skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things, one which supports the other:

First is Concise Encoding, a secure, binary and text ad-hoc data format with full type support: https://concise-encoding.org/

Example of the text format:

c1
{
"string" = "Strings support escape sequences: \n \t \[1f415]"
"boolean" = true
"binary int" = -0b10001011
"octal int" = 0o644
"decimal int" = -10000000
"hex int" = 0xfffe0001
"very long int" = 100000000000000000000000000000000000009
"decimal float" = -14.125
"hex float" = 0x5.1ec4p+20
"very long flt" = 4.957234990634579394723460546348e+100000
"not-a-number" = nan
"infinity" = inf

"list" = [1 2.5 "a string"]
"map" = {"one"=1 2="two" "today"=2020-09-10}
"bytes" = |u8x 01 ff de ad be ef|
"int16 array" = |i16 7374 17466 -9957|

"uuid" = f1ce4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000
"date" = 2019-07-01
"time" = 18:04:00.948/Europe/Prague
"timestamp" = 2010-07-15/13:28:15.415942344
"null" = null
"media" = |application/x-sh 23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 73 68 0a 0a
65 63 68 6f 20 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a|
}

Almost all existing data formats are horribly insecure and ripe for exploitation (many of them are already). And they can't be fixed because the formats aren't versioned.

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But describing the data format was painful because most existing metalanguages are only for describing textual grammars, and the few that support binary aren't really suited for documenting for human consumption.

So I'm putting the finishing touches on Dogma ( https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/dogma_v1.md ), a modernized BNF-style metalanguage with better expressiveness and binary grammar support.

For example:

A UDP packet consists of a source port, a destination port, a length, a checksum, and a body. The length field refers to the size of the entire packet, not just the body.

udp_packet = src_port
& dst_port
& uint(16, var(length,8~) )
& checksum
& body(length - 8) # subtract header from length to get body length
;
src_port = uint(16,~);
dst_port = uint(16,~);
checksum = uint(16,~);
body(length) = uint(8,~){length};
People living on the Moon will need artificial lighting since the days there are 29.5 Earth days.

The real issue will be Mars since their days are approximately the same as Earth.
I remember being at the post office and thinking it was dumb that the clerk thought Micronesia was part of the US and they could charge domestic rates.

Only later that I discovered I was the dumb one.

IDK how you can possibly economically send mail to places like foreign barely habited deep pacific islands for the same price as mailing to your neighbor.
I have also found OSv to be interesting.

https://osv.io/
The computer you're using is the result of the free market.
People will be boating to Japan as countries in East Asia plus Russia are destabilized in the next couple decades due to rising energy and food prices.
Is your data potentially going to a foreign government not known for extraterroritorial judicial overreach worse than your data going to your local government for longterm storage and profiling?
True, but the problem is that they never know. They don't interact with the real world and have no way of verifying their training data's accuracy. Perhaps they could assign a confidence level to their response? But then, if they assign a response a high confidence level and produce an incorrect answer, it will compound their failure. Not only were they wrong, but they vouched for their wrong answer.
I'm confused.

English is an official EU language is one of the (few) working languages of the European Commission (French is also used a lot). And the United Kingdom remains a member of the European Space Agency. GMT overlaps with European time zones, with countries like France being big proponents things like UTC (and TAI, and the metric system in general).
> The government also covers bailouts for banks using taxpayer money, effectively punishing everyone.

What's the alternative? Other than more scrutiny and harsher punishments for banks, which very few people are against.

> private business do not in fact pay for their mistakes in blood

Just because 0.1% of businesses gets bailouts, you're going to ignore 99.9%? Are you the type of person that says vaccines don't work because people still get sick?

> capitalism doesn't allow a society to thrive when all actors are irresponsible, in fact, you only need to have a select few actors to be irresponsible in order to degrade the state of society.

The "degraded state of society" is still orders of magnitude better than the alternatives I heard of. I'd say it still fits whatever the definition of thriving you can come up with.

Nothing is perfect, it's quite easy to criticize anything. But if you're criticizing without offering any alternatives, your criticism isn't worth much.

So I'll ask again, what is alternative that you're offering?
Terminology nit: Hyper-Threading(tm) is the Intel-ese marketing term for their implementation. The computer architecture term is SMT (simultaneous multithreading).
From what I can tell, there are exceptions for big magazines - they will continue as being subscribed to.

Smaller magazines will only be included if both Amazon and and the smaller magazine agree on it.

Some magazine editors have straight up said they have no idea.

It seems Amazon is using uncertainty to increase fear.

Seems like Amazon is being a jerk about.

To answer your question: nobody knows what this will look like.
Ireland and Malta are two EU members where English is one of the official languages.
Just saying, the AP Stylebook currently prescribes those abbreviations instead of two-letter codes, but also proscribes abbreviations in titles.
1 megagram is a ton, which is widely used. A lot of stuff is measured in tons, including cars (“this car weighs almost two tons, which is pretty heavy for a sports car”), cargo (20-ton train car), etc.

It stops on the ton, though - “40 thousand tons of grain” - gigagram isn’t used.
> My personal record was in Zurich, where I had a whopping 3.6km to the next Lidl, from which I only returned by bus, because those ~4CHF saved on the ticket there afforded me 1kg of bananas(2CHF instead of 3 in Coop) and a can of tuna.

By bicyle, 3.6 km would take 10-15 min without riding hard.
You don’t. It’s one choice in the electricity market.
737MAX has a design problem that attempted to use software to cover it up. Boeing stuffed in big fans which needed to be higher to not scrape the runway. The fans stick out forward from the wings, which can cause the plane to pitch up. Software attempts to hide that design flaw, and pushed down really hard a couple times into the ground.

Really needs a new type certification, though FAA and flying public generally don't seem to care.
East Asia is also depopulating.
A “day” is a terrible horrible no good very bad unit. Units should be constant!

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deviation_of_day_l...
But countries next to Japan (china, south Korea, Russia) are also depopulating.
So FTC can, albeit rarely, do good things. Nice.

Hope this gets into effect immediately.
According to Wikipedia, 93% of students in the EU currently learn it at school…
> None of the 'serious' tech companies back then took 'personal' computing (whether at home or the office) seriously.

With, of course, the minor exception of that easily forgotten serious tech company (IBM).
The pace at which they are releasing features and APIs is quite amazing.
It doesn't shift blame because there is no blame. It's just the mechanics of human factors: reflective clothing adds visbility, which increases available response time of drivers, which reduces injury.
I contend that across the developed world, everything just got too expensive. In the two places I ‘live’, Sydney and Tokyo, young people are putting off the usual life events such as getting married, having kids etc. because of unstable housing and insecure employment.

50 years ago, a dwelling was around 3-4x annual salary, now it’s 15-20x salary. You aren’t paying that off early and growing the family, even with both parents working. To even get both parents working, you need child care, which for many people costs more than one parent just staying home. Your family lives in the more established suburbs because they bought when it was affordable, so you’re miles away from them and they can’t just come around and mind the grandkids, so you’re a bit stuck.

Some serious consideration needs to be made about the growing trend of wealth percolating towards the older and established parts of society in a way that didn’t used to happen, personally I believe the financialisation of housing (and basically everything else, have you seen the prices of used games lately…) is a major contributor.

Nonetheless, this will all slowly grind to a halt as our major cities die out due to lack of young people when they're forced out. Sydney is already becoming a retirement village, give it a few years to really set in and maybe then there will be the impetus to start fixing it.
Turn off wifi at nights ;).
Increase immigration from highest birth rate countries.
In God of war Ragnarok there is a similiar story with a whale. It is chained to a lake so long that after its bonds are removed, it will not leave.
Personally I'd move to Japan in a heartbeat if discrimination was illegal and they provided a pathway to (dual) citizenship.

From Wikipedia:

> Japan lacks any law which prohibits racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination. The country also has no national human rights institutions.[3] Non-Japanese individuals in Japan often face human rights violations that Japanese citizens may not.[4] In recent years, non-Japanese media has reported that Japanese firms frequently confiscate the passports of guest workers in Japan, particularly unskilled laborers.[5][6]
How to do those things in Linux?
How about running as many threads as your cpu has SMT threads? Those are what AWS sells as vCPUs.
AusPost is semi-private though
Ireland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as the official language.

This is along with the fact that English is lingua franca in EU and wider.
Highschool dropout starting my buildinpublic journey
give women voting rights and education and see birthrates plummet. if you call them out on it, you're a misogynist but if you phrase it in a positive way, they will cheer for it.
Why would finding out you were related to a figure from history at all change how you would view that history?
I thought I was the only person who read that :)
What I find really fascinating about this is that even in the depths of the birth rate crisis Japan cannot find the political will to take any of the "obvious" drastic measures. Begin covering childcare costs, subsidize housing for families, etc.
Been living in Medellín for 3 years now. If you don't go out of your way looking for drugs/sex, you'll be fine. Most people getting in some form of trouble go above and beyond looking for both.
They mean local lunar time, for coordination between actors on the moon. Lunar day length and even, due to gravity, second length differ from Earth (i.e., time moves at a different speed).
> Another notion that I find interesting is one-address space. ... Supporting virtual memory is extremely expensive

Would it be possible to make linux work with one address space? It seems like that should be a reasonably easy thing to do given how many different hardware platforms linux runs on. And it'd be interesting to know how much performance uplift you get from not flushing as much during context switches.

Or are there more complex interactions with different parts of the kernel that I'm missing?
Plus they aren't driving at high speed between suburban and city houses, plus they aren't actually driving that far (probably 50-100 miles in suburbs, less than 50 in city) so they don't need a huge battery.

They don't need 0-60 in 4 seconds, so a single axle motor is probably all you need.

You don't need NMC chemistry for the range, you can just use LFP or sodium ion when it reaches mass production later this year hopefully.

You can even use a range extender ICE for the rural models like the BMW i3.
Is it a bad thing for populations to fluctuate? Should populations only grow?
Mount Evans is NIC silicon -- great chip, but it doesn't have the lane count / topology to be an effective switch chip as far as I'm aware.
Intrigued, why is v4l2-loopback related to this?
Would a small unit of lunar time be a Luna Tick?
Should be 2x or 3x as much. People change jobs to increase wages, this would still suppress wages and productivity.
That story is in our page on what Xerox should have done:

https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight

miraculously, they broke free of the IBM bureaucracy. For a while.
No you can't. They'll be from different people and use mutually incompatible shaders. And in the case of unity, mutually incompatible renderer plugin versions
..
> What we should really do is just get rid of all this crap and go with metric time that starts at an arbitrary moment and isn’t dependent on location.

What do you do about relativistic effects which cause time to move at different rates in different places, including on the Moon. From TFA:

> Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than in lunar orbit.
Well of course if it doesn't get used then most people will not be familiar with it — that's the point. We should encourage the use so people become familiar with them, so we can stop using "thousands of" and "millions of".

Re kHz, I think most people understand frequencies we can hear. (1 kHz is close to a high C note). MHz and GHz are radio frequencies.
That's helpful -- thank you!
I have never heard of the use of kilo/mega/giga used for standard mass or distance units, either in the media, scientific literature or anywhere else (except kilometer, and kilogram, but kg IS actually the standard unit, not g)

Only place where I've witnessed it's use is during my own personal musings while sitting on the loo. Same goes for money. "Gigadollars" has a nice ring to it but it's not used :(

There are other units of measurement when the numbers get really big, like AU, lightsecond/minute/year, Solar Mass, etc. I'm no scientist, but I also think when you get to the astonomical scale, order-of-magnitude relative measurements is more useful knowing a galaxy's mass to the nearest gram.
> It also found "no credible evidence" that any American foe possessed "a weapon or collection device," including an emitter of electromagnetic energy pulses, that could cause the symptoms.

Are they telling us between the lines it was one of their own devices? That would be pretty embarrassing, so it must be aliens then…

I guess another alternative is that some of the workers figured out a way to get off work and/or retire earlier with workplace injury benefits and long term disability.
You don't need a swap system even. Just tow a trailer (you know like those multi-trailer semis UPS and others have) but one of them is a battery (or generator if you want), and swap the trailer at a swap station.
> It’s a familiar story throughout East Asia

The same is happening in Europe.

Hungary just published the result of a census ten years after the last one: turns out there's 300k less people than they expected (total population is 9.6M), and the country population is back to the size of ~1950.
What about the other way? How much did the impact craft weigh? How much delta-v did it have?
Now you have to carry the diesel inside the cabin. I have no idea what the efficiency is, but I have to assume diesel generator->electric battery is going to take a sizeable bite out of the energy budget. At that point why not just buy an ICE?
The voices are really good. Wonder what are they using for Text-To-Speech?
This will probably be different than other comments but working to finish up a metal/welding project. Converting a trailer to be usable for a 22' sailboat - almost done just having to do some spray painting and add bolts. It's been probably about 8 months of working in my free time to get here, pretty excited to be done.
Patents stifle innovation too.
NDAs and trade secrets still exist.
62 football fields worth of astroturf. 25 if it's real grass.
Two new sections were opened in the Moscow Metro in 1943! Just when the country was burning all its resources on total war. I don't really understand how it was even possible.
Weight and size correlate with fuel/energy usage. There's also availability of access/parking space and time to access the packages. If you don't deliver more than a bag each day, a car is not needed. If you don't deliver large things, a van is not needed. Etc.

So if you already have a van, it didn't matter if it's half loaded or full. But if you're getting new vehicles, 1 bike doing 3 trips may be way cheaper over time than 1 van.
I do. And the math needs to be done either way, if you're trying to determine a relation to when the sun is at its peak for your area vs their area.
That's very hard to police and prove. It's easier if you pay them to be unemployed for long enough for their knowledge to be less valuable. This is very common with businesses like hedge funds. But I agree non-compete should be narrowly allowed and only in situations like this that are more equitable.
Actually the number is a bit below 10% vacancy rate.

The vacancy rate is a bit above the national average, but not by much.

https://sfist.com/2022/02/01/report-10-of-san-franciscos-hou...
I think you should be able to take clients.

I want to see companies competing on product. An employee shouldn’t be able to take clients anywhere if the product isn’t better.
'I'll call you tomorrow.'

'Tomorrow clock time or tomorrow after the Sun rises?'
Are relativity effects significant on the moon? I thought a rationale for this was the need to account for relativistic effects making clocks run at slightly different speeds on the moon than on the surface of the earth.

Is the "timezone" more of conversation protocol for earth time to moon time?

Current missions use a synchronised mission clock and don't last long enough for this to be a big issue right?
Just to note the Graviton 3 is on 5nm. The 13th Gen is on Intel 7. The Core is also Real Core compared to a VPC which is a thread.
Can you speak Japanese? Also, I assume you are not African-American or South Asian.
Yeah I brought an employment contract to a lawyer once and they told me to sign it because most of it had been written with references to the laws of a different state (the company had moved HQ recently), making most of it unenforceable.
No problem, I'm sure it's not just me who felt that. Also, please consider that even if you were totally right about everything and everyone you interacted with totally wrong, that would be no justification at all for the way you've carried on on this page.
Your comment sticks with me because the art generated here does look very ai generated (the lack of any consistency between something basic like a building window sticks out) and I disagree it’s indistinguishable from professional artists.

That said it reminds me quite stingingly of the work of manga artist Tsutomu Nihe whose works is quite literally about characters going through infinitely large Lovecraft-esq superstructures generated by machines

https://kagi.com/images?q=tsutomu+nihei+architecture
The current PM has said he'd like to double govt spending on child benefits. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pm-kishida-...
I've put that in the title now. Thanks all!
It's literally a greybox, with minor surface detail/texture. Not the most impressive demonstration. Any level designer could whip that up in a single afternoon...
Amazing! To make it more fun, you could use famous fake hosts with very good voices, take a look at the stuff people have done on this Reddit sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIVoiceMemes/

There’s some really funny stuff there, the voices are not perfect, but have a lot of expression.
If history's any indication, you can't give companies an inch. They'll take advantage of employee ignorance of the law, or do shady things with the payments under the logic that if the employee sues them for the money they can tie the case up in the legal system until they give up, or whatever other chicanery they can imagine to squirm out of having to pay.
Well, time to put rooftop solar everywhere and bankrupt the Chinese owners of the grid.
I'm skeptical that this discovery amounts to a "new type of coexistence". Fungi that are facultatively lichenized (having growth forms that include or exclude algae) have been known about for a long time, as have various stages of sophistication of the lichenized condition. I can find references dating back to at least the 1980s that describe various kinds of facultative lichenization. The authors' insistence that the symbiosis is not a lichen just because the mycobiont (fungal partner) has a free-living form is suspect: previous literature makes no such distinction. The relevant distinction here is not between lichen vs. non-lichen, but facultative vs. obligate lichenization. The observation that the mycobiont can be free-living and "does not depend on its alga for nourishment" does not imply that it doesn't derive nourishment from its algal partner once the partnership is established.

There's no major news here that I can see. The main value of this research is simply that it provides the first description of facultative lichenization occurring in a particular group of under-studied fungi (corticioid basidiomycetes).
Environmentally, it's a fantastic thing considering the frightening rate of deforestation, species going extinct, carbon emissions, and ocean pollution.

Economically, it puts pressure on a smaller cohort of working age people to pay more taxes to support a bigger cohort of elderly people.
But you do get that. Better actually, because you can approach it on multiple axis (something the real world is physically incapable of): if the author has published multiple books you can click that axis and follow along it, and if not you not Amazon lists similar and related books.

For non-fiction, the books around it will just be either the authors other books, or books that are very close in the dewey-decimal system. Again, trivial to get online.
Wildly varying rates of birth and an irregularly shaped population pyramid can result in economic and political instability as the majority becomes retirees who are not contributing to the economy but retain much of the political power.

Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan
- https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54d3f8bz

Japan’s Silver Democracy : The Costs of Letting the Elderly Rule Politics - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/2013-07-18/jap... ( https://archive.is/hlAya )
I'll consider anyone if it's the right person.
I took an OS class but wonder nonetheless: If you aim for 0 compatibility, perhaps even can design your cpu, could an OS be much simpler? Could some standard components (paging etc.) be avoided altogether? Or is what we have a minimal set already?
The main differences I’m imagining are:

a) terminology: it’s one less concept to have to wrap your head around; and

b) a draft commit would also have a draft commit message, and (though I’m admittedly not sure about how well this part would work), draft parents (probably supporting refs rather than just commits as parents) so you can have multiple of them and shuffle them around conveniently. (This also sort of subsumes the stash as well.)

I made a preliminary stab at this a while back, though it has some awkwardness and I haven’t had a chance to revisit it recently: https://github.com/wolfgang42/git-draft/
> give it a few years to really set in and maybe then there will be the impetus to start fixing it.

The problem has already begun. Politicians will only begin to look at the problem in 10 years time. Then the political power will shift from Labor to Liberal, or Liberal to Labor, (and back again), and any plans to fix the issue will be blown out by billions of dollars and another decade. By then, it’s too late.