skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the idea of the animation! I'll do it.

The feedback and arguments are highly valuable. I really like the way of thinking about time zones in your explanation.

As you mentioned, hTime is a time format and a tool, which I like describing as a "clock". A clock combines both concepts. Clocks is a way to measure, read, and communicate time. With hTime, that's the goal. Now with the formatting piece from your examples "2021-10-20+5-03:36, 2021-10-20Z22:36, 2021-10-20Q:36", all of them actually look and read the same somehow. To be honest, Z22 or Q isn't that big of a difference IMHO. The difference is the math still. It's very simple math, just adding or subtracting, but it gets confusing when more than one time zones are involved. Take a meeting between 2+ time zones. The question then is: What is the best time to have a call between 3 different locations? The math, as simple as it is, get a bit confusing to find the best time. I've been in several situations and heard that many users of time zones miss a call by +-1 hour only because they miscalculated time zones.

The other aspect is time communication. That's the case when a deadline or an event is happening somewhere around the world. We usually communicate time using 3-4-lettered time zone names that make it even harder to remember. For example the Olympics, there was a game at 2pm Tokyo time; what is that for the rest of the world? Before doing the math, we need to know what Tokyo's time zone is, what the Z or UTC equivalent is, and then do the simple math. It's almost always a 2-step thing. With hTime as a clock, it's only the mapping. So if they say the game is at R:00, I have the mapping in my head and done! 1 step. With the example of a meeting between 3 time zones, that's then 5-6 steps with Z or UTC, but with hTime, it's again 1 step only. That's the kind of thinking I have behind "no more time zone math" and the idea of hTime's clock with the mapping between global and local times.

Happy to hear what you think
The strong town movement and its affiliated planning companies ruined my community. A lot of the mixed use re zoning is a pretext for opening up rural areas for heavy industry.
the densely populated shit hole that created the delta variant have used a vaccine that doesn't stop transmission 1 billion times, i wonder what will happen next
Is not that the differentiator between vscode.dev/github.dev and GitHub Codespaces or Eclipse Che.
Yes, for periodic or well-behaved phenomena. But for most cases you can't summarize human behaviour into one or two variables.
Ahh yes I can achieve this Ive built this function for other titles but not old titles. I'll build an attribution field and include this over the weekend. I agree with you, have been so deep into it I did not think this. Thank you I appreciate it and please forgive my mistake it was not intentional
https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
Natural climate changes at a very slow rate that to the people experiencing it, it barely changes at all. However man-made climate change indicates a rate that will be noticeable in a human lifetime.

It is fair to simply say "climate change" to mean "the rapid climate change that we are experiencing". There is no need to add the "man-made" distinction other than to please people being overly literal.
Or maybe 4/9
A monorepo saved our company. When you let every developer have their own personal repo like it's some isolated minecraft instance, you will struggle to create 1 big valuable thing.

Monorepo forces the tough conversations. Maybe the organization should only use 1 language now. Maybe we should talk about code review policies and standardization of other processes since everyone is in the same bucket. Why can't everything just compile to 1 exe?

Another massive advantage with a monorepo if you use GitHub is that you now have 1 issue bucket that covers the entire enterprise. Linking issues to commits is super powerful when this technique covers 100% of your code and exists under 1 labeling scope.
No, these phrases are the right ones and I used them in a very literal sense and deliberately. However, being obvious and not controversial does not imply that there isn't someone who doesn't (want to ) get it. That even happens with mathematical proofs. What annoys me, however, is that you committed the very same fallacy in your reply that I mentioned in the post you replied to - deliberately mixing up highly illegal human trafficking with prostitution in order to somehow argue against the legality of prostitution.

> There appears to be no correlation [...]

Citation needed - but in any case that wasn't the point and you know it. There is no sound argument why people shouldn't sell sex for money, besides religious and other ideological arguments which are not sound (otherwise, why not use them in mathematical proofs, too?). Usually at this point people with ulterior motives shift their rhetoric to arguing that the clients rather than the prostitutes are committing a crime - aka "the Swedish model", where you order a very expensive pizza and it gets delivered by an attractive woman. They then go on to lay out that those clients cause great harm. That's not true either, they cause small harm like in many other stressful customer-oriented jobs such as working as a stewardess. But I'm resting my case here. Suffices to say that going from very high income to zero in a short time is problematic...
No. The protection against severe illness is much better than the protection against transmission, but the latter is also not zero.

You may have seen something posted on HN recently, as I recall it was a Dutch study that compared transmission within families where the initial infectee was or was not vaccinated? And the result was basically a halving.
This absolutely takes me back -- this is one of the best easily-approachable guides to Monads I've ever seen. Similar to Learn You A Haskell For Great Good (colloquially "LYAH"), even if it's not the most in-depth or complete, it's the first thing I often send
A lot of what he says in it is uncontroversial stuff that he didn't come up with himself. But you don't get much academic respect for things others have said before you, even if you succeed at bringing it to a new audience (especially if you don't pepper it with source references, which I don't recall GGS doing!)

Being a wildly successful popularizer is always risky for an academic. The most serious criticisms I've seen have been about tangential stuff.
I'm quite early in the course, so couldn't give you a good answer sadly.

The intro to surveying class had a very broad overview of the history- important technologies, discoveries, and figures.

There is a Surveying and Engineering Law class that I expect will contain a lot of historical cases. Otherwise, there are no specific classes, so any history will probably be dispersed throughout the degree.
If I recall correctly that was the main reason why PhyreEngine came to be, Sony eventually cave in to complaints and released proper tooling for the PS3.
Startup Spotlight: Groundwork BioAG
> Aren't the viral loads similar between the unvaccinated and fully vaccinated

The viral loads in respiratory mucous at the peak are similar, sure, so from that one-dimensional metric that antivaxxers seem fixated in, it doesn't matter.

But vaccinated people:

1. Have fewer chances of getting infected.

2. The incubation period is shorter so, if infected they go around spreading it for a shorter amount of time.

3. Their disease lasts for much shorter so, again, less time spreading it around.

4. The symptoms are milder, so the chances of contaminating via coughing/sneezing are lower.

And let's not forget infecting other health workers reduces the quality of healthcare access overall.
I'm glad they switched to Blink, and I hope TorBrowser switches too. Blink is more secure and modern than Gecko. Brave still wouldn't have site isolation, an important security feature, if they stuck with Gecko. Whether due to bad priorities or lack of funding, Firefox is just really falling behind, but in many cases, in ways that aren't easily apparent. Sure, websites load, but Firefox didn't have sandboxing until (2017? I think), which Chrome had since 2008. It's not really defensible for a web browser with such a big attack surface. And Firefox today is still pretty far behind in security, to the point where even if I valued Mozilla and thought Firefox was the best browser ever, I still wouldn't use it and wouldn't recommend anyone else use it.
There's the fear that these topic may also devolve into arguments.

For example, a person in support of human-caused climate change might be quick to report that solar tech has been progressing nicely. But the person against would be quick to point out the inefficiencies.
One word: stroads

https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM
I've come to call it the "printable document format." Great for dead trees, sucks for screens.
The proof? VW CEO statement.

The 10% difference pays the next factory.
That's obviously a Hackintosh or a VM result.
A Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerator Generators [pdf]
Exactly agreed. We implemented such a take-home as well, hopefully it takes candidates 1-2 hours to complete, but we need more data on that. You're scored on various well-defined areas, and it is, as you say, to show us that you know how to organize code. We don't even try to run it (though CI should pass).
Never heard of any substantial thing there.
Most "reports" state obvious things.
Never seen anything but vaporware beyond Firefox.
Thunderbird does their own thing now.
Seamonkey is dead.
Pfizer is still not authorised in India. Moderna is authorised but practically unavailable.
Then don't go asking for his advice on COVID or gay marriage. But I try and give him a little of my attention when he speaks about the Web, because he knows what he's talking about.

This Twitter-born cult of personality, where we need to find someone that shares ALL of our opinions, or they're completely worthless and should be cancelled is idiotic and the reason why discourse on the Internet has jumped down a cliff.

Come to me for software engineering rants, for I am a software engineer, but don't pay too much attention when I talk about stuff I don't know nothing about because it's probably complete bollocks. This advice applies to every single person in the world. Incredible that it's not common sense.
> For me this one also seems inevitably connected to the idea of microservices

Oh yeah. But I've seen this also happening in frontend libraries, and sometimes even inside monoliths.

I find that inexperienced developers tend to break up services/libraries/classes purely because they believe that "code should be neatly organized", not because there is a logical boundary between two parts of a system. Thus, we get lots of tight coupling, chatty microservices, and 20 lines of imports at the top of the file.

I find that A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout [1] has a good rule of thumb: classes (and services, libraries, repos, applications) should be "deep, not shallow". The "surface" (aka the part that touches external components) should be as small as possible, while the internals should be larger. Of course that doesn't sit well with people looking to "neatly organise code".

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...
Yes, listen to Herbert Diess.
>but does that make writing a book wrong?

No, it means you should be more careful what you include in your book. The problem isn't isn't that authors write books on emerging science, the problem here is that they overly trust small studies and present them as stronger evicence than they are.

As the author of the article said if Kahneman was writing the book later it wouldn't be nonexistent but different and with some chapters missing.
I see you made a new account because you knew this was a terrible thing to write.
>Because when you want a super fast chip, you don't design up from a freaking cell phone CPU. You design down from a server CPU.

Is that really true? I don't have any intricate chip knowledge, but it rings false. Whether ARM is coming from a phone background or the Xeon from a server background, what matters in the end is the actual chip used. Maybe phone-derived chips even have an advantage because they are designed to conserve power whereas server chips are designed to harvest every little ounce of performance. IDK a lot about power states in server chips, but it would make sense if they aren't as adapted to rapidly step down power use as a phone chip.

Now, you might be happy with a hot leaf-blower and that's fine. But I would say the market is elsewhere: silent, long-running, light notebooks that can throw around performance if need be, you strike me as an outlier.

Pro laptops should have a beefy CPU, great screen, really fast SSD, long battery life, lots of RAM which (presumably) your notebook features, but the new M somethings seemingly as well. But in the end, people buy laptops so they can use them on their lap occasionally. And I know my HP is getting uncomfy hot, the same was said about the intel laptops from Apple I think.

Apple doesn't need to have the one fastest laptop out there, they need a credible claim to punching in the upper performance echelon - and I think with their M* family, they are there.
Well the core is surely open source as part of regular vscode. And the hosting magic other groups are doing on their own (gitpod.io ...right?).

I think assuming VS Code means open source is not right. The core of VS Code is open source but most fancy things (remote/ssh/docker usage, browser usage, code spaces like behavior, etc) are regular Microsoft products. Microsoft VS Code team still competes with itself (VisualStudio), the traditional competition (JetBrains, Eclipse) and third VS Code derivates (gitpod.io etc). We cannot assume that they give us the greatest and latest for free when they would cut themselves with that.
Better start believing in hole stories.
Could not agree more.

The watering down or whitewashing by overmarketing of these terms is a significant issue.
That's a good thing in my book.
At this point, I believe everyone knows this.
> The more accurate number is 290 million
Why this is the only ‘accurate’ number? Both doses and people are perfectly accurate numbers. Maybe you meant more ‘relevant’ or ‘important’ number.
Go stir shit somewhere else.
But you do the process you described only once per "warmed up" method right? Yes it sound expensive but once it's warmed up it should be as good as YJIT or am I missing something?
1. M1 Max has 50+ billion transistors (only a part of that count is CPU, so adjust the number downwards), 1950X (first gen 14-nm Ryzen) has 10 billion.

2. Multicore Cinebench R23 for M1 Max: 14970; Ryzen 1950X: 18780

Geekbench tests in short bursts, not taxing the CPU thermals. Cinebench is the opposite. In short, CPUs do well on some benchmarks and not so well on others.
Congratulations. Don't forget your 11x improvement when it comes to the end of year reviews.
A drop of dishwashing liquid and a bit of water. Get the rinse-off step right and there's not even a need to wipe off the lens afterwards, something in the soap makes the water droplets run off without any residue.
1B is very impressive but more than twice that in the same time really puts the capacity, scale and reach of the Chinese State at a different level. Still I am curious why China is not opening up the borders to visitors?
None of this is describing "direct" communication styles. It's just aggression and abuse.

Being direct when you don't like someone's work is saying literally, "I don't like this". Continuing on to then say, "and you're an idiot for even trying" is not directness. It's the opposite of direct. It's going off on an unrelated tangent.
Oh, so true. All this shiny tech is only useful for few big corps out there who can hire best over-your-head smart guys for floor mopping roles. Otherwise, it’s just a snakeoil. “We need to make our code modular!” — a company that writes a todolist-like spa behind the frontpage. “We need scale!” — a company that will never exceed ten requests per minute. “We need a complex build system with plugins and transformers!” — a company that has less than a hundred of assets, manageable by a single zero-expertise role. This plague is everywhere now.
Well, yes, it does say 'doses', (not 'people dosed' or whatever) I don't think that's at all misleading? (Maybe the title's been updated?)
From BJP's IT cell?

Sarcasm aside, look at the economy: >-20% dip in pandemic. Heck even Pakistan manages to keep its haad above the water. And Bangladesh has more per capita income.

But hey, Bhakti is what bhakt do.
Bashing Gecko security in such ways is dishonest.
Did you ever actually look at their architecture or do you just parrot a lazy blog post?

The real problem here is browser ever increasing scope.
I never cared for VR or gaming in browsers.
SPAs are user unfriendly garbage that I seldom see used for anything else than preventing user agency.
Problem here is that you follow certain users because you are interested in whatever they have to say regarding tech (for example) but then you get lots of tweets on politics, personal issues, etc.
"For most purposes, electricity is almost a rounding error in datacenter asset management concerns."

I don't think this is true. It is not only power consumption but also power backup. If you can use smaller diesel engines and smaller battery packs this will lower the cost.

And why do you think datacenters have been raising temperatures? It saves a ton of money: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/14/goog...
HP estimated they saved 8 million. That is not a rounding error.

A server that uses less power will also generate less heat.

I have to admit it is years ago I worked for a company owning datacenters but at that time the highest costs were always: power and connectivity.
How was the memory between the two?
A lot of tech companies let their engineers choose between something like an X1 Carbon or a Macbook.

Lots of tech workers, in my experience, actually choose a Macbook for work because they really want to use a slick, luxury device and can't justify the cost for personal use... particularly given how many of them actually use their work laptops for personal tasks in off hours.

I think HN underestimates how many SWE's actually don't do much programming or use their personal computers for much at all. Particularly those with families.
5 mb of javascript is decried here but in practice it doesn't hinder the reading experience for people the majority of time while PDFs do, even more so when reading on a phone.
The ground transportation version of Ryanair.
Sony player pay-for-ban patent
Australia is a major suck-up to the US, the government of Australia is infringing on it's citizens freedom and releasing more co2 into the atmosphere per capita than any other country.
9/11 Memorial – A Look Inside
Deleting as duplicate.
Well, the curious fact is that small planes (Piston General Aviation, what is discussed here) emissions are comparable to cars.

Cessna 172 (trainer plane, not known for efficiency) burns 32 l (8.5 lb) per hour at a cruising speed of 122 knots (140 mph, 226 kph). Assuming no wind, it gives mileage of 14 l / 100 km (16.5 miles per gallon).

Taking into account that there are much less planes than cars, they emit 0.13% of all the CO2, emitted by transportation, comparing to 81% of motor vehicles (623 times less) [1]. So I would say their lead emissions are too low to bother (and mostly harm their owners who are close to the exhausts). Would be nicer, of course, to use unleaded, but not a big deal to lobby for legislations.

[1] https://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/tag/cessna-172/
It's not known that there was a single point in time that was the start of our universe. Our current models can pretty reliably calculate the history of the universe back to a specific point, which would be 10^-32 seconds after this big bang point in time, but those models don't work earlier than that.

You could do some extrapolation on the expansion of the universe and just say that yes, there was a point zero, 10^-32 seconds before the earliest point in time that our models can understand, and that's where everything started from a singularity. But then we are still left with a short period of time at the start, where some physics happened that we don't have a working model for.

So since an extrapolated expansion of the universe from a singularity doesn't work in our currently understood models (at least not in the very earliest part of that timeline), is it not then plausible that something other than that expansion from a singularity could have happened during this early unknown period of time?
I can see that being an issue if the web is centralising around one proprietary engine, but why does that apply to Blink? If Google turns completely evil that won't take away from all the webcompat, optimisations, and security in Blink, and any bad feature (ManifestV3) can be patched out easily. Mozilla could switch to Blink (and I think they should, and Apple too, they clearly don't have the manpower to maintain a whole engine and keep it modern and secure, see my other comment in this thread; there are many more 0days with Safari and Firefox than Chrome) and it wouldn't harm the web in any way, because they can just swap out bad components with their own, and still reduce their dev time requirements by orders of magnitude compared to today. You have Intel, Samsung, tons of companies contributing to Blink, to a much, much greater extent than Gecko or WebKit.

If every browser switched to Blink, that would actually benefit consumers, because right now Chrome basically has the enterprise market on lock, since nobody cares to test internal webpages on other browsers, and Chrome has better enterprise features (though I don't know how much of that is to do with the engine); and many consumers also just switch to Chrome as the first thing they do, because they've run into compatibility issues with Firefox or Safari and they just want to access the web without issues. If every browser used Blink, you'd have a lot more people using Safari and Firefox, just because most people don't want to keep two browsers around (Firefox + Chrome or Safari + Chrome) when websites break (which is not often, but often enough, trust me). I really hope we see this.
This is a very weak response of the type that creates climate change skeptics.

1. Numbering your opponents arguments isn't a response to them.

2. He isn't asking questions, he's making a variety of statements that have a factual basis and can be debated to determine to what extent they're right or wrong. You're straw-manning to claim these are questions.

3. Asserting there's no debate when someone is telling you there is debate, is exactly the kind of strategy that makes neutral onlookers more likely to agree with him, not you, especially as one of his claims is that journals etc block any alternative viewpoint.
Railroad signs transcribe place names in hiragana. I imagine a place name should be recognizable in hiragana form.
My wife and kids touch their screens all the time. I often reach over my wife's shoulder and tap a button or something on the screen rather than reaching for the trackpad.

It may not be that useful for your particular use case but that doesn't mean it's not useful for others.
> Very weird personal ideas from anti gay marriage to anti mask/lockdown.

Usually I respect someone with his/her own personal ideas more, even if those ideas are weird. Reading PG's essay [1] 15 years ago might have nudged me in that direction. Quote:

> Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think what you're told.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I was hoping for something like:

ssh duckduckgo.com
grep -r foo news.ycombinator.com