skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in Australia and Norway. Your body adapts to ongoing temperatures. In Norway you're taking off your jumper as heads into double digits entering spring time. In Australian summer your putting on a jumper at 22 if there's a cold summer night.

We've literally be talking to Norwegian family about their nice 22 degree day at the beach while I was loading the fire place, they asked me the temperature, checked and was 22 also, though would have dropped later at night.

I find over 35 gets tough to do ongoing outdoor work. An hour or 2 then you need an hour or 2 to cool down. Hitting, 40c this is getting too hot.
Also, somewhat related, the "TU" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU_(Time_Unit)
A few years back I was interested in microsecond-precise timekeeping.

My experience was GPS-backed network clocks were surprisingly cheap - but PTP-aware network switches were surprisingly expensive.

And though I thought I could cut the cost of a grandmaster clock from $2000 down to $200, I figured there'd be no point if I then have to connect it to a $20,000 network switch.

I wonder how Facebook are connecting their precise new time servers to their regular servers?
What would happen first?

Polar caps swapping position from NS to EW or the Earth reversing its spin due to friction?
In the UK it's common to have brick/stone houses - the house I was living in before moving to Finland was built in around 1890. Leaky and hard to heat in the winter, but great in the summer where the solid mass took forever to heat up.

You could be indoors on a hot summer day and feel nice and cool, just due to the insulation from the stone/bricks. The only thing I'd do would be shut the blinds during the day, and keep the windows closed until evening-time.
For anyone wondering, MAC = Miniature Atomic Clock. From the vendor product page:

> Microchip’s next-generation MAC-SA5X miniaturized rubidium atomic clock produces a stable time and frequency reference that maintains a high degree of synchronization to a reference clock, such as a GNSS-derived signal, despite static g-forces or other factors. Its combination of low monthly drift rate, short-term stability and stability during temperature changes allow the device to maintain precise frequency and timing requirements during extended periods of holdover during GNSS outages or for applications where large rack-mount clocks are not possible.

* https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/embedded-clocks-...

Article by some folks from the manufacturer giving details on the capabilities (with graphs and such):

* https://www.gpsworld.com/new-miniature-atomic-clock-aids-pos...

Generally: if accurate positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)—especially timing—is important in your infrastructure, then you need to plan for GNSS outages.

> In the event of the GNSS signal loss, we need to make sure the time drift (aka holdover) of the atomic-backed Time Card stays within 1 microsecond per 24 hours. Here is a graph showing the holdover of the atomic clock (SA.53s) over a 24-hour interval. As you can see, the PPS drift stays within 300 nanoseconds, which is within the atomic clock spec.

* Article.
The BBC article doesn't talk about history at all. It's reporting on crimes that are currently being committed. Stop distracting from Russian war crimes.
Children can carry covid just fine. And their parents are not as immune as they.
> how do you log in to your internet bank and to your government services such as the tax office?

In Denmark both of those are done using the same national 2FA app.
Yeah a personal brand is so important. Great article from a wise hacker.
One thing I've always been curious about is hardware for mass-writing of sdcards.

I've setup manufacturing stations for this and I've never been able to find truly robust gang-programmers for sdcards. Luckily my stuff was all low volume so it wasn't a serious problem.

But it seems like there's no "manufacturing grade" gang programmers for sdcards. The stuff that is out there is just infinitely re-branded chinese "white-label" hardware-- just a lot of different "vendors" for a few different models of the basically the same hardware.

My suspicion for there not being good options for gang-programming of sdcards is that savvy consumer manufacturers have realized what a headache it is to support sdcards in their products from the factory and thus opt to make the sdcard the customer's responsibility. In other words, they ship their products without sdcards and just require the customer to purchase the sdcard and program it if needed. I am not sure if my suspicions are justified, can anyone confirm if this is the case?
There's historical evidence of global fires & mass extinctions due to Geomagnetic excursions, which we are currently going through right now, leaving Earth vulnerable to space weather.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305971138_Evidence_...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018RG00...

We are in for a bumpy ride of wild temperature swings & extreme terrestrial weather driven by space weather & Earth being relatively under-protected. We need to adapt to these changes & focus on surviving & thriving with new conditions. Guilt trips about human emissions will not help our survivability when there are significantly bigger forces at play. Only preparedness & focus on the cyclical changes that have occurred on Earth throughout history, some of which is recorded in human history in books, myths, & prehistoric art, will help humanity.
> Sadly, most networks (eg. twitter, facebook,...) don't have this.

That's why I use a utility called Shreddit and some custom scripts to delete all my reddit/Twitter/whatever posts except the latest N.
You don’t have to burn out
Humans (technologists) in particular are awful at extrapolating. Transformers being able to combine rudimentary, defined "concepts" and scaling that into human intelligence makes about as much sense as extrapolating a XOR gate or an if-else statement "scaling" to human intelligence.

I'm of the "human beings are much more than big linear algebra functions slapped on top of a large processor" crowd.
Tips for debugging your new programming language
nice catch. we will add a more friendly message and improve our fallback logic if we cant provide a specific valuation for your vehicle maybe show a range. the XKR is legit... don't sell!
I find the “hero” wording a little grating and I think it’s the problem here.

They’re just people expressing mostly subjective opinions.

The problem is developers put these people on a pedestal and take their word as gospel. In reality you need good judgement to understand and appreciate the trade offs. I do also think developers look for silver bullets and happy to accept anyone with some authority telling them it exists and they needn’t think for themselves.
Can we start considering high tech solutions to actively cool the planet? We're going to slowly work on carbon, but it won't be fast enough. In the meantime, We need to prevent heat getting to Earth, either via more cloud cover or space mirrors in the LaGrange point.

I'm not a fan of either, but what's the alternative? Bake to death while the powerful decision makers delay changing anything?
To be honest, I feel like Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc. are all a case of how you use it, it's not intrinsically that bad. And wrt short videos on TikTok, it's great that you enjoy the format, but I also think longer form videos such as on YouTube have a lot of value. TLDR I think TikTok is making
'the internet fun again' due to its novelty, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter all still have fun on there but as a byproduct of aging.
structs can be made `readonly` as well. The biggest difference IMO is a record is still a class, so it's still copy-by-reference rather than copy-by-value, potentially giving performance gains when passing data around, and leaving a shortcut for value-comparisons (if two variables reference the same object, you obviously know it is the same).
will do some more testing having a hard time replicating did this happen on an ipad pro? thank you.
So, like the app Dust. I do not think there is a way to turn it off in Dust though.
I share the same sentiment, however I scrolled through and I feel this is the experience that we are heading towards in meetings. Excuse the memes there, but ability to blend multimedia in meetings can help a lot.

I conduct webinars every month and I would love to have the ability to play soft background music easily during intervals or fire up a PiP video from youtube or my file system through my webcam. The technology has always been there to virtualize cameras, just hidden behind complex tools like OBS. I hope this segment of tools evolves and becomes the norm.
You're referring to BATNA: Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.
no, you need to read & understand 'Manufacturing Consent' and how propaganda works. would you please show me other 1M articles on HN about Libya? you know the country which the elepant in the room have devastated?
The Boston-DC corridor (sans a few impoverished dots) and urban/wealthy West coast maybe. Doesn't really fit for the southeast, middle America and the mountain west.
Yeah yeah yeah. Intellectual honesty is only honest when the usa is being trashed. Intellectual honesty is playing the Russia is always the victim even when we admit the Russians are committing war crimes it's really the fault of the USA. Your muppets are the worst. If you're so insistent on thinking like a slave have the courtesy to keep your mouth shut like a slave too
Close inspection indeed. You've misread the comment entirely.

I can assure you that I'm opposed to death panels and eugenics. Consumption is essential to living one's life. Under a laissez-faire system, one cannot consume more than he produces in terms of subjective market valuations.

Shaw's proposal is not libertarian, but illustrative of where the logic of subjectively determined "negative externalities" leads. Sorry that wasn't clearer for you.
I'd expect the land to become unproductive first. A huge amount of agricultural land is threatened by the climate change, accelerated by other anthoropogenic effects such as soil erosion due to deforestation. Besides drought, heat, wind, and excess rainfall, there's flash floods caused by melting glaciers in the Alps, Himalayas, …
Thats so cool. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t think anyone thinks American handled this pandemic well. We royally screwed it up no matter what your political opinion.

IMO our biggest error was conflicting information and guidance. Had everyone, from Trump down, set out clear, consistent, and simple guidelines for people to follow, we could have avoided lockdowns and had fewer deaths, not to mention far less political and personal contention.
> these strategies are no guarantee that you’ll live to become an 8-millionaire at 92

Latin prefixes are not as popular as they used to be.
So locals don't like it, and all the outsiders that moved in are questioning why aren't more communities built this way...
Just integrate, problem solved.

People anywhere do things they do because they want it that way.

If you keep to be different then this offends the locals.

They are tolerant and give you time [to integrate], but expect also progress from the newcomer's side.
The Illuminati conspiracy seems to be harmless. I don't believe in it, but it can be an interesting read, and I always enjoy a game where they end up being the antagonist pulling strings in the shadow.
The limitation of the Geneva Convention, and "International Law", is that there is nobody to enforce it, and there never will be. Such is the nature of laws, which are merely the ideas of some people about how other people should conduct themselves. For better or worse, who governs the seas is the outcome of wars.

-- Political Science 101
ZeroHedge I would guess. A news site that is nominally about financial markets. It sits in some really weird political spot as a world news site that I don‘t quite understand.
This isn't the original place I saw it but [0 p 49] specifically mentions the 0-5ft zone for protecting the home. It keeps flames from directly touching the house when combined with the larger exclusion zone so trees don't fall onto the house. Maybe if we combine the exclusion zone with a flammability metric for the house because as the house gets more resilient you can bring trees back in closer.

Just making sure insurance pays for everything only solves one part of the problem though there's still going to be a lot of pain from people having to go through rebuilding even if the insurance problem was completely smoothed out.

[0] https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/building-...
They haven't ever dropped the limit - a weight limit was introduced in 2000 and hasn't changed since: https://cyclingtips.com/2013/08/the-6-8kg-limit/
Moove raises $25M in Series A to expand into new markets
We really just need the rules. The rest will grow organically. Why is our legal system so crappy that this cannot happen? Our legal system has everyone's hand in the pot and we end up with cities designed to extract maximum profit from its residents.
Perhaps I was too harsh.

What I don't like about FI is that it pretends to be able to quantify the expenses that you'll need in the future with models like the 4% rule which make so many assumptions that the model is useless in practice (or at least the model is dishonest about the risks - one story of early retirement discussed on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543527)

So when you challenge the idea that those people are genuinely financially independent, the argument that usually comes up is "it's still better than not having that nest egg at all" or "you don't need to stop working, you need to be able to" - which is just another way to say that it's better to have more money (duh).
See https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...

It should explain how clock uncertainty relates to throughput of causally-related transactions.
> The British Library keeps to a ‘safe date’ when determining when a newspaper can be considered to be entirely out-of-copyright, which is 140 years after the date of publication.

It's depressing that copyright has been extended so far it's now longer then any single individual's possible lifetime.
IMO, phones should have a hardware shutter release button. Press it at any time to take a photo immediately, regardless of the software context. It's bizarre to me that our $1000 phones are still subject to the micro-optimization that leads to elimination of buttons as a primary design goal for very cheap devices.
I use NextDNS, basically PiHole in SaaS. One less appliance to handle on my end
This is confusing to me. One of the main reasons I have a DSLR is because the time from "I want a photo" to pressing the shutter release button is still the shortest with a DSLR. Tactile buttons, very fast power-on, very fast shutter release response time.
It's a bummer they only barely mention emacs. I'm not really an "emacs guy" (I use vim for all my actual editing) but it has all those tools you'll miss from the GUI desktop environment (PIM, doc writer, spreadsheets etc.) and they're all community maintained so they tend to be pretty sane. For example they mention the unix calendar command but they don't mention that the emacs calendar uses a superset of the syntax (and you can restrict yourself to the classical syntax if you want.)
This seems like a cool middle ground between Debian and an RTOS.
Public education would not have helped. If its anything like the dumbed down, one size fits all, factory worker optimized Prussian system in much of the west, it reinforces a lack of critical thinking, independence and holding authorit6 accountable.
My point was that we allow governments to have powers we don't allow private entities to have. The ability to use force, to detain you, to take your land even if you don't want them to, etc.

My point is that hypocrisy is a strange argument, because we already have a huge amount of things that the government can do, even if they would otherwise violate property rights/freedom of movement/etc, that private entities cannot.
I like reading comments like this, it's very typical of people who think "they are aware and know while others are ignorant", from one hand it's so moralist and condescending but from where people are standing it's just completely lunar, it's so Don Quichotte it's really a breath of fresh air!

Reality is: people want more security, that's part of their expectations from paying taxes, mass surveillance offers just that.

They want to choose a doctor instead of choosing their treatment, unlike you, they don't fantasize on being aware of every aspect of all politics, going to vote every day on every amendment, they just want professionals to do their job just like they do theirs, they accept that these can make mistakes, or not do exactly what they would have because yes, they have their job and their families - which, you know, is two jobs already - to take care of rather than "they prefer to spend their days at the beach".
The thing that gets me is not when people advocate for economically shooting themselves in the foot on principal, it's fine to have principals and stick to them even when it hurts you. What does infuriates me is that most of these people then apply a double standard for the other tribe and call them stupid when they advocate for sticking to their principals even when it hurts them.
Yes, its very strange to announce the product first and then the research.
Not within 5 years. The number of games available is extremely low, that of quality/immersive ones even lower. Watching through a headset still feels like watching through a mosquito net. Tracking is becoming better, but full body tracking should become standard, low-fidelity grabbing things is just not enough. Prices have to lower, too.
This patent is aimed at smartphones
This is a Fallacy. Example: Country A is active in genocide. Country B had genocide in it's history 150 years ago, during that time it was not considered immoral. Therefore Country A is not immoral.

Edit: downvotes. You don't think its a fallacy? hahaha
Unfortunately we live in an uncaring cold machine (the natural universe), which is ignored or hand-waved away at our mortal peril.
Is that €700 total flat cost or your 50% share of €1400 total?
It's really simple, which does not necessarily imply easy
For anyone else wondering how their clients verify the authenticity of timestamps; It seems they use the NTP server software Chrony, which has support for NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915).
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116251
> While building our Time Appliance, we also invented a Time Card, a PCIe card that can turn any commodity server into a time appliance.

Invented? These cards have been around. e.g. Meinberg makes a variety of expansion cards which use various time keeping sources such as WWVB, IRIG-B, GNSS, etc.
Don't worry about it. All this "doom and gloom" stuff will only affect the poor in far away countries. It'll be decades before it seriously impacts your way of life.
How about we bitch about ALL the war crimes at the same time?
> Are you an lobbyist than? I can't imagine any other reason Breyer would talk personally to someone with our opinions while having a drink together.

No, I lived in Bruseels for a while with my girlfriend at the time that worked for the parliament.

Brussels is a small city and elected representatives are humans, just like us, they go out just like the rest of us.

I was shocked too when I realized they can't stop talking about their job, not even for a second.

> Quite a distorted view on reality given all the surveillance laws passed over the last few years…

Specifically, which one?

In Europe I mean.

I'm familiar with statewatch, they are a reliable source, but they treat civil liberties as an absolute value, a parliament represent every possible political opinion that the people elected, they have different jobs and represent different interests.

Democracy is not the same thing as "the perfect place where nothing we disagree with ever happens".

As a term of comparison: do you think people are more surveilled in Europe or in the United States? (just mentioning the two champions of liberal democracy, even countries like Japan are worse put than these 2 in terms of state surveillance.)
Down the bottom, they have a little "Libya - a decade of turmoil" heading.

If we want to stop war crimes happening, NATO should hire me as an adviser. I could set them on the right path pretty quick with some simple observations: Invading a country doesn't make it more prosperous! Sometimes it makes things worse! All of the invasions in the Middle Eastern region have led to war crimes happening and it is a consistent pattern! Stop with the troops and the missiles!

But they won't hire me because they already know all that. Everyone knows.
From what I remember of textbook discussions of atomic clocks, stabilizing drifting oscillators is also in part how normal, old (50+ years) atomic clocks work as well, isn’t it? You have a fiddly and unreasonably high-frequency reference, you slave a relatively garden-variety standard like an environmentally controlled piezoelectric crystal to it, and then feed your periodic signals, counters, etc. off that.
I'd disagree. I think most of the states have handled it better than say Canada or Australia.
Kind: A Modern Proof Language
I think they mean better precision during holdover because they model any inaccuracy of the rubidium clock while GNSS is up in order to compensate the local clock when GNSS isn't working.
Yes - but also Arendt's concept of the colonist as the superfluous man, unnecessary and having no accommodation in European society, basically getting offloaded for resource extraction to remote parts of the world and falling into tribalism and illiterate degradation. Happy thought there.
The Hunt for Vulcan, the Planet That Wasn’t There
I think this is nicely said. I grew up in a Western European country where I was used to most people caring about big societal issues such as health, environment, civil rights and privacy. In most European countries there is real competition between newspapers and an, at least in some places, a tradition of democratic participation.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the “free press” is effectively owned by Rupert Murdoch, the government needs to make voting for federal elections compulsory in order to get people to take a stance / have an opinion (yes, you will get a fine if you don’t vote!), and our leading politicians still debate whether climate change is real or not. What matters to the average John / Jane is not public health, wars, civil rights, or media diversity but whether you get to watch the “footy” on Wednesday nights. I say this as a European who has resettled in Australia and become a citizen. The country has welcomed me and given me a good life style, but how I wish sometimes Australia would wake up to the things that really matter.
I assume https://www.zerohedge.com/
> going into cellar. The air will get cooler but the humidity will rise.

If we are already counting on a wet bulb temperature of 35C, the humidity is likely already very close to 100%.

Reducing the temperature is likely to be a net good.
I've had good experience as a basic home user with Fritzboxes. I can't vouch for them in terms of security or unusual and fun uses that people here may have for their home network though.
If you credit science with "trying to save the world" from climate change, you also need to blame it for causing it in the first place. But it doesn't sound as impressive to solve a problem you caused in the first place, does it?
Farmers in France and Belgium plow up 900 tonnes of unexploded WWI munitions every year.

In the more dangerous 'zone rouge', no human activity except professional cleanup crews are allowed. It is estimated that at the current rate of progress the cleanup will be done in 300-700 years.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zon...