skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brief update from the UK's Royal Astronomical Society, which is mentioned and linked to in the article, is pertinent. It was posted on 22nd December 2022.

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/update-ras-and-jwst

"The RAS recently wrote to the UK Space Agency, ESA and NASA to express its concerns about the original JWST naming process, the apparent failure to investigate James Webb’s background and the dismissal of requests to rename the telescope.

NASA has now published the findings of an investigation into Webb by its official historian. The Society welcomes this report, and notes that it finds no evidence that Webb took an active part in the ‘Lavender Scare’, the purges of gay men from the United States federal workforce in the 1940s and 1950s."
Saudi Government Buys Majority Stake in Magic Leap
Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
I've been happy using/buying products recommended in previous threads and I figured I'd get another one started for the end of the year.

So HN: what are some items you bought or services you've started using (could be paid apps, OSS projects, etc.) this year that you swear by?
Not until these supposed "good activists" loudly and vociferously throw these toxic people out, and under the bus (and very publicly). Until that happens, they are mucking around in the same mud as the pigs, which makes them indistinguishable.
Took me less than a minute to find an article showing one of those farms and it dates 2014. So yeah, today, it wouldn’t be a surprise if there were thousands. https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/economy-business-finance-and-l...
It is illegal to distribute copies unless you are the copyright holder. It is, however, a civil offense and so the copyright holder must ask for it to stop or, if that fails, file a lawsuit. IF one of those copyright holders shows up with a lawsuit, they can use the years and years of distribution to pile on damages, and the fact that IA knows it is technically illegal to make it stick. IA is betting that it won’t happen. Most of those companies are defunct, or have been sold so many times that nobody remembers them specifically. Some, like Sega, seem content to ignore it and passively benefit from reminders of past success. Quite a few authors of ancient games have written reviews of their games on IA; that subgroup seems uniformly overjoyed that people can play their games again.

Nintendo is deluding themselves because they think that every one of their old properties can earn them more money in the future, and that’s all they care about. If someone has an urge to play Mario, Nintendo would prefer that they satisfy this need by purchasing the most recent Mario–themed game rather than by playing the original in emulation. The same goes for all of their lesser works as well. Thus they complained and IA has hidden all the Nintendo items.

Amiga, or the two or three companies that bought various parts of it, are deluding themselves into thinking that they can release a new Amiga computer and operating system in the future, revitalizing the old business.
Thank you for sharing this. I remember a while back there was a major social justice controversy at Basecamp which started with a senior exec using some insensitive language. An employee then shared the “pyramid of hate” with “biased attitudes” at the bottom and…you guessed it, “genocide” at the top. This annoyed me at the time.

I thought what you described is the perfect antidote to that argument, with “speech policing” at one end and “mob lynching” at the other, or even worse.
It isn’t going to be clean burning, but the clothes are presumably bone dry which helps.

Really though it’s not about how good an energy source this is, but just how much old junk people have. I have seen people toss several hundred pounds of old clothes that don’t have any real value. It’s the same with old books they don’t burn that well but when you have a half a ton you might as well burn em vs toss them in a landfill.
Does not seem to work on mobile. Is that why the "coming soon" message appears?
You can "share" to your print provider (I use Mopria on mine) and it will display a preview of the output.
It looks like everything is moving to a lisp-like structure. brackets... brackets everywhere.
I'm glad I lack passion to be a programmer
I wish there was a good web-based alternative to PDF.
> Other reason is that kernel requires some minimal level of code quality and many of the closed source ones are basically "the minimum to make the customer use case work"

I think this is the real, actual reason. Having worked in embedded for a long time, the coding horrors are endless and routine. There's no way 99.99% of embedded software would ever pass the kernel's strict code quality standards. It's easier to just ship a "bastardized" (as others here are calling it) patched kernel.
You're washing the bottom of your plates too, right? Might as well make the carrying easier
Does this mean the mining has suddenly become easier & more profitable w/ lower difficulty rates for the remaining 60% capacity to keep it 1 block/10 minutes?
You may not care, but science as a whole has a responsibility to do more help than harm. Anyways I feel like we’re kind of arguing past each other. I agree studies should be done; I just don’t think people should be getting news articles written up at n=15; that seems deceptive.
Almost immediately after the NC ones happened, there was generated consensus online that this was the work of conservatives upset at a drag show happening somewhere in the state.

That’s where politics comes in: instant outrage at beyond-unproven, unfounded speculation.

Whoever did this were assholes. What their political leanings were is not yet discovered.
Passing the Pen Test For Sales (2015)
Maintaining the reservoir consumes water, because it exposes thousands of times as much surface area for evaporation vs. a narrow river.
All I want is one productivity app that can handle everything
Converting an ETL Script to Software-Defined Assets
After stocking the woodstove and building the base, I get a wad of newspaper and put dryer lint in it. Then put the wad on top of the log pile right under the flue/exhaust pipe and light it. Then immediately light the rest of my kindling to get the fire going.
Well here I am on HN, so I'm in a bit of a relapse, but personally I've noticed that not being on social media correlates with:

- talking with strangers at the grocery store

- working on my novel

- building things in my garage

- antagonizing institutions that I think have crossed a line

And those things are meaningful to me in ways that being on social media is not.

As for whether such activities trickle up into some kind of high level aggregate good, I don't know, but it's not hard to guess at how they might.
I wish there was a markup language that gave you the full power relatively of PDF, with page sizes and all of that.

And a fairly universal converter to turn that markup language into a document.

Then we could use our pre-existing template systems that we use for all the HTML for PDFs and get rid of all these crazy systems that enterprises used to build all the PDF reports
I agree that fundamentally this is an expense that we can keep up for quite a while, but I’m not sure about the idea “these weapons are to contain Russia, therefor we don’t have to worry about using them to contain Russia” for a couple reasons.

First, hypothetically is the US were to fight Russia, we’d use a different mix of weapons. So it is putting unexpected pressure on our supply of Javelins, because they are doing the work that would normally be done by, whatever, JDAMs or something.

Also there must be some of what we programmers would think of as oversubscription or deduplication of weapons — I mean if we have like 2 war’s worth of weapons to handle all our competitors and we expend one war’s worth of weapons to handle one competitor, then we suddenly only have one war worth of weapons to handle all the rest. We haven’t expended one war’s worth of resources on Russia but it is worth keeping in mind that this isn’t like, literally zero cost or something like that.

Edit: also another thing that rubs me the wrong way with this description is, it seems to play into the narrative that Russia and the US never could have gotten along. The real hope is that the overwhelming US lead has a deterrent effect on countries that might want to start a war. The best weapons are ones that don’t get used.
One in ten turns being told to do the wrong thing sounds incredibly annoying. Maybe if you’re driving on the highway for long stretches, but otherwise that would be awful.
Once again, you’re making a lot of assumptions about the person you’re replying to.
Was there any theological content on offer? Among the big differentiators between the Amish and the rest of my Anabaptist ilk was a commitment to pacifism, in addition to rejection of religious hierarchy, e.g. Rome or a Synod.

Joining the NRA seems about like https://www.effectivealtruism.org/, NTTIAWWT
It's difficult, like the difference between knowing a car is going crash and being able to estimate how it will look afterward. You can (to some extent) access these models and try them out yourself: https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/ClimateModels/dFyeI/0.2.15
Identity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
More than political considering it’s the middle of winter. They’re enemy combatants.
I was talking about the stuff after “By these standards we shouldn't celebrate the NASA moon landings because.”
The First Technicolor Film, and How It Went Horribly Wrong
+1 to the nod to Zeihan. He's had OP's point on blast on his free channels (newsletter, YouTube) for at least 12 months now.
Correct. Infinite scroll and adaptive algorithms are the curse of social media.
Truth and "truth" are, of course, opposites.
No, because difficulty only adjusts every two weeks.
The futuristic building is CalPoly Pomona's CLA building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLA_Building
Organizational Muscle Memory
This tracks for me. MOST of the code I have on github is just random little projects testing out stuff. I don't intend to work on it long term, so I don't go out of my way to make it maintainable, readable, or anything.
Once Decker launched, I ate it up, and especially Lil, which is super cool. But man, have you seen the source code style? It’s like minified JS, but it’s straight C. Pretty hard to visually parse.
A set is countable iff there is a sequence that counts it. That doesn't require that there be One True Notion of next-ness in the set itself.

For instance, if I give you the rational number 337/912 and ask "what's the next rational number?" there isn't a canonical answer. But the rational numbers are countable.

So the fact that there isn't a canonical answer to "what's the next real number?" doesn't tell us anything about whether or not the real numbers are countable.

(For the avoidance of doubt: in ordinary set theory with ordinary logic, the reals are definitely not countable. The research being reported on here looks at what happens when you weaken your logic, by throwing out the "law of the excluded middle", and weaken your set theory, by not having any form of the "axiom of choice". It turns out that in this case there are multiple things you might reasonably mean by "the real numbers", and for at least one of these you can no longer prove that they're uncountable, and we can tell this because there's a so-called topos in which "the real numbers" are countable. A topos is a sort of generalized "notion of what a set is", and if something is provable intuitionistically and without any version of the axiom of choice then it is true in every topos. I think. Something along those lines, anyway.)
Yes, I'm sure such exercises work fine for any real-life OS: if you take, say, Ubuntu 1.0, then run all the intermediate upgrade steps, you'll eventually end up with an up-to-date system as well.

The real question, though, is: after a successful OS upgrade, how many of your installed apps still work without issues?

On Linux, this varies: popular source-available apps tend to do fine, whereas less-common and proprietary (not to mention expensive!) apps fail after even minor updates, with no other resolution than 'ask your app supplier to do better', which is not always an option due to said supplier being too burned-out, bankrupt, or both.

On MacOS, apps generally seem to have a 2-5 year lifetime, after which they break for various (often minor) reasons. Resolution is as per above, and often unavailable due to suppliers disappearing or giving up because of to the relatively small size of the MacOS market. iOS has similar issues.

On Windows, you can generally continue to use even the most obsolete apps for 10-20 years, and often even longer. Of course, traumatic generational changes (obsoleting DOS or 16-bit WinAPI apps) still take their toll, but compared to other operating systems, this happens a lot less often, and migration tooling is often available.
I do the same in Obsidian with a slight twist!

I like Zettelkasten / bunch-of-markdown-files tools because more often than not they _expand_ on this simple idea, offering additional structure on top without aiming to destruct anything.
What bothers me is this: Popper once argued that to prove something, you need to falsify the claim. I am reminded of the story about "no such thing as a black swan", which held right up until someone brought a black swan into town from afar.
> Every entertainment is equally at fault

Clearly not. That would be like dismissing Siberian tigers as just cats, and pretending they're no more dangerous than the average housecat. The taxonomy is the same, but the similarities end there.
Yeah, I'm not saying that this is actually true, only that it's not absurd on its face. As I understand it (and I am absolutely not an expert here) North American indigenous populations separated from Asians at the end of the ice age, i.e. ~10,000 years ago, and since then had no exposure to alcohol. That seems like plenty of time for genetic predisposition to alcohol tolerance to be reduced. So it's possible and worthy of serious consideration and investigation. Whether it's actually true is a completely different question, one where the jury is still pretty clearly out.
When will we call this domestic terrorism?
What's the point of that distinction? Are you allowed to shoot them on sight or something?
I think that the red line is definitely crossed whenever a third party is involved.

It's okay for a shop to optimize what they sell and recommend things based on customer data. What is not okay is for a shop to share customer data with any other third party.

Note that by third party I do not only mean advertisers, but I also mean hosting services such as Amazon, Google, Facebook etc.: if you think at them as long streets with shops on the sides, I do not think many people would appreciate having said street filled with surveillance cameras that track everybody's movement and purchases and sells this information.
Old school programmer, of the mind set of DIY/roll own tool.

My experience/backround: pipy / python is more complex setup than using midi2tex,awk to format for grep search.

Awk typically used to convert files between formats. There are readily available midi to text conversion tool(s) finable via a search engine.

In this case, using awk to convert midi file to text format (or make use of a format from a midi to text tool) that can be use with grep would be the implied step.
I have been using GitHub copilot for several months now, nearly half the code in a side gig is written with copilot. then came chatgpt, I like it better on what I communicate with it and the code it generates and explains it and I can ask it to modify the generated code. I wish copilot gets chatgpt as the core soon as I prefer that style and the quality of code I get.

yes there are occasional bugs in code but you can find and debug it when you run the code.
You’ll need to pair it up with a super fast laser printer to be able to get it all properly code reviewed.
You're right, d2-docs will be changed to render all diagrams with Dagre or ELK instead.

The docs existed before D2 was open source and we had open source layout options. Most of it already is, but there's a few that aren't, just carried over from before. Sorry about that.

https://github.com/terrastruct/d2-docs/issues/43

> By the way I've just realised why your github repo does not provide the sources of the diagrams in docs - it would blow your game wide open, once users start asking why they aren't getting the results depicted. And almost no compileable examples, either

Not sure what you mean no compilable examples. Full source of the docs is at https://github.com/terrastruct/d2-docs including all the examples. The first example in the Github repo also had a line "Rendered with the TALA layout engine" so the source was upfront.

> Will you please stop lying? I am not "mad" because something isn't free, but because you're misrepresenting the nature of your D2 language. It is not something that you're making available to benefit community, but a thinly disguised marketing ploy.

We're running a company, we're absolutely interested in making money.

But open sourcing D2 doesn't just help us with user acquisition, it certainly also helps the community in adding another open source alternative in the text to diagram market. And it's good quality code. If we go under, someone else can pickup the torch and fork D2.

And it's incorrect to say that the free engines are not as good. They absolutely are suitable alternatives and do beat TALA in many instances. The team behind ELK is very talented and have been working on it for 10+ years. It's not even in our interest to hide the best parts of D2, or else no one would use it. I'd even go as far to say TALA won't ever beat them in all cases, especially when the structure is hierarchical. But that's ok, they all use different algorithms and that's what makes them great for their niches. TALA is specifically for software diagrams, in instances such as if you have many nested containers. We have plans to continue developing more in open-source, such as sequence diagram layouts that were added recently.

See https://d2lang.com/tour/layouts/

If you can quote a specific piece of text on our GitHub or website, we will change it to make it more clear that D2 is fully open source and TALA is just an optional optimization.
There were various domestic bombing attacks in the USA in the 1950, the kkk killed over 3000 people in the first half of the 1900s and in the 60s and 70s various political groups planned assassinations.

Things are bad now, but no worse than they have been.
It’s a difference of degree not kind. The constant audiovisual stimulus running through the internet is much more powerful than any of those things, and more widely available. Cable TV was close. It was always on in the room, but you had to be in the room, and you had to negotiate with your cohabitants over what to have on, or else you could go somewhere and be bored. There are no constraints anymore, with exceptions for the most impoverished among us - there’s always something close at hand to tickle your particular reptile brain until you fall asleep.
> people didn't like the idea that there could be a parallel infection going around

That sounds like fearmongering though.

This is a combination of at least two (if not more) unlikely factors happening in the same person. One of the is prior exposure to a pathogen, one of them is having the right kind of gene, and this study can't rule out other additional factors.

The pathogen is likely to be something which has been with the human race for thousands of years, not anything novel to the human race like SARS-CoV-2.

There's no point in trying to change your behavior to avoid trying to contact this other pathogen.

The pathogen may also be something incredibly common, but other accidental factors conspire to produce this exact antibody.
Good point; I agree but I don't have this figure handy. The "this many persons" was more of a fun aside, though. The main thing to know is that it's 1% of electricity in the USA as well as a big impact on the world's CO2 budget.
Can I read about it without having the modal annoying login window? At $100M+ you should be doing alright to afford your own server?
You owe me a new keyboard ;-)
90% right is superficially impressive but in actual practice is abysmal.

Voice recognition software needed to get to 99.9% accuracy to be actually useable.
Enpass, an offline password manager with option of syncing vault to third party apps like Dropbox or Google drive. https://www.enpass.io/
iOS Notes should be enough for anyone, but I hate that you can't link between notes in any reasonable way (sharing the note to myself sucks and forcing the system to give you the note id and creating your own internal notes link is tedious).

I basically use iOS Notes as a dumping ground and then occasionally clean it out like an Inbox. Mostly deleting things, but sometimes moving it into my Obsidian vault.

In theory Drafts is even better for this because it supports Markdown and is designed to be a dumping ground and rapid processing of the notes.
See also: https://markwhen.com

In a similar vein except for plotting events that I've been working on
I don’t know if I should tell anyone my secret, though after much hassle I have reversed my sleeping schedule, waking at midnight working until sixish, napping, and then screwing around all day like every day is a holiday.

It’s the dream!
I would expect they have cameras, maybe they don't have good coverage. I noticed the power substation in my city has cameras at the entrance gates.

This sure looks like domestic terrorism, hard to believe this is ordinary vandalism. These stations are everywhere so easy targets.
> It doesn’t seem very common for sales to happen without the founder sticking around though.

Typically there's a reason to keep founders around and it's not related to their output, but more as a figure head/tacit acceptance of the deal that is made.

If a larger company is swallowing a smaller company, they may want to continue to work with the founder/some members of the exec team to help with integration efforts for the companies.

In return, the members of this team typically added incentives and ability to generate even more wealth as a result.
midi2text dumped format that can be piped to jq to use jq search functions might be what looking for.
ubiquitous encryption -- people are typically transacting every day with their data protected
The argument was that the government could have controlled the miners if they wanted to. They never exercised that power (except to eventually ban mining) but it was there.
A huge chunk of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" Amish came from the Palatinate[1], which German dialect informs their speech, and explains why outsiders are collectively "The English".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatinate_(region)
So it looks like the school withheld awards from all students until after college admissions as part of a diversity program (so students wouldn't be judged on achievements during the college process). That's not just immoral, it's really stupid to handicap your students like that when you're the only one doing it
Social media has feedback loops that can adjust themselves orders of magnitude faster than legacy media, to keep you addicted (er, "engaged") with near zero friction.
Startup says its begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, to tweak climate
Steve Jobs openly talked about it a few times, right?
> Is there any kind of geographical map that shows in which states/cities these hashrates are?

https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

I didn't know this existed but randomly saw it in the website's menu while researching another comment. It even drills down to state level in the USA and province level in China if you click the button at the top of the map. Georgia is popular in the USA, anyone know why?
For the previous century, yes. However the British crown power was relatively contested up till the Battle of the Boyne.