skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The expansion of universe is accelerating.

We knew that before. This goes deeper than that. It accelerates in a way that cannot be explained by a constant dark energy density, which is part of our standard model. We have plenty of alternative models that can explain this, but our measurements are not precise enough yet to rule any of them out. Hopefully Euclid will provide data that is.
Maybe we'll get a God Emperor of Dune
Previous discussion (363 comments) linking to a better article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673087
I've got a Mach E, it has similar "push the button and the door pops open a bit" style of opening. I had it outside during a sleet storm where it got a good layer of ice on it. I just pressed the button on the door and it managed to break the ice and open just fine.

The door openers can have a good bit of force behind them.
Swatch Beat Time/Swatch Internet Time. I realize there are many good reasons why it never took off, but I found the utter rejection of the time zones and embrace of a decimal time system very compelling for both professional work and a work style that is divorced from sunrise and sunset (except when daylight savings drags us to and fro).

Colloquially, I don't see the 24-hour system going anywhere of course, but we long ago abandoned the concept that 12pm is actually solar noon with the advent of trains (at least, for the vast majority of people). Imagine not having to have to figure out the tz db just to log a time consistently referable from another perspective. What a beautiful fantasy!

Of course, it was still saddled with the Julian calendar, but that's probably going to take interplanetary commerce to see much benefit or traction.
Friends mock me for my basic 2011 Nissan Sentra. Aside from not having a car payment anymore, I love it because of it's touch dials and CD player (CD Player that can do MP3/WMA discs).

I can adjust all the climate and media controls without taking my eyes off the road. You could make the argument that I know my car and have them memorized, but as much as I know my phone I can't control the media without looking.

CDs... I keep my music library in MP3 format on my home system. I can load 6 or 8 albums worth of music onto a single disc, then flip through songs, albums, and folders using the touch controls. Because I can burn discs whenever I want, I don't care if the ones in my car get scratched, so I don't stress over it.
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Because it's an expository paper, not a reference manual. Applications help communicate and create understanding.
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” ― Nicholas Klein
"respond to guidance commands with sufficient precision" is just restating the same problem.

"if you put the same package on a normal rocket motor it (demonstrably) worked just fine." Except that the interceptor wouldn't be able to reach the target traveling at hypersonic speeds.

In other words, the guidance didn't work. Either the interceptor missed because it was off target or it missed because it was too slow. Dressing it up in technicalities doesn't negate the failure for the purposes of SDI.
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The government should assign punishing penalties for leaks that scale with the quantity and invasiveness of the data, and help grow an insurance industry for paying those penalties. That way, the law dictates how "bad" leaks are with fines, and the insurers encourage/require best practices. Externalities become internalities.
I won't mention any particular failed projects, because the concrete examples aren't that important. The lesson that applied to all of them and which I think is relevant is this: I relied too much on their being a high-quality audience willing to participate, add quality content, and engage in the conversation.

The sad fact is that this doesn't really work: if the project will only work because you have high expectations of the general public, it will inevitably fail. Creating a community like HN that has a reasonably-high quality of participants is incredibly difficult.
Do you think people set out to be bad parents? And do you think that they can be punished into being good parents? It seems pretty tough to me.

And yes, the idea of having children in order to feed them into the same meat-grinder of education and employment that I went through in order to perpetuate some cycle for reasons unfathomable to me is about the least convincing reason to do so. I used to think I was an outlier, but as fertility rates fall near continuously, I'm beginning to suspect that I was just early in realizing it.
Or VMS even.
Agreed. I looked at the photos and my immediate visceral reaction was to think "Wow, that's beautiful."
> `source ./environment` is what's written on the announcement page at the top of this thread. './revng' doesn't appear anywhere on it.

You're right, but after that there's a link to the docs where we say to use `./revng`. The blog post is for the impatient :) On the long run the docs is what most people will look at.

I don't think we want to support use cases that might break system packages too. If you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a directory where you have an LLVM installation, that might break any system program using LLVM too... Why should we try to fix that using `DT_RPATH` (which is a deprecated way of doing things) when system components don't do it?

We might cleanup the environment from LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other stuff, that might be a sensible default, yeah. Also we might have some sanity check printing a warning if weird libraries are pulled in.

But it's hard to take a decision without a specific use case in mind. If you have an example, bring it forward and I'm happy to discuss what should be the right approach there.
Great question. I created a series of UI frameworks and experiments starting around 2018 that evolved like: "react in 500 lines of JavaScript", Brutal.js, Vanillaview, Bang.html, Good.html. The ultimate one was a realization of a long held dream unifying web components with the JS tagged template literals and easy "drop in" event listeners and "granular DOM updates without 'shadow DOM'" of my previous creations in that lineage.

The starting point was I disliked React's complexity and its violation of the implicit contract of the web platform in that HTML, JavaScript and CSS should function as the standard, if they're going to look like the thing. By creating a parallel but subtly different HTML/CS/JS DSL, to me it corrupted the platform and weakened it overall. I thought it a flawed approach and still do, and longed to see something better, so I built something that had the ergonomics I wanted.

I also really liked the things that came along like HTMX, Stimulus, Hotwire, htmz, etc. That I saw as giving power to the platform by using its technologies, along the "web grain": https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/

I hoped my frameworks would take on React, but I came to see there's more to tech than superior tech. It's about tribalism, too. Similar to beta vs VHS. Even tho React and Angular are inferior in many ways, the have the distribution mechanism, brand recognition, and "choice safety".

Ability to hit the ground running is oft-touted but I think it's less important than people think in front-end. Any really complex app ends up having to do its own weird stuff, that is non-intuitive respective the framework of choice, so hiring devs that "know React" is not super important as long as they know the front-end.

I think framework's are also about marketing. You can't just have superior tech, you need a pretty looking website, a catchy name, good design, too. But even if you have those things, it's no guarantee.

For me it would have been nice to have people adopt it -- tho perhaps it was not the kind of thing I would like to be maintainer of? I prefer products, like the successful ones I'm working on -- but the main thing was, and still is, that it is nice for me to use. It wasn't the only reason I created it, but it was the main reason: that I wanted a tool that I can use, and liked to use. And I created that, and still use it.

So it's successful like that, but not in terms of people using it who are not me! Tho, thanks to the popularity of some of the products (that we make) it's used in, it's install numbers get a boost because it's a dependency of those.

https://github.com/o0101/good.html
Fragmentation is something of an issue. I don't know if a given person at work mostly uses one of two chat applications or if they'll actually respond to an email. Personally, there's email but people I know use one of four different chat/text apps (five if you distinguish iMessage). Yes, notifications make some of that moot but there's a lot of fragmentation and I minimize my use of notifications in general.

(At work, it's partly that we've been migrating to Slack and you have people who basically only pay attention to slack and others who don't really use it.)
Yes. The "record" part, is beside the point.

* Most people are unaware of the scale of disproportionality at all.

* The average income of Americans has not scaled at the same rate.

* What kind of (purchasing) power that is at odds with any sort of social reform.

There is an implication that US capitalism has bred what economic models always do. A caste system.

You can't expect the content of an article to be summarized completely in a short title, or this response. I have not summarized the article either, just some casual implications. There's an expectation that you read about the article to understand the context, but I can understand not wanting to read a CNBC article.
> What strikes me most is how crude the imitation stamps are - most aren't even trying to emulate the genuine printing techniques.

Of course. Their goal isn't to fool the post office; it's to be just good enough to sell to buyers.
Unless there is a "cosmic conspiracy" where Cepheid stars work differently when the distance from earth increase, that's not likely.
Meh, as a non white person, I don't think about it much, if at all.
That I was aware of, and I'm not saying that LOS can't achieve impressive things. Quite the contrary, I think it's amazing that it's possible to sometimes reach the ISS with a small and affordable Baofeng handheld!

I just wasn't aware which applications could benefit from a (much) larger transmission power in a handheld UHF/VHF radio.
Wave was ahead of its time and over-eager, but technology coming from it made its way into Google's other products for real-time collaboration at least.
I am not aware of any laws in the US about selling books that are only text (no pictures) to minors.

The only "banned books" lists apply to school libraries/librarians.

I cannot possibly see what the justification would be for such a law. It's just words. It is no different than saying 'fuck' in front of a minor. It is clearly protected speech.
When I read "waste your money", my mind went to something like https://shutupandtakemymoney.com
I'm not white and based on my industry it seems harder to be white.

Honestly I'm not denying racism, but as I've told so many people who allege it matters, I just go and cry in my bank account.
Have you ever seen the movie Cold Mountain? The story was set in the Appalachians, but the movie was filmed in the mountains of Romania. Beautiful.
Not very long ago I was exactly where you are now. The only difference is that I'm 5 years older than you. I've been trying something new: don't try to be something. Just go and do things you need to do. To me that's work, being a good developer, feeling like one of the HN crowd. I still don't feel any of that, so I just keep doing what I'm doing. Of course I try to learn a little every day, of course I try to improve my skills. I'm just not worried anymore about improving at a pace as fast as I think I should. Because the pace I believe I should be improving is humanly impossible. The problem is that I feel like if I'm not a Genius, I'm nothing. So I just shrug off those thoughts and I keep doing. Just do.
The first one I got was 7 * 7 + (-3). That’s trivial, elementary-school-level math, and did they really need LaTeX to render that?

Then I refreshed the page, and was hit with calculus involving trig functions.
For the Joy of Making It
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_of_Liability_Act_of...

(from the wiki page)

> at the time, shipowners were subject to loss from events beyond their control such as storms and pirates, so the Act was designed to limit the shipowners' liability to the value of the vessel.

But it's predicated on "the owner can prove it lacked knowledge of the problem beforehand". Losing power a few times before the impact doesn't bode well there.
I’m not talking about VC-funded moon shots, that’s your bias showing.

And it’s not a luxury, it’s a necessity for a knowledge worker, imho.

Working on my own (non-monetized, small, used by no-one) stuff has created a string of achievements that created a positive psychological feedback loop during a very dark time.

Additionally, it let me work on things that then let me pivot in a completely different direction compared to what I was doing before and make money this way.

Personal development is good. Even / especially if you need to whore yourself out at the same time.
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The Upside of Recessions
"The next one in <redacted>, USA will be in 3 months, on April 8, 2024."

No... my area won't be in the path of totality and April 8 is not 3 months away.
Instagram is still a thing; granted it pivoted from being a dedicated photo site to a social network with videos and stuff, but still, it started off as a photo website.

Photographers were using Flickr a lot, but then Google started to randomly turn off websites and they realised they put all their eggs in one basket.
This is exactly how my education went. Oh you're not engaged with my shitty teaching and forcing you to do endless abstract nonsensical formulae with zero contextualization or application? Then you're the problem - you have cognitive defects, you are plain dumb and stupid, you are disinterested, you don't care about your education etc etc so I cannot help you. Now let me spend my time on "teaching" the kids who mostly already know what I'm "teaching".
surely they are still e-coating these vehicles
Ron Shelton on Making Bull Durham
Simon Riggs's 2ndQuadrant was one of the first patreons for PostgREST. I'll forever be grateful, their support came in a hard time. Rest in peace Simon.
When you pray to the sun god it won't hear for 8 minutes, and then you need to wait for another 8 minutes for the response. Just basic physics. If it's an emergency the sun can't help you, better luck praying to the moon.
Number one rule for apparent gunshot suicides: swab the hands and test for gunpowder residue.

Amateur assassins always screw that part up and I bet Boeing skimped on the contract.
I do it -- 'please put that meat in a container for me' -- and have for a couple of decades. But then I rarely can afford to go out and most places provide normal portions you finish in one sitting.
Really interesting! Reading the paper, it sounds like the core of it is broken into two things:

1. Encoding speech sounds into an IPA-like representation, decoding IPA-like into target language

2. Extracting "tone color", removing it from the IPA-like representation, then adding it back in into the target layer (emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, intonation)

So as a result, I am a native English speaker, but I could hear "my" voice speaking Chinese with similar tone color to my own! I wonder, if I recorded it, and then did learn to speak Chinese fluently, how similar it would be? I also wonder whether there is some kind of "tone color translator" that is needed to translate the tone color markers of American English into the relevant ones for other languages, how does that work? Or is that already learned as part of the model?
This will never be equal if safety and childbirth are taken into account. Men are stronger than women and women have to deliver babies and have lots of hormonal changes. That gap will never be filled and we shouldn't be trying. Instead we should work on making our society be such that women don't need to work and one person income is sufficient to run a family. What is tremendously sad is that today women have to work and also take care of the kids (who naturally prefer mommy since they were inside her). So they have to work much more than men and get paid less. Instead, one person income should be sufficient and then moms can spend the first 3 years of her life being with and taking care of the children. Of course if someone doesn't want to do that, it's totally fair, but today society pushes women to go back to work as soon as the baby drops out.
What benefit does switching to postgresql bring? When mongodb stops being maintained, I'll consider postgres, but until then, I now only see downsides.
Just as the Three Body Problem releases on Netflix and science starts to break down? ;)
You can’t, but other commenters pointed out that the OOB is specialized to each cloud and in another part of the guide.
Long term, high school doesn't matter, college really doesn't either. One can accelerate the other which can accelerate life but long-term, if your kid sucks at life, no amount of school diligence will solve that. Inversely, if your kid sucks at school but is a good worker & intelligent, their school credentials won't matter.

Past the first job, credential specifics stop mattering really. No one will care whether you got an A or B+ in Calculus in junior year.

If the kid is doing alright and isn't getting into too much trouble, I don't see the issue of letting them play hookey with parent permission especially in their final years.

My parents had a policy that if we had good grades, we could skip days occassionally in our senior year. We'd take the day off and just pal around on errands if we wanted.
We agree that people should be paid for the work that they *DO*. Your view smacks of elitism, and voice actors don't have any more right to be able to make decent money peddling their voice than indie game devs have to peddle games with synthetic voices.
Why aren't systems designed with data diodes to prevent the ingress of control while allowing external monitoring of critical infrastructure?

It seems like a common sense measure that would make this scenario impossible.
Academics (not just mathematicians) are famously bitter and political, because they do things tht the world values so little, but they care about so much, and they are fighting for scraps of recognition and funding.
I don't think it was ever proven in an experiment that an out of body experience or an NDE got some information from the real world, as opposed to information originating in the person's "brain". I don't know, but before there is confirmation in a controlled experiment, I just don't believe them. Much more likely is that their information is imagined and their certainty is a feeling they should not trust.
AI girlfriend... ok I'm done.
Why some say nuclear power's moment is now
> Just more evidence the well educated (I assume if it’s concensus driven even the best educated agree) are just typical people and their expertise should be challenged constantly rather than sit back and assume things are figured out.

As someone who worked as a cosmologist, I have trouble putting into words how wrong, out of touch and arrogant this statement is.
Not sure on that, it made some of the SQL solutions innovate quite a bit.
I'm not sure if we know that the universe is infinitely large.

I do know[1] that:

- it's larger than we will ever be able to know or observe (ie.: the observable universe is smaller than "all of the universe"... although that feels a bit hand-wavy to say)

- it's expanding.

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[1] I am a scientist, but not a physicist. Everything I said could be wrong.
I don't think anyone thinks noon is solar noon, but it is still "between morning and evening" for everyone.
The Impact of Tech Startups on Colorado's Business Ecosystem
I'm an extremely strong believer that the sun has consciousness. I think there exists quantum processes that causes consciousness and that suns, gravitons, etc. all have it. I likely won't be alive to ever find out, but if someone does discover it, I hope a historian finds this thread :)
Fluff, if well-intended.

Everything I've seen makes it clear that the engineers knew perfectly well that a "larger than X" ship impact could easily destroy the bridge. Yes, there are little details - but the "10,000-frames-per-second video of a 500 lbs. weight breaking a 100-lbs.-rated rope!" angle is not meaningful here.

The meaningful "chance to learn" here is for the decision makers, politicians, and taxpayers. They are the ones who will need to make unappealing choices and pay up, if they don't want their critical infrastructure to be so vulnerable.
Her body, her choice. My wallet, my choice.
> if we work out the kinks and manage to bring it to the market one day, could extend the life span of concrete.

If, could, one day; it sounds like one of many revolutionary battery technology releases, and definitely not the first self-healing concrete innovation either.
Lack of empathy for the how hard it is to run school. This place is dominated by people that know how things should be done and how things should be run. At large, they are wrong.

I'm open to the idea that I'm wrong on this, of course. Just peruse the top posts and you will see all sorts of assertions about how this isn't actually a problem. There are more than a few pointing out that schooling is irrelevant.

Again, these aren't necessarily wrong. But they are ignoring a whole lot more than they are talking to.
It's just a long Torx-15 screwdriver. You can buy them at any hardware store today, but in 1984 they were not very common.
> Local ferries are speed sensitive, and unless ultra light and with hydrofoils,

How fast do you need to go to hydrofoil when you're carrying 200 cars?

They're working on a battery elecrtric version of my local ferry, and yeah, it's gonna be a lot of charging infra; but in theory the operating costs are much lower, and the charging plans mean they increased grid redundancy for me, so that's nice. This is my current ferry: https://wsdot.com/ferries/vesselwatch/VesselDetail.aspx?vess...
MongoDB is more popular that it ever has been. You can look at their quarterly filings and learn this. The NoSQL space is larger than it ever has been and is the fastest growing segment in the database world.
Why you might not want to accelerate that:

> Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Phytoplankton

https://cmi.princeton.edu/annual-meetings/annual-reports/yea...

> Regime shifts and ecological catastrophes in a model of plankton-oxygen dynamics under the climate change

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28456463/
Also won't raise as many eyebrows when they're taught how to manufacture valuations with little to no basis in reality.
Then maybe stressed anxious people who are both high performing and mentally ill isn't ridiculous? Which makes sense because mediocre people have no stress, anxiety, or mental illness. They're "sane and healthy" instead.