skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encoding dates in data in any other way than native date datatypes or full ISO date/timestamp strings is incredibly dangerous and prone to tz and dst conversion issues. It still might fit some niche use though. I was thinking more in line with some sort of Date entities.

Your example, as you point out, is flawed with respect to reality: no system would record arrival/departute dates and expect to calculate accurate length of stay, except in full days, as in b-a-1 = 7 days, effectively making the example use a closed interval if it were implemented in reality.

Imagine a hotel reservation system using just dates. Arrival on the 15th and departure on the 23rd would mean a reservation from the 15th to the 22nd, while the 23rd would already be free for someone else to book.
It's funny: I'm partitioning a LaCie hard-drive while watching Severance
> his Tweet only one GraphQL request is made which batches the whole thing.

Literally bang in the middle of an F12 network trace showing dozens of requests, mostly JavaScript. Not JSON RPC, per se, but still an overhead taking up seconds, especially on low-end Android devices.

> But what does this have to do with India?

Everything. Nitter uses 40KB of code & data to display the same content that takes Twitter megabytes.

People in subsequent threads have pointed to the gigabytes of "data" usage by the Twitter Android app, which is just absurd for an app that displays primarily text.

It's a bloated pig of an app that performs poorly on 5G networks in the United States, and hence terribly on slow and overloaded networks separated from Twitter's data centres by an ocean.

"It works fine for me" says the engineer connected to the WiFi in Twitter HQ.
Thanks for sharing, this is really cool! Using whitespace is a really clever trick, and running on the GPU makes it even more impressive.

I've been using githashcrash [1], but it's only running on the CPU, which is why it's a bit slower. :-)

[1]: https://github.com/Mattias-/githashcrash
Twitter is basically a real-time database where everything is interconnected. It's one of the harder things to scale because it doesn't allow for easy segmentation.
I like the idea of an OpenSCAD for diagramming. Rather surprised it didn't exist already.
> The entire premise of crypto is that it's unlimited, ungoverned finance - which also means unlimited fraud opportunity.

True, but a lot of modern cryptocurrency businesses have been spending a lot of marketing $$$$ on buying a veneer of legitimacy.

Smart investors know that just because they've got reputable investors, famous board members, favourable press coverage, celebrity endorsements and a sports arena named after them, doesn't mean that This Time It's Different.

But I can understand why a naive investor might fall for the marketing.
When the startup I was working for in silicon valley went under, I got issued an EDD Bank of America debit card. I could set it up to transfer the unemployment payments from the debit card to my normal bank account without any fees.

I'm wondering

a) why california isn't using the same system for these payments
b) if a similar simple transfer system for free isn't available for it.
I have personal experience with this. The metrics (as much as I despise using them as a source of truth) undoubtedly show a very strong positive correlation between better load times and user retention.
I think it's somewhat reductionist to call Twitter "simpler". The technical challenges faced by SpaceX, for example, are almost completely orthogonal to those faced by Twitter. Imagine swapping a random engineer at SpaceX with a random software engineer at Twitter -- do you think either would thrive in their new role?
Couldn't he be trained to be a responsible train or bus driver? It's a shame not to let society benefit from this kind of passion.

I once knew a homeless guy who desperately wanted to become a metro driver. He got into a training program, then someone else revealed that he was homeless, and he got kicked out. That sort of thing is just tragic and destructive.

Of course in the case of an autistic person, it's not a given that he will be able to carry the responsibility for driving such a vehicle, but I say it's worth at least trying, and finding some spot for him.
I guess that hinges on what you mean by "quality". I suspect that by definition, "quality" means that experts like it. So experts prefer expensive wines more often than "regular people".

I'm "regular people". I drink a lot of wine, nearly always a £5.00 Australian red. I've very rarely drunk an expensive wine that impressed me. Someone served me some amazing Burgundy, back in the late 80s...
I like how that sounds, so idealistic. I think that in some cases, the penalty can make the crime seem like a worthwhile financial transaction, I dont know about this specific case or how a disability relates to it.

There are many crimes that take peoples future and damage families for generations with only a slap on the wrist enabling them to repeat the crime. I don't think there is a good solution to keep everyone happy, the best solution is just to not be involved in crimes as either the perpetrator or victim, sadly perpetrators look like regular people.
I am responding to a specific argument. That argument is that App Store is not an internet service. I say it is.
Sure, but would one codify this if they wanted to make it law? The complexity of that is what I was trying to point out. And obviously, in its absence, we have deliver workers being recorded on the truck, because it’s simply so cheap now.
> would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people (while improving the convenience for everyone else).

Wasn't this the same kind of argument we used in the past to justify slavery?
> absolutely business critical other teams

So you're saying WhatsApp had no critical other teams, but Facebook bought them anyway for a record breaking sum of money at the time, because they looked nice on picture?
my FF is set to tell webpage to use dark theme and I get light gray on white (Chrome without that displays it fine).

Looks fine if I inspect and set the bg color to black so I think author just didn't test dark theme properly...
> How can you not be romantic about programming?

1. Read the code I have to work on at the office.

2. Sit through a meeting with my boss.

Guaranteed to leave your spirit romance-free.
You think signing is what makes this unfeasibly slow? :)
>Being a psychopath doesn't shield you from legal consequences

You'd be surprised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense
Extracting, using brain data will make workers happier, more productive: backers
Sane revision numbers are among the many reasons I prefer SVN to GIT.
State of Filecoin Q3 2022
Ooh looks good, thanks for the tip. Have purchased.
Yes. They Cleary are. Where is your evidence otherwise?
I disagree. I may have used hyperbole, but those were then reasons listed: my family wants me in the religion, my social graph is based around the religion and its rituals, my emotional support comes from the religion. That’s cult-like.

I think the main reason we don’t considered religions a cult has nothing to do with the behavior or the participants or their reasons for attendance. We generally consider cults to be small, which is incongruous with mainstream religion.
This assumes security doesn’t matter. You can’t run on stale code and be secure for too long, at least for anything non trivial. I imagine even if Twitter doesn’t add any functionality at so, it will still take hundreds of patches per Yasser.
Einstein's Predictions for Gravity Have Been Tested at Largest Possible Scale
Cool hacker project, learned stuff about git reading the article. I don't want to put this into practice, and don't see the utility of it.
And so is the cache setup. It’s permanently (and deliberately) running at less than 50% utilization to prevent an issue that comes up only once every 5 years (according to the author).
How is being self-sufficient in terms of food relevant? I think many countries are not.
I wish more office buildings were build like this. Beautiful!

I do like how the glass looks, but it could be distracting. If it was electrically frosting glass that was sound proof that might be the best of both worlds.
There are actually at least two spelling errors in that word - there’s an “s” missing as well: Rechtsanwalt_s_vergütungsgesetz.

In my defense, typing this on a mobile phone with (english) autocorrect interference makes it harder. In their defense - they copied and pasted my earlier spelling error in the text, so they’re not to blame.
> people who drop an ice cube into their red wine

I don't know if this is still the custom; but when I was a kid in France, families would serve wine to their children. They'd serve it half-and-half with water. So children would presumably grow up with an appreciation of watered wine.
Is this much different than Winamp's Advanced Visualization Studio? That was also 'programmable', depending on how you define programmable I suppose
> One of the employee is going to do something great, and expand the business.

employees that would do this is unlikely to remain at the company to actually do this. Existing corporate culture or management friction will very quickly force out such an engineer, or make such an engineer ineffective at producing such innovations.
From the article:

Missing in all this chatter is a thoughtful analysis of what the problems and potential resolutions are. But this is a company worthy of serious study. Twitter is a perfect case study of the shifting power dynamics of the ad market and how to make money in this era of the internet.
Has anyone tried this with a tilt setup?
> thought that Twitter would crash within days of the engineers being fired

Because they work for companies where the product would fail within days of them being fired themselves.
Are they spending the money on Tiktok ads instead?
> How do you know the referral was medically necessary?

What does "medically necessary" mean to you? Does it include changing the gender identifier on your passport?

Quoting the video:

] Once you're in the medical system, you can also change the legal sex that is recorded on your birth certificate and your passport. In England, you cannot change either of those things without first obtaining a doctor's permission.

> Perhaps there is more to running the NHS than saying everyone who is demanding elective procedures should get them in 18 weeks.

Which has diddly-squat to do with the issue.

According to the NHS, gender dysphoria is a medical condition, and treatment is not viewed as an elective procedure. This has been the case since 1999, as the video points out:

] The diagnostic requirement is very baked into the NHS and British law. In 1999, there was a landmark legal case. A trust in Lancaster announced they weren't gonna fund transition anymore on the grounds that it was "merely cosmetic," and they were sued by three trans patients who said, actually, it was necessary to alleviate their gender identity disorder, as it was called at the time. The patients won, which meant that we have a right to free transition,

And according to the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to start care within 18 weeks of referral. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-start-co... .

Not 19 years.

> have died or are dying or left to suffer for years in physical pain.

Yes, it's tragic, and shouldn't happen.

But don't let that become the excuse that others must suffer as well.

> practically unheard of 20, which were invented in the modern era thanks to innovation in medicine to allow indulgences unknown to human civilisation before the technology existed - i think resources can be better used

We know you think transgender care is "frankly self indulgent procedures", so of course you would think that.

Your viewpoint is not backed by medical evidence nor British law.

Further, as the video points out, "if a cis woman goes through menopause, she can get oestrogen from her GP. If a trans woman wants it, we have to go to the gender clinic".

Why that disparity? Estrogen for feminizing hormone therapy is about as old as the NHS itself (eg, Christine Jorgensen in the 1950s), so you can hardly claim it was 'practically unheard of 20 [years ago]'.

And hormone therapy is cheap. Assuming https://www.fiscaltiger.com/the-cost-of-gender-transition/ is right, generic estradiol costs about $4/month and the anti-androgen spironolactone costs between $4 and $12 per month. And that's retail prices the US, not wholesale prices the NHS can get.

Not everyone wants gender affirming surgery. They still need to get a referral from the GP for hormone therapy, or to change their passport gender marker, and the waiting list is years long.
Let’s forget about fears for a moment and get down to brass tacks. For some reason, this never seems to come up in any news article:

> Through October of last year, more than 100 million working-age Americans, or people between the ages of 18 and 65, have contracted the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Studies show that about one-third of people who get COVID experience long-term symptoms, meaning that more than 30 million working-age Americans may have or have had long-COVID.

> 300,000 workers died as a result of COVID. Add that to the long-haul workers, and we’ve lost 1.9 million workers — or 18% of currently unfilled jobs.
I think it has 586 instructions, but speed is like a 486.
> The real question, in my opinion, is whether a high-priced bottle is "worth it" by as near-objective standards as possible.

This really resonates with me. In day-to-day life "worth it" depends a lot on the person, and especially their financial standing.

I like to try to think of an unbiased "worth it" as plotting cost vs value of everything in the category on a scatter plot. Things that are "worth it" are above the average curve (and the curve is going up at higher prices).

Basically "this option provides more value than most other options of same or lower cost".
That's when you're glad you're running a firefox variant and hit "Ctrl+Alt+R" to switch to reader view.
Musk has been saying "I am the law" to multiple people. Like, saying that specifically. This dude is on a really out-of-control power trip.

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competi...

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Q: So Putin, Musk, and Dorsey share the same vision?

A: It’s complicated. All seem to think a “multipolar world” is a good thing, because after all, shouldn’t Russia get to do its thing and not be bothered by anyone else? That’s “free speech” and opposes “cancel culture,” right? So yeah, that’s aligned with Putin. But Putin himself doesn’t support free speech; his government censors wildly, but it does support speech that breaks the hegemony of the Western elites. As do Musk and friends. This is internally inconsistent.

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All this talk of being oppressed by the powers that be, the "unipolar world", etc.

These are the people who want to be horrible and loved at the same time, and when that doesn't happen, they lash out. It's a type of ultra entitlement on cocaine. They talk of freedom of speech or freedom of anything, really, it's just shockingly cynical and dishonest. They only believe in the opinion of the masses if the masses ADORE them.

Also, Elon Musk would make a terrible king (which is what he wants to be).
which just means: lets waste many hours coordinating, for the benefit of having a 'nice looking' history.
I don’t know, but I’m fairly sure that the user base is the most valuable part of a social network/messenger platform, not the tech stack, or the staff.
Sorry, probably a stupid question but isn't Menlo Park in Cali...where FB is??
> If Twitter's Grand Pubah sends one tweet, it goes to 118M people

if my mom sends a message to the family group it goes to 50 people.

How many billion WhatsApp groups are there?

with the same constraints and problems Twitter has to face (offline users, notifications, keep users messages until they are online again, etc.)
Weren't they called DSLs a while ago?

The OP even uses "Domain Specific Language" in the article.
Okay, name an advertiser-sponsored website that’s not moderated.
I'm glad they are thinking through the details on barrier design.

Lets not forget that is only necessary because the automotive industry is barbaric to begin with. Let's recall why trains dont require advanced crash barrier design like this.
Yeah right now the most expensive part of a trip to Japan is the airfare. That might set you back $2700.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000irfb...

Currently no Tsunami Warning
Author and comments are sticking to text based languages for some reason.
I think visual ones have proven to be more accessible to non-programmers. There are downsides ofc ... for programmers =) As a programmer myself I do not think it will be great to push visual languages too far but business is business.
> Instead, all mega corps seem to blend together and follow the same playbook. It's sad.

Yet another glaring indicator identifying our species as not mature enough to manage our own society. If this occurs everywhere, no matter what, then it is us, our constitution, our chemistry, our maturity as a species that is at fault.
When you are working on a continuous space, what exactly is the difference in a program whether you use a closed-closed or half-open interval?

The only case that comes to my mind where it makes a difference at all is when you take discrete values from the interval and happen to hit exactly the end of the interval. But then the difference comes from the "discrete" part again. As long as you work on the continuous space, everything you typically do (e.g. integral, average, ...) give the same result no matter whether the end is part of the interval.

(You mentioned sampling, but I'd suggest that sampling by just taking values without lowpass filtering first is a bad idea anyway, and with a filter you are back to an integral which doesn't care about open/closed)
Huh, didn't expect to see a Mycroft Holmes reference today. Picroft looks interesting.
I love how these old, great pieces of architecture get a second life refurbished into some work of noble note. It's like a whale fall and all the little next-gen sea creatures feed on the giant carcass (house) of the old giant.
It depends, but I was imagining a vulnerability where I authenticate to the API as myself, but use your ID. Or I sed my usage/diagnostic logs and replace my ID with yours. This might sound really boring, but as an example, I could send logs/activity as someone else, placing them at a scene of a crime that would show up in a subpoena.

I doubt this vulnerability exists, but these IDs (and any IDs by any company) should be guarded just like any other PII for exactly this sort of reason.
The shuttle being “reusable” is ridiculous when compare with falcon 9 or heavy. The entire booster pack was discarded and the shuttle basically needed to be heavily refurbished…

I’m amazed people in good faith will minimise what SpaceX has done and pretend like “no one else cares”.

NASA has basically zero capability anymore (given they just launch their only rocket) - which was completely disposed of.

Do people really think all these other programs/companies think it’s “better” to throw the rocket out?

Why are rocketlab and others working on recovery and reuse then? Why has blue origin failed to get to orbit? Surely we’ve been doing this for 40 years, what’s wrong with them?
This guy was locked up because he made severe threats that were taken seriously. Maybe you didn't care much about bullies saying mean things to you, but even then you absolutely would've been anguished if those same people had threatened you with death or grievous bodily harm, repeatedly and seemingly with full seriousness. There's no excuse here.
> people just _don’t want to spend time learning your one-off language_

Which people though? If you make a DSL that non programmers in your organization use, I'm sure they will appreciate not having to learn the intricacies of Rust or whatever's in fashion this week.
> Levine himself says that SBF wasn't calling FTX or Alameda ponzi schemes, but rather was saying that some of the coins traded on FTX were ponzis

Hmm, well. When the ponzi schemes inevitably collapse, then so does the trade in them, right?
Yes, that's one disadvantage of anti-trust...we miss this second-order effect :.(
> Also exploratory branches where any nonsense may go on (that may end up being merged, at least partially!). Also test/development vs. production branches! One may be broken, the production branch should ideally never be in a state that cannot be deployed.

Well, why don't you simply copy the code into a new directory and commit that? Then you can do whatever you want in the scratch directory.
One option is to use ebpf uprobes to dump the key material or plaintext (https://github.com/ehids/ecapture ). Should be easy for c-like TLS libraries probably less useful for JIT languages.
>In other words that there was literally no such thing as free will.
Ought we now simply drop all consequences for crime or asocial behavior in general, because the people engaging in such literally cannot stop themselves?

If we had prove that "there was literally no such thing as free will" then the question would be moot - as it didn't matter whether we "ought" or "ought not" "drop all consequences for crime or asocial behavior in general".

We'd do it or not do it, without any say or free will on the matter. Even our meta discussion about it (e.g. its moral significance) wouldn't be made due to free will, and would be irrelevant to us doing what we end up doing.

You can't disprove free will and still be concerned of what you should do morally or strategically etc, as if its your own mind to make about it.

Or rather you can (still be concerned) but not your concern will in any way matter: it would be an automatic concern.

Note also that, in regards to crime statistics, without free will, it doensn't matter whether we drop "all consequences" or not. People will going to do or not do crime anyway, as they would have had anyway, as there's no free will to deter them.
The fact that there simply isn't a widely accepted build system just means it's not a solved problem yet.
Were the interns present at the time the editors entered? In other words — was blind tasting or double-blind testing?
> When I played again with ASE, I found that I was mostly staring at the map the whole time - literally playing the game on the map itself. A lot of the magic was gone.

I find that with modern games a lot - I spend my time looking at the map and not the world in front of me.
I don't understand how it makes sense to make these decisions one-sided. I have no opinion if demolition is right or not, but should it not make sense to also in the same bill fund a project to replace the lost power? Same goes for the Diablo canyon power plant and those plans for phasing it out.
As described by the first paragraphs of this article, buying Twitter was an epic mistake.

If I was Elon I think I'd write it off and make do with my remaining $200B.

What would I know though - maybe Elon has some sort of nouse to make the thing work.
I think the question boils down to "where is the junk?" ;) I.e, there is always junk, some put it in a commit hash, others into the files committed.
> the certificates manually created a long time ago (predating any standardized monitoring systems) with long expiry dates

Like the ever-popular "expires in 10 years" long-lived certificates. I've seen that happen: the VPN certificate, probably created by one of the founders 10 years ago when the company was tiny, expired one day without warning, breaking the VPN for all employees until it could be replaced (manually on every device).
Modern API Design with Golang, PostgreSQL and Docker
It's not supposed to be put into practice, and it's not supposed to be useful.