Rare Hackernews W. Thanks for posting. This is a really great read.
Readit Newsuncivilized commented on Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage maalvika.substack.com/p/b... · Posted by u/alihm
uncivilized commented on A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
From the article, the guitars will be displayed in an American Guitar exhibition in Spring 2027.
uncivilized commented on NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour science.nasa.gov/get-invo... · Posted by u/mywacaday
Not sure about this one... according to this study the escape velocity of the Milky Way is around 550 km/s.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...649A.136K/abst...
The authors of that study cited above are pretty confident it's above 497 +/- 8 km/s, at least in the solar neighborhood.
1M Miles per hour works out to 446 km/s. Granted these are all rough numbers, and it depends exactly where you are in the Milky Way, but it looks like it may be a bit short of actually escaping.
If you actually read the research paper linked in the article, it says the speed may exceed that of the escape velocity of the Milky Way, suggesting that it is not proven as fact yet.
uncivilized commented on Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oVWsb... · Posted by u/fortran77
No, it's a combination of (1) we don't see everything (or even 10%) of what gets posted, and (2) most people underestimate their own provocations and overestimate the provocations that come from others (by a good 10x), so it always feels like the other person started it and did worse.
In case anyone wants more explanation of these points, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is all about (1) and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... is all about (2).
Thanks for the explanation and for the detailed responses in the links.
I agree with them, but what ends up occurring is similar to situations in schoolyards where a bully who starts a confrontation isn’t punished, but the person who fights back is punished because it’s the person who fights back that causes a scene.
I will reach out you via email to delete my account.
uncivilized commented on Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oVWsb... · Posted by u/fortran77
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.
Feel free to post this to the comment above mine as well that says “they stupidly pretended it was real”.
Along with many similar comments in other threads. Is it okay to be sneerful as long as everyone else agrees with you? Seems to be the message.
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"This extrapolation predicts that the cosmos should currently be expanding at a rate of 67.4 km/s/Mpc, with an uncertainty that’s less than 1%."
I can't measure my own weight with an uncertainty that's less than 1%. I wonder what these peeps are on...
Their wallets are much bigger than yours.
uncivilized commented on How to avoid losing items? Holding pens blog.alexwendland.com/202... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
250 comments as a Hacker News discovers interior design.
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Unpopular opinion: the web stack including Electron apps, which many people here find every opportunity to complain about, made this possible.
How so?