skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in video games and have worked from writing gameplay code all the way up to online infrastructure. It's only been "impactful" culturally, rather than some of the other posts. My top highlights are:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/sports/fortnite-world-cup...

I was a programmer working on Fortnite, and I ended up working on the on-site fortnite events, doing everything from the custom cameras and broadcast specific UI, to hooking up the events in-game to the lights in the stadium. It was pretty cool!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EWANLy9TjRc - I worked on this game (and the demo in this video) for a few years. I wrote much of the code for the asset pipeline for the destruction, lots of the gameplay code for how it interacted with the game and a good chunk of optimisation on the cloud physics side.
More than half of France's nuclear reactors are out of commission right now, so for the foreseeable future that "70%" is more aspirational than anything.

We are obviously not going to meet all of our energy needs — especially for certain high-demand applications — from solar and wind alone, but there are some significant advantages to a decentralized power grid that the pro-nuclear folks don't seem to factor into their arguments. Assuming we can build it out, a decentralized grid ought to be much more resilient to the sort of problems France is facing right now.
> Because I have moved on, I don't need to carry the bad feeling around with me anymore

This is my view of forgiveness. It doesn't mean reconcile. It doesn't mean forget. It means releasing the hate or anger towards the person who has wronged you. It does not mean you forget whatever they did -- that's likely impossible. It does not mean that you will trust them again, or trust them to the same degree. It does not mean that you were the one who was wrong to have be offended or hurt by whatever it was that they did (though sometimes it's worth reflecting on that). It simply means that you have moved on, and have released yourself from the pain or anger that surrounds those memories.

Edit: The framing of forgiveness as "canceling a debt" as f154hfds posted in another subthread is a good analogy.
I've been having tons of issues with the web client the last couple of days, but on iOS it's fine.
That's the board's problem. Normally, you're not supposed to have the largest shareholder, CEO, and Board Chair be the same person.

SEC forced Elon off the board chair at least. But yeah, its a well known fact that Tesla's setup is full of conflicts of interest. It doesn't seem like the shareholders (or the board) feels like fixing it though.
Internet dynamics are such that "can we stop talking about" is indistinguishable from "let's talk about". So posts like this do the opposite of what they want.

The things I know of that actually help are (a) to flag posts that really shouldn't be on HN—especially if they're follow-up posts on a MOT (major ongoing topic) that don't add any SNI (significant new information; and (b) to post other things that are genuinely interesting.
It apparently took about a decade or so to go from planning to running most of these power plants...
Before the typical "nuclear is too expensive/takes too long to build" comments start: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html. Understand why this is the case and how it's entirely reasonable to fix those problems with sufficient will & funding.
So execs don't bounce. I left a company because they didn't offer a secondary and i was 3/4 vested with no exit in sight. I had a job offer to another company that promised an IPO in a year. If i would have been paid, i would have stayed but its hard to turning down a "guaranteed" 7 figure pay out. It's a numbers game, 1 out 10 startups will have an exit that makes people money.
This has actually been done before, awhile ago: https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
> we should be using TAI for all [...] computation

How do you add a full day, if you do not know whether a leap second occured or not?
According to the main view, dark matter floats throughout the galaxy (and outside) but is much more concentrated near the center. A tiny amount is probably crossing your body right now, but there's no way to feel it except for the minuscule gravitational force coming out of nowhere.
Some version of this would make sense to me.
I don't beleive you need 5000 people to maintain the servers, even not 100.

If anything it makes it harder to coordinate.
We can have 100% clean energy by 2035 if we assume the US is China and the state can build whatever it wants despite any local objections. And assume we increase battery supply by 40x (even though lithium price is going up dramatically now). And assume that clean power is actually 100% clean.

It's good to have a vision for clean energy though that is shared with the country that we start working towards. I can see the benefit of not letting reality weight down an initial brainstorm of that. Hopefully we can come up with a realistic vision as a next step.
Advertisers sure have a lot of influence in what gets published. Perhaps it's time to look critically at that. They're certainly the last group of people I'd trust with... anything. Their job is literally to manipulate people, yet somehow they became the arbiters of morality and permissibility.
The US is also officially metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
Fixing bureaucracy is a gift that keeps on giving. Well done!
UTC is monotonic, even during leap seconds. (A positive leap second adds a 23:59:60; no timestamp ever repeats, the clock never moves backwards.)

(Negative leap seconds are similar, and do not affect the monotonic property.)

POSIX/Unix timestamps, however, are non-monotonic. But that's a different timescale.
Only because people are forced to.
China started building 6 new nuclear plants this year: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/China-greenlights-6-...

I guess just like high speed rail, China will leave the US in the dust.
The US can build a plant in 13 years. It's a matter of dedication and willingness. And pissing off a minority of vocal opponents.

It takes longer because of the crazy regulations driven in part by environmentalists who complained about nuclear for decades while fossil fuels were the only other option.

But the USA has the resources, skills, technology and money to do so in a short period of time.
Operating profit is not the same as being bought for X dollars.
I don't think you can separate music, or any art form for that matter, from the artist's craft, skill, expressiveness, resources, and materials.

---

Digital isn't inherently bad, but...

If the ENTIRETY of your music production is done on a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) app, with its available tools and plugins, that's gonna have an effect.

And I think that's what we're seeing.

If today's music producers used the DAW only for recording, and stayed away for composing, arranging, and becoming proficient at playing instruments, things would be much better.
Someone has to make the EMH hold.
I mean, no, they don't. But Google pays $15B/year to be the default search engine. That's a hefty bill to keep Apple out of the search game.
>- don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

Are you sure you've clearly communicated to them the point of your question and all relevant context?

>- don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

Are you sure everyone in the room entirely agrees on what the point of the discussion is?

>- don't have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech

Surely there must be some level of clarity.

>- generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion

If they're related subjects, are you sure that they're entirely irrelevant to the discussion? Why are you the only one who gets to determine the appropriate scope for the discussion?
I love how "the world" voted to end the leap second, before actually coming up with how to deal with scientific desync (Real world: irrelevant. Space science: kinda important)
$600 million in revenue (across all subsidiaries), $200 million on software development, $100 million on management, are you upset at Mozilla for running a healthy balance sheet? I'm confused about your complaint. Should Mozilla be packing itself to the gills with software developers for Firefox? It seems like they are trying to broaden their holdings and assets to build wealth for the company and Foundation so that they can become less reliant on Google.

Eich chose Chromium because Webkit is dominant and was in a better position in 2015. I'm not seeing how this is can be made to an indictment of Mozilla corruption.
How the heck are you supposed to look at a screen shot of code and determine much from that?
Well, of course it's true. How could it be otherwise. If you see an 'announcement' and you wait for consummation, you've already missed any market move you could have taken advantage of.
Monodevelop, I think: https://www.monodevelop.com

It wasn't a planned thing. I had recently got injured playing football, so I was stuck at home, not being able to walk or drive. I started checking the #mono IRC channel (it was 2003 and internet was something you did over a 48k modem, when your home phone line was not needed). Some guys, lead by Miguel de Icaza, the founder of Gnome, were implementing a compiler of C# and a bytecode interpreter of .NET IL, and I was very curious about it. I kept downloading, compiling and trying things out.

Then one day Miguel wrote in the channel that it would be nice to have some graphical editor and that somebody could perhaps port SharpDevelop over to Linux, by replacing Windows.Forms by calls to GTK. I said that I'd give it a shot and... well, 10 days later we had a working editor and half a dozen of contributors.

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-14.html
> ... I have no problem with it .... is an honest observation but guaranteed downvote.

You seem to be doing the whole "express my intent properly and caused a misunderstanding" thing again here with this line. This part does not read like an observation, but a value judgment, and abhorrent one at that. This part reads as not just saying that the justice system is biased, but that it should be biased, which I don't think is your actual view, or any sane person's.
I don't think it is that complicated. Either private groups can exist or they can't. Either I can choose my audience or I can't. Either I can say "No women." or I can't. In other words, internet becomes a set of private clubs or not.

Horrible people exist whether we are aware of them or not. If delineation is clear, enforceable it could work.

It would destroy current social media.

And that.. is not something I am ambivalent about.
In late 2013 I came up with the first memory hard Proof-of-Work puzzle, Cuckoo Cycle [1], based on finding fixed-length cycles in random graphs. Recently, custom chips were developed to solve it more efficiently than GPUs can.

That probably had more impact than the Binary Lambda Calculus language I designed [2] or the logical rules of Go I co-formulated [3].

Computing the number of Go positions [4] or approximating the number of Chess positions [5] had little impact beyond satisfying my intellectual curiosity.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo

[2] https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html

[3] https://tromp.github.io/go.html

[4] https://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html

[5] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking#readme
quote for quote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600

Even if you want to dismiss this, he still isn't following his own principles, since again, he's clearly banning legal speech.
These are roadmaps about how to get somewhere, but the map is not the terrain, and there are a few parts that are known to only be 90% mapped. That doesn't say that the 10% unmapped contains an impassable cliff or easily crossable plains, but we will likely find out.
I'm not really surprised.

I have studied in Austria and in Denmark. Both countries use lecture slots of ~120min.
In Austria there is no break during the slot. But in Denmark they have a ~10min break after the first hour.

For me, this 10min break was the most impactful pedagogical experience I ever had.

Usually, my brain would shut off at around 70min. Missing almost half of the lecture while in Austria. In comparison, I never had issues to focus while in Denmark.
Pandemic quality builds of large, expensive internal combustion vehicles at a time of soaring gas prices, limited parts, and rising labor costs.

Parting them out might make sense.
This would be a great rick roll opportunity
Sooooo shadow bans.
Yeah, there just isn't anything to be gained by opening your mouth.

Reminds me of this recent quote:

> I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can't drop me. Now what?
I was leading mobile platform engineering at Walmart when they first merged their Walmart and Walmart Grocery apps into a single app. It was a herculean effort and the resulting product left a lot to be desired, but my work certainly impacted hundreds of millions of people.
>They weren't pushed out, they walked out because their views weren't accepted

none of youtube/twitter/reddit/twitch knockoffs existed (or had much traction) before massive purges on those platforms
I'd never heard of mojolicious, and now wishing this had existed 20 years ago! It is quite elegant, but looks like the first release was dropped in 2015.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious
dropout with 99,7+ percentile in AGAT tests, yep, you should get ADHD tested
>Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution (“halt the markets for 15 minutes before/after”)

We've had an election recently, right on the day when DST changed. On the night of counting of the votes, the clock went 2:59 AM -> 2:00 AM.

To save themselves trouble the Statistics Office instructed all vote counters that under no circumstances are they to enter or update anything in any system during the repeating hour until it's 3:00 AM the second time…
>>I would fully expect the next thing for you to say is "I can program my own Twitter in a week"

as a perfect example you just called achenatx a moron by implying that they would insult twitter employees by implying twitter is trivial.

it's an insult by way of a hypothetically ascribed insult and there's no chance in hell that either of them would trigger sentiment detection because they are so context dependent, even worse it's cultural context not textual context
Jim Keller talks about his impression of Elon after working with him - skip to 1:20:50 and watch the next 4 minutes of this interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA (the whole interview is full of effing amazing insight, IMHO).

Jim also talks about Elon’s engineering skills at the 50 minute mark for about 6 minutes in this interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmuJSbms9c

Elon seems like a complete tool to me. But here is Jim, a proven smart engineer-type, give a strongly positive opinion on Elon’s engineering ability. Many effective people have personality traits I abhor.

Unless you have worked with Elon yourself, and you are a good engineer yourself, you are just making shit up. I think it is normal to hate, but at least try to be honest.
This is HN, not Reddit. Stop the low quality posts.
Facebook was fined $5 billion dollars in 2019-ish, that would put most companies out of business. If Twitter doesn't have people actively working to keep up with new privacy directives in every jurisdiction they are in (every country in the world, every region/state in each country has different requirements), they will get hit with fines all day every day.
Absolutely brilliant comment.
https://typst.app/
The US has been moving away from high-yield bombs for a while; here's the highest yield bombs in the US arsenal and the dates of their retirement:

B41: 25MT, retired in 1976

B53: 9MT retired in 2011

B83: 1.2MT retired 2022
And that timescale is called TAI. It's always been an option, but for whatever reason, people (and standards) (collectively) use UTC but want it to act like TAI.
I'm an American and I think one mistake we Americans make is that we think we are very direct, but there is a lot of indirectness in some of our communication habits. This is particularly true in other parts of the country. As a native born midwestern, there are some indirect habits there and I'd say the west coast as its own too. So we're mostly direct, but there is some indirectness that we are at times blind to.
The problem only arose when the second was changed from being 1/86400th of a solar day to being defined by atomic clocks. The old definition worked well for civil purposes but was by the 1950s impossible to accurately co-ordinate between researchers.
When I studied nuclear weapons history in college, the professor mentioned that an important purpose of decommissioning nuclear devices was to provide jobs for the engineers that built them so that they aren't financially tempted to build them for an enemy.
Val is being designed by former Swift devs, no wonder.

Dynamic linking in AOT compiled languages exists for decades, other priorities in other ecosystems.

Groovy DSL for Swing was one of the first languages with such approach.

However all in all, it is a great language for the Apple ecosystem.
> And if this free speech absolutism is a position that no one holds, why are you arguing against it?

Musk is a free speech absolutist, by his own admission. His followers are likely similar.

> I have never heard even the most die-hard free speech supporter advocate that someone is free to follow you around all day, yelling to drown out your voice.

It's a contrived example, but despite that free speech absolutism allows for it.
Engagement <> revenue. Even as he is _claiming_ that engagement is up, it is public knowledge that big advertisers are jumping ship, and Elno does not appear to have a coherent plan for backfilling that lost revenue (let alone growing it).
Yes but translate this statement to the 80s and you might have said the same about giga.
Burning $30 billion to welsh on $13 billion seems like not the best plan?
Hey, can you please not break the site guidelines like this? We have to ban such accounts and I don't want to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Print it out, shove it in the stack of recipes/cookbooks in the cupboard.
>"people need to sleep"

Sleep is almost impossible with regular check-ups... 30 min or 60 min, don't remember. Excepting the comatose and most medicated(maybe not?), a person's sleep cycle is unable to reach REM when a stranger approaches and fiddles on regular intervals. I would think monitoring from afar(sensors, cameras) would be more beneficial, but I was informed the liability factors preclude such remote monitoring.

edit: to add context, I slept in the room on separate occasions with 2 family members. While tests were not performed, the regular checks were mandated. I was exhausted after my shifts ended.
5 days is good enough time to find a better mechanic that does a high quality job, for less, and doesn't want to collude with federal agencies [1] about where you can drive and where you cannot: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
also raises the question of who paxys thinks was funding tech companies before this.
Is there an actual 3d map like this?
I would enjoy the silence.
We're not talking about America. Chinese companies are defacto arms of the chinese government. It's a communist country. Any sense of private ownership is just a sense, it doesn't really exist.

I don't know how many times we have to go in this circle until we get through that dense skull. If you think you understand Chinese business because you understand western business - you don't.
> confused that they can put a time frame on a problem they have no idea how to solve yet

The purpose of the study [1] was to explore what a realistic solution would look like. Then you can work backwards and identify roadblocks. For example, if land acquisition is really the sole bottleneck, there are a myriad of legislative solutions that could address it.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/nrel-study-identifies-o...
Presumption of innocence is required in US courts because the state imparting punishment deprives people of rights. What rights is Webb deprived of by not getting a satellite named after him?
>nobody got it as magical as Swift did.

I was with you till this line. SwiftUI was so half baked for several versions that it took them 3 years to get a respectable navigation API. SwiftUI is great but it still has rough edges.
There's some willful denial here on HN and in other places that 1) twitter is being punished because it seems its role as supporting free speech rather than policing misinformation, 2) Elon Musk, as founder of Paypal and CEO of Starlink, has more than enough Internet / technical knowledge to run a site like twitter, 3) twitter itself is just not all that complicated and was probably due for an overhaul / rewrite anyway, and 4) investors don't buy companies to run them the exact same way that they were run before, they do it because they see both wasted resources and additional value and opportunity, which means they're always going to lay off some people and hire others.

Ultimately, twitter will be judged by its users, and whether they find value in the site, and whether its financially viable - income meets expenses. I think twitter's free speech & openness virtually guarantees the former, since everyone will be able to find something that they like on the platform and ignore the rest. The latter will be opaque for quite a while, since twitter is now private and, I assume, won't be disclosing its financial data except as required by taxes / regulation.
Love that. I assume for learners an alternative mode would be great where it shows you the word but you still have to type it, just to build muscle memory.
The problem is the undue weight given to the opinion of those who show up for editing and debating "reliable" sources, and political purity tests during these events. Self-selected editors often don't share the interests of readers of their articles.

There's a no-false-balance policy which means the moon-landing-hoax theory doesn't need to get mentioned on every article related to space.

Why is your view, or anti-view, important enough that it should be mentioned, such that you'd say it was omitted if it wasn't there?
If the Welsh Government isn't going to champion Welsh, who is?
I'm just loving the fact that this news article from the BBC provides no instruction about how to pronounce either Yr Wyddfa or Eryri. If only there were a way for the BBC to include audio on the page!
Given the condition now? No way.

But if it survives and things stabilize in the future then sure.

But I guess that’s not what the question is about. It’s about now, when it means working for a madman, boarding a sinking ship, where you are expected to work 80h weeks like it’s some kind of early startup when in reality it’s a huge boring enterprise.
No thanks.
I disagree - digital is the only route. Printouts will get lost, bent, fires, floods, and lost.

The broader idea that I find interesting however is how to preserve digital content for > 100 years. It's okay if other people don't care about that - I do, and I think it's an interesting set of problem constraints, and was just wondering if anyone else has thought about it.

It's difficult to suggest an actual use case for blockchain, and I am far from an expert, but I think this could be an interesting innovative options for actually using distributed databases to control assets and make collective decisions in a decentralized fashion.
Wikipedia could not work without that sort of work. Same with Open Street Map and all the little contributions to the map. It adds up to a lot.
Spot on.

Do you have any books you'd received recommend that have any additional tricks?