skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first time it happened, as I understand, there simply wasn't a huge amount of oxygen in the air

When cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) originally cleaned out Earth's CO2 atmosphere and produced O2, I don't know where the C went. To bedrock as calcium carbonates (CaCO3)?

But the carbon that humankind has released into atmosphere by burning coal and oil, was sequestered by plants during the Carboniferous+Permian periods (360 to 250 million years ago). These were large, vascular plants. Not too much different form plants today. And the atmospheric oxygen was already at about current levels.

But your idea might hold in a different context:

There is a theory that 360My ago plants invented lignin, to make their stems more rigid and woody. And then it took time before fungi were able to invent enzymes that are able to digest lignin. So maybe the the large burial of biomass carbon in Carboniferous could not happen again, with out modern fungi being able to decompose wood.

And there is another theory, that as Carboniferous+Permian periods were during an ice age, the low sea levels allowed for large areas of swampy lowland vegetation. Where vegetation sequestered carbon, and wet swampy soil allowed the carbon to get slowly buried, because microbes cannot as easily decompose biomass in wet, anaerobic conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Rocks_and_coal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Formation
I just read the synopsys, I love the summary - even though time travel stories are paradoxical in nature. Love seeing how some authors try and resolve them though.
My mom (who is legally blind) wouldn't have to resort to driving herself to her doctors appointments when myself and my brother are unable to due to work.
There's also the "Nastapoka arc"[0] of Hudson Bay that looks a bit cratery, but is apparently of a different origin.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastapoka_arc
> Then don't try to put discredit to the saying of an insider.

The GP in question is a generic ramble about distaste for current government. You can apply that for each and every country - there's not one where citizens are happy with their leaders. And if this flies for 'insider knowledge' in France you really are f**d and, its not because of the government.
Cannot agree more about Why we sleep. I thought feeling tired and low energy was really the natural state of my body until I was recommended this read. As stated, this is not a trivial change but I believe the author does a great job in infusing a (correct imo) sense of urgency on the lack of attention to sleep in the modern times.
Recently read this book: "The 5 elements of the Effective Thinking" by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird. It was published in year 2012 so not very "modern".

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691156668/th...

Overall very short book and kind of repeats but is very clearly written. Leans towards academic thinking but I think it is pretty good. 5 elements refers to earth, fire, air, water, and the 5th element is the one which will hopefully "change" your thinking.
I do believe they can consent. K-12 could do way better teaching financial literacy.
Laws are certainly up for philosophical debate, but at least in the USA, that debate typically has to happen in the legislature rather than the judiciary.

More importantly, though, most judges are not philosophers.
Indeed. It's raining soup, all we need is more spoons. We are awash in energy but we're totally focused on making it in the most complicated, centralized and expensive way possible. It's fascinating in a way, how all of these tools are available and yet there are fairly powerful lobbies that keep pulling us away from the solution just so they can make a bit more money.
Well... no. Proof of work doesn't mean you the human have to do work. Bitcoin is a proof of work system but you don't calculate the numbers by hand.

The question there is if an acceptable amount of work (e.g. cpu/gpu work) on a mobile phone is a large enough deterrent for a bot.
This link just put me in a captcha loop on iOS Safari. Anyone else? Never had a problem with archive.is links.
Ask HN: Any interesting audiobooks you have listen lately?
Similar question to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156372

Since I prefer listen to audiobook compare to read, so I want to know what you guys listen lately.

For me recently start listening to this litRPG, about a high lavel player in video games find himself become a lvl 1 monster.
[1] https://www.shemerk.com/
Power vs Force by David Hawkins
hi, our nuclear park is jeopardized, our energy cost is above the roof, several scandals ; look up the macron leaks it's has widely made the news both in france and internationally.
Yes these things happen, but in my experience it's about incentives set by the environment.

When short term gains outweigh long term gains, short sighted decisions will be favored.

When nobody really cares about quality, people ship sloppy code. See the broken window parable.

When rewards are given for shipping fast and not thinking about the whole picture, teams will ship without caring about other teams.

I acknowledge there are outliers that really do not give a f***, but those are rare. Personally I have yet to find a real "difficult engineer" in all my 15+ years in software. What I have found were dysfunctional organizations and managers that set the wrong incentives then fail to comprehend the ramifications.
This is good, this is how the AI learns and gets better.

Just like a learner driver who stalls the engine, forgets to put on a turn signal and can't keep up with traffic.

We've all got to learn sometime.
I'm guessing the average phone size is about 155 square centimeters, or 1.5% of a square meter. Multiply that by 3 Watts, and you get 200 Watts. That's about 15% of the suns energy per unit area. Of course it's probably a different type of radiation, and the whole phone isn't going to be radiating, so the intensity might be stronger.
The per capita cigarettes smoked in the US went from nearly 0 in 1910 to about 1500 per year per capita in 1930, and yet following those 2 decades despite far more obvious negative impacts of smoking smoking continued to rise peaking at about 4500 cigarettes per capita in the 1960s, and was even being promoted by doctors at this point.

So we already have evidence that something with long term negative impacts (and smoking has some pretty immediate easily noticeable negative impacts as well), can persist without this being obvious for a while.

In addition, population level data is messy. For example, we know there's been a massive increase in depression amongst children, and deaths of despair in the US over the past decade. What if those are related to cell phone use? That would mean the effect is obvious but connecting it to the primary cause is not easy, despite the fact that there is indeed correlations with cell phone use (the correlations people have pointed out is to the rise of social media, which can quite easily also be a correlation to cell phone use). Sounds far fetched? Possibly. But then again, the US saw a massive unexplained drop in crime over the last 3 decades, and arguably the best explanation we have so far is the phasing out of lead from gasoline about 2 decades before the drop actually happened. When the link was first suggested it sounded equally far fetched to most.

I don't think there's enough evidence to panic yet (although it would be prudent to follow suggestions around keeping distance from your cell phone), but it's far too early to say the conclusion is settled and that there is no health risk, especially considering the limited research on this topic yet.
> energy is speed times mass, and mass is cubic in the size, while speed is linear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy#Kinetic_energy_...
Yeah, I didn’t understand at first what they were talking about. I also always sort by process name or even better PID, so they will “stay”.
"the chance that a person will develop a malignant tumor of the brain or spinal cord in their lifetime is less than 1%." https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/brain-spinal-cord-tumors...

It's a 60% of increase of that 1%. So still a low overall risk, while being statistically significant.
Which machine did you get?
> Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating.

I dunno. I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Typically I just see it adding the last 4 of a zipcode but I mean one could mispell an address as well as addresses for a permitted structure should be enumeratable.
I remember I used SuSE for ages based solely on how good Yast and Yast2 were. Its almost quaint to remember how Linux was back in the day, where an installer/setup tool that actually managed to make your system fully usable and configured without any extra tweaking or compiling kernel modules for hardware support was an honest to god selling point and killer feature.

Reflecting back on it makes me appreciate all the early gurus who got us to where we are now.
Interesting. IIRC, TOR browser is itself a Firefox fork?
One of my favourites that I ever heard about was from a friend of mine who used to work on safety-critical systems in defense applications. He told me fighter jets have a safety system that disables the weapons systems if a (weight) load is detected on the landing gear so that if the plane is on the ground and the pilot bumps the wrong button they don't accidentally blow up their own airbase[1]. So anyway when the Eurofighter Typhoon did its first live weapons test the weapons failed to launch. When they did the RCA they found something like[2]

bool check_the_landing_gear_before_shootyshoot(double weight_from_sensor, double threshold) {
//FIXME: Remember to implement this before we go live
return false
}

So when the pilot pressed the button the function disabled the weapons as if the plane had been on the ground. Because the "correctness" checks were against the Z spec and this function didn't have a unit test because it was deemed too trivial, the problem wasn't found before launch, so this cost several millions to redeploy the (one-line) fix to actually check the weight from the sensor was less than the threshold.

[1] Yes this means that scene from the cheesy action movie (can't remember which one) where Arnold Schwartzenegger finds himself on the ground in the cockpit of a russian plane and proceeds to blow up all the badguys while on the ground couldn't happen in real life.

[2] Not the actual code which was in some weird version of ADA apparently.
Solar + transport is good but still fragile, a cheap, durable and reliable means of storage would complete the picture.
I figured most people looking to do this at home wouldn't have a home MDM solution to deploy it with. You're right though that it could probably be done with Apple Configurator fairly easily.
Mitsubishi Mirage Headed to the Chopping Block in the US: Report
That assumes the best measure of a career is income. Perhaps now we're looking at a transition away from the pursuit of money and toward work that's less abstract and dull and more tangible and personally meaningful.

I know a lot of people who were paid well to work in mind-numbing roles administering corporate processes and services, but hated it. I think I'd much prefer to explore a succession of less-skilled jobs where I learn on the job rather than spend years full-time in a formal college program where I dedicate my days to memorizing a multitude of meaningless factoids that I know I'll never use.

In my 40 year career writing software, the instruction I've valued the most came DURING my current job, part-time in night school, as opposed to full-time studies that took place prior to seeking work. I wasted probably 85% of my full-time undergrad years speculatively learning subject matter which didn't especially interest me but was required for admission to various professional degree ptograms, which unsurprisingly I never used (zoology, pre-med, pre-vet, etc).

Surely academia can be made more relevant to the skills that students see as being useful and actually will use than the centuries-out-of-date fare in the bachelors of arts. Until it is, I foresee many more impatient kids voting against college with their feet.
I'm not surprised. I input a 2FA time-based code with a 30 second refresh on it and by the time I got through the captchas, my code had expired. By ~1.5 minutes...
The watch works even if the phone is in another state, as long as both have WiFi. I have no idea about AirTag.
Just search for "Naomi Wu" on Twitter. There's plenty of people Tweeting about how she was silenced. You can find all sorts of China critical tweets. Uyghurs, Peng Shui. Take your pick.
Nope. Brain cancer has declined slightly since 1992. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
"When We Cease to Understand the World" by Benjamín Labatut

A work of historical fiction focusing on (real) scientists who grapple with the consequences of their discoveries. Actually had a very similar vibe to Oppenheimer for me.
I've built one of these based on the instructions and use it daily (and love it!), but the tone of the site is pretty reflective of the project overall. It's definitely a really impressive hack and I appreciate all the hard work that's gone into it, but could really use a little more user-facing empathy.

I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to someone else - and if I was doing it again I'd probably spend a few hundred more (than the gaggia + parts cost) and just buy an off-the-shelf machine with the same feature set.
It is 2023. The damage of natural disasters can be mitigated. When the San Andreas fault goes it'll probably get an entry on that list with a "why did we build so much infrastructure on this thing? Why didn't we prepare more for the inevitable?".

And this article is throwing out generic all-weather good sounding platitudes which are tangential to the disasters listed. He drew a comparison between the Challenger disaster and bitrot! Anyone who thinks that is a profound connection should avoid the role of software architect. The link is spurious. Challenger was about catastrophic management and safety practices. Bitrot is neither of those things.

I mean, if we want to learn from Douglas Adams he suggested that we can deduce the nature of all things by studying cupcakes. That is a few steps down the path from this article, but the direction is similar. It is not useful to connect random things in other fields to random things in software. Although I do appreciate the effort the gentleman went to, it is a nice site and the disasters are interesting. Just not relevantly linked to software in a meaningful way.

> We are tied 1:1 to the fate of our star and may well go down with it

I'm just going to claim that is false and live in the smug comfort that when circumstances someday prove you right neither of us will be around to argue about it. And if you can draw lessons from that which apply to practical software development then that is quite impressive.
Same happened to me using Brave on desktop
Neat. In college we created a version for smart-tv that contained a challenge mode where a certain game would have to be finished in a single turn. Therefore we calculated all possible games where the player always chooses an option that still makes sense until only one move was sensible and would still win the game (we then took only the ones with three of four moves i think and scraped the last move). Sadly I somehow lost the source for the generation, but it took quite a while to calculate -- only the database with the result is left... (the challenge mode can still be played in our super 'fancy' online version: https://www.phwitti.com/projects/mastermind/ ). To write a blog post about it is on the todo list ;).
Ahh this is a good idea, my friend in fact has been asking me to add it forever. I've been hesitating since the data seems so sparse but I think you're both right. Thank you for the feedback!
Yes it's possible - I've spent the last 4ish years of my career making this transition and have only recently "made it" into a role that affords me the opportunity to spend most of my time as an AI/ML practitioner. Unfortunately there is still a ton of gatekeeping in this industry where hiring managers often want to see Phd's and work published in journals when the positions they are hiring for have little to do with these experiences. The upside is that industry seems to be gradually changing as companies begin to understand that fundamental engineering skills are far more important then deep theoretical knowledge of the theory and math.
Genetics makes some people more likely to participate in genetic studies
If you're comfortable with Linux definitely, I'm using Debian stable both at work (Latitude) and home (Thinkpad) for several years now.

One issue with Debian was the lack of support for proprietary firmware in the stock installer from the Debian web site. A lot of people trying Debian and not aware of this ended up stuck with no WiFi support during installation for example. But this has been fixed, the Debian Bookworm stock disk image includes firmware now.
Mullvad has been doing some great work -- and the browser is open source too.
The one fork of history I wish I could have seen come to fruition was Dart in the browser (natively) as was originally proposed. I'm very curious to see how web development would have evolved if that had come to pass.
They happen, and are legal. If weed is legal where you smell it then it's not much different and being annoyed by it won't change much, just like body odor, bad cologne, etc.

That's my point :)
Rules exist to require messages be shown on phones - for example the emergency alert system for hurricanes.

Doesn't seem unreasonable that computer OS's and/or web browsers be required to support the same.
I think a lot of the skepticism around solar/wind/storage rests on an incorrect understanding of how easily variability can be dealt with. Which is understandable, because it's quite a complex problem to model.

The story on that is surprisingly positive, but it's quite easy to FUD by parties with a vested interest (carbon lobby, nuclear lobby) because some people will hear:

* "well, the sun doesn't shine at night. the wind doesn't always blow! check mate!"

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161473 (posted after I wrote this)

or, if it's aimed at a slightly higher intellectual level, things like:

* "pumped storage is a nice idea but realistically there just isn't enough space for all the pumped storage we need".

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161790 (posted after I wrote this)

* "we need 1-2 weeks worth of storage to deal with the inherent instability of wind/solar"

And they'll believe it because it all sounds plausible enough, even though it's wrong.

And then they'll repeat it all over hacker news lol...
You might enjoy watching the TV series completely free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0...
QuickAssist Technology is new to me. What hardware supports it? A quick look suggests it's just a few Xeon processors or else a $800 peripheral card. Is it at all related to "Quick Sync", the name for the video compression acceleration in newer Intel CPUs?
While arguably true, this is not what happened in the article. Louis had good medical treatment.

Religion over medicine has a very long history. It didn't start in the modern age.

My dad believes one of my relatives with bipolar disorder is demon-possessed. This belief has nothing to do with the state of medicine in the US. Especially because I have bipolar disorder and somehow I'm not demon-possessed.
It's interesting how you could hand a solution out on a platter and all that will happen is that people will run around yelling 'it isn't perfect'. As if any powersource has a 100% uptime guarantee.
Your premise that it's just fantasy without foundations is subjective. I have read all Sitchin's bibliography and find the Anunnaki idea of our history the most in line with my own observations ever since I was a kid. So I did not had to be convinced of anything.

As for the book, I liked their different take on the Anunnaki, although they focused on very niche part of the written history and had a different take on the events. By talking only about the garden of eden, they did not have to delve into what came before it, so they avoided the "aliens" controversy. They did the research and translations, so it's not yet another armchair warrior type of thing, like Tellinger, for example. And their interpretation does not go against what Sitchin wrote. It's just different take on it, well worth reading if you are a fan of Anunnaki stuff.

Since you mentioned Daniken, he is a sensationalist. Sitchin is, well was, a scholar. They are not playing on the same field and should not be even compared. Daniken is great to read, don't get me wrong, but he uses a lot of fantasy and "what-ifs" and sensationalism. Sitchin on the other hand was a researcher that did the ground work, he did the travelling, he did the translations and he always backed up everything he claimed.

If you want to get the book, I bough it at goldenageproject.org.uk because it is extremely expensive on Amazon. This is an independent reprint of it. But I would recommend to first read Sitchin, he's the foundation for everything else. No one else has done more research and delved as deep as he did. Although after 12th planet, the books become too technical and observational. Less story telling and more describing which does not read to well. If you get the Sitchin bug after 12th planet, go for it. There is a nice set called the complete earth chronicles. Or you can get the summarized version the anunnaki chronicles.
Not Apple, but that comes from NeXTStep. GNUStep users under Linux/BSD will have it too. And, OFC, WindowMaker users.
I think it goes to show just how short of a blink of the cosmic eye, that humanity has really existed for and the need to spread our bets by exploring the universe.
I used to work at the Rochester LLE! I never worked on capacitor logistics, but I heard that it was a PITA to work with local utilities to get those on the grid (but nowhere near as much as the PITA to get that building zoned for Brighton in the first place)
The economic "problem" is that ultimately fusion is a heat source that turns water into steam which turns a steam turbine. Solar and wind are approaching the cost of just the steam turbine alone. There is hardly any room for fuel and operational costs.

Even today steam turbine plants produce higher cost electricity that natural gas combined cycle plants.
I mean... you just batch those cents and have cash out limits. Preload accounts, etc.

* note that the word just does an obscene amount of lifting in that sentence.