skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huygens Space Probe Descent to Titan (2005)
Neither of my kids have any interest in programming or computer science or engineering at all. I sometimes wonder if i could have done something different to spark their curiosity. Welding, working on cars, stupid arduino tricks, lasers, 3d printers, hacking, rockets, robot clubs, computers everywhere...I’ve tried a lot, but nothing really stuck.

One’s just got an undergrad in healthcare and the other likely headed for art. I’m stoked they found things they love and I’m sure we’ll still have lots to talk about over the years... just probably won’t be vi vs emacs lol
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039525
> it's possible to get a picture of how many users perceive your app to be slow.

> [paper showing Google measuring how many users perceive their app to be slow]
I think out of all of them, Twitter is the most complicated. Their comment threads itself are super complex. Plus the character limit forcing people to post in multiple threads makes it worse.

UI wise, Snapchat is the worst.
Reminds me of the Halifax explosion 100 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
> Thermal imaging likewise just does not work the way that people think it does. It doesn't work in cold environments like the Sierra in winter (western or eastern), because people are typically wearing insulated clothing and the entire area around them is a gigantic heat sink. It also doesn't work in very warm environments or in heavily vegetated environments or rocky environments with sunlight -- rocks absorb and re-radiate heat and so do plants.

I wonder if there's a specific subset of this problem domain where thermal imaging could be very useful: detecting campfires at night.

I think this would address the limitations you mention, primarily due to the extreme temperature difference between the fire and surroundings. Since the night sky has a high absorptance to emittance ratio and thus acts as a thermal sink, the surrounding tree canopy would be cool and increase the contrast more.

Of course, fire would have a high contrast with its surroundings even in the visible light range, so perhaps I am overthinking this. One possible advantage of thermal imaging though would be if the convective heat transfer as the hot air moves up could act as a sort of long-range beacon? Possibly not because I know any particles in the air, or water vapor will reflect/obstruct thermal radiation over long distances and prevent it from being seen clearly.
Would be interesting to see something like this with poker. There are some interesting, high variance games becoming increasingly popular and this would certainly be a cool wrinkle: "6 card high low Omaha with time travel".
I agree, and I'm more critical of heavy front end Javascript frameworks that are part and parcel of SPAs. Things like the Turbolinks hack you mention, IMO, provide the best user experience, especially fast initial page load. But that can be messy to develop, so we end up with Angular or React which smooth the development issues, but make pages fat and slow for users.
What the videos capture well is the ground wave.

You see the blast, then the building shakes within a second, then the atmospheric shockwave arrives a few seconds later.

Gives you a sense of the power - to violently shake the ground from over 1km away.
Video processing tools in the cloud very regularly use frame rate and resolution as pricing inputs, similar to GB with storage solutions
Is it "really amazing engineers" or good management / culture that matters? You can get a "really amazing engineers" and put them in an environment where they can't exploit their talents.
What is this entire subthread even about? os.(File).Readdir does not, by default, even compile. The caller has to provide a parameter of how many entries to read at a time, and reading "all of them" is an intentional choice.
If your mail server is in AWS, it's not ipv6 that is the problem per se. It's that google has blocked the entire AWS address space. To be fair, you shouldn't be sending email from AWS without going through SES, which has it's own address space and has specific deals for deliverability to all the big mail recipients, like gmail and hotmail.
Maybe that's true, but in that case it was just Bytedance as a financial savior, not technical or product savior. Could have been Facebook, Google, or anyone with deep pockets.
I think people might find it interesting on how Twitter was formed:

> Scandal and Betrayal: The Story of How Twitter Started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8N0xN0ihMA
"log in with Tik Tok" will be their aim. They'll push their decentralized identity platform with this and advertise that your data is safe and you aren't being tracked.
I see that you are not up on the Sherman Antitrust Act. Go ahead, I'll wait.

The 1890s demonstrated what a Libertarian regime would dissolve into, instantly: Absolute rule by the biggest dog. It has happened myriad times in human history, from all kinds of pre-conditions. We were lucky, 130 years ago, that the armed forces still believed in voting. Not sure they still do...
does anyone know how long the fire was going before the initial explosions? like, how much time did people have to evacuate?
So, no fuel--only oxidizer.

Ammonium ion is the fuel when pure ammonium nitrate explodes.

Adding fuel oil increases the power for a couple reasons - 1) fuel oil adds additional fuel 2) ammonium nitrate absorbs water from the atmosphere and makes it much less sensitive. The fuel oil “waterproofs” the ammonium nitrate.
Principle D is a good one!

I used to volunteer to teach elementary and middle school kids computer engineering. I believed we had better engagement when we stuck to "real world" tools (such as breadboards instead of littleBits, Arduino instead of Scratch)
yeah...was just wondering which port is ever going to seize and store chemicals like that now. Probably no one wanted to touch it and it just got stuck there.
That was fun. And then I clicked through to "Arcology...a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated, ecologically low-impact human habitats" and they list, "Begich Towers" in Whittier, Alaska, where I grew up as an example. I guess that's cool if you want the dystopian version, imposing itself on nature.
Windows NT was built VMS-style, getting half-baked subsystems is it's entire point.
Everything with a thin metal sheet roof = shredded like paper.
Thanks! Quite a few things I didn't know in here, and on balance it does seem compelling.

Still can't quite understand why they would choose the 1-based indexing, it's just such an unforced error, unless the intention was literally just to fuck with people.

I suppose I could get over being fucked with, though.

> Both Lua runtimes fit in a typical L1 cache

That is pretty sweet!
You can't because the interface doesn't allow any errors. Lazily populating data is usually fallible, and the interface's methods are all infallible.
One of the photos: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XCLpJqhpk68aHsAKkvosmw--/Y...
You probably would need some scissors. Supposedly (at least according to Quora) you can mold it with your hands.

Of course this requires the gold coin is made of pure gold and not alloyed with another metal.
Thought this was a hardware project until I clicked the link. Hardware would provide serious scope for innovation.
Software has been done.
Calling Time on High Sierra
Never underestimate the power of bureaucratic paralysis... From all news reports it's looking like the persons responsible for the port repeatedly pleaded with the Lebanese court authorities to get it out of there, and nothing was ever done.

I honestly have no idea how admiralty law works in a Lebanese legal context. In the US or Canada if a ship is abandoned in port there's well defined legal mechanisms for the port authority to seize it and its cargo for unpaid fuel and moorage fees, and summon the owners to court to defend their asset.
Some of the examples pass what appears to be a JSON string to a function called `jsan`, and some use a function called `json`. I would have put this down to a typo, but there are several examples of each.

I'm curious, now: can a Scala person (this is Scala, right?) explain what the difference is between these two things?
I've had a few lens corrections over the years, but starbursts seem to only get worse with time since that first prescription where they completely disappeared.

Whenever I bring up the question of corrective surgery my ophthalmologist manages to somehow change the subject. I suspect that my astigmatism has gotten so bad that lenses can't completely correct it (thus worsening starbursts), making me a poor candidate for surgery in his opinion, notwithstanding all the marketing promises out there. Perhaps we're both in the same boat if you're also still seeing starbursts with your prescription.
San Francisco restaurateur dies financial struggles depression during pandemic
They would not detonate at ground level to maximize destructive potential. To contrast, the US actually has different bombs that penetrate into the ground before detonating in order to effectively destroy buried bunkers.

For example, I believe the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonated at about 500m above the ground.
Visually Sync Your Mac's Desktop with Jigsaw
It's a standard UI design for comparing images on the web and is often used in online news websites when comparing "then" and "now" similar to the article
My guess would be the menthol in peppermint.
As always in such cases, they will accuse anyone they don't like. Being disliked by demogogues is not probable cause.
Ease of management.
It's an incorporeal ghost knight.
GPT-3 GH repo archived and Model release remains an open issue
A thread about Firefox descended into a conversation about the free market. But is that really warranted? What I mean is, Firefox is an open source product, right? So isn't it just a matter of a feature to hijack the "the video turns into a little box" javascript function so it doesn't do that, or blocking it and detecting in some other way? I'm no web developer, but it seems like a feature or add-on should conquer it.
Could work against you if the updated images get filtered out under the cloud cover/fog category.
If curious see also

a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24008244

a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23908057

a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941489
Thank you for this, I love it!
A little obscure? I have seen this same image comparison ux many times before And it was instantly recognizable.

I would improve it for new users by having a little animation after load that "wiggles" the handle a bit to get the user's attention.
Oh my gosh, I hate that "10th dimension" video so freaking much. It has done nothing but spread confusion and false understanding across the internet.

If it were just presented as a fun exploration of what 10 dimensions could be, for fictional purposes, it would be... OKish, I guess. But choosing "10" specifically makes people erroneously think that this is what string theory is about, which is completely wrong.

Additionally, it falls into the trap of assuming that curvature requires a higher dimension to curve in, and that nontrivial connectivity inherently requires such curvature, both of which are false and hard enough to explain to people who have not been explicitly taught wrongly already.

And on top of all of that, it perpetuates the faulty idea that "the" 5th dimension, or "the" 10th dimension are sensible concepts, by presenting its particular choice of dimensions to discuss and its particular choice of ordering of those dimensions as fact.
It doesn't appear so :-(
It's actually three of them plugged into a USB hub I mount as RAID 1 on my desktop. Two go in the safe and one stays on my keychain.
There were plenty of discussions a few years ago. Julia is probably used the least out of those languages for things that might have latency problems though - servers, guis, games, etc.
Wouldn't an accelerometer be a bit easier? Guess it can't hurt to have multiple defenses.
A spirited debate now and again is good for the brain. :)

It challenges your thoughts and positions, and makes you actually question and rationalize why you think the things you do.

On occasion, you realize you were wrong. On other occasions, it enables you to fully develop your thoughts and prepare to rationally support them.

Either way, it's healthy, and far preferred to being in an echo chamber hearing only your own thoughts.

Thanks for taking the time to participate.
In the case of the former, I think you're misunderstanding Wirth. His statement isn't predicated on the idea that functional programming 100% requires the language to eliminate state, necessarily; just that functional programming discourages state in lieu of primitives less aligned with the machine.

For instance, functional programmers would almost all tell you that `map (x => ...) xs` is "better" than `for i from 0..len(xs): xs[i] = ...`. But the former, implemented trivially, is very slow: from the allocation of the closure to the allocation of the new list to the function calls on each iteration and the lack of tail recursion in `map`'s implementation (this is a trivial implementation, remember?)

Of course, the functional programmer would tell you, "Well, it's easy to optimize that, the performance issues are just because your implementation is too trivial", and Wirth would rejoin, "Too trivial? What's that?"
Very detailed response!
I'm just pointing out that there are quite
regularly draft candidates that are touted
the same way, that do not end up as a Lebron
James.

Can you name examples? I don't think that's correct, at all. Not even Michael Jordan garnered that sort of attention in his early teen years.

Lebron had thousands of people and scouts at his games as a high school freshman and sophomore, and was was on the cover of Sports Illustrated before his junior year of high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#High_school_caree...

He is such a freakish outlier.
Nitroprill HD material datasheet:

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/12907955327014256...
Anecdotal, but IPv6 saved me a lot of headache recently.

I got a warning about an unauthorized attempted login to my gmail account. They gave me the IP of the offending login. I was able to track that IP not only back to my house, but to a specific device in my house.

It was my NAS, and it was trying to log into gmail to send me an email about a failing drive. Gmail no longer allows username/password logins from third party apps, so I got a warning instead.

Without IPv6, I would have just chalked it up to a misbehaving device and ignored it since it came from my own IP, but because of IPv6, I was able to see it was from the NAS and investigate further.
They don't use heavy metals because they strongly absorb X-rays, lower density materials are better at transmitting x-rays which is why they often use very low Z elements. Sometimes they dope with heavy metals but nothing has yet allowed to reach break even.
Physical servers can fail at any time and it's out of your hands. ;)
City growth favours animals 'more likely to carry disease'
Your dates are deceiving you.

Aug 2000 was the near bottom for gold and the near .top for the sp500.

If you bought gold in 1980 (the peak) you’d still be underwater even with the current jump in price.
I've seen this UX for comparing images multiple times and it does seem rather standard, but I'm frequently stumped by the affordance for a few seconds. Maybe if it quickly slid over and back to show how to interact?

Anyway, incredible pictures.
How do you know there is life in other parts of the universe?

Do you at least consider a possibility that life originated only once?
CNN article linked in same thread. Extensive media reports from 2014 in Russian/Ukrainian media when the ship was seized. It was a minor human interest story because the crew was stranded for 10+ months with no operating funds and no salary.
Just because something doesn't work for your use-case doesn't make it the "dumbest way possible". It just makes you sound dumb.
I’m kind of surprised they don’t mention afero at all, who was one of the first big packages to abstract filesystem access. Shoutout as they make unit testing filesystem ops a piece of cake!

https://github.com/spf13/afero
As someone who has worked on various deficiencies over the years, including vitamin D, I will suggest it means the dose you are taking is probably too high. When I had similar issues, reducing my sun exposure -- which was how I was improving my vitamin D status at the time -- resolved the headaches and vomiting that I was experiencing.
Microsoft cuts xCloud iOS testing early, its future on Apple devices: unclear
Yes. There are some trade offs, you can’t parameterize the standard library data structures over an allocator yet, for example.
there are several spectrogram apps for your phone. It is really fun to have them "on" all the time and see what can be heard around. My favourite patterns are those of an old, rusty door, scratching the floor as it opens.
Having a kid that young your life is going to be determined a lot by the support of your immediate and extended family. Can a 15 year old dictate how they want their kids to be raised like a 30 year old with their own means, when they are reliant on everyone else for both child raising help and financial support? Can't imagine how tough it is in every way.
The thing that really gets me is that even once you hear these conversations, the price might 2x or 3x from there. I felt this way about Bitcoin by the summer of 2017 but obviously it still had some room to run.
Fuck, hope it gets easier for you. The only way I can think of is getting a pay rise so you can earn that salary without needing the overtime.
Works for Hacking Team and NSO.
Like many others in HN, I’m interested in learning more about GPT-3 and experimenting with the model myself but I was surprised to find that it’s not openly available and that the repo was archived, perhaps for the reasons discussed in this issue.

Maybe someone here on HN could help shed light on what’s going on and clarify if/when a GPT-3 model will be available?
Note Library Genesis http://libgen.is/ provides equal access opportunities for those unable to purchase or afford books, and can provide an unrestricted preview function for those considering purchasing.
I thought a number of "modern" MIRV warheads were intentionally designed smaller in the 50 to 125 kiloton class.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t enable resistFingerprinting for anyone I’m responsible for providing tech support to! If y’all want to experiment with it, go ahead, but be prepared to be angry at your browser and/or websites as things mysteriously break without explanation.
Hezbollah is known to stockpile around this amount of explosives. One stockpile was discovered in London in 2015, and another was discovered in Germany.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/hezbollah-stockpiled-chemi...

Lebanon is Hezbollah's headquarters.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. was IBM CEO when Red Hat was founded in 1993 (plus or minus 6 months because I am lazy and I don't want to look up specific dates). Having a clue and having a time machine are very different things.
That interface is just awful, here's a byte buffer and some offsets, good luck.
Heh, I know of a couple of people who would have been far happier if the fax server specifically was somehow accidentally tipped down a stairwell... by this time there were enough dirt cheap "cloud" fax services that it really didn't make sense to keep the on-prem system, particularly since the office had been almost entirely migrated to VoIP except for a few oddball devices like that fax setup. But that whole thing just becomes a story of the internal woes of that particular megacorporation, from the computer room to the front office there was a whole lot of stuff just being kept over from the '90s.
Yes. Not all college students are from the US.
I understand :-) I am not even arguing that the subscription price is not worth it - it might very well be.

I do however disagree with charging for this kind of software (which to me is only a local client, since I do not use or care about their backend service) via a subscription, on principle.

I'm aware that from a purely financial point of view, this is not a rational argument to make. In fact, it gets more irrational because if I could pay for updates every time, I might end up accepting a scheme where I pay more in total over the lifetime of the product - depending on whether I pay for every major version, and how high each update is priced - and I would not be dissatisfied with that.

But it's not purely a financial argument, it's about the choice of what to pay for, and what not. Being able to evaluate each version on its own merits. Paying for the syncing feature separately (in my case: Dropbox).

Basically, this kind of subscription removes freedom of choice from the customer side, which is why I am ideologically opposed to it even when it works out cheaper in the end for me.

As an aside: I find the word "subscription" to be disingenuous for these, and only use it because it has come to be used by convention. Traditionally "subscriptions" in terms of physical goods meant you retain ownership of anything you received before cancelling. Cancel a magazine, you don't need to mail back all your old copies. I tend to think of software or media "subscriptions" as "renting access", not as "subscribing", and mostly avoid them.
Absolutely we are doping! Adderall, modafinil.... caffeine...
In my experience at least, it's never been that anyone can truly unilaterally schedule a meeting. Instead, it's that anyone can propose a meeting with anyone else at any time, which people end up feeling obligated to accept for a variety of social and political reasons.

I agree that there is a common tendency for folks to schedule more meetings than would be most efficient, and that there are a variety of reasons why this is the case.

I’m not so sure that having every employee in to set office hours outside of which no one else may invite them to a meeting is the correct solution. I could imagine it being fairly likely that you might end up in a scenario in which this system makes it impossible to schedule meetings with many groups of people.

Meeting time is expensive for both individuals and the company, but some amount of meetings can be worthwhile! Ideally both inviters and invitees attempt to consider as many of the trade-offs involved as possible, and are able to do all of send, receive, accept, and reject, and propose alternatives to invitations as needed.
It would be smart to demonstrate ability to do thing A before attempting thing B that is 1000 times harder.

With any luck, things you learn actually doing A, and then A' that is 10 times harder, and then A'' that is 100 times harder, will all turn out to be useful, even necessary, in tackling B. Failure is always an option, but there is no point in choosing it at the outset.
>Both sides take a hit on intellectual integrity, except that intellectuals put a lot of weight on it so they stand more to lose.

Wasn't your original argument about what the public thinks of the integrity of these groups? I'm not seeing how that meshes with this comment. Are you implying that the public sees intellectuals valuing their own integrity as a sign of a lack of integrity?
The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
It is common and intuitive, but the one thing that is unique is it is pretty much full frame. It is normally used on an image within the layout of the website. It took me a second to find the handle knowing it'd be there, but the sheer devastation kept my eye from finding it. The GP did not say it took them 20 minutes to find the handle obscure, but it does kind of get lost in the carnage.