skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people bringing this question up as a counter-argument for a unified time.

But how do you know whether the sun is up or down in any given place on Earth right now? You probably don't, if the place is a few thousand miles East or West from where you are. You'd have to look up its time zone. And doing that might not be that much different from looking up at what hour the solar noon is somewhere else.
Thanks for responding. Apologies for the cursing to add excessive flair.
I think you've misunderstood what the Van Allen radiation belts are. Here's a direct quote from the first paragraph on Wikipedia.

> A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere. Earth has two such belts, and sometimes others may be temporarily created. The belts are named after James Van Allen, who is credited with their discovery.[1] Earth's two main belts extend from an altitude of about 640 to 58,000 km (400 to 36,040 mi)[2] above the surface, in which region radiation levels vary. Most of the particles that form the belts are thought to come from solar wind and other particles by cosmic rays.[3] By trapping the solar wind, the magnetic field deflects those energetic particles and protects the atmosphere from destruction.

To recap:
- The radiation (aka charged particles, aka cosmic rays) is captured by the Earth's magnetosphere.

- The particles are deflected and steered around/away from the planet.

- You can't blow up a magnetic field lines with a bomb since they originate from within the planet's core.

- You can change the velocity of the charged particles themselves by detonating a nuclear device nearby, but...

- Such a device wouldn't affect more than a small number of particles (many would be in Earth's shadow), and would only affect them with pressure from the X-rays and other light released from the explosion because there's no air in space that can carry a pressure wave.

- The Orion proposals are talking about mitigating the damage from detonating nukes in atmosphere, specifically fallout.

I think that there's no chance we'd ever take the risk of launching from Earth into orbit using an Orion drive, the fallout cannot be contained. However, I do think that we should explore using an Orion drive in the area beyond Earth orbit.

There are proposals to hang a tether between the belts and use the charge gradient along the tether to generate electricity -- using the belts as a giant battery.

Hoyt, Robert P., and Bryan M. Minor. "Remediation of radiation belts using electrostatic tether structures." 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference. IEEE, (2005).
http://web.archive.org/web/20110517200032/http://www.tethers...
> Android's goals seem to be:

> 1. Make the UI play well with touch screens

> 2. Restrict the user's freedom

If this is true then they're losing to Apple on both accounts :p

Realistically though, Android is just another Linux distro. You can open a shell and run all sorts of stupid Linux stuff if you have adequate user permissions. Frankly, that's kinda the problem; manufacturers being able to modify the AOSP led to every company building their own shitty UX. Now that the beast is out of the cage, Google is struggling to run damage control.

From a technical aspect, x11 is not sufficient for a modern multitouch display interface (much less anything running at 60hz or higher). A UI framework might be considered excessive, but GTK and Qt were both terrible choices for building robust mobile applications. Even today they aren't really great choices.

Honestly, I don't really see how any of your examples add up to Google making Android a "piece of shit". Their working relationship with the community is great, and the architectural choices being made over the past few years seem to indicate a lot of great progress. In Linux terms, you're getting mad at the kernel for problems that exist in userland.
Very similar experience selling my car to Carvana last fall. I wish I put the obvious pieces together sooner about how they can't keep overpaying for cars and stay solvent.
It's not just "here" though, birth-rates are dropping worldwide with economic development.
There is a Unicode control code to change text direction[0] (arab etc). But no control codes to mirror individual characters or words vertically or horizontally. Nor are there general stand-alone mirrored letters, only a few select exceptions [1]

U+202E "OVERRIDE, RIGHT-TO-LEFT"

0x0F3B 3899 TIBETAN MARK GUG RTAGS GYAS ༻

0x0F3A 3898 TIBETAN MARK GUG RTAGS GYON ༺

And some funny trickery mapping roman letters to … whatever looks similar:
https://fontvilla.com/mirror-text-generator/
I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac
>Has no one here worked at companies where there was more dead weight than talent?

It's perfectly possible (even common, I might guess) that most people do understand that this is a realistic scenario and that it might be the case at Twitter, and that the goal of cutting the fat might be for the best even though it's harsh - but also that Elon's behavior is absolutely absurd.
So if you learn to become in expert in Twitter and spend a lot of time tuning it, you can get a decent experience. That’s not a ringing endorsement. It’s like saying a car is fast if you put a turbocharger in it.
There are no “natural selection” of charging ports. It’s simply not part of what people consider when they buy appliances. Customers are mostly at the whim of manufacturers when it comes to these technical details.
Carvana came to my house and picked up the car I was selling. It was all done in a few minutes. I didn't have to take any pictures, just describe it on the web form, and sign some papers when they showed up.
Never really understood why that requires an explanation. A universe full of life is 'interesting' from the perspective of life but that's a subjective sentiment. If the universe was only full of rocks it'd be 'fine-tuned' for rocks. If you were one big mass you'd probably think this universe is tuned awfully wrong. 'Carbon chauvinism' of the wiki page alludes to this but I think you could even generalize it to 'life chauvinism'.

Or alternatively you could ask, why isn't it fine-tuned even harder, with life in every corner? After all it's astonishingly empty in most places.
Oh interesting, I never explored in there. Indeed it looks like a Slack clone. Seems to have support for interactive apps similar to Slack as well.

Of course, it still took Google all the way until this year to roll it out.
I've worked for a top 50 company by market cap and the CEO and other execs we're pleasant people. Well one or two of the execs were assholes but not the 'ill get you fired' assholes.
Olgino is beautiful at this time of year.
As an end user, I never really saw much of Google Video's contributions. I'm sure they helped a lot in the backend, but the Youtube video player had all the core video features already when the two merged in my experience.
Internet

- Bitwarden

- Nextcloud

- Transmission

- Dokuwiki

- Selfoss (Feed aggregator)

- Postfix/Apache for a few domains (currently forwarding emails but will add self hosting)

- WebDAV

Local network

- Photoprism

- Samba

- eblocker for network-wide tracker/ ad filtering
By what means should be people be judged, if not by their public words and actions? Any other factors are, by definition, unknowable.

Musk's words and actions have been very public indeed. What additional context can we gain by speculating about his private thoughts and back-room dealings?
In "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" Richard Rhodes shared one of my favorite quotes from the atomic physicist, Niels Bohr:

"I try not to speak more precisely than I think."
To fix other people's finance/accounting systems...?
Konstantin Chaykin built a watch similar to this called the Levitas, seems really awesome. https://chaykin.ru/en/watches/levitas/
You don't have dst offsets for the future either. Those keep changing. That's not a blocker.

The straight up truth is that we created something in between. Some parts of earth sun alignment are in the time zone abstraction layer and leap seconds are in the seconds count layer. There's no real cause for this and we should have moved to TAI to fix this blunder long ago.
Well let's imagine that programming was like railroad work. Hammering in railroad spikes, getting called at 3am to prevent a possible collision. But it's not. I can't believe we need someone to define spoiled in this context.
That's true but there's some missing attraction that's present in fast-growing startups but not here - there's little room for big stock / options growth (unless Musk provides options at less than the $44b price, or a high all cash comp) and the product is already mature so lots of interesting engineering challenges are already solved (and your challenge will rather be to figure out the existing codebase and how to work with it). There's also less of a promise of lots of fast hiring and moving up the chain as I imagine Twitter wants to remain fairly lean.

Of course there's plusses too including working a large impact product with little bureaucracy and being on a even playing field versus your peers with little institution knowledge.

I guess what I'm trying to say is it's dissimilar to a fast-growing start up in important ways that attract people wanting to work for you.
I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by based on my recent usage. I also like that Google Meet is built for the browser by default—no need or pressure to install a desktop app for calls.
Black Holes in Eccentric Orbit
A research team has reconstructed the origin of an unusual gravitational wave signal. The signal GW190521 may result from the merger of two massive black holes that captured each other in their gravitational field and then collided while spinning around each other in a rapid, eccentric motion.
Is there any evidence of this? I assumed they buy cars at wholesale auctions, maybe wash/clean them, and put them on sale, like any used car dealer does.

I have asked a couple of used car dealers (not CarMax specificially as there isn't one near here) if they do anything to these cars to prepare them for sale. They just laugh. The margins are not there to repair any problems, so what is the point of inspecting them?
Seems like a legit company with 275 employees.
> If you're asking, "how can you generalize broadly about" what sounds like big company problems

The scenario I was referring to was at a 60 person startup where I was responsible for initiatives to make us “cloud native” and micro service focus. We were pivoting to selling access to our micro services to large health care provider networks that are using them for their apps and websites. As an aside, being able to scale independently came in handy when a global pandemic happened in 2020.

It was my third job at small companies where I was brought in to lead company wide technical initiatives.

> Maybe as this economic reshuffling / contraction continues, I expect those big company problems to go away via "reduction in force.

What I mentioned doing above, I now do in the consulting department of a little company I am sure you have heard of. I doubt even with a RIF it’s going to go down from being the second largest employer in the US to a small company anytime soon.

> Because if your folks - superior, subordinates, whatever - couldn't figure out a system to get you focused on programming.

I’ve been a “programmer” at six small companies and two F10 companies over the last 25+ years. Well the first one isn’t F10 anymore thanks to Jack Welch’s decisions.

“Programming” is the least important thing. Twitter’s issues aren’t caused by “bad programming”. It’s the lack of strategy.
What people do is irrelevant, because they don't eat enough, and that is my complaint. My family is recommended to eat about 10-12 cups of vegetables (not fruits and vegetables) per day as per [1]. There is always significant waste with vegetables as well, unless we want to act like buying fresh vegetables and preparing them is a luxury reserved for the rich. That is far more than half a pound per person. We shop at 5-7 different stores every week (thanks to our location we can do this), to find the best values on various items. We don't do farmers markets, whole foods, or anything that is not very average and typical. Our evening salad, which is not fancy but not meager, covers about half this requirement, and costs us about $15. If somebody wants to claim salad is a luxury and people should just eat cabbage, I hope you learn to have a more dignified worldview. Also, I have not seen such low prices around here for quite some time, outside of limited sales that you cannot rely on for more than a portion of your purchases.

[1] https://www.myplate.gov/eat-healthy/vegetables
Q2 2021 is when it was listed, and when insiders bagged $3.9B. Compare that with the scale of $82M or $47M. After Q3 2021, crypto started crashing and so did COIN stock, so I imagine insiders who knew what's up and wanted to dump got out already.
> it's really just a tzdata update for the vast majority of computer systems.

I don't think you understand how the tzdata works: the tzdata folks only update the contents after the civil authority for a region changes the law.

So first you have to get all the law makers to update what the legal statues say and then you "just" update the computer systems. The latter is the 'easy' part, it's the former that's the coordination problem.

And as someone who was around for the 2005 DST change, I can say that may also be quite the coordination problem. (Though I think code has gotten much better since then.)
During a centralisation of public school local servers to a data centre, I created a consolidated library enquiry system. It served over 2,000 libraries, had 330 million titles, and had about a million users. It was efficient enough to run off my laptop, if need be.

AFAIK it was one of the top five biggest library systems in the world at the time.

I was asked to add some features that would have been too difficult in the old distributed system. Things like reading competitions, recommended reading lists by age, etc…

I watched the effect of these changes — which took me mere days of effort to implement — and the combined result was that students read about a million additional books they would not have otherwise.

I’ve had a far greater effect on the literacy of our state than any educator by orders of magnitude and hardly anyone in the department of education even knows my name!

This was the project that made realise how huge the effort-to-effect ratio that can be when computers are involved…
>It does not misrepresent what you said, and failure to see that means you did not actually understand it

Oh yes, I do. I do know what i mean and I can see that your quote of it was either extremely unintelligent, something you can by definition not see, or intentionally miss representing and therefore bad faith and therefore something you by definition lie about.

I'm heavily leaning to bad faith, because you never make any attempts to refute arguments anywhere in the whole thread.

So, of course, I'm obviously correct on on this one, so it's good thing either of us wasted any time talking on the substance.
Résumé, no.

Interview discussion? If you're any good at interviewing, it should.
I thought this was about the whistleblower - it's about the name of a welsh mountain. :)
> but I've come to interpret a masters degree in any computer-related subject to only mean that the person had the funds to pay for it.

Sadly, immigration is a major pull into MS programs, and it's not always the case that the student can actually afford the program... especially if the immigration plan doesn't work out.
I counter that feeling by assuming that the job will probably not be that great in the end. It tempers my expectations. My gf would do this a lot, she'd get so excited for a possible job but then when she got it she got brought back to reality, and many times ended up hating it. Yet every time she's optimisitic.

I'd rather just say "It's a job, I might like it for a while, it might have some big benefits, but even if I really enjoy it it won't fix everything in my life".

This allows me to be excited but not overly so.
Canadian Bank Launches Credit Card That Tracks ‘Carbon Footprint’
This both entirely misses the point of my own comment and negates your own previous statement. Contrast "it wasn't really a sustainable business" with "Don't really see this 'spectacular collapse'".

Your comments lack both coherence and consistency.
>...but it's unusable for photos...

Hi @athrow, would you kindly provide a little more info here? What exactly are the issue(s) around photos? I ask only because i've been managing my own instance of nextcloud for years, and had seriously been considering moving to the managed Hetzner approach. (I love nextcloud, but just trying to reduce maintenance tasks that i do every month, etc.) So, any details or experience you would share around nextcloud and photos is greatly appreciated! :-)
It's probably meant to account for cash at a bank somewhere or cash they are 'holding' for someone.
We're going to regret this in 10,000 years.
Meanwhile, there's lots of unemployed people in small towns, homeless are filling our cities, and most jobs that can be had pay little. Adding a never ending stream of immigrants to that mix feels like pouring gas on a fire.
Actual title: Snowdon: Park to use mountain's Welsh name Yr Wyddfa

If you'd kept that, you'd not have misused that apostrophe on it's
OP was using "cpu attached to a network" to mean "computer" and "critical path of his actions" as something like "business model".

he's saying that politicians, journalists, regulators, etc, got bamboozled by what was at root a very ordinary fraud, because it was enabled by fancy technology.
I remember listening to that and it really struck me how much a single species could change an environment. I wonder how many ecosystems we praise as natural are actually warped by human introduction of species in the last few thousand millennia.
https://archive.today/eMyNR
> No, real security is achieved by mathematical / cryptographic impossibility.

You can't do trust that way. It's an entirely human concept for which we use cryptography for it to scale better.

> That doesn't matter at all

Says you? Again. You're ignoring half of the rationale behind CT (which I will *not* be rephrasing here, it's freely available to read).

> What a good argument.

It is. Unless you can actually show a working DNSSEC transparency standard, it doesn't exist. Some hypothetical future feature to remedy flaws is *really* not a strong argument towards DNSSEC.

> Well, if I'm wrong why don't you tell me why I'm wrong? How is that an argument?

There's no argument, just your opinion. It's starting to become funny how vague this discussion is becoming with you avoiding providing anything of substance that could be properly refuted.

> In DNSSEC+DANE they could only attack their own TLDs.

Huh? They'd attack any of the myriad of registries, just like they could attack CA's. It's just that CA's are held to a much higher standard and supervision. You can't just ignore that part.

> In DNSSEC+DANE governments can't compromise CAs, because they wouldn't exist.

This is just nominative pedantry, they're functionally still trust authorities that can be compromised. Call them CAs or Key-As, it doesn't matter.

> Well, if you think it's FUD, are you going to actually provide valid technical arguments about why it's FUD

It's very asymmetric effort for me to counter non-technical opinions and hypotheticals with technical ones. Not very fair towards my time and I'm not going to.

> completely miss the points I was making and then accuse me of FUD?

You're the one calling it "insecure WebPKI" while dismissing everything wrong with DNSSEC, so it's not even an accusation, it's an astute observation.
Here's that alternative to the coding interview that everyone has always asked for.
And inevitable victim blaming: "Twitter was doomed. Not even Elon could save it!"
If I was desperate I wouldn't say those things. I'd go out of my way to say "If you just give me a chance I promise I'll kill it, nights, weekends, whatever it takes".

I have been desperate before but I wasn't aloof. This is just the tactic I use when it's not life or death.
When the big wigs are calling people into the room to lead technical discussions with their largest customers or potential customers, they aren’t going to go through your repos and see who had the best code.
(disclaimer: anecdata)

I also used to bring a chromecast to connect to hotel TVs, but no longer do. When I stay in a hotel and I see that the TV has a chromecast hooked up to it (or baked into it or whatever), I don't bother even trying to connect to it anymore. The DIAL protocol only allows service discovery on the local network, and in my experience local networks are more or less never configured correctly for it.

The several times I've tried connecting, when the phone fails to discover the TV automatically, the TV offers some kind of pairing code that I can type into the google home app (on ios). Before learning more about DIAL, I had thought that this would enable my phone and TV to connect through some google-managed proxy in the cloud, for just such cases where both the phone and TV can make outgoing connections, but can't open connections to each other for whatever reason.

I can't imagine why there isn't a fallback built into DIAL that lets me scan a QR code on the phone (or have the TV play some audio that the device decodes, if the mobile device doesn't have a camera or for a11y purposes, or whatever) and have both devices communicate through a proxy. Such a proxy would be extremely low bandwidth and would be latency-insensitive, so really really cheap to run. DIAL is predicated on both devices being able to access media URLs, so I think this fallback would only fail in a case where the TV/chromecast can't connect to the internet and is being used to display content from the LAN. This latter case is probably very niche compared to people not being able to connect their devices because of routing issues.
It probably wouldn't be that hard to package.

For example, I committed this to a fork of a C++ package a few days ago just to be able to build it in Nix; it only took me like 20 minutes to figure out. It's literally just 1 step away to go from building it here to putting this in nixpkgs but I don't want to be responsible for it (I've also never taken that step yet) and it also doesn't (yet) use Flakes: https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus/blob/master/defa... Note that I am not a C++ developer, I just know the basics.

In theory, though, you'd just have to find a similar Node example out there and crib off its nix config/build file. And if you converted it to a flake, you'd have a guaranteed-reproducible build (but then you'd also be responsible for updating it). Perhaps that's why nixpkgs has one of the highest package counts in the Linux space of package managers. It's pretty nice.
It is a nonsequitur that the existence of spies necessitates widespread banning of people by national origin. We did this during WWII and it was clearly a misguided mistake.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I’m not suggesting any regulation. I’m saying that I agree that “society” (in my case, American culture) has taken the idea of shielding children from viewing pornography to an extreme, where nudity in media, even in a non-sexual context, is often censored.

I think this ultimately causes more harm to a society instead of benefitting it. I don’t think this is a very unique viewpoint, but my choice of words in that other comment didn’t communicate this point very well.