skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
West believes strongly that all reported phenomena will eventually be determined to have a prosaic cause. Further, ridicule and a discouragement of curiosity on the subject are of tantamount importance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is similar. They both approach the subject with a very unscientific, bad faith attitude.

I disagree with them both. I have experienced something that I do not believe has a prosaic explanation. Further, I do not believe that relativity is the end of physics as Tyson or west so strongly imply.

Curiosity in this subject should be encouraged, not ridiculed.
You're right!

IME, LinkedIn suffers from a different problem: on there, "everything is awesome", and the toxic positivity embedded in its DNA always snuffs out any authentic rancor.

So yes, it's free of bad behavior -- but it's also free of "normal" conversations. It's just full of "thought leaders", "visionaries", and "visionary thought leaders".
The skepticism you display in this comment is completely absent when you reference lambda-CDM elsewhere. Consistency invites zero criticism :)
They're trying to drum up interest in Jax. They do this time to time, but yeah, good for them doing what they like.
> My hangup with MOND is still general relativity.

Fwiw, we know for a fact also that for edge cases GR is wrong because it doesn't agree with quantum mechanics (unless QM is wrong), so it's maybe not right to take GR as gospel, especially for a theory that only seems to also change GR in edge cases, and the only reason why "it doesn't agree" might amount to "the math is hard and the physicists haven't put enough work in yet"

To wit, accepting a mond-ified GR is probably not going to change how GPS works so the claim that "GR has withstood the test of time and engineering" is not a totally solid refutation of MOND
I bought a house in Canada with a liquid net worth of $75k (admittedly, 2 years ago, but still). 15 minute drive to a major city’s downtown, 0.3 acres, 3 bed 1 bath with an attached garage. Is it the nicest house? No, but it’s a house, and I’d much rather pay a mortgage than rent.

With a net worth of a million USD, I could buy a house pretty much anywhere in this country, comfortably, and we’re known to have one of the highest costs of living in major cities in the western world. If you move almost literally anywhere from where you currently live, you can definitely afford a house.
I used it professionally to learn about research articles written by my peers at conferences. Most academics I know have moved to Linkedin now.
I wouldn't count out Threads yet. But, in my limited use, something seemed off with Theads, but am liking Bluesky. YMMV.
If your how it works section is supposed to have images, they don't seem to be loading
This topic is really just fun for me to read based on where I work and my role.

Live is a lot harder than on demand especially when you can't estimate demand (which I'm sure this was hard to do). People are definitely not understanding that. Then there is that Netflix is well regarded for their engineering not quite to the point of snobbery.

What is actually interesting to me is that they went for an event like this which is very hard to predict as one of their first major forays into live, instead of something that's a lot easier to predict like a baseball game / NFL game.

I have to wonder if part of the NFL allowing Netflix to do the Christmas games was them proving out they could handle live streams at least a month before. The NFL seems to be quite particular (in a good way) about the quality of the delivery of their content so I wouldn't put it past them.
Maybe cars should be designed with a small button and a system to do that when airbag is deployed.

If you carry a fireweapon, don't lose time finding the lifehammer (But then we need to choose between bulletproof glasses for external threats or breakable glasses for internal danger. Both options are exclusive).
I do believe the comment thread made the point I would have used here...

Use gsl::span or write your own bounded span.

std::span is not bounds checked...
I will admit, I'm not easily shaken but that F-22 intercept report has been living in my head rent free for the past few days.
And what is PG’s vision?
Sweet setup! I'm curious if you use the machines for anything when it isn't being used for a LAN party.
It's not so much the cost efficacy that makes these attractive, it's the 100 year lifespan.
I am very surprised no one factored - starting own company can be much more realistic to achieve than landing $400k/year gig at FAANG - it is not like one walks into a lobby and gets a job.

Keep in mind stories of people telling how they were passed on by some big name corp just to go on to build something big.
Thanks. I'm also no expert - I'm just learning general relativity - but that's also my rough understanding: either there needs to be a modification of the theory, or there's a new form of matter. It might seem more parsimonious to modify the theory, but then how do you do that in a way that retains all the successful predictions of GR while explaining the recalcitrant observations? That's the hard part.

It seems at the moment that the minimal and most elegant adjustment to the worldview required is to postulate the new form of matter. But I think it's safe to say it's a genuine problem in our knowledge: we don't know how to solve it
Show HN: I built an API that makes AI Podcasts
Looking at NotebookLM and NotebookLLama I wanted something that I could self-host and orchestrate easily with other cloud services, so I built this reference example as a starting point. Its still very basic (with some hacks around splitting text content for longer form audio) but still keen to share it and get some feedback.
I doubt it took 30 minutes for that Maine Coon to map the place, figure out the cat doors, and hang out above the upstairs hdtv.

No crowds tho'. They steer clear. Probably why it doesn't show up in any of the multi-player photos.

But the upstairs photo of Kenton was prime for the cat to make its way along the back of the couch, gradually step down one paw at a time, and join him nestled at his side.

I don't consider myself much of a cat person. But Maine Coons are terrific animals.
There's efficiency and then there's being a nice place to live.

For instance, in my country it's illegal to own farmland unless you're a farmer (not an agricorp) who farms nearly full-time (or at least whose part-time work is related to the farm: value-added products, etc. and not a town job).

It's probably less efficient than having Archer Daniels Midland, etc. owning all the farmland, but I think the result, a countryside full of family farms, makes for a much better rural environment.
This is what I do at home. That way I don't have to fiddle with my router. This paid off in a way I didn't expect; when I got TMobile home internet I found out the router has almost no configuration, but all my devices could still be reached via their IPv6 addresses on my private Yggdrasil network.
I've tried using a 43" UHD TV as a monitor, since they're as cheap as $149.99 USD brand new, but it had noticeable delay even at 4k@60Hz, and just didn't feel right.

This is typically due to default settings on TVs enabling various high-latency post-processing options.

Most TVs have "game mode" settings that disable all these at once, at which point latency is comparable to monitors.

Case in point: at both 60 Hz and 120 Hz*, 4K latency on my LG C4 is within a millisecond of the lowest-latency monitors listed here:

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/inputs/input-lag

I fully agree that HDMI is inferior to USB-C, if only because quality USB-C-to-HDMI adapters are widely available, and mini/micro HDMI connectors commonly used on small devices (not including this laptop) are garbage.

* Probably also true at 144 Hz, but the linked table doesn't have a dedicated column for 144 Hz, complicating comparisons.
One aspires to be a hater of such high caliber.
Yes - there are insanely great houses all over Texas. $400K gets you incredible houses, depending on the area, and $1M would get you mansions beyond your (or at least my) wildest dreams.

Meanwhile, if you live in the Bay Area, I can totally see "$1M net worth but not really able to buy a house".

Where you choose to live in really does matter a lot. Not to say there aren't issues with property costs, but... come on.
You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds
The Wikipedia article on MOND literally starts with galaxy rotation curves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

There's zero mention of MOND being a rejection of general relativity.

OF COURSE, any tweaking of Newton's formula at galactic scales will necessarily invalidate general relativity, since general relativity predicts Newton's formula at those scales! But MOND tries to work backwards: they propose a modification of the far-field Newtonian formula, and the belief is that it can eventually be worked out to be a limiting case of a "modified general relativity", for lack of a better name. Just how Newtonian gravity was eventually worked out to be a limiting case of a theory called general relativity.
Again, LCDM and galaxy formation are two different things. "...and we didn't see what we were expecting at all..." It depends on who you ask. There were many pre-JWST models that did well in this regard. A particularly interesting one is this from 2018 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.474.2352C/abstra...). That group even had to write another paper reminding everyone of what they predicted (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240602672L/abstra...). Another example is here (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023OJAp....6E..47M/abstra...) which shows results from a simulation from ~2014. I can provide numerous other examples of this. My point isn't which theory is or isn't wrong, my point is that what is presented in this particular article is not a constraint on any realistic theory of gravity as the sensitivity of these particular observations to galaxy formation modeling is so strong.
+1 ebay x520 cards. My entire 10g sfp+ home network runs on a bunch of x520s, fs.com DACs/AOCs, Mikrotik switches, and an old desktop running FreeBSD with a few x520s in it as the core router. Very very cheap to assemble and has been absolutely bulletproof. IME at this point in time the ixgbe driver is extremely stable.

x520s with full-height brackets do exist (I have a box full of them), but you may pay like $3-5/ea more than the more common lo-pro bracket ones. If you're willing to pop the bracket off, you can also find full-height brackets standalone and install your own.

Also, in general: in my experience avoiding 10gbe rj45 is very worthwhile. More expensive, more power consumption, more heat generation. If you can stick a sfp+ card in something, do it. IMO 10gbe rj45 is only worthwhile when you've got a device that supports it but can't easily take a pcie nic, like some intel NUCs.
you are so right about that. tho I'm sure that many of the netflix folks are still doing their after action analysis in prep for Dec 25 NFL.

now take this realization and apply it to any news article or forum post you read and think about how uninformed they actually are.
The median family's wealth is 0.6 * {their primary residence}.
In your mind ChatGPT is about the level of lesser academics? What papers do you think it could get published for example?
I'm not sure dropping a book or ten books or even 100 books into what you call 'literacy-avoidant' households would have any impact.

Is there any evidence that an intervention like this, without any other change, has any impact?
And so you have proved my point. The observations presented in this article can be made consistent with both...as such one should think about stronger tests of both LCDM and MOND.
> involves like-minded people identifying into a group and having their access to conversation enabled by that identification.

I don't think it has anything to do with "identification." It has to do with interest. If your groups are centered around identity then that will be prioritized over content.

Content needs little moderation. Identity needs constant moderation.
> Every Uber I take in a Tesla would practically need an airline safety briefing for this.

If your Uber ride is a Model Y you may be SOL:

Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.
Why would I want to be on a platform that is friendly to advertisers?
Right? A common complaint by outsiders is that Netflix uses microservices. I'd love to hear exactly how a monolith application is guaranteed to perform better, with details. What is the magic difference that would have ensured the live stream would have been successful?
CTEs aren't really an "extra" feature they just are a composable reusable subquery. This just adds the benefit of storing CTEs as function calls aka table valued functions (TVFs) ... also not really an "extra" feature.

The main advantage to any non SQL language is its ability to more efficiently express recursion (graph / hierarchical queries) and dynamic expressions like transposition and pivots.

You can do those in SQL it's just clunky.
It should be obvious that not all risks can be converted into a capital problem.

People say this, but then fall in love, get divorced, get depressed, or their company might lose its mojo, get sued, or lose an unreplaceable employee. But they will still say “all risk can be costed.”
The only time I worked on a project that had a live television launch, it absolutely tipped over within like 2 minutes, and people on HN and Reddit were making fun of it. And I know how hard everyone worked, and how competent they were, so I sympathize with the people in these cases. While the internet was teeing off with easy jokes, engineers were swarming on a problem that was just not resolving, PMs were pacing up and down the hallway, people were getting yelled at by leadership, etc. It's like taking all the stress and complexity of a product launch and multiplying it by 100. And the thing I'm talking about was just a website, not even a live video stream.
How are you otherwise going to close the door with a button on that ipad in the middle?
There are still innumerable people writing standalone programs, single-purpose embedded systems, independent components and libraries, etc

The industry has expanded to include a lot of large-scale distributed cloud projects (often where we might have expected mainframes and cobol before), with many of today's largest employers doing most of their work there, but none of that other stuff really went away. It's still being done every day.

You need a book for what you're doing, and not every book is going to be that. Apparently, SICP is not it. I possess and have read many books, and only some small number of them are applicable to the projects I'm working on at any time.

They don't compete with each other, they complement each other.
Orcasound | https://github.com/orcasound/ | https://www.orcasound.net/

We're building open source tools to listen underwater, focused on monitoring endangered orcas (killer whales) along the west coast of North America. We operate a network of hydrophones that anyone can listen to live (https://live.orcasound.net/). We have a community of over 6,000 citizen scientists who use our tools to help us detect orcas & other marine life. Short-term our goal is to help conservation, long term we want to contribute to scientific research (orca behavior & communication).

It's an incredibly broad project that ranges from:

- hardware (building hydrophones & deploying electronics underwater)

- embedded systems / IoT (capturing & streaming data from our locations)

- live streaming & audio processing

- machine learning & data science (our dataset is nearly 10tb, all open data)

- mapping & GIS

- full-stack web

- design, UX, UI

Tech stack: Python, Elixir, Javascript/Typescript, React, C#, PostgreSQL

We need so many things that there's almost certainly something you can contribute to, regardless of skill level.

If you're interested, come say hi in our community chat on Zulip! https://orcasound.zulipchat.com/
At 120m concurrents? I’d be interested who can whitelabel that.
I hear a ball bearing will do the job nicely.
Ok, then how does your chemistry comment have anything to do with the motion of galaxies? Reminder: you're commenting on an article about MOND, which is a theory that stems from trying to explain the motion of galaxies.
No, they were printed out, hung up around school, posted into lockers…
We'll turn on one or two to play games ourselves. E.g. my 5-year-old is currently playing Portal 2 at the station next to me.

But otherwise, no, not really. At least not so far.

Fun story: When I built the house in Palo Alto in 2011, people asked me if I was using the machines to mine Bitcoin. I said "What's Bitcoin?" I should have been mining Bitcoin.
Oh and here I thought you were talking about Elements of Programming by Stepanov and McJones which tbh I'd give the same recommendation/review.

https://elementsofprogramming.com/
Maybe I've just been starved on Twitter/C for so long, but the signal was real for me, but in science there's been a sudden exodus to Bsky and an outpouring of joy that people are able to find new papers again and discuss conference talks live and post whatever they're cooking in their kitchen or lab. It's like the old days of Twitter are back, but it does take a lot of work to find that corner.
Your point was orthogonal to the point of epistemology. This isn't Reddit, we respect actual arguments here.
Can you explain how MOND shits on GR? My understanding is it's more like. "GR is mostly right but...". As for MOND being exclusively Newtonian, yeah. In terms of solving the math, you gotta crawl, walk, run. Let's not kid ourselves, GR invokes way harder math than algebra and simple integral calculus. TeVeS Is a first attempt at "walk", let's say, but even it might not be correct even if adjusting gravity may be correct.

If someone emerges with a proof that the two systems are irreconcilable then yeah you have an argument that it's "shitting on GR"
Wait, that's not how I read the article, at all. It's talking about involving student bystanders.
Ironically, overly harsh consequences are often imposed because detection is lacking. If you can't reliably detect infringing behaviour to impose a fair consequence, you have to ramp up the severity of the consequence imposed when you do detect an infringement in order to maintain deterrence.
Interface.ai – Indian Founders making developers work 70 hours / week
[ Is this is what hardly any mentions on teamblind.com, 2.5 star glassdoor.com, 2.3 star ambitionbox.com, and null indeed.com reviews really means? I’m intrigued by employee ratings of companies as an input to pricing, but because I’ve been extraordinarily blessed with great clients, I have zero calibration on how to map ratings to on the ground experiences. To save folks a click, I copied the OP’s post here, but click through for the comments. ]

I joined at [interface.ai](http://interface.ai) as a Senior Software Engineer. They offered remote opportunity and it looked rosy at first. I did see certain red flags on Glassdoor but felt like rant. I had multiple offers.

When I joined, from day 1 I felt toxicity. Director was adamant to get me started contributing from day 1. I had offers but thought of staying within my morale to stick to my decision. Eventually the toxicity became dangerous. Some highlights:

1. Day starts at 10 AM with meeting and ends with a meeting(starts at 9 PM and extends till 10-10:30).

2. Devs (who joined a month back) getting scolded, literally getting scolded in front of entire team by Head of Engineering.

3. The entire day is spread with meetings.

4. The Indian Director of Engineering was under immense stress and eventually his body couldn't handle the stress and lost his life.

5. There is an inner circle of people at [interface.ai](http://interface.ai) who overrides all the decision.

6. In the name of Wellness programme, there was no policy. HR are mere puppets with policies on paper.

7. The new Director of Engineering asking people to have sleepless night if work is not done. Irony is he himself was laid off within a month of joining.

8. Engineering Manager is two headed Snake.

A month ago, the dev who was appraised for performing excellenty, he was put on PIP for non performance and eventually was laid off giving vague reasoning around performance. The same dev was asked to interview candidates while being on PIP. (He had lost a family member recently and was remorsing)

9. [HEAD OF ENGINEERING](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sritulasi-edpuganti) considers Indian Engineers as Slave literally Slaves. She has the mentality of British lords, thinking we Indians are born to serve her. When she scolded others, I thought they must have done something wrong. But when it came to me multiple times, I realised how toxic it can be.

10. People are joining and leaving [interface.ai](http://interface.ai) within weeks. US Devs stay rarely for a week.

11. People made to feel sorry on taking leaves.

Now I feel stuck here with no way out. I feel daily that they will ask me to go away desipte working round the clock. This is Endless Worry. I stayed despite having offers since I had morale but this co doesn't.

What to do?
> Twitter isn't perfect because people aren't perfect. There are trolls, toxicity, and extremists because the world has trolls, toxicity, and extremists.

Well put.
How would that even be possible? Presumably some people get a top up if they are on a tiny wage, but ‘direct contribution to take home pay’ really isn’t the point of tax. It also sounds a fairly inefficient use of money.

Have I missed something in this conversation?
Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.
I've found the corporate media not too bad if you mean stuff like the nyt, economist etc.

Which book should we read? He has a few - there's a vax one, a Wuhan one, a Fauci one. They seem to have good reviews.
So use Page rules to redirect. Free account has a limitation of 3 rules per domain
i thought berkeley was using a modified version of the book using python a few years back
Thank you for the correction. pardon my typo.
Have you ever encountered the phrase "grasping at straws"? The pursuit of explaining dark matter has gone through many waves of "we just need to invent detectors for this particle that has never been observed" and is littered with the wreckage.
> Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool!

Another data point that it is indeed possible. I had a dual Xeon E5-2690 v2 setup with two RX 580 8GB cards passed through to separate VMs, and with memory and CPU pinning it was a surprisingly resilient setup. 150+ FPS in CSGO with decent 1% lows (like 120 if I remember correctly?) which was fine since I only had 60Hz monitors. I have a Threadripper workstation now, I should test out to see what kind of performance I can get out of that for VM gaming...

> Yeah I could get higher-quality 10G cards and put them in all the machines but they seem expensive...

I have had very good luck with Intel X540 cards. $20-40 on eBay, and there’s hundreds (if not thousands) available. They’re plug-and-play on any modern Linux, but need an Intel driver on windows if I remember correctly. I’ve never had one die and I’ve never experienced a crash or network dropout in the 9 years I’ve been running them. The Marvell chipset just seems terrible, unfortunately - I’ve had problems with it on multiple different cards and motherboards on every OS under the sun.
I also have the Vision Pro and it’s not perfect for me. It definitely struggles with precision. Actually, now that you mention it, it felt very similar to my poor experience with the 16 pro.
I think the issue is "can't" is present tense, and the conclusion _after_ treating. In otherwords, they still think it isn't a heart attack.