skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we know of two meteors that hit earth from outside the solar system. (One was IDed by the US DOD as traveling well in excess of the solar escape velocity.) They’re what Avi Loeb is bootstrapping a search for now. If those can be recovered all sorts of things can be tested and identified. It’s possible interstellar meteors are already in inventories and even studied but we don’t know what to look for to ID their source as such, yet.

But more directly, absorption spectra are so intimately tied to the QM of the molecules and elements involved that they’re probably unique. (Hunch/not seen a proof.) This is also the most experimentally verified theory known.
That's really interesting, and something I haven't read before. Thank you for the idea
Fair enough.

Then if was you I would express similar concerns because the Koch brothers and powerful economic players in general have by definition way more power over political decisions - or non decisions - and our lives than the unions. Unions are merely a weak counter power.

I'm not even making a negative jugement here, this is just how power works.
For anyone not in the US.

1. Having a gun without serial numbers isn't doing the current owner any favors, it's doing one for the previous owner (who in this case sold it illegally to a felon). If anything it's detrimental to the current owner as it's going to raise eyebrows during an interaction with a LEO.

2. If you have a gun without serial numbers, etched off or otherwise, it's still illegal to transfer that firearm to a new owner.

I'm not a law or a gun expert so take all that with a big grain of salt.
> Don't punish people for being entrepreneurial, it's completely un-American

America has a long history of owners doing everything in their power to control, literally or by proxy, their workers.

It also has a long history of making sure "those people"/workers/etc know their place and stay in it.
Indeed. In an alternate universe, the Chief Information Security Officer of Equifax is giving interviews about the dangers of work from home for cyber security roles, informed by her masters in music composition and 0.0 years of IC experience as deep expertise.

I'm still astounded no one ended up in jail over that. Software Engineering really does need some professionalization.
Those won't tell you the solution; they'll tell you a number that is near the solution.

When the solution is irrational, as is common for polynomials, it might be difficult to guess what it is based on knowing an approximation of it.
Ours has them clearly displayed on the large maps in each room. It makes it pretty easy to skip sections if you are so inclined.
The main problem with zoom and others is that echo cancellation prevents people from speaking simultaneously, while VR essentially forces people to all wear a headset and turn off the echo cancellation and allow people to speak simultaneously.
could we do an experiment to "unlock the full potential" of disabled vets, maybe if they are only 20-30?

Or does that attract downvotes too because disabled, needy, or old means you don't have potential?
>1. Is this legal in all jurisdictions an employee could conceivably be based in?

I don't see why not. To my knowledge employment information isn't protected by law, and presumably whoever provided equifax that information turned it in willingly.
What about Google Keep? Does this come with an enterprise licensing agreement?

I agree this is a good bar to test against, although I don't believe consumers are savvy enough to be aware of such matters. Nor should they be required to do so to get confidence what Google offers them today will remain tomorrow. With that said, should is an extremely arbitrary word.
I have an old ikea shelf storage that I had to disassemble/assemble at least 3 times to move. I lost few small parts. I was able to order a replacement from their site free of charge by part number. There aren’t that many furniture companies, from which you can reorder parts that easily even for newer items.
https://notyourneighbor.substack.com/
There will be many technocratic explanations, but in the end it'll just be like land management policy which prevented small-scale natural wildfires from burning year after year and eventually ended up in a conflagration.
I like to use the phrase "I don't need to be better than someone else; just better today than I was yesterday".
I felt similar and quit my team for a project that has a clear backlog and no one else working on it. Feels good to read through public bug reports with lots of people affected and actually fix things. My last team was losing pretty much everyone. Half the team has quit since about a year ago. There just wasn't much bandwidth to get me the attention I wanted - 1:1 time learning and working with experienced people. I'd rather just work alone and see my direct impact than wander aimlessly.
Are people seriously suggesting that, though?

We already have an equivalent alternative for internal combustion engines for passenger cars, plus some other types of vehicles in some situations. No, not every situation and every vehicle, but if we could replace all passenger cars with EVs overnight, that would make a huge dent in emissions. Yes, we'd still have all sorts of construction equipment, 18-wheelers, etc. running off gasoline. But that's ok, for now. Of course we can't even replace passenger cars; most legal efforts to phase out ICEs in passenger cars have timelines that we should have already hit, but are still years, and in some places decades, away -- if they exist at all.

On electricity generation, new renewable plants are coming online at a decent pace, but we could be so much farther along by now if it wasn't for special interest groups and lobbyists clinging to the status quo. At the very least, we should have our daylight-hour needs 100% met by renewable sources by now, but we're nowhere near there. It's pathetic.
Those cosmic rays are an absolute gold mine of particle physics potential. Some of them easily exceed any accelerator we could build without going solar system scale.

Edit-the best I can think is have every satellite built with a particle detector as a standard. No idea if those could be scaled down.

Edit2-seems doubtful.
Does this "wearing down the shopper" really work on a significant portion of people? I've basically always gone through the labyrinth for fun, and then just pick up the one or two items I'd noted down from the website from the warehouse area...

It's also funny that they use TfL signage as the "gold standard", because tube stations do actually take you on longer than necessary paths (for better circulation at busy times I think, to try and avoid streams of people going opposite directions to clash, so it takes people going one way through a longer circuit to avoid it). If you know where to go you can actually take shortcuts at many stations and get out quicker.
I had to use Tcl/Tk for some computational chemistry circa 2005. I'm sure it seemed amazing in the early 90s for quick GUI apps, but 10 years later it was just an absolute nightmare compared to powerful languages like Python.
I wonder what the split is; how many of the population find it exhausting vs enriching.

The “war psychology” resonates with me, but I can’t stand spending time in an IKEA store; the experience is draining and frustrating, while everything they sell is disposable, cheap, off-gassing melamine and fiberboard.

It breaks quickly, and you find yourself back at IKEA buying another cheap furniture piece.

When I was young and poor, I hated IKEA even more after wasting time and hard-earned money there.

Instead, I started buying used, high-quality furniture, made of natural materials, from second-hand furniture stores.

Just as affordable, more durable, more enjoyable to own, and I was able to sell/give it on when I was less poor.
To what extent can you demand hours from a contractor?
Did Zuckerberg’s dance show us real metaverse legs?
Not entirely sure of your use case. You could maybe use backlinks for this. Say have a summary document within obsidian for a work project, and backlink to your existing notes which are relevant. You can even link specific blocks of text in a note.

Another option is to write a document up in Obsidian, then upload the markdown to google docs. Or there are obsidian plugins converting obsidian notes to Word format.
Same in Allaman, Switzerland. I wonder if it's sometimes required by law. Anyway, seeing the wheat fields and the villages from inside the store has always been part of the experience for me.

IKEA is a bit like Disneyland. You know where it is, you know it's just a place, but it feels weirdly magical and nostalgic. Even the smell is always exactly the same.
Ask HN: Pen and paper vs. using an app to brainstorm ideas
After talking to other independent developers who build apps, many of them mentioned that they use pen and paper/iCloud notes over apps and tools, mainly due to easy of use and speed. Which method do you prefer?
Have you looked into Julia? It seems pretty promising for scientific computing.
In our store the main entrance lets you go into the showrooms, jump to the middle where the smaller items like kitchen goods are, or go to the cafe. In each “room” there are large maps showing the overall network, where you are and the shortcuts between rooms. It’s pretty easy to navigate. Of course you can also enter at the registers, walk through the warehouse and get to the end of the shops that way too.
According to the latest studies, IQ is largely determined by early exposure to abstract thought. This is the main reason IQ is still rising in first-world nations where malnutrition hasn't been an issue for generations. If you rob a grade school kid of playground time and learning to share toys, and instead force them to grind out math lessons and computer science problems, their adult IQ will be significantly higher.

They might end up tremendously unhappy, of course. It just goes to show how raw IQ is a silly measure to value, let alone optimize for.
At one previous place, some of the devs seemed to think so - they continually rewrote an internal tool I used that broke all my integrations every time but provided no additional features that I could ever find. Often they took things out, but they were quite proud of how many lines of code they changed.

I've become a skeptic of this attitude.
This is a very common straw man argument against unions and it's indeed not one that you are using. I think we are both right.
The paid sync service is only really needed for the mobile app. Otherwise you can sync the vaults however you like.
Eventually ads, tracking, etc are just going to be proxied by the app server, along with normal app server traffic, to one IP and you can't do much effective filtering in the end.
Not really relevant to the current company
It seems the two quarter definition is British? From Wikipedia

> In the United Kingdom, a recession is defined as negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.

So, technically, the US is in recession in the UK.
Garbage company that collects data about people who are definitively not their customers or users in any way, shape, or form and then loses that data because of the aforementioned garbage qualities.

It should have been liquidated and the proceeds split amongst the victims after that happened.
For the last 30 years, 90% has been paper, and 10% has been via online notes or whiteboards. I've also led brainstorming sessions among engineering groups.
Another possibility is this is a Meta marketing effort because in the Metaverse you aren't looking at a screen so, ah, you can be creative? Seems like a rational explanation.
if you're making multiple images in a batch, you should be able to run those in parallel. or have one GPU training concepts (e.g. textual inversion) while the other renders, or if you're doing style transfer you could do frames in parallel.
Kung Fu Chess – real-time chess without turns
To the extend that he had contractual confirmed to you.
> high inflation triggering consumers into savings mode

Huh? The rational response to inflation is to spend. The only thing that inflation triggered, vis-a-vis saving, was a shift from cash and bonds to stocks and real estate.
The Nothing is winning in our world.
Go bonkers. Go crazy. Shake your fist at clouds. Get jokerfied.
Electrolysers exist and are rapidly approaching parity with gas.

Fossil fuels already require massive subsidy and military spending, and there never has been and never will be a thermal fission reactor that can run without subsidy.
> pulchritudinous

wow, that's some word of the year type shit. it means "beautiful" for those who were about to look it up.
That is a good example, thank you. Have you ever overcome this limitation?
To do this, wouldn't you need access to the specific AI you were trying to fool?
Sure if that somehow improves the drought conditions in the US southwest. (And it might considering the rain the southwest experienced this year.) Seems odd to prioritize hurricanes that don’t really seem to affect the South that much while the southwest has millions of people experiencing wildfires and in danger of running out of water. Run out of water and literal society fails. Too many more wildfires and we might start losing whole forests. NM looked to have come close this year.
No game "requires" a really high-end graphics card, but some can certainly take advantage of it if you're into pretty, high-resolution, high-framerate graphics.
Read the text of the GDPR directly. It’s surprisingly readable, and there’s several well-organized hypertext versions online.

It’s been several years since I read the GDPR, but my recollection is that companies smaller than 150 people, who don’t process “sensitive” data (sexual orientation, etc.) have lighter requirements. Again, read the GDPR itself for details.
With AI nearly anything can be weponised.
Depends on the context. Planning some task list? Something that uses lines of text or task cards. Infrastructure? Draw.io.

I can't say I have a preference - what is easiest to access at the time will do. But never pen and paper - I'll need to share this anyway, so writing it twice seems like a waste of time.
We're on Azure, otherwise those were my goto choices too.
Counseling, career counseling, career coaching and mentorship are all eminently affordable and right up your alley.
>"The US is in a recession". Perfectly valid and reasonable statement and any economist and most people vaguely interested in economics and politics will know exactly what is meant if they heard that today.

Agree to disagree I guess
Not sure that's really the case. Carbon capture and sequestration is a thing, and is something we know that we can do with current technology. This atmosphere modification plan is still entirely theoretical, and any scientist who believes they can actually model all potential consequences is a quack, at best.

Certainly carbon capture won't be enough; we do need to reduce emissions. We have the technology to do that, but often not the political will. I don't know how to fix that. Fortunately the move toward renewable sources of electricity does continue to march on, just a lot slower than it needs to be.

> Yes, unintended side effects.

What if the unintended side effects are worse than the effects of climate change?
There is, but for a new starter they will need pointers and recommendations. It is unlikely they can dive into any ticket and make a
bunch of changes. They need the team’s help to succeed.
I left big corporate tech a decade ago, and it was true then too. You'd get bonuses and stellar performance reviews for fixing big, high-visibility problems, or many small ones that amounted to little more than clients asking us to look things up in the docs for them. If you tried to help someone who was unhappy and at risk of leaving for another vendor, but not someone who plays golf with your boss's boss, you risk getting a DSAT from them, but no credit if you retain that client. If you fix the thing that prevents big problems, or many small questions, from coming in in the first place, you also get no credit. More likely, if you do something that brings 100 problems down to 5, you're blamed for those 5 that come in.
It is indeed doing a lot of heavy lifting. But I don't think it's all that infeasible, and doesn't require taxing everything into the ground.

There are lots of things, primarily in the domain of corporate regulation and incentives, that we can do to reduce per-capita pollution. Plugging externalizations, in turn, has a virtuous effect on demand (since businesses will push some of the costs onto consumers, and consumers will respond by maximizing purchase value over longer timeframes).
$4,500/month is a bit less than Starlink maritime at $5,000/month. I can't imagine it's cheap to provide the support needed for a warzone. There aren't any similar services with public numbers to compare this cost to that are in an active warzone.
Pretty soon the only comments being made about how AI "can't do that" and "that's years away" will be made by AI.
(Note: "inheritable" here is not exclusive to inherited genetics; it also refers to upbringing.)
(Quantum Computing Simulator) Quantum weirdness in the browser (Hackaday Quirk)
Azure is our cloud provider. Interface is flexible, since our current implementation leverages Prisma ORM connected to Postgres & SQL Server. We're going to have to rebuild it anyway.
AI (curve fitting) is by definition stereotyping. If stereotyping is not appropriate for the decision you're making, don't use it for that.
>The labor force participation rate is still lower than it was pre-pandemic:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOP65UPTOZSUSA

>Consumer loans are substantially higher than pre-Covid

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP
That's a pretty lousy policy from Moto, even more so considering it has a decent Qualcomm SoC in it.

Android 9 got its last regular security update in January of 2022. If Google's pattern continues, Android 11 itself should continue to get regular security updates until Q1 2024.

What a waste.
We need to send a probe to make measurements... *googles WASP-76 b*

*640 light years away*

Hmmm, how are we going to do this?
> "it was a tremendous limitation that reduced our capabilities and the creative choices that were even possible."

A counter argument to this is that the limitations forced better artistship. For instance before music recording studies had autotune and easy overdub or cut-and-paste, musicians had to be able to play things correctly for the whole song.
NSF solicits for a new educational center at the Arecibo Observatory
Isn't your whole point that goods were already paid for in one quarter but were held up until the next quarter to clear? If consumption and import were in the same quarter then it doesn't affect GDP at all in an accounting sense. But in your example, you get a +GDP in the quarter that consumption happened, making it seem like domestic production went up, then against that baseline you get a -GDP "due to" imports the next quarter, so you must "lose" the domestic production as a correction.

If the ships bailed and stole your money or destroyed their goods I'm not sure if that still counts as imports or not.
I had a couple questions, as this feature is awesome!

How long does it take to get the response vs external bots pulling the data? What mechanisms does GitHub have in place to stop bots who monitor repo changes? I ask, as I have been there and it is super scary how fast someone/bot pulls repo data changes, as in minutes, and the repo we had back then was not popular.
When to vendor (or not) your dependencies in Rust
On some fundamental level Processing and its ilk succeeded because it just worked and the time from opening the main web page to typing some code and seeing a graphical, animated result was as close to zero as anything could be, which is nearly true today even. It's impressive. The documentation was exceptionally good: every method documented with multiple graphical examples, almost exhaustively. I can't think of anything as accessible from the same era.

From previous eras, maybe Flash, Visual Basic, QBasic and friends -- but they were nothing like Processing.

No real need for libraries, a huge batteries-included standard library. You can practically do rudimentary computer vision with a small subset of the builtins, all of which fit on a single monitor. It's pretty nuts.
I don't.

Please expand on what my bias is. I'm curious.
Direct involvement with drafting communications standards. Understanding Communication theory, advanced mathematics & algorithms. Computer Science involved with Hardware acceleration of the DSP algorithms. Quality of Results measurement and testing involving ridiculously expensive test equipment. (Like one piece of test equipment will cost as much as a house) Large scale chip manufacturing will require direct involvement with Semiconductor fabrication plants. the baseband comms chips are basically driving the latest small-scale wafer technology and requires the fab to evolve new techniques and new machinery. A 'winner takes all' environment, where the winning company will either win the mutli-million dollar contract, or take a huge hit. Because the baseband side is inherently centralized, it's not realistic to have many separate deployed solutions. I worked on comms for many years. It's interesting because so much human effort has been spent finding very sophisticated ways for processing large numbers of independent signals, and correcting errors. There are very intersting problems like digital pre-distortion, adaptive equalization etc. and crazy linear algebra problems. But the down side, is that you would most likely be working on a small piece of the large puzzle, and there is very little recognition for the amount of work required. There are very few 'famous' baseband engineers. The feeling is very much like a cog in the machine you you don't really see your direct contribution.
Learning causes material changes in the brain and thus it is not 100% about DNA.
As long as you don't need master key escrow to essentially be with the vendor (ex google / apple), you can have the master key backed up elsewhere so you can pass the mud puddle test [0], and the vendor has no way to access the master key, I'm ok.

But push google / apple about solving mud puddle problems and it's curiously missing from their wallet implementations and they stutter around it when they give talks about FIDO2 and such and people ask them. It's the lock in direction they see everyone going towards that makes people uncomfortable.

[0] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w...
Use it quite a lot.

Well, IBM simulator is not as bad as the essay said. Both are good. And IBM or Qiskit with clear explanation plus video e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgA4Dx_7q34 all goods.

is it Tried Azure ... still go nowhere. May be I should try harder.
Ship's Cat
The solution is to normalize begging. Make it cool. Begging should be re-framed as a fun, ethical way to earn an income. Also, in many countries, such income classifies as a gift and so is tax free!
I read that as each camera is the size of a virus and that there are a million of them on the surface of the device.
tl;dr:

> Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar lifted each leg in the air, then did a jump, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air.
> Do you really believe the quality of public discourse has not degraded over the time social media have become ascendant, or that people weren't easily fooled even before?

Previous generations had TV mainlined into their brains.
Consciously knowing that comparing yourself too much to others is one thing, actually stopping it is a whole different story at least for me. I didn‘t succeed yet. But I noticed that the idea of having 20% personal growth each year is really strong
The Appeal of Scientific Heroism