skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't check the details of that metric time system but there would be no problem living a 10 hours day with 100 minutes hours and 100 seconds minutes. The second would be defined with a different number of "cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium-133 atom" and that's all. Instead of rounding our lives at "our" quarters of hours or ten minutes, five minutes marks we would round to the metric quarters of hours, maybe eights of hours (we could have found a name for that, like for coins) etc, and nobody would notice because that would be what we are born with.

Similarly, people buy 50 cm x 70 cm frames in metric countries and 20" x 30" frames in the USA. Nobody thinks about that except frame factories in China, that have to cut them in two sizes.
Invest proportional to the risk. Nuclear is a very risky investment. But it might pay off. The financial risk level is why it is so dependent on state subsidies and tax payer money. Without that, nuclear operators would be going bankrupt and no sane investor would risk their money on it. The risks include lengthy delays, cost overruns, policy issues, safety related cost, and much more. Some of those things might be fixable. But there are no guarantees. And without prices for nuclear energy coming down substantially, the resulting technology is not viable in the market. It might happen but it's not looking like that would happen before there's a few more tw more renewable capacity online in the next few decades.

Solar, wind, and other renewables are very popular investments right now. There are very clear learning effects visible when implementing them resulting on year on year cost reductions. These investments have a very reliable ROI. A very predictable and quick implementation. And they are easy to scale. That's why so much new capacity is coming online vs. the absolutely pitiful amounts of nuclear being added to the grid. The price gap is basically an order of magnitude and growing. You get about 10x more capacity in renewables for the same money. The realized capacity gap also is much larger for the same reason.
SG Collins has died [video]
SG Collins was an American-born videographer who'd lived in the Netherlands since 2003, probably best known for his 2012 video debunking of the moon-landing hoax conspiracy theory, based on the state of video and film technology in 1969:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYFMU7XfyzE>

YouTube channel: <https://yewtu.be/channel/UCc_7Ma93pG8KTZOr_cw002w>

Website: <https://www.postwar.nl/pw/pp/postwar.php>
Microsoft reveals IRS notice asking for $28.9B in back taxes
They are very much uncensored, give it a try yourself: `ollama run llama2-uncensored` [0]

It will be happy to curse, talk about religions, help you cook illicit substances or do all sorts of other stuff.

[0] https://ollama.ai/
Oh dear... They have a plan to exit the dirtiest form fossil fuel, one Germany heavily relies on today. I did not say Germany is gonna move to gas, since I didn't read everything, that was just an assumption.

So, what you say is the current plan to exit coal, which you initially claimed didn't exist, is garbish because the result might include some gas. And hence, there is no such plan, and even if there was, said plan wouldn't be feasible because of reasons.

That is exactly getting a (poorly defined) perfect in the way of the good.

Edit: Just realized I replied to another commenter, so please replace "you" with GP.
Discussed earlier today: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850110>
I have it for 4 years and got almost completely desensitized. It is a relief. It’s still there (and right now it rings). But it doesn’t create colorful reactions anymore. During the day, at night, before sleep, it rarely bothers me. Sometimes I even feel comfy about it.

In my case the secret was a sort of a therapy. At the second year I’ve become quite suicidal about it. There was a point in time after collecting all the information there is, when I absolutely ultimately had to make a decision. As a result of this thought process, “I will die with it” got fully accepted either way. Somehow this deadened my reactions and after a short while it became just a part of my life that I ignore. My brain got so good at masking it that I have to carefully listen sometimes (yeah, it’s there and it’s loud). I also stopped looking for a cure, relief, methods, threads like this. Not like “I shouldn’t”, but like “not interested”.

Pretty sure I must not recommend this way or leave it without a disclaimer: if you feel the same, then get professional help, don’t go through it alone.

My key insight is that you suffer while the hope lives, not that you have to lean over the edge to realize that.

Edit: upvote to https://mynoise.net, it helped to mask it at early stages much better than colored noises or youtube videos. You can tune sound components to your case and there’s a lot of presets now.
Considering we're talking differences of about 3 hours max, there's hardly the space for ambiguity.
He comments to wait for the next release for audio applications.
Data can be a tricky business. One of our customers was really upset at Bloomberg because they offer bundles (like cable TV) while you might be interested in something more specific. And the data endpoint does not offer some columns that are valuable to them.

On the other hand, extracting data from a couple of web pages was both more accurate for them, more reliable and less costly, assuming you can nail down the scraping/storage/filtering part. This latter part is a real challenge when people need data they actually rely on in a business process to make real world decisions, compared to "trends" or "insights" that are rather informative.
It is time to burn traditional academic publishing to the ground and rebuild it from the ground up, or else let's rebel against the government, give Alexandra Elbakyan citizenship and put her in charge of the Department of Energy to make all computer science research open domain for all the world to see. Requesting $48 for to read a paper funded by your taxes before you even know it is useful to your work will result in deportation or a firing squad, whichever a panel of independent reviewers decides.

A less spirited method is to let traditional publishing slowly die by adding review features to highly viable alternatives like arXiv, PubMed and others which will then replace it. I hate academic publishers, they are vultures that serve no purpose. I hope they all go out of business or somehow pay big :)
I have no buyers remourse.
Regulated taxis across most of Europe are generally upmarket cars. Things like luggage space have regulated minimums that prevent using smaller cars.
If you're backing up your memory through pages stored in N work-stealing queues (chase-lev deque in this case), doesn't that contradict the shared-nothing architecture? When queue is empty, I understand your allocator will try to steal a page from another queue before it asks an OS for a new 2MB page - and that essentially means synchronization and thus sharing. Also, I think this approach is going to result with bad memory locality since your data will now be spread all over the place, e.g. different queues.
A day is a day, Earth rotation defines it. What we can do is decide how long a second is and tweak it to make a day 100k seconds long or 86.4k ones.
I am using https://www.macminivault.com for colocation.
Well, you can have dilapidated and colourful.

I was going to come here to say, why aren't more places more colourful. In this day in age though, it is obvious: everything is manufactured and manufactured finishes typically offer limited options for colour. It's not like we live in the days of wood, or even steel, that had to be regularly repainted to protect it from the elements.
To quote yet another time format: NTP 64-bit timestamp format (rfc8877), which is 32 bits seconds since epoch + 32 bits fixed point second fractions. (Outside of Network Time Protocol, you'll find this baby for instance in ISOBMFF ProducerReferenceTimeBox(prft)).

Here seconds are just 1/(24*60*60) of a day as expected, but the base 2 fixed point part, where a tick "is roughly equal to 233 picoseconds" makes you want to pull your hairs out if you just want to accurately express milliseconds. (Similarly for other timescales frequently used in media processing, like 90kHz, 25, 60 or 29.97)

The answer to all this is of course: hand waving — "you don't need that". Your time can be perfectly accurate in itself (ie. an accurate discrete sample of continuous time), even if no accurate conversion exists to some other time system.
Programmers don't burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not 'shipping'.
– Mark Berry

Sigh. This really haunts me, not just when I tried to make some noises and sounds, or programming but in everyday life.
Love it! I built something similar where the current day, week and year is displayed as elapsed percentages [0].

[0] https://trivialanalog.de/zeitfortschritt/
JSON can be parsed using SGML [1], by instructing SGML to interpret JSON tokens such as colons, quotation marks, and curly braces as markup. The underlying technique for custom lightweight markup is called SHORTREF and can be applied to markdown etc. as well.

So considering XML is subsetted from SGML, I guess the answer is closer to yes than thought.

Though probably it's worth citing the following quote from that paper:

> If the sweet spot for XML and SGML is marking up “prose documents”, the sweet spot for JSON is collections of atomic values.

[1]: https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol17/html/Walsh01/Bali...
This kind of reminds me of Quake stylistically. A series that took a wrong turn after the first one.

More sequels in the style of the first one would have been amazing.

The visuals here though are lovely. Well done to the team
This would be a lot of fun to use in an art installation setting. I'm considering building a few just for how strange and wonderful it would look to see a bunch of growing robots that a group of people can control.
8 hours standard sleep would just adapt. It's only 8 because it's a nice round number.

Very few people I know actually sleep exactly 8 hours, so the recommendation will just adapt to another memorable number.
soviet in title, nothing soviet in article.
People think in different ways and have different levels of education. We would never learn if we weren't allowed to ask silly questions. It is very important not to discourage people from asking them.
The politics is extremely different. As sibling points out, the only thing holding back an abortion ban was waiting for members of the Supreme Court, the permanent unelected legislature who legalized it in the first place, to die.

US politics is hyper-polarized. Japan is the extreme opposite, it's practically a voluntary one party state with free elections.

(It probably helps that a lot of what you might call "far right Japan" either got killed in the war, executed by the victors, or committed suicide in defeat, and then that tendency was suppressed by the US occupiers)
The IBM PC (and clones) at the time of launch of the Amiga 500, had at best an 80286 at 6 to 12Mhz . I would call it roughly equivalent CPU with the 68000 at 8Mhz (16 bit segmented addressing vs 16/32bit hybrid with planar ram addressing)
.beat time or Swatch Internet Time is way better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
A house near me has just had full black cladding put on their house, but opted to keep their white PVC windows and door.

It’s on a 100 year old estate with cherry blossoms in every garden, and completely detracts from the area.
I guess, though there’s a lot more money at stake. The US federal government is probably the most powerful bureaucracy in human history (and certainly among the biggest). I trust my local and state governments way more. But I wouldn’t trust them to run the whole country. Scale seems to matter a lot.
> heuristics that only match very small patterns

They match huge humanity-encompassing patterns that have been true for millenia, for as long as we've kept time. We kinda like organizing our time in waking periods that we already call days.

Yes, timezones are a rough translation layer that gives you an idea of what's going on in a society on the other side of the earth, and yes, it's not a perfect solution to the problem of cross-timezone communication and coordination. It is an arbitrary system, and it could be replaced with a different system.

But the biggest problem with abolishing timezones is that you're destroying the ability to keep track of days of the week for some large chunk of humanity. If it's midnight at the same time everywhere, then the day of the week switches at the same time, everywhere. Things like "open on Wednesdays" will cease to have meaning, because for billions of people, they day of the week will now switch in the middle of the working day.

"9 to 5" will only be true in a single former timezone, some people will now work from 8pm to 4am. When does their weekend start? Is that the waking period that now covers Friday/Saturday, or the one that now covers Saturday/Sunday?

Every place of business, every school, every store, every restaurant will have to print new opening hours depending on where in the world they are, because the local time has now changed for everyone.

Everyone will now have to learn their local translation table so that they know what normal working hours in their location is now, when schools open, when lunch hour is, etc. You're throwing away all of our collective knowledge and intution about time, in order to make it "easier" to schedule cross-timezone meetings.

Abolishing timezones would piss off about 7 billion people for absolutely no gain.

Yes, when Alice in London schedules a meeting with Bob in Sydney they will now make no mistakes about which point in time the meeting is at, but Alice still needs a translation table to figure out what the meeting time means for Bob.

Timezones are that translation table, it imbues times with meaning.
You really refuted my argument there.
I got mine under control, though there is still a bit left that probably wont go away, but is totally ok for me. Got rid of my 2 main stress sources, changed to a much more healthy diet, drinking more regularly and if there is a new tinnitus attack (i still do not know the propper english word, in german its hörsturz) i do breathing and ear massaging for half a minute. Not just massaging the outer ear but also gently pumping with air pressure similar to adjusting after a flight. I noticed time is super critical here. Just before the tinnitus starts there is 1 or 2 seconds where you feel the hearing disappears its as if the volume is turned down. If the massaging and deep breathing starts in this moment before the tinnitius beeping and noise sets in, it seems to always go away completely after.
> there's nothing on the horizon

We can build more of what we have, such as pumped hydro and EU-wide interconnections.

You mentioned the fear that the solutions will cost 5 times more than nuclear. That's not a horrible worst case scenario (as nuclear is so cheap ;-) and we can be sure that costs go down as the markets scale and technologies mature.

It may look bleak in Germany at the moment, but it certainly doesn't look bleak everywhere or for long.
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
> 10 doesn’t work great for it.

Because the rest of circles are so logical, π is such a nice round number.
In my experience, early intervention can help. I got tinnitus at the age of 30 (from a pressure trauma during scuba diving).
I received some kind of dementia medication after 2 weeks, and the tinnitus was gone not long after that (and never reappeared). The doctor funnily said that a side effect is that I'm gonna feel smarter :)
I'm not sure if it was the medication, or the tinnitus was just temporary anyway, but it was a really loud and unbearable noise for a couple of weeks.
I wonder how realistic is this? It probably takes multiple years to build anything that generates electricity at scale so competition must be very predictable.

Then you can probably calculate your optimal profit strategy very easily and when you sell something that people have to buy, in some cases, probably just inflating the prices by reducing production is the most profitable strategy. There’s no risk of someone stepping in if it’s most profitable for everyone to just produce enough to inflate prices(if you produce one percent more you earn one percent more but if you produce one percent less and if the price go 10% up, you end up making much more money).

Aren’t the oil producers doing the same?
Very interesting article and comments!
I believe in Sydney Australia a dark roofs are not legal due to the environmental factors of increased air conditioning https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/09/plan-...
Have you tried playing that tone and shifting it's phase to cancel the imaginary signal?
> If someone puked on a train in Paris, what would happen?

Probably nothing much to be honest. The train would get cleaned at the end of the line I guess. As to drugs, I don't think anything would happen either (apart from the other passengers leaving the car at the next stop) but people don't do that.

I think the problem is elsewhere, these behaviours just aren't supposed to exist in modern society. I don't know what is with the US society that enables them though.
>There's no effin way that's running on an A500 with a stock 68k CPU running at 7.16/7.09MHz.

Could you be specific about the envelope math used to arrive at this conclusion? What are the essential bottlenecks?
There is an entire system of Yoga called Nada Yoga; that deals with listening to so called internal music, usually described/experienced as high pitched tones/chords.

I have no idea how that relates to tinnitus; I hear high pitched tones/chords outside of meditation occasionally, but it's never bothering/disturbing.

My gut feeling says that sometimes, labeling an experience as a problem is why it becomes a problem.
It helps when one shells out a license for Cursive, https://cursive-ide.com/
Just tried this and it did temporarily stop the tone for a moment. Easy to do, instant relief. Simple massage to the muscles near the base of the skull.

A physical therapist commented that tight muscles contribute. Hopefully practicing this regularly will prolong the effects.
Senior Arm China staff quit to create government-backed startup
That's Okay. What I meant was just reorganizing an OS and its nonessential apps repository/ies into 2 (or more) separate projects, not making a repository compatible with every distro out there.
XML has other abominations such as XSLT.
"So you wake up at 14:00 over there?"

"Yep!"

"Huh. Weird. So how did Grandma's test results turn out?"
kDay, MDay, etc could work in space but they don't fit well with the length of the year. As long as we live on Earth we cannot escape from our planet taking about 365 days to orbit the Sun. History proved that it's convenient to have the same event (let's say start of spring) falling at the same date every year. Hence all the refactoring of calendars and leap years.

I wonder how we would settle that matter if we'll ever be able to travel fast between planets. Each city had its own time zone before trains required us to sync them because of conflicting railroad timetables. So we ended up with the current timezones. With planets, each one would have its day length and number of days in the year, maybe even inconstant seasons in the case of precession of perihelion or double star systems. I'd say we'd settle on local time and a common space time but who knows.
>I'd love e-ink smartwatches, reusable/programmable name tags, fridge calendars, board game pieces

We'd all like many things, but that doesn't mean there's a mass market for them to warrant significant investments that would guarantee a decent profit for the investors.

It seems that you have a e-ink hammer so everything looks like a nail to you, but sometimes pen and paper or a plastic white-board and a felt pen are better and cheaper than a big e-ink display that needs to be recharged.

And E-ink smart watches have been made in the past but sold much more poorly than OLED one so manufacturers dropped in favor of OLED. MIP is a thing though in some Garmins.
> You'd think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.

> But no, it's apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?

You can, they just messed up the example by unnecessarily rounding off the times. The night from 9:50 till 2:75 metric time only lasts 3.25 metric hours, or 7h48m in standard time; less than the 8 standard hours they started with.
On Microsoft ecosystem, it was initially introduced in VB.
I'd advise gaining some more experience first. Also, financial independence is first and foremost a state of mind. As an extreme example, Diogenes the Cynic was arguably more financially independent than Elon Musk is.
To be cynical, I guess we're at the "embrace and extend" part; "extinguish" hasn't happened yet, but it could. Microsoft controls the LSP and VS Code is very popular; thus Microsoft has all the leverage in the LSP space. I'm not sure what "going rogue" would look like, on Microsoft's part, but with all the power, it could do so without adversely affecting itself.
No "metric" units means they are derived from the meter. Originally, most units in the SI systems were derived from the meter.
If only the length of a day was constant.

It's not, hence leap second corrections to our current earth based imprecise observed solar time based on mean solar days (which are not apparent solar days).

Of course even if it were regular there's that pesky difference in rotation relative to what now??

Sidereal rotation time isn't equal to solar rotation time (mean or apparent).

Time .. less straightforward than most imagine.
The magnesium had a dampening effect which started gradually after about 2-3 days - I take it daily around noon in a 400 mg dose. It also had a soothing effect on my restless leg syndrome (one of my other benzo-induced symptoms) which eventually disappeared altogether.

My Tinnitus is coupled to poor sleep (both quality & quantity) and I noticed an improvement on that front as well after a few days of magnesium.

I started taking L-Theanine in the form of matcha tea together with my girlfriend. Since then we're both experiencing vivid dreams. Unfortunately we've also started taking this at the same time before bed:
https://www.physalishealth.com/en/food-supplements/stress-sl...
... so we're not quite sure which one is improving the vivid dreams.

I started taking magnesium several weeks before I started with the tea and the relax & sleep supplements. It was because of the apparent success with magnesium that I'm now exploring these paths. I'm not sure whether Taurine has any effect (the supplement I started after Magnesium and before L-theanine).
I'm sticking to the Glutamine-Glutamate-Gaba model and found this site that has a number of pointers and supplements in that area:
https://bebrainfit.com/glutamate-neurotransmitter/

I'd advise to try one at a time, around the same time every day and evaluate after a week. Start with Magnesium (not in the form of an oxide)
Come to think of it, being able to cleanly divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts is pretty damn handy.
Being someone with Tinnitus I would love to find a cure too. Maybe one day there will be an operation.
She also has some online courses on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/instructor/minecetinkayarundel). Hands down one of the best instructors I have seen.