skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Webb having a longer life won't be bad for us in the long run. Webb was designed a long time ago, with tech that is now pretty old. It's a design that was heavily compromised by the limits on what we could lift into space at the time.

It seems likely to me that in ten years time we could build and lift a much better instrument. But if Webb is still working will we have the political will to do so?

By then low hanging science that could be done with this instrument will probably be done (or they would have engineered it for more than 5 years...). There are plenty of older prestige instruments that no longer get used for much important science because it is career suicide to invest your time on an instrument where other people have already found all of the easy and medium difficulty discoveries reachable from it. (e.g. as was the case for arecebo before it collapsed)

It's not hard for me to imagine that ten or fifteen years from now Webb isn't being very effectively used because the scientists attention are elsewhere and where we could build a vastly superior instrument, but we don't because webb still works.

Maybe someone more aware of the realpolitik of astronomy projects will tell me that I'm being pessimistic for no good reason. :)
Good-Bye, Goldman Sachs
> A lot of people say they are nonsense

They are about 50% nonsense.

But you could read about Big 5 personality traits, which are not nonsense being pushed for commercial reasons like MBTI.
I'll assume you're asking in good faith, so let me answer why I put my pronouns.

I'm mostly cis, mostly straight. I round up to a typical "straight white guy". I don't have to deal with the things trans people or gay people or women have to deal with.

But I am sympathetic to the fact that they lack a lot of the privilege that I have. So one way I try to show solidarity is by doing my part to normalize the idea that it's impossible to infer someone's gender from their appearance.

I list my pronouns to make it normal to list pronouns, because that makes life better for transgender people.

Does that make sense?
Thanks for this. I'm the solo developer in my company. This was an encouraging read.
talk to a server on the remote "storage" where the history is rather than directly to the sqlite server? Queue up changes and make them serial in the "service"
Yeah as I was typing it out I knew my 'approach' was horrific, but I still wanted to talk it through.

The strategy you're applying is brilliant and completely sidesteps that defensive reluctance response that seems to stymie so many difficult conversations.
This is apparently a difficult problem. I found an article titled "Rethinking the role of sham TMS" which goes into some details.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0021...
... that is not how you evaluate models.
If I were Bill, how big a number would I have to write on my personal checkbook to make this happen?
this actually sounds really interesting, how'd the find you out though?
It's painful to see such frustration between people who are all trying to make themselves understood. I hoped you would be relieved with the possibility that you weren't being personally attacked. I don't really care whether you're correct or not; I care that you are heard.
Minty's "Useless Man" could have been about NFTs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAOaNS1tqM

(May be NSFW depending on who you work for...)
I like Go, and it’s nice to see more safety being added, but it definitely feels bolted on in a less than ideal way. Soon enough we’ll have a similar tool that asserts that nilability is checked on certain fields, whereas we could have just had a language with null safety to begin with. I understand there are trade offs (for example non-nillability is add odds with useful zero defaults in some way), but I wonder what was missed that should have been built into the language and type system directly.
In their view, they place a great deal of importance on security; at least for marketing purposes. Sustaining a secure system after it's sold and work has begun on marketing the next new supersecure thing... that's a different story
> Python forces you to write readable code.

Even in the REPL, which is extremely annoying. To this date Python REPL examples tend to have this kind of artifical comments (quoting from [1]):

>>> class Weekday(Enum):
... MONDAY = 1
... TUESDAY = 2
... WEDNESDAY = 3
... THURSDAY = 4
... FRIDAY = 5
... SATURDAY = 6
... SUNDAY = 7
... #
... @classmethod
... def from_date(cls, date):
... return cls(date.isoweekday())

Enforcing indentation is generally a good thing, but it should be possible to switch it off or loosen it up when it ceases to be good. Which is impossible with a Python-like indentation-only syntax.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.11/howto/enum.html#basic-enum-tuto...
Remote Work During Covid-19: Real-Time Evidence from GitHub
Couple of points:

1. Ottertune doesn't sell PostgreSQL services, they sell a database optimization service that happens to support PostgreSQL (and other databases like MySQL)

2. PostgreSQL is definitely gaining market shares and fast, see the db-engine graph [1], you can compare it to the oracle trend if you are not convinced [2]

[1] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/PostgreSQL

[2] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/Oracle
Because in every situation I have ever run into a floating point timestamp behaves more intuitively, and when I started converting my programs to use floating point timestamps almost every function that used timestamps lost dozens of hard to understand special cases that accounted for int overflow, unsignedness, etc problems. Problems which every single one had bit me in the ass at least once before I wrote the code managing the special case, and of which nearly every single one had at least one bug in it. See the revisions to std::midpoint for great examples of how hard this is to do right. However, because float128 overrepresents all the older basic type variants, it becomes trivial. If the code could possibly have been made to work for any of them, it will automatically always work for float128.

Its got more to do with how intuitively the timestamp behaves, and that you can use seconds as the unit everywhere and no longer need to keep track of if this wait function took seconds or milliseconds. Using infty to indicate a timeout function should block indefinetly is also much more intuitive than using 0.
I agree with that sentiment 100%, which is why I went to great lengths to encourage readers to make sure they check in with other Autistic people, that my voice is only one voice, that we are not a monolith, that I don't speak for everyone, etc.

Hell there's even a line near the end where I say that there are Autistic people who would disagree with every single line I have written, and that they are worth listening to as well.

So like... what's the problem?
The fuel is the magnesium. Plates of it are consumed gradually as ions are stripped from them and bond to the graphite. The downside is that this reaction isn’t reversible. You cannot recharge it. The magnesium plates are destroyed in the process on a molecular level, and must be replaced.

https://alexbeyman.medium.com/can-you-make-electricity-from-...
This reads like an episode from Silicon Valley.
Not only B2B. Also online education. Blackboard, an LMS, comes to mind. It's the kind of software that looks nice in a presentation but it's usability is terrible. Getting to the latest content of a class requires a dozen clics and lots of scrolling.
> What is it in particular that creeps you out bio wise?

Didn't i just tried to explain that? That people take gender so seriously. Is it more than just the pronoun and declination class? Because i think, its nothing more, but other people seem to think, gender is more than that. How else could "misgendering" someone even be any kind of offense?
The prepared selfie-stick was a really awful look. I couldn't' believe what I was seeing.
The "such a bad idea" part of this is that the code being injected is written in C++ rather than assembly. The injector itself is perfectly reasonable.
>"Around the end of May, employees at Samsung Display in Vietnam’s industrial Bac Ninh province were given a similar choice: Stay home without shifts, or move into a company-designated space and keep those jobs — with a little extra pay, according to some workers, as an added sweetener."

Tech companies did the same thing in Taiwan -- which is remarkable because, unlike communist Vietnam, that's a free democracy. I'm baffled that there was little coverage about this (and of pandemic-excused human rights violations generally).

https://www.ft.com/content/4269650e-7660-4b80-b294-f81b43687... ("Tech groups in Taiwan accused of locking up migrant workers")

https://archive.is/5JdZW

>"Electronics groups including Japan’s Canon and Innolux, an affiliate of Apple supplier Foxconn, have been accused of locking up migrant workers in Taiwan as an outbreak of Covid-19 hits the country’s tech industry."

>[...] "According to internal documents and staff communications seen by the Financial Times, the companies, which also include Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) — a unit of the world’s largest chip packaging and testing house ASE — have forbidden migrant workers from leaving the dormitories where they live except to go to work."

>[...] "“It has now become extremely common for employers to lock their migrant workers up,” said Lennon Wong, an activist at the Serve the People Association. A survey by the labour rights group found that 60 per cent of migrant workers are forbidden from going out in their free time, double the percentage before Taiwan recorded its first significant community outbreak in mid-May."

>[...] "“Discrimination of migrant workers in Taiwan is systemic, but the pandemic has made it a lot worse,” Wong said."
Odd coincidence. The link to “pneumatic chemistry” in that article is purple because I was just reading about the history of bismuth.
Considering we are chemical based, I wonder how of it is the serotonin receptors are plugged with LSD, an effect similar to SSRI's.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/27/health/lsd-overdoses-case...

But what about other chemicals, Glycine contributes to an increase in 5alpha Reductase which helps reduce Cortisol one of the stress hormones. It can be used in place of sugar in hot beverages and food, how much does stress contribute to depression?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%CE%B1-Reductase#List_of_conv...

And then there is Glutathione which increases light sensitivity, could this help reduce Seasonally Affect Disorder (SAD) also known as the winter blues, knowing that it also helps management of ROS, peroxides, lipid peroxides and heavy metals?
Glutamine, N-Acetyl Cysteine and Glycine help to increase Glutathione in the body.

I wonder if fMRI has a similar effect on the brain to homogenising milk, namely it softens the fat walls in milk. Is fMRI having an effect in the brain or in the vascular system with plaques that contribute to atherosclerosis, because induction hobs or magnetic induction reduces inflammation https://peerj.com/articles/929.pdf does this demonstrate that depression is caused by a variety of factors not just one's linked to serotonin even though serotonin plays a part with the immune system?
We've hit comment depth limit, but check out M-i (tab-to-tab-stop), other people seem to declare that that is the solution for them (and they rebind it to tab per mode).
All you need is Postgres (OLTP) and if you have large datasets where Postgres falls behind for analytical work, then you reach for Clickhouse (OLAP) for those features (while Postgres remains your primary operational database and source of truth).
> Underpromise, overdeliver.

Also called sandbagging. :)

For some things like the rovers it seems like the "design life" was just the minimum required to justify the mission. It would be silly to call a mission a failure if it died after a year when the mission would have been justified with just 90 days of operation simply because we had expected it to last two years.
I have a question: how has a 2015 fiction book by an author who does not have even a Wikipedia page ended up in all the school libraries? It's #102,753 in Amazon's bestseller list so does not seem to be some kind of Hunger Games or Twilight phenomenon, do school libraries just buy everything that comes out?
As a pilot, I consider skydivers a weird lot.

I can understand a skydiver-first, pilot-second being a bit dependent on their blanky kit.
Ok - I appreciate that motivation and believe you. The impact however was the opposite, since it just seemed like an attempt to contradict my perceptions. I also felt less heard since most of my comment wasn’t even about the ‘call out’ part, and for me that was over once Dan clarified his intentions.

Note that Dan acknowledged that the author might be being defensive.
An appeal to authority fallacy occurs when that appeal is made to an irrelevant authority. An example of an appeal to authority fallacy would be if a podiatrist touts their DPM credentials when making claims about the efficacy of Covid vaccinations. This is an appeal to authority fallacy because they are not involved in vaccine research or a related field. An example that would not be an appeal to authority fallacy would be if a car mechanic told you you're getting the wrong bulbs for your car, and then explain that you were getting fog bulbs when you probably need regular headlight replacements. This is not an appeal to authority fallacy because the mechanic is qualified and explained their reasoning (which you can seek consensus on from other mechanics).

And when experts disagree, it is informed disagreement, not at all like random people on the internet.
For some reason it just doesn't here. Main area is just a black screen and I'm supposed to be spectating?
Yikes, hope I'm not a hatter like this dude. Thanks for sharing, lead me to discover the Travels Through Time podcast and listened to this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7GdAHr7ZHU
> “Nothing About Us Without Us.”

I feel this phrase really introduces selection bias. This selects for people with autism who can communicate and live independently.

However, this also suppresses the experiences of parents and other care takers of people with autism who are unable to communicate or live independently.

Thus people with the most severe autism are not heard at all since they don't have the ability to speak for themselves, and their parents/caretakers are excluded.
If it's anything like the build quality of the OP-Z or OP-1, that's a hard pass. OP-Z is prone to warping, encoders popping out or having the magnets inserted incorrectly, and the OP-1's encoders were anything but "avionics grade" with each having a different feel from the next.
I don't have any handyman experience, but it something I think I could probably look into, for small stuff at least.
Depression can be acute or chronic but everything about what you think or feel is still just chemistry and chemistry is just physics. It's a bit surprising it can be treated with such a blunt instrument as external magnets but then again we use electroshock with some success.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that you did own crypto. I was singling it out largely because the normal dispute resolution process, the courts and legal system, are irrelevant to crypto. You can't sue bitcoin to make the blockchain reverse a fraudulent transaction the same way you can (ostensibly) sue a bank.
Cool, all the new features are optional so an hdmi2.0 device/cable gets to say it's an hdmi2.1a device.
You mean for editing? The part I worked on was not very large, so I had source mounted as NFS share. It worked fine, but I don't use much code intelligence. I think for the larger projects we had a local git server with some hooks to upload and compile. In the local network it works fairly fast.
My web goes to 11.

Accept nothing less.
It is possible to generate electricity in the general manner described. Maybe mot copious amounts.

It’s a step above the potato powered alarm clock.

https://www.google.com/search?q=potato+alarm+clock&ie
It's the important & useful of the two endpoints they measured. Anything will have a positive effect on depression if it comes with a lot of high-tech vodoo and people in lab coats. Only it won't last and it will the "yeah, I guess I'm feeling better"-level of improvement.
Oh wow. Thats what I've been looking for, for years at this point. Thanks for the shout-out, I know what I'm playing with for my next project!
Matrix protocol is a great fit for FOSS projects, Discord isn't.
Show HN: JavaScript-like generators on Common Lisp
> Enough money to survive on ramen for a few months and build a demo. Get feedback from users and iterate over and over.

This is indeed the original idea behind YCombinator. That was a very long time ago. Things have changed, both with the YCombinator company and the ethos of this web community.
Google IPO Raises 1.2B, $85 a share
TouchBar, nuff said
Actually, I vaguely recall that if the divisor (or whatever the right number is) is negative, the result will be negative. But that's still consistent with math modulus, as is the Python approach. I always miss Python mod when I go to other languages, honestly...
The use of "early modern" is so quaint. Many and many an Australian with convict ancestry will have clothes stealers in their heritage, even up to Victorian times clothing was relatively expensive.

As part of the Edinburgh Georgian society I've worn Victorian era clothes, and the sheer amount of embedded labour is unbelievable. Every stitch a hand stitch, little to no machinery capable of making clothes of quality.

Some of the first truly modern production lines were clothes making. Marc Brunel made machines to produce shoes and boots for the Napoleonic war, as well as ships blocks. (The war ended: he went bust)

I strongly recommend "It's a small, medium and outsize world" by John Taylor, if you can find it.

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Small-Medium-Outsize-...
> on individual phones

But most people don't even own that!

Apple can unilaterally and arbitrarily decide at any time to lock your phone remotely and 100% disable your access to iCloud.

You're correct about stuff which is more bare metal than a phone like a hard drive with data on it, but, I would argue that that only encompasses a tiny if not non-existent amount of data for an average (not HN) user these days.
I suspect it wouldn't be easy to incrementally build up a single large aperture because the secondary optics needed would be different at each size.

If we build telescopes for optical vlbi we could build a fleet to have the resolution of a telescope kilometers across... I believe VLBI has been accomplished experimentally at MWIR wavelengths.
The data I have is who I've had as clients for other services throughout the past decade. Clearly a trend in the UK and USA, and almost all of them figure it out on their own from the extensive documentation and YouTube videos available.
“I don’t procrastinate anymore,” he added. “I’m sleeping better. I completely quit alcohol. I’m walking my dog and playing the guitar again, for nothing more than the sheer joy of it.” Most importantly, he said, “I’m remaining positive and being respectful of others. These are big changes in my life.”

Serious question: are these typical signs of depression? Now I'm wondering if I have depression.
Wikipedia says it’s 1 trillion yen not $.
> I also feel less heard since most of my comment wasn’t even about the ‘call out’ part

I totally get that. Not to belabor the point, but I think the original author probably feels much the same about some of the other criticisms being shared on HN.

It's hard to engage with a whole work when there are particular highlights that hit you the wrong way. I'd like to hope that a shared understanding of what "call out" might mean will help everybody move past it to appreciate the rest of what you're trying to share.

> The impact however was the opposite, since it just seemed like an attempt to contradict my perceptions.

I'll take that on board; I'm still on my own personal journey of relating to people effectively.
Fixedpoint is great, but floating point behave more like how people appear to expect timestamps to work. That said, I like so many others have written my own damned fixed point function for various reasons, and like everyone else I got it wrong several times on the way. If only there was a simple template class that could take care of it for you, but well, such a simple template class would really just be a basic numeric type anyways, so why not include it in the specification, ensuring that a high performance, extremely well tested variant was available everywhere form the start.

Imagine how many millions of hours of coder time could have been saved if the C specification included fixedpoint<20,12> (or however you wanna write it), and thus would have created a single standard implementation for all of them. Having not just basic arithmetics, but decent sin, cos, sqrt, atan2 etc, all parth of cmath. The difference now would be minor with soft float beeing ubiquitous, but back when it was faster... Damn.
The Black Sky Event
A banana for scale: Why people don't understand big numbers – APNIC Blog
I do still have objections to the use of the phrase “Ambassador of that culture”. It comes way earlier in the document than the later qualification, and I am not of the view that the equivocation renders it moot.
The entire piece is about taking care with how one communicates about autism, and who gets to represent it.

It’s not surprising that the way it does so is under scrutiny.

The word ambassador isn’t the only word in that phrase. The word ‘culture’ is also there. There is certainly an implication of two cultures in play.

The later part talks about a diversity of autistic voices of which the author is only one, but that doesn’t eliminate the ‘two cultures’ idea that has already been introduced.

The two cultures idea is definitely not universally held by autistic people. I suspect that this is at the root of a lot of the reactions.
Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confident is true?
I was thinking through my 2022 predictions and one came to mind that I thought, “hmm… I’d better keep that one to myself.” Its further out than 2022, and hopefully it’s a never. But I am confident it’s coming, and I sure it’s a bad outcome for humanity: we become more and more influenced by learning systems that are goaled to drive behaviors that are not in our best interest, and, eventually lead to a virtual enslavement that leaves us with no free will.

I shudder at the thought.

What outrageous belief are you confident is true?
I suspect this isn't the original implant, but rather a 'clean up' one. The APT probably had already obtained all the intelligence they want; now their goal is to make the server appear to misbehave, so it gets taken out and recycled for e-waste.
Tech groups in Taiwan accused of locking up migrant workers [June 2021]
iLO 5 has several vulns: https://www.blackhat.com/us-21/briefings/schedule/index.html...
You are the handless guy protesting that you're technically correct despite being forced to use interpretations that nobody else would ever consider. Try asking people how to read that post. See how many of them misunderstand it or think it's confusing.

> I'm the one claiming that the text is ambiguous

Between the handless guy and the top-hat dude, which one is claiming the text is ambiguous? How well-grounded is that claim?
then why isn't an int array called a "string" of ints?