skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more odd if you know that also plain RDS has the time in it.

Imagine my surprise, sitting in my old, beat up Opel Corsa after installing a high-end Kenwood radio which, shortly after turning it on, automagically set the time right.

At first i was like "what the... is going on" and after digging in a little bit, i never understood why other manufacturers and OEMs won't do the same - they rather have you manually change the clock twice a year.

Why?
The data privacy paradox is very real and I feel we are all guilty of it. There are a couple of reasons that come to my mind.

Firstly, we are short-sighted. We don't understand the consequences of our data being out in the open. Cybercrimes are so sophisticated that probably sharing a family member's email for a small gain is enough to put the entire family at risk of fraud. But at that time we only see the immediate reward, not the long-term risk.

Secondly, we are complacent. Because the scale at which data breaches, people have started feeling that they are going to get attacked regardless of whether they implement safety measures or not.

Privacy is not as important to people as we think it is. Small rewards lure them into sharing important data with ease.
Let's hear it for the mechanical engineers of the 80's!

Also in the 80's, Star Wars toys used small DC motors with fixed gears that rubbed against rigid pieces of plastic to make "laser" noises.

Let's hear it for mechies in general: servos and solenoids and LEDs replaced the levers and linkages of the past.
U.S. Congressman Calls for Shutting Down Cryptocurrencies
Sure it does. 1.5 hours gets you to Stockton or Gilroy or Modesto of Fairfield and lots of other more open places where you can get a few acres at a decent price.
I have tried both sides of the coin and have settled for somewhere in the middle, which for me is contracting.

For myself, I burned out pretty hard on 9-5 work, so I don't take on a full time workload and I don't take on work that requires butt-in-seat engagment, even remotely.

In that way I retain full agency over my time, and great flexibility in when I work. I work when I am feeling the most effective, and I can eliminate all that dead time wasted at traditional jobs, where you are just tabbing mindlessly between screens because you have spent your focus budget for the day.
ok, 2005.
The Collapse of American Identity
I don’t disagree in principle, but I have also never encountered architectural problems so deep that it was impossible to solve them piecemeal. I’m sure they exist, and in those cases I’d say a rewrite is probably worth it in the long run, but I haven’t seen it in practice.
> A rookie mistake is reading the TEXT of a patent. A pro looks only at the claims. The text is only there to "support" the claims

That's how I have always looked at patents...until I ran into an attorney who insisted that you have to read both and that the text is just as important. The context was in reviewing patents for prior art. This confused the hell out of me because very often the text is where you see someone throw the kitchen sink at the patent. In other words, you often run into things in the text that are not really being claimed.

Not sure who's right any more. Color me confused.

Is the difference between the two cases one where, in the first case, one is using all of the patent (text and claims) as a source of prior art (the text being like a magazine article where someone discusses a bunch of ideas) vs. the second case, where one is looking for infringement of an existing patent based on what is claimed?
Read their comment history -- they're a climate change denier. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess.
Normative[1] economics[2] is[3] definitely[4] a[5] thing[6].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/normativeeconomics.asp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_economics

[3] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ec...

[4] https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/normative-...

[5] https://www.soas.ac.uk/cedep-demos/000_P570_IEEP_K3736-Demo/...

[6] https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2018-2-pag...
You could argue about the exact amount but this sounds good to me.
What is described here is why I am hopeful about wider WFH in USA and general. Precisely because it can result in some jobs moving to poorer countries, including mine.

(I am from Poland and some informatics/programming is outsourced here already from USA)
Yeah I know that this is how it works, I just think it happens to be the worst possible way for it to work. If anything, pointing to the upstream manufacturer should be the end of it.

The fact that someone can sue me over some proprietary implementation of something buried inside a chip I bought where the only way to defend myself is for me to go chase down NXP or ARM is indeed absurd.
>the clock would show the wrong time if you took your car to Greece, Portugal, the UK or the Ukraine

But why do you think that it'd show the wrong time?

In my mind, if left as is, it'd show the wrong time, no?

What's the first thing you check after you get up from your chair after your flight has landed at its destination? I know i'm looking a) at my smartphone b) for the (local) time and if it has c) changed automatically yet.

Imagine you're making an appointment with a local restaurant and have to do calculations for the right time first, because your smartphone shows the time for your hometown?
I don’t want constants. I want immutability. The problem isn’t someone reassigning FOO. It’s them changing the data that FOO represents. So I’d love to just use Python and pass around tuples, strings, frozensets and a homemade frozendict, but the performance is terrible. Any change means a full copy of the whole data structure.
PLATO was absurdly fun. Houston Independent School District had a single terminal at each high school I attended and screen time was highly coveted. To the point that a friend of mine would sneak into school early just to get on, which promoted the administration to put a lock on the phone. Undaunted and despite more than one '9' in the phone number, we learned to dial by rapidly flashing the switch hook to simulate a rotary phone dial.

Thematically the school administration putting in what seemed like arbitrary rules just inspired us to work even harder to get access.

HISD also locked down "author" mode which was required to write new programs (called lessons) in PLATO's programming language named tutor.

Someone eventually cracked the account owners password, which is how some people ended up with accounts with author rights. We ended up replacing the login program on HSEP's PDP 11/34 so we always had super user privileges and I managed to socially engineer privileged access to our CDC mainframe. My flashhook dialing buddy figured out the system operators had buried end of file characters in the system docs on the CDC mainframe and we were able to find lots of interesting new commands to run after that. Again, telling us we couldn't do something just inspired us more. OK, upon reflection we were just hacking anything we could get our hands on.

Frankly I couldn't tell you exactly how I socially engineered it any more but I managed to track down an oil company here in town that not only had a PLATO terminal but a printer and gained access to both over the summer. Needless to say this was an amazing coup for a high school kid who just wanted to do a little coding and play a few games, if I say so myself.

I no longer have the long rolls of yellow paper from playing TREK and other games on an ASR 33 connected to the CDC mainframe or indeed anything else from high school, but the PLATO dot matrix screen print of Labyrinth's start screen remains a treasured possession to this day.
The Don Rumsfeld the Obituaries Won’t Write About
If you "skimmed pages" you are reading the wrong pages.

The only page that matters is the final one, the text after "I Claim". It is very narrow (as the GP points out), and for something that probably actually existed and did something arguably, if minutely, novel. It sounds like a particular implementation technique for some sort of MIMD vector processor.

The entire rest of the document is explicatory, and indicates nothing about what was actually patented, just about how the invention is actually used in a system.
You have the agency to choose your beliefs. The door is open, you simply have to walk through it.
Contest/Challenge for information and data enthusiasts
1EMMA1 is posing a contest/challenge to find capable individuals who will not violate state and federal laws who are interested in a lucrative position at 1EMMA1. They will have the capability to determine if the change in radio/microwave background radiation that is conditionally dependent on something at another location over time to the extent that it exceeds what is expected by background as is defined by the False Discovery Rate (see picture and link below). I will only accept location and effect size, all methods and original signals can be kept confidential and will not be accepted. Legitimacy must be proven.

Anyone ever try using the Graphical lasso over 3x3 foot locations on a map predicting change in microwave background at my location from every other 3x3 foot location on earth? There may be a lucrative position at my company for you if you can do it. The simplest method and will not violate privacy, only looks at conditional dependence between locations over time. Does not listen through phone lines or wiretap, only metadata, no content is discernable; only whether an effect deviates from what is expected by the false discovery rate. Much more sophisticated methods are obvious, and of course, public data is available. No violating federal law and or sharing publicly.

Here are some links to journal articles that may help.

Some additional clues will be posted later ;-)

https://lnkd.in/dsW-G7F

https://lnkd.in/dYyrRSh

https://lnkd.in/eiT2vHA

NOTE: All "volunteers" are barred from participation; other details and requirements/regulations are available upon request. Competitions are open to residents of the United States and worldwide, except that if you are a resident of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, or are subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions, you may not enter the Competition.See link for more details
> The fact you could post your comment puts you in the top 40% of the world (roughly 60% don't have internet access).

I have by now traveled pretty much to all the continents and at this point smartphones and internet are ubiquitous. They are litterly now throwing away working second hand ones in developing nations.
Tibet's first bullet train line enters service
I'm curious what the big gaping holes are. I've used H&R and its predecessor, TaxCut, to do my returns for like 20 years (minus 1 or 2 years where I hired a CPA due to complicated investments and tax credits). I find it very straightforward and fast to use.
I think the cat is out of the bag on this one already, regardless of whether "WFH" is here to stay or not.

I can't help but feel a bit sad about it. The pay and perks were honestly obscene(ly good), but the best part was not being treated as expendable. Friends in other career paths talk about horrible managers/PIs/advisors and working conditions in law, academia, etc. I think because it's so hard to hire a good dev, I've been treated really well by my bosses up to this point. Or maybe I got lucky.

Anyway, I hope that doesn't go away just because the talent pool is widening. I liked being treated like a human.
So ... the clearinghouse is perfectly capable of seizing collateral and running off without delivering the promised shares, but client funds "aren't at risk" when the broker puts up separate collateral, even though the clearinghouse could seize that just the same?

This still doesn't make sense.
If not troff, at least a love of nroff.

I think it is a crime against humanity to publish a binary executable for a unix-like system with out a corresponding man page.

That being said, one of my first tasks at my 2nd summer job during college was some really gross combination of C, Oracle, troff and Postscript. My memory fails me a bit, but it was something like, I needed to write a C program to query an Oracle database for various real estate records, spit out troff to print out a table of stuff, then, after the troff was converted to Postscript, automatically edit the postscript to make it draw a bunch of lines to demarcate the table rows and columns, convert it to encapusulated postscript (EPS), etc. It was kind of a nightmare on the one hand, but it was also kind of cool.

Been too long since I seriously used troff, but I am skeptical that it would hold its own against latex for "serious" writing (e.g. typesetting a paper or a especially a book.)

For man pages though, it's definitely good enough, and splitters like info can diaf.
16 Injured in explosion of illegal fireworks seized from South L.A. home
But if you have to live in SF or NYC to earn those salaries, those salaries are not actually that high.

I mean isn't $150k in the Bay Area a poverty wage? Can you get a starter home for less than $1M?

If everyone has to be in one of a few cities to have a good job, the cost of real estate in those cities will explode to the point that it will soak up all that advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
Interesting, this do reminds me, I looked it up, it's indeed a US thing, thanks.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/sunset
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sunset
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sunset
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunset
There has been a cost to individualism no doubt. There are a few culutures where, generally, the community comes first.

I think you can cultivate that in a small way though, by taking part in volunteer programs in your community. I know it's a cliche recommendation but if you are feeling like we lack community then it's probably just because of how easy it is to separate yourself from it.
Most of this is solved by simply having a healthy social life outside of work.
Dumber than “mustard gate”, when Obama used Dijon mustard? FoxNews loved that one.
I decided to share this article with my teenage child. We had a very fruitful discussion, which we will use to make changes to improve both of our senses of agency.

This prompted me to realize that Factorio has become a refuge from my sense of lack of agency. I love solving little problems that won't come back and bite me years later if I get it wrong.

Thanks for posting, and the discussions it prompted, both here and at home.
I doubt there would be a super surge of reporting for this collapse either if we weren’t looking at a 100 person death count.

I hadn’t heard of any New York buildings collapsing so I googled and found one building under construction that collapsed. There was at least one causality, but a much less compelling story overall.

I don’t find myself agreeing with your take that this is partisan media at play. This will likely turn out to be deadliest building collapse America has seen.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deacon%27s_Masterpiece
Why do you think that dementia is just one thing caused by diet?

Why can't it be many things, some of which are metabolic related?
False. JavaScript uses UTF16: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding
> But I guess it's okay to leave us all out to pasture if it means you can concentrate just a bit more of wealth.

If we're speaking of things like employment, of course people should look out for their own self-interest. Proposing the opposite is to propose suicide.

The people of Norway should donate their trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund to Togo? As opposed to continuing to concentrate their extraordinary wealth figure and continuing to act in their own national self-interest. Togo only has eight million people, imagine how rich all the people of Togo could be if Norway weren't so selfish.

Next you might want to convince all the world's great economies to drop all trade restrictions and stop protecting themselves.

Then take the next logical step: stop protecting all workers from big globalist corporations, drop all labor laws and protections.
BC has a history of massive forest fires every summer.
> If there are good unit tests, and it's a sufficiently small/decoupled piece of code, then rewriting is not so bad. These are all self-reinforcing things: small, decoupled code tends to be easy to rewrite; Testable code tends to be decoupled.

The problem with this mentality is that everyone thinks they write “good unit tests”, but bugs are still found in production. :) You can’t use unit tests as justification for software being reliable; being battle tested in the real world is a much better indicator in practice.

I mostly agree with your other points, although I would still advocate doing these rewrites in as small of pieces as possible, in a way that’s as backwards compatible as possible, instead of all at once. I think you may be saying roughly the same thing, but this thread has shown that people have different definitions of “rewrite”, so it’s hard to tell. :)
This rhetoric may make sense when the job market is gutted, there's a much larger supply of qualified tech workers than demand, and we've reached a global maxima that forces us all into a zero sum competition for capital (think coke vs. Pepsi). That will definitely push pay down.

However, that's almost the opposite of where we are now. The demand for tech workers is growing, and that greens will likely continue for decades as the world upgrades to a modern digital infrastructure. That means that salaries will still rise, none will still be readily available, and the pie if high paying positions will likely increase.

There may also be a solid market for "blue collar" engineers. Folks who build basic but necessary programs. It's not machine learning, but it will pay the bills and potentially lift more families into the middle class around the globe
Semiconductors are sensitive in non-linear manner to both temperature and light. I was experimenting with latter, it was large germanium(!) transistor w/o cap and joystick port for analog input. What I really learned from that was sound card input is very easy to fry.
A relief to read this is an ongoing thing. While I haven't kept a list of them, I get the sense in online dictionaries that usages and examples of many words I have used have been edited to reflect very recent and modern trends over the last 10 years. I don't know if there has been any project to track drift in changes to definitions, but somewhere along the way, I stopped fully trusting dictionaries as authorities on definitions and usages as they weren't always reliable as a source to reflect the culture I was raised in. While culture changes, I sensed something insincere and contrived about online dictionaries. I wish I could find an example that sources this belief.
At least in the Middle East, unequal weights were very disapproved of and I can’t imagine citizenry tolerating their leadership doing that, for long.
The left media never criticizes Biden and the right media never criticizes Trump. Axios is moderately left: they try to not make news out of thin air, but they also omit facts that would upset the left. Edit: I believe that axios would love to report both sides of the events, but they can't afford to offend their sponsors; at most they can change the side.
I make $150K not counting stock (which I am holding, not selling) in San Francisco. I don't feel poor. I live a comfortable lifestyle that makes me feel almost rich compared to others, I feel grateful and fortunate. Sure, I am a little frugal, but I am quite comfortable.

Obviously my overall outlook probably be a lot worse if I didn't have stock in the picture. But I'm still able to live well and save well with my cash salary, so I don't think "poverty wages" is accurate.
Seems like more jib-jabber talking and socializing between departments in an office is actually LESS secure.
Good. If lots of US companies with lots of money start competing for tech workers worldwide, in places like Mexico or India, and they have to start paying more, well... that's the Free Market (tm). And good news for workers in those places.
> The fact you could post your comment puts you in the top 40% of the world (roughly 60% don't have internet access).

Interesting: internet-access > no-internet-access
Lobbying consists of influencing either elected officials or bureaucrats to take actions on the lobbyists' behalf which no actor in a free market would be permitted to take. What needs to be limited here is not corporate speech but rather government power.
That's a fantastic paper, thanks for sharing.
There’s also the Gecko engine, Firefox does still exist.
If someone can do what I do here in SV for half the price or less but do it just as well or even better but else where in the world, I don't feel how I'm entitled to my current salary. It's a bit hypocritical for us to bemoan this when software engineers in SV also automated people in other industries out of jobs. People outside of SV, outside of tech, and the US are people too. Don't they also deserve a chance at prosperity and contribution to tech and innovations? I don't know why a fellow software engineer in Mexico shouldn't have a shot at the same jobs as we do here in SV.

My company has started hiring engineers in the Midwest since the pandemic started and they've been awesome additions to our team. There are some great talent to be found among people who simply don't feel so enamored about SV or the Bay Area or simply want to stay where they are. We were drowning in work before and now we have some extra help. I don't see this as a bad trend.
The way we normally hold politicians accountable is at the next election, but it seems unlikely (to me, anyway) that Biden will run again.
Magnets is how I imagined this would work, but I wasn't expecting a physical arm underneath. I wonder if it would be possible to make this without any moving parts, with just an array of electromagnets underneath which turn on and off to move the pieces. That would make it a lot quieter.
Messiah? No. But one big plus that this article doesn't talk much about is how easy it is to get started with it even if you're a beginner.

A few lines of code gets you a fitted model and some insightful plots. From these you can see if 1) it's doing great and you don't need to spend hours training some crazy transformer model, 2) It's got some flaws and you should maybe try something else (which you can now compare against fbprophet as a baseline) or 3) This data is crazier than I thought, maybe we should rethink things...

TLDR: It's easy to throw this at a new forecasting problem, and although it isn't perfect (as the article shows) sometimes it is still a useful step IMO.
Reminded me of the Takeshi Kitano movie with the same name (Hana-bi means flower of fire IIRC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana-bi
He/she doesn't. SW developers are not poor anywhere in the World. And what he says is not "don't enable jobs for non-US citizens, because I hate them", he says "..., because we will earn less money". It's a completely different motivation.

So the right question would be:

"Why do you oppose hiring devs (who are upper-middle everywhere in the world) elsewhere?"

And the answer is obviously: "Because it will push salaries down."

Personally, I think it's normal. SW development will be done remotely more and more in the future. Those, who want to build a moat, should probably focus on HW or firmware development.
> Proposing the opposite is to propose suicide.

That feels extreme... I don't think the opposite of "some jobs will leave the US" is "I'm going to kill myself".

Ditto the rest of your post. Nothing but a bunch of straw man/ slippery slope.
Huh. Very interesting, thank you! You've given me some things to think about.