skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot less sophisticated than that. They take images in multiple filters. In the context of JWST of order 10 filters (sometimes more sometimes less). Source extraction is then performed on the images by essentially identifying bright spots and dropping an aperture (separating ones that are nearby and blended if possible). The standard tool for this is called source extractor. They then have catalogs of tens of thousands of sources per image and the next step is to figure out redshift. There is a lot of code to do this but the simplest methods require fitting templates of what we think galaxies look like to these catalogs. High redshift sources tend to "drop" out of filters at shorter wavelengths. This is because neutral hydrogen in the early universe essentially absorbs almost all of the light at shorter wavelengths than 1216 angstroms. So if a galaxy is at redshift 10, the flux should essentially be zero at all filters that cover wavelengths shorter than 1.33 microns. JWST has filters both bluer and redder than this wavelength so we see the source appear in the redder filters and not the bluer ones. This technique was pioneered in the mid 1990s. This gives an approximate redshift called a "photometric redshift". There are other features in a galaxy spectrum that can mimic this "dropout" so not all photometric redshifts are robust. Therefore one has to take a spectrum of the galaxy which was what was done in this paper to confirm that the dropout is in fact the absorption feature we think it is. In this particular case, the authors were skeptical early on because there is a source right next to the object that is at a redshift where one of these other spectral features can mimic absorption by neutral hydrogen (this feature is the Balmer break). In any case, it's really an impressive demonstration of the power of JWST.
10KLoC is a very small app. Ours isn't that big and it's 140KLoC and I have read almost all of it.
'Genuinely a con': Lego enthusiasts bemoan half-empty room at Birmingham NEC
But do actors do this because it helps them remember the lines better or because it's essential in order for the delivery to sound natural and not memorized. It has to be something that the actor, impersonating the character, would have said without being prompted. So if you can internalize the character, then the script is a logical result of what that character would naturally say--reducing the amount of exact memorization needed.
But I'm not sure that it's necessarily that it improves memory itself. (Not saying it doesn't but there's a confound here, from a scientific perspective, that isn't easily disentangled).
Yes DC-X was the first reusable rocket booster, it was cancelled about 5 years before SpaceX carried the torch.
Focus on incremental improvement. You don't have to rewrite the entire system to improve the architecture. As with many things, moderation is the key: if there's something blocking the actual work you need to get done, give yourself an hour or two to refactor it enough to do the thing, then go do the thing. It doesn't always have to be 1:1, but if you tie a refactor to the actual thing you need to get done (and you keep it very small and self-contained), then you'll always at least be doing something.
Somewhere in the last two months Firefox Nightly got a massive performance boost on GNU/Linux. Thanks!

Nice that vertical tabs are officially coming back, although I've been using them in a DIY manner for years already; sidebar extension with a bit of userChrome.css can do wonders: https://dosowisko.net/firefox-tabcenter.gif
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately, the commercial desktop OS market is a duopoly. Either we must deal with Windows and its shenanigans, or we must deal with macOS and its drawbacks (the chief ones being limited hardware choices, soldered RAM and storage, and highly inflated prices for RAM and storage upgrades). Switching to Linux or the BSDs is an option for some people, but what about those who rely on software that is only available on Windows and macOS?

Having to choose between Windows and the Mac has been the situation since the late 1990s. There hasn’t been any strong commercial challengers to these operating systems since the demise of BeOS.
This used to be an excuse.

So much business software has migrated to browser based applications that most people could dump Windows and would never notice.

This is why Microsoft has been pushing Office365 so hard.
I have a bumper sticker that says "Vehicle speed monitored by GPS / Speed limiter in use", like some commercial trucks have. It dramatically cuts down on the road rage.
> You cannot compete with the best for free

Except I paid for my Windows license.
Ha, from the title I assumed the group would try out a different piece of software every month (new database, library, programming language etc) and come back to discuss it as a group. Honestly that sounds more fun.
Love it, only thing is paste without formatting requires multiple buttons... or may be I am missing something.
I agree the outcome was correct, but I think you may misunderstand how this got to the Supreme Court:

1. The NRA sued this official for First Amendment rights violations.

2. It went up through the courts, but importantly, the NRA lost in the Second Circuit.

3. The NRA then appealed that loss to the Supreme Court.
> in an uncompetitive market such as a monopoly, additional supply doesn't impact price if it is simply hoarded.

Let's consider whether this can even possibly happen. In order for a monopolist to own all the housing, there would have to be somebody with that much money.

The largest wealth fund in the world is China's, with a total value of around $2.75 trillion US dollars. This is the entire fund across all asset classes. Jeff Bezos with his paltry $200 billion can't even hold a candle to it. By contrast, the total value of US housing is north of $47 trillion dollars. So if you were to double the amount of housing in the US, no one in the entire world exists who could afford to buy all of it. Even the entire government of China isn't within an order of magnitude of it.
Right; in the short term it's probably not in the answer, but in the medium-long term you should really at least evaluate it.
Arguing about correct interpretation of the law with colleagues is absolutely not the same thing as "horse trading" and I doubt much of that goes on. There is usually a majority opinion and a minority opinion and sometimes 3 or more opinions. "horse trading" would be considered beneath the court by every justice and negotiating rather than arguing your case would be considered the pinnacle of unprofessionalism.
FWIW I completely agree in python, Java, typescript, and golang. I've seen people just parrot dogma about DRY and SOLID principals where their DRY'd code is completely not open to extension etc

Premature dry'ing is the same as premature engineering. And lest someone go 'oh so YAGNI is all you need'... no, sometimes you are going to need it and it's better to at least make your code easily moldable to 'it' now instead of later. Future potential needs can absolutely drive design decisions

My whole point is that dogma is dumb. If we had steadfast easy rules that applied in literally every situation, we could just hand off our work to some mechanical turks and the role of software engineer would be redundant. Today, that's not the case, and it's literally our job to balance our wisdom and experience against the current situation. And yes, we will absolutely get it wrong from time to time, just hopefully a lower percentage of occasions as we gain experience.

The only dogma I live by for code is 'boring is usually better', and the only reason I stick by that is because it implicitly calls out that it's not a real dogma in that it doesn't apply in all cases.

(Okay, I definitely follow more principals than that, but don't want to distract from the topic athand)
Matlab runs on Linux and Mac. He can switch.
>Tab Grouping, Vertical Tabs, and our handy Sidebar will help you stay organized no matter how many tabs you have open — whether it’s 7 or 7,500.

Finally. Chrome has this feature for a while and it's really handy when working with lots of tabs, but I use Firefox on my main machine so I couldn't take advantage of this feature (and I don't like vertical tabs).
Neither SolidWorks nor QuickBooks runs in browser. Those two pieces of software are absolutely essential to many companies.
> Rockets like Vulcan do not materially advance an SDI agenda

Rockets like Vulcan are similarly capable for SDI purposes as the Falcon 1 was.

I'm open to being corrected by anyone else who was involved with SpaceX in its early days. But the SDI connection to Falcon reusable, much less Starlink, is an expert exercise in retconning.
Is this a comment from 2018? I thought FF on MacOS was pretty good these days.

And are you suggesting Chrome is similar to Safari in terms of power usage? That would surprise me

Safari will of course always be better. It's no competition
Gas is a special case but it’s worth noting that your numbers went from a bit above the national average to significantly above the national average.

I’m not sure where you got your celery numbers but produce prices are very swingy over a year

Arby’s prices have risen, although, amusingly at a much slower rate than almost any other major fast food chain
> misunderstanding of what it means

And in response, people will complain that they're being dismissed with "you're doing it wrong!" Because that happens with everything in programmer-land.
switching to ubuntu desktop for development has been wonderfully painless and, especially with AI to help with finding the right terminal commands and software, quite accessible.
If someone from Shopify's backend team is around, i would love to know how difficult it is to maintain/improve the GraphQL API
It looks like Shopify is deprecating REST in favor of GraphQl so is the developer UX that good for Shopify developers?
And btw some features are missing from the GraphQL related to REST. I wonder if that's related to hard-to-implement features or good-occasion-to-delete features
(Eg Checkout)
What decisions would you recommend I read that demonstrate the conservative justices don’t care as much about the law rather than their political agenda? I make this claim all the time based on my instinct but always fall short when trying to demonstrate, what ruling led you to your conclusion?
I've also read that they routinely turn of ATS/AIS to enter territorial waters undetected.

Not directly a citation, but here's a supporting writeup of decent quality:
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/china-illegal-fishing-fleet...
It baffles me that US supreme court justices can be given "progressive" vs "conservatives" labels. Aren't they expected to be impartial?

Even in a country like India with weaker rule of law, the courts and judges never take sides with political parties.
I stopped donating when they declared ‘rss is too complex to be maintained and is also old and gross and stuff, so we removed it’. Oh by the way totally unrelated here is Pocket(tm)!
What a genius idea, how bizarre that nobody ever thought about that before! We just need to get the bus dependencies up first and then... oh. Oh wait. Oh no.
I think it's a bit early to call it a success. The rules came in to effect less than a month ago. That's ~18 school days.
Also "Jmmortel" in the following sentence (unless that J character was chosen for stylistic reasons).
EdgeDB? Graph database built on top of Postgres so you can do row-based auth as well.

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-5-introducing-passwordles...
I really love Firefox. I even organized events for them on my home country, so don't get me wrong, wouldn't it be best for the web/devs that they switched to chrome's engine? They can still implement whatever changes to privacy and their changes just like MS does, and devs will only have to target one engine. Or am I missing something? Please discuss it if you agree or disagree, do not downvote. Thanks.
Matlab is not the only software which businesses use. I'm speaking generally why many companies and employees can't "just switch OS", not specifically to the post.
Thanks! I was looking for this blog post for a while now
Additionally, all SCOTUS did as remand the case back to a lower court. They did NOT make a ruling on the merits of the initial case.
it would make sense if your intention was to depopulate the ukraine & maybe buy it up on the cheap (all wars are banker wars?)

i can't make much sense of it beyond that
I'm not sure which higher education subsidies you are talking about. I know the military's GI Bill benefits are worse than they used to be.
Yeah the problem when higher-ups have little care for details is that they may act on an imprecise-to-incorrect understanding of the factual reality ("the map isn't the territory", yada-yada).

There's a middle-ground between micromanaging and making sure high-level decisions are deeply sound. The second point of the article is pretty much this again: make sure the decisions are based on tangible facts, and not on chimeras.
This shows you don't need a very complicated Algorithm to produce passable sentences. I suspect it's similar to simple autonomous car algorithms that can start as simple lane following feedback loops.

The question is how performance scales as the controller complexity scales.
I absolutely agree — my statement was merely one of fact; to get to point B, one must first achieve point A.

Much like inventing the wheel (positive) is a necessary precursor to both ambulances/fire fighting (also positive), as well as DUIs (less positive).

The larger point being simply that I find it somewhat disingenuous for those of us who consider it our job to think through problems from many angles to pretend we’re somehow unable to imagine the potential unfortunate consequences arising from our work, given the existing Powers That Be (meaning both entities and trends).
We can't do anything right.
'top' for Laravel – real-time monitoring directly from the command line
I wouldn't say it's too damaging yet. There is a general trend where these early galaxies are brighter than we had thought by simply extrapolating models that were built prior to JWST, but these make numerous assumptions on how efficiently stars can form and the properties of these stars. Mildly relaxing any of these assumptions can easily solve the problem within our current framework and not significantly change what happens later in the evolution of the Universe.
Same when my kids were in school.
Maybe she didn't feel quite so bad after this decision.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/27/soni...
An engineer turned to the executive dark side is still an engineer, and if they use their seat at the table to keep an approximately optimal amount of engineering quality up they'll need to pay attention and micromanage the details sometimes.
This is wonderful. Make it National. Then collective elderly Us can rest assured the generation that's running the country received a "proper" education closer to what many of us experienced since we were in school before smartphones were everywhere.
[Edit: US politics is too toxic, fuck it]
Dang is a fantastic moderator (thanks for your services, @dang!), and yet I also agree with the parent poster that this thread has been special.

[No good rule without worthy exceptions ;-).]
Don't bother sending MS bug reports anymore, their code will just continue to rot until EOL/EOS date.. then it morphs into a quirky vintage feature that they can safely ignore. Just recently HDR was forcing my monitor to dim to 50% after locking, and it would get stuck there. I found just opening the ms-settings:display window would restore the brightness level. So I went and created a simple task to trigger ms-settings:display on every unlock.
A powerful example of how well-intentioned regulations -- in this case, a mandate to reduce sulfur content in ship fuel, for environmental reasons -- can lead to unintended consequences that are worse than the original problem -- in this case, the reduction in sulfur led to an increase in the rate of global warming. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Go read the abstract and the introduction. Highly recommended!
I'm facing just this problem and would not: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/30/turning-two-lives-into-on...
Basically, turn your transmission into a chainsaw
Very interesting. It reminds of learning a music score on the piano--it works best, especially if you're not at an expert level, to learn a few measures and repeat those until you can execute them without thinking, and then move on to the next few measures.
How are they stretched for resources? Mozilla's revenue is around a half billion USD per year.
One thing I try to do is read stuff from people whose job it is to do stuff. What I read from transportation people is that for dense urban areas cars are inefficient at loading and unloading. And self driving cars are the worst.

My rando observation is the few times something has gone really wrong on BART traffic is bad enough that it'd be better to take the day off. Ditto if a truck overturns on one of the bridges. And the latter happens way more often than the former. Reminds me after the Loma Prieta earthquake the bay bridge was out for a month but BART was running 12 hours later.
Both run on macOS.
I was listening to Science of Everything podcast by James Fodor (probably) on podbean.com for a 6 part "How computers work". He sort of is studying for a PhD or something, and he mentioned (in the 2nd part) that the uncertainty principle is actually applied in computer electronics for electron energies.
> cherry-pick flawless drives on a sunny day

Tesla FSD sucks extra bad on sunny days in fact, due to its basic optical systems.
I'm not sure how much this will help, given how many parents I see allowing their children to be glued to screens outside of school, from incredibly early ages.
Maybe. There are Matlab widgets and extensions which could be Windows only.
Yeah... we kind of already have billions of machines efficiently spreading it all over the globe.
> you don't want footguns in the codebase where you could change something in one place, but forget to change the same thing in other places

This. Ironically the example on TFA is vulnerable to this issue. Each of the deadline setting methods has a copy of the validation ensuring that the date is in the future. If it's discovered that we need to ensure deadlines are set no later than the project deadline (since that wouldn't generally make sense), it's awfully easy to only update one and miss the others, especially after code has been added and these implementations are no longer visually near each other. I'm not saying that this means the code must be DRY'ed, but it is a risk from the beginning of the project, so one that needs to be weighed during initial implementation.
Negotiation, "I'll give you this for that", is very different from legal argument, "This is my interpretation of the law, and I will explain why it is correct." Some may call that negotiation of opinion, but I think there is an important distinction. I seriously doubt they are doing the former.
The whole thing is largely probabilistic in many ways/parts, and it seems like more sensors, especially more sensors that operate in different modalities, is better, assuming your sensor fusion is working properly so that each additional sensor adds certainty to your predictions.

There are atmospheric conditions and obstructions that lidar can see through that cameras can't.

Cameras also seem prone to being blocked by a small splash of mud/dirt. Is anyone on this thread knowledgeable enough in the domain to know if that's an issue? I thought of it while moving my head sideways to see around a temporary sight obstruction on my windshield. Luckily the windshield is big, and I can move my head. Cameras are small. I guess you just put several so you have an effectively large camera array? It does mean more redundancy is necessary than I would have initially thought.
If you happen to see this, could I get an invite as well? Email in bio. Many thanks!
> We were hearing a little while back that it had become exceedingly difficult to concoct diplomatic cover for intelligence agents, in a world full of socials.

> Does the availability of AI mean that (as long as you own, or at least can retcon, several socials?) spinning up entire innocuous provenance networks for fresh identities is once again a push-button solved problem?

AI doesn't defeat biometrics. I'd bet the problem with social media for intelligence agents is it allows facial recognition to uncover their true identity. If the search uncovers a real profile and a fake AI generated one with fake AI generated friends, it's still fishy to an adversary.

Also if you're an agent and have gone to a country under one name, you can never go back under a different name without being trivially caught.
> The teachers who won't answer email are the ones who are just being stubborn.

Is that relevant to the cellphones-in-school bit?
That's like saying anyone put on a PIP that made the decision not to improve wasn't fired.
Not officially, therefor not with support.
Are you saying that they should avoid writing about features that aren't "core" (privacy, speed, battery life, sync) when telling you about the work they've done? I mean, they do say that

> You can expect even faster, smoother browsing on Firefox, thanks to quicker page loads and startup times – all while saving more of your phone’s battery life.

and regarding privacy

> we’ve worked hard to make things like translation and PDF editing in Firefox happen locally on your device, so you don’t have to ship off your personal data to a server farm for a company to use it how they see fit

– so they seem to have ticked your boxes, but they've also committed the sins of boasting about design and used the "AI" buzzword.

Yes, "most people" don't care about "adding alt text to PDFs" but then most people don't even know what accessibility means. For the people who do need it, it's essential, and I think it would be awesome if it happens on-device instead of giving google/amazon/microsoft a description of every pdf image a blind person might want described.
This is cool, it's almost like a wiki you can talk to. I also wanted to make a thread-based UI for LLM chat since I realized that's how I typically interact with them (almost like git branches) but hadn't gotten around to it yet. Neat to see others are interested in branching conversations as well!
Medical devices, e.g. (some) insulin pumps like the Tandem Mobi, are managed via smartphone apps only. It's an unfortunate fact of life that life supporting technology can increasingly only be interfaced via smartphones.

From my perspective, that's an unfortunate but ultimately good reason for some kids to have smartphones.
The issue isn't updates breaking stuff, the issue is forced reboots when I have something open for which I don't just want the OS throwing away the state for.
The IT dept. comment is pretty accurate though, just as dismissive, pointlessly snarky and disconnected from doing productive work as the real deal.
I have fond memories of discovering Phoenix ~v0.1 during high school and mostly never looking back. Had a short stint with Chrome until it intermittently stopped even attempting to load pages. Switched back and couldn't imagine daily driving Chrome.
Only maybe in the dense core of a galaxy because incident radiation falls off with the square of distance.

The nearest star to us after the Sun is ~4ly away, or ~250k AU. The Sun would have to be ~63 billion times brighter to give the same incident radiation at 250k AU, and that is just a typical distance between stars in our neighborhood . The Sun is also brighter than the average star, especially the older stars that congregate near the galactic center.

Galaxies can easily have 1 trillion stars but they are usually so spread out as to make this impractical. This is also why the Milky Way, Triangulum, LMC, SMC, and Andromeda (nearest galaxies) are so faint to the naked eye.