skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this compare to the 'man on the moon' projects of China? It appears that from a purely scientific standpoint, this telescope will have a bigger impact than those of other space programs. Is my thinking on the right track here?

Also, is this complementary in function (and mission) to the Hubble? It appears to me that the spectrum is split up between Hubble and James Webb.

As an aside, it is interesting that the telescope is named in honor of a Lawyer turned administrator of NASA, James Webb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb). He must have been very capable indeed (or perhaps had the talent of attaching himself to very successful programs) because he was tapped by Kennedy to lead NASA at a time when the space race was at its peak. What's also weird is that James Webb worked as an administrator in all sorts of Government departments before being tapped to run NASA.
No problem for me, as I'm on the verge to say goodbye to Windows anyway. But I'm pretty sure it would be a problem for most of the people using Windows.
No, I mean unlike a gift card, you can get your balance back from the card without the merchant's cooperation. Once you pay a merchant, it's not reversible.
The simulation of change is just so much easier than actual change...

Anecdotally, I'd say in middling companies executives seem absorbed with performative work which in turn filters down the ranks into more performative work. Only the top places seem to be able to escape this somewhat (there is always some performative stuff).
> If you meet your goals early and announce that, you just get more work.

Not only that, the larger the company you work for, the more likely the more people will be involved in your project. That leads to all sorts of inefficiencies. If you finish early, you may still need to wait on someone else before your next task. So the work you pick up will often just be busywork anyway, since you can’t do the important work until you’re unblocked.

The incentives for working harder or faster are so decoupled from actual results in a large company (i.e. we shipped something and made X more dollars which means Y more dollars for me) that gaming the system and “performing” is the only real meaning you can derive from your actions.
I'm more surprised that this is not already the case as the farming machines as they commonly use GPS to precisely follow the path on the land they work on.

It's also much less formidable landscape than driving autonomous vehicles among the humans.

1) The area that these machines work is already considered an insulated work space, you would not expect to have humans on the grounds when the autonomous machines operate.

2) These machines make a lot of noise and move very slowly, which would allow humans to protect themselves from machines that misbehave

3) The farming equipment is already bulky and doesn't need considerations for things like aerodynamics, which means that all kind of sensor and extra equipment can be attached.

4) The business model can tolerate cost increase, it's very common for these machines to be time shared between users.

I'm looking forward for a future where being a farmer means machine management from a comfortable room. The traditional farming is so dirty and hard job that most young people are avoiding it at all cost and this is not a business that can cease to exist as farming is what makes our civilisation exist.
The article notes that

> Corten is a good conductor of heat, which means that it must be heavily insulated against Lubbock’s hot summers and cold winters.

But is the house insulated at all? The pictures appear to show just raw steel, which implies that it's going to a roasting oven in summer and a freezing coffin in the winter.
Totally US centric. Android has a bigger market share everywhere else, so these supposed iPhone lock-in tactics cannot work. But I believe it's something about sms costs and data plans. Here, Italy, telcos started to offer affordable data plans way before unlimited sms. MMS never took off because the huge costs. I used gtalk on symbian phones. Then Hangouts, a bit of Skype. At some point Whatsapp prevailed but sms were long dead.
When I watched The Hobbit in high frame rate (HFR) it was jarring for the first 10 minutes, but after that I really enjoyed the look, and wished it would become the new standard.

Unfortunately the list of HFR movies remains rather short, with each grand new attempt at popularising HFR having failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_high_frame_...
Author here---I agree with the silliness of these categories, but I found no better way of phrasing this in an abstract manner. In the teams I mentioned in the article, it was super helpful to have that one colleague who knew a bit about software development, about running code in an HPC environment, about automated testing etc. Yes, these skills might be commonplace somewhere else, but in academia, they are typically not. Moreover, there are no incentives around for people to improve their knowledge in these tangential or broader areas. They might even be 'punished' for it later on since their research output ostensibly suffers.
Old: https://chainbulletin.com/pirate-bay-quietly-launched-a-digi... (May 2021)
There's a big difference between building the chassis out of galvanised parts, and dipping the completed chassis in a bath of molten zinc.
If someone just wants a visa, then it's much easier to get a quick and easy masters instead of doing a PhD with 5 years of research.
Sounds about right to me, a Brit.
Yeah good luck with that. The Democrats hold the House, Senate and Presidency and decided against the policy you argue for (austerity), in favor of debt monetization and liquidity. But they went even further, In the BBB bill, they favored tax cuts for the rich through bringing back the State and Local Tax deduction (SALT). I'm not sure who will enact your punitive tax increases. Any ideas? AOC and Warren represent a very small minority.
In my experience, it seems like people do whatever they want. Block off an afternoon for appointments, to drive their kids somewhere, or just “heads-down” time where they’re not responding to chat. As long as people have some kind of work to show each performance cycle, and they don’t disappear for extended periods without warning, nobody seems to mind.

A 4-day work week would formalize this and reduce the stress, though. Some companies allow it: for example, I know google engineers who work 80% time (with a corresponding pay cut). 80% of Google pay is still plenty for most people.
> Being based in European academia salaries for Ph.D. students and other personnel are more or less fixed

And this may depend where in Europe, but they get paid more than in the US, and also tend to get full benefits.

At least those that I knew in Denmark/Belgium were. They were not even classified as students, but as full time employees. Doing PhD research was their job.
It’s worth noting that all messaging used to be green back in the old iOS days. When iMessage was added they made them blue so you knew you were using the new snazzy feature. So to those saying apple picked an intentionally derogatory color are simply misinformed.
I like the subtle hidden arrogance that "we don't really understand it" if Feynman can't explain it at freshman level.
Some schema changing statements drop the statistics.

We learned this the hard way. We altered some integer columns to bigint. That cleared the statistics for those column and caused terrible query plans. An ANALYZE fixes this, but it took us a few days to notice.
One problem is that modern cars have very small amount of oil in them. Which means that if you develop a problem they can run dry very quickly.
Yes, I understand the reasons to have enough dynamic range and enough headroom. My question is about what specifically is enough.
I've never been a fan of asserting that what the language you're using is defined for is full of good practices. For example, we all know declaration-site mutability causes lots of problems, but immutable-everywhere is not the best solution to it, only the most brute-force. The /best/ solution, something the fun sort of programmer knew well before Rust proved it, is use-site mutability. You can't get anywhere near the same performance with immutable-everywhere without a runtime (or complex rope-model library) specifically designed for it, and it matches the intuitive model anyway (I will never understand the Haskell-aligned habit of asserting that functional matches how you think about code, while pointing at an IO system that involves a function taking the observable universe and returning a modified copy of it).
Thanks quinnjh
> no warning

We're in the third year of a global pandemic and nothing that is happening now is something that wasn't predicted as a serious possibility.

Pretending everything is fine doesn't make it fine. Acknowledging the situation we're in, and having plan for "rapidly spreading variant that starts impacting kids more" is something that would be an obvious thing for schools to do.

We concretely knew in November this was coming. Again, many people tried to pretend this wasn't happening and brush it off, but there was plenty of time to foresee this situation and plan for it.

The vast majority of people, on all sides of the political spectrum, have aggressively been trying not to see what is happening in front of their eyes. To try to force things to be "normal". If we accepted that we're in a pandemic, and that sometimes we'll have to change our life a bit, we could have easily prepared for this case.
on the other hand now I think of some projects I was on that didn't go too well, could it be that the guys who I thought were clueless idiots that were seriously making everything we did take twice as long were actually performing work for more important people than me - the product owner who could never make a decision themselves but had to rope others into it (thus creating a paper trail of work performed) or the technical tester who had been given that job because he was tired of writing excel spreadsheets and needed more challenges and wrote many unreasonable bug reports.

So while I don't fault them (as being immoral or unethical) I sure can be annoyed by them.
Not for the huge high-voltage batteries in electric cars though.
Self-driving tractor in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xS3eIHzLk
Let me quote myself:

> * Psychiatric medication often simply numbs your brain...*

Notice the word "often". I'm not a 10-year old that claims that the 4-5 cases that I've witnessed represent the entire world and I'm getting tired of everybody here pretending that I'm some kind of monster.

Or maybe you're projecting too much?

Get off my back already. Read more slowly, don't get outraged, don't assume malice. Does wonders both to mental health and to the quality of online discussions.
xdude.com - flash site. Even though it was small by today's standards, it had some pretty handy info for MIDI and sound processing.

Winamp.com (from the 2.x days) was also full of useful stuff. The plugin architecture meant that you could make Winamp2 do just about anything with av files. Including DJ'ing and video playlists.

Those two and Geocities.
Yeah I agree, I typically think about quantity as a function of price
reminds me of chromium fork maintainers' complaints that it's hard patching parts of the codebase because things change drastically frequently, so you really have to pick and choose what you can afford to maintain.
"Lockdowns" delay spread - well, actually they just force essential workers to get sick first - but what's the point of delaying it? You'll just get it once you open up again. (Somewhat good right now because we're waiting for more antivirals/clearing out winter flu cases, but still not worth the cost.)

China is still trying it but I expect that to fail in a few weeks. Australia has given up on it.

The real question is why Japan is yet again not having a breakout.
Oh interesting, thanks for the reply!

Is it that they don't record the same bit depth (?) What aspects of the output or format of a camera make it suitable for pro use?
lol your not responding to what I was asking just being a troll

The world needs to come down on China's govt or it's just going to get worse for every country that isnt them!
Ask HN: Why is the James Webb telescope so exciting?
Im excited regardless cause Im a nerd, just feeling like Im getting lost in the weeds trying to figure out the big picture motivations / potentials behind it. Finding aliens? What happened an 8th of a second after the big bang? Dark matter something something?
>stream at different frame rates if it bothers them stylistically.

I think that would be less than ideal. I think usually with 24fps, the shutter is open for 1/48th of a second. So you get a certain amount of motion blur, and movie viewers are used to that amount of motion blur. If you shoot at 60fps, the shutter will likely be open for 1/120th of a second. If you then play it at 30fps by cutting out half the frames, the motion blur will still be 1/120th, which is probably not what the viewer wants.
Are we talking about the elderly who were locked up and isolated from any contact with people they depend on for basic survival needs?
I think the tone of the author is that distributed ledger/blockchain/crypto/web3/monke ponzi- however any individual chooses to interpret this “cultural and monetary shift”- is in reality the future. And those who respond with indifference and denial of that reality, much like a person in your position, will have no say or power within the new system. That’s the voice of the author I believe. Not mine. As to the value, well I’d say you can only change when you’re ready to change. This applies to vision of value as well.
> I swear I've heard of that company somewhere?

Care to share where?
Off topic but is it petty to pet peeve about the phrase "by extension"? As far as I can tell it's just a better-sounding way to say "so I'm going to assume".
What a farce to reduce any criticism of psychiatry to being anti-science. OP didn't even mention ADHD.

Depression is pretty wide and not fully understood. You can't just take the meaning of life and reduce it to a scientific problem. Yet that's what most of these kids are struggling with.

It's hopeful that the field of psychiatry is also experimenting with psycobylin as that at least will allow for people to come to some meaning on their own, in a journey rather than being numbed out.

Also what does anti-scientific even mean in this context? You can run a well set up experiment that turns people into vegetables and drastically sees a drop in suicide. Is it therefore correct? Don't forget this field is only 40 years away from lobotomies.
Gridrunner
????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid.

And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid…
Are you straight out of telegram or what ???
What do you see? I've just had a 2 hour conversation with someone trying to get me into this "business" without being able to articulate a single use case where NFTs actually make my day better in a way that is not currently possible with other tech so, yeah...what do you see?

I see a whole new wave of fouls about to lose their money to ponzi schemes and over-hyped "investments", much like it happened with the bitcoin/crypto train.

Just write NFT or crypto in Youtube and you immediately see all the sharks promising you millions in their videos, trying to manipulate you into investing - don't read the comments though, it's even worse. I see a lot of red flags and trouble for nothing. I hold crypto assets so I'm not talking out of my but here - I must confess; I've had no real benefits yet from this new tech. The crypto I hold is because one of my products has crypto as a payment method so I decided to just hold a piece of it and try to make use of "new tech".
Slacking off doesn’t really make you happy, it kind of just saps your energy. In my experience as a reforming slacker.
this is not a piece of equipment suited to a small scale private farmer, though. this machine is for someone to whom acreage represents a block on a spreadsheet.
In Canada they said masks don't work and even make things worse, despite every Asian country using them at the time.
Go does this with ranging over maps

The iteration order over maps is not specified and is not guaranteed to be the same from one iteration to the next. If a map entry that has not yet been reached is removed during iteration, the corresponding iteration value will not be produced. If a map entry is created during iteration, that entry may be produced during the iteration or may be skipped. The choice may vary for each entry created and from one iteration to the next. If the map is nil, the number of iterations is 0.

[1]: https://go.dev/ref/spec#For_statements
> The only thing that matter is : a computer is a general purpose machine and must stay a "general purpose" machine.

Fully agreed. This is the most important point. No company or vendor should prevent me from running the software I want, in the way I want, be it modified for my own purposes or not.

Sure, if you only look onto the security side it may be more secure if you can only run approved software, but it is in no circumstances okay to reduce the freedom of a user on his/her private machine. (In a business setting it makes sense to only allow software approved by the IT-Department)
Do you really think they'll be able to break the strong crypto which will ultimately be used to "secure" this?

Maybe they could exploit a buffer overflow or other such bug, but if our opponents are so keen on adopting "secure languages", that path to freedom is going to close too.

When governments were scared that encryption was going to be used against them and wanted to ban it, we should've realised that the same situation could apply to us. I'm not at all arguing in favour of such bans, but the underlying message was just as applicable.
So long with "shoot your next movie on iPhone". I was hoping for Canon EOS, but it is $5.5k "cinema" one.

Gotta re-read Rodriguez' "Rebel without a crew" (and try to forget his way subpar episode of the next Disney Star Wars humiliation).
I've written harvest inventory software for a couple of custom harvesting outfits.

Their business model is they buy crops in the field or charge to do custom harvesting. Usually the former.

I've not been onsite for one outfit but the other is close to home so I visit from time to time. The amount of equipment they have is amazing. Millions of dollars of very large equipment. They load it up and truck it around between multiple states to harvest.

Point being, sometimes farmers have little or minimal equipment. They might even contract planting, spraying etc. and sell crops directly in the field. Or they might plant and cultivate but not harvest.

That certainly makes this kind of thing more affordable as it ultimately spreads the cost between many farmers (with the company that owns the equipment taking a cut of course).
"The economy" is whatever anyone does for work; it's right to be concerned about it. It doesn't mean "stock market numbers" - although retirees sure care about those.
lcc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(compiler)

PBRT: https://www.pbrt.org
I find it fascinating that you call me nonsensical for making the very reasonable assumption that energy consumption will stay the same for a back-of-the envelope calculation, and here you are talking about infinite improvement factors.

> I didn't say a word about basing something on fossil fuels.

You said: "Yes, but that doesn't imply you need the capacity to run the country 100% on batteries for a week. That's just not something anyone would ever do. For example, a gas turbine with a low duty cycle would definitely be cheaper than a battery after a certain period of time. So why would you use a battery for that?"

> I don't see how we "seem to agree". The comment I initially responded to

Note that I responded to that comment with a calculation showing that that plan is economically infeasible. The scenario is not all all contrived; what that person proposed we need is reasonable, and it would in fact be quite dangerous and insufficient to have only one week's worth. Years in which there is more than a week without wind and hardly any sun (due to winter) occur approximately every 10 years in Germany. Thus calling a week's worth of storage contrived is just wrong. If anything, it's contrived in the direction of not being enough.
> WELCOME TO THE PLUTONOMY MACHINE

Love it, this writing seems to have a lot of pep. Seems legit so far.

Also very interesting / inspiring that they identify Japan as part of the Egalitarian Block. I may have been under a skewed impression of their economy. Happy to be wrong maybe.

It makes me wonder if massive income inequality is some organic meta pattern in preparation for massive ecosystem / population collapse. Or maybe that its an effect from a hyperbolic media narrative about massive ecosystem collapse designed to overstimulate us and fog our critical thinking so we click on more west elm ads.

Anyway its a thought provoking post.
> the way systemd developers pushed the community to adopt systemd, specially when they asked for 3rd party developers to make systemd a hard dependency.

Do you have any links for these statements? My memory is not great but I think I would remember anything similar to this.
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> COVID might have been containable with massive travel restrictions, testing, and contact tracing in the first couple months of 2020. Between the testing screwups, the factually challenged political posture adopted by a certain former POTUS in the early days of the pandemic, the WHO's general incompetence, China's questionable actions, the disease's ease of transmission, and the delay in travel restrictions, that scenario is long gone.

No, it would not have been possible. The simple fact that animals can catch it prevents that.

> I justified that decision by reasoning that long-term side effects are unlikely as the MRNA, adjuvants, or other weird leftovers will wash out of the body within months.

Vaccines don't have long-term side effects. They have side effects, but it's immediate or nothing.

It's also quite likely the 3rd shot is not a "booster", and skipping the 2nd shot in the series would be effective too. i.e. the actual problem is the first two shots were too close together.
How do you currently give customer service feedback to your doctor?