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non-··on Show HN: Outer Space Jobs
Agents should work fine, there's also an RSS feed, but no api as of yet. If your agent has trouble let me know and I can make improvements.

EDIT: I added an api and other agent friendly improvements https://outerspacejobs.com/for-agents

non-··on Show HN: Outer Space Jobs
I've spent the last few weeks scraping every job I can find in the space industry to create the most comprehensive possible job board for the space industry.

Currently hovering around 16,000 active job postings +-500 jobs most days.

The USA and Europe are well covered, India, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea are still in progress.

Scrapers run multiple times per day allowing me to track industry trends by country, state, and company (see the Industry Reports) tab.

It's interesting to see the relative hiring velocity of the largest players. e.g. Rocket Lab and Relativity Space are hiring much more aggressively than I expected.

motivation: the domain name was available

p.s. look at the stars.

non-··on Playa Phone
Phun and wholesome project. What service do you use for VoIP?
non-··on 1D Chess
King isn't allowed to move to a square that would put him in check, so there are no legal moves available. Chess rules.
non-··on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
Permitted? What’s your plan to stop them without triggering Armageddon?
non-··on Level S4 solar radiation event
> Biological: Unavoidable radiation hazard to astronauts on EVA; passengers and crew in high-flying aircraft at high latitudes may be exposed to radiation risk.

Anyone have a sense of magnitude for this advisory? How much more radiation should an airline passenger expect to receive during a G4 event than normal?

non-··on Postal Arbitrage
If you have Prime it's probably already justified by your normal usage. So shenanigans are effectively free.
non-··on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
The version that is live now is a big update from 2019 and was released today https://x.com/bruno_simon/status/1998361646939689235
non-··on Starcloud
One of the selling points they mention is that they won't need to use any fresh water for cooling.

My understanding was that water-demands on Earth were an overblown issue and minuscule when compared to other uses of fresh water such as watering one acre of farmland.

Not to mention, "used" water is just "warm" water that can then be used again for other purposes.

So are they perpetuating a myth here? Or is water use a bigger issue than I thought?

non-··on Starcloud
Nothing stopping the satellite data center from communicating back to homebase via Starlink network right?

Would probably need to negotiate for a huge amount of dedicated priority bandwidth, but latency shouldn't actually be that bad.

non-··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
This is what I do with my "Daily Brain Dump". I use Apple Notes bc it syncs up nicely with my phone. Every day I add a new entry to the top of the note. Mix of TODO's and a journal. Actually have two files, one for my life in general and one for work.
non-··on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
Teens are old enough to find their way around any content bans. This seems like a good way to introduce teens to VPN's and skirting content regulations early. It's also dumb because YouTube can teach you almost anything, I'd say it's the "best of the worst" when it comes to social media on the internet.
non-··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
When people say "you can just do things" this is what they mean. Fun article, I hope everyone reading this who wishes they had something like it in their neighborhood starts this weekend by inviting their nearest friend for coffee on the stoop.
non-··on Reflecting on WikiTok
Maybe a "Download App" button that installs the PWA would help
non-··on Reflecting on WikiTok
OP is a software engineer, so this is a software engineer using LLM's to make tech products.
non-··on How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
You definitely still can just show up and do cool hacks.

Also hackathons are really easy to host if you keep them under 50 people. All you really need at that size is a co-working space and some pizzas.

So if you don't like the vibe at your local hackathons, why not host your own one weekend?

I think the key is really the size of the thing. Giant hackathons with big sponsors and prizes are always going to be more "serious" feeling than your local self-organized hack-days.

non-··on The Last Drops of Mexico City
One thing I'd like more info on is in what ways Nestlé and other water companies have contributed to the problem.

I've long heard that they lobby to prevent the local Government in CDMX from providing potable water in order to protect their bottled water and water-delivery business, but I actually don't know how well substantiated those accusations are.

On the positive side of things, Mexico City gets a ton of rain during the wet season which can be harvested with rooftop collectors.

non-··on Body Doubling
I used to host weekly virtual co-working for founders who needed some accountability. We got a lot done during those sessions and ultimately met my co-founder through it. Later today we'll be body doubling virtually to get our taxes done together.
non-··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Any clues to how they plan to invest $500 billion dollars? What infrastructure are they planning that will cost that much?
non-··on In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
Depends on the book. Depends on the TikTok.

You can have passive experiences via either medium. TikTok is really optimized for that shallow level of engagement though and books trend in the opposite direction.

non-··on Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis
If you don't get past the headline you might miss the most interesting part of this story. Bhutan is building a special economic-zone city, based on Singapore as a model, and designed by Bjarke Ingels. The renders are really striking, many of the major and most important buildings are designed to double as bridges over the river. Skip to 16:52 in the video to see the renders of the planned development "Gelephu Mindfulness City".
non-··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
Do you have an API?
non-··on The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)
This is great, thank you! Would be even better if it had a little "click here to hear it said out loud" button.
non-··on The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)
One thing I've always struggled with Math is keeping track of symbols I don't know the name of yet.

Googling for "Math squiggle that looks like a cursive P" is not a very elegant or convenient way of learning new symbol names.

I wish every proof or equation came with a little table that gave the English pronunciation and some context for each symbol used.

It would make it a lot easier to look up tutorials & ask questions.

non-··on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
Honestly could use a breather from the recent rate of progress. We are just barely figuring out how to interact with the models we have now. I'd bet there are at least 100 billion-dollar startups that will be built even if these labs stopped releasing new models tomorrow.
non-··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
This is one of the issues we're running into at my startup ApplyAll (automates job applications & the job search in general).

Our current best solution is to track when jobs get published/unpublished so that we can tell what's a repost (more likely to be a ghost job) vs a fresh job with high-intention to get the role filled.

I was talking to my co-founder this morning about collecting enough data so that we can analyze if it's even worth it for us to apply customers to re-posted jobs (there are legit reasons companies might do that) or if the hit rate is too low to bother (our kpi is interview-requests).

non-··on USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
> Noisy and fuel-inefficient (9 mpg), the Grummans are costly to maintain.

> Environmentalists were outraged when DeJoy announced that 90% of the next-gen vehicles in the first order would be gas-powered.

I was gonna say they environmentalists were wrong for this, if the new trucks get significantly better mpg performance that's still a big win.

But apparently with the AC running the new trucks still only get 9mpg.[1][2]

[1] https://earthjustice.org/press/2022/message-delivered-usps-c.... [2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-epa-and-white-house...

non-··on Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys
So if Metformin is used to treat high blood sugar levels, would we get the same cognitive benefits by just consuming less sugar?

Can't see the full paper to see if they compared the results of metformin vs a low-sugar diet.

EDIT: Already brought up and discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522931#41523725

non-··on Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys
The exciting thing about these findings is not that the monkey's live longer, it's that their brains aged slower.

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Highlights:

• Metformin prevents brain atrophy, elevating cognitive function in aged male primates

• Metformin slows the pace of aging across diverse male primate tissues

• Metformin counterparts neuronal aging, delivering geroprotection via Nrf2 in male primates

non-··on Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync
Would really like to see a benchmarking analysis vs SQLite. How do they compare on memory usage and overhead?

I already default to SQLite for new side projects with the idea that "eventually I'll migrate to Postgres if this project gets legs", so switching to PGlite feels like a no-brainer as long as it's not going to weigh my apps down or force me to upgrade out of whatever entry-level server solution I'm using is for a given project.

EDIT: Found the benchmarks here https://pglite.dev/benchmarks

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