skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astronomers probably should go on the quest for immortality since otherwise you are basically condemned to look at a still image. Even if that image contains a story from the earliest universe until now. It is a million states, but no real process.

What I find so fascinating is that the observations are still quite precise. How do you know the outer rims are rotating too fast? Couldn't this be some gravitational lensing and stars are actually much closer to the core than they appear?

How do you even begin to estimate the mass of a galaxy? How do you weight the behavior of a disc and combine it with keplers law to even see that something is wrong here? As a layman I would be perfectly happy with how galaxy are rotating... I find it fascinating that much is so precisely determined that we have to miss something.
I learned Pascal with these, which seemed to be all the rage in the 80's, or for Pascal, or the intersection of them.

SQLITE uses them now as well: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_aggfunc.html
I remember the term being printed on the wrappers the floppies came in, like this:
https://wundery-uploads-production.imgix.net/18634a79-e47e-4...

It may not be the colloquial name but it surely was used. And of course only knowing 5.25s and 3.5s, it sure looked weird that the bigger one was called "mini".
If the company is going to IPO in four years (as stated in another comment), it’s probably best to stick with salary alone for a year given the current macroeconomic climate. See how things are in 2024 and adjust. This is my low risk advice.
Well the team leading the Netflix adaptation is led by the same two who led GoT, so that's likely the expectation from those funding the project.
Endless OS v5 enters testing, showing a future direction for desktop Linux
Would love to see something like this built into tqdm[0]. Being able to attach a graph to the output would be a fantastic complement to postfixing the progress bar with current numbers.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/tqdm/
Plug-ins are always a personal choice. For me the most essential is fuzzy finder with ctrl-P. With this I can arrive at any file or line in a massive codebase damn near instantly.

I find vim with the right plugins is as capable as any IDE, you can at least have the basics like autocomplete and various syntax highlighters and linters. Personally I think developers who lean heavily on the IDE features of more common tools are using it as a crutch for not knowing the codebase very well or language features.

Part of the journey to vim mastery is the configuration of vim until it fits you like a glove, once you’ve configured it well you rarely need to touch the config files again.
You've intrigued me - what are the blatantly correct answers, and how do you know that these are wrong?

I did a search on DDG for "new york california distance".

The first result, https://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from-new-york-to-cal... has no "road distance", but claims the distance by plane is 2,441 miles.

The second result, https://www.rome2rio.com/s/New-York/California has no plane or car metrics but claims the distance by bus is 4733 km. Considering that the bus detours through Philly, Denver, Las Vegas, etc, the number you gave of 4.6K seems reasonable.

The third result, https://www.distance.to/California/New-york matches both numbers Neeva gave.
I'm not entirely ignoring it, but I don't believe it holds true for things like cars. I've driven bangers my whole life, I mean really driven them to death, some to the point where they die on the highway, and I will do a quick inspection to decide whether I want to fix that or just have it towed direct to junk.

Now, cars are insanely taxes in Denmark, near 300%, and they lose about half their value the first year of ownership.

Every 2 years, there is a mandatory inspection of the car.

I buy a car with the following requirements: 1. My strong intuition that it can survive for 2 years with zero maintenance. 2. After 2 years, my TCO will be less than if I rented a new car. 3. It's freshly inspected so I don't need to worry about that for the next 2 years.

Sure, I get to drive old cars, but I bear zero risk, if I crash it, or someone drives into it, or I chose to use it as a ladder while wearing muddy boots (has happned) to reach something up high, I can do it, I can treat it as trash, it does not matter, it's not losing any value because I already wrote it off. A rental car, you can't destroy.. I feel having a car that I can destroy is worth more than driving a new car.

If, after 2 years, it looks like it can pass inspection, I try, and if it's cheap to fix, I fix what needs fixing, and drive another 2 years. This is a super-win situation, because then my yearly COO becomes about half of what it costs to rent.
If it can't pass inspection, I toss it, and buy a new one and I have "broken even" compared to renting.

I get the "don't worry about maintenance" perk of renting combined with "not getting in trouble if it's pretty beaten up when I'm done with it" perk of owning.

Sure, it means that I run a risk of a sudden breakdown, in that case, I'll get it towed (to junk or home to fix) and I'll have to take the bus, work from home or arrange a day off for fixing it, but it's been my experience that it almost never happens that a freshly inspected car fails randomly within the two years until next inspection.
I tried waxing (just rub with plain old candle) the sliding surfaces, it helped a bit but didn't last long. However the wax helps during assembly, putting tight joints together.
I know I'm late to the game. Surely it should be evaluated on what it is now though, not what it used to be.

Compared to Amazon prime, there's more things there that take my fancy. If I were to choose one I'd go for prime.
Nice graphics, but the article misses what was the most interesting new (to me) idea in the books: the Droplets, which are made of "strong interaction" material so dense that miniscule amounts can destroy planets. I'd love to read more about this idea.
Maybe because I don’t trust someone who allegedly writes databases but is proud about not knowing python.
Oh yea unforseen that spending $700MM on nothing but naming (not even owning) some stadium and hundreds of millions on other silly stuff doesn't pay off. Now employees have to suffer with impact on their livelihoods.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-cryptocom-is-betting-...

Meanwhile their token is down nearly 96% (i.e. almost wiped out):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-com-cuts-workforce-nea...
Fedora 38 is taking shape: Budgie, Sway, and initial support for UKI
This paper generates an interesting research policy question: Why was Exxon able to create equal or better projections than the NASA?
But this is a discussion of dependencies between services. You need more tooling for managing inter-service dependencies as opposed to package dependencies within one monolith.
Look into something called Geos for the Commodore 64. It’s a full Macintosh competitor GUI OS with apps on a 2mhz 8 bit machine with 64k of RAM.

Yes it’s pretty minimal but things like it remind us just how wasteful so much of modern software is. A great deal of our bloat has reasonable explanations like a lot more data, lots more features, high DPI displays, etc but much of it is just lazy programming and too many layers of abstraction.
Similarly 3.5" disks were formally called "micro floppy disks" and often used to often be called that on packaging though, so it all makes sense: minicomputer/microcomputer <-> mini floppy/micro floppy ;)

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ymoAAOSwo8Zizjse/s-l1600.jpg
I think what he meant was that the style of JSX does lend itself well to parallelism (e.g different subtrees can execute in parallel), though to the best of my knowledge no such implementation exists (maybe something can be done with WASM or WebWorkers)
> but maybe what results is a relational database+ type thingy

This is called already called "object-relational" model. It was invented by Postgres in the 1980s. The relational model / SQL absorbs the best part of alternative systems and get better over time. SQL:2023 is adding support for graph queries (SQL/PCG).

Graph DBMSs are a passing fade.
Without opposable thumbs they didn't have anything that dolphins dont also have today
Guess I'm misremembering
crypto-anything

i-almost anything - usually mindless marketing.
Well we certainly wouldn't want to go around encouraging this sort of thing, think of all the other poor billionaires that might be affected!
The conversational one doesn't sound like an AI but some of the emphasis is still a bit awkward.

If I didn't know better I would have thought it was recorded by a person who was uncomfortable having their voice recorded.

Still insanely impressive though.
It still takes two civilizations the lightspeed time to establish superluminal comms, during which many things can change.
More money in it
It is not pedantic, as "Mastodon" is massively misnomered, and used where either the Fediverse or its open standard protocol ActivityPub is actually referred to. And as that happens more and more people get confused about this, so it prolongs if not pointed out at any opportunity.
They are not loopholes. They are convoluted processes designed to obscure their illegality, providing those who enable such a grotesque violation with plausible deniability and blame dispersion.

To what I imagine was everyone’s surprise, no one in the US really cares about 4a anymore. Nothing has changed since Snowden (in fact, the powers have managed to convince vast swaths that Snowden is the bad guy!), and it is pretty common knowledge that 4a is out the window with parallel construction and asset forfeiture…but it all still keeps churning.
Would you work for nothing?
Thinking, talking to peers,
Smartphones are a new invention and night was a dangerous time for a long time.
Quite odd article, when I click on picture to enlarge it, it opens completely different site and article from 3 years ago

https://scitechdaily.com/high-precision-map-shows-what-the-l...

Which I assume is using data from here

https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0756/versions/3
It's quite stellar that readers come away from some of these series with such different notions.

Look up lists of the best hard scifi and you'll find the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy, or at least the Three Body Problem, on almost every one.

Many readers come away from the first book stunned at how believable the technology feels compared to something like Star Trek or Star Wars.

I'll give you that the further the trilogy goes the looser the explanations get, but that's by design. We jump far, far to the end of the universe. How does anyone give a reasonable explanation for billion year advanced technology?

On the flipside, in the Expanse, humans are limited by physics and largely modern limitations, sure, but the crux of the story is built around a magical alien molecule for which we are never given an explanation. It's hard scifi to a degree, but no less soft than say, the sophon in ROEP.
I think they point here is, they make it obvious that they don't want to support JS,CSS, etc... The support for other protocols is the same thing - neither a finger page, nor a gophermap need css or JS.. So if you want to use it with the part of the web that requires those, this is not for you. It's a tool for those who use a different part of the web. Those who only need a TV and not a circus. One might see a commentary about the state of the web in the project, but not necessarily - it's just a tool for those who have a need for it, e.g to browse the intranet for a research institute.. if this browser is all you need for that you greatly reduce the attack vectors on your institute among other benefits.
Lots of good stuff ends up on iPlayer, including films.

As for the other ones, I do a month or two of Netflix each year and it's pretty much always a disappointment, though with a bit of digging there are normally 2 or 3 things I find to justify the price for a month or two.

Rather annoyingly, I find Amazon Prime Video has much more interesting content in general, though I have kind of worn that out now I think. With any of these services I might leave for a year, come back and find some of the exact same stuff is still pushed as 'popular' or 'featured'.

Really need to break bad habits around laptop use during films, then I can embrace subtitled foreign language films.
Huh huh huh floppy dongle huhuhubuh...

https://www.amazon.com/floppy-drive-usb-adapter/s?k=floppy+d...
The Dark Forest is a great book and the first one is alright. The fascination mainly stems from having a non-western sci-fi point of view since most other sci-fi books always were written from a Western protagonist standpoint. Also the backdrop is the cultural revolution which riles up a lot of people.
It was designed in 2013. Olimex seems to keep models around without retiring them longer than other companies like them.
1$. Good enough for Jobs…
Can you quote a source?
So sad that something useful only gets done when there is a business case for it.
Well potato potahto. O find the opposite. And as I need to have paid for iPlayer to watch Netflix on a TV then I may aswell just have iPlayer.
Uhh, need more details! What happened?
Therapods didn't all go extinct in fact. Survivors are called birds.
I liked it a lot more than Asimov's, for what it's worth. It's one of my favorite stories so, yes, I would say it's a masterpiece. The plot is not simplistic and the characters do not appear wooden to me.

The Expanse I liked even better (at least until the last book or two), though it probably helped that I didn't have trouble remembering the names. My western bias shows in that I had a lot of trouble telling apart the chinese names even on the second "read" (audio book) of the 3BP trilogy, especially when they then add nicknames into the mix. Da Chu and Chu Cheng are the same person¹, but besides him and a few other main characters, I had to get who's who from context. (And, pardon, but calling people Ding, Dong, and Meow takes me out of the story the first few mentions.) Whether I'd still like The Expanse more if I didn't have this problem in 3BP... hmm, probably yes because there's this 'political correctness' stuff that isn't really my thing, but it would certainly be a close call.

¹ Now that I look it up on Wikipedia, it's apparently spelled Shi Qiang and Da Shi. (Original spelling is from memory, last time I listened to the books was about a year ago)
"Proactively engaging on climate-related policy"

How true!
wInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
What I’m saying though is that their endgame is not to convert it back to fiat. It’s a currency for them. They’re not hodl’ing their bread money.
The major mental illness throughout the ages has been religion. Hearing the voices, seeing the visions, etc. It's clearly schizotypal behavior at the minimum. Transgender folks have no negative effect on culture where as religion is a net negative.
I share your feelings. These times, whenever I'm setting up a new TS project, feel like:

1) Look up "this months current way of doing things"

2) have a couple of horrible hours wrestling with tooling and the module system

3) add a new feature, install 1 lib with 30 deps

4) figure out that one dep does not work with TS/the chosen module system/whatever versioning related thing

5) go for a walk. scream into the void. come back to the desk.

6) browse through dozens of Github issues to figure out what is going on

7) decide to fork the according dep knowing that I'll hate myself in 3 months

8) ...

Yeah, so I'm kind of missing the good old YOLO JS times w/o semi-colons and stuff. But I need to say that I'm usually not opting for NodeJS for deep "OOP-alike" Domains. I think NodeJS' sweet spot is infrastructural things, MQ Consumers, glue code or little http fetching/posting orchestration scripts.
I never had too many issues without static typing because I intentionally kept things simple, had tests and rolled out updates consciously watching the ongoings.
2mhz

1 MHz ;)
Smalltalk has wheels and pedals. Java has AbstractBicyclePartFactoryBuilderSingletons.
Go for it. Where do you feel we should deport people for the crime of being atheist?
> Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience.

Technology evolves. Even if it may start with some low quality aspects, it doesn't need to stay that way.

> People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences.

Which is just different communication, not better, nor worse in general. Of course this kinda sucks for people who do not know the new communication-code well enough. But people do evolve communication to replace relevant missing parts. Body language for example was mostly replaced with emojis and memes, which can be better, or worse.

> we will forget what it's like to even be human.

You can't forget what you are. You are you everyday, ever minute, every second of your existence. What you speak about is people having a different culture from the one you know and understand. That's something completely different.

> technology is ultimately evil

Technology is a tool, is can't be evil or good. It's up to the users how they handle it.
If there's civilian terror, there's terrorism. What are you talking about. If you bomb bread lines, if your concept of siege is to pressure defenders by maximizing civilian casualties, you're a terrorist. If you use genocidal rhetoric, that doesn't help your case either.

You can deflect by talking about other countries all you want. That does not matter to the victims.
"Supports policies" is nothing tangible in itself. Exxon will do whatever makes them the most money possible.

If 'green energy' turns out to be that thing, they'll jump on it.
From the article (approx. quote)

> compensation to the top 25 hedge fund managers equal the combined salaries of all kindergarten teachers in the country

Those are people who deserves (have the right) to be compensated better for their work. It's a failing of the market, the system, a moral and cultural failing that they are not.

I refuse to belive we can not tweak our economies to value peoples work more fairly.
Redemption of Time really disappointed me tbh. I'd much rather than the original author wrote more than rubber stamping this fan fic.
https://pythonawesome.com/a-python-library-for-all-your-term...
Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge (2019)
I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday
I actually enjoyed reading about what characters in the book come up with, in terms of ideas for solving difficult situations. Quite clever really. Also I did not find the characters to be too "wooden". They have their individual mentality or views on life and act according to those.

It is not the best science fiction novel series I have ever read (that would probably be the original Dune novels), but it is a good one in my book (ha).
What is a bit sad is that JS and TS both get in the way of the development of something more sensible to replace it. I had hoped that WASM would make application development for the browser a bit more sane. I had hoped that someone would create an application framework for a sane, strongly typed, mainstream, compiled language that has decent tooling. With compiler and dynamic loading as part of the runtime.

JS is a garbage language. You need only look at identity or all the stupid asymmetries in the language to realize it isn't a well designed language. TS tries to fix that, and good job for doing that, but you can't escape the fact that it is desperately trying to fix a pig with lipstick, botox and hold-in pantyhose.
There are some universities that don't require research, so if you want to only teach you can go to one of them. It's a solved problem. Anyway, the best universities require research, opting out of research so you get less money, less prestige, and not the top students.

Also, accumulating published papers is important to get a new position in the future, so only teaching is a risk for your future career.

For teaching some of the topics to advanced students, it's important to have people that do research and is updated with the cutting edge results. Also to babysit the graduate students so they can publish their results. For teaching the students in the first years, research is probably overrated.
> But aren't micro-service specifically designed to be able to split responsibility of a large system between multiple teams.

That's the idea, but business transactions usually span multiple services and bugs often aren't scoped to a specific service.

> If everybody debugs and fixes bugs across the whole landscape, than everybody has to be familiar with everything

A lot of things can be picked up along the way while you're debugging, and I'm usually able to identify the problem and sometimes even fix it.

> I might be that the chosen abstractions don't fit well.

Very often the case. Once created, services remain somewhat static, their purpose and responsibility often gets muddy. Mostly because "refactoring" microservice architecture is just very expensive and work intensive. Moving code between modules within a monolith is rather easy (with IDE's support), moving code between services is usually not trivial at all.
thanks for advice!
And for Alpine it's sort of fine. People have taken Alpine a lot further than the original intent, which is to add sprinkles of JS to what is otherwise a server rendered page.

For anything even slightly more complicated we have things like Mithril or Preact, and yeah they avoid this sort of thing for a reason.
Whew I hope this isn’t permanent. I was just starting really like using Echofon to digest my twitter feed. Somehow I have a much more positive experience when I’m not being constantly suggested inflammatory tweets by people I don’t follow and third party apps allowed me what felt like more control there.
I watched a long lecture by someone who had worked in academia for a long time, and his conclusions were that they cannot accept things that is incompatible with their world view. The classic example is someone who works in oil is not capable of accepting what the consequences are. They may accept that plastic is bad, or that smoke pollutes, although sometimes not even that.

Talk to an old biker and he may swear that CO2 is good for you.

Have you ever seen someone get defensive at the mere mention of a topic? Eg. that the planet is over-populated and that reducing the population is one of the best things we can do to save ourselves? Well, some immediately enter solution-mode and they talk as if you are arguing for gas chambers (or something equally idiotic).

It's quite draining to talk to people when you know their worldview does not allow a conversation about something. But it's also important to understand how it happens, and that you cannot do anything. Now I wish I could find that lecture, but I couldn't. Finding these gems amidst all the junk on the Internet is a challenge.
> I'm not sure why the author would have ever expected anything different?

Perhaps the message is aimed at less experienced C++ programmers?
I agree with your point. Django + HTMX + AlpineJS makes the web application development completes.
I don't know. Firmware can be cryptographically signed. Some anti-tamper devices even burn physical fuses. A car is expensive to brick, so not a lot of people would play around with it.

For instance, here's what free-software devs say about nVidia drivers:

"Little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x and newer GPUs as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access."

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
The FTC proposed a rule to ban noncompetes
Next you're going to tell me recycling doesn't work and nuclear power is a good idea after all and we knew that the whole time as well.

It is almost as if the public discourse is dominated by loud simple minded people who sort themselves into tribes along arbitrary/self-serving lines and fiercely double down in the face of evidence.