skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do and when I go somewhere else I feel like a caveman using TP
My understanding is that many physicists do not think that black holes destroy information. For example, in [1] Patrick Hayden describes how Hawking radiation can act as an erasure code and information can be recovered. For more on those who think that information can be recovered, see [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.4025.pdf

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-black-hole-information-pa...
Derek Muller: “Physics sucks” (2005) [video]
I generally never comment on this to my coworkers because I want to be polite and keep good relationships (I've had very hard responses to very polite requests just to open the windows in the past, so I simply stopped commenting).

I'm doing this here because I'm seeing this often, and I want to be honest: no, it doesn't really do much, unless we're talking about ~50cm face-to-face conversations maybe (something that would make me back-off quite sharply, gum or not).

Keep in mind the smell after 10 minutes of open-air ventilation is still not a smell I would consider acceptable. For consideration, a very nasty and strong office fart would be in the same line of stench for my nose at that point. Except a fart doesn't tend to cling on for so long.

Sorry for the analogy :(
I was debating between using ULID vs just using the same sequential bigint sharding strategy that Instagram uses[1][2].

I ended up deciding to use sharded bigints because it enables better indexing, even though there are drawbacks when first writing the instances; The benefit of faster search was more important for me.

[1]: https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-...

[2]: http://www.livinginthepast.org/2016/02/24/sharding-into-bigi...
It is not just that.

For example if you read letters from Dom Pedro I to Dom Pedro II, and also see the opinions they had, both believed Brazillian economy was backwards and stupid, they believed strongly that it would be far more profitable, not just for the country, but even for the large landowners, if they agreed with the end of slavery, because it would create a consumer class (among other things).

I also saw similar issues regarding modernization of manufacturing, with the government wanting it but the elite resisting.

When the State finally ended slavery for good (after many attempts! For example one thing I was never taught in school, is that Brazil explicitly allowed England to sink Brazillian slaver ships way before slavery officially ended, as an attempt to end slavery while not antagonizing the elite), instead the elite kicked the government out and created its own.

Things basically remain this way, whenever the leadership is promising, the elite kick it out somehow.
China's digital Yuan has some similar properties to Ecash. You have horizontal privacy (you can spend your money without your partners knowing how much you have or what you do with it), but not vertical privacy (the government gets to know _everything_).

They're even working on extending it to support offline transactions.

This is a scary thing to put into any government's hands, let alone the Chinese government's, but it has enough attractive properties that it has a good chance of catching on.
Oh and I was definitely smoking a pack a day+ for most of my 20's. Quit when I was 30.
I feel sorry for you if you actually believe that.
Sometimes it takes a while for the law to catch up to what the populace wants.

Imagine if leaders felt pressure to actually do the right thing in most cases because they would otherwise be criminally prosecuted for their incompetence.
Well, "we" might have already abandoned the metaphor. On my Chromebook there is a filesystem but I can ignore it, and the filesystem lacks a thing called "desktop". There's no way to litter the root window with files, like there is on macOS or Windows or Ubuntu. Ephemera such as screenshots and downloads go in a little stack in the corner of the screen and eventually disappear, unless I pin them. Access to files is generally by search instead of folder traversal.
I have been putting my Linux notes online in the form of a blog. I use a plugin that estimates the time it takes to read each article. I try to keep them all under five minutes, unless I specifically set out to write a longer article.

Inside that, I also try to not use more than 300 words without a new sub-heading, avoid too much passive voice, don't use too many overly long sentences, and don't use the same first word for more than two sentences in a row.
Tobacco free snus like pouches have exploded in the US the past two years. I quit smoking about a year and a half ago by switching to them. I'm not sure if they're cooler or less cool than gum but it's pretty great not smoking. I'd recommend anyone trying to quit to look into them as a possibility.
Only four? i5-11400H is a real name too:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/213805/...
Here are the steps I took that have helped me not smoke for the past 1.5yrs:

1. Switched from cigarettes (great taste) to an iqos (disgusting taste).

2. Threw away my iqos the day before I moved countries (back to my home country).

3. Arrived in new country around new years, set that new years resolution.

4. Spent first 1-2 months of new year living with my parents while I searched for housing.

Aside from the resolution, each step wasn't particularly aimed at quitting _forever_. With time under my belt, I've since adopted a hardline "no cigarettes for life" mentality. It comes at the cost of being overly judgmental of others who are smoking. It keeps me in check though; otherwise, I sense that a relapse is far too easy.
Thanks for keeping your mind open.

I think racism is just as charged. Don't you?
that reminds about the Finland approach - bunch of years ago i read that the government specifically targeted high speed internet expansion into rural/remote areas (in particular the Baltic sea shores which are beautiful to live on) to provide jobs and thus avoid depopulation.
Using WordPerfect 8.1 on Linux (2021)
That dialog also invokes so many issues with computers today.

When I open a program, I want to use that program. I don't want to update it, I don't want to see all the new features, I want to USE it. I opened it because I had a task to complete and all this junk is getting in my way.

And same when I close a program, as the author hits on very well.

Basically, the computer/program/etc always wants me to do something for it, but it never asks for those things at an opportune time.

No, I don't want to update my computer right now, and no, updating overnight tonight isn't good either because I need to keep this program running until tomorrow. I understand that your new UX is better for me, and I'm sure I'll love it, but forcing that on me right now is preventing me from doing what I need to do. I see your error dialog describing some odd issue, but I don't have time to triage that right now and decide to take the time to fix it.

I wish software would respect the human element more. My time and attention is valuable, please don't interrupt it carelessly.
The goal of "Software is going to eat the world", Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat", Thiel's "Competition is for Losers" is to sound profound. Any inherit wisdom is accidental.
Surprised https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder is not mentioned.

(by Ray Bradbury)
How close were we? Was there a pivotal moment where an individual hero saved the day, or maybe something completely different? Just trying to get a handle on the truth of the matter, I don't seem to know very much about the specific details of that infamous day where our most precious institution hung in the balance (if I'm understanding correctly).
As I studied Midway, the conclusion I came to was that the Japanese made a big mistake: They had two attacks for two quite different goals going at once, and the two conflicted and were one too many.

The two attacks were (1) attacking the ground installations on Midway island and (2) defending against the US aircraft carriers.

For (1), the main goal of the whole operation was to take Midway island, but early in that operation the goal was to destroy the ability of US planes on Midway to attack the Japanese ships. The Japanese kept worrying about attacks on their ships from US planes on Midway.

For (2) the Japanese had tried to determine where the US carriers were but the effort failed, and, net, the Japanese didn't know where the US carriers were. The Japanese considered the possibility that the US carriers really were about ready to find and attack the Japanese ships.

Then, net, handling both (1) and (2) was too much and led to (A) having the Japanese airplanes busy with (1) and unable to respond to (2) and (B) giving too little attention to (2) until too late. In particular, the Japanese had to wait, wait too long, wait on their airplanes returning from their attack on Midway and have their decks full of those returning airplanes. Also they had to wait, wait too long, wait to rearm their planes with torpedoes for attacking US ships instead of bombs for attacking Midway ground targets.

Basically, either (1) for the island or (2) for the US ships was a long term effort, from getting ready, launching the planes, managing their fighter cover for their ships, recovering the planes, getting the planes below decks, refueled, rearmed, and ready for launching again. The Japanese were able to do well at all that for either (1) or (2) but not for both in the time available. The Japanese underestimated the challenge and threat of trying to do both at essentially the same time.
The essay did not convince me the need to rethink the desktop or sufficiently explain the idea of fragments versus work products.

Yes, search is great when it works. You know what also works? Organization. I used search within folders of very large category to rapidly narrow stuff down.

If the desktop ain't broke, it doesn't need fixing.

Instead, I am thinking about all the dark patterns and anti-patterns, as well as performance hog, endless constant update, as well naggers trying to upsell you shit.

There's a reason why I returned to linux. Microsoft, please fix your shit.
I was lucky when I tried my first cigarette in that it just didn't do anything for me. Later I would try cigars on drunk evenings with friends. I enjoyed the smell just never really understood what it was suppose to do. Always wondered about that, maybe just like how covid hits some people really hard perhaps smoking is the same.
It's almost like the tool doesn't make the master, the master make the master.
Trash article, I'm not going to read tens of pages just to get to the meat of the matter.
As a teenager one doesn’t really think the things you mentioned. And it was cool.

Source: Me. Smoked for 15 years. Stopped 6 years ago.
> The problem is that their actual product naming is such a massive mess that people prefer to learn the code names instead of trying to figure out what

They actually have a guide explaining all the bits. It doesn't really matter since most of it is arbitrary and marketing (including µarch rebadging same as the GPU vendors), so even within a generation it tends to tell you very little in and of itself.
A digital garden. Not a blog
Three real-world examples of distributed Elixir (pt. 1)
Yes but that's the normal pattern: the historical naming was XYYY where X was the generation and YYY was the SKU. With the 10th generation, this became XXYYY, continuing the pattern.
> In political terms, Brazilianization means patrimonialism, clientelism, and corruption. Rather than see these as aberrations, we should understand them as the normal state of politics when widely shared economic progress is not available, and the socialist Left can­not act as a countervailing force. It was the industrial proletariat and socialist politics that kept liberalism honest, and prevented elites from instrumentalizing the state for their own interests.

It's a long article, but I think this quote summarizes it for people who want a TL;DR
Side note. Apple is great at waiting on tech until it's ready, and then making sure everyone knows about it (through a combo of a product launch and marketing).

Retina displays, multitouch on touchscreens, and now ARM processors. The notable thing is that Apple makes the enabling incremental change (to a point where the product is good enough for mass market) seem like a step function.
Would you mind giving examples of these much larger servers? Japanese, preferably...
These observations are 20+ years old and no solutions or new UI designs are proposed.
That book is a gentle and thorough introduction to an idea that I, as a smoker, had been hiding from or confused about.

Pretty amazing.
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Bitcoin is not digital gold. Bitcoin is an extremely expensive and uncensorable method of value transfer.

Nano is more like digital gold as it can be passed from hand to hand with no fee, but like Bitcoin has a fixed deflationary supply.
So to summarize our discussion:

Me: Here’s an article about this report.

You: The press is misrepresenting the abstract.

Me: Nope. Here’s the full report.

You: The report draws the wrong conclusions. Besides, they don’t even share the dataset.

Me: Nope. Here’s the dataset linked in the report.

You: The data show that Xinjiang birth rates declined 30% more than they did in the rest of China. As you can see I was right all along.

I’m curious how you managed to make this journey. It doesn’t seem like you’ve been participating in this discussion in good faith, frankly. I could be wrong though. In that case, I would recommend you actually read what people are trying to show you before attempting to criticize it. You are clearly working backwards from your priors.
I quit a few years ago and never looked back, even made a pet app for quitting smoking as I was learning iOS development. Check it out, recently switched from UIKit to SwiftUI: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1459979131

When I was quitting smoking I found 2 things useful:

1) Alan Carr's book, which in essence is designed to convince you that you actually don't enjoy smoking. I completely agree, when I first started it gave me the sensation, then I had to smoke every half an hour just to stay functional.

2) The cigarette prices. There was no way I can sustain smoking when first move to London. A pack of cigarettes was the same as my food budged.

So, I just quit as a chain smoker. It was bad for a week but I kept observing myself and surely Alan Carr was right. I wasn't getting any boost from the nicotine, I was simply getting rid of the cravings for a brief period of time. In a month all the cravings disappears, in less than a year I had no desire to smoke even among people who are smoking. These days the cigarette smoke is simply something I try to avoid when exposed.

This was not my first time to quit but on the previous occasions I had the wrong mental model. I was thinking of it as stopping doing something that I enjoy, like quitting chocolates. In less than a day it would have turned into torture.

Just observe yourself to see if smoking actually gives you any pleasure or does smoking simply make you functional again. Then remember that non-smokers are functional without the cigarettes and their clothes and hands don't smell horrible.

Notice that there's no boost once you get addicted, it's more like removing tight shoes when your smoke break comes. Would you wear tight shoes only to experience the pleasure of removing them?

Everything gets so much better once you quit. You remember that the streets have a scent, the weather has scent. Just take note on yourself and there's no way going back to smoking, it's just a tremendously bad deal.
I guess the software I use respects the human element more, because it never does these things to me. Why not choose better software?
Bloomstran vs. Chamath
I'm sorry I'm afraid I don't understand what you're talking about. Do you have me confused with someone else?
Graphics Level 7. Basically a relative indication of the iGPU capabilities.
We can't clone a second Yang Tse River.
That is an interesting take. A take I have never heard of before. A take I definitely do not agree with.

But it is an interesting take.
I am unimpressed. Compare to this https://englishrussia.com/2007/12/07/from-river-to-river/

A "ferry" for ships on rails, carrying ships from river to river over a dam. With giant high voltage catenary on the side!
For me, menthols never seemed to sit well on my stomach.
Last time similar topic came up (either here or reddit), someone posted this recording of a ”Kauaʻi ʻōʻō” bird [1] in which a male, apparently the last of its species, is trying to connect with a female. Reeally eerie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU
I have to agree with you, as someone who lived in the US for 10 years and moved back to my home country, I see the influence of Western culture from TV and the internet, but in my absence the local culture also tweaked itself and started exporting it to neighbouring countries also via the same internet.

There will be influence of the West for a while, but I think other countries are using these mediums also to push their own thought simultaneously. I have watched more spanish TV shows via netflix that I ever would if there was only cable (for example)
This was a very good read. So many communication problems. Ships or aircraft were spotted or encrypted messages were deciphered - but information was not relayed for various reasons.
That's originally what the generation was.

Then it became inconvenient so generations and µarchs got disconnected (because marketing, and then more marketing as they had to introduce µarch refreshes because they couldn't move through their plans)
Haha, sounds fun, yes.

Do you have any good resources on how to get started?
Things JJ Abrams touches tend to border on the absurd, but the principle is true in pre-Abrams Star Trek too.

O'Brien sheds a little light on one of the aspects of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPkSU8DNfY.

GILORA: Starfleet code requires a second backup?
O'BRIEN: In case the first backup fails.
GILORA: What are the chances that both a primary system and its backup would fail at the same time?
O'BRIEN: It's very unlikely, but in a crunch I wouldn't like to be caught without a second backup.

From a different franchise, I keep thinking about the Ancients of StarGate universe, known for their technology, which could remain fully operational for millions of years. That's the true over-engineering.

(But then I'm thinking, a species that mastered "stasis technology", commonly present in many sci-fi franchises, should eventually be able to make artifacts that can survive indefinitely, at least when not in operation.)
I guess this article is only about Macs, or something. I found I didn’t know what he was talking about. Why do you have to “clear your desktop” to make a video call?
For what purpose? Who are you targeting with this information?
Really impressive. I sometimes wonder if in 30 years from now it would be still possible to write a 3D engine from scratch and having the same graphical level of that time.
(I'm not American so don't really have a horse to grind or axe in this race, but) why would an American working in manufacturing want American manufacturing to decline? Or do I misunderstand?
> How do NixOS users typically manage software that is not a Nix package

By writing a Nix package for it (I don't mean for this to sound flippant, tone is a bit hard to convey over text).

For example I have this alpha quality rust binary that I'm developing but I also want a stable version installed at the OS level. I write a Nix package and simply compose it into my overall NixOS configuration alongside the more official Nixpkgs: https://github.com/rraval/nix/blob/master/git-nomad.nix

> like a source code tarball where you would traditionally run configure && make && make install?

Nix has a bunch of defaults that make a conventional package like this straightforward.

Here's a package for a vanilla C binary + library that does the `autoreconf && ./configure && make && make install` dance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/secu...

It's almost a little misleading because the actual steps are largely inherited from the defaults, you can read more about `stdenv.mkDerivation` here: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/fundamentals-of-stdenv.ht...
> commander perry forced them to open trade

Tangential: if anyone is interested in learning more about this, I recommend the YouTube channel History Buffs' review of the film The Last Samurai
That depends on how the file is delivered. Drawing your signature is not even needed.

That said, most of the times I need a signature is some bureaucratic useless form and the signature is just a pro-forma - and you can be sure if I don't have a signature (and maybe if I didn't pass my form through a filter to make it look like it was scanned) some government employee in some office will reject my form and I'll have to do another one and fork out even more money.
Same here. I was a heavy smoker who struggled terribly to quit.

But once I quit, well, your “pay me to drink petrol” analogy is accurate. Its been this way for about 10 years now. I just don’t smoke, it’s now repulsive to me, and there’s almost no conceivable way for me to go back to it other than putting myself through the punishment of the early smoker again where it’s just disgusting and doesn’t feel good at all for several weeks.
Blocked from the UK due to legal reasons.
What is the downside of the police lying? Assuming they didn't have a warrant then they either lie and it doesn't make the situation worse as police are allowed to lie or they don't lie and guarantee a lawsuit.

I'd understand the argument for why they're incentivized to get a warrant in the first place (even assuming parallel construction is a viable alternative to getting a warrant as they may be caught) but that doesn't mean they wouldn't lie after they got caught screwing up.
>>"It is an absolutely false hyperbole to claim that the Euro is the cause of economic decline and the destruction of Italian future."

I think that, if that's your opinion, you don't understand the Euro very well.

The Euro is a monetary union without fiscal capacity. It's so bad designed that in order to survive it has to break its own rules every few years, but then we made like if that didn't happen and everything is OK.
From what I understand, the US doesn’t realistically intend to defend or recover either of them, let alone with CSGs, let alone with their own CSGs. The umbrella was/is? organized around deterrence, allies, and ultimately retaliation.

Carriers were/are? more for the vast supply lines going towards the areas where e.g. Swedish/Japanese stealth submarines would be bottling up Russian/Chinese assets near their coasts.

China in particular has thousands and thousands of miles of neck extending into and out of the Indian Ocean.
there s a lot of space between effective and excellent
This is why we need 2TB drives now, when we used to get by with 2GB.
Appeal to the lack of trustworthiness of the CCP: this is the level of discourse?