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crosses fingers "Low hanging fruit, low hanging fruit, low hanging fruit..." hyper-ventilates

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I would love to see a First person view of that tumble

"Staufen darf nicht zerbrechen!"

Oh wow. Off-topic but quite refreshing to see a site not absolutely plastered in AI posts

What used to take 3 months is taking 9 or more.

Yep. You used to apply for a few relevant grants ahead of time, wait for your talented grad student to wait a few months whilst they continue their summer project, and you'd have an answer on whether or not you can take them on right as they finish.

Now? You apply continuously for a whole host of different grants, some of which are tentatively related to your field, at least a year in advance and hope that at least one of them pans out so that you can hire a potential grad student who might just wait around enough for the funding to come through.

The competition for funding is fierce, and I'm seeing a depressing pattern of profs taking on post docs who secured their own funding and needed a complimentary signature, to then take it from them and kick them out as soon as the money comes through

I'd go the other way and say Cyberpunk was meant to be capitalism taken to its logical extreme (unregulated industries rife with corruption, with markets/regimes perturbed only through acts of violence and espionage).

As life begins to imitate art, we're met with a The Thick Of It type situation where the satire of reality is no longer applicable and would be further diminished by continuing it

"Time and again, The Thick of It led and reality fell in behind."

I guess that explains the timing of the SpaceX IPO

Or XKCD. I love patch day.

Agree. I watch a bit of BBC Archive every now and then, and what strikes me most is how people are essentially the same on almost the exact topics we discuss today. Here's a video that films a pub conversation in 1983:

https://youtu.be/6yfE9Ihr8F0&t=686

Same fears, same talking points, same loud personalities stealing the discussion with conspiracy rhetoric and the rational ones in the room quietly disagreeing.

And why is the public so politicized? Why because they read all the same papers from their trusted sources, same as we do now.

I don't think the technology has fundamentally changed us, and I'm near certain that you could go back 2000 years and experience the same level of discourse.

Super cool! I notice the projection captures the seperation better than the clustering does though. How did you cluster?

I like it! I'm just missing from the corpus for some reason...

Quick glance: TF-IDF, cosine-similarity, the only thing missing is a nice UMAP :-)

You would expect more background pixel fuzz when centering an image kernel over an artefact.

In Hubble, that fuzz was marked. With Webb, far less so.

I think these are real true positives

Similar experience at my early uni days in UK - no PC at home and lugging around a heavy laptop wasnt so easy, so I had Slackware on a USB stick and would routinely go to the computer clusters to boot it up over the Windows mess they had.

The physics dept. was full of GNU evangelists, so thankfully they had real Linux machines. Everywhere else though, Microsoft had sunk its claws into

dampens the force somewhat and ensures the car doesnt burnout all the energy at the beginning?

They used to paint flames there, but wanted to appease the spiral god instead

The safety argument for street lighting makes me sad. I'd prefer if people just used their phone torches at night.

I used to cycle home in pitch black, watching the stars. Never had any incidents, others would notice me or I them before anything happened

I love it, I just wish it wouldn't hang so much rendering the output of the near instantaneous git commands.

More of an emacs problem than a magit one, but a persistent gripe for me

I feel like people on HN who have comfortable passive incomes from stocks or other sources forget that people need a paycheck to sustain their lifestyles.

given the concentrated nature of desert species' urine, I wonder how long that fad will last

It took the literal burning down of aristocratic homes during the english reforms of 1832 for the House of Lords to finally sit down with Earl Grey and hash out a bill that would finally grant large populated cities like Manchester actual voting rights.

The French Revolution was still fresh in minds of these elites - the July Monarchy having just taken place - and yet still they let it escalate to the point of near civil war.

Commercial entities latch onto useful open-source because it is a successful product they simply cannot compete with.

It will flounder for years as a game rife with startup screens, unskippable content, microtransactions, an intermittently working forever online connection, and a toxic multiplayer.

Then it will hit PC. Mods will breathe new life into it. Cracks will dispense away with the invasive framerate-killing mechanisms. An underground P2P multiplayer client will be developed and it will get wildly successful. Rockstar will sue, then finally settle.

This looks and feels like I'm handling vomit. It's pretty impressive how real it feels

I wonder if this product might be dangerous. Some subtle cues might assay my fears...

N900 and Poco F1 out of testing and into community! I love seeing old devices become stable drivers

Long live PmOS!

Ctrl+F PostmarketOS. No? No, apparently.

Book of Eli has vibes along those lines

I have canadian cousins and they send me the real stuff every year. It's just what you prefer.

Some people like a Rolex watch they can flash at parties. Others are happy with a cheap imitation with a nice form that they can wear daily

the real stuff was arguably improved upon with the thicker replacement. I don't want wet pancakes.