skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just going through the numbers:

363 BB tons / (1 ton / cu m) / (1 BB cu m / cu km) is the mass of a 9-km-diameter ice ball, smaller for rockier materials.

363 BB tons / 10 years = 100 MM tons / day.

By comparison, Mount St Helens (1980) and Eyjafjallajökull (2010) each produced 500 MM tons of ash. So the amount of material is about equivalent to having a similarly-sized volcano eruption every few days for ten years straight.

The Earth's surface area is 500 MM sq km. If we were to distribute 363 BB tons uniformly, that would be an average of 1000 tons per sq km. If the layer had a density of 1 ton per cu m (same as water), the resulting layer would be 1/1000 of a meter thick. This seems to be thinner than the spherule layers described.
> In the US, the Broad Institute has also been selling licenses to use CRISPR.

Including patents owned by MIT, no? It feels like this could use a disclosure and some additional context to understand where the incentives here are. I've walked away feeling like I know less after having read this.
Yeah it's a cool move by Cloudflare to make those templates so obvious (makes sense though given how often people must ask for this!).

Yeah there are definitely a few ways to go about this — adding a rule to your .htaccess has been a go-to for a looong time now!
Not too many teslas in junkyards yet. And they don't have dealers.
I mean, if you expand the acronym it isn't euphemistic at all!

I think it's actually a little too specific. It's trying to exclude "innocent" things like selfies or "simulated" things like drawings, but those are just as illegal in some or all countries.
Is there a quantized version of MOND where the increased acceleration is because a quantized unit of gravity will exert force across distances that would otherwise suggest that that the force would be less than a "g quanta" or because maybe quantization "ceilings" more than floors at very large distances? If gravity does have some kind of particle or fundamental quantization like a photon, and basically still exerts at huge or "infinite" distance, does it make sense that it's more likely there's some kind quantization floor or maybe quantization bands or something? Or is it thought that quantization of gravity imposes a limit on distance for the exertion of gravitational attraction? (Or is it thought that that with quantized gravity that what's happening is a decreased rate of "gravitons" interacting between the objects?)

Anyway, a bit clueless about this, just curious what gravitons are supposed to mean for either theory (MOND, LCDM, etc.).
Show HN: I built chip8 emulator on evm
Not always perfectly right because an argument containing a filename containing a space character will be interpreted as 2 arguments.
Please don't take the bait. It's fine to let us know when a headline is sensational/distorted so we can change it. It's not fine to take to the comments about it, because that is likely to produce a shallow and less interesting discussion, which is what happened here.

Edit: I've changed the title to that of the paper.
Always a fan of query plan articles!

Note: the dig at dataframe libs is worth some care in case you think that means duckdb can optimize and they cannot

Dask, Polars, and others pick a lazy default in order to make distribution and other optimizations easier. When staying in their pure fragments ('vectorized'), the same scheduler rewriting opportunity is here.

This is a subtle but important distinction when looking at these frameworks. We are making our new graph query language 'gfql' to be dataframe-native so it can run naturally & natively as a step of pipelines people are already doing, but also to ensure we automatically run as optimized CPU/GPU columnar opts. At the same time, because of the intent to allow room for query plan optimization, we are staying declarative / lazy, even if the generated & interpreted code uses an eager DF runtime . I'm optimistic about output target lazy DF systems doing query planner work for us long-term here, but for the eager framework targets, the query planning has to be on our side.
Maybe the roles will be fewer in number but someone will be needed to verify the work of generative AI. I also can see it putting mid career people in competition with entry level workers. It will end up causing deflation but maybe it puts younger people on a more even footing, especially if they build skills in using generative AI that older workers may not.
The military industrial complex is a cesspit of squandered money, but it has not corrupted US research or society the way Eisenhower warned about. I guess "we must beware the rise of incompetent generals and defense contractors who will waste taxpayer money on sci-fi boondoggles" doesn't have the same ring.

The idea that the US goes to war primarily to satisfy Raytheon stockholders is almost as brainless as saying it's the Zionist lobby: why struggle with thinking about a complex problem when you can conjure a simple boogeyman?
> There's been analysis that you basically like whatever was popular when you were 14 [2].

I was clearly excluded from this analysis, seeing as how out of the entries in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2006, I can see exactly three songs that I somewhat enjoy alongside dozens of songs that I hate with a passion. I'd sooner listen to "We Built This City" on repeat for 24 hours straight than listen any of the Top 10 of that year even once (with the sole exception of "Crazy").

I'd find that analysis to be more believable if it filtered by genres/subcultures a bit. I hung out with the metalheads when I was 14, so a lot of rock and metal artists/groups that were popular in 2006-ish - SoaD, Disturbed, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Mushroomhead, Nightwish, Dream Theater, Lacuna Coil, Dethklok, Blind Guardian, and the like - are the ones that stuck around at the top of my personal rankings.
420BLAZEIT 2
When you rent a car to go to Glacier national park, an EV is going to work out better for you. We are still a bit behind on charging infrastructure out here in the west.
The paper is at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408721121. We've adopted its title above.
> Not every cost is fungible and money isn't always the limiting factor

Sure. This isn’t relevant to Netflix.
Just to be clear, the US Government isn't stupid - there is a constituency for every single dollar spent. Opaqueness is a feature not a bug.
(2004), but for some reason the date next to the byline says 2016. Maybe it was updated in 2016, although the text and images seem mostly the same as the 2004 version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131117095842/http://www.gamesp...

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/The_Final_Hours_of_Half-Lif...
I agree with the general thrust of this article. You should be able to use a computer you buy until it physically stops working, not just until the hardware isn’t supported by the new OS.

But I can’t agree at all that Linux is only useful as a server. When my old MacBook Air died, I switched to a Dell XPS with preinstalled Ubuntu. It works like a dream. The hardware is all supported and I can do anything I could do on my Mac. I just installed a new battery and hopefully it has another 6 years left in it.

The thing is. I’m a somewhat technically competent Artsy. I’m no engineer or CS specialist. Linux can work fine as a daily OS if it is supported. Dells new Ubuntu is $1800 which is ridiculous, but there is no reason why they couldn’t bring the price down. And of course there are Linux standalone manufacturers.

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop but not because Linux isn’t a perfectly viable OS for you and your mum and your technically phobic uncle. Whatever is stopping wider use, it’s not the underlying state of the software or hardware.
same. could be a bandwidth issue at CDN/ISP level at a certain region(s) ?
> In English “thing”, “a”, and “ma” are already words, and “jibber” would presumably be the first character in “gibberish”. So you could write that made-up word by combining those four characters.

Nonsense. There is zero chance in hell that if you combine the pictographs for "thing", "a", "ma", and "gibberish", that someone reading that is going to reproduce the sound thingamajibber. It just does not work. The meme does not replicate.

There may be other virtues of pictographic written language, but reproducing sounds is not one of them. And - as any Shakespeare fan will tell you - tweaking the sounds of English cleverly is rather important. If you can't reproduce this behavior, you're losing something in translation. So to speak.
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 for all of that stuff, that I got back before things turned weird(er) in the small computer space.
What a sad fucking world.
I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.
> against Feng Zhang, a researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT

Bear in mind: this article is published by a magazine that belongs to MIT.
Certainly, which is why I put quotes around right, but for this usage, it's not an issue. Find prints the whole path on a single line (including the spaces) and grep (by default) puts the full matched line, so you'll still get the full file path regardless of how many spaces are in it.
That's the biggest confusion to me. Why on earth was this such a big deal? But perhaps Hacker News isn't the best place for that conversation.
And now it is just treated as an absolute necessity never to be scrutinized.

I definitely don't see a lot of people pushing for the "never to be scrutinized" part.
Scan on FreeBSD
Why does the same font look better on macOS?
I considered reading SICP recently but this changed my mind:

> It's old and feels old. originally in scheme, they recently re released the book in JavaScript which is more approachable to today's audiences and there are still good things in there about encapsulation and building dsls. ymmv. Though the language and programming design concepts hold up, we're playing at higher levels of abstraction on more powerful machines and consequently the examples sometimes seem too tiny and simple.

I had studied economics in a similar way, but learning slightly old/outdated ideas demotivated me - I was much more interested in learning what works and what's considered the best way to do things, not what had been considered a good idea at some point in the past.

I don't want to be a downer on SICP (especially since I haven't even read it), but I hope this info might help others (or elicit a strong refutation).
I posted the full audio of the 14 Nov 2024 hearing with the bankruptcy judge so you can hear all sides of the story, and the judge's reaction. Apologies it's on the Tweeter/Xitter.

https://x.com/magazedia/status/1857962924762898502
Its just Natural. The World is much more complex and ever changing, than the chimp troupe has capacities to react to it all.

When you look at Nature do you start asking why do we "need" blue whales or redwood trees? No one "needs" them but they emerge anyhow.

We chimps (mysteriously) love to believe we are in control of nature and what emerges out of it. And time and again the universe takes a gigantic shit on that belief. See Theory of Bounded Rationality/Illusion of Control or read Jurassic Park.

Its also why we see monopolies emerge in every sector of the Economy inspite of all kinds of speech making, laws and govt depts to "control" things.

If you go look at the Annual Report of your favorite monopoly, you will find hundreds if not thousands of subsidiaries/factories/offices around the planet to manage their empire. No External Auditor visits each of those sites cause its just not possible within a reporting period. So every report has a large warning - hey man this our best guess about whats going on in the 10% of the sites we had time to visit - don't sue us.

Don't fall for the notion that people have perfect control over complex ever changing systems. It will just lead to misunderstandings and confusion.
This is exactly what I thought about rust when trying to learn it a few years ago. I'm also an experienced C++ programmer. After trying for 3-4 months and constantly fighting the borrow checker, I lost all motivation and gave up.
MOND has nothing to say about the curvature of spacetime, since MOND is Newtonian (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics). It goes back to "F=ma and gravity is a force" and modifies the rules so that gravity grows weaker faster at a certain scale.

The fact that MOND fits a lot of the data troubled cosmologists, because they know that a General Relativistic theory is needed to explain pretty much the rest of gravity.

TeVeS is an extension to General Relativity that reduces to MOND in the non-relativistic limit. For comparison, General Relativity reduces to Newtonian gravity in the non-relativistic limit. The non-relativistic limit is when speeds and spacetime curvature are small.
Until the word “they” changes, I feel it connotes multiple personalities, something I’ve never seen in trans friends. It feels only a little better than calling someone “it”.
> someone will be needed to verify the work of generative AI.

Assuming that the technology remains at its current level, then yes, although that could be something the senior people do. If the technology continues to get better, then needing human oversight might be a temporary problem.

ENIAC needed staff oversight to replace vacuum tubes every day, but that turned out to be a fairly brief transition period.
OK but per the hn guidelines:

"[P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well I haven’t gone back to linear TV, I totally get it.

I don’t subscribe to anything that doesn’t work with my Apple TV. Netflix for example won’t integrate with it the way Hulu does. So whatever show I’m watching on Netflix? Wouldn’t show up in my show list on my Apple TV. I forget it exists.

So I don’t subscribe to it. Or anything else like that. You are NOT more important than me, service I pay for.

The only two exceptions are YouTube (which obviously works differently) and Plex for the few things that I already already owned on DVD or can’t get on any service.

It works well enough for me. But I still find myself missing a linear TV now and then.
My understanding is that cool obscure logos are normal for secret military projects: https://www.wired.com/2010/11/secret-insignias-from-the-blac...

This logo isn't very cool, which is more of a surprise to me. But bad Latin is understandable - if your project is secret then you can't ask anyone to proofread it, and who's going to be offended? There aren't any native Latin speakers.
Really cool! Works smoother in Firefox than Safari
You should try meeting some trans people in real life. I think it would change your perspective a lot.
Some people can just let others be wrong and just stay silent, but some people can't help themselves. So if you say something really wrong, like this was caused by Netflix moving to Azure, they should have stayed on AWS! someone will come along to correct you. If you're looking for the right answer, post the wrong one, alongside some provoking statement (Windows is better than Linux because this works there), and you'll get the right answer faster than if you'd asked your question directly.

https://xkcd.com/386/
You kind of defeat your own argument. You say it's important to learn "academic knowledge", but then acknowledge the organization will not value your knowledge.

I do agree with you though.
The right way to do it!

I wish our infrastructure had been so thoughtful.
> The goal of the course is not to teach programming skills, it's to teach computer science.

Who cares what the goal is? It teaches programming skills too. The intent is irrelevant and for the most part so too is the distinction (outside the american education system, anyway).

> Furthermore, it's a mistake to believe that the discipline is all about the tools.

Who outside the american education gives a damn about "the discipline", if that refers to anything meaningful outside the american education system in the first place? It's arbitrary and has no purpose or benefit aside from organizing the education system. This is a course that miraculously, against all odds, manages to teach useful skills in addition to jargon patterns of thought. Why not celebrate this?

Anyway, programming is a useful pedagogical tool for teaching CS. CS is a useful pedagogical tool for teaching programming. To brag about not teaching one is just hobbling your own insight into the value you provide students.

I myself have a CS degree from a prestigious institution and largely enjoyed my education. But this attitude you alude to is just jerking off for the sake of jerking off. Particularly in the case of SICP.
Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.
100%

I've seen it first hand.
This is trippy as hell on my 40" ultrawide. Love it.
> Of all the books whose covers look like those an action manga, how many do you figure are a good resource for learning Polish?

Manga are a good way to learn Japanese, so the Polish translations are probably an okay way to learn Polish. Not because the translation would be literal, because it won't be, just because the reading level is low.

(Well, the trend in action manga lately is to have incredibly complicated magic powers where the characters just stand around explaining them to each other, so maybe skip JJK.)
Halting problem?

The overall point is it’s impossible to make a perfect spec. Rust doesn’t even have a spec, so your behavior is whatever the compiler gives you, which is C++ UB too.
I think I come down somewhere close to this. Idiomatic safe Rust is noticeably slower and less scalable than the usual high-performance systems code many C++ developers write. This puts them in the position of either abandoning performance they know is possible or abandoning Rust code that is safe and sane, neither of which feels good.

Anecdotally, all of the happy productive Rust programmers I know do not come from a hardcore systems background. They were mostly Java and Python developers that wanted to get a bit closer to the metal. For them it is probably a great experience, and the performance is an improvement relative to what they are accustomed to.

There are quite a few shops that use Rust and C++ together, often wrapping a C++ core (for performance) with a Rust API layer (for safety).
Unfortunately, while I really want to love Software Design for Flexibility, it's clear that Hanson and Sussman haven't really solved (or even come close to solving) the problem they have identified in the book.

The introduction to that book is brilliant at identifying just how much room software has to grow (you can find similar talks from various Strange Loop sessions Sussman has done), and is really quite inspirational for anyone seriously thinking about the future of computing.

But the rest of the book fails to provide a coherent answer to the questions that are brought up in the intro. It shows off some neat functional programming tricks, but repeatedly fails to deliver on solving the (admittedly ambitious) challenges it provides for itself.

I'm still glad I have a copy, and have re-read the first half multiple times now, but sadly it's not the book it wants to be. To be fair though, that is because we haven't come close to understanding computation enough to solve those problems.

It's a very ambitious book that falls short of it's own ambitious.
The bottom line is that your first post is a mirror reflection of yourself. Beyond this, I don't really care how you excuse your hypocrisy.
how do you know He didn’t?
> Social security and medicare together at like ~2.4 trillion dollars a year, and are supporting a population of roughly 55 million Americans (just grossly taking the 65+ age population). This works out to roughly 43k per year per 65+ adult. You can decide for yourself is this seems like the right way for the government to work.

New City Herald

Rioters set fire to the entire city after the Mayor's new budget accidentally starved roughly 8.6 million disabled people and 6 million survivors of deceased retirees.

Try File -> New City to start over.
There are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky
I used to use photoshop and Lightroom a lot. I got pretty good at it.

The Linux equivalents are quite good. I currently have 2 pieces in an exhibit I created with GIMP (manipulated photos). It’s got layering and the filters I needed. I’ve started to use dark table somewhat (it’s like Adobe Lightroom) but there are a few other photo organizers to try.

The UI is on these tools is different.. different and not great. But workable. The docementation is a little lacking. To be fair there is a whole industry based around teaching Adobe product (I went to one of their conferences years ago)

The 2 standout application for art creation in Foss seem to be blender(3d modeling) and Krita (painting).
> One of the things that I take away from this is that I may not want to put servers on these low IPv6 addresses in the future. Certainly one should have firewalls and so on, even on IPv6, but even then you may want to be a little less obvious and easily found

And my takeaway here is that "Security through Obscurity" isn't actually that secure is it?

> Certainly one should have firewalls and so on

Just because every device has a public IP doesn't mean every device is available publicly. Your public little IPv6 network still goes through a router and that device can control the flow of traffic, through routing and firewalling.

This whole read really just feels like someone discovering IPv6 for the first time and fundamentally not understanding basic networking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xH9ZSp_B4?t=10s

(Compare with how Zeloof was positioning (his ikigai) to Jim Keller)

This guy, by bringing attention to his emo, sells to fellow phykers (with positive volume p-cone intersection)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160940

merge traffick fore the window closeth?
I'm not sure I understand the metaphor? Let me know if I'm off base.

If the suggestion is that putting things in the standard library makes them better, I disagree. My experience with Python for instance is that a "batteries included" strategy results in some phenomenal packages and some borderline abandoned packages that are actively dangerous to use.

To riff on your metaphor, the federal government designs the arterial highways, but the state, country, and city/town officials design the minutia of the traffic system. If the federal government had to approve spending on replacing some street signs or plowing snow, we would have a terribly impoverished transportation system.
> Or Huey Lewis and the News entire catalog?

Their early work was a little too "new wave" for my taste, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)
I'm always surprised to see this comment without seeing a response that this is required by law in the United States. Remember child locks? They are on all cars. The manual release cannot override the child lock so it has to be hidden to meet federal law.
This looks very promising on the surface. I wonder how it compares to clspv?
Agreed. For more detail, I trust Thor@PirateSoftware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTxyu_p1qkc
US safety standards require that a child cannot manually open a rear door if child locks are engaged. An emergency manual release can't appear and disappear depending on whether the electronic button is enabled. Children die this way in all cars.
Jordan Peele does a fantastic impersonation of Ray Parker Jr. (“the Ghostbusters guy”) promoting his lesser known movie theme songs he’s submitted through the years. Talk about bad songs! Jumanji, Passion of the Christ, Apt Pupil. lol. https://youtu.be/GxjNOv5QPzM?si=zSduoOlbIULoKOMC