skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I worked at arXiv one of my coworkers was a fresh astrophysics PhD who was cynical about the state of the field. He thought that we didn't know what the hell was going on with accretion disks but that a few powerful people in the field created the impression that we did and that there was no dissent because it was so difficult to get established in the field.

When I first saw the ΛCDM model my first impression was that I'd didn't believe it, it seemed bad enough to have dark matter that we didn't understand (though WIMPs and axions are plausible) but adding equally mysterious and physically unmotivated dark energy made it seem just an exercise in curve fitting.

There have been a longstanding problem that the history of the universe and cosmological distance scale haven't made sense.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-hubble-tension-sti...

When I was getting my PhD in condensed matter physics I was going to the department colloquium all the time and seeing astrophysics talks about how some people thought the hubble constant was 40 km/s/Mpc and others thought it was 80 km/s/Mpc. With timescape cosmology maybe they were both right.

Another longstanding problem in astronomy is that since the 1970s it's been clear we have no idea of how supermassive black holes could have formed in the time we think the universe has existed. With the JWST there are a flood of results that show the first 500 million years of the universe probably lasted a lot more than 500 million years

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9b22
Are we brainwashed yet? Absolutely.
'Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces'

https://archive.ph/inXkh
I've been using a catch-all xx.to domain as my email for over 15 years without any problems. I use a different email for each website, like amazon@xx.to, etc. It's great for fighting spam and catching companies that sell your email address or have had data breaches.
Yes T1 here, those body glucose reserves shouldn't be used for regular control. They are reserves for exertion and emergencies. 42 years in, I'm fortunate with a high metabolism and I've always consumed fat as somewhat free extra calories. I use olive oil as a condiment I feel it gives me a standing energy reserve.
> because they just can't chill for a bit at 30 km/h and so on.

Driving 30 km/h instead of 70-80 km/h would drive anyone insane, it would effectively double your travel time.
> We were victims. Therefore, we had license to take whatever measures were necessary. Once this worldview sets in, it’s very difficult to break out of, not least because it often feels so perfectly just.

One of many nuggets of wisdom in this excellent text.
> The better you are at selling, the more debased your life becomes, as everything is reduced to a transaction, a leveraging of the smallest edge

I think that's the essence of having a sales mindset if I had to explain it. It's really hard to convey what it means and I think only those that worked close with people with this talent would have a chance to know what this really means. Sales is an art on top of a very technical game, where you have an unlimited number of secret knobs to balance. It's like seeing chefs or f1 drivers performing at their best, and as such it's not just about grit, you also need talent on top.
I see; you are competely right, I am not really familiar with the the technical terms and messed up with just literally translating "cut and cover".
So, the repo's README claims the repo contains the image dumps, but they're not actually there. Is this correct?
Funny I read something to the effect that some people in Rome got paid a few pounds of gold a year which is about what people get paid today.
> About two years ago China imposed regulations on its own tech sector so strict that it killed the entire "ed-tech" sector overnight and wiped out a decent chunk of the country's tech market value

Unless you can point to a foreign company that was treated less harshly under these regulations than a Chinese one, this doesn’t disprove the parent’s point.

> The US has slapped a 100% tariff on cars, bans on Chinese hardware and software in autonomous vehicles, ripping out 5G equipment, tried to basically destroy Huawei specifically, and the list goes on.

Besides the car tariffs, these measures were taken to prevent Chinese hacking and intelligence gathering, not to protect domestic industries.
> I better go kill myself from this embarrassment so my family doesn't have to live with my shame!

There's no need to go to extremes, no matter how embarrassing and notably laughable your comment was. I'd say enjoy your fame.
Thanks! not sure if it meets the guidelines given that it is a paid product. cheers
My primary email uses a .ng domain, currently through Fastmail. I’ve had exactly one site reject it and zero spam filter issues that I know of. The only real issue has been that it’s a pain to tell people in person, so I usually end up just giving my old Gmail in those situations.
I bet there's an online college credit transfer program that'll accept this as a doctoral defense. Depending on how Nagle's finagled.
No, quite the opposite. Big companies likely also have other big(ger) companies as partners/customers, all of which want stableness and see things keep working. Therefore companies need careful planning, execution and testing to ensure there is minimal disruption.

Startups and a certain company can move fast and break things. But not everyone can do this.
It might limit innovation on what is after usb-c . We might get stuck with usb-c for a while.
Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm
> It was surprisingly decent

Much better than Diablo 4, that's for sure.
This is correct.

The main difference I've seen, though, is that private prisons will sell you a lot more stuff for your cell. They generally take a more measured approach to security risks and allow you to buy steel-stringed guitars and PlayStations because there is enormous profit in those. The public jails and prisons won't allow as much stuff like that as it makes their employees' lives a lot harder from a security perspective.
Many of the YCombinator companies advertise jobs on this forum, and some also post ‘demos’, which are often advertising to potential investors, clients, and partners.
I'm not a pilot.

In the video it looked like the plane was only running on the rear landing gears, I assume with no brakes applied, since that would've caused it to violently pitch down I assume. Only in the last bit did it pitch down and started scraping along the runway. It certainly doesn't look like it was efficiently shedding speed (but looks can be deceiving).
> Toto we're not in 96 dpi land any more.

Unless you're banging directly on the framebuffer, logical pixels haven't been tied to device pixels for literally decades. CSS specifies pixels at 1/96 of an inch, a decision that goes all the way back to X11. 1rem == 16px, though this can be changed in CSS (just set font-size on the :root element) whereas you can typically only change pixel scaling in your display settings.

So yes, using rems is better, but pixels are not going to get dramatically smaller on denser displays unless the device is deliberately scaling them down (which phones often do simply because they're designed to be read up-close anyway)
Endless Runway
The amount of influence that a few unhinged and volatile men have and feel free to excert on us at global scale is confusing; our inability or drive to regulate this is perplexing.
This is the landing of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989. It hit the runway very hard, tumbled, broke, left the runway, and burned, but encountered no significant non-frangible obstacle. Of 296 passengers and crew on board, 184 (62%) survived. It is reasonable to assume that given the absence of other significant non-frangible obstacles beyond the ILS mound that loss of life would have been low and potentially zero.

https://youtu.be/sWkU6HRcOY0
For awhile I could find some of my old bullshit on bash.org, but even that’s gone now.
HN exists to advertise yCombinator stuff! You seem to like this forum, yet you wish for it to perish?
What are the terms (if any) you need to agree to as owner of the domain? What are the requirements (if any) on you? What rights do the registry offer you? Is your use allowed and if not: what happens? Is there a particular jurisdiction applying? How are ownership disputes handled (e.g. what would happen to a targeted disney.party)? Is there a transparent process for expired domains (what happens if you fail to renew)?

> Is it the wrong link?

No, I said it's usually a good start. You'll have to do the actual fishing yourself (:

BTW, I believe that lack of transparency and perceived predictability can explain why some TLDs don't seem to get significant legitimate adoption among informed users with a long-term perspective (that is: usage trends towards nefarious, ephemeral, or casual small-scale, contributing to the reputational factor. What are the main parts to the feedback loop(s) is anyone's guess, tho).
It never seems to get stated directly by tunneling through stable rock has to be really easy. Like if you can drill and blast your way through you just need a small crew of workers and a dump truck.

There is a half mile long tunnel in the California desert that an addled miner made with hand tools and dynamite over 38 years. Self funded and part time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_Schmidt_Tunnel

Then digging through unstable rock with water intrusion and danger of flooding the costs have to go way way up.
You should check your browser extensions!
> (...) when journalists suppressed information about George Floyd’s criminal background and drug use because, in their view, it wasn’t relevant to the issue.

It wasn't. Police don't have the right to murder people indiscriminately just because their record is not pristine. I don't know why would compell anyone to claim otherwise. Do you?
Ah, but that's just the stylistic churn. There's also monetization, illustrated by this dark and terrifying tale, best-viewed in a desktop browser for proper impact:

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/
Bullshit. I guarantee you that if tomorrow, by some regulatory or technological magic, the vast majority of invasive ads were eliminated from online content and platforms, creators of content would still find ways to deliver the goods, simple because the interest would be there. This would happen even if people showed an enormously strong tendency of not paying for subscription offers.

Before ads and ad "partners" became as pervasively parasitic as they are today, there was still plenty of fine content available online, much of it free of charge, and even now, many platforms exist that offer the same, or at least keep their ad systems unobtrusive to users.

Also, as another comment below mentions, even when you do pay, many platforms still bombard you with ad garbage, or create frankly abusive bullshit like paid tiers in which you still can't opt out of ads. Looking at you and many others Netflix.
MS's web socket solution is called signalr.

It is also fire and forget with fall over to http if web sockets aren't available. I believe if web sockets don't work it can fall over to http long polling instead, but don't quote me on that.

All the downsides of web sockets mentioned in the article are handled for you. Plus you can re-use your existing auth solution. Easily plug logging stuff in, etc. etc. Literally all the problems mentioned by the author are dealt with.

Given the author mentions C# is part of their stack I don't know why they didn't mention signalr or use that instead of rolling their own solution.
Seems like a no harm no foul sort of situation.

If people on an entertainment site and entertained by the viral marketing, and they order a product knowing what it is and get the product they ordered, then what is the problem exactly?
I remember this and this really disillusioned me wrt to the so called left/right divide. At the very beginning it was considered a right wing thing to worry about viruses, and doing so was linked to anti-chinese racism.

Then it all flipped on it's head, and 1984 style, no one seems to remember. Liking vaccines was always progressive. We've always been at war with east asia (but don't mention where in east asia the virus came from).
And this is a potential issue, because you might be able to persuade a newspaper to remove an article, you can get your criminal record expunged, but it's very unlikely you can persuade a court to totally seal a record of the case, especially if it has appellate issues.
Dutch Households with solar panels face significant revenue loss
That doesn't make it legal to operate. In every EU country you need to register to legally conduct business activity. It used to be an expensive and long hassle but nowadays it's simple and quick, usually online and cheap.
Also the fact that they're not indigenous to Italy in the first place.
Lots of airports have obstacles not far from the end of the runway. Burbank, Midway, Orange County are a few that come to mind.

Why did they need to land when they did?

Why did they need to land so soon after the mayday call? (only 8 minutes from mayday to crash, as I understand it)

Why couldn't they land on a longer runway?

Why did they land so far down the runway?

What forced them to land in a clean configuration?

As an airline pilot, these are some of the questions I have. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders should be able to answer these questions.
If the newspaper uses robots.txt to exclude the deleted article's URL then archive.org will also remove it from their archives.
Haha indeed.

I also frequently stumble upon "connexion" and "trafic", in the same department.
How does a salesperson deliver exceptional work? In every place I’ve worked, outside of independent contracting, the sales person didn’t do the trench work.
I don't see that note. There's one "extreme caution" note but it's about some other obstacle 2.1NM from the threshold of runway 1.
No one said anything about massive and lucrative.

The small market is a major reason for the high price -- limited units to recoup the development cost from.

It's a chicken and egg thing, and you have to start the cycle somewhere, assuming you want to actually do something new, not just make internet posts.

The same goes for FrameWork itself, even the Intel and AMD ones.
Here is what I practice today:

(1) Science & engineering: A physics PhD and involvement in technology has given me a good foundation for climate science and also the engineering of solutions ranging from solar energy, biomass, carbon capture and storage, etc. Every so often I wish I knew some more about chemistry. My RSS reader shows me many articles on this topic every day that it selects for me.

(2) Social sciences. I have a perspective on the science of civilization that we are in a race between problems and solutions. When the problems get too bad people start looking for solutions and when they get really bad growth stops and there is no choice to find solutions. Someone could have despaired for humanity in 1938 but it turned out pretty well in the end.

(3) Meaningful work. I'm a software dev at a public opinion data archive. As GW is really a people problem this is relevant. Somebody down the hall from me has written a lot of papers about what people think on the subject and the difference you get when the issues are framed differently. We enabled the research described in the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die

(4) Shamanism. I've recently felt a call to the ministry and I'm learning about Chinese and North American shamanism and developing a practice that helps people change even when it seems impossible.
The ACM's site has a bar like that, though it's thin enough that the issue is with the animations rather than the size: it expands then immediately collapses after even a pixel's worth of scrolling, so it's basically impossible to get at with the "hide distracting elements" picker.
What do you mean by implementing? Make your own radio chips, designed from the ground up? Or merely producing a networking device using chips from suppliers like Intel, TI, Broadcom, Qualcomm etc? Or the software side only?
I hope you'll reconsider your stance on Tor exit nodes; many people use the Tor network to avoid censorship or even just bolster their own privacy. Blacklisting users on the basis of their Tor usage is hostile to their goals of privacy and anti-censorship.
Employers just Google candidates now, not even worth paying for a real background check. It's all out there.
They already did that ages ago. Any web tech company that wants access to Chinese market needs to play ball with PRC (just like what Apple and Microsoft does). Average Chinese person really doesn't care about global web, and the ones that really do, figure a way out through VPNs. I'm not Chinese, so I might be totally wrong, but that is my perception of talking to expats or people who still in the country.
If only there was a way to send messages from one host to another in elixir
Okay, I've worked at a company that had that kind of sales. It is indeed very impressive to see. But I think that worked because there were only a small number of vendors who could potentially deliver for these (giant) customers in the first place. Otherwise the immense investment to attempt to land one of these customers would have too low a chance of paying off.

Although they have the same title I think it's a different job to when there are a lot of options for the customer.
Except no companies will allow substantial improvements to enter the public corpus, because they will basically be giving away their competitive advantages that will quickly be gobbled up by other LLMs. Those improvements will represent larger investments since there will be fewer engineers who can write them by hand.
I don’t know RE but I love this sentiment. I think it’s quite generalizable too. So many things are like that. Just start somewhere. It really doesn’t matter where. And what you find will guide your next steps. Eventually you’ll have enough context to see a much bigger picture well before it’s fully revealed.
Indeed, synchrotron sources are considered to be a possible light source for lithography. China is especially interested in them, since they can be done with a homegrown technology: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/chinas-synchrotron-euv-litho...

From what I understand, tin-based sources are easier to work with because they are point-like. All the energy is produced from a tiny droplet. Synchrotron sources produce much wider beams, that need to be re-focused properly.
I'm not sure if I have met this hypothetical person throwing four power cables into the trash every year. The chorus of people lamenting a drawer of unused cables would suggest that not throwing cables in the trash every season is the more common issue. Personally I will need to replace 2 connector cables and a pair of headphones when I inevitably need to replace my >5 year old phone, so naturally I am not well disposed toward the the unelected bureaucrats who decided to make me pay an extra $25 and produce a small pile of trash.
Great read! Thanks for the post.

A similar problem happens when trying to estimate a software development project by adding up estimates of tasks:

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
Disaster is coming. Tragedy of the commons.
Awesome writeup, thanks for that.
So the divorced guy who loses the house and can't get an apartment due to his ex wrecking his credit goes straight to the camps.

Come out the closet and your parents kick you out, camps.

2 weeks late on your rent, camps.

Maybe the moment you get fired your boss should just tell the State to pick you up.

Housing prices have gone up 50% in the last decade.
https://better.com/content/how-much-home-prices-have-risen-s...

This is much worse in some places. Low income housing options, like SROs have largely been made illegal/un profitable.

https://www.housingfinance.com/news/minimum-wage-workers-str...

Where are poor people supposed to go ? Where is a person making minimum wage supposed to live.

>First of all, they found, for families and children, one of the largest increases in homelessness, families, a 39 percent spike in 2024 from 2023. And on that January night that they surveyed, they found 150,000 children experiencing in — homelessness.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-sees-dramatic-rise-in-...

Looks like a bigger systematic issue to me. I'm not arrogant enough to think I'm above a bad year putting me in a bad situation.

I'd rather have a society that helps people get back on their feet.

Given the 2 trillion spent on the F-35 alone, its not like it's an impossible task.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f35-cost/#:~:text=The%20F%....
There is a very good book called Square Foot Gardening that's aimed at beginners.
>Unlike welding or diving, there is no inherent physical risk to life and limb to running a server.

good news! there is no inherent risk to life or limb because you left your server exposed. As OP discovered, you might come back to find it running a crypto miner. and that's just really not that big of a deal. maybe we're not all shit at what we do, but rather we have appropriately valued the seriousness of the risks involved, and made the decision that locking everything down to be impossible to hack isn't actually worth the trade-offs to usability, convenience, and freedom.

you can leave your iPad running, unattended, and unadministered for 20 years if that's what you wanted, and come back to find it un-pwned.
Your comments on this page offer many opinions sans investigation or facts.
Whoa! That sounds really interesting, I wonder how it works.
Do you not have DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS configured, or are you on some weird browser that doesn't support ECH [0]? I wonder how they blocked it if those are in place (unless you use the ISP's DNS), since the site itself is served by Cloudflare from wherever close to you, not from Russia (and so the actual SNI isn't leaked via the ClientHelloOuter field either).

[0] you can test these by using https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
I think the idea is that it is a numbers game. If you have a way to inexpensively generate a much higher click-through rate than doing it manually, your success rate will go up with a lower investment.
Negative bro. Imagine fake jobs ads become a huge revenue stream

Seek au terms:
29. You may not ask or require any candidate to pay a fee, charge, cost or any money whatsoever in connection with the hiring process for any job advertised on our websites and apps (including to apply) whether such fee, charge, cost or money is asked or required of the candidate in the job advertisement itself or in any communication with the candidate that takes place as a result of a job advertisement placed on our websites and apps
Good question! Actually I chose the name because it reflects what the tool does, I was thinking resumefa.st or fastresume.ai but they didn't click.

The similarity with the language is purely coincidental, but I do see how that might raise some eyebrows. Thank you for bringing that up.
I believe he is deliberately targeting low process burden, low soil resistance targets. He isn't aggressively chasing contracts for complex, deep, large tunnels working around existing infra, or rail, he's chasing places which want disruptive change in transport.

Nobody has explained to me what the boring company has actually done innovating TBM, the machines themselveds distinct from a cash injection and some energy from Musk as lead investor. TBM are flow process. It's a pipeline of inputs and outputs. It's scheduling.

The LV tunnel isn't a complete success either. It's not operating completely as promised yet is it?