skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they were going to pick a launcher today, the Ariane 5 would still probably be the choice. F9 cant get JWST to where it needs to go, and Falcon Heavy is still new and relatively unproven with only 3 launches. There really arent any other good choices for it
> What you are essentially asking is for the 50W port to support 65W,

That 50W port already supports up to 100W when it's the only port occupied, so from my understanding the hardware is already capable of it.

> or every single port to support 120W if it needs to be.

That'd be perfect of course, but yes, that would significantly increase the BOM.
This is my favorite of all his works. I feel like you can derive a lot of his other work if you payed attention in undergraduate probability theory and took Fooled by Randomness to heart.
> During the Middle Ages, the lamprey reemerged as a prestige food.

Henry I of England reportedly died from eating too many of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England
Processes are built ahead of time if people take a risk seriously.
Amazingly, the Sutluj and Ghaghara also originate in the same location, and Ganga's headwaters are in a mountain range nearby. It's almost like Mt. Kailash is the source of all the big rivers in the region.
Agreed. In terms of streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or elsewhere, and even for things like budget live production and screen recording, it has become more or less the standard by which other tools are measured.
Remember the limit is only 2 storeys for a single stairwell. How many storeys can you have with 2? 6 storeys? 12?

So you can somehow get a zillion floors of people down 2 stairwells, but only one floor of people down one?
I prefer Erlang for serious networking-related code. Go for less serious ones.
Ignore them. Medication can and does help with ADHD, as someone who was diagnosed at 31 the biggest problem was addressing various coping mechanisms I'd developed that were no longer useful thanks to medication. And I was amazed to wake up in the morning and remember something I thought before I went to bed and had thought "I should remember that." after a couple of weeks on medication.
Privacy of their personal information is now well and truly something for the famous to consider codifying it in their Will going forward...

Much like in the Google/Meta dominated online world, the default is opt-in, it'd seem, as that likely generates capital such "estates" need, to survive.
https://github.com/breandan/kotlingrad#coroutines
Nice work!

How many transistors does it have in all?

They could have used an LFSR for the PC too. Would that have saved some area? If not, I wonder why they used them elsewhere.

Are the resets (on 10000...) synchronous? If not I wonder how they handled glitch safety.
USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc. all charge consumers "retail" prices that have very high profit margin for them. Businesses negotiate significantly lower rates that are closer to the real shipping cost. Pirateship acts as a broker, allowing people to access those lower negotiated rates.
Google also contributes substantially to coreboot, I would not be surprised if Microsoft started working in open source because of google.
Broadly agree - JavaScript and typescript especially are an absolute joy and delight to code with.

I use TS professionally, and it is my go-to choice for personal projects too.

Deno and vscode have brought an extra dimension of awesomeness - I personally never liked using npm (and therefore node) and try to avoid it.
I remember when I first noticed that native French speakers had stopped replying to me in English when I spoke in French.

I learned to speak clearly in my native English when working on some EU scientific programmes.
I'm all for that. But I'm not for the bait and switch tactics of letting google index one document while serving another to users of google.
I like to think that anybody who has heard about the Vietnam war already knows what the West does in terms like colonialism.

I finally understood that your example related to self-consistency and that Boris' binges are not the definition of colonialism, so my suggestion about influence should be discarded.
It's not a semantic difference. That's the problem. There is a difference between knowledge of protein folding (which is what the article is talking about), i.e. understanding proteins well enough to predict how they will fold, and modeling a folded structure (which is what AlphaFold is doing, based off of other pre-existing experimental structures).

AlphaFold isn't simulating folding at all. It's modeling what the final structure should look like based off other data, not knowledge of how a protein folds. That's what is frustrating me so much with this topic. It's being sold as "we can predict how proteins will fold" as opposed to "we can model a folded protein based on its sequence". There's a huge difference in our understanding of protein folding, between those two points.
May i ask, if you are avoiding the MAS because of technical restrictions or because of the revenue cut?
I'm also developing a Mac app and did not decide yet on MAS vs. Paddle vs. an application to Setapp.
The other side of that however is, if someone is doing fine, is it worth the risk that comes with changing things and potentially causing other problems?

I once had a partner with very, very bad ADHD. So bad it seemed to be causing us huge life issues, due to a recent change in circumstances.

She went in, got tested - sure enough - got medication, and it helped.

It also helped her run both of us ‘off a cliff’ in a really terrible way shortly after due to some deep seated psychological problems she had been hiding the entire time. She previously was never able to follow through with the terrible consequences of it because of ADHD - and that was a rather unpleasant experience.

The medication is great for being able to slow down and focus enough to accomplish what you set your mind to, but if there is another problem going on sometimes that just means you can cause yourself much deeper problems.

People are complex. I’d never urge someone to seek treatment for something that wasn’t causing them distress that outweighed the risks.
Ah, I can see you are real expert. I look after two elderly people, probably the biggest problem that they have is with applications that change state based on how you touch it. Even something as simple as picking up a call in Android is totally unintuitive (if anything, Android has got worse...tbh, I barely understand the incantations that one has to perform to do things on there now). Another big one is hidden menus, they don't understand that you have to click the burger for this hidden menu or that an arrow on the button means you can click through (Apple is actually better in how they structure menus).

I understand why these products have been designed this way but I don't think the people who make them understand how badly they are designed for some people. I am a web dev and, imo, a lot of this comes from ways to make your app "look cool" on mobile. Add some buttons, make your app a bit longer vertically...it isn't the end of the world.

I will say though, they find tablets far easier than computers. Tablets present a very simple interface of things to do. Computers seem more complicated (ironically, you see this with kids today even young adults in their early 20s...they have no idea how computers actually work, and often don't understand anything beyond...click this, and app opens). Both hate phones, they can use them but they feel uncomfortable using them.

On the OP, you just have to take stuff over. If you are paying bills or whatever, you should just do it yourself. It will save you time.
Just curious: have you donated to organizations that are solving the homelessness problem? Or do you think the work they are doing is not sufficient and this problem requires another approach.
The Indian 'germ murder' that gripped the world
How is it possible to trademark such a generic phrase as 'bake-off'?
So is there any way to get to know fellow users? If posts don’t have usernames, how do I know that this post is by the same person as that post?

Getting to acquainted with fellow users is one of the big benefits of any communication system… even HN.
On the other hand, the study proves that PHEVs with decent battery capacity actually do that, the average is just too low:

>. Most PHEVs have type-approval all-electric ranges of 30–60 km and electrify 5,000–10,000 km a year. PHEVs with high all-electric ranges of 80 km or more achieve 12,000–20,000 km mean annual electric mileages, which is comparable to the annual mileage of the car fleet in Germany and the United States.
My wife is an astrophysicist here in Australia and had been looking forward to this launch for over a decade. She plans on using James Webb and gravitational lensing to observe galaxies at extremely high redshifts. Basically one looks behind single or clusters of closer galaxies for very young galaxies in the early stages of forming, not long after the Big Bang. The gravity well of the closer cluster acts as a giant lense, acting as an additional optical element to the telescope propelling us even further into the distant past.

As we watched the launch I asked her what James Web means to astronomy. Her answer? "It will fundamentally change what we know about the universe".
That’s what my father, an octogenarian himself, does for some of his still living siblings: he’s got their authorization to run their bank accounts, tax declarations, etc. The others don’t even have a computer, or don’t know how to operate it sufficiently.
No. One important aspect of the book that doesn't appear in the title is: People who get really good at something useful, also enjoy their work a lot more. The public view is often that passion leads to success. But the book argues that in many cases it is actually the other way around.
Ask HN: Is there a carbon neutral blockchain?
Yesterday night when I was lying half awake in my bed I was thinking/dreaming of a carbon neutral blockchain.

Question: has anyone seen one or knows of someone who is trying to build one?
A dispatch from the end of travel’s brief, troubled golden age
So, you are adding licenses automatically? This seems pretty risky. Why not just prevent commits that don't have a license? Shouldn't there be a human somewhere in that loop?
That's one of the real world mysteries for me.

* If you ever had to maintain a code base you didn't design (who haven't ???) how can you not want to have as much paper trail as possible? Especially when the original authors move on.

* I don't remember discussing documentation (or even testing) styles/preferences during interviews. I don't remember managers making it a priority or educating the unwilling, even in large companies. So it's clearly not important from the business perspective. The closest I can remember was a mad rush to create runbooks after a particular nasty prod incident.

We live in a world of microservices. So you routinely work with multiple repositories. In larger companies developers routinely move to different teams in a couple of years. There's always another AWS service or non-relational data storage. It's interesting to notice that in other domains dealing with this kind of complexity and constant change it's expected to have written notes all the time. Think of medical doctors or aircraft maintenance crews.

When I was younger I kind of trusted that "self documenting code" promotion. As much as the Refactoring book was right this idea proved to be just wrong. Think about "business logic". Including the classical "converting XML/JSON to other protobuf/JSON". There's no grand theory here, just multiple confusing details influenced by previous versions, legacy ontologies, dependencies on other teams. Naming conventions won't help much, not to mention "the two most difficult problems in CS".

I think there's some correlation between poor documentation and missing tests. And the lame excuse is always the same - not having enough time. Even for obvious error-prone things such as calendar calculations or parsing deeply nested data received from the outside world. Or how to build and run a service.

Another correlation is between clear/structured thinking and how easy it is to explain the results. A reasonable functional decomposition and popular idioms/patterns/libraries documented elsewhere enable terse descriptions.

I see documentation as fungible. There are multiple somewhat interchangeable places information can be stored in. JIRA descriptions, commit messages, "javadocs", MD files (previously known as GOOG docs, wikis, Word documents). From what I've seen the people who have enough discipline to use one usually have others in place too.

Software development is very much a learning process. So other people will have to repeat it unless you summarize your findings for them. For some low-level details you could be one of them after not working on a particular component for long enough.
For diff, see: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/a91605c9dafe70a95a1c4a02...
I agree. It really depends on the substance, of course. 5g+ (for the species I was visiting with) is considered the high end. I was also not necessarily seeking a pleasant experience. I was seeking to uproot violent urge within me that kept rising up from chronically not being heard (and that includes not hearing myself).

A high dose of mushrooms is way way different than a high dose of LSD or cannabis.
Guess what, your phone can also start randomly broadcasting your bedroom audio to the internet. You could call a phone a "internet connected room mic" or "personal gps tracker". Does that stop you from using one?
This kind of strategy ignores second order effects.

For example, by buying a gas guzzler and not using it much you might lower the emissions from that specific vehicle. But supply and demand rears its ugly head: you're contributing to the increase of similar gas guzzlers' value in the market, which means that other people are more likely to maintain those vehicles in working order and resell them, instead of scrapping them or leaving them unused.
Any place to buy them? I am not too far from Santa Cruz, CA and Oakland CA. I hear it's legal in Santa Cruz.
I'd expect EVs to be cheaper if they are actually simpler, last time I looked that wasn't really the case outside of cars produced in China that most western customers wouldn't buy.
It is not a trick, just a matter of perspective. Finding an atheist universe beautiful is not in conflict with finding beauty in a universe which is created by a deity.
I am curious to know how you use ffmpeg for editing?

I have used it to slice up videos I recorded in batch.
> "This is just a perfect example of why you need to read things. It's not just novels, it's anything that you get as an adult too," she said.

In case you win a secret competition? This is the least likely reason to read it!
> I cannot remember a time Apple has admitted to anything or made any effort to have anything that could be considered open…

This was a while back, but Tim Cook apologized[0] after a poorly received rollout of Apple Maps. That said, I applaud this response and agree that more like it is needed across the industry.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/tim-cook-apologizes-for-ap...
An xwd story...

I worked on a Java program that was a point of sales terminal. All the registers were reasonably beefy linux machines that ran a Java Web Start application and it worked well... except when it didn't.

Sometimes it had threading deadlocks and that was a pain to debug. In particular, we didn't know where it came from. So we installed a handler on ctl-alt-delete that would find the Java process running and do a thread dump from that (so we could find the methods that were locked) and also did a xwd to capture the screen to see what was happening. Sometimes we were able to pick out "this modal alert window spawned 100x copies of itself" by recognizing an unnaturally thick border around it. Just seeing what the state that the register was in was useful too.

The xwd and thread dumps where then stored in a folder that was sent back as part of nightly reports back to the central office where we'd look at them the next morning.

On one hand it was a bit clunky, on the other hand it really beat trying to get a bug report from cashiers working the registers in a timely manner - they just had to remember to do a ctl-alt-delete rather than power cycling the machine and we'd get it reported back to us automatically.
They don’t think at scale, they are not engineers, they are flawed. I’ve donated over $200k in the past to no change in the overall system.
When some starve and others hoard food, is property more important than hunger?

The famines were environmental, for centuries. It was only collectivisation and industrialisation of agriculture that stopped the famines.
Perhaps I'm the one misinterpreting your comment, and the others have it right.

I'm assuming you mean open as in communication. Apple basically is a stone wall, facebook just spouts empty platitudes, google processes are opaque and unyielding (unless you know a someone or raise a massive community response on social media), but Microsoft continues to be staffed by humans.

They aren't a shining pillar of FOSS, but they've taken some good steps in the right direction in the past few years. And of all of them, user feedback, support, and escalation seems to still be handled by people instead of algorithms
Nope, full subheading was actually "Microplastics from Africa and North America found airborne in French Pyrenees, 2,877 metres above sea level"
I think I used to have it on the front page, must have fallen off. That, or I removed it because it would confuse HTTP visitors.

I'm planning a bit of a navigation overhaul soon. Right now it's very hard to find all the various projects I'm running anywhere other than at https://www.marginalia.nu/
Burnout from my job, and poor sleep leading to decreased enjoyment in most things. I commonly have very little energy.

Things that I’ve found help, are less screen time and light exercise. But I find motivating myself to do so difficult. It always seems to help when I do so.
A better lesson to take here is second system syndrome [1].

JWST took so long because it was so ambitious. Hubble has a 2.4m mirror. JWST has a 6.5m mirror. No rocket can launch that fully assembled so you've automatically added a bunch of complexity to unfurl and assemble that in space.

There's a whole bunch of other new things that simply have never been done before. Any one of these is a challenge. Doing them all at once with almost no margin for error and no possibility of intervention and repair drastically increases the complexity and cost.

Another example: the instruments are so sensitive that after fairing release it has to be rotated to keep them away from direct sunlight. That'll continue on the journey to its final orbit.

Also the sunshields are tennis court sized.

It is mind-bogglingly complex.

Arguably what they should've done is launch something slightly less ambitious sooner.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Assuming your parents run Windows, the built in remote assistance in Windows works pretty seamlessly. I think it's called Quick Assist in Win10+. It's basically RDP but with an extra server at Microsoft's side to help set up the connection. No need to configure static IPs and all that, just have them open the quick assist app and follow the instructions. https://youtu.be/bR8iVSrClZw

It's the same principle as Teamviewer (code and password, though you need a login to an MS account I think? Most people already have that on Windows anyway, willingly or unwillingly), except using the software and servers that Windows already uses.
Why have MIDI music when you can have ANSI music?
ESC[<BASIC style music string>^N

I miss the days of my animated, musical ANSI signature!
The reason it took more than a year for me to realize this phenomenon is because when I first visited the country then I relied on travel agencies, international hotel booking apps, and had accommodation provided for me. It's certainly possible to live in China for even a decade without realizing the reality of the situation if you exclusively stay at 4-5 star hotels, or only book hotels through international hotel booking apps, or rely on agencies to help you find apartment and other type of accommodation since they have a list of the ones that accept foreigners.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/starrated-hotel-operation/... claim there are 10 million hotels in China - what percentage do you reckon are included in the international hotel booking apps? My guess would be less than 0.5%. That's why you need to walk into the random hotels/apartments you see on the street if you want to verify the reality of the situation. For you specifically then it might be difficult since you're ethnically Chinese, so while you might encounter some discrimination and exclusion from society (if you don't have a national id card) then it certainly won't be comparable to what white and especially black people experience while living in China. In my experience then the 9/10 number is not an exaggeration at all but if you asked other westerners who visited China then they will likely give different numbers based on their price range, location, booking method, etc.

I also think you greatly exaggerate how much you actually learn about another country by going there for a short trip. Even the most brutal regimes can look like a wonderful paradise, e.g. see the national day celebration in 1959 which took place at a time where tens of millions of people were dying of starvation (https://youtu.be/M-XQSffVpfY?t=43).
I think a key reason that corps do try to avoid admitting fault, is because in a lawsuit that can be used as evidence for a guilty verdict in a civil lawsuit in some of the most slam dunk ways.

If we remove this feature of common law legal systems, I think you will get far more admissions of fault like this one.

If you hurt people, organizations, etc for admitting their mistakes, they're going to stop doing it.
Linda Nagata is another author worth reading for ideas about sensors, nanotechnology, and autonomous aircraft.
Apparently that's a commit made by a human re-assigning copyright of a forked FOSS project [0] to MSFT, presumably without attribution [1]

[0] https://openprinting.github.io/cups

[1] MSFT moved attribution to NOTICE file, which is cleaner, but trips people who aren't paying attention: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/blob/main/NOTICE
Just watched "Don't Look Up" on Netflix last night. It's about a space mission designed to save the planet from a comet. It did a nice job of satirizing the misplaced faith so many Americans have in eccentric billionaires.
20 December newsletter:

> When you go to an ESG fund manager and say “hey wanna buy up all the coal mines” she is going to say “what no absolutely not.” And then you say “no hear me out, you are a better owner of coal mines than the alternative, this is better for the climate in the long run,” and you explain how, and she says “hmm yes your logic is impeccable,” and you say “so you’re in?” and she says “no absolutely not”.

The bank was Citi, and the fund was to have been called "Coal to Zero".
> For instance threads on doing little or no actual work without getting caught

I imagine there are exceptions, but I think a lot of this is people doing jobs that are fundamentally pointless to begin with. When what you're doing is of no practical value to anyone, it's difficult to remain motivated.
Just curious: How do you recognize it?
Ask HN: I got both Amazon echo and Google hub for Christmas
Which one should I keep?
I hope so. No official word yet but managers are "looking into it", it's a big company, end of the year, etc.

What makes it feel like crap is how it's way more difficult to patch than it should be because we're never given time to clean up tech debt and every team does things differently, so everything is a mess. I actually haven't taken time off all year and feel pretty burnt out. Maybe time to polish the resume.