skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> The shortest day of the year in Panamá is 12.4 hours long and occurs on the winter solstice - December 21st.

> The longest day of the year in Panamá is 13.4 hours long and occurs on the summer solstice - June 21st.

https://www.sunrisesunsettime.org/central-america/panama/pan...

Meanwhile however, for example Cancún in Mexico seems to not have too much of a difference either

> The shortest day of the year in Cancún is 11.7 hours long and occurs on the winter solstice - December 21st.

> The longest day of the year in Cancún is 14.2 hours long and occurs on the summer solstice - June 21st.

https://www.sunrisesunsettime.org/central-america/mexico/can...

That’s 2.5 hours difference in Cancún between shortest and longest day.

Which is more, but still not a lot right.

Compare to Oslo, Norway.

> The shortest day of the year in Oslo is 7.8 hours long and occurs on the winter solstice - December 22nd.

> The longest day of the year in Oslo is 22.3 hours long and occurs on the summer solstice - June 21st.

https://www.sunrisesunsettime.org/europe/norway/oslo-day-len...

Now we are talking.

And now consider this:

- I am Norwegian. All my life I’ve been used to DST just being a thing that happens.

- For the past couple of months I’ve been staying in Cancún in Mexico. While I was there, time in Europe was adjusted for DST as usual.

- I came to Panama one week ago.

- To me it was indeed surprising to find out today that neither Panama nor Mexico observe DST.

- Panama is extra unique wrt DST for me, because they never used it.

- Mexico used to observe DST up until recently. Even in Cancún they had a DST adjustment as recently as 2014. And in some other parts of Mexico as recently as 2022. Them following DST was mainly because of economic ties to USA according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Mexico

So, to the people ITT think it’s obvious that Panama does not have DST. Well, that’s gonna depend on your past experiences and where you are from. It certainly was a surprise to me :P And considering even Mexico used to follow DST, it might not even be as obvious as those other commenters make it out to be.
Enjoyed the linked (more detailed) explainer: https://github.com/WebAssembly/stack-switching/blob/main/pro...
This sort of tuning isn't necessary if you use CPU reservations instead of limits, as you should: https://home.robusta.dev/blog/stop-using-cpu-limits

CPU reservations are limits, just implicit ones and declared as guarantees.

So let the Go runtime use all the CPUs available, and let the Linux scheduler throttle according to your declared reservations if the CPU is contended for.
Is any quine "non-vacuous"? I've rarely seen any that even meet the bar of "clever", let alone "worthwhile to read".
It will be over sooner than you think it will be.
The line that says "no Nazi bullshit"? That has to be the safest political position you can hold as long as you're not friends with Kanye West.
Sure but only by their actions, not by the actions of some stupid mainframe software.
Boy I was really expecting something fancy based on your scrutiny of this bridge. It is about the most non-descript bridge imaginable. Generally speaking, smart infrastructure projects bring a lot of utility both to the community they are in and the public that uses them from outside the community.

Case in point would be a bridge with enough traffic to warrant more than one lane going through a small town. If people from the entire region use that bridge, it's bringing a fair bit of economic activity to the town, and the town probably didn't pay for it on their own (state and federal funds earmarked for transit infrastructure may well have payed for the whole thing).
There are also GC techniques to make the pause shorter, for example, doing the work for the pause concurrently and then repeating it in the safepoint. The hope is that the concurrent work will turn the safepoint work into a simpler check that no work is necessary. Doubling the work may hurt GC throughput.
In biological systems, autonomy is required as a means of survival. AI systems do not have this concept yet, so the only way to have AGI, if we accept your definition is to set up an agent with goals to stay alive and reproduce, which isn’t really applicable to LLMs which do show some level of general intelligence even though it’s very different from the human experience, and single-modal.
Useful things are hard to make.
I think it was this.

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-entrapment-of-jesse...
You are expecting celebrities and their agents to have more investigative power and discretion than the SEC and the DOJ.

You have a public company, licensed to operate by a government regulator, and you want to hold paid actors accountable?
I believe the author doesn't mean it is a bug in the general sense. The author just means it is a shortcoming, and this shortcoming is surely fixable. The author provides a solution,
but I think the zig way is better:

for _, *player := range players {
player.score = 0
}
I'm guessing ~94 or ~96? I used it at work and was comfortable with the environment.
Horses are also not completely gone, but that's besides the point.

Also Norway is one of the countries with the largest shares of EVs, so I don't think the cold really is a problem. (I'm well aware that there are places in the continental US, Canada and Russia which get a lot colder than Norway. Maybe EVs struggle there, but hardly any one lives there in the great scheme of things.)
How does this work if you rename a variable? Does it break all callers?
Rage Against the Garage Door Opener (Ratgdo)
I failed Filesystem Driver Author or Murderer".
Adopting a US approach and developing a barrett M107 compatible tranq dart would probably solve that problem.

Might be an expensive overkill for a single dog, but c'est la vie, it'll boost the GDP dumping all that money into mil dev anyway.
https://archive.ph/fFLSY
You're on the right track here. Garage doors are a security risk and safety hazard. All these homebrewed, cobbled together solutions aren't tested to UL standards like the official stuff is.
There is no perfect balance. If you have the awareness of the extremes you can adjust course. A little goes a long way.

If you are see that your organization is too chaotic, you should put some structure and discipline in place to curb the tech debt and chaos. You’d be surprised by how far adding in basic listing and teaching the team to use it will get you. You can add automated testing after that, and move on to other initiatives.

Similarly if you are in a resume-oriented development organization, bring attention to business outcomes through little initiatives. Make your engineers attend at least one sales or support call per month. Explain the company budget. Show the true costs of going with the flavor of the month.

You can foster change bit by bit. Things will get more balanced if you continually do it.

It is tough though. You are fighting a culture battle. Changing peoples mindsets and habits is a long process. You won’t get overt support and you won’t see immediate results. But it’s worth it.
That's a funny way to spell "unlicensed bank"
I studied in the Computer Architecture department next to the BSC. After I graduated, I joined Google Dublin as an SRE in the Google File System (GFS). The first fun team offsite we did after I joined (2010) was a trip to Barcelona, and the trip included a guided visit to the BSC.

The visit (I had never visited it while a student!) was really cool because the BSC had a pretty design that Google data centers didn't yet have (remember how they took pride in using "crappier" hardware than "real" datacenters?). But the fun part of the story is when the tour guide was telling us how much attached storage they had (something like 400TB IIRC) and we were all thinking... "hah, that's cute!" Yeah well, cute... but infinitely lower latency than GFS had at that time. Anyhow, just a little fun moment I remember from that trip; don't read too much into it!
Stop that. Drugs don't cost anywhere near that in Europe. It's profiteering, plain and simple.
I think idiot customers should have to carry their own insurance in case they fail to do their own diligence and gamble on a product just because they see a paid actor in a commercial.
…and it’s available to buy on Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/perfect-dark/C0SWGV45...
https://www.theverge.com/23949612/chamberlain-myq-smart-gara...

> for users of Chamberlain and Liftmaster openers. This $30 hardware device allows you to control the door opener locally and integrate it with Home Assistant via a local API, which in turn opens access to other platforms such as Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa. Wieland explained to me that he engineered a device that can speak directly to Chamberlain’s Security Plus 2.0 openers .. The moral for smart home users, as Schoutsen sums up neatly in his blog post, is: “Buy products that work locally and won’t stop functioning when management wants an additional revenue stream.”

ratgdo is not a cloud device and does not require a subscription service. The firmware is open source and free for anyone to use.
Germany approves stakes by Bosch, Infineon and NXP in TSMC chip plant
We want to achieve something similar with our pipelines [1] by making the beginning and the end of the pipeline symmetric, giving you this flow:

1. Acquire bytes (void → unstructured)

2. Parse bytes to events (unstructured → structured)

3. Transform events (structured → structured)

4. Print events (structured → unstructured)

5. Send bytes (unstructured → void)

The "Publish" part is a combination of (4) and (5). Sometimes they are fused because not all APIs differentiate those steps. We're currently focusing on building blocks (engine, connectors, formats) as opposed to application-level integrations, so turnkey Reverse ETL is not near. But the main point is that the symmetry reduces cognitive effort for the user, because they worked that muscle on the "E" side already and now just need to find the dual in the docs.

[1] https://docs.tenzir.com/blog/five-design-principles-for-buil...
+1 for OpenSprinkler! I have their sprinkler controller. Works with Home Assistant, it's awesome.

I don't have a garage door, but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate getting this one.
OK but I can tho - oversub cpu, isolate memory, systems resources (like ports) etc.

> OSes are still better than container runtimes at managing competing processes on the same host.

OSes and container runtimes are the same thing
Now extrapolate for worldwide distribution and your math falls apart.

It's profiteering, plain and simple.
If you own a house there is no reason not to own EV. It is so much better to plug it in for a night every week or so instead of going to a smelly gas station. Imagine you had to go to a “gas station” for your phone charging.
You can leave the infrared sensors in place, and use the relay to simulate a button press. It wouldn't be any more dangerous than clicking your remote when you can't see the door.
> an AI does 95% of a job but a human is still required for the last 5%

This is the kind of scenario I was talking about in my initial comment.
The naive assumption about this scenario is that it would result in 95% of jobs disappearing, but based on history it's more likely that we just do 2000% more stuff with the same amount of human effort.

And if AI really replaces 100% of human labor, are we really going to retain an economic system that only works when humans are doing labor?
> [1] Yes, yes, Europeans, I know that Amiga and ST were much more successful across the Atlantic.

Macs were rare in Europe during the 80s because they were hugely expensive there. The dollar was very strong during the mid 80s. GDP per capita in UK/France/Germany went from parity with the US at market exchange rates in 1980 to about half in 1985. They became much more common in the 90s.

A similar divergence happened in the early 2000s and then again for much of the past decade. It's why Android is much more popular in Europe now.
NPUs already exist and are everywhere (Apple Silicon, AWS Inferentia). AWS is leading at scale in the cloud in this space.

(Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but opinions are my own.)
Wardley Maps on GH
> I doubt they ever existed.

Probably right, since Microsoft's BASIC interpreter is probably derived from the one that Bill Gates wrote as a teenage slacker. He wrote it, tried to sell it at the homebrew computer club, and then threw a hissy fit when people kept copying his paper tapes for their friends. Thus, Microsoft was born. (He got lucky later when Microsoft were chosen by IBM to develop a DOS, then bought a working DOS from somebody else. The rest as they say is history)
For coding at least, it’s way, way better. The new knowledge cutoff means you don’t need RAG, (and there may be more human feedback in the turbo model), threads and the price reduction mean a big reduction in cost (I was averaging about $400/mo in spend, now it’s about $140 [est. based on the daily limit]), and the speed means iterating with the AI is realtime instead of asyc (I used to tab out while waiting for completions). For coding it’s a game changer. For context I’m using Robocoder.app which eats a lot of tokens.
All I'm saying is that there are viable alternatives. Oracle and SQL Server being successful doesn't really force anyone into using either of those things. Similarly, sure, .NET and Java are popular enough, but they have alternative runtimes available (remember when Oracle sued Google over that). To me, I don't think the industry landscape changes meaningfully if these tools were to become unavailable.
Likewise in other languages with similar value semantics, but as we know those are PhD features only relevant for folks playing with language research.
Burn companies like this to the ground.
I also use SMS for transactional SMS, and my understanding from their docs was also they don't, from this page: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223133807-What-...

> All Twilio messaging is considered A2P in the US and Canada.
You are describing programming as if the language being used is the primary work skill and as if devs are somehow “trapped” by the language they happen to be paid to use at the time.

I live in a very different world and over the past 13 years have been paid to write Obj. C, Python, PHP, CSS, JS, Ruby, Elixir, Golang and a small amount of Rust. All are still useful skills that I’m likely to encounter again.

In a few cases, I used languages that later lost steam (Flash, CoffeeScript and Elm). It wasn’t a disaster, though. I just took what I’d learned and moved on.
GM to Halt Production of Cruise Origin Robotaxi After Repeated Incidents
American regulators embrace Open Banking
Fantastic! So long as you are moving empty boxes and don't care about stabbing people to death every 42.7 days. I am sure OSHA will love it.

What really bothers me is the million dollar grant they got. Complete and utter waste of taxpayer money. Unbelievable. Most of us have to make real products to earn that kind of money.
Yeah, even Valve have (maybe surprisingly) chosen not to license the Source 2 engine.
But there's presumably little to stop the NSA asking GCHQ "can you give us a list of US citizen that match profile X", so does the fact that they strip it out of their local copy make a big difference?
This is a perfect example of why remote attestation is an evil technology. Here it is being used to make people their lives objectively worse.
Full Stack Tech: Generate static websites with ChatGPT functions
I developed this almost exclusively in the waiting area of a Brooklyn barbershop so I could validate it in realtime. I learned that most barbers don’t care about AI too much, but they love the idea of having a developer on call for 8 dollars a month, so I’m offering myself as a feature until it becomes unsustainable.
Also the Mario 64 port is still out there. I believe they got in trouble for including original assets at first. There is an Ocarina of Time pc port that has a pretty big community and has been around for a while now with no problems.

I’m very excited for this Perfect Dark port because I love that game. It would be cool if someone creates a mod that supports online multiplayer.
The running gag was "we'll travel through billions and billions of cubic kilometers of star-stuff".
I 100% thought this was going to be about catamites and the police in some bygone age.
Does Anyone Know How to Behave on the Subway Anymore?
Are you confusing Patrick Collison, who cofounded Stripe, with Patrick McKenzie, who joined years later to work on documentation?
I believe the legislators are generally well-intentioned, but that is worth nothing.

Laws and regulations should be judged by what they will do. In this case, they will make security worse, witg no adquate compensatory advantage, so it should be rejected.
I think we should also be able to sue the idiot FTX investors for their failure of due diligence and wasting the time and money of the SEC.
Ah, yes-- but if you shop around, you can find a telescope of that aperture for less. Here's one for a mere $132k!

https://explorescientificusa.com/collections/optiques-fullum...
Not sure why it isn't working for you. It shows me the Day Rates when I do the search (they're not particularly cheap), perhaps lack of avaialbility in the area you are searching for?
I suspect you are right. However, we should not underestimate the power Open Ai tech has brought to Bing. Combining the GPT4 capabilities with live search data gives you an incredible strong and useful search service. Personally I have entirely shifted my desktop use from Google search to Edge and Bing Chat Enterprise since I got access to it. If my shift is representative for just a few percentage of the population, it represents a major shift in the search market.
And yet i find the videos entirely cheesy.

But Apple will probably release the iCrane, for only $99999
Trapped within Theory: Toxic consequences of worshipping splendour in your head
I mean anger, people feeling threatened/unsafe, etc. It doesn't always happen, it can be reduced, but you're kidding yourself if it isn't happening. Again, like getting zero bug reports for your software - something is wrong.
One way would be to target and generate LLVM IR.

You get multiple platforms for free if I'm not wrong.
The first one I saw, and still my favorite, was "Pokemon or Big Data" https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRsfRHXPTuEXdNvUcI...
I own a 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid. It is cheaper to drive than an electric (less than ten cents a mile) and cost of ownership is much, much less. Also, not everyone who owns a house has a garage.
> "Cellar door" was one of Tolkien's favorite phrases

Oh cool, so that is where Donnie Darko got it from ("the most beautiful word in the English language")
Seeing this play out in IT makes me really worried when it comes to critical infrastructure.

On paper, there are plans and redundancies upon redundancies, and everything is perfectly safe.

In practice, I haven't seen them exercised, and some of these plans sound incredibly optimistic...
While most Zelda plots are very basic they do contain some fun twists. Like how the first half of Ocarina of Time is essentially kids playing at saving the world and ending up giving the villain what he was after. Then the second half is (almost) adult Link fixing his mistake.

I also really enjoy how the last two games (Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom) have focused a lot on emotion and interpersonal relationships. The complexity of Zelda's arch in BotW was a real happy surprise.

She started off feeling like a failure for not being able to awaken her powers and resenting Link for how easily he seemed to wield his. Then she got to know Link and how his skill was from relentless training and his silence was from fear of not living up to people's expectations. In the end, Link is the one who falls, Zelda awakens her powers and keeps Ganon at bay. And the whole game itself is Link trying to save the world doomed by his previous failure. Huh, reminiscent of OoT... maybe that's the common bit to base the film around?
Well, it isn't two full lanes in each direction, it's two lanes period. I'm not even sure what you find remarkable about it, it looks like the thousands and thousands of other small two lane bridges you would find all over the US, I can't imagine it cost all that much to build.
I wouldn’t call the F-35 a mess, all 3 are solid aircraft and the F-35A was both cheaper than the F-22 and can be exported.

Rather than having the branches pick 2 of 3 the real question IMO is if making more F-22 instead of trying to include the F-35A would have simplified the F-35B and F-35C enough to be a net benefit. That isn’t about one side losing the fight, it’s a question of which approach results in all sides being better off.

However, from a military contractor standpoint the F-35 was a gravy train and ultimately any talk about efficiency means reducing profit. In that context things worked wonderfully for Lockheed Martin and it’s many suppliers and subcontractors.
this is sad. i wish we had better data privacy
You'd close a garage door blindly and ignore any problems that could occur? You haven't thought this through.
> It's curious that you say RTT is mostly random noise yet BBR gives you only 45 Mbps.

I believe OP meant RTT fluctuate somewhere between 150ms to 250ms completely randomly even with no load at all, hence (the delta is) mostly random noice. Not that the RTT is below 0.1ms and barely measurable.
A little outside of Barcelona, you can (sometimes) visit a particle accelerator.

https://www.cells.es/en/about/welcome
A few years back there was a hilarious case of a guy who hired a hitman, and that hitman subcontracted to someone else... who did the same.... who did the same... x5. In the end the last guy was so cheap & bad that he got caught and the whole chain went down.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/25/chinese...
Why are so many celebrities launching their own brands?
The studios are negotiating in such bad faith here. It's hard to imagine that they think they will ever have the legal right to pay some flat sum and then own an actor's entire livelihood in perpetuity. I'd like to see legislation just take that "proposal" right off the table.
That's just them failing to pay the bill for the dinner they ordered and ate.
WASM is used to implement all kinds of control flow in other languages, so here it makes a lot of sense to have a lower level abstraction.

The languages on top of WASM will still have exceptions, generators, etc.
I don't do security, but I have been a data engineer for the better part of a decade and I don't understand what void and unstructured are. Am I the fool? I don't get it.

The primitives of many of these ETL systems are structured tables (snowflake, parquet, pandas dataframes, whatever) and I don't think I'd ever choose bytes over structured tables. The unstructured parts of data systems I've worked on have always chewed up an outsize portion of labor with difficult to diagnose failure modes. The biggest cognitive effort win of reverse ETL solutions has been to make external systems and applications "speak table".
Plus one on this repo! It’s a solid experience, I run NixOS on my M2 Macbook Air.
Sounds like freelancing/consulting might be right up your alley. Maybe building mvps or working on relatively new products or codebases. Charge for your time and no pretend work.

Yes, you’ll have to find clients. No, there is no perfect alternative to the “sweet six figures”, something’s gotta give, but you gotta start somewhere
I have such fond memories of this game growing up. Couldn't afford an expansion pack initially but still poured dozens of hours into the bot matches before picking one up.

Was gutted by what came next, but at the very least we got Timesplitters.