skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ehh ... everything we measure relies on our understanding of the universe in some way. It's perfectly reasonable that our distance measurements could rely on a shakier foundation of assumptions than our understanding of the CMB. I don't know enough to say one way or the other, but GP's comment is not unreasonable on its face. Whereas talking about "provable" in cosmology, and certainly in this case, does seem unreasonable -- especially with error bars, which by definition have a small chance of not including the real value. Normally I'd say that we can generally refine our assumptions to be extremely good, and just take more measurements, and keep narrowing that error bar, until we hit a level of certainty that anyone reasonable would call "proven", but the entire point of TFA is that this isn't happening in this case. We seem on our way to "proving" two inconsistent things.
That sounds like an exhausting system to use.
Ugh, that one was killing me the other day. I went through 3 different cables before I found a hardware designer on the company's discord who could explain the issue.
Last I remember, RTG manufacturing was very constrained, period. And that was before Russia took a massive shit in Ukraine and got themselves embargo'd by most of the rest of the developed world.
> I don't see the point of building tight, if you're going to have massive holes in the building, through which you force tons of air (which you should). Would you call a jar airtight if you never close the lid?

I'm not quite sure why you're taking thing so literally about combining the two actions. I would call a jar airtight because the glass cannot be penetrated by air, nor can the lid and band.

You can then ventilate the airtight (proverbial) jar on your own terms: using filters and such to control the quality of the air that goes in/out.

The build tight is about the building enclosure; the ventilate right is about exchange stale/dirty interior air with cleaner exterior air in a controlled fashion.

A fully sealed building with zero ventilation would be horrible for people due to increased chemicals from people just breathing (CO2) or cooking. It is absolutely necessary to ventilate a building, but it can be done so to also reduce the incoming undesirable elements in the exterior air.

> Ventilating forces out all that hot or cool air that you paid for, so you have to heat or cool the replacement air.

Ventilating using HRV/ERVs takes the conditioned air and transfers some of its properties (temperature, moisture) to the incoming air to temper it. The incoming air is/can be also filtered to removed things like pollen, dust, wildfire smoke, etc.

> It's basically greed or ideology over health.

There are entire industry standards (ASHRAE 62.1 and 62.2) on the topic of good indoor air quality (IAQ) to make sure that 'just enough' stale air is removed (e.g., to reduce CO2 counts) while not 'over-ventilating' (increasing costs), and it is a topic of active academic research (especially post-COVID):

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq4bj2P8fMgQ...

By not having a tight building envelope treated air can leak out, and untreated air can leak in, and depending on the size of the leaks (holes) you can even get bugs/creatures entering.

The whole point of buildings is to separate environments: inside versus outside. Leaking building compromise that separation reducing the control you have. And if you do not want to separate your interior and exterior environment live in a tent or under a tarp: plenty of ventilation, very little air-tightness.
We use Google OAuth to handle hundreds of registrations each day and haven't encountered this before. No errors, no customer reports. Following your instructions, I logged in to my own Google account, removed the connection to our app (via "Third-party apps & services") and then did the login again: after clicking "continue" the screen changes to "loading" instantly before redirecting after a few seconds. There's no ability to click "continue" twice. I then tried to sign up to your app following your instructions and I can reproduce the issue there: the screen doesn't change to "loading" view that I get for our app.

Can you share a copy of your OAuth consent screen settings? Maybe there's an option influencing this behaviour.

edit: we do not use Auth0, our Google OAuth connection is built in house.

edit edit: comparing the URLs, our flow redirects from `https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/id` to `https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/consent` after clicking "continue" whereas yours remains on `https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/id` before redirecting to your app so there's definitely something different in the behaviour.
Long ago, I was a system developer. Now I think of it - I feel the whole development / logs / debugging / deploying was all abysmally slow. To even load software via JTAG took about 5 minutes! So there is big room to improve things in this space.

Do you have clients using this now ? how are you thinking to land inside semiconductor-ish corporates ?
> I think EY is so surrounded by bright nerds that he has a hard time modeling average people.

On reflection, I could've inferred that from his crowd's need for a concept of "typical mind fallacy." I suppose I hadn't thought it all the way through.

I'm in a weird spot on this, I think. I can follow most of the reasoning behind LW/EA/generally "Yudkowskyish" analysis and conclusions, but rarely find anything in them which I feel requires taking very seriously, due both to weak postulates too strongly favored, and to how those folks can't go to the corner store without building a moon rocket first.

I recognize the evident delight in complexity for its own sake, and I do share it. But I also recognize it as something I grew far enough out of to recognize when it's inapplicable and (mostly!) avoid indulging it then.

The thought can feel somewhat strange, because how I see those folks now palpably has much in common with how I myself was often seen in childhood, as the bright nerd I then was. (Both words were often used, not always with unequivocal approbation.) Given a different upbringing I might be solidly in the same cohort, if about as mediocre there as here. But from what I've seen of the results, there seems no substantive reason to regret the difference in outcome.
> Is the amount of power needed for the laser lower than the amount of power a USB-keyboard, or a Bluetooth connected keyboard needs?

I think the point is that the keyboard itself needs 0 power, so it doesn't ever need to be tethered, recharged, have batteries replaced, etc.
I did hiit training for a year 3 times per week and now I struggle to get my heart rate up to that same point. My muscles give up or just can't sustain the intensity necessary.

My heart rate goes down way faster, so if I stop for 1 second (literally), my heart rate drops immediately and it takes a lot of effort for it to go back up.

I suspect at this point training in zone 2 is trivial, my body gets naturally there

TL; DR; train hard first, your heart gets stronger and brings you to zone 2 naturally?

I'm no athlete or expert, so please do your research and ignore everything I said
This is a bit sad and disappointing.

Writing good code is not impossible. Or even difficult.

It just requires engineers to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Starship could give a single telescope a stronger boost than an FH could, and depending on the mass of one telescope (along with all the redundancies, power sources and transmitters such a long term mission would need), the telescope could be launched with an extra boost stage. So, several Starship launches for several telescopes.
Some pretty damning results. Excerpts from the main findings below:

While NASA requires its aerospace contractors to have quality assurance programs that comply with SAE International’s AS9100D standards on quality management systems, we found Boeing’s quality management system at Michoud does not adhere to these standards or NASA requirements.

The lack of a trained and qualified workforce increases the risk that Boeing will continue to manufacture parts and components that do not adhere to NASA requirements and industry standards.

Boeing’s delivery of the EUS to NASA has also been delayed from February 2021 to April 2027, and when combined with other factors, suggests the September 2028 Artemis IV launch date could be delayed as well.
Doesn't this mean that on a long enough time frame, an observer anywhere in the universe won't be able to see anything because everything else in the universe is too far away to be visible?
The bit about the behavior propagating through shared libraries is yet another reason to prefer static linking.
Animated WebP is an absolute dumpster fire on mobile safari (and thus all iOS derived browsers based on WebKit), with the animation often stuttering and dropping frames before it corrects itself.

I had to revert back to autoplaying no-audio MP4 files for this reason.
A lot of things presented in this article reminded me of the same things that were in Joe Celko's “Trees and Hierarchies in SQL” book https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-trees/978155...
> They're used as spam generators because they're cheap.

No, the current fade of IA (LLM) are text generators. Very good, but nothing more than that.

> there is no upper bounds to how much harm can be done by putting an idiot in charge of things

Which is the not an AI problem. An AI may kill people indirectly in a setup like emergency services chatbot and a bad decision is taken, but it certainly couldn't roam the street with a kalachnikov killing people randomly or stabbing children (and if that ever happens politicians will say this has nothing to do with AI). The proponents of "AI can kill us all" can't write a single likely and non-contrived example of how that could happen.
Running downhill is very bad for your knees.
I'm not sure why you're talking about the size of systems, maybe I missed something.

I think the point is that the systems become stronger with negative stimuli. The community and relevant economy become stronger only because of the hurricane. They would not have done it otherwise.
Can beliefs exist without sensory inputs?

Also isn't dismissal also just another belief?
Undeniable rent seeking. iOS is a company town. Be careful before you move your digital life there.
OK, how’s that an issue?
How to save your online writing from disappearing forever
One could argue (many have, in the form of a tedious copypasta) that Linux is not the operating system because an operating system needs both a kernel and a userland.

Why wouldn't `nano` count as a userland in the same way as anything provided by a typical distro today?
Talk to me about this, "Since the nonce will already have been consumed by the first request, the second request will be rejected."

What if the nonce was still valid for the second response because your server detected that the connection was dropped for the first response?
Flipboard is going to let you follow Fediverse accounts right inside the app
I think you're intentionally obscuring the difference between:

(1) A system locked by Microsoft, who benevolently allows some users to achieve freedom by setting up new Platform Keys.

If the big dollar clients demand standardization and openness, then it might curtail the typical Microsoft antitrust shenanigans.

(2) A system that is owned by the purchaser, who may choose to deploy Microsoft or other security solutions, and then remove them, at will.

We already have (2), so any attempt to subvert it is by definition untrustworthy.

Item (1) is what is called "trustworthy computing," and Microsoft still openly celebrates it [1].

Item (2) is what is being obscured.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/01/21/cel...
Tell HN: Steinberg shut down their eLicenser service, breaking older software
Steinberg plans to shut down their eLicenser servers in "early 2025". If you are sticking to an older version of their software, internet-activated licenses will continue to work but only until you have to register them again (e.g. you cannot install them on a new PC anymore) , and dongle-based licenses continue to work until you lose or break the eLicenser dongle.

Steinberg is not going out of business - they have just introduced a new licensing service that older software is not compatible with, and apparently they cannot be bothered to keep running the servers for this old service. This move is quite hostile to customers who do not or cannot upgrade to the very latest versions of their software.
Is this using an open source text to speech model or is it going out to some other internet service?
I was something like -8, -9.5 before getting LASIK at about 21.

My eyes couldn’t focus beyond a reading distance afterwards. No lens could get me to a legal driving eyesight.

Surgeon had no idea why. He re-lifted the flaps afterwards and flushed beneath them on the hunch that it might be from slight ripples. Horrible experience, didn’t fix it.

Hard contacts worked, but a second surgeon advised against having anything in my eye while we figured it out.

After about a year, it healed enough that eyeglasses could refract me to good vision again.

So I still wear glasses, but my vision is much better without them. (-2ish range these days.) Pretty awful experience, but I like glasses and it was a big improvement from where I was before.
oh your being sarcastic in the original post - sorry, I get it now. haha!
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Fair comment. And I'm usually suspicious of young engineers wanting to implement the new hotness and I'm also a fan of "if it ain't broken don't fix it". In this case, though, the system was in very rough shape. Our customers were complaining about data problems which we had no way to fix (short of manually editing the prod db, which was the SOP). I definitely took it upon myself to do something that nobody had asked for, but it was because the people in charge were entirely asleep at the wheel! They did not last long in their positions.
Thank you. It can be tough looking out for others.

When I win the lottery I am going to hire some advanced "Makers" to come out and make all the things I think are missing in the world. There are, from what I see, a lot of niche areas that are woefully under served.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ickle

Huh, cool.
Being a core developer is not paid as such.

Whether it's "volunteer work" is a bit tricky, because a number of core developers work on Python as part of their day job. Some also work on it in their spare time, some don't. Or some previously worked on it in their spare time and now no longer do. So there isn't really an obvious answer to this.
Because with non-remote work like welders you're competing with the local market for welders. Of course if they're paying 30% below market that means they're not properly doing location-based compensation.

It's also a plain idiotic move because you'll end up with workers who cost 70% as much and are half as productive, at best, or at worst workers who cost 10,000% more because they screw up a critical component and cause massive delays.
Xenix .. that brings back memories of green screens and digicards (digiboards).
These uncertainties in Cepheid luminosities are accounted for in Type Ia distance measurements. Particularly with Gaia we can now calibrate the luminosities of Cepheids in our galaxy using parallax observations.

(Knowing this field I'm sure there are some astronomers who argue that there are still some systematic uncertainties that are not fully being accounted for, but from what I understand it's pretty hard to account for it with the Gaia results at this point.)
The Pico and Pico 2 are micro-controllers, not SBCs like the other Raspberry Pis.
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Interesting! It's certainly possible there are additional factors at play beyond what I've found to this point.

Curiously, in all other apps I tested and mentioned, I don't see the screen changing to "loading" on them. Do you?

Meantime, I'm checking the OAuth consent screen settings to see if there's anything relevant.
For hosted runners that might be true. The best experience I’ve had with GHA self hosted runners was simply using a beefy VPS. At my current job, the self hosted runners were hosted on K8s using Arc and it was a… very unpleasant experience. We switched back to GH runners (turns out the free minutes + a few bucks a month is enough for our use case), but if we need to go back to self hosted I’ll advocate for a VPS.

> programming in YAML is still bad, composability is still an afterthought, etc.

I disagree on that. GitHub actions are as composable as it gets thanks to the ecosystem of actions. GHA is better than GitLab CI in this regard, and probably the best system I’ve used so far. It IS a bit clunky but overall I’ve been pretty satisfied with it.

I also disagree regarding YAML because you don’t program a CI, it’s mostly declarative work. The only conditions needed are a bit clunky to setup, I give you that, but it encourages to either keep the CI simple (no CI needs overly complex conditions), or move the logic to CI scripts in any scripting language.
Re whys: this can be even simpler. I sometimes catch myself rapidly click the mouse button a second time with my finger, right after the initial click. This is not intended and may be related to low resistance on the button itself.
Unfortunatekly, animated WebP still has some outstanding decoder issues on iOS devices frequently causing the video to stutter or play at a decreased framerate.
Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism (2020)
Gaia is pretty small, 710kg. It was launched on Soyuz.

Falcon 9 has payload to Mars of 4 tons, and Falcon Heavy has 9 tons to Pluto. I bet both would work.
AI Coding Crap [video]
Letting your opponent gas out is an effective strategy.
I feel older every day.
Too bad most people use smartphones now! Would love to spy on my ex.
when I bookmark the site, it would be good if it auto-added "Infographic Creation" in the page title or what not so I can find it later..

If I had a magic wand to make this for me for this week, it would ingest the bar charts from https://backlinko.com/google-ctr-stats

understand them.. and offer to make new things.

Will be looking to use this for things..

If you are going to have a limit of 40 things per month for $4.77 per month, then give an option to buy 50 use credits for $8 - I really disdain monthly or yearly renewal things, but I would throw 8 dollars at it and probably only use 4 credits the next three months to be honest..
> but you called the idea of finding a citation a "waste of time" so that's not very convincing.

Not only a waste of time, but straight up illogical. If one wants to have a discussion with someone else, they can go to that someone else. There is no logical reason for me to be a pointless middleman even if time were infinite.

Now, as fun as that tangent was, where is the nil implementation and hash map found in the given program?
Just Do the Thing
I've been watching ESS (they make a non-toxic iron flow battery system) for years and been really frustrated that they have made essentially zero progress deploying the technology, with less than half a dozen deployments.

The technology looks great, but they seem annoyingly incompetent at marketing/selling their product...or are just holding out for "whale" customers, refusing to work with anyone except microgrid (ie college campus) and utility scale customers.

So many promising products and technologies die because the inventors/developers hold out for huge customers while ignoring the huge demand from retail/small/medium corp customers.

"We won't talk to anyone except corporations with deep pockets. Once we find a couple of those, we'll be filthy stinking rich!" instead of "if we sell the components at a price that undercuts LiFePO4, we'll have as many customers as we can handle, and there's plenty of margin for distributors and retailers, so we don't have to be B2C."
said account was reinstated and has 128,000 followers. Its funny that HN users actually quote CNN despite engaging in dis/misinformation itself and low quality journalism.

Do you have any evidence that site was being overloaded by normal traffic without access to the logs? Do you think the engineers at X cannot be trusted and will lie about seeing bandwidth saturation? Do you realize you are using your own conjecture and projection of your bias here to arrive at the conclusion that the DDOS was faked?
> 80% of enterprise data is unstructured

I've seen quotes like this many times. It's silly. I worked at a big bank for over a decade. 95% of the data we cared about was already in a SQL database. Maybe ~80% of our data was "unstructured", but it wasn't stuff we cared about for risk management or other critical functions.

> people are not willing to pay more money for less risk

I'd disagree here. Banks are willing to pay money to reduce risk, it's just unlikely to come from scraping data out of PDFs with an LLM because they've already done this if it's worth it.
That's the dismal tradeoff with such things. Anything that can be used to help dissidents can also be used to help organized crime. Cryptocurrency, end-to-end encryption, Tor all ended up with this fate.

That's because from the perspective of an authoritarian state, there is no meaningful difference between political activists and ransomware gangs. Both are dastardly cybercriminals.
Great idea. I would focus on tweaking the layout to fit the content better. For example, the first image has clumsy arrow lines that intersect the text when they should smoothly curve around. The visual spacing on the SpaceX Overview infographic doesn't make it clear which paragraphs, images, or headers belong together. The footer should also read "Generated by graphicinfo.cc", not "Generate by..."

I would suggest checking out the book "Before and After: Page Design" by John McWade to help see where focus could be applied [1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/beforeafterpaged0000mcwa

Hope to see more in the future
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No. From now on all competition will only be determined by the outcome of a Monte Carlo simulation.

We don’t need to run the race.
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