skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pulling information from an introductory astronomy class, but isn't the definition of what lot of time passing is, not agreed upon?

/The Five Ages of the Universe/ by Adams and Laughlin theorize that new stars won't stop forming until trillions (possibly hundreds of trillions) of years after the universe's inception. We're currently on years 14-15 billion. If their theories are true we'd be, arguably, one of the first instances of intelligent life in the universe.

Now, some astronomers theorize that the universe will end in 5 - 15 billion years, so that would change the timeline substantially.
union membership over fixing global warming

Every year, Elon makes over 100 flights using private aircraft, which offsets the emissions savings of over 100k EVs. Most of these flights are for pleasure, not business.

"Fixing" global warming is just a marketing ploy for Musk, since he seems to be doing an incredible job of personally trying to make it worse. He doesn't get to freeride on the labor of others on this.
> Yandex News service is how a lot of Russians consume news media. It has a systemic history of censorship and propaganda. Also, Yandex search has been known to censor the results as well — always in interests of Russian state.

I upvoted you, and though I can't speak or read Russian, I would be surprised if what you were saying wasn't true. However, Google extensively censors and distorts its search results too, while at the same time allowing SEO spam to abound, even when it comes to important areas like health information. If it were one or the other (i.e., great, relevant results with censorship, or mediocre results free from censorship), it wouldn't be so annoying. But the fact that Google actively goes out of its way to censor and manipulate its results, while at the same time allowing the overall quality to deteriorate, is extremely annoying.
I really appreciated this deep dive into how the writers of the game wove an exploration of the meaning of gaming into the lore and story of their games.

>CHIM is the realisation that your entire world, everything you experience, does not really exist. It exists as the dream of a power, which, since it must be called something, is called God. Everything that exists is just part of the dream of God, including yourself. You are just a tiny fraction of the Godhead, that has managed to gain a modicum of self-awareness.
Not just cataracts. Have them check for macular degeneration, too, which if I understand correctly can also make your vision dark. (For that matter, have them check for glaucoma while you're in there.)

But I have a question. Is it just the monitor? Or do you notice the same thing with daylight? Room lights?
> and refusing to buy Russian oil does nothing as some other country will still buy it

Yeah I've been saying this for months but people refuse to get it. I can't even get people to the point where they'll rebut that Russian oil is at least discounted; they don't even admit the chain exists.

> My point is national security is enough reason alone to move off from oil and thus it should a matter of security for a country to do so.

Okay, fair enough and I agree.
In the past, I had a small whiteboard on my door I could write my away messages on (lunch, meeting, vacation, etc) and people could leave short replies on it when they didn't want to send an email (call me, borrowed your charger. It worked great but only really works when you work in an office all day and can update it when you get back from wherever you went.
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Tried googling but can't find what you are referring to. Got a link?
In this case I would strongly encourage to start from manual mapping. StreetComplete Android app may be useful here (disclaimer: I am involved in making it).

See also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines before importing data
The paragraph directly before the one you quoted explains the sum:

> For every number n in the set, plug it into the expression 1/(n log n), then add up all the results. The size of the set {2, 3, 55}, for instance, becomes 1/(2 log 2) + 1/(3 log 3) + 1/(55 log 55).
It said that the quantity sum(1/(n log n) for n in A) is always finite when A is a primitive set. The "operation done to each element of the set" is n -> 1 / (n log n).
50% higher than the lows a couple of centuries ago but 10x lower than they were 500 million years ago.
You piqued my curiosity. The average per-seat fuel efficiency for the major passenger airlines in the U.S. is 59 MPG. If you were traveling as a single occupant in a gas vehicle then it's more fuel efficient to fly. Even two occupants would break even.

As far as electric planes are concerned, I don't know much about them. My first thought is airlines would be looking to use them for regional air traffic - where you need to fly from a city that's not one of their hubs to one that is. I'm imagining at this time they're not being considered for trans-national or trans-continental travel - for the same reasons you shouldn't be considering electric vehicles for long road trips.
Not as main OS, still use it for very important tasks: my home NAS uses XigmaNAS which is FreeBSD based, and I plan to return soon to a BSD based firewall such as OpnSense.
I'm very happy for the experience, however, at least in the above incarnations, it still doesn't fully support 802.11ac and the ARM architecture, which is a bummer because they're becoming ubiquitous.
Does this site go into an endless reload loop for anyone else? I wonder if it's my content blockers or something else...
How could they have a discussion on asynchronous vs synchronous text-based communication without mentioning Discord? Discord is the closest modern day equivalent to AIM.
Perhaps someone ought to make an Ask HN about source control that works with prose. What can give the best diffs for soft-wrapped paragraphs using solely the default command?
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The cool thing about nuclear waste is that you can measure how radioactive it is with a handheld device. Very convenient compared to biohazard waste.
A lot of people are working lots of hours but their output doesn't match their effort. They "work" 12 hour days and only provide some fraction of that in real value due to distraction and procrastination and whatever else they sink their time into. But chaining yourself to a desk for 12 hours and complaining is a lot easier than developing the discipline and focus to put in a solid day's effort.
I'm only acquainted with two black programmers (and I shared this link with them in case they want to comment on their own) but neither of them are conservative.

For my part, I have a hard enough time fathoming why working-class white people like me would buy into conservatism; the movement has become more blatantly populist and authoritarian since 2001, and its economic aspects only seem to benefit the already-wealthy. Most of them do it because of cultural conservatism, which does them few favors either. I won't even attempt to speculate on why black people would choose conservatism since most of my few conservative neighbors are still nostalgic for Jim Crow.
I've worked for two companies who went public (the dream, right?) after becoming fairly successful and then were driven into the ground and sold off in pieces due to being horribly mismanaged by dispassionate, replacement management (should've sold sooner). I look back over the ~15 years of those happenings and I'm not sure that, in the long run, any valuation happens in the corporate culture. It all seems to be a game of Monopoly, set about by players with enough money to buy their way in, or lucky enough to leverage their way in on very rare occasions.

I can't tell you what will work for you, but I've decided for me that real change happens in small sections in myself and in people. It looks small and incremental, and the world seems large but sometimes that's enough... well, it is for me and that's one of the changes I've made to me... most of the time. It doesn't seem to be working as well, lately with all of the chaos in the world. I'm working on it, though =)
If python 4 comes along and stops supporting that syntax then it's fairly likely that the rest of the code will be broken too. That doesn't sound like a huge downside to me.
>And no, it's not possible to ship all the nuclear waste to Finland.

Only in the political sense. Waste volumes are small enough that we easily could if they were willing to dig a big enough hole.
yeah, rusts async/await is just making it nicer to use the same ideas. like is there a libuv or libevent in the rust world thats being used?
That assumes a zero-sum game in all cases. It is not.
> There are some things that are zero sum or reasonably approximated by a zero sum game [...] promotions, job offers

Almost everyone in the tech industry is constantly bemoaning how many open many open positions they have and how hard it is to hire people.

Doesn't seem very zero-sum to me - unless you want to become CTO at Facebook or something.
Running a "pyramid scheme" is a crime in many places, so news organizations and such will prefer to use more neutral language that doesn't necessarily imply the groups they're talking about are criminal.
- https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-r...

- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/18/john-podes...

- https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
Just because it happens in nature, doesn't mean it's good. I don't really understand the "gets his skull crushed" part. Is that supposed to mean something like "If you continue to feel bad in a way that interrupts 'the grind' you will be crushed so stop feeling bad"? That mindset doesn't sound like something that most people can or should participate in. It sounds toxic.

Grinding hard is being sold to people as some kind of normal that everyone should participate in. And people buy into it, myself included. Maybe I'm not a so-called Silverback and I think this article (short essay?) is trying to validate that it's OK.

In the end, I do agree with "either participate, don't, or find a different way" but I think it might be a tad dismissive to call this "griping" unworthwhile. In order to push back against the culture of grinding, we gotta start somewhere, even if it's by "griping".
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I think the argument is that "grinders" are doing themselves a disservice? I.e. a competitive strategy would be to make your competitors burn out and cheer the chrunch culture while you yourself slack off.
Gonna take a while to rise 5 to 25 meters though. I think it's currently rising at like 0.8m per century.
I suspect that could be part of it, that we're the biological bootloader for AI and we last just a blink in that stage on the time scale of the universe.

But then what does that AI do afterwards and why don't we see them. That doesn't really solve the dilemma.
A lot of people who claim to be like this seem to tweet a suspiciously large amount.
Who said anything about Coinbase? Just because Binance is catering to criminals doesn't mean Coinbase is on the up and up. They are all assholes.
A high quality 1080P video stream is more like 5-10Mbps, and a typical desktop use case is going to be much, much more compressible.
Also:
>The Parkland shooter had just been expelled from school and then came back. This is not a problem we can punish our way out of.

I believe a lot of the problem is collective nihilism among low status "disposable" men. Lack of career prospects, lack of marriage prospects and lack of social attachment render people resentful outlaws. The option other than ending it all is to stay indoors consuming and do the bare minimum, passing a meaningless existence. I don't think we have many narratives to get them out of the hole they're in.
I started developing an electron app earlier this year and after trying all the available boilerplates and clis I ended up with an app based off nextjs electron-typescript example which uses electron-builder that I’m very happy with. (Nextron is a cool project but is more than I needed)

The major pain point with the existing clis/boilerplates was building the app for multiple platforms in a container and then running automated tests using Playwright, and also being able to run those tests locally if I wanted to, without needing to do any futzing with configuration between environments, and also having basic dev perks like reloading on src code changes and nextjs bundling when building prod.

Also, it’s hard to overstate how nice it is to just not have to deal with webpack configuration.
Seems like a fair argument. What are the other options? Every counterargument I come across is either trying to solve today's problems with tomorrow's technology or pays no regard to preserving or improving current quality of life.
I'm skeptical of most of it too, but that's because there's a lot of competing methods, and probably no one of them is best.

The best summary I've seen is this: https://spyderdoc.substack.com/p/doctors-heart-series-part-6...

Because it is a fantastic summary by a medical doctor that is becoming personally convinced. It presents an overarching narrative of two bodily systems that cannot very well operate at the same time, the second of which operates during periods of fasting because (in part) of the reduction in insulin, which essentially "triggers" the competing, de-facto mechanism.

You probably guessed it, but the autophagy-inducing bit happens as part of that second, insulin-supressed process.

He advocates a 3-day water-only fast once a month (for himself). I personally switched to a one-meal-a-day plan for 3-4 days a week, and am trying to build up to 3 day fasts 1/m.

I also have this link saved for some reason: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

What clicked for me recently was the insulin story. Keto, 8/16, multi-day fasting, etc all seem to be tied together under the "reduce time spent with floods of insulin" theme. It wouldn't surprise me if any of them are fine, and advocates of "the one true IF" are just being territorial.
Yeah, apologies for being a little obtuse. Things that look like words but don't act as typical verbal language.
LockPickingLawyer actually covers this topic, from an access control system context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SEHUqkbIjU

TL;DW Decision making should be on the secure side of the door, and communication should be encrypted.
This is a case of fighting strawmen.

Nobody is actually promoting to work from when you wake till late at night to make a dollar. Even if you go fully into hustle culture the goal isn't to drink on a yacht - it's to accomplish important self goals like writing a screen play or publishing a book.
What a crap article.

> Typically, you might associate to it all multiples of 618 whose smallest prime factor is 103.

There are no multiples like that. All multiples of 618 (= 2 * 3 * 103) have 2as the smallest prime factor.

Did anyone figure out what they actually wanted to say?!
Fortunately radiation detectors are very sensitive and it's easy to determine if something is significantly contaminated or not... heck with gamma spectroscopy you can even tell exactly what the contamination is and get an idea of how much is there (with some caveats-- e.g. gamma sources aren't the only type of radiation you have to look out for but detecting other types is not much harder). More specialized systems can even localize exactly where contamination is within a container if you wanna get fancy.
I've been burned out for decades. I deal with it by not making work my priority. I do solid work, put in my 40 hours a week, and maintain an Iron Curtain between work and the rest of my life. And I tell other people that careers are for suckers when they make the mistake of asking me for advice.
True. I work with media server playback stuff for live events etc. Back in the day, we only used mpeg2 constant bitrate codec because it allowed us to sync the playback across multiple systems. The first 4k videos we could play were just a slightly hacked version of mpeg2. The software I used adopted the extension .mxl and claimed they sort of invented a new thing, but truthfully, it was just an mpeg2 encoder/decoder that ignored that 4095 rule.

Now we use HAP family (DXT/S3 based) or NotchLC (which is a specialized codec for media servers that is fairly encumbered with patents).
NFS (on both consoles and PC) didn't have any MPEG-encoded videos. See

https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Cinepak

https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Electronic_Arts_TGV

for 3DO and PC video formats, respectively. You can get the original files (ATTRACT[1-3]) from the first link (ffmpeg/mplayer had a decoder for that) or the reencodes someone made from the second link.

https://ia803209.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/29...

https://archive.org/details/nfsse-videos

Oh, and the video itself seems to be from a PlayStation version, judging by the graphics in the end. Then the title should be “1996”, and the hardware decoder for more advanced MotionJPEG-like video could be used.

Edit: Sorry, that's NFS1 Special Edition intro (without Road&Track co-branding).

Before talking about bus bandwidths and video card types, author had to mention that you simply couldn't decode such a complex format on consumer devices at that time, their CPUs weren't fast enough. Back then people used dedicated players with options to trade quality for speed to decode just the MP3 audio files. For video, developers relied on simple codecs with integer math, line/block/area/frame copy/movement/discard operations, and reduced bpp data, like Cinepak, Indeo, and many custom ones. Their metric wasn't the quality level, but amount of frame data that could be updated by decoding CPU in a given time. Everything that couldn't fit got dropped. Some of those allowed to decode at arbitrary locations on arbitrary canvas sizes, and implement screen/region scrolling/updating through the same decoder, if needed.

Game designers could cheat by sticking to highly compressible images. Shots with limited color palette and static (perfectly static) CG backgrounds looked better. For example, all of Cyberia FMV sequences only have 15 fps, but most of the time you don't notice that.
> Not every country even has candidate sites.

Can't they just dig down? Are you saying some countries don't have bedrock?
I agree with thereddaikon. This is an interesting plot of a minor Shakespearian play; In the big scheme of life, Twitter is just a human endeavor that is ‘but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’ The plot of ego, vanity and greed is the plot of most human actions for millennia. It is intriguing to watch the next plot twists and how the actors respond.
Does perl have a built in HTTP client? The author wanted to hit a URL, and if I recall perl didn't support that natively (I last used it professionally in 5.16 though, so I may be out of date).

If the state of the art in Perl is still "shell out to curl or whatnot" then that is really not portable or stable compared to Python's included urllib--SSL errors or not.
The oldest stars in our galaxy are >12 billion years old. Ours is 4.5 billion years old. We obviously don't have a lot (meaning more than 1) of data points here but that one data point is that life can evolve in 4 billion years.

Whatever the variance is we've had ~3x that for other civilizations to arise in our galaxy alone.

Yes we could be "first" (within our cone of spacetime). First of 3? That's possible. First of 1000? Way less likely. There's some BAyesian reasoning about probability spaces you can do here. The very fact that we can't seem to detect anyone else in our galaxy changes the probabilities making it much more likely (but not impossible of course) that we're effectively alone.

Also the odds that another civilization evolves over 4B years and reaches spacefaring technology within 100,000 years of us is, statistically speaking, incredibly unlikely. It's way more likely they'll be way ahead of us or way behind us.
If that's your view of the world you gotta stop working on B2C products and take some B2B jobs. You might start singing "Everything is enterprise sales" but at least you'll be working in an environment where the people using your software and the people paying you are the same.
> "For example, rather than counting how many numbers are in a set, they might do the following: For every number n in the set, plug it into the expression 1/(n log n), then add up all the results. The size of the set {2, 3, 55}, for instance, becomes 1/(2 log 2) + 1/(3 log 3) + 1/(55 log 55).

Erdős found that for any primitive set, including infinite ones, that sum — the “Erdős sum” — is always finite."

Read the paragraph just above it.
The world has already been losing. I'm convinced that Twitter by its nature is bad for society.
Is it policy to only leak debate questions ahead of time to candidates who have previously run as democrats? I must have missed it in the party platform.
> the file format is an open standard and can be opened in myriad programs as is or converted to html, rtf, markdown etc.

Have you seen that work well in practice? I haven't - if you want to reliably open Microsoft Office docs, the only answer is Microsoft Office. Just because it's open doesn't mean it's coherent, consistent, or possible to implement.
I really wish this project didn't die, this would open to so many use-cases. I hate to use multi-process to scale my projects.
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Can you elaborate? What's the reason it wouldn't work if all the plates were frozen?
Isn't making your own tool to satisfy your own needs the most "Our tools should adapt to us" possible, though?
This is a good point in a general sense, but I don't think it would be a problem in this particular case for the date some imported OSM data was sourced, which is similar to the "date accessed" for a website in a bibliography.
For those who don't know, Carl Pomerance was the guy who came up with/discovered the quadratic field sieve which for a time was the fastest factoring algorithm for large (100-ish digits) semiprimes. He has a beautiful write-up describing the algorithm and the story of its discovery:

Pomerance, Carl. “A Tale of Two Sieves.” In Biscuits of Number Theory, edited by Arthur Benjamin and Ezra Brown, 85–104. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1090/dol/034/15.