skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is far from the truth. The closest time before midnight you can conveniently represent in the current time system is 23:59:59 which is six symbols for a standard second before midnight.

In decimal time the closest time before midnight you can conveniently represent would be .9:99:99 which is noticeably closer (0.163 of a second closer) to midnight and uses only 5 symbols.

This should not be surprising - our current system is very inefficient in its use of digits.
Loom gives a much better UX and easy to use and more important ability to share. They probably have a huge user base that other businesses interested in acquire.
But if you have a 2-stage election, where the first stage is not siloed by private club affiliation, you could have two Republicans and a Democrat advance to the final round. Or perhaps three Democrats. And they are all more appealling to the general population than what we get now.

I would prefer a candidate who was the first choice of 30% of Party A voters and the second choice of 40% of Party B voters over a candidate who was the first choice of 65% of Party A voters and the second choice of 2% of Party B voters.

Admittedly, RCV doesn't guarantee this, but it seems much more promising. If you can get winners that 70% of voters can live with, that seems better than the current situation. And it would change strategies dramatically. I would expect fewer appeals to mobilize extremist bases.

I think it would also make voting more granular. People would focus on individual issues more. Their first choice might look the same as today, but for their second choice should they choose the guns-rights abortionst or the gun-control pro-lifer? That second choice now impacts the election result in a meaningful way.
> I'd say there must exist a more ancient law, stating that a representation of s-expressions is reinvented whenever a need arises for a generic data format.

That more ancient law would Greenspun's tenth rule, FYI—or a corollary to it, at least.

The law proposed here (as Baz's 11th law) was intended to be a humorous and obvious pastiche crafted with Greenspun's quip in mind, with the idea being that the reader would be in on the joke (being already familiar with it).

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule>
I'm careful about who I get my history from. I hadn't heard about Kings and Generals before your comment, and their video library looked quite enticing. So I started looking into whether I could regard them as generally trustworthy. The first red flag was that I could find zero names of anyone involved in the project. Their web site[1] doesn't say anything at all about who is involved. That is a MAJOR red flag in my experience. If you can't put your name behind the history you're sharing, then something is probably wrong.

The second red flag is that I searched for "kings and generals" on the r/askhistorians subreddit. I found only a few reviews of it and they weren't great. r/askhistorians tends to be quite critical of popular or simplified history, a little too much for my taste, so I don't mean to give their reviews too much weight. But from what I could see, it was Not Good.

Mind you, these are red flags. It doesn't mean all of the videos made by Kings and Generals are bad or completely false. But it's enough for me to not even bother watching them at all until something convinces me otherwise.

[1]: https://www.kingsandgenerals.net/
every time I read Twelve-Factor App I'm like who they set up twelve factor authentication, that's crazy isn't 2FA enough

then I remember that it's about something else
The article says the feature has been removed; if it was the disk format:

1) it has never been removed, afaik Word still uses OOXML, so Word would keep being infringing

2) LibreOffice would probably be infringing too, as ODF is also XML based

So... it has to be some other form of XML tool and not the file format.

As for Joel's comment, IIRC he was an Excel PM before OOXML; in any case his blog post refer to the binary format that precedes OOXML.
I'm pretty sure OOXML is equally if not even more complicated, as the product themselves are way more complicated than they appear, but the fact is that he was talking about a different thing.

Edit: as many users pointed out, it's not the file format itself, but the ability to add arbitrary attributes/elements to the file format XML as additional data.
What's this "you" business. I'm not American and don't live there.

Get back to this thread when the USA has killed millions of its own citizens through enforcing insane policies on them in defiance of basic common sense e.g. the Great Leap Forward or Holomodor. That's what counts as insanity here, not politicians being outside your preferred age range.
For the sake of clarity can I ask for more details on the COVID19 effects around you?

In my circles there is one person who lost her sense of smell, and another friend lost three elderly extended relatives but otherwise I haven't personally seen much more. Is this a more recent thing?

(Work remotely)
Tembo founder here - we're working on a "private data plane" feature, which relies on our open-sourced k8s-based data plane https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo-stacks - once we have that in place, this provider will hit our API, and will be able to deploy Postgres instances in your private k8s clusters.

We're also working on a CLI for local dev (that doesn't rely on Terraform), that will provide a simple code-based method to managing extensions in config files (among other things. Then you can run everything locally via `tembo instance start` or run remotely via `tembo deploy`.
It is true that this is somewhat influenced by how Heroku works, but ConfigMaps and GitOps do not meet the same security and usability requirements as Heroku config/env vars.

If you want secure config storage on Kubernetes, you end up using Secrets, which ends up being key-value like env vars anyway. If you want similar security with Git you need a layer of encryption, which breaks diffs and requires additional tooling. This all leads back to why high-level deployment tools like Heroku were created.
Most people I know just went with their cloud provider's sync solution once everyone added one (GDrive, iCloud, Amazon photos, OneDrive, Creative Cloud, etc.)

Can't remember the last time I saw a USB key in use anymore.

The cloud stuff is convenient, but it quickly became a commoditu
Dropbox is still better in some small ways (like delta syncs) but it wasn't enough I guess.
Reports of attacks on babies are common in war propaganda, Iraqi troops removing babies from incubators in Kuwait comes to mind. This has a long history: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/oct/04/socialscie...
Loom is the best option currently in the market for doing screencast recordings and demo recordings. I use it extensively, and started out using other alternatives like complex configurations in OBS. Loom is not only a superior UX, but the built-in web editor works perfectly without requiring the heavy weight of installing, learning, and using (and often paying for) a more pro-grade video editor for doing simple tasks.

This may be because I'm a PM now, because I didn't do this type of thing as an engineer, but I have grown a huge appreciation for visual tools because "a picture is worth a thousand words". If I can show somebody the behavior that I am talking about, actually get a record of a bug happening, or build a demo that doesn't feel like a slide deck and is showing actual product experience, it has a deeper visceral impact on customers and engineers, and speeds up resolution time or identifying directionality of design.
> Cindy Marabito runs a pit bull rescue out of her house in Austin, Texas. "We're the only raw-feeding, holistic, completely no-kill pit bull refuge and rescue in the United States," she says. She currently has nine dogs that roam her big, mulched backyard by the banks of the Colorado River.

> The philosophy of her rescue is to give "low to no vaccines."

This is nuts. So what happens to especially aggressive pit bulls, that also happen to be ill?

This people shouldn't be allowed to run shelters of any kind.
Of course there are pronouns, that’s how everyone is referred to (he, she, him, her etc.). Every book in the series uses them, even for some of the minds. There is an ability for an actual sex change, the genetic changes for which can be kicked of by wanting to change. No expectation whatsoever. That whole sequence is touched on in one book for about 3 pages and this is a series with 12+ books.
And the rest of the world should act in accordance to your totally irrational feelings?

> my share of the planet/universe without me having a say in it

You have a say in it. If you are in the US its regulated. And in space it regulated by a treaty between the US and everybody else. This is no different any other regulation that happen in a democracy.
> afaik musk doesn't even own a house

This trope is old, and was never really accurate.

He was living in a $50M mansion at the time, mostly by himself. Flying back and forth between California and Texas almost daily, private.

That the world's second or third richest person "doesn't even own a house" is something that beggars belief, made for a good soundbite. I'm sure he doesn't. I'm sure Elon Holdings VIII Inc. or similar owns plenty of property. Just like he "did everything possible to anonymize his private jet, so it was doxxing him to show its location"... when in reality it is registered to a company with a SpaceX-related name, whose company office is at 1 Space Drive in a city in California, whose address, when you enter it into Google says "Businesses associated with this address: Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company". Very anonymous indeed.

> because how much would be left over for him? out of all the US, with all his wealth, would he buy tacoma and then be broke? because that's a pretty small influence if one of the wealthiest people in the world could only afford a city of 220k.

I don't want to diminish Tacoma - I lived there once, but it is a city of 62 square miles and I really struggle to fathom the grandiosity you envision. What would be impressive to you? Seattle? Austin? Phoenix? Chicago?

Presumably he wouldn't be broke, because being the landlord of all those structures would provide rather significant income, no?

I got the data a few years ago, just from the City of Tacoma's tax records and assessed property values.
I live in the Bay Area. If I had to confine myself to public transit my quality of life would be severely degraded.

There is very little outdoor/nature activity accessible to me by public transit.

But if I extend my leash to a 2-3 hour car ride it opens up countless forests, beaches, mountains, ghost towns, lakes, caves, marshes, waterfalls, ...
The absolute counter to weaponized dogma is itself weaponized dogma. There are times when implementing DRY, 12FA make sense and times when it doesn't. Be careful with hard-lined stances.
> When do we some competition for affordable electrics that will really make a dent in air pollution?

The Bolt is ~$27k, the Nissan Leaf is 28. The Hyundai Kona is $34k

Federal rebates push that down to around $20-21k for the Bolt/Leaf, and $26k for the Hyundai.

The average cost of a new car in the US is twice as much - $48k.
This reminds Buffer how simple the idea was and how well they executed it. A good product doesn't have to be complex.
Cultural invasion from another country is why.

Ever play Civ 5 and get the message how another country is annoyed that their citizens are all wearing blue jeans?

Anime is popular, subculture wise, and people who like it would most likely grew up on the internet. Thus more news about Japan would spread online. We see the same thing with Korea now with kpop, kdrama.

Compare that to Mexico or Germany, where is their cultural influence? Food yes, drinks yes. But there's virtually no media being published on the same scale as Japan. Nor is it constantly talked about.

Japan and anime are a bit special as well, because they tend to always animate their home country or include it in some manner.
Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test
This is the main problem. If we have a prop 65 warning on lead and coffee, we've lumped to entirely different risk categories together where one is really bad and one is just - well coffee.
Did Musk build Starlink? TIL
You're not wrong, but the problem we're hitting is that most mobile tech has divorced product/supply voltage from battery voltage, and the result is a lot of "white lies" where the values stated don't add up to a whole.

My laptop has a 6000mAh battery and will charge from 5V. But my 10,000mAh powerbank will not fully charge it. The question is how to explain this to my mother.

To calculate this properly - you have to do some actual digging to find the nominal battery voltage of the laptop, since it's not any of the USB-PD voltages, and is thus entirely divorced from the laptop's input voltage.

And then you have to know that most powerbank vendors tell you the rating of the cells, not the rating of the product. So they will tell you that it's a 10,000mAh battery, and that it outputs 5V - but these two facts are only honest in isolation. It is not a 50Wh battery, it's a 37Wh battery. Or a 7,400mAh product that is powered by 10,000mAh cells.

Almost anywhere we use USB-PD, stating Wh is a lot more honest to the consumer. If we tell my mother that her laptop is 70Wh and the powerbank is 37Wh, she can infer it'll give her about half a full charge. If we tell her the laptop is 6000mAh and the powerbank is 10,000mAh, she can be forgiven for inferring it'll give her almost two charges.

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For an example of what I'm calling "white lies": https://www.anker.com/products/a1271

(And to be clear, I'm not blaming Anker for this, I believe it's near-universal. I'm only using Anker as an example because they're a more-trusted brand.)

All the way down the bottom of the page, just above the FAQ, they give the capacity as "20100mAh/72.36Wh". 20100mAh is given 19 times - 72.36Wh is given precisely once. From 72.36Wh / 20.1Ah we get a nominal voltage of 3.6V, not 5V. 3.6V is never otherwise stated. I've never seen any vendor tell you that you're seeing the cell rating, not the product rating - but the better vendors will give you enough information to figure it out yourself.
Not to impugn your own expertise and experience, but realize that the internet (and generally HN) are literally filled with people who a) say the same thing; and b) spout off a firehose’s worth of nonsense, ask the time.

citations let your reader judge your ethos and credibility in the absence of personal knowledge of you.
> The weirdest trend was all of the people who had done large AI projects on things that didn’t need AI at all.

I can relate to this a lot. In my company many things you can sell as "AI" can really be solved with traditional data processing.
https://archive.ph/BwkZ9
I believe I ran into this issue a few years ago and discovered the patent case when trying to work around. The xml file format allowed for arbitrary properties to be added (as xml does), and we were trying to embed metadata in word files. But when MS Word opened a file with anything extra in it it gave a warning like "this file has extra stuff in it" and it automatically removed anything that wasn't explicitly expected.
It’s true that you need compute to do large experiments, but the large experiments grow out of small ones. If you can show promising work in a small way, it’s easier to get compute. You can also apply to TRC to get a bunch of TPUs. They had capacity issues for a long time but I’ve heard it’s improved.

Don’t focus on the hype models. Find a niche that you personally like, and do that. If you’re chasing hype you’ll always be skating towards the puck. My original AI interest was to use voice generation to make Dr Kleiner sing about being a modern major general. It went from there, to image gen, to text gen, and kaboom, the whole world blew up. I was the first to show that GPTs can be used for more than just language modeling — in my case, playing chess.

Wacky ideas like that are important to play around with, because they won’t seem so wacky in a year.
The general mechanism for making Kindle books in the past (on the Amazon KDP website) was to run a tool (kindlegen) that would convert EPUBs to Kindle files. Amazon could have native support for EPUB from day 1 if they wanted to.
Except sats have a very predictable path so its not actually that difficult, stationary or not.

The system of airplane management is 1000x more complex.
If using the - symbol was commonly meaning multiply, wouldn't Google say 4?

Using - to mean multiplication is absolutely not common parlance.
A lot of people buying $78000 cars (even if $68000 with discounts) don’t qualify for the credits. I know I don’t.
As long as people gravitate to the best-looking food item when comparing different foods on a shelf, including meat, there's going to be an incentive to use dyes or apply some process that changes the color.

You may be fine receiving an uglier food item, but I bet you don't seek it out when judging equally-priced alternatives.
1% vacancy rate is unequivocally bad. It means the rental market is far too tight and proper repairs are not being done.
Chrome's Rust toolchain is ready for production use
I don’t have an answer for you in that, but I will say I’d much rather drive a RWD car with snow tires than a FWD/AWD car/truck with all season tires. Of course, the latter with snow tires is even better.

I live in Minnesota and I drive my Camaro all year. Whenever I borrow someone’s truck in the winter I’m always surprised at how awful the handling is because they think all-season tires combined with their truck is good. I’m not used to skidding when just trying to take a turn. I have literally plowed snow with the front of my car through conditions where trucks/SUVs were in the ditch at regular intervals.

Of course, they probably get a kick out of pulling me out of my own driveway when it’s super icy and my two wheels aren’t enough to get going. That problem is annoying. Not being able to stop or turn effectively is dangerous.
We have all FF cars on our farm in upstate NY, I have sometimes driven FR rentals in the winter that had traction control and did OK. But it is something to drive an FF car with Hakka R’s and be hooning it up on ice when the police are tiptoeing so carefully with their FR cars.
As a US observer, my favorite UK unit is the stone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)
Does a device like this have faster screen update rates or is more responsive to inputs than e readers like the Kindle?

I only ask because I had to stop using the Kindle and go back to paperback, and I am by no means a purist for these things. I just found the delays in everything so bad to use that I was actually avoiding reading just because I was avoiding using the device.

I'm hoping to revisit e readers in a few years to see if things have improved on that front.
This is true. Although, there have been sporadic recent creations of community safety teams and units that deal specifically with the unhoused populations or mentally ill people, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement.
No, because I’m only talking about unit notation, just like hyphenated words do not mean subtraction of the words. Why would Google follow unit notation rules for something that is completely irrelevant to unit notation?

If we’re going to be maximally pedantic, you will notice that “Wh” is also wrong, and should instead be “W h” with a space. That’s what NIST says the standard is. Why are you writing it incorrectly?

It’s almost as if different groups of people have different notational conventions. I already agreed it is nonstandard, but your notation is also questionable according to the standards for unit multiplication. It just happens to be a commonly accepted convention.

Here is an example of Wolfram Alpha handling this dash unit notation: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%283W-h%29%2F%281h%29+i...

I guess someone should tell Wolfram Alpha they forgot to “subtract the units”, whatever that means.
Turning on bare board core i7 laptop [video]
Why not also express the defaults as config, or is that what you meant? I don't think that runs afoul of 12 factor.
If I remember correctly, they also host the edited videos and the recipient gets a link to their hosted version.

That's the reason I didn't sign up (I wanted to send the video over Slack directly), but it does functionally add a moat where all your videos are on their servers, like YouTube.
Corners are actually super effective at moving liquid using surface tension (assuming the contact angle is such that the surface is concave). The key is that at the front of the liquid, where it's very thin in the corner, the surface has a small radius of curvature => low pressure. If there's a lot of fluid filling up a corner, the radius of curvature is large => high pressure. So fluid naturally flows into the corner. This is used a lot in space applications, e.g., for propellant management devices [1].

The first analysis of the effect I know of is a paper by Concus and Finn (1969) [2], who realized that fluid can be carried arbitrarily high in a triangular groove, even against gravity, and proposed that trees may use this mechanism to carry water to their highest reaches. (The catch is that the fluid front becomes thinner and thinner as it gets higher. And it starts breaking down when it gets so thin that the continuum limit no longer applies).

If you like math, I'd highly recommend checking out Mark Weislogel's research [3] which deals with the dynamics of viscous flow in triangular grooves.

Shameless plug: chapter 4 of my Ph.D. thesis [4] gives an introduction to the subject.

[1] http://www.pmdtechnology.com/PMD%20Physics.html

[2] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.63.2.292

[3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rNOJ49QAAAAJ

[4] https://theses.hal.science/view/index/identifiant/tel-040155...
Show HN: This Notebook Is ChatGPT-Powered
To name a few, RecordIt (gif only), Camtasia, Snagit
I switched from Emacs to VSCode for a while, but couldn’t stick with it. It’s soooo easy to set up and start using, and it does the right thing 99% of the time. However, that 1% drove me nuts. I don’t remember the specifics, just that there were a few things that bugged the everliving hell out of me, and they couldn’t be changed without doing some significant work inside VSCode itself and then in its extensions.

The worst thing about Emacs is how it absolutely spoils everything else. Yes, it’s a pain in the neck at times, but you can change anything you want.

That said, BBEdit got far closer to my platonic ideal editor than VSCode ever did, and it’s nice enough in other ways to win me over.
Not the same at all as undo. Fwiw I've done sessions both ways, totally different mental effect. Like, completely different.
Nobody is whining because this message is pure security theater. It can be removed by the very same rootkit that "unlocks" your bootloader. The message would have to be unremovable to be useful and if Apple does that the whining starts.
They are worth $1 billion due to their customer base.
According to that research https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/arm-based-pcs-... 14% of laptops currently being sold have an ARM CPUs.

However, 90% of them are Macbooks, which means the share of the ARM laptops which run Windows, Linux or ChromeOS is 1.4%.
Considering a fully loaded car approaches 200k...They seem to have been focused on the hyperbole.
it's both true

putting any form of secrets into a env var is deeply insecure

using env is the most simple uniformly available way to have configs

through I would take it a step further, anything which must not be leaked probably should not be in any config, weather env or file or similar, it should be injected through other means if viable
The article's full headline is "'They know us better than we know ourselves': how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading"