skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many times I would get my dime and two pennies back along with another dime and three pennies. The only thing I use cash for anymore is laundry and panhandlers.
Who is conspiring in this case?
It's like saying that mathematicians are uninterested in the Collatz conjecture. Scientists usually work on problems where they have a reasonable expectation of making progress. Attempts to replicate abiogenesis so far have been largely haphazard, with ill-defined criteria of what progress means.
> Imagine a scenario where on roads with 100% human driving, the most of the people that are killed are PCP addled people running naked across freeways where they aren't expected to be

I don't think it's helpful to introduce this scenario that is entirely not true in the real world and therefore doesn't teach us anything. You're saying that a huge number of road deaths are people that were asking for it anyway.

Dozens and dozens of people were killed on the road today who were not drunk, who were not on drugs and were not breaking a single road rule.

This is the reality of the world. Good people are being killed every day by the way things are now.

If we can do anything to reduce that number, we should.

...

Another way I like to think about this is from the ad in Victoria where a guy has to pick which of his family members will be killed on the roads [1]. Obviously none of us want any of our family to be killed, we all choose zero.

Closer to zero is better than not closer to zero.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2tOye9DKdQ
Were you ever there 10-20 years ago? Because it was truly awful then, like night-and-day compared to now, and under Hidalgo it's only getting better.
The sad thing is this is going to be to the detriment of those trying to learn, we are going to wind up with a new glass ceeling, programmers that can code without these tools and programmers that are reliant on them.

The latter will have very short careers (dangerous prediction, I know)
Postgress is single master which is a huge limitation.
GNU/Linux is the standard, as in most common. That's where it all started. Android is not used as a desktop or server OS.
I don't think that's right.

This is my understanding: It takes an infinite time to cross the event horizon from the perspective of a distant, stationary observer, but a finite time from the perspective of the object that is actually falling towards the black hole. Once past the event horizon, reaching the singularity takes a finite amount of time from the perspective of the falling object. From the point of view of a distant external observer, time from event horizon to singularity is a meaningless question because the events inside the event horizon are causaully disconnected from the events outside of the event horizon.
But we've not even started doing that yet. None of the mars rovers have landed anywhere close to where we think is must likely to currently harbor life due to fear of contamination.

We've just now learned how to analyze atmospheres of exoplants.

5 years ago, we couldn't see exoplanets smaller than jupiter.

A decade ago, we couldn't see exoplanets at all.
in most of the US, rounding at the checkout is against regulations as it throws off sales tax computations, even though it's only by a small amount.
> Despite facing more than seven years behind bars, a judge sentenced him to probation in June.

I assume this is the usual issue where the news looks at the maximum sentence and the legal system uses a standard formula that almost never applies the maximum?

> It was among a series of deadly crashes investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that led to this week’s recall.

Assuming the sentence actually is lighter than typical, maybe this is part of why?
No clue what we're talking about anymore.
Others have answered this question pretty well for large public keys, but I wonder about the same argument for shorter elliptic curve keys where the key length and hashed fingerprint length may be the same. For example, is comparing 8 bytes of a Curve25519 public key as good as comparing 8 bytes of a SHA256 hash of that key? My gut says no, since generating partial cryptographic hash collisions is completely random while a structured public key of any kind is presumably less random, but I'm not sure how much less random (and thus easier) it would be.
A radially symmetric object does not produce gravitational waves, whether it is spinning or not, since it has zero quadropole moment.
It is repeated data from what I've read. It's the same contents of the data recorder over and over again.
> To what degree would a non-spinning, non-moving black hole necessarily produce even very weak gravitational waves?

If it's perfectly non-spinning, and nothing is falling into it, then it emits no gravitational waves at all.

If matter or energy falls in, and does so in a manner that is not spherically symmetric (which will most likely be the case), then some very weak gravitational waves will be emitted. But they will be much, much too weak for us to have any hope of detecting them. Even a gravitational wave detector like LIGO in the same stellar system would have difficulty detecting them.
Destroy the world for no particular reason and you're a super villain. Destroy the world for a buck? Ain't nothing wrong with that!
In many cases that's the point. You don't want your own citizens to suffer manufacturing it, but you want them to enjoy the benefits of using it, so you ban manufacture but still allow use and just import everything you need.

It's like how all the asbestos and other hazardous waste that's removed from California homes gets dumped in Nevada and Arizona landfills. Or the subject of the documentary "Plastic China":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Kif9cugQ0
Geophysical exploration surveying for one - I've written well over a million+ SLOC and traveled through and over more than two thirds of the 190+ countries on the planet.

Flying million line km grids 80m above ground at 70 m/s, driving, logging drill hole samples, positioning base stations, ground truthing the "new" WGS84 GPS datum against hundred of older paper maps and many many old ellisoids and datums, etc.

It's good to be unfazed by vehicle failures, supply chain breakdowns, political upheavals, coup d'état, unexpected bad weather, wild fires, and so forth.

Suprise nuclear testing was one interesting day on the job.
Flexible is bad for drains, you get sagging leading to water pooling the pipe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star also mentioned in the paper, powered by larger black holes
The free version of this software is available at https://github.com/Free-GPGMail/Free-GPGMail
It sounds like you did some very interesting experimentation with the prefetch queue. Realistically, I'm unlikely to investigate the 386 prefetch queue to that level of detail, but if I do, your tests would be useful.
> A black hole has a mass

Yes, but not because of "stuff" inside it. As I said, the mass is a global property of the spacetime geometry.

> and a volume defined by its event horizon.

No, it has a surface area defined by its event horizon. But you can't compute a meaningful volume from this surface area. You can, of course, plug the surface area into the formulas of Euclidean geometry, but the number you get will have no physical meaning for a black hole. A black hole has no well-defined volume at all--indeed, one can find spacelike surfaces inside that are infinite in extent, even though it has a finite surface area.
Sure you can, but it wont be moving.
Just need to find the thin layer that contains only compressed shoes.
Use CPVC instead of PVC with UV exposure.
During the pandemic we ended up going the thinkpad route due to availability. We now have all our users on ThinkPads from admin to engineering, including CAD capable models for our Mech team. No complaints really.
When one doesn't want SQL for one.

Nosql is a fun target to beat up on of late. But there are good, even infamous, reasons to avoid SQL. Particular if you want to accomplish flexible record queries from untrusted clients.
- Highly-flexible. Because you're not developing against a schema, you can, for example, retool a feature and its data quickly without having to stress about migrations. A big advantage for a startup looking to move fast.

- Queries look more like application code so you're not wasting mental cycles and time trying to translate an idea into a SQL query. From experience, this leads to less-fragile queries.

- Little to no concern over injection attacks (you have to go out of your way to create potential for them).

- Easier to write non-trivial queries than with SQL (IMO).

- Type-casting data can be done in code as opposed to with SQL you have to use inline, platform-specific functions like field_name::timestamp.

- A single source of truth for how to query and develop with it (with SQL, you're almost always developing against a flavor of it).

- Scales reasonably well (and easily) for a majority of use cases.

- No room for dogmatic fervor/confusion around a specific variety of MongoDB as there's only one variety.
There was Homo floresiensis, a relatively close relative of ours, also called the "Hobbit". For modern humans, there simply are no known populations that have been isolated for long enough on a small enough island to exhibit dwarfism. We're pretty good with boats and we supposedly have been very mobile for most of our history, and even if stuck we're capable of controlling our numbers and exploit our environments very well. I believe there are adaptations among Pacific Islander communities that increase metabolism efficiency and similar traits so we're not immune to this kind of pressure.
It shouldn't, and neither should Kali. Neither of those demand the professional level skillsset that BSD and suck less are mostly tailored at. Those communities are composed almost entirely of hobbyists in the OS and systems programming space, or in the case of Kali, not really even strictly an OS project at all and mostly just people repackaging various security related stuff (which is fine of course, there is a legitimate need for some of that, it's just definitively not OS development in the way something like OpenBSD is).

In that sense, both of them are products, not projects, to the vast majority of users, and that influences what the core teams choose to focus on.
That's a good point. I added that rule (font-variant-numeric: slashed-zero;) to the font preview using the browser's devtools, and I saw no difference.
> A black hole at the center of a gaseous body would mess with the fusion cycle would it not?

Not necessarily. That's the sort of question the paper investigates, and it finds models for which fusion can continue in the star's core for an extended period of time.

> There’s no pressurized core at the center.

Yes, there is, because, as I noted, the matter falling into the hole radiates strongly, and the radiation has pressure.
How is that relevant to enforcing GPL?
Service providers don't just maintain history, they package up real time location info for sale through third parties.
I was largely agreeing with you, suggesting that CI/CD is the new "on the internet" of the legal realm.

> Does that actually change anything about the actual issue?

Not in the slightest.
They do contain their customer count - quick google search says it’s over 46,000 now which was surprising to me.
XMage has a JSON output format, but last I looked it was difficult to parse. The potential effects for Magic are so vast it's extremely difficult to find a sane structured format to record things in, so the JSON format is mostly a couple of identifying fields and a string describing what happened (ie. Source was this permanent, target was this player, what happened is a giant string field).
Wake me up when I get buy gpt4 as a dedicated chip etch to use as a realtime personal copilot.
I can confirm that one big reason why Apple went with reference counting in Swift is because they like it when garbage is freed right away. This lets them get away with smaller heaps than they'd need to get comparable performance with tracing garbage collection. This does slow down execution somewhat; the overhead of updating all those reference counts isn't terrible, but it is significant. It's just a price they consider to be well worth paying.
> no idea in what time scale?

The numerical simulations in the paper go on for a time on the order of the Sun's hydrodynamic time scale, which is tens of millions of years. After that time has elapsed, yes, the star could be completely consumed by the hole.
Wouldn't there be out of place artifacts?
Also with no hub, there is nowhere for a chap to hang his acetylene light.
It’s mind boggling that Apple won their case against Epic in my opinion since they really do the exact same thing as Google. The only legal difference as pointed out in the Google trial is that Google doesn’t control the hardware that the app stores come on while Apple does (owns the end to end ecosystem). Apple won simply because they monopolize the entire ecosystem. And before people chime in with “Apple deserves their 30% because security” fanboy nonsense, think about how Apple and Google both arrived at 30% as Thr number for their cut and why it’s never changed in the 14 years it’s existed - because it’s a monopoly!
US should drop nickel and dime, go to 25¢, 50¢, and $1 coins.

Nothing smaller than a quarter’s really worth screwing with, when dealing with physical currency. We’ve gone so long without dropping the penny that the dime’s nearly worthless, too.
Bitcoin is more like gold. There are multiple precious metals and many cryptocurrencies but only one "main" one.
That’s a funny point, I guess I never really though of whether “related” was more correlation or causation.
It’s almost as if humans are just apes with barely passable table manners…
My first thought ;-)
I'm surprised no one's opened an issue on their repo and that no brigade has opined with lots of comments and emojis...
It reminds me of Grey's law "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

At that point you may as well admit the system is malicious by design as its complexity facilitates advanced incompetence.
I would think that a civilization like ours wouldn’t have left the amount of fossil fuels that we still find. We certainly aren’t going to leave that much for future civilizations.
That's an example of political social study, with a rather odd goal of demonizing that "nofap" movement.
I liked the article but there was a lot of statements about the case with not a lot of explaining explanation, such as, the Android app market was considered a relevant market but the Apple app market wasn't. Why? What are the differences? Did the jury explain that reasoning?

Additionally, I feel like repeatedly calling the charge to bill through the app stores a tax misleading, since there are plenty of similar service charges for things like credit cards. Maybe I'm wrong about that, though.

However, this was a good article for laying out the relevant information on a tidy list.
It's funny how biased against "playing to win" hacker news frequently is. On one article you'll have dozens of people arguing that a company is legally allowed to hurt people and therefor they should, then the next comment section everyone is complaining about losing in a game of mtg.
This is a good idea. Rebasing on 10¢. I proposed dropping to a 25¢ smallest-coin standard elsewhere in the thread, but dropping the quarter and going 10¢/50¢/$1 is also a good plan.

Pennies and nickels definitely should go. They’re not even worth picking up off the ground.
Vinyl doesn’t last a year in full sun. If you can put up protectants in vinyl I’m sure you can put them in PEX or HDPE.
We’re looking for the shreds of evidence. What would you prefer people do?
So then all crimes should carry the death penalty for maximum deterrence? Or deterrence is impossible and therefore there should be no crimes? What point are you making here?
You're elsewhere in this subthread dismissing existing evidence (insurance rates) because it doesn't confirm your priors. I think we both know what would happen if this study magically appeared. "Demanding" data is a cheap evasion. The requirement for rational discourse is accepting the data you have.
Almost cute. That's been the past time since before all our ancestors left trees.
In my experience, things like Art Nouveau and Art Deco are much more common in Europe, especially Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK. The places where this stuff was born can still be visited.

In Brussels, there are antique dealers in the Marolle area that specialize in this stuff, and they're happy to help out a prospective buyer.
I wonder how long they can keep that up for though.
Desktop Streaming Radio Players
PBS Space Time just did an episode on this topic:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vyEWLhOfLgQ
Analogous to this, I'm already seeing a new generation that doesn't know how to (and has no curiosity to learn to) get around a server or know what's going on in one because all they know how to do is run a container.
Fossil fuels can be regenerated over a long enough period of time. We all eventually decompose.
> Is this the updated version of that 2015 one?

Correct - it uses the latest IET branding. The one linked in the submission uses the previous IET logo.

PDF metadata also points to that document being created in 2020.
> Well, yeah.

You said > "They replaced the standard messaging app with a proprietary alternative"

Nope. SMS and MMS.

> Too little to late.

Thanks. I thought you were here in bad faith, now I know you are.

> In the US it's a de facto standard. People get punished if they use SMS/MMS/RCS.

Good grief! Beeper isn't the answer. A few months ago it was all about how anti-competitive Apple were because no RCS. Now RCS it "too little to late"? Why are you all so damned incapable of using alternatives? This is as self-inflicted "problem".
There's a 90s-style grunge song somewhere in here
This would be interest, but unfortunately, even Dyson swarms are huge gravitational objects, so should be gravitational lensing, but it is not observed at the moment (may will see in future).
Absolutely, there's no beating the RUM Conjecture.
What a fun thread. I've always heard this as one of The Great Filters related to the Fermi paradox. FWIW the wikipedia for the Fermi paradox even mentions that:

> The most commonly agreed-upon low probability event is abiogenesis

...which I read as saying that the most commonly agreed-upon reason we haven't found life anywhere else yet is because we _are_ special and abiogenesis is the rare event (the great filter).

All the various great filter theories are pretty fun reading.
This was mentioned in The Mote in God's Eye. Later civilizations had to go straight to renewables or nuclear because no accessible fossil fuels were left.
Oh man so many books from my personal collection showing up here!!
A bare-bones case of Fourier transform would be the discrete finite FT, that is just multiplying by a well crafted matrix W as in [1]. So here it looks to me that the fractional transform would be a rational exponent of W, W^r, r rational. For instance W^(2/3)=(W^(1/3))^2, with W^(1/3)=X and X^3=W hopefully a well-defined X.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT_matrix
Working with APIs with No-Code
… that’s literally written in the first paragraph of the original linked article.
I'm curious about the performance of separating the data from the pointers. On one hand, homogenous arrays pack better. On the other, the traditional version that packages the data and child pointers next to each other might have better cache locality.
I'm interested in the same stuff/area. There's a lot of great results to read, check out cache-oblivious B-trees by Dr. Demaine (or honestly anything by him.) This link is a good distillation of some of the concepts. https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger

I'm _also_ interested in scientific software, but that's more a hobby than a job. =)

For propagating a large number of orbits in space, I'm really curious what the Correct (tm) numerical algorithm is, mind sharing more? I love that space right at the intersection of lots of math + need to understand how computers really work. Once upon a time I implemented fast multipole method for the n-body problem, but I certainly don't claim to deeply understand it, anymore. :)
> Because you're not developing against a schema, you can, for example, retool a feature and its data quickly without having to stress about migrations. A big advantage for a startup looking to move fast.

Why wouldn’t you need to worry about migrations without developing against a schema? You’ll need to worry more about migrations because your data will be more messy.
Physicist Bob Coecke
Your explanation is wrong. For an outside observer, time dilation approaches infinity at the event horizon. Singularities don't even exist for an outside observer, they have yet to happen in the infinite future.
Dude, I almost spilled my coffee xD
Next up is picometers, femtometers, attometers, zeptometers, yoctometers, rontometers, and quectometers (not to be confused with quesometers). They can just keep going until they hit the Planck length as they continue to divorce their marketing from reality.
I don’t know if I really agree that a black hole’s mass is not because it has “stuff” (that is, massive entities) inside it. How do you argue that?

In simpler terms, let’s say a star has a mass just below the limit of making it a black hole. Then, a planet collides and it crosses the threshold. Are you saying the “stuff” disappears ?
There's gotta be some way to do it with autohotkey?
Fair enough, I recognize when I'm not welcome.

I attempted to delete my posts and my account for you but there does not appear to be such facilities.
trusting a phone call means a whole lot more than trusting your phone's hardware. calling somebody lets you recognize their voice, mannerisms, personal knowledge, etc. spoofing that is many degrees more advanced than getting some spyware onto a phone that can intercept keys.
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My understanding (which could certainly be incorrect) is that most fossil fuels formed between the evolution of trees and fungi that could breakdown lignin and so most fossil fuel deposits were ancient even to the dinosaurs. I doubt that significant stores would form between now and the deadline for life on earth in a few hundred million years.
Except if you care about the bottom-end of the spectrum.
What if they progressed beyond that? And were mindful of pre-that clean up? In theory it feels that the more advanced they were the less likely they were to leave a trace we might find.
There's also the consideration that animals just don't grow as large if they don't get the necessary food.

Like how humans used to be so much shorter in the Middle Ages.
Maybe, but are we worse off with enforcement bodies that fail to go after many things than with none at all?

As far as the sponsorship. I think that is largely due to the general advantage scams have: Real systems have limits and honest people will be willing to admit to them. A scam can promise the moon because they're not beholden to the truth or reality.

Parties who aren't thoughtful will flock to the scams that promise them all they want to hear: "Our blockchain is green, organic, whole food, and promotes equality for disenfranchised African dwarfs at unlimited scale!" --- "Sounds great, you rank 10/10 according to our metrics, here's a grant!"