skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never gonna happen because there are competing vital interests:

0. Human diurnal local time

1. Universal time similar to 0. but without local offsets - UTC (UT1)

2. Universal monotonic time (within comparable gravitational reference zones) - TAI

These already exist. There is nothing to add or remove, but to do things differently that have already been recommended rather than sticking with insane traditions for another 25 years wherever possible. UTC (UTn), GMT, are insane for timestampping.

Use TAI essentially everywhere and calculate it later as UT1 or local time. If you fail to do so, you risk discontinuities and security vulnerabilities. This is why you should and must use TAI64[N[A]] rather than UTC because UTC is not monotonic. You can get UT1 from TAI by downloading LS tables and doing the math yourself. It is rare to find UTC-centric code implemented correctly.

This isn't rocket science, it's first principles of recording data that doesn't vary nondeterministically in forward time.
This is great, got sucked almost immediately.
Interesting, never heard of that. I'm testing it and the lack of mouse movement inversion, both x and y, drives me crazy. Did I miss it or they haven't implemented it yet?
While I am the last person to minimize how bad coal is compared to every other option, "disturbed" does not mean "blackened death, devoid of life" in most cases.

There are a lot of replanted strip-mined mountains. It's not good, but does revert to nature... mostly.
The second hand narrative I’ve heard is that she was emotionally abused as a child and went away to boarding school. She used the dumb blonde persona to escape criticism both from the public and her own family as she maneuvered into the life she wanted.
Sorry, but spare me. Yes, it's quite obvious, in this day and age, that "shamelessness" works. But one of the reason I think it works is that most people have some sense of dignity, so if you're willing to forgo that dignity, more power to you I guess, but let's not try to pretend it's some sort of brilliant "strategy". You're just willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel that other people aren't.

Simple examples:

1. Leaking sex tapes certainly worked to get Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton more exposure. Congrats!

2. I remember seeing a couple minute clip where Lance Bass was talking to Kris Jenner about his recent (like the day before) wedding to his husband, which was of course televised. The only thing Kris Jenner was focused on was "what the ratings were". So, again, congrats, if you want to take your most intimate, important moments and hock them to the highest bidder, knock yourself out.

3. Trump definitely saw the discontent that was boiling just below the surface in the US that the political elite ignored. But taking advantage of discontent by playing to people's worst fears, their xenophobia and racism, making it OK to always play the victim and how those bad guys on the other side are out to "replace" you - let's not pretend this is some sort of genius.

So yes, I think shameless people can be quite "successful". I'll prefer to keep my soul.
Well you're right but the idea of getting all of the DNA information is precisely to be sure to not rely on what we think we know, so that if in the future we discover that previously thought useless parts are meaningful we would already have them in store (gathered long before the DNA gets damaged by age).

Once we have everything, we can apply additional knowledge to this data as soon as it is discovered and without needing to do more sequencing.
“Her actions were effective regardless of the intentions” - effective in what way? Stupid actions effective to reinforce others perception that the actor is stupid? I don’t get it.

I must have missed the “ta-da” moment at the end, the big reveal, the one where the shocked naysayers are left humbled by the surprise transformation…
> [We] pretend we have control and in some cases, it's this that actually makes us miserable.

Totally! I follow the dice method myself, with some twist: for daily repeated decision. I complement it with a rank ordered list of my preferences, where sometimes I simply invert the list.

So if there are 10 options, I would usually choose the 1st one (ex: my favorite drink) but sometimes I chose the last one (here, my least favorite drink). The dice says when I do that, with a minimal frequence of 1/6th for a regular D6.

> I'm curious since you recommended it to OP, how you apply this in your own life and if you have some examples of things you have discovered.

I have discovered I don't really have food preferences, and that what other human beings think taste good will taste good (even if not to my taste YET) at least after a small exposure period.

The most interesting discoveries (ex: meat: now I like it almost raw!) have been made through this funny algorithm.
There are many different flavours of capitalism. Sweden bullies poor people far less than North Korea or Cuba or Vietnam does, despite being a capitalist society.
Did you contact them or get any response back?
Their client is terrible. You can't prevent it from snooping on your processes without putting it in a sandbox.
How else are we going to get to the future we deserve?
This isn’t what would happen. Even we had a huge number of inexplicably needed leap seconds (there are 3600 seconds in an hour), local offsets would just change, for the same reason that people on the other side of the planet have a different time on their watch than you do. And if for some reason we proved incapable of doing that, then social conventions on when the work day started would shift relative to the local time. There just is no danger of people going to work at sunset.

I’m not saying that abandoning leap seconds is a good idea, just that abandoning them wouldn’t consign future generations to whacky schedules.
Did you get an emotional reaction in the first 3-5 minutes of Pixar's UP? Congrats you have emotions.
The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection
We're not consigned to jack shit. Visa and Mastercard don't control what movies I torrent or which sites I choose to visit. Hell, this could be the reason I decide to switch to Chase, as a conscious consumer. I'd argue, things are working exactly as intended.

The real blackpill is that all of these so-called payment layers are really just fancy fronts for sinister businesses. Terra, Solana, $BSV... each one of them is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Our government is run by professional scam artists, but I'd trust them with my money over literally any cryptocurrency, any day of the week. Don't just take my word for it though, the article you posted in the first place claims that the vast majority of people don't trust cryptocurrency.
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Nim-Libp2p
It is not up to the law to set the standard. That is giving people ethical permission to sell their skill to the highest bidder.

No one makes you work for casinos, big pharma, anti-human-rights political groups, or surveillance capitalism companies.

If you work for an unethical company you share responsibility for the harm they do.

If a company you work for is behaving unethically, quit, and find another job. I promise it is an option.
You are 100% correct. That quote is garbage. What it's really saying is - "ask around, I'll wager you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who won't pretend to want a safer, fairer, more just world for everyone. In reality, when you explain what fair and just actually means, they will secretly reverse course at the first opportunity".

Just look at the foreign policy of every country in power. Look at the willingness of any power group to give up that power without intense military or financial pressure. Let's see - slavery, wars of conquest, ecological destruction, finding black men automatically guilty, rape, child abuse, monopolies, wealth concentration, regressive California property tax policy, etc.
Are the top use cases for this sending emails for in-product actions or do people also use it for your marketing website too (eg to send a drip sequence when a customer requests a demo)?
I think Peter Thiel is masterful at this. It reminds me of my favorite poem by Rumi:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.

I always thought that surrendering to the notion of categorizing right and wrong led to stoicism, but this article got me thinking: in order to be effective at shamelessness, deep inside you need to be a stoic of that shame -- without that you're just a poor player strutting and fretting.
Those skillsets can be rapidly translated to create things for non-walled-garden platforms.
With a starting price of $67k (a few grand less than 2023 BMW X6), and a 0-60 that's a couple hundred ms from a 2022 Lamborghini, I think that could be considered well into the higher end of the car world.

That's neat it's independent though. I imagine it has a hard time getting stuck, even though I doubt most use it outside the concrete jungle.
I had just installed the web app version of Instagram with UBO enabled in Firefox. It was a radically changed experience, for the better. I had stopped using the native app some time before.

But it sounds like this is the end of that. So... Bye!
No way this is real.
> Should we allow cigarette ads again? Where's the limit?

Cigarette ads are totally irrelevant to this controversy.

Cigarettes are a non-ideological, commercial product without any therapeutic uses. We can suppress all mention of them from the media, and we would be in no danger of death, tyranny, etc. In fact, there would be far fewer deaths, as we've seen in the last few decades.

Suppressing political ads does carry the risk of death and tyranny. The whole reason people are worried about the erosion of free speech is that suppression of potentially valid ideologies is extremely dangerous.
He's not advocating for a passive investment income.

> You could use these savings to invest in stock markets, day trade with them, and - hopefully - make a profit.

I wouldn't recommend his advice..
Hey, protocontrol, our app provides subscriptions to Spotify, a Twitch channel of your choice, or Wired Magazine. We are a peer-to-peer CDN that pays our users for helping to distribute third-party video data.
But where are the reports/blog posts from the thousands of companies using these algorithms that ran into performance problems the last few times cloud providers used time smearing? I’ve done some searching and can’t find any, which suggests this is mostly a theoretical issue.

Yes I could come up with an algorithm where this is a problem, but in most cases I’d favor a solution that doesn’t depend on separate systems having clocks perfectly in sync.
I just want to know how do you keep a job as a manager when you fuck up so badly. The vast majority of what seniors bring to the table is experience. That is also what you pay for. That experience is not like gold, it's like a gold mine - you have to mine it first, then bring it to the surface and only then you can profit off it. The fact that there are software houses out there that do not understand this is amazing (in a bad way). I mean I guess there is some value in a senior dev coding menial tasks (generally more mature, less error prone code with the right amount of abstractions), but that like saying there is some value in a rocket engine pulling a plough... technically true, but not really economical and there's a pretty good chance of most of your rocket engines going away rather quickly.
Ask HN: Where to work to combat climate change?
I work as a software engineer at one of the big players. The job is alright, but I have a toddler and I am getting increasingly frustrated at quality of the world he is going to inherit, and lackluster response from US. Are there companies that take the issue seriously and actually doing something about it, instead of not looking past election cycles and quarterly profits?
To evade the dark pattern use a proxy like ProxiTok/Bibliogram and read them from your feed reader, customized as you prefer.
Well, cyberpunk 2077 has more than a few bone saws already.
Yikes, that’s quite a bit of mental gymnastics you’re pulling there.

Coal mines are horrible when they’re open and the horrible once they’re closed, don’t believe the P.R.
"Start with selling a Product not a Platform" -> reminds me a lot of this PG piece: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion
That's impressive (or disturbing). I wonder if they've come up with some kind of peanut that doesn't trigger peanut allergies. I miss the airline peanuts and I was always a little sad that so many cultural references and stand up routines were dated by their absence
I don't know how I missed that post but thanks a ton!

This will scratch my nostalgia itch for a good while.
Interesting. I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out a similar industry that I can get excited about. The cat and mouse nature of security and privacy puts me off a bit. Maybe green tech? Appreciate the comment nonetheless!
I estimate 4.5 human-years of effort (1.5 years nonstop).
They claim:

> The transformity (TR) was equal to 1.78E+11 seJ kg-1,

> eMergy inputs are expressed
in units of eNergy (usually in solar eMergy joules, seJ) [I capitalizad some letters.]

So, ignoring the "se" it's like 2*10^11J/Kg. Each Kg of sugar has like 1.5*10^7 J, so the "efficiency" is like 10^-4 that makes more sense than 10^-11

Photosynthesis has an efficiency of 1%-2%, but they are counting more things.
For example the eMergy of planting and harvesting that makes sense, but also the eMegy of rain that makes no sense at all. So I'm not sure how relevant are the numbers they are calculating.
> The rhetoric is “why can’t those horn dogs stop fucking [for a while]” (quote from a HN comment)

Where is this comment? I searched the thread and the rest of HN and didn't find it.

> It is a gay issue and their is an anti-gay sentiment.

You seem to think that you get to decide what motivates other people to think things. I would think that doing so would lead to misunderstandings and conflict.

For example, people who would support temporary abstinence policies regardless of the affected groups would bristle at being told their beliefs are anti-gay (unless they are, I supposed). They might tend be your ally on many other policies and causes, but feel alienated by your accusations. This is one reason why ascribing sentiment to other people's statements might not be a great idea.
Re: title

Was this ever not the case?
Agreed.

You might as well not be a person if you live in a virtual world...necessities like money and basic human needs mean people outgrow their fantasy world, and their fantasy games. Moves like this cause fragmentation, such that there is no one virtual world.

As your userbase gradually dwindles to nothing...they grow up and have lives. Or don't, and are usually characterized by low paying jobs, poor health.

Ofc not every low paid worker is there by choice, and some are born disabled, but on average these games are a cause of their plight.
I learned to read at 2, if my mother is to be believed.
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Parents have high ambitions.

From India.

Parents are high achievers and rather wealthy.

Though I have a cushy job, I personally haven't reached upto my own expectations.

I suspect even my parents think I can do better though they never explicitly said that.

I have two older sisters — one of them was at FAANG in another country. The other is a doctor.

And I'm... a coder here :/

My ambition is FAANG or similar though.

I feel I'm wasting my life.

(FWIW, I went to college in USA).
Probably because what makes TikTok attractive isn't it's dark features that only Instagram would think was important, but how amazing it is at learning your interests with the lowest amount of required input (just swiping down quickly or not after a new video starts).

I was one of those people that thought TikTok was a modern garbage machine that only produced low quality dancing videos of young girls for zoomers. But then I read on HN that you just need to commit for a little while and it will learn what you like.

I was amazed at how much this is true. I'm now getting Scott Manley-esque space news, tech stuff, hyper local restaurant recommendations, real gameplay of game genres I actually like, etc. Basically what took me years to carefully subscribe to on Youtube was done in a few months on TikTok and it only seems to get more relevant (note: YT always still wins in pure intellectual signal vs noise).

The whole addictive thing is obviously an issue, especially for kids, but I'm an adult who grew up with tech and I've learned how to carefully balance internet/life, so it's mostly pure upside for me.
I think you’re on the wrong comment chain, friend…
- Many of these business models have been subsidized by governments.

- I'm not sure, though the reasoning may be that their future existence is ultimately more valuable as a population control system than merely an ad network.

- Some have argued that online ads are in a bubble. I don't know.

- A free market does not seem to exist though.

Thoughts?
ooooh that's smart. I used the knowledge gained here to look at tailscale and now understand better what it does. Great success ;)

Also found an interesting article here https://rakhesh.com/linux-bsd/tailscale-wireguard-co-existin...
No trust in black box AI
My mind was blown when Stranger Things used a Tandy 2000 as a prop to represent a POS terminal in a video store. Very few people outside hardcore nerds and Charles Bukowski fans even remember the Tandy 2000. In addition to being on-brand for the series (which also featured Realistic and Micronta electronic equipment and a character who worked at Radio Shack in the first couple of seasons), it shows they did their homework, as by 1986 the PC ruled business and "POS terminal" was about the only viable use case left for the Tandy 2000.

In general the producers really did do their homework to capture the time and feel of the 1980s, instead of just shitting out low-effort vaporwave. And it's bored generation X/Xennial parents, you insensitive clod -- millennials were born too late to even remember half that stuff.
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Given it’s designed in chunked neighborhoods with some sort of standardized system to allow commuting across the whole of its structure quickly, it absolutely sounds like something that could be built and tested in pieces.
What ethics boil down to IMO. Comments welcome.
Back when there were large pensions when you stayed at a job for several decades, probably.
While the FSO Safer is a potential $20B humanitarian disaster in the Red sea that needs less than $20M more to start offloading the oil. Hope that the Houthi's do not sabotaged it to make him look like a fool.
try 2atch
Okay, how many suggest relying on a perfectly synchronized clock versus how many suggest designs which account for slightly desynchronized clocks?
I know that this is true, yet I stay for long periods of time.
I'm not sure why that is. I know I've stayed longer than benefited everyone involved and a new job can bring new enthusiasm for the craft. Yet my mind tells me the sensible option is to stay put.
I submit that the problem is actually bigger than you think, there are in fact more malicious mods than you realize, and drastic measures should be taken. I don’t think EAC is the right fix and I think it’s being made for the wrong reasons.

Most regular users don’t use or know about anti-crasher mods, and in any case the problems are inherent to the game’s design. Fixing those problems should be VRChat’s main goal.

The OP is about VRChat mods. I started talking about malicious mods and segued into bad stuff on VRChat in general, which I think is both relevant and interesting to HN users. If you don’t like it, I encourage you to help remove the bad stuff.
Spider rain https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B8%8F+%E2%98%8...
This feels like pretty much common sense. A buddy of mine jumped to another large MNC with a 50% hike and. I also interviewed with a startup and got offered a 35% hike by a relatively smaller company.

I rejected it feeling it was too low. But my own company gave me a 20% hike in my fixed pay but reduced my bonus down by 33% roughly making my overall hike at ~5%. I had expected a 30% hike as I had worked pretty hard (my manager gave me the highest rating possible and I got an award for being a "great employee")
City of the future built by a government stuck in the dark ages.
Nope - you can thank torrentz
At that point maybe try moving the group chat to a service not actively mining every word you type to feed adtech engines.
At 56k per person for both living and working space plus associated infrastructure, 500bn doesn’t seem like nearly enough.
Make it a circle, get rid of the mirror, fill in the center. Bam! You got yourself a city.
A strip mine is leaching enough chemicals to kill birds that land there

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2020/04/13/montana-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlPTE-UmY4
Oh come tf on, you can quite easily just view source and hide the timer, GP even was nice enough to make his code nice and tidy with easy to recognize names. Just ctrl-f timer.

It's not like you are having to rewrite his game.

Your edge-case psychological issue should be worth GP rewriting his game, when you couldn't be bothered to change some CSS in two seconds.
He’s in the WWE hall of fame. Of course he keeps kayfabe. The reactions people have to him are jaw-dropping.
I think it does though, because the whole point of the article is shamelessness as a strategy, which means it has to be done knowingly to achieve the purpose.

If she was unaware of it but reached the end result, good for her, but it doesn't support that she herself was knowingly following the strategy, which makes a big difference
> Not everyone needs/wants to be a software engineer or other kind of computer savvy person.

Most people need to interact with a computer for work or pleasure. Not everybody needs to be able to engineer enterprise grade software, but what's the downside to having everybody be able to write a bash script? Lots of people's jobs could be easier with a little command line fu.

We teach lots of core competencies to kids for this reason. You don't need to be a writer to benefit from knowing how to write well, but writing can also help in myriad careers, social settings and even be an artistic outlet. Coding is the same way. I can code for work, but I can also compose music with code or solve puzzles.
From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal
Are they going to build it on Tiran island or?

What gets finished first Oxagon or The Line? NEOM is clearly having fun.

https://globetrender.com/2022/03/03/saudi-arabia-oxagon-floa...