<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: earthscienceman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=earthscienceman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:28:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=earthscienceman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "No right to relicense this project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Woah. As someone not in this particular community but dependent on these tools this is exactly the terrifying underbelly we've all discussed with the user architecture of tools like pip and npm. It's horrifying that a major component just got torn apart, rebuilt, and deployed to anyone who uses those python ecosystems (... many millions? ... billions of people?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261208</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are so many more embedded CAN systems beyond cars. Industrial battery management uses Linux and canbus, for example.</p>
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<p>Non-sequitor: "perspective hangover" might be my favorite phrase I've ever read. So much of what we deal with is trying to correct-the-record on how we used to think about things. But the inertia that old ideas or modes have is monumental to overcome. If you just came up with that, kudos.</p>
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<p>Can you give am example of the most useful prompting you find for this? I'd like to interact with papers just so I can have my attention held. I struggle to motivate myself to read through something that's difficult to understand</p>
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<p>I know this comment is effectively a side tangent on a side tangent. but that was always the strangest thing to me as well. I remember in 2012 when I was debating fiddling around with Bitcoin. that was one of the things that turned me off. I was sure that there was no way something as brilliant as this was supposed to be was developed by windows user.<p>Which surely says something about all these ideological purity tests</p>
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<p>I can't believe this isn't a show stopper for more people here. I literally couldn't figure out how use it the first time tried because I didn't know how to comprehend that it was trying to get me to auth via browser window. I kept digging around for a tailscale.conf.<p>Which is then when I realized it was less a piece of software and more so an auth management provider with some vaguely helpful auxillary services.</p>
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<p>Have any more information on the cop camera footage?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990296</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Just do this in a barn you own not a house I own."<p>Someday we'll wonder why we thought it was a good idea to make the need for shelter into an investment vehicle. Until then, I hope people use your properties as they see fit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026696</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Citizen scientist has measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not every day a personally relevant story shows up. I've done work in that valley and with Billy. He's a special person and that valley is a special place. For many reasons. RMBL and Billy together are a beacon showing that science-for-the-sake-of-science can have long echoing impacts.<p>I think my favorite part about that place is that there is a vague tradition for scientists to turn over monitoring gear/sensors to Billy. And his house has become a improvised monitoring station much more than the manual measurements he makes every day.<p>RMBL and Gothic should serve as a prototype for what I wish every ecosystem had. It's deeply integrated with education of students, it allows and educated visitors, and the observations there will continue to serve the scientific community. I wish there was a network of things.</p>
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<p>You see, the thing is, it's deeply classist. It's also misplaced outrage. The poors have been doing this for millenia and we still have a society that progresses rapidly and much of the heavy lifting that moves us forward is done by folks you and others here are denigrating. If they believe the things you disparage it's because the governments and systems that the "smart" and wealthy have created have utterly failed at getting those people educated and involved.<p>Using your education to feel better than others doesn't serve us to advance as a society. I suggest that if you're as smart as you think you are then you find a way to frame the issue such that you're lifting up those people and not punching down.</p>
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<p>Imagine being rich enough to buy high end cars every year and worry about OTA updates. What a world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:16:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39389928</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39389928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39389928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Stop using gitlab.com for projects – Credit card required for new registrations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Understandable concern, but this kind of fervor over this kind of problem feels a lot like the zealots who tear apart Firefox and it seems to be why open source community leadership suffers constantly. Is this good? Definitely not. But "stop using gitlab" and fleeing like rats into Microsoft's honey pot is like shooting off your face to spite your body.<p>I know, very clearly, that many HNetizens won't be using Github either. But piling on the hate train for these companies that at least try to support open source in earnest is doing strange things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:23:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39332843</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39332843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39332843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh. Here I thought I'd totally lost my mind because every time I open teams on my phone it takes down my cellular connection. As in I can't use teams on my phone because it instant disconnects me from the Visible network. I thought I was losing my mind until I found other people with the problem.</p>
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<p>link?</p>
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<p>It's unnerving, especially for open source projects. The idea of open source extends beyond the license. It is as much about the community as it is the software. Discord is the worst possible place from an open-ness standpoint. I don't use software that uses it.</p>
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<p>I mean, since this article is explicitly political and thoroughly interesting context I definitely have some criticism that I think should be stated here. I saw the film and it was very well made and enjoyable. A friend invited me and I didn't know anything about it before going in.<p>That said, there are clear problems with the political narrative in the film given it's supposed to be artwork. Making a film about redemption without in any way commenting on the evil atrocities you committed is extremely Japanese and morally dubious at best... downright propaganda at worst. Were the Japanese public and military rank and file the real victims of the war? Is it ok to pronounce the moral ambiguity of the top brass without commenting on the Holocaust-level crimes committed?<p>These things were glaring in the theater. And I know I'm going to get the standard "doesn't matter good film" responses for having an honest appraisal of the conceptual idea. But it's bad in that way. If we want to move into a brighter future we need both redemption and brutal honesty and this was only one of those things. Good popcorn film?  Absolutely. Cultural artwork on a new level? Definitely not.</p>
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<p>I'm someone working in the field with weather modelers/forecasters but not a modeler myself. Reading this discussion has been an absolute treat ...<p>The most fascinating thing about the concept of error in models, including in ensembles, is you can only calculate and propagate error for contributors that you can quantify. There are many unquantifiable sources of error. Imagine a physical process that you are unaware of that propagates as a bias, for example ice nucleation via aerosols. Perhaps you don't even model aerosols. How do you account for error here? What does error even mean?<p>Ensembles only show you intramodel variability. Which is like error, sort of, but only really represents a combination of "real" variability in initial conditions and how that propagates through your physics/parameterizations.<p>"models" the HN commentators make for their businesses surely have parallel concepts, but I don't see anyone talking about them. Only discussion about the errors you know when the ugliest errors are the ones that no one knows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:34:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527478</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Unaware of anything that originated on Youtube that fits into this category"...<p>What?! Currently the most watched animator on youtube falls squarely into this category. You don't know about it because <i>you're old</i>. TBF I only heard about it from an elementary school teacher. Here's a summary for the old folks, aka everyone here:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50D_P4kpZM" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50D_P4kpZM</a><p>First video:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD9OxAHtzU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD9OxAHtzU</a></p>
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<p>Soon to be moog</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482552</link><dc:creator>earthscienceman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earthscienceman in "Freezing in style"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As usual, everyone is having a different experience. Exact opposite here. I've been on Wayland two years and it's far more stable and reliable and pleasant. Are there problems, definitely. Are they different than the problems you're used to with X? definitely.<p>But in general everything works much better. Lower CPU usage, no random tearing or glitching or lost windows, hidpi percentage scaling is amazing and a godsend (and the reason I switched originally) and I couldn't be happier.<p>Thank you to all the devs for the amazing hard work!</p>
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