skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't. We were over achieving when they were established.

The cost/benefit at the time didn't look so bad because the world wasn't full of distributed synchronized computer systems, so the added 'cost' of leap seconds was just some make work for geeks in national timing labs.

The cost benefit is very different today.

We can keep civil time roughly aligned with the sun by moving timezones an hour every four to five thousand years.

Applications that want to give accurate sidereal time or very accurate sun-up sun-down can use predictions of UT1. Bonus: it's a lot easier to give an accurate UT1 when you don't have to worry that leapsecond (mis)handling has screwed up your underlying clock.

That's another part of the cost model that has changed: When leap seconds were created it would have been burdensome to carry around an additional offset in time transmissions for those few applications that want a more accurate mean solar time. But today its fairly easy.
The police will generally accept a police report and then laugh at you
I agree with your last paragraph, but the prior makes total sense. The government aren't crypto experts nor were they trying to min-max their incoming half a billion. They wanted it quick and easy.
In Japan and China you use groups of 10,000, so there's 万 (1e4), the largest bill (10,000 yen); 億 (1e8, 100 million), the approximate population of Japan and a convenient unit for housing prices in yen; and 兆 (1e12, 1 trillion), which is used for eg really expensive infra projects like new bullet trains.

On paper, there are much larger units too, but they are never used.
Frozen the eggs? It doesn’t work that way. Viability drops off a cliff after 5 years and ivf is not a simple process. It’s hell on a woman. No one is going to want to go through it multiple times if they don’t have to or risk having quintuplets.
It says right in the article SBF did it himself because the government asked him to after declaring bankruptcy.
This is also a good summary with links to some power curves:

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/yohycz/wh...

And some more here https://x-engineer.org/ev-design-electric-motor/

Basically EVs have such a flat power curve to such high RPMs that a single speed really does cover most use cases. Two speeds can help if you are chasing performance.

Any more gears than that and I think you are just adding an artificial game for the driver to play.
I'm not sure "privacy preserving" is enough of a selling point.
Click your profile (your username) link.

> showdead: yes

> update
Cruise has been running this for a while now, and nothing like that has happened. SF craziness is mostly limited to Tenderloin
Exactly. The media lied about SBF (or at least didn't research anything) since and for years. There's no reason to believe any reporting they do now is anywhere near the full picture.

There's also no reason to believe articles written about SBF aren't politically motivated anymore.
Should be 128 (ASCII) letters.
It seems many of the big media outlets are hoping for Twitters demise.
I have a bunch of small scale ideas that I want to implement. Not necessarily for profit. Any ideas on how to execute?
Ask HN: Where does everyone go after mass layoffs?
I can’t say I understand why trillion dollar companies are doing mass layoffs, but I guess that’s why I’m not a business man.

Where do these people get jobs if tens of thousands of people flood the market at the same time? Is it a blood bath? Curious on peoples thoughts who lived through dot com bubble, as I was only about 6 years old. I’ve been through the leetcode grind and system design grind, etc, but with that, is it still even possible to get a good paying tech job in this downturn?
Thanks for the rec! Downloaded the Kindle sample, will read!
It doesn't help that the atomic second was defined using old data such that when it was defined we were already relatively far off from 86400 seconds/day. A relatively large part of the correction being applied by leap seconds comes from this initial offset, which is also why all leap seconds so far have been in one direction. (and why the handling of the other direction is essentially completely untested, making the prospects of a negative leap second in near-ish future pretty frightening).
Two weeks ago they were told to print their code now they are told to screenshot it? Does anyone know if there is some good reason to ask devs to screenshot?

They have source control that they can send him links to their favorite commits...

IF any of this is actually true I don't see how they keep or attract senior devs outside of those that can't leave due to immigration.
We built a working version of this using Assembly.ai

I am no-longer involved in the project but you're welcome to contact the CTO if you're curious how it worked:

https://skyscraper.ai/
Targeted misgendering and deadnaming is a form of harassment. Musk has changed twitter policy so that it’s not considered a form of harassment anymore by them. Hope you got it now
I agree. I was intending to imply that it isn't a zero-sum game and that both parties can benefit.

Great work with Next!
I don't follow. I was responding to

> If you know of any Native Americans currently being genocided, please do call someone about it.

it seemed to imply that the native american genocide was over. maybe not, I probably missed context earlier up thread. I was disagreeing with that statement.

yes of course I agree that the active sterilization / genocide / cleansing of Uighur Muslims in China exists and is a human rights violation and should be stopped. I'm not going to compare its magnitude to the native american one because one is centuries-old and ongoing and one has been going on for several years (maybe longer, I have not studied it) and both are bad. hope that answers your question.
>On the contrary. It's the only case where maths can defend vs men with guns.

Didn't work in this case.
Do you find Apple's contempt for backward compatibility surprising?

I'm still displeased with macOS Catalina and iOS 11 dropping support for 32-bit apps (including many games) but Apple has a long history of old apps not running on newer OS versions and newer hardware.

Over time macOS dropped support for 68K, PowerPC, Classic, Carbon, and 32-bit apps. We'll undoubtedly get a macOS that won't run on x86, and I will be unhappy, but not surprised, if/when Apple removes Rosetta 2 and x86 app support. I can even imagine an unpleasant time when they remove the Objective-C runtime and frameworks.

I'm sure there were some Apple 1 users who were unhappy that their software didn't work well on an Apple 2, even if the Apple 2 had much better hardware and software.
I sometimes use it in town because modern automatics want to upshift very aggresively to maximize fuel economy. That means the engine is almost lugging most of the time, which isn't really good for it. So I'll use the manual mode to keep the car in a gear that results in a slightly higher engine RPM.

It's not like a real manual though, there's no tactile feedback to changing gears or knowing what gear you're in by the position of the shifter, so I don't use it all the time.
Not likely the full book, just title, author and a few other low cardinality fields I'm sure. Also not likely 330 million unique volumes, but total books. This is within reach of a single database with proper indexing.
The current system isn't very fair to those people either.

Professional scalpers act like high frequency trading firms (some HFTs are ticket scalpers), and employ tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment to get those seats before the poor rubes who hoped for standard priced tickets.

By contrast, an auction system actually levels the playing field by removing the technological advantage.

They don't have to run a Dutch auction specifically, other kinds of auctions exist too.
This is similar to problems that would often happen in car manufacturing. The person assembling the car the standard way finds a problem, but the problem doesn't get addressed, or information isn't disseminated correctly, so the cars go out with problems. Toyota developed a methodology whereby such problems are addressed immediately and fixes were disseminated immediately, and would not send a car out otherwise. That kind of obsessive attention to detail and "crazy" focus on quality is what made them the top automaker. But most businesses are led by management that refuse to believe that being slow or focusing on quality first will result in more profits. And none of their lower-level workers are trained on how to spot and fix quality issues, nor are they told to care.

Hospital systems are the same way. Moronic, scared management that is fine with these kinds of problems as long as the dough keeps coming in, ignorant of the fact that more dough would roll in (in addition to better health outcomes, which of course is not their first priority) if they would just focus on quality.
> it's really difficult to actually lose your work

If it's been checked into a commit, sure.

But if you discard changes which haven't been checked in, then the work is lost.
A NN is trained to make something indistinguishable from reality as possible - so it can't tell the difference. The inverse of that will just claim reality is fake too.

What you need a a deep fake and a real video of the same thing, then train on the difference. Clearly this is impossible - which is what makes the problem hard.
There's a difference between "the odds are against you" and "nope, sorry". Even if those odds are extreme.
Like within the header? It will show the custom domain in the from field of the email. Im not sure what the big deal is, but I’m curious.
Ask HN: Would most software teams in big tech be better with fewer engineers?
> one second doesn't matter, but it builds up.

Less than you think. A part of the leap second is correcting an unpredictable random walk. The random walk part does not add up.

The linear drift part does add up. We're still talking several thousand years to end up with just an hour offset.

Just switching to a new timezone every few thousand years ("As of Jan 1st 6022, fifty years from now, all usage of Eastern timezone will switch to New Eastern timezone, which is an hour ahead.") would handle your civil usage concern fine.

(and then in year 10022 they can switch to New New Eastern timezone, if there are any survivors of world war 5...)
Intermittent fasting protects against Alzheimer’s disease in mice
Wait, they didn't choose to buy a ticket at the price the scalpers got (plus epsilon), so why would they pay more when the scalpers come around with a ticket?
This is not about you.
I'm a color nerd and I love seeing how even with such an old concept (RGB is 162 years old), people are still interested in finding opportunities to innovate. I love this palette and will be adopting it. Thanks for sharing.
No, if you know at all what you're doing in something that complicated, you're running an actual routing protocol, and none of this ping trash.
https://www.radio-browser.info/

Search 'university' or click 'Geomap'
I was a contributor to a little pair of libraries called KHTML and KJS, a HTML renderer and JavaScript interpreter. Joined about a year into the project and while I didn't lay the foundations I helped improve the DOM and JS support a fair bit.

People I respected told me I was wasting my time because Internet Explorer was the de-facto standard and the idea of a new browser engine becoming prominent was fantasy.

Then Apple decided they wanted do a browser and looked around at what open source engines were available they could use as a starting point. Thus was born WebKit [1].

I consistently ignore anyone who tells me I shouldn't try something because it's "too hard" or "nobody will use it". Most of the time they turn out to be right. But not always.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=104197104218786&w=2

Edit: Here's an interesting presentation by Lars Knoll and George Staikos on the history of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tldf1rT0Rn0
Nuclear proliferation is something we have sought to stop for decades now, seems backwards. Though I see where your strategy is coming from.
That's not a bank run or a feedback loop, that's price discovery. Exactly the behavior you want.
Maybe we could have called it ἑ, like 10 ἑb = 10 hellabits.
Hypothesis is really a neat library. You can use it to implement stateful testing, which allows you to cover some of the more complex problems that might normally require something like TLA+.

I saw a solution to the water jug problem from the movie Die Hard 3 written in TLA+ and ported it to Hypothesis [0]. It was surprisingly straightforward and easy to read.

[0]: https://nchammas.com/writing/how-not-to-die-hard-with-hypoth...
I would expect a government to hold it as seized until they brought in both crypto experts and legal experts to help them determine what to do with it, probably via the judicial system. When Japan seized BTC from Mt Gox it was years before they converted it to Yen. The same goes for BTC seized by the US government in cases like Silk Road. The Bahamas didn't even convert it to the Bahamian dollar or USD. They converted to ETH. (Likely SBF did it for them.)
Something like: This person gets put in my personal ignore filter, which over time will get better at predicting who and what I want ignored. I can always go back and review what's being ignored and make changes. Individuals and their content can be ignored separately, so "I don't like this topic" doesn't ban someone who I like to engage with on other topics.

I'll also tag this person as a flat-earther so my computer will learn to cluster similar content, so I can query "flat-earther" when I want a chuckle.
"Cleveland had an urban population of nearly 1 million in the late 1920s, and was one of the largest cities in the country. It's about a third of that today. That didn't take hundreds of years; just a handful of decades.

In other words: we (the US) have intentionally pursued policies and incentive structures that encourage low-density (and correspondingly high-consumption) living, as a departure from our historical arc of development."

What you are discounting is the personal preferences of most Americans. Suburban living is chosen by many people as the right balance between urban amenities and preferences for space, nature, less pollution, etc.

Also people follow jobs and the urban cores of the early 20th century were no longer as attractive once people, again exercise choice, chose to work and live where they did not need to rely upon public transportation.
Wave dynamics be damned, and never mind the economics of giant ships, where they require constant maintenance and have short lifespans, sure, why not.

At least artificial island projects like Forest City will still be around in 200 years.
12 element not 12 bit, right?
This is also currently the only way to bypass the need for an MS account when setting up a new PC.
I really like this, but FYI I do struggle to tell the difference between the first and last colour. There are probably others out there with this problem.
NFTs actually can't algorithmically restrict transfer prices or algorithmically take fees. The fee taking that happens today is done by an exchange as a courtesy to the "artist."

This is one of the limitations of the NFT model.
Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden
We probably would be getting less useless updates that changes UI for no reason....
When you communicate you deal with another human being you don’t get to dictate all the ways in which that interaction will go - they have a contribution in terms of direction as well as content. Lots of your points above seem to see a conversation entirely from the perspective of whether it accomplishes your goals for the conversation. The other person doesn’t necessarily share those goals.

So if they “don’t stay focused on the point of the discussion” they may well be entirely focused on the point of the discussion from their point of view - the point of the discussion for them may just be different from you.
Both. The members use 12 bit depth.

These look fantastic as demoed here: https://grid.iamkate.com
I built and am still currently running a livestream tipping service localized for Indonesian. We need specialized service for this because Indonesians don't use credit card so existing services like Streamlabs is a no go.

I would like to think that it sparked this new cultural phenomenon and made livestream tipping a normal thing.

I am just amazed that something that started as a weekend project can help others tremendously.
Excellent collection, though It’s missing some of my favorites:

Turrican:

https://youtu.be/yDyb1tV_91k (actually a cover of “Escape” from he Transformers movie).

https://youtu.be/06jsSCD7yvI?t=14s

Romeo and Juliet cover: https://youtu.be/8dDk8SiXToQ

Knight Games II: https://youtu.be/VkPhFz07b_o

Octapolis: https://youtu.be/HeFEWtbKmOo

Rock’n Roll: https://youtu.be/W7EyZIYVgec?t=24m24s

Ice Age: https://youtu.be/T6ZRMOthH_A
EVs don't have engines. They have motors.
if anyone truly enjoys "no moderation" from a platform, its a _very_ small number of people.

if a comment section is all spam for penis enlargement pills no one hangs out there. instead, they go to comment sections where the platform owners actively decide to remove spam. they censor away posts for all different kinds of spam.
The situation is probably less racially charged these days thanks to the diversity movement but — one man’s politically incorrect accuracy is another’s insane framing? I have no rat in the race race but where I went to school (a R1 uni) tribally segregated frats and student clubs were huge part of the background. Police would often intervene in racially motivated incidents involving residents. I would be surprised if all that disappeared. There were native american and Latino living arrangements, which exuded a subtle sort of animosity towards the larger community. The Ukrainian and Russian clubs are still probably not that friendly towards one another. Not to mention the Jewish dorm vs the Muslim societies.
> but it also bears mentioning that assembly and English are different languages. In particular, the way objects and verbs interact is different

The mnemonic operation names are in English though. mov = move, add = add, jmp = jump etc. It's not like it's just hex codes, APL or K. So I think the English argument kind of makes sense.

> It’s somewhat telling that assembly has no equivalent to the word ‘to’, and few enough production rules to count on both hands.

Assembly was designed to be fairly concise. Blaming a 1970s assembly syntax for not having "to" instead of a comma is kind of silly. It used commas and will keep using them probably. If the syntax was more advanced, it wouldn't be assembly, it would be C or some other higher level language.
Well their examples pointing to the utility of manual transmissions on EVs include:

- A car with a two-speed automatic transmission

- A concept with fake shifting and a fake clutch

- A modded classic car where the first two gears are admittedly not very useful

I don't think those speak well towards manual transmissions continuing to exist in the EV world, at least in the sense that enthusiasts would want them to.

I totally get the disdain for torque-converter automatic transmissions, but an EV drivetrain avoids basically all of the downsides that people have come to expect from an automatic.
The simple solution to getting fans rather than grifters is to make the tickets cost something other than money. Time is a nice obvious cost element to add.

If only we could channel that time more productively (and in a more palatable way) than having people wait in line.
Robert McKee's book 'Story' has a wondrous second part to the poem. I look up it to whenever hit with this dilemma.

(First, a retelling of the original)

> High above the forest floor, a millipede strolled along the branch of a tree, her thousand pairs of legs swinging in an easy gait. From the tree top, song birds looked down, fascinated by the synchronization of the millipede's stride. “That's an amazing talent,” chirped
the songbirds. “You have more limbs than we can count. How do you do it?” And for the first time in her life the millipede thought about this. “Yes,” she wondered, “how do I do what I do?” As she turned to look back, her bristling legs suddenly ran into one another and tangled like vines of ivy. The songbirds laughed as the millipede, in a panic of confusion, twisted herself into a knot and fell to the earth below.

(The second part)

> On the forest floor, the millipede, realizing that only her pride was hurt, slowly, carefully, limb by limb, unraveled herself. With patience and hard work, she studied and flexed and tested her appendages, until she was able to stand and walk. What was once instinct became knowledge. She realized she didn’t have to move at her old, slow, rote pace. She could amble, strut, prance, even run and jump. Then, as never before, she listened to the symphony of the songbirds and let music touch her heart. Now in perfect command of thousands of talented legs, she gathered courage and, with a style of her own, danced and danced a dazzling dance that astonished all the creatures of her world.
In prior advocacy for the elimination of leap seconds, I found that many of the officials appointed to talk about this stuff are fairly clueless about the engineering.

I wouldn't be too shocked if they asked "what uses leap seconds", got an answer, and are advocating on that basis ("We have systems that use leap seconds!"), without having actually asked better questions like "What would require expensive changes if no more leap seconds were issued?"
High status != high pay

This is the relevant part of the "Fork in the road" email:

> Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.

Most companies put engineers _below_ design and product management: the designers and product people make decisions, and programmers just implement.

Once you're past the $120k/year mark does a higher salary matter that much really? It only matters if you don't find anything fulfilling about your job.

What would you rather?

$180k/year with great say over the product or $220k/year with little say on the product?
VMware Fusion 13 Can Run Windows, Linux Kali on Your M1 and M2 Mac
Ants. Ants that bite people buried in sand up to the neck. These Bahamian islanders aren't playing games.
Each of the 8-bit channels is only allowed 16 different values, i.e. needs 4 bits to represent. I think it's reasonable to describe three 4-bit channels as 12-bit colour?
You are correct it uses very little resources, especially since most queries are http instead of https. Since there are no user accounts and it doesn't track anyone it doesn't even have a backend database to connect to. Just a couple dirt simple programs written in C with some very easy to remember domain names.

I'm not getting any younger so it's really about survivability. Transferring to another individual HN'er probably wouldn't solve that.
Large corporations = more middle management = more work to be invented = more mess to be created
Both: the resulting colors are specified as 4-bit component values, one for each of R, G, and B