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Some fairly negative comments here. I think it looks fantastic. I'd love to roam the site, imagining that I just stepped through a farcaster portal into some alien civilization. I can't recall seeing anything that would be able to provide the same sort of experience at scale like this.

This is great! Love Soulver too, but having it in the browser is fantastic. Well done!

It most certainly is funded with tax money. This usually means that the work has to be publicly accessible. Which it is on https://arxiv.org. I agree that the fees journals charge to access (even your own) work is absurd, but it's not something most astronomers worry about. astro-ph is where it happens. I don't know about other fields, but the arXiv is really fantastic for astronomy/astrophysics.

Interesting idea. The number could also be an attempt to cover up their actual intention of targeting specific users.

Among the 1,900 phone numbers, the attacker explicitly searched for three numbers, and we’ve received a report from one of those three users that their account was re-registered.

While the title does sound a bit sensationalist the actual paper refers to a standard in the International Commission for Weights and Measures which is indeed (according to the paper) based on 100-year old paradigm introduced by Riemann and furthered by Helmholtz and Schrodinger.

From the abstract:

The scientific community generally agrees on the theory, introduced by Riemann and furthered by Helmholtz and Schrödinger, that perceived color space is not Euclidean but rather, a three-dimensional Riemannian space. We show that the principle of diminishing returns applies to human color perception. This means that large color differences cannot be derived by adding a series of small steps, and therefore, perceptual color space cannot be described by a Riemannian geometry.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119753119

Was also surprised not seeing the EDK for abseiling. Perhaps it's a cultural thing?

I don't think physicist really misinterpret this if you asked them. The problem is, as you say, that the "past" and "future" only have a physical meaning inside your own light cone. As alluded to in the video, you cannot compare space and time differences without defining a common reference frame, so it doesn't really make sense to talk about a past and future in spacelike separated regions of spacetime.

Special relativity is great because it produces some very non-intuitive conclusions about our Universe, and it's always lovely to explore new mind-bending questions arising from these conclusions, especially in outreach pieces like this. I think conceptual discussions like these can be very enlightening, but its not something that keep a lot of physicists up at night.

The picture in the article is misleading. It's an image of the Barnard 68 molecular cloud that has nothing to do with Boötes void.

Also, the existence of the void is not at tension with LambdaCDM, the standard model of cosmology, as the article seems to suggest.

I'm getting this:

  # fermented chilli sauce recipe
  # https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/friedchilli_83671

What you find most exciting is a subjective thing. I don't have a clear answer, but you can browse through the list of accepted proposals in cycle 1 and decide for yourself: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra....

The JWST is only now entering science operations. What you see is pretty pictures taken as part of the commissioning and PR efforts of NASA.

The actual science is yet to come, but will likely not look as spectacular to the layperson.

Edit: Here is an overview of the science that JWST is going to be doing in Cycle 1: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra....

This is manly a demonstration of the imaging capabilities of JWST. Making actual sausage is a way longer, way more boring process.

It depends on the science of course, but generally the sausage is made with specialized software that produces contour plots with error bars and what-have-you. The actual calculations will be done using just numbers, fitting models to data without any pretty pictures at all.

This likely wouldn't have made #1 on HN without "pretty pictures" (this is what astronomers calls them). Photoshop is made for pretty pictures so it would be silly _not_ to use it. :)

I agree, this seems analogous to the argument that simulation of the weather can't produce rain. In some sense, that argument is true by prior definition. It's like saying that the Universe can't simulate itself.

But consciousness is not rain. We don't really know what consciousness is, so I don't see a compelling reason to exclude computation as being sufficient to produce it.

We need philosophers to tell us that consciousness is before we start saying what it's not.

I've had millions of files in git using git-annex. It kind of works if you're very patient, it's definitely not something I'd recommend. I wish there was a solution, such as git-annex, that worked well with millions of files.

I think the author misunderstands what entropy is. It's not a measure of complexity. If anything is the opposite.

Thanks for sharing, but almost all "alternatives to Evernote" lack some of the most important (to me) features like web clipping, OCR and related notes.

The only real alternative to Evernote I've found is DEVONthink.

I so the same. Except I'm still spending too much time dicking off in front of the computer. I guess partly due to embarrassment about not working "full time".

Your comment inspired me to get out and do something instead. Thanks for that.

I'm not sure I understand the scale from exuberant consumerism to rodent play thing. I think your middle ground is still just a singular point at the consumerism extreme.

One could argue that "old gross junk" is just another strawman. Not something that can really be quantified outside of your personal feelings.

I think we might be better off if we came to terms with the fact that old gross junk may actually be all we have in the future if we continue our current way of living.

Might as well try to get along today.

Sounds just like my 2yo homo sapiens.

> The Free Drive system works by converting the rider’s pedaling power into electrical energy via a small generator housed between the pedals. It then delivers this energy to the rear wheel (or wheels) via cables strung inside or outside the frame of the bike, rather than sending it mechanically through a chain or belt. Excess energy created by pedaling is fed back into the battery. The end result is a power system with fewer moving parts to complicate construction.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22653697/schaeffler-free-d...

Thank you for bringing this up. This is an important distinction. I'm totally with you until the sentence that includes "find their true love". This sounds like there is a very particular kind of love (the true kind) and perhaps also a particular person that is the true "love of your life", and both need to somehow be "found".

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but genuinely curious as to whether you have thought on this as well, as I find the first part of your post quite illuminating.

That's odd. I found almost every point on that list immediately actionable.

- Use the work "but" less often (I can practice this today with my partner). - Start looking for a new job if you work for someone you can't see yourself becoming (I can start looking for ads right away). - Spend more time with fewer people (I could make a phone call right now). - Try to forgive more often (there a conflicts in my life that I could get out of right now if I could forgive them). - Criticize in private, praise in public (I'm guilty of the opposite at work, this is a good reminder that I should try to improve).

I'm not sure that "banal" is a good measure for whether something is important or not. I often ignore banal things because I forget, or don't want to remember. Having a list might actually help. Although I agree that having a list of banalities is not enough to make a difference. You definitely have to put in work as well. Thanks for reminding me.

It's not a fallacy, it's a paradox. One that indicates that our theories of quantum fluctuations in an infinite universe are incomplete.

This podcast episode has a good discussion on the subject: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/745

Oh man. Hotline. Fond memories. Thanks for sharing!

I agree, but I don't think this is limited to science. I think a great deal of everything is in fact trash. This is why we need education and good faith discussion.

And this is why we need error bars on all plots. Looking at these plots there is no way to know whether people guessed uniformly or whether the self assessment is clustered around the mean.

This is so great! I feel like most ML ("AI") products are just linear regressions with fancy packaging, but this actually looks super cool! I want to set this up in my summer house ASAP. Thanks for sharing.

I switched to DEVONthink Pro when Evernote switched to Electron and started removing features (e.g. related notes). I capture a lot of images of documents and need the OCR capabilities and search. They also have a fairly extensive AppleScript support so you can automate almost everything. Very happy with the move so far.

If you want to watch more car production line videos I highly recommend this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GommeBlogIT.

This. The importance of learning calculus and model building (physics) is all about learning to reason, making predictions and quantify domain validity. It's not about calculating derivatives or proving continuity. I think people take these requirements too literally.