skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've gone out of their way to use non-GNU tools and libraries.
How about people who do not have capital and physically cannot trade against the government's inefficiencies? You're forgetting the majority of people. Myself included.

The government has historically benefited those who understood the system, but it doesn't benefit them now. Quite the opposite. The system is now working against those who understand it most. That's why we're seeing a decline in the west.
The number of flights between China and the rest of the world is still around half as it was pre Covid. The high prices are simply a function of too much demand (people wanting to travel to China) and not enough supply (seats on airplanes available). Closing off Russian airspace has also hurt, making flights use more fuel and many direct flights less feasible.
Work with numpy from q or q from python? I'm not sure why you'd use numpy when you have access to k/q, they're much nicer.
tether has an ingenious biz model. take in money from entities that cant redeem thru their service and tether doesn't offer interest on the money lol
To get density you need to know the volume in addition to the mass. As far as I understand, the volume is hard to measure and mostly theoretically derived, amd lensing and orbiting bodies would behave the same regardless of whether it was a point mass or low density sphere.
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors
Do any distros set this up automatically? I imagine if you asked most Linux desktop users "would you trade ~1GB of storage for a hassle free recovery option" they'd be for it.
The paper answers this question amongst others.
The dominance of America at least means time zones are well supported. Had a country like U.K, China or India - all country with a single time zone - dominated the early computing development time zones could very much be an afterthought.
The hype died but the tool is almost mature now and quite useful, plenty of paying enterprise customers who fly low but have fat wallets. I’d give it a few more years to be a primary data store, but it’ll do if you want a horizontally scalable, capable and performant document database to give some breathing room to the primary SQL cluster.

For now, there are way too many critical issues found late in the release cycle.
Also to keep him out of public for other's safety. Seems like him going to jail checks 3/5 at least.
All they needed to do was rebrand them from “Wishing Fountains” to “5 Wishing Fountains”. Problem solved.
Windoze: 1.2 BILLION installs of Win 10 and nothing matching it. MS is doing something right.
No, Bart Simpson is not black. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply with that? The Simpsons have leaned so heavily into racial stereotyping that they've had to entirely remove certain problematic characters such as Apu. Many other characters and character behaviours have been questioned or come under criticism since the show's conception. Bart's appropriation of the tropes of black culture may or may not be problematic, but that's not the discussion here. Why bring it up?

I think that if you're comparing a Bart and DK then the distinction between a 10 year old boy experimenting with his identity and a literal gorilla who came to fame by kidnapping blonde white women should be quite clear. Of all the main Nintendo characters there is only one who expresses himself using tropes from black culture and that is the woman stealing gorilla. Peach never raps, Toad never walks around with a boombox. For some people that's interesting, for some it's weird, and for some it's problematic because they live in a world where stereotyping of black people harms their experience of life day to day. For others it's totally not noteworthy, and maybe it's not noteworthy for the people of Hacker News, but isn't it intellectually engaging to consider these things?

When children grow up with these representations of a The Other or of The Self then it affects their perceptions. That shouldn't be contentious for anyone who has undergone the process of socialisation.

For many children the Donkey Kong franchise might be one of their their primary means of the exposure to black culture.

Black culture is culture, as you say, but no culture is free from politics; that's just an inherent part of any culture existing within a wider global geopolitik.

Again, I'm not sure what you were implying, so please clarify if you need to. You say: Black culture is culture... So what? Is any representation of that culture in, the hands of anyone, free from criticism, by basis of being culture?

I think that when we're speaking on a forum like this, with the knowledge that certain demographics are underrepresented among us, we have a moral duty to ask ourselves what doors are being closed and in what ways we might be closing them through our choices.
I have never heard fsck pronounced as other than "fisk". I reckon the variation in pronunciation is due to a mainly written communication culture.
Er...no....

"Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims" -
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/
The same Naomi Wu that recently was visited by CCP goons who told her to mind her p's and q's? Yeah I don't see this happening again.
At no point I said I did not support that.
Not if the municipality is installing enough low speed but cheap charging spots in the street parking. That’s working in some European countries at least
> I am asking for the methodology used to test climate models.

I do not have specific sources about that myself, perhaps someone else

> is flawed. You can observe large numbers of people. We can only observe one planet.

Good point, I hadn't considered that. Still, one can observe a lot of states over time: Earth with an average global temperature of x°C where the CO2=x, sun_state=y, number_of_penguins=z, etc., then the same set of parameters for another temperature. Check which one turns out to always be followed by a rise in temperature the next month/year/decade. (If the number of penguins turns out to be highly correlated, remember you read it here first! :P yes I'm joking about correlation vs. causation which, based on what you wrote already, I'm sure you know about.)

Whether the methods from the paper I found earlier can work 1:1 with this other approach, I'd have to check (or find what other methods are/were being used in climate science specifically), but that's how this must be done because we indeed have barely any data on other earthlike planets

> its seems people read even asking questions about climate models as a claim that climate change is not happening, or human beings are not a major cause, or something similar.

Yes, I've noticed that as well. There are some downvoted comments of mine (also on reddit) for the same reason. It's a very fine line to walk, making it clear that you're obviously understanding of reality but also wondering about some detail aspect of climate change

When there's some doubt and it could be a legitimate question, I always try to find the time to comment without downvoting because, that way, we keep in conversation and other people might also get more insight, but alas I don't always have time and it's common that I see posts (even on a place like stackoverflow where posts are typically rather objective) downvoted without commenting the reason
You can get ICE cars for less as well....
I'd be very interested in watching traditional competitive programmers tackling these challenges. Can they beat low-code excel ?
If it can spread between planets, it could conceivably spread between stars.
We have a similar concept in the UK too. However, I have never heard of tall poppy syndrome.
CAEmitterLayer
Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure this wouldn't really help given that service providers still maintain records of which phones connected to which towers.

It's still a nice change though, and I like that they allow users to still send encrypted backups of their location history to the cloud.
> […] regularly rotate their MongoDB Atlas passwords

Is there some context I’m missing, or is this a modern security team recommending password rotation?
Retribution and deterrence certainly would work with reasonable penalty let's say 10 years per murdered person. Also that sort of sentence would work for incapacitation. As clearly 23k is not high enough to stop many people from repeating this crime...
Now keep the orders on the blockchain and tie it to a gig-economy delivery system and we reach the trifecta of investor-pandering.
Not necessarily. A black hole doesn't have any stronger gravity than an ordinary object of the same mass. And matter falling into the hole would radiate strongly (the paper calls this "accretion luminosity"), which would help to maintain an equilibrium with the rest of the star. That's the kind of model the paper is studying.

How long such an equilibrium can last is a different question. The paper only briefly comments on this when it says that the time scale of the numerical simulations they did is of the same order as the hydrodynamic timescale of the Sun. That means, roughly, the time it would take the Sun to collapse to a white dwarf if fusion reactions in its core stopped, which is, I believe, tens of millions of years. So a star with a black hole at the center would not have the same lifetime as an ordinary main sequence star with similar mass, but it would have a long enough lifetime that would could not conclusively rule out that at least some stars we see have black holes at their centers.
I bought fine art from a gallery a few years ago, and sold it to a different gallery when I needed money

This involved phone calls to galleries in rich areas, and predicting what people care about. Setting up the meetings was not complicated, I just had to do it, which was an adventure.

The primary thing to understand is the economics first, aesthetics second or not at all. When you are a private collector, you’re a wildcard that can influence the galleries whole inventory of that era/artist/series, because art is just low float asset, where a tiny tiny percent trades and changes the price of 100% of the series not trading, based on the last price of the 1 that did trade.

so you have to think about the gallery that would care to know you’re about to crash their inventory value. theyll want to get your piece out of circulation as fast as possible, to ensure no public price history occurs.
Again, I can see why they would not be interested in engaging again. You can think that it's because they're afraid, but they also may have just really disliked the service they paid for.
A week is far too little time to really validate if an AI replacement is suitable.

As far as I can tell, the current commercially available LLMs context windows are too small to fit the context of a real life codebase.

On top of that, there is no time to see how well it maintains code in a week’s time.

It’s cool as an assistant, and I’ve used LLMs to rewrite front-end code, but this is jumping the gun a bit.
There’s an important point hidden in your comment: Bitcoin won despite better forks and alternatives, and all its issues, because it managed to achieve the main thing that is required for something to become money: enough people have to think it’s money. When enough people come to think of something as money, it becomes money.

If a fork or alternative to Bitcoin doesn’t get enough people to think of it as money, then it doesn’t really matter if it is ‘superior’. It won’t win against the thing that a very large number of people think is money.

Edit: punctuation.
So if I understand correctly, all the risks come from manufacture and disposal.

While the use of PVC piping, vinyl siding, playing LP's... these are perfectly fine.

I obviously don't want workers to suffer, so if this needs to be banned for health reasons, so be it. It's good news nobody needs to replace existing pipes or anything, though.

It would be crazy if LP's could no longer be pressed, now that they've become popular again. Would that all just be done in countries that didn't care as much about worker health? Or are there viable non-vinyl substitutes for LP's?
> say 10 years per murdered person

Sure. Nobody was murdered.

> clearly 23k is not high enough to stop many people from repeating this crime

That’s not the penalty. It’s a criminal conviction, the fine and probation. I don’t know the terms of the probation, but I assume it means he goes to jail for traffic infractions. Also, he’s going to pay a lot more than $23k given the civil case is ongoing.
Determined to have your account banned or something?
Discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652887
Tbh with 5G around, there is no need for Google's data. Carriers can localize phones well enough already now.
I will do business or avoid doing business with companies based on leadership reputation, yes.
> Cache locality is good toward the leaves and bad everywhere else.

1. That depends on the operation performed. I'd say cache-locality is near perfect for depth-traversal.

2. Whether the effective performance of the cache is good or bad depends on the alternative. If the alternative is adding two 64 bit pointer to every 32 bit value in the tree node. And each of those node may be spread through out the heap. Then this representation starts to look quite good.
That’s incapacitation. Depending on the driver’s record and whether he was negligently delegating control to the car (e.g. taking a nap), this prerogative would be variably satisfied. Facts and circumstances matter; this is why we have judges versus mobs.
Almost decided to use MongoDB in a project for the first time.

Kind of makes me unsure if it’s going to be the right choice.
Depends what you consider as part of chip production. If you consider new instructions and the related software as new chip production, then the performance improvements have continued quite dramatically. Single chip inference has gone 1000x over the last 10 years according to Bill Dally from Nvidia [1] at 10 minutes (probably not original source). Main gains according to the video have been different numeric types (fp16 for example) and more specialised hardware together with more complex instructions. Note that process improvements have only caused a 2.5x from that 1000x. He also mentions that Google‘s TPU has no fundamental benefit over dedicated instructions in GPUs. Quite an interesting video IMO.

[1]: https://youtu.be/kLiwvnr4L80
This highlights risks of extreme consolidation - even if Atlas customers were not affected it is natural for them to be concerned after announcement overwhelming web site or support channels.

More independent MongoDB DBaaS providers is what would offer true redundancy in this case, though it is highly restricted due to SSPL license change.

Hopefully FerretDB will be successful building feasible alternative
Just for completeness, “2nm” is more like 12-45nm actual transistor size. So on average about 5 of these transistors could fit inside a single SARS-CoV-2 viron.
> Nope.

Well, yeah.

> SMS and MMS were still present,

I never said otherwise. But they made iMessage the default and gave it priority.

> Apple has also commited to bring another standard to the platform in RCS.

Too little too late.

> The notion that iMessage is a standard is wrong.

In the US it's a de facto standard. People get punished if they use SMS/MMS/RCS.
Trees in K
> I've always wondered how we actually measure the density of black holes.

We don't. The density of a black hole is not even a well-defined concept; black holes are not like ordinary objects.

> My confusion lies in how we can derive the mass at the hyper-quantum state at the center of a black hole

There is no such thing. A black hole is vacuum inside. The "mass" of the hole is not due to "stuff" sitting inside it; it's a global property of the hole's spacetime geometry, that maintains itself because of the nonlinearity of the Einstein Field Equation.

> from the gravitational waves we observe as it loses energy.

An ordinary black hole in our universe will be gaining energy, not losing it--if for no other reason that CMB radiation is shining on it. But the black holes we see all have matter falling into them as well.

As for detecting gravitational waves, except for violent events like black hole mergers, we don't detect any; what few such gravitational waves there are are far too weak for us to detect.
I was concerned when I read about trying to infect areas of presumably developing nations with MS. But it was poetic justice that there was corruption all the way down. The Linux that they got was almost certainly in their actual interests.
> I had a passing interest, but completely lost it around 2017-ish, when BTC blocks started filling up.

Yes, this was the last straw for a ton of people actually interested in developing the technology, and it's when a lot of people moved their primary focus to Ethereum.

In 2017, the Bitcoin developer community did a hard pivot away from "electronic cash" and towards this "store of value" obsession, where Bitcoin is meant to replace gold. This was an incredibly noisy and disruptive pivot that tore the community in half. These were the "Blocksize Wars", and I could rant for hours about them, but obviously not here.

The thing is, Bitcoin up until that point was functioning very well as cash. Starting in 2013 I was regularly using it to buy coffee from coffee shops, and pay my bill at restaurants, and with literally a one line change it could have kept enabling the cash use case easily for another decade, and with maybe a 20 line change proposed by Jeff Garzik in 2015, it could have easily scaled forever.

The focus on serving the financial industry over everyday users was a very deliberate one. It wasn't a bad move, tactically, just very disappointing.
Instead of something extricable, I imagine a series of processes that, due to specific conditions, results in some new process that has distinctly different characteristics from the originating process.

E.g. snowpack melt -> mountain stream -> waterfall

A waterfall is a vastly simpler system than a living organism, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the origin of life has a flavor similar to waterfall formation.

I like the idea that all phenomena we observe are emergent in a similar way.
No reason to use mongo imo
Yeah I can do both at the same time. It takes me more effort to add details to things.
Disagree with that. I'm talking strictly about pop music, which I've been listening to avidly for decades. You could tell the difference between 45s of pop songs and radio playback easily in the '80s. At first I wanted that "fat" radio sound, and even got an equalizer thinking that this was the key. But of course it wasn't; radio stations compressed music to sound "stronger" on the dial. So I don't know why your assertion about "trapezing" would hold true at all.

Over time I realized that the 45s, with their greater dynamic range, sounded better than the radio and were more enjoyable to play loud. I have 45s from the '70s into the 2000s, most of which will sound better than their shitty "remastered" versions streaming right now. Yes, polystyrene 45s. That's pathetic.

The shittiest part of all is that nobody is served by the destruction of pop music; and everyone is hindered. Otherwise catchy songs are quickly tiresome to listen to. Recent songs can't be mixed well with others; there's no room in the wall of noise. Hence the popularity of "mashups" that almost always feature an older song. It's not even pleasant to have recently-mastered music on during parties because you can't talk over the noise; so it's either too soft or too loud.
Billion-dollar consortium has revealed complete map of a mouse brain
The linked US energy consumption chart has been relatively flat since 2000, yes.

It's possible the coment you replied to was referring to global energy consumption which has expanded with both global per capita consumption and with global population.

Another factor in stable US energy consumption has been the outsourcing | offshoring of primary heavy industry which keeps the energy consumption for mining, refining, and manufacturing off the US home accounts.
> Pedestrian fatalities are up big timein the U.S.

The problem with this statistic is it might have teeth viewed in isolation, but loses its impact if you broaden the statistics to account for who and how many are dying in vehicle related fatalities. If larger modern vehicles provide greater safety to the passengers within, and if passengers are more likely to die by vehicle accidents than pedestrians, a small move of the needle in vehicle passenger safety due to larger vehicles might cause significant improvement number of total vehicle related fatalities despite pedestrian deaths increasing.
Outsourcing production
Could a star be small enough to exist within a massive planet’s atmosphere of some substance?

Could a star exist within a planet’s core?
I feel the same way you do. It drives me even crazier that more people don't feel this way.
In the UK, domestic/household electricity is taxed at 5% but electricity from public EV chargers is taxed at 20%.
I just looked this up again in book "How the Web was Born"

https://books.google.com/books/about/How_the_Web_was_Born.ht...

And even though there are multiple people requested, the CERN management approved just 2 full time people to work on the project (Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau), and on top of that assumed work of Nicola Pellow (a summer internship) and allowed Bernd Pollermann to spend some (limited) time to work on FIND gateway. So nobody actually worked as Hyper-Librarian or as X-windows and human interface engineer during early stages of the web at CERN. Which is why it would be hard to assign names to "RJ" or "KG".
> the volume is hard to measure and mostly theoretically derived

Not even that. The "volume" of a black hole is not even well-defined. A black hole doesn't work like an ordinary object.

> lensing and orbiting bodies would behave the same regardless of whether it was a point mass or low density sphere.

First, a black hole is definitely not a "point mass". Second, the density of a black hole is also not well-defined.

Lensing and orbiting bodies do exhibit unique properties close enough to the black hole's horizon, but unfortunately we would have to be relatively close to the hole (meaning, in the same stellar system, not light years away) to distinguish them.
I don’t think black holes have a well defined “density” in that sense? I think we just use the event horizon as the “size” (which therefore has a simple relation to the mass.)
The acquisition of communicative style in Japanese (1987)
There are zero murdered persons in this case.
PDF: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1017/CBO9780511620898.011
Nigel Tufnel, chief scientist at TSMC, explains the merits of the latest hardware from ASML:

"This is a fab, but it's very special because if you can see, the numbers all go down to 2nm. Look, right across the board. 2nm, 2nm, 2nm, 2nm ..."

"And most of the fabs go down to 3."

"Exactly."

"Does that mean it's ... smaller? Is it any smaller?"

"Well, it's one smaller, isn't it? It's not 3. You see, most fabs are going to be running at 3. You're on 3 on your fab -- where can you go from there? Where?"

"I dunno."

"Nowhere, exactly. And what we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?"

"Put it down to 2."

"2. Exactly. One smaller."
The immune system rivals the brain on the complexity scale.

The number of genes, cell lineages, receptors, and signalling pathways is incredible. Nevermind the amazing capabilities of adaptive immunity and somatic recombination rearranging genes and doing hill climbing search at runtime. Or its involvement in cancer clearance and senescence.

The failure modes are incredibly complex as well.
"The login issues are unrelated to the security incident."
Agreed. It's an over optimization and most problems can be solved by traditional relational databases.