skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to the visible light shot it's easy to see why we're investing in infrared. Looks like an order of magnitude more stars are visible.

https://esahubble.org/images/heic1501a/

I just started astrophotography a few months ago and am starting to get a very vague intuition about the imaging pipelines and what things like h-alpha filters can do to amplify certain features. But (possibly because I'll likely never do it) I had no idea how much occlusion is happening in nebulous regions.

Galaxies in infrared definitely lose a little something for me.

Look at ngc891 in visible light for example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490345#/media/File:N891s.jpg

Here it is in a bunch of different IR wavelengths:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Images-of-NGC-891-at-var...

Quick note: The field of view of the visual spectrum image i linked above is ~4.5 arcminutes, which at the 7000ly distance to the pillars of creation mean the image spans about 9 light years from the left to the right edge. If you download the fullsize jpeg, each pixel represents about 7 billion miles, approximately the diameter of pluto's orbit. On a 96dpi monitor a star the size of our sun would be approximately 1 millionth of an inch.
Just to be clear, because your comment made no sense to me: what IE11 doesn't support is Number.isNaN(). It definitely does support (and has since IE3) plain isNaN(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Ah, yes, I had totally failed to consider that NPM is now used much more widely than just for nodejs server code, and can be used for browser deps. Thanks for this!
yeesh... office 365? the casual is coming from inside the stream!

everything past excel '03 was downhill imo
I've always yearned the ability to come up with creative business names, product names, etc. It appears you have mastered it.
Looks at inflation rate

Yes, cause the government is so much better at this stuff.
Why are people saying overseas outsourcing is unlikely to happen? Hasn’t it already happened? Isn’t it just because tech has been expanding greatly that there’s no perceived reduction in jobs in the USA?
Why is it problematic to use a JsonPatcher library over some browser specific feature? This is like refusing to use screws because you own a hammer and don't want to buy a drill.
If a developer doesn't know how to write their own "iseven", I don't want their product.

Maybe you could argue other for other reasons to use these packages.
The shop in between Holborn and Tottenham Court road, by any chance? Always loved that place.

In regards to the model and the time, I suspect you're mistaken, but .. meh.
In Germany at some universities linen bags with the Elsevier logo are handed out to freshmen, and you occasionally see students using them. Admittedly, I think their logo does look nice. Because of this I'd argue that the public opinion of Elsevier is actually rather positive.
Agreed, they generally solve different problems. It's important to understand that rqlite's goal is not to replicate SQLite per-se. Its primary goal is to be the world's "easiest to operate, highly-available, distributed relational database". :-) It's trivial to deploy, and very simple to run. As part of meeting that goal of simplicity it uses SQLite as its database engine.
DJI Launches New Mini 3 Pro Drone that weighs 249 grams
My impression was that lz4 ratios were still marginally better than zstd for the same compression speed, and decompression is much, much faster.
Do you still have a copy of the Goldeneye guide? I'd be curious to read it. Math was not in my mind when I played it back in the day.
* 2 gaming pcs, 1 soho server - all in active use
* 1 gaming laptop, 1 work laptop, 1 thinkpad - all in active use
* 1 NAS, 1 Lenovo x230 - NAS is off atm, the x230 is my travel laptop and I don't travel
* 2 laptops from 2004, one is my OpenBSD playground, 1 is an offline-only DVD player ;)
* 2 hand-me-down laptops I can hand out to friends and family as backup machines
* 1 RPi that's not really in use anymore

so I'd say 5 of them get used every week (some every day), 1-3 every month or so - that's for 2 people
Impact Factor metrics gaming for tenure.

Elsevier journals are "prestigious".

Open journals exist. Some academics still choose to publish in closed journals.
But now you need an s-expression parser (ok so a very simple thing to do) and a json parser. I don't like JSON Patch but at least its dog-fooding its parser and not invented yet another text representation.

Most of the time the patch documents are not being written by a human anyway.
Consulting does work a lot with outsourcing, it doesn't matter if it is terrible, most companies aren't in the software sector.

It only needs to be good enough to keep the lights on, and the occasional escalation to sort out any big issue is seen as business as usual.
Maybe you left out "legally" from the end of the first sentence, but the obvious answer is Sci Hub.
Sure, next time I'll really pay attention to white supremacists because they might have really good ideas on how to organize society. /s
Your last sentence nailed it - they feed some of that money back into Uni so it's a win-win.
No, I am not. I'm just an interested bystander. I don't even code much JavaScript anymore.
“This rule sucks because someone might cheat and not follow this rule.”

No people who cheat suck.

The rule of followed actually brings a lot of investment and improvement to areas that need it.
On the other hand, maybe hiring one good backend dev and paying them 2x market rate is still cheaper than having a frontend team to (poorly) reinvent the wheel?
At some point you end up shitting your own bed with this behavior. Development will cease to be lucrative if this plays out, so now you have a deficient technical knowledge base in America and a deficient manufacturing base? What exactly is America's future here? I really don't think you can be deficient in both or there is nothing left but pure balls.
By "compressing" random data you are bypassing gzip, since it will just store your data as uncompressed blocks, making "decompression" a memcopy.

With real data, deflate maxes out somewhere around there either way, but that is a bit coincidental.

With modern CPUs getting increasingly smaller IPC improvements this will likely be pretty much the max decompression speed we can expect from gzip going forward.
I think "muddling" in the subtitle is a key point, because that's exactly how things are going. These reversions, due to in effect religious fundamentalism and pandering to what I only hope are minority crowds emboldened by gerrymandering and the electoral college, are concerning. The U.S. will continue to stagnate if all we ever discuss and rabble about are fringe issues. Why is abortion literally a major topic in every presidential election over decades? Abortion is a tough issue no matter what, and so a compromise is needed. There will never be a totally clean solution. Why are people so damn concerned with decisions others make? In Texas, last time I looked, anybody can initiate a lawsuit against a doctor on abortion related issues, making doctors frozen due to legal worries and even reverting to communicating on paper notes that they then throw away. It's insane. We're taking decision making from the educated and giving it to the uneducated.

Education in the country is a major concern and has domino effects that take decades to correct, but the more the less educated come into power, the harder it gets to revert. And we're trending in the wrong direction.

I also think the section on inequality is greatly misleading. Inequality keeps getting worse and worse by basically any measure. Picking out any data over the past two years is likely to be very, very biased, because the economy has been wildly swinging back and forth. Data can be picked to basically back up any position. The middle class is getting absolutely hammered by taxes while the rich just keep on keeping on in a tax-free world not experienced by others.

> Bloomberg reports that the world’s richest 500 people have lost a total of $1 trillion this year.

I can't view the article, but aren't those "losses" likely to be paper losses, i.e., unrealized losses? When lower and middle class people have losses, they are realized. People lose jobs, money, homes, etc. Rich people "losing" money in the various markets and their investments continue to reap dividends and other monetary gains and will eventually recuperate.

Articles like this are akin to burying one's head in the sand and consist of cherry-picked data to say everything's okay.
>...exercises in surveillance...

Surveillance by whom? A standup consists of the team and a scrum master, who is usually on the team because most companies can't afford a dedicated one.
Yes it's unsettling that public figures in the current and previous administration have publicly expressed their belief that the 2016 and 2020 elections, respectively, were stolen. I wish that could be changed.
Now try reading your second equation out loud
Workers Visibility: Announcing Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events
Multiple vulnerabilities in cifs-utils
Reminder: when ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ packages printed stuff in the output in an endless loop, NPM and Github banned the author and took over the packages.

When ‘node-ipc’ overwrote all files on disk, NPM just waited while the author himself published an amendment and posted that the package ‘only created a text file, no biggie’.
i'm probably missing something, but exporting a CSV would have been better choice than a proprietary format that locks users into a proprietary tool

to me it sounds like microsoft is colluding with game developers to lock in users more than to help users
The devices with hardware AV1 decoders have begun to appear this year.

For example the new Rockchip RK3588 (for cheap computers with ARM CPUs and for TV top boxes) has a 4k @ 60 fps hardware AV1 decoder and the new Intel ARC GPUs also have hardware AV1 decoders.

There are some new chips for smartphones that will have hardware AV1 decoders.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs have hardware AV1 decoders, but I have no experience with them, as the most recent NVIDIA GPU that I use is an older RTX 2060 Super.

It is not known yet for sure whether the next generation of AMD GPUs will have hardware AV1 deoders. If they would not have it, they would remain the only new GPUs without hardware AV1 decoders.
I don't, but GameFaqs still does. Keep in mind that 1999-me was... not a great writer, or particularly good at math, by HN standards.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/...
German universities tried banding together to negotiate better contracts in a project called DEAL: https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/

It has made some headway, but the work is ongoing
For strictly one way one producer to one consumer state updates, I benchmarked this versus writing the new object to a zstd stream and flushing. Zstd won.
Management has the authority to set policies on how work-provided technology is used since they can fire you for not following those policies (constrained by law). Between IT and developers, this isn't a fully-ordered relation since IT has jurisdiction to enforce those policies, and developers have jurisdiction on ensuring that software meets needed quality. If your management has ill-conceived policies that prevent you from being productive at work, includes everything from McAfee hobbled NTFS to being scheduled for 9 hours of meetings in an 8 hour workday, then leave and find somewhere more productive to work or accept that you're being paid to be unproductive.
Free market != capitalism, by the way. The market for the most part in "capitalist" America, has been captured.

Second, the world is a zero-sum game. In one breath folks will say "resources are limited, so we need to allocate to those who can use them best" or "life is unfair", and then in the next claim resources are unlimited and hard work is all you need, no need to get fussy about inequality.
I mean if you're a company of this size and you've never heard of Yom Kippur, especially with the history Germany has had, that's definitely on you and part of this criticism.
>> It’s not even clear it costs less when you factor in the decline in quality, delays, and extra work needed by everyone else to monitor the outsourced work. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

>> So it's six of one, half a dozen of the other then? That's not a very persuasive argument against outsourcing.

> How do you read that as six one way, half a dozen the other?

If the costs aren't significantly higher than in-sourced work in ways quantifiable in dollars, then I don't think it's going to matter much to business leaders.

In other words, they just don't plain care about the things we care about. If the thing gets done crappily and painfully, it's still done, and that's fine with them.

Also, I don't think businesses are logical or rigorous places. IMHO, it's par for the course to "save" money by shifting costs into more difficult to quantify areas. For instance: cut desktop support, and the costs move into the groups being supported, so long as the complaints aren't loud enough to reach up through many layers of management, you have yourself a "win".
My opinion is that since they already have to use motors to unfold the panels on rovers, why not spend the extra mass to let the motors go both ways? Folding the motors halfway back up would remove the majority of the dust on a rover like Spirit/Opportunity.
Garbage in, garbage out. You feed the recommendation engine with what you watch. I haven't noticed a decline. Like the stuff you like, dislike the stuff you don't, and move on.

> Click baity videos with nice stock footage that is barely relevant and half assed 'answers'.

Stop watching them. Don't waste our time with your failings.
As a Canadian currently living in the States, I think it's worth pointing out that our housing market is currently one of the most inflated in the world which affects nearly every facet of economic life for Canadians. Every day there's increasing pressure on the provincial and federal governments to somehow settle down the price of housing.

It will take time, but I'm confident things will change.
Cult Simulator. Used one to keep track of related bits of information and card interactions in order to piece everything together.
"They" are not the cause of the shortage. You will have a housing shortage even without "Them" because of zoning issues and housing supply shortage.
7-Zip – GUI for moving files in archive
That could be true. Every Pizza Hut in my area has been closed for years because they went out of business for making shitty pizza.
Announcing Fedora Linux 36
To my knowledge NPM doesn't currently have a mechanism for signing by authors. Packages are signed by NPM itself on upload, which defends somewhat against repository compromise.
ethereum is changing its consensus mechanism to PoS later this year. when it does that, the only major PoW chain left will be bitcoin. all other smart contract chains with large userbases are PoS already.
Looks like the game retaliator. Is this the same engine?
Well that did not age well

[1] - https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1524022831188688905

[2] - https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...
> It's a problem that I hope PIP will solve one day, but I like to keep tooling simple.

The way I've been doing is to not refer to dev dependencies in requirements.txt and then install the dependencies from requirements.txt before doing a requirements-freeze.txt. I made pip-chill to make the process a bit easier.
Who here is saying Canadians are perfect? I’m sure it’s easy to find individuals who had a better experience in the US.
* Tutorials written in the pre-ES6 world being copied and used in the ES6 world.
Society itself is a kind of ponzi scheme.

It relies on a continual influx (and ideally growth) of new people who do the actual work that the old, burnt out, and jaded don't want to do anymore.

Eventually, there will be a generation that puts in the work, but receives no reward in the old age because the house of cards collapses.

In my opinion, our goal as a society should be to prolong the ponzi scheme for as long as possible, ideally close to the heat death of the universe.
It's very expensive to send a science mission to check on the remains of a previous mission. Odds are the next helicopter will be sent somewhere far away from the original.
But I don't mind most of the ads. To be honest, I actually like quite a few of them. It's just the ones that are longer than the content I'm watching that really get to me.
While it's silly that academics rely on a commercial company to maintain their commons, the fact that this company knows which articles you open strikes me as completely normal. Any library does that.

That they know which IPs you used? Any server you contact knows that. That they have your account number on file after they paid you? What were your expectations here.
Tech stocks are down and layoffs are here: A bubble-bursting survival guide
The US spends more because our care is higher quality. If you want to see a specialist for instance, the top of their fields will be here because they can charge what they’re worth.
Is that something you could get away with using an ESP8266 or ESP32 for? If so, that might solve your supply issue.
It actually made the file bigger (1.1G from 1.0G) :)

I was getting the same numbers with text data I have scattered on my disk, but those were small, so I decided to generate a bigger file. But, yes, I agree a more robust benchmark would use a Mark Twain novel e.g.
Patch and variations are popular in software such as Kubernetes, where multiple actors are writing to the same field sets. In distributed or highly concurrent environments it's quite likely to get a conflict on update, but in those situations where actors have interest in different subsets of the data, touching only those fields you "own" can avoid the read-update-conflict retry cycle.
As research slowly migrates to independent open-access journals and conferences, I wonder if there is an opportunity to coordinate (and incentivize) the peer review process in a decentralized manner.

Maybe a digital currency that's created by reproducing (or disproving) existing papers (weighted by lack of reproduction) and with which the author of a submitted manuscript "pays" reviewers and editors, which they in turn use to submit their own papers?
Here is another article that I remember having submitted once:

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

Edit: since this article mentions "SITAEL" and some authors of the paper submitted here seem to work for "SITAEL" as well, it might be talking about the same thing. I'll keep the comment here anyways.
--grep=

That's exactly what I needed to know! I'm glad I asked the stupid question. Thank you!
iOS, Android stores host more than 1.5M 'abandoned' apps
Uhm, no? That may be true for open access publications, but traditional publishing (with Elsevier or others) is typically free of charge.
That's one package you need to install (and that you only install if you'll be developing or testing Python packages). You'll want to install a lot more stuff (python-dev, build-essential) in that case anyway.

OTOH, if you will just use the OS, you won't need venv, as Debian packagers make sure everything works out of the box without it.
> A few hours later in a biweekly update meeting with said client, we mentioned having finished the feature. The client's project manager responded that actually the person who cared about that feature left the company, so it is no longer in scope. Then they erased it from the project tracking record, and in the same breath complained that so little progress had been made against the other objectives.

Actually, I don't see here an issue with doing "agile" or "waterfall". It's a communications issue. Either someone at "Big Mean Secret" company did not manage communications with the client properly, or the client didn't bother to communicate properly when given the opportunity.

Either way, using a "waterfall" methodology would not have helped here. It can be said that maybe "agile" "done right" would have solved this issue, but when is "agile" ever "done right"?

(The last sentence was an over generalization of course)
Is this any different/worse than JS/node ecosystem? Npm vs yarn vs bower. Webpack vs rollup, etc.
You may be disinterested, but you're not informed. The people above you are not arguing about whether LUNA is a successful coin in general, but over how it reflects on "proof of stake" vs. "proof of work" protocols. If you think LUNA losing their peg is a good argument against PoS, you don't know enough about cryptocurrency to judge these arguments. LUNA's peg to the dollar is ensured with a scheme that has zero to do with either proof of stake or proof of work. Saying Luna's failure redounds on proof of stake protocols is like saying that AOL's failure redounds on the HTTP protocol.
> proof-of-waste

half agree with that. PoW is the most efficient method of converting raw energy into a digitally secure token. It would be much better if the work done was actually useful beyond that.

Some attempts have been done in the past, but with low success (Riecoin IIRC uses cpus to find sequences of primes, GridCoin used BOINC for the PoW, proof-of-boinc in that case).

There is still work to be done on EVM chains. Contract calls need to be processed and verified by every (full) node
Male and female covers all cases in reality. The other genders are faddish nonsense.
Mine has no such enclosure, just a door that takes no tools to open.
Even DAI is kind of shady, if I understand correctly. The main mechanism they use to regulate demand and try to ensure the 1:1 exchange is the Dai Savings Rate, which is interest you earn by locking Dai into the savings smart contract. But right now, I don't think there's many places where you can actually use Dai to buy/sell goods and services, so the only "exit" is to sell that DAI to other people.

Considering the few places where you can actually use cryptocurrencies, even stable ones like DAI, it's weird that there's so much demand and volume. Operations on DAI have amounted to almost a billion dollars in the last 24h according to Coinbase, how much of that comes from trading and how much from other economic transactions?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220510013415/https://eiko-frie...
And?

> X times open parenthesis ten minus X close parenthesis equals twenty one

I'm not sure if your point is supposed to be that it's easier to understand if read another way or something, but no matter what the symbol version is the easiest for your brain (which is very good at pattern recognition) to see and pick up on.

Maybe I missed your point, so you'll have to be explicit.

By the way, I didn't contrive the example. I googled "before math notation" and chose it from the second result[1]. I had seen similar examples of what math looked like before notation, so I looked for an example.

[1] http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2014/06...
>I think it would be an excellent learning tool for people looking to get into programming

That's a bit like using crack cocaine to help learn about the pharmaceutical industry.
> followed by “tard” (as in “bastard”)

It sounds like it's intended to rhyme with "stirred" and not "starred." The latter, intended as a slur is unacceptable (imo), but the former?
Intel sticks with FPGAs and ASICs for next-gen IPUs