skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To zoom into a reflection on a lens or a water droplet?

From "Hear the sounds of Earth's magnetic field from 41,000 years ago" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42010159 :

> [ Redshift, Doppler effect, ]

> to recall Earth's magnetic field from 41,000 years ago with such a method would presumably require a reflection (41,000/2 = 20,500) light years away

To see Earth in a reflection, though

Age of the Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth :

> 4.54 × 10^9 years ± 1%

"J1721+8842: The first Einstein zig-zag lens" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04177v1

What is the distance to the centroid of the (possibly vortical ?) lens effect from Earth in light years?

/? J1721+8842 distance from Earth in light years

- https://www.iflscience.com/first-known-double-gravitational-... :

> The first lens is relatively close to the source, with a distance estimated at 10.2 billion light-years. What happens is that the quasar’s light is magnified and multiplied by this massive galaxy. Two of the images are deflected in the opposite direction as they reach the second lens, another massive galaxy. The path of the light is a zig-zag between the quasar, the first lens, and then the second one, which is just 2.3 billion light-years away

So, given a simplistic model with no relative motion between earth and the presumed constant location lens:

Earth formation: 4.54b years ago
2.3b * 2 = 4.6b years ago
10.2b * 2 = 20.4b years ago

Does it matter that our models of the solar systems typically omit that the sun is traveling through the universe (with the planets swirling now coplanarly and trailing behind), and would the relative motion of a black hole at the edge of our solar system change the paths between here and a distant reflector over time?

"The helical model - our solar system is a vortex" https://youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
I mostly haven't used a mouse pad in decades... until recently. I now have a mouse pad on my main work desk because the wood where my mouse was kept attracting weird black spots. They were easy to clean off but weirded me out. And I guess it would be sad if I ended up with a permanent wear spot...

But I think the LAN parties don't really happen often enough to cause much wear. In 10 years at the old place no one used mouse pads and it was never an issue.
The USSR "commercialized" nuclear-powered batteries to power the navigational beacons in the Arctic. And we're still cleaning up the consequences.

A pacemaker is better served by a modern rechargeable battery with inductive transcutaneous charging.
2. My parents would rather have me drinking than playing Role-Playing Games
At 16, I had to lie to my parents to play RPGs. I'd tell them I was off drinking beer with friends (which, back then, was legal).

Why? Because they got their information from TV and newspapers like everyone else. And what they read was that RPGs were satanic rituals and that "playing RPGs" meant murdering people.

I think it's a bit shallow for the author to blame everything on the media without even mentioning the extremely conservative Catholic church or how Spain was a full on dictatorship until Franco died in 1975. Likewise his prescription to just ignore the trolls ignores a lot of solid research on information warfare, tipping points and the like; the idea of 'Gresham's law of content', where bad drives out good once it rises above a certain portion of the total, has been around a good 15 years.

In the end it feels as if the author is projecting personal feelings onto a preferred platform and declaring an individual expression of demand to be an objective inelasticity. In reality networks cleave all the time, and indeed do in rather predictable ways that can be derived from the pattern of follows or interaction without even paying much attention to the content.
It's the only one I'm on where I see people called slurs all the time.
@Dang is there a version of /best but for comments? The thought experiment in this comment broke my mind.
I agree with the general sentiment ("one instance of bad code might have been me") but not the specific sentiment ("I could easily decide to catch and ignore errors through every bit of code I worked on without knowing why that was bad, and commit other, similar crimes against good taste in the same way").

The difference for me is that this is pervasive. Yes, sometimes I might write code with a bug in error handling at 3am when I'm trying to bring a service back up, but I don't do it consistently across all the code that I touch.

I accept that the scope is hard to understand without having worked on a codebase which a genuine fucking moron has also touched. "Oh strken," you might say, "surely it can't be that bad." Yes, it can. I have never seen anything like this before. It's like the difference between a house that hasn't been cleaned in a week and a hoarder's house. If I tried to explain what hoarding is, well, maybe you'd reply that sometimes you don't do the dishes every day or mop the floor every week, and then I'd have to explain that the kitchen I'm talking about is filled from floor to roof with dirty dishes and discarded wrappers, including meat trays, and smells like a dead possum.
It is said that the glass breaker no longer helps with laminated side windows. What then. Kicking the window out, if that's even possible, could be the only way.
I read the entire piece; it is well-written, factually, well-balanced. It is your opinion, and readers can take-it-or-leave it your ultimate premise.

For me, I'll leave it. My takeaway: Twitter is indeed the worst global social network - of all time // AND, there are many others that are much better - factually so.

For those who still wish to engage with the service but not feed the beast, remove your tweets and your account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159073
… We didn’t choose Brevo.

You didn’t even read the article!
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A company that readily admits it burns out SWRs and SREs in exchange for the big bucks.

Just what the fuck are these people doing?

If I were a major investor in them I'd be pissed.
The cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to rig up a sensor...
Worth a click for the image of the octocat strangling user rights while grabbing a sack of cash.
I could hear Gavin Belson screaming during the broadcast when my stream was freezing as they were each making their entrance. Mike Judge is a prophet.
this has been measured quantitatively and it's simply false
Because "cherry picking" is what everyone does when what they are interested in is great media, and the more time-limited they are, the more this matters.

"Industry" insiders' opinions are irrelevant, they are just too bogged in the day to day details, they tend to forget that 99% of everything is crap and that's fine (and they do that because they have to make a living there, their incentives are different).

And you cannot predict greatness (you are the one that talked about 'visionaries', remember ?) - specifically of new teams you've never heard about before (of course once they did something great it's another thing, even with reversion to the mean they can have a lot of other successes).
Considering the size and age of the universe, it would be very very weird if earth apes were the pinnacle of intelligence.

In fact I think the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is that we are kept isolated from other civilizations within range.
Thanks, those were the main recommendation the last time I looked into it (a few years ago), good to hear you recommend them too!
I wonder how much of placebo is things like lessening stress effects of the illness which decreases inflammation?
I like this article about how all the other social networks are worse than Twitter that only mentions other social networks in one sentence.

It is refreshing to see someone make a statement and then proceed to ramble about completely unrelated things with no intent of even revisiting the original thesis let alone defending or explaining it. I haven’t read anything this meandering and empty since I stopped using Twitter
That’s fair! I actually “tried” more than the “elite 6” but I eliminated many of those tools for different reasons
If it's not bad enough for you to leave yet, it will be soon, thanks to enshittification without any limits, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484
> the wood where my mouse was kept attracting weird black spots

Have the same issue, but can't subscribe to mousepads. I believe that's dust getting in the crevices of the wood.
Fire in the Valley - The making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine, published by McGraw Hill, 2000 463 pages. Excellent reference telling many of the P.C stories.
Since the election ramped up I see lots of blue checkmarks calling people fggt, anecdotally but it's part of the reason I'm spending more time on Bluesky.
Maybe that’s it. I pay from premium though so don’t have the advert issue (apples to apples).
Apple broke the compiler suite on Mac OS X 10.3. As part of a security update they shipped a new version of libstdc++ -- which was built using a different ABI than the compilers for 10.3, and they weren't going to update the compilers for 10.3. (Some sort of GCC ABI flag day happened.)

You could still build programs for 10.3 -- but you needed the latest version of Xcode and the compilers for that, which Apple only shipped for 10.4 and up. So you had to set Xcode for 10.3 compatibility mode and then you could build your app.

If you develop for Apple's platform, you need to be running the latest version, period, end of statement. If you aren't, there's no telling what may break.
This is not a universal comparison. This is the story about how I tried 25 email marketing tools. I’m sharing my subjective experience. You might be looking for something that my article doesn’t claim to offer.
I remember being bullied by the science teacher for not wanting to sit next to the cigarette she was burning to demonstrate something I can’t recall lol. In the late 90s. She hated me after that
The weirdest thing about TeVeS IMO is that it adds additional fields that warp spacetime, so how is it not a dark matter theory?
You're in luck!

That's really common!
Haven't actually used this project yet, but I occasionally stop by his stream on twitch. Legend.
emrtd - https://github.com/Fethbita/emrtd

A Rust crate used to communicate with compliant e-passports and identity documents. It can be used for building automated systems or the like. Rust is used.

Help is needed with code and design, also the Rust crypto ecosystem as many algorithms needed to implement these security mechanisms such as brainpool are missing from Rust Crypto project.

Level: Beginner friendly after getting familiar with the ICAO Doc 9303 Series or reading my blog post about the ecosystem (https://blog.burakcankus.com/2024/04/18/how-do-electronic-pa...)

Contact through contact@emrtd.com
This livestream broke the internet, no joke. youtube was barely loading and a bunch of other sites too. 130M is a conservative number given all the pirate streams.
In China's regimented society, youth find release at underground raves
I sympathize with the author’s perspective, as I have a connection to the Spanish experience (e.g. transition to democracy), not by living there, but through the magazine Cambio 16 [1], which played an insightful role in media at my home. When I was very young, I even read about the leather subculture [2], which opened my eyes to diverse cultural expressions.

My main issue with Twitter is its lack of tools to quickly customize or filter your experience. This limitation can pull users into a world of hate, almost like being drawn into a black hole. I’m not sure if this is intentional or something that will improve in the short term. I don’t use Mastodon often, but I’ve noticed constructive discussions happening there. Similarly, I think Reddit has been an incredible resource—one that its owners and managers often seem not to fully understand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambio_16

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_subculture
You can't argue like that without a link to the measurements.
Sorry, mailerlite. I definitely read it and just swapped your 2nd pick.
Dark matter predicted lensing effect which were successfully tested. Same for the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the CMB.
Is there a link you could provide to as study? Curious about the methodology for measuring these things.
Wow, this is beyond badass. Not only is the LAN and home network setup top-notch, that location is excellent too - what a view! Congrats on the amazing LAN setup and such a fun place to enjoy some gaming with your friends & family. Truly worthy of some envy, that's for sure :) Looks like it was a good chunk of work, but 110% worth it!
> Normally, maintaining twelve machines used by random guests would have two huge problems:

Maybe you did this with your other house but I would have thought guests would bring their own computer to a LAN party. All you have to do is provide the space and network capability?
Deploying is expensive for some models. That could involve customer facing written release notes, etc. Sometimes the software has to be certified by a govt authority.

Additionally, refactor circle jerks are terrible for back-porting subsequent bug fixes that need to be cherry picked to stable branches.

A lot of of the world isn’t CD and constant releases are super expensive.
> Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto.

I’m really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need to be to afford a bigger house?!
> By making him suffer

Nietzsche had written extensively about this way before.

Nowadays we know that humans (and other animals) bully because they derive immense health benefits from being the aggressor.

Those benefits are trivial to detect many decades after the fact.

Until those benefits are offset by a hefty price to pay, nothing will change.
There was nothing that drastic in my original comment. I'm speaking of differences that are present in all of us, not extremes.

See those 16 personalities or character colors tests I referred to. (although I'm not saying these are good, just illustrate well what level of differences I'm speaking of)
Given that co-pilot basically scoop up open source source code and launder so that others can create proprietary code without needing to even acknowledge the original author, they have a point.
Damn if only we had the tech to open doors mechanically. Imagine that world. I hope Elon takes a few weeks away from destroying the US Government in January to think about this./s

For real though, I hope the relatives of the deceased take Elon personally and Tesla as a company for all they're worth.
It's pretty ironic after all this talk about how other media presents biased misinformation and lies - go straight to writing essentially "no other network provides experts or good discussion, trust me". (just in case - this is not true)
Yeah good idea. We do have electric shades on many of the windows... I just need to rig up some software control of them. I suppose as an experiment I could leave them all down for a day and see how much power it saves. The shades are on the inside of the glass, but light-colored, so should reflect back a fair amount of light.
I have written this before [1].

I had to kick the rear door of the family car after an accident when I was about 11. The car blocking both doors on the other side was on fire, and I was later told our car was also on fire.

I wouldn't have known to lift the carpet and pull some release tag, and with the door badly damaged from a collision I also wouldn't have been able to kick it while pulling the tab. It was night, so finding and using a glass-smashing tool also seems unlikely.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941750
Ah, well, you’ll see all sorts of stupid comments in HN.
Except that’s now a very standard pitch for technology across basically any industry, and cheapens the whole idea of YC presenting a grand challenge.
Might be able to use a flipper zero as the sensor, if the cats are chipped. Then you'll have data to catch any unusual usage, like a urinary blockage, before it becomes a serious problem! At that point you're a smart switch and Home Assistant script away from fan control.
Valve's Flickering Lights
> I've never heard of anyone else having done anything like this. This surprises me! But, surely, if someone else did it, someone would have told me about it? If you know of another, please let me know!

I never had the tenacity to consider my build "finished," and definitely didn't have your budget, but I built a 5-player room[1] for DotA 2 back in 2013.

I got really lucky with hardware selection and ended up fighting with various bugs over the years... diagnosing a broken video card was an exercise in frustration because the virtualization layer made BSODs impossible to see.

I went with local disk-per-VM because latency matters more than throughput, and I'd been doing iSCSI boot for such a long time that I was intimately familiar with the downsides.

I love your setup (thanks for taking the time to share this BTW) and would love to know if you ever get the local CoW working.

My only tech-related comment is that I will also confirm that those 10G cards are indeed trash, and would humbly suggest an Intel-based eBay special. You could still load iPXE (I assume you're using it) from the onboard NIC, continue using it for WoL, but shift the netboot over to the add-in card via a script, and probably get better stability and performance.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/4x4-four-desktops-one-system-kWyH4
I can identify with that - Lisp throws me off (because I’m not smart enough). But I ended up forcing myself to work through it and learned a tremendous amount because I’m not smart enough to work with a lisp. It felt like I spent so much time just reading through the code that I ended up learning more than I would in a language I’m comfortable with.

There is a Python version of SICP. I have never worked through it or even given it more than a cursory scan so this is not an endorsement more just a link to prove it exists:

https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/0.ht...
Someone told me something that stuck with me: "for any system with millions of users a 1 in a million event happens multiple times a day"
ok so the OP likes twitter because

“But on Twitter, you can read:

Experts
Who are independent
Recounting events they are experiencing first hand
And, on the same Twitter, you can find their opponents:

Disproving or debating them
With community notes which are displayed at the same level as the OP
Which rely on third party sources
This only happens on Twitter. And it infuriates traditional media, because they lose control of the narrative”

I think about wholly different Twitter experiences when I think of Twitter (X) in it’s current state, maybe 2018-ish twitter had the features mentioned but nowadays it’s;

- interaction bait
- ragebait (which partly overlaps with interaction bait)
- misinformation
- the owner throwing a hissy fit over almost nothing
- the owner roleplaying as his 3 year old son (this isn’t one you see often but it’s memorable)
A few more more, depending on the nature of the project and one's goals:

how do I report bugs
how do I build from source
how can I help/contribute
Easy: Short term risk versus long term risk. If I deploy with minimal changes today, I'm taking a non-zero short-term risk for zero short-term gain.

While I too am generally a long-term sort of engineer, it's important to understand that this is a valid argument on its own terms, so you don't try to counter it with just "piffle, that's stupid". It's not stupid. It can be shortsighted, it leads to a slippery slope where every day you make that decision it is harder to release next time, and there's a lot of corpses at the bottom of that slope, but it isn't stupid. Sometimes it is even correct, for instance, if the system's getting deprecated away anyhow why take any risk?

And there is some opportunity cost, too. No matter how slick the release, it isn't ever free. Even if it's all 100% automated it's still going to barf sometimes and require attention that not making a new release would not have. You could be doing something else with that time.
Already did and got the T-shirt.

I went to anon ftp on sdf. I also send these items to gitlab in case people cannot deal with ftp.

How long before I give up on gitlab ? Hopefully never. A few months ago I heard gitlab is up for sale, if true I may leave gitlab if it starts doing things like Copilot and/or forcing me to use 2FA on my Cell Phone.
In order to use them as a signaling platform (how?) the signal would have needed to have been sent several billion years ago.

At 10 billion light years away from the most distant lens it is 100% certain that they are no longer in a gravitational lensing configuration.

For a frame of reference, the Milky Way will be in the middle of its epic merger with Andromeda in about 5 billion years.
And technically they are only temporarily so, given enough millions of years they will drift apart and lose the alignment.

Also, other stars can come to align in the future. Makes me wonder if we can antecipate other cases like this and create a future schedule of "To Observe" so future generations can look at them. Although, these generations might be so distant from ours that might not even be considered of the same species
Is it only one direction or does it work the same from the other side?
> Would programmers listen to an artists opinion on programming languages and IDEs? Of course not.

I'll address that question in just a second, but as far as I can tell, the makers of GIMP have failed to listen to anybody about how that name turns people off and it's failed to gain acceptance because it's got such a terrible name. Ow heartbreaking to see such hard work wasted because horsecocks and panty-dropper, or other equally bad names could have been chosen instead. As far as listening to artists opinions, where do you think easier to use languages like Python or Ruby came from? By listening to curmudgeons that C syntax is totally fine, pointers are easy, it's fun to lose hours looking for a semicolon, and people like the author of "Real programmers use Pascal", so no need to make any changes? Or were there people, some of whom make art, who said, this crap is too confusing, and easier to use programming languages and IDEs came along? The ethos that everyone should be able to program comes hand in hand with listening to users, no matter what their day job. Programmers universally write for two classes of people. Themselves, and others. Talking to users and getting feedback (now that LLMs can write the code, but also before) is job #1 for a programmer. In order to do a good job, before you write a single line of code, you gotta find your users and see how they live, before you can write software that helps them. Find me a software project that didn't engage with its users and I'll find you software that has failed to gain wider acceptance. Like, say, Gim Paint, as I call it, since the name Gimp is such trash.
To make the marks they're selling the death sedans to feel like they have something special until the vape batteries under the car spontaneously combust and roast them like a gas station hotdog
You skipped the best part.