skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key phrase: "relative to an isotropic antenna." They can call it power gain all they want, but it's still not power gain. The literature is full of imprecise language, and it sounds like that's an example.

If an antenna exhibited power gain, you could build a perpetual motion machine with a pair of them. It's not power gain. Instead, it's just less power loss.
Good to hear the meds are working for you.
Clinical depression is life threatening and no joke to walk around with untreated.

Whatever that treatment might be.
Product Hunt is only useful if you are selling products to startup people (monitoring, DevOps tools, SMB marketing stuff, etc)
Don't do this!

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronav...

.t actual doctor
Trailblazer List – 125 deep-tech companies making science fiction a reality
To add some back of the napkin calculations to this:

Angular resolution of the earth at 66 million light years away would be approximately 2e-17 radians. Using the Raleigh Criterion [0] for lens size for the visible light spectrum (700nm for the best case scenario), you would need a lens with a diameter of about 4e10 meters. That's about the radius of Mercury's orbit around the sun.

If you want to see dinosaurs, say 1m resolution, that's about 1.5e-24 radians at 66M light years, needing a lens of diameter 5E17. The entire solar system has a diameter of ~3e14. So even if your lens was the size of the solar system you'd still be off by a factor of 1000 trying to resolve the dinosaurs.

At these scales you start running into some pretty fundamental engineering and physics problems with building a telescope this big.

Warning: this math may not be totally right, I'm just procrastinating some PDE homework right now, but the scales should be roughly correct.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_resolution#The_Rayleig...
> The JS ecosystem will probably have to change but because it's so decentralized,

Is it? Everybody is pulling from Microsoft owned servers now, as Microsoft owns both Github and NPM.
What makes you say that? You haven’t seen parents forbid their kids from getting HPV vaccines?
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. That's not cool, and will eventually get your account banned. If you'd please review the guidelines and stick to them when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It would be a legitimately great setting for another incarnation of Bioshock
I wrote a DVI converter for the Xerox 9700 laser printer and the Autologic APS-5 typesetter in the early 1980's. Ran on an Apollo Domain node. Fun times.

I took a 1-week summer class at Stanford with Knuth. At lunch, he told us the story of a Chinese restaurant that served food in the style of the province of Hunan. They had chopsticks made with a typo, said "Human cuisine".
Pascal was a huge force in the computing world for quite awhile - Turbo Pascal on the IBM PC was by far and away perhaps the most performant programming environment available.
That's actually quite funny, I would say gist is pronounced jist but only because it's clearly a play on the word "jist" in the first place. Like a branded version of a generic term - like tumblr where we all know it's actually tumbler rather than tumblr but with a different pronounciation due to copyright.
Nah, that's too evil.

It was explained to me by people who work there that Facebook desperately wants to be as evil as Microsoft or Google, but just can't come close yet.
Have you ever tried EMDR? If your mood issues are a result of childhood trauma or trauma-like experiences, EMDR has been researched heavily and has a good track record.

I’m not anti-medication by any means. I will probably need medication to feel OK for the rest of my life, but EMDR has augmented my treatment in a meaningful way. If you haven’t tried it, it’s at least worth looking into.
I grew up inspired by sci-fi. But tech in real life seemed boring by comparison. It turns out, I wasn’t looking hard enough. Over the past decade, I’ve kept a list of deep-tech companies building the future. Today, I’m sharing it so more people can explore something different

Trailblazer List includes teams working across the cutting edge, such as:
Bionaut Labs (Treating brain disorders with microbots)
Spinlaunch (Lowering the barrier to orbit with rocket catapults)
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Building towards limitless, clean energy)

This is a living, growing project. If you have suggestions for additional companies or any comments, please reach out @ https://twitter.com/minafahmi_
Cox (USA) blocks inbound port 80, rendering it impossible to get Let's Encrypt certs via http validation.

This started in the last year and affects millions of people.
I recall reading somewhere that it was designed for printers that “bled” and if using it on modern exact lasers you need to take that into account and make it “thicker” - but I suppose it could be tested by comparing output to early copies of TAOCP.
People complained about Python using whitespace, adding an extra space in bash can break the whole thing
They also stole the Jurassic Park theme
> Skilled devs still get around $200k.

Moderately skilled it engineers other of backgrounds and devs can make much more than $200k, just go check levels.fyi

To the parent comments point

> It's a bit wild that the sum total money spent on salaries for engineers handling potential problems stemming from this or defending against the possibility in the future could probably have covered paying the maintainer a living wage many times over.

The collective effort across numerous companies is much more than just $200k and you can bet your butt on that.
I find it sad that Commodore didn't include CPUs like the 68020 and 68030 in base Amiga models until many years after their initial release. Maybe with a bit more revenue from higher end CPU models, Motorola could have put more effort into advancing the product line. How different a world it would have been if IBM went with the 68000 instead of the 8088.
At least with the hardware I'm familiar with, you can turn off the TPM via the BIOS. IME/SGX/PSP, not so much.
I use a Fnatic MiniStreak TKL (no numpad). I never used numpads much, and I like to be able to keep my mouse hand in closer. Switches are Cherry MX Browns. Custom keycaps, though that's only for appearance (pudding caps to diffuse the RGB), doesn't alter performance. A gamer keyboard very much leaning into the "esports" theme, but excellent for typing on too. Price was reasonable as mechanical keyboards go. Had it for quite a while now, very happy with it.

Don't think they sell this particular keyboard anymore, this is probably the nearest to it in their current range: https://fnatic.com/products/mini-streak-rgb-tenkeyless-silen...
Your are the one name-dropping three mathematical concepts though? I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here. I'm talking about the basis for jq in general, not just your example. And if your message is representative of how the people that created jq think, I guess the answer is no and jq falls into the "no solid theory behind it" category.

I don't think my message was implying that jq is a worse (or better) tool for it. I was just explaining that for some people, tools with a theory behind are easier to learn and understand than tools without.
Posting like this is egregiously against HN's rules. Please read them and don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want more explanation, there's many years' worth at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments a lot. Could you please not? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
Do you think npm is a flawed design ?
The people trolling YouTube over copyright are either making false Content ID claims[0] (not DMCA takedown requests), or claiming infringement based on an incorrect match of something they genuinely hold the copyright on.[1]

You're probably right, though, that there is enough imprecision in the system for someone to claim that someone else's code snippet infringes on the copyright of a code snippet the claimant had previously published.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-indicts-two-men-for-running-a-2...

[1] https://freebeacon.com/culture/google-youtube-algorithm-copy...
> You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal.

I will also say, that as a native New Yorker, doing this type of "kitchen chemistry" (if that was he was doing) is _extremely_ reckless in a dense residential neighborhood.

He was either was just a hobbyist who liked experimenting with explosives and he was fine with recklessly endangering an entire community.... or he was planning to commit a bombing.

A different article:

> On Thursday, law enforcement sources told News 4 the fire started because he had a box next to his stove that caught fire. He tossed it, trying to douse the flames, and it landed in his living room, which then also caught fire.

So he went to the hospital with severe burns on his hands. We don't know yet exactly what he was doing, but I don't think he deserves anybody's sympathy. That has its limits.
With 82% saying gif it's the least subjective one in the list.
I didn‘t define request, I gave examples of possible kinds of requests. There are requests for information, and there are requests for action (and there may potentially be still other kind of requests — it’s an open enumeration). My point is that queries are requests for information, and not requests for action. Therefore "query" is a proper subset of "request", and thus not every request is a query.
What's bad about it specifically? Main thing I don't like is verb-noun, breaks tab complete
Also let's keep in mind that these projects would never have achieved their level of popularity if they were not licensed liberally. The value he's provided was based on free; you can't then compare it to the alternative after the fact.
Show HN: Video chat with like-minded developers
I feel like this models segregation the way conway's game of life models life.
One of the first places to be flooded by rising sea levels:-(
Cars don’t last as long as you’d think, on average. There will also be a knee in the curve where the ICE fleet drops below critical mass and gas stations start shutting down - and the harder it becomes to find a station, the faster people will switch.
This is really solid advice. I normally make it to number 2 sometimes 3 when I'm dealing with large amounts of information. I've found that 2 gets me far enough to operate in most circumstances and when I encounter specifics in the future I can easily dive deeper into detail.
Seems like it; I don't work on WebKit, you could submit a patch.
https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

>GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

github owns your account -- if the github company thinks they should terminate your account, they will.
The joke is that they really believe in their project...
> it seems to work on it's own

I think some FB employees might have an issue with that.
I didn't know how to answer this question since I pronunce "gif" and "jif" the same.
Of course I pronunce "gif" "gif" that's a tautology.
Bash is terrible, adding an extra space breaks it

BASIC is smarter than C, it knows when = means assign and when it means equality
You're not the first person to question people questioning whether the antiwork echo chamber is being manipulated by state actors. How do I know you aren't part of the counter counter espionage? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic posts or accounts?

What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory is to go directly into a deeper conspiracy theory then it's pretty likely you've already made up your mind about the underlying topic and aren't approaching the discussion in good faith anymore.

Edit: this is especially true after watching 4 years of the federal government waging an internal war between two factions about how much "influence" a foreign power had over our social media and elections.
So, there's actually a bit of a history of libertarian-ish types doing this sort of this thing. Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...

It doesn't generally end well.
For research papers: skim the abstract and end of the intro, read the images/graphs, then skim the conclusion.

Read the methods last.
I wonder if this is something like the Ratatouille effect - you know enough to “know” what shouldn’t work, but Knuth knows enough to know what does work - and your eyes agree.
Anecdotal but everywhere I've worked on JS codebases has used lockfiles. It might be this isn't affecting that many but those it is affecting are loud.
That also does not mean you cant call out the corporations that are leaching off open source...

I find it ironic that people are more upset at this guy for complaining about corporations, than they are about the corporations leaching...

the dev and hacker communities have really gone full on #HailCorporate haven't they. Where did my anti-establishment Libre community of the 90's go... I long for the good old days
Here is Facebook's Law Enforcement Online Request System:

https://www.facebook.com/records

I can confirm first-hand that Facebook will reveal your private messages to the police when an "emergency" is declared, without needing a warrant and without verification of the grounds for the request. I don't use Facebook anymore, and I don't touch any of Meta's services.
If you're reading a biology paper, do Abstract > Intro > Graphs/Images > Conclusion
I don't know if it works, but it is addictive...
npm (or yarn) for the most part works much better than python package managers
Take a drink every time he says a word prefixed with crypto, hard liquors only
Is it his code to inject a backdoor in?

As another commenter said[0], this is malicious code and THAT is against the ToS of npm[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29865977
[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/open-source-terms#:~:text=Co...
Both seem to result in more jobs for devs:

- Devs do open source and get rewarded

- Devs get hired to make crappy alternative software for companies
I thought for sure this was going to be about cryptoland again.
If you are in the US, take a look at Dice and Indeed to get a sense of where the market is and what is the rate per hour. As others have said, networking helps but I started my contracting journey through Dice and Indeed. Good luck.
A 4000 km-across mouth, at the front, but how far in front of the pinch point must that be? At issue is how to hold it out there, with the whole structure under compressive stress, without a huge structural mass.
I can't remember the URL for the life of me, but there was a website that was doing this, at the international level, for multiple democracies. Last I remember, the site stopped updating - it was a volunteer led effort.

It would be awesome to have a single place that has both history and the upcoming elections. Ideally, this should be done by the government, as they are in the best position to do so. Second best would be some kind of volunteer led effort. It is a ton of work though, to keep the information accurate and current
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210325/gen-x-mill...
In my opinion, golang does this correctly. You can just git submodule the source code of your dependencies. That way, you're always in control over what gets updated and when.
Australia certainly hasn't been distinguishing itself on the world stage these days, and personally its gone from a place I wanted to visit to a place I will never go.

But there is still a question of equal application of the rules. It seems like this is a problem of miscommunication (he obviously had the impression he could enter) and then subsequent politicization. At the same time, we have a celebrity that doesnt think rules apply to him. There are lots of countries with rules I don't agree with, but generally I either don't go to them or suck it up and do something I don't agree with. I wouldn't expect them to put me ahead of anyone else, and I don't see why Djokovic feels differently.

He could also have said "I'm not going to Australia, I don't agree with their politics, and I won't support them". I understand this is an opportunity for him to break a record, and so maybe that plays in to why he wants to go so badly. But it's not clear to me that Australia should just let him in because they screwed up, it is a complex case.
> you can turn off the TPM via the BIOS

In theory you can. In practice, programs will refuse to run if you do this: https://www.techspot.com/news/91138-valorant-anti-cheat-syst...

That goes for Secure Boot too, btw.
This is such a nice succinct metaphor.
Sure, trying to find exactly where the malicious line gets crossed is pretty hard and subjective, and maybe that will bite GH one day. But this specific case is not anywhere near that line, the sole intent of those commits was to break others, and he admitted so himself.

This is like arguing about whether the james webb telescope really is in space since we don't have a precise consensus about what altitude is considered the frontier with space.
Most of the companies that I’ve worked for have funded the FOSS that we used. By allowing me and my colleagues to contribute features we needed, or fix bugs that were affecting us. The core maintainers probably never knew these PRs were funded at an hourly rate paid for by some big bank, and sadly quite a few of the projects that I’ve contributed to have rug-pulled into some sort of non-FOSS enterprise product. We all benefit from FOSS, including all these disgruntled maintainers. The FOSS way should be to pay it forward, to contribute to projects where you can. If you’re expecting to get paid for it, it’s not FOSS. Deciding you can’t maintain a project anymore is fine, but pulling it out from under the people that are using it is incredibly anti-FOSS.
Funny, my company couldn't use Webpack 1 because a dependency of a dependency... depended on an ancient package from the days when it was common to not bother with attaching a license.

Legally, that meant that noone could use it. In practice, nobody but our legal department cared, so we had to wait for version 2 when the dependency chain was updated to remove it.
Yes GH and NPM are part of the same company Microsoft
Companies/people should do due diligence and not accept libraries just because they are free somewhere on the internet and stop "staring".

This would make libraries less popular and would make "stars"/"downloads" less of a misguided status symbol that is only making things worse, because the more "stars"/"downloads" people have the better they feel. Then comes hangover when reality hits and such person is left with silly numbers that are not going to buy anything but also not helping to land a job.

That would make people who should not be in a maintainer position not to be there as it would stop being so attractive.

In the end there would be libraries/frameworks created by corporations that can afford that or by real enthusiasts that understand what they sign up for.

Did Linus Torvalds made Linux to be famous - not - he did it because he liked to have it. He made it into career and got famous, but he is an exception not the rule. There is too much people who are in it for the wrong reasons that is my conclusion.
Overly simplistic, populistic and alarming.

The change against immigration is rooted in real problems found in immigration-heavy areas. See hotspots in Europe as an example. Countries have a duty to protect their borders and way of life, or else why have them in the first place?

No oil cabal pushes up asset prices, it’s the common people doing it to each other (hint: check the proportion of private owners in home ownership).

SpaceX is inconsequential, currently. Their effect on everyday life is nonexistent. What they did is launch for cheaper, not cheaply enough though as to make it a real commodity and drastically change what gets into orbit.
Starlink though is potentially huge. That could end up as a whole new Internet of sorts.

It was neither Koch nor Mercer who destabilized politics. It was Facebook and the greater internet which removed elitist moderation and gave the people what they want (vs, apparently, what society needed. My favorite quote goes like “Facebook gave the people the means to connect without stopping to think what would happen when they inevitably do”). There was money and influence of all sorts in politics long before Koch and Mercer. You had Murdoch and Soros and many others. Yet nothing came close to what social networks did. Trump was not the product of any single billionaire.
Just recently I finally got sick of the various defects VLC developed on macOS:

- Running videos off of my NAS routinely introduced audio lag even on very small videos (less than 1h long). My LAN and WAN are at 1GbE and my NAS uses ZFS with very adequate caching setup.

- Crashes 2-3 times a week. Pretty rare but annoying nonetheless because I usually leave one huge video to play for the entire day.

- On iOS and macOS it forgets the position of a video played very recently. That one is rather new, <6 months. Still not cool.

Eventfully enough was enough and I moved to MPV just two weeks ago. Rock-solid so far, never lags the audio, snappier animations, quick keys to jump between chapters -- it's all good stuff so far.

I heard a while ago that the VLC team is struggling with a huge rewrite. As a programmer I sympathize but as a user I can't excuse them. Few months of a rocky ride is fine but VLC definitely is not how I remember it from the past, during the last 2 or so years.

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Off-topic: can somebody recommend a tool that scans your videos and downloads metadata and posters for them? We're talking movies, shows, game playthroughs, music videos, and others.
I could see a govermental effort be approriate too. Alot of critical infrastructure is depending on open source too. Agencies like the German BSI should embrace and invest into open-source much more strongly.
Ironically, it is actually serotonin blockers that can help with SSRI sexual side-effects. Activation of 5HT2C via SSRIs is what is hypothesized to be responsible for those specific side-effects, and blocking 5HT2C can help alleviate them.
> It will age like milk.

Maybe. But right now PoW block chains have most of the marketshare. The environment concern is not a new one, maybe it will become spoiled milk one day, but so far it seems like the milk has had an incredibly long shelf life.