skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, just offering some thoughts.

> There are two possible cases here. (snip) I was under the impression that it was common (in places that use the 12 hour system) to instead write 12:00 noon/midnight specifically to avoid this.

IMHO the bigger takeaway ought to be that what is "common" in your area isn't necessarily common in another part of the country, or in another country. This confusion exists because the Europeans (and nowadays the Americans) exported their time measurement system across cultures, to mixed success. It's never obvious and should not be assumed to be... that confusion can exist no matter what actual UNIX time the test was scheduled at.

> Second, I don't understand people saying they use 11:59/12:01 AM/PM as a mnemonic. This makes no sense to me as 00:01 a valid time.

For this specific case, it helps clarify what is "noon" vs "midnight". For some reason people are a lot better with knowing 11:59pm is, vs 12:00AM. The cutover is what throws people off. And for most purposes, the +/- 1-3 minute difference won't matter.

The midnight/noon thing doesn't really help when you're going across oceans though. Or, like you said, if you're not familiar with AM/PM at all.
That's the Malacca strait, thousands of km from the Pacific ocean. Pretty amazing video though!
In my experience the best for "bit-fiddling" is Erlang (and, by extension, Elixir) which offers bit-string literals[1], along with pattern matching on them. It's trivial to implement any binary protocol or parse any binary file format with these. It makes bit-fiddling pleasant and fun, but nobody ever mentions Erlang in these discussions.

That's because most programmers are incapable of making any informed decision about the language they use (and, even more so, about languages they don't use). There's a strong tribal mentality, a lot of cargo-cults, and the very narrow perspective on what's possible and (more importantly) what's desirable is prevalent.

[1] https://www.erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.h...
What a punch!

> This is why we invented religions, and will continue to reinvent them in ever shifting guises.

Something off about this statement, though. Like out of place in some otherwise wise observations.

Man has our escapism but it isn't at all uniquely circumscribed by "religion".

Unless you define, circularly, "religion" to be man's escapism.

I'm trying to avoid some apologetics over some theology or something. For myself, I'm an apostate. Most religions people would call me an atheist, but I sense that most atheists would reject my membership application.

But what I see in essays like this is a limited human attempting the impossible task of reconstructing some meaning to existence.

The task being impossible b/c we can no more reconstruct meaning than we could reconstruct our, say, biological selves. That was the job of eons of evolutionary process.

Which is what "religion" hosts, encodes... along with crufty theology, escapism, etc.

What you seem to be pitching is this "Just be good" philosophy that for some reason I keep seeing show up on T-shirts the past couple of years. But this is not a substantive philosophy.

When I left religion in my early 20s, in retrospect I feel I threw the baby out with the bathwater not realizing that there was deep, evolved meaning and framework amid the mounds of garbage. That remained even when I thought I was rejecting all of it, the escapism, dogma, fear, etc... In other words I couldn't discard whatever was encoded in myself.

But I worry now I'm not giving my kids what I'd gotten and took for granted. Worry now that a whole generation is not getting it. That we're going to be left with "Just be good" - and otherwise these desperate, searching, doomed essays from people who realize that "Just be good" is not good enough but who have no heritage from the past that hosts pretty much all we could expect to have.
What is the technical requirement for this to be interoperable, what if I have my own walled garden that doesn't use xml or json but it's own spin on s-expressions, and all messages are in a markle tree, and the messages are displayed using my own graphics stack instead of html/css, and all of this with e2e encryption, what do these jokers expect me todo, asking for a friend?
> How sick is it, if true, people are purposely pitting people against each other for the sake of getting away with something.

I don't know if "purposeful" is the right word. More like the emergent behavior of lots of people in large organizations working in their self-interest. Imagine you're a young Harvard graduate entering Wall Street. In the olden days, you would reconcile yourself to being "the man," and convince yourself that the working classes deserved their condition due to their moral shortcomings. Now your schooling has filled your head with notions of justice and equality, but you're still "the man" and your personal incentives haven't changed. Committing to "equity" while condemning working class white people for their moral failings allows you to square the circle and make minimal changes that could affect your own self interest.

But the consequences of that attitude downstream are dire and indistinguishable from a deliberate effort. When a white manager commits to "equity" and condemns the white line workers as "racists, sexists, and homophobes," that not only divides the working class amongst itself. It also inverts the traditional cultural understanding that the line workers are "the good guys" and the managers are "the bad guys"--further depriving the working class of what little political and rhetorical capital it used to possess.

> Semi related...I hear a term a lot recently that seems similar...'pulling the ladder up.'

You see this acutely among first versus second+ generation Asians. I relied on meritocratic systems to get ahead after my parents immigrated here from Bangladesh. I went to a public magnet high school, engineering school, and law school based on my test scores. I don't know anybody on that side of the ladder who thinks there's anything wrong with using testing to identify talent. But my kids go to a private school where we have a second winter break for ski vacations. Whatever system replaces standardized testing, I will know how to work it and my kids will be fine.
>This is a good space for a hobby of some sort, perhaps, so I'm wondering whats some hobby like things you do after work, if you do anything at all?

...

>Usually after I finish work, I've got about an hour or so to fill in before I go about making dinner for the family.

Take a walk

Your mind will still "be engaged" - but in a different direction

Take the time to take a break from work and get yourself in a good headspace to spend time with family

The physical activity will get blood flowing, reoxygenating your muscles (and brain), and the change in scenery will help you settle everything that's been going on in your mind all day, letting it sink in and gel, and allow you to focus on things that need your attention (ie your family) without being distracted with work
As an alternative I’ve had great experiences so far with GitHub’s Codespaces.

I couldn’t see myself going back to just running everything outside of at least some containerised environment at a minimum even if not fully remote.

I do a bunch of front end web stuff as well and now the thought of just running npm on my local machine gives me the chills. It’s akin to attending an orgy without a condom :)
Don't use an iPhone then. Problem solved!!
Yeah I know, it's pure volume and just a funny stat. Quality, that'd be another thing...
You can be accepting of others, however facts are facts. Gravity doesn’t stop existing, because you don’t “behave” as though it does.
We don't know which Tool album he wanted, although various Rock/Metal sites that posted this article wondered if perhaps the lyrics to "Parabola" might be resonating with him at the moment.
Well put. The division between parents and non-parents grows each year, at least in America. I’m shocked by what my single 20-something friends can just spout off about kids or “people who have kids” and stuff. It’s bizarre.
Not talking about storage servers either
I think it's interesting that this discussion is the closest many people come to philosophical discussions. It requires thinking precisely in an abstract way beyond what a lot of average Joes normally do. These sites and threads are reminiscent of Platonic dialogues, discussing the form of this or that. I think it's great.
> Identity politics driven agenda's are such a idiosyncratic luxury that's only possible because of serious people doing serious things.

Civilization is frivolous. This conversation is frivolous. Culture of any kind is only possible because of "serious people doing serious things." Farmers stop farming and power plants shut down and most people will stop writing novels, making films, playing music, or yes debating the edge cases of social norms like gender. Unless you code for power, farming, or health care applications you'd probably stop coding too.

The right only invokes this "get serious" line when it's something they personally think is unnecessary, ignoring the fact that 90% of what they do is also unnecessary.

The bigger and wealthier civilization gets the more frivolous things it will produce. Pretty soon we'll be spewing rocket ships to the Moon and Mars, which are really damn frivolous over any time scale that matters to any living person.

Also I'm sure for people who strongly feel that they are gender-atypical this is a serious issue. There's an article somewhere about someone who posed as trans for a week to gonzo-report on just how shitty trans people are treated.

Edit: you can do your own experiment in the frivolity of "identity politics." Find a stock photo of a cute girl and pose as her in programming forums for a week or two. Hope you like weird and inappropriate come-ons, lewd messages, and a 50/50 split between people pretending to hang on your every word and people ignoring your opinion. I have never dealt with any of that shit as a white male programmer but I've heard loads of stories.

I do get the concern about trans women in womens' sports. As far as I know that is the only "edge case" where the people pushing back on trans rights have an actual point. The rest of it is pure moral outrage trolling and obsessing over things other people are doing that don't impact you. There is no other job or activity I can think of where this matters. The outrage over it is as stupid as the outrage over plastic straws.
I’ve seen and built systems that are far less invasive —

https://agenda.hep.wisc.edu/event/792/contributions/18594/at...

With accuracy on par or better than described:

> He eventually explained to the team that he modulated the tone by trying to move his eyes. But he did not always succeed. Only on 107 of 135 days reported in the study could he match a series of target tones with 80% accuracy, and only on 44 of those 107 could he produce an intelligible sentence.

In fact, some of these successful efforts were done back in the early 2000s.

From the article:

> Researchers inserted two square electrode arrays, 3.2 millimeters wide, into a part of the brain that controls movement. When they asked the man to try to move his hands, feet, head, and eyes, the neural signals weren’t consistent enough to answer yes-or-no questions, says Ujwal Chaudhary, a biomedical engineer and neurotechnologist at the German nonprofit ALS Voice.

The speed and accuracy does take a hit using external nodes, but brain implants are frankly dangerous. They come with serious risks.
The last thing this world needs is automation around people calling things toxic or problematic.
I used to go to Brasilia 3-4 times a month for work. If you got on a Tuesday morning flight you could rub shoulders with congressmen, top-level cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and so on. Many would easily engage you in conversation, too; maybe because I didn't open with political subjects and mainly complained about having to go to Brasilia.

The first problem with Brasilia is that it's horribly located. We did avoid the Stockholm fate of having our historical cities razed, but moved the seat of power to the middle of nowhere. I know that overpaid lower-ranking bureaucrats have houses in the outer rings, near the lakes; but no one who has an actual choice lives in Brasilia. I don't know if it fully qualifies as a city. If the capital ever moves, it will be a ghost town in three weeks and start crumbling (bad architecture and bad construction) within the year.
I would not use the word "evolve", because in Italy it has not "evolved". There has been made an American version, which would have been best if it were called with a different name, but I guess I can't have everything...
Not talking about storage servers.
New regular ax ex px series.
No more than 3 HDDs not SSDs.
In the U.S. and I'd seen so many of them that I have an extension installed specifically to hide them while browsing.
Considering how many of the "startups" listed there shows "ARR: $0", I'm wondering if maybe "focus on profit" is a bit misguided.
My biggest concern with this is that it looks like a Tailwind copy, but doesn't mention anywhere Tailwind or how it is different/better than it.

EDIT: Also, the landing page took like 10 seconds to load, which doesn't really make me think of "high performance".
I'd certainly prefer to take an exam at midnight in my local time zone rather than noon. No need to fight with morning brain fog.
I only use Patreon as a payment system for the premium communities I participate in. Those meet mostly on Discord and Twitch, though.
Are you sure it’s the same story?

Or are we seeing reports of incremental improvements to technologies for communicating with locked-in people.
For the type of business you are running (online software) you will get abusers, so you migth have to bite the bullet and accept some genuine people will be turned off by credit card validation.
High quality ingridients are costly too.
Putin's demand for ruble payments? No way say EU nations
I’ve been using Datagrip more, have you tried PopSQL?
You’re mistaken, we do have a rubric. All of the members of the interview team grade the interviewee according to the rubric, and the scores are then combined into “votes”.
He put an intellectual veneer on cheap trash. This can lead to lasting fame in many fields
True, though this is still one of the most annoying things in online recipes:

"Add one small onion"

Oookay...how big is that? How much of a difference in flavor will it be if I add more or less? What if I barely like onion? If I add more, will it cook enough to not change the outcome significantly?

It does take experience to guess whether it will matter or not, so if you're getting started it's nice to be given a clue (like weights).

Also, adaptation assumes that you're going to be trying the recipe again to get it right for the next time. Some people may do that, but there are so many great recipes out there that a lot of people (myself among them) will just go find some other recipe if one doesn't turn out well.
Extremely surface level take; seems like a response to right to repair

A large basis of that argument is you own the device. Well, not with this anymore

Just a little more honest in that Apple is loaning you a device/experience
To be fair, WSHTF I have a feeling that paying e-bills isn't going to be the prevailing issue.
iOS's "live photo" feature is great for this. It captures just a second or so before and after the photo which really brings the image to life. It's very powerful to look back on a photo of my son when he was 2 and catch that little bit of extra context.
Doesn't WhatsApp do a bunch of customizations applied to the base protocol? Its not the vanilla standard
We talk. What is the problem?
> but that means your phone's radio can never enter low power mode, hurting battery life.

This problem has been solved by https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0352.html
We can't have a discussion of Le Corbusier and modernism with mentioning the concept of "legibility" as illuminated here: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

Relevant quote:
"
High-modernist (think Bauhaus and Le Corbusier) aesthetics necessarily lead to simplification, since a reality that serves many purposes presents itself as illegible to a vision informed by a singular purpose. Any elements that are non-functional with respect to the singular purpose tend to confuse, and are therefore eliminated during the attempt to “rationalize.”
"

I stayed in one of Le Corbusier's buildings in Marseilles (now a hotel) and loved it, but his treatment of neighbourhoods seems to ignore human nature/scale to our detriment.
When she took him in, it had closed eyes, so that still qualifies as "baby bird", and it "fledged" relatively soon thereafter, though it kept a social bond with the woman, even past adulthood, which would have been at least a few weeks later.
> It's just a bit sad that Typescript is being pushed so hard as if it's the only right way.

It's being evangelised as if it has zero downsides, it introduces overhead to what can already be a brittle dependency/build chain - providing questionable levels of actual type safety. This is coming from someone who generally prefers typed languages too, Typescript to me is the exception to that rule.
I was thinking Radagast.
If it's ephemeral to a function, it's not "storage". It's just core memory that may or may not be backed by physical "storage" media, and is organized as a tmpfs for the user's convenience.
> a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements

Sounds like a deflection, and inaccurate. The issues don't arise "outside" of the movement, they spring inevitably when there is enough traction and zeal because the mob doesn't understand nuance. Mobs are dogmatic and orthodox, and everything is a nail. The Fabians (a bougie socialist club intent on popularizing Socialism) had this fear about laymen should Socialism be in vogue, the Catholic Church about the Bible being interpreted by the public, etc. - they were all correct. Media of course is in it for the money, they just do what they've always done which is exploit salience.
https://militaryconnection.com/military-time/amp/
Should the metaverse fear us?
I don’t mind the new one because I didn’t use the old one. Most of the content before contained changes to code on company projects I don’t contribute to. The new content has been mostly relevant to the code and tech I work with on a daily basis.
More stuff we don't talk about: "The US Did Not Defeat Fascism in World War II, It Discretely Internationalized It": https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defe...
Step 1: Your encrypted chat service used by activists must work with other platforms by law.

Step 2: So... the encryption your application uses doesn't work well with other platforms.

Step 3: Everyone must use this one kind of encryption for interoperability with our tracking ser... I mean other platforms.

Step 4. Hey, look at all the stuff these activists are talking about.

Step 5. Gulag for the activists
If something that I can't miss is listed in a different time zone than the one I'm in I go online and find a time zone converter. You can just tell it '12am in x city' and there is another box where you enter your own location and it doesn all the work for you.
Same sentiment here. Seeing the words 'Mark Fisher' at the top of HN is an utter shock. How is this possible? What else might be possible?
>I have found that there is a shocking amount of instability with Windows servers and workstations

Define "instability"

Mostly-unmanaged, end-user workstations? Try better eucation for your users and/or better device management

But servers?! Sorry. But if you have Windows-based software running on anything newer then 2008R2 or 2012, it's not Windows' fault: it's the software you're running.

I've been working in and around massive enterprise deployments of multiple OSes for over a decade and a half. Pretty much every server Windows release newer than 2003 (and 2003 was pretty dang stable) is fine.

The software running on it can be flaky as all get out - but the OS is fine

Plan your maintenance windows. Apply patches in a timely manner. And you'll be fine.
With Clojure out there now I think the number of products using a Lisp is underestimated.
Computer scientist accused of manipulating his Google Scholar metrics
pgAdmin UI/UX is awful. Maybe it’s improved since I last used it.
> You can see this in the OECD’s relative poverty rate, which counts a person as poor if they are at less than half the national median income.

US poverty looks bad when using the OECD's relative poverty rate. For example, the USA has a poverty rate of 17.8% and Mexico 16.6%. Hmm... Does something sound strange about that?

OP's article's graphic shows that, among non-hispanic whites, USA's poverty is 14.7% and Sweden's is 9.3%. What that doesn't tell you is how the lowest 20% of Americans consume more than the average of Sweden:
https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...
The most interesting part of the law is that users will be able to choose their own browser.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994234/eu-antitrust-leg...
Actually, you could continue executing 16bit code, loading only DS/ES with 32bit selectors. Why, I don't know, but you could.

That's almost how flat real mode (aka "unreal mode") works, except it's returning from protmode with 4GB selector limits.
Thank you. I was trying to keep it understated, but it was the equivalent of seeing a Jewish-sounding name and depicting the person as a yarmulke-wearing Orthodox Jew without their consent. Anyone with a broadly shared cultural background as that user would get hung up on the incongruence (and many would mind being stereotyped) instead of focusing on your product. I don't blame you for not knowing that turbans are religious headwear, not fun hats people wear and take off on a whim as depicted in American media (which has greatly influenced global cultural stereotypes).
I like One-Point-One! Perhaps 'opoweb' with a bit of creative license?

It's a subtle hat-tip
Not just Paris, cities are built on the corpses of their past selves. Go back enough in the life of any major building in an historical city and you're likely to find someone who thought it was an abomination that should never have replaced a lovely piece of architecture

This is not to say that new is always better, to be clear, but cities are living things, sometimes I'm worried we're trying too hard to preserve everything for the future
Happy user of DbSchema: https://dbschema.com/ for the diagramming part.
IMVHO communication protocols of anything public MUST be open, peering MUST be allowed as a general policy. It's not a matter of scale: communications exists to communicate, not to create walled gardens.