skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The skater is a small human sized object. They pull their arms in, don't honestly shrink much, but they still spin appreciably faster. When you go from something the size of a pre-collapse star and compare it to the size of a neutron star, the speed up factor is way higher. It doesn't matter how slowly you're spinning when big, you will be spinning fast when you get small as all that angular momentum must be conserved.
NY Post: "Mysterious alien eggs spotted in Oklahoma lake"

NY Post: "Trump tells Dr. Phil evil forces are controlling Biden"

NY Post: "How intermittent fasting, protein pacing can lead to weight loss"

What could go wrong?
> Also the russian language get supressed and in general russians are seen as enemies. Not just russian soldiers, but people with a russian cultural background. Nationalism in all its glory.

That's not anywhere near as bad as the U.S. during WWII when Japanese Americans were sent to actual internment camps.
From all I've read for this, it should not be possible for such a slow star to emit anything, ie against known physics of natural objects.

Why are they so quick to discard a technological origin?
Not sure I’m tracking here. Can you explain this further?
Text version for accessibility and because the submission title is generic:

Tweet of a TikTok video. Founder build 'raise your glass' where they worked with a winery. Wine bottles have a QR code where you see an augmented reality video of an Ukranian solder.

Website seems to be https://raiseaglass.co/
What did Charles Glass estimate the WW2 desertion rate to be?

Here’s one that estimates 0.22%, which is low historically. https://www.armyheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/ref-bibs/sub...

I’ll certainly check out the book; thanks for the recommendation.
Nobody seems to have noticed that fail2ban is GPL, either.
Hope to be able to bring Linux back at some point. Unfortunately there wasn't enough users to justify spending development time on it. It's hard to tell if the user count was low because of lack of interest of issues with app itself. It's also ironic that Linux is the hardest platform to support. It had too many pieces outside our control that would break. If/when we can get back to it I'd like to avoid Flatpak and take an approach that we can have more control over. Possibly a static build and maybe even look into native package manager integration.
Yeah, although distributed power generation is an actual solution to reduce transmission loads, I agree that it's too soon. It is very complicated (but I think doable!), but even then probably takes too much space for populated areas.

I like the idea of knowing if a transmission line is hot enough to start a fire, but that isn't a substitute for new transmission capacity from remote PV farms or just to be more resilient.
I find takes like this to be true in the specific details but wildly wrong as a big picture takeaway. A lot of people are citing their favorite quotes here, so here's one of mine from the Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov:

>When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

So I think there's a relativity of wrong problem that you run into when suggesting it's all just so complex and leaving it at that.

I would nevertheless absolutely agree that nutrition science and communication around it has been disorganized, contradictory, and without much in the way of a north star or a reliable "vanguard" of communicators representing a firm consensus. I feel much better about public communication from, say, astrophysics, archeology, geology, etc. and I think there's a characteristic degree of stability of knowledge particular to each of those fields.
At some point I predict the endogenous pesticides in plants are going to be found to be very problematic. The famous Ames Test for mutagens goes off on them.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ames-test-and-real...

> Plants have evolved a variety of pesticides and antifeedant compounds, many of which are reactive and toxic at some level - therefore, most (as in 99.99%, according to his estimate) of the pesticides in the human diet are those found in the plants themselves. The cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, mustard and so on) are particularly rich in compounds that will light up an Ames test. A fine article of his from 1990 (Ang. Chem. Int. Ed.,29, 1197) states that ". . .it is probably true that almost every plant product in the supermarket contains natural carcinogens."
If you design a system for idiots, only idiots will use it.
XINU is another simple teaching system.
> Worst case, this will give bad actors the option to lock the original owner out of their own server if they have a botnet host in the same network.

According to to the article, you can exempt IPs from being blocked. So it won’t impact those coming from known IPs (statics, jump hosts, etc).
Was eliminating SAT/ACT requirements meant to be permanent in the first place, or did they just not trust the 2020-22 results? Stanford's statement here was more about covid19 issues: https://stanforddaily.com/2020/06/17/standardized-testing-no...

But UC was saying the test is unfair etc.
HN is a weird place. 95% of the world runs on Microsoft technology to some degree. (95% also runs on Linux to some degree as well)
I would complain that the DJ is making too small of a piece of the pie in this situation, given that their performance matters significantly. People can hear music anywhere nowadays. All these players should get paid but the record company taking that big of a chunk is overstating the impact of the music in these streams.
"Right, but the idea here seems to be to throw cold water on idea that Ukraine is unambiguously the victim of aggression here"

Yes, that is Putins plan. That doesn't mean there isn't any truth in its propaganda.

The point we are discussing is, if the war Ukraine vs Russia is "as black and white as it gets". To which I disagree, you can find quite some black elements in Ukraine, too. Not at all on the same level and I support weapon delivery etc. But I do not support closing my eyes to only see everything in simple shapes and colors.
Were there side-effects, legal constraints too risky, or was it not all that effective? It was my impression that Δ8-/9-THC slows down thought processes, gives a false sense of clarity rather than actual clarity, but enhances (painter) creativity over (hacker) logic and order.

My process relies on putting difficult problems out of immediate focus, and use kinetic and calming means like exercise, meditation, and hot saunas. If that doesn't work, throwing away code and trying again like rewriting a book chapter can be useful; Joe Armstrong [RIP] was a big believer in this.

For ideation, a variation of stimulus reduction approaching sensory deprivation without a dark, warm water tank works for me.
Here is a deep neuroimaging study of 52 fetal humans and their brain maturation states.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583264/

I recognize the Catch 22 that the diagnosis is not possible until several years after birth. But a prospective study of this sort is “in scope” at UCSD. They already have big MRI studies of kids with hundred or even thousands of scans.
Maybe at some point Google will release a Classic version of the algo like Coca-Cola did.
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They're different use cases from the industry's perspective. Nvidia supports GPU compute on Linux very well, but graphics not so much.

I'm not interested in the OS fan wars and neither is Nvidia, but if you want to consider Linux server users the same as Linux desktop users instead of isolating them, you can count me on that side. I have an RPi, a PowerEdge, an Android phone, and yes an Alpine Linux Docker container on my Mac.
I've always wondered how Text to Image LLMs like stable diffusion work, do they just encode RGB values into a matrix and then have a helper tool convert that data into a jpg?
I'm surprised you call it glitchy. I heard elsewhere that Resident Evil 4 on Wii was easier than the GameCube original because the aiming was more precise than with a stick.
"Apps from 20 years ago are still usuable today, and are blazingly fast."

To be clear, the hardware is faster today.

I am a daily user of "apps from 20 years ago".

I have no desire to let today's software developers negate the gains I should be receiving from the new hardware that I purchase. It is as if they think the hardware belongs to them and they can use the resources as they please. The resources belong to me, not to software developers.

It is like an expanding budget allocation that has no valid justification. In the year 199x/200x, the computer owner allocated program X that does job Y a certain amount of RAM, storage and CPU resources. Today, the computer owner has more RAM, storage and CPU available. Why should the computer owner allocate more resources to an "app" that wants to perform Y today than they did in 199x/200x. What if they do not want spell checker for 30 languages, publish to social media button, video tutorial and collaborative network share mode? The computer owner is not given a valid justification for the expansion nor the choice to say, "Upon careful consideration of your proposal for a 500% increase to the RAM, storage and CPU budget for app X to perform job Y, I have decided I will allocate the same amount of RAM, storage and CPU. The budget will not be increased. Thank you." As it happens that decision results in faster, more efficient completion of Y.
Sure. Or german jews fleeing from Hitler also being put in such camps. Or the use of weapons of mass distruction. WW2 was not a clean war by our standards.
Rippling bans former employees who work at competitors from its tender offer
I guess what you said is right - the starting code and the later refactored code for reuse is and should be different. You experiment a lot …

Anyway after reading I still struggle. All these discussion is about game. I am more on simulation like Game Of life but in 3d (2d done using sdl and except iOS-mixer, one code base can run on most platform I care about). And possibly VR. May be back to unity and … learn so much using c/c++ using sdl especially just pass grenderer and gwindow around and just use function pointer. I guess 3d is out of reach based on reading your article. Very enjoyable reading nevertheless.
The problem with lying is the lying. As social creatures we rely on trust and truthfulness to work and live together and liars break that trust.
Because we’ve run into plenty of “huh we didn’t think those existed” in astronomy so far. We’ll try to understand more mundane possibilities first.
heh, i didn't know that. more well known is actually this quote by Shoghi Effendi written in 1936 predicting the internet:

A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvelous swiftness and perfect regularity.
> antioxidants being cited as a positive.

There was a big study on the antioxidant vitamins (A, C, E) to see if they helped against lung cancers. It turned out they made it worse, not better. Cancer cells are under oxidative stress, and immune cells using oxidizing substances to help kill their targets.
> Why are they so quick to discard a technological origin?

A sufficiently advanced society could cause any possible phenomena we ever observe, Occam's razor says you should look for other solutions first.
I find that to be an awful attitude... self-absorbed people with nothing interesting to write about will assume it doesn't apply to them because they are so interesting, and people not so sure of themselves but having an actual unusual idea or story they are passionate about, could easily be discouraged from sharing something valuable.

I say, if you have something to say that fits well in a book, write it. Let other people decide if it is worth reading or not. A lot of the best books ever written were kept private, or were not well received at first.
That is less about the gesture than it is about avoiding a different gesture. Many cultures do not appreciate pointing with a single finger. So Disney wants their people to use two.
Funny, because just one day ago we had:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40598629
Sure, I get there’s only so much that get squeezed out of existing lines without any physical infrastructure changes.

But reconductoring seems like it buys you a lot of extra capacity over the existing physical right of way, and if you use advanced conductors you don’t even have to replace the towers if they’re in good condition. Yes, you have to replace a lot of equipment at substations, but my understanding is that while there is a shortage of some of this physical equipment, getting permits for new transmission lines is a far harder problem.
Used cars retain designs and features more coveted than their replacements
this isn't super crazy different across cultures, just the beverage is. In Europe it is beer because that is what is locally most present. Often it's coffee or tea where that is more locally available, and honestly even Europeans offer coffee or tea as part of hospitality.

coffee actually used to be considered as, or more sinful than alcohol when it came to being a social lubricant. (it did not help that coffee houses became known as hotbeds of revolutionary thought in Europe.)
Trusted (human) reviewers and critics are more important than ever to me. Like you said, lists of whatever's popular or trending are just... things that are trending. For good reasons or otherwise.

Meanwhile if I read a Richard Brody review I get a sense of whether a movie might be worth watching—even though we don't have identical taste, I've learned a lot about his, and now I know how his taste translates into reviews. Curation is totally the name of the game now.
If this really is the start of a run-away greenhouse effect, realistically how does someone ride out the worst of the coming horrors without being a billionaire with a bunker.
I don't quite think the message-doesn't-exist example is caused by "dumbing down" too much. To me, the message "it no longer exists" is not the work of someone who, in trying to make layman understand, overdid it.

Instead, it's the typical kind of mistake made by writers who forget about context.

From the programmer's perspective, I speculate, the error _is_ indeed a case of something being non-existent. The code is written to fetch something from the server, the server says it's not there, and well, the application should tell the user about it.

Within the very narrow context of fetching it from the server, "doesn't exist" is correct. However, in the context of the user who's sitting there looking at the message, "doesn't exist" is simply false.

The message needs to be re-contextualized, such that it makes sense. "The message doesn't exist on the server, it exists on your computer at the moment, but just for a short while, so you better copy it".

It doesn't matter whether the user understand what a "server" is. Simply knowing that the message doesn't exist [at some place], is enough to make the whole sentence sensible.

Like if I go to a car mechanic, who just points to the whole car and say "it's gonna be replaced", it would be confusing. But if he says that "xxx is gonna be replaced", that's perfectly comprehensible, even if I don't know what xxx is.
Well it is "old" since the article is about Microsoft's blog post where they discuss all these changes!

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/updat...

> It remains baffling and worrisome that it took a public outcry for them to implement what sounds like a baseline level of acceptable protection.

It's possible this was the intention all along but as a early-beta feature this was just the MVP. The reason it was rolled out to early testers at all was to get feedback.
> ...conditions that humans could then exploit through marginal and expected creative digression?

High-level professional poker players know all about this.
I would say it's having a collective purpose. For example you wouldn't think to drink while trying to meet a tight deadline with your team at work. That same scenario would play out everyday but at a way more real and absorbing level, even if you're prosperous. This is exclusive to nomadic living because as soon as you are settled your collective purpose wanes and specialization kicks in... (then as your population balloons you need to patch together things like religion and politics to maintain collectivity)
Although I guess you may drink for leisure or on special occasions if you have access, my point is more that dependency and using alcohol as a "social lubricant" is tightly tied to settled living
Many of you will be familiar with this story: military pilot gear was once designed for the average person, but then they realized that actually, most people deviate significantly from the average in at least one way. So they made the gear adjustable, and that greatly improved performance and reduced mistakes.

Why is it that in tech we are often told a seemingly contrary narrative -- that everything is better, or at least more profitable, when targeted to some hypothetical average person, and who cares about the diversity of individuals?
No, it's not about any woo woo natural balance. Mammoths were really easy to kill and if they were anything like their elephant cousins would have taken 10-15 years to reach sexual maturity. Their population would also be considerably lower and larger animals are more sensitive to change because they reproduce slower and their are fewer of them.

Buffalo on the other hand reach sexual maturity at 2-3 years, there were many more of them. They replaced their populations faster.

The first humans in North America didn't extinct buffalo because they couldn't, they would have had to have much more population and civilization progress before that became a risk.
> not being built though. Not at nearly the rate needed

…according to “consultancy Grid Strategies and commissioned by trade group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG).” This is like the civil-engineering society perennially failing our civil-engineering spending.
> What do you not like about Feynman's "little arrows" / rotating clock hands in the QED book?

It’s difficult to articulate, but two aspects are:

The amount of times I have only confused people more by trying to explain even modular arithmetic by calling on the clock analogy.

And the fact that the little “clock hands” are a complete abstraction from both the physics being described and the mathematical models that describe that physics. ~“Quantum physics is just about adding clocks?”

> I can't think of a more simple metaphor for the exponential of a complex phase, exp(i omega t).

As I noted in the gp I think code implementations or numerical methods should be the goal.

The solution to the confusion about referencing clocks when talking about modular arithmetic was just to write down a complete numerical example, ie all natural numbers mod 6 up to 10, and use that as the abstraction for further discussion: negatives, reals, periodicity, infinities, applications, et al.
> With such a huge number of choices, discovery is now the issue.

It's frustrating if people don't see that this is almost always a manufactured problem, not some an inevitable outcome of simply having more choices. Platforms want to disable the ability for users to differentiate between organic, self-directed discovery vs advertised or promoted content.

Discovery needs to be just good enough so that users won't leave, and if there's no alternatives in a space, even that doesn't matter. Having poor discoverability directly increases engagement and nevermind that engagement is high because doing simple things is painful, the take-away for your stock-price here will just be that you're explicitly user hostile and no one leaves, so you must have a captive audience.

Every notice how when you're looking for something obscure, you can only find something popular, and when you're looking for something popular, you can only find something obscure? It's not random, it's just the platform working out what profits the company the most.

In the case of streaming content for platforms like spotify/amazon prime, some content is cheaper for them to offer. The perfect user is someone who wants low-royalty or completely unencumbered content, because it's cheaper for the platform to license, but the end-user sees the same number of ads for the same length of time. The average user is also someone who can be tricked into being a perfect customer. Suppose the user is searching for RoboCop, and it is missing from the catalog. Terminator might be a better recc, but why not just offer the user some shitty CyborgCopIII instead, just to cut your costs and bump your profits, just in case the user is a sucker? If the user is not a sucker.. great, they'll type more searches, engagement is up, and platforms win either way.

Think about how much more data FAANG has than say, GoodReads. GoodReads is small enough that people just rank stuff and it works fine, and people curate lists, and you find what you like that way. It's not working because GoodReads has AI super-powers, it's working because they don't sabotage it away from working.
If they pay your bills, it is very dangerous to say anything in fact.
Sounds like you were running SSH on the default port tcp/22? I would expect attacks to exponentially drop off as soon as you move to a custom port.
My first thought was that maybe it’s falling into a black hole and thus heavily time dilated, but the article doesn’t mention that as a possibility.

So… why isn’t this a serious possibility?
I think they'll abandon it after a few years like they did with Cortana, when the reality of no one wanting to use it sets in.
What I think MS should do if they really believed this is a thing people want is make it an actual sold product. Not free. Not a sub.

Just like when we used to have boxed software back in the day. Of course it would be on Windows Store or whatever hogwash they use to push software.

Remember when you had to actually take market risk to publish something and not just "give it for free"? I get times are past that, but if the market is good enough for Cybertruck, surely it's good enough for Recall.

In fact, if I were the CEO I would do this just to allay FTC concerns about big-boi MS and their market power. Like how they made Office for the Mac when Jobs came back and to keep Mac afloat (or like how Google pays Firefox money).

Let the market decide, that's what these capitalists claim to love, right (yes, I know we see through their bluff from both left/right sides of the aisle - that's me calling it there).
Everything in space is spinning. Put three or more objects in space, let them fall towards each other under gravity, and the result will be some amount of rotation. So every star forms from spinning material.
> has been working for them so far

It works in the wake of a decimated economy. War. Natural disaster. Cultural revolution. There is so much slack in the system virtually anything will be put to productive use.

In that state, you can build a road to nowhere and people will put it to use, not because it’s a well-placed road, but because it’s the only road in the vicinity.
It's still pretty great for toothpaste (I use Squiggle) and chewing gum that cleans your teeth (I chew Mentos).
Because as of yet, there's no evidence of ETs, but there's plenty of evidence for natural phenomena that were puzzling for a while.
You're not wrong, but the jury's out on if not socialising versus socialising with a couple of beers or glasses of wine is healthier. But my bet is on the latter
FYI: Tomato leaves and stems contain solanine, a toxic glycoalkaloid that can cause digestive issues, headaches, and other symptoms if consumed in large quantities.