skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in poorer countries, those companies probably pay relatively well. Sure they make less than Canadian developers at big banks, but they relatively make more so they would be better in many cases.
> Just ensure that TAI (which is consistently free of leap seconds) is also supported on an equal status to UTC,

And the best way to do that, is to simply define UTC, to be TAI. Thats the point.
I'd personally take Comcast over Rogers any day of the week.
Boot an 80s mini computer for the first time after manual drive head alignment
It's not as available because it's endangered species, not because there's no demand.
It's not a syntax change, it's a new feature. If you know your version of Python doesn't support it, don't use it.

I think your issue is mostly with library authors who drop older versions just so they can use a slightly more convenient syntax.
> The findings reveal the irony that porn – a male-dominated industry♧ that targets a male-dominated audience♤– is associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives and the improvement of women's sex lives.

Are ♧ and ♤ true? Or did the paper just make this factoid up on the spot? My gut feeling would have been that it's dominated by women instead, and that the audience skewness would be a reflection of that more than anything.
I'm pretty conservatively politically but even I have come to the conclusion that a government owned monopoly on telecoms might be the only solution, especially given the criticality of internet access in the modern world.

To some extent it's a natural extension of the postal service.

I'm not sure why more politicians don't run on this platform.
I did the same (after reverse-engineering the opcodes by filling memory with sequential bytes and listing the output) until I discovered that the Apple //e (and maybe others) included a built-in mini assembler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJp2TnKhnzY
>I find single file dense leetcode style code easier to understand

I find it really difficult to go through huge chunks of iterative code. I need abstractions otherwise I can't get my head around it. I often wind up refactoring into manageable chunks (even in pseudocode/diagrams) just so I can understand stuff.

For reference, my cognitive abilities are heavily skewed towards verbal/abstract reasoning - like several standard deviations above the norm - and my spatial/concrete reasoning is nearly the inverse of this, it's terrible.

I wonder if this has something to do with it!
The "ordinary people" really don't care about leap seconds. Like really, really not.

It's less than a minute in a life span. Just skip summer time once every millenium something.
That’s not how water storage works though for example. You are forgetting that for every unit of mass raised 1 unit, you can add another unit of mass where the previous unit was. Thus you are getting a progression of 1+2+3+4…up to the height units of power stored.
There's a reddit thread going on that was discussing an interesting edge case in regards to 911 and the outage.

In Canada 911 service is accessible without a SIM card; if your phone doesn't have a SIM, any cell tower should in theory still accept and route the call as normal. However in Roger's case, because the cell towers and their authentication mechanisms were still operational, any 911 call with a Roger's SIM card in it would route through Roger's network and only Roger's network; the one that couldn't service any calls. In essence, your 911 service was completely cut off.

The workaround is to pull the SIM card prior to making the 911 call, but it leaves an interesting question about what you're supposed to do in an eSIM world where pulling the SIM is not possible but you're again in this kind of situation.

To be clear I don't know if this is a real problem or not, but it is an interesting thought either way.
structural didn't suggest that NASA repurposing military tech is "bad and evil". Why would it be? That's just your own bias, and one I doubt you can back up with much rational argument. Was the Gemini program "evil and bad" because the Titan II boosters used were originally developed as ICBMs? That wasn't evil, that was smart.

Anyway, he's substantially if not completely correct and it's not hard to find sources backing up the connection between the HST and KH-11 spy satellites if you bother to look it up. In the sibling comment to yours, I provide a link to a book about NASA, hosted on NASA's website a few years ago, that says Hubble's primary mirror was fabricated using technology developed for the military, that a 2.4 meter mirror was specifically chosen to make that reuse possible. The mirrors were almost certainly manufactured by the same people on the same tools. Read the wiki page for the KH-11 and you'll see that the apparently similarities run deeper than that. Dimensions and general structure of the satellites are also believed to be the the same. None of this is fringe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN

And if any of the above is too speculative or unsubstantiated for you, try this on for size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...

And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMT_Observatory#Multiple_Mirro...
Video discussing the use of the sun as a gravitational lens to image exoplanets: https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI
3 Days on Japan’s Vending Machine Overnight Ferry
This definitely showed me that a cashless society is a bad idea. Thankfully I had some cash on hand otherwise would have been stuck for food and gas. It also caused a lot of issues at work as all my coworkers need to drive to do their job and some had no cash on hand. Of course that same day the chip on my visa stopped working and a new one was ordered in the mail. But if not for the cash on hand it would have been a bad day.
The closest thing was probably the electric Smart car that Mercedes makes: https://carbuzz.com/cars/smart/fortwo-electric-drive-cabrio

They don’t sell them in the US anymore.
>the nationalists believed a Japanese defeat in the pacific war would lead to Western colonization of East Asia

culturally, in many ways it did
Whilst I agree in abstract, I imagine closer ties with the US would be hard to stomach for many in Canada for a while given the last presidency…
The router config is not the top of the stack though. There should be orchestration systems that push out changes to these devices and can roll them back when required.
Safety doesn’t seem to be a major factor for a farm truck. “The front won’t fall off” seems to be a non-issue based on his 1 year update.

They must’ve cut corners, but if you’re not taking this on public roads they’re not corners you care much about anyway. At $2000 you’re not going to do much better.
I wrote the Rust version and the comments are a reflection of my style and my belief that benchmarks should come with some kind of analysis. The "simple" variant was also intended to demonstrate idiomatic code without a bunch of perf tricks. Nicer error messages in that case is fair game.

Indeed, a naively analysis based on code size without taking comments into account is pretty obviously wrong.
>Moreno recognizes that large segments of the population might never enjoy the slower-paced, localized life he envisions. “Of course we need to adapt this concept for different realities,” he says. “Not all people have the possibility of having jobs within 15 minutes.” But he emphasizes that many people’s circumstances could be profoundly changed—something he believes we’re already seeing because of the pandemic’s canceled commutes. In his view, centralized corporate offices are a thing of the past; telework and constellations of coworking hubs are the future.

An embarrassing case of "oh yeah we forgot low-wage people" which shows where his priorities are and who these cities are actually designed for.
I live in an exurban town near a couple of small cities. I work remotely but am within 30 minutes of my office by car. And I'm within a 10-15 minute drive of grocery stores, (some) restaurants, and various big box stores like Walmart. It's not like I have quick access to big city amenities but I'm a reasonable pretty uncongested drive from most of the things I need day-to-day. (And I can walk but just for a fairly lengthy walk in the woods.)
Why failure is a must-have key to success
100k KG.. I guess no one uses Megagrams? Or that's also 100 metric tonnes...
What is the consequence of being a fraction of a second out of sync?
Fun game! This will make a great fidget when I don't have much to do at work.
voila, it isn't any different than the current system.
I love Captain Louis' expression as he looks up to see what Rick will do. I don't see it as "disapproval"; he seems to be thinking "oh, my: this is going to be interesting."
Yeah but with the enormity of the universe, there's many directions to send a a telescope in, right?
I doubt any "best of us" stay in Canada. It is a fiercely mediocre place.
Exactly. Reducing is the exact opposite of oxidising. Don't let your car rust!
What I mean is, a telescope will produce several arrays of numbers detailing the number of photons received by each sensor pixel, one array for each frequency it measures. Then you pick three arrays and pack them into a bitmap as the R G and B components. At most you can get fancy by letting it mix three artistically chosen colors (rather than red green and blue), but a lot of pictures don't even involve that. That's the same between Webb, Hubble and any other telescope. Even digital cameras do it - they differ from the human eye, not by a lot but noticeably under some conditions.
At least Junos has working commit confirmed with working rollback. Can't say the same thing for the alternative.
You’re saying serialization for immutable objects?
Given that it wants pure CO2 as a feedstock, it could probably work better with carbon capture equipment
First, Russia has precision cruise missiles so that is NO excuse for their leadership, nor for you excusing them.

Second, of course bombing civilians was immoral during the great wars. The fact that they're TARGETTING population centres at all is evil, regardless of technology, antagonist or time on history.

Third, if people in Western countries did subsequently develop a distaste for such immorality, that's to their credit. It doesn't make them hypocrites, it puts them further down the road of human development than those who didn't.

Fourth, it's not only Westerners that value human rights, deplore war crimes and terrorism and those that do are often the first to publicly criticise their own countries records and hypocrisies. The fact they can do that made their countries "better", it's what helps make them "good" today.

You almost seem to dislike modernity.
Yes, but so what? The colour we see is the colour we see and that seems like a sensible colour to report.

Think of it this way: If you take a picture from a mountain, things in the distance will look bluer than they are when you are close, but does this mean that all the pictures taken from mountaintops have "fake" colours that need to be corrected?

In this sense redshift is just another thing that makes things change colour as the distance increases.
The VC's point was that FB was moving to be a platform, and I should too (despite having approximately 0% of the number of users that FB had at the time).
Sounds like it would be massively simpler for the users who need to use time like this to deal with leap seconds rather than require that all software deal with it all the time
I find the trend towards custom chips like M1 specifically alarming in this context. The line between that and hardware level shenanigans is very thin
> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary.

Sometimes an abstraction cuts to the core of the reason why.

See for example https://algebradriven.design/

Good abstractions can communicate intent better than mounds of concrete code because they speak at a higher level.

However, mounds of okay concrete code is way easier to deal with then poorly thought out abstractions.

This means pragmatists get little practice in abstractions, where their pragmatism is needed most to uncover the useful abstraction and avoid the overly complex invented abstraction.

Abstract code also has the advantage of parametricity in strongly typed programming languages.
They are making kerosene for aviation. It will replace kerosene made in a refinery, and be burned in the same engines that move the aircraft today. Thus the exhaust will be the same as today.
> Alignment

Whoops; fixed!

> This can be quite difficult to figure out if an A>C at a particular position is meaningful or not.

What about https://promethease.com ?
I know why they did it, but it meant that to start with, rich people got electric cars. Progress is often made by lifting the top of what's possible before raising the floor of what's acceptable. It must happen that way almost by definition.
If only telecommunications was a free market.
Well, if something is deemed to be a law, I'd rather live in a place that enforces them, than not. In my view, you're making Australia look good to me.

If you want a gov that doesn't do anything to stop criminals you should come to Chicago.
Hi @acabal. I'm interesting on a RSS address for your blog. I'm seeing you publish tech stuff. Thanks for all the work you've done and shared.
Nice narrative, but no. The law applies equally to everyone.
After a very frustrating experience with fraud prevention shutting off my CC in Paris, I called and very pointedly made sure they weren't going to fuck me again on my next trip. Day 2 in London, biggest Visa network outage in recent memory happened.

What was most surprising was how long it took some store clerks to flip their point of sale systems into queuing mode so that people could keep buying things. There was a period where we just went from shop to shop trying to buy the same thing until we found one that didn't decline the card.
The marketers, the people creating the advertisements, are extra responsible if they are perceived negatively since they're the people who should be most able to market themselves better. It's kinda funny, really.
> Not all monopolies are natural

Did you read my first paragraph?
Even if you do have a physical sim card, finding sim card ejector isn't trivial, especially in a situation when you do need to call 911.
When did the genetic variations that make us human emerge?
He admits that they were in the mix, documenting it for future public amusement. Hardly James Bond.
It's the Network Law - it's BGP. It's always BGP. Even when you want to blame the firewall, it's probably the firewall's BGP config.

[source - 20 years of NetSec and NetEng experience]
It takes a special innocence to think massive multibillion dollar investors don't influence the media companies they own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
Safety at a blistering speed of checks article 25 mph? Who in their right mind would design for safety if the thing can't even outpace a professional cyclist?
patricia trees

They are particularly interesting for storing long strings.

You can look up all strings with a common prefix quite easily.

the lookup function is really interesting, just check the first differing bit.
I’m up and at my desk by 9am (remote). I usually just check my email and get right back to what I was working on the last day. During standup and other similar meetings I do some light exercise with a wireless headset, I’m thinking of getting a home treadmill soon.

Most of the day I just compete my sprint tasks and work with the team when things come up. Around the beginning and end of sprints I spend more time learning tech that both interests me and is relevant to the job. I don’t work too intensely, I go at the pace of the team and conserve some energy for my free time.

After I’m off work, I relax for an hour or two, then depending on the day I’ll either enjoy myself with media, activities outside, etc. or I’ll develop my interests and curiosities whatever they are at the time, and invest some time in self improvement in things like finance, health, etc. As you can probably tell I don’t have kids or a lot of other responsibilities
Then the comments here would be calling out FB for making sneaky front groups to disguise their involvement!
My father had a heart attack at 43. In response, he dropped red meat and dairy and had to have stents put in 2 years later as his condition deteriorated.

He stopped eating any foods with added oils, as well as anything fatty like nuts and avocados. He eats absolutely zero oil, just basic grains with vegetables and fruits. Ten years later and his doctor says, aside from the stents, he shows no signs of heart disease at all.

Anecdotal improvement aside, your statement about high carbs/low oil being unsustainable is false.
It was also a lot more expensive back then. Today you can pay first class and get better service. Ultimately this is what happens when air travel gets democratized: people focus on low costs.
It's like buy into an Alimony payment for all!!!
Agree to disagree, I was pretty careful to not describe that as an inevitable consequence or "data."

Somebody who flees a conversation imploring everybody to "kill yourself" after mild disagreement has all the appearance of a grievously immature person, raised on gamer culture, lashing out in greatly disproportionate response to a narcissistic injury. The person I've got sympathy for in this situation is the poster's "loving wife." I was once married to a narcissist, too.
What are my options as a former player to get my brain checked for TBI? I wouldn't know where to start.
Ask HN: Fiction that focuses on the team dynamics of programming
Hey HN,

I am looking for (science) fiction about a group of people programming and all the interesting social dynamics and drama between programmers and managers that comes along with that.

This clip from the show Silicon Valley might give you an idea what i am looking for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVksFviJVE . However the show Silicon Valley also has a lot VC drama, power struggles, business deals which distract from the theme i am interested in.

Are you aware of any media (especially written media) that spends a lot of it's story beats on the team dynamics of programming?
I believe you're just describing putting something in the public domain and waiving all copyright (CC talks about this too: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pd...). But be cautious: you're still required to comply with the requirements of any licenses for dependencies you redistribute.
One more: What is the point on Earth the furthest from the Earth's center?

If you hear that, you think "Well, I guess it can't be the top of Everest."

And indeed, it's not. Earth is not spherical.
Why not read the source code? :-)

I wrote comments explaining things: https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/8553c8f600c40a462...
That's hardly a fault with Microsoft though. WinForms is fundamentally flawed and far better alternatives now exist, it'd be foolish to continue investing in WinForms. You can still use WinForms and .NET Framework on Windows 11, just don't expect new features, which is okay.
> find it really difficult to go through huge chunks of iterative code. I need abstractions otherwise I can't get my head around it. I often wind up refactoring into manageable chunks (even in pseudocode/diagrams) just so I can understand stuff.

Understanding lots of code at a module, function, or even more granular level with a magnifying glass feels more productive than struggling to understand the full picture.

It also rewards you with instant gratification. Reading and writing ncrete code gives much more immediate gratification.
Yes, but there are only a few places it can go were it would stay put, which we want because if it goes too far away we loose track of it and then it's just junk that might give someone a bad day in several millions of years.
The FPGA dev boards I worked with in a college course circa 2009 had a couple of PowerPC cores thrown in as a bonus, with a whole system for being able to interface between CPU and FPGA: https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/...
Can you not delete an eSIM?

See "Erase your eSIM": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212780
I believe you need Italian ancestry to become an Italian citizen. It's a piece of immigration and not the whole pie, but could've been the intention.
Looking back at what I've said in this thread, it's "free speech is a societal value like honestly and politeness, not just a constitutional right," "I would be in favor of lifting bans on cigarette ads," "people don't like watching ads but we shouldn't ban them anyway," "I don't think we should be banning any speech," and "the point of a free country is to have a good standard of living for its citizens more than to make money."

There's only one thing in there that I think any reasonable person could think is extreme, and that's having no bans on speech. I'm overall happy making the concessions to this that America already makes.

As for the rest of it: if that sounds extreme to you then I really don't think I'm the one with biases, and I really don't think there's going to be much common ground between us. It's cliche at this point but do you talk about this stuff to a lot of people who aren't on the internet? Because outside the bubble of social media and this website, nothing I've said here would be controversial at all.

I also notice that you think I'm misinterpreting what you said, but still won't say how... Which makes me think that I'm not misinterpreting it at all, you just don't like having a corollary of your beliefs pointed out to you.

Anyway this has been fun but I'm finished now, the anti-flame-war filter is making it take forever to post replies.
> Accord commuter sedan lived a far, far, far easier life

I think you've got this backwards when you're looking at the mid-80's. The Accord was very much a bottom-of-the-barrel option that didn't get as nice of care as most cars-- certainly compared to the European imports that you're comparing to. Especially e.g. probability of being garaged.
I remember the last time this came up and you bloviated about a bunch of nonsense[1], and ended up not being able to deliver. Talk about bullshit. At least your comment here is shorter.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466672
Radiocommunications Regulations in Canada indicate that “radiocommunications in support of industrial, business or professional activities” cannot be done over ham radio (Section 47, Subsection C, Para iii).

I would imagine using it for running a nurse-doc comms would constitute professional use.
School is mostly about conforming, not about innovating. Most companies just want "yes" people in my experience.
I bought this last year. Great apps, great integration, and they promise to protect and store your data. I learned some things about MTHFR and curcumin.
The US is trying very hard to convince the best of us to move back to Canada.
I'd like to try it some time. Here's an Azerbaijani man with a 16 minute YouTube video, no words, carving up a sturgeon, roasting it, and feeding his family. 22 MILLION views.

https://youtu.be/hyu11H9ROQQ
> The workaround is to pull the SIM card prior to making the 911 call, but

The actual “but” clause is nobody is going to be able to diagnose the problem just from the terminal device. It’s like when our cable service goes down* the kids shout out “WiFi is down” (while to me it’s working fine).

* this happens a lot because I live in Palo Alto which, despite having deployed fibre close to every address in the city back in the 1980s was never able to actually, you know, deploy IP service.
PCs Take a Page from Xbox with Pluton
> I think that simplest solution is some kind of NFS server. Kubernetes can consume it as well.

Isn't this asking for trouble, running MySQL on top of NFS?

Also a k-nube.
Reading beats doomscrolling any time, airplane or not.
Learn something new every day, I didn't know that was possible. I thought eSIM operated like the CDMA authentication.