skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ESA says 2.8%. Note how they also indicate the percentages for these strikes are not like a weather forecast that ebb and flow; the likelihood if impact will increase as the prediction corridor narrows until Earth moves out of the projection corridor and the chance drops to 0%. Of course, that's not a reason for monitoring agencies to be complacent or for us to just assume there is no danger here.

https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/04/asteroid-2024...
where have they indicated that they will open this up for bidding?
Hopefully there will be a page somewhere in these reprints that explains the difference between Steve Jackson and Steve Jackson.
This is real. I’ve had people ask if I used AI when taking notes live. They’d never seen anyone fast enough to keep up.
Given the fairly large thread on fusion today I thought this recent PBS Space Time episode on fusion might be interesting to many. Here's the description:

> They say fusion is 50 years away, no matter when you ask. Then why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups? Yes to train LLMs, but there's a reason the technobrats are bullish on fusion in particular. The fact is, the technological challenges have been chipped away and in many cases solved over the past decades, and there's really no one deal-breaker difficulty remaining. One of the final challenges is deciding on the physical vessel to contain our mini artificial stars--and we have some pretty sci-fi options that are nearly ready to go.
You can quantize an embedding: https://zilliz.com/learn/what-are-binary-vector-embedding#Ho...
interesting, so basically a standard by simply everyone using it, like the #. Cool.
Why on earth would it be only important for companies?
Why can't you be agnostic about bacon? An agnostic stance would likely be that what the Book says is just one view and isn't necessarily reflective of truth. Whether or not they actually eat bacon is likely not determined by whatever the book's stance is.
>"unless you are really really self-confident."

And then, WOW.
Without the lies our brain tells our consciousness, we couldn't function. Even core stuff like the way that we see or our experience of choice, are dependent on our brain fooling us in some way.

Luckily, we an pretty good at being hypocritical. This allows us to learn and think about this stuff while still believing the lies.
> Sounds like a zinger, but isn’t really.

Why not?

From the outside, trust me: we have no idea why you're like this.

Every time gun controls come up, the American people's reaction, visible worldwide, is "No! Guns keep us safe from governments gone rogue!" — so why are politicians not scared of them even when actually fired upon?

It really, genuinely, sincerely, makes no sense. Do your politicians think the secret service is magical pixie dust? Or are you all just so numb to the ongoing threat of it that you treat it as an unavoidable part of nature? (As per Onion headline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...)

> School shootings are usually committed by children… children have little access to politicians and little interest in politics.

I think you've misunderstood the point. Why do the people of the USA support the existence of the 2nd amendment over the lives of their kids? Just that, by itself, is already weird.

The USA is a country happy to let kids shoot each other as a price worth paying for… the constitutional right to threaten politicians? Who then act as if they don't feel threatened? I'm not even sure if that's better or worse than them being terrified by the guns, but it's just so alien a culture.

I mean, where I grew up, the regular placement of political figures in crosshairs in political adverts is already at the level of "WTF!", and yet in the USA it seems to not bat eyelids any more. Even the people whose faces are put in the crosshairs (both of targets and actual live fire) don't seem to object.

It makes no sense.
Being "biased" isn't remotely close to outright lying. Despite all the exasperation about Fox News being "fake news" or whatever, they very rarely outright lie.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-lies
Here are a few links that support what you say:

https://ecocult.com/is-leather-truly-a-byproduct-of-the-meat...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is...

I don't see any downside (in the U.S. at least) to curbing our desire for meat. We are over-fed, and most of us get much more protein than our bodies can use (https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak...).
Well, if generating a lock file and installing dependencies is "unnecessary" then you obviously don't have any kind of need to be production ready project. Any project serious about managing its dependencies will mandate hashsums for each dependency, to avoid things having issues a week or a month later, without change to the project.

If you do have a project that needs to manage its dependencies well and you still don't store hashsums and use them to install your dependencies based on them, then basically you forfeit any credibility when complaining about things going wrong with regard to bugs happening or changed behavior of the code without changing the code itself and similar things.

This can be all fine, if it is just your personal project, that gets shit done. I am not saying you must properly manage dependencies for such a personal project. Just not something ready for production.

I for one find it quite easy to make venvs per project. I have my Makefiles, which I slightly adapt to the needs of the project and then I run 1 single command, and get all set up with dependencies in a project specific venv, hashsums, reproducibility. Not that much to it really, and not at all annoying to me. Also can be sourced from any other script when that script uses another project. Could also use any other task runner thingy, doesn't have to be GNU Make, if one doesn't like it.
Most Jvm shops/devs I know are still on 11
No it isn't. Most of their revenue comes from starlink and rocket launch services that they sell in open markets.

Significant improvement in cost and capabilities over competition that enabled SpaceX to capture so much of the market has massively driven prices down and certainly saved taxpayers a lot of money for the services.

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

SpaceX does get government grants of course like most companies. It's by far not most of their revenue though, and generally competitively available and tied to particular goals. Investing and supporting in high tech, high value industries like this is often a good thing and returns more than cost to the country, as it certainly has with SpaceX. So it's the opposite of pockets getting emptied.
>This new administration lays bare what we've known all along - the legislative gridlock and dysfunction in the house of representatives and senate has made them completely incapable of governing -- the least productive in a generation.

Yet GOP senators were more than happy to claim credit for infrastructure funding that they opposed.
Same here! I got all the way back to the airport, lined up, but was too high and didn't know how to safely lose it. I knew better than to lower the nose, but was afraid to withdraw power and stall 50 feet AGL so I gave him the controls. The experience (of flying - out to Catalina and back) left me speechless. My brain was so overloaded from tasks, instruments and sensory input (there's a LOT of stuff in the sky in SoCal, not all of which is man-made or talking to ATC) I had nothing to say when we touched down. It was incredible and I wish I could do it again. But it's kinda unethical to keep paying for "introductory lessons".
The issue is that this sort of validation boilerplate shouldn't have to be written. The framework should be able to figure it out from the HTTP handler declaration. I suspect this is why FastAPI got so popular in the Python world.

IMO, a lot of the JS world seems mentally fixated on express.js-levels of abstraction still. Anything more is viewed as "magic" and viewed as suspect because it requires learning.
I've had two types of SSD failures, one with super cheap drives that I knew would fail early and gave lots of warnings in the form of unpredictability before failure, and one of the more expensive SanDisk SSDs that failed without warning catastrophically one month after the 3-year warranty (which wouldn't have covered data, anyway).

With the cheap ones I knew to be paranoid, with the expensive one I lost a few things.

Every single HDD failure I've experienced has had so many warnings long before total failure that I do feel more comfortable with them, especially for unattended backup utilities where I don't notice how slow they are. I've never tried, but have wondered if platters can be transferred or PCBs replaced at least to transfer out the data.
Did you or did you not eat it?
You are right but that's also a good indication that the codebase itself is too complex and at a certain size / scale, too much for a human to reason over even or even if something a human could do, is not efficient doing so.

You should not be structuring the code for a LLM alone but I have found that trying to be very modular has helped both my code as well as the ability to utilize LLM on top of it.
Nice one, but you need to provide a context.

1500+ jobs in which location? Which country? Which job titles did you search for?

By the way, 1500+ is a start but insufficient to determine trends. For instance, 48,344 SW jobs were posted in Jan 2025 alone [0].

It is a nice project to learn and show potential employers. Well done.

[0] https://www.comptia.org/content/tech-jobs-report
I think people get "install a home EV charger" mixed up with "install a fast home EV charger".

If your goal is to full-charge a multi-hundred-mile EV in 8 hours, then, yes, you're looking at a significant installation with a new circuit, maybe a new panel, and maybe a new main feed from your utility. This could cost as much as the car!

If your goal is to charge enough overnight to make up for 2x your average daily commute, then you're talking about a much smaller installation. It could potentially even be done with through an existing 120V, 12A wall outlet. Many plug-in hybrids and EVs come with a dinky wall charger like this, and they are enough 99% of the time. External DC fast charging can make up for the rest.

Everyone's needs are different, but I think too many people rush in and go too far with electrical upgrades.
Trump won in big part because the Democratic Party a) pretended that all was well with Joe Biden, b) swapped in Kamala Harris when plan a) didn't work. Someday perhaps the Democratic Party will understand that the job of a serious political party is not to inspire (Hillary! Kamala!) but to govern.

Forgot to ask--who is this greatest innovator alive?
As I understand it, most of his wealth is tied up in Microsoft stocks, so without collapsing the company he built, his hands are at least partially tied.
The piece mentions a 2018 survey [0] that revealed that 12% of Wikipedians (editors) have a doctorate degree. Have the demographics changed since then? I'm curious how the pandemic lock-down may have effected usage and editing.

Many doctorate holders contribute rich, well-researched content. However, if these editors predominantly come from similar demographic or cultural backgrounds, it may unintentionally lead to a less representative body of knowledge. I'm sure this kind of diversity is a common discussion and can be controversial to some folks.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190724142049/https:/meta.wikim...
It's a silly way to go for such a controversial politician.
I don't want to have to copy paste my other comment like a bot.

You're clearly not able to think straight because you're too biased.

Space X has about a dozen different military, security and space contracts with the US gov, at least 7 of them under Biden.
Huh, maybe my electrician wired it up wrong in my office then. I’ve got two switches in the room but come to think of it they perform more like an AND gate than an XOR. In the living room there are two switches and those are definitely like an XOR.
Are you recording non-stop all the time? If so, yes, you should not be able to do it.
99% of software I wrote in 10 years was never used
10 years ago I dropped my previous career to pursue a CS degree.

So I started new life, new country, new degree, new profession.

I graduated (again) and started to work.

In the last 10 years I developed tons of software and "solutions" in startups and corporate:

- mobile apps

- backend

- cloud infra

- ML solutions

- Data solutions

Across those 10 years and several companies, thousands of commits, sometimes sleepless nights only in two instances the software that I (and my various teammates) wrote was actually somewhat used:

- small parsing b2b service, only one b2b client used it regularly. I did not even initially developed it, but rather extended.

- a data pipeline for a sales dashboard, which some employees look at from time to time. I also just mostly migrated it, not initially developed it.

I went to the last company, which has insane client base and helps millions of people (really helps), with the hope I can be somewhat useful, but to no avail.

Life is perfect: I have a great salary, I live in a very good country, I have a house, social circle, loving family, job security, great work-life balance, remote work, interesting technical problems that keep my brain stimulated.

But why am I so unhappy?
For N scripts, you will need N lock files littering your directories and then need venvs for all of them.

Sometimes, the lock files can be larger than the scripts themselves...
What kind of discussion? I've tried it, let me know if I can help here
Last time one on this scale happened, albeit a somewhat larger airburst, it killed potentially up to three people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

8 megatonnes sounds like a lot, but it's smaller than many actual nuclear weapons, and unlike nuclear weapons, asteroid airbursts are rarely ideally located over cities.

Smaller-scale events in the tens of kiloton (ie ~Hiroshima) range happen quite regularly, without anyone really noticing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_air_burst#Events
Related: PBS Space Time just did a neat episode on plasma, focusing on what the requirements are for confinement, called "The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE
"The training task to expand working memory capacity consisted of presenting a digit or a word item for a second, with one-second intervals between items. For example, a sequence might be 5, 8, 4, 7, with one-second intervals between each digit. Test for recall could take the form of “Where in the sequence was the 4?” or “What was the third item?” Thus students had to practice holding the item sequence in working memory. With practice, the trainers increased the number of items from 3 to 8.

After training, researchers tested the children on another working memory task. Scores on this test indicated that working memory correlated with IQ test scores. That is, children with better working memory ability also had higher IQs."
If you're a nerd, https://av8n.com/how/ is one of the greatest tutorials there are. It's not simulator-specific but goes through all the fundamentals at a level where you'll be able to handle a lot of non-usual situations on your own.
And right on time, there's the flag.
It'd very likely be an airburst, so no tsunami, merely some irritated whales.
We know that climate change is coming with one hundred percent certainty and are doing nothing to stop it. I don't think a few percent chance is going to move the needle much on humanity's collective priorities.
I don't know about the crossover of technical expertise, but this smells like the perfect hedge against the possibility that Congress gets the cajones to defund anything Musk is involved with. You get your funding involved/intertwined with public safety issues, and voila, funding requests are fast tracked.
This is why I don't buy the FP hype
hetzner is currently replacing motherboards of their dedicated servers [1]
But I dont know if thats the same issue that was mentioned in the article.

[1] https://status.hetzner.com/incident/7fae9cca-b38c-4154-8a27-...
pprof isn't not even close to what Visual VM and Flight Recorder are capable of, hence why then there are stuff like open telemetry integration, which require active coding to provide sensible data.

This is the only mention of AOT

> Java's JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler and Go's AOT (Ahead-Of-Time) compiler are definitely two very different approaches and therefore hard to compare.

Zero content on all the options since Excelsior JET and other commercial alternatives came to be, or the free beer alternatives available nowadays.

JIT caches and plain old JIT aren't the same.

JIT caches are similar in concept to AOT with PGO, with the difference that instead of doing that once for the lifetime of the executable with data from test runs, it gets updated after each production execution.
Purpose and meaning is found outside of the job. The money is what enables that. Happiness is reality minus expectations.

> Life is perfect: I have a great salary, I live in a very good country, I have a house, social circle, loving family, job security, great work-life balance, remote work, interesting technical problems that keep my brain stimulated.

Reflect on your mindset if you are unhappy assuming all of the above. It sounds like life is perfect, although perhaps there is opportunity for unpaid/uncompensated work or other effort outside of your job to contribute towards your desire to find purpose and meaning.
I meant to post this on Show HN, but my new Hacker News client messed it up. Sorry =]
I'm failing to see how whether or not you did has anything to do with your opinion of what the book says, unless of course you are a believer in the book, in which case you aren't agnostic.
I've actually looked into this in the past (for measuring the spectra of LED bulbs), but they're significantly more expensive than I expected! Gratings are cheap, but digital models seem to run upwards of $2k. Any suggestions for midrange models would be appreciated!
That's the problem isn't it ? The Java of 8+ years ago is always compared to the Rust/Go/Python of today. (I am also guilty of this)
Customers are the best QA. And they pay you too, instead of the reverse!
Just for curiosity: do you have a source?
Unfortunately, bad actors abuse GitHub more and more. Only last year there were some articles about it: https://gitprotect.io/devops-threats-unwrapped.html
Same reason I didn't take a calligraphy class so I could handwrite.

Hunt and peck is perfectly functional for most typing. People can hunt and peck quite quickly.

The question is do you type slowly or quickly, not which method you use.
Within the normal flight envelope MCAS doesn't activate. MCAS was designed only for the case of high alpha low speed high thrust. Otherwise the max flies very similarly to the NG. The MCAS crashes were only possible because of faulty AOA sensors. There is no inherent defects in the flight characteristics of the MAX.
Some were, but then again Ethereum was an ICO as was XRP.

Again with DeFi, some were just Ponzi schemes (see SBFs infamous box token comments) but it also gave us Uniswap and Compound. These at least allow you to take directional bets on crypto so you can make money on its downfall.

> and they can't keep up with the rate of new scam technology that comes out of crypto.

There’s really been no innovation in scams recently. Just highly promote a smart contract token you can buy early on then dump it.

> but a lot of them are effectively ICOs under a different name.

They explicitly cannot promise to do anything economically productive with the offering because that fails the Howey test.
People can write bad code in any language
A real monolithic app dealing with videostreaming that I have been working recently, was based on Spring Boot and AWS SDK and it was a 82 Mb jar file. It had the drivers, oauth stuff, a couple of template engines for business reasons (Handlebars and Thymeleaf), database and queue drivers etc. It could be maintained and extended by a junior developer, because it had established design patterns and they only needed to follow some project conventions. We had multiple releases per week at engineering cost of less than 25k€ per year.
I would not be able to build something like that with that budget on Go.
In what kind of scope are these data processing scripts? In some kind of pipeline used in production I very much would expect them to have reproducible dependencies.

I can understand it for exploratory Jupyter Notebook. But only in the truly exploratory stage. Say for example you are writing a paper. Reproducibility crisis. Exploring is fine, but when it gets to actually writing the paper, one needs to make ones setup reproducible, or lose credibility right away. Most academics are not aware of, or don't know how to, or don't care to, make things reproducible, leading to non-reproducible research.

I would be lying, if I claimed, that I personally always set up a lock file with hashsums for every script. Of course there can be scripts and things we care so little about, that we don't make them reproducible.
Ironically, the common (used to be common?) trope about foundation models being picks and shovels and LLM wrappers having no values is probably backwards. ChatGPT is the most valuable AI product and it's just a wrapper around an underlying LLM that is not 10x better than the rest of the models.
WAL mode requires shared memory, so doesn’t work over the network.

mmap_size = 1TiB requires 1TiB of address space per connection. This is fine on 64-bit, unless you have millions of connections. Doesn’t work with 32-bit (4GiB) address space.

You want mmap_size to be greater than the size of your database. If you know your database will be small then you could set it to a smaller number, but you could still become address space constrained with many connections.
I've got one coming my way hopefully in next 2 months..

I kind of see it similarly to this review - a new category of device and not quite a 1-1 replacement of anything I have.

I have reluctantly owned Kindles & iPads since v1 of each, and don't particularly like either.

For me the iPad is always the 2nd (or 3rd) best device - if I'm seated indoors at a table or sofa, a MacBook is better.. if I'm on the go, a big iPhone is better.. if I am doing book length reading, a kindle is better. I can go a week or three without picking up my iPad. I find the OS annoyingly close to being a proper mini MacOS that never quite gets close enough in terms of multitasking/etc. It almost would be better by not trying to do so many things.

That said I find Kindles to be the worst tech product I regularly use, hands down. It's good for reading books in bed, thats basically it. But its so much better at that, I use it daily.

All the notetaking/highlighting/sharing functionality is garbage. Attempts to download/purchase more books on it are clunky enough I just wait til I'm back at phone/desktop. It also has the most bizarre ad targeting showing me content I would never read despite having nearly 20 years of my reading history.

I've even tried the Remarkable (v1) for a couple years as a work note-taking device.

So I'm hoping the Daylight solves the "3rd device" issue a bit better, but tbd.
Light computing, mostly for reading, plus some light note taking, touch & keyboard, better battery life and a screen that works outdoors.
i am very confused... what is 3D? to me 3D means three dimensions - but it looks like 3D refers to a product? this page doesn't help with explaining anything