skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have models for how much light a star of a given mass, age, chemical composition etc. puts out as a function of wavelength. We can then take mixtures of stars and predict the total light output of a stellar population in different bandpasses. So from observations of a galaxy in these different bandpasses, we can use these models to determine things like the age of the stars in the galaxy—from how old the stars in the best fit stellar population are—as well as the mass (or number) of stars—from how many are needed to match the observed brightness of the galaxy.
Kind of funny, related to this, is that Munro was also very impressed by the V8 Tesla from Rich Rebuilds.

https://youtu.be/WJJydf7jTcI
16? Must be a spinster.
The new high in demand job of "AI fearmonger" should be safe... but I think that of "tk er jobs" fearmongers isn't.
could be fun if it was a bit lighter and let people navigate through with keys
Reading judgmental comments like this also upsets me.

It’s not selling your soul. It’s called being disillusioned with your impact on the world, a feeling that more and more people are feeling. Long gone are the days where you believed an individual could make a difference. At big corp, you are a small cog in the big machine. You are replaceable.

I’ve volunteered on political campaigns. I’ve volunteered for non profits as a developer. I’ve worked at startups that align closely with my moral views. Guess what? It’s all rotten. Nothing of meaning ever gets done, and the pay is pennies to boot. In the case of my volunteerism, pay equates to the pay of my full time colleagues that worked for those organizations.

So when faced with the choice of doing nothing on something you believe in for very little versus doing nothing on something you don’t for a lot, the choice is extremely easy. The choice is even easier if you factor in the level of privilege it takes to turn down generational money for someone else’s moral compass.

I’ve tried my best not to pass judgment onto you, but ask yourself — what kind of privilege affords you to think that the twenty year old second generation immigrants of today with no family wealth or financial lifeboat should give up their chance of securing generational (not even multigenerational) wealth in the richest country in the world just to achieve the same impact but feel better about themselves?
well "Jailed in Japan for a crime she didn’t commit, a young American teacher learns the meaning of the phrase sho ga nai — “It can’t be helped.”" https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/truth-lies-and-videotap...

"The security guard had been trying to meet a quota and felt that I, as a foreigner, would make an easy target."
What they want to sell: no white CIS men
What is the reality: 90% white CIS men

Crazy to see this virtue signaling in that level.
My cousin made the same move, though in his case he kept the same employer (for a few years). He’s much happier (in Mumbai, not Delhi).

His brother, however, has been in the states for decades and I’m sure will never move back. So there is no magic answer.

I keep telling myself I will move back to the country of my birth, but haven’t yet. The work here is too much fun.
Most people are good, but because destruction is so much easier than creation a few people can destroy what it takes a lot of people to build. For example it will take Ukraine months just to dig the bodies out the destroyed family homes that Russia spend a few minutes bombing.

However I don't think the number of dependencies is a useful number: node was one of the first languages to have a build in standard way to get and manage dependencies, which meant that dependencies could be much, much smaller. Boost for C++ is a giant project, so you can say that your C++ project only has a few dependencies, but if C++ had a decent standard dependency manager, projects like Boost were probably split up more.

* I am aware Maven exists for Java, but the cultural expectations for Java were set long before it became a thing.
I wonder what needs this reimplementation fulfills. I am quite happy with Notepad++ and I think that for other operating systems there are already a few competent text editors.

But if we think about IDEs, things aren't quite as rosy and I would love to see something as good as Visual Studio running on MacOS (the existing version is just a renamed Mono Develop).
My family has an unknown genetic variant that causes sudden cardiac death. We’ve been studied a lot. My father in law and his brother both died suddenly jn their early 50’s. My wife and brother in law both had elective heart surgery in their 30’s to install defibrillators as safety precautions to avoid suddenly dropping dead.

Our two daughters both have unknown heart variants and one of them is on a beta blocker for life since the age of 1 to avoid sudden cardiac episodes. She’s also forbidden to drink stimulants or play certain sports for risk of heart episodes. She looks completely healthy and normal and wants to play as intense as other kids.

This tech could mean that my children don’t have to face the same decision as their elders having to decide between dangerous and expensive surgeries for an unknown risk or living your life in fear.

I can’t tell you how huge this is for us if regular checkups would be enough to say, yes go live and play, enjoy your life. Things look good.
What is the current behavior? I never noticed any problems, is that just ignorance on my side?
I moved from Sunnyvale, CA to Austin, TX last year. I don’t miss much, but I sure am sad to be missing out on this!
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls
the only man being shown in the page is a disabled one...
Yes. We’ve never lied to our kids about Santa Claus. Though we don’t preach against St Nick. The kids naturally learn about it from the surrounding culture. Invariably they all ask, “Is Santa real?” We say, “what do you think?” They always respond, “I don’t think so.” We tell them that they are right, but other kids are lied to by their parents so they shouldn’t go around telling other kids that Santa isn’t real.
Firefox Relay solves this by giving you a replies@relay.firefox.com for the Reply-To. Works great for me for a dollar a month.

But of course I understand the desire to selfhost such a solution.
It’s possible the architect of the article is actually a marketeer who wanted to publicise the company and its “careful approach” to IOT. Be careful what you wish for! Now your engineers just look a little inexperienced as a result.
Linux Readahead: the documentation I wanted to read
Slightly off-topic digression:

Would WAS compilation help solve the ruby / rails timeout problem?

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/h12-request-timeout-in...
> H12 - Request Timeout in Ruby (MRI)
> Rack-timeout limitations
> Due to the design of the Ruby programming language’s Thread#raise API, which timing out code depends on, there is a known bug with rack-timeout that can put your app into a bad state if rack-timeout fires too frequently.

(Other related URLs)
https://github.com/ankane/the-ultimate-guide-to-ruby-timeout...
https://headius.blogspot.com/2008/02/rubys-threadraise-threa...
https://www.schneems.com/2017/02/21/the-oldest-bug-in-ruby-w...
> Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist, ignore, or deride the messages?

Wrong premise. Authoritarian governments need less propaganda because they have authoritarian powers. It's a "nice to have" for them than a necissity.

The "free" countries who have to compete against authoritarian countries on the other hand need a lot of propaganda because they rely on it to maintain the shadow authorative structures required for their survival.
I offset these impacts by actively avoiding brands I recognize from unsolicited ads, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
A Practical Analysis of Rust’s Concurrency Story
AMD Threadripper CPU supply severely low, PC makers say
This is really great for family members and friends you want to turn on to alternative protocols for chatting. My wife already uses Thunderbird for email and calendar. Now Matrix is just a few clicks away.
FWIW, the FSF's stance has been that the (A?)GPL is not a contract. After all these years, I still don't know whether they knew the flaws in their legal reasoning and just went along with it regardless, or whether they truly believed in their claims...
Elon mentioned [0] it is easy for a human to grab a dangling cable. The cable may not always be in the exact same place on each car, so you need a robot with a vision system.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MevKTPN4ozw
If errors from your integration tests are hard to understand, that just means you need to improve the debugging information emitted by your software such that your developer can debug it properly using it, no?
90% white CIS men is not the reality I experienced in public sector IT.

It was 100%.

(But presumably there are more POC represented in the US)
i'm interested in the engineering behind this. is this kepler-gl? looks very uber
> obvious it's not any more advanced than a graphical version of GPT-2

What makes this obvious?
Yet makes the majority of the money due to their cultural momentum bring high enough that normal people know about it.
Many more folks will be moving to India due the H1B visa regime, and we already are seeing lots of Indians moving in to Berlin Fri the USA.

However it becomes harder to move back once you’ve school going kids and want them to have access to world class universities like TUM, MIT, OxBridge etc.

Balaji Srinivasan is definitely a big India proponent and his latest session with Shane Parrish was really illuminating.
> smaller supermarkets closer to where people lives

Back when these places existed, they were terrible leaches on poor people. High prices, almost rotten meat and produce and etc. Desperate oasises in the "food desert". Many cities had a social program to clear land to build full service groceries and box stores in transit dependent areas.

The modern versions are pricey stories for wealthy urban professionals.
Does that mean nothing is the center of the number line?
Way back when, when it was still called Google Talk, wasn’t it almost just XMPP? Alphabet wasn’t even a thing it was still Google. You can take off your tinfoil hat now :-)
That’s only true in a class B airport in the US, ie the absolute busiest airports. Everywhere else, even with a control tower, ultimate responsibility lies on the pilot during vfr conditions. I imagine it’s similar in other countries ?
This person is definitely very successful in his chosen realm. I would say I personally enjoyed moderate success in US after moving from an academic field to Tech. I moved to India before Covid as there was no realistic pathway to Green Card for me even after so many years (in reasonable timeframe) and I wanted to take a break from typical work and focus on personal life.

I actually miss the US a lot and would've loved running a small business instead of some hyper successful startup. Alas not possible in a realistic sense because only way to be there is on the work visa. The reverse cultural shock is real and true even if you work remotely as I do.
Building Initrd Images from RPMs
There boss
Just FYI both Vancouver and New West are actually in Canada and not America. It's pretty irrelevant to discuss US politics in an article on a Canadian city but it's especially unhelpful when "tough on crime" policies have been shown repeated not to fix homelessness either.
Or learn the ways to achieve the same with PowerShell, and Technet utilities.

Not every OS needs to be an UNIX clone.
> parroting content and styles that it has basically memorized and is really good at interpolating between.

Maybe that's what exactly what we humans do too?
On iPad things get stuck at the stairs.
> They just chose a misleading name in the first place.

It wasn't just the name, it was the whole rationale they presented for creating OpenAI.

Nick Bostrom was having his 15 minutes of fame with "Superintelligence" [1] and scenarios like a an "AI arms race" and the sudden emergence of a super-intelligent singleton [2] were legion. OpenAI was founded on the premise that making leading edge AI research public was the best way to mitigate that risk [3].

It was presented to the world as a "research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest" where "Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world" [4].

That lasted all of three years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...

[2] https://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/singleton.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#Strategy

[4] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
So, we are seriously embarking on a path where normal aging is pathologized? Where we ultimately will view a normal biological life span as insufficient, a lifespan that is encoded in our genes through a multitude different mechanisms over billions of years. Mechanisms that we barely know the outlines of.

So, just like I nowadays must strive to get a sense of the real person behind all the makeup, lip filler and botox, I should in future expect to have to differentiate between real people and synthetically and genetically enhanced such?

Well, I'm sure there is a big market opportunity here. But I'm not sure I like it.
Sounds to me like Ryanair is on rocky footing with the law here. They refuse service, they issue a refund. Simple as that. They owe those people money. Unfortunate the courts didn't resolve it.
Also, let's face it: The Grand Canyon isn't that amazing. It is a giant hole in the ground, literally.

When you contextualize it, the geological process are awe-inspiring, but the end result is, as nature goes, a solid "nice". That's it. It doesn't take a "joke" from the mom to produce that reaction.
My friend, the compilers are implementing that behavior based on the C standard, which is the literal definition of what C is. It's absolutely about C.
I'd imagine moving back to India after being successful in the US gives you lots of leverage and status, in the sense of being a big fish in a smaller pool (what a beautiful irony, thinking of India of all places as the smaller pool, heh).

But lets be real, isn't the quality of life much worse? I've never been there (or in the US, for that matter), but I'd imagine that things like infrastructure are far worse in India. Also, the country seems so... chaotic, the cultural shock must be crazy.
Good try, and there are indeed different types of infinities, but your examples both represent the same "countable" infinity of the natural numbers! You can create a bijection between these two sets. I can't see anything helpful about this example for kids, and in fact I think it teaches them the wrong intuition.

If you wanted to show different infinities, there might be a way to make Cantor's diagonal argument more accessible to children, to show them countable vs uncountable infinities, but that's a lot less intuitive!

What I mean by a bijection: in your example, you can map the nth dog to the nth paw, and each dog will always have a unique corresponding paw (albeit not its own paw, except for the first dog).
Showing them different infinities would mean showing two sets where it's not possible to have this kind of mapping.

For example, an integer numbering to the set of all possible dog names (of unbounded length)
I think lots of people will be interested, keep us posted if the live streaming really happens!
Sounds like HeroQuest board game :) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1435799437
Hi, author here. If you have any questions about IMSI catchers I'd be happy to help :)
agreed.

but does that also apply (though obviously not to the same extent i’d admit) to say halliburton?
Ask HN: Decentralized Dating Protocol?
I know there has been a ton of work on distributed / decentralized social networking protocols. Is there something out there that aims to replace the functionality of apps like Tinder, but in an open fashion?
In the movie In Time, people trade time instead of money. (money collapsed after the invention of this tech) Work well and you get extra “life” through a device in your arm. So everyone is perpetually 25.

It’s an interesting exploration of the topic.
Jango is internet radio. They provide the music.

Airsonic/Funkwhale appear to be self-hosted services for streaming your existing music collection.
How Germany Became Putin’s Enabler
I find it amazing and really interesting, but i have a "side" question: does anybody know how much does it cost to realize such a great work?
so a pending (not a denied) class 3 means you can’t fly under lsa? ugh, that sucks.

what about glider or motor glider? same deal?

(i am a private pilot who let his valid class 3 expire, flying under basicmed, getting more into lsa and motorgliders)
This is not just a conspiracy theory, it is a prudent question to humanity.
She named her kids Pippa and Maisy.

She mentioned this.

She mentioned it again.
Lists have been used as far more than documentation throughout history. Lists expand in scope and purpose and can be used for mob justice.

How will your list safeguard against this?

This is one of the more bizarre proposals I’ve seen entertained on HN.

Where is the line?

If I commit a political dissertation in the comments or README? If I change all my unit tests to use political phrases? If I name all my functions with political connotations? If I pass extra politically motivated data back with every response?

And how long does your name stay on the list? Any way to get it removed faster? Any way that it gets extended?

And this is in response to using free software?

We already have mechanisms for dealing with poor OSS decisions: raise an issue, fork it, unstar it.

Maybe we should focus on building up the better OSS projects than trying to create a blacklist of maintainers that don’t adhere to some standards they never agreed to, but we imposed on them.
While there are different size infinities, the two you mentioned are the same size.
Culturally acquired views
It’s a shame you picked Sonos as your example because they’re one of the few use cases where such a setup procedure has some justification.

They also have a really top quality product that’s sadly now under attack from jealous larger companies who are trying to erode their market share / FMA by limiting compatibility and features (see, for example, the degradation of Sonos app on iOS over last few OS releases)
Thunderbird also has support for Usenet out of the box. I think the product sees itself more as a complete communication program than just an email program, even if that is what most people use it for.
Worked incredibly on my mac! A bit annoying to navigate by scroll, but nevertheless amazing in my opinion.
I mean yeah, exactly.
Same with ours, at the same age. “When you were an egg” was a very satisfactory explanation, and true in most cases. And then “when mummy and daddy were eggs”, which at least lays the conceptual groundwork.
Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring a Product Engineer (Remote/Europe)
I genuinely don’t understand why you wouldn’t use a product like Heap or Amplitude to do this type of tracking
I Believe Zig Has Function Colors
You are arguing like the man whose wife wants to divorce him, and who concludes that the only way to stop the divorce would be to give in to every demand his wife ever makes, which is clearly unacceptable. Every marriage counselor will tell you: What escalates conflict is not so much “not giving in“, but “not listening“. Mearsheimer’s argument, in other words, is not that West needs to do everything Putin ever says. Instead, his argument is that the West is provoking Putin by treating him as if he is not to be taken serious, and as if Russia as a country is not to be taken serious.
More and more I find I'm using gmail for my store of knowledge.
It is just so easy to find stuff and it's something I have open all the time anyway.
Big files or folder systems just aren't as searchable.
I suppose your blog is searchable via google though.
It's also become my diary via snoozed emails.
For example, the instructions for renewing my let's encrypt cert pop up in my inbox every 2 months in an email reminding me to do it.
If I order something online I snooze the confirmed order email to some date in the future to remind me I should have received it, etc.
Can't wait for this for music. To fix the costly cherry-picking process, Spotify should play AI-generated songs in between others. Those who get good engagement should then rise to the top.
You are not worried about security issues ?

E-mail really needs a client with (html-less) markdown support !
In one of those Harvard blitz scale talks a guy was saying you need to be at least 10x on a dimension people care about to enter an already established market.

I guess this would be possible for the VS Code market if you could get the same features in something like Tauri where you can dramatically improve the performance and binary size. But VS Code just has so many fantastic features and extensions now, and is still improving so much every month that I don't know if this will ever happen, would take an enormous talented team to catch up, and how do you do such a thing competing against a product that's completely free.
I'm asking because I'm contemplating on doing some work on AWS. If code runs on AWS doesn't it mean it makes lots of calls to the different AWS APIs. And then in which environment do you debug the code that makes those API-calls? Is it even possible to debug it locally?
I only lightly scanned this at the moment, but I appreciate the human stories and how our personal development paths and our coding paths interact.
Interesting. I am curious what browsers were tested in this experiment, and if the different flavors behave differently.

From my casual observation of Firefox (I use the network debugging tools in Firefox frequently) there isn't a column for priority. Firefox also does not show a status of pending, rather it just omits a pending status until a status becomes available.
Damn! It indeed is exactly that. And yes, that’s abandoned. But thanks anyway!
My impression from NR studies where Brenner is a leading co-author was exactly what you’re describing - weak or nonexistent results presented as a massive success. Not sure why he isn’t called out on this and still maintains his reputation.
You can love your child without finding every moment with them a joy.
It requires more mathematical / analytical thinking and code IME.
The example clearly has that though, otherwise it would not need

yield from server.update_balances([payer, payee])
Thanks for the article!

Can you explain, how an IMSI catcher works on a protocol level?
Many people somehow are able to overlook the lack of infrastructure and accident prone roads. Family+having access to maids, cooks, drivers, etc is a big driver of this behavior.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have used a slogan that is usually associated with Apple to ThinkPads running Linux. FWIW, I was a huge fan of the IBM ThinkPads when they still had the great keyboards. So what happened to me is that I was excited when I heard about the close collaboration RedHat and Lenovo were doing on the P53 series ThinkPads. And if you have a P53 the experience is pretty good. Not sure about other models.

I've installed various Linux distros on many laptops, and even though I could usually get everything working, the deal breaker for me was often battery life. I wonder what kind of battery life the people with RHEL on a P53 are getting.
My friends called this disease tutorialitis. It's when people explain "for loops" and hope to sell some adds or course on something that is virtually free nowadays. The influencer culture leaks into our programming world.