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> Time dilation goes to infinity at the center of the black hole - at the singularity, not at the event horizon

That is incorrect. The inside and outside of the black hole are causally disconnected. For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them as the universe warps down into a single beam of light as the black-ness engulfs you.

From the perspective of someone outside, nothing ever "crosses" the event horizon - it just slowly redshifts into darkness and appears to take infinity to "touch" the even horizon.

There is nothing "happening" inside of any black hole right now that has any corresponding time in the outside universe. From our perspective, it happens in the infinitely far future.


"For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them"

I believe this is only true if you have found a way of lingering with zero speed at the event horizon. If you are entering it at near light speed, as you likely would, you will be ingested as a part of "treadmill" containing yourself as well as all the light and will not see much of the future history.


Imagine working hard your whole life that you get to a point that most cannot even dream of getting to and having some schmuck on an online forum who knows nothing other than some headline hoping that you would fail.

It appears the trend is becoming that just by being negative and short on everything is some kind of lazy hack to appear intelligent.


Are you annoyed that he's being negative, or because he didn't back it up with a reason?

Because I've done development both for embedded arm microcontrollers and CUDA. ARM feels like a benevolent overlord that wants to help you. Documentation is open, compilers are easily accessible, there's lots of random blogs with best practices on how to do common operations. Nvidia feels like their entire goal is to extract as much money out of you as they can.

I'm not hoping ARM fails. I'm hoping the sale fails, because if the sale succeeds, ARM will fail.


Can't speak for the other poster but original post (Literally just "Good I hope the whole sale fails") provides no reasoning, information, discussion, or anything else of value, exactly the sort of low effort comment that the HN culture and dang usually discourages.


Yeah I should have added my reasons. My main reason is Nvidia’s stewardship of ARM, I think, would harm the whole ecosystem just look at Nvidia’s attitude towards open source drivers for Linux and the BSDs. Sure it’s basically a slippery slope argument but I think others have voiced similar concerns.


Imagine building a business on the goodwill and trust of your customers and then selling it off to the highest bidder while leaving them hanging in the wind. That's the typical acquisition story.


Who is the hard worker in this statement? A corporation is literally a set of legal documents. No human was discussed at all.


He's just expressing his opinion and it one likely shared by many other people.


Lol. Do you work for SoftBank? Or Nvidia? They could have gone public and all employees with any skin in the game (aka options) would make a killing. Nvidia ownership of ARM would only harm the industry.


Again, how do YOU plan on overcoming the marketing/word of mouth barrier?


Hi Peter, thanks for doing this again.

I'm a startup founder from India who'd love to learn more about how to gain access to US capital markets and startup ecosystem. (e.g. Annual VC deal volume in US is typically 25x that of India).

I'd love to know what you think are some practical ways of going about this, any common gotchas etc.:

1. Opening a delaware c corp via stripe atlas, any common mistakes you've seen?

2. For a small bootstrapped business (<$100K ARR), are there any realistic ways for the founder to immigrate to the US? (mainly to access a better ecosystem, community)

3. For setting up a remote team: Say that I keep the tech team in my home country, what's the best way to, for example, set up a sales team in the US? (common use case for B2B SaaS)


This book came out recently and might help with some of your questions. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GZPBFPH/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

PS: I haven't read the book, so take it with a grain of salt


if you're looking for a less expensive option - check out Blook.io - we help global founders register their businesses in the US and provide a free EIN/bank account :)


You have an asterisk next to the bank account and yet you provide no details on the website. I'd say most people are doing this mainly for the bank account (and payment processing). So you might want to expand on that in the website to avoid me sending you an email to ask about it.


FWIW, I found the asterisk reference here: https://www.blook.io/pricing

> *We are not responsible for the bank account approval. We facilitate and expedite the process as partners for our clients. Mercury works with FDIC-insured banks, including BBVA Compass, Member FDIC, and Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC, to store your deposits.

But I agree with you, I should not have had to go digging to find it on an arbitrary page hidden under yet another "click here to expand" block.


Thanks, I'll check it out.

Can you provide a granular breakdown of why I would pick this vs Stripe atlas?


Not very professional to just point the user to a google doc/sheet.

How do you manage collaboration (i.e. allow users to add features but not make any random changes or delete the whole sheet)? Feature upvotes? Do we ask people to raise a number by 1 in the "upvotes" column.

A proper solution should come with a dedicated frontend.

Like a FOSS alternative for canny.io


Is crunchbase/owler/cb insights and every other public data aggregator/lead generator service also illegal by the same logic?


define illegal.

and no, those aggregators don't process PII / Personal Data.


They typically have a person's different social media account links and work history. Isn't that personal data?


I hope so...


I want to know how many of the total 3600 engineers are just maintaining the main uber app and how many are off in other ventures (self driving etc.)


Hate to be cynical, but I feel like they're just releasing a new one every week just to stay in the news.


They are on a 6 week release cycle. Every 6 weeks they release the changes that are ready. Sometimes the changes are large, sometimes small. Over time, rapid releases tend to get new features out sooner than delayed releases. Don’t get hung up on the version number. It doesn’t mean this is a major release, it is just the 78th release in a series.


They changed it to a 4 week release cycle.


Netscape 1.x and NCSA Mosaic were originally on a ~6 week release cycle. This is just returning to your roots.

I think we have this revisionist history where the signers to the Agile Manifesto invented these processes from whole cloth, when it's more accurate to think of it as 80% curated list of existing practices, >10% discovered, <10% invented.

I ran a Kanban board in 1995, and I wouldn't learn about Deming, Goldratt or Ohno for another ten years. I think a couple people were upset or at least perplexed by my 'yeah ok' reaction to some of their revelations.


Last release was done on June 2, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0/releasenotes/

The previous one was done on May 5, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0/releasenotes/

And the one before on April 7, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/

More or less, one release per month. Hardly "every week".


I am starting to think everything is an ad for Hey on hacker news these days.


Welp, now Google will lock this API down soon.


This API is hit on every search keystroke in modern browsers with a small debounce delay, so its tolerance to frequent requests will be pretty high.


How would they, without impairing normal users? You need an API for the public that allows you to get suggestions rather quickly without an API key, for all the users that are not logged into their Google account.


Probably the same way they lock down Google search from too many HTTP requests.


Yeah I'm sure there's a reasonable flood control on that endpoint, which for project like this probably won't kick in.


Captcha? This won't work for their regular use cases.


Probably server-side rate limiting based on IP.


This API has been well-known forever.


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