skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3/4 of stars are red dwarfs which can last for *trillions* of years. Our Sun is in the 1/4 that lasts for mere billions.

I don't think this bleak defeatism is warranted at all. It feels like a projection of hopelessness about local affairs.

Surface-wise, planets are actually non-ideal. Habitats are where it's at, baby. (E.g., O'Neill cylinders or, more fancifully, ringworlds.) But we probably can't ever build those cuz we suck! T_T Waaaah!!
2015 Chennai (South India) Floods. It was the flood of a century. [1]

Our DC was intact, but the building and access was cut-off. We lost the backup diesel power generators in the flooding. Of course, grid power was cut-off.

Our DC operating team managed to shutdown all the servers and racks cleanly before UPS power was completely drained. The 4 engineers and 2 security guards then swam out of the compound in chest high waters. (I am not kidding).

When the rains subsided and the flood waters receded after a couple of days, we had to plan the restart. The facility still had to be certified by health and safety, but we needed to get the datacenter back up.

A secondary operations site that would remote-connect to the DC was brought up in 1 week since we estimated the rains to potentially continue for a few more days and cause interruptions. But the critical item for the plan to work was getting a new backup power setup. We rolled in a truck-mounted diesel generator and positioned it in the highest point in the campus (also close to our building tower that had the DC) and ran power cables to it (we had to source this and it was a challenge to do it with the time crunch and the rains).

We moved staff to other cities by bus (airport was shutdown) as part of our recovery plan, but we still needed connectivity to our DC for some of the critical processes.

Long story short, it worked.

I'll never forget the experience and the scars from this war story.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_South_India_floods
Why is Netflix not following short high quality 1-3 min videos model which is popular with young crowd? They already have Fast laughs tab which mimics that.

Youtube / Creative studios could pitch 1-3 min video ideas which Netflix could greenlight and provide just bare minimum capital to produce. If the final film is good, Netflix could buy the film and release on their platform.

Current Trends which are in favour of above idea:

1] Story generation will get cheaper thanks to ChatGPT.

2] Film generation will get cheaper thanks to Stable Diffusion.

3] Short video formats are already very good, engaging.

4] RunwayML and so on.
If that's the business model manufacturers want to follow, surely it could be done more honestly by requiring a service contract in exchange for financing or a reduced initial price.
May I recommend to anyone facing similar issues and who may have at least some agency in dealing with the problem (can't assume you do, so forgive me in that case) the incredible work of Victor Shepelev with Ruby References: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/evolution.html

The site presents evolutions of Ruby since version 2.0 in an editorialized and well-written categorized release journal called "Ruby Evolution": https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/evolution.html

There's also individual version releases annotated as well, for example for the recent Ruby 3.2: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/3.2.html

Note that these are not copies of the NEWS.md typically released when minor and major versions of Ruby come out. Victor specifically spent time to write more descriptive notes of what each notable change occurred over time. It's an incredible resource and we're extremely lucky to have him in our community.

There's even a changelog for this meta-changelog, which makes my little Keep a Changelog heart sing, so you can see evolutions of this site over time as well: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/
I got a feeling developers nowadays are so much less efficient than 10-20 years ago.

The tools are so bloated and arcane compared to the can-do approach.

Also agile messes up productivity alot due to its inflexible and process heavy nature.
I think I get what you are trying to say... but the intuition about "this moment in time" is perfectly reasonable for a spectrum analyzer, since it's actually doing a DFT (not continuous from +-infinity) with the last sample (i.e. "now") defining the end of the window.
In the same boat. Lately I try to just focus on cutting out processed foods and sugar.
Aren’t we in just a brief window before B2B LLM + Embedding workplace search products become widely available? I’ve already seen a few startups in this space. Presumably existing solutions will provide this option too.

It’s not clear why one would start an in-house initiative when it’s clear that the problem will soon be solved by services.
This, absolutely this, for my wife and I. Movies and shows that we love, we also download because it's often been inevitable that they get dropped from a streaming service at some point. Or, they're moved over to a new service (see: Peacock/Office) and we don't think that paying an additional monthly fee just to access that one show that we only occasionally watch is worth it.

Similarly, if the streaming service continues to play ads despite paying for the service, we will just pirate the content.
It’s the same in SQL and Ada. “Case” is an abbreviation for “case distinction” here.

“Switch” was never intuitive to me, because nothing gets switched.
"You're wasting your life."

"How so?"

"You're a genius. You could be a captain of industry by now."

"So I'm both a genius, and no longer a child?"

"Yes"

"Are you also a genius?"

"No"

"Then aren't I by definition the best judge of what would constitute wasting my life?"
10 million total users is impressive compared to 450 million monthly active users, how?
I use Apple Shortcuts + VPN + seed box and the shortcut grabs the magnet link and hits my torrent boxes API. I shared the Shortcut with my wife and it has made pirating so dang convenient and easy we’ve filled up 20TB of space, whoops, time to delete some shows.

It’s also fantastic because I know -exactly- what my children are watching and if there’s some episode of Paw Patrol that’s particularly annoying it get deleted.
"Meanwhile the other streaming services are at least as bad, but typically worse."

So then isn't it just good? Cable didn't have on demand and you couldn't share even in the same house. Beyond basic cable channels you needed a cable box for each tv for around $5 a month in the late 80s (around $11 today).
Hello! It's cool that you're taking this seriously. I worked in a good team for a long time, but in the end I chose to be a freelancer. It seems to me that this is similar to what you are experiencing now, since I also have to use different methods of management and leadership to be in demand. For me, the main thing is time and its reasonable use. Both in the team and personally, I used https://traqq.com/blog/time-tracking-apps-for-freelancers/ to be more productive and resolve issues faster and better. It seems to me that this can be really useful in small businesses.
> Currently, only the video is usable from drone footage, which is a huge limitation.

For what use cases? Outdoor concerts? The acoustics at 100ft in the air are unlikely to be great anyways.

I wouldn't call it a huge limitation.
man, I used dark mode for everything...
Meet Canada's Mount Thor: The World's Steepest, Tallest Cliff
Interesting contrast to have both

“Mastodon is doomed?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713894

And

“mastodon has already won”

On the front page
Michael Penn's math lectures on YouTube typically come with exercises.
Show HN: Using object detection to turn a webcam into a lightgun
A rather silly project that uses a Coral.ai edgeTPU mini PCIe board to detect a monitor in a webcam feed and convert that into either mouse movements or joystick input.

There's a video in the repository showing the gameplay[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g3i7UJV5Zg and in the repository.
The GraphQL Challenges Survey
Ah. Thanks Zach! Just changed this.
> A lot of recent arrivals want Twitter without the corporate ownership

Which you can have on mastodon.social. Go sign up there if you want a non-corporate Twitter. Signups should be open now.

Even if 90% of users are on a single instance, having a federated protocol matters as an insurance policy. If Oracle somehow assumes control of mastodon.social next year, everyone can move to some other instance and retain their connections.

Furthermore, if someone else creates a better vision of social networking in the future, users will be able to switch one-by-one and continue communicating across platforms. There won't be a built-in imbalance due to the incumbent's network effect.
Product from [Company] shares user data with other product from [Company]. A shocking and newsworthy revelation. /s
I’ve been subscribed to Criterion since the beginning and it’s the only service I’ve kept without cancelling, or desiring to cancel, since. If the catalog is up your alley, highly recommend.

That said, I also buy their Blu-Rays during the sales, so I might just be a fanboy.
We are also paying for it with the loss of our shared culture to a few individuals.
> just that static “naturalism” is a human construct.

I think you are somewhat strawmanning environmentalism and climate-change concerns here (not with malicious intention or anything) because I don't think that many argue that things are or should be static - though they mostly appear to be static from our short viewpoint.

Instead the concern is that the changes are too fast. It's more akin to consciously bringing a meteor down on the planet than it is to "the world is changing and always have and humans are a tiny blip in the existence of the world".
Wasn't this what Quibi tried?
I’m now curious whether Emacs key bindings work in GTK text boxes on macOS.
Whether you are fluent in a language or not is decided by others i.e. society and not you. How is placebo effect relevant here?
Don't use microservices to build your new product
> Your understanding of the topic is often completely limited to the way he frames it, and becomes quite useless when you leave that limited framing.

Completely limited?

My framing of human learning goes roughly like this:

1. When we are motivated to solve a particular problem, we can draw upon a multitude of “frames” (one example being metaphor, another being an equation, another being a visualization) to help us.

2. People sometimes cannot shift frames of reference effectively (i.e. perhaps fixating on only an few approaches). This is not the fault of the particular frame(s); this is a limitation in how people use them.

3. To our brains, almost everything is a “model” … a way of conceptualizing, deciding what to pay attention, what to ignore, what questions to ask, and when to recognize we aren’t getting anywhere.

4. Some models / metaphors are better than others for certain people and contexts.

- Some are better connected to other models, allowing more fluid thinking.

- Some are more rigorous.

- Some are simpler.

It depends on so many things.
Remember that time meta set up a free vpn app with no meta branding so they could monitor traffic and upcoming rival apps in real time to copy their features and neuter them?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

Onavo vpn
Types are useful, even as a solo developer. My memory just isn't good enough. It's nice to have a compiler tell me: "Yeah, there on line 974? You're doing something stupid there; go fix it."

Note that I said types are useful. I have no experience with TypeScript.
If they want to move product, they're going to have to do that anyway. The auto industry still subsidizes loans through their own lending operations even though we have Magnuson-Moss which allows people to go to non-manufacturer affiliated mechanics.
I do this. Buy DVD box set for ~one year of subscription fees, rip it all, store it in the cloud or on an external drive. Do this once for each show you like - probably less than a dozen. Legal, easy-ish, and I'm set for life.
Why would it be ok in these cases?
Any explanation I can give in a comment here will be pretty flawed, if you want more detail than my previous comment I think your best bet is to read the papers at the arxiv links I posted above.
No, I do not have any documentation on this nor do I expect any documentation from the likes of Qualcomm where they claim not to exfiltrate data without prior agreement to be all that convincing. What I do have is experience in using firewalls on Android devices for as long as I've used those (about 12 years). I regularly use packet sniffers to see what these devices send to the 'net both to check whether my own stuff is working OK and to check for unwanted traffic. Setting the firewall to block outgoing traffic before enabling network connectivity has always been effective, this includes devices using Qualcomm modems. I use WiFi for these tests just like described in the article as testing for unwanted traffic going over the 3/4/5G connection is only possible if you have a private 4/5G network which I do not (yet) have. I tend not to use 3/4/5G data though - I only have a single device on which I have data enabled and paid for, the rest goes through life using only WiFi. If Qualcomm has made a deal with all mobile operators to push their telemetry through 3/4/5G even on accounts which have data disabled (as in 'not paid for' as well as 'function disabled in Android') they're in for a world of hurt when that news is brought to the light. I assume they have no such agreements as it would not make any sense seeing how easy it is to just use Android and iOS to push that data back to the mothership - which seems to be what they are doing. They are far from the only ones doing this, it is actually the main reason why I block outgoing traffic by default. Just give it a try sometimes, take a device and hook it up to the network through WiFi. Use a packet sniffer on the router to intercept everything coming from that device and feed the result to something like Wireshark. Do the same with that device with a firewall filtering all outgoing traffic and compare the results.
3rd paragraph from the bottom.
Would be cheaper than doing work to make the thing non self repairable as well.
Probably not. I should have said directed acyclic graph.

Actually I guess it doesn't even have to acyclic. You just need a directed graph where that has a non-empty set R of nodes such that (1) nodes in R do not have incoming edges, and (2) every node that has an incoming edge can be reached by some path that starts in R.
Why did Google Brain exist?
Except that’s not the case at all, all of these shows are greenlit and bankrolled by Netflix, who makes the choice whether or not to continue with it.
This is not an official documentation site.

The only official Ruby documentation exists at https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/ and is generated via the Ruby source code itself.

The excellent Colby Swandale has been working on a new open source alternative for Ruby documentation considering the design shortcomings of the default generated API documentation with https://rubyapi.org which I highly recommend.

If you're coming at Ruby from another language, the official Ruby site offers https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-l... and other documentation aside from API concerns here: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Hope that helps.
> spin-off Xbox into a separate company. I can't imagine the division is all that profitable

only like $5 billion in annual revenue, doubt they'll want to let that go for no reason.
I shouldn’t need to cite anything because it’s not new news, and Canada’s decline in birthdate occurred well before any major socioeconomic changes

https://news.virginia.edu/content/male-fertility-declining-s...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32168194/#:~:text=Summary%3A...

There’s plenty more on the topic with differing opinions on the root cause

> Male fertility hasn't fallen anywhere near precipitously enough to make a father incapable of having a mere 2.1 children over the course of his entire reproductive lifetime

That’s what defines being unable to naturally replenish the population aka the age population bomb. Countries are below the 2.1 reproductive rate. Even the US went below in 2012. Canada has hit it in 1972. None of this is new or a revelation.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/The-new-popu...

The only places not affected are in Central Africa. The theory is that pollution from industrialization results in less male fertility
What a testament to decentralized messaging.
Short answer - you don't.

I've flown from boats a handful of times, and it's stressful. When I started, I would ask them to keep the boat as still as possible, hover next to the boat, then slowly move over to me so I could reach it. Grab it from underneath and flip it over to kill the motors.

That's obviously not safe, and it's not hard to find photos in drone groups of people's hands after a failed attempt to do exactly this. It's not pretty.

After that I came across an old indoor practice goal for soccer players - basically a net on a stand. I modified it to lay flat and started using it. I'd get the quad close to the boat, hover a couple of feet over the net, and kill the motors. It worked, but felt like I was risking my quad dropping into the ocean every time I did it.

These days I've gone back to hand-catching, but with a vertical grip that I mounted under the aircraft. I 3D printed a "harness" of sorts that fits around the fuselage and has a Picatinny rail on the bottom (like on a rifle). I picked up a cheap vertical grip designed for a gun that I can quickly mount on the rail - it extends ~6" below and gives me something to grab without being on the same plane as the props. It works well enough, but isn't perfect. It would interfere with the field of view on something with a 360º camera gimbal (like an Inspire), and has a significant impact on flight time and performance even though I did all I could to reduce the weight.
The Radio We Could Send to Hell
Reinforcement Learning (most likely)
> Simplest answer is because one can

Sure.

> If it were easier like this to grab food from stores and restaurants, grab homes of other people, they would do that too.

You are implying that everyone pirating content would do these things if the chance of getting caught was low. I would posit that some people who pirate would, but it's a stretch to say that the entire group would.

Taking your simplest answer: just because one can does not mean one would.
Exploring cloud native adoption archetypes
* Success often brings bureaucracy to protect against losing what you've got going for you

* The bureaucracy drives away the types of misfit maniacs that build incredible and unique products.

* You're left with people more worried about fucking up then they are about building something awesome.
Netflix isn't very profitable. If you have to license content then the content owner is going to continuously squeeze you for as much of your profit as possible (especially when direct competitors crop up --- and there's no shortage of Hulus out there trying to eat Netflix's cake).
All of those “features” come with with a heavy price—responsibility. Running your own instance is increadibly time consuming and difficult to understand how to secure and scale. It also can be quite expensive if it grows to any meaningful amount of use.

I think it's important to note, which I think the article fails to do, that this isn't a problem with other Fediverse software, but something unique to Mastodon:

1) Ruby on Rails is, well, bad. It was in the past, but I hoped things had changed. I tried running Mastodon, and in the two weeks I was playing with it late last year there were two dependency updates which broke Mastodon, until Mastodon was updated. It's untenable, and it certainly adds to the idea that running your own is "increadibly time consuming", if you have to worry about breaking things any time any dependency gets updated.

2) The failure of Ruby on Rails leads to insecurity. Most people don't update because of #1 and just let things run. This is all fine and dandy until there are real security issues, at which time people sometimes panic, update and break things, or there's a compromise.

3) Mastodon (and Ruby on Rails) isn't performant. A decent modern server, particularly one that could be bought for $5,000, should easily be able to handle 30,000 users, if one were to extrapolate from some of the articles written about Fediverse hosting... But the articles showing very good performance aren't about Mastodon. Some specifically talk about migrating to other software because of Mastodon performance.

So is it time consuming? Yes, because it's slow, breaks easily and doesn't scale well. I think it's demonstrably true that other software (Pleroma, for example, or Akkoma for those of us who aren't fans of the Pleroma admins) is faster (and therefore scales much better), isn't remotely as fragile (and therefore can be kept up to date and secured with ease), and less time consuming (most updates take literally a minute or two).

Perhaps the author should consider the idea that the failure of Mastodon is not the same thing as the failure of the Fediverse precisely because other options exist.
Yeah? The only thing I know about it is that they use or used some Erlang.
Can't say that outside of HN i've come across a link to anything about Mastodon so not sure it's won much.
Ah yes, that too. I like the mpg on the gen2, but gen1 seems like a much less troubled car. Beyond that, the gen1 seems like a very solid well built car punching well above it's "economy car" persona.
Solid body structure, great suspension, and even at 170k miles the only rattle I have is from a plastic panel on the rear hatch which gets slammed down thousands of times in its life so I can give it some leeway.
Careful - if by ‘different styles of learners’ you mean the old Visual/auditory/reading/kinesthetic ‘learning styles’ model, that is largely debunked and discredited as far as I understand it (see eg https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-sty...).

I think it’s absolutely the case that some lessons work for some people at some times for some topics and don’t for others - but that’s not likely down to any innate ‘learning style’ that one person has over another. The same approach on a different topic on a different day might have the exact opposite effect in terms of who gets most out of the lesson.
The Economist's unsubscription process is also terrible: looong hold on the phone and then many minutes of repeating to the person on the other end, no I'm not going to reconsider, cancel my subscription. It's a great magazine but heaven help you if you decide to stop getting it.

And, as suggested above, this has actually kept me from re-subscribing again later.
Minimize saturated fat (by replacing it with unsaturated fat). Get enough protein. Eat healthy carbs*.

* On HN and other social media, "carbs" is a euphemism for sugar and cake rather than beans and vegetables, so people will talk about how carbs made them fat when you know they're not talking about slamming back-to-back cans of garbanzos.

And don't take any nutrition advice seriously that doesn't break fat apart into saturated and unsaturated.