skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to estimate the current time ("it's about 5 o'clock") using the position of the sun/a shadow - you need to know the cardinal directions

On this planet the sun is always moving from East to West. And assuming you suddenly didn't wake up on the other side of the planet you know if you are in Northern or Southern hemisphere.

So if you are in Northern one, then shadows always point in the North direction, the difference between marks on the ground show you the sun direction (E-W).

More so, in the morning shadows point to NW, in the evening to NE, so you can have a vague estimate even without waiting.

> And to know the time you need a watch or something similar?

You don't need the time per se, you need to know what sufficient time passed, it's just hard to make a precise line with a sticks. But if you have something long and thin then you can make a line in a couple of minutes.

Just take a sheet of paper, anything sticky (even a pencil, just make it stay vertical), mark the shadow, browse Reddi^W HN for a couple of minutes, mark the new shadow, make a line.

We just don't notice it, but Sun is hurling through the skies with astonishing speed.

PS I can guess the current time with ~1-1.5h accuracy just looking through the window to see how the buildings are lit by the sun. Works only from my windows, of course.
In WW2 you had all this "research" conducted by Dr Mengele and funded by the state. Should the US have done the same, just with taxpayer money? I know retroactively it's easy to say "no" but were you at that time presented with this dilemma?
Managers have been saying "this" since the early 2000. (I am bascially remote only for more than 14 years of my carreer total).

Don't take it the wrong way: it's you. You are looking for friends.

You dont have to "slave at the digital conveyor belt" you are there to work. You are not there to substitute your private live.

Now what im not saying is that during your 8 work hours your arms and feet should form a rotating disc, but you know -its work-

And further more, ESPECIALLY IN BERLIN, people dont like remote workers too much and i have a list of startups in my linkedin, who would like it very much that i would be there in person.

Most of us are extremely happy that we can work from home that we DO NOT have to endulge the Self centered manager who after working 10 hours straight, would like you to have dinner with them because they are bored(and you agree because of social protocol and future potential maybe promotions).

Remote working is not dodging the commute, that is only really tiny part of it. Remote working is cutting out all the bullshit and focusing, you know, on the work.

While freelancing you go through a lot of clients over the years and would you like to know when we waste the most time? In the onboarding phase where a (middle) manger is checking out if you have actually not fallen on your head as a child.

Finally adressing the "face on the screen that can be replaced" imagery: you can be replaced as a person too. Just because you phsycially hang around somewhere does not mean you are any safer if you do not perform.

There is no gold at the end of your remote working rainbow, because you are actually looking for friends, which naturally works better in person.
Mea culpa, searching for the actual original name “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications” pulls up a number of interesting stories about the origins of the company running telegraph lines along the rail tracks.
Example: https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963607/sprint-born-from-ra...

However I do not see anything resembling cell phone service happening until the 1970s.
overall mortality might have been 0.5, but for susceptible groups like old people it was way higher. also risk of nonfatal but serious covid complications is no joke. also secondary deaths from collapsing health care systems...
A lot of the people who live in the desert (Howeitat tribe) are actually being imprisoned and/or executed to pave the way for this development.
It's not about being deadly, it's about the risk of long COVID and the long-term health risks that spike after infection regardless of symptom severity. It IS bad.
I find it hard to swallow the idea that rogue agents pretending to be 'lactation consultants' are infiltrating U.S. hospitals (with no affiliation in any way) and tricking new mothers into underfeeding their babies.
Debezium Server with PostgreSQL and Redis Stream
Cool but I wonder about how it’s setup. Who’s paying for hosting? Who’s going to answer when Nintendo comes in with copyright claims or when someone starts drama?
What I meant is that in most case, the service you need are already configure and come with the packages of the distro and the only thing you do is enabling and starting them.

Which is not more difficult with runit than systemd and it is probably the same for dinit or openrc.

I mean systemd is still great, it allow a regular unprivileged user to create services and timers without having admin access, which is really nice to launch automatically some podman containers for example. But this is a niche use case and mostly limited to dev/sysadmins.
Why assume that there are just two, mutually exclusive schools of thought?

My experience is people usually decide whether to wait or interrupt depending on context - they just different in their assessment of the situation.

Personally I often explicitly yield to someone who to me appears like they want to say something, but are waiting for the right moment.

In face to face conversation I sometimes lift my finger and make an "uuuuum" face to signify that I want to say something right now. People usually respond to that very well - the more braindead my expression, the better.

In college our conversations were moderated and you would lift your hand if you wanted to say something, and the moderator would at times interrupt the person speaking.

On one hand everyone waited, on the other people were interrupted constantly. To me this is how most real world conversations work and pigeonholing them into just two categories is counterproductive.
It’s not just about “asking someone to be less sick”, you need to ascertain if there are other factors: are they over worked? is there a serious condition that you might need to support? Or conversely, is the sick leave legitimate? Some employees do abuse sick leave.

Either way, a good manager can work with the employee to get a good outcome for both parties.
> "Auto-Correction uses your keyboard dictionary to spellcheck words as you type, automatically correcting misspelled words for you." [1]

This is also consistent with my experience.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207525
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

— Percy Shelley
you could easily imagine some Python-esque shell language (xonsh?) and have that be:

print(os.path.exists("ssh://user@rsync.net:fileThatExists"))

A boolean, a still (relatively) terse line of code. And when you end up wanting to do something even a bit more complicated it'll be a smooth gradient of difficulty.

As with every discussion around shells, though, the amazing terseness of scripts is great, but every form of programmatic behavior beyond "do this then that" and "do string interpolation here" is a massive pain in the butt. The biggest advantage is that stuff like pipes are a very good DSL.
As mentioned by other commenters: the point is playing games on Apple Arcade. For $149 you get a pretty powerful game console, more powerful than the latest iPad for a fraction of the price. You need to get a controller though or use a PS4/xbox one if you have those.
Otherwise, yes, Apple TV is ridiculously overpowered for a streaming box. I actually don’t get why Apple is not promoting Arcade/gaming on this as the main use case. I was expecting that this would be the main marketing message. The remote should also be more geared towards gaming, initial reports suggested that it could’ve been the case.
I've also fled to Lua. LuaJIT is "finished". Love2D has a few dependencies but they are big and slow. Love does releases only every couple of years. I occasionally grab some code from the internet, but I vendor it in, and now its my code.
> All this raises the question of whether the disease is being overdiagnosed.

No chance of it not actually being a disease?

Maybe different brain types are as common as blood types. We'll never know while we label anything that doesn't play nicely with commercialism as diseased haha
I don't think the rate is that high. I think it's closer to 3%, give or take a few, right now, with an order of magnitude more cases of partial recovery of acute symptoms over time.

Which IMO is still insane, but I don't think it's 1 in 4 level of bad.
A lot of it just went back into producing particle-antiparticle pairs again. Some of it is the CMB, yes, but not all.

Why we didn't just end up with even numbers of particles and antiparticles repeating this dance endlessly is the single biggest open question in particle physics.
Superhero movies might have replaced them now that quality FX can make them more credible.
I think this is spot on. However, I think the author is half right: Middle management is probably going to be replaces, but I don't think it is by AI, but by competitive incentive structures -- its algorithmic governance anyways.
Tell HN: Living without electricity in Kyiv
So, rolling power cuts probably begin today, power company says four hours or less.

The attacks on power generation are awkward. To my eye, if Putin can keep up the attacks and inflict damage more quickly than it can be repaired, Ukraine ends up with increasingly long blackouts each day, and then maybe days of blackouts. Cities do not work without power, in ways we can hardly imagine - for example, you can’t buy anything, because the tills no longer work.

You could in theory use cash, with the shops keeping a pile of ready cash at each till for this, but how do you as a customer get cash when the ATMs are not working because the power is out?

The metro shuts down, of course. So do the traffic lights. How do you get into the city, or from A to B? you can walk, but only so far, and when you get to your destination, if it’s an office block, or condo, the elevators are not working.

I live on the 15th floor.

Automatic sliding doors are okay, you can force them open - but then you can’t really shut them, I think, so it gets cold.

How do you work from home, when the power is out - your laptop may be working, but you have no Internet.

Also when power is out, I think water goes out too, after a little while.

I need to buy some of those large containers of water, for home, in case needed.

I’ve been laying in some non-perishable foods, but most of what I eat is fresh and is in the fridge - fine for 24 hours, but after that, mmm. I will need to adapt my diet, and my life, to getting stuff done while electricity is available, and… getting other stuff done, which does not need power, when it’s not.

Needless to say, heating and lighting are off the menu. That’s fine so far, I’m in a well insulated apartment and it’s not yet cold (4C today, but sitting in a quilt is just fine), and lighting isn’t needed when you work at a laptop.

Well, in any event, back to coding :-) I’ve an AWS Redshift instance up right now, for dev work; if the power abruptly fails, I’ll be paying for until the power comes back - I could run an EC2 instance, and heartbeat to it, and when the heartbeat dies, it shuts down the cluster and itself… but that’s a lot of work and debugging and testing. I’d rather just wait the four hours :-)
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313849 (March 5, 2019 — 61 points, 47 comments)
Ask HN: Companies with human-oriented hiring pipeline?
Hi HN!

I’ve been looking for a job (Senior Software Engineer) for some time.
Despite some 15-years experience in software development of various projects (Django backends, firmware for embedded systems, system software) I don’t have any social network account nor public projects on GitHub. Although I have pet project in private repositories which I’m willing to demonstrate during the interview I’m not ready to make it public.

Most of jobs even when posted on HN require filling in redundantly detailed forms and links to public social network profiles.

I understand why FAANG corporations would do this. But isn’t it kind of awkward for smaller teams of few people? Especially looking for senior level candidates. I think it might repel many of us.

Where I could find such vacancies that doesn’t require bureaucracy and more human-oriented?
E.g. simply e-mailing plain text resume?

I hope that post will be helpful for fellow HN-ers.
Thank you!

PS. Senior Software Engineer from Central Asia, looking for an interesting remote job. kzhner@yandex.kz
I worked at a startup for many years. I used to work even during weekends and hardly had any work life balance. The work was very interesting and there was so much to do and so much to learn and grow. I was also rewarded for my contributions. But by 202, I felt burnt out. For the last five years I had hardly any social life and all I did was just think about work. I decided to take a break. Quit the startup in good terms. Got a small piece of farmland and did farming for 1.5 years. Relaxed a lot. Enjoyed my life. Got the farm to a level where I am no longer required to work there everyday. Have a couple of farm hands who take care of it. have automated most things and have an app that tells me the situation at the farm. have gotten contracts to sell the produce.

Now I am back at the same startup in the same role after a 1.5 year break. I always enjoyed the work, just was burnt out. And this farm project helped take my mind of that work.
>And yet they are not required to use the iPad unless you chose to adopt those keyboard centric use cases.

Well, those are what's pushed in Apple's ads, and those are what the article checks for overall cost for: the desktop replacement case
Back in the early 19th century when electricity was being studied by the pioneers of the domain, there wasn't any understanding what electricity even means; people like Ampere, Volta and Ohm were alive, but the units named after them weren't.

This didn't prevent the field into developing into what it is today, acquiring more knowledge along the way.

As of today, we measure intelligence using tests on paper. In the future, it might be done using something like MR or CT, only more sophisticated. We can certainly map some cognitive processes in ways like that already, so it does not seem as absurd as walking in 6000 Kelvin on a gassy surface.
A good start would be to not do silly things like

body = request.json
key = json.dumps(body)

in the prediction code to begin with: https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml/blob/15c8488ade86b0...
Yep. Same with acts military operations. Patriot Act? Operation Iraqi Freedom? It suggests what you are if you oppose their contents.
I think they mean that it's code they're not having to write/test/maintain themselves because presumably if you pick a good enough library the quality of code/features are better then what one individual or team could do

While there are issues with this approach like the article outlines, personally I believe it to be better then the alternative of countless developers reimplementing the same feature sets over and over because honestly that just seems like a waste of human time and talent
I think this is also a play of word with antique to emphasis it runs on old computers as well, a kind of contraction of what would be antique linux and it is not related with being anti X-server.

The distribution predate systemd so unrelated.
> At best they record the intent of an author at some unknown point in the past.

This probably says something about the priority the teams you worked with put on documentation. Write once and never update?
In the precision world of RF engineering, I approximate pi as "3, and then about a fifth more, and then trim to tune because you can cut it shorter but you can't cut it longer".
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to doing this, see /r/overemployed. There's a guy on there claiming to be employed to the tune of 5+ FTE's or something, I haven't checked in a while.
They can block any research they want in the West.

The Chinese don't really care about those kinds of sensibilities, and if they find it useful to research something, they will.
You get it :)
You’re comparing an open source repo to a home invasion? My god man, you must realize that those aren’t even close to the same magnitude. Maybe more like walking within 10 miles of a house - but that house is actually a heavily fortified castle with trebuchets.
Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)
> For a while I couldn't even look at code without getting nauseous and a having a splitting headache. I'm not exaggerating here, it was like I had lost the ability to comprehend code at all.

I thought I was starting to experience burnout this year, but I've never had physical symptons like yours. Before that happened, did you note something particular? I don't think it came out of the blue
Bittorrent won't work, as this list is commonly downloaded by heavily sandboxed browser extensions that can't access torrents.
> The greatest damage ever done by speech (i.e. motivation to start wars, genocides) has been done by fully identifiable people

I think your information might be out of date. The Rohingya genocide is a good example of a modern genocide incited on Facebook by regular humans and bots.

In modern cases such as Brexit, Trump, various far right candidates (Zemmour, Bolsonaro), a massive amount of people/fake people on social media talking about them, their talking points (ludicrous and false as they are) have brought them their success, despite the obvious massive red flags.
I just read an estimate that said carbon adds 30% to the cost of producing the hydrogen alone (by electrolysis). If you can use smaller, simpler storage, transport, and consumption structures (for CH4 over H2), that have lower safety demands, then it may be a wash.

And those caverns, pipes and gas turbines are already there. Admittedly they depreciate at 4% - 14%, so not there for all that long in the scheme of things, but they're there now. And the manufacturing and regulatory infrastructures and engineering knowledge are there now too. At global scale.
For one, if pi were > 4, a unit circle would have a greater area than a unit square.
I'll admit they are rare - but if they appear they usually break apps that I can't really opt out of using. Teams for instance.
Container toilet from china - 10k

Installation - 2k

Rest - …
What's your definition of optimization?
There are many helpful questions that can be answered with imperfect data.

What if you wanted to search populations with a high concentration of strongly retarded children to look for epidemics of birth defects, and then compare areas by race to see if it looked like there is any unexpected bias?

A research block would stop this and other useful question from being answered. The data would easily suffice, whatever its defects, because you wouldn't need high-resolution IQ measurements, only enough to detect severe defects and you wouldn't need genetically-accurate racial identification, only a rough guess because that's what visible minority means.

But because a bunch of pearl-clutchers are afraid of MAGAites the researcher trying to find and fix other cities like Flint Michigan would instead of demonized, denied tenure, and hounded out of academia.
Our understanding of physics might improve and we might know (with enough confidence) before the light reaches us.
you're not.

they'll probably add this over time - as well as audio recording, for adding vocals etc.

but for now it's aimed as quick sketches and getting down some ideas as "finger-playing" jams, not at being a lite MIDI sequencer.
I don’t know if it will be commonplace in 50 years, but I think it will in 250. This seems like deciding to not study topics might have elements of discomfort at substantial risk of becoming the subservient population to groups with assisted tech (or even just a better understanding of developmental nutrition and environmental factors).
That's how you solve combinatorial optimization problems. With a bunch on heuristics.
> The original crashed Windows when set as desktop background, but this one works.

It's better to scale it down to the display resolution instead if that's what you want to use it for.
>I guess I ask because there will always have to be a cutoff, even if it's a soft cutoff.

We could ditch the "academic year" idea entirely and just have kids join the classes when they are ready for them and not force a cohort to all have to learn and progress at exactly the same rate (one which, statistically, is either too slow or too fast for essentially every student).
Glamorous Toolkit build the VM differently from Pharo. Please give the distribution a try: https://gtoolkit.com/download/
And the content-adressable filesystem that it uses is git [1]. It uses git with a javascript implementation of it [2] or node bindings to a c one [3].

1. https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/server...

2. https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git

3. https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit
But why do that? What do you gain with a process that is more involved, slower and open to many forms of attack?
This is one of the major plot points for the film Sorry To Bother You.
I am middle management....a big part of my job is understanding my juniors needs and enabling them to do their jumps by promoting their cause with the leadership. Secondly I lead the hiring and ongoing training of staff...not sure how AI is going to do all this...
Most of the low-weak managers rely on data. That's how their affirm their decisions to wider group. AI can totally be a better data predictor and user than humans. If all a manager do (middle or higher) is collect and interpret data, they should be replaced by a program
It makes sense, if everyone streams then it'll create significant congestion once awareness rises due to people trying to use Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ etc. Better to offer people a free tier to allow folk to WhatsApp, FB, tweet, whatever and effectively manage the bulk of traffic through the paid tier.
I think the point is one less giant blob of technically open, but extremely obfuscated chunk of questionable usefulness on your system.

I'm not sure about you, but I've used many distros, with and without systemd, and never had to write a startup script. The package manager takes care of it (or I switch to a different distro.)
Another of these articles. Middle management is mostly about managing people, not taking decisions. The decisions MMs can make are extremely limited. They are hired so that the top management doesn't have to deal with all these pesky employees.
I think the infringement that is relevant in practice comes from users of Copilot rather than from its authors.
I don’t think that’s a good name for this. Clearly, that code can be reached. From the name, I would expect ”throw new UnreachableException” to be something the compiler inserts to make it more robust in the sense that, if the compiler has some bug in its control flow analysis, it throws, rather than executes the wrong code.

Now, for a better name? Maybe ShouldNeverGetHereException, but that may be seen as too whimsical.
So only for CSV files ? No fix for automatic converting cell content to data ?
I found this https://support.gurobi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012237852-Do... which I guess is what you refer to?