skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the datetime api once timezone is involved is quite bad in python.

This is why for anything that uses timezone, I use pendulum: https://pendulum.eustace.io/

It's compatible with the datetime api, but it has sane default, nice tools to convert between timezone, some cool date adjustment stuff, and can humanize time in several languages.

Basically, datetime has the same problem as text vs raw bytes in python 2.7, except it has never been fixed.
If the value shrinked 90% and you're not buying tons of shares of this company (or negotiating more shares instead of $ if it's a private company), it means it was all bullshit to begin with.
It's a more performant equivalent. When we switched to it we reduced the number of nodes required and query latencies were better.
Updating Salesforce on a Friday afternoon is not fun. Salesforce hygiene is a real challenge for most companies.

So, we take transcription and use it to empower the reps to update salesforce to fix this (Comtura.ai). One of the things we noticed from user interviews was that they'd actually just be ctrl + F'ing through gong or zoom transcripts to find the right information.

Whilst the overlay (Dooly/SP) is something we offer. We actually find that most usage comes from just the "notepad" feature.

Reps who handwrote notes had to duplicate it into salesforce, those that typed notes (bad demo practise because you just piss off your prospect with tip tapping + it doesnt support your memory like handwriting does, fun fact!)

hence we started working on this problem.

If you would like to try it out by all means go for it (contact@comtura.ai)
> I showed her this comic: [...] Didn’t make any sense to her

Ask her to imagine that her job is to do multiplication problems involving not-even-large (three digits, let's say) numbers without writing down any of the steps (so, mental math). She should be able to recognize that this is doable, but with a higher-than-average amount of concentration to keep track of the intermediate values, and that any breaks in concentration will very likely result in having to start over. Now tell her to imagine what "starting over" would mean if there were very large numbers involved, and lots of them.

Alternatively, you can relate it to an orgasm. Suppose she lays down to masturbate, and if she were allowed to continue without interruption it will take her <however long>. Let's say this time it's 7 minutes. Instead, though, at 6 and a half minutes in, someone rings the doorbell, and it's something where she has to stop and answer, but she can continue once the interruption is taken care of. So she was what would have been 30 seconds away before being interrupted. Ask her: does that mean she can just lay back down, pick up where she left off, and then 30 seconds later, boom, orgasm?

Another thing you could do is show her a piece of legislation and point out all the nested conditions. Have her read it to evaluate whether some use case is/isn't prohibited/punishable/protected/etc., forcing her to keep track of what it's saying to understand whether some condition holds at any given point.

Approach #4: just ask her if she's ever been out somewhere with a long stretch of idle time (example: at a laundromat waiting for her clothes to dry, or having lunch) and pulled out a book to start reading, but someone in the vicinity (who she's less interested in talking to than reading) tries to make conversation. They chat for a few minutes and then stop, and then when she reaches the next page, the other person says something else, so then they chat for a minute or so and then stop, and then a minute or two later the other person says something else, etc.
I have no end of complaints about cloudwatch but them automatically parsing datetimes and presenting them in my browser's timezone is a godsend.
I think the cookie consent was great in intention, but naively executed/enforced by the EU.

I believe there must be a strong push back on those banners from browser vendors to force the EU to reconsider the current law and modify it. IMHO it would be much better if they'd revise the current law to require browser vendors to have a global cookie setting (accept functional, marketing, etc.) and then websites having to obey to a user's preference based on their browser setting.
And that reason is that there is a canonical definition of what it means for two numbers to be equal.

The fact that your intuition of "these two timestamps are equal" is "these two timestamps denotes the same instant" seems problematic when we know that the notions of timestamps and time are not in fact aligned (because, for example, of leap seconds).
Establishing a norm of using nuclear weapons in any context is unacceptable. The west has made their position on this very clear. If Russia were to use nuclear weapons and the west did not respond, Russia would effectively be told its fine and would continue to do so.

If the west believes Russia will not destroy every living thing on earth including themselves and will instead back down, its rational to escalate.

> I don't know what game the US are playing, and have been playing for years now (and I suspect it is partly anti-China) but it is dangerous, as dangerous as Russia's game.

This is a very silly statement. They're playing geopolitics, as they always have been. Refusing to play geopolitics simply means you're losing at geopolitics.
Although Brave claims to be a privacy-preserving browser, like this article, I wonder about Brave's policy because some trackers are actually whitelisted and Brave News recommends sites that contain a lot of trackers and advertisements.
Often it's because the constitution of their country states that a sitting President can't be brought up on charges - Mugabe is a very obvious example.

But don't worry, Yeltsin had Putin's back...

> President of Russia, ceased to carry out its mandate, has immunity. They can not be held criminally or administratively liable for acts committed by them during the execution of the President's powers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia
Torrenting is a pretty standard, official, way of distributing Linux ISOs. Linux' license also doesn't really stop anyone from doing so, as it very much wants its users to share it with others (GPL v2, see the 4 freedoms of the FSF). There could be problems distributing e.g. Red Hat-owned stuff (trademarks, copyrighted things, non-FOSS software and such) without permission, but Linux itself is completely legal to share.

Torrenting also isn't illegal by itself or a direct link to pirating, it is just a very common way of sharing pirated data.
You only need to disconnect from news and scrollable apps. The rest is harmless.
Firing a nuke at Ukraine is the huge escalation you’re looking for. After that, options are: nothing, slap on the wrist, gauge the response enough to prevent repetition, escalate.

The first two guarantee that any time Russia wants more land she simply needs to first place her finger on a tactical nuke button, and then take the land.

The US hasn’t said it would sink the fleet, retired generals have. Any rational negotiator will keep all options on the table and only limit them when it’s time to act.

The real outcome might well be to not attack in response, which would generate nationalist instincts in Russia and support from the murkier countries of the world. Rather isolate the hell out of Russia, turn off their internet, fling them back to the social Stone Age. Cut roads, rail, sea links. Include Ukraine into Nato asap to prevent any repetition.
As I have reluctantly learned today.
See, this is another issues with phones, we all have vastly different use cases. The "No Voice Call" rules is stupid, in my world. That's like one of the two primary functions of my phone. I use text messages way more than calls, but it is the second most important feature. I get maybe three to five calls a week, but those are pretty much always for things that either need immediate action, or it's coordinating something that would take hours via text message.

Outside of work, do people honestly get that many calls that it's overwhelming? I get that the US have an issue with robo-calls, but outside that while would you even get that many call. If anything smartphones have reduce the need for calls, so you should be getting fewer than you would have 20 years ago.
Came here to recommend the Bobiverse (first book of 4 so far: We are legion (We are Bob)) as it's simply fantastic read or listen.
They do retire, but in exile

From https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688225

> Exile has been the second most common fate for dictators who lost office since World War II

See https://www.upf.edu/documents/2873379/2873034/Dictator_JOP_O... for a list of dictators and their destinations from 1946 to 2012
Sure, but my concerns with that:

1. The US has put sufficient weapons in the heartland of what used to be the USSR that Moscow is having difficulty keeping troops & friendly administrators in power in Eastern Ukraine. Is it realistic that they are going to try to responsible and peaceful approach a 2nd time? It didn't work last time. The Russians might have noticed. I'm not sure I trust the propaganda that Putin is the only one driving their behaviour.

The US has made the peaceful approach look stupid in hindsight. This time they might try a pufferfish-style escalate-into-nukes to try and get the US to back off sending weapons to their enemies. Otherwise where is the line where the US stops pushing forward? Which could realistically doom us all, I hope nobody misjudges in this tense and terrifying situation.

2. War is very chaotic. Things happen that nobody expects, individuals make irrational decisions, people mis-judge the capabilities of entire populations of other people. Realistically, the US doesn't have the power to engineer this outcome. It is rolling dice.

3. Toppling governments routinely leads to the next government being less stable and rational than the last one. It isn't like toppling a government leads to a sudden tradition of stable government.

I don't think it is likely that this happens or that it prevents nukes being launched. Maybe add in a 20% "other" category somewhere on the diagram. Hardly comforting.
Why don't have this in the browser options for any browser - always show banners, always hide them, auto reject, auto accept, white/black list based on rules etc - let your users pick the behaviour they want.
> older comment of mine on cassandra: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20430925#20432564

Wow, that's surprisingly bad

For real, I'm not against java, but I find time and again that those services that depend on the JVM have lots of "weird stuff". Not because Java is bad but Java fans (which you usually are when you start to develop something this big) think a lot of this crap is acceptable.
You could easily limit this program to people using Lifeline phones, or enrolled with a geolocated homeless support organisation. The vouching agents can't be high value targets if they're protecting the identity of impoverished people.
Websites aren’t allowed to start collecting data until the user has made an active choice. Thus, removing the DOM elements should be enough, on compliant websites. There should be no need to reject
Different how? If it's not required, then it's not enforced, no?
I think organoids are equally fascinating and terrifying. Being able to ‘produce’ a brain sounds most sci-fi and I can see how that might help scientists make progress in a myriad of ways. Then on the other hand I think it’s proper horror to think that perhaps one day advances in the field might actually render consciousnesses on one of these lab brains.

An interesting read: Cerebral organoids: ethical issues and consciousness assessment
https://jme.bmj.com/content/44/9/606
US isn't the only player with nukes though.
Stripe customer here. I recently had to deal with a credit card dispute, which we all loose. I asked them why. They gave me a general reply on SEPA disputes, which was actually good, since I noticed that most of our disputes, spawning over months are about SEPA.

My reply to them, from the 1st of October (answer pending at the 9th of October):

SEPA:

We used to issue SEPA on our own via XML directly with the bank for 5 years. I know how it works.

At Stripe: Is there a differentiation between failed (bounce, not enough money on the bank account) and a dispute (return the money please) from your side with SEPA? With our SEPA payments at Stripe I can see disputes, but no fails. Why? In our previous practice I saw some fails (bounces, (charge-backs)) but rarely any disputes. Please explain.

Credit Card dispute form:

The problem I have is more about the general dispute form. The questions asked do not apply to our business. You ask for:

A signature from the client.
Of course there is none. This is a B2B web service.

When was the customer presented with the cancellation policy
While signing up. Like with your service, there are terms you need to check but never read. We provide a date string and then what?

Why was the service not cancelled
Why do you ask me that? Ask the client. The client did not cancelled. Service cancellation is automated via Dashboard when the client clicks certain buttons.

Supporting server logs.
We don't keep logs that long for privacy GDPR, also such things are not logged in ways humans can identify.

This dispute:
https://dashboard.stripe.com/payments/pi_…

What's the purpose for me filling these forms when we always loose them anyhow? Shall I rather accept the disputes to stop wastingly time? What is the acceptance criteria for a dispute. I understand that this send by you to the banks but I hope you can still shine some light on it.

Thanks!

In general I am happy with Stripe. We have been with WireCard before. That was bad, even things were still working.
Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad
I disagree, AR could be very useful - much more than VR IMO - but it’s very hard to pull off. You need a killer app to begin with, and the product needs to be good enough. HoloLens is great at the AR tech part but bulky and expensive without a clear use for now.
Can't recommend it more. The whole series is muah
Pointing out that your thinking exhibits a distinct lack of understanding what you are talking about is not an ad hominem, it's a relevant statement of fact.

And your second paragraph is amply demonstrating this. I pointed out the physical implications of encoding your femtometer cubes at atomic scale. Nothing more. Encoding the Library of Congress has nothing to do with that. You are proposing to simulate at subatomic scale so obviously encoding it into atoms will make the simulation larger than the object similated.

To engage with your argument directly: You have none. All you repeat is that the past has seen technological breakthroughs, therefore the specific fantasy you propose makes sense. Non sequitur. That some breakthroughs have happened doesn't mean that any random breakthrough will happen. And your ideas are pushing hard against the limits of physics.
The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be
https://archive.ph/3vbnZ
But it records last known position. Logically they should put it in some else's luggage that is being picked up, thereby sending you on a wild goose chase.
They were in a great position to do so right before this whole mess started.
You are not competing with paid websites, you are competing with free Wordpress blogs. Paywalling content is a mistake in your case.
Probably somewhere in A.A. County.
Consent-o-Matic [1] allows you to set your preferences once. I’d say it’s had about a 50-75% success rate. Sometimes takes a second or two.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
Probably because most of the people would choose 'Reject all' if given the option. The gameplay here is to hide cookie options in submenus that are different on every webpages so users get annoyed and choose 'Accept all'.
The requirement is to acquire consent not to reply to the attempt to acquire consent
It's interested to see this presented as new information. When I was taking Anthropology classes 15 years ago I was taught this.
The sites have to send them and the user is simply automating the response. IANAL but I don’t see an issue here.
No, the banners aren't required, the user consent is required.

If the users do not want to accept the proposal, they aren't required to, and they aren't required to even view and consider the proposal - there is nothing illegal if the users preemptively block and ignore it.
I'm okay with that when the tool makes it clear it's done so, and it's easy to switch to the original TZ.

(I always set CW back to UTC, for consistency)
Apparently the human artists also had trouble understanding the prompt, which is why they kept missing details he specified.
Time APIs in Python are the worst when it comes to time zones.

Inconsistent through various python version, poorly documented and utterly confusing to use, as demonstrated by this article.
I hate these dark patterns so much. I’m all in on the automation to get rid of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console_emulator#Le...
I read this title thinking it was gonna be about chess. /facepalm
I need to go to sleep.
Because ballistic missile defense is an aggressive nuclear action, potentially allowing the country that has deployed such a system to launch a nuclear first strike without fear of retaliation. It would entirely destroy the "mutually-assured destruction" balance of power system, and would almost certainly be seen as an act of aggression by all other (non-allied) nuclear powers.

Also, why not also commercialize it, if it's simple? Just because you're being subsidized by tax payers doesn't mean you can't turn some extra profit.
The only reason anybody buys their terrible consoles is because Nintendo doesn't have a relationship with anybody. They're always exclusive.
> > Each experiment quotes a likelihood of very close to “5 sigma,” meaning the likelihood that the events were produced by chance is less than one in 3.5 million.

> These words come from Lawrence Krauss, a highly respected theoretical physicist, and they are wrong.

I don't get what is wrong with it, "likelihood that the events were produced by chance" sounds exactly like "P(D|H_0)" i.e., the probability that we see given data (or more extreme) assuming null hypothesis (no systematic error produced the data, just random chance).

Numbers also correct one-in-3.5 million is what we expect from "5 sigma" (one-tail):

import statistics

print(f"{1 - statistics.NormalDist().cdf(5):.3g}, {1/3.5e6:.3g}")
# 2.87e-07, 2.86e-07
That's what it means to you

But an API should never get into a place where your personal choices should matter and various incompatible interpretations potentially make sense to different people.
Apple to Mark iPhone 5c as Obsolete Next Month
I think any scale of conventional response to usage of a nuke would be proportional.

Sinking the black sea fleet feels lacking in my opinion.
Surprisingly, I find myself in accord with Thiel: most of the technological progress in the last few decades has been in the digital world, i.e. the virtual world. In the physical world, we've been stagnating since the 70s. David Graeber made some insightful comments about this in one of his lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84ar89Oxo
Agree. utcnow is awful. It doesn't do what it says on the tin.

And just the naive/aware crap is almost like the unicode conversion previously. Ugh
It’s annoying it took this long. On iOS there’s super agent to do the same.
I don't see how it can be illegal. The website is showing it and it's the user who has decided to use a browser that blocks it. You may as well say is illegal for me to not read the pop-up.

Another way to look at it, if I disable JavaScript and therefore the pop-ups don't show is that illegal?
In general, I think that in cases where intentionality around specific details is required humans are going to outperform AIs for quite some time, in any creative domain. Conversely, when I don't really know what I want beyond vague direction, Stable Diffusion's results have been good.

I guess I'd say, the less specified your prompt, the more it seems the AI is able to "read your mind." An interesting little tidbit in the world of human/machine interaction. It's like the results make you say, "Yes, that IS what I was thinking of!" But as soon as you have a really specific idea in mind it kind of stumbles a bit for me.
> but are you going to declare war on Russia over that? That does not seem sensible.

Many leaders in Europe have a fairly recent historic example of where appeasement leads.
That’s very true. A colleague recently started using the same method and is achieving bundles and dependencies orders of magnitude smaller. As a result, he has to care less about security, build times and build breaks and spends more time coding. Developers have unlearned to build basic functionality apparently, especially in the front end area.
there are untapped oil reservoirs in the (baltic?) sea, if ukraine taps them (afaik they already made deals with some oil company (shell?))

then the war, i mean special military operation started
Not sure if you're aware, but the first self driving taxis are publicly operating in San Francisco.
> The hardware is great, but I can't bring myself to buy anything that requires running Logitech's software.

This is why I like their G series mice, even though I'm not a gamer. You can configure them, and they'll remember the settings on their on-board memory. They're also supported by Piper on Linux, so you never have to touch the crappy Logitech software.

I also have one of their trackballs, and it's a pain having to make sure the software runs so that the sensitivity is the correct one. It does Unifying and BT, and I've actually been impressed with how well the latter works. I don't feel any difference between that and the Unifying dongle, be it on a current-gen Linux PC or on an old MBP.
The webpage refreshes itself three times. Every time I have to read from the beginning again. What's wrong with BBC？
You could’ve written this comment without the first paragraph. Someone put time and effort into this plugin.
Weren't any nukes onboard with Russian Black See fleet? I guess in their position, they wouldn't mind to take the whole world down with them by launching all nukes onboard?
strictly speaking UTC is not a timezone
I did a more rudimentary one that excludes all values with `jq` & `dot`
as my use case was needing to grasp the structure of huge biomedical data dumps.

https://github.com/TomConlin/json_to_paths
This sounds like turning a good API into an unreadable mess. And no, it is not pythonic

No, most people do want to compare times in different TZs without the extra cruft.
>Because you invaded a country for no reason (like we did to Iraq), (except the one you invaded is at your borders and we put our guy at its head a couple years ago, and the one we invaded is half a planet from us), we will bring forth the apocalypse.

Humans are crazy, seeing how we're speaking about a nuclear war now vs how people spoke about it in the 60s, it's like a mass psychosis, we don't care anymore, or maybe we're too dumb to think about the horrors of something before living through it.

Now bring in the downvotes because somehow what I said hurts your (allegiance to the flag since elementary school) sense of nat.. patriotism.
> These notifications are incredibly annoying but have become necessary to do business online to comply with data protection regulations like GDPR.

Alternatively, you can just not track the behaviour of every person who lands on your website.

Use contextual ads instead of personalised ads.
Instead of using something that works right now, you’re saying people should hold off for a few months, then start using a prerelease API?
https://archive.ph/R0cgU
You can still add a library once it’s really needed and an area is proved to cause bugs. Most of the times though, developers will add them upfront “just in case”, making the bundles always heavier and thus harming the user experience with a slower UI.