skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the caveat that I'm a few years out from my PhD in the field, this is both really interesting and also maybe not surprising.

This is the best attempt to date to directly measure the mass of the electron (anti)neutrino. When a nucleus beta decays, it emits an electron and an antineutrino. If the neutrino were massless, the electron could carry away the entire energy of the decay. What they've tried to observe here is the highest energy electrons, to see if they can see the effect of some of that energy going to the neutrino mass. It's an amazingly difficult measurement, since only a very small fraction of those electrons have the highest energies.

Measuring the neutrino mass this way would be relatively unambiguous, which is why it's exciting to see progress.

That said, there have been other experiments that have put stronger constraints on neutrino masses, but only for certain models. Double beta decay experiments look for decays in which the two neutrinos annihilate each other, allowing the full energy to be emitted by the electrons. However, this requires the neutrino to be its own antiparticle. This is allowed, because neutrinos are neutrally charged, and wed call such a particle a Majorana particle. The rate of these neutrinoless double beta decays would tell about the neutrino masses, but only if neutrinos are Majorana particles. The exact measurement would also depend on how well we understand the energy levels of the nuclei involved. So far, the upper limits for neutrino masses from these experiments are on the order of 0.1 eV.

And there are cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass from experiments that look at the cosmic microwave background. Early in the universe's history (like the first second), the mass of neutrinos would have influenced how much matter clumped up due to gravity, which would lead to fluctuations in the microwave background. Modeling this requires us to understand particle physics very well at those early high energies, so there's some uncertainty due to modeling. But again, the limits from these observations are on the order of 0.1 eV.

So we now have one direct observation that's consistent with other, model-dependent observations. The most interesting scenario would be that KATRIN actually observes neutrino mass as it gets more data, implying that our models might be wrong. But even if the experiment doesn't, it's still great to have the extra constraints.
I've been using mermaid in my MD notes with https://obsidian.md/ for the last few months. Pretty helpful.
I prefer to use the same unit for all numbers because it makes the comparison easier. The bound of mass of the neutrino is really low. Using M and G hides it.

I was going to write:

> For comparison, the mass of an electron is approximately 500,000 eV and the mass of a proton is 900,000,000 eV.

But all the numbers I wrote are measured experimentally. Both values have a lot of experimentally measured digits! I only removed the part that overlaps with the uncertainty, because the notation with parenthesis is somewhat confusing.
I think the problem here is expectations—with Windows, you know you’re getting a heavyweight legacy OS with backwards compatibility for everything. With Chrome OS, you have few expectations and assume it’s largely “just for browsing the web.”
If you want to show the user a list of active sessions (and let them revoke one), it makes sense to try and parse the UA and show them a more readable device name.
If you people would just watch some of the live streams then they would know the nuisance honking ended almost 2 weeks ago.

This whole thread is people arguing about something they evidently know nothing about.
Do you think locals need a phone constantly to navigate? To avoid bad food? They operate on information cached in their brains and that is transferable. Ask a hotel attendant or a shop owner checking you out for any local restaurants they like or where the nearest X is.
> This is often abused by hackers to disguise file extensions: when using it in the file name my-text.'U+202E'cod.exe, the file name is actually displayed as my-text.exe.doc

So every programmer has to know about and support U+202E, but not filesystem programmers?
What would you recommend for a complete beginner? I found these lectures that have helped me start sketching out the field in my mind, but it's still difficult: https://www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/
That does sound useful, yes. Chrome bookmarks at least can get you part-way there by letting you bookmarks all tabs in a window (right-click on the title bar) or letting you open an entire bookmarks folders contents as tabs, but it's not quite there.
My wife was in a hospital in Danang and they were telling us if she doesn’t improve they’ll have to airlift her to Bangkok since they didn’t have the capability for further care in the country. That was almost 10 years ago so hopefully things have improved some but it’s still a pretty poor country. Any retirees used to even small city hospitals will be in for a rude awakening.
There's always a lifespan on information, including advice or other forms. For example, shouting "Fire! Get out!" - the advice is very good for that moment - if it's true.

With business and marketing advice the timing is mostly susceptible to market cycles, which for a lot of fields are generally in the 18-months to 4-years range; by the time 4 years have passed, a whole new cohort has completed college education, the political landscape has shifted and a lot of people have made some change in their lives - the party is over and you have to find new opportunities to hit big. It's not just that too many other people follow that advice, it's that it has become a competitive field in its own way, and often subject to forces that favor an incumbent. So you can't actually get in, or you'll experience headwinds that push you down the ladder. This is true with specific products and services, with career paths, and with categories of assets.

The very best advice is just general wisdom, proverbs, old life philosophies, etc. It needs study and interpretation to feel applicable to current events, but if used well it can reveal an opportunity early on.
Out of curiosity, how did you find your customers? I'm building out my MVP to scratch my own itch, but have been hesitating putting it in front of others.
They recovered $18m of that by grabbing one of the accounts it got sent to in the Philippines, so it was actually partially reversed.
Pricing is at https://www.linode.com/pricing/ (Don't think there's anything you need to sign up to see). Docs are at https://www.linode.com/docs/

Both are the top menu.
It's certainly a thing for the payment rail - Bitcoin qua payment rail is entirely irreversible. So as a category in the real world, it is trivially a thing.

Whether such storage exists is a much better question. I think it depends on what you want to do with it. For example, if the Bitfinex guys were ideologically motivated, they could've spent all the money on, I don't know, political ads or whatever. More generally, I think you can certainly come up with storage that is outside the reach of a given threat actor in pursuit of a given goal.
How embarrassing. I couldn’t even begin someone asking me to refer to them as a metamate. I don’t think I am capable of taking that scenario seriously.
Sounds like there's money to be made there, a SaS system that would let you register all of your accounts and then will automatically cancel and subscribe you to them on a revolving system. You set how much per month you want to spend & pay the SaS $2.99 to run the gauntlet of suspending your services and enabling them + sending you an email or notification of what services are changing each month.

Ideas are cheap, so if anyone wants to make this I'd appreciate a free year of usage but otherwise have fun!
It depends on the intent of the advice.

If the advice is intended to let you "win the game", or "get ahead of the competition", then yes. If everyone is doing the same thing, then using it isn't going to provide you with any particular advantage over anyone else. "Add these words to get to the top of Google results" is doomed to eventual failure.

If the advice is intended to help you improve your quality of life, or improve at something specifically for the joy of being better at it, then being well known will not dilute it. "If you're feeling sick, then you should drink more water and rest" is just as valid now as it was when it was a new and revolutionary insight.
Almost no software just works if left unattended for years. If its a library it means it will likely not work with the latest versions of everything else. Your bug reports will go unattended.

People also have a lot more tolerance for missing features or issues if they see it improving regularly. While getting something unsatisfactory as the last and final version is not nearly as acceptable.
They're doing so terrible, only making $5.7B in profit in 2021.

I wish I could fail so hard.
When your barber starts recommending stocks to you, it is time to sell.

Unless of course everyone starts listening to me.
The basic answer is that LLVM doesn't do as good a job with some types of vectorization because it is working on a lower level representation. There are several causes of this. One is that LoopVectorization has permission to replace elementary functions with hand-written vectorized equivalents, another is that it does a better job using gather/scatter instructions.
i wonder if Musk regrets the political comments he's made on Twitter. I'm sure the current administration is not pushing the FAA to get the assessment done for Boca Chica. Quite the opposite I bet.
Ok let's go back to "defining our terms".

I am going to go with expert as someone recognised by other experts. Yes that's horribly self referential but it is the basis of everyone who calls themselves doctors or scientist or engineer. In this case I can have expert plumbers and expert removal men.

And in this light an expert is someone whose opinions come from the foundations that all other experts in their industry recognise and agree with. Lysenkoism in other words is not going to fly - not without a shit ton of new evidence that stuns everyone.

So no I am not appealing to authority, I am appealing to science. There are views / opinions / statements that are falsifiable. And if the web is full of falsified statements (let's go with vaccines cause autism), then Google cannot say "51% of web pages that contain "vaccine" also contain "causes autism" therefore that is now true". (and no that's not how Google works, but unless google hardcodes what is truth, it can eventually only go with what is fed into it. And as we are seeing, what is fed into it is getting worse, partly through SEO and partly because more and more of the world is getting on line and we once had a web dominated by the pages of university professors and now it's dominated by drunk twitter rants. Sometimes by the same university professors ...

Humanity has great geniuses, evil scum, but the most of us muddle about in the middle. Science found a way to take the work of a genius and then keep it balanced there in mid air for the next genius to stand on.

We should not assume the best of us, the best of our work, the best of our actions, can be found by averaging the planet.

I do have hope - pop shows demonstrate that we can vote for great singers, so i do trust that mass voting will be part of the solution - I trust in democracy. I am just not convinced Google knows how to fix truth nor is set up for people to vote for truth.
> I prefer to use the same unit for all numbers because it makes the comparison easier.

Thank you; this is a style guideline I wish more writers would adopt.
> Online real estate is not so limited.

It's limited.

It's limited by our attention spans.

There's a reason web designers call specific pages "valuable real estate".

For example Google's search page, the one with the input, is probably the most valuable web real estate in the world, closely followed by the first page of results once you've typed your query and hit Enter.

I'm willing to bet $100 that the second page of results probably gets less than 1000th the hits the first one gets. Heck, make that 1 millionth of the hits the first results page gets.
except 1000x bigger. ppl are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars like it's nothing.
Writing out the digits gives a more visceral impression of the difference in weight, from roughly one, to a six-digit number, to a nine-digit number.
This is only if you bother chasing the absolute freshest trend. Things like React, Ruby on Rails, Node.JS, etc have been the standard and most popular tools for close to 10 years now and aren't going anywhere.
hCaptcha is in fact tested this way, and has pretty consistent accuracy across hundreds of countries:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/post/do-captchas-really-discriminat...

(disclosure: work there)
The current state of NFTs etc. amazes me in the context of Beanie Babies.

So many people have learned nothing. Granted the time gap means these are entirely new people making those mistakes.

We have such a degraded level of discourse now that if it were used in the Beanie Baby craze there would be people arguing about whether all soft toys are evil.
... It’s not clear how? Except by telling every speaker of Arabic and Hebrew saying they want some of that delicious “plain text” action to go screw themselves (there are no purely-RTL texts, only bidirectional ones, not least because of the Indic numerals). AFAIU (at least from the full-length horror novel that is the CDRA) IBM tried presentation-order (and no-complex-shaping) RTL text for decades and gave up, so Unicode bidi is essentially the result of said giving up (and the “Arabic Presentation Forms” block the foul-smelling corpse of the idea).

Specify the dominant direction of your user-input-containing elements, people, and/or enclose the input in U+2068 FSI ... U+2069 PDI (after balancing outstanding bidi controls inside).
Thanks, just to let you know, yes, it does have an opensearch description. But in practical terms that doesn't help much even if a startup search engine adds it.

Unfortunately, while OpenSearch is great where it's supported, outside of Firefox, the only real support is for in-site-search on other platforms (where you type a site name and then a search string), and not for changing your browser search engine. And it doesn't work at all on iOS even for site search.

So unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem of how a consumer can easily change their search engine to something new on Chrome or Safari or an iPhone.

I don't want to sidetrack the discussion, but if you want to confirm the opensearch description, you can open our site in Firefox, then click the "..." in the browser address bar and then click "Install Andi Search". Or reach out and very happy to talk you through it.
If you’re writing the kind of script that should be written in Awk, then the upsides will far outweigh that downside. Awk is not designed for 500-line, 50-function scripts, it’s designed for 50-line, 1- or 2- function scripts.
> Google does not allow you to set the New Tab to another search engine

Firefox has removed the ability to set a default page for new tabs and requires users to install an extension to restore the functionality, which in fact provides degraded functionality. As originally implemented the new tab would load the new page instantly. With the extension, a new tab is created, focus is given to the URL bar and after a brief but noticeable pause, the chosen page loads.
this worry me, any similar compromise in digital ocean for example?
That is probably just more related to conservatives being older on average than liberals. If you compared same aged conservatives to same aged liberals, acceptance, I bet the numbers would look more similar (the article does ideology and age, but not ideology and age together).
I think the most relevant portion of the article is:

"There was one person who emerged handsomely from the Beanie Baby bubble: Ty Warner.

Aside from getting caught secretly hoarding $107m of his Beanie Baby riches in an offshore Swiss bank account, Warner has kept a low profile over the years — but he’s quietly amassed a fortune the size of Djibouti’s GDP.

Today, the 73-year-old Beanie Baby inventor touts an estimated net worth of $2.7B, good for the 887th richest person in the world. He owns a fleet of luxury cars, a $153m estate, $41m worth of rare art, and the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, where you can rent the “Ty Warner Penthouse” for $50k per night."
> It was a little odd that the new download had the same version number as the old

The build number refers to your app version. The download page creates the bundle on the fly (but does cache) using the latest jDeploy release, so when I released the new version of jDeploy, the bundles in the download page are auto-updated. I thought of adding the jdeploy version number into the installer name, but it was getting pretty busy already, so I decided to just leave that off.
So, consciousness is like a big casino in which the brain builds a bets for different theories, and this chaos measured come from all the dice throwing.
Some people fit in convenient buckets, but lots of people don't, and assuming all people do, will make the ad system useless to a lot of people. Even if you're not non-binary at all, you could still be a successful businesswoman or a Spanish-speaking houseman (househusband? stay-at-home dad?).

Better to just follow people's interests, instead of using their interests to incorrectly pigeonhole them and then drawing incorrect generalisations from that.
The oscillation mechanism that we’ve come up with (and that fits data from reactor experiments to astronomical ones pretty well) only works if the mass eigen states of the neutrinos are different from their flavor eigen states, otherwise there is no mixing.

We can measure the mass differences between the neutrinos pretty well through these oscillation experiments, but this also doesn’t tell us which the mass hierarchy. It could be bottom up or the other way round.

In principle, one neutrino could be massless and the mass differences we’ve measured so far would still be correct.

Aside from this, pretty much anything is on the table. Neutrinos being their own anti particles? Maybe. Fourth generation of neutrinos? Could be.
They're already owned by Advance Publications, a privately held company.

To buy reddit they'd have to negotiate with the Newhouse family, not reddit's employees.
Upgrading usually requires an enormous amount of remediation work before it's even possible. Generally you can do it like this - convert to PackageReference style NuGet packages (this one alone may even be a blocker if you have certain unfortunate dependencies which aren't compatible with PackageReference), upgrade all your dependencies to a netstandard2.x compatible version (this is often brutally difficult in a big system and you may have to replace certain dependencies outright), start swapping out DI / Logging etc with the netstandard equivalents found in .NET Core, create a new .NET Core solution file and try to compile your project to see what breaks and fix any remaining issues.

Having done this it does work, but it's fairly time consuming and for larger apps virtually impossible without massive buy-in from the business.
Same, I moved from rackspace to linode and never looked back.
If you want a webmail, which most people do, their archi makes sense.

How else are you going to do it ?

Balance between security and usability, as usual. If you want more, use pgp, but loose most users.
> Did the low resolution games look better on them?

Yes.

The standard way of seeing pixel art in modern indie games, the edges of everything are too harsh. CRT filters exist, but most kinda suck, though there's an occasional good one (Cyber Shadow does an excellent job).

There's also the issue of input lag. CRT's have virtually zero input lag beyond just their refresh rate, whereas for LCD/Plasma/OLED it's more substantial. In more recent years things have gotten better, with more and more TV's getting decent latencies (< 25ms) at least in game mode, but for a while there you were commonly looking at like 80-120ms lag times with no recourse for a given TV.
My organization built a similar tool that can find bad redactions caused when people just use a black rectangle on top of text in PDFs: https://free.law/projects/x-ray

Very fun project. Lots of problems out there.
I love this, but it's kinda the wrong direction as C64 BASIC had no instructions for gfx and sound.. it was all through pokes. I liked using Simon's Basic to get GFX on my C64 back in the day, but until I had it, I highly envied the Apple 2 and Atari BASIC commands!
> Of course, that was a war over power, territory, and dynastic legitimacy. There is no antitrust regulators in war. I don’t see a “winner take all” ending happening among the three ISAs, whether it’s 35 years or 350 years. Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Semiconductor Edition is here to stay.

Antitrust regulators aren't all-powerful or immune from influence. There is no guarantee on how long they can resist powerful interests, especially if there is a shift in the geopolitics.
What do you want the filesystem programmer to do?
Neat. However, is Gmail backing this? Otherwise, Gmail could mess it up badly any time, right?
That's pretty much correct. Most of the filesystems I'm aware of just treat filenames as a "string of bytes" with some list of characters that aren't allowed, and perhaps a few other rules. Other than that, it's a free-for-all on names.
Very helpful—thanks—goes into a lot of detail regarding Flex versus CloudReady for those who are interested.
I've heard of HRTF but dig the name out of my memory to mention it. I'm not sure those are good enough for faking ecolocation though. Don't have an iPhone or EarPods to try spatial audio.
If you have not tried navigating by simply learning your environment or jotting down some notes in advance, you should. Being able to walk confidently knowing where you are going wards off predators.

Besides GPS units literally atrophy cognitive functions which is probably not healthy...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/21/all-mapped-o...

Even so, you can also carry a dedicated GPS device or a map without a smartphone.
Even though your new caveat reduces the frequency by which governments do it, this is still absolutely how they operate. I’ve had to delay a meeting with my local MP back before I left the UK because they had an “emergency” debate (IIRC due to a court ruling that one of their laws was bad).

I genuinely, sincerely, can’t see how your new version is supposed to strengthen your comment — there just isn’t enough in it for my mind to see a different hill to climb: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/arguments-h...
Actual source is https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
Yes you are right, almost every business with an online presence is generating vast amounts of garbage which exactly targets a huge range of specific keywords. From the search engine perspective, the page is exactly what you are looking for.
"$41m worth of rare art"

That bit at least is rather amusing.
It would be super useful if HN’s HTML included all the information about each submission in attributes on the submission’s relevant elements. Then user styles (e.g. using the Stylus browser extension) could be set up to hide, dim, highlight, etc. submissions based on those attributes.

(I’m on mobile now otherwise I’d give examples.)
It only took 20 years but Google is now 2000s Microsoft, ripe for disruption from the next innovator.
There's a great history of this, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette. It's a quick read, almost entirely original reporting. Aside from the colorful characters, it's really compelling to see the way some individuals' and limited information combined with mass media fell together to create the bubble. It seems like it couldn't have happened at any other time because it needed cheap independent publishing (both print and web) before ubiquity eroded the perceived legitimacy.