skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a rule of thumb, anything above about 100ms has perceptible latency to end users (even if they're not consciously thinking about it, they're noticing it). Depending on your application, and how captive your users are, you may or may not care about this perception. If you're taking users through filing an insurance claim, you don't, because your users can't go anywhere. But if your users are filling a shopping cart, or paying for content with their attention, you care a lot more, because lag eventually bounces users from your site.

Further, there are features that aren't really tenable unless you get lag under control (somehow, either by eliminating it or by taming it with cashing, prediction, and interpolation). Game servers are everyone's canonical example here, but really any kind of real-time feature fits the bill. Now, most CRUD applications don't have real-time features, so this might not be a big motivator. But one subtle bet we're making is that more apps would do interesting real-time things if it that latency problem was easy to solve.

The big problem you have if you're working on these problems is that it's very difficult to fit into this kind of latency budget if all your stuff is hosted in Loudoun County, because the speed of light is eating most (all?) of that 100ms.

That's the logic of wanting to get deployed in multiple cities simultaneously. There's more than one way to do it! We're just one possible solution.
That’s excellent
For a moment, let's assume they do abandon the monorepo. What solution would you recommend for managing code dependencies and coordinating releases between thousands of teams (at a modest 5 repos per team) - git tags?
Can we assume that if the acrylic was a point of failure, then the whole titanium end cap section would appear much more damaged, than what we can see on those pictures?
Include also moc files of headers
There are a variety of non-destructive inspection and testing methods for composite, like ultrasonic c-scans and pulsed thermography that I know of.

And you can produce reliable composite parts (you don't want homogenous, but them to come out exactly as spec'ed) under strict control, but it doesn't look like they necessarily did that here. They seem to have eg foregone autoclave curing of the tube section probably due to cost.
Just about three weeks ago, I made a fossil repo to keep track of my recipies.

I write them in markdown and use fossil's webserver to be able to access them
while in the kitchen. If I need to see ingridents while i'm out, i activate my
tailscale VPN on my phone and browse to the fossil webserver.

Thankfully i'm not the only one who has oven-engineered a simple solution.
Canada has a ton of structural problems that will prevent this from doing anything most likely, namely housing and wages.

The housing crisis in Canada is extreme and well beyond the very real housing crisis in the US. Previously people focused on Vancouver, which is insane, but now the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) is essentially unaffordable basically everywhere. Possibly the only exception is Quebec. There is no political will to fix this problem because houses have become retirement accounts and anything that reduces home values is political suicide.

The second problem is that Canadian wages are incredibly low, even in tech. In the US at least software engineer compensation largely shields you from the housing and cost of living crisis. That is not the case in Canada.

Canada is very similar to Australia, which also has a housing crisis. Both countries have an economy geared to resource extraction and the respective currencies move with commodity prices.

I don’t expect this scheme to have much impact.
You can't move a sphere around by spinning it. You can only change your direction.

Spinning around, moving uncontrollably inside a storm, with very variable speed are exactly things that lost balloons do.
They aren't necessarily designed to return. All our probes to Mars, etc. are one-way.
You can easily have bounded loops and superexponential runtime.
Have built a fintech startup here in Germany ten years ago. The article mentions lots of important things. Here‘s another one:

Time synchronization. It is incredibly important in fintech applications for a number of reasons:

1. *Transaction Ordering:* Financial transactions often need to be processed in the order they were initiated. This is especially crucial in high-frequency trading where trades are often made in milliseconds or microseconds. A small difference in timing could potentially lead to substantial financial gains or losses. Therefore, accurate time synchronization ensures fairness and order in the execution of these transactions.

2. *Security:* Accurate timekeeping helps in maintaining security. For instance, time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) are widely used in two-factor authentication systems. These passwords are valid only for a short period of time and rely on synchronized clocks on the server and client side.

3. *Audit Trails and Dispute Resolution:* Timestamping transactions can help create a precise audit trail, which is critical for detecting and investigating fraudulent activities. In case of any dispute, a detailed and accurate transaction history backed by synchronized time can help resolve the issue.

4. *Distributed Systems:* In distributed systems, time synchronization is important to ensure data consistency. Many financial systems are distributed over different geographical locations, and transactions need to be coordinated between these systems in an orderly fashion. This requires all servers to have their clocks synchronized.

I am sure there are even more fields where this is relevant.
Cloudflare also depends on investor money, they haven't made a profit ever and continue to just throw stuff at the wall to grow.

At some point in time they'll have to start thinking about profitability.
It sounds like we are coming from very different axioms.

I don't think being hungry negates voluntary association.

Being hungry should not compel another to association any more than being horny should.
Decades behind in ad networks and social graphs but miles ahead in their core competencies maybe?
It’s not though. Your bank and/or credit card issuer may be that bad but there are plenty of others that operate faster.

I pay my Amex card from Fidelity and the balance updates on the Amex immediately and the money comes out of Fidelity the next day.
Nothing in the U.S. compares to the Canadian housing bubble
> Bootcamp

Is that one fair? Running Windows, fully emulated, with the limited memory that M1 had, probably wouldn't be the best experience.
Show HN: I made a personalized AI gift recommendation tool
GiftMatchr is an AI gift recommendation tool that finds the best gifts for a recipient based on their interests, age, type of recipient, budget, and occasion. Gifts that are recommended can then be bought from Amazon.
An important aspect of identifiers is to not leak any information in the identifier. In some scenarios a prefix might be fine but less important things have been blocked by our dpo department.
Not much of a threat since it’s only 10,000 slots. There’s 420,000 H1B visa holders in the US.
With respect: that's exactly the kind of glib, drive-by analysis I'm talking about. What you're saying simply isn't true. People have been testing composites in pressure chambers and every load imaginable for decades. Yes, clearly they don't act like steel. But saying that it's impossible is just too easy.

Just watch. It's going to be a routine design flaw, like they added a joint or a wiring hole in a bad place and didn't re-run the model.

(Edit because this was misunderstood: I'm not saying what the failure is. I'm saying that we DON'T KNOW what the failure is, and that given the choice between makes-me-feel-smart pontification about materials and a routine design flaw in a prototype device, I'm going to bet on the routine failure every single time.)
How many jams, jellies, marmalades, or confitures do you know of that contain vinegar, savory spices, and salt? In a recipe calling for jam, would you replace it with ketchup?
> I don't understand cutting all funding for reversing such technology.

As I understand it, only "secret, unreported programs" would lose funding.
> Also they didn't consider themselves to be unique and special snowflakes that needed non-standard widgets and theming.

Ugh, this hurts my soul. I've worked with way too many designers who simply had to use their own icons and menus and scroll bars and drop-downs and on and on. Yea, let's throw out the person-centuries of interaction design research that the OS vendor put into the standard controls so that you, 3 years out of design school, can impose your "improved" version of them.
It's finally my turn to link this often linked essay: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

I don't believe I've ever seen it shared in the context of rewrite-in-rust, but I think the views it expresses also have some value in this context.
Correct. Eliminating plastic pollution will be a benefit not to us, but to our children's children. The same with reducing carbon emissions.
When we first switched from git to hg internally I was real cranky. Git was the clear industry winner, and hg was adding a whole bunch of churn for no good reason.

Now, hg is amazing and when I leave I will be extremely sad to go back to git. The UX is well thought out, with commands mapping to operations (how do you undo a commit? hg uncommit vs git playing around with the reflog).

Amending deep commits is pretty good -- it's still tricky and absorb works on some pretty limited heuristics. But the merge tooling is pretty good around moving around in a stack, and the general UX over interacting with the stack is way better: hg histedit edits history, while hg rebase moves the stack around.
It sounds like a dramatic step without necessarily having any real impact. If as I suspect these UFO claims are largely BS, then it's an easy way to impress the disturbingly large sector of the public that lives in a conspiratorial fantasy land.
Angles are absolutely more dimensionless than lengths are. For an easy check you can't add quantities where the dimension differs, which means it doesn't make sense to add a length to its cube. On the other hand it does make sense to add an angle to its cube - this is a necessary component of computing sin(angle) by the power series sin(angle) = angle - (angle^3)/6 + ...
I hear you, and point taken. But I'm not (at least not consciously) equating excellence with elitism. I would say "The Incredibles" was both popular and a masterpiece. The "Fast" series is popular but not a masterpiece. And "Sorry to Bother You" was a masterpiece, but not popular (nor is it in my opinion inaccessible in the way that "Drive My Car" or Ursula Meier's "Home" might be, if by inaccessible you mean thematically unengaging to mainstream American audiences.) Personally, I like 'em all.
Soapy water won't break down the molecularly bonded fat and iron on your cast iron. If you mistake leftover grease for seasoning, then sure, soapy water will get rid of it.

The trick to not sticking on steel pan is just preheating it properly. A drop of water should dance on a properly heated steel pan and things won't stick. Just let it get hot enough.
They really passed up openco.de?
libc is used by the entire system. It's not a vendored dependency of just sudo. At best, you'd amortize it over everything that uses it to get a reasonable comparison.
And when it ceases to be sufficient, just discard it and purchase a replacement. How convenient.
There was that time Delta generated an "H8GAYS" PNR. [1] Pretty sure that's valid Crockford encoding too :) however, to your point, it does rely on 'A'. "H8G4YS" would likely still offend someone out there, though, given the kerfuffle in [1].

[1] https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/17/delta-airlines-is-very-...
As someone who moved from the U.S. to Canada at the start of my career. Don't
This is a hot take and might rule some people up, but… Canadian Immigration policy is often racist, ableist, and just generally bad.

The US’s policies are effectively worse in my opinion but the Canucks are often a bit short sighted with this sort of thing.

The people support immigration… but they elect leaders who enact laws that make it really hard.
I work at AWS all opinions are my own.

AWS does have local zones and has Lambda at Edge. I will be the first to admit though that the local zones are tied to regional zones and that some global services are tied to us-east-1 like IAM.
Is there a way to see recipes based on the cooking method?

Show me all the recipes that use the oven, sous vide, grill, smoker, etc.
I would think that also but I'm hung up on some details.

Pita is a pretty basic word for a human staple. Large regional areas use a very similar word for millenniums. One culture doesn't and is just as interspersed as through time and space as the others.

In fact they share many texts.

I think this is different than the examples you provided.

I would describe some pizza's in Berkshire Country as a Torte.
I should have clarified that I meant a universal standard. COBOL was meant to create a common language across business and government, while Ada was meant to just consolidate a language across DoD projects. Ada is a much better language than COBOL, but I think that adoption of even a good language across those ecosystems will only succeed when it is adopted from the ground up.
Politicians have no incentive to make things worse in a typical government structure.

It is however true that corporations have strong incentives to support politicians and media entities who are aligned with their own interests.
I don't see how scanning for the material in major messaging platforms would impact anything. The people will just move to the next service that is encrypted. The technology exists. It can not be banned.
Chatbot Augmented with Enterprise Data
> I don’t understand people’s love of ORMs instead of simply learning SQL

> Want to make a composite primary key? I have no idea how you would do it with most ORMs,

Since you mentioned SQLAlchemy

class MyTable(Base):
col1 = sa.Column(sa.Integer, primary_key=True)
col2 = sa.Column(sa.Integer, primary_key=True)

ORMs aren't an alternative to learning SQL.

* Type safety on all SQL operations.

* All the benefits of a query builder.

* Reverse relationships that read better in code `parent.children`.

* External file management that is generic, works on all your tables the same way, and supports multiple simultaneous back-ends making migrations easy.

* Object de/serialization and transformations letting you use native types like datetime.

* Typed/parsed JSON columns, I use Pydantic for this.

* Handling single/multi table inheritance for you and giving you type safety.
While "where tradition meets innovation" is a set of words that the county puts on their logo, and appears to meet the definition of a motto, the parent is correct that the Official Motto is indeed "I Byde My Time".

https://www.loudoun.gov/177/Coat-of-Arms

"Where Tradition Meets Innovation" appears to be a branding push by the county dating to 2019 rather than an official motto. https://www.loudoun.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/8563
The claims are not that it's so much a rogue gov agency, but that it's buried by contractors who aren't tied to the requirements agencies have.
I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts
I’m a guitar player, and I use tablature notation editors such as Guitar Pro a lot. However, it gets complicated fast when I write polyrhythmic/polymetric drum parts, because shifts tend to go over the bar lines and it’s hard to make sense it’s correct visually (may be even harder if you listen to it). The other property of such parts is: it tends to unfold from simple ideas such as “I want to create a drum part that will have a 3 against 4 feel with a kick drum against a snare drum”. The other way to think about it is that it has a simple blueprint, but it’s tricky and error-prone to express in Western musical notation. This is why Polyrhythmix exists. I wanted to have a simple tool to workshop/brainstorm rhythmic ideas and evaluate them by having a MIDI playback. I’m into modern Progressive Rock/Metal music, Fusion, so it all applies very well. I have an impression it may be useful for Indian Carnatic music as well, but I would like to get some insightful confirmation on that.
Having developers mindshare is a quality of its own.
A note on the contractor question: The basic construction of the house is quite simple (post and beam not too dissimilar to the German "Fachwerk") and given the right tools and location could be done completely DIY. Check out this YouTube channel for traditional wood framing techniques: https://www.youtube.com/@KrisHarbour Our contractors used a more modern design approach and metal fasteners but it is basically the same basic construction.

Professional contractors have professional equipment for this type of construction, though and can put it together really quickly. The basic framing of the house was constructed over a couple of months or so off site (with mostly two guys being involved, I think), transported in pieces to the build site and put together over the span of five days, including the roof construction. The insulation and OSB were added over the span of a few weeks.
> They killed the audio jack. That's pretty heinous.

Yeah, this still sucks. It'll probably never stop being worse than having the jack.

> And they removed the sim slot.

... this has been really nice? The new virtual-sim thing has been strictly an improvement, for me. But there may be some use-cases I don't need that it's been worse for, IDK.

> And the finger print reader.

Poor success rate for me in the best of times, and I had to re-train it every few months or shifting temp & humidity would drop the unlock success rate to like 10%. Face unlock has been a huge improvement for me, and keeps getting better, a couple years of Covid mask-related trouble aside (but, YMMV).
They typical pattern is they work for one of the government contractors L3 (now L3Harris), Northrop Grumman, etc. Of course it's a revolving door as well.

> You’d be surprised how many tech employees inside government clear $750k

That does sound a little high. But it seems you have more recent info than I do.
Rust on the CH32V003
> I think [ISO8601 date and time with offset info is] sufficient for all use cases everywhere.

TLDR: Also, which timezone is used (not quite the same as offset) really does matter--UTC is great but you can't use it everywhere.

________

One of my favorite simple examples of this "here be dragons" for the new developer: Any system that schedules a future calendar-event.

Such events are typically pegged, implicitly if not explicitly, to a particular timezone or geographic context. For example: "The company's Virtual Summit will occur on November 2nd at 1PM Elbonian Xtremesunshine Time, hosted out of our central Elbonian headquarters."

In that scenario, it is impossible to know for sure how many seconds-from-now it will happen until the moment actually happens! "2023-11-02 13:00:00 EXT" is actually a contract or spec for recognizing a future condition, one that will shift if/when the relevant nation/province/city simply declares their clocks shall be set differently.

So if the Elbonian government alters their daylight-savings switchover to occur earlier on 11-01 instead of 11-06, then the summit just moved. Even if you scheduled everything UTC all along... Well, now the summit is overlapping lunchtime for everyone in Elbonia, so it moved from their perspective.
Ehh, what's the SV state of the art in low-observability, or railguns, or high-precision fuzing? I'm thinking "not very much".
I'm in health tech and one killer feature would be being able to route and store an individual's requests through and data in a particular location. So I can deploy a health app backend that allows its users to decide where to put their data.
> The window should fail visually with a lot of warning before rupture

The window would deform up to 2" during dives, according to passengers.
The lack of the several minute rage, and complete lack of ministry of love and truth being named as such does not change the fact that all you need to do is look hard enough, and the level of duplicity in saying one thing but doing another, and disguising it through legalistic doublespeak is rampant.

For someone who was around before all of this connectivity became possible, the speed with which the primitives to realize so many of these authorial worst case scenarios possible are being converged upon by a society already explicitly aware of what to look out for is frankly horrifying.
I am not saying we know for a fact that extra terrestrials have landed on planet earth. I agree with you, there is still not enough evidence.

However I am tired of reading so called skeptics dismissing people who come forward claiming they have seen UFOs as kooks or drunkards.

There is enough evidence by now that in my opinion it is within the realm of possibility that we are being visited by alien intelligence.

Video recordings that can't be explained, radar observations etc. Please also realize that most of what has been recorded so far is classified as top secret, according to testimony from people with direct access to this evidence and like I said in my parent comment, we also have plenty of credible eye witness reports.

It's sad that people aren't more curious - not everything is about distracting from Donald Trumps misadventures with classified documents...
Feels like working in advertising as well, granted it’s been a decade for me but I imagine the “creative” ego trip is still as alive as ever.
"Almost certainly"?

We all have our hypotheses, and by all means promote yours, but do you really feel you have enough evidence to assign such a high confidence to yours? How do you reconcile it with statements like the following, made by the former director of National Intelligence?

"There are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain. Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom."
If we're "honest" and "transparent", it's not a conscious strategy to sign up customers. It's just the easiest way for us to write. Meanwhile: we're a hardware-based global hosting company. We've always been externally funded. That's how you build a global hardware-backed hosting company, because servers and colocation and infra engineers are expensive.

There are things that happen that disappoint customers that we care a lot about. Reliability issues several months ago absolutely fit that bill. So does hiring: we paused hiring for most of our engineering roles because we weren't happy with the experience candidates were getting. I don't know how "honest" and "transparent" we are about those things, but I do feel like when we're asked about them, we give straight answers.

There are other things that happen that disappoint people that we don't care so much about. Being unhappy that we took external funding to build out our fleet and improve reliability would count as one of those things. Again with the straight answers: I wouldn't expect us to spend too much time trying to "rebound" from this announcement.