skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is right. I couldn't believe it when I first learnt the difference between UTC and TAI that Unix time based on UTC. It makes no sense. And now they are talking about "correcting" UTC to make Unix time work? Thus defeating the entire point of UTC?

There's something about time that people seem to find very difficult to reason with. It reminds me of the arguments between whether we should use standard time all year or daylight savings time all year.
If you take a wave and spin it, you get a spiral.
An “occasional artefact of factors [like] bias, circular reasoning, gatekeeping, etc” is not even close to anything which anyone could reasonably call a “Ministry of Truth”, and it is certainly not what I was referring to.
> > > The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired,

> > You are missing out some important nuance there: no one said it would fall off the earth immediately,

> This is very disingenuous,

Fair, I matched hyperbole (the implication that a majority were saying something) with hyperbole (staying no one was).

Let's go with no one with a clue who is unbiased by direct connection.

> there were hordes of people claiming it would be down in 24 hours, 48 hours, after the weekend etc

If this pot may comment on the a kettle's underside for a moment: "hordes" may be as disingenuous "no one". It was said by some angrily¹ on their way out and repeated and amplified by the mob that is Twitter² users.

And that outgoing team didn't say it would fall down in any time frame IIRC: just that things could not run without them. I would read this as a medium/long term view, the social media amplifier read it as "it dies in 3, 2, ...".

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[1] rightly so, but the emotion does reduce the ability to maintain objective reasoning

[2] one of the selection of reasons I have for not using Twitter aside from occasionally looking at a message linked elsewhere: it is too full of certain types who think Twitter is a good idea!
Yes, a decade after Wikileaks was, briefly, relevant, it’s time for „states“ to move against them. For some reason.
Sorry, no. UNIX time is easy, works fine for most of cases and can be extended easily to the rest of the cases, and a single well-defined compromise approach. Replacing it with three different time representations is dangerous overengineering.

We should all re-read "the rise of worse is better" until enlightenment (https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html).
George Hotz is an amazing technical person but you are putting him in a pedestal of Saviour that... Isn't really how technical stuff works.

Twitter is a quite complex distributed system, as good as geohot is he's just a guy, with one brain, capable of holding a limited amount of information and context at a time. There's no way that one guy, no matter how good, can actually completely reason about all aspects of a complex system.

Even less in 12 weeks, that's actually absurdly preposterous.
Large cloud providers are actually exactly the ones who argued that leap seconds should be abolished, so I presume there were enough use cases where this was an issue. I faintly remember one article about the announcement of the voting results where they talked about the issues that smearing could cause but I don't remember exactly what it was, or where I read it.
Despite real world examples constantly showing the opposite, from civil wars, famine, large scale disaster and all-out war, people still believe that somehow 3 weeks in the world turns into The Walking Dead or something. Not gonna happen, society in the 14th century survived the plague.
Hackers use to fight against governmental corruption back in the days.

Whereas nowadays, they cover up for them.

What a great testimony about the decline of western democracy.
UK will still have immigration from Africa. But at a level that satisfies both GDP growth concerns as well as culture stability concerns.

Not being in the EU doesn't somehow make the UK incapable of accepting immigrants... I swear people are so upset with Brexit they have stopped using their brains in assessing the UKs options.
This aged well
Your understanding of Unix time is wrong. In your experiment the difference between the end and start Unix timestamps would be 7200 even though thats off from the experiment duration. That is exactly the problem: Unix time gets adjusted for leap seconds to stay in sync with UTC instead of real time.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

A book review winner outlining "land value tax". Once you read it it's scary how many things you start to notice that it would solve, and how many inefficient policies are put in place but not required if you solve this ultimate underlying issue.
Hadn't thought of that! That's a massive issue. Arguably the parents should be allowed permanent status then but of course then people will claim there's an incentive for people to come to US and have kid(s). But in a sense, if you've let people in on a highly skilled visa, they're at the age of having a family, they're pretty much guaranteed to be a big net positive for US economy so what's the problem giving them permanent residency... But then one could argue it's unfair not to give the same thing to kids of Mexican parents that entered illegally. But if you did that , that really would be an incentive for half of Mexico to try to come to USA and have a kid. Personally I think that might be a net win for both USA and Mexico, and there's plenty of space in USA, but I guess a lot of Americans would disagree...
Real world is messy. Sharp definitions and unambiguous statements about anything are not possible. Everything is, in the end, politics. Our collective way of dealing with this is packaging all the complicated questions inside an abstraction called "the law" and letting people called "lawyers" deal with it. The lawyer's job is to keep the complexity hidden from other people and provide a clean user interface for interacting with untrusted entities (with trusted entities, like our families and friends, we tend not to rely on the law at all). However, like in software, abstractions leak, and often the inherent messiness of human relations that we tried to package into a nice lawyer interface becomes apparent to the end user. We like to blame the lawyers for this, and maybe sometimes they really should be blamed, but on a much deeper level, at least part of the blame should be on ourselves - not you or me personally, but rather us collectively - for insisting that inherently complex and messy matters should be made simple for us even when it's not possible.
It still needs to be kept in my kitchen until whatever happens to it happens.
Reductionism is pretty dumb and tired already, it works well for hot takes (on Twitter nevertheless) but not really to properly discuss something.

If you are a SWE you should probably know that issues in complex systems are not about full disks and certification renewal. That can and should be automated as much as possible, that's not the issue and repeating it sounds dumb as fuck.
Well, make it a part of the fediverse as a de facto chat/messaging platform? Not big on activitypub and alike, but might that push it a bit further?
> As far as I understand it, that's what UNIX time is

Then you don’t understand Unix time. In the first case it would return 7200, and in the second case it would count “made up time”.

UNIX time is 86400*days since epoch + seconds since midnight. It does not measure “real time”, whatever that is.

> Leap seconds never happened, they were added to UTC and UTC only in order to correct it for sunrise and sunset.

You’re apparently confusing leap seconds and DST. Leap seconds are used to compensate for minute variations in the speed at which the earth rotates (irregularities and an overall slowdown). So they serve to resynchronize atomic time (TAI) and solar time (UT1). This resynchronized version (UT1 ~ 1s) is UTC.
Indefinitely, hybrid solar baby...
my original statement is 'its public knowledge that the US government is funding the Ukrainian government with its day to day expenses'. I think I've shown that. as for your douche comment, it's rather pathetic that when you get called out, you resort to calling me a douche and a 'crazy internet person'. The projection is strong I guess.
Aren't those people, in Germany without the Confederate Flag since the German Empires flag from WW1 is used instead, quite often the same people?
This is a good article, it's worth reading in full. It touches on the different use cases for different types of time/date storage but doesn't make it explicit enough that the is no "one size fits all" solution. It's true that internally a TIA timestamp is cleaner for storing a moment in time, but that is only half the issue.

I like to think of it as a difference between physical time and human time.

For engineering, science, precise measurement, simulation and such using TAI is clearly the cleaner, most robust solution. But as soon as you have a humans "perception" of time as part of the system a timezone aware timestamp is required. But even then, the most common version of that ISO 8601 is flawed.

ISO 8601 only has a fixed offset, it has no concept of timezones or geolocation. Borders between timezones move, DST windows change or disappear, it has no way to account for that. What we need is an extended ISO 8601 that includes a location rather than offset. Human time is tied to a geographic location in time. I think we need something like this:

2022-11-23T08:52:02!Europe/London

using the names from the TZ database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

or even coordinates:

2022-11-23T08:52:02!51.509865/-0.118092

we probably even want planetary body:

1969-07-20T20:17:00!Moon/0.67416/23.47314

This is the only way to store "human time" in a future proof way.

Physical moment in time = TAI timestamp

Human perception of a moment in time = Geolocated timestamp
Utter lies. You have zero evidence of this.

This nonsense narrative is merely designed to deflect from the very real, heinously evil, war crimes that Americans commit on the regular, every twenty minutes, for the last twenty years - for which there is a lot of evidence you Americans choose to ignore in the rush to maintain pride in yourselves...
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Your username suggest to me that you probably see some value in decentralization. Education, of all things, shouldn't come from a single source. Institutions having different views on what and how to teach is a feature. The resulting discourse created by that difference leads to further academic advancements that can benefit everyone.

You do make a good point about us under utilizing technology though. We should be pumping money into open courseware models as an alternative to encouraging children to start off their adult life in often irrecoverable debt.

There is a ton of value, both academic and not, in going to college but let's not be so naive as to think that we can sustain a system whereby it's worthwhile for everyone to attend a brick and mortar university. Let's give the poorest among us a great alternative using the amazing technology at our disposal, today.
Why would I trust these interviews with clandestine operatives as being factual?
CSV, for all it's faults, is probably the closest thing we have to a "universal 2d table format you can import anywhere."
I have no experise, but my gut feeling is that the sandboxing should still add some cost?
Isn't that too "noisy"? I mean I wouldn't want to have a full transcript of all my meetings. 95+% of the discussions aren't valuable after the meeting is over. It would be great if an AI could summarize it all though :p
What a nonsense narrative. You don't get to choose which corruption is more morally substantive than the other.

America is the worlds #1 funder of terrorism. How about we start addressing that, as elite members of the 1%?
"Slice" is, by now, a fairly established term in PL design which implies a tuple of (start, end) or (start, length), so it specifically excludes prefixed length, null termination etc - because experience has shown that slices are the only sane choice.

What I meant by optimization is not treating them same as other structs, but e.g. guaranteeing pass-by-register like other primitive types, spelled out explicitly in the ABI. The choice of length field type would be size_t, obviously.
I'm not sure if I buy this. Any sufficiently motivated leaker could just release to another source if wikileaks were blocking important information.
Again, one of the instances that make me so happy to live in a country with strong labor laws. Those things are simply illegal over here.
"Carcinization" is not a reference to creating cancer as you might first think, it is instead "an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form"[0] - in this case because the Rust mascot is a crab.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
I got into software because I loved making stuff, I got my computer as a gift at 12 and I was consumed - I could make stuff and the only limit was my knowledge - not materials or tools - 20 something years after I'm still doing it.

Woodworking, metalworking, electronics, 3D modeling, CAD - just different ways to thinker with stuff.
The request is never hitting HelpKit's servers.
Glyptodons in South America made huge burrows:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-me...

Then consider that plants have a symbiotic relationship with animals.

And think about the size of Avocados (for example), and in particular the seed in the middle. Birds aren't going to distribute them...
IIRC Ukraine synchronized with EU earlier because of the invasion, sometime in march I believe.
I'm not sure what is the value of this post? HackerNews is literally all about sharing blog posts and upvoting the ones you enjoy.

You're just reinventing HN on HN here...
The reasonable middle ground is to decouple selection from publication. There is no reason that research should not be published at all while it's still undergoing review, or still getting rejected from the "top" journals. (Disclosure: I volunteer for https://Plaudit.pub, one effort to achieve this.)

I would also argue that "reasonable metric" in practice is more like "usually reasonable judgement by people with usually relevant knowledge".
There is no evidence of collusion with 'Russian hackers'.

There is MASSIVE evidence of corruption and war crimes, crimes against humanity, in the Wikileaks' materials.

Cowards choose the 'easy path' - adopt the "but ma' Russia!" narrative, and ignore the heinously evil crimes against humanity committed in every Americans' name ..
Neither Europe nor the UK are willing to alter their asylum laws enough to disrupt the trade of the people smugglers. The control of borders is illusory if human waves can get onto your shore in boats and the courts strike down most countermeasures, so whoever comes, stays.

Therefore the population boom in Africa is likely to have a massive effect on European demography anyway, unless the Northern African countries, which are culturally different from the rest of Africa and which aren't particularly happy about being used as transit countries for mass migration either, build some kind of barriers across the Sahara.
This seems a lot like taking the existing model Intel has had for decades (fusing out parts of the design or deliberately underclocking them after characterization) and just neatening the infrastructure. I don't see any reason someone would buy these devices and then 6 months down the line turn around and go "Oops I need your software guard extensions". It's always been a dirty secret of the chip industry that they all produce about 3 actual types of chip presented to customers as 3 million variants.
This seems like classic DDOS symptoms, right? It's not that the documents are gone, they're inaccessible.
In short, Unix time is based on UTC. If there's a leap second at midnight, you start a stopwatch ten seconds before midnight and stop it ten seconds after, then there is going to be a one second difference between your stopwatch and the difference between the Unix time timestamps of the moments you started and stopped the stopwatch.
Yes and im saying they may have good reason to use different types because they have different requirements.
The sole reason our eyes evolved whites was to see where other people are looking. It's a valuable and deeply-ingrained instinct.
Maybe you shouldn’t trust Craig Murray then, because the cut-out theory is the only plausible one now.
WW3 started in 2003 with the illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq by the USA and its coalition of willing criminal partners.
I don't quite understand the point you're making. Most people don't need what? A Harvard education, prestige, or a college education in general? What do "top athletes" demonstrate in support of your point?

Not being snarky. Just trying to understand :)
The Global Trend That Could Kill the Internet: Sender Party Network Pays
I always do some quick "pub math": How many hours of entertainment do i get out of this? How much would that time cost me in a bar / pub? that normally makes it a lot of easier to justify a 50 / 60 price.
I'd argue that a very short and rather simple and infrequently changing list of delta seconds (which are only ever applicable around 23:59:59, December 31 of some years) is vastly preferable over any other of the solutions (or rather 'coping strategies' as it were) that are used now, things like Google and Amazon smearing their leap seconds but in ever so slightly incompatible ways.
May be I would use tags if they appeared as facets in search, to quickly filter out search results when you get too many of them.
The protecting powers insisted on a per capita minimum of some things and parcels of surplus value were delivered regularly. It altered the economics. Accumulated surplus could be seized, by camp authorities or for redistribution by the prisoners self appointed authority or for "X" (escape and subversion)

Russian POWs had a different economy: they had no protecting powers having not signed the geneva conventions. As did concentration camp victims. Primo Levi wrote in "the periodic table" about stealing welding ignition bars to scrape down to size and resell as lighter flints, to survive.

Prisoners sold art and crafts. Prisoners bartered goods from the red Cross parcels for favours. There was probably a complex exchange of goods for favours, for sex, and sex for goods. Within the prisoners and with guards and wider society.

Scarcity value and exchange value and inflation were probably as distorted as in eve online.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote about labouring in a maltose syrup factory, and working to clear bodies in Dresden. Non commissioned and other ranks POW worked for cents per day, mandatory sometimes. Officers did not have to work.

Solzhenitsyn writes in "Ivan Denisovich" of the economy of the gulag. Not a POW camp but perhaps not dissimilar?

The economics of survival are complicated. Primo Levi carried lifelong burdens as a camp survivor. He's on record in "the drowned and the saved" and "is this a man" as saying to survive demanded compromises to avoid being what he calls a "musselman" fated to die sooner or later.
Seems like it should be possible to justify spending the X budget on infrastructure projects that would help building X, but also other projects.
There is a lot of glue code written because we are only transporting data through HTTP, that is the problem.

A concept that has been buzzing around my head a lot lately is, what if we could model objects/actors? So that I do not only go to google.com to display some HTML, but we have a standardised RPC language I can tell it to "search this query" and it returns a structured object? The same RPC I can use to talk to my Hue lamp and tell it "turn red."

In fact, our current HTML model can nicely map to a "render a thing to HTML" method call.

We spend too much time building complex systems by either scraping HTML, or gluing together incompatible APIs from vendors.

I want the Internet to be like the Erlang virtual machine. Each server is an independent actor that holds state, can send and receive messages, but they are not very trusted.
In my experience, "independent thinkers" are always the ones most susceptible to manipulation, because they believe themselves smarter than everyone else, which makes them perfect targets for propaganda.
The link you shared doesn't appear to mention anything about funding or defunding anything. It seems to be more about coordinated dissemination of documents. I don't feel like I'm any closer to knowing who does or doesn't fund on going operations of WikiLeaks.
If the story is of public interest then it's fair game to run it regardless of the source (once verified)
omg

SRE here with many pro-bono hours, if anyone is able to let their IT team
Hey! I read many papers that say that graph algorithms and graph neural networks have very good results in this area. In this article I explained just few of them and gave some examples how to use them for this use case. Of course if you combine different algorithms and techniques you might get better results depending on what you want to achieve.
Just why are you making this comment? Going through points 0, 1, 3, 4 5, 6, 7 and 8 it just hits too close to home... I cannot judge 2, our business processes failed so and continue to do so. If that counts, do I have a Bingo of sorts?

Great comment so, because it confirms that I am not the crazy one!
That's just inaccurate.

For example, they didn't even respond to Panama Papers leaker who approached them before he approached Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Don't zero trust architectures often require secure boot as well as a functioning TPM-like secure enclave to do attestation on the client device before allowing the user to logon to some resource?
How can Facebook's Metaverse be 30+ years old when Facebook itself was founded 18 years ago?
I was personally never concerned that Trump would start WW3, more that he’d help the wrong side in it (he tried already and was impeached for it).

The laptop is a shibboleth, voters don’t actually care because the right already poisoned their own wells.
No. You need a list of leap seconds to convert from Unix time to TAI.
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What is WEF?
And yet in not many years that will be atmospheric levels. This is the element of fossil fuel emissions nobody seems to be discussing, and we don’t know its consequences
I will try to test Dataview and the query language of obsidian.
But honestly, if it is not in direct relationship with search, or if it makes the note authoring process to go in pause to think about which tag is relevant or which new tag could help, I will probably not use them much.
After the Windsor Castle fire of 1992, they rebuilt the wooden roof of St. George's Hall without using a single nail, screw or drop of glue. They had a hard time finding people with the skills and knowledge to do it, as it's pretty much a dead art now.
But it's hitting their DNS zone and they have decided to add a CNAME to helpkit-ssr.onrender.com for leavemealone.helpkit.so.
Any sort of help message about this when disabling the domain would help :)
Most disassemblers are fairly decent at guessing function boundaries if the code isn't too bad.
Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies