skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is underselling it, the paper makes the point that because of black holes there are many maximums for physical quantities.

Another similar treatise listed a bunch:

Maximum pressure is what you would hypothetically feel on the bottom of your feet if held up against the gravity of a black hole at the even horizon, as-if standing on the surface of a solid plant or on the floor of a spaceship holding position.

Maximum irradiance is the photon density that would turn into a black hole because there’s too much mass/energy per unit volume of space.

Etc, etc…

Essentially, the existence of black holes puts constraints on everything physical. There are no true infinities in the universe!

I’ve never seen a better argument for “we’re living in a simulation” than this. It just feels an awful lot like everything is represented with 128-bit numbers and these extreme are what happens as you approach the maximum representable range…
I still stand by my previous answer.
It's even easier to make a 3 screenshot tutorial to explain how to do it in Avidemux. Slightly more work would be to fork Avidemux and rip out everything but the lossless cutting. But then you'd at least have a tool worth calling it that.

It's not a one-way street, either. Even just putting a link in front of me is asking for my attention. I then read the description, which doesn't mention that it's giant and totally pointless if you use Avidemux, and have to click to the releases page to realize yes, it's another one of these that seem to quickly become the norm, and that I know won't be maintained in 5 years. But hey, I don't have anything better to do with my time, surely!
I'm one of the top forest rangers in America. I am a trained and experienced forest observer, so when I tell you that I've seen bigfoot, you know I have a lot of credibility.

Now, I know what you're thinking, lots of people have hoaxed bigfoot sightings before. That is true, in fact I myself once rented a gorilla suit and pranced around in the woods pranking campers. With my suit on I turned off my flashlight and ran up to their campfire OOKing and EEKing, then ran back off into the trees. Instant bigfoot sighting. I have a sick sense of humor like that. Anyway, I tell you this so that you know I understand most bigfoot sightings aren't real, but I'm telling you now that I did see bigfoot for real! I swear it on my mum's life. Why, I'll even swear it to a room fool of politicians.
I read the paper did still report on her DUI but for an unrelated reporting on a city council meeting though? The thing they didn't do was use the anonymously leaked DUI information they received for the original reporting on the restaurant incident (2 different articles). Which is why they defended themselves saying the DUI stuff they later published for the city council article was simply via public records.

I could be wrong though and happy to be corrected.

Otherwise if that's is indeed the case, then how did the police learn about the DUI leak without them actually reporting on it first?
Being from a ridiculously rainy region and having worked on solar thermal, I can warrant you that while it's not as functional when in bad conditions, it still works.

Consider it's usually set as a setup combined with a standard heating system (gas, electric...), and while there are situations where it can't handle the full load (absolutely horrible darker than night days) it'll always reduce or nullify costs. And since installation and maintenance are relatively cheap, it's always going to save you some money on the long run.

Also consider some areas can be really hot, but have very cold water lines. I need to heat my water in summer despite being above 40ºC outside. Having solar negates that cost entirely, giving you like 9 months where you spend nothing in water heating. Considering how expensive gas/electric has become in this country, it's quite the relief for a wallet.
Hey! Author here. That's actually a fair point — in hindsight, I see why the article comes off as 'because AI' and not having clear articulations on how the developer experience changes. The current set of changes we have are indeed incremental additions.

That being said, this is not accidental because we intend to not fundamentally disrupt the core workflows of today right away (as another comment said — IDEs of today are indeed built on years of user experience research). But we do see the capability to simplify or rethink the developer experience once AI is deeply integrated into every workflow. Its perhaps the same way I'd have never stated writing code as a problem, but after having used Copilot, I don't want to go back to not having it.
I'm not sure what my bio has to do with the value I get from social media.
Tried this for recent DosGameClub and it's not quite perfect yet, though a huge step up from the original if you cannot stand how zoomed in the vanilla game looks.

Similarly OpenJazz allows playing Jazz1. It has even more quirks than Resurrection, and can similarly allow zooming out with higher resolutions
It's interesting, because the same thing is done in the Catholic Church with the liturgy.

The liturgy was very stable for about 500 years, but that's not to say that there weren't revisions. Typically there were not a lot of opportunities for the people themselves to really respond. Of course it was all in Latin, and could be deployed anywhere in the world intact without change.

Now when the liturgy was translated into the vernacular, it presented the opportunity for a vast machinery of translations. There are hundreds of Catholic Masses in all languages, all translated from Latin, and kept updated on a regular basis. This enables musicians to freshly copyright new tunes at every update and rake in cash at parish expense!

So the effect of a regularly updated, vernacular Mass is that sometimes they change the parts that the assembly says. The most drastic and noticeable changes were implemented in 2011, and there have been minor "corrections" since then.

As a result, if you go to a wedding or funeral, you can just listen critically and immediately pick out anyone who hasn't been to Mass in N years because they are automatically reciting the old words by rote!

Likewise, you can catch a priest who's rusty and not in the habit of using the Missal, because they've made really subtle but critical changes to his words in a few places. (Priests are always supposed to read out of the Missal verbatim.)
There are too many honeybees
They have made it clear it is not a focus, and killed features, but that all seemed in the interest of making it something that continued to function without much work on their end. Which seems fair enough.
Yeah, that is kind of insulting.
Guess people don't realize there are many lengths of triathlons.
Fulls and Halfs are typically done together with an extra lap or leg added in for the Full.
It certainly can't be infinite. It might be a really big limit. It might be asymptotically approached, and never reached. But even very big combinatorial numbers are not to be confused with infinity.

If there is no limit to prosperity, it follows that not only do you not run out of atoms, you also don't run out of ways to rearrange those atoms that you prefer to earlier arrangements. In that case there is no configuration of the universe that is ultimately the most preferable, which must mean that you have exploitable cyclic preferences.
For use with LLMs, I implemented my own vector DB code in Common Lisp and Swift.

When I work in Python, my favorite is absolutely Chroma embedded.

The article is wrong about Chroma embedded being in memory only. It also works fine with write through to a local disk, including maintaining index files.
Because you want to paginate. Update the page piecemeal based on an event from another user. Because you want to use the same data on multiple pages, and want to write the authorization and filtering logic once.
I find myself unable to think of "systemctl" pronounced as anything but "system-cuddle" since watching her stream.
I don’t see how the DUIs are even relevant. Just seems like a smear campaign to discredit the judge.
Thanks for the thorough comment, I appreciate your insights. I was thinking about something like htmx since it seems to be getting a lot of positive buzz lately. The only thing keeping me from going that way is that I can offload most of the frontend work to folks who understand it better.

For 2b, could you elaborate a bit? Is this like having dedicated handling for specific functionality? If I understand you, for example instead of PUT-ing some status on /myobject/{id}/, I could have something like /myobject/{id}/update_status/. And the benefit here is assuming that setting status is not a straightforward transition (maybe requires other transformations, etc), that this lets you better compartmentalize this complex logic instead of having one giga-endpoint for all PUTs?
Raptor is getting a remaster by the original author. It's taking him a while as it seems to be a side hustle.
How do these things work anyway? I get it that for older phones that used just passcodes, a bug in the retry time limit verification (or its bypass with glitching) is enough, but on modern phones the combination with a decent passphrase should be impossible to bypass.
read it, cool idea to present starting with negative probability, didn’t love it as an intro, liked ivan_ah’s treatment better. also didn’t like that Scott pushed complex numbers to the end given their intimate connection to waves and phase and interference which was not discussed and is core to my personal intuition so far.
> He made an error in the code: evcon. and evlis. should come before eval..

A note: That's not an error. The code works just fine in Common Lisp because CL doesn't care about the order of definitions so long as the definitions are made prior to execution. Given that both `evcon.` and `evlis.` also call `eval.`, there is no way to create a canonical linear ordering of the three functions aside from aesthetic preference. You will get similar warnings if you put them before or put them after `eval.`.
The Republic of Cows
SMS 2FA was put behind the paywall - ostensibly because they saw "bad actors" abusing it, but more likely because it costs money to send text messages and they're bleeding like a stuck pig thanks to Musk.

App and keyfob-based 2FA is still free.
You're talking past each other.

He responded to a statement in the article comparing solar thermal collection with solar + heat pump.

The article mostly talks about mechanical heat pumps, and you leapt to that, talking past him.

(I think both the article and him are not strictly correct: solar thermal heating has a place but is not typically a efficiency win).
I want to correct a recent post I made about the Vision Star Five. That board is only competitive against the Raspberry Pi 3. This one here actually is on a level playing field as the Raspberry Pi 4.

https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a

In practice, the lack of vector instructions significantly limits the performance of the processors. So they tend to perform poorly in Geekbench or the Phoronix benchmarks.

Anyway. The reason why RISC-V will beat ARM has little to do with the merits of RISC-V really. The reason is that ARM is a sclerotic company that is falling behind the competition and RISC-V as an architecture itself does nothing to beat ARM, it is the fact that everyone has become an ARM competitor that will finish off ARM.

x86 is still a significant threat to both ARM and RISC-V in the datacenter, for instance because there is a semblance of competition between Intel and AMD.
Due to the sensitivity of the subject I was trying to be on point the article and the OP about unclear goals without shitting on the followers themselves.

But yes, you're right, and it's actually way worse than being discussed because this movement is really a cult and has destroyed countless families as well as threaten the foundations of democracy itself.

There's a kind of madness to it all and I know I can't be the only one who struggles to come to terms with the fact that so many of our fellow citizens have succumbed to it.
I don't really feel like Bronny James's story is relevant here- this was due to poor weather conditions, not any type of cardiac issue or lack of screening.
It’s pretty uncommon to have two competitors die in an Ironman race.
I still don’t understand Theranos’s original value prop. Once you are already going in to have blood taken, what difference does it make whether it’s a small amount or a full test tube?
If you don’t make it to the end of the article you may not see the massive rabbit hole down there that is the https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/ - some incredible projects there, I had no idea this was so popular!
You can measure rot within a growing corporation. It's how much money they spend on us. - McKinsey
I actually like TwitterX ever since Musk bought it, I think it's gotten a lot better overall.

But that being said, if the best TwitterX can do are the aforementioned then I also won't shed a tear seeing it go away into the history books.
Speeding up LLM Inference with parallel decoding
Way to make important life decisions for other people. The hubris needed to declare how other people should choose to die is quite remarkable.
It speaks to the character of the offender, not the crime itself. Is that a smear campaign; I don't know. Perhaps when more facts are known it will become clearer.
It's a long and meandering piece, but here's something like the core argument:

> And all these assumptions rest on the biggest assumption of all—that a live sample of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (or its proximal ancestor) was actually inside a Wuhan virology lab in the first place. Nobody has yet provided any evidence that it was (or that it was inside any laboratory anywhere in the world) prior to the discovery of a novel pathogen in Wuhan in December 2019. Until this is demonstrated, all subsequent assumptions can be chopped away with Occam’s razor and discarded.

But no research group in the world has published literally everything it's ever worked on. Even with no deliberate attempt to conceal, it takes time to write stuff up. The WIV had at least one unpublished coronavirus[1], which independent researchers were able to assemble from contamination in sequencing equipment shared with published agricultural samples. That merbecovirus couldn't possibly be an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2; but if they had one unpublished virus, then it's hard to dismiss the possibility that they had two.

The author then seems to take a natural-origin pandemic as the "null hypothesis", to be accepted in the absence of strong evidence otherwise. But research related to a flu vaccine almost certainly caused the 1977 flu pandemic[2], with 700k dead, and smaller-scale biosafety accidents are sadly routine. I'm amazed by the number of people that virological research has managed to kill with no significant public backlash--Bhopal and Chernobyl are famous, and both prompted significant political reforms, without even a tenth of the death toll.

1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.12.528210v1....

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26286690/
But how many people would have actually flown on an airplane? What makes lives meaningfully different isn't whether a thing exists in the world somewhere; it's whether people experience it.
> In another comment, you said that you don't know what the Navier-Stokes equations are. Given that, I don't think you're in a good position to judge their value.

It was an exaggeration given that it never came up during my studies once. And I think that's a fantastic assessment of their value that I made it through most of a decade of studies without having to know a thing about fluid dynamics.

> I have a couple of group theory books myself, and I don't agree with your assessment that group theory should get priority over fluid dynamics.

...why? You're commenting on a physics line of education here. We don't use fluid dynamics and we extensively use group theory.
Why are the participants doing that... Did they need this race to qualify or something?
A slower speed of light (2012)
"Yeah, we found them in this weird old Armory place. Was just going to go through them with Mom."
Love it. Put these people on blast on the national stage. This kind of behavior needs to be stamped out.
Why do you say that the search warrant was illegal?

A search warrant of a newspaper is not inherently illegal.

On the other hand, if I understand correctly, the search warrant was authorized (or at least the authorization was filed) only three days after the search. Post hoc approval of search warrants is almost certainly not legal. If that wasn't a clerical mixup, then yes, the search warrant was illegal. (I'm not going to get too bothered by an approved search warrant that didn't get filed for three days because a clerk messed up - if that's what happened.)
The asylum/institution model was abandoned largely because there appeared to be widespread abuse, neglect, and poor outcomes, which were typified by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The trouble is that people apparently decided that the abuse, neglect, and poor outcomes were due to inpatient status and not anything inherent to the treatments themselves, so in the 40+ years since asylums all closed, we've basically reinvented invisible asylums with a massive apparatus of voluntary, inefficient outpatient programs which are rife with abuse, neglect, and poor outcomes.
“ But to do anything interesting physics, astronomy, philosophy too you need to be in school.” Why would you say that? I am curious. Imagine you are into a specific physics subject and knows what to do with some of contemporary problems that are puzzling people, work on it to provide your solution, etc., and publish your findings. I would think no one could prevent you. Right?
Not sure I understand the insult. The article mentioned the distances and called it half ironman (Ironman 70.3 might be more correct, but I think everybody calls that half anyway).

Adding the word to the title doesn't make a huge difference to me "Two men die in Half Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"
It really felt like this was its fate from the get, Russia isn't rich anymore.
It is true that there are a lot of deaths in 'extreme' sports. And people push themselves too far. But I think swimming is an exception. If you are running and in a 'fog', or being 'out of it', because of exertion, then fine, eventually you drop. But in Swimming, the risk is super high, you die. If in the water, and distressed, then the life guards should be able to over-ride someone waving them off.
It's not entirely clear. Originally I believe it was only a couple features; a bruteforce for the PIN/auth and some kind of social engineering process that tricked the user into unlocking their phone. Only a few details have really leaked about it: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/22/iphone-hacking-to...

At the end of the day, it's really just a little grey computer with a serial cable attached. You could update it with any exploits you want, and I can only guess what they're using nowadays.
Except the article has a categorical statement: "The 9 lines contain all present knowledge about nature, including all textbook physics and all observations ever made."

Take something simple like "F=ma" which is in lots of textbooks. Nothing in those 9 lines seem to suggest anything that could be used to derive that.

I'm sure a domain expert, who already knows all this stuff, I'm sure they'd be useful as a memory aid to help them trot this stuff out, but do they "contain all present knowledge about nature, ..."? Not so much, if you need a ton of other knowledge to make use of them.
> What’s unique about gravity with what you’re talking about?

Nothing, it was just the most obvious example (to me).
Freeciv[1] also has a named port (5556) that once caused me a lot of headache because our server was binding to 5556 and nmap reported it as freeciv, which I had no idea about.

[1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/Freeciv.md
China’s ‘Hidden Debt’ of Local Governments Threatens National Economy
When are we going to get an Alexa interface so it's less useless on general questions?
Agreed. This doesn’t seem very relevant to the case, and there’s plenty of other jaw-dropping details to report on (like the current top comment’s mention of back dating the warrant application).

Now, I wouldn’t say this DUI history is entirely non-newsworthy. If someone wants to do a story about powerful people getting unusually light punishments for crimes, and this is one example of that, that would be a great data point to report on. But it’s not relevant to the warrant corruption story.
There's also an interactivity requirement (as in, this is impossible without interactivity) and an interactivity desire (as in, UX folks want an interactive feature).

So many websites now pretend they're in the former category, but would work just fine if they implemented a less-interactive form. That's how it was done in the old days! "No, you can't have that. Here's the best we can do." "Oh, that's fine."

But I expect more of what's driving complicated backend/frontend split design these days is shipping the org chart (in companies large enough to have frontend and backend teams) and technology-by-consultant (where the right technology is whatever you can get a consultant in).
Maybe you should respond to the article, and not just the headline. Your response is completely off topic and the random promotion of a known fraud is insulting.
SimAnt DOS - 1991

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/simant-197
If ministers are going to preach politics, it’s time to tax the churches

That's not the title, it's a partisan editorial statement.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin. And apparently was inspired by the superpowers divvying up the world at the Teheran Conference. HTH.
Depends where you live, for us it tends to be more cold and still in winter, but the warmer months are windier
video demo looks awesome, what tool do you use to make it?
Raspberry pi or other compact linux machine with code-server running in docker. Gets you a web UI that works from anything (ie iPad) and you can do docker-in-docker for other containers.

SBCs have less horsepower but you can always run them from a USB battery bank, letting you dev on the go.
This is what REALLY bugs me about Germany in general. There is a cultural belief that germans are data driven and unemotional in their decision making. That they are the wise leaders who run the EU. They do not have the populist issues like the UK with brexit or the chaos that france has. They are not like the consuming americans who vote for trump. And yet, the reality of the energy policy demonstrates that Germany is nọt immune to this kind of traps. They prefer to shut down nuclear power plants and yes install many renewables.

They didn’t actually do the math. The point is while renewables may generate 50% of energy, the other half comes from coal which must be turned on when there is no sun or wind, which is so polluting even in comparison to natural gas, that it destroys the overall mix. You can estimate coal as around 700g/kwh(just look at poland when the sun isn’t shining) which divided in half gets you pretty close to Germany’s average of 300g. Had Germany switched to natural gas, they would be much closer to the UK, which did not have an energy transition.
And chewdata, member chewdata?
Guess wording can be taken in different ways.

>"They were competing in a so-called half Ironman event".

This seemed to indicate it was a lesser event. "so-called".
But maybe it was just referring to a type of event. And it was just poor grammar?

Who knows, maybe it was GPT producing the text?