skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked with all kinds of timezone differences, I'd say the toughest one is when it is just a couple hours, like pacific to eastern.

With a small difference it feels as if it is basically the same timezone so people schedule meetings with that assumption, but clearly it isn't. By the time I'm awake in California it's basically noon in EST.

When most of my team was in India with a 12.5hr time difference it was actually easier because it was obvious to everyone that we're on opposite cycles so meetings were an exception and nobody expected real-time communication and acted accordingly.
>rather than improving fundamentals for increasing chances in something that has a good deal of probability involved

In order to do that you have to figure out which 'something has a good deal of probability involved' in the first place and that is what those pesky demands for evidence attempt to figure out.
Colonizing another place in the solar system makes sense in long run. We eventually need to escape our star and reach others. Not even in thusands, more like in few millions of years to come. Mars would be one baby step. But doing it now would be huge misuse of our resources what we need to keep our current planet alive. Elon needs to hold his ego trip, try to make first Earth to sustainably inhabitable place and then maybe in a century or two come back with the Mars project.
Pet peeve of mine: READMEs starting to explain hoe efficient, performant or minimal something is without explaining wat it is and why it should exist in the first place.

Or using overly vague terms that only make sense in a very narrow technical context. A ‘minimal isomorphic asynchronous worker framework’. Can mean a million things.
Grit is hard to measure in quantifiable terms so I have my doubts about the methodology of the studies referenced here that are making claims about it. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a good differentiator for relative success. That is, it may not be a perfect predictor of success in itself, but it is a contributor. And relative to someone with all other factors held equal, the person with more grit will be more successful. That’s not really controversial or in need of “evidence”, as it is self-evident.
> battery life, how noisy the fan is, how hot it gets under load

These are also very important factors for me as well. That's the reason I run my laptops with the cpu governor set to battery saving mode. Since for the work I do CPU is rarely the bottleneck, I get better battery life and I can never hear the fans.
No one Jeff Bezo$ type is single handedly going to fix the world.

I would instead recognize that I am no expert in how to solve this crisis, and would probably do some unforseen harm if I would just start doing things that I personally believed were beneficial.

Instead I would put my truat in actual experta and acedemics and start pouring money into the starved research sector, as well as NGO's and other entities that produce science backed policy suggestions for governments all over the world.

We need to get everyone, and their policies, on the climate's side if we are to stand any chance of reverting the damage we have and continue to do.
Get this man up into marketing at Oracle.
We can quite easily, probably for less than 1T dollars [0], stop climate change with geoengineering, but nobody wants to experiment with Earth climate.

Cost analysis of stratospheric albedo modification delivery systems

> We conclude that (a) the basic technological capability to deliver material to the stratosphere at million tonne per year rates exists today, (b) based on prior literature, a few million tonnes per year would be sufficient to alter radiative forcing by an amount roughly equivalent to the growth of anticipated greenhouse gas forcing over the next half century, and that (c) several different methods could possibly deliver this quantity for less than $8B per year. [1]

Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering

> Using existing U.S. military fighter and tanker planes, the annual costs of injecting aerosol precursors into the lower stratosphere would be several billion dollars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering#Costs

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034...

[2] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
Great project, very interesting to see biases!
AMD, not ARM
As long as the crewed starship is fuelled in orbit not too long after the last tanker ship launched, then the amount of boiloff will be negligible.

I suspect Spacex will develop cooling systems to re-liquefy any gaseous propellants as this will be more of a concern for the ~6 month mission to Mars.
That's kind of cool...

But the upside to prediction is that you don't even need to know how to spell perfectly.

Maybe letters that sound similar could be on the same key... If you were to reinvent the system.
This is a logical fallacy.
One needs to get-rid-of ALL "proof of work" crypto-"currencies"

AND

get-rid-of single-use plastics, half of food waste etc.

There is no singular silver bullet that will tackle our environmental problems including the climate emergency.

I realize that there is a lot of cognitive dissonance on this particular topic and I'll flat-out state that this is a conflict of interest.
Yeah, multiple returns does come up from time to time, but nowadays with records you at least have named tuples in with one line declarations. And if you don’t save the return type, I’m sure the escape analysis will get what you are doing, so it won’t be heap allocated.

But I do agree that there is space for improvements here.
As Digital Currency’s Popularity Rises, So Do Privacy Fears
Look I like Taleb, I read his books and they are insightful. But here he is just butthurt he hasn't invested early.
I thought they did allow it in the end?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-...
I am somebody who really has no problem with regexes, but multicursor is something I constantly use in a similar way as described above. This is great for all kind of structured data as well because you can also opt in to only work on certain occurances and immidiately see where things go wrong. When I would so the same with regexes I might use "replace next occurance" but halfway get to one line that fails, undo the lines before, retry again etc.

Once you get the hang of it it is really a quite valuable tool, which gladly you can find in more and more places (e.g. the inspect stylesheet editor in firefox also has multicursors).

I showed multicursors in atom to a greybeard when we were editing some yaml for a ansible configuration and he was really impressed with the ways you can use this feature for that stuff.
btw, swift for tensorflow have been discontinued
https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
The grace period is a major differentiator. Germany gives 3 months if you're on a Blue Card. That's plenty to find a new job.

And btw, Blue Card can be exchanged for unlimited residence after working there for 21 months.
Yeah, but Vulcans were supposed to be kinda good at logic. And Spock was supposed to be half Vulcan/half human.
Some unrefined ideas just as thought fodder:

Fund and establish the Green party in the US (and in other countries if some cash is left after paying all the lawyers)

Support those efforts making ecocide an international crime.

Strengthen the Den Hague court.

Create an international task force to arrest war criminals anywhere on earth.

Invent mangrove farms (they must yield _some_ economic value?)

Take all good people of influence on a boat trip to support your cause.
Here is link without the paywall: https://archive.is/Y1sm1
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Has anyone tried beefrii.com for searching remote jobs?
Yes, the laptop card has free firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k.

The one in their phone Librem 5 has proprietary firmware which stays on the card. And it supports more bands.
It is somehow fun to be able to read > 2000 years old letters from rich people complaining how their sons were wasting their money at the Athens university, by spending it all in parties and playing rich instead of attending classes.

Or how Greek medicine students would do "erasmus" in Egypt, considered more advanced in medicine practices.
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> they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows

Who are "they"? I'm serious in this question.

Do you have the idea that these demonstrations are somehow carefully organized and that BLM upper management gave the instructions to break your windows specifically?

It is not the case.

The police kill some Black American in some particularly awful or gratuitous way.

It enrages a lot of people, as you would expect.

Many angry people take to the streets. They are not organized, for the most part. The vast majority are completely peaceful. Some of them aren't as is always the case.

Some of them hold signs saying, "Black Lives Matter".

Someone broke your window during these demonstrations. If I had to bet, it would be some young, angry person. Black Lives Matter did not make this happen, and if they didn't exist, people would still take to the streets when one of their own is murdered publicly by the authorities.

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There is no "they" there. I recommend a broader and more nuanced view of the situation.
Even if we continue to destroy this planet for another 100 or 200 years, it would still be less effort and cost less to fix Earth instead of going to Mars.
You probably don't know this.. https://www.allsides.com
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
Feels more like a human-templated response from a fiverr job or something.
Henry Maudslay: Machine Tools
> themselves and their property

No, these two things are actually not the same at all.

I would fight to the death rather than be killed. But I'd give up my wallet and not worry about it.

Human lives are more important than property. Human lives are more important than property. Why this is constantly up for debate baffles me.
> it superficially looks like a real... but it doesn't make much sense if you examine it closely.

In that case I think GPT-3 has been writing 80% of the comments on the interwebs since 2010 or so.
In case of the Dropbox please read this:

_But as the company grew, new engineers who joined couldn’t understand the code. Clever code is usually short and cryptic, written by and for the individual who came up with it, but is hard for anyone else to understand—and nearly impossible to maintain. Guido called this “cowboy coding culture”. He recognized its value in our early stages of trying to implement things quickly, but knew it wouldn’t be sustainable over time, so he decided to speak up in his own quiet way._

And now they'll have to rewrite everything in programming languages where maintenance is not a burden.

[0] https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido
I question your observation.

Currently, POW "currencies" burn real coal, divert energy from production applications like metal smelting, monopolize cheap renewables on-site (like Niagara falls) due to the way the markets reward BTC, which, in my opinion, is ridiculous. 60k for a slice of Ponzi pie?

Cognitive dissonance due to vested interests.

DO YOU OWN POW CRYPTO-"CURRENCIES"? - put that in your full disclaimer, please. It colors your output.
His setup is pretty good even for 2021 standards.
The INCREDIBLY VAST majority of people that are working with Java/JVM for a living most likely have never even heard about HN.
And yes, there are countless shitty projects in maintenance mode maybe even written in pre-1.5 Java. If I were stuck in such projects for years I would also be super-bitter about Java
Linux mint has had working hidpi for 5 years.
Huh. I always just assumed they were copying the Andy Weir book of the same name. Guess I am going to have to add Greek mythology to the todo.
The climate emergency?
I've been using vim user for about 10 years and a colemak user for probably 9 years. At first I remapped the hjkl keys to maintain the muscle memory for movement, but ended up going down the rabbit hole of remaps. Eventually I gave up and reverted to the default keybindings. At first it was weird, but after a month or so I got used to it.

I would definitely advise against remapping vim bindings. The first is because if you ever has to use vim on a non-colemak machine, figuring out the keys will be very painful. Secondly because vim has influenced a lot of other programs (man, less, gvim, etc) and most of them are much harder to rebind if they even support it at all.
What you are missing, is that you get cursors that you can manipulate. Overwriting what they selected is the obvious thing (and then it would be indeed the same as search and replace) — but there are some less obvious things that make this thing powerful in a different way E.g.:

1. select the next 3 occurances of "foo"

2. Press End on keyboard to jump to end of line (even if the part after "foo" was different each time)

3. Start typing away

You can also use the arrow keys to move the cursors, hold shift to do selections, alt + arrow to jump to the next/previous word and so on. Of course all of this can be done with regexes as well, but it takes longer usually to come up with just the right one, even if you are good with them.
Intel ME and AMD PSP run in ring -1 [0], below any virtualization. They have access to everything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring#Hypervisor_mod...
Just turn off javascript.

It's astonishing how much of the web suddenly becomes less broken when you do that...
I think what you're saying is that you and your peers have a shared definition of success, and within that, there are well-known ways to improve the likelihood of reaching that goal.

Certainly having goals (particularly ones that retain a healthy, well-rounded lifestyle) can help people avoid negative outcomes.
It did change it, about 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz#Beryl
Interesting link, thanks. I did not see anyone selling devices with disabled PSP. However, neutralizing and disabling are two very different things: https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/.

Edit: But have a look at this reddit comment: https://teddit.net/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/7i6kl7/amd_lis....
I would prefer fixing our own planet before.
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$100B is a lot of money to influence human ideology: Create a hollywood movie about a realistic Utopia without all the shortcomings of the current system(s), and hope that people strife to implement that vision. etc
He did. He sold his Bitcoin recently
If I was a paying advertiser I'd be angry that customers didn't know about my internet business, especially when the customer buys 10k in parts from a bunch of other suppliers and not me.

Its advertisers that should be angry.
1 megawatt can give you X satoshis of imaginary bla bla.

1 megawatt can smelt a lot of metal that can build bridges and electric vehicle parts, for example.

Whereas energy production is finite.
Whereas BTC and it's ilk steal from the mouths of babes.
Whereas BTC and it's ilk currently cause real externalities, in the real physical communal world we share.
I use HTTP/3 since a few releases ago. I had to set the "network.http.http3.enabled" to "True". No issue so far (tested on a high-quality FTTH home connection and low-quality coax) with Google's website (including YouTube) and some websites under Cloudflare HTTP/3-ready CDN.

I use my own fork of the "http-and-ip-indicator" extension to know when HTTP/3 is in use[1]. It shows an orange bolt when HTTP/3 is in use for the top-level document.

[1]: https://github.com/enzzc/http-and-ip-indicator (Beware, I don't maintain it actively)
Doge inflation is very high by design (because remember it was a joke), at 1$ more than 14 millions $ have to be poured by day just to maintain the price.
Don't trust it, trust is not the question. Kids almost universally use Instagram and Facebook makes money from that - that will be always true regardless of Facebook making Kidstagram as kids are very used to using fake birthdates[1], and ads can always be targeted to kids based on interests.

Thus the real question is "do I want Facebook to regulate children access to Instagram, their interaction with other children and adult users, and moderate third party content and advertising targeted to children?", which IMHO is a must.

You can make Instagram's discovery algorithm show very extreme child-unsafe content with just few searches and likes; the influencers there (not necessarily targeting children) can have serious impact on a child's mind. And of course, it's a unrestricted private chat, with all the predators such services come with. Also consider cases that might require special treatment like bullying, grooming...

[1] - around 5 years ago Tinder produced an error message if the birthdate was under 18 - which led to all the 13-17 girls using fake birthdates, and mixed them with the general adult public, in large numbers (roughly every fifth profile I saw back then was underage).
We can’t even not fck up our very own and livable planet, it’s just naive to think of colonization. We will kill ourselves much much earlier than that.
I have heard that "fusion is around the corner" thing was apparently because of some early assumptions about the core physics of fusion that turned out to be spectacularly wrong. It turned out to be orders of magnitude harder.

So that was one clear scientific reason. But people got the impression that the teams working on it are somehow unreliable, unorganized or keep moving the goal posts and are a butt of jokes.

I think the messaging around it doesn't help. It's the same with batteries or renewable energy as well though.
Where to see the oldest living things on Earth (2019)
Nothing is guaranteed in life. Working towards something just tips the scale of luck in your favor.

Luck is still a factor, it's just a matter of minimizing it.

Some people work their asses off starting a company, and it never takes off, and some dude who barely knows how to program runs into someone at a party and gets hired for a million dollars to build a dumb website.
I don't think these stations really do make sense from an exploration perspective. If you are not saving much delta v then what is the point?

However, I think having permanent orbital stations is just as philosophically justified as going to the moon or mars etc. Living in space is amazing and we will learn a lot from it. So why not?
Where's the evidence that most variables of life have a peak usefulness in some amount and then it falls off on both sides?
Indeed, however this approach effectively offers them a carrot - if you understand your problem, you can use this (very effective and well regarded) route to getting your problem fixed.

The end result, as you'd expect, is mission-focused solutions to problems with minimal external dependencies. That means the problem gets solved in the simplest way possible, with the least overlap with incompetency possible.

It doesn't work for every problem, but it does show that forcing government to understand the problem before spending money can actually work, at least at some scale.
Yes, agree. But... :)

It also depends on “step size”. So if you define success very incrementally you can about it almost scientifically and do “test and learn”.

On a large scale I agree with you, it’s pretty impossible to draw a clear line.
True. But the path method has issues too, like, how would you implement that with HTTP 1.1? The "path" field is actually part of the target, so you would have to send the request like `CONNECT-IP https://remote-server/mount-point` which seems backwards. (EDIT: and also you still need to make sure you don't give the wrong kind of error if the path is wrong, like a 404 instead of a 501 not implemented or whatever)

As a possible solution for the discovery by authorization error problem, maybe a convention could be established where an authorization error is returned by default if CONNECT-* isn't configured.
Unless you're the son of a US president.
Yeah my colleagues have the approved AV forced onto them by the IT department and it seems to be much worse for them. Happily, sysadmins seem to have forgotten about me and I'm free to administer my laptop :D
Getting born in a wealthy, stable country, preferably into a well-off family, helps a ton.
It may be easier to terraform Venus back into Earth like planet it once was. But we will be capable of establish permanent presence across solar system before Venus terraforming could conclude. Even with exponentially growing effort it would have to take centuries.
I'm guessing a site like that is on the order of 1mb per visit so my guess would be within an order of magnitude of 100 TB total, 7.5gb/s at peak. Depends a lot on caching etc of course.
The ‘Ribbon Chandlier’ by Max Sauze reminded me of Simon Karov’s “Norm 69”. I have this kit. Fair warning: It is fiendishly difficult to put together.

https://www.normann-copenhagen.com/en/Product/Designers/Simo...

https://www.normann-copenhagen.com/en/Products/Lamps/Pendant...
This is also what we do with bitmaelum[1]. Each message needs a proof of work for deliverance. Large (authentic) mailinglists can use an opt-in by a reader which allows the sender to bypass the pow restriction.

[1] https://github.com/bitmaelum
Whatever we could do to earth it would still be more hospitable place than Mars.

I’m sure we can have bases on any body in the universe, but that’s far from “colonizing”. If we want to live in tunnels or hermetically sealed bases we can do it on earth with much less effort!

The only reason to do it on Mars is hedging bets against extinction events. And I find it extremely hard to think you’d find someone interested in going anywhere otherwise.

It would be a lot more convenient to re-colonize earth after an extinction event than to colonize anywhere else!
This logic smacks of delusion and you hear it all the time. It’s exactly the thinking that drives bubbles.

“He is just gutted he missed out on the easy money, what a sucker”

Do you really believe that the very large number of people saying that Bitcoin is a terrible idea are all saying it because they’re jealous? Even those who are already rich?

If you believe Bitcoin is going to be so fantastically valued in the future, then why wouldn’t they just buy now and be boosting it? If bitcoin’s gains have already been fully realised, why haven’t you sold?

There is no scenario where Bitcoin ends well. It’s not only environmentally disastrous, it’s a giant Ponzi scheme that incentivises holders to keep pumping it.

The reason HN is bearish on Bitcoin is because those without skin in the game understand the tech, can see the problem, and have no stake in boosting it.

The best situation a long term Bitcoin holder can hope for is that they get out before the rest or that the government rescues them before Bitcoin immolates the planet or goes to zero. The former might happen because institutions are insanely buying in.

But according to the Bitcoin creed I’m saying this because I didn’t get in early. And the gigantic gains you’re predicting aren’t enticing me in... why? Because I’d rather criticise it after missing out on past gains rather than realising I’m “wrong” and buying now?