skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About three more hours to go and then the injection burn will commence. That is the most critical step still remaining of the deployment steps, everything has worked perfectly so far.

What an amazing accomplishment.

If you are wondering why the satellite is still moving with 200 m/s that is because there is a component that is already out of the plane of the ecliptic which will be conserved to help reduce the amount of fuel required for the orbit insertion, so it won't go to 'zero'. This is a bit confusing, especially because of the language on some of NASA's websites where they suggest that the satellite will come to a stop, this is true but only in one axis, the one relative to Earth.

In the same vein: Webb hasn't really arrived at L2, but at a point almost 800,000 km away from it, perpendicular to the line Earth-L2 (which of course is a moving system itself!). So Webb will be orbiting in a plane perpendicular to Earth-L2 at a very large distance from L2, which guarantees that it will have power (because the solar panels will be continuously in sunlight).

Edit: two more hours to go. JWST is still moving at roughly the speed of a commercial airliner (730 km/h).

Edit: one more hour to go, and NASA just posted this image to show the orbit in an easy to digest format:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/orbit...
Hospitals must prepare for a future of Covid long-haulers
Certainly is clear, big tech stocks are falling, not as much as crypto, and that probably has something to do with big tech stocks have fundamental value.
Agreed, so use JSON for data exchange and TOML for configuration. YAML isn't all that great for data exchange either.

In the cases where you have a tool that require json or yaml, you could use something like cue, dhall, or jsonnet, and convert it into json (or yaml). Unfortunately, that's a little tricky when your build cinfiguration itself has to be in yaml, as is the case for github actions, travis-ci, etc.
https://archive.fo/SPHJz
I would love to have compiler enforced contracts. However I'm not sure how to make that happen or even if it is technically possible. The current contracts proposal is a step in the right direction, but just barely a step and I'm not sure if it can go far enough.

Until then I avoid adding undefined behavior to my code for good reasons.
I wonder what their reply is about. They probably have no idea what/who they are really talking to, and it's probably not some kind of legal trap.
“Transference” by Lee Grossman (Free Radicals Magazine)
Read Lee Grossman's "Transference" in Free Radicals Magazine for free. The dude knows how to write, and this story really goes there.
Now you can know how your Rails application works
Crypto-currencies make a few people win out at the cost of others, who in hindsight mistakenly "invested". The ones who won evangelize it the most, but they don't stop and think about, where that money came from. Might be an uncomfortable thought. Then you have the hopeful ones, who hope to win out in the future. Basically all driven by volatility and the believe, that they will be able to exit at the right moment. And maybe they will be, but then others are the losers.

I don't find this to be an ethically OK way to act.
> but there is a chance that _some_ of them will create genuinely novel and interesting products

Right. And there's a 100% certainty that most of the products that already exist are vehicles for scams at worst, and gambling at best.
I wish I had discovered Marcus Aurelius years ago. I would have had a much different life.
"Meditations" has definitely changed my life. I have learned to be more patient and to not let the small things bother me. I have also learned to be more mindful and to live in the present. And also how to effectively rule a global empire.
Hehe, Love all these Wordle inspired clones.
My contribution is Mathle (https://mathle.bykiru.rocks/) :)
I feel like I'm being gaslit. By blog posts, the media, Twitter, social media, my work - everyone.

I keep up to date with the latest studies on Covid. Sars-Cov-2 is not a respiratory virus; it's a circulatory virus. And its long term effects on the body are not widely understood.

Everyone is acting like because Omicron doesn't make you cough that Covid is over. But scientists are finding deeply concerning long term effects - neurological effects, telomere and biological aging effects, autoimmune activation, long Covid, micro blood clotting - in a non-trivial percentage of Covid cases. Even asymptomatic and vaccinated individuals.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that having Covid will result in a lifelong disability for at least some percentage of survivors.

But we just ignore that so we can go back to normal? Because Covid is "endemic?" Endemicity was the failure state - it means we gave up. Covid should have never gotten to that point.
This is probably right. Bitcoin is down over 50% from ATH and continues to fall. People are probably confused and in panic.
"Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology"

Plenty of its advocates very clearly WANT to force people to partake though. Anything to keep that number going up.
Diehl regularly neglects disclosing his conflict of interest when railing on crypto - he is CTO of a centralized block chain company that will be selling to governments and central banks.
>Turns out if someone owns enough capital, they can do exactly what you claim is impossible in capitalism.

The only legal way to do that is if a laborer signs a non-compete agreement. These didn't, and that's why it's not enforceable.
Why did you list Bitcoin negatives instead of positives?:)

1. Immutability - clearly a negative feature, no way for humans to manage transactions and correct mistakes.

2. Limited supply - very bad for a "currency"

3. No censorship resistance in bitcoin, but ease of tax evasion due to exterritorial nature. IRS may find you easily but can't do anything. On the other hand oppressive regimes can both find you can prosecute you because in that case you are physically in the regime's country.

4. Dependence on a handful of anonymous guys in the non extradition offshore printing tokens to pump price with zero oversite. I pick governments. Also Bitcoins are not really independent from governments for the lawful citizens.

5. Zero accessibility after more than a decade in production.
They promised us the semantic web and all we got was FB OpenGraph, Twitter Cards and even more SEO gurus.
I think there is a seed of a good idea in Web3. We should know in about a year what, if anything, grows out of that seed.
Here's another attempt, a day and a half later. My thesis, if you will.

Before we invented software, the world has gradually refined the ability to depend on lots of people for services. When we buy a shoe we rely on maybe 10,000 distinct groups of people. When we write software we bring the same social model of organization, but all the vulnerabilities and data breaches we keep having show that it doesn't work. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/features-are-faults-redux enumerates (in better words than mine) several examples where services made subtly different assumptions, and the disconnects make their combination insecure.

Since we don't know how to combine services as reliably in software as in non-software, we need to be much more selective in the services we depend on. A computer or app just can't depend on 10,000 distinct groups of people with any hope of being secure.
Usually I hate skeptical mean comments like this on hackernews. Right or wrong, there's a certain level of empathy missing.

And yet... In this case I find myself guiltily agreeing.
Fortunately crypto has no fundamentals, so it can't really fail financially. There's absolutely no business whatsoever, so there is no worry of the business running out of funds and thus forcing crypto into chapter 11.

The stock price can drop to 0, and it would be ok. There's no stores to close due to unpaid rents, no workers to furlough, etc. In a weird way it's immortal.
Article seems a little sexist to me, says that pleasure may have existed for male fish but not females and that it would have taken the development of fingers for females to experience pleasure. Then takes a swipe at male anthropologists.

Would like to know if other hominids that have sex for pleasure can co satisfy of if further stimulation is required for females of other species.

Edit: Seem to have struck a nerve with someone, here is what I see as sexist.

'So it’s the manual work, not the manhood’s, that’s topping off the pleasure in the female half of the species. I’ve never heard a paleontologist, most of whom are men, describe an ancient fossil finger as evidence for the dawn of pleasurable sex. Why do you suppose that is?'

That is being supported by the previous paragraph that talks about how “human female orgasm during sexual intercourse is uncommon, in particular without additional clitoral stimulation; the orgasm is in fact more common during female masturbation or homosexual intercourse, than during actual heterosexual intercourse.”

Which is fine but she uses the fact the human females don't experience pleasure and projects it back on fish with no support.

'Now, what about pleasure? In human terms, could Long’s model of ancient fish sex be the dawn of sex for fun? Sure. Why not? Well, at least for the male. In order for us to be more confident about the female, our ancient fishes would need to have (magically) evolved dexterous fingers—which didn’t actually evolve on Earth until many millions of years after these protopenises.'
Several?? We haven't had a bear market in 10 years.
Agreed. Wait for tomorrow's blog post on this site titled: "Day 12: How to create a controversial post to generate traffic!"
Reminds me of https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Hopefully you will add the startpage.com search engine (has same results as google) too :)
People like sdiehl and molly white are getting 100x their normal engagement sharing unresearched crypto hitpieces in the same way NFT bros are making 3 mill for a low effort monkey picture. its just the thing that all these people attach themselves to right now.
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It's disingenuous to describe it as just a new technology, though. Adherents promote crypto and web3 as a specific set of transformations to our society. That is what people are so stridently against.

The very explicit goal of NFT folks, for example, is to commodify everything. I can't just not use the technology, because if they get their way it will greatly affect me. So I'm forced to stake out a position.
IMO this is the difference between "nice art" and having a connection to whatever you're displaying.

We have a few things hanging that are nice, and they do, indeed, disappear. We also have a few that aren't as nice but where we have a connection to them. A couple travel posters as a reminder of an amazing vacation, a map of Paris where we visited and loved the experience, and a fancy triptych concert poster for a destination concert my wife attended all have meaning beyond "nice art", and I notice them at least once a week.
"As far as military intervention against Iraq goes, I believe we should be restrained. That means that Germany will not participate," Schroeder told ARD television [on August 9, 2002][1].

The larger protests weren't until 2003.[2][3]

1. https://us.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/iraq.britain/inde...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
...of which will be forgotten when prices start rising again, mooning into ATH.
It looks really nice. Unfortunately it turns out the main feature, the data, is phony.

https://dvhn.nl/groningen/Meer-ziekenhuispati%C3%ABnten-blij...

When the hospitals feel like it, they test patients that are already in the hospital for something else if they have COVID. And when they don’t feel like it, they don’t. Any patient found to have COVID, is added to the graph. So these numbers, and also derived numbers such as the R value, are statistically useless and vulnerable to manipulation.
In this case, our "niche" was Jr. Devs that could write some code but couldn't get something deployed very easily. Kind of like Heroku.

The angle of it being "generic" was that it required that you knew how to code. We didn't really give you many pre-defined "building blocks" to get started with. We tried to find a "niche" within that space (like a web scraper) but we just never got it quite right without needing to re-think everything we'd built.

Since then, we've ended up doing Open Source security tooling instead[0]. We wrote up the first technical blog post about the recent log4j vuln[1] and that's been valuable for helping us identify "niche" problems that companies struggle with.

Building a startup is hard work!

0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/

1: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/
I too have tried nixOS and nix many times in the past few years (and just recently went back to having a computer with it permanently installed, albeit not my main one).

I think another underappreciated reason it's been difficult to use is the CLIs involved are often really arcane (in ways that often remind me of using GNU find, a program I don't think is one that scores high UX marks).

For example, uninstalling something with `nix-env` is spelled `nix-env -e something`, and querying is like `nix-env -iA ...` (yes there's a long form of the options, and most people tell you to never use nix-env, but these were the examples I recalled, I think the UX is similar across other tools). Trying to decipher what these command lines mean and searching for which ones do what you want is just really challenging, they don't follow the "rules" I'm familiar with for other CLI tools. (Maybe they follow norms from some other part of the OSS community though.)

The new `nix` CLI seems to be trying to "dumb" things down a bit (or optimistically -- make a CLI that is more transparent about what operations it's doing), which is great, but it too exhibits some odd behaviors. E.g. recently after an upgrade I found it wouldn't work without passing `nix --extra-features flakes --extra-features nix-experimental-command`, even if I seemingly wasn't doing anything related to flakes. It is indeed marked experimental, so I can't fault it too much, but yeah I've found significant challenge as a new user in just trying to understand the various nix package manager binaries, their options, and how they map to "normal" package manager operations (even ignoring the procedural vs. declarative angle for how you actually manifest changes).

EDIT: Other things I recall get me every time I reinstall nixOS is re-learning that you get to run `nix-collect-garbage` manually, that `nix-channel --add` doesn't automatically update, and I see I wrote down to remember that package names are case sensitive (though I didn't recheck that recently, hopefully that's changed?).
People did notice. Pre-pandemic this was the major reason most people got flu vaccines: it's nice not to get the flu, but even nicer not to kill grandma when you visit the nursing home. Bad flu seasons were heavily reported, and people were aware that, while mild to most, the flu can be very deadly to at risk populations.

In pre-pandemic years if there was a flu as contagious as omicron people would be in a panic.

I'm sorry you don't like reality, I've never been a huge fan myself, but what's happening is happening.
Is it they listen because the price is down? I find how much they listen highly correlates with crypto prices.
I suspect it could be entirely constitutional to make it illegal for a business to require a person to become embroiled in crypto, while leaving complete freedom to calculate whatever you like with your hardware.
On the other hand, bitcoin can regain those 50% in a week. You buy it either now or at ATH, but it's okay, all hodlers buy at ATH.
Generally speaking, Transparency Logs for securing software distribution has been a research topic since around 2015, I also wrote my master thesis on the subject.

Sigstore is a Transparency Log intended for provenance and software artifacts which has support for a few different build artifacts. The container ecosystems also appears to be embracing it.

Cool practical example is pacman-bintrans from kpcyrd that throws Arch Linux packages on sigstore and (optionally) checks each package for being reproducible before installation.

https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans

https://www.sigstore.dev/

I think this is generally useful for a lot of ecosystems indeed, and it's cool to also see similar scoped projects pop up to address the these issues.
What’s a single idea in the crypto space that requires no centralized entity involved and can sustain indefinite price drops of the underlying cryptocurrency?

I find it amusing how most of the interesting things in crypto are centralized.
Maybe it should instead be taken as an indication that location based pay in an industry where location doesn't matter is asinine.
I think the 10 year timeline is for new car sales to go from basically nothing to basically everything, but when it occurs depends on the place. In Norway it is roughly 2013-2023. In Germany it might be something like 2018-2018, whereas in North America it's gonna be something like 2020-2030. I don't think we have to worry about old cars, once new car sales are almost entirely EV, then old ICEVs will die a natural death.

I think the biggest mistake people make is that they think the transition will be linear, but it's gonna be an exponential S-curve. For a long time it'll look like nothing is happening, then a lot will happen "all of a sudden", but of course, the growth rates will have been the same all the time. Sales roughly double every 3 years, driven by y/y decreases in battery prices. Hard to answer overall because everything depends on local values, gas prices and subsidies, but I think in North America majority new cars will be EVs 2025-2027.
Unfortunately, I kinda feel the same way. I'm a blockchain apologist for the most part, whenever I hear people complaining about how the blockchain is some kind of automated discrimination process I cringe a little bit and try my hardest to explain to them that the technology itself is neither good nor evil, just implemented pretty poorly. With that being said, I generally cannot stand cryptocurrency. I have yet to meet a single starry-eyed crypto fanatic who wasn't either woefully uninformed or completely jaded by their investment. I'm not sure if I'd go as far as calling it a "huge blight on humanity" (any more than I'd call Denmark a huge blight on humanity for existing and consuming electricity/food), but digital money is indeed a sucker's game these days.
My point is there's not even evidence to support online chatter turning negative. Any topic that is polarizing and growing in terms of chatter will produce more positive/negative blogposts and youtube videos. I could write this blogpost substituting in anti-vax sentiment for example pretty easily.
> Honestly, this seems like an ill-attempt at garnering views to their startup-in-80-days endeavor with a clickbait article.

Aka perfect HN bait
That judge is going to have the decision reversed and just told the whole world that every other decision he's made deserves intense scrutiny. What a dope!
"You don't need the cloud" but then you suggest using a hosting provider. Guess what? That's the cloud.

To be not the cloud is has to be your own hardware that you are managing directly.
The major drawback for me with the nix language is that at in any location in the code I don't know what is the "shape" of the data it expects. Runtime does tell me but wish I could just go and look it up. Having a typed language would fix this.

Other than that, been using nixos for ~2 years to configure my dev desktops: using the same config everywhere makes the machines identical and is thus a great relief, mostly don't carry a laptop anymore.
Judicial, prosecutorial, and police immunity really needs to be revisited.

You will never ever find a Supreme Court that will rule that judges can be held accountable for what they do though. No matter how you rig/pack/arrange the Court. No Justice will ever vote to make themselves more personally vulnerable.
No one's being forced, but it seems many people are being tricked. It's important to inject a considerable amount of skepticism into a conversation that is often dominated by proponents in it only to make money off of speculation.
I don’t know. We used a managed kubernetes cluster at my previous work and it was a shit show. The support was worse than useless and we couldn’t do much about our issues.

I now manage kubernetes myself and it’s much better. If there is a problem I can fix it myself and not have to deal with oversea support who barely understand the issue half of the time.
Never heard of holistic planned grazing. Regenerative agriculture encompasses (among increased biodiversity) everything that combats and reverses soil erosion and the effects on ground water. So also stuff like creating silvopasture.

Not sure what you mean with actually works. There is soil erosion (it determines the value of any farmland you buy) and methods to create new topsoil. Same with different levels at which you deplete ground water. Which part do you think to be quackery? Searching a bit it seems Alan Savory made some outlandish claims about carbon dioxide?
Temporal is awesome. It's definitely not the "easiest" tool to use in the world, but it is very powerful.

I threw you over an email. I'd be happy to chat and help share my lessons about this. :)
How would you like us to be constructive when discussing fraud, scams, and Ponzi schemes?
> or whether there was creation ab nihilo.

Just to be clear, you're alleging a massive fraud by these people: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/circle-2

> But I find it generally a bit suspicious that people would choose to buy a stablecoin in order to buy bitcoin instead of buying the bitcoin directly (the explanation given is usually something about evading currency controls/KYC).

I think it has more to do with how DeFi works. You can get huge yields on stablecoins right now (like 40%+), so a lot of people are taking money they would normally put in the stock market and are farming yields with stablecoins instead. I'm sure you'll identify this as a big red flag for scam, but it's actually not. It's the modern equivalent of saying "open a bank account with $100 and get a free toaster", except the numbers are much larger, and they're tokens instead of toasters.

> In a bear market, I find it even more suspicious that there would still be more buyers than sellers of these stablecoins necessitating further creation.

In a bull market, people sell their stablecoins to buy bitcoin. In a bear market, people sell their bitcoin to buy stablecoins.
GoboLinux also uses patchelf.
No they don't want to force anyone and there's no evidence of this. Just because there are a lot of evangelists doesn't mean anyone is forced to do anything
I think the problem is that docker is an excellent frontend, and zones and jails are excellent backends. People who say jails are better are probably right but they're missing the point, because they're not really solving the same problem; until I can use jails to create a container image, push it to a registry, and pull it from that registry and run it on a dozen servers - and do each of those steps in a single trivial command - jails are not useful for the thing that people care about docker for.
If you want to start from a slightly different angle-- practical use with a side of theory instead of the other way around, I'd highly recommend "How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic" by Michael Geier

I leaf through this one on the regular just for fun still, and have repaired all manner of things, from CRTs to the brushes of vacuum motors with it:

How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071848290/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...