skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It funny, usually people on HN diss NASA et all hard for being those big, inept governkent agencies, with SpaceX being so so mich better because SpaceX get SW"engineering". And then NASA does something like this, and all of sudden it so cool! Coupd it be that those orgs aren't even nearly as incompetent as people have a tendency to think?
With npm, 64GB ought to be enough for everyone.
These spacecraft don't have CPUs, at least not the way we think of them, in the sense of a single microprocessor IC. Their "CPUs" are built from discrete logic gates on CMOS and TTL ICs, the way the earliest digital arcade games were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#Computers_and_...
Nobody ever got fired for joining the cargo cult.
I really have to hand it to NASA. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 and it's still getting updates but we're supposed to be okay with the cell phones that launched 5 years ago no longer being updated.
> where a marine biologist with a PhD was fired for publishing a paper which claimed that coral bleaching had improved.

That's the Sky News framing of his dismissal.

He was dismissed for misconduct towards other peer researchers, he beat that up on Sky News, initially won an unfair dismissal case and then lost on appeal.

He did claim that coral recovery after a mass bleaching had come back better than ever, the reality was that recovery was good but at the tally up things were still worse than before.

For reference:

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-environment-oceans...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/qld-controversial-que...

> You never hear about such cases on mainstream news.

Yes, you do.

It was all over Sky News, ABC Australian news, Reuters, The Guardian, BBC News, etc.
Before:

In 1994 JPL started working on the Remote Agent (RA), an autonomous spacecraft control system. RA was written entirely in Common Lisp despite unrelenting political pressure to move to C++. At one point an attempt was made to port one part of the system (the planner) to C++. This attempt had to be abandoned after a year. Based on this experience I think it's safe to say that if not for Lisp the Remote Agent would have failed.

We used four different Common Lisps in the course of the Remote Agent project: MCL, Allegro, Harlequin, and CLisp. These ran in various combinations on three different operating systems: MacOS, SunOS, and vxWorks. Harlequin was the Lisp that eventually flew on the spacecraft. Most of the ground development was done in MCL and Allegro. (CLisp was also ported to vxWorks, and probably would have been the flight Lisp but for the fact that it lacked threads.) We moved code effortlessly back and forth among these systems.

The Remote Agent software, running on a custom port of Harlequin Common Lisp, flew aboard Deep Space 1 (DS1), the first mission of NASA's New Millennium program. Remote Agent controlled DS1 for two days in May of 1999. During that time we were able to debug and fix a race condition that had not shown up during ground testing. (Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem. The story of the Remote Agent bug is an interesting one in and of itself.)

The Remote Agent was subsequently named "NASA Software of the Year".

https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
Yet the Steamdeck is selling great....

Gaming is no longer dominated by affluent teenagers. At least not to the degree it once was.
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I do not work in academia, but to me the summary of the paper sounds completely useless. Shouldn't they at least have have mentioned the core finding first in the summary before saying that more studies are necessary?
> The UI is very unified by alien conventions.

I’ve heard of some of the other stuff before, but I’d be very interested in hearing more about how this works!
> My understanding is that a species' maximum speed depends simply on muscle mass

If so, that doesn’t mean that they would get faster if only they got more muscle. I would expect that species evolve towards not having more muscle than they can effectively use. I think looking at elite human runners supports that. At longer distances, they get less muscular.

> The reason elephants don't outrun cheetahs is that they […] run out of energy before hitting the top speed their muscles could produce.
> Look up allometry for more. There are formulas for calculating top speed based on mass.

I think our best knowledge is that adding more muscle only works for a limited time. https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d51544f7767444e/share.html:

“If muscles were all that mattered "elephants would reach maximum speeds of about 600 kph (370 mph)," she told AFP.

Instead, tuskers peak at about 34 kph (21 mph).

Big beasts, in other words, run out of so-called anaerobic energy, supplied by the muscles, before being able to reach their theoretically maximum speed.“
It's cool that you handed over the project to the open source community when you decided to fold the startup. I know absolutely nothing about Sandstorm and my interest has now skyrocketed in both it, and you.
Ditto here, and matches the experience of many close friends and even colleagues. The emotional side of things is especially germane, I was definitely using mj to avoid facing up to some emotional difficulties.

It might sound a bit arcane, but I attribute a lot of it to REM sleep. When I quit, I had crazy dreams every night, often nightmares. But frankly, I had dug myself into a pretty deep hole in the real world. These nightmares and unpleasant dreams became much less frequent over time, and I still dream almost every night. When I was smoking every day, I didn’t notice this. I don’t notice that was waking up foggy, it was nothing compared to a hangover or a night with little sleep. But now it’s clear. I feel like I have an entire dimension of sharpness and control I was missing and I’m grateful for that.
Even with those problems, those are still far better than the (complete lack of) documentation I see in software workplaces these days.
why is this modded -1?
> Sadly, this format of review isn’t well supported by the tools — everyone seems to be happy reviewing diffs, rather than the actual code?

Maybe us plebs just use the diff viewer (or GitHub or) and the IDE/editor/terminal as separate applications.
How many minicoopers filled with pingpong balls, if all pingpong balls were put in line?
Long-term updated devices might be OK for your wallet and the environment, but they're not good at making profits. They also slow down "innovation", and what would we be without 100s of useless ("necessary") functions in our modern phones? We'd have to (gasp) talk to each other at restaurants or also use proper dedicated devices like a camera and would miss some selfies!
I agree in principle but being a steward doesn't put food on the table
> It's just frustrating when you're looking at upper-end AMD laptops and you cannot find 16GB of memory, or a decent screen.

This is not correct. Just looking at Lenovo (and surely, there are similar machines from other brands), even a mainstream laptop like the Yoga 7 14" AMD ships 16 GB, and it has a 2.8K OLED display as option. If you want more, the T14(s) can ship with 32 GB and matte display.
Address trader sues German DPA to prevent noyb from accessing files
SLAPPs here, SLAPPs there.
Probably because many of those increasingly read like "if we don’t stop this soon we’re all gonna die". The direr the reported consequences of human activities get, the more we think "this scientist is telling me how to live my life".

It’s like playing Russian roulette, and having all the fun ruined by some eagle eyed gun expert pointing out that actually, there’s a bullet in that gun. The risk comes from the bullet, but we’re still tempted to be annoyed at the expert instead.
Wow, that is a huge achievement for an open source project given how much data there is.
Actually SumatraPDF is using MuPDF now. But there is some limitation on rendering PDF and eBook files. For example, formatting PDF file or displaying Unicode characters in epub file.
It's a shame that it is this way. These apps can provide immense value, but due to under-regulation we cannot consume these apps with comfort.

New user-protection laws in areas like mental health are strongly needed.
On some other YouTube channel, I recently saw a diagram where the width was 0.01 light-year. That’s “only” about 59 billion miles; surely we can’t be too far from the moment we can conceive of Voyager 1’s distance in light-years.

Nope. At its current speed, we’ve got another 129 years. That’s an underestimate because the spacecraft will continue to decelerate a bit as it pulls farther away from the sun.

That’s about 60,000 years to the nearest star.
Hi! Happy to help/contribute if you need an extra pair of hands :)
Hm, they do collect user and usage data and they say they might share it with others.

https://www.roadmaptogrow.com/privacy.html

It's unfortunate. We’ve made a similar app (to combat sugar addiction), but we made a conscious decision to avoid collecting any information we don't have to.

Our privacy policy is just that we get the data App Store shares with us and that when a user sends us an email we are going to keep that email.
This is really fantastic! Ofcourse the techy in me wishes for a one time payment to selfhost the data but know it's the openai bits that are expensive :)

I would love a way for this to be fed into my Obsidian daily journal. You're actually inspiring me to see if something similar is available for obsidian.

One small feedback, if I'm on the add an entry page and I swipe back it closes the app.
Where are you making 400-500k a year doing systems programming? Embedded or kernel dev usually doesn't pay so great.
While an ideal spring may not exist, the foot itself might be the next best thing suited to that goal. It’s full of nerves that allow the brain to make micro adjustments, as well as muscles for executing those compensations in real time, based on feedback thats coming from the ground.
Winamp still exists? I thought it was resold twenty times to various shady entities.
> the track & trace system

Test & Trace.

Track & Trace is for parcels.
What's the other thing named Marcel?
That is the key. I will never understand why we’re stuck in a world of TeleType emulators, while having all the technology available to make Terminals with proper autocomplete, suggestions and inline widgets possible.

And we’re probably not getting there if people insist on cryptic shortcuts instead of semantic naming, just because they’re inclined to type everything out manually. It’s like those developers writing their code in Notepad++ and pretend that’s the way.
Here's hoping more accurate dosing will be a side effect of this. Going by rough weight of a plant that includes a lot of water always seemed kind of sketchy to me.

I've heard of tinctures made by dissolving them in alcohol, but I don't think even those are measured objectively. No idea what sort of titration/measurement you'd do to determine the mg amount of psilocybin, or if that's even well documented.
In a world buzzing with tweets, likes, and ever-scrolling news feeds, have you ever paused to wonder where the deep, meaningful conversations have gone? Where can you engage with not just people, but ideas, and even virtual beings that stretch your imagination? Welcome to Cyber Bubble — a sanctuary we’ve designed for your thoughts, ideas, and friendships to flourish.
Once again, basically noise. Furthermore, the results are probably highly biased due to conventional warfare.
A rust rewrite from scratch is already in process
Your "book a demo" link is broken pal
To me this happens naturally, Looking at the diff first, if I know the codebase well might be enough to get a sense of the changes, or at least understand their isolation. However, as soon as I start to feel that I don't fully understand the implications, I quickly check the branch out and poke in an editor.

OP is right though, if the "check out in editor" workflow was much smoother (than quick web view) I would prefer to always do that
At least two other HN users chose to downvote a comment that effectively had no content (beyond "yep", "nice", "upvoted", "w00t!", etc).

No HN mods were involved.
Or, for the EOMA68 (if anyone ever receives one).
To me the interest in this would be as a replacement for bash in makefiles with the hope that it could be cross platform and not require most of the utilities like sed/awk etc. It's an enormous pain to write x-platform builds with make because of shell issues - even with cygwin.

For this to work one would probably want to embed python and have a pool of interpreters so as not to pay the startup cost of python on every job invocation.

"That Said" I think passing around structures is not that useful to me - one is often trying to automate programs that are not written that way.

Python's pipe handling is complicated and horrible compared to bash and that's the thing I'd really want to "buy" from this - together with more shell-like ways to copy, search, touch files that are platform independent.
The defaults are opinionated but also minimalistic, I like this!
Props on the simplicity!
What's Happening in Self-Driving Universe?
Editorial:

Since the Tesla I was driving, equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, nearly drove me under a truck, my interest in self-driving cars has intensified. As if serving my curiosity, the last week was filled with news about self-driving, driverless, autonomous vehicles, and robotaxis – so, here's my Monday take.

Let’s be clear, I don’t blame Tesla. In the same way, I can’t fault ChatGPT for making things up. It’s not truly intelligent. ChatGPT doesn’t chat with full understanding and responsibility for its word choices, just as self-driving cars are still largely experimental. If you're a good driver, you can somewhat rely on it – but with heightened awareness. Similarly, if you're a sharp lawyer, you can somewhat rely on ChatGPT, ensuring you verify the info it generates.

Read more -> https://www.turingpost.com/p/fod25
For videos there's an easy workaround - download the video file and open it in VLC. FFMPEG will likely never drop its support.

Dropping e.g. HTML/CSS features is much harder, since there likely won't be any workaround other than running older version of the browser.
> an organization that is set up to reduce code ownership, and they struggle to attract talent

These might not be related though?

> work is fulfilling

> It exhilarating to start projects, then see them degrade inevitably into corporate monstrosities.

What you describe does not sound pleasant. So it's not fulfilling after all?
Right, what the Dockerfile is doing is building the store first inside the image using pnpm fetch. Then, when the Dockerfile does pnpm install inside the image, the resulting links in the generated node_modules are pointing to the store path inside the image. When you do COPY . ., either your .gitignore file is already ignoring node_modules or you have a separate .dockerignore file which should also exclude node_modules; thus, when copying files into the image, you're never copying the node_modules folder and thus links inside the node_modules folder to places on your host laptop are irrelevant.
hey we have similar ideas )
I made a focus helper thing as well: https://grgv.xyz/blog/awf/
webllm looks cool, but I would need to upgrade my laptop for it...
Ah fair, I thought you were suggesting that typing the official name was no big deal, rather than just suggesting something helpful for macOS/iOS users.
If you have Voyager 2's budget, I'm sure someone would be quite happy to sell you a phone that receives updates for decades.
Two years ago I got the AND advantage edition chipset in HP Omen. 5800 gpu, 6600M navi + dmbedded vega, 32gb ram 3200, 16” QHD @165Hz, 1Tb nvme + extra nvme. This was Stock, I just added an extra 1Tb nvme drive. Cool snd quiet. Even has full size cursor keys, and a row for home/end and friends, including prtnscrn. And lots of expansion ports.

AMD do offer solutions, its the vendors that ignored Navi and insisted on supplying power guzzling 3060 instead. Blame the customers for that.

Good laptop with 3 flaws - should have been 16:10, and the touchpad driver is terrible, and power supply is a brick. Fix these and you would have had oerfect laptop.
Congrats! My first questions with this sort of thing are always the same:

- is it easy to deploy from test to prod via CI?

- is the configuration source-controllable/diffable via Git?

Ta!
From prehistory when they were stored in plain text or just obfuscated.
Dall-E has the same problems as other models. Try generating a clockwork mechanism with it, for example.

SD is worth bothering with because it's open, you can run and extend it yourself.
Crazy idea, but maybe inheritance is flawed? What would happen if there wouldn't be any inheritance at all, the money goes to the state and in return gives people a basic income and a lump sum when you turn 18?
Needing an IDE for a shell!?

"Tooling" is a design smell. It's building hacks on hacks to make bad design and lack of understanding somewhat manageable.

For better systems all you need is a shell and a text editor.

That said, we do need a better shell. But definitely one with UNIX and CLI mentality.
That is not possible though. You cannot refrain from being judged and if you are honest you are also judging others. This is true for clothing and much more so for more intimate proclivities. Also, a certain amount of inhibition might be quite healthy.

Additionally I don't want to share even trivial stuff like interest in music or movies with everyone. If I do, it is on my own terms. I don't want to share who is in my social circle either. My social media presence is highly curated and shallow for professional reasons (although by being shallow it doesn't contrast other online presences too much).

I hide stuff and that is completely fine and something I want to do. If people are interested, they can ask me.

Anonymity isn't just a band-aid here, it is a tool and I value it quite highly. Nothing to do with equality or advancing rights.
> A lot of engineers forget that they are in fact paid to build a product for customers.

In a way yes but I think in many ways software became much more than that. In many ways it became a crucial part of human lives as electricity or medical services. And you can say doctors/engineers are being paid to develop new medicine or a new power sources but these have many many levels of government control just because how sensitive and important the matter is, which is not the case with software (yet?).
sed and awk are simple tools; choosing an entirely different non-standard tool just because you can't learn them seems a bit overkill.
I thought I read more recently that they're no longer sure about where the heliosphere ends, because of the data returned from the V'ger probes.
This is amazing. Congratulations on the launch
Book: Quantitative System Performance (1984)
Sorry it took a little time to get back to you. Yes, I wrote a few articles, on linkedin of all places, but they didn't say much more than what I've said here, as I recall. You can contact me on vintermann at gmail if you want.
It definitely doesn't, maybe there are some jerks that think badly of NASA, but I doubt they make the majority of us. They do a lot of engineering and science, but have been underfunded for so many years, with the government siding with private companies.

For many, like me. It would be a dream to work at NASA, whatever the salary or bureaucracies it might involve.

It was my childhood dream, but given I wasn't American, that would never happen.
Geothermal station on Io? Harvest the radiation belts somehow? (Probably both environments are too destructive to be practical, like putting a Crockpot on the surface of Venus)
Interesting, but no support for workspaces yet: https://github.com/orogene/orogene/issues/161
You can go cashless in Austria if you want to.

You can also go cash-only in Austria, if you want to.

Austria is one of those rare places in the Free World where personal agency and responsibility are still, relatively, extant throughout society ..
No. You have a 2 hour window and 30 raspberry pi's. How long do you spend fixing them versus teaching?

Fix that problem. Don't address it by introducing the kids to useless, proprietary technology.

It's just a fucking computer, not a world changing thing.

This irrational, entirely emotional attitude is also the problem. Its why kids can't code today, but could in the 80's.

Computers are world-changing things. This is why its so vital to teach kids properly and not chintz out on it because "its too hard".
The only reason you didn't learn this on your BBC B is because it didn't have a proper DOS.

I bet you know what a Folder and a File are now, though. You wouldn't get too far as a modern developer, otherwise.

That's the point: teach kids real skills, not decadence. Too bad if its "too hard" - don't pretend to be an educator if that's the case.
You mean U235 I guess, but you don't even need enriched Uranium to have a nuclear reactor (natural uranium reactors are a thing).

Also, you're not really praising China for being a land of free enterprise fostering innovation are you?

Nuclear (but not necessarily nuclear innovation) works in China because there's strong political will (exactly like it was in France in the 70s and 80s btw).
Journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict
What are the main competitors of Lexistream? Do they even have any serious competitors for this streaming business?
> It seems like most people have given up on the idea of community, sharing, and collective action, and prefer to take pills or other substances against the resulting depression/anxiety/loneliness.

Oh, didn’t realize I was watching Fox & Friends.
What will be more ... (I don't know the word in English) is, once Voyager 2 completed the update it sends the same update to Voyager 1 (I read online it has the same computer system).
FYI, you can use firefox for viewing,signing, and adding text to PDFs.
You can also use it to remove password (just do print to PDF after unlocking it).
If you want a similar extension which works without sending data to an external server, I made Pinbot as an experiment: https://getpinbot.com
Did the person recover from the event? I'm genuinely interested. I knew someone who seemed to have suffered something catastrophic from regualy ecstasy use. (this was twenty years ago, I haven't seen him since).

Personally I think weed is the most underestimated of all drugs. I smoked it for a while when I was a teenager and I think it left permanent bad effects. But I can never be sure.
How did they get my password?
Only for new liscences, and that provisions seems unable to get a majority at the moment. Which kind of makes sense, why limit it to weight? EVs and most family cars are above the proposed 1.8 tons. Limiting it by power / speed (EVs have a ton of power but lower top speeds) would make more sense, similar to what we had for motorbikes in the past.
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the tool is called chatGPT )
just export your bookmarks to html, send to gpt-4, ask it to de-duplicate and organize, most likely it will work well.
Old mobile phones aren’t transmitting priceless scientific data.

Long-term updates to old devices are a drain on the people updating them. You start a hardware company and let’s see how long you and your little team of really expensive engineers keep updating last year’s product.