skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4. Don’t sleep too much. Oversleeping also comes at the cost of time you’ll never get back. Moreover, there’s a good amount of evidence that sleeping more than you need is bad for you. Usually people will tell you to get more sleep, but I think this is the wrong direction for many people. The sweet spot seems to be somewhere around 7-7.30 hours, although again this is a genetic thing and can vary!

> Some people claim that this is purely psychological and that you can train yourself to get by on four hours a night, but this has never worked for me. I’m making the weaker claim: there is a big difference between 7 hours and 9 hours, you can do a lot with those 2 hours, and often if you’re a 9 hour sleeper you can become a 7 hour sleeper, which will end up compounding if you use those extra 2 hours well. [2] So it’s worth adopting the resolution to sleep less than you want to.

My SO would be horrified; I say something to this effect every night as I squeeze in "one more thing" after work, feeling that I need this time if my projects aren't going to stall between my days off, but I know they don't handle our sleep schedule as well as I do and that I ought to be more considerate-- perhaps for my own good as well.
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com # REQUIRED for meaningful productivity
https://bgp.he.net/AS812#_bogons

They announced 216.176.216.0/21.
2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe

1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto

1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo (same incident as previous)

1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi

1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi (initially survived assassination attempt, but succumbed to his wounds)

1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi

1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi

See also:
1878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_not...
Started coding a replacement /s
This seems like whining because your advertising is getting taken down more than anything else.
In the article, it mentions that the Canadian government blocked this merger. I believe it said that was in April though. Has that changed, or did I misread what the reporting said? Just want to clarify in case I missed something.
That would make sense, since only Interac relies on Rogers, and it processes debit cards, not credit cards.
AWS uses something it calls "cells" absolutely everywhere, as a basic unit of scaling and fault boundary. I'm not sure this link has much to do with it though. I skimmed through it and didn't really recognize it as the same concept; this looks entirely unrelated and weird to me.

(I work at AWS.)
Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal
This wasn’t a critical security report.
_WHY_ is it down?
You can if you use cellular data to transact with Bitcoin, not everyone is using the Rogers network, but the banks in Canada were.

So no online banking, withdrawals, payments in affected parts Canada.
But not a x86 VM right? Only an ARM build of Windows I thought.
Hydrogen will be a fuel. Except for synfuels, nothing has the necessary energy density for a huge of use cases.
I am not naturally a doom merchant, but with the disease of this nature it is likely that by the time the country knows it has a problem it is already well established. We know already that the population of specific interest does not generally follow advice on limiting the spread of such diseases very rigorously. Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong this time, but I doubt it. Behaviours tend not to change.
Apple does the same thing with iOS. So far the company with the best lock down seems to be winning.
A lot of American cops die in incidents completely unrelated to apprehending dangerous people. Things like car crashes. And COVID.

Meanwhile, being a garbage man is still more dangerous.
I got confused and thought something was wrong with my internet
Amazon makes money from every pirated book sold. Maybe book publishers lack the clout of the music publishers?
I had loads of +5 Funny comments there about 20 years ago. Hard to believe, I know.
> I don’t own a car, and I don’t leave things out in public that can be stolen by removing bolts. That’s how unregulated markets work.

Wonderful bit, great job lol
Why. Imagine that I lawfully own something valuable which is located in Russia: say, a moderate-size business, or a piece of realty. I want to stop dealing with them, sell the assets, and take away the funds.

My two options are: (1) Fly there, sell stuff, and bring a suitcase of cash. (1) Sell stuff remotely and transfer the payment over Bitcoin. I suspect that the second option is more economical even with the proof-of-work electricity-guzzling proof-of-work BTC network, because two transatlantic flights are even worse.

You'll call this a marginal problem. I'll say that marginal problems are still real, and need solutions.
I would bet $100 they'll ultimately let it go through anyways due to the absurdly outsized political influence and lobbying of the equity shareholders of Shaw. One of the wealthiest families in the country.
I flew across the Atlantic so didn’t notice
I understood this reference.
I'm not the one you're asking, but: Two problems.

1. Meetings. Senior people have more meetings than junior people. Technical leads have more meetings than individual contributors. As you grow in an organization, you have more meetings. If you're an introvert, that's draining. If you get your dopamine hits from making things work, that feels like your time is being wasted. But in fact, you are more valuable to the organization. It's just less fun for you.

2. Being asked to support legacy stuff is almost inevitable, especially if you wrote it and it's important stuff. But if it's important stuff, the organization really needs to increase their bus factor on that stuff.

Also, supporting legacy stuff is often less than a full-time job. It means you can try to work on something else too. You just get interrupted, which destroys what you have loaded into your brain and kills your momentum. It's annoying, it's inefficient, and it would be better done by someone more junior.
Good luck, and interesting approach!

How large is your index, by the way, like in terms of documents and gigabytes?
They would split the exchange side of their ad business from platform side, which is Google.

That's the whole reason they are being sued because they run both sides of the ad marketplace.

Google's business would be the same. Sell ad space.
I was wondering who that may have been! Thank you very much

There'll be an update coming later today
If you want to explore Linux and don't know what BIOS is, it's probably better to be in a VM than trying to achieve dual-boot or totally wiping your Windows install.
Tether Discloses Celsius' Loan Liquidation Process
Please read my entire comment, not merely the first half.

To be excruciatingly explicit: Bugs (and confusing UI/UX) experienced and reported by rude users also affect many non-rude users. If one wants one’s software to be the best it can be, then one should listen to all bug reports; the attitude of the reporting users are irrelevant.
Oh boy. The real circus is about to begin. Everything before this was just a warm up.
I did a lot of work on the company I am bootstrapping.

I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.
Not before his plane had suffered a mechanical fault and he crashed to earth.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/crash-pilot-...

and the Police in France told Nigel Farage his wheel nuts had been loosened following a motorway crash.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/03/nigel-farag...

The bloke who killed the Japanese leader was ex Japanese Navy according to some internet claims.

Having watched the video, its interesting the security/body guards didnt really make much of an effort, so will other politicians including retired politicians around the world be feeling a little less secure?

I find the security/body guard situation interesting with different leaders, you see a big show of force with the US, China & Russia, but European leaders including the Queen of England are much more low key, like Shinzo Abe's.

Does this perhaps demonstrate heightened levels of surveillance in European countries, which then brings privacy claims into play?

I'm well aware of the level of surveillance in the UK, many businesses are involved and filters down into the community, where people see fit for accidents to occur. Many suicides are actually murder, but as the old saying goes, accidents happen!
This is genuinely funny on Don's part, but I'm sure he gets much worse emails. It's one of the 'joys' of running a public facing product on the internet. Over the years of running PortableApps.com I've been threatened with death, rape, abuse, doxxing, DDoS attacks, character attacks, you name it. My personal favorite was a user claiming that my donation of a kidney to my Dad - 4 years before creating portable apps - reflected badly on me and I had only done it so I could gloat about it and use it make money from users.
Anything by Linus Torvalds.
AI Predicts Crime a Week in Advance–and Highlights Policing Bias
I was an unhappy Notepad++ user. For about 15 minutes. Then i tried Sublime and i've never looked back.
As I recall even Carl Sagan commented on it at depth (and how it was good thing).

For as long as people have existed we've built tools to remember things for us so we can remember other things better/learn other skills. It was a "complaint" about paper, that writing things down softened our memory skills. (People would lament about the lost traditions of storytellers that had to memorize entire stories and pass them down orally.) It didn't soften our species' memory skills, it externalized memories we didn't need in long term storage so that we could learn other things. We ended up with more stories, and arguably, better stories from paper.

Just like paper, modern systems externalize memories so we can focus on other stuff. That's a feature, not a bug. Knowing we've externalized those memories we move on with our brains and use the graymatter for other activities. That's also a feature, not a bug.
What do you find to be a mess about weird IQ tests compared to FAANG interviews?

From my brief time working there, it seems their recruitment pipeline is wonky for the devs while the support staff are open to applicants of any and all backgrounds (provided they can pass the IQ tests)
Elon waived his right to due diligence when he first made the offer to buy Twitter, so backing out of the deal by arguing a lack of due diligence is very funny.
I'm extremely curious about the makes & models of the failed hardware...
I had the same problem and I was able to solve it by timeboxing reading as if it was work, even though it's a hobby. I get comfy, but on some ambient music, and set my little desk timer to about 40 minutes. It's set to not beep when time runs out. I'll start reading, and for the first 20 minutes or so I'll still feel kind of antsy and keep looking at the clock, but 9/10 times I end up finally getting engrossed in what I'm reading and I don't even notice that the timer ended. By then I'm in the groove and am good to read for a couple of hours.
I'm ready for the fireworks. Odds are he will be forced to go through with it, but he will negotiate a lower price.

Edit: This is over the mDAU thing still? It's been explained to him very slowly that all the bots that post tweets all day are often not seeing ads, right? That the "monetizable" is a key part of that phrase?
When I was evaluating options for a self-hosted web git service, I ruled out GitLab because I regard such high resource use as a serious architecture smell. Just asking for trouble.

Also went with gitea. Runs on a potato. If you have few enough users you can stick with SQLite to make it stupid-easy to deploy and administrate.
> Cognitive dissonance, just like the fact that all of the red states have way higher gun deaths per capita than any blue state yet they'll scream about Chicago without looking at the actual numbers

That's not cognitive dissonance, just different definitions. Red staters focus on total homicides. Age-adjusted homicide rates don't bear any clear pattern with red states versus blue states: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality.... https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-ownersh...

Some of the states with the highest levels of gun ownership, like Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Minnesota, and Maine, have the lowest levels of homicides. Rhode Island has far fewer guns than Maine and New Hampshire, but all three have similar homicide rates.
Yep, he's definitely trying to dump it now - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...
I'm the same way. I used to say "at least you can rely on books bought on Amazon" but now you can't even say that much. Alibris or eBay are more reliable online retailers for books nowadays.
I'm particularly fond of the soundtrack editions which overlay Vangelis' music with city background noise, bits of dialog, and other atmospherics from the appropriate scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3fz6CC45ok

I don't know what this version is properly called; however I used to listen to a similar (but shorter, perhaps one hour long) version called the 'Esper Edition'.

Give it a listen, while you read the article... or anytime.
Seems like it was only a few days ago that there was a comment from a former Dropbox engineer here pointing out that a lot of disk drives they bought when they stood up their own datacenter had been found to all have a common flaw involving tiny metal slivers.
They write

> Despite public speculation on this point, Mr. Musk did not waive his right to review Twitter’s data and information simply because he chose not to seek this data and information before entering into the Merger Agreement. In fact, he negotiated access and information rights within the Merger Agreement precisely so that he could review data and information that is important to Twitter’s business before financing and completing the transaction.

Is the merger agreement public?
I set up a bookshelf and finally unpacked all of my books.
From a customer's perspective, it isn't clear that a hardware/software taxi driver is in any way better than a human taxi driver, particularly with (human) driver assist preventing collisions and all the other warnings provided by a modern car.

In both cases someone else is driving for the customer. With a human driver (plus driver assist braking and collision warnings) you have the most flexible, sophisticated intelligence on Earth driving. With a robotaxi you have something inferior. But maybe it's a lot cheaper, right?

The robotaxi can only compete on price because that's its only advantage. If you own a car that drives itself, that's a different story. Everybody can see the value proposition.

But is the robotaxi actually cheaper at all? We would have to look at the cost of the hardware (how often do lidars fail and how much do they cost to replace?) and the cost of the software development and the cost of the fallback human remote operators (fleet monitoring and teleoperation) and the years of huge R&D investment (billions of dollars) to evaluate whether a robotaxi fleet is indeed cheaper. So how much cheaper is it, exactly? 5%? 10%? 15%?

As a customer, would you pay a little more to have the most flexible, sophisticated intelligence on Earth (human brain + driver assist) or would you want to save a few dollars and risk having some dumb piece of software strand you in the middle of the road somewhere?

We all use Google Maps or Apple Maps when driving and most of us have seen these systems do boneheaded things. Just imagine the dumb things a robotaxi could do.
It's hard for a normal person to be excited about this. I don't know a single person who is excited by robotaxis.
I'm a US citizen, Canadian permanent resident.

I think it has to do with the fact that historically much of Canada's lands/provinces were literally just land owned by very massive British crown corporations. Massive corporations are baked into the history of Canada as a political entity.
Is this (from a 1992 satirical scifi book) still true?:

> There's only four things we do better than anyone else

music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery

I vote yes, except for maybe 3.
News so apparent that no one has any care to embellish upon it.
Why Self Driving Cars Are Not Safe
Introductory Programming Assessment Must Accommodate Copilot-Like Assistants
Not very likely, military arms are so many steps removed from ‘improvised weapon’ that the only thing they share in common is they use burning propellant to shove a projectile out the end. Everything from chemistry, techniques, methods, materials is different.

Military is all about ‘at scale’ and ‘ready and waiting after decades’.

A couple pipes and end caps, a drill, some wire of different diameters, a 9v battery, and some common household chemicals and time and you’re good to go with what I saw the dude using.

Some odds you’d blow yourself up, but that’s easy to test out in the woods or whatever remotely.

All the above can be gleaned with some easy google searches or YouTube, including people making them and showing all the steps.
Hypothesis: a link from HN hit the front-page of HN and inception ensued. In short, HN got HN'd.
> The difference is that here in Germany, our police officers don't have to fear that the person they're stopping is someone who is running drugs

Difference is that they do not except (that much) someone will have gun.
Amazon has shown time and time again that they don't care. They don't care about fake reviews, counterfeit products, cheap Chinese crap, their workforce, or anything really as long as customers keep on buying.
In a fit of irony, read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport.
That's entirely reasonable. However, it is also reasonable for the author, who is working for free, to ignore your concerns.
If I have more problems reported every day than I can fix, the only productive way is to work on issues that people actually put time into reporting in a nice and well worded manner. Because usually only those people give feedback if something is fixed to their liking, stick around for long enough to actually test the fix and are reasonable enough to understand limitations or discuss alternative solutions.

If the only issue my application ever had was reported in such a rude manner, there might be a case to be made to fix it, even though it was reported in a hostile or rude manner. It might make the application better for people who didn't report the issue. But maybe it is more valuable to just spend that time on something fun or enjoyable like coding on something else or eating cake. There is no reason to waste your free time on rude people, when they have the option to just be nice and save you all the anger.
Oopsie. Stonks do bite back sometimes.
This just seems like free/open source coding vs corporate products. Yes, if you are selling a product to customers, you have to be nice to them, even if they are rude.
Poisoned is a relative term. The rates of cancers and deaths from the Chernobyl disaster varies by an incredible amount depending on what source you look at.
Although I understand your sentiment, Mozilla was blackmailed by Google (using their yearly donation to keep Google Search the default); they were forced to either give up $300m/yr or kill Rust and cripple Firefox development.

Mitchell Baker, the current CEO and the CEO during this whole thing, makes $3m/yr, yet Firefox userbase keeps shrinking due to management throwing the engineering team under the bus.

I think it is safe to say that, although Mozilla isn't a shell company for Google, Mitchell Baker might be a shell CEO on Google's payroll.
At the moment the virus is confined to that part of the gay population that attends wild orgies - healthy young men. Mortality for that segment of the population is low, although by all accounts monkeypox is still exquisitely painful. Once it gets to pregnant women we will see miscarriages in 4 out of 5 cases. Things will improve then, but not before.
Strange - charged with one or two counts of this and that. And not 10's of thousands of counts. Is that normal?
Surprising to see that many (49?) SSH implementations. I'd've expected there to be maybe four libraries everyone was using, OpenSSH and a handful of NIH orgs. Why do Erlang, PuTTY, and SSH.NET not use existing libraries? Are there any articles explaining why the landscape is so fragmented?
I Use Notion and Google Docs to Manage My Relationship
https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png
To add to that, the exchange is specifically for the display network, so websites and app that aren't Google properties.

This part of Google, while still worth a couple billions in revenue, is an increasingly smaller part of the whole.
I really enjoyed the outage.

Disclaimer: I did not cause it.
I agree with the sentiment, but framing your argument by dunking on an Aaron Sorkin avatar is sort of low hanging fruit. I mean that'd be like "destroying Communism" by taking down North Korean state TV. Doesn't mean you're wrong, but nobody worth listening to ever saw these things as more than by-the-numbers propaganda.
They’re not claiming a lack of sue diligence, they’re claiming fraud. Which is different. They’re saying they’re lying about the numbers. Which would be fraud.
I see a lot of people noting the lack of communication and updates from Rogers.

To me it would be shocking if they were providing updates. Canada’s telecommunication monopolies are not known for their customer service and, even worse, they seem to have internal corporate cultures of entitlement and arrogance that drive an “F U” attitude in general when it comes to external communications and accountability. So you won’t see a post mortem. You won’t see timely updates. You certainly will never see some kind of status page!

I’m sure Rogers will be forced to do a post-mortem for large commercial clients where contractually required, but I highly doubt we will hear a word from them about the cause of this or what was/is being done to rectify it. They probably have an ETA but feel no obligation to share it.

Rogers isn’t alone. I would expect the same behaviour from Bell or Telus. Canada has serious issues when it comes to its big telco carriers and it represents major risk to the Canadian economy.
Would rewriting healthcare systems in enterprise Java or modern JS or Clojure actually improve them any compared to MUMPS? From my brief experience, the #1 MUMPS problem is that the syntax makes Perl and regex look legible. The two points that I miss in modern languages are:

1. There is absolutely nothing special you need to do when handling values out of the database compared to in-memory values
2. The nested data structure—it's like a nested Python dict, except each level can contain a value and children.
> but he will negotiate a lower price

How? As best I understand things, he has zero wiggle room - he either buys Twitter for the agreed price or he stumps up the $1B termination fee.

And if Twitter's board did go mad and decide to negotiate a lower price, their shareholders would almost certainly block it and/or sue the board, no?
First result on Google cropped up this:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...
> HN Is Up Again

I'm not sure I believe you what is your source for this ;)
HN was down? Huh.
At least the Canadian banks and airlines have international operations.

TD has more US than Canadian branches.

But Rogers, Bell, Telus? Nobody has heard of them ex-Canada unless they’re an ex-resident with bad memories.
You obviously wanted a more charitable reading from me; please return the favor. I did not set out in bad faith to make you look bad. I read something surprising and took it seriously—dumb me, I guess.
grats on the reload
Same. HN is how I check my internet connection is working. Took me a while to realize the problem wasn't my connection...