skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The electrons are in a metal but also, particles in a fluid repel each other as well. A great deal of the macroscopic behaviour of everyday objects is (in part) a consequence of electrons repelling each other.
And to answer the questions you edited in, yes, there is an edge to the universe. It is the literal edge of time, the moment when everything was one and infinite (a singularity, we think). This edge is 13.8 billion light years in every direction. As we look far away and back in time, we can see the whole history of everything, from just after the universe cooled and expanded enough to be transparent to light, to the first protogalaxies and all the development of everything up until our very noses.
I am curious. What happens if they aim this telescope at some of the closer exo planets? Would we get images with atmospheres and such? Excuse the excitement, but that would be so cool!
Why? I don't get how we dump everything on cops. Someone with mental illness, call the cops. Someone is homeless, call the cops.

We should have more tools than just the cops.
In Western Europe (in a political meaning) only Finland has tried for several decades. It's now 12 years behind schedule and the official message is that it will be running in winter (colder in Finland than in many othe places) when the lack of Russian energy will become most visible. Direct import of electricity and gas from Russia have been already stopped. At the moment that's not a problem because it's summer and you can import from other European countries. I'd be very suprised if you can do that in winter. If the nuclear power plant is not ready people will sit in the cold in 6 months from now. Or they will compromise on safety and just run the plant anyway. It is already loaded. No idea what will happen, but I should stop discussing on HN and order firewood.
/r/unclebens bags of rice
Looking this far into the past is partially about zooming in, and another part about the wavelength of the light. JWST being in infrared means that it can see things further away which have been redshifted so far that they are no longer visible to the human eye. As you look farther and farther, objects actually appear bigger, because the universe was smaller and the objects were closer at the time the light from them was emitted. At the end of it is the Cosmic Microwave Background, which is the first light that was able to travel when the universe became transparent enough that photons weren't immediately reabsorbed.
the point of these expensive simulators is such that you can practice all the emergency procedures in the manual.
But the US has thousands of different tax jurisdictions. Even US lawyers have difficult time giving fast, proper answers on inter-state tax matters. Law and legal readings change every year. How is the US in practice a single market where you get other states "for free", other than language?
So many lensing effects!!
I'd imagine the type who visit HN are at the very least on a VPN.
One Hundred Engineers Are Enough to Run Twitter
speaking as a as-of-this-year Northeastern CS graduate

the university definitely has done things to improve its rankings over the past ~30 years, some legitimately good (hiring higher quality staff, putting more emphasis on research, building more student accommodations like on campus housing, expanding the co-op program) and also less than savory moves (the NUIn program which admits more freshman students without having to record their statistics in the incoming class record, international campuses to "build the brand"). I think, at least the CS and co-op programs are great, and - minus the cost - is a overall great school. they definitely had the aim of improving the ranking, but in doing that they did improve the quality and size of the school along many important fronts. my read is then that USNews still has use in measuring universities, up to a certain point (say top 50 or top 100)
this image makes me curious about something:

imagine a distant galaxy, say ~1billion light years away (not 13 like in this new image).

imagine a civilization in this galaxy.

any information takes ~1billion years to travel between us and them.

but say ten years pass from our frame of reference here on Earth.

in those ten years on Earth, did the civilization ~1billion years away also experience roughly ~10years from their point of view?

I guess what I'm trying to ask is, in the time it took me to write this comment, could there be some part of the universe experiencing a much faster rate of time, relative to us? Did a civilization rise and fall somewhere? Does this question even make sense, or is it one of those things where relativity is so unintuitive that asking a question like this is nonsensical?
My argument is that nuclear is a different of energy compared to gas when used for heating. Sonce gas for heating is the tipic at hand, this distinction is quite important. And nowhere did I mention price. I talked about how converting electricity to heat is highly inefficient and will cost nore to heat the same building than gas. Nuclear only factors into that as much as it factors into a given electrical energy generatuon mix.
I plan to take it further. No smart phones at all until 18, and only a dumb phone (calls, texts, etc) whenever they start high school, or possibly a bit earlier if they're on public transport by themself. I see absolutely no reason for somebody till in school to need a smart phone.
Adding to the conspiracy stew here, the post missed (puts tinfoil hat on) the possibility that this vast divide in the USA, and other western countries, is a result of foreign psyops that started preparing the terrain long ago.
Yale also has a beautiful campus and a nice Oxford-style college/residential system. I didn't attend, but was somewhat jealous.
Soulbinding Like a State
May I suggest looking into Lokko Scheme[1]? It's a R6RS Scheme capable of booting in bare metal, even has a small OS available that you can boot up in QEMU, it even runs Doom! It's a great project, check it out.

[1]: https://scheme.fail/
The MSFS flight model is so terribly bad that people have 'successfully' landed absurdly too-large craft from 757 all the way up to Antonov-225 size at Saba and also taken off from the same airfield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juancho_E._Yrausquin_Airport
I know similar calculations were done for Hubble's deep field, but we need to do it again here: count the number of galaxies in this photo, then multiply it by the area of the sky divided by the area of this image (I think it's 2.4 arc minute across?)
Direct image links:

https://archive.stsci.edu/missions/hlsp/relics/smacs0723-73/...

https://archive.stsci.edu/missions/hlsp/relics/smacs0723-73/...

https://archive.stsci.edu/missions/hlsp/relics/smacs0723-73/...
I think it's wrong to think that lectures are always inferior. There have been many cases where a professor trying for a more interactive class has made the experience worse for me.

This most often comes in the form of prolonged rhetorical questions. A teacher, fearing he is losing the class' interest might pause to ask "And, what is the benefit of the scientific method?" The point here is clearly to gauge whether the class understands and is following along in the train of thought. Usually, the rhetorical question has multiple interpretations and valid answers. And usually, the students are not so much wrong, as they simply fail to track what answer the teacher is hoping for. For example, the students might answer the rhetorical question above with "It helps us understand the world.", "It allows us to test theories.", etc. In fact, the teacher was looking for something like "It allows for the independent checking and confirmation of the findings of others."

In a real world example, this sidebar of questions might have taken minutes, and more often than not, completely breaks my train of thought. Often, the teach has completely paused a valid train of thought to either measure or enhance class participation, and in doing so has made it harder for me to understand the lesson.

Sometimes this goes even more poorly, and the teach just wants to witness a "class discussion," which can often entail spending much of the class polling the students for their thoughts. Depending on the subject, this can be a total waste of time. Most of the students in the class are poorly informed, and their thoughts are much less useful than a traditional lecture would have been.

I certainly admit that interactive methods of teaching can be particularly effective, but they are not an unalloyed good. They can often be worse than a simple lecture.
> Aren't churches sort of network states?

They are networks, of a sort, but usually not states. Though some are subordinate to states and some have states subordinated to them.

But even in those cases the states are fairly conventional, not discontinuous sovereign pockets peeled off piecemeal from other states. While compactness isn't required and there are some oddities, the problems and ultimately difficult to resolve warfare resulting from patchwork states was a big motivator for the Westphalian nation-state model becoming a norm, and while that model might fall to some newer model, a regression to patchwork states isn't something I can see existing states going along with easily.
The same people who flagged me for predicting the public speaking would be as terrible as it turned out to be and that they needed to find better people to handle this. This was just embarrassing, especially considering what's been done in the past.
Can recommend. We went for a vertical one (Bosch GSN33VWEP) because we didn’t have enough room for a chest, plus we thought that the UX is better - and I still think it is.
Build? In Germany, we had plenty nuclear power plants. Then we turned them off and destroyed them.
In the same vein, they might be using a VPN as non-EU citizens who _want_ GDPR enforced in their daily browsing.
You seem a bit annoyed with an argument I haven't made. FWIW, I agree that the junk food industry is bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32063057
Machine Learning for Change Detection: Part 1
Wait, how can “evidence” you weren’t convicted with be used for sentencing of a crime you were convicted for?

So the gov couldn’t prove its case but it still gets to use that data for sentencing?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995325

(a week ago; 7 points, 0 comments)
I once asked this question to a scientist and I believe the passage of time seems pretty uniform (in similar gravitational circumstances) The exception is the beginning of the universe where time might have been more fluid for the lack of a better word.
The telescope is great. The presentation was a joke. I waited an hour, went to the kitchen for a couple minutes, came back to find it had just ended and couldn't be replayed. Found a direct link to the science page myself.

Ever wonder why lots of people don't give a hoot about science funding? This is why, you promise them something important and exceptional and then deliver a low quality product. Again, I refer to the streaming event, not the telescope/science team.
Images like this remind how irrelevant we are in the cosmos. The rest of the universe won't even notice when we are gone.
I go to local bank and buy cash.
Government propaganda to fight inflation https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/24/137400235/lbj-...

"When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs."

There's actually no healthier food than eggs
Not that differently. If you eat a thousand calories of peanut butter and don't feel anything there's something profoundly wrong.
No, they lack recognition. The exception being the Vatican, which hapoens to governed by the Oope and the Cathlic church but is not the Chatholic church itself. That churches act like they are a seperate natuon state so is a different story...
> I don't understand this claim -- are you saying that 2FA adds no protection of value in the context of package maintainership, or that does nothing in general?

I'm trying to say two things: (1) that 2FA adds little, if any, protection of value in the context of package maintainership. In other words, if someone wants to be a malicious actor (say, they had a "legitimate" package from versions 1.0 to 2.1, but 2.2 contains a trojan), they can do it even with 2FA. And (2), it adds an undue burden developers, particularly brand new ones that just want to "publish their package," have to deal with. If you're 15 or 16 years old, excited to finally get your package on PyPI, but all of a sudden, you have to jump through all these hoops, including doxxing yourself and providing a real phone number, you would 100% be deterred.
I was hoping for updates via the channels they released? Not everyone is keeping up on Twitter. It would make sense to make note of the delay on the previously linked NASAtv feed. And an update with a few mins of lead time for when they were going to go Live? Instead, they just cut into it at a random time some 90 mins later.

And the tweet you linked to is part of the problem as it features the incorrect time.
All the money and time in the world won’t even get you close to our closest neighboring star, which is literally a billion times closer to us than what we see in this picture
Thanks for the direct link without the fluff, gardenfelder :)
I'm no expert here, but was interested in why EUR has always been somewhat close in value to USD instead of being worth a lot more or a lot less, so I tried to look it up. EUR was set 1:1 to a previous unit of account (not a circulating currency) called the European Currency Unit (ECU), which was set 1:1 to an even earlier iteration, the European Unit of Account (EUA). According to Wikipedia, EUA "was defined as 0.888671 grams of gold, or one US dollar."[1] This was in 1962 when the US was on the gold standard. USD and ECU/EUA began drifting apart starting in 1971 when we abandoned the gold standard. So I guess you could say that the original intent was for dollar parity, but that decision was pretty far removed from the creation of the euro over 30 years later.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Unit_of_Account
The type who visit HN realise that a VPN is useless
> They also have to realize that not everyone wants corporate box box stores in their backyards

Corporate box stores are literally a direct result of suburbanization, if you don’t like them then that’s a argument against the suburbs, not for them.
This is incorrect. C and C++ have aliasing rules; the compiler is allowed to assume that your magic pointer does not alias an object that otherwise you had no reason to believe could be aliased. Google "strict aliasing rule" to learn the details.

Essentially, C and C++ already have a version of provenance for pointers and references, but it isn't identical to the Rust version.

Because some old codebases pull tricks of this kind (messing with pointers, doing casts without going through unions, etc), gcc (and clang) have a flag, -fno-strict-aliasing , to disable some optimizations that would be enabled by taking aliasing/provenance into account.
1. Those are diffraction spikes that reflects the structure of the mirror, which is composed of hexagonal elements.

2. That is background galaxies that are distorted and heavily magnified due to gravitational lensing, gravity from a foreground galaxy can bend the light just like a lens (the sun bending the light from stars during an eclipse was an early test of general relativity just after WWI)
Wow, clearest example of gravitational lensing I've ever seen.
These comments aren't about the article that was submitted.

Nevertheless, I find this part of your comment interesting:

These guys appears to be pushing a pretty radical
kind of political change, which doubtlessly influences
whatever they're writing about "the news" and "history."

Of course, if you're writing a book to argue some point, you'll write more things that support the point, than things that refute it. However, it's possible that:

- they actually believe what they wrote, and

- it's exactly these beliefs that drive the agenda, not the other way around
The idea of doubling up like that to increase coverage may be well-intentioned, but it's complicated specifically with regard to the police. If, say, you train firefighters to pull double-duty like that, then nobody's going to object; as the saying goes, nobody ever wrote a song called "fuck the fire department". For several demographics, the police do not inspire reassurance but instead inspire terror, and the prospect of the police showing up for a medical emergency can dissuade people from calling for help, potentially making health outcomes worse rather than better.
Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using another child’s name
Just the general challenge of making sure that updates to your database are reflected in your index promptly.

I gave a talk about this a few years ago: https://speakerdeck.com/simon/the-denormalized-query-engine-... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcvewgqYog
That is all well and relatable, yet those „silly laws“ you mention explicitly state that I am committing a crime in the UK, while my business is perfectly legal in most other countries. They even mention these laws being enforced extraterritorially, which I’m sure they’re not going to be able to do, but I’d like to go on vacation in London some time again, so there’s that.
Effectively, my choice is to skip on the few potential customers the UK has to offer, or risk legal trouble. I’m not sure why anyone would risk that for the comparatively small market of your country: Banning British IPs seems to be a valid, cheap, and low-risk solution to overreaching legislation from a single, unstable government.

That isn’t righteousness, it’s simply taking the most logical step to protect myself and my company.
No new information herein, unfortunately.
Extraordinarily one-sided point of view. Uber was (is?) technically illegal in many areas only due to regulatory monopolies which are/were fundamentally unjust (not to mention corrupt in many cases).
DoD Open Source Software FAQ (2021)
GCC also has front ends (compile many languages into a a common form, GIMPLE), a "middle end" (optimization), and many back ends (for different processor architectures).
Where will the stores be located? Auckland or greater Wellington perhaps?
Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but this seems to be mere correlation…are they sure it wasn’t because of, for example, the end of COVID shutdowns, or the unusually hot economy in 2021?

Not to discount CALL…I love it and would like to see more of this community support. But a lot of other things changed in 2021 that could impact suicide rates too.
That's pretty cool! Can't wait to see the next part of the series.
According to the Webb Space Telescope post [1]: "This slice of the vast universe is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground."

According to the Hubble Site post [2]: "...the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime 75 feet away"

Edit: So that same page for the Webb image states 2.4 arcmin across, compared to ~3.4 arcmin for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image [3]

[1] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/038/01G...

[2] https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1996/news-1996...

[3] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/98-the-universe/ga...
VPNs are extremely useful, and hopefully the type who visit HN understand the risks associated with using a VPN and know how to properly mitigate them.
"An unjust law is no law at all...has become a standard legal maxim around the world."[1]

"Thomas Aquinas [argued] ... a law only need to be obeyed if it is [among other things] ... for the common good."[1]

The question we have to ask is: Is current copyright law unjust?

Well, it allows telling people that they are buying something (in large print, even if the fine print says something else) then taking that thing away.

And copyright on digital goods allows unprecedented control over how tools are used, when and where content can be shown, and how things that we've paid for can be retained and resold.

And it is also clear that recent copyright laws were written for the benefit of a few corporations, not for the common good.

So I'm beginning to believe that current copyright law is unjust and should be disobeyed as a principled form of civil disobedience, not merely for convenience or to save money.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_unjust_law_is_no_law_at_all
VPNs serve a purpose. Not always the purpose advertised though. Hopefully HN readers understand the nuance in tech and know how to properly use the available tools.

It can stop MITM issues at skeptics internet providers. It can route you to different nations (as many YouTube adverts indicate). It doesn’t magically protect you from H4Ck3Rz.
I don't think so, I think planets are just too small and far away to be much more than points of light (or shadows crossing in front of stars).

In a lot of cases, we infer the presence of planets by making very precise measurements of relative velocities of stars (using red/blue shift of light) and making note of periodic wobbles that indicate that its position is being affected by planets.
The planets will still just be star-like bright dots, but we will get some useful new spectral data, and be able to image much smaller and more distant ones. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/origins.html

> Webb will also carry coronagraphs to enable direct imaging of exoplanets near bright stars. The image of an exoplanet would just be a spot, not a grand panorama, but by studying that spot, we can learn a great deal about it. That includes its color, differences between winter and summer, vegetation, rotation, weather...How is this done? The answer again is spectroscopy.
The original shut down decision was made by the first SPD/Greens coalition under Schröder.

The Merkel government then stopped it, then resumed it again.

And now Greens try to claim it wasn’t their fault, despite it being the foundation of their party since the mid-1980s.
It is not the case - this is just biomimicry: "let us try imitating feats of a living organism". Perfectly legitimate. Nobody is told to make unduly images out of it.
SF does this already: https://sf.gov/street-crisis-response-team
The Bank of England started raising rates before the Fed
There's a Star Trek episode addresses this sort of https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(episod...

Also I remember a short story where scientists created a mini universe then find that they can take over conscious beings in this reality, and influence them. So a few minutes to the scientists is thousands of years in this simulation, and they use it to get new technology and such.
It's much better to use elastic (or solr) and keep your text indices out of the database. They have more features and you keep the load separate. This is important if you suddenly have to index a ton of new documents or even recreate your indices.

I used to keep text indices in Oracle and it would take days to sync them.

There's even a Postgresql Foreign Data Wrapper for elastic, so you can integrate them easily.

One project I witnessed used Postgresql solely as a middle man between the main database and Elastic.
Columbia’s downfall began in a single moment in the early 50’s. When I.I. Rabi refused to let a poor Mr. Bader go to grad school in Physics part time so he could help his family out by working. Mr. Bader later became Feynman’s high school physics teacher, and taught him the principle of least action. So everyone knows that the world will still turn without Columbia.