skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting it at 100 tonnes makes it sound a lot less. That's the max weight of 4 shipping containers. Or the fuel capacity of one Boeing 787.

Still I'm glad someone is doing something, perhaps this will spur more parties to help.
Kevin Stone's BrainBashers has a similar puzzle except with squares instead of hexes.
https://www.brainbashers.com/network.asp
The first one that popped up is breast reconstruction after mastectomy, 47% of the sample at at least some regret[1]. Tubal ligation regret maxes at 20.3%[2]. While tubal ligation regret deminishes as age at the time of the procedure increases, my point is that it is still well below that of breast reconstruction. People seem to have no worries about reconstruction regret and large worries over people's sterilization regret. The paradox is hypocritical. There must be another factor at play.

Prostate surgery has comparable regret rates(1 in 5)[3] to sterilization. Again, society seems to be perfectly ok with letting folks make decisions about prostate surgeries. Female sterilization in particular seems to be a lightning rod for public discourse.

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1476832060112489...

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10362150/

3. https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/2...
Another great literary magazine/publication is Thinking About Things (https://thinking-about-things.com), which (as far as I remember) doesn't feature anything from the 12 months previous.
Sounds good. I've never had anyone interviewing actually ask for my code. Half the time they don't even care to see or hear about my personal projects even from a user perspective.
Kind of a side tangent, but yes. I am baffled by the AAA game publishers. It is not just that they are making safe bets, it is that they cannot execute upon them to save their life. The games are objectively bad.

Every once in awhile they buy a studio and it remains uncorupted for awhile, but slowly but surely they lose their ability to make games that are fun.
Can-Am defender, AC Prowler, Honda Pioneer, any number of John Deere UTVs, etc. Pretty much every line of farm-focused UTV has a dump bed option...

I'm guessing when you hear UTV you're thinking of the 60MPH off-road blitzing side by sides that are so popular at the dunes these days, but that's only part of the market for these.
I’m speculating here, but I think the new terminology has started to emerge so people can encourage others to engage in a similar good faith exchange of ideas, and what was pretty common in years past gotten so rare that it needs a name now.

It seems the hard part is convincing people that this kind of dialogue is important.
I don't think you understood my point either, so I guess we're even!

They used to just be an app, and now they have an ecosystem of products (Whatsapp, Instagram, etc.). I wasn't referring to the fact that they also run an advertiser-facing platform at all. I was just pointing out that they started as a single product and have expanded to being a larger platform, with all the network effects/benefits that such growth entails. That's great for them, at that stage.

But it doesn't make sense for all earlier stage products to try to become platforms. To me, the VC was showing a not-uncommon tendency to swing for the fences (or rather, to suggest that an undiversified startup founder should do so).
> Who is surprised here it took them this long to recover?

They have no independent management infrastructure. Their management network rides logically on top of their main physical network. So when the latter went down you probably had people going to the physical locations of various DCs. But then you have to coördinate between them, and if your employees use your own cell phone service for communication, and that's down…

So the first couple of hours was figuring out what went wrong, then it was having people scramble to locations to plug in serial consoles, then it was buying a bunch of SIM card from other companies, and finally folks managed to wrap their heads around the big picture and come up with a way to bootstrap the network.
Why would I want a deeper understanding of what I do (assuming you mean what I do in exchange for money)? I want to know as little as possible to get by.
I certainly didn't see any of this when I was a volunteer in Lesotho (1988-91)! Then again, I was in the mountains where the nearest paved road was 3 hours away by 4WD.

It used to take a month for letters to go to Canada, and another month for the replies to reach me. Now I hear there's a cell tower in my village.
Rogers is also known to historically have had a somewhat 'flatter' and less mature network architecture as compared to their peers, Telus and Bell. Likely owing to their roots as a cable television provider as opposed to landline telephony - ie: dumb pipe vs. less-dumb pipe.

Lots of things went wrong here, to name a few:

- lack of rigour in their process that allowed a critical modification without understanding its effects in context

- lack of monitoring and metrics to alert them immediately of the problem

- lack of emergency rollback capability to revert back to the known-good config

- lack of independent business-continuity comms channels. if you're a Rogers CTO or senior responsible adult and you don't have a backup Telus or Bell SIM card (and vice versa), you learned why you need one.
I think I can see the ransomware developers, criminals, scammers and malware writers celebrating in the background on the capabilities of this new species of αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblεs for a new generation of a single all in one cross-platform portable binary payload that can run on six or more OSes.

Once again, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and it is going to get much more chaotic with this thing aiding a whole new evolution of easy single binary payload deployments to the arsenal of the ransomware griftopia.
It's often too expensive to be worth it though. Just look at Intel.
As well as making some of the natives wish they could go with (but that's pretty much been the case since at least late 60s.
This. The last discrete GPU Intel shipped in any significant quantity was over 20 years ago, the i740.

That said, the 810/815 that came after did have a (to my knowledge little-used) "display cache" feature, but they were otherwise still a UMA design.
You're right. Sending web articles & newsletter has been my primary use-case. I haven't updated my marketing pages yet.

> How does it work with SE Books?

To use KTool with SE Books, you need to install the browser extension[0]. Then you can browse standardebooks.org, find the ebook you love, click KTool > Send to Kindle and it will send the _epub_ version to your device. The quality of the epub ebook is pretty good, actually. Here is a screenshot[1]

> Are you able to do it wirelessly while still maintaining the azw3 features given SE's Kindle FAQ indicating it doesn't work with send to Kindle

Yes. It's less straight-forward though. First, you need to update your settings to "preferAZW3"[2]. Then, instead of sending the epub version, KTool sends a document with a download button (link to the AZW3 ebook file). Tapping that button to download the high-quality ebook to your device. Screenshot[3]

Happy to support if you running into any issues (my email in profile)

[0]: https://ktool.io/install

[1]: https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/155152385925356748...

[2]: https://ktool.io/app/extension?settings

[3]: https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/155171706234696908...
shop vacs work with glass dust
> Anyone involved with bookkeeping and synchronizing has an unnecessary bugbear to deal with.

It is unnecessary but not because of leap seconds which are the phenomenon of real life, not some abstract invention of astronomers. The unnecessary bugbear is caused by a wrong time system design. We need both the atomic time (which corresponds to number of quartz pulses elapsed since some fixed moment in the past), and the astronomy time (which represents the orientation of the Earth in space).

The decision to mix them up was wrong and is exactly what causing “the unnecessary bugbear”. Do not want the bugbear - fix the cause of the problem.
Ask HN: Share the resume that got you the job
Zero. My parents taught me respect and frugality, but what to do with my life has always been my choice. I was never pressured to do anything.

Despite that I turned out to be ok, got a Computer Science bachelor and master in a really good university via scholarship thanks to good high school grades, immigrated by myself to the USA (San Francisco) from a Mediterranean European country, went through many immigration visas, green card and ultimately citizenship, got several jobs in tech and finance including a FAANG job where I’m currently making > $1M/year, and a very healthy investment portfolio setting me up for financial independence and early retirement (knock on wood).

My brother grew up in my same family, same values and is a lazy bum who in his mid 30s still hasn’t been able to hold a (low paying) job for more than a few months. I love him btw and I do not assume I live a better life than him, he is quite chill while I tend to be constantly stressed. He is a genuine good person.

So go figure if my parents’ approach to raising children was good or not.
The Cajuns were one of the first groups to realize this.

After being expelled from Canada ([0]Le Grand Dérangement, 1755-1764), they realized the ducks that spent the summer in their previous home up north spent the winter in their new home on the gulf coast.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians
> The first automotive ad appeared July 30, 1898, in “Scientific America” by Winton Motor Carriage Company, based in Cleveland.

10 years too late! The first car ad was placed in the Mannheimer Zeitung by the inventor of the automobile Carl Benz himself in 1888.[1]

[1] Here a reproduction: https://p6.focus.de/img/fotos/id_1066249/mobil-autoentwicklu...
Find your errors in thinking and communicating
Do you remember the early apple iPod TV commercials? https://youtu.be/NlHUz99l-eo The ones with the silhouettes of people dancing and the white cord on prominent display?

There's not a single mention of what an ipod is or how much space it has or how you connect it to songs. These ads were about feelings... Not tech specs. That's what sells in the end.

Were these ads a lie?
Come on, it’s clear that kazinator is deliberately trolling by pretending to be stupid. Nothing wrong with calling them out on that.
I definitely want to add some shortcuts like that
Play and discipline are both important. Parents are generally preoccupied with a ton of work and chores, so they may not play as much as others. At least that's how it seems to me.
Passenger violence probably went down before it went back up. Hijacking used to be almost routine.
Not ambitious at all. When highschool was over, everything was along the lines of "do whatever you want, but move out by the time you're 18". It made for a really rocky adolescence period and my 20's, not knowing what I should be doing, scraping by for almost a decade, and then finding a true passion and having life take off for me (relatively speaking). It wasn't until that period where I realized that I also came from a very poor background. I mean, I knew that we where poor and lower class, but I never realized that we where that far down the ladder.
The tweet for those who do not use Javascript

"full_text":"I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie it wasnt creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just dont know about. If only there was a way to bring it to their attention"

Tweets are so short it makes me wonder why HN does not pin the text at the top of the HN thread, like it does with archive.ph links for articles on "paywalled" sites, instead of forcing people to visit Twitter. (The term "forcing" is used here as a figure of speech. As with most "paywalled" sites, there are workarounds for Twitter.)
There's huge amounts of poorly coded PHP malware, mostly for WordPress, but occasionally for other PHP CMS. It doesn't get much examination. I suspect this is because security people mostly grew up with Windows.
I disagree.

More specificly its saying "the previous statement i just made is not me saying i am giving you a patent license. However i'm not saying in general whether or not i am going to give you one, and i might be giving you one in some other statement."

There is of course a certain sense where not rendering an opinion is the same as the supporting the status quo ante (which would be no patent license), but i dont think its fair to equate an implicit no opinion = no patent license with an explicit no patent license.
So like any movie except american ones ? :D In Europe and Asia, we do enjoy the US movies but it's not like we think they have quality, hell it's like macdo and coke, it s fun to consume but got is it awful :D

The US has the ability to appeal to your base instinct instead of trying to reach your brain, it's striking !
I'm the author of the website. Why is the title is tagged 2008? The website started in 2000 or maybe 2001, and has been actively maintained since then, including a big update to the emulator in 2020:

http://www.wang2200.org/news.html

I also have websites for two much more rare Wang machines, both predecessors of the 2200.

https://wang3300.org

The 3300 was intended to compete with PDP-8s, and has a nice front panel. It supported up to 16 users, and could run BASIC or FORTRAN. The emulator comes with an image of the BASIC interpreter; alas, I don't have a copy of their FORTRAN. The machine had a reputation for poor reliability. Supposedly when the 2200 became available, Wang offered all 3300 customers to swap their 3300 for a better 2200 system.

As far as is known, one system ended up in the garage of a guy in Belgium. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago. It seems likely that computer got scrapped.

https://wang1200.org

This was a Wang calculator had its microcode rewritten to be a word processor. The machine had 256 bytes of RAM (originally core, later replaced with RAM chips)
Any idea what the reasoning behind these FDA rules is?
My CS1 Back End
Because if you have to use it all the time for MFA when the phone is lying on a desk, it's really great not having to pick it up every time.

Our work is going a bit crazy with MFA timeout now and I'm really happy with my in-screen fingerprint reader.

No problems with it on the OnePlus 8 by the way, it's accurate and fast.
interesting stuff:

Astrophysics/space/Physics

- https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky

- https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

- https://www.youtube.com/c/universetodayvids

- https://www.youtube.com/c/astrumspace

- https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousDroid

- https://www.youtube.com/c/minutephysics

CompSci/tech interviewing/tech news/security

- Martin Kleppman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB4KPy5LkJj1t3SgYVtMOQ

- https://www.youtube.com/c/ArxivInsights

- https://www.youtube.com/c/CSDojo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/SuccessinTech

- https://www.youtube.com/c/VivekHaldar

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TechTechPotato

- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackHatOfficialYT

- https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory

Linguistics

- https://www.youtube.com/c/JuLingo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/LinguisticsMarburg

History/History of technology

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHistocrat

- Art History with Travis Lee Clark https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0yYUsx9vpuhu2dkk8_a9w

- https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast

- https://www.youtube.com/extracredits

- https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidIanHowe

- https://www.youtube.com/c/ArchaiaIstoria

- https://www.youtube.com/c/engineerguyvideo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/StefanMilo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOrientalInstitute

- https://www.youtube.com/c/StefanMilo

General

- https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer

- https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

- https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEngineering

- https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions
Facebook will be able to test and handle a negative leap second better than most organizations in the world. Its everyone else they are worried about. If the rest of the internet breaks from a negative leap second, it doesn't really matter if facebook's servers all stay up.
You would need a gravitational lens so powerful it not only bent light, but made the light perform a complete slingshot around it so that it would be aimed back at Earth. The nearest such object is the Milky Way's black hole, and there's no way we'd be able to resolve Earth in an image coming from a) that far away and b) that close to the galactic core where so much other stuff is in the way.

But could a photon make such a journey? Yes. But you'd never be able to recognize it against everything else.
Also humans respect copyright, meaning other people's published work and don't just copy it, otherwise there are legal consequences which seem to not be the case with DALLE and others.
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Germany and Norway already have multi billion dollar solar and inverter manufacturing industries.

Nothing to the scale of china, but scaling it is far more viable than scaling the nuclear industries.
I remember someone who was acutely familiar with the design of my first computer (the Ohio Scientific Superboard II, an awesome 1970s 6502 machine! http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html ) saying that he spotted the same hardware being used, in its entirety, as a printer buffer a few years later. (A printer buffer was basically a device used to cache the output of a computer to a slow printer so the original machine didn't have wait for the printer to finish. A glorified cable, in other words.)
Basically not at all. The standard advice of having a backup plan for employment and an emergency fund should cover this well.
"A quite small but significant group were not merely unrepentant, they used the commission as a platform to attack and abuse their victims again."

It's interesting. Do you have a source for further reading?
Bah - your 3rd example is just a single site, and the second was actually caused by BGP. I'm not convinced BGP wasn't the problem with the first either ;-)
> but the private sector can also operate added value services over the public infrastructure if they want for a nominal maintenance fee.

Added services like what? I want internet. Give me internet.

As long as the "no-frills" version is available to consumers, I suppose it's fine to provide options. However, I feel like these public-private partnerships often merely allow rent-seeking corporations to insert themselves as middlemen and skim off the top of public services. Especially once those middlemen also start lobbying to cripple the government-run version.
Views on School Choice Vouchers
Yes and it’d be good from an environmental point of view if it had remained so. Even discounting the environmental aspect I still wish for the days of regulation. The cheaper air fares with the accompanying horrible experience is not worth it in my opinion.
One of my earliest programming jobs as a college student was programming BASIC for Wang 2200MVP systems. A couple business school graduates had formed a partnership to develop semi-custom computer applications to support agribusiness corporations in Latin America. They got some hardware through one of Wang's developer programs (which my father worked on at the time, around 1981-1982). They also needed programming help, and my father referred them to me.

They had developed quite a capable application, which is amazing given the limitations of the system. The 2200 was memory-limited (both code and data) and so in order to deal with this limit, we had to use code overlays. And the BASIC (mostly) didn't support symbols for subroutines, so we had to use line number conventions. For example, lines 8000-8999 might have been designated as the overlay area. To load some overlay routines, those lines would first need to be cleared, and new code would be loaded that by convention would start at line 8000.

And subroutines (mostly) didn't have parameters or return values, so we had to keep conventions for all the different subroutines to take parameters in certain named variables and to return values in other named variables. There were no local variables, so all the code needed to conform to some conventions over use of temporary variables so that different parts of the code didn't stomp on each others' data.

I don't remember much else about the system, but they did manage to get the Simplex Algorithm working well enough to solve optimization problems, such as where to apply resources in order to maximize revenue.

I also got a trip to Ecuador out of it in order to do a customer installation. Pretty cool for a college student to get international business travel.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197012 (3 days ago)
According to some parenting sites, "But before their third birthday, most 2-year-olds are able to put three-word sentences together."

So yeah, I call BS on that one.
When I was working for other people, I never submitted a resume. I was referred to the job by a friend, the company looked at my LinkedIn profile, and then they interviewed me.

While this does prove that the job market is unfair and not at all a meritocracy, I hope people will also take away the lesson that increasing the size of your social network (even just with acquaintances) can be the most lucrative time you spend. If you're introduced to a cofounder, it might even be worth millions.
Some countries have boating license laws that are different depending on whether your DOB year is >= 1980, as an example for this type of "grandfathering cutoff".
At the same time it was a military song sung by soldiers to motivate them during long marches... I like the Marseillaise but all the martial songs are martial.
I'm very sad to live in a world where "printer buffer" has to be explained to the "tech" community.
Actually one of the few objections to dropping the leap second at the previous review in 2015 did come from the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Their report says:

Some members of the astronomical community have expressed great concern over any change to
the current system. These concerns are based on the use of existing software that takes advantage
of the current definition and uses UTC as a substitute for UT1. Their requirements for precision are
such that the current 0.9-second tolerance is adequate, and their software has been designed
accordingly. Should the definition of UTC be modified in any way that would permit this tolerance
to be exceeded, they anticipate it would create a substantial cost to make non-trivial changes in
existing software. Some members of the astrodynamic community have voiced similar concerns
regarding legacy software used in the determination of orbital parameters of artificial satellites that
again utilizes UTC as a substitute for UT1.[1]

So I'd suggest the FB summary of their objections is pretty much correct.

Reading the report completely, it seems the IAU wants to create a new time standard (not UTC) that drops the leap second and keep UTC as it is:

It was suggested that a means of transitioning to a uniform time scale could be accomplished by the creation of another time scale that might be called Temps International (TI) to clearly distinguish it from Universal Time.

[1] https://www.atnf.csiro.au/iau-comm31/pdf/ContDoc-010_IAU_060...
If you have 15 or 15 different e-mail related functions spread across a whole bunch of files, how do you find the one you need to update?