skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's the case why not wait until the recipient is an adult and can give consent?

When my son was born (in the US) the woman who did these procedures was very aggressive and persistent about having it done immediately. When I said that he could choose when he was an adult she replied, "But in that case he will say no" which seemed like a very odd position use to try to justify the mutilation.
Indeed. Your alternative theory doesn’t require an extra construct, and instead uses a pretty established cognitive behavior (the tendency of inaction) to explain the same phenomenon. I would say your explanation has the advantage of Occam’s razor, whereas Nudge Theory doesn’t.
More trees than Paris and more canals than Venice
Another +1 for exercise.

A great thing with it is that you can just basically force yourself to do it, and still reap the rewards.

I find it's much easier to procrastinate when I don't feel like working. But if I just push myself to go out for a walk or lift some weights, once I get going I'll usually see it through and feel much better afterwards. It doesn't even have to be much, just a few rounds of pushups and squats (without weights) is enough to get the blood flowing and get my spirits back up. There's something about feeling your body working that's very mentally relaxing.

Bonus points for this having an effect on my food cravings, which I've seen have an effect on mood. I think there was a related thread on HN recently, but I can't seem to find it.
HN dupes are mostly by value rather than by reference and there's also a kind of topic repetition limit even when the there's more commentary on the topic.
Indeed. I'm not sure talking about some idealistic form of marketing is any more useful than talking about an idealistic form of government where we get rid of all laws and just have people do what they're supposed to do. Sure, such a thing would be nice. It also doesn't happen.

The goal of marketing is to get people to buy something. It doesn't matter if they need it or not, it doesn't matter if there's a better option out there. The goal is to get people to buy. Considering most people don't need most products, and even when someone does need a product they're usually choosing just one of several available options, we can surmise that the vast majority of marketing is trying to get people to buy something they shouldn't be buying.
Actual research astronomer here, and as a (radio) astronomer I would love to get rid of leap seconds. Assuming that UTC = UT1 (the time measure based on Earth rotation) is not accurate enough for most calculation such that you already need to use UT1 tables/forecasts and leap second tables in your ephemeris calculations so there isn't really much benefit in trying to keep UTC close to UT1. And the reality is that for us they actually make things worse: we stop data acquisition at the telescope over the leap second period because we timestamp our data in UTC dealing with the changing interval would be a pain.

There are some good arguments for keeping leap seconds, but I don't think research astronomy is really one (it might be more useful for amateurs), particularly on ~100 year timescales where you don't expect things to slip that much. I think this sentiment is shared by most of my peers, particularly those who actually have to implement data acquisition and analysis pipelines!
I'm sorry that you cannot admit your clearly stated mistakes, and need to interact using insults. Good luck
That's a problem with taxes in general for capital. why don't they have a tax exemption where I can defer paying taxes until I switch jobs and as long as I switch to a like kind job I can defer even more.
You're missing the part where people do this periodically and can never truly remember all the gotchas so they make small mistakes with time that at one point make your cluster fall over with cryptic error messages. I've seen it (but as I said above I am by no means a k8s pro).

That's why there are these linters.

Having a small super-specialized language that catches errors before "compiling" your configuration to an YAML will help hugely.
I think that might have been true once, but I don't think it is now.

If I make a thing, I can put up a web page about it. I can ask Google to index it. I can put my product on Amazon with useful keywords. I can get myself in directories. I can go to trade shows. I can put a press release on PR Newswire.

None of those are push actions in the sense that I am intruding on recipients and trying to badger them into doing what I want. They're just all making offerings in a pull-compatible way such that when people with needs go looking, they will find things.

The last bit makes me think you might be using "pull" in a metaphorical sense, but here I'm using it in the Lean supply chain sense, which is about producer and consumer behavior.
Eventually we will have to get used to having two clocks, slowly diverging.

It’s inevitable because we don’t want hours of slip on Earth and eventually we will move to other planets which certainly don’t want Earth leap seconds.
The problem is that UTC, despite its name, is not a time (it is an angle rounded to a multiple of 1/21600 right angles).

Only TAI is a time.

Already decades ago, some programmers have argued that internally all computers and their software should use only TAI, which is a time, so it behaves as expected, while UTC must be used exactly like the local times and the time zones, only at the interfaces with humans.

If that proposal would have been adopted, there would not have been now any discussion about the leap second.

The only reason for the existence of UTC is to keep dUT1, i.e. UT1 - UTC, under 1 second.

If the leap second is eliminated, then dUT1 will grow over 1 second, so there are other cohorts of hardware devices and software applications that must be updated in order to no longer rely on the assumption that dUT1 is less than 1 second.

Anything that has any relationship with astronomy, e.g. for observations or for navigation, relies on computing UT1 (i.e. the angle between the mean Sun and Earth) from time, so it would have to be updated.

Changing the definition of UTC would make it completely redundant, Instead of giving up to add leap seconds to UTC, it would be much better to make a final leap of a half of minute and have TAI = UTC after the date of the big leap.

Having 2 identical times with an arbitrary offset between them would just add needless complications to all time-related software, forever.
A lot of people in this thread are criticizing this move, but let me offer an opposite view.

One of the largest electronic health records systems has code that predates the UNIX epoch. Much of the time handling code is custom written to deal with this. However, the code was so poorly written that the system would lose data during the double 1 am window that occurs during daylight savings time shift. Hospitals would just shut off all of their computers during this time to deal with it.

As the article notes, issues with leap seconds have also brought down reddit and cloudflare. Many people in this thread are treating this like some sort of display of incompetence, but if you've ever written code that deeply interacts with time, you'd know how difficult it is to get right. A sign of a good system is one where it is difficult to fuck up.

IMO it is better to guarantee that time always moves forward rather than trying to match computer time to human time.
Smartphone is easily the worst, too distracting and addicting. Internet I could still handle when I only had access to it in certain places.
Smartphones have had a significantly negative impact on my overall mental health. There's no denying that some of the features they provide clearly give tremendous value namely maps, messaging, and media (pictures/videos). Outside of that and limited utilities it becomes this broadly unfocused time sink that takes copious amounts of self discipline and boundaries to control. Given as an industry we've become so capable at capturing and holding user's attention there's this constant mental fixation on our phones and the continual dopamine hits they provide.

The minimalist smartphone market is developing but still rather anemic in its offering. I continue to watch companies like humane and blloc to see if they can ultimately produce something that is more compelling. Time will tell, but I feel like this is a market we really need more investment in.
This is all great advice. I'd re-iterate on what your savings/PTO is. If you can take a month off, do it. Just do it.

Stay off the drugs for a bit to let your brain return to baseline. Exercise 3 days a week. Eat healthy. Sleep lots. Rest and recover.
Yep that's what the reddit bot uses aha.
When you go for the equivalent upgrade as a male they ask the same absurd questions ("what would you do if your child died") as if kids are fungible.
Disclaimer: Hacker Lab CTO.

Just to clear up some confusion, we are a for-profit. I wholeheartedly agree with the catch-22 nature of grants. We survived for quite awhile with a significant portion of our funding coming from them, and while they helped, the overhead that came with hitting their specific goals & reporting metrics ate way too much of our (paid) staff time. Grants we're just enough to survive, but pulled a lot of time away from developing in core-business areas. If done again, I would definitely be a proponent of running as a non-profit.

Absolutely agree with your take on grants though, I get why these stipulations exist.

A sidenote on staff vs volunteers: Volunteers are great, and heck I started out in the space as one (some 7 or so years ago), but pretty quickly we transitioned into paid roles for space critical ops.

While having paid positions was definitely one of the contributing factors into the high costs of the space, in my opinion its also the primary thing that allowed us to operate as smoothly as we did at times (not saying without a large number of hiccups).

It's easier to clearly define boundaries and expectations on individuals without souring relationships when there is compensation for someone's time.

Re: Angels: Yes, we included a hail-mary clause in that letter, and even had a couple parties (from the more philanthropic side) reach out, but to put it bluntly the hill is steep, even if we transitioned to non-profit.
>Farmers' markets are great.

Fyi if you didn't already know... the farmers' markets are themselves a type of middlemen. (At least every one I've shopped at in the USA.)

The farmers' market rents out the booth spaces to vendors (farmers). It's a real-world "platform" to bring together buyers and sellers. The farmers' cost to rent the space is embedded into the prices the consumers pay.

A true individual relationship with a farmer would be something like driving to Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms and buying broiler chickens directly from him. This bypasses the middlemen of farmers' markets.
The monopolist isn't a person per se, unless you imagine Jeff Bezos micromanaged every aspect of Amazon.

'Run well' like 'efficiently' is up for debate. Amazon is efficient because of its distribution model and allegedly because it exploits its workers to some degree. Many labor practices would be incompatible with standards of government employment, for the good reason that government should uphold the very labor standards it extols to the market. So if Amazon's retail distribution were nationalized, either it would run less efficiently or we'd have to admit that it's profitability depends on practices many consider unsavory or unethical.

But let's take ethics out of the equation and suppose you have a highly efficient operation run entirely by robots, which is also a monopoly. In a competitive environment margins should fall within the range of normal profits, but if it's a monopoly then the owner can continue to extract economic rents and you're essentially back to landlordism. In that case there isn't a good argument against nationalization or jacking the marginal tax rate sky high.
> “deepest recesses”, “advance mankind”, “toxic”

This language is so explicitly ideological itself that it’s hard for me to draw out what position you’re actually taking here. Can you elaborate?
See also: https://developers.google.com/time/smear

Which says both Google and Amazon smears over a 24 hour period (in contrast to Meta's 17 hour smear).
50% of healthcare resources are used in the final 5 years of life. As Western populations age, expect healthcare to be increasingly squeezed.

Australia seems to have the best approach - everyone has access to basic services, but those who can afford to pay for Private Insurance get access to better hospitals, more comprehensive diagnostics and treatment, and much shorter waiting times.
I'm not sure it is absolutely needed. But it is sensible long term investment even with flat property values. On other hand we could move toward to public housing with prices levels aimed to cover initial investment and maintenance.
Are you single? Find a significant other. Make it a priority in the same way that you made your career a priority up to this point. Ignore all of the "you should be happy alone first" self-help bullshit.

Humans need love like we need food. Being terminally alone sucks.
Microsoft Teams :D
any psych will tell you this. stimulants lose their effectiveness over time. your brain adapts, more is required. pretty soon you cannot function without it. breaks are important, as-is using them as a single tool in a complete toolbox of strategies. it is not a magic bullet, although anyone who has been on it a month or two will lead you to believe that it is.
Programmers can already do this if they want to. TAI already exists. But they'd have to still display UTC as civil time to end users and I'm pretty sure they don't want to do that either because it would mean just as much code.
UI/UX is no small thing. For some people, it can ultimately make or break their ability to get into the work. While it's nice to think we should all be heroically disengaged from the aesthetics and feel of a thing, those aspects have an effect. No shame in that. Different people like different UIs.
When there is "no clear answer on what is idiomatic", we are left with uninteresting
"yes it is" / "no it isn't" Dead Parrot assertions.

http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_1/53.htm
Beginning Jan 1st 2022, a homeowner can apply for HS exemption the same year and if authorized, can get a pro-rated exemption for the rest of the year, if the preivous owner hasn't already claimed it. Ref: SB 8/2021. Bettencourt. https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/html/SB00008I...
>Luckily, Google spotted most of these errors. The search engine rejected most of the takedown requests but two Sonyliv.com URLs were actually removed.

I thought google could never solve the problem of false takedowns, according to googlers here.
And the little guy must always start a HN thread for a solution.
I imagine touch screens and android auto/CarPlay are the relatively cheap components. I can buy a basic Sony unit for $300:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-6-2-apple-carplay-built-in...
It is compatible with that.

It's not compatible wih the strange religious belief that homeowners should be handed free money from the government at the expense of everyone else, including their own children, for not doing anything socially useful.

That's the root problem, but it'll take a while to fix, because people like getting free money at the expense of other people as long as there's enough hoops to jump through that they feel like they deserve it, even when they don't, and enough hoops for them to not click that they are everybody else's "other people" and probably losing on the deal overall.
Almost all markets are now monopoly, duopoly, or cartel. Has been for a while.

It's gigantic detriment to innovation, unemployment, wage suppression, prices.

The end state of unregulated real world free markets is monopoly, because of the ability to establish market barriers, extract subsidies, state-level actor manipulation, dumping.

Antitrust is dead in the US. Cartel economics is part of the oligarchical political control and the formalized power base of the rich.

And economists and economics were puppeted on TV, think tanks, parroting the free market religion to enable this.

And as part of this, we couldn't do anything (and still can't) about global warming. This will possibly doom us as a civilization.
Sergey Brin Ordered Sale of Musk Investments After Affair
Ask HN: Why do you make class members private?
I know this is something that a lot of people do without thinking about it. So let's think about it.

I want to know the main reasons for making variables and functions in a class private. How is it better? What can happen if you don't do it?

Here are a few possible reasons that I can think of that someone could have:

* You have been taught to do it so you just do it without thinking.

* It reduces the number of files you have to search in if you want to find all uses of a member.

* The member is hard to understand so you want to discourage people from using it.

To clarify, I'm only talking about code in the same project that everyone has access to. I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to the code, like when you make a library.
"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does."
― Steuart Henderson Britt
At least where I live it's the historic houses that are worth more than the newer ones, partly because there's a limited supply of them, but partly because the desirability of a house often has little to do with what's "efficent". Further limiting the supply by reducing the number of them is only going drive such house prices up.

I'd also note there are plenty of cities with massive housing affordability problems but little in the way of historic buildings (Hong Kong, San Jose & much of SV etc.). Even in my own city (which often rates as one of the least affordable for housing), historic buildings make up a small percentage of total housing.
Carbon-neutral leather humanely collected from organically grown free-range vegans is a nice touch, but I’ll wait for when they re-introduce physical trackpoint buttons.
A million problems started when system clocks were changed to follow UTC (as opposed to local time) and then UTC was conflated with Unix time - a fixed monotonic reference, which UTC is not!

Though the ship has sailed, I think it could have been much better if computers were set to follow TAI Time (atomic clock time - unaffected by leap seconds) time than the UTC. UTC is as variable as localtime and should have been treated as such.

If fb wants to - they can (and should) use TAI time for system reference.

TAI : https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-ti...
edit: link
I wouldn't call not going hungry "utopia".
I get all of those symptoms periodically without weed or any other kind of drug to make it happen. Maybe there's a confounding variable there.
Battlefield smart phones and app stores.
I am a novice Godot user, but I find the c# support is really easy to use. A lot of the code on their site you can view in either language. And even when I can find people's examples only in gdscript, it's really easy to translate it to c#. I have it linked to visual studio, so I get auto-completions which are 99% of the time all I need.

It's really nice to be able to just create some game object, then immediately take advantage of anything else I need to do on the c# side.. whether it be some basic classes for player objects, helpful static data structures etc.
In the mid 1980s I worked for a guy who did COBOl programming on Wang VS systems. I recall setting up a PC network for one of our clients. The Wang PC boxes were huge.

The other thing I remember was that when An Wang announced his retirement no one had any confidence in Fred. My boss and our more clued-in clients all thought Fred was going to run the company into the ground, adn they were right.
Dhall for kubernetes might be what you are looking for.

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes
yes, and it's dismaying to say the least. we also do high-speed rail to nowhere for political not civic aims. ~85% of californians live near the coast, and/or wants to visit the coast, and we put rail through the central valley. even worse, the service is not going to be cost/time competitive with flying, not only because of the route but also inflated real estate and construction costs lining the pockets of all the favored rentiers with hats in hand.
good one. we can’t even build a new railroad in this state.
I don't think I have the motivation type ADHD but I do struggle to get motivated, especially after the initial excitement phase of a project. What I found worked for me was a particular set of songs, once I put that playlist on, within 5 minutes I'm in the zone. I don't ever listen to that playlist any other time.
A clawback of the full amount initially granted out, as well as punitive fines against the revenue from customers in census blocks they were supposed to upgrade but kept extracting profits from through their ancient existent infrastructure seems like a good start.
Reddit was down for almost an hour!
There is an official asset library that only allows (F)OSS licensed stuff, and there are third party stores (but I don't know which is the best/most successful).
A large portion, 23%, of military budget is paychecks, healthcare, retirement for veterans. Tons more counting employees of all the industries that make up the industry portion of the military-industrial complex.

A huge amount of the military budget is research and science.

> some breakthroughs that come from military research

rockets, jets, computers, encryption, RADAR, SONAR, internets, canning/food preservation, weather prediction - that's just things I know from being in tech (and knowing some history). I'm sure if I was a chemist, materials scientist, engineer, or doctor I'd be able to name tons more from those fields.
But CA has prop 13!
Each of these would and is causing uproar in every country or region that introduced or tried to introduce similar laws. And the last one is plain impossible to realize. How do you even approach limiting immigration in the modern world? I'd argue a lot could be done by revitalizing deserted areas, where houses exist but people are gone. Usually there is one primary cause: find it and try to find a solution, even if it takes years.
> creating demand ex nihilo

For some religions, and a number of athiests, instead of a little devil on your shoulder, it's a tiny marketing person, telling you you're not good enough, you're not safe enough, you're not happy enough.
What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
When the politics of the day, though, are to forcibly modify the rest of your life by using your biology against you, this is clearly about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Anything that listens to your searches and uses that to tailor Youtube results, future search results, advertisements, etc.

I miss the discoverability of the old internet, and I hate having to do 90% of my searches in Incognito.

inb4 DuckDuckGo, etc.
It might also be very helpful to add pricing advantage compared to competitior and emphasize why it is better (could be flat rate compared to usage based, etc)
Isn't there enough credit to go around?

BTW, the people who work on these details inside astronomy are called "instrumentalists", whether they're scientists or engineers.
Great stuff, I went down the rabbit hole of building something similar for synthesizing flash cards + Q/A pairs from textbook PDFs about a year ago, and I would also emphasize that PDF search is a janky nightmare to get within the ballpark of usability :')