skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always use UTC when storing or crossing the wire with dates. I've been setting all servers, cloud or local to UTC when I have that option for about a decade and a half... I nearly always store dates as UTC unless there's a location attached, such as for a localized event... Doing anything else leads to heartache, despair and weird bugs.

Trying to read TZ1, convert to TZN then send to a user vs. storing as UTC, reading as UTC, and letting the client convert to/from local (far easier than other options.
About 10 years ago, spf13-vim showed me what vim could be and changed my coding life forever. I finally ejected it and spun my own .vimrc a few years ago, but I wouldn't be where I am today without it.

Thanks a bunch!
I've been using Firefly III (https://www.firefly-iii.org/) since it came up on HN a little while ago. It's aimed more at the budgeting/personal finance side of things rather than a full accounting solution. I like that you can enter things like expected bills, so you can get a bit of a look forward, and good breakdowns of your spending over certain time periods.
Visual Studio Code. I don’t know if any comparable editing system.
Other departments do what IT tell them, for the most part.

eng usually knows about tech tools better than other departments.

For programs: Ask the finance department about Sage and excel and they will have opinions.
PCG: A Better Multiple to Value Companies
"The latest government data show that in 2018, the top 1% of income earners—those who earned more than $540,000—earned 21% of all U.S. income while paying 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of federal income taxes."
https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t...

Nice of you to imply that only "the rich" can buy/sell assets, especially in a post-Gamestop world.
Uber and AirBnB didn’t get to where they are today without breaking a few laws and regulations. Archiving the digital legacy of our planet is far more important than imaginary property fantasies.
One of the primary ways of fighting organized crime is by going after the money. If you can stop people from enjoying the spoils of their crime you win. It’s a constant battle. If illicit funds are funneled through shell companies and a dozen different jurisdictions there is almost no way to prove the money is dirty anymore. So governments pass laws to force transparency.

That’s why companies have to report who their Ultimately Beneficial Owners are, and that’s why there are reporting requirements for the kinds of transactions that are used for money laundering.

Money laundering is a big deal and governments around the world are fighting hard against it. Crypto has gotten too big and now it’s getting regulated. People who believed wrongly that the law wouldn’t apply to them are now getting a wake-up call.
Well, compared to popular dynamic languages with similar levels of abstraction, like Python or Ruby. Squeak was just released with SistaV1, so I think the speculative inclining JIT is just around the corner. While using Pharo, I'm used to get code running 2-3 faster than the equivalent in Python.
In the video, they call out that it's "about 5 or 6 hundred square feet". An average 2 car garage is ~360 square feet, so it'd definitely closer to a 3-4 car garage.
This has indeed been eye opening. We got bit by a dependency problem in which TensorFlow started pulling in an incompatible version of protobuf. After reading these comments, I don't think that pip freeze is quite what we want, but poetry sounds promising. We have a relatively small set of core dependencies, and a bunch of transitive dependencies that just need to work, and which we sometimes need to update for security fixes.
I'm claiming science used to be more decentralized and that it is less so now.

"What destroys trust?" is an abstract question, social media is a factor but not the only one.
it’s not even close to being explored though (replacing work - not just where it happens incidentally in service of capital efficiency/growth). I don’t think the point of the article is really whether or not we’ve now arrived at the capability
This is the right answer. The code is super stable, and receives updates.
Did gonorrhea give us grandparents?
War happens when one of two nations assumes that they are more capable of winning than another.

If you stop spending in the US and assume that Russia and China will sit idly by without invading our allies, you are living in a land of fantasy.
In nature, nothing is constant for very long.
"The More I Learn, The Less I Know." So I personally don't write too much.
The same thing GitHub is doing: throwing a bunch of source files into a repo—i.e. the sort of thing that came before wikis (and the reason why wikis were invented in the first place—to displace those kinds of systems)—but then calling that a wiki. It qualifies certainly as what GNU calls a "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site". But to call it a "wiki" is wildly inappropriate—like saying "integral" when you're talking about derivatives:[1]

> Imagine you're a mathematician, and fellow mathematicians start calling derivatives integrals instead; that's basically how badly the term[] is being misused: it's being used to describe systems that are almost the _exact opposite_ of the concept.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23672561
Speaking as a fellow Starting Strength fan: this is only true in the modern era to the extent that being healthy is better than being unhealthy.

If you look at the top X causes of death in humans, very very few of them could have been avoided "if only the deceased were stronger."
A majority of the telecom infrastructure in New Zealand is privately owned, and the service there is generally very good and not especially expensive.

This level of service was established by government giving interest free loans to private companies to build the fiber infrastructure (with one company getting about 70% of it). So you might want to revise your use of the word “always”.
My health-obsessed doctor friend told me that muscle mass is a good predictor for health in later life, which was surprising to me (I thought fitness, heart/lung etc was the thing). I wouldn't dismiss it. :)
Nope, Van Moof uses a cheaper cadence sensor not a torque sensor. Bosch ebike motors are amazing and a huge step up, but bikes that use them generally sell for $5000+ and the Van Moof S3/X3 are half that price.
First one: rare-to-unique domain knowledge useful to that team. (So, yeah, luck.)

Second: founder (went nowhere, as so many do).

Third: ditto.

Current: Founder is a long time colleague and friend from the first one, plus rare domain knowledge, plus demonstrated enthusiasm for the work while contracting with the team.

So a mix of luck and hard work.
I feel like the biggest reason why REST failed is because it’s just not useful from a business point of view. Like how will I put my logo and brand colors over all of this.
Fair enough, I see I am off about Telus, and I presume Sasktel.

Still, I seldom get the complaints. Our industry is private, but heavily regulated.

Yes, there are bumps over the years, and the CRTC at times is not optimal, but the whole "must lease last mile" thing is part of that regulation.

A mix of public control, and private industry can work well. To speak to that, Bell, Rogers constantly squrim and writhe, under their forced requirement to lease to competitors.

They hate it, which to me means it can't be all bad.
I always said that computer science was going to be the method to complete physics, whether it be finishing the Standard Model or proving finally Dark Matter is fiction, which is why we can't detect it. Maybe it's still not entirely clear, but just trust me.
Disagree on 'blaming the creator' argument. Not everyone is aware of these technical philosophies and are focused on getting a good story out there. Feel the same way about social media.
Same as with all attacks, you protect against them by making the return lower than the cost...
The evidence provided by you Ukraine is usually clear footage of warehouses exploding. That’s much better then the non existent evidence provided by Russia.

I find it strange that you out right believe a country that says they blew up 200% of the total produced bayraktars and all of the Ukrainian airforce on day one. When it’s clear both of these are outright lies.

Not even the Russian PMC Wagner thinks that any HIMARS have been destroyed, they are saying it’s a log truck.

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1549112870327111680
A fanless laptop that throttles under sustained load doesn't have a heat problem.

This review of Lenovo's new Thinkpad X1 Yoga is what a heat problem looks like:

>Unfortunately, the laptop got uncomfortably hot in its Best performance mode during testing, even with light workloads.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/review-lenovos-think...

A laptop with two fans that gets too hot to comfortably touch, even under light workloads, unless you set it to throttle all the time? That's a heat problem.
Because you have to start somewhere... if the UI doesn't work, why should I trust their console app.... I have similar views about phone apps... If your website doesn't work, WTH should I trust your app?

Also, in my original post s/DigitalOcean/Cloudflare Workers/
The NeXTstep version was quite nice, especially for having been ported in some six weeks, or so the story goes.
Well, it is not a secret that intelligence has evolved in the animal world as a weapon of survival.
False.

- Italy [0]
- Germany [1]
- Ireland [2]
- Spain [3]

I could go on and on but everyone who managed to travel globally during 2021 knows this is completely untrue.

[0] https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-unveils-covid-green-...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-angela-merkel-coronavir...

[2] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/movie-review/movie-review-...

[3] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/21/spai-j21.html
When people bother to make them, channels provide discussion grouping at the subject level. Threads are an even finer-grained grouping that, granted, some people don't use. In my experience, all the problems you mention are also present (in some form) on mailing lists.
Maybe I am just trolling a bit because I saw a bunch of these kinds of replies and I wanted to subvert the trope a bit.

But I am referencing daoism rather than zen.
I think the problem with the reverse (private -> public) is that it usually happens after the company has been mismanaged for so long it’s ready to go bankrupt.
If I load it in Safari and scroll to the bottom, it reports 27MB transferred with a 110MB total (decompressed) payload.

Looks like an error since most of the transfer is large JSON files that seem to be duplications of all of the content on the blog, but I only glanced.
Hopefully the universal covid vaccines will work out.
I didn't say VS, I said a tug of war. Meaning they pull at each other, and play with each other well. Growth and government stability via policy, keeping each other in balance. Too much socialism leads to a central authority with too much power, too much capitalism leads to monopolies with too much power. And yes there is more than capitalism and socialism. But the author was OP was focused on growth and socialist policies.
How do you get your malware payload on the computer in the first place?
It's not going to happen for a very simple reason, the personal identity of the artist in the age of mass produced crap (not just by machines, but also by other people) is gaining importance.

(Today) consuming music or art isn't just about the work itself, it's even more about the person and culture surrounding it, and there is no culture or interesting narrative in machine produced art. AI art is not authentic, it has no location in time or space.

We know this to be true because it's already possible to generate music that even experts can't distinguish from human creators.[1], yet nobody listens to bot-Bach, everyone listens to the real one. The only people who watch bot chess-competitions are AI enthusiasts, not chess fans, and so on. So I'm kind of tired to treat this as a futuristic doomsday scenario when the present has already shown that the human element in and of itself isn't replaceable, and even increasingly the distinguishing factor. Radio stations already instead of licensing expensive music could simply churn out machine produced tracks. Yet, how many are doing that?

The reason is not the lack of quality (some questionable popular artists should cure everyone of that delusion), it's the fact that as soon as the listeners would be made aware of the fact that the music is machine generated they would lose all interest immediately. Because art that lacks a creator is just a reproduction, it lacks uniqueness and context.

AI bloggers should consult Walter Benjamin[2] rather than internet futurists, because thinking about the nature of mechanically reproducible art isn't a novelty of ML technology, it's been with us ever since the industrial era.

[1]https://www.openculture.com/2018/01/artificial-intelligence-...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
There are two ways to consider such charts.

One is the instantaneous biomass at any point in time.

The second would be something like "rate of new biomass formation".

A human lives ~82 years, a cow lives ~3, a chicken lives ~6 weeks (for a fryer or broiler). The human lives ~715 times longer than the chicken, but weighs only 30 times more. There's nearly 25 times more chicken biomass cycled per year than human.

(The fact that that chicken biomass goes to feed the human biomass is also a part of this, of course.)
>`<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=">`

Blocking javascript causes every page on slack.com to continuously refresh. Why?
Failures in large networks can be prevented with local focus
Blu-Ray came out 16 years ago and streaming services still haven't really caught up in image quality. Physical media still has some life left in it.
> Students have a great deal more privacy at school

Not really. Maybe out on the school yard for a few mins, that's expected. You may have not read up on this, but schools have already turned into a surveillance dystopia: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/schools-are-spying-studen...

It's almost as if an advertising-surveillance-company is in charge of our school's IT.

> The truth is nothing is private --> defeatism

One of my most painful career lessons was never put sensitive things in email! Wish my parents could have taught me that over something inconsequential a decade earlier.

Never was and never will be private. That is the lesson.

> CS101

Computer science is not software engineering, right? That one trips up a lot of folks. But this comparison stretches even farther, it is not even in the same neighborhood as social media, friends, or fomo.

It's often an applied science class (aka programming) where it is very helpful to know a bit of algebra, typing, and the basics of computer hardware. CS theory often starts the second year. The two sets don't overlap at all, but lay folks tend to think so because computers are "magic":

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
The Netflix ark is leaking and sinking in users, growth and losses and the animals on board are being thrown off in an attempt to save it and keep it afloat after being attacked by Apple, Amazon, Disney and Google; riddling it with cracks and holes for everyone to see.

It seems Microsoft wants to save them but most likely via a low profile partnership first but may also want to rename the ark to Microsoft® Netflix®, since they don't have their own streaming and movie service.

Netflix may have some time for now, but with too many animals on board, 70% down of the stock price and hundreds of thousands of users cancelling especially with lots of house holds cancelling unnecessary streaming subscriptions, Netflix cannot afford to race to the bottom in prices and sit around and do nothing. Apple, Amazon, etc can afford to play that game and drive these prices down, even closer to free if they wanted to.
Do you still have them?
How is personhood defined, and when is that applied?
Here in New Zealand all of the telecom companies are private and the fibre/copper networks are owned by companies that are separate from the retailers. Something like 90% of the population has access to at least 1Gbps speeds.
Just add "in minecraft" to every sentence
This is a reminder that technology isn't the issue anymore. (we solved messaging since the AIM days). The only thing slowing down technology today is wall gardens.

You can't count how many years too late Snapchat is. Even if you use both hands.
Lol ok. We’ve seen what happens with State-run price controlled resources and it’s not great.
Thankfully that matter was resolved back in 2018 when Bill 40 was repealed. Saskatchewan has plenty of evidence from other provinces what happens when natural monopolies are privatized.
It's definitely a land of fantasy today, I agree but one can always hope that maybe one day instead of killing each other we'd learn to live together and work together. Imagine how much more productive we'd be. To be honest I nearly didn't post this message because it's a bit off topic and definitely divisive. I definitely support all the brave people fighting for me to be safe because I sure as hell wouldn't feel comfortable killing someone else myself to protect my "country".
> Customers can manage their homes, adding or deleting them as they choose. Adding households doesn’t increase the number of people who can watch Netflix at the same time.

People will happily pay $2 to add another sub-account user but if you still can't stream at the same time they will just cancel lol.
I see your Bill Gates and raise Musk, Murdoch and whichever billionaire is in meat-packing plants who were all against shutdowns. Let's be honest, (today's) Gates is an outlier among billionaires.
Your posted article highlights a really great statistical principle that I also discovered on my own owning a really rare car: if someone (company) claims to have parts in stock, it was most likely due to a database error, not the actual parts, because the probability of having the parts was so low. Reports of highly improbable events are probably not true in general.

That seems to explain incredible longevity also- if it basically doesn't actually happen, then instances of it are therefore actually instances of error/fraud.
They get short term funds for their agenda.
With the help of a bribe.
> Publishers would care more about RSS if they didn't have to sacrifice things they cared about

What sacrifice are you talking about? For instance, Substack supports RSS, even for paid items. They just only include the teaser portion in the feed. The paying customers can click though.
> New generations don't have to be richer than the last. We can achieve some maintainable level of comfort and be okay with that.

I think 1950s USA middle-class was probably comfortable enough, certainly it was far far from "utter subsistence poverty" -- if the entire world population can live at 1950s USA middle-class levels, without destroying the ecology that sustains us, we should count ourselves lucky (it's not clear we can).

Note that was without computers, cell phones. It was much more expensive clothing you'd keep until it wore out. Maybe only one car per family (or less) with more public transportation. Fewer airplane flights. Etc.
OK, so your employer might only go for your nuts with criminal action in a corrupt oligarchy. Like Russia. Or... the... USA.
Is it common for car makers to disband their press office?

If Tesla is really worth more than all other makers combined then surely it can afford more than just a Twitter account.
There is definitely a problem with people living longer and bulge of baby boomers. There are alternatives to fund this such as raising taxes or debt, but yes likely people will have to work longer if they keep living longer.
I used a couple of tricks to solve this. First, make cond env export a build step and environment.yml an artifact so you've got a nice summary of what got installed. Second, nightly builds so you aren't surprised by random package upgrade errors the next time you commit code to your project.
Because they get a truckload of money to spend.

There is also the reasonable argument that government run entities are wasteful.

So, it's not a simple thing.
Falling and then breaking bones or getting ill otherwise is a common cause of death, and muscle mass and fitness helps avoid it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899404/
Think of how much money Netflix saves by streaming movies to your TV at 5mbps instead of 10mbps. Serving a single user, the cost difference is negligible, but across 120 million users it probably saves them millions in bandwidth costs.

I still buy blu-rays though so I am a firm believer in the "just throw more bits at it" solution.
Elite is a loosely formed group of individuals that has a lot of influence on culture and government. There's concentration everywhere you look.
For instance there's 6 companies that control almost all of media [0]. There are 10 companies that own nearly all global food products [1]. Look at ETFs and you'll see they own the majority of all stocks (on behalf of others), but they exert a lot of influence on corporate governance. If you look at the board of directors of any of these firms, you'll see the same people and more importantly the same general thinking.

There really aren't any firebrands or unconventional thinkers, so when someone like Musk came around and wanted to wield control over a tiny sliver of the media, people were freaking out. Think about it, even the former president voiced concern[2]. If you look at political donations of the major influential orgs, they're all highly skewed to D [3]. In fact, if you do donate ($534) to R at a large org (Goldman), you'll risk having some editor in the NYT choose to publish your name and donation which could get you fired [4]. You have to admit, something is weird.

Everywhere you look you'll see the same kind of people saying the same ideas. It's not so much that it's centrally organized. It's just that you wouldn't ascend in any of these organizations without holding completely orthodox views on the topic-du-jur.

[0] https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own...

[1] https://www.good.is/money/food-brands-owners

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3463150-musk-buying-twit...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.in/this-graph-shows-90-political...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/nyregion/donald-trump-nyc...
Sometimes, but usually only when I am sleep deprived or feeling very understimulated. I also am bad at falling asleep quickly and tend to wake up feeling groggy and not 100% until I have some time to fully wake back up.
I've used Google Docs probably since I was 8 or 9, I don't remember it being particularly hard to pick up. Also, Google has Google Classroom which works best with Google Docs, so Google Docs is probably what's most common with kids.
> accept destructive tasks.

Not with this - it’s a one way channel
Oof. I've come to despise Kudu for these kinds of reasons. We ended up ditching direct zip deployments and now do Docker images, which get pulled automatically using the webhook on the container registry. It is far more reliable and also far easier to integrate into a devops pipeline.
The market isn't the kids, it's the schools.