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Hemispherical Power Asymmetry (HPA) observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations [1]

"We conclude that the hemispherical power asymmetry still remains as a challenge to the standard model." [1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15786

I came here with genuine curiosity.

"it only needs to be good enough" there are tons of productive uses for them. Reliable, much less. But productive? Tons

The guy was so annoying he helped "save millions", but we're still going to tell you how much of a douchebag he was

Is it just me. Or has the term "ship", "shipped", only become a (specific to software production) industry-used term asn of relatively recent times? Specifically as Sam Altman has been using it a lot I have also noticed. Ever since his increased use of the term, I've seen it used more and more. This could be one of those times where I am noticing it because I am thinking about it, but it really doesn't feel like that.

I have always associated new software versions with with my the word "release", "released". While shipped is not an incorrect term to use for software. Release just feels more appropriate.

Has anyone else noticed this?

All of that said, I am not condemning the practice in the least. Just interested in the etymnology of one of my favorite areas of interest. Hopefully draw some more knowledgeable folks on the question.

Okay, what about the Earth? If mitochondria are alive, you must also consider the Earth as being alive too. Personally, I think it's a simple answer. Here's my reasoning on the topic for anyone daring enough. It can be a very blurred line, but much of that is our shadow. Mitichondria are more alive than they are dead. Simply because they exist as potential and can go on and are intended for this, for lack of better words. Where as a rock will not come alive, no matter the conditions. We hope.

Maybe we should think of it like we do for other forms of energy and how I be thought we did think of it already as biochemical energy expressions. Along with kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy. Surely there is a number determined for the maximum lifetime energy output potential (work) of a single mitochondrion. While it is plain and simple, that's just life for you.

Okay, what about the Earth? If mitochondria are alive, you must also consider the Earth as being alive too. Personally, I think it's a simple answer. Here's my positively b reasoning on the topic for anyone daring enough. It can be a very blurred line, but much of that is our shadow. Mitichondria are more alive than they are dead. Simply because they exist as potential and can go on and are intended for this, for lack of better words. Where as a rock will not come alive, no matter the conditions. We hope.

Maybe we should think of it like we do for other forms of energy and how I be thought we did think of it already but was of biochemical energy expressions. Along with kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy. Surely there is a number determined for the maximum lifetime energy output potential (work) of a single mitochondrion. While it is plain and simple, that's just life for you

It's the Tragedy of the Commons

This is really insightful. TY for sharing

All science does is show us how to move a whole bunch of piles of shit over into one big pile of shit, off in the corner. Or perhaps on to an unsuspecting group of poor people because, the burden demands to be he held and somebody has to hold the bag of shit. Right?

We may interpret this as convenience... But the tragedy of the commons says that we can't even have science if someone isn't holding what it is we don't want to be holding... I'm not saying I didn't love science or not think it's super interesting or anything... Can we really say it alleviates suffering or does it displace it for one group of people until a new problem comes in and takes that one's place? How many people here will be holding the bag of shit tonight? USA numba 1!!!

Yeah, but they aren't the ones, presumably, who are DDOSing their own site.

Warning: Insurance is not going to pay if YOU burn down your home /// even a little bit ///!!!

This article was the bee's knees

I just recently went through this nonsense sand that was just getting my money back after canceling on day 3 of their 7 day trial. it had been years since I last used photoshop, so I wanted to see what they had don on the generative side.their tactics from the perspective of someone in the maze is unflattering to say the least. they deserve this

Wrong python. Hehehe

Fundamentally, that's why you love HN. It's why I do, and anyone else does too. Even if you don't understand something, you are drawn to try, and that itself is a hallmark of intelligence. We come here repeatedly because it stays interesting, because it is always something new.

While interesting, this would almost be more interesting if it was discussing some of the other applications I a think of, such as photovoltaic cells. By converting IR light to visible light, they should be able to improve the efficiency of silicon-based PV cells.

Another application I can think of would be for greenhouses. By converting IR light to visible light, you can increase the amount of useful light for plants (and animals), increasing the photosynthesis (PAR) and plant growth. Mars comes to mind. Surely there would need to be a lot of refinement, but if it can increase useable light 2x, assuming the usable light increase occurs mostly 2 hours before dawn and 2 hours after dusk and dawn, and 2 hours after, for a 12 hour day, that's a 33% boost in efficiency. Half that to be conservative and ~15% is no joke, either

A guy I know used to get music from me because he knew I had quite a large collection. I asked him why he was going through me when he could just download it himself, and he said, "I can't turn it up on my stereo without it getting all staticky." He had a car stereo worth more than some people's homes. The key difference between my collection and the collections he was referring to that sounded so staticky was that mine was archival, constantly maintained quality, and his was Napster 56kbps-128. And that is why torrents inflicted a lot of damage to a previously somewhat high-quality only scene. From that point on, it was like wading through a Goodwill bargain bin. Thankfully, it has rebounded in the time since.

Why would Russia be concerned about a contract? Reminds me of a story on something like Unsolved Mysteries....lady had her husband killed because she was a christian, and thus, didn't believe in getting a divorce, and wanted to be with another man (his best friend.) And his friend went through with it...

Ahhh, pseudoscience. A refreshing cup of shit, isn't it?

Why should I have to pay money to a avoid incuring an incurable disease?

I can understand, possibly, possibly, fronting the cost. But, only while they sort out the details with the installers. The first contaminant to make it through on a federally recognized level...9 billion dollars in funding. Holy shit. And this is just getting started.

This, after looking just now ( https://www.google.com/search?q=pfas+funding+sources&oq=pfas... ), Seems to be in addition to a 10 billion dollars that was earmarked in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of '21, and 2 billion from the EPA.

That's in addition to the up to 12.5 billion that 3M has agreed to pay directly to water providers through 2036. I didn't know there was a tort case, either. It finished last year.

33.5 billion dollars. I can't wrap my head around this. Seems like a significant amount for an equally significant problem that most people have never heard about.

And this is likely not nearly enough. This is shaping up to be a 100 billion dollar public health crisis / 3M offset.

Surely, I am missing several more broad funding allotments, this is just just getting started.

When I can't understand the scale of something, I tend to look at the size of the response. It's not perfect, but it's a start

Why then is the opposite true? Just playing devils advocate. Do you see the lopsidedness between the two? They [the 'rights'] don't extend infinitely into space. okay, fair enough. Why does theirs extend all the way to the ground? Exceptions / loopholes could be made to accommodate non-visually penetrable mediums and means, like weather technology. And if the government really wanted to spy on their own (as if), they could just say it was a weather balloon that had the legal clearance. if it ever crashed, I mean. point is, there's lots of language that could be defined in order to allow spying, allow air traffic, but not allow a telescope, nay-- microscope, effectively--of studying us down here on earth. while naked. (us, I mean, maybe them, too). the government is just going to do whatever the hell it wants anyway, just put that in the legal work, gov: do as you will. problem solved

question: can a spy telescope, when it comes to apertures, lenses, focal point and scale, but most importantly perhaps, intent, be considered a microscope depending on which way its pointing? it seems to me that given the size of earth, the size of humans in realtion to that, how is it any different than monitoring a bacterial colony Wirth a microscope? functionally. its not different, right? or perhaps its more nuanced than functionally, but surely its closer to being a microscope, than a "telescope"?

street maps could definitely still exist. I saw a project here on hn that showed a land surveying satellite that was able to track land parcels and shade them accordingly using AI. and, if they can blur faces out I know they can blur rooftops and naked bums.

that there is any effort at all to point out why this is okay is bewildering. it's antisocial behavior. there is a reason this is on hn, folks. and there is a reason why basic car insurance is not. not today, anyway. its because it is disruptive, obnoxious behavior that juts out and has jagged edges, and people dont stand for that. this isn't about my roof, or yours. people are quick to point out, "fwiw, they could cancel your insurance right now! they arent required to even give it to you, so yeah, they can do that" or, "they're perfectly within the law to do it, next". I paraphrase here, but regardless. I confidently say to that: Hah! then the law got it wrong, then. and the law needs to change. that is specifically the problem. they simply have too much power. and now they're rubbing our faces on it while a bunch of you rush to find why that's [legally] alright, while you only consider why it makes sense to you, not why it doesn't make sense to others. a critical oversight. they could have gone about this 100 different ways. fleet drones. really?

I predict that they are preparing substantial layoffs; thats the only thing that even begins to explain this situation. out with the old, in with the drones