skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are the center of the Universe. Of our observable universe, at least, by definition. And the total Universe might be much bigger, potentially infinite [or even smaller than the visible universe!]. Even if finite, the Universe would have no center. It's different from a finite amount of matter forming a sphere within an infinite grid, but much like a spherical surface that has no center (the sphere does, the surface does not).

> Would this graph essentially look the same if the observations were made elsewhere

Yes, an alien in a very far away galaxy would see a similar picture. If they are within a few billion light-years, they would see a younger red-shifted Milky Way.
If it became technically possible to force all animals to eat a synthetic, fortified, vegetable-based diet even if they are carnivorous, would you endorse the idea?

Humans constantly try to distance themselves from nature even though at the basest level, we are still unavoidably part of it, as are all biological organisms on Earth.
It will be an urgent crises in a century, a millennium...
I developed a model contest mobile app where models from Venezuela and Latin America can submit their SFW pictures and earn Dash coin as upvotes. Many of those ladies thanked us for giving them a way to earn during the tough times in Latam without having to resort to camming work. I am kind of proud of myself that I gave them an opportunity to survive the pandemic.
From reactors built 40 years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/france-nuclear-edf-idINKBN2A...
We actually live with about +/- 15 minutes of drift (of local solar noon vs. 12:00 local mean time) over the course of a year. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

And timezones one hour wide impose about a +/- 30 minute fixed error (and sometimes larger) on top of that - the difference between local mean time and local civil time.
I think the most impactful thing I've built for now is an open source project used to auto complete C++ code in sublime text: EasyClangComplete. It does not take over the world, but I've been using it for years along with tens of thousands of people and that's good enough for me.
Curiously, I actually like their reasoning behind the blog post:

> With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts — and forgetting about them can pose a security risk.

This is a good message about web hygiene. It does feel a bit negative, though, you're right. I wish they'd focus on more balance between "big tech bad" and "try this cool open source alternative" because there are SO many cool projects out there to help you manage a music library, or personal streaming, etc.
Plenty of things are a matter of having different values. Eating meat, going to church, drinking alcohol, owning slaves, stealing from each other, killing, making idols of things in heaven. Some of these, despite being technically allowed by religious customs (like how the Quran sets better conditions for slaves than what they generally saw at the time, and even encourages their release, but still allows for the practice) are bad despite the religious institution having previously been an improvement. And the others, like making idols, doesn't really matter if you're outside the religion.
This is bottom-of-the-barrel flamebait.
I like the layout of this. Do you plan on adding any other versions of the text? BibleHub also shows multiple versions of the text, but has a wide variety of translations to choose from. Though their layout isn't quite this elegant
We don't care for our elderly. We fear death.

If our society really cared for the elderly, they would be integrated and respected, not segregated and shunned. We do the latter because we fear age, sickness, and death. Fear isn't caring.
engagement is way up, at least according to musk. If he wanted to destroy it he would not unban popular, high traffic accounts.
> If you are an artist and someone commissions you to create an art piece that might be sexual, can you say "ok, but you have to ask for consent before you show it to people", and you enshrine it in the contract.

Yes. Obviously. How is that a question?

> Are you supposed to have an NSFW overlay?

Sounds like a reasonable way to comply with the condition.

> I might be hugely overthinking this.

I agree.
Ah yes the 69th amendment - no negative speech
For context see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33625584#33647770

One thing that this article touches on, but I think needs to be emphasized even more is that the stark reality is that the only advocate for the patient is the patient themselves, or perhaps a caretaker.

The burden is on me to ask questions about fertility and sperm banking because my oncologist is well... an oncologist not a fertility expert. I have to ensure that every department is communicating with every other department.

Hospitals and physicians are fantastic at solving discrete issues, but the bigger picture is often lost in the chaos. I can do it as a technically adept 34 year old, it's horrifying to think about how someone closer to 80 goes about it.
Nice Kendall Roy impression
This is a good story regardless, but if you do want to derive some morals from the experience:

– Seemingly simple tasks can be more complex than you expect (“add a leap second on this Wednesday”)

– Real world systems can be more complex than you expect (“bunch of software I never even knew existed”)

– Planning and testing can make a big difference vs. just winging it (“a bunch of our Linux servers had kernel panics for some reason”)

– Success can be a non-event that goes unnoticed (”everything worked and no money went missing”)

– Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution (“halt the markets for 15 minutes before/after”)
Funny, I pay even more than you mention to support my own mother in relative comfort in a nursing home, and I don't find it "painfully easy" to think that way at all. I certainly don't hope she dies tomorrow. You might want to reconsider saying such things in public.

Note: my mother, not my grandmother, and I have lived that ordeal for several years. Some interaction is still possible, but recognition has been beyond her for a while. As long as she seems to take some pleasure in her surroundings, no matter how dim or muted the signs, you won't catch me framing my thoughts about her in terms of dollars I could save.
Microsoft don't write a browser engine. Apple lets theirs stagnate, and IIRC make a lot of money from the iOS default search engine.
I have several ex-SpaceX coworkers. All have said, basically, "I want off this rock, Elon has the money to make it affordable, but the biggest threat to that happening is Elon and his ideology. If he doesn't become the first murder in space, I'd be surprised".
Hopin announces new layoffs and a ‘transformation’ with new product launches
IANAIB (not an investment banker), but I'd hope that the creditors were sane enough to make Elan personally co-sign on the loans.

Not that losing the $$$ of his own that he spent buying it would be painless.
Unfortunately the 20% who speak Welsh dominate the institutions of power in Wales, in gross disproportion to thier number, and moves like this are more about power than making any kind of practical sense. See also the recently announced plans for the Welsh football team to be known as Cymru, even when referred to in English. This sort of parochial nonsense goes on at every level and really holds Wales back.
Not really. I mean, it's true that we should distinguish between the 2 and everything that you said about the difference is also true. But unixtime doesn't really "exist" in a sense UTC and TAI do. It is rather an imperfect implementation of UTC, that chooses to ignore (or repeat) some seconds.

You can hear that unixtime is the number of seconds passed since X. But it isn't really true though. The number of seconds is number of seconds, it isn't defined by our standards, it just exists. And TAI is a fair representation of how many seconds on Earth actually passed (on average) since whatever.

UTC kinda does it as well by virtue of 1 second being equal to 1 TAI second, but it actually counts (counted until yesterday) the number of Earth's rotations. It's just every rotation (represented by 24H) sometimes consists of more than 86 400 seconds.

Unixtime on each individual device counts nothing. It imperfectly represents UTC timestamp received over NTP. Some timestamps are represented twice by the same value. Of course, you can just put your device offline and call it "unixtime" whatever number of seconds it counts since any moment, but you know it will drift away from any meaningful "real" time soon enough.

(Also, it's not even entirely fair to say, as you did, that it is unixtime that was chosen by all the software. Many programs store datetimes as strings. Usually, they still don't support "23:59:60" anyway, but that doesn't really make them unixtime. Unixtime is a timestamp encoding.)

So, that's basically what I'm talking about: you can just make unixtime an implementation of TAI (as opposed to UTC). You can build a new calendar format for it, introduce a new name (not UTC!) for it and see how well it does when all the world slowly drift from Earth's rotation to keep up with TAI. Maybe it actually is fine, I'm not a judge for it (because it really is complicated and I didn't decide yet if it's a good solution or not). But why the fuck would you destroy UTC for it?! It is a closest usable representation of UT1, which doesn't stop to exist! Leave it be!
They work because they have a reasonably large base and a reasonable stable thing floating. The clock hands aren't stationary, let alone stable, and since clocks are generally flat in one dimension you have pretty limited space to play with.

The only way I've thought of to make it work would be to have a fairly large "hub" at the center of the floating thing, with the two hands coming out off the floating hub. But that would be much less visually impressive, I think. The hub would have to be large enough that the movement of the hands is relatively miniscule in terms of weight distribution.
On the chart video floating around he’s at an 11 which is “hardcore” level.
The US can't build a nuclear plant in 13 years.
Define now, because there's a now in which we'd really like to be able to make that much...
It goes much deeper. They clearly stole a lot of customer money and SBF is supposed to have had a "backdoor" he could use to move funds between the exchange and Alameda to avoid detection by auditors. It doesn't get much more criminal than that in finance.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/exclusive-least-1...

Of course, with the way he and his family are connected, it wouldn't surprise me if he eventually walks free.
This feels closer
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwA4jzxVoAAeCSU.jpg
the reports are up > 20x from baseline, twitter traffic is nowhere close to that multiple
be careful about portraying any time an EA practitioner shows up negatively as "well they weren't actually doing EA" / adopting that line of defense from the EA community. obviously that community now wants to distance themselves from bad press
Prominent EAers like McAskill have said (before this scandal) that EA is only valid if the money is earned honestly. They say that they never intended EA to be "steal to give".
> Its thickness is about 10 degrees.

Does that mean their slice is only 1/36th of the whole picture?
For older patients and those with significant co-morbidities, we often advise against intubation and ICU admission in the UK. Usually if the disease process can't be reversed on the ward with current therapy, it is often unlikely in this group of patients for it to reverse on ICU. However, it does depend on the context. There was an interesting article that talks about doctor's choices as an end-of-life patient [1] - they often choose not to opt for aggressive life-prolonging treatments because they know how it is like. I think that doctors need to improve the way we talk about death with patients, and doctors can be just as guilty as everyone else at ignoring the inevitability of death.

[1] https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-di...
I do! https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pension-payments-refund

Don't forget your tax return too. If you didn't work the full year, you'll get money back.
That may be, but was their goal to destroy it? Or just have influence over what trends/censorship of posts?
"Judas" is also just a word in English that is a synonym for "traitor", derived from the same etymology.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Judas#English
Elephant in the room, related to the article's first point: We have to tackle ageing. Many of the other diseases (cancer, heart conditions etc) and causes of mortality are highly correlated with it.
Random thought -- is it a conflict of interest to sell so many shares, knowing that it will have a major impact on share price? If you know your personal actions (needing to sell a lot of TSLA shares to buy Twitter) will have an impact on your professional responsibilities (keeping the TSLA share price high), when does that become a conflict? Is there a way to mitigate that conflict?
He's a terrible person and I empathize with the people who are suffering because of his huge, but fragile ego. I would hate for the Elon-idolizers to adopt his abrasive style, thinking that makes them good or radical leaders. That idea terrifies me, and reminds me of Steve-Jobs-wannabes who didn't realize he succeeded in spite of his manner. You can treat people with respect and still succeed; I have no kind words for anyone who inspires disrespect/looking down on employees (fellow engineers).

Regardless of Musks success or failure at Twitter, the concentration of wealth in fewer hands will march on (due to automation and software eating everything, eventually, software will eat software). The middle-class SDE-type have been ignoring this reality for a while now, feeling safe because we thought we could find a different well-paying job at the drop of a pin. The bimodal income in the Software world is about to become more defined, with more folk shifting to the lower-income peak.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/getmedia/cdcb8173-3843-4e4a-9d...

Have a little snack consisting of 1 gram of americium and 7 grams of neptunium 237, or store an equivalently active gamma emitter in your underpants.
I was in an ICU for a week after a cardiac arrest. I don't remember much of it other than a lot of hallicunations.

I had family there to advocate for me, but there's no way in hell I would have been able to advocate for myself. I was literally seeing things around me in the ICU room that didn't exist. My family were probably the only ones that realized that that wasn't the real me.

The hallucinations stopped happening as soon as I was moved to a normal patient room for the rest of my recovery, and I have full working memory of that normal patient room.
Well it seems there was one in 2021 [0] so maybe it is legit !

Anyway, here is two projects from 2022 I found interesting:

Heyday [1] is older but they did a relaunch this year. it is an AI powered "Web History" for auto resurfacing relevant info without actually bookmarking or tagging anything.

ACT-1 [2] is still in private alpha. it is an AI powered "Action Bot" that automate tasks online with natural language.

So what is yours ?

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/2021_...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/heyday/ienjhoblged...

[2] https://www.adept.ai/act
You're falling for the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy [0]

Don't cripple your AI because of your lack of imagination.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
> People’s problem with Twitter was always that they would arbitrarily decide what is or isn’t acceptable speech, and Elon’s new solution does…exactly the same thing.

That was perhaps one problem with Twitter, and no, this is not the same thing.

Other, much bigger problems were that they'd arbitrarily block (as in: make invisible) tweets, replace them with "warnings" of dubious provenance, declare "misinformation" (often based on poor/biased understanding of the topics at hand; recall the repeated flagging of the Cochrane Collaboration Twitter account last year [1]), ban accounts entirely after "three strikes" of this sort, and many other egregious acts of censorship that frequently correlated more strongly with political ideology than with fact or actual threat.

Musk's comment doesn't say how they're going to decide what is hate speech, and that's pretty critical context here, so we'll see. There's obviously going to be a narrow class of speech that needs regulation, on any social platform. But if it's possible to say pretty much anything outside of this narrow class of content without getting banned, it would be a significant shift toward freedom of expression.

[1] https://twitter.com/cochranecollab/status/150445846882413363...

(Cochrane is the gold standard for medical evidence review. Flagging them for "misinformation" would be hilariously misinformed, if it weren't so scary.)
they're not competitors. Apple leverages its equivalent position in the hardware/os space to not compete (also has the same search deal as Firefox to the tune of billions anyway), and Microsoft ships you a reskinned chrome with its OS.

Competitors was honestly a mistake on my part because you're right. Just this competitor as Firefox is the only independent competitor left with significant usershare at all.
Won't this be used in the next deepfake as an adversarial network in order to produce more realistic results? It's an endless cat-and-mouse game.
He's also acted with hubris with his engineering claims. For example claiming that the reason twitter is slower in india is that there are 1200 RPC calls, which is pretty absurd.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592176202873085952
Agreed, this is more or less the inspiration behind Depot (https://depot.dev). Today it builds Docker images with this philosophy, but we'll be expanding to other more general inputs as well. Builds get routed to runner instances pre-configured to build as fast as possible, with local SSD cache and pre-installed toolchains, but without needing to set up any of that orchestration yourself.
Nutrition labels for broadband internet are finally nearly here
Updates to existing browsers should not be exciting. I actually dread Chrome updates because they keep taking useful stuff away.
Worth a read:

1. "Russell’s No Man’s Land" [0]

2. "The hollow universe of modern physics" [1]

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2020/08/russells-no-mans-la...

[1] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-hollow-universe...
seems like you are also not communicating clearly, what is SWE?
https://flexbox.help/ I get a lot of people saying it was very useful.
Anything in a climate that could freeze would require heating elements much like windmills currently do. Unfortunately, windmills don't accumulate ice very quickly, compared to a floating solar panel would in say Lake Superior in winter.

I imagine that hurricanes would also rule out much of the east coast and gulf of mexico, leaving... California and Hawaii?
The moral is that sometimes we humans can choose not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good (enough).
It wouldn't be an indictment of DeFi/cryptocurrencies if it weren't for... you know... this being basically the main pattern used in all of DeFi/cryptocurrencies.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Fun project story... During the first covid school shutdown my son's day care wanted parents to print a daily screening symptom checklist, take a photo of it and email it to them every morning. This was a tedious process that I automated with PyPDF2 + PDFtk + pypdftk. It's easy to generate your own PDF's but it's harder to take an existing, outdated, non-editable PDF and automatically fill it out.

Eventually I turned it into a website, added AWS API Gateway + Lambda and put the whole thing up for other daycare parents to use. Two weeks later the daycare switched to google forms and my project was not useful anymore.
This is the MOST underrated statement in all the threads on this whole fiasco.

Government and Wall St. (but _especially_ government bare at least some responsibility for letting the pot get too big.
> Storing anything as UTC was a mistake and we should be using TAI

I had to look up TAI. I disagree. UTC exists for a reason. But I am here to tell a war story.

Before I arrived on the scene a customer said they wanted local time in the reports. (As in Wall Clock Time).

The Customer is Always Right. OK?

So the times went into the database as wall clock time.

The designers of the data schema made a simplifying decision to store everything as text.

No time zone went into the text string that described the time. (?? I do not know why. So easy it would have been)

I come along and have to code animations using that time series data.

Very few problems...

As you would expect there are a lot of other problems with that database.
Maintained Spree as it’s community manager (https://GitHub.com/spree/spree) for 2.5-3 years, depending on how you count. Taught me a lot about OSS. Dollar figures processed using code I wrote / maintained hurt my brain. What hurt my brain more was US sales tax rules.

I also wrote quite a few programming books (https://ryanbigg.com/books) and some of the Ruby on Rails guides. These have gone on to teach thousands of people around the world. I really love hearing from those who’ve read my work.
Because that's where the rhyme is, dummy.
Those concepts seem obviously separate to me.
They who pay the bills set the rules.
In Europe there are rules that work out to: if you have 50 employees or assets over EUR ~5 million, you must disclose audited financial statements publicly (this is not strictly true, but it is true to a first order approximation).

It wouldn't be crazy sounding to require that companies worth over $10 billion USD disclose financial statements audited by reputable firms.
FTX embezzled customer's deposits by giving it ("loan") to Alameda. Alameda then lost it.
Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd is pretty comic when things like this happen. Can find things straight out of the headlines but from 1895.
Annette Gordon-Reed, the Art of Nonfiction No. 11 (2021)
"One former Twitter engineer likened the service’s current state to Wile E. Coyote, the Looney Tunes cartoon character, as he runs off the edge of a cliff. Though he may still be running in midair for some time, once he looks down, he drops like a stone."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twit...
Professionally, probably findmyschool.vic.gov.au. Used by hundreds of thousands of parents every year to find what school zone their house is in. Built and maintained almost entirely by me.

Also SchoolScape, an internal department tool used by dozens of public servants to plan which schools need to be built or upgraded. I just coded it, with the hard stuff being done by economists. But from the feedback I get, it has made a huge difference to the people who do that work.

As a hobby, opentrees.org. Definitely seems to have caused some ripples in how tree data is seen and used.
This is pretty much what they said about Microsoft w/r to Apple in the 90s no?
I think your edit indicates the answer beautifully. It's a damn hard problem!
Server side Swift lags behind the competition and only makes sense for Apple shops to write their apps backends.