skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the moon orbited earth a little bit faster, would the number of microseconds per day accumulated change (even if ever so slightly)?

Meaning, if you attached rockets to the Moon to speed it up while not changing its orbital radius? In that case the speedup relative to Earth clocks would be less, yes.

> in principle, I should be able to come up with a thought experiment that highlights what that speed means

I gave you one upthread, in the subthread where the movie Interstellar was being discussed.

> Would this hypothetical faster moon, billions of years orbiting earth at a different speed, look geologically younger than our regular speed moon?

Meaning, if you compared the two after billions of years of Earth clock time had elapsed? Yes.
It's just a very different programming model. You don't write potentially infinite loops, you allocate memory ahead of time, anything that might be potentially unbounded is handled asynchronously, etc. Things like I/O run on precise timers and so on.

Keep in mind you don't use the same operating systems (or often even the same hardware) in hard real time applications. You'll use a real time operating system (FreeRTOS, VxWorks, etc) with a very different task scheduler than you're probably used to with processes or threads in Unix-like platforms. That said, while multitasking exists for RTOSes in practice you're not going to be running nearly as many tasks on a device as say a web server.

You can get worst case performance of a section of code by guaranteeing that it has a fixed maximum number of operations (no infinite loops, basically). Of course the halting problem applies, but you're never concerned with solving it in the general case, just for critical sections. It gets tricky with OOO architectures but you can usually figure out a worst case performance.
This blog port gives an overview of the core dependency tracking logic: https://amakelov.github.io/blog/deps/
But this doesn’t offer any justification for why, for locations that people highly value living in, we as a society ought to do anything other than maximize the number of people living there.
You mean you can’t see the “promoted content” label that is 1 px high?
There are two ways to interpret it:
one is in terms of its effect size, if it could have been an intervention; the other, as pointed out above, is that there are patients to whom exercise is prescribed e.g. T2D, dyslipidemias and cardiovascular disease.
Unless there's something about leap years that you don't understand and miss in both tests and implementation. Not an impossible situation.
There is a different between design and developing a CPU Core like Oryon Core here, and Nvidia shipping ARM SoC which the CPU design itself that is from ARM, likely Cortex-X5.
Can we port Adobe Flash to WebVM to avoid having to pay for "CheerpX for Flash"?
Don’t they usually put in “legitimate” ads and info then swap out the content afterwards with the spamscam?
A consistent, but perhaps incomplete, model.
Glacial Climate Intervention [pdf]
The answer is that the M4 will come to the Mac.
Same. I was just using (heavily customized) vim for many many years, and was kinda ok, but then I eventually switched to IntelliJ products at work, and while I don't really like the idea of using a product with subscription, I cannot quite switch to anything again, and have to install them even on my personal machine. Didn't try Zed though.

And it's quite annoying that I really don't think that the product I'm actually using is something crazy complicated only an for-profit enterprise can implement. Just the same as in my vim-years, I only need a good editor, that helps me to type less. In interpreted languages (Python, PHP) I don't even use debugger, debugging via print actually feels totally fine to me. What I need seems pretty similar, and is seemingly included into every modern editor I know: vim-keybindings, good "code smell" highlightings, autocomplete & some refactoring automation. The devil is in the details though. Vim emulation is never perfect, but in IntelliJ it's usable, which doesn't happen often. Static-analysis IntelliJ does seems pretty basic to me, yet somehow even that level is usually lacking (also, the ability to disable specific suggestion via annotations in IntelliJ products is great, as I feel like this functionality is only really useful when I strive for 100% "green" status, just conciously disabling what I'm not going to fix). But the most annoying thing is auto-refactoring. I mean, it feels like a simple thing, I never tried, but I think most common refactoring patterns I do daily I could automate quite easily, given I already have basic syntax-tree operation implemented. But somehow even IntelliJ is pretty poor on refactorings, and what I've seen in VSCode plugins is even worse. Again, no idea about Zed. I guess I should try it.
Federal Ban on Home-Distilling Exceeds Congress' Enumerated Powers
> I can send him a signal too, right?

Yes. Rather than stop accelerating (you weren't in the first place, you were in a free fall orbit in my scenario), you can just send a light signal back, which is a lot simpler--and uses a lot less rocket fuel. :-)

Suppose you receive your buddy's signal at 12:50:01.250058 and immediately send one back. Your buddy will receive that signal at 12:50:02.5000000 by his clock. No 58 microsecond gain, since his clock didn't gain that time, only yours did.

> gained 58 microseconds that I could use to run a computer program for a little longer, as an example

Yes. The Interstellar scenario discussed upthread gives a much more extreme example (and in my response I gave a similar scenario but involving speed instead of using the gravity of a supermassive rotating black hole to get the time dilation effect).
From the linked article and paper author that’s being referenced:

They describe male DNA found in the brains of women in their study as “most likely” from prior pregnancy with a male fetus and do not conclude or mention that women store DNA from males acquired through intercourse.
“In our study as well as others done prior, we merely speculate the establishment of microchimerism through intercourse,” Chan told Reuters. “That is, the possibility exists but it has not been tested (or proven, as the lay person may say).
Cubyc – Git Backed, SQL queryable, ML experiment tracking
Yes. People are flooding desirable areas, and developers (and some politicians) would like to keep trying to fight the locals to get a piece of that pie, even if it means harming those areas, rather than developing outward and stopping foreign buying. Then the resulting house-price crisis is pointed to as the reason they should be given free reign, but that's circular reasoning. That's "negotiating with terrorists".

After that, the next thing blamed is the issue of wealthy Americans using housing as an investment in high-profile areas, which takes up the public consciousness despite being such a small part of the problem.

The homelessness crisis is mostly unrelated, and the subset of it that is related is not related in the ways for which people use it as an argument. Again: Build outward. Get businesses to spread out.
Three lies here -

> Lead and methanol poisoning rates rise

Lead is just made up

Methanol doesn't happen unless you are making 1000's of liters of distilled product for gas and also are drinking it and get it mixed up. Industrial processes for non food grade products can have problems if you drink it.

Homebrew spirts have less methanol than Laphroaig or Caliber because they have to keep the methanol since that also has the flavor.

> In Australia, backyard stills are a smallish "thing" with many migrant communities

And every 'Ozie Ozie Ozie Oi Oi Oi' student group. Stills are in all the homebrew stores (For "essential oils" / no one cares) e.g. air stills from their half brothers where it's legal - https://www.homebrewshop.co.nz/product/still-spirits-air-sti...
.M and .P for those that use vim digraphs
We reduced churn by 200% for our B2B SaaS
I have a couple of bills to pay to the city and the 3rd party pay processor (they switched a couple years back) they got looks like the page was made by a moderately talented 5th grade web developer. I actually called them to verify I had the exact URL correctly and also told them the page looked like it was made by complete amateurs and was kind of scary it was so poorly done.
As a gamedev, what would you use currently instead for NPCs? And what would you say makes this/those solutions better than LLMs?
You shouldn't maximize the number of people anywhere - it creates sadness and kills communities. It's also not the only solution.
> Nobody wants a customer who values a service like that at $2.

I agree.

But...

Reading the OPs post in the most favourable light, it sounds like what he'd like would be the existing "free" service, but to have a wait to pay for it in an attempt to ensure it'll still be worthwhile for the company to keep it running long term.

They say 'the cost for an "active but lightly used database" is somewhere between $1 and $2.5 per month.' so it's at least the right order of magnitude.

But one single support call to an entitled "paying customer" blows away any benefit here, so you're probably right that it's a bad idea.
Even in the US, nothing is technically stopping you from walking into a SCIF with a phone most of the time. We used the honor system.

I would almost automatically assume that any SCIF in a foreign country was compromised to some degree.
Thanks for the link! That looks pretty similar to what we're doing with Glanceables, and I like how it ties right into the macOS dashboard. Have you used it yourself? I’d love to hear your experience with it!
No one has a right to housing at any location they want at the price they want. That’s entitlement. There are plenty of cheap places to live in this country. But people instead want to go to a desirable high demand place and force it to change to accommodate them. Why shouldn’t people who live there already resist change and fight to keep their neighborhood and quality of life?

This post also makes the same mistake pro density activists usually make, which is to project their false ideas of how their “opponents” think onto them. Residents who fight against density and change aren’t doing it for scarcity or property value. That’s what activists say to make them look bad, along with a healthy dose of childish pejoratives like “NIMBY”. The reality is people mostly just want to keep the quality of life they’ve worked hard to find and build.
Only thing I can't hide yet is the "sign in" in the upper-right.
Provable how?

What's an AI watermark?

What's a work of art?

How inundated by works containing supposedly unique digital signatures nonetheless susceptible to collision attacks do they wish to suffer?

The Law cannot match Mathematics in formulation, nor can it match it in meaning.

I wish mathematicians spent more time educating legislators so the rest of us can think and communicate in peace and clarity.
It gets flipped on under most settings if you try to disable it, notably by nftables.
Using Brave browser on iPhoneXR works nicely.
This always cracks me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98qcNZ8Fz0
Why act like this? Sarcastically dismissing what people value only aggravates the problem and antagonizes the honest people who disagree with you.
Time Programming for Laywers and Jurors
New cars to be fitted with automatic speed limiters across Europe from this week
Libmusl will drop your LD_PRELOAD nicely.

And modules can be compiled directly into a module-less kernel.
Absolutely terrible idea. The idea that making a copy of art is somehow theft has lead to nothing but bad outcomes, artificial scarcity, and whining from wealthy institutions complaining about their imagined profits. Intellectual property is one of the most distasteful oxymorons of our age.
ZaSu Pitts comes to mind, but otherwise, yeah.
I never read the book, but I saw the TV mini-series remake that King was personally involved with and approved, and it was awful.

Personally, I think King's stories just don't translate very well to movies, unless (as with Kubrick's "The Shining") huge liberties are taken with the source material. Most adaptations I've seen of his stories were just bad.
How does a canary string provide any certainty one way or the other? It's easy to consider a false positive scenario: a blog post talking about canary strings, what they do, and then saying "here's the BIG-Bench canary string". A false-negative is similarly easy to consider: an unscrupulous employee could scrub the string itself from the training set but keep the rest of the benchmark data.

I expect people more clever than me have spent more than the three minutes I did thinking on it, so I'm genuinely curious as to how the two scenarios above are protected against. From my limited understanding, though, it feels like there's just an honor system involved.
Why do you need to block stuff on your bank? I do all my banking through their app tbh. If I had to block stuff from the bank then I’d switch banks.
These are all fair questions, and speak to a difference in approach between US and EU regulators. The EU gets a lot of criticism (from US commentators) of the fact that the GDPR and DMA legislation leave a lot to interpretation. It always comes across to me as people wanting to know the hard lines so they can get as close to them as possible, where the intention seems to be to ensure that companies meet the "spirit" of the law, not the "letter" of the law.
> Those with less to spend have many other options.

That's where you are very much making bad assumptions, or showing your complete lack of experience

I know a single mom with a kid who needs a regular scheduled experimental treatment only available in one hospital in the province. She can move to a lower cost area, where there aren't many jobs, and none that would pay enough for her to regularly travel to the city and get a hotel. She can't find a cheaper place to live in the city, because even a shared place is going for $1k+ for a bedroom, and no one wants a shared place with a kid. She could move farther away from the city and commute, but the rent savings wouldn't cover the cost of public transit, let alone a reliable car. The line for affordable housing is years long. She is one of thousands with a story like that.

There are a million and one scenarios where 'other options' just don't exist. To suggest that people opt to be unhoused/live in a car/couchsurf even though they have the option to be housed is wild.

Nobody is owed a specific home, but it is cruel, inhuman and immoral to suggest that people aren't entitled to a shelter of some sort, especially in a country where we have more than enough resources to solve the problem.
Seems like ambitious legislation to request something from a standards agency and then keep lawing as if said standard existed.

The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act) would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create standards and guidelines that help prove the origin of content and detect synthetic content, like through watermarking. It also directs the agency to create security measures to prevent tampering and requires AI tools for creative or journalistic content to let users attach information about their origin and prohibit that information from being removed. Under the bill, such content also could not be used to train AI models.
I've never had this technique fail on me. I've done it a lot since I work with a variety of crappy KVMs and run into this problem often enough. You do need to make it a startup script, but that's pretty easy to do.

If it didn't work it's possible you have deeper problems, like X falling back to some crappy software only VESA VGA mode because the proper drivers for your card got corrupted. I've not seen this in many many years, but it's possible. The last time it happened it was really obvious because the whole thing was crazy slow, like the mouse cursor was laggy and typing text into the terminal had over a second of delay. It wasn't subtle at all.
And why ads should be to the side at the very least and not mixed with search results
Why don’t you put this comment on GP, who is saying blatantly false stuff in order to construct a blatantly false narrative about an issue that people care about?
I'm not going to say where the line is, but I hope we can definitely agree that it lies somewhere between murdering innocents and implementing dark patterns in software. I'm baffled that you think it's reasonable to spread the blame equally on the dictator and implementor when it comes to the latter.
Up! Up!! Up!!!
yeah, REST vscode client is golden, just for the integration part.

Curious if it works in VSCODE terminal, did you try it?
You want arcane, try doing the same thing in Windows when it can't detect your monitor properly and doesn't like your video card.
I am sorry I have to say this out loud. But seriously? We expect 20% per generation? When the word generation used to mean 2 years in CPU terms because that was what Moore's law or Intel's tick tock dictate.

Even ignoring the word generation, For the past 20 years how many times did we see a successful uArch bringing 20% IPC improvement over the current leading IPC?

Where did that 20-30% per gen coming from.

The worst part about Apple, its media is that it seems we have a whole generation of people who were never interested in CPU performance suddenly coming up with these expectation and figures.
Oh yikes. Every 152 I’ve flown makes 172s look like Superman. They are anaemic even at sea level in the summer!

In that class of plane, 182s are my personal minimum up here in the summer. I have heard of very experienced pilots having close calls with unexpected downdrafts on otherwise calm days.
Cool, thanks! That was exactly what I was trying to wrap my head around.
Someone once had me code review a 2500 line bash script, written like a Cobol program, but with no error checking of anything. I'm not sure what my point is, but sometimes I am surprised civilization still works as well as it does.
I have an ads account; I don't see them checking I haven't done a switcheroo on the landing page contents. I think I could easily put a JS redirect on the landing page, if nothing else worked.

They are reasonably strict about the keywords though -- I often go into a "verifying" stage when setting up the ads.
There is a lot of data indicating that you are dead wrong.

This is one of many studies that took less than a minute to find if you need a citation: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...

Here's one from California explaining the causal relationship between rising rents and homelessness: https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/studies/california-...
Sure, but it is an option (as well as everywhere along the spectrum up to maximization), and so ‘people want to move there’ is not on its own a justification for ‘prices must go up’.
related to this I'm surprised more people don't get together to start (or reboot) more small towns? Saw a video on abandoned CO towns and made me think that if 20 people moved there are opened some small businesses while keeping it historic it would be fun.
I am a user of this great stuff, a truly awesome tool!
That’s still wild IMO for a 152. Economical trainers they are, but summer mountain flying plane they are not.

Maybe if you ride some thermals…
One-Child Policy Supercharged China's Economic Miracle–Now It's Paying the Price
You think so? I think Musk has mastered the art of the over promise and under deliver and as long as he delivers something in October even if it’s just a small refresh on his cars, and FSD beta v13, people will be fine with it. I think like Trump were just in this age of deities and the only thing that could unseat Musk is _maybe_ if some new personality managed to suck the oxygen out of the room, or game investors a place to believe.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-population-slowing-eco...
super solid point.
>A lower frame rate is not the goal.

>If films were commonly shot and released at 120FPS, then we'd see videophiles clamoring to get the hardware in-place in their homes to support that framerate.

I'm not sure that's actually the consensus opinion. Some of the complaints about frame interpolation are about specific kinds of artifacting, but many are of "the soap opera effect", and those same complaints were levied against The Hobbit, which was actually filmed at a higher frame rate.
Deep instrumentation of running binaries, especially the kernel, and packet manipulation.
>you have got yourself a complete course in C/Unix programming which is the bedrock for everything else; C is the "lingua franca" and Unix (via its variants) the "standard" OS.

Somewhat over the top comment.

I may be an even stronger proponent of C and Unix than you, partly because I grew up on them, and partly because I like them, although they have their share of issues.

Still, calling them the bedrock and standard is too much. There are other alternatives. Until Android and IOS based systems boomed, Windows outnumbered Unix and Linux systems by a huge factor, which I cannot even estimate.
As a korean (south), the article is amazingly interesting and the fact there is british embassy is quite shoking to me. How the best ally of USA 's embassy exists there.

Also feels very sad for north korean people under the worst dictator..
Yes, and I'm an European. I don't think this is a matter of spirit or letter of Law, rather it is a matter of rigour or fluffy wooliness of thought.
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Yes in My Backyard: The Case for Housing Deregulation
But it's not astounding or horrifying that, say, there are people out there who will rob you at gunpoint?
The Cost of Couple Equity
Agreed. The async had been all that I was missing. Sticking with vim.
Home distilling for personal use is legal in e.g. New Zealand, as well as many Eastern European EU countries such as Slovenia [1].

Blindness is certainly one possible risk of moonshine consumption, but if you thought it was a danger of home distilling, you had the causal mechanisms badly messed up.

Blindness and kidney failure may result from methanol poisoning: as the name suggests, you get this by ingesting methanol, an alcohol which looks and smells similar to the alcohol (ethanol) in alcoholic drinks.

Does moonshine contain methanol? Only in trace amounts. Even if you made deliberate efforts to maximize methanol content, alcohol distilled from fermented cereal grains or fruits would still only contain about 5g of methanol for every 1000g of ethanol. Even if you wanted to, you won't obtain methanol by fermenting/distilling.

Why is moonshine associated with methanol poisoning, then?

Well, remember how methanol has a similar taste and smell to ethanol? It is also a cheap to produce, low tax byproduct of many industrial processes. So people wanted to a increase their profits on the moonshine they sold deliberately adulterated it by mixing in some methanol, sometimes in what they thought were non-dangerous amounts, sometimes because they didn't care and thought they'd get away with it [2]. This is called lacing moonshine; it's always a deliberate act and not something that can happen by accident or by making a mistake during home distillation.

This is not a danger of home distilling, though. It's a danger of buying adulterated products from dodgy people. And people dodgy enough to distill alcohol at home to commit tax fraud (or previously to skirt prohibition laws) are often not above poisoning people for profit either.

This has nothing to do with home distilling, though. If you buy cheap alcohol from dodgy people in countries where home distilling is banned, they still might have just bought 10 liters of vodka from the government regulated distillery then mixed it with 2 liters of methanol and sold you the higher volume mixture for profit.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_by_country

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methanol_poisoning_i...