skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a steel called Corten where the rust develops a protective layer similar to aluminum and won't rust all the way through. The only issue is it isn't good when exposed to constant water as the rust will wash off and not protect.
> A large portion, 23%, of military budget is paychecks, healthcare, retirement for veterans.

Does it? I'm no military nor budgeting expert, but quick search seems to say it's closer to ~5% of the total military budget that goes to veterans, see https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/ve... for one example

Those breakthroughs you mention, you think they wouldn't have been made if it wasn't for the military? Some of those things are also borderline not invented by the military at all, but lets disregard that for now.
I think that while Zettelkasten may be useful for people who primarily want to publish writings, I decided that it’s the wrong approach for me. I don’t want to publish. I want to be able to organize my data so that I could easily reference later, whether it’s what I was doing for a particular customer, or what my kid likes to eat at a certain restaurant. “Linking Your Thinking” works much better, for me, for that use case. Same deal there: you don’t need a whole course.
IMO it's the single most important immediate issue in many countries and politicians don't care, because they're landlords. It's utterly depressing. People are making suggestions here, many of which require political will which does not exist.
Got it, yeah so that tracks then, thanks.
If Lisp was the only language I'd never program again
Mobile parking apps
i'd love to taste yours in the hopes of finding something enjoyable. i've tried cold brew at some of the fanciest cafes in LA (with foam even) and none of them made me want it again.

it reminds me of the IPA fad with beer. i tried a bunch and they were generally extra bitter (and strong) rather than tasty. still don't get that one.
“civil time” is also a construction that is flexible in many ways, so an influencial group redefining it isn’t out of norm. To note, timezones were introduced for railway purposes, and some country play a lot with them.

For “midnight” being far from “the middle of the night”, that’s already a reality for many Chinese living far enough from Beijing, or god forbid regions where “night” doesn’t mean much for half of the year.

For all intents and purposes, if a formal definition of time isn’t practical people come up with their own ways.
spacemanmatt, you joined Hacker News 9 years ago, and you have a lot of upvotes, which means not only that you have been helpful but that you have been here thousands of times.

So I am mystified by your comments. On the first page of Hacker News right now are seven submissions with a year at the end. It is standard practice to tag a submission with the year if it isn't this year. This is regardless of relevance. If it is on Hacker News, it is assumed to be relevant in some way. Else why would someone post it? If someone posted an article from 1888, they must think it relevant in some way.

Putting the year at the end has absolutely zero bearing on whether we think it is relevant. To me it is just another piece of metadata, like tagging videos, PDFs, polls, etc.
Absolutely. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill to ban ads for firearms. Google and Facebook already ban that as well. If you have no problem with that then why should you have a problem banning ads against guns?

More right-wing personalities than I can even remember have been banned from various media, not least being a sitting President of the United States. The same platforms also have policies against certain "disinformation" that target anyone discussing some issues or events like the Hunter Biden laptop which were later determined not to be disinformation at all. As for it being Democratic policy, there was (briefly) a White House office under a Democratic president to coordinate these policies.
For systems that leap seconds actually cause problems on, the solution is simply to use International Atomic Time (TAI) internally, and convert it to UTC when you want to display information to a user.

Every time I see ditching leap seconds come up, they never try to explain why TAI won't work for them, leading me to believe they probably just don't know it exists, nor could they even imagine something like it being invented.
Lots of RDOF funding went to local ISPs you've never heard of so I'd say the mechanism is... RDOF.
If this is a possibility, try to take some time off and focus on the very basics of life. As intellectual people we tend to skip over the basics since our minds are elsewhere thinking about something “important”. As it turns out, to live an effective life you have to spend time thinking about very mundane, real-world chore-like things. This was very hard for me to really internalize. I ended up quitting my first job out of college due to mental health decline, but also due to the fact that I couldn’t honestly take care of myself. I was at a top tech company, I could hold intelligent conversation, but there was so much I skipped over (out of necessity really).

Now I’m rebuilding myself from the ground up. The basics: structuring my day, eating regularly, even things like grooming myself and of course exercise (though I’ve been slacking). Really it feels great to finally be able to be “dumb” for a while. I’m not coding intensively though I’m keeping up with the field and dabbling here and there. Otherwise I’m trying to live as if I weren’t smart. It’s very liberating but hard at first to dedicate yourself to your actual self and not your work.

Like others said, definitely cut out the dopamine hits (weed, passive TV) if you can. Maybe try the fabled dopamine detox.

Whatever you do, you’re not alone! I’ve got buddies in other fields in similar positions. Like a great burn out from tech and all this instant gratification. Good luck!
Your article is from 2003 [1], so when they say "by 2028" they don't mean six years from now.

Since the article was published we've gone from positive leap seconds every so often to looking like we may get the first ever negative leap second: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Leapseco...

Which means the article's estimates on how long it will be until we're off by a given amount of time are very much obsolete.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030801000000*/https://www.ucol...
Can AI help in finding the secrets of the undeciphered Indus script?
> 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.

Half of those inventions come from other nations who dont need to spend 800bn a year (or whatever it is now) + however much the CIA makes from selling crack.
Astronomy very much relies on the leap seconds. If they ever get abolished it will create lots of headache for all observatories (and hobby astronomers as well), since the telescopes will point more and more incorrectly as UTC drifts away from UT1 (the leap seconds ensure UTC is always within 0.9s of UT1).

To explain a bit further: UT1 tracks the Earth's rotation relative to distant quasars and is thus directly the correct clock/reference to use for pointing telescopes.
However it doesn't advance at a nice and stable constant frequency, but something that slowly changes over time (and can shift by strong earthquakes) and thus we approximate it with UTC, which runs at a nice constant frequency, but needs occasional correction to match up with Earth's rotation.
This is an important issue. People keep talking about recycling, but much more important than recycling is just being able to use a thing for longer before you are even thinking about recycling it.

Japanese automakers did the world a great favor when in the 80s and 90s they made much longer lasting cars and made longevity and resale value an important consideration in the purchasing decision. They did this mostly by using better paints and making sure cars and car parts are painted more thoroughly.

There are modern materials that prevent corrosion. Here is a company that sells ordinary looking paper that you can use to wrap anything and it will prevent it from rusting.

https://www.zerust.com/
Preppers' homes will be like honeypots when the chaos comes. You'll know that they are full of resources and, as this article shows, many of the residents will not actually know how to defend themselves.

Seems like both participants in this drama have problems. I was shocked that he was disappointed he called the cops. I guess his anti-establishmentism runs deep. Would he fail to call the fire brigade if the house caught fire?
You can change something private w/o breaking the api.
Disney VIP world tour will produce 6.2 tonnes of carbon for each guest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32226959 got more traction.
I know for a fact that a lot of people who build real things take pride in seeing them in use and still around many years later. I think they'd absolutely be demoralized if the typical case saw their work torn up and discarded without ever being used.
Some of these rural places they bid on are so rural that in their mind it is cost prohibitive to incur the expenses of bringing them the service. In their life time of being a customer, they will not likely pay enough to cover that initial construction cost. This is why I'm sure the bean counters have said to just ignore them and pay the fines. It'll be cheaper in the long run for the company.

So maybe make the fines the equivelant to all of the construction fees they are trying to avoid by reneging on their bids + a severe penalty. Make it so that it is more financially attractive to do what they promised.
The aggressive push towards thin devices with questionable cooling combined with the ever increasing bloat in windows/office.

Seems to have eaten up all the gains from SSDs and more modern CPUs. The hardware gets better and excel stays slow
I'm American and I've lived here four years now. Knock on wood, but I've yet to even see a crime. That's not to say it doesn't exist, I've heard of petty theft, muggings, and burglary, as well as narco gunfights etc. However, I can assure you that's located to particular regions.

Natural causes- natural to the line of work they're in
> LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013.

ie an American nuclear weapons laboratory was doing it
Can anyone recommend how to build the following solution?

- Full-text search on modern era PDFs (i.e no need for OCR)

- Exact word search would suffice (fuzzy/contextual search actually is less desirable)

- Cross-platform frontend part that highlights and jumps to the found text within the document. Frontend should be embeddable (i.e. not a SaaS or just standalone UI)

- As lightweight as possible (i.e. no Java, Python or Ruby)

- Long-term oriented stack (i.e. minimum dependencies, ideally promise of compatibility)

I'm looking at Mellisearch or Bleve for indexing/backend, and Syncfusion Flutter PDF viewer for frontend, but it still needs a lot of gluing code and I would love to explore more options.

Google Pinpoint is pretty cool, and I use it a lot, but there is only hosted Google version, plus it's too smart (still can't get it to do exact word search).
Super-bright halogen headlights. It's highly questionable that they really provide any benefit for the driver except in some relatively uncommon circumstances (where a classic high/low system would work fine), and they definitely blind everyone else. Overall result: negative.
A birthday is a legal timestamp. A car crash is a legal timestamp. When the time is off by a minute, these events can’t be catalogued correctly any more.
IVRs / phone answering systems

when you need to get to a person and you don't fall within their voice prompt system you end up saying "operator" 7 times and then the computer is like "Did you want to talk to an operator?" and it says please enter your 10 digit phone number.. And you're stuck in hell for 10 minutes.
Modern thermometers to take my temperature (fever).

I bought already a couple of them, and somehow none of them seems to work well, or they are too sensitive and I can't figure out where to measure my temperature and what counts as fever.

I finally found some thermometers that I used when I was younger, and now I can reliably measure my temperature and I can tell what counts as fever.

They didn't actually made my life worse, I don't want to be that dramatic, but I definitely dislike them.
I cannot wait for a ten-year study on cancer rates once we get widespread EVs in the transportation sector. I predict a huge drop. And then there's other air pollution death costs that aren't cancer that affect breathing ability for the elderly and health compromised.
I'd echo a few sentiments already listed. This sounds a lot like burnout. Therapy is probably one of the first things I'd recommend, but I'll also note that finding a therapist when you're struggling with your mental health is a really hard thing to do... so be patient with yourself. If you find a therapist and you're not vibing with what they're saying or it makes you feel worse, drop them.

I was going through burnout in 2021. Took medical leave from work which helped somewhat. I went to a therapist that recommended keeping a positivity journal which absolutely exhausted me to even think about. Dropped them and found someone closer aligned to a medical context (through the same company that provided a psychiatrist that I also sought for adhd treatment). It helped, a lot.

Email is in my account if you'd like to talk more about it. I've got some resources I could send your way.
Well, it's held up for ~150 years in the form of our national parks just fine.

That aside, the point here is that if something is being held for the common good, it should be held in common. "The Government" isn't a perfect check or steward, but there's actual accountably there, something which does not exist at all in the case of private ownership.
> You'd get conquered and your conqueror would have more money to spend on their military?

There is no proof of that, not historic or otherwise. In fact there is evidence to the contrary, as previous times of less military spending seem to correlate with more peaceful times. Your claim on who lives in a fantasy world is entirely unfounded, and one can just as easily state that your description is the fantacy one.
I used to be an operator (admin), for the 2200, I forgot the application it ran but I think it was some kind of billing and it would dial out to get/receive data. It was a very nice machine, the application was written in Wang Basic.

But I had a copy of their IN/ix 16 bit UNIx that ran on their PCs, being a dummy I tossed the hardware when I moved many years ago :(
Why is this a problem though? It seems to be working out very well in Japan. Regardless of where the debt ends up, it seems like the people benefit.
All decentralized domain systems by definition do not address universality and thus require a change in user behavior. The core idea is a return to pre-internet naming where "Sal's Pizza" refers to a different establishment in different cities.

There are pros and cons to this approach but the point is not to exactly replicate DNS.
I read that it might actually be that these specific Oligomers might not be detectable in anything but genetically engineered mice - and detection in humans has not actually been proven outside papers in question, is this true?
Interesting question! I'll share since my approach has changed a lot over the years.

First, I wake up when I wake up. If I wake up tired, I try to fall back asleep or get a nap in later. I measured my sleep-related mental state as undeniably important to how my day is going to go, so I don't mess around trying to force myself to skip sleep or work through tiredness.

When I'm up, I usually lay in bed making a more specific plan to enact over next hour or two. It's a more detailed day-start plan than can be found on my calendar. I make this up on the spot because I've learned I need to wait to see how I feel before I sequence things. This helps me bring my emotions along in a positive way, which helps defray the risk of the day's proceedings feeling really sucky later on.

Getting down to work, I have a script that generates a really tight schedule for me based on what it parses out of my markdown notes.

Usually the outline it creates constrains my most necessary "work work" into 20 minutes to 2.5h max, unless it's a day where I'm focusing on a big project.

The script is based on my Task BATL system (profile) and also scaffolds out some values- and interests-related work for me at the same time. For example it suggests some books to read or movies to watch, right next to all my work tasks.

I find that I work best when I work like a cat, so 20 minutes of work in one day is just fine, and it does happen that way some days. I know I'll probably work at greater length later in the week perhaps, so I let it average out that way.

Earlier in my career I would never take this risk, to either maximally-billable hours or to reputation, but now I feel like I understand myself better.

Speaking of cats, even if I'm working hard, I try to work laying down or reclined. I tend to get way better results that way. Being gentle on my nervous system even supports emotionally-charged activity better (server down, or whatever).

In the late afternoon I get a really reliable burst of work energy that I usually try to schedule really tightly if I can. I try to support this positive-deviation with a favorite energy drink and a snack. I almost always have a few movies and some music playing while I work this way, especially if I'm sitting in a chair. Naturally the movies are things I've seen before so they're not distracting, more like vibe-support.

In the evening we usually eat dinner as a family and then relax a bit before some activity. Lately we head over to the park and play badminton, or do a bit of amateur astronomy, or take a walk.

Bedtime is usually done in turns with the kids after our initial session of watching some memes or laughing at a few ASMR videos together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHyWyLwxDg

I also find the late hours a good time to get in a bit of exercise, usually bodyweight stuff.

After all that I review my next day and try to tighten things up and address any stressful parts. This helps me sleep better.

I hope this is at least a little bit like what you're looking for! Good q and I hope to see some other responses.
The silly part is that the licensor claims he will not assert any patent rights regarding the code. But someone else might still do that.
I suspect a lot of people are ok and happy in fact with things being “broken” in their favour.
>Black truffles are already commodified in a sense that the main aroma compound has been isolated, is very cheap to synthesize [1] and it's used extensively in "truffle-flavoured" products.

Just made some truffle-oil infused smoked mac-n-cheese.

Sometimes, capitalism is _delicious_.
Your post is about trying to justify crypto where/when no one wants it
Ask HN: Good resources to teach a PM about YAGNI?
We keep getting tickets for features that are comprehensive and unnecessarily complex solutions to things the PM assumes we're going to need in the future.

Does anyone have a suggestion for resources we could use to explain to this PM about YAGNI, solving the specific problem you have now rather than every problem you might have in the future, etc? Maybe a good blog post, etc.

I'm looking for something in product language that they'll "get," since we've been trying to reinforce that we need specific user stories that explain the exact need, and it's just not working.
According to http://www.kastenmarine.com/metalboats.htm, mostly cost plus other drawbacks that sound like they would not be blockers if the cost were lower. That author thinks monel would be even better than stainless, but it's even more expensive.
Cost, primarily. I'm not certain but I believe joins and welds also need further attention to ensure the corrosion protection isn't impaired.

Anyway, O&M is the problem for the guy trying to get the next decade's budget approved so if the upkeep is more expensive, hey at least I got this thing built.
I have a rut, too. I am not in the rut, because I promised myself a long time ago that I am not going to allow the environment[1] to dictate my state of being.

People like Jocko Willink put this much more eloquently with philosophies like Extreme Ownership (GOOD.), so maybe check that stuff out.

1. The environment being things happening around me. Note, I don't use the term "to" me, because I believe that's victim mentality, and in the grand scheme, challenges are happening to me because I messed up (didn't do something in time), or because they are happening in spite of me (acts of god, house burns down, etc)
> I also think that writing off the concern as "vague accusations" misses the point. As the current top comment points out[0], it's nearly impossible to verify what a device is doing.

This is not an excuse to make accusations without any evidence. At some point, the people making these accusations have a responsibility to either show evidence for their claims or to stop making them.

Huawei chips are installed all over the place, and foreign governments (namely, the US and its allies) are intensely interested in what Huawei is doing. We even know from Snowden that the NSA hacked into Huawei's internal networks and read sensitive communications between executives.[1] If Huawei is actually surreptitiously intercepting and sending foreign communications back to China, there should be evidence of that. Just saying that anything is hypothetically possible doesn't cut it.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-china-nsa-id...
Cost, basically.

Even if it was built, you'd also probably see people stealing parts of the structure for scrap value... Not a good thing to have happen.
NASA has already started down this road!

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/index.html

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/what-is-an-atomic-clock
I don’t totally know how wealth distribution would fix this. It isn’t like Elon Musk is hoarding millions of used cars, food and medical supplies. If we distributed all his wealth it would basically just be flipping some bits in computers to make the average persons number bigger. How does that correlate to actual wealth?
The issue is that CC0 explicitly reserves trademark and patent rights. Those OSS licenses do not have this issue.
I'll be okay with this as long as the opposite stops as well, prevent the immigrants from coming to the US
>> The reason for the change: Over a long period of time a consensus has been building in FOSS that licenses that preclude any form of patent licensing or patent forbearance cannot be considered FOSS. CC0 has a clause that says: "No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document."

> Part of the background story is that on patents, we've fought the scenario that a patent holder could offer some FOSS library implementing their patented method, and then come chase you for patent infringement. What are the boundaries for me, FOSS user, to not be ensnared by a submarine license?
Some may also find the rusted patina look less than ideal. Personally I don't mind it at all.
+1 for tech ingredients. that guy is awesome. you're missing AvE in the shop category though.
Well what worked for me might not work for them - no one will get out of a rut without positivity though. Maybe getting high and playing video games is the solution and the guy goes full time streamer and loves his work all of a sudden! Who knows :)
There is no naked eye picture to compare it with, so you can't say enhanced. To answer your question, though, the JWST pictures and the Hubble pictures were turned into RGB images in the same way.