skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now expand this reasoning far beyond the scope of time keeping.

Big Tech companies/Anti Big Tech lobbyists massively oversimplify in their pitch to influential people to deregulate/overregulate certain areas. In both cases they end up making poor decisions for the general case both end up making the average case worse for everyone except themselves. It's about creating a market where none need exist. Facebook doesn't need to care about time really. It's not remotely important to their business.

I've built and worked on platforms with sub microsecond measuring requirements and this stuff didn't bother me. This is idle bad money finding work for itself at the expense of everyone else.

Disclosure: I am/was an early investor in facebook in 2012. Mark is turning it all to dirt because he's run out of ideas
When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
No, those are two separate things which is why I listed them separately. There is the question of the governance / ownership model is (independent foundation), and the question of having a broad base of contributors to the design / implementation.

What, exactly, would they need to do to satisfy you?
I just tried this on all the papers I downloaded over the past couple months - cool stuff.

How well would this work in a production setting, e.g. when searching over millions of PDFs on arxiv (soon to be tens of millions)? Follow-up: have you tried using a vector database such as Milvus as the key piece of underlying infrastructure to avoid having to implement deletes, failover, scaling, etc? https://zilliz.com/learn/what-is-vector-database
This is a good point for cultural issues, but the refusal to carry pro-environment ads can't be defended that way. There are no "both sides" to the issue.
LED billboards
Contrary to what others say, I went on a workout binge and it didn't help. I hit my PRs on DL (375 lb) and Squat (265 lb) at 155 lb. I did 55 Barry's in 60 days. I hung out with my friends more and developed my close friendships. I moved to Hawaii and swam in the ocean. I moved to a different city and worked my job. Nothing helped.

I hung out with a couple of my close friends. On the way back, one of them said "Dude, why are you living like this? Quit your job. You can do so much more."

Quit my job, found a new one. Got a few small wins under my belt. Worked up. Happiness and motivation arrived. Turns out I do consider my professional success a big part of identity. It is not sufficient, but it is essential. So I leaned into that and applied any rational success strategy to it: reset, get small wins, spin the flywheel up, then turbo.

My personal thesis is that it's about finding out what things you build into your identity. I am proud of being competent, capable, and risk-seeking. Whatever choices I have made in the past that built this identity, I don't want to change this identity. So, for my happiness, I just lean into it and aim to live up to these things I consider virtues.

Good luck.
I never said they weren't. The takeaway would be middlemen can add different value. In this case the middleman is adding value by opening the door to direct relationships. So it's a gateway. In the case of a supermarket, they're adding something like distribution or logistics.
Nice! I was honestly curious as this program is well outside my field.
Historically, countries almost never understate the strength of their armed forces because that would invite pointless conflicts with weaker adversaries. Unless the former is looking for some casus belli to invade the latter, it leads to the most pointless loss of life where the latter never stood a chance anyway but the former has to waste resources on the defense.

I don't know how that calculus changes in the context of modern superpowers or China's ambitions for Taiwan but that's the reasoning historically.
Rogers responds to CRTC questions over outage, will split network
New York. [...] easier for me to find work as
a technical writer than as a software engineer
[...] I started the job this past fall.

The job market was absolutely booming last fall, though?

I believe you, but it seems to me there is perhaps more to the story if you were unable to find a software dev job last fall.

All I really look forward to these days is getting high

I think pot can be great, but maybe it's not working for you?

Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant,
but I haven't quite figured out how.

Fellow diagnosed ADHD guy here. It's always relevant. It permeates everything. It definitely makes every job more stressful, unless it's some kind of magical job that somehow indulges your ADHD.

but I haven't touched [my game] in months. I'm not
even sure I want to continue it [...] this is coming
from someone who got into computer science _because_
of video games.

*if you've ever been in this kind of rut, what was
the nature of that rut and what did you do about it?*

Maybe you've moved on from video games. I think that's happening to me. It's hard to tell if it's anhedonia and/or moving on from games.

It's scary to think perhaps I've moved on from games because (like you) they are/were very integral to why I do this.

What about this: what if you give yourself permission to step away from your game project for N weeks/months?

what did you do about it?

It's such a cliched and often glib answer, but exercise and/or spending time in nature are pretty much the only things guaranteed to make you feel X% better. The trick with the exercise bit is finding some form of exercise you enjoy.

Therapy can help. Not a magic solution either but I think it's a net positive. But it's hard to find a therapist you click with.

What about going back to software development?
Quit the weed.
You should decide if you want this to be a general tutorial or an ad for your product. If the tutorial, it's best to start with the simplest tool (like NBclient) first, and then build up toward your favorite solution. You can mention in the first paragraph that you're going to do that (as a matter of honesty) but then be even handed about the costs and benefits of each approach.

If you want to do an ad for Ploomber, then you can start out with a feature comparison and discuss the other two options in a single paragraph, then go into detail about the benefits of your solution and show how easy it is to deploy or why it's better than the alternatives.

It does look nice and I look forward to trying it, though I don't fully understand your pricing structure - maybe you should add more detail on that.
One thing that's basically true is you can't diagnose yourself. Like most of the posters, I recommend therapy. And therapy isn't instant. I'll attest that it sometimes takes a while to figure out what the underlying issues might be. Until you do the work to uncover that, all the stuff about aphorisms and 'find your passion' won't really work.

I was never able to figure it out by myself. Maybe because it's painful to think about and your brain is short circuiting that line of thought. If you're drinking, especially binge drinking, stop or at least cut way back. Lay off the weed. Get off social media and stop comparing yourself to others. It works by manipulating your emotions. Plus, all these things can be crutches that keep you from getting to what's really wrong.
Pretty much the opposite is true, by definition of the word "imagination".
It is not ideological to say that academia should be held responsible for its output, especially in fields that can drive policy (for instance, in economics it is well known that one of the key studies that tipped the scale in favor of austerity was erroneous, but it was not checked because it was in the academic zeitgeist [1]).

I do not think it is ideological either to say that the purpose of research is to help develop people and nations. Whether it comes from hard science or soft science (a contentious categorization).

All in all, I think my point is fairly clear. Neutrality in academia, especially political science, economics, etc. is non-existent and that the developments and recommendations coming out of those departments should never escape a wide scrutiny and criticism. The way the article frames it is that criticism, when it leads to retractation in Cotton's case or that of polsci/humanities, is bad. I profoundly disagree. Calling for freedom of speech in academia, like the article does, does not mean that every one is heard, only that the already entrenched and tenured remains unchallenged.

[1] https://theconversation.com/economists-an-excel-error-and-th...
Spam is a problem, but that's not the reason why we can't "retrieve" good information. That's just not how humans work. We are lazy. We grab either the thing we know or the thing that seems easiest / lowest risk. Hardly ever do we change our minds, even if a great product is available. We're very emotional and easily influenced by many distracting factors. Research is hard, and information is not easily available (and never will be).

Marketing is in effect good communication. It's much more valuable than a good product, because we as humans are en-large lazy and good marketing bridges that. However, a good product plus good marketing are unbeatable. The Microsoft's and Oracle's of the world won not because they had the best product (they didn't), but because of great marketing.
It wasn’t a nefarious backroom deal. But it was a very conscious choice by many governments, spearheaded by the UK and US. And once we ventured a little bit down that path, it’s impossible to unwind bc nobody wants to lose money on their home.
This is sad. I hope you get help. Sounds a lot like depression. Are you excited about anything? Do you have a passion?
China has been building a lot, and I mean a lot. But their housing market is perhaps the most broken of all, and it hasn't done wonders for affordability.

Or not yet anyway; if we see the bubble pop it perhaps will, but that's far from a clean solution. The crux is how do you incentivize building a lot, and I mean a lot, without expectations of appreciating property values? And yet if you have expectations of appreciating property values, how do you prevent speculators from driving up prices and making things unaffordable?
None of the policies you suggest were necessary in the past, when housing was much more affordable even though NYC was still drawing in many people from elsewhere. Why would those policies be necessary now?

You need to look elsewhere for the cause of the problem.
You had me at Microsoft
Nothing wrong with
1. Having principles
2. Having a sane legal framework in place for when the parent trolls come
Been toying with leaving my smartphone home and using only a smartwatch for day to day stuff. I can use it for music, maps, emergency calls and contactless payment. So far I'm enjoying it.
This is good advice, but depression can make these things hard to accomplish.

I’ve experienced this before — falling into a rut, becoming depressed and having extraordinary difficulty getting back up. It’s like a motivation off-switch.

Talk therapy is good. Try to find a therapist that you can trust.

Don’t be afraid of anti-depressants, especially for something likely to be shorter term like this. They don’t change your personality (although you might put on 3 to 5 lbs).

Are you being treated for ADHD? Some people with ADHD find that their depression goes away when they take psychostimulants or practice CBT to manage their symptoms.
Google Chrome also seems to eat memory like cookie monster as it scans your entire HD... It also doesn't give the memory back until crash or close.

Windows task manager now is total crap. It does nothing to distinguish official (OS) services from app services, and does not enable easy app moderation at all. At this point we should be able to right click apps and processes directly in task manager to get a description on what they do and whether they are safe, rather than having to google their names and get info from shoddy and poorly written 3rd party pop-up and ad-laced "tech guru" sites.

The future so far has underwhelmed me software-wise honestly.
> Being a small-scale dictator about modes of communication isn't great.

Oh come now, isn’t this a little dramatic?

If I was forcing them to use one app I want in order to stay in touch you’d have a point, but isn’t that also functionally what you’re saying we should have to deal with? Meeting someone all the way, only on ONE mode of communication they demand?

This also doesn’t address how niche this situation is. There can’t be that many people who can only talk to their family on Facebook messenger. This can’t possibly be a major issue.
> I would delight in finding the son of a bitch that did it to me and seeing how he likes having pieces removed

That's understandable, but I'm curious - do you feel the same about your parents, who presumably scheduled the circumcision?
I agree.

However I also think, we are seeing evidence of malice, greed, and maybe desperation in these acts of scientific fraud. Experts need to quickly define what malice in their respective fields means. Then most importantly they need to act on it and restore integrity, discipline, and show results.

Otherwise the general public will define it and act on it themselves.
> More generally... Touchscreens where they're not needed, like ATMs or vending machines: with all this covid fear, they're not hygienic

I'll go one further and say touch controls. I hate my stove with a passion. It's absolutely horrible to use if my fingers are a tiny bit wet (I know, who has wet hands in the kitchen, right?!). Sometimes, even with dry hands, the on/off button will not register.

I need to press 3 different buttons to turn it on. I need to press two different buttons to change the power, one of which repeatedly if I want to change by more than one step – say to turn one burner off, if I want the others to stay on.
>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.

This is baseless fanboyism.

The European carmakers lead the way with various degrees of zinc plating and dipped coatings being widely implemented on their products in the 70s and 80s. Then around that time lead paint got banned in the US (creating that generation of cars that faded a lot in the 80s) and everybody in the US market was like "hey, we need alternatives that don't break the bank, let's copy what they're doing". The Japanese and US makers both upped their game for the north American market over roughly the same time period. The Japanese have never really taken corrosion prevention very seriously before or since. They and the US makes generally take a "we do as good a job as we need to remain competitive but we don't go above and beyond" attitude whereas the Europeans tend to put quite a bit more effort in.

Edit: If you want someone to lie to you to confirm your biases that's not gonna be me.
Yes, but a lot of that occurs in the (relatively) brief phase near the end of the lives of very massive stars as their cores collapse. Once they run out of fuel for that process they explode in a Type II Supernova.
The worst part about rentals is that they simply get used more than personal cars. They're always being driven by different drivers, in unfamiliar places, loading and unloading a full load of people and baggage. All the knobs and adjustments repeatedly adjusted. Every threshold scraped and scuffed by repeated shuffling of passengers and bags.

And while they have a policy of maintaining vehicles, nobody who touches the vehicle has any personal investment in it. Due for an oil change, and it's booked out? Out it goes!

I can't imagine how many tires people pop by running into stuff. When I rent with one of the big brands that lets you pick a car off the lot, I usually try to find the car with the best set of tires. It's amazing how many rental vehicles with ~10k miles on them already have 3 or 4 different brands of tire on them. Usually they're the cheapest of cheap brands too.
Over 50% is contractors on bloated budgets.
Ask HN: Any GitHub actions billing horror stories?
Has anyone ran into a scenario where you left your actions building too long and got hit with a massive bill.
LED vehicle headlights. How long will it take before they figure out how to make them without burning out the retinas of the general public?
I see. So my Netflix subscription is terrible for me?
You might consider taking some time off. Start with whatever you can get, a three day weekend, a week, anything to get some time away from work.

Maybe drive or fly somewhere new? Meet some new people?

It probably took you months to feel this awful so it might take a few months of doing more enjoyable things to feel better again.
Or they could just bequeath their code to the public domain, and ignore the quirks of foreign legal systems that make that weird in other countries.

List of Germans who've been sued for using SQLite without a license: .... [End of list]
> we need to implement something that can't go backwards and properly models time

There simply is no definition of solar time that can obey this constraint long term, because the rotation of the earth varies, and varies over time in ways we have a limited ability to predict. This is the entire crux of the problem.
Well, in both you connect nodes through edges to build a graph :)
Seriously though, vvvv is a lot more low level and lends itself better to "application programming" while TD is rather focused on visuals. But ofc I am biased.
How does that work? I mean the tax rate is progressive and as a freelancer you only pay the normal income tax. If the tax authority insists you're a Gewerbe you'll have to pay Gewerbesteuer as well, but most of that can be deduced from your income tax already. Just wondering how you get at this number, calculating with 240 T€ and tax class 1 I only arrive around 40 % income tax.
Cannot stress enough how much exercise helps. A healthy body goes a long way in maintaining a healthy mind.
It is not spent on transportation, it is spent on something else, and deducted from the transportation budget. If somebody steals your wallet and uses your card to buy an NFT, did you spend that? It came from your account.
Booleans don't exist in Ruby by Mike Burns
Seems a good opportunity for Starlink to get some RDOF funds
What is the legal difference between a license with this clause:

> No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

and a license with no clause at all addressing trademark or patent rights? Wouldn't both of those documents leave trademark and patent rights unaffected?
I strongly believe in Hulu's right as a private business to decide this.

The key here is that Democrats are outraged at Hulu, but they're not trying to change laws to force Hulu to carry these ads.

That is in contrast to the other side of this debate about deplatforming, which has repeatedly proposed laws that violate the First Amendment because the marketplace of ideas rejects their regressive propaganda.
You're begging the question. I'm not saying one can't advocate against nuclear power on the merits, either because it's too dangerous or because it's too poorly regulating. I'm saying that it can't be reasonable to do so based on the premise that it causes million-victim fatal accidents, because (1) it doesn't, and (2) other mainstream energy sources do cause mass fatalities and aren't condemned.
This is a site for American laypeople primarily, so yeah I do think it an odd choice.
I’ve worked remotely for years beyond the start of Covid so my personal and work life had morphed into one. The key thing here was disassociating the two with clear boundaries. Also, I tried to stop comparing myself to others I see on sites like HN and LinkedIn who have these ‘perfect’ careers and focus on improving myself only against myself (and at a slower pace, one summer I spent the entire time on Coursera as if life was some sort of sprint and knowledge was a competition, which it really isn’t). Basically I just had to chill out and get a life, ha :)
The enormous silliness of this argument doesn't seem to stop it from popping up all over the place. People's expectations are relative to their environment. The large majority of things you might think to complain about in your life would look hilarious to a caveman or a medieval peasant or even someone from 1980. Similarly, the vast majority of HN users are extremely high-percentile for global wealth and income: this would be a very boring place if people bought in to your paralyzing insistence that you can't ever discuss improvements to something because problems larger than it exist somewhere in the world.

It's a worldview that's so nonsensical that it's its own reductio ad absurdum: If a fast-food worker complained about wanting to be treated with dignity at work, would you similarly scoff at them because coal miners or sweatshop workers don't even get physical safety?

Having high standards is a _good_ thing. It's the hallmark of society's progress. It doesn't preclude being grateful for the privileges you do have, and it's nothing to be ashamed of unless your self-esteem is so low that you think you don't deserve to be treated well.
-Pop music
-social media
-processed/junk foods
-Bluetooth(depending on the device and the application, sometimes wires are just better)
Once the discrepancy exceeds 30 minutes you change the time zone offset.
Someone else might do that anyway, don’t they? (Barring the mutually-assured-destruction clause in Apache-2.0, but even that only works if that someone is simultaneously interested in using the code in question.)
Not really a guess: I have in the past lived in DE and have a lot of family in India whom I visit so the comparison is personal observation. But OK, the ABS was a wrong example.

The Asta is indeed a bargain. But the German cars, for example, are really solid. There are enough BMWs and Mercedes on the road in India that you've probably been in one and have seen. But is all that solidity worth it? Nobody is able to drive 220 anywhere in India, even where the roads are quite good. Conversely I doubt that Asta would be considered road worthy anywhere in the EU. Actually I think EU countries like Bulgaria and Romania would benefit from some of these super-cheap vehicles.
Everyone has a lot of jobs. We are parents, spouses/partners, employees, and friends. One job that people often ignore is that of self-care. It's another job and you sometimes have to treat it that way. What work do you perform with self-care? Things that feed the body and soul: Exercise, volunteering, travel, eating and sleeping well. Start thinking about how to actively take care of yourself and the rut will disappear.
Policy is policy.
We may soon have the first negative leap second. This isn't something we've ever done before.
Does anyone know of a transcript of this talk? There is a link on the YouTube copy of the video, but it seems to be dead.
That’s a great talk, but you have to wonder what that era Hickey would have made of overloading arity on list operations the way modern Clojure does.
Dunno. Apple and Microsoft seem to be heading towards forcing users to install things only from their app store. Apple checks every binary you run against a black list, which pretty much flew under the radar ... till the service broken.

Do you really think there would be a big backlash if Apple and Microsoft prevented "sideloading" and required all application installs to be from their official app stores? It's already pretty much the default for phones, and tablets.

We aren't there yet, but it does seem to be the direction we are going.