skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Microsoft on the NetShow Encoder, later known as the Windows Media Encoder, in the Windows 95/Windows NT4 era. I remember carefully writing millisecond code that would deal with differences, instead of absolutes, so that we could run longer than 49 days. Honestly I don't recall whether the limitation was GetTickCount, the recording API, the file format, or all three.

In our debug build, I added a registry key that would start the concept of time at 49-ish days, so that we could test that everything was working without waiting 50 days. However, before we shipped, the intrepid test team did actually run the encoder for 50 days to prove that it worked. (On Windows NT, of course. Windows 95 with good hardware and drivers was perhaps more stable than its reputation, but still...) Though TBH we definitely wouldn't have delayed a release by 49 days if it had failed at the last minute.
Yeah I interviewed at a recruiting startup and the founder was writing off his brand new sports BMW and at the time I was like omg that's so cool and now I'm like omg that's so shady
there are a lot of countries in which converting crypto to fiat is a taxable event, whereas converting from one type of crypto to another isn't.
We have been talking to them about Taiwan for literal decades. They have never budged. Every single CCP administration has been absolutely adamant that reunification will happen. The only realistic solution is military deterrent to stop them from acting on their desires.

Imo the purpose of these sanctions is to ensure that Chinese supply chains remain reliant on Taiwanese chips. If they invade, they will lose access. The export value of Chinese products made with Taiwanese silicon is massive, it would be a huge economic blow to lose this access.
Well, I definitely agree with the decision, but at one point there were some valid things to consider:

1) they had been not doing normal routine maintenance that wasn't going to be needed if they were shutting down, and figuring out what all needs to be done to change gears does take some time (and careful thought)

2) they were at one time buying their fuel for nuclear plants from Russia

Now I believe both of these points have been addressed, and I'm glad of it, but it was not totally unreasonable to raise them and not immediately change course.
Slightly off topic, but wtf happened to sourceforge? A decade ago it was _the_ place to host open source projects. How did they lose almost all of the market share to GitHub?
there is a _lot_ of ham radio software that decodes live morse from live sources where where's no clue what speed it'll be coming in at.
You're assuming the commercial paper market is much bigger than it is.

You can't go out and find $30B worth of commercial paper that no one else knows about and buy it in 3 months.

When governments around the world were stuffing everyone and every company to the brim with money - and banks couldn't find anyone to borrow money beside people to buy third homes in Ibiza - how did Tether find a bunch of companies that wanted to print $30B of commercial paper in 3 months that no one in the market was competing for?

Oh - and also - this heretofore undiscovered market was bigger than the previously known commercial paper market?

Yeah, right... It didn't happen.
I wish more people realized that HR, IT, and accounting are secondary services within a corporation. They aren't the core of the company. The people inventing, building, and selling widgets are the core. Everybody else is just a necessary evil that exists to help facilitate and streamline the stuff that matters.

Employees should not be bending over backwards to suit HR and IT workflows and policies. Policymakers should be bending over backwards to invent lean, effective processes.
IFR: Robot installations hit all-time high in 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cao0oy1CBg / https://lex.page/ :)
That monstrosity is easily one of the two most popular reasons cited by folks as being the reason why they use/like ripgrep. (With the other reason being performance.)

Orthogality is a means to an end, not an end itself.
> The problem is that blockchains cost more

From each participant's perspective they cost far less, both in terms of implementation and ongoing maintenance, than attempting to build and run a centralized database oneself (and if you're gonna match a blockchain's trustworthiness, every participant would indeed need to run a database oneself).

> and add significant performance reliability problems

1. Nothing beats the performance of /dev/null.

2. They do the precise opposite of adding reliability problems; they're in fact notoriously difficult to bring down given the sheer degree of data replication.

> without adding trust.

The comment to which you replied describes at length how they add considerable degrees of trust. They only "don't add" trust if - again - every participant is running one's own database, at which point - if they're expected to agree with each other - you've got an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, ludicrously expensive version of half of a blockchain.

> If my inspector is being paid off, he'll do the same thing for the blockchain record that he was doing with paper.

Which would then be public and uncensorable evidence against that inspector.

> If things are being tampered with in shipping, the same people will do the same things and you'll have the same dodgy goods arriving at their destination except they'd now have valid but inaccurate blockchain records.

And that inaccuracy would - upon detection - become public and uncensorable evidence against those tamperers.
It was the eco-friendly choice /s
> I'm only taking issue with the "Just Works" comment,

I take your point, but "Just Works" on Linux can be a more difficult road than maybe we often care to acknowledge. If you didn't go through the "OMG why won't my laptop suspend properly" years (which maybe still haven't left us...?), then let me tell you UGH, give me a Macbook as my Unix desktop/laptop experience.

I really think it's mostly what you're comfortable/familiar with. Mention NixOS to me and I think interesting, but it actually sounds more complicated than a Time Machine backup on a ZFS NAS to me (although probably much more elegant).
What did Dan Abramov say about Redux?
My last job we actually switched away from it because of bugs and went back to Ubuntu for container base images
That joke was famous for about 70-80 years. I know Henny Youngman told it but I doubt it was his.

You were telling a joke that was old long before you were born and you grew up in a world where others might know it because we were all watching old shit on television.

That television was mostly written by men who were born between the wars.

There's a precise birthdate where a child's life would never force them to watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and it is nearly the same as the birthdate for never watching Night Court or The Maltese Falcon.

Reruns died sharply and took a bunch of the 20th century monoculture with them. It's very surprising.
(Retracting my comment. Kanye West has publicly talked about having bipolar disorder, see link below. Thank you to toomuchtodo for digging up that reference!)
There was a discussion on sourcehut about making this change to their TOS, not sure what happened with it though

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CC32T7UNXIK7O....
Sure, that's more serious.

It's true that the "European FDA" sometimes approves things they have to recall later. But the American FDA also does that. Only rejecting by all medications can you avoid that.

My thought is that medical science works the same way in Europe as in the US, so if it was a scientific matter, approvals would be "portable".

I think a model that explains things better is that the approvals are political/regulatory. And I wish the were scientific.
Yes. The assault on cash is pretty awful in general.
the quantity of paper they claim to hold would mean having major stakes in at least a dozen very big organisations. the probability that not a single employee or ex-employee leaked anything is very low, especially since such a leak would obviously help tether
Ah, I overlooked that. But I would have searched for it before posting a comment like nnm's above.
I want to reinforce your plan. Somehow I played factorio for a few hundred hours before finding online communities and blueprints. It was a wonderful experience of discovery and exploration. I came up with a few "novel" designs during that time that I'm still proud of.

Once comparing my own work to the best online it took a lot of joy out of the game. But I found that the memory was short lived, once I cut myself off from those online communities it was easy to fall back into the "let me pull out my sketchbook and solve this problem" mindset. I think half the fun is that design process.

I'm well north of 1000 hours now, and still discovering new ways to play and solve problems. I've come full circle and now build spaghetti bases because they are so visually fun.
In finance, when "everybody knows X", the truth is usually the opposite. In our case, "everybody knows Tether is unbacked".
Look into how food ads are made. It's often completely inedible stuff covered in glues and paints and fake sheens. At least this thing is actually drivable with similar characteristics, I guess, unlike the Bic Mac in the picture made out of cardboard.
Yeah, a ballistic missile's bus still does a lot of horizontal maneuvering during the mid-course phase to actually get on target; the main boost phase is mainly just for getting it pointed in the general direction and proving verticality
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This is the only informed comment in the entire thread.

I came here hoping for an interesting discussion about Monero, ZCash, Tornado Cash on Ethereum, and Halo/ZK proofs. Disappointing!
Threadreaderapp of the tweets (still live):
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581643415850098688.html
What drugs do you think he’s abusing? That’s quite a claim to make.
Because doing such a thing to someone as young and quite honestly as sane as him is absurd, regardless of what twitter people thing. The man is completely capable of making his own decisions and is not a real threat to anyone, at least not enough of a threat to pass the bar for having his agency as an individual taken away.
The whole situation with britney spears was a tragedy and we need to stop thinking that these measures are a realistic way to treat things except for the most egregious cases. Having a mental illness and making bad decisions because of it is not one of those cases, else you can bet the political opposition of whatever party/whistleblowers/etc will start magically having mental illnesses and making bad decisions because of it as well.
State-sponsored nuclear fear-mongering is likely to accelerate dramatically online in the coming years. Will it be the right that goes anti-nuclear this time? Hopefully not.
Would've been better to decrease coal though. Coal provokes more deaths per kWh than nuclear
It was just before Xi was to give his address at the Communist Party Congress that takes place every 5 years.
Any specifics you would like to mention?
I just took one look, I had never heard of it before, and... it's depending on the serialization order of steps in the YAML to run pipelines?! What fresh hell is this?

Loading the YAML file in a language where dictionaries/hashmaps don't preserve the insertion order and serializing again will break your file? How could they fail at such a basic step of making a YAML-configurable CI system?

This is the worst abuse of YAML I have ever seen. Was putting `-` in front of each step too obvious?
> Parler isn't going to be able to maintain "free speech" even if they or Kanye want it to

Correct, because they allow EU users to sign up and therefore has to comply with various European countries content laws (including GDPR). Depending on their size and amount of users they could also be forced to store data on EU servers. They would have to remove material illegal in some countries if they have users from said country, i.e German users on Parler posting Nazi material are committing a crime, Parler needs to be able to remove it in time, or face consequences.

Same goes for HN. Sure many small services that let EU citizens sign up on them fly under the radar, but won't for long when more and more people complain to the authorities.

Look at Truth Social, it's not available in the EU because they would face fines if it was and they know it.

In the end it's pretty simple. Do you allow EU users on your platform? Then you need content moderation.
I didnt fullu understand but I heard some very sad story in commemts a while back that Thunderbolt was largely impossible to do in an add-in-card fashion.

There are of course some add-in cards, and many people use them successfully, but also I dont know if any of these users have multiple cards, which closer models the potential situation here. But notably these users also dont have a dedicated gpu for their thunderbolt ports!

I 100% think likewise to you- the gpu obviously should have usb4 (+ ideally pcie) ports out thr back. Its also frustrating & silly how few systems have usb-pd out.
True. Some even argue that Germany's renewable build-out was so large that it significantly lowered renewable costs worldwide.

But if Russian gas was as expensive and unreliable 15 years ago as it is now, I suspect they would have kept the nukes.
I can't believe physical exhaustion is not at least as important a part in this. Personally, I skip a night's sleep every now and then to readjust my sleeping patterns, and I've never experienced anything strange after something like 32-36 hours without sleep (but note: no significant physical exertion involved).

It doesn't even feel that bad once you get past the slump in the 20-24 h region.
Simply install an air conditioner and you will have very efficient room heating (no hot water, though). They cost about 1500€ and are really easy to install. I know in Bulgaria many households have switched from oil heating to air conditioners.
I will migrate my tiny RDS and Cloud SQL side things to Fly.io a couple of weekends from now. It is definitely the sensible way for me to do this.

I managed my own SQL DB once upon a time and I can tell you I would rather have it done for me. 10 years on from when I set it up, my provider was going to get rid of the hardware and couldn't VM migrate me, so I took it down. No urge to manage this stuff myself.
Maybe it's only for me, but I've never liked this of too-smart solutions.

Let people do the mistakes once and learn the correct package name, instead of relying on a hack and potentially introduce confusion later.
I'm curious as to why you chose to build your services in rust and then one microservice is in golang?
My understanding is that he simply does not recommend it anymore, and has put his weight behind hooks, which he's certainly free to do, but I can't really make sense of first seeing the upside of the model of Redux and then subsequently suggesting a tech that takes nearly none of the upside of Redux and runs in a completely opposite direction.
no, it's too bloaty to run it longer than the mentioned 5 seconds in good faith to not deplete the biosphere with bloat like that.
yup! And what if i reserve ripgrep/ripgrep as a typosquat, while the real one is burntsushi/ripgrep?
they didn't always fail safe.

I remember a house at the bottom of a steep mountain grade that got plowed into on a regular basis especially during that time.

EDIT: hmm... seems freezing might still be a way to cause failure?
It would be fun (but also highly impractical to implement) if the web were garbage collected, with all open windows and bookmarked URLs as root pointers.
do you realistically see yourself, or anyone else keying in those ?

Using morse is all about efficient transmission in high noise environments.

Personally, I think I'd be annoyed if i had to decode that whilst sitting on a mountain top, or wherever (not being hyperbolic SOTA[1] and POTA[2] are real things folks participate in).

[1]: Summits On The Air https://www.sota.org.uk/
[2]: Parks on the Air https://parksontheair.com/
It also downplays the fossil fuel industry's responsibility for anti-nuclear advocacy. Like gosh it's not the literal billions of dollars this industry spends lobbying congress and subsidizing pro-fossil-fuel perspectives in media and think-tanks, it's the healing-crystals wacko's fault!

Much like recycling or jaywalking, it's a way for an industry to diffuse and downplay their own advocacy and push the fault onto the public.

Like yeah, it would be better if Greenpeace supported nuclear... but they're not the ones sitting in senator's offices getting bills passed subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry. Even the "climate change" bill had to throw almost 10% of its spending to fossil-fuel subsidies.
Would they have breaks (gaps) to segment the track into distinct stretches of conductors?

How far down the line would the supply voltage run (or how far away would a train complete the circuit) before resistance losses degrade the system?
> As you might have guessed by the long period with no posting, Sensebridge is out of business. We’ve been out of stock on Northpaw Kits since late 2016; we do not have plans to make more kits.
This would work, but I think hiding a package behind an alias is never a good idea.
And you don't have to fill out a bunch of paperwork whenever you do or change anything.
I thought about building something like this about 20 years ago, but decided not to.This is actually a skill you can teach yourself if you just start paying attention. It works pretty much everywhere except for in labyrinth-like buildings. The last time I couldn't figure out which Way North was was in Lord Leicester hotel in warwick 5 years ago.
Ask HN: ML to Address Ecological Problems?
Does anyone know of any companies that are working to apply ML techniques to real world problems like ecological/biological/geological engineering? Weather prediction I think is a good example but I'm thinking more along the lines of novel materials and plant cultivars for addressing issues from global warming like droughts and food shortages.
I appreciate this article's distinction between attributes that are often required for adequate accessibility (e.g., `aria-current="page"`) and ones that developers come up with on their own as far as what to leverage in your CSS and what to probably avoid.

Nice write-up!
Fair question. What I’m referring to is file backup and archive for anything up to enterprise level.

So specifically: photography archives, videos (including b-roll for content producers/videographers), project backups, personal files, important documents, etc. Up to and including anything that could be posted to r/datahoarders
Every time I read about folks surgically implanting stuff like this [1] I think... surely just wearing it would be better?

[1] https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/north-sense-cybernetic-i...
Presumably undefined unless specifically designed to fail safe but a logical thought would be it keeps burning at present trajectory until it falls and blows up at end of trajectory if device uses an impact fuse. I would be very interested in a more precise answer if you can find one.

https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/why-do-some-missiles-e...
That happened at my school, too. There was one guy, little bald and always wearing a slightly too big suit, yelling about gays and the immorality of anal sex. Something tells me he fueled more experimentation than if he hadn't been there.

"If that killjoy doesn't like something it must be fun!"
I think it's weird that you don't think being a cancer on society is equivalent to 'being an asshole' but agree to disagree.
I would think you'd specifically want to avoid displaying lights of the same color as "go" for auto traffic, for purposes other than telling auto traffic to "go". So I'd be inclined to avoid green for pedestrian "go", if I were designing such a system. But maybe that's not actually a problem, IDK.

> The icons displayed (hands) are confusing too: the rest of the world uses an icon of a man walking or standing.

Is a hand held up, palm-out, not a signal for "stop" in places other than the US or Canada? I wouldn't assume it's universal, but I'd expect it's got broader reach than that.

Besides, again, I'd personally assume it'd be better to have very different icons for "walk" and "don't walk". Not two different depictions of a person.
And more brittle, in at least some ways, as well. When I travel, especially internationally, I try to be prepared so that I wouldn't be completely screwed if my phone decided to die on me. Of course, stuff can always happen like your bag being snatched but I try to be in a position at least to deal with an electronic device just crapping out.
“ Basically, the reason is that the Government print a lot of money which result in high/hyper inflation”

Incorrect, Argentina has problems with currency stability because they issue debt denominated in a currency they do not issue in order to satisfy import requirements
> Dude's been blasting antisemitism on social media, in violation of long-standing, well-understood policies.

Can you give specific examples? I just looked this up because I was interested. This very long winded Vice article only seems to point out a few "antisemitic" statements he makes[0]. Here's the first two:

> Ye used a strange metaphor when talking about Black people judging one another, telling Carlson, “Think about us judging each other on how white we could talk would be like, you know, a Jewish person judging another Jewish person on how good they danced or something.”

I've never heard of people hating on Jews because they can't dance. If you watch the clip it sounds like Kanye is just trying to come up with an example, and it's clear he's not "blasting antisemitism" here.

> Ye added, “I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa. At least it will come with some financial engineering.” (The belief that Jews control the financial system is one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted antisemitic claims...

Ah yes, the classic joke that Jews are rich. This has been a joke since forever, and maybe it's a bad thing. But Netflix is still playing Seinfeld reruns, and there's way more than one joke in there about rich Jews. There's even an entire episode poking fun at people taking offense to Jewish jokes[1]. And Twitter, Meta, etc aren't blocking Netflix. If joking that Jews are rich is antisemitism that's punishable by banishment from social media, these sites are not enforcing their standards fairly.

I don't really care about Kanye West, but I'm so sick of people claiming everybody is racist, bigoted, and homophobic just because they disagree with something. Show me where Kanye is advocating for the annihilation of the Jews before you go citing baseless claims. And if there is some clear antisemitic statements that I missed coming from Kanye, then I apologize in advance. But right now, it seems like this is just another "this person disagrees with me so let me find some vague statement they said and claim its racist/homophobic/bigoted speech".

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-car...

[1]: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0697814/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Good luck getting that up and running at scale before the end of the winter.
Yes, the list of stores to sell/close due to overlap is part of the deal terms.
Because it's kind of getting out of hand and lots of countries who ended up badly inverted faced extreme inflation and devaluation of currency?
Hostility towards Taiwan is hostility towards the US. The US needs Taiwan to maintain its global naval hegemony. China currently has limited access to the Pacific. They have to sail through the waters of unfriendly countries to get their navy to open ocean.