grandparents".

To be clear, absolutely not intended as any kind of attack on you or what you've written - just some thoughts passed on to me that made it easier to be grateful for that which is in my life, period:

Consider past generations - we're in "the 1%" by that metric alone. No / hardly (any "real") medicine, completely unstable food supplies, other tribes coming over the hills and killing everyone ... and, that's describing more of the "history" part of human existence, to date.* Further, a core bias of psychology is "the golden age bias".** Including feelings as simple as: when events are in the past, things can seem so "neat", "orderly", and ... "simple". Oh for one income to feed a family of four, right? But, how many had that experience - what proportion? And, that ties in with "survivor bias" etc.

Don't get me wrong, instability is a PITA. I get where you're coming from. It's not as though I don't have such thoughts. But, I can always come back to various bits of wisdom I've picked up from a myriad of sources, including a phrasing I've always liked that AFAIK is from Bill Maher:

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

That always helps me to remember that I didn't just watch my village burn to the ground due to the Mongol or European or etc. raiders, my relatives get raped and murdered, my child die of ... well, just about anything ...

... maybe some in this thread will find these ideas useful as well.

* Zooming out a bit more ... I always find it amusing walking in a park, especially - hearing the birds chirping, seeing the squirrels "frolicking" ... what passes for a pleasant "pastoral" experience for us, is filled with advertisements for sex / nasty "neighbor property line disputes" (birds chirping), animals desperately trying to find the next meal or water, etc.

** https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Good_old_days
It's always seemed extremely disingenuous to lump all price rises into a single number called "inflation". It makes "inflation" seem like some kind of magic force that just happens and can only be solved by the equally magic application of something like fiscal policy. But it's not magic, price rises are the result of active and deliberate choices by companies and countries which could be solved with actual policy changes.

Housing prices go up because there is a shortage of housing and the housing that exists is being used as investments. The solutions could be to make it easy to build more housing and also to make policy changes to encourage other ways to save money.

Energy prices go up because we've wedded ourselves to fossil fuels that are controlled by very few players who can set whatever prices they want. The solutions might be to diversify energy sources and reduce energy consumption.

Food prices go up because of energy prices and because food companies are gouging for profits. The solutions might be to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels for food production and to not allow food production to be a for profit enterprise.

The prices of other goods went up because there was a global pandemic that disrupted supply chains around the world. The solution might be to build a more resilient system for providing goods rather than one that's cut to the bones to increase profits.

There are real solutions to the problems that cause price rises but as long as we treat "inflation" as some sort of magic force in the universe those solutions will continue to be ignored in favor of magical thinking and political arguing.
“Not significantly” = they did, and we’re going to downplay by how much.

“Children died”. No. They didn’t. Children had the lowest overall mortality.

> That analysis, which included empirical data on mortality in 2020 from more than 110 countries and areas and from more than 80 countries and areas for 2021, found no evidence of widespread, significant excess mortality among those under age 25 or excess stillbirths for 2020 or 2021.

- unicef

Try again.
Also there is probably some level of fear that they aren't working as hard as they could. Even if productivity is likely same, as in office they would be physically present, but likely do about same amount of actual work.

Butts in seats, not the output is what feels right and is at least somewhat measurable.
Without going into deep details and a budget... everything has gotten more expensive. Groceries are at least double what they were, over $1000 a month. Summer electric bill is over $300. Internet is now $140 a month. Health insurance is now over $500 per month, and that doesn't even cover the out of pocket stuff I have to pay with the kid's various visits. All streaming services have increased in price. And so on and so on.

I could go on and on, I'm sure I sound like a 'back in my day' old man. But the 'my day' in this case was just 5 years ago...
We eat bananas all of the time. Bananas are delicious and nutritious, and they are known for containing lots of potassium. Well, some of that potassium is radioactive! It’s not very much radioactivity though. It is an amount which is easily measured, but which is not harmful enough to make eating bananas dangerous. This is true even though the potassium will be used to strengthen your bones and teeth. It will also be distributed to your muscles, red blood cells, skin, etc, etc.
You’re talking about a drop of water in an ocean. The Islamic slave trade is the most massive and brutal such enterprise that has ever existed. And the Crusades were a direct response to Islamic invasions of Europe.

Islamic culture is definitely highly influential on Europe and in turn was highly influenced by European culture, and that kinship is worth acknowledging unlike this whiny confrontational Islamophobia narrative which holds no water when you actually look into the historical context. But this whole self-flagellation thing never been about actual mutual appreciation of different cultures.
Run by whomever can provide rescue services if something goes wrong, and/or enforce a monopoly on violence.
I think the more common case is to have a handful of bullet points and some notes and ask chat GOT to put into a coherent letter for an external customer with the goal of XYZ. I’ve done similar things and it is a huge timesaver. I still have to edit it, but it gives me a start that’s probably on par to what a Junior engineer would write as a first draft.
I bet wherever you are living you have a household income in the top 20% locally. I bet you’re spending a lot more on “something” than the median wage earner in your metro area.
>> Why do you think folks who walked thousands of miles to somewhere nobody would receive them to build a better life for their family mostly through backbreaking Labor would be a shitty American?

As a group they tend to be great Americans — the backbreaking labor is just part of it; the main story is that we all benefit from an influx of immigrants who have demonstrated the ability to formulate and execute an action plan to try to improve their and their families' lives in the face of difficult circumstances — hmm, sounds like entrepreneurial startup founders, no?

> A certain party wouldn’t have won any elections in recent memory without the support of people who weren’t born in America, who are just giving their vote to whoever promises them material support. Is that democracy?

You really think that's why Democrats win?
It's just not. I recommend you research deeper here. Fauna is richest only near the edges of the forest or near rivers. In a deep closed-canopy temperate forest, there's just really not that much going on.
You do realize companies function better when employees are friends, right?

I'm not saying forced daily association is the way to make them friends, but you can see the logic behind trying to encourage it.
Then how do you explain reverse psychology?
And with how modern media is structured, for short drive-by statements and social media engagement, this (I would argue natural) human argument style is made a thousand times worse.
As someone who remembers well the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, and lived in Russia for a period during the tumultuous 90s, it's really sad to me how the hope of that era (despite the fact that it could easily be argued that what happened in the 90s really set the stage for today's government in Russia) has devolved into the autocratic dystopia that is present day Russia (and China, for that matter).

Sometimes I can't decide if Gen X in the US was the luckiest or unluckiest generation. On one handed we got to spend our teens and 20s during the 90s, one of the most hopeful/optimistic periods in human history (fall of the Iron Curtain, US budget surpluses, rise of the Internet), but on the other hand we got to see it all reverse in a scant 20 years: liberal democracy teetering across the globe, climate change not being some far off thing but an immediate concern, unimaginable wealth inequality, the rise of technology as a force used to destroy our social fabric, and just generally feeling so many people be angry/scared/depressed all the time. Hopefully "this too shall pass".

Edit: since many people seem to be misunderstanding what I was saying: yes, I know Russia was a complete, corrupt shit show in the 90s - I saw it first hand, and it was really, really sad. What I meant is that there was a ton of hope by many people (at least the Russians I knew/lived with in Moscow) when communism first fell that they would be able to transition to a successful democracy. Much of the sadness was that potential never came to fruition.
Also, at some point some users ended up with other users’ chat history [0]. So they’ve proven to be a bit weak on that side.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649806/chatgpt-chat-his...
I understand that perception but "seems to be a lot of strings" is all that is publicly known. None of those further obligations seem to have been disclosed. Without that disclosure it's a bit of a conspiracy theory?

Thus, it could very well be OpenAI has taken dollars, is commercially selling its technology to Microsoft on terms which aren't special, and sama and the OpenAI executive team and board has independently concluded that engaging in the partnership is a stellar way to grow their OpenAI brand, business and valuation?
It’s only common sense to present the pros and cons of policy. You don’t seem to even think it’s worth your time to take an actual stab at estimating the cost of death, and so it’s only common sense to think you haven’t thought your way through this at all. You’re still arguing this is a budgetary concern without acknowledging the fact that your policy may actually result in a worse budgetary concern.

You know what’s also common sense? That death isn’t a good thing. More death = worse society. Bad society = no money.
And yeah... it is interesting that GPT-generated agents sometimes "realize" that they could be indeed GPT-generated.

I once saw a strange dream where my "character" realized that he was only a product of my imagination — the very moment before I woke up. It was not me, but him, who had that stunning realization. And once it happened, there was no him.

So I sometimes wonder if that is how the death looks like — you just suddenly realize that "you" was only a subprocess temporarily spawned to existence within some kind of powerful virtual machine, be it a GPT-1000 or whatever.
> so huge that we'd have trouble detecting them

Gravitational waves can be arbitrarily long because patterns in the cosmic microwave background suggest the early universe had gravitational radiation with wavelengths of arbitrary size, including quite long waves. The metric expansion of space has stretched those "primordial gravitational waves" (PGW), so even short-wavelength-in-early-universe PGW can have periods of many years at about the present size of the universe.

Additionally, most models of cosmic inflation stretch PGW, with some of the stretched wavelengths being made longer than the distance to the cosmic horizon (Initially, before inflation, PGWs can have practically unlimited length or can be almost arbitrarily short, with the shortest winding up not so short once inflation has ended), so at modern times the super-horizon-length primordial waves would have periods of many billions of years.

Any masses in a ~binary orbit (stars to galaxies, down to grains of dust and up to collections of galaxies like in the local group, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group>, the "dumbbell" shape is relevant) generates gravitational waves with a frequency comparable to the orbital period. In our sky there are galaxies that appear to be in mutual orbits with orbital periods of many millions of years.

The pulsar timing arrays in the cartoons linked at the top of the page look for gravitational waves with periods of months to years. It takes several orbital periods to be statistically comfortable that a gravitational wave with that period (nanohertz frequency) has been detected. Those are probably generated by supermassive black holes in hard mutual orbits. If we soften such an orbit, increasing the semimajor axis (or radius for a circular orbit), the orbital period grows, so we have to watch the array of pulsars longer (and be more wary of so-called red noise and other long-term signal contamination).

> some of the weirdness and contradictions we have observed in astronomy

Unlikely. Do you have any particular weirdness and/or contradiction in mind?
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It's a home daycare. She has 5 kids that she watches, and only one infant. I think that might be the maximum she's allowed - certainly only one infant. The infant price is more expensive as well.

Keep in mind that daycare centers themselves need to profit, so going "direct" would be cheaper.
barco is a project I worked on to learn more about Linux containers and the Linux kernel, based on other guides on the internet. I got lots of feedback, interest, and some contributions/fixes last week and I wanted to share it with you.