skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is because most of our telescopes in 2025 are ground-based, not because they're better at it.

And we're not very far from having many telescopes in space at all. Every year the cost of payload to orbit is getting cheaper. Blue Origin is launching their New Glenn rocket today and SpaceX is having their 7th flight test of Starship in a few days. Starship specifically will drastically reduce the cost of a kg to orbit if it pans out, and this is looking more and more likely.

A significantly reduced launch cost in turn drastically reduces the complexity and cost profile of the actual satellite telescopes.
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I think you are misunderstanding my point. You aren't giving anything up by enabling unlocking if the act of unlocking wipes the device.
I was talking about a device with an unlockable bootloader, not one that cannot be unlocked

Wanting an uncompromisable bootloader is about more than just protection against malware that might modify the software on the device, it's about protecting a phone that can be unlocked from having the software modified by someone with the ability to provide the consent that the end-user would normally give. For example when I hand my phone over in customs, or if it's seized by the police. If my bootloader is not unlockable, I haven't provided them with the keys to unlock the software, and those keys are reasonably strong, then I can be reasonably confident they haven't compromised by device

But, if they can unlock the bootloader for whatever reason, I have no idea now what is running on the device or what was run on it even if they restore it back to a locked condition
Florida is a huge place. Hurricanes are enormous but the part that does serious damage is pretty small. Most Floridians have been through a hurricane. Few have had to rebuild after one. A major hurricane that hits the state is going to destroy some houses but not a particularly large fraction of all the houses in the state.

Similarly, tornado alley seems tremendously destructive, but the breadth of the destruction is small. The average interval between house-destroying tornadoes at any given point is hundreds if not thousands of years
Tangentially, Yali, the New Guinea politician whose question set Diamond on the path to writing Guns, Germs, and Steel, was involved in cargo cultism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yali_(politician)
Having worked on catching Android malware, I can assure you that Android malware does not proliferate because people can unlock their phones.
There will always be someone falling for scams. No amount of safeguards will protect them if they do zero due diligence and the scammer is persistent enough. The checkmark isn't an end-all-be-all, but it's another small step someone can use to verify without too much hassle.

also, I just noticed "they" is ambiguous here. I meant "the twitter staff giving checkmarks". At least I hope they do some basic check before handing out a checkmark to an obvious impersonator.
And the thing is - single node can still scale ridiculously high without the orchestration overheads of distributed stuff.

You can do dual AMD 192 core CPU's (384 cores / 768 threads) with 9 TB of memory and a 24 disk SSD array in a 2U box.
you can also use it in place of commas.
> Because we are not allowed to program in another language that 'most' programmers can't understand immediately

If everyone in a code base wrote in a different programming language, the code base would suck.
I would take anything Scientific American prints with a grain of salt. It has becoming heavily politicized over the last 25 years. Its editor-in-chief was forced to resign last fall after calling Trump voters ‘fascists’.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/media/scientific-american-edi...

The magazine has also received heavy criticism for its naked political biases:

https://reason.com/2024/11/18/how-scientific-americans-depar...
Who is going to put each frame into image to image AI model and get out a photorealistic output and recompile?
I'm glad to let uv handle that for me. It does a pretty good job at it!
Let me clarify. I'm not saying serious things aren't happening there. I'm saying serious things don't belong there. You're doing serious things there despite the fact that it's an addiction machine engineered for mindless consumption. You're at the casino selling to the gamblers while they're gambling because it's the only place in a 50 mile radius where people can hang out.

I'm not talking about lowercase social media which is generally socializing online. I'm talking about the massive survelliance and engagement bait economy that props up these horrifying data behemoths that cynically run these networks for giant profits.

You're there because you have no choice. You have no choice because that's where everyone is. That's where everyone is because of inertia, addiction, and novelty.
Yes, I could, but I'd have a 90% chance of hurting myself. Ditto for giving some cancer with radiation, many covert poisons, and similar. I can name a dozen ways I could kill or harm you, but:

1. I'd need to be wacko enough to want to harm you

2. I'd need to be sane enough for a major engineering project

3. I'd need to be competent enough to succeed without hurting myself

The set of individuals with all the traits required is small. It's not zero -- we had Ted Kazinsky -- but very small. Most major crimes are also never solved, and many more people can just take a gun and shoot someone. That's probably even harder to track down since a lot more people have guns than labs and PhDs. Esoteric technologies make for easy investigations.

So in the end, I think state actors have these. They also make good plot lines for a novel or video game (I have about a dozen I came up with in the context of a half-baked creative project).

But for real life individuals, I don't see how they'd become prolific. We'll probably see a crazy someday, but nowhere close to gun homicides. They just don't make much practical sense for an individual.
Maybe that other dev has a unique ability you should reward. Sound awesome. Focus on that.
In that case I'm going to start reposting all good old links.
It was right around the time they started phasing out the pixel 6a (stores no longer stocking new 6a) and a deal for it came up on a popular deal forum with the abbreviation "SD". (I don't want to link to the site because I think at least half the content is ads and other sponsored content).
Apple iPhone USB-C Hacked
> I actually privately made my own Racket `#lang` that permitted colon-keywords, and removed the square-bracket equivalence.

That's gotta be one of the LISPiest things I've ever heard.

(No disrespect. Godspeed, I wish I could follow.)
You have to be old to have lived when man walked on the moon.
A functioning government is not possible as long as money is speech, corporations are people, etc. That directly translates to government by the wealthiest people.
The mid-Atlantic US is quite mild in all dimensions of weather. It’s hot in the summer but not at a level where people keep keeling over. It’s sometimes a bit cold in the winter but nothing too bad. Hurricanes are greatly moderated if they make it that far. Thunderstorms don’t build up that much. Tornadoes happen occasionally but never big ones.
I've used Leuchtturm1917 notebooks (1) as my journals for several years and recommend them; the paper is smooth and good for writing and drawing. My local art store carries them, which is a plus - I love buying local.

I've settled on the B5 10"x7" size (2) with blank pages. I love that it has two ribbons for keeping my place, and a handy pocket (I keep stamps and stickers in mine). The hardcover versions are sturdy, which is perfect because my notebook goes everywhere with me.

At first I used the ruled and or dotted versions, but now prefer blank pages for drawing.

1: https://www.jetpens.com/Leuchtturm1917/bd/254

2: https://www.jetpens.com/Leuchtturm1917-Hardcover-Notebook-Co...
I think CEQA only applies if you aren't building a similarly sized/footprinted structure, which seems reasonable enough. So I don't see why it would need to be explicitly waived, except to give people with the means to to rebuild bigger/etc.
Yeah, I couldn't put it into words on why "Facebook got worse over the years". But that was definitely one of the keys shifts (outside of my friends leaving). I was getting less updates from people I know and more "news that will make you angry" kind of stuff. I probably really "left" around 2017. But 2020 is when I finally got around to freezing the account.
If you haven’t played Disco Elysium, please do, there’s a reason people are so obsessed with it. It’s a novel really.
I'm sure they have a compelling case against buying into their crypto model, which I don't use at all.

I only use it because it's a highly effective ad blocking browser.

Give me a better ad blocker and I'll check it out.
Emulating a GPU on a CPU Using Finite Field Assembly
I watched 5 seconds and it was garbage. Felt like /dev/random
In addition to OTEL, there are many other products, including Odigos, Beyla, Kubeshark, Malcolm, Falco, DDosify, Deepflow, Tetragon, and Retina. Deepflow is a free and open source product.
+1 I think godot has a lot of potential here. You covered all the good stuff, I'll just add that in addition to everything you also get multi platform support for free - desktop, mobile, and web. Build once deploy everywhere (sound familiar? ;))

I think the only thing holding back adoption is that web devs are largely unfamiliar with gamedev. The control node and material styling is very different from html and css and would require brand new paradigms for team level development. If you're an ambitious solo dev though it's easy enough.
Ask HN: Do you think the AI hype cycle will carry over into 2025?
Nier Automata is my favorite example of the relatively rare "Loop and Grow" pattern. You play through the game three times, with each iteration enriching and elaborating on the story and characters. Brilliant and weird narrative structure.
From the replies it sounds like it mounted as a storage device and ran autorun. It was super obvious which is what caused them to take notice.
> Imagine the experience of excel being implemented inside a virtual world.

This already exists, and is called EVE Online.
Given that the vast majority of Android devices aren't rooted, bootloader unlocked, or even installing apps from outside the store(s) that they ship with, what exactly do you think is the reason for more malware on Android? (Taking the claim at face value)
You think you, anonymous HN rando, know better than Bob Woodward, an award-winning and massively impactful investigative journalist...? Talk about delusional!
> When it came to the ACE3 attack, however, Roth said that while Apple “saw the attack complexity and said that they don't see it as a threat - I agree with that sentiment but wanted to at least have reported it!”
I'm actually fine with trying to be virtuous rather than promoting rapists, corruption, racists and so on. The important thing is that actions match words. Words alone aren't enough.
Conversations 7, 8, 9, and 10 are a great place to start.
> give bikes their own space

In a 2D layout there’s going to be an intersection between pedestrians, bikes, and buses etc.

> anything is better than driving around in a 2T vehicle

While your gut feeling is that discouraging use is harmful the statistics are more questionable.

In the US, statistically E-bikes are roughly as dangerous as cars on a per mile basis. It’s got almost nothing to do with the bikes themselves and is almost totally related to the infrastructure and how people use them. The rates people on bikes ignore basic traffic safety and do things like speeding between stopped cars and then going through a red light is insane. Further, they are directly used around pedestrians with little concern for people’s safety.

PS: There’s lots of ways to slice these numbers, but we don’t actually know the exact numbers for miles biked per year.
Thanks for sharing! That RFC led me to this one, which helps fill in some of the other implementation details: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4998
tt feels llke this is just making a bunch of excuses for why fires are such a problem. The real question should be, is it impossible to have 100% safe controlled fires, or is it too costly? Can they not do smaller fires over weeks to make sure it doesn't get out of control? Can they not have a contingency plan in case one gets out of control?

I'm sure there are decades of discussion on this and I don't have all the information, but the results speak for themselves. For more than a decade we haven't been able to prevent catastrophic fires (not sure about before). Judging from the other problems plaguing CA for decades, it would seem there are other factors that have more to do with leadership. But what do I really know, maybe CA is a unique geography with unique history that all collide and create an extremely hard to manage state.
Almost anything you can do on Tiny Tapeout your can do on an FPGA and test it today (not wait 6-9 months to get silicon back) - if you are laying polygons yourself because you want to test out some novel circuit that TT is potentially a great idea.

On the other hand if you've learned logic design and want to spread your wings and make some real chips then TT is an educational experience - not only is the tooling different but often you need to understand stuff in depth that FPGA tooling kind of hides (because essentially FPGAs come pre routed) so it's a great way to take a small step into silicon design.

There's probably a large bunch of people who will make just one design because they can, just to say they did it.

I've taped out 4 CPUs on TT, I'm retired, I used to do chip design, TT has the same sort of scope as the logic blocks I was making 20 years ago - no one is going to be using it for manufacturing (you get just 1 die back)
is the scroll slow ?
Phishing Scams Targeting Job Seekers with XMRig Cryptominer
I haven't used it in ages, but last I looked their store was entirely pointless. I wouldn't be surprised if they just got rid of it altogether.

My point was more about how people would react if MS did such a thing (i.e. installs to come from the store by default).
>do you want a ≥5GHz multi-core CPU burning 150W just to watch a single video stream with maximum paranoia settings?

I mean, yes?

We're not talking about bloat here, you're deliberately imposing significant overhead load for a specific purpose.

You can't really subsequently complain about performance unless you bring sufficiently powerful hardware to compensate for that overhead.
When a lot of the oil trade between Russia and China/India and others is done in mutual currencies, revenue predictions are unlikely to be accurate.
I mean, it sounds like their intent isn't great!

I don't want to condemn your thoughts/feelings on this as I'm clearly not familiar with the specific situation, but I think what people are getting at is that imagining that other people may be offended by words and then policing based on that seems like moral posturing and trying to change people's habits for very little reason. If you take into account that (for the most part) the users of those words/idioms don't actually mean the 'bad' meaning, it all seems ... pointless. An action to make an in-group feel superior to an out-group, but that doesn't actually make any difference.

It sometimes reminds me of the (very middle class) campaign that took place in the UK in the last decade to stop people feeding bread to ducks, swans and other waterfowl. Well meaning, virtuous people took to putting up home-made signs about it at popular spots, and to intervening and even shaming those that continued the centuries old tradition. Pictures of swans with wing conditions were often used to try to shock.

While there is truth to the idea that there are better things you can feed ducks (oats, leafy greens), eventually the royal master of swans and a well-respected professor of ornithology got together and put out a statement begging people not to stop. Bread does no detectable harm to the birds, there is no known link to the medical conditions and it forms an important source of calories for many populations over winter. But the signs and the behaviour don't really stop, because it gives some people a way to look down on others, to signal that they know and those other idiots are just awful.
What do you mean by "break previously correct code"? Can you give an example of what you're thinking with original code and appended code, where concatenating the two (1) does not change the behavior of the original code when forward references are not allowed, and (2) changes the behavior of the original code when forward references are allowed?
California leaving a wet period will make it burn less.

The problem isn't a lack of water. It's that we get a ton of water for a year or two. A bunch of stuff grows. Then we get no water for many years. All that stuff that grew in the wet years dries out. Eventually it burns.

If we just enter a dry period, there is only 1 step: no water, nothing grows. No more fires.
...starts off by saying you can't measure productivity. Then proceeds to explain how to measure productivity. Very sneaky.
If votes are attributable, such voting rings should be easily detectable
Reminiscent of Shrek Retold
Congrats OP, now will you join us in the real world?
> Machine -> Asm -> C -> Python -> LLM (Human language)

Something that you neglected to mention is, with every abstraction layer up to Python, everything is predictable and repeatable. With LLMs, we can give the exact same instructions, and not be guaranteed the same code.
This is basically how every discussion around building more transit in Seattle goes. The town hall meetings feel like an episode of Parks and Rec.
What does “shadow tankers” even mean? These aren’t insured by the monopolies in the City of London so they’re “ghost” or “shadow” tankers?

Doesn’t make their oil carrying capacity any lesser.
They’ll say that but it’s a rationalization, not a reason. They’re starting from “climate change is BS” and figuring out a reason for it. If it’s not this so-called hypocrisy then it’ll be something else.

People do need to understand that it’s not hypocritical to say there’s a need for a systemic change, and not live as if the change had already occurred. If the ship is headed for an iceberg, it’s not hypocritical of me to argue that the ship needs to be turned, while not also going out on the front and blowing to the side to add some insignificant turning force.

But if they understood that, they’d probably have enough systems-level thinking to realize that climate change is real and an actual problem.
My comment is a bit more nuanced than your thinking.

The barrier to entry to HN is anyone with an internet connection and motivation to create an account with absolutely no verification. That’s quite the low bar and just invites bad behavior.

In many old forum days you had to be invited. Case in point- lobste.rs is invite only.
that's a, frankly, stupid argument. the conclusion doesn't follow the premise.

then don't root your phone or download an .exe. having the ability to do something doesn't mean you are forced to do it.

not safe enough for you? fine! make the current status quo comfortable walled-garden-of-illusionary-fake-safety the default. for example, there's no reason windows needs to by default allow unsigned code to run. hell, even make it really annoying to turn off.

but the "safety" and "easy to use" arguments against right-to-repair, digital rights, ownership, etc. is simply nonsense. there is literally ZERO negative safety or usability impact to anyone else's device because i'd like to own mine.

it's also an insulting and disingenuous argument to hear anyone on this forum make: our careers and entire segment of the economy would not exist if it were not for open systems. and it's insulting to basically say "bubba/granny is too dumb to be trusted" with owning their own device.
I had a manager once who said "work makes you free".
Still, space based telescopes will probably not be able to compete with ground based (mega)projects for at least a decade, if not many

Operations and maintenance costs will still be much higher even if the hardware and deployment would become equally affordable
That's why I only use Slack through a browser.
Shrek Retold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI is a similar fan-made reproduction, but it's way more polished. The movie is split into roughly 1min sections, with each one done by a different creator. The quality is all over the place, in a hilarious way. One minute it's produced by a professional animator nailing the scenes, then the next minute it's people goofing around in their backyard.
Related:

The Free Movie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399 - July 2023 (100 comments)
Please tell me Windows doesn't STILL autorun off of external drives? I thought that was solved years ago...
I would argue that the best of both worlds is being able to add your own keys and then relock the bootloader. Which Pixel devices also do:) Not sure about Chromebooks; I kinda think you maybe could reflash the firmware and then put back the write-protect screw?
Is the downvotes for the recommendation? It is a free club to join, nothing salesish there.
It's worth noting that there's basically zero proper evidence that there is any malware included with this device -- it runs an exe when inserted, but that exe appears, at a glance, to be a driver installer. Definitely not the right way to do things, but there's a difference between "incompetent" and "malicious".

The only actual "evidence" that was provided was a link to a falcon sandbox run, something which actually requires human analysis to draw conclusions about -- and anyone who has ever used it knows how many false positives it finds.

A better proclamation might be "cheap network adapter comes with an auto-running executable which needs further analysis".
Some of my all time favorite writing, regardless of medium.
> "So, vim won’t help with productivity here — it doesn't think for me in front of a piece of paper."

ai coding assistants -- "hold my beer"
This is amazing. I love that this exists. I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are.
Other than relatively rare ice storms, central KY always seemed to not have super crazy weather.
I mean you can treat it as just a general pseudocode-ish implementation of an O(n) find_max algorithm. Tons of people use Python to illustrate algorithms.

(Not to hide your point though -- people please review your LLM-generated code!)
UK Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI
I never heard the original Feynman quote; actually such a good description for things sometimes, what a powerful quote.

I also didn't know about the ties of Christianity with cargo-cultism lol.

> Note that the metaphor in cargo-cult programming is the opposite of the metaphor in cargo-cult science: Feynman's cargo-cult science has no chance of working, while cargo-cult programming works but isn't understood.

Is it used like that? I guess sometimes - I've also heard it used in the former, that there's software engineers that will adopt a practice in the hopes that it works, but even when it inevitably fails, they keep worshipping the practices by tackling it with the same tools and approaches (mainly in the context of OOP). Not agreeing with it just saying my observation
I think singleshot_ is saying the slurs do not make sense but drewbug01's explanation of the article's meaning is clear