skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People usually don't die at the first sign of trouble (I never died when I was threatened, and I never rolled over even if I was unarmed).

Plenty of people are bigmouths and quick to shut up when they realize they might get what they asked for.

Whether armed or unarmed, your best bet is calling the cops: that was my point. They are experienced in establishing whether there was intent of real harm, and providing unbiased evidence of illegal behaviour like threats to courts.

In most of the world, you using a weapon at the first "sign of trouble" would be considered an excessive response, and for good reason — which means that you might end up in more legal trouble than the person threatening you.
> The rising BRICS dominate hydrocarbons and they aren't giving them up, selling or using.

Surely you’re looking at the wrong statistics. Brazil is a leader in renewable energy, with fossil fuel use already on the decline for the last decade.

China is the world’s largest producer of solar and wind power products, and their renewable energy ramp up has only been slowed down by the rest of the world buying up half their output.

The risk to western economies is that they are too slow to transition away from fossil fuels and suffer from their dependence on ever more expensive oil and gas.
Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?
I love tech too much and would like to find something social or at least different in my spare time that pulls me away...
Using matrix.org to post in public/private chat rooms is practical, and can chose any client to CRUD content, or subscribe to rooms (feeds). Element allows export of room contents (with attachments) to JSON or XML. https://libli.org/libli-news:matrix.org
What's your plan when you get old enough to need daily care?

I can tell you right now that elderly in nursing homes who don't have constant family visits are utterly miserable.
Additional methods that could potentially be useful if Godel-like wormholes and massless particles are still considered infeasible:

Ambient backscatter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_backscatter

Backscatter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter

Passive W-Fi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_Wi-Fi

LiFi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

With ambient backscatter, passive WiFi is already implemented; and maybe someday backscatter LiFi could achieve very high signal efficiency at low-energy in deep space, too?

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Could there be deviations from stable patterns in the
CMB: Cosmic Microwave Background?

Quantum navigation maps such signal sources such that inexpensive sensors can achieve something like inertial navigation FWIU?

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"Smaller, more versatile antenna could be a communications game-changer" (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37337628 :

> LightSlingers use volume-distributed polarization currents, animated within a dielectric to faster-than-light [FTL] speeds, to emit electromagnetic waves. (By contrast, traditional antennas employ surface currents of subluminally moving massive particles on localized metallic elements such as dipoles.) Owing to the superluminal motion of the radiation source, LightSlingers are capable of “slinging” tightly focused wave packets with high precision toward a location of choice. This gives them potential advantages over phased arrays in secure communications such as 4G and 5G local networks

.

/? Curved photon beams: https://www.google.com/search?q=curved+photon+beam

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Newer Waveguide approaches;

- "Experiment demonstrates continuously operating optical fiber made of thin air" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812168

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36408561

- https://phys.org/news/2023-06-trillionths-photon-pairs-compr... :

> The physicists chose the incidence angles and frequencies so that the co-propagating electrons, which fly through vacuum at half the speed of light, overlap with optical wave crests and troughs of exactly the same speed

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PROMPT: Read/write nonlocal spacetime with minimal perturbations at safe energy levels for high-throughput data transmission over astronomical-scale distances
Is China's economy a 'ticking time bomb'?
> Most privcy-adjacent laws that EU has released in recent years are neither complex, nor do they cost too much money.

Please visit https://gdpr-info.eu/ and read the text of the 99 articles that make up the GDPR. You don't think 99 separate statements of the law are too many? Not complex? Add in reading all of the CJEU opinions and the original directive behind GDPR (which remains in force). Also add the e-privacy directive, a 15 year old law that is also still in force. How can you say that isn't complex?

> Well, they cost some money

My argument is that it costs more money than it's worth. Hard to find good statistics, but we can leave it at that.
Capture the Flag (With Jetplains and Helicopters)
Okay, so what about those making 60k?
Yes, that scenario has played out many times now. Every time there is a viable specialist CPU on the horizon the useful bits get incorporated and the effort fails. The GPUs have been a bit of an exception to that rule probably because they did not seem to be a threat to the main CPU vendors but were seen as complimentary and their broader processing power was revealed only after they were solidly established through the gaming world.
Almost everything that claims to implement ISO 8601 actually implements RFC 3339 instead.
The problem is that we don’t know what the timezone identifiers for hypothetical future timezones will be. Meaning, there would be no automated way to associate those future-date-time values with the correct timezone once the new timezone is added to the tz database.

One could imagine using geo coordinates or similar, but the mapping from those to timezones (or from/to zip codes or area codes) is already not precisely defined.

If you use city names, those might also be split/merged (Berlin) or renamed (Constantinopel).
"At all locations, tritium concentrations were found to be below the detection limit (detection limit: approximately 10 becquerel/liter)."

https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2023/0825_003.html

"The Fisheries Agency announced on the 26th that the radioactive material tritium was not detected in a survey of fish in the surrounding sea area following the release of treated water from the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the ocean"

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20230826-OYT1T50207/

This is clearly a nothingburger. Articles complaining about it (without considering the background radioactivity in the ocean) reveal more about the authors than they do about the subject.
Derrick Jensen must be pleased to see these finally coming down.

I only know about this issue at all because someone linked me his talks on youtube years ago.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOuGb_E86Q
There's bound to be some tcl in there too...
Not everything is, or has to be, a learning opportunity for everyone else.
Evennia does have a web admin, but main development work is intended to be done in Python code, really; what would be akin to 'hardcode' in LPMUDs, I presume. Evennia's extremely extendable, but not so much over the telnet command line; the choice was made to instead make it easier to develop a game in Evennia using modern dev workflows, using version control and proper code editors. All a matter of taste of course. :)
The problem of intergalactic communication is a plot point in this fantastic sci-fi novel I am currently reading (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep) cannot recommend enough although it doesn't really inform the current conversation :-)
I was once told simulating N quantum particles interacting with each other is exponentially hard in N. I wouldn't know myself.

But if it's true, that's why you can do your hydrogen atom in Quantum 101, and why this is not merely O(28^2) harder (or do you need the electrons too?).
> But it would be nice to set a calendar event for "6pm London time", whatever London time happens to be when the event rolls around. But there's no standardised interoperable way to say "2030-07-01 18:00:00 Europe/London".

The only gotcha about such a thing is that there are ambiguous or impossible timestamps: 2023-11-05 01:30:00 America/New_York — that's one of two different times.

For calendaring, it would make sense, since "same wall clock time regardless" is what most people want¹; there might be some UI difficulty/challenges to handle the weird times, and maybe one might want to have a way to specify a disambiguation in the syntax.

Thankfully for calendaring those are usually in the middle of the night, but I've literally seen this happen in my career.

¹though once you invite the first person in a zone that doesn't do DST madness, note that this causes the calendar time to wobble on their calendars. Some of my international coworkers have to put up with this.
Star Labs active pen accessory for the Star Lite MK V Linux tablet
They _could_ in theory post the (no doubt) Perl scripts that generate those headers from the HDL along with the relevant source files, but I imagine that would be a _very_ hard sell. And probably not much more helpful to the kernel, as no one reads those headers anyways, and the compile time will not improve by shuffling where the generation step happens.

It may be more practical to rework the scripts to try to find ways to reduce the verbosity and redundancy. The actual .c driver code probably doesn't need every copy of every lines in all those .h files.
Sounds like the classic trolley problem where your choice is to pull a lever and immediately kill half the world's population because 100 million kilometres away, the entirety of life on earth is comfortably resting on the train tracks. You're saying, let's pull that lever. I'm saying, let's organize a project to move the trolley tracks since we have ample time to do so. Sure some people will get hit by the trolley as it races by while the track is still being moved, but it sure beats killing 4 billion people in one fell swoop.
Would it work better if it was delivered as “good intention, decent start, improve the middle, but an alright finish”? Shit sandwich? Call it what you will. If it is genuine and true, lead with the good and deliver the bad afterwards works wonders. While not everyone reacts that way, many people get defensive if you lead with the bad, and won’t hear the good as something good.
The side that uses government power to censor its opponents should automatically be suspect.
I see. I misunderstood!
A minimal consciousness experience is still far beyond the undetermined unity
That is a good example, and 40 is an arbitrary line to draw. However, absent universal basic income, I do not see an easier way for the government to establish a minimum quality of life at work, at least in terms of hours worked.
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423047 ("Free Organ (organclearinghouse.com)"; 92 comments)

(not the same one)

edit: or maybe the same one, ignore me
I mean your statement right there is full of misinformation. No one said to inject bleach and no one massacred Americans, unless you mean by housing the infected in old folks homes, which killed far more than any right wing shenanigans like ivermectin.
When thinking about Internet platforms, the lens I like to view things through is one of power. As a user what power do I have if any, to control my experience? To control what I see when and from whom. If I have little or no power, or the power is only shallow or superficial, if the power isn’t very granular, then this all counts against the platform. It may surprise some (younger) members of HN, quite how much power the individual user had on early “primitive” platforms like USENET or closed user groups or chat systems, compared to the big, modern social networks of today.
Me either. Prefer honest direct communication in a business setting.
AWS Icon Quiz
This article really doesn't give enough info for that conclusion. Is there an known process from which black mass is made into something useful downstream? It sort of sounds like half a pitch to fund companies taking in black mass.

Edit: For me these articles gave me more context:

- https://www.recycling-magazine.com/2021/09/10/black-mass-one...

- https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/21/black-mass-black-gold-a...
imo this is fraud, i don't care what their terms and conditions say

paypal has been doing this forever and its just theft. you cannot offer to hold or transfer funds for people while simultaneously holding unchecked power to take it away without any reason while answering to no one.

it could be that stripe needed another $12K for their own budget and targeted one of their customers.
I very strongly disagree, without online interactions I probably would've gone crazy during lockdown. Even now that's all (mostly) over, I still rely on online interaction for communicating with most of my family.
It's not in ISO-8601.

The suggestion above is to have the zone in the timestamp. ISO-8601 and RFC-3339 put the offset in the timestamp.

Zone and offset are different concepts: the up-thread comment's poster's example of Europe/London is one zone, that currently has two offsets, depending on time of year.

The up-thread comment includes a very practical example that any app dealing with something like an "appointment" would have to reckon with.
Would be interested to hear anecdotes from your culture.

In the NA culture, we’ve reached a “kindergarten” sort of stage, where the prime directive is to protect feelings and reduce “harm”. I suspect this may be due the growing influence of academia on the private sector.
It's more a floor on being exempt from overtime. Basically, the thought process is that salaried employees have a different relationship with the employer than others, in that they're more paid to get a job done, rather than for the amount of time worked. These employees also tend to have enough leverage against their employer to come to a fair employment contract.

On the other hand, jobs on the lower end of the spectrum have much less leverage, and are being paid for their time. We, as a society, have a vested interest in companies not working their employees to death, so we discourage companies from overworking their employees, by making them pay extra to employ them more than a full-time job.

The question then becomes: How do we differentiate these two classes of job? If you don't set a firm boundary, employers will pretend even the poor stiff working the nightshift at the gas station Quikmart is in the former category. The main rule for overtime exemption is "are you a professional or in management, or not?", with the 55k floor existing to make sure companies don't get too creative with job title labeling.

The real ceiling on federally-mandated overtime is $107,432, at which point you're making enough that the government trusts you to negotiate advantageous employment terms yourself.
No, I didn't say any of that. I would like people to be straight with me. I try to be straight with them. Golden Rule and all of that, right?
I still am on USENET since the 90s. Although I love it for its simplicity, its protocol was conceived when the Internet was almost exclusively populated by educated people. As a result, it has no antibodies against trolls and spammers and can be exploited very easily. I believe we'd have no other choice than to extend the NNTP protocol with some form of protection against that, otherwise as soon as a group attracts a number of people, it will immediately be targeted by spammers, scammers and trolls.
This is interesting. I think the scenario it should be used is for non sublte messages, such as sarcasm. I gave it a try with KRAZAM's video and the answer is hilarious when you consider the video intended exactly the opposite.

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF...

> In "The Hustle," the narrator shares their jam-packed daily routine that exemplifies their dedication to productivity. From an early morning workout to late-night preparations for the next day, their schedule is filled with various activities. They efficiently manage their time, incorporating work, social media updates, and even a well-deserved happy hour. The narrator's commitment to self-improvement is also evident through their habit of reading before bed and tweeting inspiring quotes. Overall, this video highlights the narrator's hustle and structured approach to maximizing their day.
There's something to be said to adapting to the environment rather than expecting the environment to fit your whims. Sometimes you should change your approach in the vein of being more effective at your job. Most reasonably sized organizations are going to have a mixed of people with different preferences; jumping ship every time the culture doesn't meet your ideal seems like you may end up switching jobs often enough to not have much of an impact. (I know job-hopping is a discussion all its own)
For small deployments, you might be surprised how far you can get with just systemd/journalctl. It even has built in aggregation over a network.
The way theorem provers work right now, it's still a human that has to come up with the proof, the theorem prover just verifies it.

But yes, I wouldn't want computer proofs to "replace" the proofs we have now.
The latter provides a tiny bit more detail about what you are praising. It is still lacking in concrete details though and can be improved by adding more about what you liked about why you liked how they tackled it.
No one ever said “inject bleach” please stop. It was only Harvard that inserted bleach into the conversation via tweet.

“I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”

Please don’t inject bleach or drink disinfectant. Bleach injections cause hemolysis (where your red blood cells that carry OXYGEN break apart) and cause liver damage, and many disinfectants can cause dangerous burns or bleeding in your stomach. This tweet IS medical advice
— Harvard Toxicology (@Harvard_Tox) April 24, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/trump-disinf...
> Why is this not a clear case of false advertising?

Because it's actually available for $75.

Suppose they ran the same ad and didn't accept any of those other payment methods at all.
Ask HN: Do you do something else while you work?
I'm talking about listening to music, listening to a podcast, or hell even watching a series or livestream.

I mostly listen to music and "watch" livestreams but the former is very repetitive.

So I'm wondering about what you guys do, if anything at all? Looking to make the most out of dull times.
Hey! So for scaling it should scale quite easily with socket.io room’s implementation with Redis when required, and unless I’m having a hell lot of people on it at the same time it shouldn't be much of an issue given the small footprint.

For critical mass, this is why I’m developing features that are asynchronous (ex: notes) or app wide (ex: games that you can join with other users online no matter the website or page you're on).
The moon doesn't have an atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_diagram#/media/File:Phas...
We are still moving forward and hope to have interesting things to show soon. For any other readers, my Morphle Engine (aka SiliconSqueak 5) processor design has many elements in common with EDGE (and so with Dataflow as well).

I found the reference to Windows running on Microsoft's E2 processor (which in turn has links to relevant papers):

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_win...
Oh, and one more point since I can't edit this... isn't this basically what a carbon tax is anyways?

I'm sure if Alberta had proposed that to the feds -- that instead of collecting carbon tax revenue that it take money from oil revenues and invest it in a green energy fund -- the feds would have been fine with that. They were fine with the Ontario/Quebec/California cap'n'trade system before Ford killed it.

But you know that Alberta would never accept or suggest such a thing.
I’m not the OP, but for me I yearned for two things: my favourite window manager and a system whose source code was easily within reach. I rarely use the latter and the former is something I could be coaxed away from over time, but really there’s little reason to change from a free and open system in 2023 when everything works so well.

I make do with being an XPS peasant compared to the beautiful rounded rectangles used by my peers on the basis that my machine is completely available to me in every way possible thanks to source
code.
Do they go through internal bus unencrypted?
Looks like i'm a noob
Technically you are correct.

The term "Wealth" is just a word for money.

Pedantically, any money can be termed "Wealth".

So if I have an extra $5 dollars, I can manage that "Wealth", and I should not get hung up on a term that the ignorant masses associate with a "Social Class".

There are no social hierarchies, we are all wealthy on a sliding scale, from 5$ to $5MIL to $50BIL.
I haven't thought about it. I don't know much about them but I'm open to the idea of decentralization. I'll take a look at them. Thanks for the heads up!
I wrote mine in c, but I haven't released it yet. it's complete, and includes the sillymud extensions (figurine, etc).

thrilled that more people cared enough to do it as well, though!

likely I'll build one for epic as well.
Awesome! Hope you enjoy!
I'd hate to get a condescending review like that, hell I'd prefer someone straight up saying it's shit and not elaborating than trying to beat around the bush like this.
> If you renew your status and want to travel internationally, you must get a new visa if you want to return. And, for unknown reasons, that can take a lot of time even in trivial cases.

If that's true, you couldn't visit your family back home?

Personally, I have spent a lot of energy dealing with partially dysfunctional immigration system, I would not be willing to do that again
I understand where you're coming from; I've never thought to ask permission before. However, I think it's a good idea to honor the intent of this section and "read the room" before doing something that will affect someone else.
Loll makes me feel like a bad engineer
I thought it was originally developed on 32-bit 68k NeXT workstations, no? I would be interested if there was anywhere to learn how the porting to x86 went, especially with regards to different strategies for block transfers/etc.
The key for me is that it has to be 100% fun. As soon as I start thinking about external recognition or trying to make money off of a personal project I lose motivation. Right now despite coding all day at work I still have the energy for coding on my own time on a NES emulator just because it's really fun.
When I lived in Chicago I generally hated how Daley operated, but on this one I was on his side. It was a silly use of space and served practically no one amidst a giant and bustling city.

Removing the field would have been hung up in endless petty and bad-faith lawsuits. On principle I'm not sure I agree with what he did, but in practice I 100% supported it.
There's also something to be said for not working in environments you dislike if you don't need to. Especially since cultural mismatches grate and lead to underperformance.

Given that I have consistently gotten thanked for how I give and take feedback from colleagues, I think I will be fine on finding organizations that work for me culturally.

(Edit: And no, that praise didn't contain "but I wish..."es.)
The cost per question seems super high. I can't even think of an API where a single call would cost $1cent. You better have a good pricing model to follow up on this.