skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main constraint for JWST is that it needs to be able to block all IR radiation from the Sun/Earth/Moon in order to pick out the faint IR signal it's looking for (from red-shifted light from the very early universe). By orbiting L2, it keeps Sun/Earth/Moon all on one side of the spacecraft, which it's then able to block with its sunshield.
The point is that everyone is capable of figuring out that it's a typo and I actually meant comprises of. There is almost no one who reads that sentence and is confused what I actually meant. The brain of an average person is perfectly capable of doing that. Focusing on that typo even after totally understanding what I wrote is completely missing the point of language in the first place. Which is to communicate ideas.
Humans are still 20 to 40% better at predicting the weather than AI
Last time I looked, I can't play my audio on a Sonos system. It's a complete non-starter.
At least with OpenComputer on 1.7.10 the "vm" runs on the "server" which is either the multiplayer server or the client if in single-player mode.
High-tech solutions to China’s care problem – DW Documentary [video]
> "21 things I know fit in my ass" is great investigative journalism.

That's like accusing the New York Times of not doing great investigative journalism just because it publishes crossword puzzles.
As long as journalists don’t incite or induce others to break the law or do so themselves, why does it matter how they gather the relevant information to support reporting on factual events? I’m not sure I follow your reasoning.
All my side projects have teeny tiny amounts of data. JSON file in the order of KB. Performance is great.

I have one project with a dozen users that handles around 50 reads per second and maybe 30 writes per day, no issues at all. Setting up a DB for that would just bite the next dev in the behind since it would need a lot more maintenance then an apache server with php.
I wonder how well the child comments will age in 20 years
> Why is that a measure of societal success?

Any judgement about ultimate value is just as arbitrary. It's one of the most basic and most intractable problems in philosophy.
I'm not an economist, but I think that the net zero inflation figure came from:

- gold/silver standards of the time (disinflationary)

- currency in bullion or coinage of a relatively fixed qty (disinflationary)

- low credit supply & banking industry (not inflationary)
- labor supply growth (deflationary)

- productivity growth (deflationary)

- war/crises (often deflationary)

There was probably some significant debasement and other funny tricks by the rulers of the day to intentionally inflate (state) purchasing power, and obviously there was some inflation via gold/silver mining and trade from the East. These combined with the above probably netted out of the long time-span.

It's not like they had bitcoin or central banking policy. The West didn't even have paper currency during this era; they didn't have access to inflationary levers to pull.
I think the idea is that if the launch cost is so much lower you can take more risk with the design as you can more easily justify launching again or take a more iterative design approach.

The Arian 5 costs around $185M to launch, they therefore need to make sure it works first time.

Starship is estimated to be $2-10M.
> [1] The end of the article mentions "Dr. Montagnier was a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the human immunodeficiency virus."

This f*** again. That is all I need to know about that article. He popped up at the start of the pandemic claiming it was a bioweapon based on HIV. Because of course he would.

He is also in support of "the memory of water" and "hexagonal water" and other homeopathic related bullshit.

A prime example of someone suffering from Nobelitis. F** this guy. Please do not give this grifter any more attention than he already has. He may have made important discoveries a long time ago, but is completely divorced from reality today.

This is one of the people on a growing list of people with whom any association leads to instant discrediting.
I am curious how you intend to get ThreeJS (or similar) working without a canvas DOM element?

Isn’t that a lot of work? Or is there an obvious way to hook it up that I’m missing?
Traditional hifi gear is a niche market. In the past this was fine, but the reality is that niche markets won't support the development and maintenance of high quality software that interoperates well with the ever-evolving ecosystem of streaming services and protocols. Sonos is the one company that is playing by the rules of today's market, has actual software developers working for them, and cares about audio quality.
> and you can't install any other browser.

This is totally incorrect. There are a large number of alternatives.

I still use an 8 year old iPad every day, and have an updated version of iCab Mobile running on it, which has given me no problems whatsoever. I’ve certainly never experienced a website that won’t load, despite the age of the hardware.
SMS is still more reliable because it doesn't rely on cellular data service. In emergency situations when cellular networks are overloaded or with a weak connection it's more likely to get through.
Well executed, usable strictly speaking but practically useless. Perfect!
It's not lump of labor fallacy.

Standards of living rose because the scarcity of labor rose relative to the scarcity of land.

Peasants had to pay dearly to aristocrats for the ability to use land to farm on, often somewhere close to 100% of their surplus production. Number of peasants going down while the amount of arable land stayed the same led to peasants being able to drive a better bargain and keep more of their surplus.
I think you can compare it to "natural scrolling" - imagine if an operating system suddenly flipped the default scrolling direction without even presenting a dialog where you could choose your preferred option.

> everytime I go back to Edge or Chrome, it becomes painful to the point I have to use the mouse for moving through tabs

Sometimes I worry if that's exactly what they hoped would happen, similar to how Windows/Linux users often hate using a MacOS keyboard layout and vice versa.. but hopefully that isn't the case, especially because I can't think of any other software where you don't cycle through the tabs in their located order.
DT fusion releases the majority of it's energy (14 out of 17 MeV) as neutron's, there will be radioactive waste to deal with, and it will rapidly be considered an unacceptable risk compared to coal and natural gas, because reasons that will seem perfectly rational to people at the time.
The gradient generator Josh introduces here is pretty nice [0]! And the HSL vs RGB theory is also pretty interesting. I'll give this generator a try next time I want one.

But my favorite gradient generator at the moment (most pleasant gradients IMO) is still [1].

[0] https://www.joshwcomeau.com/gradient-generator/

[1] https://mycolor.space/gradient
As a (web/app) developer, I'd really wish I had any sort of talent do beautiful things, this person clearly has a sense of aesthetics that I don't, while I know that practice would make it better, I just don't feel that I'd get there.

Congrats to the author for such a cool product!
I think it is a test to find out how many users reply about James Webb without reading the article :)
I already heard about the developer of this project. People call him "Eugene the crypto alchemist" on Discord.
Note that the average price of an iPhone is higher than the average price of a Chromebook.
> something like 7 years of updates, right? That seems pretty reasonable.

I think it is for OS updates, but not for something that should clearly be user-updatable like a browser.

It's not like you can even install Firefox to get around it.
I'm well aware of the capabilities SpaceX is promising! This is why I said, "even if the telescope was teleported into orbit." If a new ground-based telescope is still $1 bil then something which has to operate in hard vacuum, high radiation, and with even greater temperature differences, with far less provision for repair (even with Starship), will be hard-pressed to come in at an even smaller budget. Then again, $1 bil ain't what it used to be.
I recently exported to Microsoft Authenticator/Edge without any trouble at all.
So say I carve a wound onto my skin, and then put live skin with a sufficient tissue match onto it and connect the blood vessels so that the new live skin does not die; then the live skin graft and my own damaged skin will hen heal into each other and form a connected totality?
Wow that’s a crazy statistic. Do you have a source?
Making search and chatbots suck less with Retriever Models
Ivy League Cartel Sued for Price-Fixing
Neither a bug nor an intentional ploy would surprise me. When I last used LastPass (2018) the web UI was quite buggy and difficult to use. Since then they have been acquired[1] by a PE firm and are about to be spun off again[2] as an independent company. Heaven knows who's steering the ship over there.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2019/12/18/logmein-lastpass-to-be-acq...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22833319/lastpass-indepe...
I've watched a few of them. A narrator gives an opinion on another persons motivation or credibility based on their behavior.

I don't care for the videos personally, but aren't we all entitled to watch what we like, have an opinion, and share that opinion with others?

I hear a lot of opinion on youtube, and other hosts of user contributed content such as HN that I don't agree with, and yet I would prefer youtube and HN let me hear that it then decide for myself if it's credible, insightful, or otherwise useful to me.
Kipling has this

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies
Or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
NEI remains and continues to grow, GTNH has back ported many of the JEI features to 1.7.10.

It is pretty easy to import code into OpenComputer once setup - see NIDAS https://github.com/S4mpsa/NIDAS
I like how the little w and 人 make a big W in negative space.
Is the fuel supply only designed to keep it in orbit? What happens when it runs out of fuel and leaves L2? Can it continue to do science while "on the float"?
But again, you don't know what the true current side effect rate is because it's not being measured honestly. There's a dropbox for people to write in and say they were injured:

https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality

which isn't nothing but all such reports are dismissed as coincidences or trolling. That's very unlikely to be the case, but even if you accept that argument, it means governments are forcing the entire population to take brand new drugs on the back of "drug firms assure us there are no long term side effects where long term means more than a week", which beyond being incredibly dishonest, would also be incredibly risky. Asteroids crashing into Earth or nuclear wars have nothing on governments forcing everyone to take a dangerous substance because they blindly trusted the makers.
it's art. I like the idea of occasionally writing to my fans....:D
One can hope that the complexity, size, potential hazards, and expense of getting power from nuclear reactions can be greatly reduced in the future. Like Charles Babbage's difference engines [1] that were replaced by a whole new way of doing calculations with electronics, I don't think there is any first principle reason small and safe nuclear powers sources couldn't exist. The big problem in discovering/inventing them is the regulations and public fear around radioactive materials. Radioactivity is dangerous but so are a lot of technologies when they first were discovered. Steam power, chemical explosives, oil refining, etc. No one can really tinker around nuclear materials, try new things, and iterate quickly. The US could really help jump start new nuclear tech if they would designate an isolated location where the rules and regulations around handling radioactive material was greatly relaxed. The former test site in Nevada might be a good place.

Fully informed consent for the people working there with each lab spaced out to confine any unexpected high exposures to the people working on their own experiments. A certain portion of the population desires doing dangerous and risky things. Look at all the extreme sports these days. It would be great to create a way to allow them to take dangerous risks that are deeply meaningful, intellectually challenging, potentially financially lucrative, and productive for society at large.
I think it’s more realistic to keep the current system where you download packages and updates from npm. The issue is rare, not every package is that popular and destroyed by their author, and it has been fixed quickly. Forking is easy but maintaining a fork, including security updates in a short time, is a lot of work and I doubt many developers would actually do it.
If he is singled out while the others who successfully went through this process are not wouldn't it should some form of prejudice? Targeting a high profile player to show that a politician in more powerful, or something like that?

The dynamics here are interesting, too.
Humans have a strong bias for doubling down on our current beliefs and rejecting conflicting evidence.

It is crucial that we are just as harsh judging our current beliefs and subjecting them to scrutiny, as we are judging and scrutinizing beliefs with which we disagree.
That was likely on the main BuzzFeed domain, as the BuzzFeed News domain doesn’t post that kind of clickbait content headline. Can you find this headline or one like it on buzzfeednews.com? Otherwise you’re conflating the two separate sites.
Look at the examples yourself, to form an opinion: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
> Apple made sure she can't get a new browser so that she would purchase a new device. period.

Just bullshit. There are plenty of browsers being updated and fully compatible with iOS 12.
Since this is posted by you, Josh.. is the date in the article inaccurate (should the year be 2022?) or did you just decided to push to HN on the one year anniversary? (Title might benefit from the year)
i especially recommend vaultwarden, the community developed self hosted backed.
> really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.

I earn BAT and give it away. No KYC required. There are some greedy users. But those would block AdSense regardless of Brave and you would get nothing anyway.
I saw your answer to 'how to get into hardware design'. If you're willing to answer noobie questions I've got another one for you :)

I put together an ErgoDox by following the directions (and by soldering. Lots of soldering :) ) but I don't really understand how the circuits work.

In particular I'd like to put together a keyboard that connects the switches using wires instead of a PCB, but I don't know why there's all the ICs here and there, or what they're doing, or even where to find a circuit diagram of the ErgoDox, nor how to analyze those circuits.

Could you recommend a good 'next step' for getting more familiar with the various parts that go into something like an ErgoDox?

I'm enough of a noob that I'm not going to be surprised if you just link me back to your repo here (in which case I apologize in advance) :)
> my Mom had trouble volunteering and participating in her local community because somebody shipped the optional chaining operator in their production JavaScript.

Is there a solution tho, instead of sticking to absolute no new browser features when it's not 100%? What if the browser pulls always compatible bytecode from server instead of pulling javascript text code?
In fairness, some of these limitations are due to using devices/cameras primarily meant for one thing to do another. Regardless of all the cool things they can do, smartphones were not built to handle all of the live capture and transcoding that you can do easily with a suitable camera + desktop/laptop.

I haven't used my phone's cam/mic for recording or streaming very much, but I know you can get phone video and audio into OBS via obs.ninja if both phone and computer are on the same LAN. You might be able to use your camera's video and your phone's mic audio as OBS inputs, then send the output of OBS into whatever recording or streaming application you need.

Or just get a dedicated mic. I haven't kept up with the market for a while but we used to always just get those Zoom (no relation) mics and hook them up to the audio-in on our DSLRs for cheap(ish) decent audio. I'm sure there are better options nowadays.
Arcade: Build interactive experiences
I use Keepass + Onedrive sync (Windows + Android). It's been working well for many many years and I see no reason to switch.

If I had to recommend a pw manager to someone I'd probably suggest they just save them in-browser, and use the same browser (Chrome/FF/Edge) across all their devices. Chrome has a pretty good password suggestion feature. Other browsers are probably not far behind.
Well of course, in practice you don't have the CIA couping countries because they became capitalist. Unfortunately for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Panama (formed by the US for obvious interests in the region), Cuba, Peru, etc. if you want to democratically elect someone who isn't super capitalist your country gets invaded / blockaded / sanctioned.

In the "real world", it's better to disappear a few ten thousand non-US citizens than it is to have a visible competing hegemony. The only countries to survive that pressure (China, DPRK) have only done so because of nuclear armaments which the US (the only country to nuke a city, let alone two) opposes.

Are you sure you know what they achieved? Or are you just repeating the same tired history that was written by the victors of the Cold War, who only had to destabilize the entire middle east by funding the Mujahideen in order to collapse the USSR?

Because I look at lifespan and infant mortalities in Cuba, a tiny country not even a fraction of the US in size or wealth, and they're doing better than the US! In most metrics, the US is near dead last. Why do we pretend like our system works the best? You can say most stable, I'd say the largest standing army in the history of the world is to blame there. Having an economic crisis every decade or so doesn't seem like the system is working.

Other "capitalist" countries doing well, like Germany, were similarly colonial powers that got all the "capital" to invest by yoinking it from slaves they worked all over the globe. The value of silver and gold extracted from Latin America was worth more than all existing capital expenditures in Western Europe up until that point. 8 million natives died in Potosí alone extracting that wealth. Did the system work for them?
In my humble opinion, imaginary numbers are a core part of algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and physics, and all sufficiently intelligent people should learn about them. The reason exponential curves and sine waves show up all over the place in reality is because they are the solution to some simple differential equations. Imaginary numbers show you how these are fundamentally very similar things. Similarly, imaginary numbers make it clean and simple to solve cubic equations. And the idea that introducing this concept of "imaginary number" makes multiple practical applications much simpler, therefore we added it to mathematics, is core to how mathematics itself evolves.
isn't it illegal to hack into other people's websites and look at code?
The COVID-19 vaccines are far less effective than measles and rubella vaccines.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
The Netherlands has a separate local and international version as well with less information in the local version because they didn’t want everyone and his dog implementing different rules.

But for the international version you can’t just decide to give less information because then it won’t accepted.
I had issues exporting my LastPass database to a CSV file a couple of weeks ago from a browser (no plugin installed). They seemed to render the CSV data inside a <pre> tag in an HTML page (I have no CSV browser plugin installed). I had to copy the text manually from the HTML source and paste/import it in another password manager.
Unlike Nazi rocket science, Nazi human experiments didn't produce very valuable results.
Thanks for the pointer to that, which prompted me to go look in Settings:About Chrome OS:Additional Details where retail Chromebooks list their end of automatic updates date. For my device, it's June 2026, so a little under $2/mo for the utility is still well worth it and hard to complain about on a value-for-money basis, but half as much as I thought I was buying, so I agree with a sibling post that that information should be much more readily available to consumers prior to purchase.
it's not semantics. there's a useful distinction between addiction and dependence. dependence is the tolerance/withdrawal cycle. it doesn't necessarily coincide with the cravings that are characteristic of addiction. someone on pain meds for a broken leg may never think of them again once the treatment ends. it doesn't make sense to consider/treat them as an addict. conversely, a gambling addict is more similar to a heroin addict than a typical PM patient.
Due to the Trump admin, there is a huge backlog and getting H1Bs approved takes forever right now.
New EC2 Console Launch Instance Wizard
Just a small nitpick, but it's important to my theological ears: TA conflates "righteousness" and "self-righteousness", which are two different things.

Not that anyone is righteous on their own -- no one is. But that doesn't mean righteousness isn't a real concept that can be understood apart from self-righteousness.

In fact, Martin Luther's discovery that no one is righteous on their own, and the notion of an alien or imputed righteousness granted by God to those who repent and trust in Jesus (as St Paul explains it in the book of Romans) was a key moment in the lead-up to the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.
What setup? Creating a user? Maybe utilize the quick start docs GitHub provides?

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart
I had an empty mail saying Good Morning in the subject today.

Generally it seems like a few more things can get through, compared to 10+ years ago. I'm thinking just bugs sneaking in the codebase over a long period of time.

I get plenty of Russian spam because I visited Russia and connected to the free wifi of the airport.
Apparently the list of people connecting to wifi (or someone who they're reselling their data to) is easily hackable.

Somehow they evaded Google for a long time.
For a period they were pretty successful with Google Drive / Google Calendar invitations containing spam, but Google blocked them - then I got a string of emails.
After a bit of flagging I stopped seeing them.

I also get some false positives flagged as spam so I started keeping my spam folder clean, so I can inspect what spam I receive and whether it's spam or just a service Google doesn't like.

I interact with people at Yandex and their emails often end up in spam, no idea why.
They're perfectly legit mails.

Some forums also are regularly ending up in spam.
1Password is another proprietary SaaS password manager. You "dodged this bullet" but shouldn't you also be concerned that 1P will do the same thing in the future?