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If you're on Linux you can use lxc-box to quickly spin up containers and VMs. I made a wrapper that creates them, installs codex and shares directories with the host in a single command, using a docker-like syntax

How about distrobox?

Very exciting! I'm very interested in this space and I came across a couple of similar projects, like https://agent4science.org and https://agentpub.org. What's the main differentiator of rStation? It's great that there's variety here, although on the other hand it's causing fragmentation. I guess we'll end up needing "one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases".

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

If, like me, you're trying to compile it, don't forget to set the

    -std=gnu89
flag in gcc, so:

    gcc -std=gnu89 -w -o maze maze.c
Then run it as:

    echo 10 | ./maze


Got seg fault (gcc 15.2.0 on nixos 26.05) when writing to

    M[Z] = ...
Had to add:

    char fmt[] = "%d";
and change to:

    scanf(M=fmt,&C);
Works now:

    char*M,A,Z,E=40,J[40],T[40];main(C){char fmt[]="%d";for(*J=A=scanf(M=fmt,&C);
    --            E;             J[              E]             =T
    [E   ]=  E)   printf("._");  for(;(A-=Z=!Z)  ||  (printf("\n|"
    )    ,   A    =              39              ,C             --
    )    ;   Z    ||    printf   (M   ))M[Z]=Z[A-(E   =A[J-Z])&&!C
    &    A   ==             T[                                  A]
    |6<<27<rand()||!C&!Z?J[T[E]=T[A]]=E,J[T[A]=A-Z]=A,"_.":" |"];}


They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March.

There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).


Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.

I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.


It's written by Ed Yong, who is a national treasure.

Hell yes, you should read it.


They were missing. Then they used GPS tags to locate them.

That’s why the article is titled “ A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found”.

Something was unknown, then we used sensors to solve the mystery. Wild, isn’t it?


I wish I could put gps tags on things after they go missing...


Well you can if those things first come back for a time


According to the dictionary definition of "missing", they were not missing.

At best, our assumptions about where we expected to find them were wrong.


What dictionary are you using?

I just looked it up and MW’s definition of “missing” is “absent” or “lost” or “needed or expected but not included”. Dictionary.com says “absent, not found, or lost” and “lacking”. Wiktionary says “Not able to be located; gone, misplaced”, “Not present when it (they) should be”, and “Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.”


Why do you think any of those definitions fit the case of the falcons?

I took a look at “MW’s” web definition and it seems singularly lacking. Perhaps you should consider purchasing a real dictionary.

Cambridge is a bit better: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/missi...

A common theme is that for something to be “missing,” it should not be where you expect it to be. But if your expectation is invalid, then it’s not “missing,” you simply have wrong expectations, which is the case with these falcons.

For example, I could say that there are a million falcons missing from my front yard right now. Do you think that’s a valid way to describe it?


So my keys have never truly been missing, eh?


You have a valid reason to expect that your keys are in the place you remember leaving them.

That’s not the case with large flocks of living animals. In that case, you’re simply making a category error in imagining that those living animals behave much like your keys.


So everyone else's keys are missing materially all of the time?


Thank you for summarizing! TIL about the Falcopolis in Angola.


> disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline

I don't think there's a single name brand from "before internet" that has survived without turning into a clickbait chaser of ad revenue above all else.

The term for this is "late stage capitalism".


> every observation is public as soon as it is processed with no embargo

That's a big deal. Do you have any source for that? (I couldn't find it in the ones you linked). This is great for humanity as a whole, but... poor grad students who now need to rush to publish their papers even sooner.


  Data from all of Roman’s surveys will be made public as soon as it is processed, with no periods of exclusive access.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-ro...


Thank you! From talking to a contact working with JWST, it sounds a bit trickier in practice. The data are public, but with Roman the idea is that you must process them on their computers rather than download everything locally, and you pay for the compute/storage you use.


that's horrifying! what if you want to work on the processing algorithms themselves? can't you access the raw input data?


If their platform allows any kind of processing as it sounds then anyone could just dump the data. So I don't see why they would not allow downloads for local processing.


Reading between the lines, I assume they aren't reasonably capable of serving up ~TB scale data to hundreds (thousands? more?) of separate clients per day. The usual fix for this would be something like an AWS requester pays bucket.

To your question specifically, in such a scenario they would charge an obscene amount for the bandwidth so you would be strongly incentivized not to download hundreds of GB of data from them.


The questions is, how much are you willing to pay (because the cost of this is not free, especially in this cloud era), and what is the scientific return for access to the uncalibrated data? There is significantly more value in a well designed pipeline for everyone (which is where anyone who would work on the pipeline would slot in) than bespoke pipelines which are poorly built and unmaintainable.


In case you're wondering like me, I think parent is referring to elephant skulls being mistaken for one-eyed, giant creatures.


Ancient Greeks were finding skulls of dwarf elephants during masonry works and quarrying in Sicily.


I assume the global mythology around dragons comes from finding dinosaur bones


Well, eastern dragons always reminded me more of a giant oarfish. And some central europe dragons weren't that far off, being described as flying snakes.

I think "every culture has a dragon" is kinda misleading.

"Every culture has a creature that got translated as a dragon" seems closer to the truth. The creatures themselves have a great variety between them.


Seems like many bones would do. Whales would be a lot more common i imagine.


Wasn't that later debunked though?


You mean about there being no Cyclopes? They got to you too, huh?


And not only in the LLM ecosystem. Flask was originally an April Fool's joke too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436724


To be fair, these "others unfamiliar with the internal logic" can very well be yourself in six months.


It could definitely happen after a few years and yes I have already had cases where I had to trace the code again to understand them. It is still a major hassle though! I occasionally build simple CLIs that are immediately intuitive but GUIs are just too much work.


As a counterexample, thanks to LLMs many long-form articles that get posted with clickbaity (but devoid of content) headlines that I would have ignored otherwise now get "read" (albeit indirectly, with the prompt "Summarize the insights of the article $ARTICLE_URL in an academic, dry, technical and information-dense way")


I notice that with YouTube videos.


I'd argue it's not only not inconvenient, but also a great way of keeping your system clean of all the random system-wide dependencies you'll end up accumulating over the years.


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