skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did we as consumers accept this?

Short term thinking and focus on new shiny features over long term sustainability. It's a pattern we see repeated in many aspects of society, not just messaging. Combine this with network effects and it ceases to matter that a minority of people have the time and interest to think about the long term, the majority have already made the decision, and your choices are to either be left out, or participate. It's frustrating, but it's one of those things when a large enough sample of the population are living lives which have much bigger problems than messenger lock-ins.

tl;dr: stickers
Would it also force Facebook to open up its Events section, so events become available to the outside world?
What are you talking about, dude? How is an AI that generates code fascist?
History is not purely the record of the past. It never has been. The past is immutable but our understanding of it and our analysis of it and our relationship with it is not.

History isn't sold as immutable and transparant except to people who stopped doing history in high school.
Thanks for this hint :) I'll add it to the article
How well does this handle several freeze-thaw cycles per year?

The carbon aspect is great, but I love how this attempts to address the unstable ground problem. Here in Quebec due to cheaply made road foundation and harsh freeze-thaw cycles, at this time of the year the roads have almost more potholes than... road.
There’s no valid reason I can see for “Photos” to send you notifications at all. I mean, 10 years ago did we provide our email/phone number to our DSLRs or paper photo albums? No, and we’ve ended up just fine.

Disable that crap entirely. Same goes for a lot of preinstalled apps - News, Music, Game Center (why does that one still exist?), etc.
Wordle creator describes game’s rise, says NYT sale was “a way to walk away”
I was trying to decide which part of your comment to quote so I could agree with it, but I agree with the whole thing. Perhaps it is a nihilistic view, but I do think society’s options are giant magic machine or global war/collapse of civilization as we know it.

I even go a bit further than what I talked about. I don’t eat meat, have never driven a car (fortunately healthy enough to bicycle/walk everywhere), and don’t fly in airplanes. It’s funny when I talk about how I live and people say, “Wow how do you do it?I just have to _________.” I don’t have the heart to tell them that their great great grandchildren may not have that choice.

In that sense, I do feel like it doesn’t matter what we do today. The cards have been shuffled, dealt, and the hand has been played. All that’s left is to turn them face up.
Beautiful read. It’s interesting how helping others can be so fulfilling, almost like the default human condition is as caretakers.

I can’t say I would have done the same in her shoes, but it must have been very life affirming to essentially save a life and have its life married to yours.
A lot of my exams will use the time 11:59pm instead of 12:00am to avoid confusion like this
Judgyprophet: Bayesian forecasting for knowable future events
My experience says that this is pretty far from the truth, and nobody is really struggling with any of this stuff. It's all been "yeah I guess we have to pay attention to privacy, that's a bit annoying" and then getting on with it.

What you're saying basically boils down to "if we stop worrying about user data then we can make more money!" which… yeah, I guess. In the same way that companies could make more money if we let them pump effluent directly into rivers – but we don't do that.
I think he's referring to 'Sargon of Akkad' (Carl Benjamin) being banned [1] for what essentially came down to insulting some trolls during an interview for another Youtube channel.

[1] https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/04/anything-youve-ever...
No single conflict in human history was made less bloody by pouring more weapons into it.
And in the same way it's impossible for the US audience to learn metric it's also impossible for them to learn 24 hr time.
I see no point in moving from web to desktop if it's going to be for an electron app, and no one is going to hire a webdev for a non-electron desktop app.
I thought the same. I've seen and read so many stupid things - especially recently, starting from before the election of Trump, with the peak during the pandemic, and now Putin's apologetics[0] - that this bird story seems the epitome of reasonableness.

I discovered that people who haven't had proper education in hard science are particularly susceptible to manipulation involving the invisible: radiation, nanotechnology, genetic engineering. Younger people, who studied these subjects recently, even superficially, don't fall flat for obvious stupidities like 5G vaccines if only because they understand the current limitations of the technologies involved.

[0] Reuter's note about Faebook temporarily suspending hate-speech rules against "Russian soldiers and Russians" is another example of stupidity - and a harmful one.
But there is a definition: female mammals are XX and have female morphology. So you're not helping the conversation by investigating consequences of a false premise.
And in other Guardian news: I bought a 2-bed flat in London (with the help of my rich parents) for ONLY £1.5million. The housing market in the UK isn't so bad after all!
I had to Google how to turn on an iMac.
I founded 3 startups, Quickwit.io is the last one.

In my first 2 startups, resentment between founders and burnout made me do poor choices. I wish I could have read this manual before. I strongly encourage founders to do so.

Luckily for me, now I found 2 great cofounders at Quickwit so I'm not stressed at all. For now :)
The best is how it is 11AM -> 12PM -> 1PM -> 2PM and then again 11PM -> 12AM -> 1AM -> 2AM
Obviously you specify a unix timestamp! /s
> For one thing, I think common mark is really the worst form of markdown and especially considering the whole angle of hacker culture and DIY these kind of projects clearly aim at, I am always baffled that something more feature rich and easy to interoperate with like pandoc flavored markdown is not chosen.

Or something even better than MD, like reStructuredText.
Pennsylvania is a good illustration of this. It was a prosperous state that now has lots of problems. Back when it was exporting steel around the world, that kept (mostly white) folks in the middle of the state working, but also the many Black communities in the port cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington (in DE). Globalization destroyed those jobs leaving the highly visible poverty in those cities, but also the less visible poverty in the rest of the state. And my modest assertion is that the racial diversity of the consultants doing that outsourcing doesn’t matter and is besides the point.
For me, it was always a pancake wrapped around a breakfast sausage.

Took me about 20 years to learn that it wasn't the most common definition. It was just something served by the breakfast place my parents took me when I was little.
It does, but I found it to drain a lot of battery on mobile (iOS). I'd say that for a simple setup you're likely to be accessing your services via their LAN IPs or their TailScale IPs, so if you have these bookmarked etc. on your phone then it means you either:

1) Have separate bookmarks for accessing services via the LAN or the VPN, and need to remember to turn on and off the VPN when you need to access things out of the house; or
2) Always access services via the TailScale IP, which means you need to be connected to the VPN on your phone even to access them from your LAN, which in turn either means toggling the VPN on and off even when at home or leaving it connected all the time and letting it drain 20% of your battery every day.

It's a great service but I didn't find it to make accessing self-hosted services from out of the home on a phone to be as nice as using them at home, or using a managed service.
Xfce is also based on gtk+3 now. Quite a bit lighter than MATE.
GOOD --Bitcoin price will rise

BAD --Will provide justification for government to impose even more privacy-invading KYC related regs.
Do you know what 12:01 AM means?

12:00 AM is one minute before that.
Yes, I am declaring these things as facts based on my own experience with European startups – yours may vary. So far, the approach has been miles away from "spending huge capital" or "neurotically worrying", and much more "just following the regulations and getting on with it".

I also have experience from two start-up scale-ups that many clients are saying we won't work with you if you use a US Big Cloud

Yeah, I've not heard this from anyone – but if it's the case, it sounds like there's market pressure to use services that offer better protection of personal data. Sounds like you've found an opportunity to offer an EU-based cloud service that's better than the competition :)
Helping you find the best one quickly means you spend less time “engaging” with the product/service. Not in the developer’s best interest at all.
Not really. The main thing PDF gets you is pixel-perfect reproduction of paper, printable documents. Authors of those “document-oriented Web” proposals use the word “document” when they really mean “painfully lightweight text files”. At the same time, those text files (whether plain, Gemini/gemtext, or Markdown), can still be freely reflowed, they can adjust to your screen size and preferred font size — you can’t do that with PDF, which has a set and constant page width/height and which specifies every character’s size and position on that page.
Ante meridium and post meridium.

Ante- meaning “before”, meridium meaning “highest point of the sun” as in when the sun crosses the “meridian” which would be the line in which it is now setting instead of rising.

Passing from post-meridian to ante-meridian is exactly 12 hours from when the sun passed the meridian point, to keep it “consistent”.

I get though that it’s confusing, I questioned it a lot as a young boy.

Personally I believe that is stupid that we go from 11pm to 12am, but the reason is that the cutover is “12”, and everything after 12 (including the hour) are considered morning.

Like others have mentioned, we should really be using 24hr time these days where possible. Additionally I’m of the impression that we should use ISO8601 for date formats instead of what the Uk does (or even worse: what the US does).
I'm hardly a power user, only touch sql via hasura lately. But has anyone tried https://arctype.com ? does it compare to the tools mentioned above?
If 12 is midnight or noon, then 12:00am has to be midnight. If 12:00am was noon, then 12:59am would be in the afternoon, which would be weird. Of course, having your clock start at 12 and then go to 1 is also weird.
I also found that fact odd. She's a photographer, I expected more visual content added to the text :(. It was quite enjoyable anyway.
A key point "just because something is current does not make it new." Worthy of consideration more often.
I remember it like this: when it says 12:00 AM that means that the AM is getting started (midnight) and at 12:00 PM the PM is getting started (midday)
Duplicate?!?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30799567
One of the first things I do with a fresh work inbox is set rules to push things into non-default folders. And then, I proceed to never look at them unless I'm digging for something.

61 unread notifications from Az Devops? Nah, I don't need to read those. I was watching that build in the background, I know it failed.

Mobile notifications should offer more filtering options at the system level. Why do I need to trust an app developer to respect my notification preferences? Why should I rely on the developer to build granularity into their push notification frequency?

It all gets simpler when you can filter at the 'inbox'.
I had that question on an interview there. They said that they're only careful about dust when the film is wet. The velvet strip in the film canister wipes any dust off just before an exposure.
That sounds really frustrating. I'm sorry that happened to you.

Time is a hard programming and engineering problem. Adopting a global UTC on a 24 hour clock would resolve most of this, but people are entrenched.
If a time included either "AM" or "PM" then I would assume it was specified as 12h, not 24h.
Imagine if 12AM meant 12 noon. What would one second past 12 noon be? It'd have to be 12:00:01 PM. Even one millisecond past 12 noon would be PM. So "12AM" could only exist for an infinitesimal length of time, in contrast to 11AM, 10AM etc. which each last for an hour.
I pay much more attention in the moment when I am taking photos. It´s a therapy to me. I automatically enjoy all the angles of a subject or an area I am visiting.
When working at international companies that have little interaction between countries (i.e. not so much that it would be standardized, but enough that it would be an issue): eventually everyone learns to write dates and times in both ways (14:00 / 2pm, 4/12 / 12 April). The Europeans think that they're translating for the "dumb Americans who can't count higher than 12", the Americans think they're translating for the "quirky Europeans who have to do everything special".

But to your question, yes 12:00 AM is midnight. It's the 12 o'clock that's at/after midnight, while 12:00 PM is the 12 o'clock that at/after noon.
Look at an analog 12-hour clock. Ask yourself what the "natural" way to read it at midnight would be (what number is the hour hand pointing towards)?
Fascinating. There is excitement in revolution, even if by objective measures it's worse than what came before, and people will get caught up in it, and even in some cases kill for it. And perhaps for a few people the lack of that excitement is equally fatal.
If like you missed doing it when defining the source, you can also go into your data sources list and the sidebar has a "make global" option.
I kinda agree with you, but I had conflicting feelings, one part of me was thinking oh this look so sweet but meanwhile another part was thinking wtf am I really reading about someone letting a bird live in her hair, not sure yet what to think about my time management capabilities sometimes
That's what biology is like. The binariness of human sex is much clearer than many distinctions in biology.
From the misleading headline, I'd agree. Imagining a bird roosting for 3 months in your hair is insane.

The article tells another story, though. She just raised a bird. She fed it, and it slept in a box. When it was old enough to do so, it would sit on her shoulder and tug her hair around itself.

Doesn't seem like such a big deal if you read the article.

Here's a video of the author, as provided in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgiMlnbDN6I
I think it makes sense in a world where reading a clock face is common (12 gradations repeating twice is easier to read at a glance than 24 gradations), but in a modern world that is international and the primary timekeeper is a phone, I don't think it is defensible.
Do Europeans just not have analog clocks or watches anymore?
> You can say or host whatever you want.

I doubt it. Even if you self-host, you can't guarantee you won't be DDOSed.
Well, first of all, I still eat delicious food prepared by restaurants and still drink :).

> practice the meditative process of creation that is cooking

I do not find it meditative at all, the actual cooking process is tolerable, but all the pre-work(shopping/managing ingredients) and post work(cleanup) is not worth it. The reward of delicious food does not outweigh the annoyance I get from those things.
EU Demands Interoperable Messaging
It’s not really software vs hardware, it’s the fixed function pipeline api vs the shader api.

The fixed function pipeline api only does one thing one way with a lot of limitations while the shader pipeline can basically do anything (doesn’t even have to be rendering a 3D scene) as long as it’s fast enough for your purpose.
So much of what you use today and the modern world runs on research and the scientific process in general, warts and all. Your comment is hubris at its finest, and insulting to researchers and teachers.
Yes.

I left security a few years ago because I saw the industry turning to shit. It's gotten worse since then, IMO.

What I see as the contributors to this, in no particular order:

- Computer security is growing much, much faster than software in general. This has attracted a lot of snake-oil salespeople, bullshit artists, and gold-rush types.

- The genuine security talent pool is very small, and not growing nearly fast enough to meet the genuine need. A lot of organizations end up staffing their security teams with incompetents because their only other option is not hiring anyone at all.

- Security education, training, and mindsets all seem stuck in the '00s. People who make the effort to learn about security end up learning a bunch of stuff that's simply not applicable to modern software, and they miss a bunch of stuff that turns out to be really important.

I can go on.
Thanks !

The bird's size matters a lot: It would be much more difficult to let this happen with these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_black-backed_gull
Putin is 100% acting according to his rational interests, it's just that his interests appear incomprehensible to us, who believe that progress is peace. Putin and his circle believe that progress is power, and they also believe that the reconstruction of Russian power is both needed and essential.

It turns out that a lot of stuff that Putin was saying was TRUE, not just Trump-style bluster. He does believe that Russia should own a sphere of influence, and that a sort of USSR 2.0 project is both viable and desirable. This is shocking to us (I myself was shocked when he decided to go for a full invasion instead of just expanding the Donetsk and Luhansk republics), but not so much to Ukrainians.

Basically we projected our values onto Putin and believed that he wanted to make his nation rich like the West. Turns out money for him is less important, relatively speaking, than direct power for Russia.

See this video from a Ukrainian analyst where he accurately predicts and explains the war in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xNHmHpERH8
The way to remember this that finally clicked for me is that 'A' means 'ante', 'P' means 'post', and 'M' means Meridian some Latin word that means the sun is directly overhead. Or more practically speaking: noon.

12:00 PM is noon because one minute later, the sun is past being directly above. That is, it's 12:01 Post Meridiem. Since it would obviously be nonsensical for 12:00 AM to be immediately followed by 12:01 PM, noon is 12:00 PM by convention.

Extending this logic to midnight is left as an exercise to the reader.

Don't feel bad, I don't think anybody explained this to me until I was almost 30.
Are you my father? He has the same photographic philosophy.
> he may have a responsibility, in regard to his own person, to make an answer to it

I will concede that existentialism of this sort is really the only honest philosophical alternative to pessimism. Ligotti dismisses it, but I can't remember why right at the moment.
But you can also say: "Do you know what 11:59PM means? 12:00PM is one minute after that"

Midday and midnight are the points at which AM/PM change and you can't logically differentiate them by appending AM or PM. You just have to know the arbitrary cultural convention that midday is PM.
Who are you "quoting"? Yourself?
To explain the joke, Danishes are called Wienerbrød in Denmark, aka Viennese Bread.
This is only ok as a way to know. The person could then argue "so one minute before 12:00 AM is 11:59 AM, right?" If the person's not familiar with the convention, it makes sense.
I agree with you, but to be fair this very practice is what gave us the Paris so many people love. It just wasn’t Le Courbusier but Haussmann.
I’m not Italian but I have two favorite reference books: The Silver Spoon[0] and American Sfoglino[1]

0: https://www.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/the-silver-spoon-978...
1: https://evanfunke.com/orderamericansfoglino
Why couldn't this be implemented as an extension in an existing browser?

Sending and detecting a different content type (e.g. text/kyu) that triggers (for now) a JS parser that renders the markup used into the HTML that the browser understands

This feels like the best way to get some adoption without having to build a whole new browser

Edit: it also means you could flex away from Markdown and develop your own markup language and parser as and when the need arises
This reminds me of one of my personal bugaboos, which seems especially bad in Microsoft Windows: windows that spawn child windows that require input focus, but that don’t grab focus leaving you typing into nothing at all!

Truly its crazy making.
I get the same effect on the vision when I drink more than espresso a day, or if I drink on empty stomach and the absorption is quicker. It goes away in a few minutes, but it’s scary the first time.

I believe it’s because caffeine has a vasoconstriction effect, it can reduce blood flow to the retina, the same happens on the brain (lots of small capillaries), that’s why people get headaches on coffee addiction too.
For historical reasons[0], with 12-hour clocks, 12 is generally treated as zero. A general fix for this is probably something like Linux locale settings. It's going to be a rather flawed solution, what with those settings being super complicated.

[0]- Lore is that the sundial and dividing the day into 12 sections happened before the invention of the number zero, but I don't know if this is accurate.
That seems like a pretty fair contract to accept to live in one of the the greatest free and fair societies that exists in the world.
What's the reasoning for that? I think the opposite is true, because open protocols allow a startup to interact with existing users, without needing to overcome the hard barrier of network effects. Closed protocols only help entrenched groups, and are actively harmful to both users and startups.
> quirky Europeans who have to do everything special

so how many quarter inches are the footegg fields these days?
> How do we solve this more universally?

Use this as an opportunity to realize that moving forward you need to be sure about times — especial for things that really matter. Using your European-ness and the fact that you’re an engineer isn’t an excuse. You can be disappointed in software and other people for the rest of your life and keep missing important appointments if that’s what you want.
This is the same America's Frontline Doctor's as this whole ordeal: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/a-fake-covid-19-press-confe...