skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes find myself wanting a Unix timestamp, or to convert one into a human-readable date, and usually it's simpler to go to an online tool than use time(1).

It might be nice to have a command line tool which can guess from the arguments what you want it to do. For example, if you run it with no arguments, it would output the current timestamp (to multiple levels of precision, listing the languages/platforms that typically use each one).
WARaft: An Erlang implementation of RAFT
Judge questions if Musk's acquisition may blow up Twitter free-speech lawsuit
I'm a physicist, but was never smart enough to grok particle physics. Today I work on measurement instruments.

Still, I think breaking the standard model is a good thing. It means there's more physics to be discovered.

Like Tolstoy said about happy families, successful physics theories are boring. In fact, if a fundamental theory is too successful, physicists start to get restless. The people who have a problem with breaking the standard model are those who were looking for a perfect final theory, or who wasted their time looking for its philosophical implications.
To me this was a well-written piece, and cogently makes a powerful argument. I tend to be supportive of right-to-die policies and positions, but this pointed out some of the very serious problems in how this is playing out. I'd think this was some alarmist dystopian fiction except that some of the cases being discussed are simply being cited as matters of fact.

The case of the woman with multiple chemical sensitivities alone should be setting off all sorts of safety brake alarms, if not for the existence of any right-to-die law, then for strict scrutiny in how it is implemented. There is no reason anyone in her situation should have come to fall under this legislation. Perhaps something is being gravely mischaracterized in the press (always a serious possibility), and hers was a case of classic suicide, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I suspect that simply outlawing euthanasia and related practices wholesale is just as unethical as unregulated euthanasia without comprehensive guidance. There are a lot of ethical issues at play that society at large seems to have its head in the sand with, and they need to be worked out for everyone's benefit. I've come to believe that suicide and euthanasia are sort of canaries for problems in society at large — we tend to be in denial about the actual reasons both come about, and too focused on the endpoints per se. People never die in a vacuum, and even when they seek to end their own lives one way or another there is often someone else's hand involved collectively to some extent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI
This could be simulated with a VM, or perhaps (maybe the underlying OS abstractions would alter the result) by simply killing the process?
Your observation is correct that for all practical intents and purposes, this March was as hot as the hottest March ever recorded since bookkeeping began in 1901.
Well, Newton's laws of motion are a direct result of cosmology/astrophysics.
This is a C vs Java argument. There are people who prefer each.

> when you get it right, there's nothing to second guess

Given the topic is "how to corrupt your db file," does that mean they didn't get it right yet? Or that the underlying platform prevents them from getting it right?
Or inserting the occasional Task.Run() calls, as means to avoiding changing the whole call stack up to Main().
Ink is known to be found in the blood for a bit of time after the tattoo (people can’t even donate for a year after where I live?).

So it is not that surprising to find it in lymph nodes whose very purpose is to accumulate foreign things in the body and possibly make them “meet” with immune cells. Also, tattoos are not completely static structures, they are tiny ink droplets that do get collected by our body — we are just unable to handle a certain size of them. Tatto removal works exactly by breaking up the ink to smaller pieces which our cells can handle.
3,866,880+ flights!
Undergraduates are typically exposed to Freud and Maslow as merely historical figures whose theories are no longer in play.
There's an important qualifier to that saying: it only applies if the motion is relevant to the task at hand. Smoothly doing the dishes will not make your shooting faster.

That might sound obvious, but it's not always. Having commonly used tools on a central toolboard instead of at each workbench makes it seem like part of the task to go to the toolboard, when in practise it's an irrelevant wasteful side-task. You can improve how smoothly (quickly) you go to the toolboard, but the improvement in speed comes from moving the tools to the workbenches again.

Likewise, smoothly doing paperwork of the sort we're discussing here will make your paperwork faster but it won't improve your first-order work.
Depends on how you define headless, but the fact is, I'm rarely logged into it, and there's no mouse nor keyboard connected, nor any X server running.
iOS allows open source. You just have to prove you own the application is full.
I'm not a java programmer. I tried clicking 3 layers deep of links, but still have no idea what virtual threads are in this context. Is it a userspace thread implementation?

I've used explicit context switching syscalls to "mock out" embedded real time OS task switching APIs. It's pretty fun and useful. The context switching itself may not be any faster than if the kernel does it, but the fact that it's synchronous to your program flow means that you don't have to spend any overhead synchronizing to mutexes, queues, etc. (You still have them, they just don't have to be thread safe.)
This can be made much more powerful by McFly, I recommend: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
I do not know of any place like that in the US, and would run afoul of this SC ruling I think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._Sch...
It would be hard for anyone thinking carefully about climate change not to have considered the possibility that they are not right, given the decades of relentless, well-funded industry propaganda making such claims, to which you have apparently fallen victim.
Thanks for sharing! I think these restarts could definitely be implemented as a library in Clojure with the help of a coroutine library like https://github.com/leonoel/cloroutine#guides
No need to argue in circles here, but I can't see how one posits a "meta-stable Conway game of life" while eschewing an "operating system".

Much hinges on definitiona here. And there isn't much need to continue this further here. Cheers!
The brain/spinal coord is commonly divided at the start of the brain stem. By all accounts, the cerebellum is part of the brain.
Most people quitting twitter would be a great boon for society. So many people angrily yelling nothing of import into the ether.
A better article than I expected. Several reflection-worthy bits. What does it say about us when we pay so much attention to Twitter, Facebook, etc?
You make a great example here. Many folks are not expert in economics or social scientists and they criticize them to no end with no actual understanding. Maybe that's the problem of the scientists/researchers not being able to communicate the statistics and real understanding of uncertainty... which is exactly what Michael Lewis discusses in the article. It's not just lay people, but even scientists in different domains, who should know better, will criticize fields outside their expertise often with no real understanding.

If you want to understand why Americans don't trust experts, look to weaponized disinformation campaigns started by the Soviets, continued on by Koch and big oil. The PBS Frontline special on Big Oil in illuminating. Many resources on the history of Soviet and Russian disinformation campaigns.

These things exploit our fear that politicians lie to us. And not wrongly because some do and that results in terrible things. But they also prevent us from making progress.
When people hear "concentration camp," they think about the Nazi camps during WWII where people were gassed, starved or worked to death. They don't think of a large makeshift hospital that you go to for 10 days, in which you're given 3 hot meals a day, and in which you spend your time lying in bed, trying to fight off boredom by scrolling your smartphone.

This sort of hyperbolic language is silly, and is disrespectful to the memory of people who perished in actual concentration camps.
Christianity was not really a small religion in the earliest centuries of the Common Era. It was adopted by the Roman elite relatively quickly, partly because its unique cosmopolitanism and appeal among the lower classes meant it meshed very well with the open-minded Stoic ideals that would've been common back then.
If you want to be sure, look for SSDs that have a power capacitor. These mostly exist in the enterprise devices.
I always thought that I want to switch to a credit card for miles.

I researched it and I believe this is just a very weird mix of USA and people spending just a lot of money.

Like I can imagine that if you still don't know what a automatic bank wire.is, you might just put everything on a credit card like utility etc.

Or there are people who are living their lives in hotels like consultant who use their cc to pay for company expenses and get rebursed later.
> Shell if the Army and Air Force continue to get all the attention in Ukraine

This is a great point that I started thinking about 2-3 days ago, i.e. that the present war in Ukraine is, almost by definition, a continental war (think Napoleon or the Eastern Campaign in WW2), and, as such, that an organisation like the US Navy might feel like it has been left out (like this quote actually emphasises). At which point it gets tricky when it comes to justify your budget, as in: "why should we assign so much money to the Navy when we're most worried about a continental war?".

The "solution" that I saw in my head for this dilemma (from the POV of the Navy) was a re-emphasis on Taiwan and on China, i.e. trying to bring forward (again) the danger that the Chinese pose to Taiwan and to SE-Asia more generally speaking. That's a lot of sea/ocean for the Navy to cover and protect.
Someone added conditions/restarts to Clojure: https://github.com/IGJoshua/farolero

It does allow errors to be caught by the Repl and choose how to handle them.

Honestly though, I haven't found the interactive restarts at the REPL useful. It's way faster to just re-evaluate the code again.

Maybe in CL they are more useful because the language is full of mutation? I can't say, I've only ever done Clojure and Emacs Lisp, but in Clojure I tried that library, and found picking options at the REPL to handle the condition was more laborious than just fixing whatever or adding a catch and pressing Ctrl+Enter again.
Purely from a maintenance perspective I would rather somebody use popcnt instructions (if available) over hand-rolling a bit counting algorithm.
I was on a bus that caught fire but it was a diesel so it didn't make the papers.

It was one of SF Muni's trolley lines up a ludicrously steep hill, which had been temporarily substituted with diesel coaches for a day because of a detour. The coach was crush-loaded in Chinatown as is typical and it was grinding up the hill at a walking pace with the engine roaring at wide-open throttle when it suddenly exploded in a fireball, probably based on my guesswork a blown gasket followed by ignition of a cloud of oil and fuel.

In my current town we have a fleet of hydrogen fuel cell coaches and their potential explosive nature does not concern me.
The global consciousness thing stems from the neural-net like search features of Twitter. You find unexpected and real-time updates on any subject imaginable. Often a Google or DuckDuckGo search query is no match for Twitter's search feature.

It's the closest thing to hacking the world's hive-mind, however cobbled together it is. IMHO the more people that use it the better. We can create a sort of better noosphere[0] than the current one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
I think you've fallen victim to propaganda about how much propaganda each side has put out.
Native VM support instead an additional library faking it, and filling .class files with needless boilerplate.
Sabine went on full rant/iconoclastic/grudge mode IMO recently. It's a shame, as she a good communicator, but I just see myself skipping her content when it pops up.

“I left the field because it's a paper production machine that adds no value to society” without substantiation is simply a frustration ridden meme.
Feels very weird to me too. The problem is that PC meant something much more specific at the time and nobody would have called the Spectrum or even an Amiga or Macintosh a PC.
We operate with a cattle and pet model [0], and we use a lot of services on that cattle servers. Their power can go out, disks can go bad, hardware can fry. We've seen a lot of things. As an HPC center, we absolutely hammer what we have.

Even manufacturers baffled how we can fry our servers. We're eating memory controllers in one generation, and on board NICs were being cooked on others for example.

XFS and EXT4 can handle a lot of abuse, incl. power loss without any problems during a heavy write. Regardless of the services we run, we didn't loss any data during a power outage, and for us, power outage means "power outage during full load".

Making sure that your scientific computation can continue from the point you left it is a big business. Nobody wants to lose three weeks or a month just because a server gave out its magic smoke.

[0]: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle/
The axons are just as important as the neurons. While neural networks are not good analogues of the real thing, one can imagine that no matter the neurons, without weights between them it would be utterly useless. The cerebrum is chock full of axons.
Atlassian doubles the number of orgs affected by two week outage
The conversation is about GPS for the general public and google maps.

Those things emerged for the general public circa 2010.

So 1970 to 2010 that's 40 years not 20. Also those who paid the lionshare of that were of course not young but in their 50 or 60, because that's the demographic which pays more taxes.

Highly unlikely they got to see it.

That's the reason why every person talking about space should know that the state goes out for them to take money from people's pockets.

A brief stint into an insurance company, pension fund, Sovreign wealth fund or hedge funds would render them much more pragmatic about costs and tradeoffs.
Everyone who ever lived thought they were in the "the most important time".

However, our generation is the first to be capable of totally destroying human civilization. That makes us somewhat special.
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I'm fine with gensym and prefer it over scheme macros. But schemers have a lot to criticize on unhygienic macros.
Because there are two distinct layers to the system, the clearinghouse to its members, and its members (brokerages) to their customers. All the clearinghouse cares about is that the member can put up the collateral on the day of trade, and on the day of settlement they show up with the rest of the money. Whether the clearinghouse member's customer paid for their stock in cash or on margin doesn't concern them. There isn't a mechanism for robinhood (or any other brokerage) to tell the clearinghouse "hey this trade is 100% good because the customer is buying it with settled cash in his account, so waive the collateral requirement".

I think what you're trying to ask is that if clearinghouse somehow knew that a given buy order would be good (ie. was paid with settled cash), then this whole fiasco wouldn't have occurred. That's true, and that's essentially what T+0 settlement is (ie. you have to come up with all the money on the day of trade).
Doesn't point 1.2 (backing up the file in the middle of a transaction) contradict the part above about how SQLite is resistant to power failures and simply rolls back the incomplete transaction? You'd just end up with a db outdated by 1 transaction, which is fine for a backup anyway.
The security, at least in the US, is distinctly substandard.
High Concentrations of Floating Life in the North Pacific Garbage Patch
You can’t just replace a material like that in something as large as a ship.

You need to have the right toughness, ductility, fatigue, etc.

Steel varies a lot. You can buy a 1000 page book that just lists different steels, along with their material properties.

Saying “just use stainless” is kinda like saying “just 3d print it” or “just make it out of carbon fiber”
The guy in the top picture looks like he's just cleaned out his desk after being laid off.
Thank you. Not looking to sell them, but will check out the groups.
With C++ co-routines and a runtime like HPX, not really.

However there are other reasons why a C++ applications connected to the internet might indeed die faster than a Java one.
> In the context of 100 years of electric buses, 10 years is still quite new.

No, If we were talking about the effects of some Tech in Human health I would agree with this sort of cautionary principle.

In the context of electronics, lithium batteries are a 46BN dollar market. Modern manufacturing is producing billions of assemblies and power electronics with well known quality assurance, failure-modes, MTTF, etc.

In the context of modern manufacturing processes and volume 10 years is an eternity.
You found it! I rewrote my comment like six times because I think the rigorous notation where the signal is a function of t is a little messy for a HN comment. I tried picking a notation that was less intimidating and wasn't too obviously inconsistent.
"In an age where information moved so slowly"

Information would move quite fast within the Roman empire, especially in the Mediterranean basin. There was a neverending circular movement of goods and people there. Soldiers, mariners, businesspeople, bureaucrats, learned men. Getting from Roman Palestine to Greece by ship was probably faster than getting from Roman Palestine to interior Syria by caravan.
There are many sacrificial zincs on ships, including in tanks.
Is it self actualization if you do it for the dopamine fix?
Rust is a canary in a coal mine and a wilting rose at a vineyard.

https://www.entrevinosypagos.com/en/plantamos-rosas-los-vine...
Mostly communication, relations, design, money making. All of these are saturated. Choose one, try a few solutions, build your own with better features.
I continue to hope that Twitter, the One True Ring and Arbiter of All That Is Culturally Relevant, is metaphorically thrown into the lava. No one entity should have this level of power.

Whatever takes its place will likely be a shadow of Twitter’s size, and risks being confined to smaller demographics. These are all features, not bugs.

We will one day look back at this time and see how insane it is to take a website with a freeform, limited size text input field so seriously.
AppSumo Part II: A Year Later
They actually have some interesting positions like this one at Visa Research: https://usa.visa.com/careers/job-details.jobid.7439998204732...
You know what? A brute-force formula finding engine I made, which I call the Guesser 2.0 (it's the second version), might speed that up a lot, like twice the number of symbols in the functions it finds, in the same amount of time.

Can you elaborate on the Prolog problem so I can tell if it's a good fit? Guesser 2.0 specifically reduces the search space of naive search.
Relevant post: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/refor...
> Someone with poor professional skills might feel more pressure to compensate by "looking sharp".

To look sharp and fit you HAVE to be disciplined. That's a fact. Yours, is a speculation. That is a difference.

Notice that I have never said that being a disciplined individual, which is a fact for who takes lots of care about himself implies a better professional, or a more self disciplined worker.

That being said, imho, there is a correlation between those things. If someone has good self discipline often he can probably translate this at a place of work or study.
Landing a job you have no qualifications for, with no deadlines, building internal tools at your own pace, and becoming a multimillionaire in the process? Sounds like a pretty good gig!
this makes sense. Users who don't know what they are doing should be dissuaded. Those that do know what they are doing will not be dissuaded. Given the potential security consequences the warning approach is entirely appropriate.
But of course, a blog post is not proof of income. A properly filled out tax form is.

So yes: California absolutely wants you to show that the over 25% contribution by one (or more) of its resident(s) amounted to an income of $0. They are not going to take your word for it, because your word is no good: fill out the paperwork to prove your claim. If you don't, it would be far more reasonable to assume that your business had enough income to pay for their employee (which typically costs a company twice what they actually pay in gross salary), which by definition is a non-zero amount (because under contract law there has to be an exchange of value for a contract to legally exist: you cannot be contracted to work for free).
I don’t know if I would agree — I think monero is what people thought Bitcoin should be; however Satoshi spoke of psuedonymity and transparency.

Don’t get me wrong, monero is an awesome protocol pushing ahead with some great constructions but it is highly experimental. The low order group bug, and the recent bulletproofs frozen vuln demonstrates that a zero-knowledge system is very fragile. Bitcoin is very robust.
Your comment reminded me of The Story of Mel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
> There should be a better way to figure out what my execution environment looks like than trial and error.

To be fair, once you start to be bothered with how many threads you get, I'd argue you are already way outside of AWS Lambda's domain and well inside plain old ECW/ECS territory.

Keep in mind that AWS Lambdas are appropriate for a) glue code to plug together AWS events b) offload seldomly-ran background tasks, c) rarely executed tasks, such as a terribly simple REST API that is simpler to develop and maintain as a API Gateway+Lambda app instead of, say, express/spring/flask/whatever.

Once your requirements don't unquestionably fit any of these scenarios, you have to take a very hard look at what you're doing to explain why aren't you just rolling your own web service and instead you're opting to both pay a premium and increase your maintenance needs.
Reminds me of the golden gate bridge
She wrote a book about this topic.

So the claim that there is no substantiation is false. You just didn't bother to find out.
Yes iirc, but bans were throttled (N bans per hour), and by banning someone, you make yourself vulnerable to a ban, because you have to reply to their post.
Some HN comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263854
Why I like Bugs
I don't know why people think I'm interested in talking about the fees. I'm responding to the quote that "Like most monopolies the quality and price of service is not actually that good." The price may be a ripoff, but the quality of the service is good. The reason you can pick a random CC from your wallet without thinking and it just works is because of the oligopoly. Credit cards 'just work' virtually everywhere, and that is a huge part of what it means for a payment system to be high-quality.

What other payment system currently offers the same speed, ubiquity, reliability, and fraud protection to consumers? If I'm going to travel the world, I'm going to rely on Visa/Mastercard for a reason.