skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When was the Osireon built?"

If the answer is greater than 2025 years ago (is a BCE date by the Gregorian calendar) or Year Zero, the answer cannot be represented unless the datetime or temporal.Duration object supports negative years or different year zeroes.
That is indeed what you get with tidal forces - bodies closer than geostationary orbit lose angular momentum and decay inward, bodies further out steal angular momentum from Earth and move outward.

I suppose the same effect is there with satellites much smaller than the moon, but it would be tiny.
> If you think that "VI is a superior editor than Emacs", I'm afraid you still have a shallow understanding of both.

Thank you for your long and thoughtful prose, so fitting for an emacs user. One day, when you value productivity, might I suggest VI.
AM reception is essentially the direct conversion of the strength (amplitude) of a given radio frequency into an audio signal. Any other noise present at the same frequency is added to the signal (superposition/interference) and therefore impacts the strength of that frequency at the receiver. Therefore it is impossible for the receiver to know whether the amplitude it received is just signal or is signal plus noise.

The claim 'the effect of random noise is to amplitude modulate' is probably not 100% correct, because to my understanding it's not actually performing modulation (the modulation happens at the transmitter but the noise happens between the transmitter and receiver), but it is impacting the amplitude at a given frequency and to a receiver this is impossible to know whether said change in amplitude happened before modulation (signal) or after modulation (noise).
Outsourcing and corruption isn’t limited to government agencies. Quite a lot of it is from companies to other companies or governments to company A and then from company A to company B where the subcontractors are at issue.
Deep within the settings, there's a "Don't show me things like this" button in TikTok. Maybe someone should make a TikTok competitor where you swipe left or right on a video to indicate your approval.
Two hours a day?
We have an entire generation of people i.e. us growing up with computers and TVs.

There is no evidence that it has had any negative effects.

The problem is exclusively with social media. And in particular the way it is having young kids being shaped by adult role models e.g. Andrew Tate, Mr Beast who don't have their wellbeing in mind. And being subjected to adult themed content in volumes we've never seen before.
The analogy is getting a bit tortured, so I'll try a more practical explanation.

An AM receiver is a machine that senses the amplitude at a specific em frequency. In this situation, noise and interference become random additions or subtractions to that amplitude. Draw a sine wave, then go over the line with vertical ticks or scribbles. Now imagine taking a random sampling of points and reconstructing the original wave perfectly (without a computer). Most of the information is just gone and you end up with a noisy output wave.

Now an FM receiver is one that measures frequency changes above and below a 'carrier' frequency. The amount of deviation away from center represents the amplitude of the sound signal being transmitted. In this setup, noise and interference are also random additions to the amplitude, but also at random frequencies. On average, interference happens evenly over the entire range of frequencies you're looking at. That means that the highest amplitude is still the same frequency away from center, it just has a slightly different amplitude.

Go back to that sine wave. You can't see the original signal behind all the noise, but you can still see how far apart the peaks are. You can still easily extract its frequency content.

FM uses the frequency dimension to transmit data because random noise can't really affect frequency. Noise mostly happens in the amplitude dimension across all frequencies at the same time.

FM is more robust because it uses two dimensions to encode information vs AM's single dimension. That's also why FM is in stereo!
If you're using tools that only support one particular line ending, the solution isn't to convert your source automatically in the repo, it's to know your source is always stored in one format, and convert it back/forth when a tool needs it to be different.

How would you handle two different tools only supporting disjoint line endings?
sure, just don't forget, that will be the kid who chooses the shelter...
I'm way more than an apologist
According to Jewish law, almost anyone can convert to Judaism.
I never knew the name Tim Cook before Steve Jobs died.

The general public does not know the layers of corporate staffing and their names. That doesn't mean they don't realize there are a lot of people at the company contributing. Nobody thinks Elon is in the back room doing drafting, and doing every job.

Yes. Musk is complicated person. Maybe that is what I was trying to ask. Does anybody have any credible insight into where is head is at. Is he turning into a wing nut, or is this all just a ploy to have more control over the government to further his goals of getting to Mars. Like if Trump wins, he can just phone him up and say, lets put a man on Mars.
Durable objects seem so cool but the pricing always scares me. (Specifically, having to worry about getting hibernation right.) They’d be a great fit for our yjs document based strategy, but while everything in prod still works on plain ol redis and Postgres, it’s hard to justify an exploration.
Matthias Felleisen, et al., also found that syntax is one of the barriers to new students with zero prior programming experience.

Strangely enough, they found that Lisp syntax was easier to pick up, because it was simpler. (In general, the first word in the parentheses tells you what to do with the rest. Not other punctuation to remember, precedence parsing rules, etc.)

We're usually not developing languages for people with zero experience, but if someone wants to twist my arm to use Lisp syntax...
It's very easy to say this if you're not a parent.

Social media does some harm. Being socially excluded does far _more_ harm. Which starts to happen in middle school.

So as a parent, you have three choices:

1. Deal with the emotional consequences of your kid being systematically excluded and having few/no friends.

2. Construct an alternative school/community with like-minded parents and kids.

3. Just give them the damn device, with screen time restrictions and the understanding that you'll be monitoring their activity. Follow through and be involved in their social life, with open and honest conversations about what happens online.

It turns out most good parents these days opt for #3.
"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it is thoroughly finished yields the true glory." -- Sir Francis Drake
Pragmatic choices is what Postel is known for now, and it makes for a pretty confused world when everyone makes different pragmatic choices.
Almost anyone could convert to Judaism but Judaism is not a proselitist religion.
Oh, you're right, of course. I misremembered that rake. I stepped on some others I can't remember now, though.

I wouldn't be surprised to see commercial implementations of Minimax. It seems like it would have a much better cost/benefit ratio than SeRV for some applications.
I don't believe that this board will do anything that isn't already on the meeting agenda that Matt has prepared: https://automattic.com/board/

It is so transparently apparent that these people are completely subservient to Matt.
Same here. Hard no on YouTube and TikTok. Sadly everything happens on SnapChat in their friend groups and SnapChat has a terrible TikTok style feed that I wish to god I could disable somehow. It adds nothing to the experience for actually socializing with one's friends group and is simply designed for mindless scrolling and consumption. I hate it.
I am interested, and I really enjoy your work on Browsertech! I haven't needed Plane above/over what Cloudflare is providing, but I've got it in the back of my mind as an option.

I've long hoped other providers might jump on the Durable Objects bandwagon and provide competing functionality so we're not locked in. Plane/Jamsocket looks like one way to go about mitigating that risk to a certain extent.
Another indication that Columbus was part of the Jewish community is that the Jewish financiers Luis de Santángel and Gabriel Sánchez advanced interest-free loans to finance the journey.
> It’s unclear to me why there’s so much delay and jitter in the PPS timestamping.

I’ve messed around with this on a couple different GPS chips. I’ve found improvements can be made by increasing the baud rate to the maximum supported. 9600 tends to be the default, but 57600 works a lot better. Also, disable all NMEA sentences except the one you are using. Finally ramp up the update interval to be much more often. The default tends to be every 1000 milliseconds, but 100 milliseconds works better for less jitter. I’ve been using NTPsec, not Chrony, so maybe there are more nuances.

Im just a hobbyist, but I have a bit more details written up here, checkout the poorly designed hamburger menu for some charts and graphs: https://www.developerdan.com/ntp/
> Someone shouldn’t have to use source inspection assistive coding tools to parse the code you write
Author here:

My title was imprecise and unclear. I didn't mean that you should raise errors if CRLF is used as a line terminator in (for example) HTTP, only that a bare NL should be allowed as an acceptable line terminator. RFC2616 recommends as much (section 19.3 paragraph 3) but doesn't require it. The text of my proposal does say that CRLF should continue to be accepted, for backwards compatibility, just not required and not generated by default. I failed to make that point clear.

My initial experiments suggested that this idea would work fine and that few people would even notice. Initially, it appeared that when systems only generate NL instead of CRLF, everything would just keep working seamlessly and without problems. But, alas, there are more systems in circulation that are unable to deal with bare NLs than I knew. And I didn't sell my idea very well. So there was breakage and push-back.

I have revised the document accordingly and reverted the various systems that I control to generate CRLFs again. The revolution is over. Our grandchildren will have to continue dealing with CRLFs, it seems. Bummer.

Thanks to everyone who participated in my experiment. I'm sorry it didn't work out.
This article isn't about people being offended at seeing sexual material on TikTok. It's about how TikTok _knew_ that children were being paid in TikTok livestreams to engage is sexual behavior. It is good that _you_ didn't consume it, but many were, andd TikTok knew that many were and let it happen to profit from it.
I don’t know man, it’s not like I said the peasants should be content with their gruel. A private apartment in the center of one of the most desirable ZIP codes on the planet is an inherently limited good. Believing you deserve it (over, say, a family with kids who truly do need the space and privacy) is kind of the definition of entitlement.

And it’s not like it was a barely tolerable existence — I wouldn’t trade my five years living in a glorified flophouse for anything, even after that time my housemate attempted to clean their vomit off the bathroom floor at 3 in the morning with the communal Roomba. I guess that was hardship of a sort, but hardship creates friends and memories — I don’t think I built an ounce of “character”, but I had a hell of a time.
The US is in an economic war with China. TikTok is just part of their current beef. Not to say that TikTok isn't toxic; of course it is. But Instagram and Facebook are, too.

"Considered a villain" -- this means nothing unless action is taken. Meta has just gotten, in two whole decades, a few mock interviews in Congress and not more than that, left untouched primarily due to Section 230 and the convenience that a mass social network of 2B+ users worldwide happens to be US-based (not fiscally, of course.) And that is after the various leaks showing how it psychologically manipulates teens, lends itself to electioneering and genocide, etc. TikTok, on the other hand, has made it all the way to Congressional ban level in just a few years.
Not trying to be pedantic here, but you did say, "I think you can prove Many Worlds Interpretation correct for yourself."

Anyway, my point is that, I can't see how to go from "I observed something with small probability happening to me" to the conclusion that "MWI is correct". There is no logical connection between the two statements as far as I can discern.
Is there any materially demonstrable evidence that tiktok is worse than other social media networks?
Even without outright cheating... if you're able to run your money through a company, it _feels_ criminal the sorts of benefits it brings.

I do pay my wife part of my income so it hits a lower tax rate (this is fine), and she does do my books (she's a CPA, so that tracks).

But there's a staggering amount of expenses I'd normally be paying out of pocket with my post-tax dollars that are now being paid by "the company". Anything the company pays for I end up paying $0 in tax on that money. Like probably 20% of the stuff _I would be paying for anyway_ is paid for by the company and I pay 0% tax instead of 50% tax. Like, what might have been $30k/yr in expenses before now costs me $15k/yr and lets me put $7.5k in my pocket out of what's left.

Health expenses? Yeah, why not establish a self-funded company health plan and pay those out of untaxed dollars too!

It's especially stark in things like "home office" expenses... if I claim it on my personal taxes (whether from my company or working for someone else), I can't claim any mortgage interest as an expense. If I claim it as my company's place of business though I can claim that and much more.

It costs me like $60/yr to keep renewing the corporation, and if I wasn't married to a CPA probably another $600-800 for tax filing. It easily puts 10x that back in my pocket.

And I mean, yeah, it's definitely way easier to cheat on your taxes if you're so inclined. And from what I've seen of the filings my wife has done over the years for accounting firms, bending the rules is pretty much the norm. Many an argument has been had over "no, that's not the letter of the rules I'm not letting you file that" and "okay but you're throwing money away because literally everyone else does that because there's no way to catch it".
TIL about Kirkwood gaps too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap :

> A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of the semi-major axes (or equivalently of the orbital periods) of the orbits of main-belt asteroids. They correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter.

(Similarly, shouldn't it be possible to infer photon phase without causing wave state collapse?)

/? Jupiter’s effect on Earth’s climate https://www.google.com/search?q=Jupiter%E2%80%99s+effect+on+...
> instant startup

My config is Doom-based. I use about 300 different third-party packages, and I don't even know how many built-in ones. It takes about 1.3s to start. Wishing for it to start even faster is like wanting my microwave to warm my tortilla in 5 seconds instead of 30. I don't restart Emacs every day, nor do I eat tortillas daily. Use a modern package-manager, and defer the loading of packages, it will start very fast - just like 'emacs -q' does.

> minimal keypress-to-display latency

A lot of times, setting keyboard rate is all it takes to make it nice,

On Linux: xset r rate 170 80

On Mac:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1

defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 10
You sound like those armchair communists who feel they need to agree with Stalin because he was a communist too. You know, a person doing evil things for the right reasons is still doing evil things.
Line feed is exactly what you do when you are editing text. But nobody uses it.

CR + LF was meant as an instruction for teletype printers, so it is outdated, and looks like he withdrew the proposal (which couldn’t have ever been serious) after some feedback.

Fossil SCM, btw, was written by the creator of SQLite, so his opinion shouldn’t be discounted as some random nobody.
Can you quote the evidence here? The link is paywalled.
But the part you miss is that it works. This is anecdotal for now but people are looking at evaluating that more objectively.

It's not even a stretch if you squint at this. The currently accepted treatment is SSRIs, the second S standing for serotonin. Psychedelics work on serotonin receptors. Why would it be surprising that if you tweak your serotonin receptors, you get treatment for depression? Again, this is not true of alcohol or cannabis.
Humans especially children need to be part of healthy social groups.

Being excluded is not setting them up on a positive trajectory.
The Case for Mars is the book about Mars Direct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars
Could someone ELI5 why AC capacitors are so fragile? I had one fail last year on a unit that was just out of warranty.
BBS culture was a big part of my teen years. And Ward and his code played a huge part in that. XMODEM FTW. RIP.
Social skills are probably the most important and valuable skills to success in life
I think starships are too now to save weight where they get different thermal loads.
Duplicity is my go because it integrates so well with pgp signing/encryption. Other popular alternatives like borg and restic just do not have it.
I have a 11 year old who is remarkably obedient. Credit to my wife. So we decided no social media for our child and she is pretty much fine with it.
Hm, I probably should pull out the ones from the original article that I actually recognize (a couple of yours are from that). Mine was originally intended as a supplement, then it got out of control.

I thought about `M` for matrix but after thinking I realized it's almost always `A` or something, with `m` as a dimension. That does remind me of `I` for identity though ...

Ah, the editing window is closed, so I guess I have to extend it:

f,g,h - function
f - flags
i - identity (e.g. of matrix)
h,n/p,m - haystack, needle/pattern, match
h,t - head, tail
k,v - key, value of a map/dictionary
l - location
s - state
t - token
>I think the real reason we don't have robots that move like spiders is that robots don't have muscles

If that was the real reason we'd have self driving cars deserving of that label before we had ChatGPT. In the world of atoms we still struggle with machines that are magnitudes less sophisticated than even a worm. No, it's because being embedded in the world is much more like being a cat and much less like a LLM or a chess computer.

Making something that's like a curious five year old who can't do a lot of impressive things and has no market value but who is probably closer to genuine intelligence is going to be much harder than making a search engine for the internet's latent space.
Polarization like... staying tf away from anti-White racists, misandrist, antisemetic genocide supporters, child groomers, and in general toxic people? Yeah, i guess that's the kinda of polarization that i can support. Majority or not.
Minority Report, here we come.
Time to share my favorite quote from Symbols, Signals and Noise by John R. Pierce, where he discusses how Shannon achieved a breakthrough in Information Theory:

> This chapter has had another aspect. In it we have illustrated the use of a novel viewpoint and the application of a powerful field of mathematics in attacking a problem of communication theory. Equation 9.3 was arrived at by the by-no-means-obvious expedient of representing long electrical signals and the noises added to them by points in a multidimensional space. The square of the distance of a point from the origin was interpreted as the energy of the signal represented by a point.

> Thus a problem in communication theory was made to correspond to a problem in geometry, and the desired result was arrived at by geometrical arguments.
It is a hotel revolving door for sound waves.

But the door is also a sound wave.
Youtube ended copy-pasting their features.
In the article, they are using a PPS output into a GPIO IRQ. I don't think they're using serial/NMEA for the timestamping
Does distance in feature space require orthogonality?

With real space (x,y,z) we omit the redundant units from each feature when describing the distance in feature space.

But distance is just a metric, and often the space or paths through it are curvilinear.

By Taxicab distance, it's 3 cats, 4 dogs, and 5 glasses of water away.

Python now has math.dist() for Euclidean distance, for example.
man , my family doesn't even know what linux even is lol.
Luanti is easy to pronounce and distinct, but it's also vague enough that someone making a game using the Luanti platform will want to name their game something else.
Anything is possible.
But I doubt it's CGI.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41827736.
> There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations.

Is this not trivially obvious at all moments of consciousness? The assumptions here make no sense.
https://archive.is/XCx6E
Be less of an attack vector.
I think they need to bring it down to $0.99/mo before anyone but early adopters will consider it. Kagi must compete with a search engine that most people believe has no cost.

And many people, as evidenced by Google’s profitable enshittification, do trust the Google results. To them, if they got scammed by an SEO-hacking site, or a site paying Google for search result placements, it’s just how things are on the internet. They would not understand the complicity of their search engine.

All together, that’s the magical thinking Kagi will have to compete against. Because early adopters come and go. They will need to transition to mass market adoption, at least at some single-digit percent of the market share.
Please don't perpetuate generic ideological tangents. They're repetitive and therefore boring, and usually turn nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So taking orders, the whole idea of an online shop, is one of the premium features coming?

What's the point of the free plan?
Slightly off-topic: Seasonality is something which has intrigued me for a few years now, especially since the covid pandemic, and I've been reading a lot into it.

There are plenty of papers out there which try to explain viral seasonality and just about all of them fall short in terms of really getting a grasp on why viruses tend to 'like' certain meteorological conditions.

I love this paragraph:

"The complex interplay of variables that results in a given virus having such a specific seasonal pattern made me think of the Drake equation. Formulated in 1961, the Drake equation was meant to spark dialogue over the possibility of alien life by taking into account a handful of factors, like the fraction of stars in our galaxy that might have planets and the average number of planets that could support life as we know it. The possibility of extraterrestrial life was not solely determined by one variable but rather by a succession of quantities that needed to be estimated. Likewise, the seasonality of viruses cannot be attributed uniquely to outside temperature, or indoor gatherings, or even shifting humidity levels throughout the year. It’s a result of how all of these factors and more play together with the unique characteristics of individual viruses. If anything, it’s a reminder of the extraordinary complexity of life."

Source: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health/virus-ever...