skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of this article is wrong: heliocentric was not rejected because ancient scientists were foolish or they were afraid to speak up to established theory. It was not accepted because egocentrism produced better results!

They correctly understood that heliocentrism predicted a parallax but failed to measure that with the primitive observational equipment they had. I thought this was a commonly known fact, together with the myth that the ancient believed Earth was flat, but evidently not.

For further reading: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26291/why-did-th...
The unreasonable title fits for multiple reasons, one of which is illustrated by your comment:

1. At first glance most people don’t even see the difference between i3 and most other OSes.
2. The entire OS industry, from Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, the vast majority of Linux DEs, changed the UI every few years. The implication being that the UIs improve with those changes. The author by not changing their OS’es UI/UX and preferring that is going against the industry expectation (ie being unreasonable).

In terms of advantages of i3 over other options, there are many.

1. The UI is extremely keyboard focused. You basically never have to use a mouse unless the application itself requires it.
2. It’s trivial to add a new window and remain tiled unlike non tiling window managers where you need to manually tile.
3. Workspaces! Switching between upto 10 workspaces is trivial (I used to have 10…I’m sure you can do more but even 10 were too many for me).
4. Performance. The UI was just way faster than any other OS I’ve used even when overlayed on top of Gnome.
EmailJS and FlutterFlow
The easiest way to send emails from FlutterFlow is to use ready-made solutions.
TIL “honcho” is not a Native American term as I’d always assumed, but Japanese?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honcho
However you might be able to kick the can down the road for another century or even millennium if you release the heat deep inside the earth.

You could even achieve a similar effect with today's tech by running solar-powered heat pumps that pump the heat into deep bore holes or old oil wells.

But that air conditioning the desert is a particularly great idea, but compared to better ideas like putting translucent reflective foil into orbit it had the charm that it has local effects you can achieve without international cooperation or incident
Tests Are an Observability Concern
A scientific theory doesn't have to be wrong or right. It can simply be useful as long as the limitations are understood. Eg, the domains where it applies and the domains where you shouldn't use it.

Isaac Asimov wrote a really great essay about this, in which he pointed out that some people thought the Earth was flat. And it is flat, on a local scale. Then people thought it was round. And it is round, just not exactly. Then it was considered an oblate sphere. And it is an oblate sphere - just not exactly.

The main theme of his essay is to point out that a theory can be wrong, but pretty accurate. Enough for rough work. And the one that replaces it can also be wrong, but even closer. Etc. So all theories in succession can be wrong. The real question is how wrong a theory is, and how useful it is.

Here's the essay:

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
There's evidence of the Sahara being greener. I don't think there's any evidence of the Amazon not ever having had trees.
At least it wasn't Darwin eating some species he just discovered
A and B are not the same thing if they can sometimes generate the same output to a particular query.
> You're essentially calling this person a liar for sharing an anecdote.

Nonsense. If I share something I read in the newspaper, and you find out that it's not true, that doesn't make me a "liar". Gullible, perhaps, but not a liar.
The very real fact that the radioactive material was rendered benign was proven by the third party laboratory. You presented a guess about which laboratory it was. Your guess was both stupid and wrong.

You have not successfully trolled. You did not "strike a nerve", but you did provoke a disgust response. You are not even midwit tier intelligence.
Repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover
It’s the integration with those platform-specific requirements which I find so tough. Apple wants a particular format, signed and whatnot via xcodebuild. Windows, I don’t even know. Something about universal apps on the Windows store. Android is a bit simpler if you can target the right directory with the right toolchain.

It’s these particular systems that I find the most difficult. If there were a collection of nice utilities for working with them uniformly, oh, that would be amazing.
Myst was created in HyperCard (I think?), one of the most popular computer games of all time (and recreated like 5 times now!).
> WARNING: Files not signed! I don't have a Google Inc. private key at the moment.

Its readme is worth reading.
Supermium in specific will let you render text with GDI (for performance, probably?), videos are played with FFMPEG but that still means hauling untrusted footage outside of the sandbox for hardware decoding, and there's still countless other potentially-pierceable membranes in the sandbox.

This (probably) isn't a practical vector for a browser, but kernel exploits have been crafted out of scrollbars in the past. Any time the sandbox calls out to the OS in any capacity it's trusting that the surface it's touching isn't vulnerable, and sometimes it is. For a sandbox to solve this, it's not good enough to just prevent people from misusing the APIs that exist on paper, you have to verify that the API itself isn't bugged and exploitable.

And it's not just OS surface, either, Skia's just as penetrable as any other membrane in the sandbox.[0]

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6345
This current failure is already a failure of a hosted compatibility layer. The service in question presents a central JSON API to do healthcare billing so you don't have to deal with the ancient arcane EDI formats to talk to insurers.
Nothing.

At least not for any precise definition of "just as wrong" that would be useful.

There is, today, not a single terrestrial observation in contradiction to GR and QM. We have an incredibly good understanding of the fundamental nature of our reality.

Our understanding is so good that it takes decades of work by brilliant scientists and engineers, to build machines that could show even the slightest evidence of something else going on.

It's easy to overlook how stunning this situation is. It is utterly unprecedented in the history of science.

This does not mean that there are no deeper truths to discover, but Newtonian mechanics does correctly describe how the apple falls, even if it is not the final word.
> price fixing doesnt work in real life

Yeah you're gonna need some pretty strong support to make a claim like that - and not just an anecdote from the internet. Do you have any new proof upending long solidified economics?
Looks like an awesome resource to dive into, thanks!
The article explicitly called for native networked apps (Java-based, or activex based, e.g.) to bury the browser, because browsers can't be offline-first and can't be dynamic enough.

In the end, the opposite happened: After a brief profusion of native network UIs experimenting with new kinds of dynamism, browsers just absorbed their features until all other network UIs were dead.
I haven't used them much, but I would check out typed arrays:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I found it interesting. Some of this stuff is crazy for a journalist to say:

> Rachel Abrams, one of Lee’s co-authors on the article, had been a vocal internal critic of Cotton’s op-ed. “How can they be sending us emails telling us they’re keeping us safe and care about our physical and mental well-being and then publish this,” she had posted on Slack, later adding, “I think it’s good that a lot of us will put our names on a strong condemnation.”

This reads like the equivalent of a firefighter complaining that his employer is endangering him by sending him into burning buildings. Regardless of what the NYT publishes, this was an honestly held opinion of Tom Cotton's. Not publishing it doesn't change what Tom Cotton thinks nor what kind of response he would advocate for in congress.
Operant conditioning is a powerful force.
You need to go back and read the second part of that quoted paragraph to find out why it’s a problem.
> This gives the opportunity to use such a library without issues, and the end user never knows about these tools anyway.

Why not something like MPLv2 then? It does give the opportunity to use the library without issues, the only constraint (compared to e.g. MIT) being that changes to the library needs to be distributed. If you don't change it, then it's pretty much like MIT.

To me, MPLv2 is superior to MIT in the sense that it gives developers leverage against their management. If I tell my manager "I fixed a bug in this MIT library, can I contribute it upstream?", the answer is often "let's discuss that later" or "hmm we'll have to see with legal" or "are you sure that it is not a competitive advantage for us?". In my experience, managers never see value in contributing anything back.

Now if the library is MPLv2, I can use it just like MIT, but if I fix a bug I can tell my manager: "it is MPLv2, which means that I must distribute my changes. Are you fine with me contributing them upstream?". Again in my experience, the manager will just say "if you have to, then do it". Even though (AFAIU) MPLv2 does not enforce contributing upstream: you just have to distribute the changes with the software (to your customers). But managers generally don't know anything about licenses, so "contributing upstream" is a good-enough approximation.

TL;DR: with MPLv2, the developer has leverage to bring their changes upstream. With MIT, the manager can happily keep the changes proprietary. I am a developer, I want to open source my code. Therefore I want copyleft.
I saw a great documentary with a séance in. The participants contacted a medieval Welsh monk who was providing fascinating answers... He couldn't say a single word in Welsh though when asked (all the participants were English). They certainly convinced me :-D
My guess is that stuff like the highly competitive airlines at first serve to at least let people set foot in those countries and change perceptions.

Then as you have cheap flights in and out, slowly increase commerce?
It's also a common psychological pattern.. you go from fuzzy experience and semi defined patterns, later you see more rigorous and precise definitions but they make you confuse a bit and one day you get it fully. Math, haskell etc have a tendency to live in the latter stage.
I've seen some people using the Diligent Analog Discovery 2 / 3, which houses really similar Analog Devices 14-bit DACs / ADCs as this project but in a premade product, to do similar 'modernization' of older laboratory equipment.

Here is Dave from EEVblog showing off the new one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbNnaMM1tQ
Opioid epidemic
I don't use Windows much, can someone explain to me the actual difference with Chromium?
Proving sorted lists correct using the Coq proof assistant (2015)
Daubert requires that expert testimony be based on "reliable principles and methods" and Frye requires "the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance," both essentially requiring the disclosure of underlying algorithms if not the actual source code.
Of course, in the movie it was “Unix! I know this!”
What you are calling a model is simply a way of quantifying a measurement of a galaxy to describe (or model) its mass distribution. There is no physics involved.

> "DM theory needs to make predictions we can then test"

That is what scientists do: Start from the hypothesis of a dark matter dominated universe, from the beginning (or soon after the big bang), then turn on time and physics (gravity plus gas physics in a computer simulation), and galaxies form as gravity causes matter to clump together. The properties of those theoretical galaxies are testable predictions.
Wait, what? The first link points to you doing exactly what you're now claiming is impossible: pushing back, with threats of a ban, against behavior you recognize as human nature[1]:

>Can you please make your substantive points without snark or ... sneering at the community?

>It's human nature to make ourselves feel superior by putting down others, but it skews discussion in a way that goes against what we're trying to optimize for here [link].

>Edit: it looks like you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in a lot of what you've been posting here. Can you please review them and stick to them? I don't want to ban you but we end up not having much choice if an account keeps posting in this low-quality way.

I get that moderation is hard and time-consuming. But if you're going to reply to justify your decisions at all, I'm confused at why you'd do so just to invent a standard, on the spot, that you're obviously not following. (Hence why I charitably guessed that there was some more substantive reference I might be missing.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37717919
You’re under the wrong impression, I’m a network engineer who happens to _use_ FastAPI for some projects. The library linked I made at work, but open sourced and wrote docs for in my own time. The other libraries I’ve written are all in my spare time.

My comment is my own opinion, and a quick search for your name and pydantic backs it up. It’s just boring to read the same thing, every time.
I’m talking about high crime areas in big cities. Here’s a data point from Chicago: in May 2021, up to that time in the year 108 children were shot, 16 of them died: https://abc7chicago.com/amp/chicago-shootings-child-shot-tee...

It’s not the “heat of the crisis”, this has been going on for years now here. See this WaPo article from 2013, from when Michelle Obama attended the funeral of a 15 year-old girl: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michelle-obama-heads...
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This works on very old machines with very outdated OSs
I was also in love with i3 when i was using Linux most of the time. My first Linux machine was around 2002. Back when Ubuntu just started shipping CD’s around the globe to spread the word (“love”) of open source. So I also jumped on the tiling wm wagon quite early on. With i3 being my favorite for its simplicity.

Due to the nature of my work and clients, using Mac or MS Windows as primary OS has been too prevalent. It’s easier to go with the flow than fight it.

So over the years i’ve learned to let go of the highly optimized desktop workflow and started to simplify it instead. Think of keeping less windows around to create better focus. Or use tabs more as a way to group related work.

I see a similar behavior with my vim usage. I used to have very heavily customized vim config. Nowadays i just stick with stock config. I guess over the years i started to embrace defaults more. It’s easier for me to learn defaults than to fight the “system”.

Pretty sure i would still be using i3 if my professional environment was more flexible (less enterprise).
The problem arises when discomfort or discontent is confused for oppression.
Yes! I was amazed several years ago after I had learnt the word 班長 (hanchō)… and a while later realised it sounded a bit like the phrase ‘head honcho’…and then realised that that’s actually where it came from.

There are lot of words ending in 長 (chō) in Japanese that refer to people in positions of leadership: shachō (company director), kōchō (headmaster), kichō (captain, of an aircraft).

Another somewhat surprising example of unexpected Japanese etymology: ‘rickshaw’ comes from the Japanese 人力車 (jin-rikisha, literally “person-powered-car”). I would’ve probably expected it to have come from an Indian language, or something.
The original screenshot and the titles would already be in agreement then:

Mb/s = (M)ega(b)its / (s)econd

MB/s = (M)ega(B)ytes / (s)econd

It's like how mm is (m)illi(m)eter and Mm is (M)ega(m)eter or (s)econds vs (S)iemens - case matters in units.
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> I wonder if today's AI hype will look the same in 27 years?

If the AI hype from 37 years ago is any indication (fuzzy logic on lisp machines, anyone?): Yeah. 99% of the buzzwords will be dropped because they're empty, and the remaining 1% useful ideas will vanish into the background and see continued use under new names, because they won't be sexy enough any more to be called AI.
Observations of Leadership (Part One)
There is the Great Green Wall project. But I doubt this is still going strong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)

There are also companies like Groasis that try to make it possible to grow trees in very dry land by using moisture from the air.
https://www.groasis.com/en
And hopefully now we keep going on the (still slow) uptake on the local-first software [0] paradigm.

[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
I think one of the verses is states the desire to be held in electronic arms. While conversing with their mom through an answering machine.

She is living the life she imagined.
Usually links to phys.org on this site are to physics articles so I expected the bird to be metaphorical, not literal.
SFO seems costlier: https://thebolditalic.com/parody-photos-of-the-sf-rental-mar...
Can you point to an example of a ShotSpotter sensor recording a conversation inside somebody's home? That seems unlikely given that these sensors are installed outdoors.
Killing flash, activex and java applets was definitely worth prioritizing.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know this.
How Capable Leaders Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity
I learned much more about the low level machinations writing LC3 assembly in school than I did writing C.

JMP (and the conditional variants) and MOV were eye openers for me.

But it’d probably be harder to learn some basic algorithms in LC3 than C.
What are the new APIs that require Windows 10+?
Thanks for this. You read my mind.

I think the few remaining browser makers are too eager to not support OSes that are just a few years old. It is done under the guise of 'security' but executables using older APIs would work perfectly well on new OS versions.
Ornithologists always use mist nets to survey birds. They are very widely used and rarely harm the birds when used by people who've learned how to use them. Their possession is controlled in the sorts of countries with legal systems that specify first world stuff like that.
> Web scraping without proxy rotation? Good luck! But even that isn't enough to not get blocked.

Maybe that's a hint that hardly anyone likes being scraped, and you should avoid doing so, rather than working hard to avoid getting blocked?

Scraping isn't against the law, but neither is farting in church. Doing either will make you very unpopular.
Why ?

People (women and men, both with their own methods) are the root of the problem.

Remember: tech is never the issue. People are.
Need some context like evidence. The article mentioned but I think you need more elaboration. Only recall the guy killing Pluto said as a consolation he gave us another planet.
Melting Arctic ice leads to European drought and heatwaves
Do you run Asahi directly on the metal or just Linux through a virtual machine? I thought Asahi wasn’t quite there for a daily driver
Like CS 4120 Introduction to Compilers ?

[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4120/2022sp/
they also must love millions of vulnerabilities and outdated software too!
Arguably Aristotle made a worse error in his definition of mechanics, particularly of motion. For him friction ruined acceleration. "Continuation of motion depends on continued action of a force".
> Says who? The people behind these invasive systems who push back hard on the slightest attempt at basic accountability?

100% this, IMO any of these law enforcement vendors like ShotSpotter, Harris (stingray), Taser/Axon, etc. which insist on keeping any and all details secret deserve zero trust. Anything they say without actual data analyzed by an independent third party is worth less than what I scooped out of my cats' box this morning.

The public conversation relies on public data, so if your company doesn't want the public to have the data then your company and its clients should not be given any benefit of the doubt by the public.
You are unable to refute the sustained plasma fusion reaction. You are unable to refute the rapid decay of the tungsten rod. You don't even comprehend what it is you think you are trying to argue against. I am astonished that someone could be so pathetic.

>> itS buLlSHiT

amounts to autistic reee'ing
The biggest impact is in the change of the albedo factor.
Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand amid climate woes
This is sad. My AI wife wouldn't say the things my wife says. Why wait for her to die?
Nice work. PM me if you want to chat. Have you considered the
possibilities with oversampling and adding more channels- now there are
much cheaper 192kHz multi-chan ADCs on the market - these can be used
with MEMS arrays. Then you can play with phase information much more
freely.
bash is one of my favorite, as favorite as vim and lua.

a single binary that is less than 2M bytes, universal, way more capable than many people think.

with shellcheck and good habits, bash can be readable and safe as well.

if you want something extra, you can always use C/C++ to add those utilities without using more involved FFI etc, and without pip/npm/etc to load who knows how many dependencies.