skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Columbus is not a measuring stick for human exploration... Nevertheless I think some would be flabberghasted that such a leap fizzled out but some would wonder why we went in the first place if not to gather resources.
Well humans can do many things, a robot cannot. But in general yes, sending a swarm of robots to mars will deliver way more data for way less money, than a human mission.
The second last sentence is "This result makes it clear that academic impact — as quantified by citations — is to some extent inherited." Two things come to mind.

1. Figure 2, which supports the conclusion, does not seem all that "clear" to me. The r (0.61) is pretty low, and the rightmost point might be leveraging the fit.

2. Why would it be a surprise that citation impact is inherited? Research groups with high citation rates tend to draw attention from ambitious students who hope to learn how to do highly citable research.

Not that any of this matters all that much in the end, since citations can (and are) "gamed" by many people. Plus, citation rates very a lot between disciplines, and disciplines within disciplines. But bean counters like to count beans, and citations are easy beans to count.
Are the dividends that significant over using CUA shortcuts* that usually are available in most other places?

I've done some reading and I'm considering diving into Vim, but I'm not sure, at least without much experience the surface level feels achievable by 2 keystroke combos and the mental overhead of getting used to using vim style bindings in some places but not others feel like exactly the kind of friction the article is trying to avoid

* Like navigating using Home, End, PgUp/Dn, moving between lines by Ctrl+arrows, Ctrl+X'ing for yanking etc
If Americans emigrated in droves to Denmark they would also fail to integrate, (although they would face less racism from the locals) and they will also prefer to socialize with their own, retain their own American customs and cultural identity and fail to learn Danish.
But all of this is irrelevant. Failing to integrate, by this measure does not lead one directly towards the criminal underworld. There are a few steps in between that are being ignored, and this "failed integration" is being used as a red herring.
It's actually an interesting comparison. If the Queen of Spain circa 1500 had today's technology she wouldn't care nearly as much about Mars as she did then about India (sic) because extracting anything from Mars can't possibly be profitable yet. She wasn't in it for the science; she was in it for god, glory and gold, and not necessarily in that order.
I thought the "reason" mars has no magnetic field is that its core solidified a long time ago. How does this new finding affect understanding of Mars magnetics?
> compiled managed languages like [...] C#

I've been out of the windows development game for a long time, so I haven't used C# since it strictly required a VM... what's pre-compiled C# development like nowadays? Are there major caveats? If you can emit plain old binaries in C# with no runtime dependencies, that would make it a truly compelling language IMO.

And as another question, what's the cross-platform (mainly Linux) support like in AOT-compiled C#? If it's just as good as in Windows and emits plain executables, I would probably consider it the best place to start for any new project. (Something tells me it's not...)
Japan is basically socialism when it comes to values and the actions people take. Limited tolerance for big change or extreme competition, very static communities and low mobility. It used to work uptill the 80's, but in the age of innovation and change, it's backfiring.
I think they were referring to the two wars we spent decades in that increased spending. OIF and OEF.
True, but...

How much deficit did we add last year? The year before? OK, two years ago means they are Covid numbers, so... five years ago?

How much did the economy grow in those years?

I'm not sure that you can say anything as simple as "the growth is because of the deficit". I suspect (but I don't currently have the numbers) that there have been lots of years when the US ran a large deficit and did not grow.
As others have pointed out, inflation is gamed. We’re paying 50+% higher prices on food, 100% more for fuel, 200% more in mortgage interest than two years ago, for example, but no inflation print has ever reflected that.
Victorians/Columbus didn't exactly have scientific study on their mind. If there was oil or gold on Mars it would have been "discovered" several times over by now.

Also I'm not sure how we've "given up" considering there are two rovers on Mars right now, the last one going as recently as 2021, plus several more in development. People expecting Mars colonies by now have been reading too much sci-fi.
The push for humans on Mars is deeply misguided. The same resources should be used to send many more probes and for far longer durations. After 100 years of deeply mapping all available resources, then maybe send humans if a long-term colony is self-sustainable and necessary for deep space exploration with better propulsion technologies.

Edit: Without a self-sustaining colony and next generation propulsion tech, any humans on Mars as a backup plan will die lonely deaths. Surprised people seem confused on the necessary and sufficient conditions. Show me that robots can set up a self-sustaining colony with self-generating resources to get to other worlds, and that’s a legit “backup” plan. Otherwise we’re just arguing about edge cases with no viable solutions. You don’t need humans on Mars to show what’s possible.
What do you mean by "where and when the data was collected"? As the article says, the photos are from the 60s and 70s in Iraq and Syria.

The source of the photos was the CORONA and HEXAGON satellites: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/wa...

The journal article cites its sources which you can use to understand more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2020.1...

The data has been available for quite a while, but available is different from usable:

> While challenges involved in spatially correcting these unusual panoramic film images has long served as a stumbling block to researchers, an online tool called “Sunspot” now offers a straightforward process for efficient and accurate orthorectification of CORONA, helping to unlock the potential of this historical imagery for global-scale archaeological prospection. With these new opportunities come significant new challenges in how best to search through large imagery datasets like that offered by CORONA.
I haven't installed it since ~2016/2017, so my knowledge might be outdated. If you use one of the arch-based distros with a GUI, then you're right that it's very easy to install.

If you follow the Wiki though, I think you still learn quite a bit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide
> Besides, maybe the big solar flare comes and you can't call Apple for a few months or years. Offline repair needs to be possible.

If that happens, the cell towers are probably down, and your primary goal is to avoid starvation; not repair a phone that outside of taking photos is now basically useless.

Also, where are you even charging your phone after such an event? How are you repairing that method and preventing that from getting stolen?
I think he covered your comment in

> - Emancipate both politically and economically
Because until now, they "complied" with right to repair in bad faith by providing an unusable platform which is basically just there for PR purposes & helping them in lawsuits.

It makes sense people are skeptical now when they were already fooled once.

Personally I'm going to believe it when I see it.
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Private Cloud allows infrastructure team to run big server parks efficiently, while product teams can "buy" resources easily. It's essentially why Amazon made aws, why Google made Borg.

For a regional hospital for example, there might be a desire for in-house network and hardware - but perhaps the system for digital patient journals run on Kubernetes and managed databases.
You could take them to a police station and hand them in.
Playing devils advocate, not really. Markets are reacting awfully to the positive economic news, and most rich people are pretty nervous right now.
This whole thing aside, I do like the concept of a virtual country and citizenship.
The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
> They do serve the same purpose: they find defects.

No, not really. If you read up on the basics of automated testing, you'll find out that test classes such as unit, integration, UI, performance, accessibility, and localization tests share the same goal: specify and check invariants in the code and in its interfaces.

Static code analysis tools have an entirely different set of responsibilities. They do not have the responsibility of checking the compliance with contracts, including things like SLAs or whether a button is navigatable with a keyboard as per the wishes of a Program Manager.
> with people feeling good

Because growth likely means inflation in this case, so that causes uncertainty.
Makes me wonder how much information and insights can be gleaned from data that's just out there in the public domain. Can generative AI help with data-mining and extracting interesting and new things like this?
Nothing in the world is 100% secure; there are tradeoffs. Lockdown mode is more secure (but certainly not 100% secure) at the expense of less usable and less performant.

Demanding absolute security on the default configuration is unreasonable. No platform provides that.
> There's no good way to force down housing costs without signaling to sellers that the prices are simply too high

The prices aren't too high the dollars are worth too little beacuse there are too many of them. Stop making more and prices will stabilize.
Simple. Mindgeek (PH parent company) is not publicly traded. They don't have the same shareholder pressure for constant growth the way Google does.

However, I'm sure there's also an aspect of porn advertisers being less picky and the site just generally being simpler/cheaper to run than YouTube.
It's not much different in Europe.

Here in Spain health spending is so high that you have to pray to the gods to see a GP. Usually you end up having to go to the ER for any kind of problem because there are no appointments available for weeks.

Food and rent have skyrocketed these years. The official inflation numbers are a joke, they are like... 5%? When food has gone up in average by at least 50%.

Not sure about insurance.
26 billion in 2022
> sustainable levels

That's really the key thing. What level is sustainable? I've come around to the idea that the main danger of deficit spending is inflation (because of the idea that government debt is private sector wealth).

The big levers the government have access to are spending and taxes. The first adds wealth, the second subtracts. In this way, government debt is really nothing like household debt that you and I have.
How is it gamed? Can you show your receipt from a year ago where your food bill was that much less?

CPI does include food, fuel, and housing costs (though housing lags very significantly for a few reasons).
Ah, so you are French. So the HS is a well-known one which prides itself as incredible. I went there myself and it was a nightmare - despite being top of my class I always felt squeezed in a box.

I was not enthusiastic when my son decided to go there but it turns out that the school, still being full of itself, has changed and the class was great.

It obviously follows the general curriculum but it is outdated compared to what is expected from young graduates. I mentioned the math obsession (and its rigidity, honestly just reading the book makes me yawn - while analysis (calculus) is wonderful in practice), but there is also philosophy which is honestly a scam.

It could be a great opportunity to help people think, but they decided to make it something everyone hates, where the marks depend on the alignment of the planets and where the very last thing that is expected is your own opinion. They want the opinion of others, in a strictly rigid structure.

I love my country but the people who manage the curriculum should be fired on the spot and replaced by the ones who have gone outside the ministry to the real world.

We will never be competitive otherwise.
We just tried that and inflation exploded.
I don’t disagree, but you can go to Los Angeles, where something like 40% of people don’t speak English at home and see there are no actual problems with massive numbers of immigrants and mixing cultures. All the social problems that do exist (e.g. with housing and homelessness) are the result of the rich waging battle against the poor. The food is also a hell of a lot better than Northern Europe and we share it with each others children.
>US GDP apparently includes capital gains.

1. Source? A quick search suggests not.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre....

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-capital-gains-not-included-in-...

2. If this were true, shouldn't we be seeing meteoric rise and fall in gdp during the pandemic, when the s&p 500 grew 40% within the span of less than 2 years?
The 8% deficit listed above _is_ a percentage of total GDP of the whole country (although the Fed has it at only 5.3%). The numbers are directly comparable.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
I'd wish to be an immigrant to the US myself. Actively working on that now.

I left states several years ago and regretted that decision ever since.
Probably Buy a Flipper Zero Before It's Too Late
Doesn't anybody feel that the state requirements are unreasonable? With SF as dense as it is, I don't think they should build more housing.
Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
tbh they seem like two completely different worlds, and if you're experienced in the java ecosystem (or have a C/C++ mentality), then this makes perfects sense.

But I'm not sure java is exactly without criticism either.

Lua and Love2D (and with Fennel on top) makes for a good teaching setup, IMHO.
It depends on prefetching very much.

I have a similar simulation code, which can saturate the cores pretty efficiently (It was running with >1.7M integrations/sec/core and scaling linearly on last decade's hardware).

But when you access to square submatrices inside a 3000x3000 matrix, and CPU prefetcher brings the whole n rows, and you discard most of the rows to get another part of the matrix, that bandwidth is wasted.

Instead, you can rearrange your matrices to make the prefetcher happy, and do not throw what prefetcher brings, because you make it bring which is going to be used next.

When I was doing last analysis runs, it was running with ~20% cache trash meaning I'm wasting 20% of the data I'm pulling in regardless. This is a huge loss, considering I was saturating memory bandwidth before the cores.
Like wines, if they are good in the first place, they are worth laying down

Margaret Costa on tinned sardines in the "Four Seasons Cookery Book"
"the finest steel comes from the hottest dumpster fires" and man is retail often a non-stop dumpster fire. ditto for a lot of other service-ish jobs.
was waiting on fire
Could you expand on the generics point, please? That sounds interesting but I can't quite get my head around it.
Also what they announced is not even the core game! I stopped caring about what games he has until it is installable and playable (full game). Last game I bought of his was probably early 2000s. It was disappointing. He has got this privateer itch he has been trying to scratch since the mid 90s. This is the 5th version of the game. This one taking the longest. Meanwhile dozens of other companies have shipped complete versions 2-3 times already. I would say to get the current gen feel of what privateer would be I would say play starfield. If all you want is trading and that sort of thing one of the X series.
I totally disagree. Ro optic probes are awesome, but their range of activity is extremely limited. They can stay on mission for years at a time in that limited area, but the ground you can cover with several manned missions is currently greater.

We've proven that we can keep humans alive indefinitely in space with the International Space Station. Expanding that practice beyond Earth's orbit can and will go a long way in advancing our understanding of our solar neighborhood.

The initial human explorations of the planets will be more limited than the rover projects. But I think we are getting very close to being able to mount much more significant investigations of our closest neighbors. We just need to choose to go.
It probably meant "cultural origin", not race, i.e. people coming from countries with different (or undeveloped) value systems and ethics.
Fuck their “feelings”. I’m so tired of hearing about people’s feelings when it comes to how the economy is doing. The only thing that matters is the data.
It's nothing like car parts. You can get re manufactured, OE (not OEM), used, 3rd party parts.
Inflation is way down, salaries have been growing faster than inflation all year, unemployment is very low, car prices have been dropping since late 2022, and home prices are finally starting to decline.

So when you talk about numbers “you see coming out” you’re at least a year out of date.

I’m assuming you’re going to just start saying “the numbers aren’t real man”. But in that case why talk about the “numbers you see coming out”.
This is a common thing that trips people up — you can't compare the capabilities of robots on Mars with what humans can do on Earth. You have to compare like with like, and a human crew on Mars would essentially be living in a Level 4 biocontainment facility and remotely operating the same kind of robots we could send to the planet autonomously. And their effective time available for work would be worse even than ISS, where the entire station (6 people) does something like 35 hours/week of science.

Robotic Mars exploration has made huge progress on what is a shoestring budget compared to boondoggles like Artemis or ISS. Just look at the improvement between Sojourner and Ingenuity and imagine what an adequately funded robotic exploration program could look like.
Yet a lot of very popular games have been made by individuals or very small teams. Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Terraria, Hollow Knight, Braid, Vampire Survivors, Slay the Spire, Papers Please. I think you're right that the majority of games are made by larger teams, but there certainly seems to be something to the focus in vision enabled by smaller teams.
there are things that I heat for 11 seconds. If it is in there for more than 12 seconds, it starts to overcook. An analog dial is a poor choice in this case.
Well, the world is increasingly becoming more unstable which is good news for the dollar. The US financial system will continue to excel so long as global demand for dollars remains strong.
People have to be kept into ruined places. That is certainly not the USA.
“Not knowing whether it’s going to rain in an hour? I would say that’s just being fussy about where the peas are on your plate,” Stine said. “It’s an incredible technological achievement to know that it’s going to rain at all this week. I grew up in a world where weather prediction was not accurate. We didn’t have enough data. But over my lifetime, the skill of weather prediction has increased pretty astoundingly.”

This answer... does not seem to actually answer the question. I do agree that the technology has improved significantly, and knowing whether it's going to rain in an hour is often a matter of looking out of the window, I still think that the Weather app on iOS is one of Apple's worst ones. They apparently even aquired a competitor (Dark Sky) but the features of their competitor are not really implemented at all.

On a side note, I've been recommended https://merrysky.net/ on HN before and it's been a wonder.
Speaking as a marginally disabled US citizen - it's a terrifying place where if I become too disabled to maintain employment, I'll lose my health insurance and then my access to healthcare. I guess it's good that a lot of people are making money though; it seems like the advertising business is going gangbusters too. I don't really consider that much of a national purpose, but it seems pretty hard to get everyone to agree on what that would be anyway.

Edit: I'm rate-limited so to answer the apparent question everyone has: I live in Texas; it's not exactly friendly regarding Medicaid, but I don't know what it takes to qualify.

https://www.keranews.org/health-wellness/2023-08-16/medicaid...
Tories: vandalise anything on the way out for profit for their mates.

Labour: Do nothing to reverse these as liberty's not a priority for the social equality ego theme du jour in fashion for the decade.
> Apple's self repair program lets you link the parts to your device with a phone call, so that's moot

That's not going to work if you want to make a working phone out of two broken ones, it's the repair program which prevents you to repair that is moot.
If it's so easy, you could stand to make a lot of money bringing a quality product to early market.
> You can also eat a diet high in nitrates like spinach and beets, to boost nitric oxide levels.

The sibling comment explained why it's not a good idea.

If you want to restore your nitric oxide levels (boost doesn't mean anything in a vacuum), quit eating tons of sugar, especially fructose. Its obesogenic effect on the liver is direct cause for the reduction of nitric oxide synthesis seen in metabolic syndrome, which presents as hypertension.

In other words, go low carb and/or fix your diet-related hypertension, which is most likely caused by low nitric oxide levels.

Eating a ton of spinach will probably just result in the formation of kidney stones and mineral deficiencies.

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First result on Kagi on fructose/NOS for further reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947541/
The path beyond CentOS is getting paved. Thank you.
Downvotes of different opinion. Heh. Reminds me of reddit.
I don’t think Huawei has any illusions on sanctions being lifted.

Other Chinese companies may have.

I think Tencent and ByteDance are quite shocked that they now are banned from buying GPUs at Nvdia and are forced to buy them at Huawei.
Saw someone on Reddit ask about specific steps to do this task, and since I've done it, I wrote up a guide.
> Western employers don't deliberately reward people who job-hop,

Don't techbro employers also deliberately reward people to job-hop to them, from where the person is currently, by knowingly providing a big pay bump over the person's current place?
I don't want innovation in GSuite. I want email and calendar and video calls and maybe the occasional docs.

Of the companies I've worked for, half had GSuite and half had office. Personally, I'll take GSuite any and every time.
To be fair, this is at least a step above Reddit where stepping out of line is an instant permaban

I can handle the complaining np
They reduce the risk of supply chain attacks like typo squatting or Dependency confusion.
> How is it gamed?

The totally subjective hedonic quality adjustment (sure food is more expensive but iPads have more ram!), also this knife only ever seems to cut one way, enshittification doesn't have a inflationary effect like you would expect.

Owner imputed rent as opposed to looking at what consumers actually pay.

The basket of goods is unrealistic, most households don't have teams of economists putting their shopping list together in order to maximally limit inflation.