skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On average people want to eat meat but cannot afford it when they are poor.

Meat consumption thus increases with economic development (even without going into what might be deemed excessive consumption, which is a fuzzy concept outside of health considerations). That is a fact worldwide (see for instance link I included in another comment).

Regarding quality of life, my point is that if we are forced to abstain from eating what we want (then not ravelling as we please, then live in smaller houses, etc) because we have to preserve resources then very clearly we are reducing our quality of life. And the root cause is actually population because what ultimately drives consumption of resources is population.
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns
well how many are there and how much do their opinions matter? And do they really represent the "intelligentsia"?
> Loneliness

I had to read through your comment a couple of times. From the sound of it, you’re likely in a better position than many other people here, and what worries you isn’t the lack of social contact but the depth and quality of it.

This is a common issue that a lot or even most people face as they get older. I think that a lot of us have been able to fill this gap by finding significant others and starting families. I wonder if the trend towards settling down at later ages and holding off on having a child - or forgoing it altogether - is also part of the issue.

Social media doesn’t help, but the answer to that is to stop using it, or, at the very least, to keep yourself from using platforms that encourage comparisons.
Well, you don't directly monetize open source software.

What you do is you become a "VC" and get a bunch of guys to build on top of "open source" with a X-as-a-Service based subscription model, and then you contribute pennies back (and usually: just posting issues to the open source stuff you use to get slaves to slave away for free).
Even my toddler has no such impulse. He eats till he got enough and then starts throwing food on the floor.

Eating through your savings was detrimental even for hunter gatherers.
That’s pretty cool. Thanks for the info!

TryLock seems like it would be good fit for multithreaded datastructures
I'm kinda coming from a do-it-once, do-it-right background. Usually code I write just runs untouched for 10 years. So I'd classify any breaking changes to the codebase a change in the environment. But either way, something breaks or it doesn't. It's not like some non-obvious wear and tear is going to happen over a year or two on its own, if no human messes with it.
SAE levels are based on the features of the system… and the conditions it operates in, and the responsibility of the driver.
All these "clever" filesystems can never guarantee not to run out of space for their own metadata. That's because even to delete a file they might need more space in the journal, or to un-copy-on-write some metadata.

The mistake however is that even though it isn't practical to make theoretical guarantees that the filesystem won't end up full and broken, it is very possible to make such a thing only happen in exceeding unlikely cases. One runaway dd isn't that...
I know it amounts to same, but from the users perspective it would be more accurate to say that Google doesn't respect crawl delay.
You assume mass competence of different governments in different countries over a dozen administrations. That’s a mass conspiracy theory, one which seems pretty much impossible.
One strategy I've found helpful in my own life for addressing that hopeless drowning feeling brought on by doomscrolling or other mindless activity incentivized by The Algorithm is to actively intervene and remind myself that this is noise. All of it is ephemeral, meaningless noise. It is not important. It is not nourishing my soul, and now is the time to turn the dial to a different station. Attention is a limited resource that I am currently squandering, and I better go find something else to do. And then I do it, and just like that, the hopeless drowning feeling subsides.

I too once felt aimless and demotivated like the author. But the desire to own things and have friends, as the author put it - this is Nietzsche's will to power, and it is one of the most profound insights into the human condition expressed in modern times. This desire was ultimately what drove me to move across the world, channel my energy and curiosity into learning a productive and marketable skill and ultimately make something of myself.

Humans have evolved over millions of years to be a goal-seeking, load-bearing species not content with mere survival. Our predecessors who were cool with hunting and gathering and spending all of their waking moments trying not to die have by now been largely subjugated out of existence by nations, civilizations, and religions / ideologies expressing a moral obligation to have dominion over the earth. In a world with unprecedented surplus for the select few of us who are privileged enough to complain on the Internet about feeling lazy but not quite knowing why or what to do about it, is psychologically debilitating to focus all or most of one's attention on meaningless noise. We need more than that to achieve a life worth living. All of the world's major wisdom traditions contain this grain of truth, either expressed implicitly or explicitly. I believe that there is an evolutionary reason why these traditions have persisted for the thousands of years they've been with us; adopting them has clearly bestowed some advantage, over many generations, in adapting to one's environment - and, perhaps more importantly, molding it to one's desires.

Best wishes for the author in finding their passion and purpose in life that will propel them out of the realm of survival and into the realm of thriving.
> because the engineers can reproduce the source code if it’s lost (quite quickly at that)

Does anyone really believe this?
Sorry for the late reply.

> Most of the people you're taxing in a land value tax are residential uses.

You're forgetting the sheer quantities of land (and land value) consumed by commercial and industrial use; this land, too, would be taxed. Such land is arguably far greater (in terms of value) than most residential land; consider every office building, every factory, every warehouse, every store, every parking lot/garage, every mine, every farm, and you'd see how that 1.362 trillion (and then some!) would be possible.

Another factor here is ATCOR (All Taxes Come Out of Rent), the idea that since non-LVT taxes suppress economic activity (because they tax things with elastic supply, artificially raising their prices), replacing all taxes with LVT would remove that suppression, spurring greater demand for land and therefore higher land values (and therefore higher LVT revenues). Basically: we're already taxing land indirectly and less efficiently, so we might as well just tax land directly.

Further:

> The point is the funds leave very little left for the citizen's dividend unless we want to vastly reduce existing government programs.

Which is very possible. A citizens' dividend, like any other sort of UBI, makes a lot of existing welfare programs redundant. Most Georgists/geolibertarians (myself included) frown upon the insane amounts of "defense" spending here in the US, so that'd be another thing we'd push to cut.
Maybe I’ll give a tech related example instead.

I sometimes browse local shops websites to buy products, but if the page loads too slowly or there are some hiccups, I tend to quickly search on Amazon to see if I can buy with a single click.

The total amount of time spent shopping at local website may be only a tiny bit more than if I browsed Amazon, but the improved experience at Amazon is enough to tilt my spending away from local websites.

Amazon probably spends multi millions to shave off fractions of seconds off their page loads, and the rewards pay off handsomely.
Research is starting to suggest that productivity gains are linear instead of exponential.

So, whenever there is a shift, such as industrialization, that facilitates productivity growth, the bulk of the gains compared against economic growth will come early on and comparatively diminish over time.

It’s not that productivity growth declines, but that we’re comparing something that grows linearly (productivity) with something that grows exponentially (GDP).
none of us can know that
Ducks, geese and swans will happily eat bread from your hand. It’s pretty normal for them to grab a bit too much and get your thumb in the process.

It’s seldom fatal.
I wrote an interpreter on a whim a long time ago. Mainly to show a friend how quick it was to get something going. I continued working on it, had great fun. Until I got to quasiquoting. That's where my head started spinning and I lost steam.
Be a man.
Orson Scott Card had that whole "Ships of Earth" cycle where the ancients built an AI in the sky that could distract people every time they thought of developing certain technologies. So people went around trading camels and building empires but anytime they thought about nuclear power, for instance, they just suddenly lost their train of thought. I guess one way to guarantee a certain degree of personal value in human lives is to create insurmountable obstacles, but then once you know they're insurmountable that sorta takes away the fun.
if you don't have the time just download nvchad, it's pretty good out of the box
Interesting! Have you met many people whose opinions were not their own?
It may not kill everything, eg. this one is known to be highly tolerant to irradiation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
Ah, selling ML to the predictive maintainance market!
The technical solution is to apply a rate limit on your web server. Then Google bots will receive a HTTP status code 429 "too many requests" that will force them to slow down.

Nginx has `limit_req_zone` that allows fine-tuning the rate limits.
Cloud Foundry maybe? Some companies are offering it as a service (e.g: IBM Cloud Foundry)
Neapolitan style pizza baked at high temperature is actually extremely sensitive to excessive topping. Too much sauce or fresh mozzarella, and there will be too much liquid for the center of the crust to cook properly. I'll typically only use maybe 3 tbsp of tomato sauce, and aim for 50% of cheese coverage by area if using hand cut mozzarella cubes, or 80% coverage if shredded.

My typical dough recipe has 150g of flour and 5g sugar per pizza, which is about 550 calories. Let's say 250 calories of cheese. Raw tomato sauce isn't even worth counting. So 800 as a baseline for one pizza. Fully loading it with pepperoni might bump it up to 1000.

A few months ago I was trying to restrict myself to 1800 calories per day. We had friends over for pizza one night, and I decided to just not worry about it and gorge myself. I counted it all up before going to bed, though, and my daily intake worked out to be about 1900.
That's the theory. In practice for example courier IMAP relied (still relies?) on at least relatime for some notification aspects.
I guess folk here don't like puns.
First, a string object is a small object with a pointer to the actual character sequence. The tokenizer produces the same number of these for all approaches. Second, in the new approach, that character sequence is part of the original input. All string objects point to a slice of the same "backing store", unlike the old approach where each string object had its own memory with a copy from a small part of the input.
productivity has a creativiy cost
Bluesky architecture for decentralised social media
Most studies on the topic indicate that >50 hours has <1 factor on productivity. So probably working weeks on end at 80 hours is the same as working at about 20-30 hour workweeks.

https://igda.org/resources-archive/why-crunch-mode-doesnt-wo...
I'm more in favor of underwhelmed but responsible. Musk "approach" is despicable on this.
Top two thirds on smaller screened devices!
Is it possible to make your own TPM 2.0 chip? Or at least hardware that emulates the chip?

Or are there root secret keys or something that requires certification and very expensive membership to a professional body and NDA agreements to access?
TikTok is on the precipice of a disinformation scandal that's going unchecked
I haven't touch KolibriOS for a few years.
It used to be 32-bit only, not sure today.
> However, it must be kept in mind that BLAKE3 is much faster than any other cryptographic hash only because it distributes the computation on all CPU cores.

Surprisingly, this is incorrect. Here are some single-threaded measurements on a CPU with SHA-NI: https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html#amd64-icelake. What you see there is that BLAKE3 can take better advantage of SIMD parallelism than other hashes, and the C and Rust library implementations do this by default. Multithreading isn't enabled by default in the library APIs, but if you do use it (and you have enough input to feed it) the benefits are multiplicative. The b3sum CLI does use multithreading by default.

> only 1 cryptographic hash is faster: BLAKE3

SIMD implementations of KangarooTwelve are also about as fast as BLAKE3, given enough input.
Another list of ways to get paid in open source:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
The advertisement is at the top of the article and I was reading about flat file first before I realised I was reading an ad instead of the article. Annoying layout
You are extremely mistaken. I love PHP and am quite happy with how it's evolving into a more concise and well defined language.

If you don't like it you are free to continue using an old version.

Expecting a language to stagnate because you don't like learning new things is asinine and doesn't hold water anywhere in the programming world except among the laziest of code monkeys.
You can’t cookie wall, but can you say accept or pay? If you pay, we would remove all ads including those with tracking cookies …
Show HN: Ncdu, but Uses Sloccount
Nice. This is the perfect level for teaching/examples for a level 6
languages module. Thanks for writing and sharing this.
Whereas I feel like you can learn to make games from any number of sources, but learning the history is what makes this book special. Different strokes for different folks.
So, not an expert in shipbuilding, but from research I've seen on transit costs (which are also subject to provisions regarding American-made content) it is generally also a theme of labor productivity. American companies and workers are generally unfamiliar with best practices elsewhere, and workers are also generally not supportive of increasing labor productivity. In that same vein, no American company has actually built a dredger like this before, so I doubt they'd be able to go about building one in the best way possible.

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According to Reuters, the ports of Rotterdam & Shanghai use 5 workers to do what 20 do in US ports, which is a contributing factor to American supply chain disruption. [1] Automation & productivity gain is an increasing source of labor strife at US ports.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ports-labor/analysis-...
Very often the issue with regulatory traps like this is nobody will risk the massive investment, when their entire business could be wiped out by the repeal of a little known law. Without the dredge act the investors on such a project would be out hundreds of millions, and left with a completely uncompetitive business. Who would risk that when there are people actively lobbying for repeal and doing so is such an obviously good idea?

Meanwhile the current US dredging companies are raking in fat profits from operating cheap low capacity ships, so they have no incentive. If you want to get in on the business the low risk high reward approach is to build a low capacity dredger, or adapt an existing vessel, so that’s what people do.
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i need the shortcut on google chrome where can i search on any website
I think it’s a definitional thing: “a great filter” assumes that life is basically everywhere and yet one specific something (or perhaps as many as “a few”) almost always prevents it from taking over a significant fraction of its future light cone.

If there are 10^30 stars in ours, the lower bound on the odds of surpassing it have to be close to that.

Personally I expect there to be many smaller filters rather than a few great filters — 30 things each with a factor of 10 has the same effect, after all.
"It is better to play it as safe as possible safe when rolling out a technology that could save tens of thousands of lives a year"

The antivax people agree with that approach. We don't know the long term effects of the vaccine therefore we shouldn't use it.
Aggregate queries are indeed a weak point of GraphQL.
Someone once said that Rust is so effective, because it the first big project built with it wasn't just a compiler.
The problem is that in order to add a missing log in production you need to effectively redeploy. That isn't tenable for a polyglot production cluster. There's a rising field of developer observability which is specifically designed to provide polyglot cloud "debugging" capabilities. One of the capabilities is to inject new logs dynamically.
Looks like clickbait.
Rust and Python are FINE.
Why would it be hard to implement? (Keep in mind I have never written a lisp so my comment is uneducated)

Quasiquoting means creating a list where some elements are evaluated at runtime. Not dissimilar to string interpolation.
I’d love to hear some examples since predicting the future isn’t easy.

But regardless, it’s impossible for a business to focus entirely on the long-term. Why? There are short terms costs that have to be paid as well. So there has to be a trade off “if we do X we can keep the lights on and people employed while we work at Y which pays off in 10 years”.

Private companies typically have it a bit easier since they don’t worry about stock price, but I’ve seen plenty of private companies make stupid decisions too. At least stupid in hindsight, but not stupid at the time they were made.
So it is a blockchain, just not a distributed blockchain.

The idea of a blockchain for tamper detection, with external validation by regularly sending off a current state hash for signing, existed long before crypto currencies arrived with the distributed verification process.
The laws of physics impose contraints that will make certain traits common amongst intelligence species and advanced civilizations.

We see a variation of this in convergent evolution across distantly related species (e.g. the evolution of wings).
About 4 months ago I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29520685

> I'm currently driving a pretty new Mercedes (company car), and its lane assistant regularly tries to kill me in construction areas because it wants me to follow the regular, currently inactive lane markings.

I've gotten an even newer Mercedes since then (A250e, build finished 2022-03), and it's really impressive.

The lane assistant no longer makes a mess in construction areas.

It has adaptive cruise control, which works REALLY well, and I'd be comfortable relying on that on the highway, for example. It's sometimes breaks when I wouldn't, in dense traffic when I'm approaching an obstruction that I will drive around later.

It has an enhanced lane assistant which does small corrections much earlier than the regular lane assistant, which I found annoying and switched off.

It has sensors to the side and back to be aware of approaching cars when switching lanes.

Long trips have become much more less stressful with that, and I can totally believe that this is on a good way towards level 3 self-driving. (This doesn't include the self-driving package, it's "just" what you get when you pay for the regular security/assistance tech).
Or memory safety
I've got an idea I think you've missed. It's potentially a game changer for OSS developers and the industry. The question is whether there's any demand.

OSS developers: do you want to get paid for the work you've done (i.e. with no requirement to fix bugs or add new features)?
To add some insight to what branch-and-cut actually does: even with integer programming you can still work with the high-dimensional polyhedron. If you end up being lucky and the optimal vertex turns out to be integral, you know you have the optimal integer solution. But of course, it may turn out that the vertex turns out to have non-integer components that should be integer, and that is where the real work starts. A lot of the magic in commercial solvers involves the development of clever tricks to get from this optimal non-integer point to an optimal integer point. With branching you split up the polyhedron eliminating your current non-integer point, and with cutting you add constraints that remove the non-integer point but are guaranteed to not remove any optimal integer points. There is typically a lot of choice in which thing to try first, and these choices typically have huge impact on how fast the solver is.

I am always happy to see people point out that NP-hard problems are solved to optimality in practice. Too often you come across someone who believes it is impossible to prove you have an optimal solution for an NP-hard problems, no matter which instance. But NP-hardness does not rule out the possibility that you might be much more lucky than the worst case with the particular instance you are interested in. It only says that there exist worst case classes of instances that become much more difficult to solve as their size increases.

By the way, I remember having learned that Integer Programming with a constant number of variables but a variable number of constraints can actually be solved in polynomial time with help from the Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm, so I would not expect an integer problem with four variables to need years to solve. A constant number of constraints is actually more difficult than a constant number of variables (the Knapsack Problem is NP-hard and has a single constraint). AFAIK, for a constant number of constraints we have nothing better than a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm by Papadimitriou.
Belgian and Dutch workers have a domestic shipbuilding industry of note which the US doesn’t really. They have the benefit of many, many decades of expertise so they’re far more productive than some hypothetical US shipbuilding industry. And US workers are paid more in every industry than foreign equivalents in every industry I’m aware of. The US is much richer per capita than every other independent state. It’s worth it to pay those labour costs if they’re far more productive but in this industry they’re really, really not.
How to create a massive flamewar with controversial opinions and little effort. That’s a nope from me.