skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that getting all of Europe to change time zone offsets by 30 minutes once every 400 years is within our power.
Why are braces-for-both-blocks-and-literals/etc a deal breaker here, but not in JS?
That any human can complete a race like this is still mind boggling to me, regardless of what you eat.
You can't trust politicians to just save money for the future. It will be abused by both sides. One side will gain votes by diverting it to something that has nothing to do with transportation, the other side will gain votes by repealing it and taking credit for lowering taxes.
I just use a Google doc with bullet points of things to do, with some notes below each bullet point. I've tried other things like Github issues and I always come back to this.

I prefer a Google doc vs. a plain text file because I get a revision history for free.
Looks to be this rider - Eugène Christophe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe
Anyone know good tutorials for simulating drone/airplane propeller sound?
In decades of also being on the internet, I have also yet to meet two people who use the same definition of "democracy".
Disappointing read from someone I trust.

Wu only considers the nature of common carrier from the perspective of those wishing to broadcast messages. Yes, like rail or telephones, people ought have access to a utility that cannot discriminate against them.

But far more messages are read than written. Vastly more. And the people on the receiving end have, in my view, some rights to have their expressivity desires matched & met. Just because someone wants to send messages at my, has access to a carrier of messages to me, doesn't mean I want those messages.

I want companies able to curate, sort, filter, prioritize the things coming at me (I also want to diy that too). These feel like speech rights I also have, the freedom to walk away, to not listen, that Wu is proposing should be stripped to satisfy the broadcaster's desires.
How Railroad Crossings Work
Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains to Optimizing the Linux Kernel with Bolt
They both skip over leap seconds unlike TAI time, they just handle the leap second subtly differently. He’s right to say it’s essentially the same.
Takes more than philosophical grounding to accrue political power. Liberalism has fundamental contradictions that Communism or Fascism dosen't, yet it is the former that is the dominant ideology today.

Same with thing with "capitalism" or the greater financial system, most would have negative reaction to such words, yet they are one of the few systems where their ideas are fully realized in praxis onto reality.
This is incredibly high-quality BASH programming, as a fellow bash freak I am studying this code, and even I am learning some new techniques.

https://github.com/h4l/json.bash/blob/main/json.bash

You've boiled it down to a set of very elegant constructs. Respect. Thank you @h4l, this is badass.

I hope you follow up with a golang or rust implementation, that would really be something else.

p.s. I noticed the following odd behaviors with escaping delimiters (e.g. "="), is there a way to get an un-escaped equal sign as the trailing part of a key or leading part of a value?

$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb msg=Hi
{"msg":"Hi"}
$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb msg=\=Hi
{"msg=Hi":"msg=Hi"}
$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb "msg=\=Hi"
{"msg":"\\=Hi"}
$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb "msg\==\=Hi"
{"msg\\=\\":"Hi"}
$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb "msg\\==\=Hi"
{"msg\\=\\":"Hi"}
$ docker container run --rm ghcr.io/h4l/json.bash/jb "msg\\===Hi"
{"msg\\=":"Hi"}
I only switched to a device with FaceID recently, so I haven't seen how often false positives are in the wild. I still have devices with ThumbID, and I can get into my tablet with rubber gloves without any issues. As far as just a password, if you're using a password manager also located on the phone... There's also people that just don't enable any of that kind of thing on their apps. So we're still fighting those fights. I'm the type that wishes every single app required authentication though.
Yeah, and even if those assumptions are perfectly fine today, they are unlikely stay that way. When they do, going back and fixing everything else is a massive pain. Even ensuring everything is in localtime can be a pain; someone decides to add a database you didn't have before and didn't pay enough attention to its configuration? Too many landmines.

The way to avoid this pain is to just use UTC on day one, regardless of requirements. Hard and fast rule that everything needs to be UTC. Need to display it? Converting to local time is trivial.

Same thing for text. Use Unicode unless otherwise specified.
Yes, could potentially be related to a different CPU architecture, but could also be something else eg RAM capacity (I have 64GB) or Proton Mail settings (do you have offline enabled? I don't).
Syndicalist
DAT tapes presented as disk drivers, sector addressable. and you can dump a .iso to a disk to make it bootable, so sounds right.
That is correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've taken Show HN out of the title now.
Are we discussing weather? That has planetary scale cycles.
Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Have there been any efforts to document the space station using modern technologies? I think a fully rendered VR experience augmented by real footage would be cool.
It's basic thermodynamics. More energy in the atmospheric system means more violent and extreme weather events. The energy has to go somewhere and it goes into faster winds and bigger storms. In other news: In 2022, U.S. total petroleum consumption averaged about 20.28 million barrels per day (b/d) [1].

1: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
Is it even going to deorbit as planned? In other space news we are finding that a lot of de orbiting debris we assumed would “burn away in the atmosphere” quite conveniently for us in fact didn’t, and would rip holes through people’s homes. Maybe they have more control over the iss before its laid down but once its started to break apart, you better hope the splash down zone is uninhabited.
As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(
> Pro baseball players report that they can see 90+ MPH fastballs clearly,

Has it been tested? Like by putting marks on randomly thrown balls and asking the player to identify the balls?
Even knockout phenotypes of single-trait genes can be awfully complex (if your goal is to engineer a health solution). I don't think than HN comments are a particularly useful place to litigate the faults of genetic thinking, but let me give an example from my own personal experience:

When I was a postdoc at berkeley, my advisor gave me a project to work on. A lab down the road at Stanford working with yeast had done a series of knockouts, precisely eliminating one gene at a time. They reported a number of fatal knockouts in genes that previously had no known function (or a non-necessary function), concluding that the genes presumably had some sort of necessary function for viability (such as housekeeping genes, but not in an obviously necessary way).

Since I'm a DNA nerd I spent time looking at the nature of the genes that were knocked out, and did a bunch of analysis. First I categorized the genes in various ways and didn't see any patterns. But, in the past I'd heard of overlapping genes, and mostly for fun/edification, I taught myself some CS I didn't know and created a data structure and algorithm that allowed me to find all the pairs of 'overlapping' genes (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-021-00417-w) in the yeast genome and found that for every single gene they had newly identified as necessary, it overlapped an already known housekeeping gene (overlapping genes were not, in the early 2000s, widely appreciated).

I spoke to my advisor and told him that I reasoned that the authors had made a mistake: in every case where they identified the gene as being necessary, they had accidentally disabled a housekeeping gene that was already known to be necessary for viability, and incorrectly concluded that the gene they knocked out intentionally was the cause of loss of viability. I hope that makes sense- it's basically a "false positive" that had another explanation: they had knocked out two genes when they thought they had knocked out one.

My advisor agreed and I sent my results to the authors, who never responded. Their subsequent paper explicitly mentioned my observations, without crediting me.

Since then, I've come to believe that much of what we believe about genotypes and phenotypes, even in cases where the outcome seems quite straightforward, linear, and single-cause, is instead an error of preconcieved assumptions. It greatly reduced my confidence in geneticists (I'm a biophysicist- highly quantitative, interested in the molecular cause-and-effect) ability to make strong statements.

I don't work in this area any more (it's more lucrative to move data for biologists than it is to be a biologist) but I strongly suspect that I if enabled my OCD bit and spent more than a month analyzing MSTN knockouts, I would find that something which is "self-evidently obvious in MSTN knockouts" is in fact much more complex and subtle than the narrative in the literature.
Are you suggesting a solution akin to UTC-4:00 is now UTC-4:00:01?

That sounds like a headache of epic proportions when contrasted with the alternative of a leap seconds.
wow, most of the time the engine sounds of cars designed to go 0-100 quickly sounds super generic, but this i can actually get to sound like two different cars i've owned. I could almost get it to sound like a Lancer Evo X but there's no blowoff or turbo sound... maybe in the next version!
Show HN: OpenReactor – Open-Source Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Well that's not the point of play to begin with, it's learning motor skills, so your logic doesn't make any sense.
The AI Industry starts to focus on a potential Trump presidency
Looks like this uses soundbanks instead of actually simulating an engine like AngeTheGreat's simulator. The author of this one has published their source code here https://github.com/markeasting/engine-audio
Its much closer to libertarianism. In fact, many of the hard core libertarians are more accurately described as anarchists. Realistically if we use the (poor) political compass, "anarchy" is everything below the center line. That's the vertical axis: anarchy-authority.

There's also a good discussion from Moxie Marlinspike (creator of Signal)[0]. He discusses some of the things you're asking and I think this can answer better than a comment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbjdTZjBQQ
Apple reminders for high level tasks.

If it’s code related a todo file at the root of the repo.

Work on the repo if it’s in Reminders.
The "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" blog (frequently posted on HackerNews) has an interesting series on how non-state societies organize to achieve collective action, like raising an army. The series focuses on the Celtic people in contrast to the Romans.

I do find it quite interesting how this particular implementation of an agrarian non-state society has very different outcomes than typically envisioned by anarchist theorists, particularly in regards to power/wealth/influence concentration, the emergence of social hierarchy, warlords, and the poor living conditions experienced by those at the bottom.

https://acoup.blog/2024/06/07/collections-how-to-raise-a-tri...
If your meeting produces "notes", and those are relevant for people that were not in it, you are doing it wrong.

If your meeting is aimed at producing "general understanding", it's already a dangerous one, and the understanding should go to the correct documentation (what is best done during the meeting). Otherwise, it should produce "focused understanding" between a few people and with immediate application.

If all you take from it is notes, well, I'm really sure that your team won't go digging through meetings notes every time they need to learn about some new context. Meeting notes are useful for CYA only, and if people feel safe they'll be filled directly at /dev/null.
Which is what the articles of confederation were moving closer towards, decentralized affiliated states. It was a move closer towards anarchism but ironically many anarchists would have a meltdown if we suggested going from what we've now to that.
Loma Linda, CA, USA; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan

How many of these places have a sufficiently weak government as to permit pension fraud? Grandpa can "live" quite a long time if there's a paycheck rolling in every month.
Unfortunately, that is very, very far from true.

That mini pc has 32Gb of ram and 2TB of storage. You simply cannot get that in a mac mini and a mac studio with these specs costs 3000 aka 3 times as much.
1) I didn't realize the 'caption' part was really 'first post' on the submitted article.

2.a Save - the start of the sentence.

2.b "Freedom", FTA, is the name of the US module of the ISS, a proper noun.

2.c "International Space Station", also a proper noun.
The Caterpillar Spaceship (2005)
I don't like whitespace compulsion but I can live with it.

self.onandonandon is a real pain along with copy.deepcopy
If you find that this is the case in your organization, watch out. It's a sign that you're trying to build performative models that aren't grounded in reality. Depending on your organization's goals, this may take a long time to catch up with you.
That’s at will employment. Works exactly the same fucking way in California where “those schmucks” certainly aren’t voting R.
That's pretty cool. Fits their use case for sure. I would probably opt to spend a little more for a gigabit port. From what I've seen watching Jeff Geerling, you can setup a pretty reasonable performing NAS on something on these small SBCs.
The main thing is you need to live near other people with the same rituals.

I suspect your grandparents moved to the US after the holocaust and settled somewhere far from other Jews. Judaism can not be practiced in isolation, it was not setup that way.

Also, nothing stopping you from finding a Chabad near you and reclaiming at least a portion of your heritage.
Classic SNL reference: "Do not taunt happy fun ball"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
A negative result is still a useful result.

Before this experiment, no one knew if a high-stress environment would speed up visual perception. Now we have some evidence that it does not.
What is instagram?
I vote to correct the clocks once a century. Then it'd be infrequent enough to have a big celebration rather than being annoying.
I kept thinking to myself, someone really should design a language that compiles down to ASM so we don't have to write it by hand. Finally.
I don't think this should be flagged.
20 years ago in the space access circles
I agree with this. For anarchism to be successful, the first step would be to relabel itself to something else other than anarchism, because this word is currently almost meaningless. An almost similar thing also happened to communism, every group has a different definition to the point that they cannot agree anymore on what communism is.
> Russia doesn't want to destroy more than necessary, Russia doesn't want to kill more than necessary

This is nonsense. Russia is suffering loss ratios unseen since low-tech civil wars in Syria, South America and Africa. (The principal ones being killed are Russians.) Moscow is indifferent to killing; it’s being neither excessively brutal (now, mass graves are a different story) nor conservative.

Russia is fielding its best kit in Ukraine. It’s being destroyed by decades-old NATO hardware. Its overseas weapons sales have unsurprisingly cratered, which jeopardises its ability to finance future production and development.

The only silver lining is Moscow is increasingly falling into its role as a Chinese suzerainty. While not great for America, that’s at least stabilising; post-Soviet Russia has not shown itself to be a responsible sovereign power.

> equipment, not really

Russia lost most of its elite forces in the opening days of the war, which were an unmitigated disaster. It’s losing armor at replacement rates and ammunition faster than replacement, which is why it needs to import more. It’s become apparent Russia has lost the ability to conduct combined-arms warfare, which makes it more akin to a nuclear-armed Iraq than former superpower.

Naval losses, similarly, are above replacement, which is hilarious as Ukraine has no navy.
Thats cool but also so unusual for me. You just don't add card details at all here, and if you do, you just trust that service and save it permanently.
If someone is actual heavy card user, he will have temporary/shortlived cards anyway.
If the IERS ever announces a negative leap second, they should do it like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1li5NaltA
that's already done inadvertently

raw scrap from 2023+ is worthless
> I wouldn't particularly bet on Penrose being correct but until someone figures out how consciousness actually works or proves that it's somehow a big self-convincing illusion I don't think we can completely discount the idea that there's some kind of physics involved.

Despite my flippant rejection of Penrose I very much agree. I just thought the computational approach was misguided and his colleagues did him dirty.
Local governments use banks. What are you getting at?
You can just visit the clone we have on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Vehicle_Mockup_Facility
Okay. Take Shakespeare then. https://thegreatthinkers.org/shakespeare-and-politics/biblio...
The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the world
What is an example of some great art that was executed quickly and/or without a great many hours of prior experience on the part of the artist?
I use Notion with the tasks board in a Kanban view. It's essentially Trello but each task is also a page where I can document everything I'm learning or doing, even with subpages underneath. I have a board for development work and a board for marketing work. Each board has a view for prioritized ideas and a different view for in-progress work.
I came to post the same thing. You have a stick from 12,000 years ago, and a story from 100 years ago, and they link them because of a similarity "there is fat at the end of the stick".

You could get fat on a stick by roasting a small mouse (so a small hearth), or tons of other ways. This really isn't enough evidence, not without a ton more findings of the same thing at various dates over the timeperiod.
If you want to take this as a confrontation instead of a discussion I agree it's not worthwhile continuing.

My confusion is real. I don't get your point. How does "they do what Lisp-style compile-time evaluation has always done: they build up lists" delineate Racket's capabilities compared to Zig? It's false on the surface (syntax objects are not lists) and it's false at a deeper level (macros can do anything). Even if it were true, I don't understand the significance of using lists, or not, as a representation of a program. I know, from experience, you can put any value into a syntax object / list so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't understand what "Zig comptime is part of the compiling process" means in contrast to Racket. How does this differentiate between the two? Macros provide an API to the compiler, are part of the compiling process, and you can insert, e.g, assembly code generated by a macro into a Racket program (I did this a long time ago).

> Syntax and side effects. Take your pick.

What does this mean? "Take your pick" implies xor, but you use and. Is this a typo?

If you doubt that macros can do arbitrary side-effects, put the following in a file (e.g. "comptime.rkt") and from Racket call (require "comptime.rkt")

#lang racket

(define-syntax when
(lambda (stx)
(begin
(println "Compile-time")
(datum->syntax stx '(println "b")))))

(begin
(println "a")
(when)
(println "c"))

You'll see the output

"Compile-time"
"a"
"b"
"c"

The println in the macro when runs before the code in the begin form evaluates. I.e. it is running at compile-time.
Joke's on Python, it already supports braces:

def foo(): #{
if True: #{
print("The future is now, old man")
#}
#}
Fair point, but I'd counter two things:

First, that most of that decline is relative power rather than absolute: the UK is no longer astride the world, but because so many others have gained power to kick my parents and grandparents' generations out of their countries, not (in all cases) because the UK became objectively weaker.

Second, that the politicians who caused the decline were doing a lot of smaller mistakes over a longer period.

Those other politicians probably were indeed as you say below average, but Johnson and Truss weren't just scraping the bottom of the barrel, they were the wood of the barrel itself and the floor underneath it.
Seconded, there is no clear line between banned drugs that help you cheat and drugs that fix medical conditions. There are drugs that are allowed if you have a doctor's note, and there are drugs that you can use only up to a certain amount.

Asthma meds for cycling, some of which are steroids, are one of the more popular examples:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/the-truth-abo...
Somewhat disagree, it depends on the club. For example, I've experienced a lot more conversation on the W3OK repeater vs the W4MLB repeaters
It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency communications, they run low-power stations from remote locations, and many more kinds of activities.

Mike - KE8ATC
Thanks, I don't normally make this kind of phonetic mistake. Didn't even notice.
My memories of theoretical computer science are quite rusty, but I seem to see an issue with your argument: if you need enumeration you meet semidecidability. In other words, if you start generating the proofs and you find the one you were looking for, then problem solved. But if you can't find the proof, you would need to keep generating them at infinity to find the one you need. You can't conclude the result in this way without enumerating all possible proofs. Unless, you have a way of limiting the number of proofs that need to be generated?
> If you had a team of really detail oriented developers capable of getting this done for Android and desktop platforms, wouldn't you rather they work on something else?

If you can improve the world (mass storage device is really wide spread) this way, why not?
Don't miss the link to the full res cross-section:

https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/11357255-b6b9-4a57-...
> The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. The larva of the insect lives in the ovary of the fig tree, and there it gets its food. The tree and the insect are thus heavily interdependent: the tree cannot reproduce without the insect; the insect cannot eat without the tree; together, they constitute not only a viable but a productive and thriving partnership. This cooperative "living together in intimate association, or even close union, of two dissimilar organisms" is called symbiosis [27].

I believe the meaning of symbiosis has evolved since 1960. Symbiosis is now an umbrella term that only implies a close association between two organisms. It doesn't necessarily imply mutual benefit anymore. A mutually beneficial association is called mutualism. An association where one benefits at the expense of the other is parasitism. Commensalism is when one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited. There is also amensalism, where one is harmed and the other is neither harmed nor benefited. Symbiosis is the superset of parasitism, commensalism, amensalism, and mutualism.

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

It's amusing to me when people use "symbiosis" in the old sense and then I start pondering whether the thing they're describing is actually {mutual,amensal,parasit,commensal}ism