skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean that's functionally what they do, just more accurately since it isn't read time, but time it was built into a binary since that information is accessible, and because the object cache isn't filesystem like and doesn't have an "atime".

And also you still need to reverse from a cached output foo.o, to every transitive dependency of that, of which there could be thousands. Which can be done but requires invoking the build system to do. So it's not anything like just checking a timestamp on the file.
At a very large scale, changes like a mountain removal or temperature increase of a few degrees are fully negligible. Even humanity should be able to reverse those if it decided to actually do it.
Will we actually do so? It's not too likely.
Do you think the “overseas” monarchy played a positive role in Rhodesia or Fiji?

In both cases you had a country going off the rails, the “overseas monarch” said “do what you want, but don’t attach my name to it” and they became a republic.

If Rhodesia had been a republic from the beginning, it would have been easier for them to get international recognition.
> I don't understand why people who make this argument think it's OK for the US government to spy on the private communications of all Chinese citizens but not for it to spy on those of American citizens. Is it OK for China to spy on American citizen's private communications, then?

Because USA is good, so if they are the ones doing the spying, it's just for pretty legit reasons, while chinese people don't speak english so they clearly are up to no good /s
Tell me more about this power source that is immune to thermodynamics.
Back in the 90s a bunch of us watched the whole movie by accident. Somehow it came up in conversation and the guy whose house we were in happened to have a copy on VHS and he put it in and we got so mesmerized that while we only intended to watch a few minutes of it, we watched the whole thing.

There are two “sequels” to Koyaanisqatsi: Powisqatsi and Naqoyqatsi, both also with Philip Glass soundtracks.
Yeah, I thought that might be the case. Basically all of the restaurants I’ve heard of in NY don’t do brunch, unsurprisingly. I looked up some breakfast menus at a few reasonably upscale downtown hotels and they had eggs of some kind around $20-$30, but I guess that’s probably not super representative either. I wouldn’t normally go to a local hotel restaurant where I live (though in other places where there are fewer non-hotel options I guess I might).
Calorie restriction seemed like poor framing for transitioning then settling at lower bodyweight, otherwise where does restriction stop. IMO spirit of prescription for restriction when older is to find lowish bodyweight that doesn't stress your biology too much, but also exercise to build enough muscular base to be durable against injuries. Not mutually exclusive goals. Building muscle base doesn't involve PRs, they get set regardless on way to building base, but long term maintenance is fairly trivial. Go in gym do 3x8 of on compounds that cover major muscle groups with medium (i.e. not very strenous weights) a couple times a week.
Yes, in the same way automatic checkout has replaced humans.
I dunno about variance in Nepo-Carlsen. Game six was brutal, a cat playing with its food. I think it's fair to say Carlsen outclasses Nepo.
This may just be a personal quirk, but many of these sorts of names to me seem to be one-way memorable. Like, if I see a future reference to "frogmouth" I probably will think "Oh yeah, I've heard of that." I may or may not remember that it's a markdown browser. But if I'm trying to remember "that markdown browser I saw a while ago", I can rarely pull out the name "frogmouth".
Pretty cool hack, these things are just beautiful and math is math, so no need to retire these things.

Two things I stumbled over:

It says alkalines are 1.25V, could've sworn they're 1.5V. don't have any around to check...

Also, first they state with normal AAs you'd need to replace the batteries frequently, but with the 900mAh lipo pack it's good for several weeks of usage. Aren't AAs at over 1000mAh? Again I don't actually have any around to check...
> There aren't any advantages to gas at all

That's false. Gas means you can instantly adjust the heat level. Electric is nice if you don't actually cook or don't know how. You don't find electric in any restaurant ever and there's a reason for that. Again, the people pushing this legislation 100% do not have electric ranges in their house. This is performative politics that has nothing to do with actually caring about the environment.
I don't know, it always feels like we are stuck between SUPER LONG and descriptive TOS and contracts when simple language + trust would make things easier. Maybe something like this helps abstract away legalese and keep bills in readable form? That would be a great world to be in, common sense contract/bills but still hold up to bad actors/conflict resolution.
Your two premises don’t necessarily relate to each other. I believe both:

- journalists attribute price changes to whatever story they can find. Sort of like how every day there’s a story of why the Dow moved by a fraction of a percent.

- price moves are almost entirely supply and demand. Sure, speculation can change price in the near term, but considering the size of these commodity markets, you’d have to believe an absolutely enormous amount of capital is at play in speculation.
At face value, no-- my source is government personnel. But it's possible there's more to the story than we've heard from the "victim."

For the same reason, I don't believe Assange was a rapist.
There are many, many incarnations of it. The one I played was written in BASIC and ran on a dot matrix tty.
float: left is still useful, of course, just for what it was intended rather than what it was abused for.
I’m thinking that the performance that I saw had the PGE plus the Hollywood Bowl symphony playing live to the movie, but I could be misremembering it and the symphony may have played other material with the PGE before or after the movie.
My statement about BCH was referring to the duplicate coins it created
My initial reaction is "that cable would have to be pretty darn discreet"—but I suppose wired headphones became normalized enough. I feel like there's an inherent difference in level-of-weirdness when the cable is attached to something on your eyes versus your ears, but maybe culture would adapt. Personally, I wouldn't want to bet my company on it.
Climate change is unmitigatable at this point. It's an irreversible exponential function with many positive feedback loops. Even IPCC is lobbied by governments to make it seem less severe than it is [1]. Human population has overshot [2] in 1971, now we'll see the consequences. Brace for the biggest famine history has ever seen, it is coming fast (most definitely before 2030).

[1] https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/10/21/leaked-climate-l...

[2] https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-alrea...
The fact of the matter is that we wouldn't even be able to detect radio signals from the closest star Alpha Centauri 4 ly away, so this "ruling out" is pretty much made up - we haven't ruled out anything. The Great Filters, "there is nothing out there", this article, etc all make it seem like we did rule something out, but re-read the first sentence - it really puts into perspective how little we know.
RHEL, "welcome to everything is old".

Unfortunately it's also a headache to use Linuxbrew with RHEL because it keeps trying to install its bottled glibc which doesn't like the old (but heavily patched) kernel and breaks everything not statically linked to the system libc until you remove it.
Similar project providing slightly fewer tools: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
No. Tips are for service, attentiveness, and a nice dining experience. And often servers are paid a lower hourly wage in expectation that tips will make up the difference.

Handing a bag of food across the counter does not qualify.
Well this was something alright. Almost inseparable from Chomsky's stuff that it apparently tried to criticize or something.
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The universe is isotropic and homogeneous. You could certainly avoid the nearest neighbor but your beam of heat would hit some other galaxy within a few dozen megaparsecs. Given ships that can survive coasting intergalactic distances at high c that would still put your galaxy under threat with current assumptions about the lifespan of the universe.
This is a new rephrasing of an older mantra, which is to use fewer words when possible. The writings of the greats in our field exude this quality, for instance those of Dennis Ritchie. Mind you, he does use the aformentioned words, but they are often necessary, for instance, using the wording "simple shell" is true, because the shells he developed were indeed simpler than the ones before, and provably so.

The only twist in this new take is that it has an issue with commanding language using such words, and I agree. If you are telling me how to do something, there is no need to qualify the effort, because you don't have that information and neither do I, so the language ends up being verbose and, more crucially, incorrect.
Something something capitalists, something something selling the rope to hang them with.
We have tons of oopsies that we haven't fixed, and there is no reasonable path towards resolution. It is all a matter of the size of the problem we've created. I agree that we should continue with technological progress, but it's naive to dismiss the risks. Here are some humanity scale problems we've created for ourselves.

* Chernobyl is still unsafe to visit. The amount of radiation we've leaked into the atmosphere and oceans has a measurable negative impact on global health, and often a horrendous impact on local environments.

* Air quality/light pollution/noise pollution is significantly worse than pre-industrial revolution levels. These have measurable negative health impacts.

* We've directly and indirectly caused an uncountable number of extinctions.

* Glaciers are melting at an incredible rate.
The Innovators of Medical Devices
dramatic! pulitzer subito!
Google has noticeably deteriorated in recent weeks. Does anyone have insight into that? Like more or too much gpt? The first link here is an article from 2021:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Over+85%25+of+lithium+is+produced+...
Nailed it.

You got me thinking with your "two ideologies"... I think it's more accurate to say, there are different modes of communication with different goals. At a minimum, there's sharing information, entertaining, social signalling, fighting/arguing. The relationship between speaker and listener varies in each case. Vocabulary, turn of phrase, tone all contribute. It's wise to figure out which case you're in and adjust accordingly.
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Interesting - I used exactly this example (AI used to give recent McCartney music his young voice) not very long ago. While there are a lot of applications of this technology that make me uncomfortable, I'd love to see this used in this way. McCartney's last album suffered a bit because of his voice, IMO, and I'd love to hear it re-cut using this technology.

(There's another conversation about whether Sir Paul should be leaning into his current voice and writing material that's better suited for it, but... in a world where we've got ample autotune and other vocal effects being deployed for younger artists, I don't see any harm in giving McCartney's voice a boost with technology too.)
Yes, they declared their intent, but there was never an official "race".

Matter of fact is that the US was behind the USSR in terms of technology. Kennedy declared a symbolic goal that was extremely risky and served little scientific purpose, and then accomplished that. That's the moving of goalposts. It was never a race to put a man on the moon, it was a rapidly developing scientific field, and the USSR was ahead of the US until their country started falling apart.

And now, because of that symbolic goal and a successful PR campaign, people don't know the USSR's achievements. The commenter above didn't know the USSR was the first to land on the moon and just claimed it was the US. That's the part that irks me.
Well if nothing else, I'm glad that my intuition is not too far off-base. I had assumed that with a fairly minimal amount of analysis of the data that Amazon definitely has or can get, fraud would stand out plainly, therefore failure to address is organisational, not technical.
Nuclear fusion 'could be plugged into the grid in ten years'
not sure about Chrome, but you can turn off update on Firefox. I do this, and for good reason. I dont like the constant churn of browser UI moving around and changing every few months.

So users in that situation should not be punished by web devs who only support the bleeding edge browser versions.
There was in fact a small reaction[0][1] and it's naive to think that the espionage systems and efforts USA and European countries have are in any way comparable.

> Because they're all doing it too. Any attempts at retaliation what have been hypocritical and met with callouts.

Source? I can tell you already there is none. We have plenty of evidence that the USA is spying Europe and other allies, none of the opposite.

.0: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2014-01-...

.1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/germany-arrest...
> What I'm getting at, is, as a professional author, if you were paid just to live and write, would you still want to be paid-per-copy of your work?

Ideally I'd like to know how many people were reading my work, and whether they liked it -- but I really just want the freedom to write (in reasonable comfort).

Unfortunately actually-existing-capitalism as it is today provides no mechanism for doing this, at least on any scale that can support more than a tiny handful of authors, plus the folks climbing the teaching-MFA LitFic academic career ladder (for whom writing is often simply an extramural career progression activity -- with notable exceptions).
ChatGPT raises questions about how humans acquire language
Ron Fricke is person who made Koyaanisqatsi the beautiful visual journey that it is. I would recommend watching any of his other works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Fricke
(FWIW, Powaqqatsi is also pretty good, but I would strongly suggest avoiding Naqoyqatsi which is just not very good).
> That said, the FAA has a long history of not implementing safety recommendations

The counterpoint is that their safety record speaks for itself. When was the last commercial airliner crash in the US? 2009?
It's about the impression they make. To earn good tips, servers should be 100% focused and attentive to their customers. AirPods, even if not in use, imply that they are not paying full attention.
That's like saying increasing the internal temperature of a steak is a negligible change at a very large scale. You can't uncook a steak.
Karl Jung wrote about the social purpose of scapegoats years ago. Feels apropos.
One summer many years ago I had to figure out how to build X11 on a VAX split across a couple of RA60 disk drives (~200MB). Learned a lot about filesystems, mounts and links (not to mention build environments), but considering it would be a couple of days to crash out each build and figure out what I'd done wrong it was less than fun. We got a couple of RA81s later (~450MB) which gave significantly more elbow room.
It's already well known that many EU nations have capabilities like this.

The French: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/04/france-electro...
The Germans: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-arrests-foreign...

Lets not forget that most of the EU is wrapped up in the Pegasus spy scandal: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-watergate-the-pegasus-spyware-scand...

Playing holier than thou with intelligence services is a losing game. There is no holy intelligence service and there is no nation without an intelligence function.
Supporting whistleblower is very expensive too. Since big structures have means beyond any small group.. every attempt is paid in full by the source.

We tried once on a subreddit, but even after 2 rounds of donation, this poor guy's life was burned to the ground 90%. (joblesness, lawyer fees, potential lawsuits, social anger from people supporting big corps, wife leaving him, no roof at time.. brutal)

If they are to be helped, it has to be done with fine strategies and not a full frontal fight.
> Nuclear was phased out because of the potentially catastrophic risk as well as the unwillingness go provide permanent storage for nuclear waste.

That kind of personifies the eco-hypocrisy I have mentioned: The Germans want what they want, but they want other people to bear the cost and the risks of it. If they aren't willing to pay the costs for cutting carbon emissions, do they really want to do it? I think they have revealed that the answer is "no."

> Further, traditional nuclear power plants don't scale well, see the costs in France (even though it's not represented in electricity prices and this although France is already heavily invested in nuclear power plants), problems with heat waves/dry climate, as well as the fact that economic uranium sources are limited.

The people who say this have no clue whether it is actually true. Since Chernobyl, there hasn't been a serious effort to build out nuclear power plants at scale. Previously, the Soviets did a pretty good job demonstrating the scaling laws here, but they also cut too many corners.

As to the whole idea that renewable energy will overshadow other sources of power, renewables are not dispatchabale on-demand without several significant advances in power storage technology (which will come from batteries before anything else - nothing else scales well enough right now).
> Also, why restrict this discussion to commodities?

Because they’re generally pretty fungible, and have a larger number of sellers and buyers involved in the market, hence their markets are more likely to behave like an ideal market. The same does not apply to housing, or services.

> Where do you see that? What does it even mean, how can you objectively tell what is the optimal price for a good or service, so that you can later say that the market converged to it?

For commodities, I would point to the reasonable price stability that exists. As evidenced by the fact that basic goods don’t frequently suffer from repeated shortages or gluts of supply. Strongly indicating that the price is both high enough to incentivise production, and stable/low enough to allow for relatively low risk long term investment in production, because continuous long term demand is expected.

> For example, is 1000$ the optimal price for an iPhone? Or is it simply the price Apple chose? If they sold it for 500$, would they make more or less money? How do you know?

These is nothing about the iPhone market that suggests it’s anything close to an ideal market (for one Apple have a monopoly on iPhone sales), so I don’t know why you would expect it to behave like an ideal market.

> The price of real-estate is often determined to a large extent by the price of borrowing, and that is quite explicitly set by banks and the central bank based on nothing related to supply and demand. Services are even more complex, with huge variations in price based on entirely subjective factors.

What’s your point? Of course a law describing how ideal markets work doesn’t correctly describe markets well know for being extremely distorted and non-ideal. Next you’re going to tell me Newtons laws of motions are all useless because they can’t help you model the behaviour of objects travelling at relativistic speeds.

You seem to be struggling with the idea that a model doesn’t need to be perfect, or applicable to every real world scenario, to be useful. All models have their limits, that no surprise to anyone. That doesn’t make them useless, it just means you need to be aware of limitations, and adjust expectations appropriately.
I'm thankful I don't use Windows to have experienced this bug, but I do have a Microsoft Surface bluetooth keyboard and my experience is that it can sometimes have a delay in waking or talking to my computer. I bring this up because I have started to use the numlock LED as an indicator that it is safe to begin typing my password, because the keyboard is now ready. Just for your consideration
I'd probably actually like it personally but my books are just trade press computer stuff and I doubt I'll do something through a publisher again. Not because of any particularly bad experience but it basically happened because of who I was sitting next to at some event dinner and I'd just as soon not make any material money on my own terms :-)

I think my favorite short/novella/novelette(?) of yours is A Colder War. But lots of great work!
1) You're ignoring everyone killed in the interim, from pollution, poisoning, etc.

2) It's entirely unclear whether we can engineer ourselves out of climate change. We've never experienced anything at this scale before, or from something (fossil fuels) we rely on so much.

The solution to climate change may have to be political rather than engineering, and it may be impossible politically.
The full set of HP-UX manuals and the full set of X11 manuals are right next to me on the shelf.

I have fond memories playing the "man game" or the "reverse man game". In the former, player one calls out the name of a UNIX command, and player two needs to recite the one-line description. In the latter, player one reads out the description and player to needs to guess which command is thus described.

While the UNIX manuals (section 3 (API) and especially section 1 (commands)) are well-used, I admittedly didn't use the X11 set as often: the most-used page of the X manual set is the one where it says how to set the DISPLAY variable.
Or we ourselves are a filter, destroying any form of intelligent life that could do anything different before it can evolve so, before our own self-destruction. Maybe we have already done it and we do not even know it.
If you're using a JS build system then your webdev sucks already
Saying "easily" can be beneficial because it signals to the students "See? This is really not that bad."

Many students think their grade is worse than it actually is, they think they're worse at math than they actually are or they think the course is harder than it really is
> I won't propose any exact criteria, given that this is HN and I am in no mood for nitpicking games, which usually follow after a demand for something exact.

I understand that, you were the one who dismissed GDP per capita as an objective measurement of economic development.

The point I was making that the OECD exists to espouse a particular model of global economic organization and development, which is politically informed.

As to your question about investment, what might be beneficial to me as an investor isn’t necessarily the same as what is beneficial to a citizen of a particular country.