skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space tether missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tether_missions :

> A number of space tethers have been deployed in space missions.[1] Tether satellites can be used for various purposes including research into tether propulsion, tidal stabilisation and orbital plasma dynamics.

Tether propulsion -> Space tether:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_propulsion

How many RPMs/Hz are necessary for DC (or AC) motors?
That is an imaginary distinction which only exists to anti-capitalists to have their cake and it eat too, along with a continuation of their ongoing torrid love-affair of creating their own sophistic definitions. Everyone else says more or less "that is private property you fool!".
Pretty much zero. A couple of times I was asked to submit some document or log some hours I forgot or something outside of hours and I went 'oops, let me take care of that'. Otherwise, none.

Well, at this job. At my previous job, which involved making software for and supporting a call center (on behalf of health insurance companies), I would get texts sometimes as late as 10pm saying that something had gone down and they needed me to get on a call and tell the server teams what we needed to be back up. The department was a skeleton crew the last couple of years I was there and I was the only guy that knew everything about our phone systems so they were pretty reliant on me or else 90+ agents would be twiddling their thumbs.

I was on Teams calls for up to 16 hours sometimes (through the night and into my normal shift the next day) trying to get things resolved (and the people I was on a call with would tell me "I'm going home for the night. You'll now be talking with Y" So they didn't have the same skeleton crew they forced our department to have.

It was bad. They had all sorts of problems at the data center too, and/or made breaking changes without letting anyone know. It got a bit more stable near the end, but man it was horrible for at least a year and a half straight. This was a major corporation also.

I decided that would be the last job in phone systems I would have, and I'd never let myself get into that bad of a situation again.
Even the way questions are phrased sound like "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Not surprising that X'ers don't play along.
Hi everyone! I am a Senior Software Engineer with plenty of experience in the entire web development spectrum (Full-stack). My favorite technology for the last few years has been Rust so if anyone has a good challenge for me in that field, please let me know, but I am also open to offers for full-stack web development. My Github is https://github.com/fero23.

Location: Managua, Nicaragua
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Rust, JS/TS, Python, Ruby, Elixir, C#, Angular, React, k8s, Docker, Posgres, AWS, Azure, Full-stack web development.
Résumé/CV: available by email.
Email: fulloanic [at] gmail [dot] com
>> if you can't unit test important code, try refactoring until you can

> unit testing not very useful because ultimately it's not a single component that generates errors but the interaction between many of them
On my laptop I have custom Secure Boot keys. I know I did not sign any other OS (well, I did - but with a different key), so this attack won't work, unless the attacker can somehow trick the unmodified previous version of the kernel + initrd combo into asking my passphrase and saving it somewhere, which is highly unrealistic.
That could've been said about Java too but it doesn't mean it doesn't stick around. Complexity is orthogonal to sticking power.
It could be a generational thing as well. I never really "got" Peanuts either, even when reading the older material. Some strips would elicit a mild chuckle, but rarely more than that.

The Far Side on the other hand was always something I loved. I read it in reprints religiously as a kid and collected a number of the books.
I'm frustrated by this argument. Yes, nuclear power gets unfairly maligned across several axes. Yes, fossil fuel is even more of a disaster. But what we have now is a situation where nuclear power has all of its negative externalities properly priced in, whereas fossil fuel doesn't, and yet we have people arguing to remove the forces that properly price in the externalities of nuclear rather than doing the right thing, which is properly pricing in the externalities of fossil fuels. This is counterproductive. Look around at our modern world and see everything enshittifying around us in the relentless pursuit of profit; now imagine that applied to nuclear power. What a nightmare.
I'm working an a web app than tries to date audio and video recordings based on the network grid's noise.

https://datethis.app

I'm still working on improving the UX and the DSP. I made the DSP part open source.
Location: North Carolina, USA (East Coast)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Willing to travel once each quarter, will consider FL (otherwise 100% remote)

Technologies: Python, Flask, FastAPI, TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, Polars, NumPy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenCV, ScikitLearn, Gensim, NLTK, PySpark, Hadoop/HDFS, AWS, ElasticSearch, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, Rust

Resumé/CV: Please send job details to alexfromapex@gmail.com and will reply with resume

Email: alexfromapex@gmail.com

Hi, my name is Alex and I have 10 years of experience as a software engineer, including 5 years at Fortune 500 companies, 1 year of which I was a tech lead. For the last 4 years, I have had experience building mission critical software with Python and working on projects with ML/AI (NLP) and Big Data. I just finished a contract with Apple which I cannot discuss at length because I signed an NDA as all Apple employees are required to but was working on very large data projects. I have taken a month off without applying to new roles, since I did not take much vacation during my contract. I'm beginning to job search now and I'm mostly looking for roles with a laid back team working on interesting Python projects. I love working with AI/ML and Computer Vision and I am currently participating in a Kaggle competition to hone my skills. I can be an asset to a team which needs a skilled full-stack person or a Python/data specialist. Please reach out to my e-mail and I can send my resume, if you have roles which sound like a great match!
I'm obviously talking about populated places.
Cool. I wrote a subset of Prolog using only a few lines of Python and if anyone is interested, you can find it here: https://github.com/photonlines/Python-Prolog-Interpreter
I get a kick out of seeing my changes appear in Organic Maps every month or so. Great motivator for contributing to OSM :D
It feels worse for user experience though. I think people forgot why SPAs were so popular in the first place.
will the executives buy legions of Windows machines if they don't have any workers?
Now it just needs a vscode plugin to replace copilot.
PulseAudio started as a kind of kitchen sink but badly implemented. It could be fixed by doing it right after all the features were established. Wayland is the opposite.
No, it was never anything at that level. I would describe (pre-reformed) Linus as more than just "blunt"
Amusingly I almost failed my US test after passing the UK test a couple of months earlier (I figured I should learn to drive before moving to the US.)

In the UK I was taught to inch out slowly while making a turn at a junction to see traffic while in the US you must stop completely behind the line.

Fortunately as the US test only requires driving around the block I didn’t lose enough points to fail. The examiner said it was pretty common for people who learnt to drive in other countries.
For CSS-in-JS/TypeScript, PandaCSS and Vanilla Extract are both good options.
If you mean the Eiffel Tower, it's not a building.

I just checked the article, and of the 19 times the word "building" appears, it's mostly a verb, followed by "Chrysler Building"

Unless there's some other famously pointy building I'm not thinking of.
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Graphic designer

Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, TeX/ConTeXt, WordPress' PHP, Jekyll
Portfolio: https://miler.codeberg.page/
Résumé-CV: https://codeberg.org/miler/curriculum-vitae/raw/branch/main/curriculum-en.pdf
Email: Please see Portfolio or CV/Résumé
GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/

Professional graphic designer with more than 5 years of experience in both frontend and backend (PHP; Wordpress, some Joomla and some Typo3), iconography, editorial design/typesetting with ConTeXt (some specific examples at https://imgur.com/a/HEzh1x5) and basic graphic design. Please check my portfolio to see some examples of my work.
I take potassium and magnesium supplements in order to compensate for some preparation methods that I use to remove some undesirable substances from some vegetables, e.g. starch and phytic acid, but which end with a washing that will also remove some water-soluble substances like potassium and magnesium.

I have experimented with many variants, but I have eventually settled to use potassium citrate powder and magnesium bisglycinate powder.

I add these powders to the food together with the table salt. The daily intake costs me about 30 cents for both of them. It could be cheaper if I would buy them in greater amounts, but it does not make much sense, because even a box with 200 g to 400 g of powder would be enough for many months and if I would buy e.g. 1 kg I would need more than a year to consume it and there might be some degradation after all that time. I prefer pure powder because it is not only cheaper, but it also does not contain useless or maybe even harmful excipients, like pills or capsules.

I have also tried magnesium citrate, which is cheaper, but I have switched to bisglycinate because the latter is soluble in water (so like the common salt and the potassium citrate it disperses easily to attain a uniform concentration in the entire food) and it is also unlikely to form insoluble precipitates with any component of food (magnesium chloride will form insoluble precipitates with phosphate and with some organic acids from food), so it has the best chances for intestinal absorption.

Neither magnesium citrate nor bisglycinate modify the taste of the food, because the citrate is almost insoluble, while in the soluble bisglycinate the magnesium ions are not free, but chelated (i.e. surrounded) by glycine molecules. With magnesium citrate sometimes there was a mild laxative effect, because the stomach acid dissolves it and free magnesium ions reach the intestine. With bisglycinate I have not noticed anything, because it is not decomposed prior to absorption.
I’m acknowledging that it’s not defensible within the particular framework of moral judgments that I learned in a southern U.S. state that’s especially skeptical of government power. But I’m trying to convince others that they shouldn’t try to apply the moral precepts and priorities of their society to the domestic affairs of a foreign society with a very different moral framework.

It’s not like Saudis are coming to Virginia and insisting that we also execute people critical of the Saudi monarchy. Saudi nationals aren’t voting in our elections and bringing their moral framework to our country. They can run their country how they want. And moral universalism has a long history of resulting in impingement of the sovereignty of foreign nations.

What’s concerning is your apparent belief that everything is your business.
Stephenson's books are so much fun - until the end. They all seem like they are all about the journey, but no destination.

I really would love to have a sequel to Seveneves that focuses on the world from the last part of the book (trying to avoid a spoiler here...)
Yes, octopi is wrong in latin. Octopus is conjugated as Octopodi in the plural.
See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#Latin
this is what i remembered. it's just given that docsis 4 is up to 1794mhz, it won't surprise me if they will make moca3 that will try to climb up in frequencies to avoid overlapping
PandaCSS and Vanilla Extract are subsuming styled-components, precisely because that is runtime CSS while the former two are compile time based and so work for the server.
> You can’t saturate a protocol. You can saturate a given relay (server).

Here's what I said, verbatim: "then you can trivially saturate the network, the clients, and the relays with bogus events."

What are you arguing against?
You're talking about what people should be allowed to do, which is not what I'm talking about.

I'm explaining why the safety of driving vs flying are so different. And the reason is that any moron is allowed to drive.
These are rotating tethers used to launch to other asteroids/planets. Not strings connecting rocks.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230901190025/https://www.wired....

https://archive.ph/HZVdd
I think this is my favourite fantasy movie since... the Lord of the Rings trilogy, really. Apparently it didn't do very well at the box office, and it feels rather unfair.
That's higher than I expected. Thanks for the citation!
If you have very limited time, it makes sense not to include it. Failing at parallel parking usually just means a low speed collision with another car.
What exactly is The Hill? Their website seems like a normal news website but their YouTube channel is ideologically somewhere between Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones.
lame health coverage.
Show HN: I Made a Robot Arm Livestream Using WebRTC
Go to robocharm.io and select CyberClaw. Click Join Queue and wait for your turn. When it's your turn, you will see a real-time video feed of the robot and the controls will appear. Everyone gets approx 2 minutes. Press and hold the buttons to make the joints move. Only the person controlling the robot sees the real-time WebRTC feed. Everyone else sees a youtube iframe embed. Be gentle and have fun!
Other people have already written that it's a fork of OrganicMaps by original authors.

I'll just add that for me OrganicMaps is much better than current Maps.me which is getting worse and worse after it was sold to some Korean (or Chinese, don't remember now) company.

The UI is much simpler and in recent months you can really start to see that OrganicMaps is becoming more detailed. I used to check from time to time the difference between Maps.me and OM and and it used to not be much of a difference, but now you have: more POIs (point of interests, like physiotherapist, specific kind of shops, etc.), better rendering of walls, fences, cliffs, embankments, hedges, better rendering of parking places (very recent update!), and more!
I don't keep up with these SEO things as much as I used to but...

- missing alt text - From an accessibility POV this not only possible, it's encouraged. Forcing a screen reader to read the alt text of a decorative image is a piss poor UX. Like you're going to rank for some BS stock image? Doubtful.

- page and SERP title do not match - Do they mean the H1 tag and the title tag's strings do not match? Or the actual SERP, 'cause my understanding is Google, Bing, etc. reserve the right to "adjust" the title they list in the SERP if they believe it is in their customers' best interest. Therefore, it's possible for title and SERP not to match. Regardless (see below) about title length, it's hard to imagine Google denying their customers of good content because of a minor irrelevant mismatch such as this.

- title too long is such a low value signal (to the algorithms) that it's not worth mentioning. If the underlying content is good (i.e., it'll make Google's customers happy) it's very unlikely Google will "penalize" you for a title that is too long.

- meta description too short is a other non issue. Like page title, if the search platform doesn't like the desc it'll just change it anyway. Leave it blank and the algorithms will sort it out.

- multiple H1 tag is a thing? Doesn't HTML5 allow this? That is, for example, each section can have a title and that can be an h1 (for that page section). So if you're marking up correctly multiple H1s is legit, yes?

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Of course it makes sense to try to follow the rules / guidelines when possible. On the other hand, some sites, plenty of sites just don't care. They'll never get to page 4 or 3 of the SERPs, let alone 2 or 1. Good SEO - like everything else - takes time, and sometimes - often? - that time is better spent elsewhere.

The question is: for how many of these sites would said fixes get them to SERP page 1, or even 2? I bet is 2% at best.

I wish SEOs stop promoting the idea that there's room on Page 1 for everyone.
Manhunt – Hidden Anti-Piracy Measures [video]
How different are the physics for a [WebGL] simulator for body kinematics and Poi/Glowstringing and a simulator for space tethers in n-body gravity?

Poi (performance art) / Glowstringinging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_(performance_art)

Poi spinning > Types of poi
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_spinning
I'm potentially looking for a CEO for a legal tech startup; I gave this a go about a year ago with a friend with me in the CEO position, and we didn't get very far. I think I'd be a better CTO, and I'd like to build a different version that tries to solve the same set of problems, but which leverages LLMs.

My email: samier_saeed@protonmail.com
A big conglomerate [with access to market data on the demand side and tons of book optionality on the supply side] thinking it would make a buck absolutely is an additional filter for quality that doesn’t exist for AI-written self-published books.

Real businesses and real authors also tend to be concerned about getting sued for things like libel or defamation, or just generally having their brand reputations dragged through the mud after releasing mislabeled and subpar products.

It’s definitely an imperfect filter, sure, but then just see my original comment.
Okay, let me rephrase. What should I be doing other than voting and working for causes I believe in. I’m not in an oppressed group unless you consider the entirety of the American public not part of the oligarchy to be such a group.
> I think it's a direction for social media that hasn't been tried yet on a wide scale.

What direction? Building music distribution and ai agents? Or building a social network that literally relies on trusted servers (that you're even expected to pay for) to function?
Don't use cloudflare as DNS
How is this any different from sending an event from an account you authenticated from (like an e-mail, or a Twitter account)?
There's a group about 4 hours from Dallas called 3 Rivers Foundation (www.3rf.org) that has been buying up land in the county. The last time I was there, they were trying to get their campus (700+ acres at that time) designated as a dark sky location too. They are also attempting to increase their acreage to help keep it that way. There's a state park Copper Breaks that has the darkest skies of any state park (caveat being Big Bend is a national park) in the same area.

>I just feel like I'd be losing something

Spend enough cold nights outside, and you'll get really fuzzy to the remote concept! There have been nights where it was so cold, that once the rig was running, everyone just hangs out inside where it's warm with a periodic jaunts outside just to check on things.

Edit: I had to look up some details. At one of the post facilities I once worked, I met John Davis of Jimmy Neutron fame. He's a big astrophotography buff as well. While we were in the color session waiting for some renders to finish, he showed me his remote setup. He can log in and view some cameras to ensure it is safe to open up for observing. He can tell it what to observe in a set it and forget it manner. At the end, it is scripted to process the images and email it to him for review. That's exactly how I'd spend my Hollywood earnings too if I ever had any. I can't remember if he was the person I learned about 3rf from or if it was another client. But yeah, it's a pick your mouth up from the floor and wipe the drool off your face before you look like a fool. He said that's not the first time it's happened to him. Very cool cat.
Yes, me too. There are towns in Alaska with no roads in or out.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, C++, Rust, Javascript/React/Typescript/Node.js, D, PostgreSQL, Docker, Mercurial, Git, Ansible, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM, ECS, Lambda, Elasticache, DynamoDB), Django, DRF, Qt, Matlab, Numpy, Scipy, C, Java, Redis, MongoDB, Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, New Relic, bash, PHP, Perl

Email: jordigh@octave.org

Résumé/CV: https://jordigh.com/resume.pdf

I'm a software developer/engineer with a mathematical background and over 15 years of software industry experience. My last few roles have been in observability, greenhouse gas accounting, and medical imaging. I have:

* streamlined data pipelines,
* taken full ownership of software stacks from the database, to the backend, frontend, and devops on AWS,
* taken deep dives into many codebases to figure out what makes them tick and how I can modify, improve, or instrument them
* mentored peers on fundamentals such as Unix, Python, git as well as organisational skills like how to run Scrum ceremonies

I like solving tricky problems, mentoring others, and carefully documenting my processes. I can do low-level programming, as low as 6502 assembly if that's what it takes, to architect high-level cloud infrastructures. I can interface with ABIs as fluently as with APIs. I am native to the command line. Emacs is my religion, but as a general rule, I do not proselytise.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordigh

https://github.com/jordigh

http://jordi.inversethought.com
We moved some comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37348914, which was posted later but is currently more active. I didn't move https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37345011 since the other thread has a different title.
To me, in Wilson's case it seems irrelevant if the boyfriend was a drug dealer or not, or even if she herself suspected of something. If that's the case, charge one or both of them, there's no just reason to take the car.

A hypothetical situation that could somewhat justify the police taking someone's car would be if the car was known to be stolen, but presumably she wouldn't be able to apply to get it back in that case, so that doesn't seem to be the case.
CGO Performance in Go 1.21
Why is there a leading zero on all the years listed like 01980s?
I have a "minimal screens" policy. What screens they do get are creative. For example, KidPix. I don't allow games or video watching. This puts the screen squarely in the "arts and crafts" space, where it belongs, and I don't need to put limits on it because they limit themselves.

They won't have smartphones or tablets of their own until high school. And even then it will be for creative things, comms with friends. No social media.

I will allow them to play some online games, like Fortnite and Rocket League, with the chat/mic turned off. My daughter loves Astro's Playroom (great game BTW) so she's gonna be a gamer. Game consoles aren't the problem. The always on pocket screen that's constantly beeping with promises of a dopamine hit is a HUGE problem. It may seem like a fine distinction, but it's crystal clear to me (and to them). I make a point to show them what screens have done to groups in the world, when you see people all looking at their phones instead of each other at dinner. We laugh at them and pity them, and this is correct.