skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 4 NASA projects proposed to launch successors to JWST sometime after 2035, doing more foundational (heh) research: Lynx, HabEx, LUVOIR (with variants A and B) and Origins. All still need to get past the initial research phase, and all but Lynx would greatly benefit from a launch vehicle that can cheaply and easily send 10s of tons into L2.

Oh, and don't forget the contract from NASA for landing humans on the moon.
That's a great question; I'm curious about this as well.
So rich people should be allowed to say whatever they want? That's a hot take.

> and focus on the truth underneath it about what is happening in Canada

You mean that being free doesn't mean being free from consequences?
Continuous delivery closed loop delivery systems are in the works, are they not?
https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Desperate-Early-Launched-Spac...

The book is titled Liftoff. It's the best SpaceX book there is and is very accurate involving many interviews with early employees. Musk is in the book but he's not featured majorly. It's mostly about all the employees who worked on the early rockets.
I heard something about it recently I think, but yes I wouldn't bet more than a penny on it ever happening.
(Note that you can drink a lot of pure heavy water without worrying about any health impact. I still wouldn't recommend it, but bad things would be unlikely to happen by accident.)
Happy to help!

The PINN idea seems interesting but it may or may not work out; if you're interested in that kind of thing, there's more of it in Dercuano, Derctuo, and Dernocua. Some of the ideas in there have been tested and work, others have been tested and found not to work, but most are still untested.

As for Fourier optics, yeah, I worked with a guy last millennium who had worked on some optical analog pattern recognition stuff at university. I've never gotten it to work myself; I suck at lab work so far.
Our 15 y/o son was diagnosed T1D Jan 2020. Finally got him on loop Sept 2021 and feel the same way. These developers are saints for doing this work. They've given us countless hours of sleep. We had another T1D family come visit us and I set them up on loop. I was in tears when I got text message from them telling us how they their kid is 85% in range and they are actually sleeping through the night. These are truly life changing projects.
“It’s hard to think of a more effective way to ignite and fan the flames of an epidemic,”

Agriculture seems to easily come to mind. Both in factory farming of things like chickens as well as small scale production where domestic animals come into contact with wild animals. Perhaps wild animal rehabs. I'm sure there are others. Mix any with fast international travel and there's a recipe for a pandemic.
Hiring a Player/Coach and Avoiding Disappointment
Any reaction which emits neutrons is capable of being used to feed breeder-reactor cycles.

Nuclear fusion emits neutrons.

If you can soak up surplus neutrons in uranium 238 you can breed plutonium 239.

By design intent fusion does not intend making fission happen. A side effect of the nuclear physics makes fission products, if you want to.

You can make weapons grade fission materials, with neutrons from a fusion reactor.
"The consequences for SpaceX if we can not get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit needed for satellite V2). Satellite V1, by itself, is financially weak, while V2 is strong."

Seems to me as if Starlink without Starship isn't all that great.

Also, OneWeb - despite being smaller in scope - managed to do a similar thing without reusable rockets. Now that doesn't make F9 bad - it's still a great machine - it's just not the game changer many hoped it to be.
You weren't necessarily hypoglycemic, just low on glycogen. The former is a life threatening condition, the latter is more of a deep exhaustion.
As far as I know you indeed can't reverse T1D with keto, but making it (much) easier to manage still seems like a very big win.

It's actually pretty easy to get used to a keto diet. Initially you might crave a lot of food items that you were used to eating, but eventually you stop missing them.
I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything when I'm having some aged cheese and roasted nuts as a snack (which replaced eating cookies or chips for me). It is a little bit more expensive though.

As for drinks, eliminating fruit juices and opting for the 'light' or 'zero' variant as a drop-in replacement if you want something sweet is pretty easy.
Ok. And then that's a conversation around our spending priorities. Which is another conversation "we should" be having. And by that I mean legally enforcing all media to put a pie chart of each politicians spending plans above their head.

I am now drunk enough to mistake HN for twitter so should stop.
There's even an old Dragnet episode with a locked room 'murder' mystery plot:

- Man with gun enters home to confront his mother-in-law, and shoots the Bible she's reading

- The mother-in-law shoots the man, but the wound is not immediately fatal.

- Man stumbles into an adjacent study and locks the door behind him, then dies.

- Initially suicide is assumed, but the ballistics don't match the gun in his hand.

- The bullet he fired is stuck in the Bible he shot, undetected by anyone.

Kind of lame and contrived by comparison to Poe and others, but for a 1967 TV show...
I think we're getting closer to TLS1.0 disabled by default, but there are still clients out there and that's all they do. Especially embedded systems. It's a good practice to turn off old protocols but it has to be balanced with system availability. We go pretty deep on TLS and pay a lot of attention to what the problems in each protocol version are and having mitigations for them. A big source of comfort too is that it's been a long time since new clients can be made to fallback to old versions when they shouldn't.
> we never got the time to fix it

The older I get the more convinced I become that this is Learned Helplessness. "We didn't have time." is essentially the same dodge as "C'est le guerre" was in France.

"We don't have time" is a conversation killer. "We are working on that bit by bit" is essentially the same statement once you've subtracted the helplessness.

Nobody is ever gonna schedule time for you to have integrity. If your self image depends on blaming fate or having a scapegoat elsewhere in the organization then you really should take a hard look at yourself, your team, and your motivations.

Sometimes, the only way for things to get better is if you can get consensus from the developers that tasks that look like X really should take 3N units of time even though historically we've been quoting 2N units. On some teams you can't get that consensus, and you're going to have to be okay with that or move on. But the power of No is there you just have to use it. If you don't at least try, then shame on you.
Apollo, putting the medical community first
I think it might be of interest here just because it's a fascinating moment in UI suicide. They took a very functional, even ideal UI and cut out huge swaths of functionality purely for the purpose of subsuming it into an existing yet ill-fitting structure.
You might've missed the sarcasm (or maybe I'm too wishful?)
I think the answer here is pretty straightforward: run a Discourse board alongside your Slack, and nudge conversations out of the Slack and onto the board. The board works for long-form stuff, and for stuff you need to reference in the future; Slack works for interactivity when you want the interactivity.

We've been doing this for over a year at Fly.io and it's worked out great; I wish every other place I've worked that did a Slack or Slack-like thing did a dual chat/board strat, instead of pretending that chat/email is a serious alternative.
Probably massive amounts of data but it depends on how far off the simulation is from reality and the expected cost of collecting that data vs running the simulation a few billion times.

Not far off and you want perfect results? Go with actual data. Very far off where it's not even usable? You'd need to go back to the training environment and redo the reward function.

Generally speaking (and I'm not sure if this is the case from reading the link but I may have missed it) reinforcement learning for optimal control is done to fine tune while traditional control methods are used for coarse adjustments. Since this is deepmind they probably want to use RL for everything
How does email not have the exact same issues? I agree that a meeting might be better though.
Hi, author here. We validated the neural network controller on the real plant in a couple of experiments. All experiments in the paper are based on data from running the controller on an actual tokamak.

There is a video of one of these experiments in the linked blogpost (figure 2), where we show imagery taken from a camera looking into the vessel. Next to it is a reconstruction of the shot, visualised on a cross-section of the torus.

The simulation not perfectly matching reality is indeed a major challenge, and the nature paper is mainly about showing how you can overcome that challenge. As others have said, plasma is a pain to model, and you cannot collect a ton of data on these machines. But it seems technology is coming at a point where we know how to work within these limits and still get it to work.
Well once again I agree, Telegram has been the gold-standard of how a client implementation of an IM app should be done in Qt(frankly it blows everything else that exists as far as I know).To explain why i said that particular phrase is because some might jump with the 'telegram privacy' argument which somewhat is a legitimate one when it comes to messaging in a company environment, whereas Element gives the option of connecting to a self-hosted instance.
Whether a company uses the Microsoft suite is definitely a factor when I look for jobs. I simply won't put up with Teams or Windows - not unless the salary is at least 2x what I can get elsewhere. I know I'm not alone in this. Developers want to work with good software.

I've had to put up with it before and I won't do it again. I can almost feel my cortisol levels rising just thinking about it.
Crimes Involving Radioactive Substances
Change Meta back to Facebook. Throw Intel in there and we can have MAAFIA.
I have contradictory feelings about this. It's as if the system instilled some anti-taxation, anti-regulation thoughts in anyone participating in a small sized endeavour, thus intending for most people to empathize with corporations.

Having dealt with the exasperations of trying to start a small business from California (years ago), the burden of bureaucracy seemed nowhere proportional to the short-term aspirations... resulting in a quite negative influence to the initial intentions of the projects to be performed.

I guess that my wish is that they'd make at least trivial to have any entrepreneurial activity (well, maybe it boils down to the state your business is in), until it really grows into something (morally?) taxable.
This is either in trial or already in distribution, it is essentially a metered insulin pump coupled with a continuous glucose monitor.

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/diabetes-techn...
From what I've read the uber wealthy pay an effective tax rate of ~10%. US voters and legislators have set our top tax brackets at ~40%.

What is a fair tax rate? I don't know. Less is more IMO.

But by the terms we've all agreed on, the uber wealthy skimp by ~3/4.
>Yes, and making scaling frictionless brings a very tiny bit of value for everybody

I disagree. Using AWS in a frictionless way has made the difference between not deploying applications and deploying them. In one example, I used S3 and EC2 to deploy an app used by several thousand users at work - the deployment was completely scripted and tested before the old app was taken down. It eliminated errors in deploying, increased frequency of denying (which enabled faster security patches), reduced down time from 6 hours to zero, enabled new features for our users (due to scripted testing). Everyone won - and I got a promotion :)
How do we read? [video]
powerline is sadly terrible when it comes to radio interference (which isn't surprising: it just dumps HF on power cables, and power cables go in long-ish straight lines - you got nice antennas). Regulation against that is just barely enforced.
Pointing wrongs is for noobs. An expert hoards them like CIA/NSA hoards zero days and you deliver them on the day of performance review.
I'm of a few different minds on this.

First off, what needs to be acknowledged is that any website that requires you to override the charset is broken and the greatest part of your ire should be directed at the people who write and operate such websites for expecting that everybody else should be responsible for cleaning up their messes. Let's also acknowledge that avoiding this breakage has been possible for (checks notes) 22 years.

Since this is very legacy stuff, at what point can we say that it is no longer the end consumer's job to deal with legacy cruft? The motivation for why a user-level override was ever necessary in the first place--the fact that once upon a time computers couldn't simultaneously represent content in different locales--is quite ancient history. I don't think an answer of "never" is compelling: why then aren't we complaining that browsers don't let us select EBCDIC or UTF-7 as an encoding (both of which were once supported, but have been dropped)?

At the same time, this change does somehow still feel premature; dropping the ability to override charset encoding does feel very "WTF?" to me. But... if that's the case, then what can be done to hasten the moment where we live in a world where dropping this feature doesn't feel like that? (This makes me glad I work in compilers, where no one attacks you for deciding that some inputs are just too wrong to attempt to deal with it.)
Reduction in energy usage? Maybe. But the increase in production is mainly due to fracking.
Is it possible to entirely disable FCM in the client to avoid its phoning home to Google? If I wanted Google to have my home event data I would just use Google Home.
> What is the purpose of this article and why is it on the front page here?

Because 16 people upvoted it.

The weird thing is that the submitter seems to have a ratio of 100:1 of submissions to comments. They might just have developed a habit of submitting every article they read that they find at all interesting.
>impersonate Firefox 95

you should really be impersonating an ESR version (eg. 91). Versions from the release channel is updated every month or so, and everyone has autoupdate enabled. Therefore unless you keep it up to date, your fingerprint is going to stick out like a sore thumb in a few months. On the other hand, ESR sticks to one version and shouldn't change significantly during its one year lifetime. It's still going to stick out to some extent (most people don't use ESR), but at least you have some enterprises who use ESR to blend into.
What are "no-focus times"?
I worked on a previous project that was sort of an ancestor to this. We used grid computing (before "cloud" was even a thing) to rapidly scale up compute- right after an experiment, you want to recalculate the optimal parameters based on what you just learned from the experiment and then start over as fast as possible. This was well before anybody could say "reinforcement learning" or "neural network" around physicists without being pilloried.

The best part was the name of our collaborator- "General Atomics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics

Here's a writeup, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58...
This might also be an interesting read for those curious about TLS fingerprinting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472624
Even that page points out that “coordinated disclosure” is a more accurate term for what you’re describing.

There are a wide variety of opinions in the industry about the merits of coordinated vs full disclosure. Calling one option “responsible disclosure”, or suggesting that it’s generally understood to be the most ethical, is outlandish.
It was made this way by the folks who figured out how to do fracking. Politics had little to do with it.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
This was trained in simulation and then zero shot transferred to actual tokamak, namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak_a_configuration_variab.... All reported results are on actual tokamak.
The idea that most American households are perched precariously on the edge of financial ruin is a favorite trope of politicians, but it is pure fiction. Just look at consumer household data since the COVID crash in Q2 2021. If folks were on the edge of bankruptcy, the 2020 crash (which sent unemployment through the roof--briefly into the teens!) should have wreaked havoc, right? What should have happened to credit card debt? It should have skyrocketed, right?

Instead, as of Q2 2021 (a year after unemployment peaked), consumer credit card debt was DOWN by $106 billion and Home Equity debt was down $64 billion. Over the same period, Auto Loan debt went up by $70 billion, and mortgage debt went up by 730 billion!

In other words, during the worst economic crisis in a decade, Americans were paying off debt and buying cars and houses! Does this sound like the behavior of people who are struggling to make ends meet?

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/household-debt-jumps-by-the-...
[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
> like tone mapping

You can can even add a fairly basic kind of Reinhard tone mapping, plus a 2.2 gamma and output dithering if you change the second function to:

static unsigned char
byte(double dd) { return pow(dd / (1.0 + dd), 1.0/2.2) * 255.0 + drand48(); }

Having spent over a decade working on one of the major commercial renderers, I'll say that there can be a lot of complexity involved in a production renderer, but you can still get pretty far with a surprisingly small amount of code.
It's an SoC so it's definitely not just a processor. If you can't appreciate the engineering there isn't much I can say. What parts of the machine bother you the most when compared to other laptops?
Oh gosh no, lawyers can give wrong legal advice same as laypeople!
Because email is a snapshot in time. Slack on the other hand can get overwhelmed by noise and most people, myself included, don't go back very far when opening a channel. Emails, on the other, I make sure to read each thread.
Falcon 9 has 9 engines, it’s not like Spacex is unfamiliar with putting multiple engines on a rocket. That being said we have yet to see more than 3 raptors in flight at a time, so the upcoming orbital test flight will be interesting to watch.
Maybe this is a "who whould ever use dropbox" question?

I'm curious what is the use case for something like nslookup.io since I can more conveniently get the same info from the CLI?

In any case congratulations for finding a use case!
Dell, it's too late. You've screwed over too many customers with garbage laptops, copycatting Framework won't bring us back. I genuinely wish ill upon your company. I want your stock price to hit zero and your executives to be blacklisted in the industry. Also,whoever designed the backlight on this keyboard that makes it harder to read the letters with it on, should never work again, in any field outside fast food.
To tack on to the last sentence: "as long as there is fossil fuel to burn".
That's the thing, I think a lot of those are, if not solved, problems where there's a lot of really well established good solutions that exist.

I could, I guess, tackle them. But I've got an appreciation that what's already there is already pretty great.

I suppose that's maybe the answer to my question. You don't need to be 1% to solve a problem as well as the solutions that already exist.

You need to be the 1% to improve on the current state of the art.

Which in a commercial environment, as you can imagine, is exceptionally rare. They are more about finding unsolved problems than iterating on problems already solved by FOSS.
And that's why Challenger blew up.

Don't work with people who cant handle being wrong and fixing it.
> How does email not have the exact same issues?

Chat and e-mail have entirely different dynamics. Most people use chat as rapid-fire communication. Most people write e-mail with at least some thought and structure before hitting send. Think sentences versus paragraphs.

You also pick the audience from the start when you fill out the "To" field. With Slack, it can be hard to narrow the audience of a conversation unless you go to private messages (which will be lost to search) or go to threads and only ping the people who need to see it (which is what this article is proposing as their solution)
I think an issue tracker can also be repurposed for this sort of thing if a team doesn't want to run Yet Another Thing. This is what I do.

Practically there is little difference between an issue tracker that supports comments and Discourse, and most teams already have the former.
> I honestly feel like I could do the jobs of 10 tech recruiters with a few well designed bots.

Go ahead and do it. Neither tech recruiters, nor the tech recruitment process itself are cheap, so if you could figure out a way to make the whole process more efficient there is a ton of opportunity there.
> The impact on geopolitics extends to a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Disruptions to European energy supplies would have a less direct effect on the U.S. than they might have in an earlier era.

Put another way, the USA now has less incentive to "keep the peace." Putin's drama and posturing, plus the USA being untethered...that's not a good combination.
Don't you know? Fact checkers sit on a secret stash of information that nobody else, including journalists, can access – and since both they and their sources are trustworthy, unbiased and uncompromisable they can relay this information to the rest of us so we can know what's true. It's amazing, really!
The only problem with that is you have to be all-in on Apple to make it work. I certainly use it on my MacBook, iPhone and iPad, but I also still use LastPass because my Windows machine doesn't know anything about the keychain.
Thanks for this! Bernstein's book is the source of my "variance reduction" strategy too! The one thing I haven't adopted is the slower acting insulin. It's one of those things that I know I should try but just haven't gotten around to yet, so thanks for the extra incentive to try it.
I guess just a life of listening to people, like economists, who were in more knowledgable positions than I, repeatedly saying it over and over again.

I'm in no personal position to otherwise say boo.
I guess a good thing about proposals like this is as an early warning system.

When a language gets its fourth or fifth string literal syntax, its process is probably broken.
I’m a big fan of Monero, but strongly disagree with you.

If used correctly, Monero can provide strong anonymity. It is possible to use Monero to hide your activities.

It is also very possible to fuck this up and end up in jail because you left a trail of evidence that reveals your attempts to launder the sanctioned Moneroj.

Sanctions are never foolproof, they’re about creating an adverse environment to operate in. Sanctioning a Monero address isn’t too different from sanctioning a company operating only in Russia.
A tool to simplify creating NIST Cybersecurity Framework Profile
> It will solve all your diabetes problems.

This is an overstatement, to put it mildly, at best you can say that it works for you and for those for whom it also worked after they have put it to the test. But it does not work for everybody and you shouldn't make unqualified statements like that.

Here is a much better (and much better qualified) picture:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/keto-diet-diabetes-type...