skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree there is a problem here... but anyone storing repeatable alarm times in the future as absolute time points in the future is going to be in for issues regardless.
Is negativity really a thing in our culture?

Business books and blog posts prepare founders for all of the hard negativity they're expected to get for founding a new project. But it's a myth, at least in my experience (living in the U.S.). I don't think this was always true, but it seems true in 2022.

After starting a project a few years ago, I have personally never come across any hard negativity from any close friend or stranger. I know that personally people have doubted our project, but there's so many "politeness" and "encouragement norms" around early tech founders, that negativity rarely gets uttered to my face.

Instead what you get as a founder is a total empty void of silence: nobody cares about your project whatsoever, until it starts to get off the ground on its own.
Then there starts to be a bit of negativity. But negativity is so much better than silence, because negativity means you're starting to have an impact on things, or at least enough of an impact for someone to express a negative thought about you in public.

I've read it's common wisdom among pro athletes to not talk trash to great players before a game, so as to not motivate them more. I think this is the reason why: negativity is really energizing. What a gift public negativity would be for an early project. Constant motivation for you and your team to keep going against the odds. Tesla from 2006-2017 might not have survived if nobody cared about what they were doing. Instead, the constant public criticism (or at least debate) just fueled the motivational fire.

But if negativity is energizing: perhaps it's a good thing for early founders to hear more of it? I sincerely believe that 20+ years ago, early founders got way more shit for wanting to start ambitious projects. Perhaps that motivation created a hidden incentive for projects to keep going. It seems like we've gone too far with politeness and encouragement norms surrounding new projects.
Did you just advocate for a tragedy of the commons like it was a good thing?
you got a website? rates? specialties?
I second this....Kubrick was a true master....there was no "Godfather 3"...well Eyes Wide Shut maybe
Nah, waking up in darkness is cool.

It's like the day isn't ready to get up yet, just like me.

And driving in darkness is cool. I like all the pretty lights.
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My impression (not backed by data, but I did grow up in Arizona) is that it has much closer economic, social, and cultural ties to California than it does to the Mountain states, so it would make sense to stay at -7.
8:30 is when schools ought to be starting, which will be after sunrise for every state in the union, except Alaska, even on the darkest day.

Most schools in America currently start at 7:30, which is way too early.
As long as the undercover cop isn't the one leading the gang and threatening violence towards anyone that doesn't help commit crimes, it's likely not entrapment. Entrapment almost always falls under a crime that you otherwise never would have done if a cop didn't somehow coerce you to do it. I'm sure there are some grey areas like a cop offering a homeless person some drugs to sell or telling a lower ranking gang member to commit a crime when knowing that they may be harmed if they refuse. But simply participating in illegal activities that would be taking place regardless of the undercover's presence is not entrapment.
Mostly agree, and just bought a ZFS server for home, 5 disks (RAIDz2) and 2xNVMe 2TB for root (256GB) and cache (the rest).

GigE is pretty annoying in that it can't keep up with a single spinning disk (let alone 5), so large files (family videos, movies, system images, backups, etc) can take annoying long. Hell even wifi access points are becoming bottle necked by GigE. Fortunately 2.5Gbe looks like a reasonable compromise. Rarely a bottleneck and support is common on cable modems (motorola among others), access points, motherboards (pretty much anything newish from AMD/Intel), and even small SBCs if you run one as a firewall, router, or pi-hole.

There are some switches and routers around and are often fanless till the port counts get high.

Even quality 10G cards seem to run pretty hot, have huge heat sinks, and the sfp+ I've worked with tend to get pretty hot. Seems like there is a newer gen 10G chip, but they are rare and expensive but do run substantially cooler.

Boards like the Intel quad port 10G X710-T4L (the cool one) vs the X710-T4 (the hot board) run at about half the power (14 vs 29 watts). I'm shopping around for the dual port version (X710-TSL) which peaks at 9.6 watts and uses 8.2 watts typically. No idea how other (non-intel) 10G boards do on power use.
And that's bad. CEQA has no respect for projects that improve the status quo and is mainly used for concern trolling by NIMBYs - that's why it takes ten years to add a bus lane in SF. Don't need to write an EIR for not changing anything.
It's in the wood yes but once you log the tree it stops capturing more carbon.
I've always loved this article comparing different kinds of growth in the real world:

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...

I'm a 'Montreal' guy, and you sound like one too from your comment, but everyone has different tastes.
I always thought art was for creation’s sake not capitalism (though it could be both). And I believe unbridled creativity is the bleeding edge of innovation.

Under a pure profit motive, the whole of art will converge around the best ROI, and spaces for new ways of expressing and perceiving will become narrow.

Sure it’s easier than ever to create and disseminate art, but also harder than ever to find art that isn’t streamed or commodified down your throat.

If for no other reason, some kind of non-corporate funding is needed so that new artistic outputs can generate a signal amongst mass produced art. Maybe that’s not the govt, but it sure ain’t MassMediaPublisherProducerCorp.
I'd be phenomenally more shocked if they they didn't. I wish the article cited its sources, but I guess the PCM will help fill in the gaps. More evidence in support of the open publication of scientific articles.
I've used the Pownergy batteries; I don't know how good they are relative to other brands but they work well enough. They charge over a micro-usb cable.
I hate how much I love this idea.
A while back a buddy of mine wrote a Python framework that does pretty much exactly this! It has several demo modules already, such as fetching a weather report and requesting an Uber.

https://github.com/hunterirving/phoneHome
I don't like it when the sun comes up early. Unless you have really dark curtains, then you don't get to choose when to wake up. You wake up when the sun comes up. So if you stayed up late, fuck you, here's some bright sun at 6am.

Oh, and you're coming home for the day at 5 or 6p? Fuck you, here's some darkness. I can't understand how anyone would be against DST.
I think World War 3.0 has already started, in order to stop Russia NATO nations have to go to war with him to avoid him invading Poland after Ukraine.
Anyone who develops software is going to say "yes they can". The optional aspect is just its normal behavior, but there will be a forced upgrade mode in there for if they ever need it.
Both, but burning fossil fuels is a holdover, not a long term strategy.
I've seen several student projects that try to find "more energy efficient" compilations through random searches of compiler flags etc., but they never get any results.

In a JIT language you might be able to save time by running the JIT less often though.
Covid-19 cases more than double in China's growing outbreak
Sharding a database can make it faster
Coincidentally, misinterpretations or loss of these free form notes is a major source of problems in hospitals.
This isn’t a DST issue. Start school later.
Is there a standard abbreviation for "pacific time" that doesn't specify daylight or standard? When I am telling my coworkers when we are meeting, I only want to distinguish between pacific or mountain (our two office locations). I clearly mean to use the current time, based on the date, so I have no need to specify daylight or standard, and don't want to have to think about which one I am in.
If any university system deserves special status, it's UC. They are what universities should aspire to be.
> Many (most?) European cities are like this to a greater or lesser degree - you still get deliveries, but you can walk, or ride a bike, or catch a bus/tram/metro to most places you want to go

Yes! Where we lived in Padova, Italy, transportation was a 'right tool for the job' situation. We did have a car, and used it from time to time, but we also walked, biked and took transit, depending on what we needed to do.
There were 7 time zone changes in the world last year, and nobody's systems collapsed, most of us probably didn't even know they happened.

That's because every developer and sysadmin with more than a year of professional experience knows that you never, ever, do your own time zone math. You use your system time utils, and keep them updated so that your code reflects the latest laws.
Maybe. Though eg the Jewish calendar changes dates at sunset as far as I can tell, and that seems to work just fine?
I don't know who is saying it, but you can certainly find GitHub repositories of people who have been playing around with generics creating it. Presumably it is people being silly or playing around to see how far they can push the feature under experimental conditions, but developers have also been known to unfathomable things in real code, so I can kind of understand the sentiment. Channels lead to a lot of weird and garbage code when they were new and shiny, when developers felt they should use them for the sake of using them, so the idea isn't unprecedented either.
Huh: I always pronounced this one "ex-ennial".
Darwin has quite good sandboxing, although how to actually use it isn't documented.
MySpace was massively larger than LiveJournal. In 2006, MySpace literally became the most visited website in the US, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace (and I also recall it being mentioned quite a bit at the time).

For another comparison: NewsCorp acquired MySpace in 2005 for $580 million. Six Apart acquired LiveJournal in 2005 for just a few million, and sold it to SUP in 2007 for somewhere around $25 million if I recall correctly.

Disclosure: former Six Apart employee, although several years after the sale of LJ to SUP.
The numbers on the clock doesn't have any biological significance, that is all in your head. They did however use to tell you what state the sun was in.
How would that work? Connections are mainly peer-to-peer with Tailscale. An attack (I suppose pushing new key pairs to specific peers and pointing them through a malicious endpoint?) would likely require a very noisy and detectable process.
> The problem is we have to keep updating that code when the rules change.

Yes, indeed. But we also have to change what people do manually when the rules change.
Archived: https://archive.ph/atLah
Seeing through system libraries sounds problematic already, since some of them like libc violate aliasing when you can see their implementations, even in LLVM byte code form.
No that is coercion.

Entrapment is:

“ An affirmative defense in which a defendant alleges that police officers acquired the evidence necessary to commence a criminal prosecution of the defendant by inducing the defendant to engage in a criminal act which the defendant would not otherwise have committed.”

Of course, the debate is “not otherwise committed” but hypotheticals are not a basis for “beyond reasonable doubt.”
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Didn’t work. Reached my 10 free attempts. Hard pass.
You could always modify it to install custom software. It exists already.
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Yeah, and they can decide for themselves what their start times are.

We don't need 300 millon people to experience jet lag twice a year to save some bougy superintendent the inconvenience of scribbling out a number and writing a different one one time.
Very cool project! I think having more channels would help cut down on the fast pace of chat, as well as the suggestions from others about making broadcasting commands to everyone opt-in.
I’m not talking about generics specifically. I’ve been coding for decades. Go is by far the easiest language I’ve used when it comes to jumping into an arbitrary code base and making sense of it.

Again I ask, why insist that go become the same as all the other languages when you can just use one of those? Why demand less diversity?
Can you describe a bit more clearly what the state is requiring of towns around Point Reyes?

Looking at the top line numbers of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation plan - the Bay Area needs to make space for an additional 440k homes in the next 9 years. Presuming that gets allocated evenly based on population, Point Reyes Station with 1,000 people needs to build about 6 homes per year for the next decade.

Even one huge apartment building would massively overshoot the needs for Point Reyes Station. But I suppose the requirements would be more sensibly met with townhouses or small apartments or some kind of senior housing.

Am I missing some numbers, or maybe there's another program or changes that I'm not aware of?

I generally agree that our low density places should stay low density. Point Reyes is not a job center, not a sensible commuting destination, and a difficult and expensive place to build basic infrastructure like power, water, sewer - so it doesn't make sense to build a lot of housing there.
He was falsely accused of being supportive of sexist jokes, that is a deviation from the truth.
PGO already solves that if you can do hot/cold splitting, though I don't think that pass in LLVM is very maintained.
Geometric Weather, Newpipe ( instead of YouTube), AndOTP (instead of Google or Microsoft authenticator, the latter being 77MB!), RCX (instead of OneDrive or Dropbox etc). Gadgetbridge to interface with my Xiaomi band and Amazfit watch (also not leaking any personal data unlike the official app!)

All apps that don't do any tracking nor ads and as such save a ton of cpu speed and storage. Especially Microsoft apps are really bad lately. Like OneDrive and Outlook. I have to use them for work. After a month or two outlook uses several gigabytes of storage and gets super slow to refresh. I don't use an open source app instead of it, as I couldn't find a great one, sadly. But I use Nine from 9folders which is great and fast. Though I really want to try out FairEmail soon.

Oh and Organic maps Vs Google maps, or OsmAnd. The latter is not faster but its maps are a lot better and the app has a lot more features.
I used to work with a system that 'conveniently' silently dropped leading and trailing space in its password field (and also just copied the password into an https-URL without any encoding, so no special characters for you). The guys who committed this crime thought that only weirdos like me have such strange passwords..
> People are so disconnected from the world that their abstractions of it become more real to them than actual reality.

My friend, this is how all of human language works.

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
> What, exactly, was gained here to justify the productivity lost while waiting?

The goal isn't to wait long enough to come up with something novel. That's what research projects are for, and Go is on the exact opposite of the spectrum. If after deliberation, it turns out that a mostly similar solution is the way to go, then that's doing it "right".

Also, the lost productivity that keeps getting mentioned is overblown. The minority who actually need it (a subset of those who ask for it) are, well, a minority but a loud one. I have developed in Go for 8 years. I only ever reached for generics twice and in both cases, copy pasting the implementation in different types added a insignificant effort.

> Go is a very boring language in a sense that there's very little new there

You hit it on the nail! It's boring. That's what you need when you're targeting large distributed teams and want your code base to survive decades and still be readable and navigatable by pros and amateurs alike. You don't want clever or smart. You don't want cutting edge and novel for novelty's sake. You don't want magic. You don't want to have to keep the context of 20 files in your head to understand one line of code. You don't want a syntax that can be interpreted in 10 different ways in different contexts, ... . You want the sweet spot between simple and practical.

Back to:

> Most critics of Go are well aware of its history and purported design goals.

Your comment about Go being boring and its lack of novel features, is clearly demonstrating that you've either missed or misunderstood the design goals. And many similar comments on other parts of the language from others I've interacted with is what I was basing my parent reply on.
Agreed, but my point is that under this new law, schools will be effectively starting at 6:30 (as we've been measuring time in the winter). This means we're bringing school start times in the wrong direction and will have to move them forward by 2 hours rather than 1 to get to a reasonable start time.
Well, your politicians just voted to change time itself..
I would have expected some self selection: these are people from HN who know how to use SSH. Not exactly a high bar but implies some proficiency with software.
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Yes. I'm not actually advocating for putting everyone on UTC.
You are mostly correct but slightly imprecise. There is only one Navajo reservation, the Navajo Nation. It is indeed on Mountain time, not Arizona time, meaning it (unlike anywhere else in Arizona) switches to MDT in the summer.

It makes some sense because the Navajo Nation, though mostly located in Arizona, also has a large portion in New Mexico and a smaller one in Utah, both of which observe Mountain time. I don’t know the exact history, but I assume that when Arizona stopped observing DST, the Navajo Nation chose to keep Mountain time to avoid having two different time zones within their border.

The Hopi Reservation, while indeed an enclave within the Navajo Nation, is a completely separate political entity and so under no compulsion to follow any Navajo decisions. Also, they’re entirely within Arizona, so sticking to Arizona time is logical.

Another thing — I can’t recall having ever heard an Arizonan refer to our time zone as MST. That would be technically accurate, but would be confusing because it would naturally imply that we sometimes switch to MDT. We just call it Arizona time, and think of the Mountain and Pacific zones as a separate thing that we’re aligned with for part of the year.
Gentrification is a classic example of supply and demand from microecon. As an area becomes nicer to live in it gains more and more demand with people with high willingness and ability to pay. Supply remains fixed, because of US zoning laws, or grows more slowly than people come into the neighborhood. The price goes up because of _demand_ going up without supply going up.

Why does it gentrify in the first place? Because the initial group of "gentrifiers" took the time and money to develop the area to make it more appealing, thus increasing demand.

Economics says you can't fix it no matter how much regulation you impose because at some point all the surrounding businesses, etc. will be gentrified too and force out poor people. Even if you freeze rent, ban new businesses from coming in, etc. the existing business owners will start to cater to their new clientele simply because the demand from those customers is much higher. The only thing you _can_ do is ban people from moving to the neighborhood, at which point you've turned into the worst parts of the Soviet Union.
it does look pretty sterile and boring
> the sun won't finish rising until after 8 am

This is only true for the northernmost reaches of the US on the darkest days of the year. Portland Maine will see sunrise at around 8:15 on the darkest day, Seattle will have it around 8:30. 99% of Americans will still wake up to sunrise year-round
Memento was pretty stunning
It depends on what it asks for. If it asks for “current time in PDT” or “current time in PST” it just returns the same answer.

If it asks for UTC and does the conversion locally, then we’re back to the original problem of being able to update the switchover date which changes all the time and should be updateable.
Bladerunner is a good example. I found the book unreadble (both dated and just plain not very good) but the movie stands up today.
It's not so much about today, tomorrow, yesterday or even days of the week. The bigger problem is perhaps with calendar days?

At least if you want your day boundary line up with midnight on the clock.

It would be hilarious to have everyone run on UTC, but have the calendar tick over whenever it's local midnight.
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How about this heap overflow bug in the UEFI bitmap (BMP) library: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38577

Exploitable via network, no user interaction and no special privileges required. Scores 9.8 on a scale of 10 for severity from NIST. That's what happens when this stuff is done in such a highly privileged environment - simple bugs become security nightmares.

For comparison, Heartbleed scored a 7.5: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0160

Secure boot and signed firmware won't save you, and in fact it could make things worse since it means even well-informed and capable users won't be able to fix it on their own. They're utterly helpless until their vendor fixes it and publishes an update.
> UC Berkeley continues to bring in nine-figure money with off-shore students paying high tuition, looking for their chance to strike it rich in the high tech scene, while those of ordinary means are economically crushed.

First of all, it's definitely much less than 9 figures.

UC Berkeley is one of the top schools not just in America, but in the world. Of course the brightest minds of the world would want to go there (or similar places like MIT/Stanford/Harvard etc).

Also, the economics eventually works out. Those high tuition is foreign money coming into the US — though probably a drop in the ocean compared to US economy as a whole — is nevertheless a good thing. Smart people from other countries coming into America is a good thing.

Would you rather prefer all those smart people go to, say Oxford UK, TU-Munich, ETH Zurich etc (which are other popular destinations of foreign students)?

Be grateful that smart people want to come in.

PS: I'm one of those "offshore students" (though not in Berkeley) who have "gone back to their country" after graduating; had a wonderful time in America :)
Reminds me of irssi... A terminal IRC client from way back! Great job!
What if the coin's bias changes from flip to flip, perhaps influenced by its earlier results? Is there a solution for this?
Wait why? Hawaii is on the map. Is it because of how far off Hawaii is when it doesn’t need to be?
Exactly. The input is the issue, despite this method's claim to fix bias in the input. As you point out, this method works as a limited thought experiment but not in the real world.

To make an extreme example, if someone can cause the sequence to contain strings of HHHT, this algorithm would absolutely bias towards returning H. So, the key to overcoming this algorithm is to inject a sequence that, regardless of which modulo 2 positition is A or B in the code, will tend to fall on such an input bias. The point is that people trust code that says it fixes these sorts of things, so it is often easier than not to break the code by controlling the input.

There are other methods used in the real world when ingesting random bit sequences.