skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are interested in cosmology, there is a series of papers by Gorkavyi building a cyclic universe cosmological model that's entirely based on Einstein's general relativity and doesn't require any quantum gravity theory. It's based on black holes mergers with mass loss and convertion of mass into gravitational waves, that later get captured by black holes again.

https://pos.sissa.it/335/039/

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/476/1/1384/4848298

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/461/3/2929/2608669

https://www.sao.ru/Doc-k8/Science/Public/Bulletin/Vol76/N3/A... (this one is available only in Russian for now)
Can almost certainly be sure CISCO is affected by something similar.
> only runs when a device is connected to Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Cellular bandwidth is never used.

That's interesting. How does the website possibly detect that I'm on a cellular network when I'm a) use Firefox (which doesn't implement the NetworkInformation API) and b) use a VPN to either a data center or my home server? What about iOS devices using Apple's pseudo-Tor (because Safari doesn't expose NetworkInformation either), or devices using tethered WiFi?

I don't believe this claim at all. This makes me take all their other claims they make with a massive grain of salt as well.

There's also the massive privacy issue: other people will know what websites you visit by simply using the P2P system, and the entire thing seems to be opt-in unless you use an adblocker. That last part shows that the devs know of the privacy issue but have decided to take the practical approach of not fixing the issue and only doing the bare minimum to remove their website from blocklists.

It's only a matter of time before someone will make a tool that enumerates all IPs in the Arc network together with the content they've been served. This one is going onto my Pihole's blocklist...
What is the name for this type of article? I call them "flying car" articles because of the 80 year history magazines like popular mechanics featuring a startup with renderings and statements saying these flying cars will be mainstream in only 5-10 years.
Yup, that's me :)

For example in the `procfs` crate, there's a dependency on `flate2` just in case a /boot/config.gz file exists (in order to see what options the kernel was built with). But if a consumer never needs to inspect the kernel options, this dependency (and related code) is just dead-weight.

The nice thing about rust is that this code will be removed from the final executable if it's unused, but maybe it's time to start thinking more carefully about compile times.
So you never order anything from e-commerce websites because you have to enter your own order and payment information manually? Sounds like a stupid way to interpret Marxism.
This is alarmist BS.

I worked on the surveys and cors equipment that directly measures subsidence in Louisiana, and have worked on many of the levees and other coastal civil works.

Relocation? For a problem that hasn't happened yet and isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future is absurd.

New York City is at a much greater risk and will be inundated long before New Orleans.

The fastest rate of subsidence in New Orleans is/was due to organics in the soil decomposing once the groundwater table was lowered (drainage projects going back 300 yrs), allowing oxygen to infiltrate. This decomposition is mostly complete in most areas of the city.

Piles under everything from skyscrapers to personal homes penetrates the organic layers, so buildings don't subside even if the ground does.

The biggest risk to the city and state is environmental activists, the EPA & the Army Corps of Engineers, and the largely untouchable Mississippi River levee system, preventing the delta land building process that counteracts subsidence by depositing new sediment in yearly floods.

Additionally, erosion/ runoff prevention and dams through out the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio river watersheds have decreased the amount of sediment flowing down river, and results in less sediment available for natural land building.

The coastal barrier marshes and islands are dying because we've stopped the natural processes that sustain them. Each mile of marsh results in the natural lowering of storm surge by 1/2' to 2'.

The federal government, environmental groups and others fight the restoration of these natural processes. For example, they argue fresh water introduction will hurt dolphin populations in coastal bays, but they are only capable of being there in the first place because of man made interference: the bays were freshwater until the levees cut off their natural supply of freshwater.

As for global warming? Infrastructure, business and homes are amortized at 30yrs or less. Maybe up to 50yrs for very large civil projects.

Worst case sea level rise estimates easily gives New Orleans 300+ more yrs, likely much longer, a time frame longer than the current age of the city.
Maybe we need buffet-style restaurants that serve nutritious perishable food without all the extra plating, waters, and other frivolities so people can bask in being served and pretend they are aristocracy.

Everyone cooking is a massive inefficiency, and yet paying for conventional restaurants is also uneconomical. Eating shelf-stable food is cheaper than cooking for most people, but only until the bad health effects catch up. Just like global warming, the market can only optimize over small time horizons without politically pricing in externalities.
Well there's a more fundamental dependency we don't have an answer to -

Is it common in either language (or perhaps English is used in this context) to make fun of things that disgust you by calling them gay? Growing up in the Midwest of the US in the early 90s, I knew to call things 'gay' if I wanted to discourage my friends from doing them much earlier than my Christian parents allowed me to find out the secret of males/females having different genitalia. (A much younger neighbor boy finally leaked the secret to me when I was 12.)
How Nigerian Government Is Supporting Households and Small Businesses
Dotignore – Create your .gitignore files with CLI
Each release takes a while to settle down. I upgraded too soon once (19.10?), and was burned, so now I wait.
Bronson and Pigott were a nice read, but it's unclear where Föll is getting most of his conjecture from because they certainly don't talk about it. Frankly, the whole piece smacks of the same Diamond-esque "they made fireworks, we made guns" trope that has been thoroughly torn apart since. Now to his credit, he does claim ignorance at the top of the page, but that seems to be quickly forgotten given how much hyperbole is spewed later on.

[1] is a better lay overview of medieval-era steel-making. And for a great breakdown of forces behind European success in the modern era, see Brett Devereaux's series on EU4 [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5djVkOgu8vs

[2] https://acoup.blog/2021/05/28/collections-teaching-paradox-e...
A license is not a feature.
Some Lecture Notes for Algorithms
You forgot option c) raise the price of the menu to cover the cost.
According to the parent commenter Marxism 101 is to treat humans like pitiful cogs that need to do the same shit work over and over and over. I’m a leftist but I think peoples quality of living is much more than a good wage. Automating certain shitty jobs can free up spend for giving other more fulfilling jobs a better wage.
I would imagine your HR would be higher running at the same speed if you are hanging. I'll do 4:40min/km at 145 bpm on a normal day but if I'm hungover I'll do the same speed 10bpm higher so just tipping into tempo HR zone.
Currently on the SaaS version. It's much slower than I'd like on desktop web, truth be told, but it does the job and the mobile app is pretty good.
> It’s easy to understand. If your customers won’t buy Mexican food at a high enough price to pay $20/hour, it’s better to close than to stay open and lose money.

I think the root problem is that most restaurant dining experiences are not worth the $30+ per person for enough people compared to cooking and eating at home.

I would like to see more places where you order at a register and bus your own food with minimal overheard and maximum investment in the quality of the food rather than the whole waiter and ambiance schtick.
Don't use a mic. For external audio, I use bluetooth.
It's a great overview of the available tracing option.

One advice I would give is to stick to recon in production. Start with recon first, instead of debugger, dbg or others.

While the graphical debugger is nice, in 5+ years I've been using Erlang in production, I've only launched the graphical debugger two or three times. You're bound to find all kinds of odd corner cases and issues with it if you rely on it as a primary debugging tool.
It's nice to have a server check on you even if seating and ordering are automated. It's worth something for the experience.

The last place I went to like that, the owner was working probably due to lack of staff.

He was wearing a Rolex Explorer II.
Fwiw unless the flags really represent independent bits of functionality, I find many features more of a pain to deal with than dependency compile times, given that even in our big workspace, a combination of incremental builds and sccache makes compile times mostly a non issue.
Obligatory Star Trek trivia: in "Spectre of the Gun", from the original series, Chekov finds a six-shooter pistol at the beginning of the show, making it a literal Checkhov's Gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_of_the_Gun (Warning: this was not one of the better ST-TOS shows)
I thought Mind Field was really cool. Obviously a very different feel to the normal vsauce videos but … I dunno, I don't see what's wrong about going that route.

Derek of Veritasium is trying to go that route by himself. He released some documentaries of his own (which actually were of lower quality than his regular material, I thought).

Wendover is also releasing some long-form documentaries. He's much better at it, actually.
The entire rest of the west bank parishes is still protected by the "old" definition of a 100 year storm, and they had multiple breeches this year.
As a user, yep. But doing so as a website gets your Arc account banned and your websites blacklisted.
Not at all, it’s an observation of a business model breaking down.
> So in this specific scenario what happened is that the flight computers for some reason didn’t transition between “normal law” and “ground law” simultaneously (or close enough to simultaneously). So the COM computer significantly changed its rudder output as a result of changing law, but the MON computer didn’t, because it hadn’t changed law yet (the inverse of this is also possible). As a result they were producing very large differences in rudder orders, resulting in the monitoring watchdog killing the COM computer and failing over to the spare. Where the above situation happened a second time, resulting in all computers being shut down.

Possible solution: always designate COM/MON computers which agree on the mode: flight or ground. Only disable a primary COM computer if it disagrees with the MON computer while both are running on the same mode.

> There’s a separate watchdog system that monitors the outputs (orders) of both the COM and MON, and if their order values diverge by too much for too long, it shuts down the COM computer and passes control to the MON computer and the spare.

So, if the MON computer is faulty it will always disable the 3 computers?
Restaurants, Fast-foods and bars are already quite expensive. That's why they are competitive: customers are very sensitive to price, and have limited budgets. It's like airlines.

Raising the prices would not work. If it did, some of them would have already done it.
Nope. Different levee system. The system that harms the delta is the one that keeps the Mississippi from cutting a path wherever it wants. This other one is a system that simply protects populations from storm surge.
One thing PostgreSQL would likely not be able to adapt to, at least without significant effort, is dropping MVCC in favor of more traditional locking protocols.

While MVCC is fashionable nowadays, and more or less every platform offers it at least as an option, my experience, and also opinions I have heard from people using SQL Server and similar platforms professionally, is that for true OLTP at least, good ol’ locking-based protocols in practice outperform MVCC-based protocols (when transactions are well programmed).

The “inconvenient truth” [0] that maintaining multiple versions of records badly affects performance might in the future make MVCC less appealing. There’s ongoing research, such as [0], to improve things, but it’s not clear to me at this point that MVCC is a winning idea.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452783
So everything real real or imagined exists. Equally? But to equate objects that physically exist with those that do not is fantasy, and fabricates extensions to the physical universe that exist only in Nagel's mind. Imagination does not equate to belief much less physical existence.

The reductio absurdum of Nagel's theorem is this: existence of everything in the universe is given existence by human imagination. So if all humans were to die off, everything that remains would, what, disappear?

That isn't metaphysics. It's anthropocentric solipsism.
Of course! Shoot me an email at ansgar@arc. =]
They are drawing unemployment benefits.
> capital owners that lend around money at extortionate rates and run to the nanny state to print money and save their skin whenever their bets go sour. Guess which strata gets most of the flak.

Your heart is in the right place, but you are doing the devil's work by accident. "extortionate rates" and "printing money" do not happen at once! We have low interest rates, which are good for debtors. The banks now will get very little interest on those mortgages, so that can't be the sole piece of they are making a killing.

What also happens is low interest loans allow the value of land to go up, and land speculation works too well. Worse, there are laws and other things preventing density so the desire to have as many tenants as possible doesn't actually reduce the cost of floor area.
Why? What would be different for the customer? The tip would just be rolled into the price of the service to amount to the same number, and quality of service would probably go down. Employees would also be taxed on the "tip" (which would now be included in their base salary). So what would really be the benefit?

And I'm not trying to be dismissive at all. Coming from Europe I also thought initially that tipping was really weird, but after living with it for a decade+ I got used to it and I'm really curious as to why we should stop doing it.
My child is old enough now to stay home alone during short errands. Since we don't have an old school land line it would be cool to take inspiration from a project like this and build her a "red line" device that gives her immediate access to reach me without breaking down and buying her a cell phone yet.

But what would I hack together for the software side of that?
Still big in NY
https://www.youtube.com/c/BladeInNY/
I think of a room in the library of Congress which looks like it was from Versailles. It is full of corner reflectors that do exactly what that device does and makes it hard to have a conversation.
Youtube's flash player was massively superior to plugin-based quicktime/windows media/mystery google thing. (Several replies and nobody has mentioned it, it was a huge factor.)

Also you could just name a song and Youtube had the music video - it was the "napster" of video.
From my perspective, it was their embeddable video player. You'd see it pop up in other sites, spreading the YouTube name on external sites the web-over. I remember thinking that capability was extremely cool at the time (and built off things like iframe chatboxes and embeddable hit counters.)
To quote from Seinfeld: "It's not you. It's me"

I missed something, and clearly misclassified this position, leaving only 51 legal in the 1k set (and only 537 in the 10k set).

Oops. It's embarrassing since I did pay attention to the en-passant positions in the 919-93 positions not from the smaller 1k sample, such as this one:
https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/issues/916

I'll have to make some changes to my README.
Meanwhile, congratulations on spotting the error. And I'll be sure to mention you in the eventual publication.

This underscores the need to back up my classification with proof games...
So, as long as you have the podman socket enabled, you can just run the literal docker-compose script with `podman` aliased to `docker`? Interesting and cool! I think I still prefer not having to enable the socket and export DOCKER_HOST, but I will think about it. The only problems I had with podman-compose in the past few months were related to syntax issues in the docker-compose.yml file (for example ports, image names without prefixes, etc).
The government paying people to not work has nothing to do with this oft-misunderstood "invisible hand" metaphor.

I'm not sure why people think that a barber is somehow able to compete with the infinite resources of the government hellbent on idling labor capacity. Very few rational people will work for 25/hour if they can sit and watch TV for 20/hour. Saying "pay more" is not helpful in that situation. The labor pool is basically limited to those who have enough foresight to realize the gravy train might end.
Most founders never draw a salary

Is this true? Do they live off savings for > 5 years?
I just want to be honest for a moment with someone: I don’t think democracy works anymore. The model is predicated on representatives speaking for the people and regulating a few large entities. It is simply not setup to handle when everyone speaks and everyone is an entity. Perhaps we need a new take on democracy, but what I see is it falling apart in front of our eyes and all we can do is watch.
95% of the time, I prefer eating at restaurants with no waiter and where you pay up front for the food. So much time and money wasted on talking to someone for something that would take me 10 seconds to do.

Waited service is okay for special dates and business meals or something.
My aussie counterparts are still always migrating to the US because of the huge pay disparity.
But you also need to factor in the demand curve. Raising the price by 25% also means there will be less customers, which means your fixed costs (eg. rent, equipment) go up for each unit of good sold.
Point 1:
God save us from those that get off from the sound of their own voices.

Point 2:
Noise cancelling earphones, hoooooo!

Point 3:
Find another of the devices that fell off the back of a truck. Point at other user, once you know it's on, turn yours on, wait for the magic smoke to start from feedback.
This is a hilarious study that lends some support to something I've often found frustrating in the moral-philosophy community. People spend so much time nitpicking at moral theories, that they often don't advocate for a theory that they themselves actually believe in. In fact, an alarming number of moral philosophers don't even believe in objective morality, even when it comes to extreme behaviors such as murder.

Ask an average person about how they make moral decisions, and you'll get a jumble of inconsistent beliefs centered around appeal-to-authority and gut feelings. Ask a moral philosopher about how they make moral decisions, and you'll hear 5 different interpretations from 5 different moral theories, and no advocacy for which one is correct. Hardly surprising then that they feel lost and nihilistic in their own day-to-day lives.
That may be true, but $45 already felt like the upper limit so even a $5 increment feels like too much (my hair is short afterall!)
If you're looking for good gloves for rollerblading I recommend looking at motorbiking gloves. They're a bit expensive but they can be super comfortable and have a ton of protection around the wrist and knuckles.
> hit the brakes very hard in the last few seconds

In direct law, is it possible to brake too hard and have the tires skid on the runway? Is it possible that the pilots were afraid of this?

I ask because people are characterizing direct law as "less smart". So how smart is it? Smart enough to include ABS?
I think it really is highly dependent on the individual. For your example with restaurants I have the absolute opposite preference. When I go to a restaurant I'm usually dining with friends so the social aspect is already covered - I don't want/need to make small chat with a waiter.

Would be completely happy with an automated process there, for my mind that means more of my tip might go to the cook who is actually preparing my food in the first place.
No, you can't trust NIST on security. They've certified algorithms they must have known were deliberately weakened in every generation: DES in the 1970s, the Clipper chip in the 80s, "export-grade" RSA in the 90s, and broken RNGs in the 2000s.

The deliberate weakening generally comes from the NSA, but NIST is required to work with them on security standards.

A number of reputable security researchers claim that NIST's misdeeds were all unintentional and they've learned their lesson and there won't be any more backdoors. Perhaps. Ultimately they serve the US administration, so in the long term it depends on whether future administrations actually want everyone to have unbreakable cryptography. Doesn't seem like a safe thing to count on.
What Is a Container, After All?
Why is this flagged; WTF is there to flag about it? The commenter obviously isn't claiming to have all these ailments at once!

They're illustrating how different diseases take different articles (or none at all) in standard English usage.
I like how the namespace and the function chaining have different characters. I think it makes it easier to read.
> It's just a moral one, "They don't deserve that amount of money"?

It's a denial/delayed acceptance of inflation/cost-of-living increases.

These people are struggling to accept that money is worth sufficiently less than it was before to make the status quo untenable.

Or if they have accepted it, they're determined to make the underlings eat the loss.
As a health care service provider, this means I'm dropping your insurance plan and you pay my fees directly. Are you okay with that?
> Programs like QuickBooks and Xero don't just hide the GL because they're being mean

What is the GL?
Wondering how this impacts tech’s migration to Texas, as women now have less freedom than other states
That would be the baby schema effect. A lot of animals, us included, has infants with similar traits. These traits is then something that these animals recognize and influence their behavior. This is why we find babies, kittens, lambs and puppies cute. In cat and dogs this shows up as higher tolerance for bad behavior.
Inflation would look bad for politicians, but I doubt small business owners are ruining their business just so BLS can put out slightly better inflation numbers.
I’m sure a lower-quality segment will emerge once the whole thing has time to equilibrize :) And in some places the social aspect is not insignificant. (In others you’re better off without it, true.)
They liked tiki torches before it was cool https://i.imgur.com/AHeJtqK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6I3pIl0.jpg
What does "ECC" mean here?
Compare to Julia

# Your big function has specific types
function my_function(x::UInt, y::UInt)
[ ... ]
end

# Wrapper function to minimize monomorph. cost
my_function(x::Integer, y::Integer) = my_function(UInt(x), UInt(y))
"I think if we had one more good java/ui engineer we'd be kicking butt vs youtube."

Unfortunately, this very attitude continues to be the bane of every large company. Thinking they can throw a body on the problem can make them invincible.
Big fan of yours Sir Dystic, thanks for all the fun and games. All the best and hope you and yours are well.