skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superpowers pretend various space assets are secrets, but it's really a pointless waste of their secrecy machines. If the amateurs know this much about everyone's satellite position and appearance, the pros certainly know much more. So who's left? Nobody. So it's only secret on paper.
Thus "for the modern age"... ;-)
A lot of us are better with faces than names, and can remember when and where and what we were doing with someone and forget their name at the same time.
renewables are not a joke. Please don't minimise their contributions in the past two decades.

The better way to characterise the problem is that renewables are intermittent - a problem for which we do not currently have a large-scale solution. One solution is to use a non-polluting technology that currently works - nuclear power - while we buy ourselves time to build out and develop renewable capacity.
As alternative tools like Ghidra or even some of the cheaper options like Hopper become more popular, I suspect Hex-Rays recognizes that corporate licenses are their bread and butter. From a business perspective it makes sense to squeeze as much out of these companies as they can get away with. The subscription costs are only a fraction of an annual salary.

Unfortunately this leaves the hobbyist and individuals behind. ~$1K/year isn't out of the realm of what I pay for other tools, but it's really hard to justify it when I can open Ghidra and get 95% of the way there without the subscription model.

IDA really is great for handling edge cases and obscure architectures, but I hope this last switch-up by Hex-Rays pushes even more developer attention toward improving the open-source alternatives.
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I shouldn't have had to say this, given that this is HN and comments tend toward the helpful, but: I meant my comment in the sense of helping you to improve your offering.

If I didn't care, I wouldn't have taken the time to write a comment as if I had a stake in your company beyond just wanting entrepreneurs to succeed. If I had seen this on Twitter, I would have just kept scrolling. But HN has given a lot to me, so I try to help others.

So in that vein, one more constructive criticism: learn to take feedback better. The best customer feedback often comes packaged in vitriol and is much more unpleasant than anything posted here. (Especially from support tickets. People are frequently angry when they write them, but they also provide invaluable insight into your product.) You'll have more success if you gracefully accept all critiques, both warranted and unwarranted, regardless of how gently they are phrased.

Good luck!
Some busting of ass, some dicking around. Same as a lot of people.
Honestly, the whole post seems extremely petty to me. This person apparently felt so offended by the offer that they decided to make a post about it, name the company, and put screencaps of the conversation online? It's not like they were taken advantage of or underpaid or actually caused harm. They had a conversation about some work, negotiations broke down because they had wildly different ideas of the work and pay, so they went their separate ways.

Was there some public badmouthing of this developer by Analogue or something? Because if not, this is possibly one of the most petty and entitled things I've seen posted to do with software development in a while. Don't want to take a low-ball offer? Don't take it. Posting what look to be private conversations online to shame someone because they didn't offer you enough money for something you have full choice to accept or ignore? WTF?
I've always thought the sweet spot for NFTs/cryto is not these random coins run by random developers. The sweet spot would seem that it enables already trusted big brands to make their own de-facto corporate currencies. Sort of like a next generation loyalty program/gift card/airline miles program on steroids.

Nike would gift you some Nikecoin for every purchase of Nikes you buy. You can then gift Nikecoin to your friends or buy more Nikes with them. Unlike airline miles, the ledger is openly tracked and the companies can't devalue them every year like airlines do.

At the extreme end I could see an application where Nike lets people trade Nike sneaker futures. Nike would actually store the physical Nikes in some climate controlled warehouse. Sort of like oil futures where most traders wouldn't know what to do with an actual barrel of oil.

The benefits for Nike are that its sort of like arcade/casino virtual bux - loyal consumers disassociate Nike purchases from hard earned USD and spend more. Nike traders don't have to pay taxable gains until they convert to USD. And you lock-in money into the Nike ecosystem.
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Everything you 'see' is just in your mind.

Aphantasia is, some people just can't make their optical qualia up willingly or their optical qualia lack the image quality of their visual capacity.

A lot more people are convinced, what they 'see' through their eyes is outside their mind, because they can't make it up willingly.

But, there is no color outside your mind.
This reminds me of a situation I saw with another autonomous car company's vehicle in SF a couple weeks back. I truly didn't know what the correct move by the vehicle should have been.

The situation: The vehicle was on Vallejo crossing west to east over Sansome Street, a one-way, two-lane thoroughfare. For Sansome, there is no stop sign here, but there is for Vallejo. The vehicle stopped at its sign, then began to proceed across the intersection, until two pedestrians entered the crosswalk from south to north along the far side of Sansome. The vehicle stopped in the middle of the street to wait for the pedestrians to cross. There was no cross traffic coming, but what if there were? Seems like a situation ripe for a side collision, especially because Sansome is brisk at this point.

I really don't know what the capabilities of the sensors are, or how situations are assessed, so I'm assuming it did what it did based on its situational awareness. Wondered if the vehicle could have backed up to the stop sign it came from if there was cross traffic, or if it could have broken the rules and gone around the pedestrians if there was danger of a side collision.

The intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/TisMyYc1RhKgJWFf8

PS: there is a garage at that corner that almost exclusively contains Waymo vehicles, and this was not a Waymo car.
The answer is no for mainly two reasons:

1. Prohibitive costs. Its extremely expensive (both in money and time) to manufacture many of the parts of the telescopes, such as the reflector dishes. Its even more expensive to do all the testing & certification of the manufactured parts.

2. Its all outdated anyways. The JWST project has been ongoing for literally decades (starting in '96 if I remember). If we were to start from scratch today we would make a lot of different design choices based on more recent technological developments
I donate to groups. I also purchase carbon offsets for my personal energy use, use my power company’s “all renewables” option, and have gotten much more attentive to the carbon costs of the things I do. I know it’s a drop in the sea, but it’s my drop. I also work at a company whose outputs I think will help the problem.

The approach I’ve found works best for me for lifestyle changes is to treat them as a slow ratchet - make a decision like “cut down on meat” (or whatever), and just start taking steps down that road. Take the steps that you feel like you can, get used to them, and then take another step. It’s hard to change everything overnight, but you can make a remarkable amount of change if you’re attentive over time.

That said, it’s still the existential elephant in the room. I don’t look at it every day, and when I do, it’s terrifying. But it’s just too big for me alone to face - all I can do is what I can do, and hope it adds up with what everyone else is doing to make a difference.
> So no guns found inside the capitol?

You really should want what guns were used to be distributed between the people that went in to the building and those staying outside with no discernible patterns to argue against an organized insurrection. All the guns being outside just indicates that it was strategy (say to overwhelm the outnumbered inside security with numbers, melee weapons, and chemical agents, while reserving firearms to deal with the potentially more numerous and better equipped relief that could be sent).

Now, I don't care one way or the other, because I am not arguing it was a particularly well-planned or organized insurrection, because incompetence is not a mitigating factor. But as well as keeping moving the goalposts because you seem unfamiliar with the basic facts, you also seem to be very bad at even picking positions to defend which make a coherent argument.
Eh, if a programmer feels guilty about the market rates for programmers, and they feel over-privileged, and they feel they can live on less money than that, then they can donate their money to people who are less fortunate, donate to advocacy groups, volunteer places in their community, or release Free(Libre) software. They don't need to ignore market rates for the industry and drive their own salary down for the benefit of software companies. We are talking about a company making a $200 luxury gameboy, this is not a company that needs your charity or a product that needs cheap labor.

It's OK to both acknowledge that software engineers are extremely privileged and often divorced from the realities of other workers, and to acknowledge that we can use our privilege in ways that can help people (and in fact have something of a moral responsibility to do so), and finally also to acknowledge that we have market rates as an industry and we don't have an obligation to give labor away to companies who want to ignore those rates. Nobody working at McDonald's on a minimum wage salary is going to benefit from you under-charging for your consulting/contract work.

If you want to help those people and acknowledge your privilege, there are a lot of ways to do that without undervaluing yourself. Direct your generosity towards under-privileged people/organizations, not towards companies that are even more privileged than you are. It's easy to accidentally misdirect responses to guilt (even legitimate guilt), and undervaluing salaries out of "fairness" to other workers is a misdirection of guilt. The fact that Amazon mistreats its warehouse workers is not helped by Amazon programmers allowing Amazon to pay them less for the same amount of programming labor. It would be helped by activism, by possibly quitting outright so the company is no longer getting the labor, or by publicly advocating for the other workers, or by donating a lot of money to lobbying groups to help raise minimum wage. But it's not showing solidarity with low-income workers to give more money to your employer.
That would be fitting, I've been a software dev in Crypto for the last few years! Just tired of sitting on my ass all day ha!
There is no “bound by duty” any more. Only selfish actors.
Infections have been a lagging indicator for deaths this entire time and immunity from infections does not appear to last as long as immunity from vaccinations. The people most resistant to right now are those who had covid already and get vaccinated.

I also don't understand your assessment that we are reaching (or can reach) herd immunity: We're not there on the common cold or influenza, and it seems COVID mutates at rates that will keep it around as well. Early evidence on Omicron indicates that it in particular is better at reinfection than other strains, so I hope the data in the next few weeks confirms its milder nature, but reinfection provides even more opportunity for variants to emerge.

We're much better off than we were a year ago: The holiday spike is (so far) not as bad, deaths are lower than last year at this time, and vaccines are widely available. But we're not back to normal yet (probably never will be) and I don't think we're doing as well right now as we could be, and I think we can make a lot more progress before we declare this thing over and adjust to a new status-quo.
The footnote about Lewis Point Estimates is super interesting.

"Lewis Point Estimate Determined as Follows.

Maximum Liklihood Estimate (MLE)= x/n
where x=success, n=tries
For MLE<=0.5, use Wilson Method = (x+2)/(n+4)
For MLE Between 0.5 and 0.9, use MLE = x/n
For MLE>=0.9, use Laplace Method = (x+1)/(n+2)

Lewis, J. & Lauro, J., "Improving the Accuracy of Small-Sample
Estimates of Completion Rates", Journal of Usability Studies,
Issue 3, Vol. 1, May 2006, pp. 136-150."
It’s not an Ask HN but a promotion for Legible News, which has a paid product and is apparently based off content written by Wikipedia’s contributors.

It doesn’t seem like Legible News uses any part of its profits to donate to Wikimedia or its contributors, or at least this isn’t stated anywhere on the website.
I ignore it. Not because it's too painful, but because I largely see "climate issues" as driven by politics, and not by actual problems.

There are PLENTY of problems that I (and my community) are facing right now, that are far more pressing than some existential threat that guilts me into paying indulgences to the Church of Climate Change to absolve me from my "sins".

Every hour that I spend teaching kids to read will be far better spent, than any dollar I put into some slush fund so that the megachurch pastors of Climate can fly around in their jumbo jets speaking at million dollar dinners for celebrities to lecture us on how we need to only use one square of toilet paper when we use the bathroom.

Seriously. People dog pile on Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland for being massive frauds, but buy right into the same thing when it comes to the environment.
Doesn't look like a fix to me, rather amplifying the problem.

i = X509_verify_cert(ctx);
/* We treat an error in the same way as a failure to verify */
if (i < 0)
i = 0;

So this turns an error into a verify. Maybe they should hire more experienced devs, or give up. This is just insanity.
Is this more or less a k-d tree as a service? Where any distance function can be used to index the data?

Or is it something different?
> cars are a necessity of life

The problem is this mindset. Build better and more sustainable cities instead of the suburban hell that is in most of North America
That sounds awesome! Can you share any more info on that?
Nope. Wouldn't be a good use of money anyways. If it fails, it might be because of a design or manufacturing flaw. Better to make the new one after we have some idea what went wrong.
Coat a surface with a copper-magnesium alloy (amalgam?).

Then remove the magnesium. The microscopic voids in the solid material, where the magnesium used to be, dramatically increase the effective area of the copper.

This caught my attention as I was thinking about making my own vapor chambers for heat sinks. A vapor chamber is basically a sealed tube of copper with a rough interior surface, charged with a few drops of distilled water.

I still haven't figured out how to make such things, but it might lead to a fun project.
It's a virus. If you grab a single grain of soil there's probably more things "having strategies" there than COVID. The media just makes it sound like it's alive but it's literally the less-alive thing that still evolves biologically that anyone knows about.
upgrading 1700 REU is trivial https://www.nightfallcrew.com/gallery/commodore-64-ram-expan... http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/documents/projects/me...

replace 8 existing chips = 256KB version, replace 8 existing with 16 higher density = 512KB
Education, yes... but schooling, no.
I think this is amazing. I'm using wolfram alpha a couple times a day but sometimes I need to use proper wolfram language instead of wolfram alpha query. Even if they allow a single notebook for the free tier, I would be more than happy.

(I still couldn't find more information about what basic/free tier includes.)
You can make everything "round to zero" when in fact, it adds up.
On the other hand, knocking on my door is the only way to get my attention when I'm at my desk. Typically, I'll have my headphones on and my phone out of view (but not in my pocket).
Erratum: more round. Rounder.
Thank you for this link. I had never heard of the ancient mechanical clock mechanisms. "The arc of progress" really is a fiction. Human knowledge needs to be passed down and nurtured. Same with culture.
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Right - we don't have storage capacity. Batteries are another joke. So that basically leaves gravity-hydro reservoirs, late 19th century style. Nuclear uses far less resources (plastics, metals, etc) per unit of energy over lifetime.

Still, it's a good distinction to make for people who aren't familiar with the topic, so ty for that.
I'm talking about cases where you don't want to work for them at all.

It's very sensible and normal to quote more if you expect higher admin time and other complications that carry risk e.g. many stakeholders to get agreement from.
Haha that's the issue - I work as an SWE and it has killed so many fun options purely because I can't imagine such a sharp pay decrease.
> There is a history of IP theft, and its not for the betterment of mankind it's self interest

Yes. The betterment of the human race is an unintended consequence. Real but.
If you are interested in how ScaNN compares to other approximation algorithms, there are some benchmarks here:
http://ann-benchmarks.com/
Industrial-scale polluters are often catering to consumer-level demand. Clamping down on industry may be easier, but it will restrict the consumer (either via reduced selection or increased prices). Individual-level voluntary action has the benefits of being more flexible and less tyrannical.
Redundancy costs mass and there are a lot of deployment steps that simply cannot be made redundant. The trick is folding everything to fit into the constraints of the payload fairing. Good engineering is to design within these limits and but if you make it too safe you end up with something that is not worth launching.
From your link, it doesn't sound like they dropped it.

A clamp band "released" causing vibration, but that is not the as a 1g fall to the hard floor.

This is one of the few NASA projects to actually care about, since the Shuttle and the ISS were flaming moneypits. Virtually no science has ever been done on the ISS, even compressing it's entire history into a single year - it's that worthless. (Another HN reader confirmed that by reading NASA's junk PR releases about ISS.)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ~ Gerald Weinberg.

For those who don't know what the quote is. I found it here[1].

[1]: http://www.ganssle.com/articles/programmingquotations.htm
It’s not, at least not everywhere. In my neighborhood everyone locks their cargo bikes on the street and it’s fine. That’s in the center of a bigger German city.
The realization that in order to actually stop pollution, the us government would need to wage war on china
Success rate isn't very interesting. If a random 1/20 rockets fail, then that's very bad. If your first 10 rockets failed, and then you next 190 succeed, that's likely to be a much better rocket.
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It would be cool if this could spit out research papers.

Computers are useful tools but they can be quite attention-destroying.
How much of this is social signalling instead of practical transport? At some point, people are going to say to themselves, "I have a 100 mile trip to make so yeah, might as well buy a car."
Doh! I should have got that. I should not have messed that one up.
Could've been worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufact...
> Because domestic air travel is one of the worst pollutants?

According to that link, total domestic air travel carbon footprint in the UK would be negligible, compared to diesel engines.

> I live across the country from my family, we know the environmental cost of visits and minimize as a result.

I would need to take several trains, buses, and board a ship, to see my family. Mine is not an exceptional case.
> When I imagine a tiger, I can also count the stripes.

Ok, that was clarifying for me. When I ‘visualize’ a tiger, it doesn't have any particular number of stripes. When I read your comment I said ‘oh, wtf!’ out loud
Inflation is not "transitory" anymore according to the Fed chairman [0]. It's now just inflation and will be permanently affecting prices (i.e. higher prices today and the future will be staying higher, unless an unlikely deflation event were to push them back down) [1].

Anyone who is or was saying inflation is temporary or transitory is incorrect, as they've always have been.

0. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-chairman-jerome-powell-re...

1. https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#transitory
Questioning the BLS data without being able to explain how the data is collected and analyzed is not a way to fight misinformation, it's a way to encourage it.

If OP had made some more detailed arguments, like 'the methods for imputing homeowners rent seem biased' or 'it seems disingenuous to keep a static weighting during COVID, despite the major observed shift away from services and to goods' then I would love to engage on that.

But randomly saying 'this EXTREMELY transparent dataset seems fishy' is just encouraging people to 'do their own research' on things they have no expertise in.
The center of mass of a loaded cargo bike is lower than a normal bike with load. This makes them more rideable with large loads, especially if the load shifts a bit during transport, like a child that can unexpectedly move off balance.
Can scientists definitively pin the Kentucky tornado on global warming? That is, is it conclusively known that "If emissions were curtailed by X% 20 years ago, the count of tornadoes with a strength of at least Y that passed through Kentucky would've been reduced by at least 1"?

My impression is, that assignment of blame seems much more precise than other predictions from weather forecasts that I've seen.
I didn't see any measurements in the article.

What is the warming rate? Why wasn't it included?
HyperCard and Excel were my programming gateway drugs.

HyperCard was a mix of like PowerPoint and HTML / JavaScript. Just was so much fun for a kid to play around with. And everything you built had a visual element you could show your friends.

I used HyperCard to re-create a MUD I really liked with a visual interface. Sort of like Myst... I had a blast. Certainly wasn't the first person to do that, but all the little coding tricks I had to learn to pull off my vision all came in handy later.
Ask HN: Why is this (gem-filled) pool hidden from HN readers?
The second-chance pool [0]. The most likely answer is kind of obvious, the mods seem to want natural selection to run its course, subject to manual adjustments here and there. Even so, I'd be grateful for a more comprehensive top bar menu.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
It's not a problem that can be solved at the individual level so I don't worry about it.

Since it's a political problem and I lack power to affect change at that scale I don't worry about it.

By the time it becomes a serious problem I'll hopefully already be dead or die quickly. If I'm somehow still alive then I'll worry about it then. Hopefully my death is painless and free of prolonged suffering.
What didn't you like about the kindle? I absolutely love mine, and almost dislike paper books in comparison.
I agree. However, I do wish to note that bad actors are recasting urgency as panic.
I'm lucky. When I was young I was taught a few ideas that stuck and keep me on an even keel. Maybe they'll help you. Among them:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me."

"Don't believe everything you read."

and to some degree

"Fools' names and fools' faces always appear in public places."

Of course these are exactly as I learned them as a child; I've updated them as I've grown.