skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Placing the rain power panel under a waterfall might generate a useful amount of energy, eventually. The key feature is some sort of vertical conductive channel that gets the charges away from each other quickly. Maybe the idea is that if they can produce power in a worst case, they can improve solar panel efficiency in low light condition. Anyway, it sounds like useful research that got into the hands of the marketing department. Lost in several layers of translation ?
I think Spacechem is not tougher than TIS-100, it's just more visual. Of all Zachtronics I enjoyed it the most, although I played only a couple levels of other games.
There Are HD Images of UFOs, According to Former AATIP Official
parents have never had control over what media their kids can get at outside of the home.
As a macOS user was a fan of the initial version. Then Microsoft went into its Microsoft ways. Office toolbar, but you can hide it. Then more bing overrides on the new tab but you could adjust that. Finally came the bing icon. While I get I’m using a “free” tool, I wish there was more variation (particularly for work) in just getting a barebones browser. I was rooting for them as they implemented a couple of features that got them similar to Firefox DevTools, but them adding more and more bloat default, I moved to arc. Really wish safari would beef its dev tools by removing the App Store requirement, but alas. Seems devs don’t want to touch Firefox at the level to update their extensions comparable to chromium browsers.
As a spacecraft navigation engineer, I guarantee you said post-mortem is already being written, and is probably going to be posted "publicly" anyway on some deep corner of the NASA website
Collections are a feature were you can collect pages together (not sure how that is helpful, but I am sure somebodies workflow is helped by them). Chat is Bing chat, aka ChatGPT 4 with internet search.

I can assure you that it will quite happily show you any sites you want, though Google will attempt to get you to install Chrome.
Start at the Voyager book at https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/summary.html .
One, because it's a civil case not criminal, and two, because it's Ireland aka FAANG tax haven. They can't exactly up and leave from Ireland.
My suspicion has always been that edge computing was primarily offered by CDNs as away to increase utilisation of hardware rather than something there was significant customer demand for.
Show HN: Unsigned.fm – crowdsourced Spotify playlists for finding new artists
I started making music as a hobby during covid as many of us did. I soon noticed that with platforms like Spotify receiving around 40K new songs per day, tons of great artists are completely undiscovered.

I made unsigned.fm so people can submit songs by artists with under 10k followers to genre-specific playlists. The top 30 most popular ones (with positive net votes) make it on the playlists.

My hope is that this will make it easier for talented new musicians to gain a few listeners.
> Animated webp is commonly supported at least on he web these days.

Sure-- if it's a) a website that b) you're making. Tons of websites that allow user uploads only allow common static image formats-- jpg, gif... maybe png, maybe bmp, etc. I can't imagine anywhere that allows users to upload profile pictures, for example, would allow them to upload a webp, but I could imagine users wanting an animated profile picture. I've done it myself.

The whole point is that there are instances where using an animated gif is the only option if you want an animated image, and people want to convert videos to animated gif because of that. That's why FFmpeg does it. I'm not really sure why people find this so weird.
> “Prior to beaver trapping, beaver dams were just about everywhere in the West. So what we’re attempting to do is to bring beaver dam densities back to historic levels where possible”
Presuming what you claim in the last paragraph is true, maybe it’s a fun thought experiment to ponder how much anonymity you’ve pierced. How many other people in the world today did as you have done? Now constrain by people who post on hn.
nitter link https://nitter.net/8teAPi/status/1685960703658860544
https://archive.ph/IVMdh
It also can prevent some documentation pages to be under login only?
Getting Started with Torch-Harmonics
"Very misguided and science denying."

Classifying a detailed article as either "science" or "science denial" is certainly black and white thinking.

I also don't think it's true that the role of the therapist is to be a mentor. I've had mentors, therapists, and parents, and those roles don't overlap as much as you seem to think.
I'm curious about the refresh rate. From the video, it appears to be fast for an e-ink display. However, it still seems to be slower than what I'd be comfortable watching a video with.

The other thing I'm curious about is the manufacturer. They seem to have a black-and-white version already available. Has anyone ever tried it?
Actually, the tinted windows worry me because I don't know whether the drivers do see me. Vanishingly few drivers would deliberately run over a pedestrian, but plenty are distracted or otherwise inattentive.
>But I can’t look up in a book how precisely psychotherapy fixes depression.

Well, you can for CBT. CBT goes by the assumption that a lot of depression comes from negative thoughts and it tries to change the way you think and therefore the way you feel. And CBT is the most scientifically backed up form of psychotherapy. So it looks like that works.

Sure, we don't fully understand the brain yet, but we are making progress.
> If it's a diamagnetism it's a fucking strong one

That's a pretty good point.
No. 2 degrees error at such a large distance equals huge distance error.

Also, empty space is huge and matter-things like Earth and the Sun are tiny compared to it.
I think we can answer this exactly. To visualize this think about the plane shared by the satellite and Earth. We'll imagine this as a 2D unit circle. In this graph Earth is at (1,0) and the satellite is at (0,0). So we end up with a scale where the radius is the same as the distance from the Earth to the satellite. But instead of pointing at (1,0), the satellite is now pointing at (cos(2), sin(2)) or (0.9994, 0.0349).

The distance from Earth (1,0) to the new location (0.9994, 0.0349) is about 0.0349. We need to scale that back up to "real" units so multiplying it by 15 billion miles. And we get about 520 million miles. The earth is about 93 million miles from the Sun, so its max positional shift (under extremely improbable absolutely perfect conditions) would be ~180 million miles.

So there's no way we could regain contact with just yearly movement, even before we account for the fact that it's getting further and further away. 2 degrees intuitively sounds small, but on an astronomical scale it's huge and this sounds like a pretty major flub by NASA.
what about this design is elegant? duping all your commands so some can have variable interpolation and some of them don't, so people don't need to do that trivial task themselves? essentially upstreaming a bunch of difficult to maintain cruft, instead of easy to maintain downstream?
It might be possible to use the remaining electrical heaters as some kind of crude thermal battery (assuming they have any heaters still running, they already shut down the heaters for most of the scientific experiments).

Simply turn the heaters off before transmitting and keep any transmission periods short enough that the electronics don't get too cold.

JPL probably have a bunch of tricks like this ready for when power levels drop. That 2025 estimate is 10 years old and I'd be surprised if it's final.
Makes sense.

So I presume it uses its thrusters to impart a very small spin on one axis, and then on an orthogonal axis.

A mechanism records the signal strength as it sweeps all angles, and once the optimum direction is determined, the thrusters are fired in just the right way to counteract the spin and bring the craft to a halt at the optimum orientation.

Given this was programmed decades ago - the electromechanical system that does all this jugglery and runs reliably for so long would be a great case study for systems design.

Even the programming that ensures that this routine is triggered without fail every few months must also have gone through intense reliability testing.
What about local read only replicas of the db in each region, and one primary in your primary region? Or a write through cache in each region.
I don't think experience is relevant here, unless it's the same person doing that who made the previous ones. Maybe asking for a screenshot would help you discover if this one is good or not?
> Many more people used MS-DOS/Windows during that time.

But not since. No one writes new win16 or DOS or batch files. People still write shell scripts. Every day. Despite the existence of a deluge of supposedly better solutions. And if your explanation for why shell is so terrible doesn't have a way to explain that, I argue it's an incorrect explanation.

"We all have Stockholm Syndrome" is just ridiculous, btw.
The Blue Flash: A careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
Why make this for a desktop? E-ink is mostly useful for wireless applications and anywhere power is limited or there's a need for always on, static display.
> What happens in case of default?

Assuming you live in a world where everything happens mediated by decentralised ledgers and no central source of enforcement or power, an entity is dispatched to repo the house and auction it in order to pay out the initial smart contract financiers. It's a long way from here to there, I know, but there's no "impossible" about it. If you want to get really tricky, just incorporate a token for the house, the ownership of which is decided by a clause in the smart contract for an auction if the terms of the payments for the smart contract are not met, then the physical arbitration component boils down to "this person says they own the house, they have the deed, please leave" just like it would in present world.

> How exactly do cryptocurrencies prevent this?

Because you hold your keys and you get to decide what is broadcast on their behalf on the ledger, not a custodian. There is no central point to pressure or capture in order to execute the same attack as above in tradfi.
The same reason why people love impressionist paintings or painting done with large strokes of pallete knive. Leave something for the human brain to fill in, do a small puzzle of connecting shape into something whole.
Are you East Asian by chance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#ABCC11
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-wo...
Is this really why some people view beavers as pests???
I have similar feelings for sim racing. I don't care about minutia of exactly tuning every single part of the car, but I want super-realistic handling
For an e-ink monitor, I was expecting it to cost much more.
This response bewilders me: the GP presents something with immense political and practical challenges, and the response is to ask us to consider an even harder set of political and practical problems?
This would be a great service if it was a more robust translation tool. From what other comments are saying, this is the chatGPT API with some prompting for translation but I could see this working and providing much more value with a model specifically trained like what Iceland is doing to help preserve its language. https://openai.com/customer-stories/government-of-iceland
agree, but the internet is a different kind of monster.
Do you think you have a right to take breaks at work? To go to the bathroom? To a safe work environment?

People aren’t machines. We have a complicated social contract that says companies may employ labor so long as they meet certain requirements for safety, health, and treatment.

It’s not unreasonable to see time off as part of the deal. Who’s paying for your bathroom breaks? Same answer.
"""opposition""" at this point.
A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
Go look up "fair use" under copyright laws.
It took almost a century before we figured out how photo negatives worked chemically. Didn’t stop anyone from taking photographs though. Mechanistic explanations are great but not a requirement for good science.
Weren't they still much better than what many media experts were forecasting? Iirc, CNN put Clinton at 97%.
We don't even need to do that.

We could just stop massively subsidizing things like corn and meat.
What does an unsuccesful ping return? Or various states inbetween?
That’s a pretty clever trick you got there. First you take all of the problems inherent to markets. And then you say “actually it’s the government’s job to fix that, and they’re doing a terrible job”—which you then turn around and use as a justification for more markets and less government!
IIRC their demographics are heavily skewed towards younger people.

In US/Japan etc. the largest age-group of learners is 13-22

- Found the source:
https://blog.duolingo.com/dear-duolingo-how-does-language-le...
One of my favorite recent games - Timberborn - is based on the concept of beaver civilization altering and improving the landscape. Recommended if you like sim/builder games.
Very impressive tech demo, but in practice, the lack of contrast and the slow (but impressive for e-ink) refresh rate would be a dealbreaker.

Also, as others have said, what's the benefit of e-ink on the desktop where mains power is readily available?
This.

Upthread commenters have suggested that Carl Sagan and Jim al-Khalili are comparable to Feynman as explainers of physics. Sagan was good at communicating a sense of wide-eyed awe; al-Khalili can tell a story well. But they both stay well clear of really hard stuff in their popular expositions.

Feynman, on the other hand, didn't seem to have a sense that there was any "really hard stuff". Fools rush in where angels fear to tread (I don't mean to suggest that Feyman was stupid, rather that he was a great joker).
Day-Z with F-14 tomcats ;)

Do you recall "Onslaught Mode" in Unreal?
> the most embarrassing bug of my career

Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.
Oh absolutely however the "feel" matters far more. If the graphics look super dated or minimal but it plays great, you'll still get lots of players however if it looks stellar but plays poorly, you won't retain very many players.
Making the assumption that I'm not intentionally pasting a command is wrong. So if it doesn't do that by default, that's good.
not "the" alternative but yes they are competitors
> PayPal’s goal of acquiring customers gets in the way of user experience requiring them to collect way more input fields than Stripe on their card payment UI.

Isn't this a consequence of different rates the card processing networks charge dependent on how much data you provide? Like, only a CC # pays the highest rate, CC+CVV or CC+Name pays a bit lower, and the full set of CC+CVV+Name+Billing address pays the lowest rate?
I will note on top of what other commenters have said to this, that most (all?) Of those statements were made before Ethereum went to Proof Of Stake, which has implications for centralization and control.
These kinds of changes would really benefit from mosquito eradication.

It looks lovely from above, and in a remote location of Idaho there's no one to care, but I'm sure it's absolutely teaming with mosquitoes, a kind of perfect habitat. And a perfect habitat for all sorts of other creatures and plants who bother no one.

It's not just because of beaver trapping that this waterform has been so systematically eliminated; people go to great lengths to remove backwaters just because of mosquitoes. If we made mosquitoes extinct – not just the disease-carrying mosquitoes, but any that bite humans – I think we'd see attitudes change surprisingly quickly, a sudden peace in an ecological war has lasted millenia.
All of those things, including environmental catastrophes, existed for millennia before Adam Smith came along.
Rationalwiki is just encyclopedia dramatica for people who feel holier than those using encyclopedia dramatica.
Ask HN: Advice for newly laid-off dev over 50
So, I was laid off last Friday after management discontinued a software product I had worked on since inception (8 years ago). While I was getting a feeling that this was going to happen - the axe fell sooner than expected so I’m unprepared. I spent the weekend dealing with the surprise and plotting a course forward.

From what I’ve been reading, apparently I’m screwed because I’m in my 50s, the job market is weak, and my network is almost non-existent (focus has been on family).

Among things In my favor is that I have a very strong technical background (full-stack developer - primarily Microsoft). I’ve made sure to keep myself current and incorporate new technology in recent releases of the (now retired) product. I was also getting up to speed with react/Next.js in anticipation for a proposed project (before funding ran out). My employment history is solid with several well-known companies in the mix. I also live in the New York metro area.

Among things that are going against me (in addition to what I wrote above) is lack of any recent job hunting experience and also technical interviewing skills.

I’m curious as to what advice HN could offer to someone in a position like mine?
Wouldn’t the internet and it’s OS layers and many miles of fibre and data center servers and all the hardware and software combined be a representative body for an AGI system. The body already exists, right now we just nurturing the mind
That's a function of nicotine, not of smoking. There are plenty of less terrible ways of getting nicotine into your system.
This is the right call, let the people of the NASA focus on what is really important, and not waste time on PR.

It's pretty obvious that the people who managed to extend the lifetime of Voyager are very smart, based on all the tricks they had to do.

They are remotely configuring an old-tech device that is billions of kilometers away, with insane lag, and uncertainty that the underlying hardware is even responding properly.

Absolutely anything could have gone wrong at this stage.

They'll anyway investigate internally what happened, in order to hopefully, find a solution.

There is no need to spend resources to make the material public, if the goal is mostly to satisfy curiosity (though it's interesting).
Debian ships packages with a coherent dependency structure that crosses language boundaries. You don't need to care what language something is written in to be able to "apt install" it. The expectation is that if it "apt installed" then it should Just Work because all the required dependencies were also pulled in from Debian at the same time.

Debian also tries to ship just one version of everything in a single distribution release to reduce the burden on its maintainers.

This is fundamentally at odds with pip. If you've pip installed something, then that'll likely be the latest version of that package, and in the general case won't be the version of the same thing that shipped in the Debian release. If there exist debs that depend on that package and they are shared between pip and debs, now the deb could be using a different version of the dependency than the deb metadata says is acceptable, leading to breakage.

Another way of putting this: it shouldn't be possible for you to pip upgrade a dependency that a deb shipped by Debian itself relies upon. Because then you'd creating a Frankenstein system where Debian cannot rely on its own dependencies providing what it expects.

This is fixed by having two places where things are installed. One for what the system package manager ships, and one for your own use with pip and whatever you want to do. In this sense, having duplicate packages is actually exactly what you want.
It's not well explained in the version I linked (apologies, I should have looked for a clearer version).

The point of the story when I originally heard it is that no one has SEEN the Emperor's nose. So any statistical function (like averaging) of estimates is totally useless as they are all guesses.

No one has seen 'papers submitted under these circumstances' so no amount of 'crowd wisdom' will make any difference.

Also, as an aside the idea that 'the crowd will only answer the question they can answer' is ... bizarre. People will answer anything you ask them, and you have no way to know if they are just making it up.
Are you saying they are no better than chance? Or just that they are not 100% perfect?

Because we should deeply care about any source of information that beats chance, even if it is imperfect.
> Most internet apps are read-heavy, there are more reads than writes, so largely it makes sense to deal with the latency on writes. We can do this by forwarding the writes to some leader for that piece of data (e.g. the log for usernames), and waiting until that write is replicated back to us (so we can read our own writes).

This is precisely the point. For most CRUD applications, writes are usually so sporadic and user-intentioned that you can show a spinning wheel for it, and users will forgive you for that slowness because it's so sporadic.

Edge computing is basically reinventing insecure HTTP caches and mirrors, but allowing you to include authn/authz so that user data stays private to them. If your edge data model is that much more complicated than that, you're probably doing it wrong.
MineClone2 is exactly what I was thinking of. It looks fine but the lighting/shading effects throughout it look visibly weaker than real Minecraft.
But they did sue 4 unknown "people"!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794163/elon-musk-lawsui...
The last time this theme was posted here I had just replaced my Win 7 machine with a Linux machine running XFCE so I decided to install it for kicks. 5 months later and I am still using it. The "why" is simple: I've used Windows far longer than Unix/Linux, back to the early 90's with Win 3.1. Navigating the menus is almost second nature and familiar icons for notepad and others lead me right to the programs I need. Me and my brother did tons of gaming in Win 95/98 and setup our first LAN on 98 with a Netgear kit and our friends would come over for 1v1 DM - those were the days. Its a nice mix of nostalgia, familiarity and simplicity.
Absolutely government’s fundamental role in human society is regulating against harm.

But somehow the narrative is markets are “bad”, they obviously aren’t as they seek out information and efficiency, which is a good thing. Markets are the one’s you should thank for telling you child labor, slaves, and sweatshops are a problem, and the environment issue, so you pressured your government to regulate those issues. Without free markets the alternative would be the government doing all those horrible things, which btw they certain used to.

People are mixed up, the primary problem is government failure to regulate and be transparent. It’s very difficult for governments to admit they create the problems so academics and politicians find the boggy man of markets.

Kennedy understands this topic well and while it’s unlikely he will win, I deeply hope he can somehow.

We need more markets for more things with clear and clean regulations build based on empirical evidence and scientific and not created by lobbyists involved in regulatory capture.
It would vary tremendously depending on the boarding type and sequence and seat location; obviously a jet bridge boarding is different from a stairway/tarmac boarding.
Stopping subsidies outright could lead to a famine. We need to shift agriculture, not cut off an entire industry.
Which is surprising because it was worked across five or so releases of MacOS now.
Tried a couple times and got this error

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel
That page is for the black and white version. They released that product a couple of years ago.