skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much enjoyed this comprehensive piece on UTC and handling time in code by Zach Holman

https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right
No this is wrong.

Even from a cynical, financial perspective, it's and ideological statement not grounded in economic reality.

The UK Royals bring vastly more value to the UK in prestige, soft power and tourism, than the paltry sum they are afforded, almost all of which is effectively state related.

The amount spent on UK Royals is negligible in the context of the overall budget - and it's spent on the 'office', not on the individuals.

From a 'Marketing ROI' perspective, there's probably no better investment.

More practically, those individuals actually do a 'job' - they as individuals are not the same thing as their positions; it's a fallacy to suggest that 'They Get Money!'. They don't. The effective 'Branch of Government' does. Do you think that arbitrary billionaires would sink $50M into 'Windsor Castle Repairs'? Of course not. Almost all of the expenditures are effectively state related.

Moreover, these 'capitalist insinuations' are effectively falshoods. The Firm has to stay a country mile away from any kind of real business dealings.

Do you know how much The Firm could actually rake in, if they wanted to / were allowed to? They're worth many Billions in brand endorsements. Prince William shilling for Land Rover? Kate for British Airways? That alone is north of $100M over even a short period.

In Canada, they have a Governor General - nobody would suggest that their offices and residence, and all the fanfare, amount to some kind of 'property'.

And all of that doesn't even touch on the historical aspects of the institutions.

These arguments are grounded in a kind of populist jealousy - The Queen 'does more' for the UK than say, LeBron James does for the US. And he's now a billionaire, and can spend that Billion any way he likes. The Queen really can't. 'Elizabeth' is not free to spend 'The Queen's' money.

'The Politics of Obedience' is equally populist: "why is it that a minority of rulers can remain in power over a majority of subjects who pay all the taxes."

? Because the leadership of any group will always be relatively small, irrespective of their means of ascension to power, legitimacy, competency.

The French Revolution, as a matter of focus on 'rights' was a good idea, but concern over the King's Estate was populist stupidity.

King Louis 'stuff' never really did cost that much, his wars, i.e. 'affairs of state' were what always killed the Treasury.

'Repairs to Windsor Castle', in relative terms, cost almost nothing.

As a really crude analogy, UK Royals are like a 'living' version of Notre Dame Cathedral. It's not like even the most ardent anti-Catholics would want to tear it down 'because maintenance costs!'.

The older I become, the more I become suspicious of the absolutist orientation we have towards many of our modern values. We want to replace everything with some kind of egalitarian variation of TikTok. It's all nice and fun, but I'm becoming more inclined to think almost anything with any degree of actual authenticity should be preserved and upheld.

I'm not what you would call a 'Royalist' but I think we're far better off with them than not, even though I accept there are good arguments either way.
that sounds like a serious side-effect of eating too much Ramen, I'm definitely going to avoid it.

on edit: A cure has been found https://web.archive.org/web/20220605125826/https://www.thehe...
Insider Trading 'Common' in NFTs, Investors Say After First Arrest
Do you think has Brexit affected the tech side of UK in the international market?
>this article makes me think about hooking up some microphones in the woods and catching the progression of birds into frogs into rain sounds into birds that happens every night...and you could have a new "episode" every day.

I absolutely would listen to that nearly every work day.

Pre-pandemic, I would use 'Forrest Bathing' YT channels mixed in with my favorite music while in the office. The longer the sample of ambient sounds, the better, as I wouldn't have to pause or restart the video. I've kept this up since WFH started.

After months of daily listening, I found that a lot of 'Forrest Bathing' channels would use soundboards, would loop an hour long sample for 10+ hours, would splice in other samples from other places (I could tell from the bird species' calls), etc.

The authentic, 10+ hour long, sampled from a single spot, aurally interesting, no edits, no soundboards, 'Forrest Bathing' videos are very rare [0] and I wish there would be more of them.

The key would be to find aurally interesting areas around you. I've found that the fauna tend to be most active crepuscularly, meaning that the middle of the video can be a bit boring, especially for night videos. Day videos can have animal husbandry to fill in the gaps during mid-day.

Part of the allure of the videos is the 'romance' of the associated visual components. If you can set a video camera up along with the high quality audio, that's just golden. Even though I'm almost never looking at the video, just knowing that I am actually listening to the real sounds of the Yukon, or the Amafi Coast, or a small English hedge, etc, it really makes it for me and makes me feel like that small little box I'm in isn't so bad, that I am actually traveling the world a bit still, that my life is richer and more 'real' in some small way.

[0] I've found a few channels, and even then, the 'good' videos are very few. Yes, I am super picky with this, I can't help it.
Is there an audio file format with teletext?
been using it for 4+ years, no complains and it keeps getting better. each upgrade is super simple: just stop the service, replace that one single binary, and start the service.
Bosses wanting a return to office face off with workers who want to stay home
Edit: I need to learn to summarisy my thoughts better. What I'm saying below and above is that the expected value of live kidney donation to society is misapplied to calculate the value of live kidney donation to the donor. We tacitly accept as a society that some people will die so that others may get a new kidney. That has nothing to do with the value that one person donating a kidney places over another person's health (and not life, because you're not "saving" lives).

Although I understand your comment much better than the OP -4000 to 1, not 1/4000- those maths don't make any sense at all to me. First of all, nobody saves anyone by donating a kidney. You certainly don't "save" an entire person that way. You add some quality-adjusted years of life to their life expectancy, but that's all. And they're not that many, average is about 10. So at best you can say that each person donating a kidney is "helping" or "supporting" one other person.

So it makes no sense to say that 3999/4000th of a person is "saved" or "helped" or whatever by one's _personal_ sacrifice. If I was the person dying while donating my kidney, my death would not equal 4000 people living, or living longer. It would mean my life ending for one person's life lasting a little while longer.

One person! That's how many people are directly affected by one person's donation of a kidney. To claim that it's 4000 instead, is just sophistry with fractions. Or rather, it's an oversimplification because understanding the trade-off between one entire life and 10-ish quality adjusted years of life is too hard and does not easily support self-aggrandising statements.

Look at it the other way: you won't let 4000 people die by refusing to donate a kidney. But this is more or less what is claimed in the two opinions above. Everydobdy who does not donate a kidney is an asshole who values their own life more than that of 4000 strangers.
Well I never ever expose RDP to the internet directly. Allow only office IP or setup some VPN/jumphost via ssh whatever.

I trust SSH much more than RDP to not have RCE/auth bypass bugs. SSH is also much easier to setup key auth or 2FA than in RDP if one like they mentioned in post are more used to setting up Linux boxes.

After reading this blog post - I would not send any logs to their servers.
> If people are still getting caught in this trap, though, I'd be interested to see more? (And potentially write more on why it's not a good application of EA thinking.)

A big problem for me is that the various huge income differences exist in large part due to systemic violence. A factory worker makes $N, a software developer makes $50N supporting ads selling the factory's product, and the profits are largely captured by the super rich making $100000N. Violence -- colonialism, authoritarianism, wage slavery, nationalism and so on -- is required to make this happen and keep it going.

I'm not involved with "effective altruism" as a movement, only as the general concept of giving money in a numerically effective way. So numerically the situation is that for every $1 a high income person in a developed country considers donating, they may have done more than $1 in damage to get it; or some part of that $1 was earned through some absolutely evil means; or both. This depends on the job but once you reach the bar of, let's say twice the U.S. personal median income, it's virtually certain. So there is no way to reach ethical parity: it would be digging your way out of a hole.

Existing people need to eat and live so they must participate in the system as best they can. But once the essentials are gotten along with some small treats like ice cream, things become much more difficult ethically. The extra money is blood money, and what can a person do with that?

This feels like a pretty standard critique though I don't know if it counts as a "misery trap" if that is a technical term. I'm sure it's been discussed before and would be interested in knowing how "EA" people resolve it.
In this case they're probably recordings, but you could imagine that they'd be procedurally generated in which case not necessarily. A call to `Math.random()` is a finite length 'file' but won't repeat.
Not my project. I was also going to post yours but decided not to due to questions in issues about support for newer versions of windows. Something about IP address missing from event?
Curves are just plain tricky, and are a skill that requires practice. I recommend tracing a shape in a photograph, especially one that has a mix of soft and hard angles and edges. Be patient with yourself, practice it like an instrument, and in a week or so you’ll have it down!
what company is that?
>My take on cryptocurrency has become: it’s also all gambling

I have the same feeling towards the stock market. Sure, it can be well researched information on the stock in question, but it's all a bet your interpretation of that stock is right.
So does this work on other operating systems or just macos?
swgoh has a multi hundred k cot to max everything
Have you tried to find someone to work with on a 20% project? I have found working on them with a coworker or two to be a lot of fun.
"So pretty much, my entire career is built on one amazing stroke of luck."

This, to me, is the buried lede. Much of success is due to luck. Not all; some people on balance are more talented and persistent and hard working than lucky. Others have more luck (a referral, inside info for helping them prep, etc.). I just landed a new job that I am quite confident I would not have been considered for without a referral from someone close to me working for the company already.

After multiple rounds of interviews and assessments I am confident they feel I am a good match, but without the luck of that referral I very well may not have gotten past the call with the recruiter.
I wish c++ could get away with this. But the two languages (c++ and rust) explore slightly different parts of the design space.
Would you have the same objection if the guy were teaching his kid how to use a screwdriver?
When I was a recruiter, I was using recruiting software that scanned GitHub for email addresses back in 2014.
You might find this helpful : https://bezier.method.ac/ although I wouldn’t spend too much time on it. Rather, you should try to find some YouTube videos that show you how to produce the general style of art you are specifically trying to create. You might find some more advanced tips and tricks other than the quite narrow drag and click techniques this tool will help you with.
relatedly, the only good reason to stop a trial early is that it becomes unethical not to treat the control group because the effect size in the treatment group is so huge. And it does happen, sometimes.
Some of California's rural communities are already tapped out of groundwater
Wearing my Tinfoil Hat: I see a looming, hypnotically-self-induced recession, manufactured precisely so that workers (incl. those who tend to hang on HN) feel more insecure and thus feel less empowered to say "No" to back-to-the-office mandates, thereby rescuing the rent-seeking classes from a Covid hangover. The timing is just too convenient...

(Only half joking...)
OpenBSD's Unveil()
Why so aggressive? What's the problem with the pen? The idea the OP proposes is to use it as a spring board to get a discussion going, I'm sure a pen, a keyboard or a interpretive dance would all work for what they're proposing
Particularly as the plays are obviously based on those translations regardless of who wrote them, and the better read parts of the audience would probably have appreciated recognising the quotes.
sigh

Why? Krita never worked right, even in macOS latest or in Ubuntu 18.04 when it was new.

My Ubuntu 18.04 is extremely stable, nothing else crashes (not regularly anyway, there's no OS in the world where apps won't occassionally crash). And I game with Steam on it and use it for mostly everything, and it's an extremely stable, pleasant environment.

Finally, there's a complete logical disconnect here: OSes don't magically become unstable as they age. That's magical thinking. If anything, newer, less proven versions are more likely to be unstable.

And finally finally, other people in this thread are complaining about Krita's instability, so I'm not an outlier.

Please, address what I actually wrote. Thanks.
Well, there is a lot of scholarship refuting the snobby argument, including the book referenced in the reply. "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare" covers this too, with lots of analysis of back and forth competitive poetry and passages between Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights like Marlowe, who knew Shakespeare well. Seems odd to imagine that they would also be involved in a coverup.
For grocery shopping in Cambridge, I'd be some combination of Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and H-Mart. Yes, there are a few specialty markets and bakeries but those are almost certainly occasional things. CVS pharmacy. Maybe a hardware store if I need something routine and small. And restaurants of course. But besides buying consumables, mostly food and mostly at bigger chains, I'm not sure what all the small stores I'd be going into would be.
I’ve been running local Gitea for about 4 years. It works great, no complaints here. I mirror my GitHub repos (and sensitive repos I don’t want to trust on GitHub) and back up the hard drives with BackBlaze.
I'd be curious about how many developers actually start their Open Source journey with such a drive-by contribution, compared with how many do it only for the t-shirt. While every new productive contributor is an incredible win for an Open Source project, sifting and rejecting drive-by pull requests puts severe load on projects that mostly rely on voluntary contributions. All of this just to allocate some t-shirts. Not surprised if commercial projects will completely opt out of hacktoberfest if this continues.

The simplest solution would be to eliminate the rule that started to encourage this behavior. It's sad, but this is why we can't have nice things.
The concept of negative yields recognizes that owning capital can entail obligations to the public. It effectively turns money into a boomerang. If you have too much and don't want it, you ought to give it to someone who has too little.

The way the current economic system is structured fools people into believing money is their private property, as if the people who are dependent on that money are obedient servants. Hence governments must keep deficit spending for all eternity as the boomerang isn't returning.
Who did it? The gamers playing those games you just steamrolled, or the investors in the gaming companies that mandated to do whatever to make games more profitable? What generation those investors came from isn't relevant as these types of investors are in every generation as investors were not required to be gamers but just "savvy" business types.
>and many unique in English.

I believe by unique here they must mean found only in two places.

on edit: which is an unique definition actually.
Not quite the case. Reading a book requires a focus on word and sentence structure, a level of attention, that listening to an audio recording doesn't really match. At the least reading requires basic literacy. Thus, listening and reading aren't the same. Writing by any means or dictating text on the other hand both make you have to focus on exactly how you say things in the clearest possible way. This makes them much more similar.
Yeah, Kodak was a lot less a photography company and a lot more a specialized chemistry company. Utterly changing the core focus of a large company is very difficult to pull off because they spent decades optimizing everything to the original core focus.
> the opposite of what you think.

Well, no, I didn’t make the claim that it was the cheapest. It is competitively priced, however, which is important, and both technically and politically achievable. Anyway the other person claimed that if onshore became even cheaper that onshore would gain favor over offshore. Yet, it’s already apparently significantly cheaper. So why isn’t it more favorable already?

There are motivations beyond purely cost…it’s a lot easier to have larger-scale offshore wind than onshore (are there 15MW+ turbines in the onshore pipeline?) with less nuisance and better wind resource. It’s not really feasible to transport the components for such massive wind turbines onshore. Multi-gigawatt scale onshore wind farms don’t exist (the largest I noticed after a quick search is only 350MW). Offshore can be so much bigger…Dogger Bank, when it’s fully realized, will be almost 14 times larger than the current largest onshore wind farm in the UK.
I misunderstood you, apologies, point taken.

But not agreed with. 'Asteroid sometime' != 'climate change happening now'. So degree is not in size but likelihood.

Also climate change is independent of phat rock from space, it does not exclude it.
Yes and 95% of users have no idea this feature exists.
France has a floor on the percentage each descendant gets.
I too learned BASIC when I was 12 and often felt alienated from my peers.

Turns out the alienation was from being a know-it-all, argumentative asshole and had very little to do with my programming skills. Most of my classmates probably would have found the programming somewhat interesting had I not lofted it over their heads as a badge of self superiority.
Clickable links:

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/goodbye-edge/

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/i/c07u7kr...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28674883

[4] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677432

[6] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i/

https://gitlab.com/putre/frontend/-/issues/16

https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/tree/develop/ShareX.Uploade...

https://github.com/ShareX/CustomUploaders

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There's also this that I left out due to limits:

Option 4:

Because someone is going to mention it anyway: try something crazy like IPFS.

I looked at ipfs.pics, but they say you should now use IPFS Companion instead.

I have doubts about the reliability and long term availability of anything you share via these less traditional solutions. Even if the content itself would survive, your method of linking to the content probably won't, and no one will go down the rabbit hole just to see the screenshot in your comment. Similar problems as web3 in general.
Maybe I am not talking to the real HAL9000...

https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/2001-a-space-odyssey/cha...
The captive portal check is a cookieless, cacheless request. Sure, you could argue Google "has your IP address" but it's a pretty absurd thing to worry about.
Even if it were possible to happen repeatedly wouldn't the prior generation be immediately able to out compete (immediately consume) the nascently developed life?
I don't think it is that hard to verify what the client does with your data. It is right there in the source.

> Since version 3.15.0 Signal for Android has supported reproducible builds.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

I haven't tried to compare a local Android build to the published version myself, so can't directly confirm the accuracy of this document.

Either way, I agree that a released build can slip by unnoticed by most users. This is not a problem unique to Signal though.

At least with Signal you have the option to verify a build before updating. You can also build and run the entirely open source client yourself, which makes verification redundant.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote, but the word "fraud" itself implies a distinction between perceived and actual value.
Doesn’t happen to me. Based in the US.
I have been following the World Economic Forum articles and talks about smart money: a digital currency that knows how it is used and by whom, can be 'turned off' for some types of purchases, etc. What Norway may do is just a small precursor to what the WEF crowd wants.

Sadly, I think regular people have lost the class war. As a libertarian this should drive me nuts, but as a practical matter I tend to accept the world as it is, and plan my life accordingly. In other words, 'play the current position on the chessboard.'
Isn’t that mission accomplished from the EU perspective, though? Whether they don’t care very much and left, or whether they care a lot and left, as long as the level of caring was sufficient that they were forced to take the gambling for kids stuff with them that seems like a win. The alternative is to not care at all and keep selling in the EU anyway even if it’s made illegal, which seems unlikely at the level of scale it’s happening today.
> that still rings somewhat true.

Their respective earning reports make it more than just "somewhat" true.
When I interviewed at Microsoft the same thing happened. The final interviewer asked me a question I had already solved while studying.

I told him I had already seen the question before and knew the answer. He said that’s fine and just had me show him the solution.

We used the extra time to just chat about my interests and side projects and I got the offer anyway.

So it doesn’t matter, you didn’t “cheat” any more than I did.
No, all in construction costs for a typical 40 story high rise divided by number of saleable square feet equate to much higher cost per square feet than the average suburban housing development. I’ve seen very credible figures that indicates it’s at least a 2x multiple even for a barebones apartment building with no amenities at all

And that’s before the expensive taxes, permits, etc., that cities charge on top for downtown or high rise construction, which as you say partially subsidizes suburbia.
So in reality it’s more around triple the cost per square foot in a North American city.

The only reason apartments bigger than a shoebox are affordable at all is because land acquisition costs when divided by hundreds of units is obviously far lower than for even the narrowest cookie cutter tract.
Not just any playing cards, but hanafuda cards, which fascinatingly evolved alongside government gambling crackdowns specifically to be resistant to gambling: "Though they can still be used for gambling, its structure and design is less convenient than other decks such as Kabufuda." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda#History