skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an astrophysicist. But I note, had Oppenheimer not died before it was confirmed at least one of his theories predicted black holes. He would have got a Nobel on it.

To me, thats a strong indication the fundamentals of mass, energy as modelled, were projected in advance of radio-telescopes confirming the theory. isn't that what Astrophysics does?

Perhaps there are better examples. Personally, I find the main sequence circular logic reasoning, but its a model for spectral colour, distance, age and size. I'd kind of like it if we flew a mission to hold a Pantone colour wheel up close, and measure the damn thing properly for size and colour but age is very hard. You're back in models of decay of mass/energy outcomes and how we believe half-life in C14 analysis.. except done as spectral lines at a distance based on one solar mass we have close by to model things on. Plus, we don't know how to make pantone colour stable across 20,000 years of flight time to measure a star up close and by then Humans will have 29 eyeballs seeing into the infrared like mantis shrimps.

Gravitational lensing is pretty cool. I think it was initially theoretical, and it was a long time being proved.

Gravity waves defy detectors. If we can get detectors working that will be immensely cool. I may have stepped off the scienting engine by wanting an outcome, which arguably is not aligned to null hypothesis testing. Maybe we can't detect gravity waves and they remain theory?

Look, its rude. I apologize in advance. I do kinda think you're trolling. Are you trolling? Maybe Dang will be upset at my asking. It's ok to ignore.
Some of our measures of QED are very accurate (10 decimal places give or take), but the measurements QCD are much more complicated and the theory doesn't produce nearly as clean values. Also, there are purely QED experiments (muon G2 for example) where there are some serious contradictions.
So somehow learning more about how stress is generated changes whether or not stressors should be banned? How does that make sense? If anything, we now know more about how damaging chronic stress is, so our justification to ban stressors should be even higher than it was in the past.

The only good argument is that speech shouldn't be banned even if it leads to a large stress response, because of the slippery slope risk and so on.

Taking the position that either (i) speech can't generate a large stress response that's physically harmful to the individual, or that (ii) our knowledge of how stress is generated somehow changes whether or not stressors should be banned -- these are both not good arguments.
If a hobby project feels like “marching” then you’ll inevitably burn out.

Break it down into shorter milestones. Get some small achievements, then take a break and do something else for a while. Don’t let it become a burden.

Also, you need to be willing to quit if it no longer makes sense to continue. If you were doing a project for fun and it stopped being fun, it isn’t serving it’s purpose any more. Abandoning it could be the right choice if you get to this point.
So is suffering. But I find happiness more pleasant, so I spend most of my time there.
Crypto “web3” is a world where the only real and good thing is day trading, and the center of everyone’s life is a stock trading UI. Everything else is a pale reflection of the objects that can be day traded: games and art now exist to support the day trading nirvana, not the other way around.

It’s understandable that this world seems appealing to venture capitalists and others whose lives revolve around finance. It’s completely unclear why anyone else should want it.
I'm too poor to understand that reference.
In work environment, "trying things your way" is seldom harmless to success of the product or one's personal ethics, career, reputation, work life balance... Who will fix things if they go wrong and how much effort is such a fix going to require? How is my performance going to be evaluated if I accept a bad call? If the answers are clear and acceptable to me, I have no problem being flexible. Making things clear often involves talking to our common manager, although I might also decide that I am willing to put in the extra effort to fix things if needed if the other person is not being obnoxious.
> You say that unlocking a bootloader is dangerous

I didn't say that. In fact, I believe the opposite.

> You can't have easily unlockable bootloaders because that would be dangerous.

I do want easily unlockable bootloaders.
As a lay person on this topic, a question. I've always heard that string theory was an untestable theory that academia was obsessed with for decades, and research on it soaked up a large amount of academic budgets and grant money. And was ultimately fruitless. (Again, I'm on the outside looking in, I don't work in the field so I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate)

Is dark matter in the same boat as string theory was, from a grant money and research standpoint?
Yeah, I've had a few experiences that resulted in an extremely similar train of thought (minus the ER). Terrifying but pretty interesting.
Network effects can yield delusion and fraud without the participants consciously trying for it.
Has anyone had any success sending epub with send to kindle via email? So far since the announcement of them dropping support, I've tried but every time I get a message saying the epub I sent is not in the correct format.
I am not knowledgeable in physics, but I think dark matter is supposed to be unaffected by electromagnetic forces (hence why it can't be seen) which is definitely not true for antimatter.
This is about a robot that moves around in a curved space by merely changing its shape. Very cool.
I very consciously did not buy a Kindle when choosing an Ereader about a year ago. The Kobo H2O is incredible and has served me very well. The format support is wonderful, and the stock OS does more than I need (though there is a whole community of custom OSes that also look cool). Combined with Calibre, I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is.
"But I can't for the life of me imagine how computer displays might become more vibrant..."

You're most likely correct, that is for current display technologies. For years, I've hypothesized that we cannot solve the problem with tricolor displays and I've postulated that we need a 7-color system to do proper justice to our eyes/perception and even then it'd still be an approximation albeit a pretty good one.

Obviously, I can't argue this out here or we'd be at it for weeks. Suffice to say I'm far from being alone in thinking this way.

Keep your ears to the ground and no doubt you'll soon hear from better minds than mine on the subject.
I don't think this comment could be better timed than today. I agree. That said, the reason these people worked on this is because they were probably mis-guided with priorities and red tapes in other areas...
> and no one seems to have an answer

Especially DM proponents!
They can use cash for these cases. So no, still not a valid use case to allow for blatant money laundering.
This is just a transfer feature, the deprecation is older as I was already unable to source the official CLI converter a few years ago.
I like some of the tech so far. And I have a good amount of startup experience, so I know the world of paying for SaaS instead of having your own special internal solution. Sometimes paid SaaS is superior. It's built for users more so than developers. That limits your powers but also means it's meant to be used by someone that doesn't know how it works.

Blaze seems very nice. I'm deep in a special domain far from g3 - so I only came across it this week. But it has worked exactly how I want it to and has given me no trouble, only a good experience so far. Much better than the terrible world of whatever build system NodeJS is using this week.

And the perks are pretty nice. Not enough to make me never go back to startups. But I appreciate them. Extra days off that no one else would get. Free trips to amusement parks. Days off to go sailing. Good free food. Good free cappuccinos. Good free snacks. Free car charging. I'm shocked so many people living in Mountain View refuse to commute in after working from home for two years.
The best designed thing google has put out in at least the last 5 years
As a current FANNG employee, I have seen so many dead weights here, especially the new-hires after COVID. They took advantage of the lenient WFH policy. Some travels around the world for a year; some becomes a social media influencer; some comes up with all sorts of excuse like wife/kids/parents being sick to take unlimited sick day.

It pains me to see how a great company gets abused like this. The cycle to put people on PIP is so long that they can coast at least a year before anything can be done.
>That evenly distributes the transmission across the spectrum. To someone without the key, it appears to be random noise.

I wonder if this is why SETI hasn't found any alien communications: they invented spread-spectrum communications and it all looks like noise to us.
If it has any mention of Japan or Germany in the title, it's bound to end up on the frontpage.
Antimatter isn't dark. It interacts with matter just fine -- too fine!
People working 4 hours a week still have to pretend to be productive for the other 36 hours though. They still have to sit through meetings, and justify their time, and answer Slack messages, and have reviews. They're not free to work on their own projects - they're just 'not working'. That sounds far worse than spending time working on something you actually care about even if it's not your own idea.
Podman 4.2.0
I wonder if there's an IPv6 version... 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1
Oh, perhaps we should have gone into it in more detail, but this is a direct consequence of the architecture of IETF MASQUE. It's not a VPN tunnel of the classic sort. Instead it's nested HTTPS-based proxying of E2EE TLS streams. The reason UDP is a risk to Fastly in that context is that their infrastructure can be instructed in connection requests to create non-congestion-controlled streams to arbitrary destinations, and they have a lot of bandwidth at their disposal. We want to put mitigations in place to prevent use of this infrastructure for DoS attacks before opening up UDP widely.
It's easy seem like youre in the lead when you have one free parameter for every galaxy.
My relative works at KPMG and it's fully Excel there.
The Archaeology and History of Bitumen (2019)
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
> The conditions of the middle-class are actually too luxurious.

That's not for you to decide. The market can and does apply proper growth slowing pressure by itself.

> Everybody in the world can't have a suburban lawn.

That's just a different version of "think of the poor who can't eat". Countries and cultures aren't the same. Suburbia only exists due to improper distribution of business centers and housing bubbles. Overpopulated mega-cities don't have to exist with proper distribution of work and living space. Majority of countries are uninhabited and undeveloped.

> What the middle-class (and the poor) don't have is security.

Most developed countries are have welfare. Our poor live better and longer than kings from a century ago.

> They live in a state of fear that the entire bottom will drop out of their lives if they get fired, or have a heart attack, or any of a million things.

Firing is necessary to keep efficiency and competition.

> Supplying security to people is actually cheaper that what we do now, just as socialized health care is far cheaper than an ad hoc privatized patchwork.

Who will "supply security"? People who work and who are getting paid so they buy stuff. Who pays and produce their stuff? Other people who need to work. The demand for "security" will only keep increasing due to comfort. There's a reason Bill Clinton was elected on a platform to reform the welfare system.

> We don't need more growth, we need more humanity.

And flowers and unicorns too.
People actually believe that there is an yet-undiscovered substance that has mass but interacts very weakly (or not at all) with light, and that there are vast quantities of this substance in the universe. They call this "dark matter".
What level are they hired at though, and are you talking developers?
https://NN-512.com
Thanks for the info

> Fair warning, the learning curve is a little steep.

Can you be a bit specific here? I've setup a trial account and so far nothing seems to challenging to me - perhaps this is because I'm used to envelope budgeting, or just haven't gotten to the more nuanced things yet?
> creation of a Beizer curve: ... clearly a CPU algorithm.

isn't this just a tessellation basically? GPU-based tessellation is very common, mostly for meshes but can be used for line-like figure too.
> I'm saying there's no logical reason why we need to vote for one person, rather than say 3.

There's many logical reasons. The federal bureaucracy handles the day to day work of federal agencies, not the actual individual elected to be the President. The President appoints a cabinet to oversee those agencies. So there's no need for any individual to be awake 24/7 making decisions which means there's no need for multiple shifts of executives to be available.

Multiple executives would actually be a terrible system as situations last longer than a single shift. Day Shift President would have to hand over a bunch of context to Swing Shift President for any issue lasting longer than a single shift. Swing Shift President may not agree with Graveyard Shift President on the best course of action which leads to an inefficient and/or legally arduous process of adjudicating primacy of authority.
>Both need growth in order to improve their conditions, and their place in society exists only because they can produce growth.

Why is that?

It is OK to take from the very rich to help the very poor.

All the stories I have read say that the general wealth is increasing but distribution getting more skewed.

So I do not think endless growth is the answer to maintaining the middle class
Uber Beats
Surprised to see this because it’s pretty basic knowledge of the Japanese syllabary. Adding a little double quote to a phonetic character changes the consonant from voiceless to voiced.
I tried 2 days ago and it worked.
>is it really necessary to call all of life's difficulties some kind of disorder? Does making it a disorder some how legitimize someone's struggles?

You tell me, when I grew up being called autistic I tried to hide the disorder and get my teachers to not know I had it. It was everybody else who insisted on the names disorder, and it did legitimize it in their eyes. It meant a LOT of funding money, an extra teacher in the classroom, overall favourable treatment relative to other students. It was alternatively used as a pretence to discriminate against me. It was used to guarantee me accommodations. It was used as a means of getting a poor family money.

Lots of people have lots of different motivations for using that word. What I do know is there isn’t really any scientific basis for the idea that only severe autism is somehow real though.

The word autism does legitimize one’s struggles though, and people recognize that legitimacy. It’s pretty sick.
It's a list that enables an industry to cooperate with each other in order to better comply with a government demand. A government demand that they have been threatened with regulation if they don't sufficiently comply with it themselves.
You can't copyright cocktails or other recipes because copyright only protects the artistic expression, not the mechanical process.

Cocktails could conceivably be patentable, if they were sufficiently novel and non-obvious, which very few cocktails are likely to be.

If you used a sufficiently visually distinctive glass and created a fanciful name, you might be eligible for trademark protection -- that wouldn't stop someone making the same cocktail, but would prevent them using your identical glassware and name in a way that might lead to confusion that the cocktail was approved by you.

Oh! And if you choreographed an interesting process of making the drink, with a specific sequence of unnecessary but distinctive motions (think "bartender dance"), you could copyright your performances of the dance act and possibly prevent others from stealing your show. The less elaborate your performance, the less protection you're likely to get, and copyright doesn't prevent, for example, parody.

But generally, intellectual property rights are not intended to vest in ordinary creations like mixed drinks.
Significant performance improvements, several new GCs, stream API, type inference, records, pattern matching, switch expressions, lambdas, default interface methods, 6 month release cadence, try-with-resources, GraalVM, many new APIs (like `java.time`), JFR open sourced, virtual threads (in preview), value types (in the works), improved native interop/FFI (in the works), etc. are more than just a "slight improvement".
Pyod – A Comprehensive and Scalable Python Library for Outlier Detection
Either way I don’t want it and I don’t know why anyone would.
So far the kindle oasis is the best ereader in term of hardware and ergonomy I've used and that's comparing to a kobo sage I also have and to all the ereaders I've had over the years (never had sony but I used to purposefully avoid amazon)
Thank you, it's very nice to read this.

I actually love "office politics" when people engage in it in good faith. I love crossing team boundaries, figuring out who is not talking to whom, who works well with certain kind of people. I love running good meetings and making sure everybody is heard. I love writing and editing documents, cleaning up meeting notes, I am happy writing whatever shitty glue I need to to make other people's work smoother.

I think office politics is just a derisive name for the very important work of having lots of people of different backgrounds work with each other towards a same goal. I've come to understand that my biggest technical capability as an engineer is to play office politics well. Organizing a single meeting between two people (or conversely, making sure two people never have to code review each other) can be the difference between a dead project and a successful one.

The "mind games" is specifically about getting me to say something I can't stand behind. I am fine doing things I can't stand behind, because I'd rather get something janky shipped than nothing at all, and I will do so without complaining, in fact I enjoy it. But don't expect me to say something I don't mean, I'd rather say nothing at all. I have two anecdotes come to mind. One is a colleague not wanting to use the API I provided to store configuration files (an API I provided so they wouldn't have to deal with the versioning, saving to flash safely, validation and encryption), instead repeatedly bringing up in the public slack channel how I should KISS and that writing a file is really not a complicated thing (it kind of is, especially in an embedded system). I don't really care too much about engaging with people calling me stupid in public, and I'm certainly not going to say that writing a file is simple.

I also care very much about other more junior engineers not getting bullied by older engineers. Junior engineers might not be very nuanced in their opinions, or might need to learn a few lessons the hard way, but that is not done by playing the authority card, that is done by providing a safe space for them to discover these things on their own (be it by mentoring, by watching more experienced people do it, or by giving them enough ownership to be able to make a few mistakes without impacting the business).

Thanks again for your comment.
I’m pretty mixed about this type of optimization. From a pure business perspective it makes sense I suppose but somehow it also feels a bit dystopian as a user. But from an ML perspective it’s a very interesting read.

it does seems pretty easy to optimize oneself into a corner if it reduces outside the box thinking too

Also Anecdotally that optimization problem doesn’t get at the two reasons I don’t subscribe, and neither problem is suitable for ML. Applying algorithmic pricing would be a massive turn off and ML won’t fix what’s equivalent to repeated rat dropping sighting in an otherwise 5 star restaurant.
Outside of mathematics, not really. Special relativity and QM proved that 300 year old "facts" were actually subtly wrong, for example.
There's a whole team at Google that does just this. The ROI is self-explanatory, well done Google.
I build a tool to send articles and newsletters to Kindle[0]. I’ve been sending EPUB for a few months and it’s tricky.

Amazon still use the old Kindlegen software and to check if your epub has issues, you need to download their Kindlepreview app and open your epub.

[0]: https://ktool.io
There's also the fact you can end up on a DHS list and there seems no real way to get off of it, even after being interrogated by HSI / DHS on many occasions and them seemingly being satisfied you are indeed not a terrorist. See my post below for more on how I know this.
My understanding is these are usually made by interns as a fun project that has a low impact and can be scuttled without consequence if the code becomes difficult to maintain. There are a bunch of these types of Easter eggs that no longer work.
what I took from that is that inertia is more significant than total energy.

if you've got a tank of gas you can go a long way slowly, a short way quickly.

a flywheel takes a lot of effort to spin up or spin down. once it's going at a certain speed it tends to stay there.

so if you tend to get home, eat burritos, and watch netflix, you'll keep doing that.
One question I have is whether you can use your own Excel setup and stuff like custom toolbars etc...?
Wow, I just watched the video and was surprised and delighted to see Roberto talk about Pallene (typed & compiled sister language for Lua). Fantastic!
There are people who were performing well but had temporary setbacks due to circumstances, and there are people who wanted to coast from day one. It's easy to tell them apart if you have worked with them closely.
And yet many non-Byzantine consensus protocols are equipped to handle the network fault model, which could be seen as equally Byzantine under this definition.

The problem is really that many formal proofs of consensus have focused only on the network fault model, and neglected the storage fault model.

Both network/storage fault models require practical engineering efforts to get right. I think a better term for this is “near-Byzantine” fault tolerance. It's what non-Byzantine fault tolerance looks like when implemented correctly in the real world—the GP comment is a great example of how to approach and think about this from an engineering perspective.

I dive into this in detail also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNmZZLant9o
Mobi and AZW3 (aka KF8) are both at their core Palm DB files. AZW3 are basically Mobi files for backwards compatibility purposes, with an added compiled ePub file for improved layout options. Kindles can read both formats, with newer Kindles using the HTML/CSS from AZW3 files.

As far as I know, the only options to get an ePub onto a Kindle convert to an AZW3 before putting sending it to the Kindle (or manually convert to a Mobi file before sideloading it). And those conversions aren't perfect, I've absolutely had technically correct ePubs end up as a confused mess when sent to a Kindle. Though, these days most publishers seem to be targeting whatever subset of ePubs Amazon supports in their conversion pipeline.
The CLI is still shipped with Kindle Previewer 3 software. It's still used internally by Amazon.
I work in finance, big spreadsheets. These guys are doing more puzzles that are easy to score. Its interesting but the guys who maintain very large dynamic models i find more impressive. Can your model survive the abuse of a 9 month m&a transaction?
I actually read a bunch of novels on the palm. It seems bonkers to imagine straining my eyes that way these days. But I found it pretty enjoyable at the time.