skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Model based on assumptions finds assumptions don't hold when better resolution telescopes find older data.

What do we do? Revise the model.

It's not a 'universe breaker' -the universe is what it is. It's "our understanding of some aspects of the universe are going to have to shift"

I'd love to know if this alters the "dark matter" issue (for instance) -presumably since these objects are far larger than expected, the "mass" of the universe has just been revised?
This is not so likely in most workloads unless multiple threads are hitting very close or adjacent regions in memory. Most multithreading workloads work on memory not so close together. It's good to be aware of it, but to suggest it is the most likely outcome from multithreading is misleading.
Neat, any chance of an E27 or bayonet for UK/NZ?
Not the best source, but: https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
There is the argument the submarine boomeranged the result of wwi.
From the article, spectrum and colour temperature are related but not 1:1 matches to each other. A “2700K” light can apparently have quite a lot of blue in it still.

> If you go to a hardware store, you’ll almost certainly see a demo of light color temperatures in the bulb aisle (typically around 2700K for “warm” light, around 5000K for “cool” light). You can get to those average light warmths a wide range of ways, though, and so two different bulbs with the same color temperature may have very different spectrum plots to get to the same visible end result. Without running them through a spectrometer, you can’t tell the difference - our eyes simply don’t work like that.
> What if the first words associated with policing were "serving the community"

Then the job would be "community service"; we have that in the form of, say Red Cross. Policing by definition is anti-crime in purpose.

Maybe there's a place for the sort of agency you envision, but regardless of the goodwill of others, there will always be wolves trying to eat the sheep, and we'll need an agency to deal with them.
In other languages they are tightly related to async/await and I made the mistake of assuming they were connected.
If you remove a sign it gets replaced right away, if you put a sticker that barely covers it like this then it probably doesn't get taken off for weeks, if at all.
> allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple

It's interesting how perceptions work. You could say, "Allowing Chromium to ship whatever they want with no regard for standards bodies or their consensus", and it'd be just as accurate.

Chrome is shipping a browser with a well-established goal of narrowing the gap between native apps and web apps, and so it pushes all these features for web apps. Safari seems to prioritise building a solid, fast browser for -websites-, so obviously, web app features will take a back seat. Almost everything in that list of missing features shipped in 16.4 is related to web apps.

And stuff like the Reporting API, which isn't web-app-specific, hasn't been released in Firefox yet either, so it's not like Safari's behind, even if you tag it with "2018"; it sounds like there's more to that story than just "they're five years behind".
The problem - as always - with all the clones is that their ecosystems are either immature or are complete crap. Most of the Rockchip knockoffs are technically superior at a better price point, and most importantly, available for purchase, but their websites are hacked-together Chinese clones with broken downloads, non-verifiable server OSes, and zero documentation.

RPi has a foothold primarily due to the community and software support. I'd love to see that get broken up, but building that took years, which is not what most fly-by-night places and clone shops are interested in doing. I say this as someone who largely depends on RPi 3 and 4 models for embedded work and would prefer to switch to something like oDroid (and we have to some degree), not necessarily as someone who is an RPi lover.

I hope that the foundation's supply is for real and the pricing gets down to normal market rates.
Let E(n) be the expected number of meals to collect at least one each of n toys if there are n possible toys available. We want to find E(4).

Note that

E(4) = 1 + 4/3 E(3)

That's because after the first meal, there are now 3 toys we need to collect. If there were only 3 toys available we would expect to take E(3) meals to get them all. But since there are 4 available, 1/4 of the time we get another one of the toys we got on the first meal, so only 3/4 of the meals are productive toward our goal of collecting the remaining 3 toys, so it takes 4/3 as long.

Similarly,

E(3) = 1 + 3/2 E(2)
E(2) = 1 + 2/1 E(1)

If there were only 1 toy available it would take exactly 1 meal to collect it, so

E(1) = 1
E(2) = 1 + 2/1 1 = 3
E(3) = 1 + 3/2 3 = 11/2 = 5 1/2
E(4) = 1 + 4/3 11/2 = 50/6 = 25/3 = 8 1/3
Among the buildings owned by Columbia Property Trust, which Pimco controls, is 650 California Street. Twitter occupies the 30th floor. Elon Musk refused to pay $136,000 in rent last month.
And what’s even worse, in that screenshot there’s no visible scrollbar to show there is even any additional data below the fold, or any indication that it’s a scrollable control in the first place. I can’t tell looking at it that there’s any possibility of further permissions anywhere.
Energy teleportation in 2023:

> Now in the past year, researchers have teleported energy across microscopic distances in two separate quantum devices, vindicating Hotta’s theory. The research leaves little room for doubt that energy teleportation is a genuine quantum phenomenon."

Quantum foam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam
They have been just another corporation for a while.

The great layoff and such things just made it official.
If I ask Bob R to paint me a picture of a fish wearing a small yellow hat I don't own copyright to the results just because I gave the original prompt.
I wasn't talking about the product - I was talking about MS using the product to lock the whole world into its own =proprietary= format (so no one could reliably open & process it - and then others got blamed for it, not Microsoft), AND then aggressively attack those who try to escape from its lock, even countries.
- no diffs
- no line attributions
- no easy versioning
- no discussions about whether something should be pushed 10 px to the right
- no reshuffling a whole diagram after you've changed something
I spent 2016-2020 there and saw the rate of changes, even in that short time. I left literally right as covid started and wasn't able to go back.

> The blessing and curse of Vietnam: you can get away with nearly anything, but so can other people.

I quite enjoy the culture there... really opened my eyes quite a bit.

> There's a huge and somewhat successful anti corruption drive going on in high level government over the past few years.

I don't think that's something that is ever really going to change in my lifetime. There is corruption to the core, but I found that corruption isn't necessarily a bad thing. For example, I'd much rather pay my "traffic ticket" on the street than deal with the bureaucracy of having to go to court and hope the officer doesn't show up. Choose your battles.
Google audio search not only does speech to text, but can give you the song if you hum. I was with some friends who tried it outside in SF and it was a noisy environment on the sidewalk, and it was able to identify the song from their hums. Magic.
Agree! It’s the best place I know to get updates from many companies. I follow over 1000 startups there for monitoring purposes and it’s incredible how many news are being published exclusively through LinkedIn, at least here in Sweden.
That's so good to hear. Very well done to everyone involved.
Distributed training is inefficient ATM.
Every lawsuit filed takes up judicial resources. QI is an effective way to dump a lot of frivolous lawsuits, it just happens to have a really high false positive rate for “frivolous” (and happens to be unconstitutional IMO).

There aren’t different courts for lawsuits against the police. It’s not just police sitting on paid leave but innocent people languishing in jail while their case drags on and actual disputes that aren’t frivolous dragging out rather than being resolved so that the parties can move on.
Thank you for the comment and sharing your own experience! We definitely resonate with that feeling. We were having to wait for multiple 20 minute builds at our previous job when we got tired of it and started building Depot.

We should definitely be able to help here.
Personally, I think the photo alone means they didn't have to shoot it down. If you want to "one up" a high altitude balloon, it doesn't come much better than taking a selfie from above it.

(analogous to the SR-71 speed check ATC story)

This is a confected storm in a teacup. Never have so many expensive gadgets been wasted on such a small concern.
"This is one unconscious bias from California-based self-driving companies: weather conditions worse than overcast skies exist in other parts of the world."

Mount Baldy (right next to LA) is expected to see 7+ feet of snow over the next few days.

I'm fairly certain they're aware of the particular fact you mention. We do have (had thanks to this drought) multiple ski resorts across the state that do not rely upon artificially-made snow to operate.
SSO and SAML are not enterprise features. They are table stakes security wise, and intentionally crippling your security model is a good way of driving off customers that take security seriously, no matter their size.
...or a Pokémon.

https://i.redd.it/krnyqtpgdy221.png
This was a really insightful take on the Unix philosophy that I hadn't heard before but I intuitively agree with because of all the parsing code I've had to write.
Then go with the Bedtime bulb, it is made specifically to reduce that. Creator is in the thread answering questions.
Preempt RT doesn't really give that. It might give that when you run a subset of Linux, but that is not Linux like nommu Linux is not Linux. They might say that's a bug, but there are countless algorithms and data structures in Linux that mean the state of the system and other workloads can slow down other parts of the system. Even setting aside the fact that a lower privileged process can take spin locks (not "preempt spinlocks" but real low level spin locks), disable interrupts, etc., they can influence shared data structures such that allocations, lookups, etc can take longer for the higher privileged thread. So you still end up with a "look we tried really hard and if you don't use any kernel facilities including blocking and isolate this CPU entirely, lock everything and don't allocate memory or take page faults after that, you might get something approaching hard-realtime".

People try to paint it as soft-hard-RT or something, but it's not, there already exists a good word for it which is soft-RT. Which is fine, it's highly useful.

There aren't really formally proven hard realtime operating systems of any non-trivial complexity are there? They are either extremely simple executive layers, or some very limited privileged functionality that sits on top of the rest of the kernel.
Then why do company constantly ask me to "score this phone call", "score this driver", "was this person helpful?", "what did you think of this recommendation?", "could you spend some time to answer this questionnaire what you thought of that widget you bought"?

So to me it seems like criticism without suggestions is very valuable, it is called data. Suggestions from amateurs are usually bad and misleading, just highlighting a problem so that the expert can come up with a solution is the most efficient way to work in most cases.
I’ve run two newsletters for about a decade each and every item is on point.

A few more lessons from my experience

- getting it sent is more important than the platform

- ask people to email you their thoughts

- make it very clear where people signed up originally

- make it very clear how to Unsubscribe

- people grow and change. Sometimes with you and sometimes without you

- Unsubscribes are a part of life and it's bitter-sweet

- new subscribers don't now the ongoing context so inside jokes need to be referenced heavily or dropped completely

- sometimes you won't want to write a newsletter. That's the most important day to make sure the newsletter gets written

- if [clothing store] can email me just about every 8 hours it's okay to ask subscribers if they want to hear from you more than once in a blue moon
I found the Amazon Wheel of Time boring, as if it was produced by a machine or something. I assume it will be even worse once they start using AI for doing similar things.

Language-model AI can simulate texts, but it cannot simulate how reading such texts make humans feel. Only a human writer can do that and only that makes texts truly entertaining.
Yay, thanks for the feedback! Streamline's known for its massive, consistent sets so we're absolutely going to add more soon. Even more so because the love we've received from the community is incredible. Would you want to bookmark that page or (if you're feeling lazy) sign up on our newsletter: https://www.streamlinehq.com/newsletter? Thanks again, much appreciated!
I bought a used copy of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams. A few people on HN recommended it and it's been great so far.
I don't really see a problem with it provided that they've genuinely taken the lessons learned from the Fukushima incident to heart and can assure people that nothing like that will happen again. They should probably plan and be prepared for the reactors to handle for earthquakes and tsunamis much worse than what hit them in 2011 as well as any projected complications arising from climate change.

Nuclear energy isn't ideal, but it beats fossil fuels and can bridge the gap until it can be replaced by cleaner renewable energy.
It's meaningless to say that users didn't want them when PWA were so difficult to install and every company was forced to invest in writing a native app instead. Of course users prefer native apps but they're incredibly expensive to maintain. Developers need the option of a PWA.
The scale of PFAS pollution across Europe
In the short run, it really seems like Microsoft got picked off by OpenAI.

In the long run, if you can run ChatGPT on a laptop (which is seeming more and more likely), it really seems like Microsoft got picked off by OpenAI.
I also worked in the German car SW industry and can confirm what he said. They just don't value SW development. The only way to make decent money there was to become a manager and climb the corporate ladder. Programming was never valued and always under the pressure of off-shoring or throwing the work to talent on a visa from abroad who won't have high expectations. The closer you were to the money, like financial controller as said by the sibling, or upper management, the more you were valued, while the closer you were to "the trenches" the less you were valued.
Ask HN: Israeli tech workers, are you leaving?
With all the political turmoil and the potential for the collapse of democracy, are you intending to stay or have you made plans to leave?
"This food is terrible" merely needs to be true, and anyone can say it, even people who aren't chefs. This is a ridiculous barr that only sorta kinda sounds reasonable if you just want an excuse not to like the message or the messenger.
Hi, I'm Shiloh, the guy that made the original reddit post and medium article. After reading some comments, I clarified my statement on GitHub's role in the CS industry
It was brought to court, multiple courts. The supreme court here is agreeing with the 6th circuit.
It might become a difference like with synthetic polyester fabrics and vs. wool and silk. Or organic food vs. processed food. People will pay more for the "real thing".
Jira is by far one of the worst pieces of software that i have used. It has no business being this slow… and don’t get me started on the DB and accessing raw data.
Thank you for the helping us stay culturally sensitive and mindful. We hadn't known this.
In Ontario and it's very common to be driving on packed snow for a few days after new snowfall. You get barely any road markings at all. You just use common sense and memory to try and act like the lane dividers, turning lanes, stop lines are still there. It must be the same in many parts of the US as well.
With winter tires and the right attitude its perfectly fine!

But yeah if you can't see the road markings due to an active blizzard, flip the hazards on, follow the tail lights ahead of ya, and stay in the middle of were the road should be.
Yep, we're planning for it by Q4. If you drop me a line at hey [at] bedtimebulb [dot] com, I'll make a note to reach out directly when it's available. Thanks!
Can we actually improve the POSIX shell?

Can we reform it, perhaps into a "D-shell," that is an LR-parsed language?

AWK had a yacc grammar for many years. Why can't this be the language of the shell, at least for the sake of maintainability and comprehension?

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/code_parsing_...
Do you really think kids are “planning lunch” over social media, when they sit at the same tables every day? And the cafeteria is providing it? Sounds like you’re grasping at straws to make it seem relevant.

The kids here communicate via imessage and rarely during class.
Wait so you are not supposed to come up with a fact you are trying to prove and then only create things that help prove it?
> We should be able to assume that the data we want exists in main memory without having to keep telling the system to load more of it.

This already exists in POSIX. It's called mmap, and approximately no one uses it. Maybe the article should have explored why, and suggested how to solve that problem, instead of insisting we must throw everything away and this will magically solve our problems.
Now the shake out of car companies that make software vs software companies that make cars. Reminds me of the old bellheads vs netheads. [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/
What is ENS?
Refining theories was banned in 2020 /s.
>Both Mercedes and Volkswagen have absolutely massive software divisions, easily 10k+ people.

That doesn't mean jack. Most large German companies I worked at tended to be super inefficient, being very top heavy and prone to constant turf wars and power struggles between the managers, as that was the only career path that made you any decent money so everyone was focusing on that instead of building great products.

>They pay really well for German standards and have access to a large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.

Meh, pay is underwhelming, as they focus more on getting off-shore talent from abroad on a visa who's more interested in getting to Germany at any cost rather than netting a higher market wage or increasing wages to attract local talent.

These companies are good places to coast on average wages, not to make money and innovate making great products.
IIRC the perception of Chrome developers was that the Google promo system was incentivizing number of commits and features at one point in time, so they were perceived to be just dumping whatever out there.
This is quite the rant from Alex. Given the context of his years of butting heads with Apple, I can understand his frustration. But it's still definitely a rant. Apple is doing what Apple has always done: Being obtuse, secretive, stubborn and difficult in order to further their own agenda and prevent competition from encroaching on any area Apple views as theirs alone. Given their history, this is also understandable.
A lot of my favorite physics classes were Applied Physics. These were great as you used the building blocks from 1st/2nd year level to show complex phenomena in the universe. It is a shame this list has none of these.

Things like:

* Stellar Nucleosynthesis - S-process, R-process, stellar evolution

* Fluid mechanics - Navier Stokes equations

* Physical Oceanogrpahy - Ocean currents, tides, Pressure and Salinity effects

* Plasma Physics - MHD equations, Alfven waves

* Medical Physics - CAT, PET, MRI scanners. Radiation treatments.

* Planetary Science - Plate tectonics, Gas giant phenomena.

* Geophysics - EM, seismic, anisotropy

* Electron Microscopy - SEM, TEM, AFM etc.
Portland was wild. Lightly snowing when I left to pickup my kids. 3 hours and troves of stuck cars (including my own) later, made it back home w/ help. Seems like half the city was stuck on the road.
I enjoyed infiniplumber. Cool things do happen when things are blended together... well done
There is no design committee, they just keep adding stuff over and tell us is definitely the one that will fix security/phising/privacy/spam issues SMTP suffers.
Yet again, you raised the base premise as if it were some sneaky hidden thing and made the first accusation. Now you're trying to rewrite the entire conversation so that it was somehow relevant or productive. This on top of me explicitly saying the economics of the problem are probably terrible.

Only an idiot or someone acting in bad faith or both would say "Aha! You need a beam with n megawatts to receive a beam with n megawatts!" Of course you do. That same solar array exists in the syn fuel scenario too (except 3-10x bigger and on the ground). Raising it as if you found a gotchya is not just disingenuous but also incredibly stupid.
ethereum mail service?
https://www.skiff.com/blog/skiff-ens-ethereum-mail
Last game engine(C++) I worked on was a full hour to build if you touched a core header, and that was with Incredibuild that farmed out the compile across the studio.

If you care about compile/iteration times you can get them down to a reasonable level, Bevy does a good job splitting the heavy lift part into a section that is linked dynamically[1] which leads to pretty reasonable compile times even in something Rust based.

That said most of the high-churn areas I've seen drop to some scripting language(ex: Lua or others) for both hot-reload and avoiding compile times. Usually the heavy compute pieces are out in native with orchestration in scripting or something more flexible.

[1] https://bevyengine.org/learn/book/getting-started/setup/#ena...
> There is a different player that would benefit however

Who?
You just described the liberal feedback loop when there is a Republican President or congress majority.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm. Austin has a lot going for it. And a lot not.
I think it’s a miracle E-mail still works at all this far into web whatever-point-oh we’re in.
I was there in January and it looked to be a rotating exhibit possibly? It was my first time going and I didn’t know what to expect and tried not to read anything ahead of time to prepare.
I absolutely believe that lunch seating is a manifestation of social hierarchy and that positions are determined in advance, yes.
I have a daughter who's 11 years of age and has plenty of friends at school. She doesn't have an instagram account and hasn't asked me to get her a device so that she's able to create an account and log on. So I really doubt there aren't social groups in school and other settings where instagram isn't a primary focus.
Who wants to help Musk develop more rolling MAGA hats?

Tesla has got to get rid of him somehow.
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Then you don't get to upsell on features and you're less competitive with everyone else.
One of the things which most fascinated me about the Mill architecture (don't bother checking for updates, it's as vaporware as ever) was the ability to pass arbitrary memory ranges across "process"/security boundaries, rather than being stuck with page granularity and requiring complex OS assistance. This would make zero-copy much easier to accomplish. Page-based memory protection is holding us back: pages are a clever solution to, well, paging to disk, but a remarkably terrible solution for everything else they're used for.