skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple types of nebulae. Absorption nebula (or dark nebula) and reflection nebula are clouds of "dust" (more likely lots of rocks).

There are also emission nebula which are clouds of ionized gases that emit light.

The horsehead nebula is an absorption nebula that sits in front of light-emitting emission nebula. It's fairly easy to image the horsehead with a star tracker and DSLR, though not to this level of detail.
Set Point Weight: Why You May Regain Weight After Losing It
Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new minerals (2022)
Supabase SSR Package
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Germany did not achieve "the opposite". Use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions are constantly decreasing. But it is true that keeping existing nuclear plants running longer would have been good idea. But if one wants to complain about the past, why not complain that we collectively did not invest more in renewables earlier? In contrast to nuclear power, which did not become cheaper despite substantial investments, investments in renewables brought prices down substantially.
Even though I think it was foolish, I do kind of understand the logic.

The IA wants to preserve digital media. Sometimes it’s a website, sometimes it’s a CD, sometimes it’s a ROM image, and sometimes it’s a scan of paper.

In the end though, I don’t think it’s the archiving part that got them in trouble. It was providing access to that archive.
Also there are plugins for all editors to allow clicking on a target and it runs code. This would be significantly harder with bash.
Plotly is based on D3. Has both open-source version and paid option.

https://plotly.com/javascript/
Vue Fluid DnD – Drag and Drop Library for Vue 3
It's actually not just Hachette, it's also Wiley, Penguin Random House, and HarperCollins.
> electric vehicles

Most people who are able charge at night when demand is lower anyway. Not sure about your other points, but here are some points about EVs in the UK:

> The highest peak electricity demand in the UK in recent years was 62GW in 2002. Since then, the nation’s peak demand has fallen by roughly 16% due to improvements in energy efficiency.

> Even if we all switched to EVs overnight, we estimate demand would only increase by around 10%. So we’d still be using less power as a nation than we did in 2002, and this is well within the range the grid can capably handle.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele...
Is this of any value when it comes to nuclear energy creation?
It is wild how much compute has grown.

I put dual Epyc 9754 into my first box of MI300x.

That's 256 cores + 8x MI300x, in a single box.

Agreed, it is a great solution for CFD, which is definitely one workload I'd love to host.
There are lots of forces at play! The article mentions some of them. Structures are shaped not just by gravity, but by electromagnetism, starlight, supernovae, and more.
> Still can't write a short paragraph without using the letter 'e'

'Crafting a paragraph without using a particular symbol (which is most common in all writing) is a daunting task; still, I will aim to comply. This task calls for clarity, focus, and avoiding that fifth glyph of our ABCs. It is a curious constraint, trying to impart thoughts without using such a pivotal unit. This limitation compacts my word options, but I must push on and uphold this difficult condition with rigor and innovation. My goal is to show that communication can flourish, notwithstanding arbitrary limits.'

>write a short poem using the ABBA rhyme scheme.

'Leaves rustle softly under moonlit skies,
A cat prowls quietly, its eyes aglow,
Every step measured, its tail held low,
Night's gentle whispers carry its cries.'

Skill Issue on your part imo.
I wonder if this is some long play by OpenAI:

1. OpenAI is trying (and failing?) to add legal restrictions on LLM (and co) training to only a few major players.

2. By entering into licensing agreements, it starts to set the standard and essentially forces the above to take place as only a few major players would be financially able to afford it.
It is an awful habit of some open source projects to have the official way to install their software be to execute a shell script from the Internet. Nobody reads it, as they are usually quite complex and given the xz situation a well crafted shell script can seem harmless while being very dangerous.
Plenty of responses here: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/p59vwc/eli5_wh...
"Dissolving the Fermi Paradox"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
We keep doing new things, though.
Cool! Thanks for sharing. It explains why this type of ui is being used so often. Building this from scratch isn’t the hardest thing in the world, but I can imagine it is somewhat of a challenge to get just right
You've provided no evidence that I didn't understand. I'd be happy to engage if you would be.
I'm talking about California, not Europe. Mosquitofish are native to North America. Sure, don't spread them in natural rivers or lakes but there's nothing wrong with keeping them in a manmade pond in a backyard in California.
Sorry the last sentence is not proofed. You imagine something.
Just wanted to chime in and say that I think you are both right. I haven't thought of a way to square this circle yet. I find this issue to be the fundamental concern around generative AI. Of course the Courts could always end up saying its fair game and at that point, I could see OpenAI no longer paying. And then content producers are more likely to gate content in a myriad of ways and the cat and mouse game will continue. I could also see the US say scraping is allowed and EU saying otherwise.
The oldest thing I've written that I can still find on the Internet — the original disks are long gone — is a microbe simulator I wrote about 35 years ago. Apparently, at least two people archived a copy:

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/11521-microbe-swarm

I suspect that it would run as is on a 68k Macintosh emulator.
Agree! I will add that it's actually very possible to write Perl in a readable way (at least no more unreadable than your average bash or python script). It's all up to the developer to write readable, maintainable code instead of trying to impress themselves with their esoteric one-liners.

With the light syntax and giant, well-documented community repos, it feels a lot like Python With References to me, which is honestly pretty great imo. I wish more people respected Perl.
Google layoffs: Company fires entire Python team for 'cheaper labour'
Yes, that’s correct. That’s not particularly unusual, the US did the same thing to Grindr.
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Agreed. I learned this with Black Sails (first few episodes were huh?) and it evolved into something awesome. The Americans as well. I think that’s usually the case with shows that are trying something new and haven’t quite got the formula down. First season of Star Trek was a freak show of theater that somehow, worked. Thrived. And blossomed. Let’s just pray Bob Igor doesn’t get his hands on the franchise.

I now follow this advice with all shows. I’ll give it a full season to see if they develop something I’m interested in following.
Distributors usually give you a way to verify that what you've downloaded is correct, usually through checksums, PGP signatures, code signing... You forego that if you pipe the script to your shell. What if you make a typo and somehow pipe an HTML document to your shell? If you're unlucky this could wreak havoc.
it's a new tool that really works well in some ways and falls on its face in others. My advice, learn the tool and how/when to use it and become an expert. You'll be in a better place than many "seniors" and your peers by having a large toolset and knowing each one very well. Also, be careful believing the hype. Some specific cases can make for incredible videos and those are going to be everywhere. Other use cases really show the weaknesses but those demos will be much harder to find.
Having a distribution maintainer provide official packages is the best way.
Well, that's basically the heart of Copilot Workspace! The whole UX is structured to make it easy for the human to steer.

- Alter the "current" bullet points in the spec to correct the AI's understanding of the system today
- Alter the "proposed" bullet points in the spec to correct the AI's understanding of what SHOULD be
- Alter files/bullets in the plan in order to correct the AI's understanding of how to go from current to proposed.

That said, I think there's definitely a future where we might want to explore how we nudge humans into better issue-writing habits! A well-specified issue is as important to other humans as it is to AI. And "well-specified" is not about "more", it's about clarity. Having the right level of detail, clear articulation of what success means, etc.
gpt-4 says that, but it's not entirely true because the data that gpt-4 has from 2021 to 2023 is very incomplete. It's not fully trained on it. In contrast, this experimental model looks to be trained more fully until Nov 2023.
It seems to me that half the closures happen after some wealthy ass hole that seems to hate journalists buys a publication then runs it into the ground.
I think the old comment by Larry Wall about “manipulexity” vs “whipuptitude” still holds true. Perl occupies a powerful ecological niche in the space of programming languages. The space has become more crowded over the years, but it's still hard to beat Perl if you're experienced with it. CPAN is a big part of this.

As to the future... Perl 7 is coming (:

https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/
Didn't the xz situation kinda prove that even reading the script is probably not gonna do you a lot of good if you're up against someone smart?
In other words, girls and boys. May they find the joys to be had when the two sexes meet - or for those few who have different tastes, the same sexes - and may the former consider the natural result of that union to be a boon for them and for society. Go forth and fork(2), ehhhh procreate.
A shame Guix does not work on Mac and probably never will
> and logs are going to be written to disk [...] Also page faults are going to be slooooow.

OP did say they added a stick of RAM, so w/ ZRAM on there it might not be too bad.

Raspberry Pi forced an entire generation of software hacks to deal with slow os/boot disk speeds (esp. the earlier models but also just the affordability aspect even with the new models).
They are getting full officer salaries and rank promotions and so on even while they are on deployment. Obviously they can’t access money/benefits while on deployment, but they get them when they get back, either by being recalled or traded in case of capture.
So many of the hippies I know turned into extreme bigots and right wing crackpots later in life.

I had a former employer who always bragged about being at Woodstock and all the drugs he did and the protesting and such. He'd talk about all the friends he lost due to the Vietnam war. He's 81 years old now and he still habitually smokes marijuana. But now he's mean. He regurgitates Fox News talking points all the time while complaining about Mexicans and other minorities.

I often wondered why people pivoted like that. My late FIL said it was because they were insecure and afraid.
Is picture better though? This actually looks like a bottle of soda next to a Christmas tree: https://www.brady.eu/signs/iso-7010-sign-fire-extinguisher-c...

Even panicked people can still read and a big "FIRE" word is actually quite easy to recognize, unlike the picture above.
>1) This tech makes it easy for anyone to file a complex legal complaint to a situation and then send it to the right legal department for almost free.

That's the assumption.

>2) You can now ask a complex legal question and get a response for almost free. (Example is reckless driving a crime here ? What is the fine? LLM looks up your coordinates, the laws there and then gives you the exact response)

I don't think that's a 'complex legal question'

>3) Even if you dont know the language this tech translates the laws for you and gives you an expert analysis for almost free.

That's not what expert means.
Yeah, this is my issue with it too. The Wayback Machine is awesome, Controlled Digital Lending is cool, becoming a host for Abandonware and/or Lost Media is definitely great, but I think a lot of people don't seem to realize that IA is sort of becoming a piracy website.

I mean, it's trivial to find entire MAME romsets for download [1], Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Wonder roms [2], the entire season 1 of Hilda from Netflix [3], huge collections of PS4 games [4], and the list goes on.

Just to be clear, this required nearly zero effort on my part, I just looked up "Internet Archive PS4" on Kagi and found this in about four seconds. You can do this with basically any media and find something.

IA needs to do something about this stuff, because it's a matter of "when", not "if", for these companies taking legal action, and I cannot imagine a future where IA wins. They're a huge target with a lot of public exposure, and data harboring laws only get you so far.

[1] https://archive.org/details/mame-merged
[2] https://archive.org/download/street-fighter-30th-anniversary...
[3] https://archive.org/details/hilda-season-complete-episodes
[4] https://archive.org/download/CG_Sony_PlayStation_4
This probably isn't normal consumer price, but supermicro makes some very nice nas-targeted hardware that you can populate with your own drives and choice of OS. I have one with 183 TB running trueNAS (zfs) and it's great.

They're just bog standard x86 boxes with a lot of drive slots, a backplane, and a lot of sad or sata ports and controller capacity. There's a pretty healthy used market in these things also. But they are targeting people who want to put 10 or more drives in a single enclosure, which is why I say they might not be consumer.
Yeah, any russian would use 'ya' to spell 'я'.
If im not mistake, you can do this with no downtime by creating a regular index CONCURRENTLY and creating a not checked unique constraint. The constraint applies to new insert/updates only. After that, you run VALIDATE on the constraint and it will be a fully fledged unique constraint.
> that's basically just a relic of before we understood how languages work

Relics that unfortunately maintain significant influence in at least France and Germany.

When I grew up and was just learning to write, orthography was "revamped" by literal committee, in some cases even going so far as deriving a new spelling via false etymologies.

It wasn't really a big deal for me practically, but it just seems bizarre.
>> A cynical take is that they are just generating hype and investment in their companies. We’re getting close to AGI so better throw a few billion our way before you miss out - is a nice pitch.

Well Sam literally asked for 7 trillion dollars to build out the semiconductor industry enough to support AI. That implies AI is worth that kind of investment. He's a smart guy, but I saw the video and IMHO he really sounded foolish in that moment.

Let the hype continue...
Not sure. I'm referring to Front End, however, since the advertisee does not see the backend.
> No human can fit all of the law in their head,

Good thing there is no need to!
I wonder what the red and blue stripe artifacts are in the lens flares.
I certainly notice a relationship between the two in myself, but I couldn't tell you which one is in control.
This is a great idea for v2!
If you can't run your business without violating the property rights of millions of people, maybe your business shouldn't exist.
For a size comparison, here's a stacked, partially star-tracked image I took fully shot at 85mm on a full frame camera to show the perspective. The vertical 3 bright stars to the center/left are the belt of Orion.

The small black notch in the red nebula to the bottom right of the belt is the horse head.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZp_R1npsT-/?img_index=1
Clever variation on the old "indistinguishable from line noise" jokes.

(For those who weren't frequently exposed to "line noise"... Imagine an ASCII character video terminal that's interpreting a stream of bytes, to display meaningful text. Now imagine that the communication channel gets corrupted somehow (say, someone picks up the phone handset while modem is online, or there's interference on the cable), and there's no error correction or checksumming, so the bytes being interpreted are effectively become randomized. So random letters, digits, punctuation, control characters, etc., are being interpreted and displayed, and this is familiar, and you know it's random and why... but the joke is that it's still actually a valid Perl program.)
$ cat ~/.signature
--

raku -e 'try { not :2(.fear) } and do not die'
perl -e 'do not $fear and do not die'
raku -e 'say „The Road to Wisdom“; $*ERR and $*ERR and $*ERR but Less and Less and Less'
Consider the special case of a spherical deposit. You can find the center and mass of the deposit, but not its volume or density.

But now that you know it is there, you can use other techniques, like seismic measurements, to nail that down.
I mean, I was happy to switch from iPhone to Pixel as well.
No, I’m quick to come to their defense because this law is wrong and immoral.

“One has a moral duty to disobey unjust laws.” —MLKJ
yes, there is a widespread awareness that this is all realpolitik. in the western public, everything is a moral struggle between good and evil, where the west is the good guy de facto

to add on to this - far more chinese people visit the west than the other way around. many study english. there is significantly greater understanding of their counterpart's systems in china than in the US or europe. the US has trouble recruiting people who are even literate in mandarin, FFS, to say nothing about familiarity with the culture (even more incredibly, nobody questions reporting or analysis on china produced by these illiterate people!)
As there are no safety nets for people who want to perform their own surgery on themselves or take de-worming meds instead of getting a vaccination.
> The heat's going to be leaving the building in liquid-filled pipes

In the right climate, and the right power density, you can use outside air for cooling, at least part of the time. Unlikely at this scale of machine, but there was a lot of work towards datacenter siting in the 2010s to find places were ambient cooling would significantly reduce the power needed to operate.
I bought a Glove80 which has everything: split, ortholinear, concave, mechanical, wireless, backlight, open firmware..

But find myself switching back to a default keyboard nevertheless.

Instead of trying to reach everything with my fingers and reaching for those faraway keys, I just move my arm – that's far superior. Also I can switch which hands hit the middle keys like G and H.

Plus I can type some stuff one-handedly, which is simply not possible on a split keyboard.
publishing indstury maybe be in trouble, but publishing itself is not.

content creators are going direct to consumer with their content, and there is endless opportunity for actual content creators to thrive without publishing houses as middlemen
Tesla former VP of engineering liquidated virtually entire stake in the company
>but I doubt they went through all the effort to have deep, revealing conversations about the home life or other nuanced cofounders of each participant.

Why is it that nearly every paper linked on HN, someone is in the comments saying the research didn't go far enough? In this case without even reading the paper?

Nothing in your critique is relevant to the fact that the authors found physical fitness and mental health linked. No, not everyone has equal access to sports. Yes mental health is complicated.
Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers biodiversity
*observable universe
individual contributor
That's not a legal argument; you're arguing that crime should be officially encouraged by libraries and the Internet Archive. That's essentially an argument that they should commit suicide in protest of the entire idea of copyright.

I'm not saying that speciously. If it's fine that they encourage the public to go to shadow libraries, there's no need for the public to go to shadow libraries; because they've then become de facto legal and the libraries might as well distribute the material directly (or aid with access and provide resources for the shadow libraries.) If it's not fine that they encourage the public to go to shadow libraries, when they do it they've called their own distribution of copyrighted materials into question by implying that they do the same thing as shadow libraries.

DRM is an overlay over copyright which gives copyright owners some security that they'll be able to hold on to most of the distribution of what they own. It's really a pretense, because you can have DRM without copyright. DRM is just a weak, autonomous enforcement layer being bolted on. That pretense is the only thing that's keeping IA online at this point. Otherwise, there would be no excuse to allow their distribution of copyrighted works at all.

If you want to fight copyright, fight it directly, don't gamble the IA for it. The giant multinational companies that own the vast majority of copyrights are begging you to stake the entire IA on such a sucker bet.
Sure, but I can't use an X220 anymore. Man I soooo wish I could have a laptop with the hardware of the Mac and the keyboard of an old ThinkPad (with better aesthetics). Unfortunately, not so many people seem to want this.
I once bought a far larger supercomputer. It was 1/8 (roughly) of ASCI Blue Mountain. 72 racks. Commissioned in 1998 as #1 or #2 on the TOP500, officially decommissioned in 2004, purchased my 1/8 for $7k in ~2005.

Moving 72 racks was NOT easy. After paying substantial storage fees, I rented a 1500sf warehouse after selling off a few of them and they filled it up. Took a while to get 220V/30A service in there to run just one of them for testing purposes. Installing IRIX was 10x worse than any other OS. Imagine 8 CD's and you had to put them each in 2x during the process. Luckily somebody listed a set on eBay. SGI was either already defunct or just very unfriendly to second hand owners like myself.

The racks ran SGI Origin 2000s with CRAYlink interlinks. Sold 'em off 1-8 at a time, mainly to render farms. Toy Story had been made on similar hardware. The original NFL broadcasts with that magic yellow first down line were synthesized with similar hardware. One customer did the opening credits for a movie with one of my units.

I remember still having half of them around when Bitcoin first came out. It never occurred to me to try to mine with them, though I suspect if I'd been able to provide sufficient electrical service for the remainder, Satoshi and I would've been neck-and-neck for number of bitcoins in our respective wallets.

The whole exercise was probably worthwhile. I learned a lot, even if it does feel like seven lifetimes ago.
Make sure to create indices AFTER the data is in. Its way faster to create indices from data than create them empty and insert data.

Also make sure to set maintenance_work_mem high as it helps with index creation
France does not keep build nuclear generators close to the german border. Electricity trade between France and Germany was pretty balanced in 2023. For example, Germany imported more from Denmark, which does not have nuclear plants.

I do not think that there is USSR-sponsored propaganda against nuclear power in western nation. In fact, Russia earns a lot of money by exporting nuclear fuel and Rosatom is one of the few companies not embargoed.
Yeah, this article is triggered by the "release" of the multi-page atlas, although there's no obvious way to purchase it. The JPG of the single plate has not been updated since the 2022 release; the pre-print remains the only available copy.