skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of a project at Oxford where we installed sms transmitters on waterpump handles in Kenya, which sent sms signals giving us data about the pumphandle's movement (and therefore water consumption, and state of the pump).

It was amazing how much we could do with SMS. It really is a great medium.

If I remember correctly, we used FrontlineSMS https://www.frontlinesms.com/
It worked very well. I can't remember the exact details now, but I think the messages were sent to a modem, connected to a PC which ran frontlinesms, which automatically triggered actions depending on the nature of the incoming sms.

Later on I think we switched to a completely managed solution, which stored the data for us and allowed us to download from the 'cloud'. The "modem connected to a computer" thing sounds more like what you're after, but conceivably with the right scripts you could also make use of a cloud solution.
First iteration and niche nerd product is obviously going to be more expensive.
Well false friends are pretty common, it seems like it comes from an indigenous place name in BC.

Hawaiian and Japanese have a lot of false friends too, since it’s borrowed words and the languages already look alike.
That's fair.

I would say though that in terms of the ratio between self praise and evil shit, there's a very clear winner way, way out in front.
It is just an assumption on my part, I figure that the cost of pointer chasing is
generally going to outweigh any disadvantages. It can also help enable optimizations, for example slices and maps that do not contain pointers do not get scanned by the GC ([1]).

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/85e7bee19f9f26dfca414b1e...
That also means existing software/firmware will continue to use correct TZ offsets until November 2024, so that's the deadline for updates.
Never in my career is there more chaos than around any type of change having to do with timekeeping.

It shouldn't be a big deal. Inevitably though, it always seems to bring the bugs out of the woodwork.
I've seen people suggesting this and it doesn't make sense. So we're going to switch to DST permanently which means we all permanently get up an hour earlier and change schools so they all start (presumably) an hour later? You're effectively doing the same thing as if we just stayed on standard time only with the added inconvenience for parents who now have to figure out what to do with their kids if they have jobs that start early.
But many people don't care about having extra sunshine in the morning and would much rather have an extra hour in the evening. Many probably consider "actual day and night cycles" to be a man made construct anyway.

There's definitely two sides to this but it seems most people want daylight in the evening rather than the morning, so saying "it makes no sense" isn't being intellectually honest, to be honest.
I was going to say.. what a great domain name you got there…
Lots of things could supplant them, but the base is too large now and it has grown to cover the entire ecosystem.

They spent the last 10 years beating out PICs, 8051s, etc. Because they were BETTER.

And now a million engineers now how to use them, and the tooling from 1000+ companies is all in place to support them.

They aren't going anywhere.
I understand that there are a lot of systems that will be impacted but I don't think we should limit progress based on dependencies. It's the same excuse that's used whenever we try to ween off of fossil fuels.

I've worked on tzdata changes in the past and whether it's announced a month or a year in advance, progress is slow until the very last minute when teams can't put it off any longer. In other words, programmers are serial procrastinators and if you give them 2 years to prepare, they'll spend 1.9 doing nothing and scramble to fix everything in a month.

This might be the first big timestamp change in the US, but there have been a lot of changes like this in the rest of the world so any globally operating company has probably had to do this at least once already and should be well equipped to make this change on a faster timeline.
That's fair, I think other readers watching us debate whether CIA torture is evil enough that state execution is justified probably has a similar effect to my goals with advocating for it in public discussion... so thanks! Hopefully we've shifted a few minds towards "something needs to be done".
I just sold my 1992 Range Rover, after owning it for a decade.

I don't know that your example makes the point. That vehicle if so old, most states will issue special historical/classic/antique plates is you ask. I'll agree that 2009 isn't all that old, but cars can get pretty ratty after 13 years, especially if one is "not a car guy".

Besides, as Indiana Jones said, it's not the years, it's the mileage.
The kubernetes api (more specifically the k8s apimachinery) code uses codegen in order to create code so that you can convert custom CRDs to go structures rather than working with json. It's one of the more opaque bits of writing go code that works with k8s.
One more reason to pay slightly more for Windows 11 Pro (which I have).

My guess is the pro version will never see this pollution.
That's not obviously true to me. Is graphics-intensive gaming - and I would point out that defining "gaming" as GPU-intensive would be too narrow - really that large of a market? I've personally built dozens of PCs and the last time I bought a GPU it was a 3DFX Voodoo.
How do I use Privacy Redirect on a mobile browser? I can't seem to install arbitrary browser extensions in Firefox on Graphene, just a little allowlist of a halfdozen "blessed" ones.
This looks kinda similar to smartlook.com which we've been using for many years now. It also has error logging, devtools, etc and even the pricing looks kinda similar. Was zipy inspired from that?

Anyway, I really like smartlook and I do feel it's a life saver for any developer. Since I only know about the former what benefits zipy offers over it? Our contract is expiring in 2 months so I would be definitely be interested in hearing what this offers.

Also my biggest pain point with smartlook is that ublock, adblock, etc block smartlook by default. Since almost everyone is using adblockers these days a lot of info is lost. I think you guys would be faced with the same concern sooner or later. I think a self-hosted JS version can fix that.. do you have any plans for that?
After living through Google Chat going down while handling a server incident at work, I created an internal, encrypted chat system in order to have an alternative in case our regular communications channel is down.

However the actual chat part of it is very barebones with a simplistic JSON-based protocol and a simplistic IRC-like interface - quite unlike devzat.

I wonder how hard it would be to untangle the authentication and transport bits from devzat and plug in our own proprietary auth/transport.
Efficient map/filter/reduce chaining basically requires JIT to fuse the operations and/or a GC prepared to deal with huge amounts garbage. In Go, filter(h, map(g, filter(f, a))) will be immensely slower than the equivalent for loop.
So much for due process in terms of extradition.
Usually my problems are with transitive dependencies. I would have to fork quite a few projects to deal with that.

I wish there was a more systematic way to do "replace", possibly in libraries as well
Not in the modern era, no:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30691457
Does the pay gap even exist for same-level positions? I always thought it was basically comparing (sum male earnings)/(total males) to (sum female earnings)/(total females).

If the pay gap actually existed for same level positions, and was the 83c per dollar as is commonly quoted, why wouldn't there be all-female firms, paying their employees say 90 cents on the dollar, such that their overall payroll costs are much lower for the same quality work as a workplace with mostly males. Shouldn't that company be able to outcompete other companies?

If group A is more willing than group B to sacrifice their health and relationships to improve their value at an office, how can groups A and B ever be equally represented beyond entry level positions?
Yeah, I saw a reporter typing up a sports story on a TRS-80 Model 100 in a Wendy's in San Mateo in 01996, 13 years after the machine's release. I think it had been discontinued for many years at that point.

They're still around but I haven't seen one since then.
I live farther north and not in the US, but since your decisions on this inevitably impact my own country's I still care about what you do, even if I don't get a say in it.

At any rate, yes, the sun rising at 4am would also stress me out. In fact, given that I'm in a position to tell you what it's like in a place where that happens for part of the year, I can inform you from personal experience that it is indeed disruptive to circadian rhythm to have the sun rise even "moderately" early.

I'm sure people in Alaska think you're a great person for telling them they don't matter, though.
Liz Warren and Andrew Yang both used these numbers to run campaigns about specifically automation taking away everyone’s jobs. I do think they know how outsourcing works, but the automation thing turned out to not be real.
> Not very pythonic but it does the job.

This is always the eventual conclusion when performance is a concern.

Source: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips
Or even better: youtube in the browser, with ublock origin + sponsorblock, and Youtube becomes at least less annoying.
My understanding is that that the house has no plans to pick up this senate bill. So this was a purely symbolic vote. Nothing actually happened. This bill has not made it into law and most likely never will
Does it matter at this point? You can't undo the damage with housing, it is a mental issue regardless of cause.
Or living in countries north of northern US states. They should come visit a higher latitude in winter
So instead of pushing girls and boys to choose jobs based on their gender we should...push girls and boys to choose different jobs based on their gender? It seems like you're fighting fire with fire here.
I admit I haven't read all of these links, but just thinking this through logically, whether we are on DST or ST permanently shouldn't matter one way or another. I can get how shifting back and forth twice a year can have an impact, but just not following the logic on why ST > DST.

The delta is only which number shows on the clock each hour. Whether we choose to start school/work/whatever commitment at 7am, 8am, 9am, etc. shouldn't be coupled to ST or DST.

That is, if we want to start work when the sun rises (on average), there's nothing stopping us from doing that, particularly if it's proven to be more healthy.

That alone makes me question, a bit, the validity of these studies.

But again, maybe there's more context that I'm missing -- which is why I'm posting here, in case there's context that would explain this.
I'm curious as to how they manage interference and shielding when running and GPIO and PCIe through these connectors.
It is difficult to get every business, school, and workplace to coordinate on changing habits together. If they don't, it causes a lot of problems for a lot of people
Would you be able to point me in direction of understanding diff btwn GPU and CPU from ELI5 --> [whatever]
For those of you who are interested in the changing shape of the various timezones, moving to standardised offset, the rise and fall of daylight savings, I wrote a blog on the subject a little while back, "Exploring 120 years of timezones"

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/09/14/120-years-timezone.ht...
I see how hopeless downtown Louisville is. On some days and weekends it can be okay but the issue is that nobody lives there so it's mostly empty unless people drive in, which is sporadic.

We built a huge park on the river downtown that is pretty much empty. They are completing another $30M section of it closer to downtown. Also empty. These are beautiful spaces but there are no people living around them to walk to them and enjoy them.

We have the walking bridge over to New Albany which is also wonderful and gets some traffic on the weekend. At least the Indiana side has people living there along with bars and restaurants. There's very little on the Kentucky side.

We lived downtown pre-COVID and loved it. But after everything closed we moved out. I think there could be a way to revitalize it but there would need to be a plan and I've never seen or heard about one.

The soccer stadium is excellent and a draw when games are in town. But when they are not its tumbleweeds.

Time to go back and re-read some Chris Alexander.
Wifi light bulbs aren't fancy new gadgets. The Phillips Hue, for example, first hit the market nearly a decade ago. I'm sure there has been much development of the concept since and $10 is, for most people, very affordable. Especially the HN crowd.

I can't speak to their efficacy personally, can you? Do you know for a fact that they are error prone? All makes and models? Or did you shallowly dismiss the other person's suggestion?
> We would not use any trees with metal for pellets. Because the landowners we work with grow the trees for over 25 years the type of wood produced is better for saw timber or timber that is used in building materials. it wouldn't be pellet grade wood.

This may be a bit nitpicky, but one of the things sawmills produce is sawdust. What are the downstream effects of sawdust with higher metal content?
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/441566-hn-avatars-in-362-b...
So frustrating. Why would they pick this one?

I live in Alberta, Canada, and enough people want to get rid of the time zone switching that it came to a vote last fall. I couldn't believe the question on the ballot was do you want to go to permanent DST, instead of asking if we wanted to go to permanent standard time. It was snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The people voted against the change, but I really think they would've voted for permanent standard time if it had been an option.
Personally I love questions. Especially from people with no background whatsoever in business, tech or the field in question. The interest clusters of responses help to attune to public perception.

Amazingly, the main one I get (seven years and counting) is "don't they have that in Japan already?". So on our timeline, entry #3 or something is "Research in Japan". Total waste of money, but a memorable trip!
When publishing papers, if a reviewer tells you to jump from the bridge, you tell him how right and intelligent he is and jump from the bridge.
I agree that we do need some better demo content that can better illustrate the potential of 3D immersive video. We are working on that right now. I encourage anyone who has some interesting content or can make some to contact me.
Luckily enough, the (loud) minority on this one is getting overruled.
Cabaret actually did better than the Godfather in the 1972 academy awards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(1972_film)

"The film also brought Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, her own first chance to sing on screen, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. With Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Director (Fosse), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Original Song Score and Adaptation, and Best Film Editing, Cabaret holds the record for most Oscars earned by a film not honored for Best Picture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather

"At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola)."

I like both films.
> You're still passing the buck

Well, yeah. That's the key to their whole argument: the buck HAS to be passed somewhere.
If you believe the genocide claims are false and being amplified by a community with an agenda, that could easily result in such behavior.
I wonder what happens if hypothetically, someone were to push something really sharp into the speaker or the screen, or silicone caulk into the speaker to act as a hardware mute feature.
The RTL is on GitHub under the Apache2 license: https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc906

Yocto project in https://github.com/T-head-Semi/xuantie-yocto
Sometimes the ignorance of lawmakers is just baffling.

I mean there is pretty much a scientific consensus as far as I know that switching to permanent DST is a quite unhealthy choice for the larger part of the population, which happen to already be negative affected by other effects also balanced against them.

Just to be clear I don't know if it's worse then DST switching.

But it's worse then permanent "normal" (i.e. winter) time.

I mean there is a reason this was the normal time, before DST was introduced.

I also want to note here that for some areas in some time zones the negative effects of permanent DST might be less then for other areas (potentially) in other time zone, idk. how this applies to the US.
But they are the loudest opinion. It's a lot like how people are more likely to write an online review if they have had a negative experience.
It happens because we want them to happen. A barrel of legal problems bound to happen will always meet lesser market value than a barrel of people who tend to work until they die at their desk. As long as presumption of innocence doesn’t make its way, some people are just pending lawsuits on legs.
About the security content of Logic Pro X 10.7.3
I wonder if this will inadvertently preserve some rare species.

Some of those plants are really interesting. I wonder if they will clone and spread them widely (via sales)
I suspect it is in the amendment[1], which does not yet appear to be on Congress' website, as it was just passed earlier today.

[1] https://youtu.be/_WS64Q3-emk?t=37
As others have said in other threads, I don't think you have much to worry about.

DO seems to value quality over quantity for documentation. Documentation appears to be their 'doing well by doing good' strategy. What BackBlaze is to hard drive reviews, DO is to a subset of platform agnostic cloud technologies. I don't know what they do now, but at one point a couple years ago they were soliciting 'paid' articles, but rather than paying you directly they would make a donation to an organization on their list on your behalf.

If I were telling an intern where to look for technical knowledge on the internet, my advice would be something like this: start at their website (mostly for due diligence, since 4/5 times you won't find what you want there), Stack Overflow, Google, Digital Ocean, and then look for either books by the authors (if you're a bookish sort), or find conversations with the authors on the internet.

Though now Google is falling fast. I'm on the cusp of demoting it below DO. I feel that camel straining under the weight on its back. SEO is turning into Search Engine Sabotage lately.

If DO starts buying up knowledge bases that could flip for positive reasons instead of negative ones.
The US has officially been transitioning to the metric system since the 1970's and the metric system is widely used in official capacities throughout the US and the US government.
Sure the actual change might not sound super complicated, but hunting down all the little machines, services, and ancient code isn't easy for all organizations.
Maybe timezones should be based on longitude and DST should be based on latitude?
This 10 year old classic video is still relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4
Is this really all fueled by having to change your clocks?

The primary driver of your circadian rhythm is the hours of daylight. Left to their own devices, (ie literally excluding alarm clocks) humans wake up at sunrise. Daylight savings time is an attempt to make it easy for institutions to have canonical hours while also attempting to account for this essential fact about human physiology. It feels weird because it's optimizing two things simultaneously.
The US observance of DST was done for energy consumption, largely coming out of our 2 world wars when energy was a key issue. That said, in watching a state that relatively recently adopted DST, it actually increased energy consumption[1].

Meanwhile, research has shown that the impact of losing an hour due to DST observation has an impact on the heart[2][3][4].

So this policy appears to be one that literally saves lives while at the same time having the additional benefit of potentially reducing energy consumption at a time when we're dealing with an energy crisis.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w14429/w144...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189320/
[3] https://openheart.bmj.com/content/openhrt/1/1/e000019.full.p...
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00029...
That's definitely true for Urumuqi where stores open later (11AM instead of 9:30 or 10AM in the rest of the country). But Beijing is pretty far east where the time zone is mainly meant for.
First, I want to say thank you for documenting your learning journey, because it's an excellent resource. [0]

> Since "How to Learn Nix" mirrors the (bonkers) presentation order from the official documentation

Yes, I should have clarified that the complaint is directed at nix docs and not your blog.

> I am afraid to say that you will not learn how to do this until part 32, deep into the Nixpkgs manual.

I was actually feeling a little dejected after my first sprint at learning this. I had skipped ahead to your summary posts ("so I read the manual") and saw that I wasn't even close to learning how to use nix as I wanted.

Some of the comments here actually gave me hope that the juice will be worth the squeeze, so I'll jump back in tonight. I might switch to `nix.dev` tutorial that will hopefully get me moving a bit, and then jump back to your blog and the official docs.

[0] Really, having your stream of conscious helps a lot. Sometimes you explain something a little more in depth or from a different angle, other times your confusion reassures me that I'm not missing something.

I saw you say elsewhere that you feel like these are "low effort" posts compared to your other writing, but it also feels like it's filling a whole in the online-learning landscape. So again, thanks!
I'm sure that's true. But then working under the table makes them 'life-long criminals' also? If anything they should be able to take advantage of social services that having to hide your income probably locks you out of? And clearly the undocumented are 'illegal' too, though I think it'd benefit everyone to establish a formal guest-work program that would cover them better, since the demand for their labor isn't going away.
From other people who perhaps were allowed to make up words!
>OK, I remember in college extending the party by one hour was pretty cool but the other end wasn't so great.

The magic really goes away when you hit bar-going age and realize that even though the time-change lines up with last-call perfectly, they don't stay open an extra hour.
How modern life is making men infertile
Most RCU requires a lock, if only to handle cleaning up the "dead wood" that occurs on every update (write).
Yeah but my point is that this is a massive exaggeration. People are acting like a one hour shift in time gives them jet lag when most of them likely adjust their sleep times every weekend and week start anyway without complaint.
Weird that this article makes no mention of the law of lemons. Information asymmetry between buyer and seller is well studied.
I find it hard to imagine that systems which store "PST" and rely on a hard-coded assumption that it is -0800 would be robust to normal changes in time zone rules, which already happen regularly. Like surely those systems would have already broken in 2007 when the rules of America/Los_Angeles changed such that the date of the yearly transition between PST and PDT changed.
Ok, so to be clear, paying 2-3 times what the average ARM employee in the UK is earning...