skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tracking access time (every read) is huge performance bottleneck. especially if reliably persisting this

same reason why filesystems are often mounted with noatime attribute !
Post-Mortem: Attacker Transfers $5M from Audius Governance Takeover
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Does the company have people whose job description includes looking for deeper problems such as this one?

I don't know what your position or political standing in the company is, but I assume that with the tech job market the way it is, if you still work there you care about the company to some degree. So perhaps bringing this issue up with (more) senior management is the way to go.

And if they say there is no budget, or that it would take a bureaucratic nightmare to make space for it in the budget, ask them what the budget is for dealing with PR disasters such as this one.
ML algorithms can make better investment decisions than business angels (study)
oh, totally - my post also said I thought the initial lockdowns were fully justified and correct, and that only after the discovery of the ACE-2 mechanism did the calculus for children having schools open change (for me)
I got my invite January of 2021 (just pulled up the app for the first time in easily a year and was still logged in).
Not really. Time smearing isn't moving the leap second into just a rendering thing.
Same. Well, 1000 is an outlier but 300-600 feels right. I sometimes feel bad for doing it, because it's not what some other people might consider good code to look like. I occasionally have to do code review or help fix a bug in a the other kind of codebase and even the devs often don't seem to understand how those thousand 15-line files all fit together.
Probably the best application of that quote I've ever seen :-)
The following is a public API for a Car:

- Steering wheel

- Transmission

- Brakes and Gas pedal

- Doors and Windows, etc.

The following is a private API for a Car:

- The inner workings of the engine

- The inner workings of the battery

- Smart break system, internal wiring, etc.

All users of the Car only care about how to drive it with as little knowledge as possible.

Now Mazda can do a full recall and upgrade the smart breaking systems internally but millions of drivers around the world don't have to "learn" anything new, they can happily continue using the public API.

It makes refactoring much easier, reduces dependency and enables duct typing (in supported languages) via message passing for objects with a common public API. You also don't have to perform shotgun surgery[0] when changing classes..

[0] https://refactoring.guru/smells/shotgun-surgery
Apple Has Applied for 248 Car-Related Patents Since 2000
The cost of the US Military is a feature, not a bug. It employs hundreds of thousands of people and provides training and education for their long-term well-being.

Is there a historical example of any military where a single weapon was successful? How would Vietnam have gone differently if the US was nuke-only? How do you defend your own territory with nukes? Seems easy to defeat.
Using machine learning to study parenting styles
That's really nice!

Thanks so much!

I'm a "reformed troll," so I make an effort to be positive. I feel that I owe some amends.
>Leap second events have caused issues across the industry and continue to present many risks. As an industry, we bump into problems whenever a leap second is introduced. And because it’s such a rare event, it devastates the community every time it happens. With a growing demand for clock precision across all industries, the leap second is now causing more damage than good, resulting in disturbances and outages.

Translation: We suck at computers and think you all do too. So let's just bury our head in the sand and make some cash before it all falls down.

I'm being glib, but come on guys. You're trying to tell me that your crummy programming and cash flow is more important than the literal spinning of the Earth.

You can try all you want, but the sun will set when it does, your clock be damned.

I may be a rare person on HN that actually has dealt with these leaps from the 'source'. I used to work for a pico-second accurate timing company and had to go through the microsecond adjustment due to the March 11th, 2011 earthquake in Japan. The company was a backup site for the NIST clocks. I've even worked with the second at NIST. Yes, that little port at about eye level that the whole US uses as it's second. You can't take things out of the room (like asbestos) and you can only be in there for short periods, it's that sensitive and important.

All that said, the Earth is a really crummy clock! But guess what? You can't fix that. It's mother nature's world and we just live on it.

If FB thinks that trying to get everyone to quite literally 'not look up' is going to work in the long term, they are in for even more headaches than they already have. Many, many industries and sectors must use hyper precise clocks and they must be aligned with the Earth's rotation. If are not, then they will drift psuedo-randomly apart as all clocks do. And then you're screwed when you try to get your own little clock system to talk to other clock systems that have been drifting too. You think you have issues now with imagined negative leap seconds? Wait until you try to define time.
How about this? Let's move the population of Dallas Fort Worth to San Francisco, and vice versa, and see how quickly people's opinions about vehicle ownership change.

The main issue with having cars (or not) is that infrastructure that costs many orders of magnitude more than the cars has to be rebuilt if you want to switch between car-dependent and walk/bike-everywhere.
27 times, badly. Every time, 27 times over, it has been a serious hassle, for exactly zero benefit to anyone.

Choosing not to impose a hassle and source of bugs on millions of people every year or two is obviously correct.

Anyone who wants to use what astronomers use will still be free to do that, without bothering literally everybody else.
A huge part of the Anglophone Web, including much of the left, is currently casually referring to Russians as "orcs" and gleefully speculating about how many sunflowers will sprout from their corpses.

"Modern standards", ha! Hasn't changed a bit.

(and—sigh—no, I'm not pro-Russian when it comes to the invasion of Ukraine, or much else for that matter)
Yes! I want to share what's happening with me and receive what's happening with them. When I read this article, I think I took away that it was mostly about hearing what's happening with others, and I think it's missing that piece of us sharing what's happening with us first.
Cesium reference clocks can operate with accuracy around 10^-14 (aka 0.01 parts per trillion). In a year, a cesium clock would slip by a few tenths of a microsecond. That said, the whole "submerged computer must surface" thing is a bit of a red herring argument IMO. What use case would you have for needing to keep time in sync within seconds with the outside world, but being unable to communicate with that world? If you're trying to plan simultaneous delayed action across the world, it would suffice to merely be in sync with each other, leap seconds ignored.
> If the U.S. actually supplied tactical nukes for the bay of pigs invasion as planned I think we would see nuke only armies today.

IMHO, we would see post-nuke armies... after all the nuclear wars destroyed the industrial capacity required to build more nukes.
100% agree; I'm a huge fan of the design and product process. In particularly I feel like every product team needs a designer--probably not dedicated, but like, dedicated designer hours. It's yet another case of "1 hour (of design) upfront saves 20 engineer hours further on". I've had the (mis?)fortune of working on teams with and without designers and the difference is super obvious, at least to me anyway.
CUT and TUC are probably naughty words in some language. CUT is close the the Dutch kut.
> why VCs think that it is worth $4B

One VC: Andreessen Horowitz. Who are now knee-deep in the crypto rug-pull scam.
My first, a 5x5, in 3:08

It was fun, but on the edge of annoying, which seems appropriate.
It's interesting: Why is everyone moving to Berlin in the first place? It is not a great city and yet it's compared to Germany as a whole.
I suspect not only removing exhaust emissions, but also reducing brake dust due to regenerative braking.
Gravitational lensing was how general relativity was "proven" back in 1919 [1] (4 years after publication). Einstein had predicted this weird effect but it was impossible to see in action because the only observable object massive enough to cause lensing was the sun and you cannot take a picture of it. In 1919 they managed to take a picture of the sun during a total sun eclipse which showed the effect clearly.

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-the-1919-s...
I'm talking about "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome" which the establishment is struggling to pass off as "old hat"[0] now that dozens of current and former athletes are dropping dead on the field, in the boxing ring or at home. [1]

[0] https://health-desk.org/articles/what-is-sudden-adult-death-...
[1] https://dpbh.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpbhnvgov/content/Boards/B...
"In my experience people refactor code to their own understanding of the problem and not all refactorings improve the code."

Same for rewrites. Often the rewrite will have the same number of problems, just different ones.
"anymore"? It's ALWAYS been propaganda. The term "public relations" was coined by Edward Bernays because "propaganda" had taken on a negative term, and he readily admitted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtg-qFPYDE
There was a delightful feature in the discontinued Flip™ video cameras. The standard internal battery could be recharged over USB, but it could also be removed completely and replaced with standard AA batteries. The device remains usable even though the manufacturer went out of business years ago.

Xbox controllers do something similar; I love being able to just swap them out from my box of rechargeable batteries without having to worry about if I left the device plugged in to charge recently.
Wow, what an intolerant, judgmental, and useless comment. At least you live your values...
Wasn't Clubhouse's biggest failure that they were offered $4 billion for a 4 month old company and said "no"? Or would it have never made it out of due diligence? It seemed to dissolve within what I think a DD period would still be happening, but not for a reason (business trends) I would assume would be directly allowable to cancel.

I'd appreciate it if people with more experience than me weighed in on if the acquisition could have been aborted, if it could technically have been aborted but probably would have gone through, or if it would have gone through cause a contract is a contract.
Keep renovating details of their home. Find an unemployed person that can visit/accompany/drive them (doctors, shpping, small home repairs, ...) on a regular basis, like weekly. Find and kick-start them a small orchard. These made a difference in my limited experience.
You are spot on. And more importantly, a roll back procedure.

In this case, RENAME TABLE x TO y, and watch or wait for a process to fail in test/QA/UAT/etc.

Have a DROP ready, but also a RENAME back.

A production quality MySQL or MariaDB installation should have enabled binary logging and maybe delayed replication to handle any issues.
Could those ADUs not be used for long term rentals? If so, than I think that was the point being made - the effective number of units available goes up.
Don't waste my attention on the one-time setup BS. Show why it kicks ass in less than 30s.
Still, there are not good grounds to say that SF and the IRA are the same thing.

All the evidence points to the aims having changed - the aim of violent overthrow of British rule seems to have been abandoned, as evidence by the last 25 years.

But look... If you think no reconciliation is possible then there's no real point in saying any of this to you
> The question I ask is how to build an online space that is exclusive, without the draw to make it for the masses?

Google+ kind of accomplished this with Circles; a way to create invite-only communities within the larger platform. A few of the social media sites have bolted on something similar, but none have really designed around it like Google+ did.
Hah, an older colleague taught me "it pays the same" as a kind of mantra for dealing with the capriciousness of management. Feels cynical, but I've gotten a lot of use out of it over the years.
Most of the city is much more sedate than what was shot on that video (which is extreme. I don’t dispute it, but was next to a treatment center.)

Paid public toilets are all over California and businesses do typically restrict bathroom use to paying customers, yes, in SF too.

Without SF’s tolerance for weirdos due to the gold rush we wouldn’t have had the rule breakers of the valley.
I know a surgeon who invested €10k/month in Google ads for a while just to get a few patients per month. CPC was €10 or so. Absolutely nuts, you’d think. But one procedure nets him €8k, and he said that those ads are absolutely vital to him - without Google ads, his revenue suffered greatly. His campaign was setup wrong for a while and he immediately noticed because people stopped booking surgery with him.
Feels like a recipe for burnout IMO; that would be tough for me to deal with.
The interface reminds me of the game 7 Billion Humans:

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/792100/ss_c8f1...

Really fun puzzle-programming game by the way.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
A virtual PC for each application you want to run (2009)
Puts my rage in perspective when the Chevrolet Silverado devours > 22ft with its turning radius.
Why does the time protocol need to send the UTC offset, rather than have the offset be part of system data files, like with timezones? Wouldn't you need the data anyways to translate historical timestamps to UTC?
Bounce is different than spam. Are you DMARC monitoring?
Be a Writer or Don't Be One
I agree the outcome of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could have been better. In fact I would even agree they were disastrous. But:

If we had nuked Afghanistan we (probably) would have kicked off WWIII.

If we had done nothing further attacks may have occurred.

Both of those seem at least worse than what actually happened.
Not at all trivial. If it seems that way to you, then it's likely that you simply haven't worked on a project with the scale and workflows which require this.
But Meta's not actually ceding the point. They're essentially arguing that (1) leap seconds are an esoteric concept that only astronomers care about, and that (2) we shouldn't care about their esoteric concerns, so (3) we should therefore dispose of leap seconds.

The GP's point is that astronomers find leap seconds annoying too, so Meta's argument is based on a faulty premise.
Elon Musk laughs off affair rumors, insists he hasn’t ‘had sex in ages’
drive out to a rural area and ask ppl their household income, not a boomer retiree, but a middle aged couple with a few kids.

averages:
georgia 61980
tennessee 54665
alabama 51734
south carolina 56227

now, people with these incomes would have a house and a car or two. they would shop at regular stores and do more or less okay until quite recently with inflation. to put this in a more real sense, in several of these states, you could until 2019 find large (around 1300 sqft) two bedroom apartments for less than 1k/mo if you left major cities out of your search. if you wanted to buy a home, you could get one at around 2000 sqft for less than 200k.
It's ok if you like not living in a city.

It's just dishonest for you to pretend like cities are the source of problems, and not -people-. I'm assuming your village never had any issues with elders being bigoted or sexually exploitative? Cities are no less pious than the country to me.

What I find interesting is that you're in the suburbs: the worst of both worlds. Suburbs were truly designed by a demon, in my mind.
It doesn't matter, especially with the old Carbon being mostly dead.

Just look at how successful "golang" is.
As a Fortranner I approve of any language that uses "call" to invoke subroutines as PickCode does :).
Do people even dig trenches anymore? I assume there is already a services pipe that runs along most city roads that has all of the various utilities in it. Am I wrong?
Immigrants then should have been overjoyed with Americans goaded into undesirable SFH, leaving the prime apartments for them to grab on the cheap? As an immigrant myself I don't find apartment living appealing, neither do any my immigrant friends.
These "problems" are trivial. The day changes at midnight which is 12:00 AM by the clock. There is no ambiguity. Midnight is not literally the middle of the night. The minute on the clock will be correct by definition, nothing will change. Sundials are already wrong. You'll need to try a lot harder to convince me that this is a bad idea.

All these arguments based on sun position make no sense in a world where people already live in places where the sun literally never sets or never rises for months, and people already live in time zones offset many, many hours from "correct" time. The sky doesn't fall!
Glad you liked it! I actually play it often on my phone, it's workable when zoomed in. An app would be nicer surely but I don't know how to build those =).
You can't know that it was the chemicals that helped them.

There are studies suggesting SSRIs work better than placebo- but only slightly. Placebo works extremely well.

What I am saying is that if a doctor gives a depressed patient a sugar pill with no chemicals in it, there is a very high chance they will make a significant recovery and credit the pill. Almost as high as if they are given an actual drug.

Telling people to "just change" and "be happy" are not solutions. That's just ignoring the problem. Real help involves significant attention, resources and social support, which is expensive.
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-clement-martin/blog/100116/q...

Damn ! it looks like you're right. I fell for this fake interpretation that got spread for the last 10 years on the net, and even reached wikipedia...

Sorry about that.

edit : it's even worst than that, that alternate theory reached the ministry of education and the parlement, since 2006...

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/rouget-de-marseille/blog/130718/l...

Looks like we're having a lot of trouble with the original super barbaric lyrics :)))
I have a relative that works for FreeTaxUSA. Thank you for using it!

I'll let her know the ads work, thank you.

I'll be happy to give her your comments.
my first 5x5 I couldn't solve in 4 minutes, then I gave up. This puzzle makes me angry.
I think an underlying mega conflict in online communication is sharing more than we want to share, or at least it has been one plaguing me over the years.

I don't think social media communication has to be dehumanizing, I think it comes into how much do I share about how I'm actually feeling and my actual identity on the internet where hundreds if not thousands or millions of people might see it? And yet it can be soooo easy to share on the internet, from our phone or computer, just talking/typing into the screen, at almost any time and any place?

So then I do think it can come into "how do I pretend to be cool and superhuman...so that people don't know too much about me?"

In a conversation with a friend over a beer, one might open up about why they hate inflation because they think they might lose their job and they're afraid if they lose their job, their wive and kids might leave them. I bet that's the real underlying reason for that person, yet on the internet, that same person might say that evil bankers are trying to destroy us with inflation because who admits to being afraid they're going to lose their life on the internet, with their name attached?
With 3% of the world's GDP it's going to be an unstoppable language
It also doesn’t work because of the attitudes of those professing it’s values when it comes to the non-believers.

As I said I disagree with the dogma. The problem is not identified. That’s my disagreement. Just a symptom. And treatment of symptoms can be as problematic as the symptoms. Until the cause is addressed it isn’t going away.

It also horrifies me that you suggest we move on from discussion because dead men have already discussed. That sounds awful conservative, tbph. Perhaps I should reread some things.

“How do you even define consciousness of society?”
Excellent question! But why do you phrase it in such a way as to suggest looking into the unknown and asking questions is a waste of time? Again, that sounds oddly the opposite of… progress.
Raising a child to use computers via command line is very interesting.

I would want my child to be tech-savvy, but most parents I see make the mistake of just giving their kids an iPad. I think it's very destructive to their attention span.

On the other hand, having a cheap laptop with only access to TUIs could be used for improving reading skills and tech literacy. Add some TUI games like the good ol' days of BASIC, and it can be just as entertaining as an iPad.
It almost boils down to "have good taste and understand the problem well".

One thing I have noticed is that it's almost impossible to keep a codebase under control over time when business needs change and new people come in all the time.
Question: are there any plans to offer anything other than JavaScript? Grasshopper has been on the market for a number of years now and still only offers the one.
I wonder whether the developers/owners of that thing even realize that its very only attraction was the boutique aura of being an iphone exclusive. they should have. maybe it's not something you admit out loud, but they had to realize it at some level
> I'm not sure how, but in the US, EVs are somehow lighter than comparable gas vehicles.

You are just using the wrong comparators. A Tesla Model Y is more comparable (for instance, it's a lot closer in dimensions) to the 3,700 lb Ford Escape SUV than the 4,400 Ford Explorer.
Tell that to someone who lives in a perfectly ordinary, well maintained single family house in what is now an expensive part of the Bay Area that would sell for $3.5M, and whose basis is essentially zero. If they want to move to a nice condo selling for $2M, they can probably squeak by, but most of that $1.5M gain will disappear.

This is a problem for people who want to move. But, and this is mostly speculation, this is bad for everyone else too. It makes the market less liquid, which means that people are less likely to live where they want. It also reduces the incentive to build the kinds of units people want to live in. Suppose you want to build 100 nice condos. It’s harder to sell them to existing homeowners, and, in turn, those owners’ homes don’t go on the market. With fewer houses on the market, a smaller stream of buyers with lots of money can keep buying houses at unreasonable prices, and the market prices get pushed up.
I'm dreaming of the day when US cities start adopting car-light (if not car-free), walkable & bikeable urban designs. I have no interest in car centric 15-min cities. They are hard to scale and even when you achieve that goal with cars, the standard living is poor.

Portland & Detroit comparison is a bit laughable. May be we'll see this one day, but I'll believe it when I see it.