skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but are those hours really wasted if they make you feel refreshed? Sleeping is very important in terms of long-term memory organization, health etc. I always felt that those life hacks of trying to learn new skills or solving difficult problems in your sleep were pretty short-sighted optimization attempts, since those hours are not "lost", but indeed very productive, only in ways we don't directly notice. I might reconsider if there is overwhelming evidence of the benefits of recalling dreams, until then I am very happy about what I've achieved in terms of getting restful sleep. In terms of lucid dreaming or facing distressing memories, I prefer doing those things in more controlled meditation or therapeutic hypnosis settings (for which we do have evidence that it works).
Even better.. mine is on a rack of shelves and made of consumer hardware (what is a "U"? haha)

It's nothing more than an old PC and a NAS if I'm honest. The "lab" part is all virtual. Does the job though!

I only really use mine for testing different web setups for work at the moment
Meaningful action will happen by semi-random chance (breakthrough in low-emission energy) or by force of nature (climate changes so much that we have no choice but to act). In general, I don't think the average, or even somewhat above-average, person will be motivated by an abstract risk like the specter of CO2-induced climate change, unless incentives are created at a societal level to celebrate advancements in this field of technology and the associated low-emission lifestyle.

And would it be safe to assume that low-emission energy has much lower ROI, in a traditional sense, than fossil fuels? If so, I double down on my above predictions about triggers for meaningful change.

But that's life, isn't it? We're only capable of optimizing towards a finite distance in the future. If that weren't the case, we would be gods, not humans. And we certainly wouldn't be in this mess, or perhaps any mess, in the first place.
Well it's kind of funny because you can replace GRU with CIA and stairwell with window, and it still matches.
> Microsoft and Google are paying to educate people on their products.

That was 1990. Now Microsoft and Google are paying to educate people
on their values. That is different. Children having their
educational horizons limited, curated, monitored and nudged by a few
corporations is the problem here.

> There is no lock in contract

You've read them all? All of them?

> and it isn't that hard to switch later.

No this is plain wrong. Any IT person will tell you that migrating
from one vendor to another is a nightmare. Getting too deeply into a
relationship with one vendor is always a business mistake.

> And the schools/students benefit from a cheaper education than if
they had to pay full price.

Another way of looking at that is since the vendor sets the price on
am essentially zero cost service, subsidising one sector is an
anti-competitive behaviour.

But that is not the point. Students should get the best education
possible, not the cheapest. Corporate McEducations are why we're
falling behind against nations like China who are quite happy to use
our better products (Linux etc) to teach timeless principles instead
of transient products to their students.
Carbon dioxide increases the growth of plants. I don't see how this is a bad thing.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
> wifi display

Can this ever be performant enough? I feel like even the tiniest amount of lag would be unbearable.
Why do you need to change the data format to make it faster (at the cost of making it harder to work with to end users)? The data is the same as it was at the beginning, it doesn't justify a technical redesign. Why not just create accelerators based on an intermediat format?
Wouldn't that just be a vector of pointers?
Most of the world has not imposed sanctions against Russia. But, yeah, seeing as Israel falls under the US "security umbrella", more or less, it's interesting that they didn't (as almost all the other countries military protected by the US did). Which maybe goes to show that they don't need that umbrella that much, anymore.
how does it feel to be so sure replicating western propaganda?

there's no such thing as entirely someone's fault. you live in black and white.

i don't know, was the whole germany literal nazi? well, half europe was. was hitler the enemy of the whole world? well, not until he did his job keeping commies under control. noone cared about jews and racism, ok? einstein moved to us from nazi germany and was shocked by racism towards black. he was lucky he's not black.

it's not a tale of good and bad. and it doesn't need to. hating your enemy is hating yourself for the enemy being in your mind, being close to you, being in your news or the same continent. love your enemy to love yourself.
I did not see whether there is a noticeable (or even measured) effect vs load on the cpu. I would thing that cache misses increase with load as multiple processes compete for the memory resources. Perhaps modern machines can schedule around this but it should still be tested.

Or, perhaps, this is saying (again) that one should code then tune? Pick data structures that facilitate the design you’re trying for rather than for theoretical elegance? Chips are cheap while developers are not, and having a cleaner, saner design is a win. Unless your software price per core is so high that people won’t license more.
Those links simply back up that I was correct in saying that our government borrows money, and as a result we have to cover an ever increasing amount of interest payments which was around $1 trillion dollars last year - https://www.crfb.org/blogs/debt-rises-interest-costs-could-t...

So where does that trillion dollars come from? We inflate it away from citizens by printing more money. And that trillion dollars is wasted on interest, it isn't used on any services for the citizens.

So yes, balanced budgets matter.
> I do not believe that Russia as a country will change soon, so one of the best ways to accelerate the process is to help intelligent people to leave the country, as Arkady does.

At a personal lever, I feel it's very good and I wish these Russian all the best trying to do something meaningful in exile. On a more global level, though, it's clear that if all anti-war folks leave, the country becomes even more pro-war, and there is nobody left to save it.
Use this with netboot.xyz with your Openwrt router, no need for USB or CD-ROM.
It's honestly not realistic to expect any free service provider to martyr themselves for your privacy. With that in mind, remember that anywhere you don't control the metal someone is watching you.

Always.
sys.version_info

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One other thing you can do for resilience, is periodically (say every 6 months or so) take out a full page ad in The NY Times with the hashes.

These newspapers tend to be archived all over the world by multiple people, and are another way to provide proof that something was published by a certain date.
You can write simple svg but if you are interpreting all of svg it is not simple to write that code. Mozilla hasn’t successfully implemented it all properly for example.
No offense but as a rule of thumb if you have to explain to the reader that what they just read was a “(funny joke)”, then probably it’s not that funny :)
Heh, I couldn't even manage to get past lvl 20 or so...

("It's not because it's called «RPG» that it's similar to Baldur's Gate" learning moment...)
People that liked this post may also be interested in drawit, a vim plugin that helps you create ascii diagrams.

https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt
First, framing the war as imposed by USA is plain lie. It is not even different perspective, it requires intentional manipulation of events and lying to promote.

> However, sources say, lately, both Germany and France are taking some steps in tandem to sabotage the Anglosphere’s designs in Ukraine.

Yes, it seems like they are fine with genocide of Ukrainians in exchange of business. And yes, they are loosing soft power European countries as a result. But, to be fair, Germany does quite a lot of humanitarian help, even as the Sholtz would be happy to sacrifice Ukraine to Russia.

> forming an informal union of Russophobe countries from the Baltics and Central Europe

Yes, countries formerly occupied by Russia and being at risk of being occupied by Russia again had Russia succeeded in Ukraine don't like Russia as much as India. India did not had that many citizens murdered by Russia, did not had political system dictated by Russia. The closer to Russia you are, the more corruption is there.

From Stalin to Putin, it is pretty easy to see why Baltics and Central Europe dont want Russian tanks at home again.
"Lack of action" is just plain wrong.

If we would have done nothing, we'd be looking at about 6 degrees C of rise. If we stop at what we've done already, we're aiming for 4 degrees C. If our governments follow through on all our concrete commitments, we'd stop at about 2.5 degrees C. (Concrete commitments are specific, not nebulous like "net 0 by 2050").

2.5 degrees is still too much, but it's not nothing, far from it.

Saying "we've done nothing" is counter-productive IMO, it just encourages defeatism. IMO it's easier to do more when you acknowledge that what we have done has been effective.
Who decides whether to use gene drives against malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Additionally to what others have mentioned, there is also the effect of the gravitational pull of ice shields.

https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/question/antarctic-ice-she...

There was a discussion about this effect on hn years ago, the original link send to be dead now. But this is the thread on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389690
Even the Greek Reporter article says that "the origins of the European genes are inconclusive" (sic):

>> While the origins of the European genes are inconclusive, experts have determined that they were most likely from Greece, Crete, Sardinia, or the Iberian peninsula.

I'm Greek (though not a reporter) and I have to say that the constant attempt to pin a "Made in Greece" sign on basically every ancient site or people around the Mediterrannean (and much further afield) is extremely frustrating.
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Rigorous explanation of bodies of water on the planet requires accounting for how water and ice deform the crust with their mass.
I made a first version of an XBattle remake over the weekend with Unity [1]. Still needs a lot before it can be released but the basic features are working already.

[1] https://giphy.com/gifs/unity-game-dev-xbattle-stdR5qYdqrgNll...
I just find it an indication that formation of amino acids is not that important as a bottleneck for the origin of life. It's also not that surprising, as you'd expect life to use monomers that are fairly stable (and therefore could be formed by random processes, because of that stability.)
Maybe that's why they write down the law, in books. On the whole I would say criminal law is fairly clearly defined, the parts that are more muddy are more muddy because lawyers are good at splitting hairs, not because the law was muddy in intent.
Oh please, I'm from Bulgaria, a nation split between Russophilia and Russophobia due to centuries of history with Russia. I'm a history nerd and have pretty decent knowledge around Eastern European history.

What I'm saying is coming from a position of knowledge, history and geopolitics, not random "Russia bad guys communism" or whatever you think it is. If you're so certain in your version, go on, let's debate. How is Russia, in today's form, not an enemy of the EU through it's own choice?
Your source is seemingly blaming Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the US and UK. That doesn't really make for a convincing source on... anything, really.
It's funny to see this described as something new, because things used to be far worse in this regard.

That's not to say it's not still a problem, but it's not a new problem.
> There needs to be a mechanism for the ice to accumulate on top of itself far above sea level for sea level to go down beyond just water freezing.

It's pretty common in the arctic regions that water forms ice crystals and falls out of the sky, landing on the ground.

Snow, I believe they call it.
It's not the volume of the ocean that matters for sea level rise but the surface area, right? Ocean surface area is 140M square miles, so 6.4M cubic miles of water would naively be like a 241 foot rise -- each cubic mile gets split into 140/6.4 slices.
That's why youtube is on the edge of being blocked in Russia.
8-10 hours per day, plus another 1-3 hours for commute. Baby wakes up at 6:30, takes a bath and gets sleepy at 18:30 - so 12 hours of interactive time (not counting night-time feeding and crying) - and these 12 hours closely correspond to the fully-working parent's work and commute hours.
I don't think that's entirely true or fair.

G4 Powerbooks were very usable and are still highly collectable today. I have two G4s myself.

Yes, Intel kit was somewhat quicker, in some tests, some of the time, but bear in mind the comparison at the time: Intel's state of the art then was the Pentium 4.

The P4 had a nickname of being a fanheater, because it ran so hot and had such a low IPC that its performance even at high clock speeds was poor.

AMD was just bringing in Sledghammer, the Opteron/Athlon64 range, but they were not laptop chips either. So that meant that they were up against the G5 as a desktop chip, which was respectable.

The things you are missing are:

* Apple saw that laptops were more important than desktops. POWER was strong and still is, but as a server chip, not in portables.

* Apple was sold on the promise of future Intel chips, mainly the Core 2 series, and nothing Intel had at that time...

* ... or that AMD had at that time.

* There is another big advantage that is forgotten now that Apple saw then.

PowerPC was Apple's old platform. The pre-OS X OS, Classic, ran on PowerPC. OS X could run Classic in a VM on PowerPC. This was good for long-time Apple users.

But if it switched to Intel, notably the future 64-bit Intel chips that didn't even exist yet, then it would lose the ability to run Classic in a VM... but it would gain the ability to run x86 OSes natively in VMs. In other words it could run Windows in a VM at near-full-speed, giving the ability to run Windows apps, which looking to the future was far more important than the ability to run old PowerPC Classic MacOS apps.

It was 100% not an issue of "Apple compared Intel to PowerPC and Intel was quicker." At the time of the comparison, Intel was slower and hotter.
That seems to be a T9 layout on the texting one.

Which seems like an unfair comparison to todays phone keyboards. Still, I HIGHLY doubt that even todays phone keyboards come close.
No no no. You cannot respond to a hacker with deadly force, except in a special circumstance where you reasonably fear imminent death or serious bodily injury. I’m not going to sit here and argue with your other misguided points, but that is dangerously wrong.
Not really arguing at all, policy and lifestyle changes could do it, but we’re obsessed with growth and technology. We won’t live with less so our solutions always rely on making more. We’ve missed several climate change milestones waiting for technology to save us.
Well, we know that we can produce some amino acids from the so-called "primordial soup" (which hit the news in the 50s). But there is still a wide gap between these simple chemicals and a simplest living organism.
I assume the author may be referring to the projects at http://akkartik.name/code, notably Mu - though not 100% sure, doesn't seem to really extend to the "computer" part at a glance.
>> During that time, sea levels were between 5 and 25 meters higher than today offsite, high enough to drown many of the world’s largest modern cities.

That makes for a great headline, but a large part of the Netherlands' coastal areas are currently below sea level, and yet are not "drowned".
> Hitherto, we've at least been able to install the software we like

If you were very lucky and had an IT department not locking things down. Locking things down in this respect has been a key selling point for e.g. Microsoft for a very long time.
I hate the opposite: I can't know when someone is free and ready to chat with me. I may send a message and wait 30 seconds or 3 hours until I can get a conversation going. Or get responses every 20 minutes instead of every 2 minutes.
Who does that? Anybody going to that ridiculous level of preparedness can just carry a generator. Every place I've seen that is off grid but has a fuel tank also has a generator. Electricity is everywhere that gasoline is.
Unless the app claims it defends my privacy which is the only selling point many of these apps hold over Whatsapp for example.
The Hackernews bot on Mastodon is still up, lots of people like it.
> Both have been hugely successful, and both have the same pile of downsides.

Exactly. And the solution should not be to throw away spreadsheets completely and turn them into relational databases, but to create new tools to alleviate the downsides and reduce their impact (possible by exporting the spreadsheet information into a relational database, but without taking away the user's option to continue working with it.)
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Which countries are the biggest emitters of CO2?

It seems like the challenge is getting all countries to take action to reduce CO2 emissions, especially the biggest emitters.
The problem, IMO, is the “live” nature of things like Clubhouse/Spaces. Your audience has to be actively engaged at the right moment to get distribution, and even then you’re subject to the randomness that is live content. No ability to edit the boring parts out or add production value.

Something that is like Twitter for Podcasts would be interesting I think. 1-5 minute audio clips designed to be consumed asynchronously, presented in a sort of timeline manner where you could feasibly just hit play and listen for 30m, getting quick hit audio content from 5-10 creators

Imagine informative YouTube videos but without the “what’s up guys in this video we’re …blah blah” sort of fluff. Just straight to the point.
> companies would rather make some money than no money, so presumably they would stay in business if the union wages are worth it.

This is overly simplistic.

Companies in a secure position are also sometimes prepared to take a loss for a while, in order to undercut a competitor until the competitor is forced to leave the market and prices can be put back up again for long term-gain.

For the exact same reason, a company could decide to close a profitable outlet (with an eye to re-opening or replacing at some time in the future) in order to make sure that unionization does not take hold.
That's the difference between us: you're believe in possibility to save the country, I believe that "Carthage must be destroyed" before people can build the new country on top of that. 20 years of dictatorship for Russia, even more for Belarus - it's not something that can be easily fixed.
Fascinating.

I read the entire article without learning what social audio or Clubhouse are.
Self-answer but in Linux the "XArray" has been developed and maybe that can be an actual answer to my question: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/xarray.html
I don't know what the hell you're trying to say.

Yes, actions don't exist in a vacuum, however excusing Russia's agression through "oh but the EU tried to be friendly to Ukraine" doesn't pass a sniff test.

Russia, today, is an oligarchy run by one man and his cronies. Not all of Russians agree with them, and hopefully with time that part will become a majority. But don't mistake Russia being an enemy with Russians. Some of them are direct enemies ( like frontline troops), but most are just people that have the misfortune to live in Russia.
I appreciate your feedback. That said this is a message board for a bunch of nerds so hopefully people would discuss this with an oncologist.

>> As with most experiments

>This isn't true. It's absolutely standard in earlier trials of investigational agents to not have any sort of control arm.

Can we agree that Clinical trials are a small subset of all experiments? And that Phase 1 isn't as large?

For your second two points you're correct and I agree with you.
Is there a reason the keep the data and the indices in different arrays? Unless you're navigating to an item by its position in the linked list, you're going to be checking the data at each node and then reading the next index to traverse forward. Since you're reading both, wouldn't it be better to make the index of the next node intrusive?
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Plants will likely adapt more readily than human civilisation.
I'm responding to a comment about rich people. Also, anything that reduces TCO benefits poor people more than rich people, so if they don't have the capital for an up-front investment governments should be providing cheap loans or grants.

IMO the obsession with requiring sacrifice is alienating, counter-productive and unnecessary.
I think that rioting and eco-terrorism can be kept at bay with increased surveillance. My bet is that the protests can be quashed long enough until the situation becomes so bad that actual life-threatening consequences arise even for those in power (extreme food scarcity and the breakdown of every supply chain out there).
That isn't obvious at all, you explicitly say 'no computers allowed' and yeah, I consider a forty-page handwritten essay a sadistic way to find out more about a computer programmer.

I don't think you're a bad person for it, and ok, good to know you're willing to make accomodations, but my reaction to being asked to do this would be sharply negative. The keyboard is inherent to the profession.

Assuming you read the essay it is impossible to not judge the applicant on their penmanship. A difficult skill with absolutely no bearing on the qualification for the job.

I urge anyone reading this to not offer a 40 page handwritten essay to software developers in the first place. It's an awful idea.
Author states:

>And that’s the point, rules and complexity have completely unknowable downsides. Downsides like the destruction of the whole project.
With each rule and added complexity you make the system less human and less fun. You make it a Computer Scientists rube goldberg machine while sterilizing it of all the joy of life.

While too much rules and complexity can certainly be bad, some basic amount of standardization can actually reduce complexity and really doesn't cause a "destruction of the whole project".

As a counterpoint, too much flexibility can also increase complexity. For example, without defined rules, 5.6.2022 can mean 5. June 2022 or 6. May 2022. Nor user, nor parser can know for sure what it means, if standard isn't defined. This kind of flexibility certainly isn't fun.

Example from OSM wiki for "Key:source:date":

> There is no standing recommendation as to the date format to be used. However, the international standard ISO 8601 appears to be followed by 9 of the top 10 values for this tag. The ISO 8601 basic date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source:date

Just define some essential standards. It won't lead to destruction of the project!

And while you are making breaking changes, please fix the 'way' element. Maps are big. Storing points in ways as 64bit node-ids, while coordinates in nodes are also 64-bit (32bit lon and 32bit lat), just leads to wasted space and wasted processing time. There are billions of these nodes and nearly all of these nodes don't have tags, just coordinates. There is no upside for this level of indirection. And in case tags are needed for a point, this can already be solved with a separate node and a 'relation' element.

OSM data format could certainly be improved and it would benefit end users, as better tools/apps could be made more quickly and easily.
because you can proof they didn't i guess
You interpreted one way, everyone else interpreted it the way I meant it.