skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this! Cofounder at Remotion here—I worked closely with Zak on this and we'd love to discuss!
Street arrests for imprisonment in quarantine will take a while for me to shake from my memories of AUS.
Intel's GPUs have been exclusively UMA since the i740, so this doesn't seem like a particularly rare mistake to make if it was from someone used to all their previous ones.
> Some places even drill additional holes thru virgin metal to access hidden areas, which damages the finish and exposes unprotected areas.

That's an exceptionally bad idea for another reason: cabling is often sandwiched in between two layers of sheetmetal to protect the loom from mechanical damage. If you start drilling holes in box members there is a fair chance that you'll end up doing damage to whatever is enclosed. And of course the debris from the drill is an excellent way to start the oxidization process.
First-party support for seeing replies to your posts, without having to look through your entire post history by hand.
I always heard that the main reason for the leap second was that the british didn't want the prime meridian moving away from Greenwich (i.e. it is a weird political thing).
You haven’t bought one.

Hence you are not a customer.

Nor part of a logically viable market segment.

Even if catering to single purchase buyers made sense.

Which it doesn’t for Nuc’s because they are not consumer products.

Not sure any of that insight will stick.

But always hopeful.
Epson FX Series Printer User's Manual (1984) [pdf]
sorry I annoyed you. I thought I covered both in my post. Feels like you have to walk on egg shells around here least someone correct you.
<pedantic engineer voice>The distance to the moon was well-enough known at the time, though. That's quite a migration! And I think they should at least be entertaining a strong doubt about air along the way: from how attenuated the sun/moon look near the horizon vs. high in the sky, most of whatever's attenuating that light stays very near the Earth. I think astronomers had been accounting for refraction from the atmosphere since at least Tycho Brahe.

Added: just found this on the early history of atmospheric refraction. https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~lehn/_Papers_for_Download/hist...
That's a great explanation. I've seen the "[Person] will stay on as an advisor for the next N months." so many times when execs or leaders at companies decide to leave. It's a kind of "[Person] has decided to spend more time with their family" statement.
To play along more with the ideas you guys are raising, I think that strong spatial heterogeneity driven by falling birth rates in sink-type effects are having an outsized effect on how we think about nations even if the sink is due to density. Societies and cultures which are pre- or post-sink might look at clusters of pathological behaviors as signs of cultural or genetic inferiority, causing some degree of conflict and bias.
A lot of commercial operations (including usps actually) take a 'just dont ever reverse anytime anywhere' approach with their drivers to reduce accidents. I could definitely see this being hugely popular on work trucks and vans.
> I mean these are all obvious points now.

They are not obvious at all to me, someone who has lived extensively in both worlds.
Thiel didn't claim to have invented this strategy. The reason why people associate him with monopolies is because he claimed that they're better for the consumers. And he wasn't the first to make that argument, either - it's straight from Bork's "The Antitrust Paradox" - Thiel just happened to be the most prominent "big tech" voice who openly embraced this notion.
Have you heard of the FODMAP diet? It can really help with IBS. You start by eliminating all foods with FODMAPS[1] for six weeks and then gradually reintroduce foods from each of the FODMAP categories. It’s recommended to have a dietician/nutritionist help with the temporary diet. It was pioneered by Monash University. [ https://www.monashfodmap.com ]

[1] the FODMAP acronym: Fermenatble Oligo-,Di-,Monosaccharides And Polyols
I agree, but I'm also making a point: a truly natural monopoly, one created by circumstances or structural factors, doesn't really require a monopolist, per se. This has been the traditional argument for state ownership or heavy regulation of utility companies, for instance.
OP's solution is objectively worse, because it only reports access recency. Just because the table was or wasn't used recently, doesn't mean its safe to drop.

The code change may of landed the day before that disabled accessing that table, but the tool would warn that the table was still in use.

A quarterly cron job may access the table and go undetected if you look purely at the recency.

The rename strategy protects the data and offers easy rollback. This is a false heuristic.
> One thing we have to ask is the monopolization the problem??

It's a good point. My problem with monopolies is that they minimize risk and maximize reward, basically becoming a tax authority. Once you become a monopoly, you should graduate to nationalization.
Anecdotally, I haven’t seen a diesel that dumps soot in a long time. It would seem the kids with deleted emissions systems and smoke tunes have given up near me. Sorry this small group has affected your perception of the proper use case and larger group.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick talks about diet resistant starch feeding the gut itself. Potato starch is a cheap and easy way to augment that need (YMMV).
So who was responsible for poverty reduction in the nineteenth century?
A few years ago I saw a concert in the Shubert Theater, in Boston MA.

On my way out, coming down the stairs from the balcony, was a portrait of Dr. Wang!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209674.
looks cool. unfortunately I don't have a ton of use for it at the moment... but I'll be saving the link :)
You'd almost certainly want to launch several. You get one data point per half-orbit, when you're at opposite sides of the Sun. This is tolerable for the Earth, where an orbit is one year. But a full orbit out at 20AU takes eighty four years! Collecting a useful number of samples with one spacecraft would take centuries, while two spacecraft in opposition on the same orbit can measure parallax instantly.
If it was, I must have read a different article. I read lots of arguments about opinions considered to be wrong. I didn't see anything about someone making up lies.
It's a nice image, but it's not the first time we've seen something like that pretty clearly. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/gravitational-lens-reveals-d...
One thing that's really hard to compare when looking at taxes is the quality of public services you get.

UK has not low taxes by any measure, but certainly lower than eg Germany, at 200k you're looking at effective tax rate of about 35-40% all in. But state schools are a lottery and shut down for 13 weeks a year. Healthcare is good if you can get seen but otherwise it's the private health insurance. Public transport is expensive. Social security in this segment of earnings is non-existent, you would be ineligible for many things (because "earn too much"), unemployment benefits only available if you have 0 savings left and so on.

I'm not sure I'd recommend the UK though it's less bad an option than it seems, it's just a demo.
Just saying it again doesn't make it so.
A pretty big part of being good at software is deciding if a problem is worth solving.
"God" how I hate to work with time when programming. It's more difficult than pretty much everything else.

Cache invalidation and naming does not come close imo.
> I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I just did a search online and nothing obvious came up about it.

Reasonable question but JWST is a lot smaller than Earth.
« Impure » does not refer to enemy blood but refer to the own blood of the French republican. (Versus the « pure » blood of the royalist)
if i drink a certain brand of kefir before bed i get space dreams 2 out of 3 times, in germany it's called müller milch kefir, good stuff xD

can't do it too often since I don't to well with the sugar content of dairy but it's fun!

Warped in a space battle once, barely missed some shooting turret and deep dove into a beforehand invisible sun wich was made of blue water filled cells, good thing, dreams don't have to make sense!
RIP, Mitch Hedberg.
Can you talk a little more in detail about your tech stack? Perhaps it would help more readers like me who are curious given your history in the .NET space.
I think international economic competition has less to do with "world domination" and more to do with

1) having real international influence without resorting to military action

2) being resilient against international influence from others

The trillion dollar question is how to effectively keep private businesses in check without sacrificing on those points.
The monopolist is just some asshole with advisors. If the government can't hire advisors, shut it down, it's pointless.
1 is fine if the threshold was too high. People are ultimately free to associate with whoever consents to that association without justifying it to outside observers, or to the confused newly disassociated.

2 might be the case, but people can certainly have a sense that something is wrong. It could turn out they made the wrong call in trying to resolve that feeling, but my ancedata tells me this is vanishingly rare.

I get the feeling my anecdata samples a larger portion of the people who pruned their connections to make room for growth, while your anecdata samples a larger portion of people who were cut off. I've already heard quite a bit from the latter and don't find their defenses compelling, so I'm still not convinced this is a serious problem.
It seems the problem of adopting TAI for computers is because the NTP protocol does not provide the offset. We should add TAI-UTC offset to the NTP protocol.
Maybe 5-10% of the big trucks I see in and around Dallas, Texas, are doing anything that requires a truck. The rest are smooth and shiny, with empty beds, sometimes lifted, sometimes not, sometimes with garish aftermarket lighting, sometimes not, but empty beds and with usually one person in them.

I've got no problem with the landscapers and plumbers and electricians and farmers and so on getting a truck to support their work. They're paying the price, and they're relying on what the trucks can do for them.

I've got a problem with the 90% use case in my area, which is unsafe drivers driving unsafe vehicles unsafely, apparently for the image.
To the first: you are free to seek the information elsewhere. That's the whole point of my argument, the whole "the person who loses when X is silenced is not the speaker but the listener" doesn't work when you can go to 100 websites and make your voice heard, possibly earning lots of money while complaining about being silenced. And bans on teaching critical race theory is being called for by similar groups that are decrying the death of free speech when racists get criticized.

To the second: The thing is, if I'm a student paying tuition, or a colleague who's implicated by you, can I push for official sanctioning and/or dissociation once you make your speech? I'd argue yes. It's private institutions which can make their own rules (public institutions are more complicated, but are often held to a standard of "public pressure is okay, state pressure isn't" in my country)

As long as we have a healthy media and educational system of diversity , these debates and issues are not about free speech, they are about people exercising their free speech, then getting a bunch of other people using their free speech to react to it and calling for consequences and the initial speakers wanting indemnity. Those who complain about silence tend to be quite audible. I'd say, let them do like those who founded https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_University_of_Berlin instead of trying to evade consequences in cushy, well paid jobs
For those interested, the (linked) source article from Phoronix, which shows the code change:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-RT-100x-Improve
A quote from the Lt. Gov of Texas, who is also leader of the Texas state Senate.

"“During the upcoming 88th Legislative Session, one of my priorities will be eliminating tenure at all public universities in Texas. To address already-tenured professors, we will change tenure reviews from every 6 years to annually,” Patrick said.

“Additionally, we will define teaching Critical Race Theory in statute as a cause for a tenured professor to be dismissed,” he added."

There is too much hand-wringing amongst the liberals, accusing each other of being anti free speech; when in reality, as always, the people who are actually anti-speech are the supposed conservatives.

Witness conservatives use the power of government to un-Constitutionally suppress speech by banning books from libraries, to requiring professors to register their political affiliation (in Florida), to banning what students can or can't learn or even hear about in class.

I'm trying to be fair and think of an instance where American liberals used their legislative power to outright ban ideas, and I can't think of a singular instance.

I suppose this is what it means to be an outgroup, unprotected by the 1st Amendment, yet still bound by anti-speech codes at the State/local level (currently).
> I'm afraid of this becoming a subscription service for hardware.

Seems to be the goal of cloud everything as a service.
Product engineers can make an impact outside the code editor
If we exclude the social context in which academic discussions occur from "academic context" then I guess there won't be very many cases where academic freedom is infringed upon.
> I don't think we'd have GPS (for example) without the military, among other things like nuclear energy/weapons and so on.

I think you are wrong. Nations that don’t have a military (e.g. Iceland and Costa Rica) still build entire systems of lighthouses, they chart the seas, they map their mountains etc. Countries spend a lot of money into civilian infrastructure. The ROI is in enriching local industry. A GPS system is no bigger ask for civilians then e.g. a railway network. In both cases the ROI is huge for local industry.

As for nuclear energy. A lot of the scientist working on the bomb later became a huge proponents of non-proliferation (J. R. Oppenheimer being a prominent example). I think it is safe to say that the same scientists would have been even happier to work on the technology even if the motive was entirely peaceful.
> However, I'm not entirely sure about the software developer scene over there though.

Like getting into a time machine, for the most part.
> Only way you'd know is if you were there when he said it in a forum with no record

And now here we are.

Knowledge is memetic. The good shit spreads.
Overthunk Note-Taking Workflows
Yeah, I agree that Clubhouse quickly went from "interesting" to "irrelevant" and to what now can only be described as "spammy", but I'm not sure this person sees Clubhouse as a failure, even though we might do from the outside.

One of the points from the article is the following:

> Lesson #4 — Beware of complexity creep

> Anticipate this, then build in early checkpoints. Define success and failure before a launch. Build a solid process and track the right metrics to help make objective, decisive decisions — and don’t forget to create a framework to sunset things!

And since the author is writing the blogpost from the perspective of "Here is how you can build something as successful as Clubhouse" instead of "Here is how you can avoid what we failed to avoid", I'm guessing whatever their definition of success/failure is, they seem to have hit it.

Worth keeping in mind if you actually want to build something that turned out like Clubhouse at all, if you're reading this article.
They are the reflection of their times. Their are outdated now, and not taken literally, but they are a relic from the foundation of the Republic. As a pacifist I don’t think we should get rid of them. History is important.
Keto worked for me only when I cut out carbs completely, I eventually switched to zero carb because it's easier to maintain.
As long as I allowed myself anything carb, I'd got on a binge-frenzy, even with dairy... willpower is a terrible thing.
Zuckerberg has more resources than me.

Not letting me get together with other people helps Zuckerberg.

As far as the NYT goes, feel free to argue against the 1st Amendment. CU just says that the NYT isn't special, that the 1st applies to using tools, not organizations who have named themselves after said tools.

Govt regulation always favors the well-heeled.
>> You constantly stress that your neighbors are going to come down and yell at you because your kid is throwing a tantrum, you have to deal with your idiot neighbors downstairs screaming and yelling at each other till 2 in the morning.

It seems you don't mind your kid making noise but you don't like neighbours yelling either. Living with neighbours may be difficult but most likely you are making their life difficult too. You don't need a detached house. Good acoustic isolation solves this issue but comes with a price.
> Nobody lifts a truck conspicuously to do more work, this somewhat compromises the suspension’s ability to handle load. A lot more people would know this if they knew anything, other than some anecdotes, about the topic they want to regulate.

This seems very confused: nobody in this thread is talking about people who are actually hauling heavy loads. It’s about the people who buy a huge truck and use it as their daily driver but never use the full bed capacity except going to Costco/Walmart.
Every source of state should have this feature. It is always inevitably needed.
> General-purpose computing is just too economically valuable to be gotten rid of.

General-purpose computing is a just a local optimum for profit extraction. Nevertheless it feels like guessing the correct answer for the wrong reasons. I welcome and embrace the FUD.
It took Facebook/Meta only like ~20 years to figure out they shouldn't rely on time to keep things in sync? /s
If you delve in distributed systems, I would be surprised if you never had the case of "hey 1/k of our computers think they are 1-2 hours behind in time. (because of NTP issues)"

You could simply be working on a single computer and have to deal with time issues. (E.g. Local clock resetting to a prior date and system creating files timestamped earlier than older files.)

I think the leap second is the most minor, not even worth mentioning problem. It is actually to our benefit, reminding us that (perceived) UTC is not a monotonic measure and computer time altogether is not. Computers nowadays adjust their time ~constantly.

That they have to smear their leap second throughout multiple hours, and that computers having the wrong time leads to an outage (for a less than a second difference) troubles me honestly. What you are telling me is that next leap second we should all pray for Meta's NTP servers not going down???

Also: (if you are an fb engineer) What do you do with negative leap seconds? Speed things up...? (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/negative-leap-second.html) The expectation is for a negative leap second coming up -- as the post does mention.

This is an education problem if you expect that time intervals have to be strictly positive (or jump ahead). TL;DR: systems' should never use the wall clock to compute a time interval even if we get rid of leap seconds.
Bugs always travel in packs. If you don't see the others, it is because you aren't looking right.
That would be true if my thoughts & commentary were available as a product, but they're not. If I said "if you liked what I have to say, get my free or paid eBook that has my thoughts/commentary" then yes that would very clearly be marketing.

This might also be true if my profile or skills were being marketed through my commentary, but I'm anonymous. Others on HN submit commentary and blog posts on HN with the intent of promoting their profile as a consultant or leader. Profit-driven corporations also do this, there's basically no non-altruistic reason to share any of their proprietary knowledge except to market their pedigree to engineers they might hire or customers they might want to impress.
> Regardless, most people would identify those brands as “American” cars, which was the overarching point.

Yes, car brand ownership is a mess. So if you want to buy an American car, I think your options are limited to Tesla.
Seems like the Clubhouse boosting party is beyond over. No justification into why VCs think that it is worth $4B. [0] I don't see a path for survival for this hype product and it turns out that nothing of value was lost as soon as its ideas were easily copied to death.

Nothing new was brought to the table that could not be copied. This is why the Clubhouse had nothing interesting inside it and my mind remains unchanged on this since [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883362
Yup that's kinda how I saw it: when it went from being a exclusive clubhouse party to an open warehouse party, I became much less interested.

For a while, it was a place where I could interact with an invite-only subset of humans with real names on the internet. I really loved that aspect of it. As it opened up, I saw people using fewer real names, fewer links to real name social media accounts, just felt less exclusive and more just like Twitter. At that point, I think Twitter Spaces started taking off.

The question I ask is how to build an online space that is exclusive, without the draw to make it for the masses?
Ha, I'm from that generation of developers who have the mental model of what is actually happening on the hardware level when you run the program. Doesn't necesarilly mean I overoptimize or think about struct fields offsets or cache branching, but I do have this in my mental model and just can't unlearn it.

When I think about how many stuff needs to be moved in cpu/memory/io bus just to launch simple "Hello, World" in Java - I just cannot accept it. I do realize that for large programs that overhead is small, but still the JVM concept is something I want to avoid as much as possible. Plus the sheer scale of Java SDK and amount of legacy and complexity behind it exceeds my treshold of "avoiding complexity" by orders of magnitude. And the nail to the coffin of "no java" stance is, of course, experience with desktop Java applications. Consistenly the worst UX experience and performance I've seen in 25 years among desktop apps.
Yes. Yellow pages worked fine.

Ads only stimulate overconsumption. They work against the free market (not the best product wins, but the one with the largest advertisement budget). They interrupt us in our work. They make girls feel insecure about themselves. They target children.

Why aren't ads banned already?
Is anything wrong with Matrix?
Everyone says this: work out, eat good, sleep well, let go of bullshit and get the girl. The problem is that while it often works, no one seems to understand why it does - or why it doesn't work for a lot of people.

Taking care of your health and general well-being is a basic activity at some point and may not give you the necessary emotional boost to escape your own hand carved rut. The real issue is that you need to do something that makes you proud of yourself. That's what "exercise and get off drugs" advice is really trying to say, but it's never a one size fits all like everyone makes it seem.

People can gather their sense of pride from a lot of things: from helping others, to cleaning their room, to climbing Mount Everest. Maybe they feel pride from cooking a perfect lasagna or by praying every night. OP should do some soul searching and figure out why he isn't proud of himself and... make the necessary corrections.

EDIT: Apologies EddySchauHai! I mean to agree with you but also acknowledge that different things scratch that invisible itch for different people, and at different times in their lives.
Stainless steel is ~5x the cost.