skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do a search for "star gazing forum" or similar and join a forum that has the most active discussions/users and read past posts to get started. They probably have FAQs for beginners and you can probably get most of your questions answered before spending any money.

I got into star gazing by accident a few years back because I found $250 entry-level telescope, unused new-in-box for $60 at a garage sale. So look for a used scope for your starter because it is cheaper and very common for people to buy expensive equipment then get out of the hobby. Once you get your sea legs you can upgrade knowing what you want to see and the right equipment to do the job.

I also went on line and learned how to use the scope and then went to some local "star parties" which were fun. Do a search for your area and go because you'll learn a lot faster by talking to others. The local club did a field trip/tour of a (small) observatory at a local community college which was great. Another benefit is some of these gazers have dropped a ton of money on advance systems and at the star parties they are more than happy to let you take a peek and look at all sorts of objects that a beginner scope can't see but it was fun to see the planets and the moon, etc. with my own scope too.
"Fly Fishing in Wyoming" should be the title of Daft Punk's retirement album.

It's such an evocative phrase.

(although it would cause confusion with the band "Trout Fishing in Quebec").
The long-term problem is about politics and education, not engineering or technology. But you knew that, and wrote what you did anyways (the multiple accusations of bad faith are noted, and completely unwarranted by the way).

Carried and stored are different things, tho I'm not an expert on either. I'm getting my info from the US Department of Energy, who reports "Durability of hydrogen storage systems is inadequate. Materials and components are needed that allow hydrogen storage systems with a lifetime of 1500 cycles.". I'm not saying there aren't situations where hydrogen is valuable, but you still haven't demonstrated that we can go carbon-free without nuclear. No one has, because the math doesn't add up, at least not so far.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage-chall....
Ok this is just false.
they have an account @afvofficial
Progress is different from deflation. Hedonic adjustments is a trick to steal the benefits of progress from workers.
> As everyone includes the rich, it is true that they benefit, but not especially true.

Asst holders benefit disproportionately, as do debtors. The people who benefit most have both assets and debt. These are wealthy people.

> The alternative is not “employment at the same wages” when demand drops, it's “production cuts and unemployment, resulting in larger second order demand drop, resulting in more production cuts and unemployment, etc.”

So by tricking people into taking less compensation for the same amount of work, we benefit how? If demand decreases then production should decrease, because less production is indicated.

> That this is generally worse for everyone including the working class, both as a whole and even many of the workers in the sector seeing the initial demand drop should be pretty easy to see.

No, I’m seeing the opposite. When the automobile replaced the horse-and-buggy, demand for buggy whips decreased as it should have. printing money so that the buggy whip makers didn’t notice that there was less demand for their product would have been a disservice
He’s not taken too seriously.

My experience: several years ago I watched Everett give a talk on Pirahã, with only a quick skim of his paper (the first one that got him attention, forgot the name). He gave a basic talk about his work, with examples and translations, etc. I wasn’t convinced by his argument, and some of his answers to fairly reasonable questions were defensive.

Part of the problem is that (at the time, maybe still) all of the data on the language was collected by Everett (maybe with help). I believe he did the the translation, too. It’s reasonable to be skeptical about the data, particularly given the claims based on it. Also, he’s asserting a negative - that Pirahã lacks syntactic recursion, and you can’t prove that adequately with limited data that comes only from you (logical difficulties aside).
Boeing 757 bound for Seattle makes emergency landing
Haven't been to Apple but that sounds extremely unlucky for you - can't imagine 99% of Apple engineers wanting to spend their time reading random github repositories made by a candidate they aren't even going to approve.
That's awesome. Now I have to buy all new appliances, with poorly implemented WiFi stacks, trash all my older, fully functional appliances (Oh, how environmentally friendly will that be?) to let my local power company save me $20/month. Sounds like a fantastic deal.
I'm in principle in agreement. You do need unwinding. Specifically I meant an explicitly triggered unwinding by "exceptions proper". I just wanted to point out that unwinding is much broader than exceptions. (For example generators will implicitly unwind upon its cleanup. Of course it requires callee's cooperation and I couldn't use it as an example.) I also don't buy the claim that explicit Result types are incompatible with unwinding---e.g. RAII works fine with result types.
I've run the numbers here

https://stattrek.com/online-calculator/poisson.aspx

At a weekly probability of 0.04 (2 failures/52 weeks) the probability of 2 failures within a week is 0.077%. The probability of 0 failures in a week is 96%.

Accounting or halving of flight frequency it's 0.02% and 98% respectively.
This is part of a broader program that involves captive breeding, habitat restoration, and reintroduction into the wild. From being extinct in the wild in the '80s with a captive population of 18, they've been brought back to several thousand individuals.

Increasing the diversity of the gene pool is more than just a "nice experiment", but actively addresses a major challenge in the survival of the species.
JSON is used lots of places JavaScript isn't. It hasn't been closely linked with JavaScript since people realized eval is dangerous.

People are more interested in JSON derivatives like JSON5 or Ion than more complex languages like Dhall in my experience.
What about natural gas?

I haven't seen anything real clear about it, but lots of this and that about not enough being available for power plants to start up.
Elon Musk said that Tesla would never build these because they aren’t safe but I do think it would be an interesting exercise to design one that is even cheaper yet also safer.
You've stated a bunch of stuff as fact without sources.

> Yes, exactly. This allows wealthy people to borrow money and pay it back with less value.

It lets everyone do so, and as a fraction of net worth, the poor are way disproportionately exposed, and hence benefit. A billionaire with $1B in net worth isn't leveraged to 10B in real estate. Someone worth $10K may easily have $100K in mortgage debt, however.

Why do you say people who have both debt and assets benefit more than those who have just debts? They strictly dont because those assets have to outperform inflation. Debts do not.

> Poor people often don’t have access to these extremely low interest rates because of structural inequalities and credit requirements (and exceptions tend to leave them worse off as well, see the subprime fiasco). Meanwhile the cheap credit bids up the prices of those assets, benefitting the people who have them (wealthy) as opposed to the people buying them (upwardly mobile or aspirational).

That's irrelevant - that is to say, a separate problem - because inflation affects everyone regardless of interest rate equally. Interest rates are set based on likelihood of default.

> Not in aggregate, because the cost of a house increases as people bid for houses with the cheap credit.

Yes, in aggregate, no the cost of houses hasn't increased on an inflation adjusted dollars per square foot basis since the 1970s [1]. Where it has increased on a unit basis it's due to zoning regulation and not inflation.

> Right, and at the end of the day those units represent less value because of the actions of the central bank. Furthermore those actions were intended to have that exact effect. So how are you claiming that business owners are supposed to work in opposition to central bank policy? Clearly if the central bank wants wages to decrease in real terms, and business owners increase them nominally to make them neutral in real terms, this frustrates central bank policy and they will logically just print more money.

No, this is a fundamental misunderstanding. All businesses see their expenses and revenues rise with inflation. If they choose not to adjust their salaries commensurately, they've made a conscious decision to reduce pay a fraction of income.

> The problem is the distorting effect of low interest rates means that what is productive in terms of nominal r.o.i. is not what is productive in real terms, but the market distortions are so pervasive and persistent that people have to chase the nominal returns. This is incredibly destructive to value, society, and community.

[citation needed]

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...
Why are gold prices more or less the inverse of the other commodities (including other metals)? Is it because it's used more as a portfolio hedge than a commercial good, whereas the other metals have more industrial applications?
Yet another useless piece of Op-Ed trash that people are tricked into reading because it's in a big name publication.

Otherwise respectable news outlets really need to get rid of their dead weight opinion sections, which only serve to damage the credibility of the news divisions. These pundits are a dime a dozen and their unfounded speculation (or at times outright misinformation) is no better than the typical junk floating around medium and substack.
You are purposefully ignoring the normal explanation, which is this: because wages are sticky, firms that need to cut costs in a recession are more likely to lay off people than they are to give pay cuts. Inflation helps to weaken that rigidity so that job losses are not as large. Maybe you know that.

You claim that central banks depreciate the currency because they "think wages among the working class are too high." But rhetorically, you are doing more than just referring to the explanation I gave above. You are implying that central banks "think" working class wages are too high, and want to lower them to hurt working class people.

Which is the opposite of the standard explanation - the purpose of inflation in that instance is to implicitly reduce the downward rigidity of wages so that employment does not contract as much in a downturn.

Presumably you, champion of the working class, would rather more people be unemployed?
That they had a successful “test” of it a year and a half ago does not mean it’s in use now. Current starlink is just receiver -> satellite -> ground station, there is no lasers in use.
No? If I see a ticket for $167 on the airline website, I can get on the plane for $167.
yes, comrade, you have nothing to lose but your chains
Not everything needs to follow some moralistic purity test either. Just sell the damn thing at the market clearing price and let other people wring their hands about fairness of the pricing for these luxury pens. Most people do not need to redeem themselves or assess their self-worth via the pricing of luxury goods.
Sounds like a fun filled hobby. How many people are interested in actually spending 30 to 40 hours spooling up to understand what they're getting, and 5 to 10 hours a month tracking it? I'm sure there's a population, but I'd rather spend another $20/month and do something fun with my time.
Yeah, one of the most limiting factors imo about phones-as-consoles is actually getting the game onto a larger display. They're more than powerful enough to run lower-spec console games - as evidenced by the fact that, say, remastered Square Enix titles have also been hitting mobile platforms.

But the Switch, being a dedicated system for this, doesn't have to put nearly as much work into the implementation. You can easily just throw it into a dock and leave it there indefinitely, because you don't need it for anything else. While you can cast a phone wirelessly, the setup will depend largely on your ecosystem and/or accessory vendors. And even then, the entire thing is typically mirrored - which not only leaves the rest of your device otherwise unusable, but also raises further cases to handle around notifications (or worse, calls) while you're actually gaming on it.

These issues would make single-player gaming annoying enough, and local multiplayer effectively becomes a nonstarter. (Never mind that one you introduce that as a requirement you also introduce the need to set up additional controllers a nontrivial amount of the time, and fast pair support within the Bluetooth spec is just as messy.)

For phones to really be able to cover these things without introducing tradeoffs that just don't exist with a dedicated device, we'd need OS- and hardware- level support for running a secondary display, wirelessly, without also introducing lag in the process.

Effectively, we're comparing them to the wrong platform. Because while the internals most directly line up with those of the Switch, the interface design they'd need in order to really make the experience work is arguably a lot closer to that of the Wii U.

[0] Note that, for the sake of this discussion, on Android's side I'm referring strictly to what's available in AOSP. I'm aware of, say, DeX, but the app ecosystem as a whole doesn't tend to have great support for vendor-specific implementations, and the stock desktop mode is still a. experimental, b. wired.
Definitely, for sure. Like I said in the other thread, supersonic is a whole other thing, and I don't think anyone is trying to electrify anything supersonic any time soon :)
Tip jet helicopters have been a thing, but it's never taken off commercially.

Sort of like Wittgenstein himself.
I’m not sure how to put a reasonable number on it, especially the simulation part, but C. elegans is a very common model organism. It’s maybe not as well-known as mice or rats, but probably in the top ten most-studied organisms. Here’s a nice review (https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg2105); a quick glance at the WormBook might also give you a sense for the breadth and depth of what’s been done[0]. http://www.wormbook.org/

Neurotransmission in C. elegans is unusual. They use a different set of neurotransmitters; this isn’t that odd—-insects also use a slightly different set than humans, and their role even flips in many animals (including mammals) during development. The weirder part is what those neurotransmitters do. In other animals, neurons produce stereotyped all-or-none “spikes” of electrical activity. Until quite recently, it was unclear whether C elegans neurons did too. This News and Views (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951993/#R29) does a nice job describing plateau potentials and the reasons that C. elegans neurons might differ (namely, they’re very small). A few years later Cori Bargmann’s group discovered that the AWA neuron fires something more akin to a “classical” spike—-sometimes. It also uses calcium instead of sodium. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31034-1

This might complicate simulations a little bit, but these differences are also understood pretty well, and the much smaller nervous system more than offsets them.

[0] I work at the polar opposite end of neuroscience—-large animal neurophys—-but I’ve always been a little jealous of how friendly and tight-knit the C elegans community seems. They have a lot of great open resources.
What's nice is that this can essentially be ignored by API's and browsers.

Computer-generated data never needs to include trailing commas or comments.

Really the principal use case here is JSON as human-edited configuration files. In which case I suppose it's nice to have a name like "JWCC", but really it's just two flags for JSON decoding libraries to add (or a single nice combined flag).

So that really would be great IMHO, if you could just call json_decode($json, JSON_ALLOW_JWCC). I don't think we need a new MIME type or anything. But a file extension of ".jwcc" would be a nice convention too.
> That does not increase the real value of those assets,

Exactly correct. It decreases the value of the money use to pay for them, resulting in a higher nominal price and fewer people in society who are able to afford them, resulting in less access to capital for the majority of society.

> and it does not have any distributional consequences.

False. When assets go up relative to currency, fewer buyers can compete for those assets, leading to the wealthy owning more and the poor getting poorer.

> But you'd rather expose your ignorance on the Internet for us to see.

I’m quite sure I’ve acquitted myself satisfactorily in this discussion, if you feel the same about yourself, perhaps you’re the one who needs to peruse the literature.

> I happen to know a lot about central banking, actually. You might be pulling a Dunning-Kruger on this one.

Then how could you have been ignorant of Krugman’s statements to the effect that inflation was necessary because workers’ make too much money? Did you know he had said that? If so, why ask me for a source? If not, how much do you really know about central banks? Especially if you think that the words of several economists are evidence of some conspiracy?
Could use ML to reduce manual 'debug' overhead, spooky stuff.
Bribed implies the natural course of the tech worker would be altruistic, which is quite the assumption
My point is that I don't buy Crockford's argument, at all, against having comments in JSON. "I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability".

So instead you have people coming up with a million different bad hacks to support comments in non standard ways (e.g. "fake comment" properties, duplicate keys, etc.) Coupled with the fact that since it's not in the standard, you never really know if the file you're creating may be read by something that won't strip comments. It's the worst of all possible worlds in my opinion, with 0 benefit.
Kudos, NASA. This is why we love you.
For a typical aircraft, say like a Cessna, does the weight of an engine and auxiliaries be equal in weight to batteries, fuel, generator and motors?
Barclays PinSentry uses CAP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
> people who benefit most have both assets and debt. These are wealthy people

Generally you have to have more assets than debt to be considered "wealthy." This is why the word "net" is important in the parent comment. And you are completely ignoring the second-order effects, which is that an economy with low, stable inflation is good for everyone. And if you are going to quibble "why is low, stable inflation good for everyone," then look at the deflationary spirals of the great depression (or any pre-1900 crash) and any hyperinflationary economy of your choosing.

> If demand decreases then production should decrease

Okay Chairman, have it your way. COVID hits, demand plummets, we do nothing to try to keep people in jobs or keep the financial system from collapsing. Less production is indicated!

> buggy whips

This is a total red herring and you know it. No one is talking about counter-cyclical monetary policy and implying it is being used to keep anachronistic firms in business.
> It maintains the American culture that has been built for the last 250 years and while it's not perfect, it is far from being a place where only whites thrive.

Can you please identify the time periods where a plurality of races where thriving in America?

The way I see it, until the 1980s, non-whites were made unwelcome in America.

Segregation occurred within our lifetimes. President Biden for example took his seat in Congress, during an era where 8 year old black girls could be stoned by the KKK for going to a mixed-race school. Nearly 40 years later, he left Congress to serve under a mixed-race President in the Whitehouse.

We have seen a sea of change, but the time spans involved are very small. For most of US history, being anything but lily white was a demerit against you that most people could never overcome. US culture is not merely white culture. It includes the culture of many peoples who suffered under the oppression of segregation, Jim Crow, internment camps, dying in a trail of tears, slavery and 2nd class citizenship.
> Current parsers cannot start returning BigInts instead of numbers without that being a breaking change.

Current parsers aren't uniform here. Since the JSON spec is silent on what post-parsing format is used for numbers, each parser is free to do whatever makes sense in the context of the host language. I reckon you'll find some JSON parsers use bigints already, especially in languages with first-class bigint support (such as various Lisp dialects)

> And I'm not sure anyone wants a format where the result may change types based on the size of the number

That's nothing to do with the format, that's to do with the parser. Some parsers already do exactly that – use an integer type for numbers that are integers, use a floating point type for numbers that contain decimal points
That Tesla has bad customer service? Check out any forum for Tesla owners; there’s tons of love for the cars, the software, etc, but even the most die hard fan forum will admit that they haven’t prioritized their customer service.

There are constant horror stories from people who were pressured into accepting delivery of cars with defects, only to spent months fighting with the service center to repair glaring issues. Or users who reached out to support for account issues and receiving no response.
Also, they didn't have to do this.
They are adorable. My girlfriend used to volunteer at a bat rescue. Did you know bats purr? They freaking purr! Sure they have weird noses but they are strange and beautiful animals. You should learn to love them like your life depended on it, as likely it may be that dire.
A UK colleague was devastated when he came to Texas for a project; luckily he turned 21 a few weeks later...!
Yes and no. There is more money available generally and that availability is more geographically distributed than it used to be. However, people that know how to raise money tend to be concentrated in areas where that is cultural knowledge. Most of the advice you read online on how to raise money from VCs is misleading at best to the naive outsider. The hard part is learning the mechanics of a real VC funding at various stages, and how that varies across funding stages. If you have that knowledge, it doesn’t matter too much where you are or how connected, you can make it work.

There is an unreal amount of capital sloshing around right now, that part is true, but there is a hurdle in knowing how to raise it and that knowledge is not evenly distributed even if you otherwise have a solid startup. I learned how to do this the hard way. There is a “fish don’t notice the water” aspect to it.

(Currently raising a large Series B outside of the west coast.)
> A locking mechanism on pocket knives holds the knife open. "Not as secure as it can be" implies that the knife closes in on itself (possibly snagging your fingers) under heavy use.

> But... the next sentence says "hard to disengage during heavy use", which is the exact opposite (the knife will stay open after heavy use, and its difficult to close).

I disagree entirely with this assessment.

There are plenty of badly made mechanisms that fail (eg, the knife flexes enough to slip past the lock) but are stiff and difficult to disengage.

As a specific example of a knife with this exact problem the CRKT M16-01 has complaints about it being stiff to disengage[1] and complaints about the lock failing[2]

[1] https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/frame-lock-way-too-stiff...

[2] https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/crkt-m16-14sf-lock-failu...