skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar vein, in the early days of launching Relay[1] I ended up spending a couple weeks in total squashing timestamp bugs. We were integrating with a few existing systems that used epoch seconds or milliseconds for timestamps and they usually didn't have a hint in the field name to tell what it was so it was really easy to miss in code reviews.

Our problems were caused by a mix of serialization format (JSON numbers) and not always converting into the language's date/time types at the boundary (sometimes raw epoch seconds/millis were passed around layers of code and only parsed into a date for display. That created opportunities for misinterpretation at every function call.

My general rules for non-performance critical code are

1. Always Parse into a first-class date/time/duration type at the serialization boundary.

2. Always use an unambiguous format (e.g. ISO-8601) for serialization

It's not the most efficient but lets you rely on the type system for everything in your code and only deal with conversion at one place.

[1] https://relay.amazon.com/
https://archive.ph/oKj0A
"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is the standard text. I like "Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors" for an explanation of how superscalar processors work.
"had them manufactured and shipped to the US"

You surrendered your IP doing that, effectively, correct?

This is not new. A decade ago I heard about chinese factories doing runs above and beyond the manufacturing they did for a company to sell through "other channels".

And that's how "Shimano" products were dirt cheap in Europe for about five years.
Cool, so I understood correctly: In response to "NZ has no constitution", you respond first that it does and then follow with why it's good that it doesn't.

I thought this was such a bold argument that I must have misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification.
“In Study 3, we tested the accuracy of these forecasts by randomly assigning participants to speak for 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, or 70% of the time in a dyadic conversation.“

This study does not correlate to the real word at all. A computer telling you when you should speak is so different from a natural conversation. In the real world, you’re not speaking because you’re listening, intentionally; in the study, you’re not speaking because the computer said who’s turn it was.
First SMS Text Message [on this day 30 years ago]?
Yes. Getting a cab into the city/nightlife is difficult but possible. But if you don't know when or where you're going home from. B/c you want to hang out with your friends and moving around, then coordinating a cab ride home was near impossible. Only exception was NYC where the density of cabs in nightlife locations kinda/sorta-of solved this.
Projects are about Time, Products about Value
What would the point of the browser be, then?

It's specifically meant to render HTML, JS, CSS layouts. If it's just a shell hosting a WASM application, you may as well get rid of the browser altogether.

This is where I get confused. It's sort of like what Electron has done to make "web applications" into desktop applications, but here we are talking about true desktop applications, not HTML pages inside an OS shell.

I can't see where this all headed, I'm sure it will become clearer over the coming years.
Amazon is a lot more strict. I worked in a warehouse before and after Amazon bought the company. Afterwards all decisions came from high up. There is no employee consideration. Just a desire for better numbers so you will now suffer these decisions.

After I left they put a literal cage with turnstile around the warehouse entrance. Place looks like a prison now.
This is 100% my experience with facebook. It used to be bearable, but once covid and WFH hit globally, they changed ratio of adverts massively overnight, making the use of product a sufferfest for people like me who are allergic to ads. Unfortunately not even ublock origin can handle all of their embedded ads.

Well, I certainly will never ever miss FB but those contacts would be nice to preserve somehow...
Why is this being downvoted? I'd expand it to almost all pills are now just mexi's being called 'xyz' as well. Dudes are just ordering fentanyl analogs off the web from China, testing it on themselves so they don't get hit for selling bunk work, then moving it. If you are desperate and addicted yourself this route is preferred to sketchy alternatives and dealing with super scary individuals. Your biggest risk of getting caught isn't the trafficking but people so easily dying sticking you with a case with a body on it. The reverse opium war has begun with China but no one wants to talk about it. Over half the dudes I did time with with drug charges went this route and got it all over the intermail/international shipping vs cartel and the only reason a case would get strong enough to convict was if it got a body put on it.
Slow Progress Is Taking the Fear Out of Artificial Intelligence
This appears to be a huge effort. The "Augustus" engine, which shares a lot of code with "Julius", has all of the incompatible updates (roadblocks, zoom, changes to worker behavior, etc. etc.).

The compatible updates (compatibility with modern Windows, MP3 based sound support, etc. etc.) are all together in Julius... I guess for all the people who have 20+ year old save files they want to come back to.
This is an interesting read, but I note that when you get a car tax reminder in the UK, there is a 12 digit document reference number, presented as three groups of 4 digits, and last time I used it, you couldn't enter the number with the spaces. Trivial for a programmer to fix, but really annoying for users.
It perfectly captures the original characterization of the meme. I really hope they are in on the joke.
I'd like just to specify that I composed that paragraph on the spot. Rem tene, verba sequentur.

If Hemingway said something similar, I'd say it is not specifically because great minds think alike - also that -, but because we described the same thing. There is an infinite number of ways to describe, say, a glass through «relatively fixed perspective form[s]», but a pretty limited number of «ideal structure[s]» pertaining.
It may not be what people selected, but at least in Lyft it was the default and cheapest option. Pre-2020 all my Lyft rides were shared.
The reason for the glut of these apps is that people have a drive to create.
Couldn’t care less. When they have a robot that will clean my house, do my dishes and laundry, mow my lawn and remove snow, call me. I would spend thousands for a robot like that.
This is why we included 3D Builder as part of our workflow. It requires a lower threshold of expertise to do simple actions like joining models (eg- from 3D scans), which is a much more complex action in Blender and reduces the amount of time our 3D techs spend cleaning up models they receive.

If Blockbench does the handful of things we need, we'll use it instead to agnosticize platform dependency for customers, who increasingly don't have access to Windows.
I don't know for sure but I think building, OSHA, and various other regulations would probably make problems for getting a highly unique building like this built.

Plus the reason most warehouses don't build up is building up is expensive. Most warehouses are in cheap land areas so building out is more cost effective.
1. Forming companies and getting clients isn't zero cost.

2. Judges are human and can apply appropriate principles.
Because they were absolutely terrible. No feedback to back-pressure terrible service and scams. No pre-quoted fares. No arrival estimates. No reliability.
This made a lot more sense after I read the writeup.
I’m happy to see it’s less intrusive. I may actually be able to use their site again.

All in all, doesn’t look too bad at all.

Edit: ah I didn’t look at the comment page yet. There’s still a super intrusive banner prompting you to switch to the app there.
Based on my experiences going out in the pre-Uber world: When taxis are in high demand they’re also every hard to find. Usually you could find one in ~15 minutes but not always. And back then they’d sometimes insist on cash so if you didn’t carry enough you’re out of luck.

So I’d say that while convenience is one factor, it’s more about reliability. Lyft/Uber just work. Surge pricing is frustrating but it does create the right incentive to get more cars on the road.
I'm in favour of free speech, without censorship from government or private entities. Which is why I think censoring the laptop story was wrong.

So tell me, how is that anti free speech?
relevant blog post from a friend of mine https://gigi.montaigne.io/why-do-i-like-feynman
People aren't focusing on Hunter's nudes - that's what Matt Taibbi shared as an example of the requests made by the Biden campaign. If you actually look at the request, again, specifically chosen by Matt Taibbi as an example of a problematic conversation between the political campaign and Twitter, it was a request to remove Hunter Biden nudes. That's what Matt Taibbi specifically decided to share, despite presumably having access to all of this supposedly problematic interactions. That's pretty strong evidence that not much else was going on - if the Biden campaign was trying to suppress more problematic narratives that had to do with corruption, why wasn't this evidence presented?
Kia and Hyundai don't have good reputations because of the build quality of their engines. Their poor quality piston rings means the engine eats itself. They've had to recall basically every engine they've produced in the past decade.
I will take a look, thanks!
Is the MAP problem a real documented social phenomena or just a type of satanic scare? I understand it is researched as a topic in sociology like the Sambari people that practice ritualised homosexuality by having boys injest semen but that doesn't mean people are trying to make it socially acceptable. Honestly I can't think of a less unacceptable thing.
My daughter is the same as this OP's partner. She can drive for hours just fine, but if she's a passenger ~20 mins is her comfort zone.

Sitting "shotgun" or in the back doesn't make much of a difference. It is the "movements" which seems to trigger her.

Think about how your body reacts to you driving. As you enter a turn you anticipate it and muscles tighten. This is more dramatic if you stop/start because this leads to the body being pushed forward. As a driver you know the car will be slowing down as you pushed on the brakes, passengers dont "know" this and their muscles dont react the same.

When we go on road trips she refuses to drive yet this would actually help her motion sickness. She also fights for the "shotgun" seat claiming it "helps with my motion sickness"...

Long road trips on the highway are easier for her vs short commutes because there is less "forward and back" movement.

This is just my personal observations.

Thank goodness for "Gravol" ;)
Residents at White Mesa protest the local uranium mill
French lab launches the first product to make patchy beard grow
Only works on existing hair follicles.

Aqua, Myristyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Panthenol, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Beta Vulgaris Root Extract, Parfum, Cetrimonium Chloride, Tocopherol, Citric Acid, Glycine Soja Oil, Beta-Sitosterol, Benzyl Alcohol, Squalene, Dehydroacetic Acid, Coumarin, Citronellol, Limonene, Linalool

CLINICAL TRIALS:
Résultats :
(1) Une étude clinique menée sur 26 hommes a démontré avec l’application du produit 1 fois par jour pendant 2 mois une augmentation du nombre de poils de barbe existants en phase anagène (phase de croissance) en moyenne de 9,9 poils par cm2 ainsi qu’une augmentation de l’épaisseur des poils de barbe.
(2) Augmentation du nombre de poils de barbe existants en phase anagène (phase de croissance) de +1759 poils de barbe, moyenne globale, 26 hommes après 14 jours d’application quotidienne.

* Test d’usage sur 26 hommes, % de satisfaction, après 2 mois d’utilisation quotidienne.
Hey Alex! Cool project :) Reminds me of something we worked on together some months before ;)
Yeah, I really wish those games allowed me to simplify "draw" the trajectory of the workers. You'd still be limited by the length they can walk from their origin building but would not get frustrated by worker suddenly choosing another route, breaking all the nice areas you took hours to build.

But they were really great games anyway. Caesar III in particular is the first game I spent many hours on, and hold a special place in my heart.
That assumes AI can only make ever-degrading copies of copies and are completely unable to synthesize new information out of existing information. I don't think is true any more (even just at today's capabilities).

It is producing novel information -- pictures or text or otherwise.

Besides, human creativity isn't borne of a vacuum either. Most humans works are derivatives of some other work and depend on the creator's life experiences, etc. Our entire education system is based on "people teaching other people what they know", at a lower fidelity, copies-of-copies style.
Haha, I always wanted to make one of these. Was going to call it Slacker News.

Amused by the way the random domains interact with the headlines (a NY Times exclusive on working every day for two years with Tailwind CSS, Microsoft blogging to say you may not need Svelte, Nature shilling Dogecoin)
The Breakout Tech Company of 2022
Exactly: the vast majority of people don't use Twitter and aren't part of anyone's "follower count".

Most people outside of your (and my) bubble don't read the news, don't pay much attention to politics, aren't particularly well educated, don't think very hard about who they're going to vote for (if they even vote), and if they use Twitter at all it's to post cat videos and keep up with the Kardashians.

You might not cross paths with this kind of person much in your daily life, but I promise you they're everywhere - and most of them would struggle to tell you what Joe Biden's son's name is, let alone what controversies he's been involved in.
The Breakout Tech Company of 2022: OpenAI
>> a civilization that has mostly been at peace for a long time

The United States has had around 20 years of peace since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
On my current Reddit[1] I can see five posts per screen on my phone. On this version, I can see 2 and a half. That’s a huge downgrade, particularly from the old-old Reddit where I could get 6-8.

Otherwise it looks fine. I wish they’d ditch the stupid app promos already. That absolutely reeks of one team maximizing a KPI to the detriment of the org as a whole.

[1] old new in card view I think?
Thanks for all the valuable tips.

It's amazing every time how much load a properly configured database can reduce.

Especially the tips for optimizing indexes are very good. "Partial Indexes for Uniqueness Constraints" is my most favorite.
It's a very damning thing to say, you know, if all that information management systems lead to is more information management systems.
Most computers were microcoded from the invention of the technique early in the 1950s, until the present. Really, it would make more sense to list the exceptions that weren't microcoded.

Some small minicomputers like the PDP-8 in the 60s/70s were hardwired logic; they were so simple that microcode wasn't necessary to cheaply implement them. Along the same lines, some early microprocessors like the 6502 also weren't microcoded (though they still tended to use large ROM lookup tables driven by a custom state machine so sort of half-microcoded).

Some very large early supercomputers were also hardwired; the CDC 6000 series, Cray-1, or IBM's largest System/370 models, for example. Microcode was avoided to minimize the logic delay during a single cycle and get things running as fast as possible. The same philosophy would resurface in the 1980s with RISC. But then RISC chips started adding microcode back in to handle complex multi-step instructions, etc.

Nearly everything else has been microcoded: everything from 8-bit microcontrollers to the Motorola 68K to the VAX, later RISC designs like POWER and ARM, every iteration of x86, etc.
I never made such a blanket statement.

I said that the question as posed is not "confusing garbage".

Based on the price, I assumed it was a garage sale and not really taxable. But, ok, let's say it's a fire sale and is taxable.

How would sales tax affect the calculation at all?

If it does, how would you write the question in a way to assuage your concerns about taxation?

Does your text cover all the relevant details? Like, is the entity making the purchase subject to sales tax? Or, does the purchase take place in West Virginia when this purchase might be covered under the Annual Back to School tax holiday?
I got a hard lockout to my LinkedIN account a few months ago, since I enabled 2FA and lost the device. I had to send a passport scan to support so they could verify it was me, so I could close my account. Not that I minded that much.

It goes to show you their support team is actually active and don't ignore queries (even if the service is free).
I regretted the Twitter comparison as soon as I reread my comment. I was thinking in broader terms — apps where the bulk of users follow creators and not personal contacts tend to grow and sustain very differently. But it’s so obviously most similar to YouTube, from a user perspective, it’s an accelerated YouTube experience.
Additionally Satellite and Microwave links aren't new technology and are likely used by both sides of military for communication, so there's probably some existing value in making sure you're hitting the right thing.
When Twitter tried to just apply consistent content moderation policies and right-wing politicians ended up being banned for repeated violations of Twitter ToS, there was a ton of outrage, among much of the exact same group of people that are talking about how bad it is that politicians appear to have a direct line of communication with Twitter policy teams.
>so does america want stupid americans

I'd say it depends on the politicians themselves. I'd say populists don't mind the people's stupidity and misery at all, because they turn that into an advantage for themselves, by very publicly providing, or even just promising, a short term relief for them. In this way, systemic issues like the welfare trap or wage slavery give them opportunity to inflate their popularity by organizing handouts, or by redirecting the people's misery to outgroups, such as non-heterosexuals, people of color, immigrants or other marginalized groups like people with addictions.
I do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing
"No we couldn’t buy a big six foot three dude an old little beater"

I understand that you prefer Uber and your arguments are valid but this specific statement is an excuse. You can always find a car that is not a beater but reliable and inexpensive (well unless this was during the last 12 months or when car sales were crazy).

So make the argument that you don't want a car but don't make it by saying you cannot buy a reliable used car for a tall person. That is not true.
That's hardly the case anymore and it's one of the main points the article is making. It doesn't matter who you follow when well over half your feed is composed of ads, suggested reels, and two week old TikTok reposts from random strangers.
It would be nice to use GPT3 to generate the headlines and even the content of the links.
Any more details on this or how you found it? I haven't seen this mentioned before and I can't find any details about it on the reddit site. It seems extremely incomplete (can't even log in) so I'm not sure this is even meant to be indicative of what they'll actually be doing.

It seems to have been in the works since mid-2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210618170609/https://sh.reddit...
clinical trials please
OpenCore Legacy Patcher

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614135

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/#opencor...

Not quite 100% on topic but useful for those with unsupported hardware.
Is not that anti "antifragile" by design ? Like a being which is very well adapated to its environment: it can not survive if its environment changes.
IME, no. It's worse in the back. It's also worse when reading or looking at a phone, rather than the road. I guess that means that less information makes it even worse, not better.
To be fair, it's not that hard to convince humans to believe ridiculous things too. There are plenty of examples out there.
Résultats :
(1) Une étude clinique menée sur 26 hommes a démontré avec l’application du produit 1 fois par jour pendant 2 mois une augmentation du nombre de poils de barbe existants en phase anagène (phase de croissance) en moyenne de 9,9 poils par cm2 ainsi qu’une augmentation de l’épaisseur des poils de barbe.
(2) Augmentation du nombre de poils de barbe existants en phase anagène (phase de croissance) de +1759 poils de barbe, moyenne globale, 26 hommes après 14 jours d’application quotidienne.

* Test d’usage sur 26 hommes, % de satisfaction, après 2 mois d’utilisation quotidienne.
All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization (2022)
Aww I misread the title. Was hoping this would unlock full speed wireless charging without Apple's magsafe charger.
For a more modern take on the genre check out Nebuchadnezzar: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1157220/Nebuchadnezzar/

It's got some great new features, like having some control and visibility over where and how far the workers go.
The SB author speaking here. I hear you. I used emacs heavily for a few years and of course it inspires a lot of this. I see SB as a somewhat pragmatic reinvention of many emacs ideas. It doesn’t try to be as broadly applicable as emacs though.

While it’s almost impossible to innovate on what has been done in emacs over the decades, I think we can refresh some the things that make it powerful with a fresh coat of paint, to make it more accessible to a “younger generation.”
I've seen this comment ever since I started reading Hacker News some 10 years ago. I've noticed myself getting warmed up to the argument over time, so I believe it's more an artifact of a user getting older than any real objective change in the site itself.
Why is NSO able to exist in Israel's legal and social culture? Most western societies wouldn't allow it except within police or military agencies.
France bans internal flights in favor of trains
You're dealing with what is essentially a front for gray-area extrajudicial hacking. The company itself isn't the issue, it's that it gives governments and other entities cover when they want to do shady shit. Same reason we use private military companies. The profitability of any one such company isn't really terribly important (from a privacy standpoint)... when one goes down, another takes its place, and the willing buyers will just buy from a new one instead. Like drug dealers.

From the privacy angle, nobody cares about NSO profitability... the point is that even if they go bankrupt, the underlying people, technologies, procedures, and overall shadiness will not only remain but grow stronger and more hidden, learning from this incident. Zero-days will keep getting found and bought and used for surveillance, and that is not something the legal system can solve, because a major customer IS state buyers who are funneling resources to it to purposefully circumvent legal protections. Judges aren't almighty, the law is selectively enforced, and almost always overridden for "national security" purposes.
> And you still need to go through the browser to display anything

No, you don't, and even if that was the case you can just throw a <canvas> tag on a page and render whatever custom UI you want to that, sort of like one of Flutter's web output options is.

This scraps decades of work in HTML, JS, CSS, engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey, etc.

You may as well just toss the browser out the window and consider it a "program" you are running from the internet.