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> (D) Kroupka is making bold claims that have to be verified first in the scientific arena very loudly and publically.

Meaning basically that other experts haven't had time yet to check his work? How long is that expected to take? The paper I referenced was published in 2015.

> He is claiming that DM doesn't exist

Yes, on the basis of his claim that dark matter models make predictions about the orbits of small satellite galaxies around larger galaxies that don't match observations. As I've said, these kinds of claims get made in science all the time. Scientific models are supposed to be tested against observations. When someone sees a mismatch, they're supposed to say so. That's part of how science is supposed to work.

> This breaks the big bang model as we understand it as I've stated.

More precisely, it "breaks" the belief that we can construct a valid model of our universe using standard General Relativity, on the basis of the claim that we cannot find any assumption for the distribution of matter that gives a satisfactory fit against all observations. That's the larger claim he's making and the basis of his advocacy for alternative theories of gravity, yes. But, as I've already stated, that larger claim is not what I have been asking about.

> it's much less likely that it's completely dead just because one test says so.

That doesn't change the fact that there should be some answer to how that one test comes out: either it does come out the way he claims, or it doesn't. Which is all I was asking about. If the answer is "nobody else has had the time or resources to check as yet", then that's the answer.

> Ok some background.

While this is all valid information it's not information I really needed. I'm well aware of the difficulties involved in constructing these models and checking them against observations.

> I'm guessing you don't have a strong background in a formal science.

Your guess would be wrong. I don't currently do scientific research for a living, but that doesn't mean I don't have a lot of background in how science works.

> you focusing on the socialogical implications and exactness of a thing.

I have no idea where you are getting this from. I haven't asked about "sociological implications" at all. You're the one who keeps bringing that up. And I have already explicitly recognized that no scientific model matches observations with 100% exactness.

> The public perception

Has nothing to do with what I've been asking about. I haven't been asking general questions about how the scientific field of cosmology works or whether or not cosmologists are supporting a "status quo" or whether or not "dissenters" in science get a fair hearing. I've been asking a very specific question which I've already described several times.
Honestly I think it works best inter-functionally. Many engineers won't volunteer for a meeting, even (maybe especially) if it's just for chit-chat.

Maker's schedule and all that. http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
This is silly, by that logic everything is doomed and it doesn’t take into account the backup nature of Mars and living in space
The problem is that having pride in your work no longer gets you as far as it used to. Many jobs have no room for advancement, and many people are stuck in cog-like retail roles in which rising through the ranks yields an extra few dollars an hour.

The people on HN are more likely to be in well-paying roles that have lots of room for advancement.

>They’re disillusioned and it’s because they are better acquainted with today’s labour market than their critics. It’s not the Eighties anymore. You can’t graft your way to an ex-council house, uPVC windows, a Ford Escort and two weeks on the Costa Brava. You can’t go in at the bottom and work your way to the top. Men born in the late 1980s were at least twice as likely to begin their careers in low-paid jobs than those born in the 1970s. They have also climbed the ladder more slowly. Women born in the late Eighties started their careers at the same level of the labour market as those born in the Sixties.

I do think this is bad for society, and it is bad for people; but, it's also the reality for a lot of people.
Yeah - I just set up Gentoo for the first time, and the wiki is _excellent_.

I had this preconception that Gentoo was ‘complicated’, but the excellent documentation has made everything easy (and I’m coming round to the opinion that Gentoo is actually easier because how it works is so ‘transparent’).
At the pace those developments are progressing, maybe you'll have a viable Mars colony in one or two centuries. A serious effort to develop Mars colony habitats to be used with Starship would look like the Manhattan Project. What you have there are glorified highschool science-fair projects.
That's not true. There's no feature of offline mode that requires it to phone home every so often. It works indefinitely.
Honestly I guess it's just a difference in taste/demenour.

My background was originally in C# then Java (plus JavaScript on the side, since most of us have to do that), and when I first came to Python I found it to be a lovely language and a breath of fresh air.

I guess I would say to me it feels neat and tidy, thoughful about interface design, and gives me a sense of quality. I get a similar feeling from Clojure (perhaps even more so).

I don't find static typing as valuable as you do, and additionally I find the cost in verbosity and in time wasted solving type-checking puzzles quite painful. Perhaps if I'd spent more time with one of the more sophisticated type systems I'd feel differently (Java and C# are quite limited here), but not convinced enough to try.
Even better are stamped steel pans. I will admit, not only is this is highly debatable, but both sides have good valid arguments, however stamped steel edges out cast iron for two reasons, it is more responsive to heat, that is, it is easier to get the temperature you want(like a wok) and it is lighter and stronger.

But really having a pan that you can abuse, and all it takes to get back to cooking trim is a little oil is great. note there are some real artists with seasoning pans out there, and if you look online you will probably find one, but I don't bother with any of that, I rub a little oil on it after I clean it and if I am feeling especially diligent I will get the pan hot. 10% of the effort for 90% of the result.
Have you looked at France's grid recently?
Of course you're aware that the "working class," as you've defined it so well, has pretty definitively abandoned the Democratic party.
I disagree with the modern blanket assumption that meetings are bad. Meetings do not have to be bad.

Now most meetings are bad, I’ll give you that. But a well-run meeting, with purpose, which doesn’t faff on and respects the participants’ time, is still a very effective way to get something done.

It is a fallacy that every meeting can be replaced with email. I hate email more than I hate even a mediocre meeting.
social credit scores, sorry, I mean personal carbon scores...
Is this the source of the contemporary obsession with "mission statements" - a lame attempt to push "values" downward and generate "motivation" that is meant to work in opposition to alienation ?
You did piss me off with your above comment. It did trigger me. But my response is still valid.

I just looked at your profile and responded to a couple threads. That's all. I'm not trolling you, those comments are legit and they aren't an attempt to be rude like you were. Feel free to ignore them, I don't really care.

But maybe I suggest you be less rude with your asinine comments next time.
Then my math must be off. 60 miles/hour at 15 miles/gallon = 4 gallons/hour.

Idle is like 0.15 gallons/hour. There's no way 25 mph uses that little gas, if 60mph uses 26 times as much.
As relevant as ever:

https://sneak.berlin/20191119/your-money-isnt-yours/
Klipper is a 3D printer firmware. You would compare it to Marlin, which is a common stock firmware on 3D printer microcontrollers. OctoPrint is a web application, built on a Flask/Tornado stack.

You can use Klipper firmware with OctoPrint:
https://www.klipper3d.org/Installation.html#configuring-octo...

I agree that Klipper's features are excellent! The resonance compensation is most interesting to me. I'm someone who is deeply invested in algorithmically grading/estimating print quality. If you're reading this and want to learn more about how Klipper improves prints, check out Klipper's kinematics doc: https://www.klipper3d.org/Kinematics.html
Then, I’d argue it is easier to respect robots.txt by not collecting the data if robots.txt is present.
Why? It’s much easier to leave Antarctica than it is to leave Mars.
Some of us are in charge of making sure quotas/OKRs are met
Exactly. If I want to drop in all I need to do is to check the breakout rooms list then move to the room where my colleague is. And once done I can go back to my breakout room.
We also use it when pair programming remotely. It's quite effective and it eliminates communication barrier.
Earth isn't doomed, just the current lifeforms on it: Humans and the unfortunate rest that are along for the ride.
I guess similar reasoning caused cilium.io blocking Kazakhstani traffic. Never heard of this country? Bot. Thankfully they didn’t manage to block VPS and I still can use my VPN to circumvent the blocking. As if it isn’t enough for my government to block websites.
Could you elaborate on the extinction-level problems? I hear this a lot, but it's almost always nonspecific and hand-wavy. Do you mean the potential mass release of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, or a runaway effect increasing CO2 levels to deadly amounts, or something else?
Meh - I was excited by JWO but it now looks like self-checkout will win because it works pretty well these days, and it handles all the corner cases including product sold by weight, large items, identical-looking items (common in grocery), etc.

With self-checkout, you don't need an account which is crucial for travelers. Self-checkout also supports cash for the unbanked.

I've tried SC in multiple countries, just hit the button for English, scan, scan, scan, weight, scan, scan, scan, checkout, touch my credit card, go.

Late night in Stockholm train station, I bought one bottle of fizzy water and checkout added 30 seconds or so.

Obviously, from place to place you sometimes get "rough edges" with mis-scans etc but JWO has its own problems.

I'm not even sure how much floor space JWO saves vs self-checkout.
Did you comment on the right thing? I don’t understand how that relates to what I wrote.
> The oldest treatment in modern medicine. We understand their side effect profiles very well at this point.

Every vaccines contains a multitude of different things apart from the active ingredient, and each of them can have a vastly different safety profile, and when you take a vaccine, you are putting everything together in your body.

So the core techinique of vaccines, being employed for so long, does not actually prove the safety of vaccines in general. In fact, it cannot be proven generally, because as I said earler, each vaccines can contain vastly different make up.

In other words, what you said is pretty idiotic.
> “It could be unfair to do this, to sort of induce people to rely on the email alerts,” Bruckner explained, saying that if Coinbase started and stopped email alerts without properly notifying users and that this was proven to have “caused substantial injury” like financial losses, that could present an issue.

It seems pretty ridiculous to me to assert that Coinbase stopping email price alerts is liable for investment losses, but the professor added the appropriate caveats, so my criticism is mostly with the publisher, not the source.

The interesting aspect to this, to me, is the idea that a/b testing could interfere with legal obligations (the article implies but does not definitively state that a/b testing was involved). I've worked on a/b test systems in ecommerce, and adding those obligations would have meant enough new requirements to substantively change the resulting designs.

This would be an interesting question to have to answer: If this test has a statistically significant result, would that mean one side of the population experienced better financial results than the other, caused by our actions?
Hey, don’t take civilian space contractors lightly. They can fleece taxpayers just as well or better than defense contractors. 2022 is the year of Linux on the SLS.
I don't think either political party really cares about labor anymore.
This is how a number of cell / animal models of diseases are done. For example DSS induced colitis in mice.

Pharmacogenomics is a thing. There are companies out there that do PGx testing. The problem is that frontline clinicians mostly haven’t adopted / integrated it into their practices.
That really was not a problem.
The Marxist definition of working class (i.e., the proletariat) had nothing to do with income distributions.

Does the person you’re replying to make decisions about how profits are allocated in the company? What product the company is going to make? Do they make the big hiring and firing decisions? No, probably not. They’re likely a software engineer. They sell their labor in order to be able to make money and sustain themselves. Ergo they are part of the working class.
Not sure I can fully agree; it will just create a downward cycle. The approach doesn’t allow for excellence or gaining satisfaction through doing quality work. However, many jobs are joyless and I think it’s vicious cycle and something has to be done to address these empty of value businesses that are the typical culprits of crappy, overworked jobs.

The problem is the seemingly ubiquitous paucity of quality management - there is literally no one appreciating your effort. Many managers, right up to a CX level are so detached from the purpose of the business they manage they can’t determine whether work done good or not.

My belief is this general lack of appreciation of excellence and intrinsic disinterest in excellence is the creation of the Friedman/Welch school of business - that the purpose of a business is to maximise value to shareholders. I see this as abstract and empty. It removes any value placed on, “we create great products that out customers love,” and replaces it with the dollar reward for shareholders. Make great products everyone wants? Why bother when you can create crap products with misused staff that are cheaply produced that returns more dividends for our shareholders. If you have talent and can produce quality go somewhere where you are appreciated. If you don’t, maybe go with the Homer Simpson approach and sink those companies who equally can’t deliver.
If we can't live on Earth, we can always terraform Earth.
Another comment mentioned turning the Sahara green. This is] within our capacity. But the Sahara, as presently composited, is home to myriad life. It is a cultural edifice for bordering civilizations. And its modification would have repercussions for every other person on the planet.

This baggage doesn't exist on Mars. (To the degree it does, it's de minimus compared with Earth's.) We can close off a canyon, pressurize it and call it a city. Try doing a tenth of that here without going bankrupt on the back of CEQUA challenges.
Tech workers report drops in confidence in job security
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Do you have any idea how little this means, despite repeating it in at least 2 comments I've seen so far? Am I going to see a 3rd and 4th copy of this same comment further down?

It means nothing at all.

It also has nothing to do with the age of your house wiring.

Congradulations on either winning the binning lottery, or simply being insensitive to the sensation.

The number of people reporting the phenomenon are not all hallucinating, nor all doing something wrong that you're doing right.

You simply got a slightly better unit.

Or actually possibly a worse one, since the cause is actually good insulation, and a slight leak (contamination like leftover flux or an old spilled drink or literally anything like dust or a bug on the pcb surface bridging traces) could be what's keeping your case drained to neutral rather that building up a charge.

Manufacturing variance is the most uninteresting non-mystery in the world.

Different people's different levels of sensitivity or perceptiveness is also a non-mystery.

"Why don't I feel it?" For a hundred possible reasons, none of which are "because the problem doesn't exist"
The acidification of the oceans
could easily kill plankton and crustaceans, destroying the food chain and leading to a mass extinction event.
>VLC and VideoLAN are quite apolitical

While both VLC and VideoLAN were started and mostly based in Europe ( France ) . It still takes a lot of courage in today's tech world to say you are apolitical. Which is partly forbidden because apolitical stance in itself is political, or so I have been told.
I think you might be misunderstanding. Clocks must necessarily have a frame of reference. TAI's frame of reference is imaginary (geoid), and in reality we calculate it from an average.

Because TAI's frame of reference is the geoid it will experience relativistic effects based on earth's motion viewed from any other frame of reference (in OP's example, from the reference of the sun)

Clocks cannot exist without a frame of reference. Accurate timekeeping necessarily involves tracking spatial information as well.
> And their competitors laughed at the idea. ULA doubted SpaceX's resuability prospects as recently as 2020

Well take that matter up with them. I wasn't among those laughing at their plan to develop reusable boosters. Reusable boosters have clear commercial application. Everything SpaceX has actually put serious money behind is something that has near-term commercial value.

> Nor were they investing in lunar landers or mission equipment, until NASA bought a ride on Starship for Artemis.

SpaceX won a contract. How much have they actually spent in developing lunar-specific equipment? I doubt they even expected to win that contract.

> So? Mars colonization is a centuries/milennia sort of thing.

A serious Mars colonization effort a century from now obviously won't be using Starship, unless rocket development severely stagnates between now and then. So if you're conceding that sort of timeline, let me reiterate my point: Starship will never bring a colony to Mars. There is presently no serious effort underway to colonize Mars.
I run a Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi Zero powered by a Chromecast Ethernet Power Adapter. The hardware is more than adequate and it's never been a problem reliability wise.

Used to have it running as a USB Gadget off the router's USB port but that had some weird issues that the Ethernet Power Adapter just bypasses.
Why stop there? It should be ALL shareholders face imprisonment. That will make you think twice about diversifying your stock portfolio!
That's not my experience in my renault zoe. Often on almost imperceptible downhill slopes it will be at zero consumption, and there have been many areas where I can't back off the throttle in my ice vehicles where the zoe will be regenning.
Hopefully not by crashing an asteroid into it.
> If you want to seriously take Mars colonization as a survival strategy for human species, you need a way to either implant most of the modern infrastructure in a massive scale (at least for hundreds of millions, otherwise the society won't sustain by itself) or develop a novel technology to terraform the planet into a human livable form within a reasonable budget. At that moment, we can talk about Martian habitat.

We cannot sustain a million people on Mars just yet. That's a far cry from claiming there has been no progress. For that claim to sustain, the British Bombe was a dud for not being able to run one's taxes.

THAT SAID: the monarchist Thiel acolytes pushing Mars to profit off surveillance contracts while trashing anything resembling a response to our climate crisis can go stuff it. They are not only destroying what we have. They are, in the long run, undermining the Mars project as well.
How do I do that? fstat(2) is no help on macOS, and even if it were would return false positives from things like backup and content indexers ("Time Machine" and "Spotlight" on macOS).
Right? 10 or 15 years ago there were litterally no drugs that changed the course of MS. But then Tysabri came along and suddenly things changed for RRMS. And now Ocrelizumab seems to work for both RR and progressive MS. It IS some kind of miracle.
My bank account here in democratic Europe was frozen by the authorities for two weeks due to some taxes they didn’t receive. This shit is terrifying.
Would a strong low be enough to help? Sea level isn't really what you care about right, isn't it pressure? And the pass there is <3000ft. I guess I'm thinking about gap winds like what occasionally happens in the Cascades, though that isn't really the same. https://snoqualmiewx.blogspot.com/2019/03/will-it-happen-aga...

I assumed the dust from the Salton sea drying was more of a risk to Palm Springs and Mexicali, the general basin I suppose. And maybe places to the east like Phoenix? Looking at a map that seems like a stretch though.
Which other series of his would you strongly recommend?
There is currently almost no financial incentive to build storage, because we haven't built enough generation capacity yet. Germany for example gets 40-50% of its electricity from renewables on average and only 1-2% are lost because we don't know what to do with it during times of overproduction. So any storage system would mostly be filled with fossil power right now.
Don't Pay UK
An aside:

I find it strange that the article from CTV chose to focus on the big picture while the this article from AP News focused on a handful of examples. They both also happened to be published within days of each other: the AP News one on August 11th 2022, and the CTV one on August 13, 2022.

I think anyone here can appreciate the startling difference in reporting from the two sources independent of their personal beliefs on the topic given that the dates of publication are so very close.
As someone that does run an ISP and helps run an IXP, it matters nothing to me if somebody has a 32-bit ASN vs a 16-bit ASN.

Sure, I can see 6939 or 701 and know instantly who that is, but in the end, it matters nothing for the other 98% of ASNs I don't recognize on sight and who they might be behind them.

Anybody that is paying money for a "vanity" ASN is just doing it for self-ego stroking. To the people doing the work, it doesn't matter one iota.
For taking a bicycle on the train, may I suggest the Brompton folding bicycle? Electric version also available.

Also, did you know about the EU speed pedelec category L1e-B? It gets classified as a moped with maximum speed of 45 km/h and maximum 4 kW power.
i have preordered the xl. i just want to build a separate machine for messing with other stuff
Phone tag really doesn't sound much better than email. The culture of a quick callback is not inherent.
the idea of going to mars is basic science, and basic science has yielded all sorts of useful discoveries for the human race.

but it is also hard to ignore the fact that it seems circular to turn the earth into something that looks like mars in the pursuit of turning mars into something that looks like earth.

so yes, doing basic science is good. but let's be clear that it's not a real plan and that the real problems at home are not only easier, but also far more pressing.
And even this comparison is lenient towards the ICE. That one gallon of gas doesn’t just poof into existence into the gas tank of the car, there’s a certain kWh requirement of energy to go from not having that gallon of gas, to having it.

Obviously the same is true for the electricity in the EV, but that’s dependent on the energy mix in your area. If it’s primarily renewables, this is another efficiency increase in favor of the EV.
I'm hopeful that within the next year, StaticCompiler.jl gets good enough to aot compile lapack type code. we're close, but there's still a lot of rough edges.