skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, physics is about discoveries and explanations. If your model explains everything we have measured then great -- publish it and you will get proper recognition.

I do not know your theory so I cannot comment on it, but when I was in academia I received quite a lot of these theories and they were breaking down rather quickly.

Physicists are always interested in new things but what you present must make sense and - most importantly - explain things and agree with measurements. If suddenly you end up with incorrect values it means the model is wrong. It may be completely wrong or maybe it needs adjustments.

The best way to send your message to the world is to publish.
Copied from here by screye: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31815204

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As a reader, if I had to generalize; Dynomight is a SF-rationalist-substack-adjacent blogger with a good understanding of statistics. The 2 closest popular bloggers I associate him with are SSC and Gwern; both pretty popular on HN.

I particularly loved his blogs on the homelessness[1] and drug[2] crisis in the US. He? digs deep, does the statistical due diligence and usually finds conclusions that richer-academics-media houses have yet to find. I have found his arguments to be in good faith and are generally unencumbered by the political repercussions of said findings.
"Whats stopping?" nothing, and that is why it is happening constantly. A larger and larger portion of scientific literature is riddled with these fake studies. I've seen it myself and it is going to keep increasing as long as the number of papers published is the only way to get ahead.
When BlueSky was being designed I was involved in the developer discussions and continually urged them to make simple RSS be the least common denominator of their entire spec, and build on top of RSS rather than trying to replace RSS. They listened to a lot of what I said, including my "Repository" concept where every user basically has a big repository of IPFS content addressable elements, and incorporated that into their design, which I was glad to see, but BlueSky failed miserably on the "KISS" principle, because they made every detail super complicated. It could've been RSS-compatible, and that would've changed the world, and revived RSS, which is badly needed, but sadly they were unable to see the wisdom in that.

EDIT: And most of them (BlueSky devs) indeed were far left-leaning progressives who were much more concerned with censorship than freedom of information (this being around 2020 to 2022 Silicon Valley mindset), so they continually wanted to impose lock-downs and controls on the flow of information, rather than fostering principles of openness and freedom like what RSS is all about.
Really? It's a quite common contraction even taught in schools last I remember.
The DS can't play GBC games at all, it doesn't have the Z80 CPU from that console to even provide backwards compatibility. Nintendo also removed it from the Game Boy Micro, making it a GBA-only console.
- Can't play Flash.

- Forces devs to release their apps as open software, HTML5 apps that anyone can just install the home screen from anywhere*, no marketplace gatekeeper needed, no 70% rev share to the telcos.

* This remains true, except if you really want to you can pay 30% in year one and 15% thereafter for shelf space, mobile apps PaaS, billing/subscription management, and end user app payments support. If you don't want to, you can still just release HTML5 apps like the Xbox Cloud player from Microsoft, downloadable direct from their web site, no App Store involved. And the HTML5 locally installable PacMan game from 2007 still works.
I'm reminded of the opening line to Anna Karenina

> All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
"like" = "as if", and not in a Clueless inflection.
> can you tell me what happens when Palestinians have unfettered access to Israel?

We literally don't know, because since the establishment of the state of Israel that has never been allowed to happen.

> only if you're straight. if you're gay, the Palestinians will throw you off a building.

Can you cite even one case of this actually happening?
My TV's menus consist of what I would charitably describe as clip art. The icons that are supposed to be aligned row-wise are sometimes off by 1 pixel. Text is not consistently aligned with icons. They can't even get left justification right. Some of the UI elements have borders around them, but the bottom border is sometimes 3px thick and the top border is 2px thick. Interaction with the menus generally takes about 500-2500ms from the time I push the button on the remote. Yet everything is animated (using a CPU that is obviously not powerful enough to even keep up with the animation).

As I use my TV, I sometimes think about how many engineers, QA test leads, product managers, and leadership at the manufacturer signed off on this software as acceptable. "Barely functional enough so the customer doesn't return it" is apparently the quality bar.
Most established fintech companies have a Compliance department that ensures that the company adheres to the financial regulations where they operate. Knowing the rules is the first step. But following the rules when handling thousands upon thousands of real-time transactions requires vigilance.
Different people are in different places. And obviously some people have been fortunate enough to have choices, and some do not.

I would assume that most people in this thread are not working 3 jobs to survive etc. My context is not their context.

I'd also guess they are far less invested in concepts like whether or not the server offers fries with that. In my long ago, limited experience, I couldn't have cared less about how many adverts there were, there were more pressing things to worry about.

Back to your point - I choose personal time over more money. My spending is modest, my income is likely much lower than most here. Frankly I have more than enough. Living is a lot cheaper when the goal isn't money.
> even though it is, of course, entirely possible

I take the more realistic perspective: until git makes it impossible to commit something that shouldn't have been, like a secret, then deleting a file from history is a fundamental requirement of git.
Bro, really, self-taught people with a bare minimum understanding of the tools they use are super normal, and when they get into a pit they have to fix it themselves.

Although to your point folks would be better served carefully reading the docs / git book than googling a specific solution to their specific error code.
Work Is Just Work
Some might think those were good things because they were making it easier for people to access the content they wanted. That's the exact opposite of what Drew is proposing.
Wow, won't take long for that perspecitve to sound REALLY fckn stupid. I was actually keeping an eye on the company, but I'm pretty sure now it's not a place where I want to work.
My Creative Studio secured 25M+ organic views on social in the past 12 months
Utilizing my "personal" Instagram as a lead funnel, we created weekly animation posts that garnered 25M+ views organically, and a variety of clients from startups to Fortune 500 folks that needed marketing help. happy to answer any Qs about our content strategy and help other founders get their projects noticed outside of YC.

Plenty of work samples on our site linked here, IG is @austinbauwens for reference.
As o11c mentioned, they only existed for the first few flights, the ones that only had two crew. It wasn't possible to have the election seats with the full shuttle crew so they were removed.

The ejection seats were essentially the same as those used in the SR-71, so they were survivable at shockingly high speeds and altitudes.
that wasn't an unsuccessful launch attempt, but a failure to not launch.

My point exactly.
Yes “I drank the Kool aid” when Adobe couldn’t get Flash to run decently on a 1Ghz/1Gb RAM Android. But it was going to run smoothly on a 400Mhz, 128Mb RAM first gen iPhone?

Was Safari with Flash going to run well when Safari without Flash could barely run?
Just be sure to watch the longer, two-parts version; it's bewildering how much the ending was butchered, and changed, in the theatrical one
> Jobs isn't the only guy who could have negotiated that kind of deal

This is a debatable claim.

> Apple was a second run computer company that had almost no previous phone experience. They were not exactly negotiating from a position of strength

The iPhone was not a mobile Mac. It was an iPod with an inbuilt cellphone. iPod was HUGE. That was their upper hand.
Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools
https://archive.today/ySju3

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/
At least I don't agree IDF is the most moral army. Armies and morality at wartime is an oxymoron. IDF retaliated with brutal force, and thats the fact. There is no defending IDF, just like there is no defending Hamas. There is no defending any war. In wartime, it is foolish to ask one party to be restrained. War is about military might. It is good for nothing, so everyone must be ultra careful not to trigger one.
Was there with the company as intern and junior during Nokia and Microsoft days for Nokia Maps.

In my opinion Microsoft fumbled the app store by bloating it with questionable KPIs on number of added apps by anyone able to submit templates apps, while not getting key apps like WhatsApp on board. S\so it was a hard sell to have people's ecosystems. Same syndrome as with Zune, Tablet PC, and Microsoft Store on Windows.

Build quality and hardware of the Lumias was second only to iPhones and definitly better experience than Android.

The old Nokias had no chance compared to those, and I agree with the assessment that Nokia as Android-Vendor would have made little sense either.
I guess he could mentor bloggers?
I wonder if they could mandate that IP address certs could only be issued for IPs owned by an AS that has RPKI enabled.
This video of him raging against the corporate machine, really humanizes him here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kaMQCbKn4
I'm confused by this, why would sales team know in detail the vRAM contribution to sales price, and how is it relevant to your purchase decision? I've never heard of enterprise/SAAS pricing to be based primarily using cost plus pricing.
I imagine that clothing is most of what people who don't want to donate cash are donating. Makes sense
Not sure what the "official government figures" are but the OECD says otherwise: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/suicide-rates.html
A 'team', by definition, consists of more people than 'you.'

And, by the time a '#githelp team' is formed, it's to address patterns to which there are known solutions.

One of the many problems with Git, is that these solutions depend very, very much on the structure of the repo and the common practices of its users.

So, instead of executing random commands from the Internet, just ask. Please! Or, if there's truly nobody going to be around, give in and recreate the repo. You'll save yourself so much pain in the long run...
> HN folks would easy criticize Walgreens for not innovating.

1. It's possible for one forum to have two distinct groups with different and contradictory opinions, where neither represents the whole.

2. While some may have wanted Walgreens to "innovate", it's implicit that they wanted good/smart changes and probably for customers, rather than a weirdly destroying functionality in order to serve in-store ads on extremely questionable hardware.
Time to rewatch most of his films this weekend, a true visionary that we lost today and his contributions will live on forever.
watch as another greedy, distorted personality becomes even more evil
Tried FizzBee?
https://fizzbee.io/examples/two_phase_commit_actors/#complet...
I think humans are managing these campaigns. Specifically the marketing people at the various, now desperate companies.

It's not trivial to get onto HN when you're obviously marketing. LLM doesn't cut it.
Even if you were unwilling to change this behavior on the application layer or server side, you could add a directive in the proxy to prevent such large payloads from being accepted as an immediate mitigation step, unless they seriously need that parameter to have unlimited number of urls in it (guessing they have it set to some default like 2mb and it will break at some limit, but I am afraid to play with this too much). Somehow I doubt they need that? I don't know though.
A good portion of your monthly bill goes toward paying the debt incurred from massively overpaying DirectTV and Time Warner shareholders in the 2010s. I don't understand how the entire ATT board and leadership were not ejected. I think it was something on the order of $100B lost just on those two transactions.
The bizarre thing about this is that virtually all multi-platform games implement this anyway — it just works this way out of the box on consoles.

But glad to hear it’s becoming more common - I might check it out on Deck again soon.
What happens when your decentralized fertilizer mixes with someone's copyrighted/trademarked fertilizer? Do you have to pay them their dues?

If you think this is outlandish, you must not be familiar with Monsanto
DC's Metro (WMATA) has had a bunch of problems, now faces pretty big budget issues.

For a couple years there was a ismetroonfire.com website. https://www.reddit.com/r/dcmetrohero/comments/14w2t53/ismetr...

But metro really turned things around, has done a ton of track & electrical work. And it's wild to hear what NYC is dealing with! Feeling much better. And sorry for NYC!

Ideally we'd be much better at power electronics & have great power semiconductors that could update a lot of this stuff, make it much better. I keep wanting to believe in leapfrog wins, when you wait long enough that upgrading or building is better. Like with cellular, where there have been many late mover advantages.
If we wanted to be more accurate, we could say that less than 0.00001% of all engineers and professionals told elmu that it was impossible to land a rocket.

That seems less impressive than saying 100%, doesn't it? But hey, this is hacker news, not a math exam, and 100% is pretty much < 0.00001%, lol.
A.I. Military Startup Anduril Plans $1B Factory in Ohio
https://archive.is/wip/Z8k8z
Reminiscent of the opening scene of Blue Velvet.
Oh man! that's depressing... I always remember the appearances he made on "Louie", as a talent agent... He was so funny, I choose to believe that he wasn't acting at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM
They’ve been hammering us pretty hard, especially some folks in the leadership chain who worked with them before. While I have no direct beef with the product, the reality is that our Enterprise workload (and in fact, most Enterprise IT workloads in my experience) are VM-first, not container-first.

My research conclusion at the time was that, while OpenShift is a great product worthy of consideration, it really only shines in organizations that are heavily invested in microservices or Kubernetes. If you (or more specifically, your vendors) haven’t migrated into that state, it’s not worth it compared to a RHEL server license and their KVM+Cockpit solution for bog standard VMs.
I'm not claiming that physical books have all the properties of digital ones, or vice versa.

But there are reasonable affordances to a practical extent within both formats.

I have a large print collection, and a much larger digital one, presently largely on an Onyx BOOX ebook reader. I'm well acquainted with the capabilities and limitations on both systems.

(I've discussed the BOOX device fairly extensively in previous HN comments for those interested.)
You switched the samples! In the pathology reports! Did you kill Lentz too!?
No. Shorting can damage reputations which don't bounce back or if it choose a particularly bad spot for a company it could sink it.
Yeah, I was concerned about that too. It looks like it has a small thin edge connector on the body of the Switch 2, sort of like a USB-C port but without the protective shield around it. If it's not designed well, we could see it snapping off in kid's hands and requiring expensive repairs.
Show HN: Places to Post Your Startup
The people in the area remember (probably because they wasted 3 months trying to extend/reproduce the result [1]). They may stop citing them.

In my area we have a few research groups that are very trustworthy and it's safe to try to combine their result with one of our ideas to get a new result. Other groups have a mixed history of dubious results, they don't lie but they cherry pick too much, so their result may not be generalizable to use as a foundation for our research.

[1] Exact reproduction are difficult to publish, but if you reproduce a result and make a twist, it may be good enough to be published.
They definitely wouldn’t work because we have strong evidence that relativity is a more accurate theory and significant evidence that either gravity does not obey an inverse square law or our estimation of the distribution or nature of dark matter is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gr...
> Instead, he says it’s time for non-coders to begin learning how to use AI tools

Seems reasonable that more people will be able to utilise programability of computers.

People who already created elaborate spreadsheet’s with formulas, now might start also using python/java/go for their benefit. (Eg. Accountant, might start helping with the accounting system maintenance)
Steam has a verification process to determine which games work properly on the Steam Deck. If you follow that then you should have no issues playing your games on a Steam Deck.
Stuff like this goes back YEARS.

Back in the days of the Bell System, the upper management at AT&T believed that it was going to be circuit-switched forever, even as Bell Labs was building packet-switched audio networks and it was becoming clear that packet-switching was a vastly more efficient solution to moving large amounts of mixed data around at a time. The development of efficient switching networks [0] was fundamentally resulting in continually building bigger networks that took up more space -- it was the Strowger step-by-step problem all over again. Moving to a packet-switched system meant that you could have an infinite number of "circuits" so long as you kept track of the paths taken.

But even as AT&T Long Lines implemented this, upper AT&T management was firm that the fundamental design of the network was not to shuffle packets around but instead to connect point A and point B with services on either end for the subscriber.

Even when they did eventually try to accept the packet-switched system, ISDN was too big and bulky, too slow for anything practical, and by the time it was useful, Ethernet/IP came along and ate its lunch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonblocking_minimal_spanning_s...
My SSG (Zola) offers an RSS generation option, so I turned it on. Several months later I realized it was broken for some reason and I hadn't noticed.

Nobody emailed me or anything (I'm not a popular blogger), so I just turned the RSS generation off
Here's a quick example I put together on how to use these runners to accelerate docker builds: https://github.com/gartnera/actions-arm64-native-example
I actually really enjoy writing code, even after all these years.
A comparison between contemporaneous reality and the John Titor narrative (2024)
Testing with Nullables
> I'm talking about if you spent 3 years on React, now I can just go use an LLM and start writing react as if I have 3 years experience.

er, no, you can't -- I don't know why you would think this unless you're junior and can't actually tell (which turns out to be one of the dangers of LLMs).
Back in the 2010s Blue Origin had a naming scheme after the pioneering flights of American astronauts:

The suborbital rocket New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard who was the first American astronaut and whose flight was a suborbital arc.

New Glenn is named after John Glenn whose first flight was the first orbital flight.

There was also talk of a New Armstrong rocket, although Neil Armstrong wasn’t the first American to "reach" the Moon. But then together with Buzz he was the first to land and the first to walk. I don’t know if New Armstrong's still getting developed.
Pseudonyms are to opinions like incorporation is to businesses. It lets you take a risk without coming back to bite you personally. If you're right (or people like your opinions), you can gain a following with it. If you're wrong, you can always abandon your pseudonym.

I don't necessarily think that's bad. I do it myself, by posting with usernames that are not directly attached to my own. But there is a certain amount of respect that I give to people that do things with their name attached. They take a risk that many in our society no longer do: they put their name and identity on the line with their opinions. Even public figures who are absolutely reprehensible in about every way possible get a tiny bit of respect from me for having their name attached to their shitty opinions.
> Aren't there like millions of uninhabited homes?

No. Certainly not in places where people want to live.

Why would you think there are? Why would someone deliberately let their property deprecate while not earning an income, (setting aside the unearned speculation caused by land values increasing)

LA has about 2-3% empty homes. Higher than some global cities, but still a very small number.
As someone clueless about music and mRNA I've got to say this wouldn't help me much.
I think the headline statement sounds stronger than intended. In the context it reads like: Professional coders (obviously) do not care about Replit, so we focus on a lower segment.
This headline is distinctly untrue in the case of Western North Carolina; I was assisting in recovery efforts as a part of the NC Baptist Mission and one week post-disaster we were specifically being asked by the affected population to replace food in our deliveries with as many clothing items as we could find.
At least one exists -- https://adplist.org
A good algorithm is a good thing. However what a good algorithm is for me is often different from what it is for those who maintain them. Outrage gets attention and sometimes it is needed, but there is a level of too much, and also a lot of outrage unfairly represents the issues and so it makes me mad even though if I understood the details I wouldn't be mad just concerned.

I want an algorithm that surfaces things of interest to me, then says "you have seen it all, go outside" (with an option of if I'm confined to a hospital bed to go on). Algorithm maintainers want me to keep scrolling for more ad dollars.
Sell the clothes for cash and give that. Lest the west coast flames are given more to feed from.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-intentions-when-disaster-r...
Efficacy and product quality aside, I think that's the point.
Also on The Grauniad

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
Interesting point. Yes, if you pick too narrow a set of feeds, they might not even prompt you to engage with other sources, leading to our good old filter bubble effect.
I'd still posit the risk of that happening is way higher when you only have a centralized platform like, say, twitter, controlling the push-factor based on payment.
With RSS, I can still adjust my feed exactly to my preferences once I notice a bias or degradation in quality of certain feeds. This cannot be done if my feed is controlled by a machine optimized for maximizing engagement/advertisement $.
https://archive.today/EkOGG

https://archive.today/SO0X0

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/elon-musk-leaks-amsongold-dms...