skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of prior indigenous claim is counter productive, but since it has been introduced by Palestinians as a kind of volksgemeinschaft, blut und boden, Jews would have prior claim by that standard.

The folks who first brought up this "prior indigenous claim" business were the early Zionists of course. The pre-1897 inhabitants didn't have to "claim" any special rights because they were already there (give or take some forced migration within the Ottoman empire), and not trying to expand into any new territory they hadn't been occupying in living memory -- and so had nothing to justify or explain.

Anyway it's all moot because the earliest known inhabitants in the region were not Jews in any recognizable sense, but predominantly the Canaanites and other bronze age cultures. Whose presence predates any traces of the Israelite culture by 2000+ years. And who were likely the primary genetic reservoir for both Palestinians and Jews as they are currently known, via significant mixtures with other groups from outside the region.

The whole idea of attempting to adjudicate anything happening on the ground today on the basis of any of this history (or our current conception of it) is completely vacuous of course. As is this bizarre Blut und Boden reference that you're trying to asign to the Palestinians, of all people.
Actually I think that's pretty plausible. Signal speed in the brain is pretty slow - it would have to make some difference
Jerry : I don't understand. Do you have my reservation?

Rental Car Agent : We have your reservation, we just ran out of cars.

Jerry : But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.

Rental Car Agent : I think I know why we have reservations.

Jerry : I don't think you do. You see, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them.
Catastrophic Risk: Investing and Business Implications
It's a big feedback loop. You go to college, you get a degree, you become a middle manager or administrator of some type, you go work at a university since you didn't learn the skills to actually do anything.

On a serious note, I worked in research and education for nearly a decade. The real question isn't whether all the staff actually work (I was staff myself!), they do. It's whether or not that work actually aligns with the mission of a university. IMO, this is research and _education_, but that's an unpopular opinion. Hence the poor return on investment so many graduates are seeing.
I often wonder if Looney Tunes physics explains more about our world than classical economics…
Reducing User-Agent Granularity
Oh now companies want to invoke the first amendment. What a joke.
Or from native speakers who subsequently learn Latin.
Ask HN: Good articles/books about federation and/or decentralized systems?
Anyone have any recommendations on some good articles or books about federation and/or decentralized systems? Specifically, how do you design/architect and develop them?

Systems like Mastodon, bittorrent, ipfs, SAML, etc.

My web searches so far have turned up mostly surface level marketing type posts about why they are a good idea. Not much about building them, or how to think about building them.

I have some ideas I think might work well in a decentralized manner, and I'm trying build up my understanding of the concepts.

Thanks!
So now I need kubernetes to run and scale my vcs? That’s a no for me dawg.
Not as a “junior dev” that sweeps markets itself as but it is useful in its own ways. For example, one really nifty way I found to effectively use it is to:
- git diff
- gh issue create “sweep: update docs for this file change” for every file changed

It’s not perfect even after that but gives me a good starting point and often just needs a minor change.
Related: Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313733
Did not expect to see F# and C#; pleasantly surprised.
"Welp, that's enough of looking at tens of thousands of places I'll never see up close."

smashes telescope, grabs another beer, and buys some tickets to visit Spain before going to bed with a little bit less defeat and despair than usual
Why is your kid the only agent in that sentence, and you're his bank.
In certain IRC contexts, it was common to see "syn".

This became "yt?" in the next generation, unfortunately.
Looking even further back in Apple laptop history, we find interesting features like rear keyboard placement (1991), 4 pound laptop with dock for desktop use (1992), and trackpad (1994). Apple's eMate 300 (1997) was a Newton laptop rather than a Mac, but it had an ARM processor, flash storage, and 20+ hour battery life, making it something of an ancestor to the Mac M1.
the link for anyone looking to download it

https://zed-nightly-host.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/nightly...

or github release, but only on *-pre tag like this

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.134.1-...
Lolll. It’s 1024 but only for documents and not the tools (we changed the embedding model for RAG)
Chromium Security: The Rule of Two
and the akai timbre wolf, which comes with real simulated wood grain sides
Such is the problem of not exposing the industry to market forces.

The same perverse incentives have permeated into healthcare, which is no longer about owning the patient's health journey, vs administrators handling contracts, billing , benefits, claims, and shifting responsibility elsewhere
Big Aurora Friday
Nope. I am also pretty far removed from Tesla's engineering folks.
If you can’t point at adding some “AI” to a feature your job is at risk, I’m sure that little stacks has some image classifier that groups them together and the team was able to say “look! we added AI! please don’t lay us off!”

I’m not joking either, I feel bad for friends there - I’m hearing horror stories.
Google has some of the worst ux out of big tech. Thank God Google search was just a simple text area.
Please quantify the economic damage related to the decrease of sulfur in the worlds oceans. I'd love to see the breakout on the impact on Phytoplankton reproduction and the repurcussions on global fish reproduction.
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Propaganda spread by grey squirrels!
https://archive.is/20240508014314/https://asia.nikkei.com/Bu...
These are differences in perspective. If you can't handle my disagreement with your imposition of regulation on my life, then you are the overbearing lack of evidence I fundamentally disagree with.
A common mistake I see: Every day is two words, everyday is strictly an adjective e.g. an everyday occurrence.
Even if they don’t know where the satellites will be, a simple motion detection algorithm in the stacker would delete the streak caused by the satellite. A given pixel will only be impacted for a few exposures, so just grab 5% more images.

I’d guess terrestrial light pollution is a much bigger problem.
The AI part in this piece seems a bit premature, as far as I can tell from the promotional videos of successful combat, all of the drones are piloted. The more interesting thing is how each combat brigade for Ukraine (and one can only assume something similar for Russia) has drone operators in addition to the dedicated drone support units as detailed here:
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/DRONES/dwpke...
Does anyone know if any NATO countries are adapting to this or ideas to break the stalemate on the frontline where neither side can use armored vehicles very effectively due to their drone vulnerability besides the Russians throwing men and equipment into the grinder to soak up Ukrainian ammunition?
University administrative bloat is a popular topic here, and certainly one that I’m concerned about. But I’m not sure that this article adds much to the discussion.
Can you expand on how sticking a $5 webcam on each starlink satellite would quell concerns?

I’m in the astronomy community and I can’t quite figure it out. If you could expand on what you’re thinking and some of the science behind it, that’d be great.
> someone dismissing it based on the perceived over-zealousness of its marketing, as people seem to want to do with TFA

Sorry, but that's nothing but a reading comprehension problem for you
Just do it in space and avoid the whole atmosphere and ground based light pollution. Space is cheaper than ever now, this is a problem for amateur astronomers, and hobbyists shouldn’t hold back progress.
I came here to find and agree with this comment. I've been seeing more stuff like this show up recently in OSS projects and it is extremely irritating.

And I know some people say "you are supposed to review AI-generated content before submitted", but I am also sure many new users will think the kind of crap advice that AI generates is OK.

Those who don't know better, think AI is awesome and will solve all their problems. Those who do know enough to see the flaws don't need AI either.

Ellipsis authors: please stop making open source worse. Buggy patches are worse than no patches, and 1 line hand-written summary is better then AI-generated useless one.

I'll extend that to say "please stop making software worse." We were already drowning in mediocrity before AI accelerated it.
I mean ... Chevron literally sold Microsoft their data center to become Azure southcentral.

These are not "low level engineers", these companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars with Azure.

And all the other clouds. And Wal-Mart and AT&T and ... big companies spend big bucks.
How did you get from negative sentiment to toxicity? Are those the same to you?

It may be a cultural thing, but I think many people see negative sentiment as a constructive tool and a demonstration of trust and respect among people who recognize each others as robust and capable peers.

Avoiding it is something you do with people who you believe need special delicacy: whether because they've told you so, because they intimidate you, or because you sense something pitiable and fragile about them.

If you can trust that it's given in good faith, and by the guidelines of HN you are asked to, negative sentiment should be seen as an expression that someone thinks you're a fully capable adult and peer. Personally, I deeply appreciate that it's generally so comfortably shared and received here and would never include "toxicity" in one of my critiques of HN.

It's a surprising thing to read someone say!

(Unless you're thinking of the nastiness that can surface on flamewar topics, but there are numerous means by which those get downranked and displaced, and they're otherwise sparse and easy to avoid.)
Kind of reminds me of the Yes, Minister episode "The Compassionate Society"

Bernard: In fact, there are only 342 administrative staff at the hospital. The other 170 are porters, cleaners, laundry workers, cooks, etc.

Hacker: And medical staff?

Bernard: Oh, none of them.

Hacker: None?

Bernard: No!

Hacker: We are talking about St Edward's Hospital?

Bernard: Yes. It's brand-new and fully-staffed. Unfortunately, there were cutbacks, so there was no money for medical services.

Hacker: A hospital with over 500 non-medical staff and no patients?
>so just grab 5% more images.

You say it like major observatory telescopes are sitting idle, but they're not. In practice what actually happens is you lose 5% of your scientific data return.

>terrestrial light pollution

Problem is that it's global vs local, so our normal solution for terrestrial light pollution (build telescopes in a remotely populated area) doesn't work.
A better way to think of it is in terms of proportions, I guess.

To wit, the negative effects of technology are simply an increasing function of how advanced it is. There is no need to think in terms of "pre" or "post" good technology. As it becomes more powerful, we need greater wisdom to control it. And of course, we completely lack that wisdom.
I think there is a big piece that is left unsaid here: capitalism. If we had to boil down a university to one imperative, it sadly seems to make money (ideally, for some, as a means towards the true ends). Lots of good points raised, as I can say from direct experience, but too often capitalism is just assumed or ignored as the underlying principle at work.
increases the quality of code a developer brings to their teammates

Only if they're already below average.
I'm glad to hear NG is increasing in use!

I've used it for decades in all sorts of contexts. I've converted a few people!

My life has included a lot of equipment, hardware, software, things that needed labeling, I reflect.

Also I am not good about throwing broken things away, thinking maybe I'll want to salvage parts from it later. So a sticker (in recent decades, blue painters tape) with "19981105 NG" becomes a very useful thing, eventually.
I don't disagree about the individualism and selfishness, but US trucks are getting bigger in part because the CAFE standard incentivizes it.
LED’s are causing an exponential ramp in lighting pollution right now. (They’re more efficient, so people install them in more places and leave them on longer.)

Legislation is probably the only way to fix it.
Overall oil refineries are decent targets because they are high cost and statically located and therefore difficult to defend, but Ukraine certainly wishes it had more conventional weapons at longer ranges so that it could strike deeper and dynamic targets.

Ukraine doesn't have many better alternatives. They can strike some energy infrastructure (which they've done) in an effort to affect Russian willpower. It can also try to hit airfields (which they've done) hoping to take out equipment, but Russia has been pretty good at moving equipment out of the way.

The strike campaign itself has been moderately effective but definitely short of a war-winning enterprise. Estimates on the actual damage on production and exports has ranged between the fantastical (28%) to the banal (6%). It looks like domestic petrol supply has been hit the hardest in terms of tangible economic costs, since oil prices have remained reasonable with lessened seasonal demand and lower OPEC supply targets. Russia has additionally made deals with Kazakhstan and Belarus to attempt to mitigate some of the economic effects, has been able to repair oil refinery damage, and has experimented with a range of mitigations.

The strike campaign has been further complicated by the US election year. The Biden Administration has asked Ukraine to stop targeting oil refineries, because global oil instability could cause a crisis that ultimately causes global issues, rising prices, and Biden a second term. Such strikes are expected to uptick after November. And with the possibility of long range missiles from military sponsors, plus winter-time difficulties, this might be a good window to see what Ukraine can really do.

Either way I think the article is not about the long range drones you are alluding to here, but the small commercial sized drones and mid-cost military drones that are based on them.
Let’s say we do that. How many threads can we create?

On BEAM, running 10,000 lightweight processes is normal. Phoenix is designed so that every incoming http request is its own lightweight process.

How does one manage that number of lightweight processes? The runtime’s scheduler keeps track of every single process so nothing is orphaned. It is preemptive, so no lightweight process can starve out another (though there are some exceptions).

They can also suspend cheaply, as such, works well with async io.

The closest thing to this are the new virtual thread feature of recent Java. I don’t think Java has the same kind of properties that will allow it to manage it as well as BEAM. There is a lot more to Elixir than being able to use all the cores.
But isn't that exactly it, that these (and healthcare) are very much part of the "market?" The goal to make money and to provide healthcare are at fundamental odds if you ask me. (Or they don't have to be, but the natural "experiment" of for profit healthcare in places like the US tells us much.)
SDI was never meant to be deployed. It was a ruse to make the USSR overspend on weapons development. The research was real, and some new tech came from it. As well as lots of federal money paid to private contractors. But actually creating a "space shield" was a bluff.
Dim orange low-pressure sodium lamps are much much better than bright blue–white LEDs.
Excellent textbook examples in there :)
Battery innovation coming out of CATL is interesting for everyone. We're used to decrying Chinese disregard for IPR in the ICT sector but I haven't heard or read anything to say their new high power, large MWh, fast charging, low fire risk sodium battery is based on "stolen" technology.

If they can exceed 600km and get 80% recharge in under 10 minutes then range anxiety and time at the pump fears will go away. Their sales talk says 1000km and 5 minutes recharge, I think to 60%.

Allowing for hyperbole I think this may be net beneficial, for some people who currently won't buy EV. Much depends on price, reliability, safety and range.
For what it’s worth, people have already fixed telescopes in space (ISS astronauts operating on Hubble).
> WebSQL and XHTML

WebSQL never became a web standard because it never had a specification so that doesn't compare properly with Web Components. XHTML on the other hand does, and it's still supported. In terms of the wager, if Web Components goes the way of XHTML then I would still win that wager.

> Flash [...] 2000s was tiny by modern standards [...] I don't believe that "user installed base" is an important metric - "number of programmers deliberately writing software with it" provides the network effect.

Well there's two things here.

1. It's important to remember to focus on percentages rather than numbers because the total developers and users have changed. If we weren't looking at the percentages then we would end up with a skewed perception. (and since there were millions of web developers back then, we won't need to worry about sample size jitter/bias)

2. I agree that user installed base is not as useful a metric as a developer use base. So looking at flash's usage, it was 3 in 10 web developers (30%) compared to React's 1 in 4 web developers (25%). (fun aside: flash was used in at least 70% of games, 75% of video delivery methods and 98% of enterprise apps so for a bunch of areas it dominated)

> jQuery

I'm guessing I don't need to go through how this was used to make a standard working environment that standards bodies then recreated.

> "Web Components now" has been the "year of the Linux Desktop" refrain of the webdev community for a long time now.

No, just among clickbaiters. Web Components was a set of capabilities/standards wrapped up under an umbrella term. Here's a map of them: https://postimg.cc/87Ljbhdj

Web Components cannot currently replace React as a whole since not all of the standards are implemented yet. (the speed of implementation is partially due to browsers needing to change a lot of behind-the-scenes functionality to support them, but a lot of that work is done now leading to browser vendors porting existing functionality to web components)

However, a whole bunch of those standards are currently implemented meaning that depending on your use-case, Web Components are the best choice. (They're doing really well in enterprise right now, e.g. Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, etc...)

We won't have a "year of", but as each standard on the umbrella becomes available we get a "this group of devs who needed this one thing" and a "that group of devs who needed just one thing" moving to web components.
Ah yes I forgot the standard of living is just more stuff in my house! Meanwhile we have all this cheap junk but expensive healthcare, expensive education, expensive housing, poison in our food and water, and rising temperatures. Glad some folks could binge order cheap plastic crap on Amazon for these amazing benefits. Advancement!
> One theory related to the invention of the Jacquard loom by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801. The Jacquard loom uses punch cards to automate the raising and lowering of warp threads, allowing one to achieve many more sheds than a human weaver could ever grapple with. This invention, however, put many textile workers out of a job. The theory is that these employees threw their wooden clogs (the French word for these clogs is “sabots”) into the delicate machinery to wreak havoc.

"The Origin of the Word Sabotage" ( https://handwovenmagazine.com/origin-of-the-word-sabotage/ )
> Jain’s team then built artificial-intelligence models that were able to stitch the microscope images together to reconstruct the whole sample in 3D

How do they know if their AI did it correctly or not?
> that "respect" gaming

I doubt that's still true for the recent few years.
Crushing the tools of art and fun into a tiny technological device is maybe a little tone-deaf in the context of AI trying to crush all scrapeable human creation into a model that would fit on that same iPad.
Thanks for providing all those links. Indeed, the key there is peak magnitude. BlueWalker 3 has a giant array that reflects light like a mirror. So when you happen to get the angle of incidence exactly equal to the angle of reflection, it shines quite brightly. Of course since it's reflecting all sunlight in one direction, that means from all other spots on earth it will be extremely dim.

Also note that BlueWalker 3, like most low-earth orbit satellites, is only visible during "terminator conditions", when the satellite itself is illuminated by the sun but the telescope is still in darkness. Those times are typically an hour or so after sundown or an hour or so before sunrise. So one solution is to schedule astronomy for the middle of the night, when none of these low earth satellites will lit by the sun at all. Which certainly increases the costs of astronomy, since you can't use your telescope for as many hours per day.

Or, just use your space object catalog to look elsewhere in the sky when bright satellites happen to be in the sky during terminator illumination conditions. Which I see is one of the things your last link, "Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST", suggests!
> Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more vast cultural conditioning.

Can you please expand a bit on what you feel should be the outcome here? To me it kind of feels like that the logical progression of your argument is that “any creative work with an influential impact is problematic”. That is a scary attitude that is used all to often to oppress more than provide freedom of thought. Music, literature, art, etc… all are used by their creators to illicit a response of some sort, and most rely on that response as a trigger to invoke a product purchase. Every creative is in the business of sales.

I want art to trigger an emotional response. That’s the point.
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Here is another cool youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@hagiwo