skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, until you sync to ~1ms with 99.999% accuracy required for production-specific services, you don't really realize how big of a pain in the ass this particular problem is. And syncing to ~1ms is comparably easy, although annoying as hell.

The problem the OP company is trying to solve is quite a bit tougher.

Of course it sounds extremely stupid, which is why there are so many drive-by "NTP solved this already" comments from people who don't deal with millisecond precision at high accuracy requirements, god forbid sub-millisecond.
Have you tried you.com? I use it for coding all the time and works great, SO results come pre-ranked based on most voted answers and honestly saves me so much time .https://you.com/search?q=how%20do%20I%20convert%20from%20int... . The best part - it's not google, so it has no ads or junk content
I really and truly hope for longevity.

"The Webb telescope will use 132 small motors (called actuators) to position and occasionally adjust the optics as there are few environmental disturbances of a telescope in space. Each of the 18 primary mirror segments is controlled by 6 positional actuators with a further ROC (radius of curvature) actuator at the center to adjust curvature (7 actuators per segment), for a total of 126 primary mirror actuators, and another 6 actuators for the secondary mirror, giving a total of 132. The actuators can position the mirror with 10 nanometer (10 millionths of a millimeter) accuracy.

"The actuators are critical in maintaining the alignment of the telescope's mirrors, and are designed and manufactured by Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Each of the 132 actuators are driven by a single stepper motor, providing both fine and coarse adjustments. The actuators provide a coarse step size of 58 nanometers for larger adjustments, and a fine adjustment step size of 7 nanometers."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Yeah, most condos in Seattle are in downtown area, and downtown Seattle really went to shit over past few years. Places are closed down, crazy homeless harass you on every intersection, and trash and tents are everywhere. No wonder few want to live there, keeping pressure on prices relatively low.
The hunter Biden crack sex tape is pretty funny. You really have to look for it online but it’s there. NSFW obviously
With BTC your purchasing power can get cut in half overnight
> With performance.now() -- its not a clock but a counter and browsers can intentionally limit its accuracy to make 'fingerprinting' harder.

The primary reason that performance.now()'s precision is limited is for security reasons.

Spectre showed that it was possible to perform timing attacks to leak other memory on the system, and having a browser leak memory from other processes is quite a dangerous attack. As part of spectre's mitigations, browsers began limiting performance.now()'s precision.

See docs on this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance...

Chromium's impl: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/85...

Total aside, but it's also more accurate to say that performance.now() is a monotonic clock rather than a counter. Counters don't necessarily have relationships with elapsed time, but performance.now() does, and it's conceptually the same as 'CLOCK_MONOTONIC'.
Allow me to explain how you are wrong.

One big issue with Linux is driver maintenance. If a distro can focus on just one set of hardware (e.g. M1 Macs), it allows the developers to optimize the distro massively. It also makes everything more predictable, and saves a lot of time.

Not to mention that the M1 macbooks have outstanding displays, speakers, mics, etc. Imagine a world where the distro has perfect drivers out of the box, and we don't need to use some subpar nouveau driver (when I say subpar, I'm speaking relative to the official drivers).

Not to mention that most people run Linux on crappy $1000 laptops. An M1 air is around that price range, and destroys anything in that particular market space.

This could be massive for Linux desktops. I feel like the one thing that has been holding it back has been this very issue. It even opens up the door to reverse engineering the Apple hardware and perhaps creating a complete open source integrated system in the future.

It matters, and it could be the thing that rocket blasts Linux into more normies homes.
> - Related: Firebase cloud functions have extremely slow cold-start times (>5 seconds is common), and deploying new versions can take minutes.

This somehow has gotten a lot worse. When I first started with Firebase Cloud Functions, which to be clear are amazing and simple to get up and running with compared to anything competitors offer, it was a few seconds to deploy. Sadly it has gotten worse and worse as time goes on.

Still though, the paradigm around cloud functions is so simple compared to the nightmare that is AWS Lambdas. When trying to explain why cloud functions are better, AWS users just stare at me like I am talking in a foreign language about some sort of mythical land of make believe.
Ok, but they’re complaining about an open-source project; they can fork zotero and make it point to their own sync server.
> that at even 6 hours you have less all-cause mortality than at 8 hours of sleep[0]

Well, yeah; if you're sleeping more than 7 hours of sleep per night, it's likely because you're unhealthy somehow, such that your CNS takes longer than normal to clear out a sufficient amount of gunk for you to feel rested.

The real stat is "if you sleep less than you need to feel rested, you're at heightened risk of neurodegenerative diseases"; it's just hard to turn that into quantitative statistics.
As an American, I (roughly correctly) estimated Christians to be about 65%, and my wife and I both estimated athiests to be about 20%... I guess "athiest" is too strong of a term here, and most people (self included) would more accurately desribe themselves as non-religious or unaffiliated.
Forums were somewhat decentralized. Without attributing motive, platforms are interested in moving in the opposite direction.
I remember googling how to sync time on aws instances before and was surprised that they use atomic clocks: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-ti...
I'm Russian and spent a fair amount of time there, but I was not aware of London being known as the laundry/laundromat until media coverage this month. Maybe I'm out of touch, but more likely the term is known not so much in Russia but among Russian oligarchs (which intersects with "in Russia" probably less than you might think).
Mildly humorous perhaps, but default website on some random subdomain is an entirely commonplace occurrence.. you’ll find tens of thousands of these— yes even at huge corps/enterprises..
If I can't understand my writing when using a screen reader, it's probably not worth your time.

I know that audio navigation tools are far more sophisticated than simple text to speech, but I just try to keep it simple.
Adding to that, Linux does not have a stable driver interface, and regularly changes between releases.

That's unfortunate, but it seems to be a bit of a common theme in open-source to say "you have the source, we don't care if we broke your code, fix it yourself". I suppose that might've been an attempt to discourage closed-source drivers, but...

You'll be trapped on an old kernel indefinitely if you follow that path - just like the Android situation.

...that didn't have the desired effect either.
> Why, then, did it become the predominant way to organize software projects? Because it feels good to managers. For most of the project, it gives them a feeling of control and competence. That feeling is false, as it just delays all of the real-world feedback until near the nominal end. But they can perform confidence and competence to their boss, which is vital in managerialist [5] organizations.

Waterfall is not just "feels good" - it decouples their evaluation from their performance.

Until the end, everything is good because there's no measurement to show otherwise. At the end, measurements that show things have gone wrong merely prove that some past manager failed.

The only way to fail is to be a manager throughout the whole project, and management rotations guarantee that that never happens.

It's not just software. The scheduled manager tenure at at least one of the largest semiconductor companies is one year shorter than the design->ship cycle.
Great summary. My POV is that stock exchange runs along the economy. Long-term you cannot lose because economy continues to grow (exception are wars and of course scam stocks [Enron]). I approach Crypto in a similar way - long-term it will continue to grow despite being spooked here and there and losing 30% or so - because more and more people will get into it. And unless internet stops existing there will be people buying, and for now half of my family doesn't even know what crypto is (yet)

As of 99% dropping, at this point so many minds has been set to see growth or "know" the "minimum" value of main cryptocoins, that masses would not allow for it to drop 99%. There will be enough people along the line to be picking it up at all sort of discounts and Fibonacci supports and arcs to hold the support lines and change trends. I am also very glad to see crypto finally got "locked" on the stock exchange.. and moves with it up or down (logical, since lots of Wall St. guys finally joined the party). I think long-term this will help stabilize BTC, ETC etc, since they will be mimicking serious market (U.S. stock market) moves.

just my 2c (investing in stocks since 1992, and crypto early adopter 2009)
The author brings up a very good point about controlling the monetary policy which made me think about the impossible trinity. I have a very basic macro Econ 101 understanding of this, but it seems to me like the dials the central bank used to tweak things like inflation and unemployment are delayed and not precise at all. I think innovations in public ledgers along with things like automatic market makers can tighten the feedback loops so that hopefully one day we have such a high degree of integration that interest rates and inflation balancing can be tweaked in real time
Indeed. Another example I have in mind is MIRC but both filled a void. I think there is little room for crypto to fill. Most of the world doesn’t have a need for it.
I know, but the files are still not distributed by Open RA, they are downloaded during the installation from the C&C distributor.
> Fair. Don't forget the dolphins and cephalopods duking it out in the ocean.

This kind of thing led to some species thinking it was a great idea to walk on land, and a few billion years later, you have humans all over again. Hopefully they'll avoid this stupid mistake in the next go-around.
Ironically a lot of that land was made, we just quit doing it.
"Crypto is an Unproductive Bubble"

This has to win a prize for the most redundantly true headline ever
Hah wow, that is too cool to see it all come back around with ARM. Imagine if they kept refining the Newton instead of shelving it until the iPad was really possible.
Only two years out of date too!
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the short answer is linux follows standards, and is universal within the engineering teams responsible; far less effort to get working. big thing is that it's easier to "hire talent and hit ground running" in regards to progress
Interesting idea, pets that look like dinos. People would love that...
Your numbers seem slightly off. While Vancouver is 1.7% African, it’s unlikely for a university to only recruit from a single city. Canada as a whole was 3.5% Black in 2016. I would expect unbiased selection should result in a number between them.

Assuming students had 45 courses the majority of students should eventually have a black instructor at 1.7% as 0.983^45 < 50%. At 3.5% and 45 courses 80% of students should have had a black instructor at some point.

Of course blacks are likely to be under represented in applicants for such jobs, but that’s a different issue.
Vodaphone also: https://unlock.vodafone.com.au/index.jsp

And lots of other folks: https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22apache+tomcat%2...
Incredibly funny. I actually think Home Depot, surprisingly, has increasingly good tech though.

I saw they paid for a booth at the Gophercon conference in San Diego a few years back, and their website + mobile app + online shipping setup is actually pretty great and reasonably priced. I didn't expect it to be. I use them for a lot of small+large tool/supply orders for gardening, woodworking, etc. now.

Dunno how that relates to stock value, but I've certainly thought twice that maybe I should buy some Home Depot stock because of this..
> It is like taking small dose of drugs for fun, for sure it won't kill you immediately but it eventually will as people can hardly resist the temptation.

Very debatable.
But you are not asking what you should switch to, you are asking users to predict what you will be using on a certain date.

Prediction markets are supposed to have insiders buying in. Nothing wrong with that, but they are not supposed to be self fulfilling prophecies. Right? And certainly the prediction market itself should not be the insiders.
Even if there wasn’t a Big Bang, let’s say the universe was infinite, we would still have the CMB from the furtherest reaching photons from the edges of the visible universe that have been stretched to microwaves right?

In other words eventually the nearest galaxies will one day become the CMB as the universe continues to expand until they are on the edge, until even they fall outside the visible universe and no photons/light outside our own galaxy will be capable of reaching us and the CMB disappears.
Yeah, I’m not sure that formalizing it in sessions would help. Just having people around can help.
Barlow and Bear bring musical theater into the TikTok era
I think that the observation about raccoons in Germany is made because they aren't native to Europe. Probably the correct word is feral

My mother (who lives in the UK) recently visited me (in the US). While walking we saw a bald eagle fishing. She was blown away. Here that's commonplace
A few of my co-workers brought this up at a previous workplace and the end result was they stopped allowing employees to ask questions at all-hands.

The questions were along the lines of: Why is D&I openly telling us they are prioritizing the hiring of engineers from Sub Group $A instead of Sub Group $B, when $B is also a minority but is much less fairly represented by our company in relation to the population. The fact of the matter is, they don't want to admit that some minorities in tech are more equal than others.
At least they're on a relatively updated version :)

https://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html
Which is absolutely not what happens. It’s manifestly not “good” by any definition.
>you sleep less than you need to feel rested, you're at heightened risk of neurodegenerative diseases

Do you have anything corroborating that? Eating less than you need to not feel hungry doesn't seem to be damaging (up to a point) so a priori I don't see a reason to believe sleeping somewhat less than you subjectively want to has big negative outcomes without evidence.
Having moved from a city to a suburb during the pandemic, the reduction in noise alone has been worth it, but the vastly increased space is excellent too. I wouldn't mind living in the city if I could afford a properly soundproofed condo with enough space to not go stir-crazy, but to do that if I'm being financially responsible I would need a salary at least 1.5x-2x higher than the already generous amount I earn which is rather insane.
Have you read my post about Ukrainian official saying that large scale war is inevitable? Two years ago?
Friends of mine in Mariupol now. They wrote that they was rescued by Russian army. Do you have any ideas why they have written this?

In west you are accusing Russian people of being victims of propaganda, brain washed and controlled by Putin. I have access to media that represents either points of view on conflict. Have you?
Wow...these small loud groups make the other majority of americans live by their rules, e.g jewish demanding removal of christmas trees from public places, gays/lesbians changing education programs
"The more living patterns there are in a place -- a room, a building, or a town -- the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

"And when a building has this fire, then it becomes a part of nature. Like ocean waves, or blades of grass, its parts are governed by the endless play of repetition and variety created in the presence of the fact that all things pass. This is the quality itself."
Any indication how many of those actuators they can lose and still maintain functionality (i.e., are any of those "spares")?
Oh, look! It’s the same „flaw“ people have been explaining each other for a decade. We’ve all seen it dozens of times, yet Google apparently remains in the dark.
Even when no one is being abused you have people who pour their lives into a game, knowing that they have a deadline. What they get into a particular game by a deadline can effectively define their career. Its not just a lot of pressure, its a lot of pressure with a lot of passion and a lot of visibility.
I think this is a question of algorithm agility. Bitcoin has a mechanism to change its implementation[1], so it's possible to upgrade.

On the mining side, miners would pick a new algorithm, vote, and then cut over when approved. Although, if a post-quantum technique allowed faster mining, a change to the mining algorithm may not be needed. Bitcoin would notice the faster hashrate and increase the difficulty, miners would rush to buy quantum hardware. As long as quantum hardware is generally available for purchase, we'd still have decentralized mining.

On the wallet side, we'd need miners to vote for and approve quantum safe wallet operations. Users would need to update their software and their wallets. I'd expect some stuck wallets (like the initial blocks, lost keys) could get spent. This is sort of like someone recovering gold from a sunken ship.

I agree this seems like an existential threat, but there is an update path. Unless there's a sudden onset where no-one has time to react, I suspect the miners would reach consensus. Some users may be slow to update their wallets, and may suffer losses.

I think we'd eventually see recovery of the coins from the mining of the initial blocks, which are generally believed to lost/stuck. This would sort of be like recovery of gold from a sunken ship. I've heard that recovery of those coins would destabilize Bitcoin value, due to the large value. However, unless they are all unexpectedly recovered at once, I'd expect the market to "price that in" gradually as recovery begins.

I'd expect many cryptocurrencies not to survive the transition, although I'm a crypto skeptic and I don't expect hype/scam coins to survive anyway.

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/bitcoin-s-elegant-upgrade-mechanis...
Looks like they use AEM for their website. I had the displeasure of working with it in the past.
The first thing to do is to get to know the people in your new team. You have to take the initiative; go out to lunch/coffee breaks, introduce yourself (but keep your ego in check) and ask about them and their work; always be sincere. Find out commonalities and use it to start conversations.

Identify the "key" players, in particular; the "Guru" who knows the most about the System Architecture/Code base etc. Ask for a couple of days of his time (eg. brown bag lunches etc.) and request a "Brain Dump". Take copious notes etc. and then sit with the Design/Implementation documentation and Codebase to quickly come up to speed. You can also do the same with each person on your team so that you can quickly catch-up to the status quo.
Making a typo detection tool in Rust
Then you need a GPS receiver in each server and a bunch of amps and cables to distribute the signal to every receiver.
Or just KDAB's Hotspot.
It's an early alpha version of such project. Clearly stated at the beginning of post.

Your comment indicates that you are expecting the community to serve your feature requests, while not even pointing out to the "beneath you" opportunity to contribute yourself. If not willing to put the effort into desktop configuration or "rolling your own" features, why are you bothering with Linux? You can be better served by Windows or MacOS. But you might find your feature requests to fall on deaf ears there.

In my experience, a Linux desktop is unparalleled in flexibility, productivity and stability, if given some time/effort to configure and adapt to your workflows - it's been years and years "of Linux desktop" already for people who care.
I was too lazy to implement this at first and was also afraid of abuse, but this is a good idea, will work on it!
Chrony is still NTP. Clockwork is aiming to be far more precise.
How's it going in Russia, as an aside?
None right now, but I was considering having a freemium model and charge for additional customization and features that do cost more like location-aware events.
There are as many galaxies in the observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy or… as there are bytes in 100 gigabytes. Within a factor of five or so.

The universe is flat as far as our best measurements go, if it is curved, it is with a much larger radius than the ~100 billion light year width of the observable universe.

It is indeed difficult to conceive but it is how it is, the universe is very big and has a whole lot of unique stuff in it.

Occasionally there is a lensing thing where we see the same galaxy twice or so, but not in any way to diminish the 10^11 other galaxies out there.
Unless you need realtime PostgreSQL is always the most obvious solution.

If you do need realtime you can build it on PostgreSQL yourself depending on your requirements either using LISTEN/NOTIFY or logical replication. There are tradeoffs to both if tbh if you are asking this question you probably don't want to go that path.

Non-realtime it's very easy to handle nested JSON in PostgreSQL but I would still avoid it like the plague unless it's user-supplied data without any real schema.

You might feel like schema-less lets you "move faster" but it's a load of horseshit that really starts to stink much sooner than you might think.

Schemas and by extension database integrity make it easier to move faster because migrations allow you to ensure there are no edge conditions related to stored data when upgrading your code to use an extended or otherwise modified data model.

The other main benefit of PostgreSQL is just the sheer body of resources available, with the exception of the other main RDBMS (MySQL/MSSQL) it just completely dwarfs what is available for other data stores. You will rarely if ever encounter a problem someone hasn't already solved.