skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider a system with PID driver that samples temperature every 15-30min.
Measures are not 100% regular, so we have to substract dates to calculate time duration between samples.
Lets say we got one measure with timestamp 99-12-31 23:50 and second one with 00-01-01 00:15.
What will calendar code do if we substract 99-12-31 23:50 from 00-01-01 00:15?
Does 00y mean 2000 or 1900?
What will the driver do when suddenly temperature differential will change without relation to physical reality?
Because you're taking the solution to the absolute bare minimum implementation to achieve the desired result and then applying a ton of thoughts and considerations on how to get around THAT implementation and saying "Yeah this is gonna get abused" and throw your hands in the air.

Or you could think just as hard about blocking it as you do about circumventing it, like in the case of this scenario, add weight to users. Obviously newly installed app users who are rating badly is a sign of something fishy, weigh their ratings a LOT lower than someone who has say many hours of usage in the app.
> It's not as if 2021 was that long ago.

I didn't say it was, I meant that too communicate "so this 2020 summary probably isn't missing much".

Inflation in the last few years has been far worse for poor people than for the rich. Homes and rent are unaffordable. Groceries are coming in smaller and smaller (and emptier and emptier) packages for the same price. Wages at the lowest levels are stagnant, while CEO salaries continue to go up.

Yachts do not inflate beyond the capabilities of the top 50, but inflation has put real pressure on the bottom X% of the population.

Do we have reason to believe that UBI-caused inflation will be better targeted at the ultra-rich?
As someone who has reached a useful level of conversational ability in two languages, primarily because of Anki, I strongly disagree that using it gets you "nowhere". I don't have the luxury of language immersion (e.g. living abroad or interacting daily with native speakers). For me, Anki has enabled a level of vocab and grammar recall that I simply wouldn't achieve any other way. Arguably more importantly, it has given me an easy way to achieve the discipline of spending at least 30 minutes a day studying the language. I'm far more likely on a daily basis to think "I need to complete my Anki due cards today" than I am to proactively find 30 minutes every day to study using other methods. In the end, as the author of the article notes, a learning method which you actually use is better than a theoretically superior method which you don't get around to using.

I've found non-language topics to be more challenging. Whether or not a card is useful depends largely on how well written it is. You need to find the right wording which captures the essence of the point while remaining simplistic and atomic enough that the card doesn't become tedious to re-visit. I'd argue that the process of crafting the right card is equivalent to digesting it and synthesizing your own thoughts on it. I'd also argue that if you believe Anki positions itself as a "shortcut" then you've probably used it incorrectly. It is indeed true that you get out what you put in, and low-effort Anki cards will most likely end up being abandoned or deleted. Useful cards require effort, the same as any other learning/memorising technique.
> > Facebook's (and its users) ageing out

Facebook is more alive than ever. If you need to do something in the real world it's the only game in town. It's like a mix of Linkedin, Indeed, eBay and Magzter with the added convenience that there are billions of groups pertaining to the thing that you want to do.

I love it because it's actionable, nonpolitical and nonthoughtleader-ish, just a bunch of people doing stuff together.

I like Facebook now much better compared to when it came out, my social media diet is Facebook + reddit + HN
These are Eduardo Paolozzi’s ghosts taking their revenge for the destruction of the beautiful mosaic at old Tottenham Court Road Station, obviously.

Seriously, though the Lizzie Line is an example of really grand design but poorly executed. Here are some of my observations:

a. The quality of material is poor and hinders easy maintenance.

b. The high-res information displays show train arrivals in incorrect order, e.g.

1. Abbey Wood 4 min

2. Shenfield 2 min

c. All advertising spaces are now LED displays, some with additional LED-lit frames which use a lot more energy than the old printed posters, which used none. There are hundreds of these things at each station. They heat up the air inside the stations making them unbearably hot in the summer. The solution is more AC and ventilation using even more energy. I stopped caring about saving the planet when I saw what the TfL did.

d. The western section of the line beyond Paddington basically doesn't work in any reliable fashion and should just be repainted green and given to the GWR where it would fit with the rest of the often cancelled services.
The amount of energy released in such events boggles the mind. Shifting cubic-kilometers of rock, in this case several hundred or even thousands of cubic-kilometers, even a few inches requires more energy than all the worlds nukes many times over. We live atop an immense heat engine, every little vibration of which could power our entire civilization for years.
I scrolled down to the bottom of my new-posts column in Ivory, pulling to make it load more posts, and then down again and I'm on tomorrow. And I follow less than half as many people as I follow on Twitter. For the kinds of technical discussions I follow, it clearly isn't dead. Maybe security and networking and cryptography is just distinctively on Mastodon?
So, while music diversity on the radio is a problem, it is not a problem unique to France or even foreign language music overall. Nor do language quotas solve it. I imagine it winds up being the same as CanCon, where it doesn't so much improve the diversity of songs on the radio as much as it gives Nickelback lots of playtime.
Australia updated its latitude and longitude somewhat recently because of continental drift:

> The Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country’s local coordinate system, was last updated in 1994, and Australia is now about 1.5m further north-north-east (or, to give the metric used in a BBC infographic: about the height of a kangaroo).

* https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/03/mind-the-gap...

* https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/positioning-navigati...

* https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-envir...

To anyone working in the GIS industry: how would one go about doing a 'mass update' of locations of an entire country in maps and firmware and such?
That's cool, but it means you'll be excluded from events by people that don't agree; you can't expect people to make an exception just for you.
There's a suggestion that the senescent effects of skin aging have a systemic effect. Anti senescents or senescent modulators might counter such an effect and allow the positive benefits of sun with fewer negatives.
The thing I have a problem with in this method is you're blanket opting in or out of notifications. I'd much rather have notifications bucketed into two systems. Transactional and marketing, just like email.

I should be able to opt out of Amazon's marketing push notifications without ALSO opting out of getting delivery alerts.
Maybe version control is a cargo cult, then? You might as well just make commits without commit messages if the revision comment is useless. Maybe just squash all commits between versions so you just have one commit per version.
Is this offical twitter/x leaderboard or an unofficial leaderboard made by gathering open source data?

Also, the list contains usual suspects as expected.
We got a letter in the mail from nextdoor, supposedly sent by a neighbour; it seemed scummy as hell and I don't believe the neighbour was actually consciously aware of what they agreed to (having their name on a letter etc).
For anyone looking for something a tad more user-friendly, I use the extension Google Hit Hider to accomplish this. Works great. You can sort and filter the list of blocked URLs, de-duplicate, and do all sorts of useful manipulations. Works well on DDG and Google, haven't tested other engines.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- James Nicoll

"Literally" has meant figuratively for centuries[0]. It's a language construct known as a contronym[1,2].

Yes, English is not strictly typed, and doesn't conform to a formal spec or mathematical proof. A word can have multiple definitions. A word can have contradictory definitions. The definition of a word can change over time without needing to submit to an approval process. A word can mean something different the next town over. Dialects and creoles and slang exist in wild, flagrant abandon and disregard for your rules. And all of it is valid.

Despite all of this, people manage to be able to comprehend one another, even when using literally to not literally mean literally.

Even the user who used "less" instead of "fewer" upthread that started this. Everyone understood exactly what they meant. The two words mean literally the same thing. But some people insist on maintaining a meaningless formality and insisting upon rules that don't matter, or rather insisting that even in casual conversations, their rules must take precedence over everyone else's.

[0]https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

[2]https://www.quora.com/Etymology-When-did-the-word-literally-...
I feel very left out of all this LLM hype. It's helped me with a couple of things, but usually by the time I'm at a point where I don't know what I'm doing, the model doesn't know any better than I do. Otherwise, I have a hard time formulating prompts faster than I can just write the damn code myself.

Am I just bad at using these tools?
Making Purple Gold [video]
There's an assumption that time is fungible in Agile planning which is sometimes true but often not true.

I worked on a project that usually had two week sprints, part of a sprint was running a batch job that took two days to build a database and machine learning model. It took more like 2 hours of labor to set up, but if you put off building the database as late as possible as everyone else on the team seemed to do, you could easily put it off until the last day in which case you blow the sprint. If I did it, I would start it very early (at least a week) because there was some possibility the job would crash or you found it was configured wrong.

Thus I learned there was a big difference between calendar time (complete the foundation of the the building by Feb 1 so the very expensive crane that arrives on Feb 1 c an go to work) and punchclock time (pay workers for 2500 hours of labor to build the foundation.)
It's not that the off-gassing silicon is storage, it's that it's hidden.
It's interesting -- I was actually taught in Spanish class to call my nationality "estatounidense". Which I now understand is more polite in a few places, but will confuse everyone in other places. The most notable of the latter is, of course, Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Some of those highlighted rules, such as using CC or having the string “can help” being used to decide if something is spam or not is so absurd I’ll make sure to never use SpamAssasin.
Unlocking the Future of AI: Active Inference vs. LLMs
In a world where AI reigns supreme, there is a question looming among the tech elite: Are we on the cusp of true intelligence, or are we merely toying with sophisticated text generators?
The poster I was answering to said that repeated stress makes joints stronger. That's false.
You can totally run injury free if you use your legs as springs and a natural stride
Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Procomm Plus
This comment and the grandparent can both be right. Society gets richer because automation replaces jobs, leaving us more time to do other jobs.
In the oldest days, we had formal verification of software. That didn't seem to stick around after Microsoft took over the PC world.
I definitely mostly use it in the same way - generating discrete snippets.

Haven’t had much luck with code completion thus far.
Completely agree based on my experience. The author's experiences are shared by me and what finally forced me to change my process was reading Alexander Grothendieck. I was not expecting such a prolific writer to espouse such relaxed principles to learn. More than anything, I noticed he emphasized taking time to just _sit and think_. Put things into your own words and pictures as you do. Don't act like a hammer trying to crack the nut, but instead simply "sit and listen to the voices of things". I also just enjoy life more with this method, no more rush. Much more listening.
Before we dream about not working, we should ask people who don't work how it goes for them. And there is one segment of the population that does not work (in the sense of going to a regular job or school, even if that job is mostly working from home): the retired. I joined that group a few months ago. Soon-to-be retirees are counseled to figure out what they're going to do with all that spare time. So far I've managed to find things, but I can see that it could become an issue; watching TV 8 or 12 hours a day is not anything I would want to do. Many retirees take up other jobs (maybe part time) not only as a way of supplementing their income, but as a way to have something useful to do.

The article mentions composing a sonata as something one might do if one had the time. I'm not sure that's entirely a serious suggestion; I don't think many people even know what a sonata is, much less have an appreciation for them--and still less have the ability to compose one. In any case, the idea that many people without work would create art--any kind of art--seems dubious. I can barely draw stick figures.
Meetup dropped the ball there pretty badly, leaving FB events as the main tool for this.
Guessing they will be used to generate synthetic data from simulation to feed the next gen of AI. No copyright issues then.

There might be room for clubs of AI hobbyists who curate datasets and build simulations.
Crypto != Bitcoin.

The leading innovative payments chain is Solana. 0.5% flat fee? I can do you one better
< $0.001 for ALL payments regardless of size. It already exists today and is handling hundreds of millions of $ of volume.

If you want to see a Venmo-like application on Solana that is live, see Code [0].

PS. There are other blockchains that offer similarly low ( < $0.01) transaction fees. Solana is being used by Visa [1] and other leading payment infrastructure providers. (:

[0] https://www.getcode.com/

[1] https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto/deep-dive-on-solana.ht...
Shows you've never used Poco phone. Old ladies at my job use weird no name phones, which are 120$ tops, and amount of ads they're getting is 10x times more than what Poco has. They all have ads on their lockscreen.
Thank you for verifying that what I'm saying is not that unreasonable. I'm getting downvoted way too much for totally factual claims here.

I do see beggars at least once a week these days I'd say. They've increased a lot compared to my first years in London when I would safely call it rare. I reckon because of cost of living.
The major Google "objection" was automated trace loggers. When something goes wrong, they grab the stack trace and ship it off to the developers.

In this particular case, devs definitely see the Safari traces when bugs pop up.
Aappleby's deep dive into A* pathfinding is like opening a treasure chest of game dev secrets, from using hierarchical graphs for smooth sailing across different game scales to dropping 'breadcrumbs' for dynamic path adjustments. YesBox builds on that, painting a picture of their city builder's intricate street and building pathing system, showing us how every bit (or 16-bit bitmask) counts in game design. And gkedzierski? They're soaking up these nuggets of wisdom and already dreaming up video dev logs to spread the word. It's like a masterclass in making virtual worlds come alive!
I love that (when) commit messages are for people first. I don’t want to read stilted and robotic commit messages just because someone wanted to shave off five minutes when creating whatever software artifact like a changelog.
Did they actually editorialize? I don't see any posts from dang in the original (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38826617), the change is pretty significant.

That said, I do think that HN submissions should have a public moderation log / title edit history. But, HN has been very reluctant to add features because idk why.
Have you seen the Hey Calendar that was demo'd yesterday? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SztU4232u_o

I know you're following Google Calendar but I think Hey has some great ideas here :)
Staff notation is ideal for writing music in staff notation.

The politics of music are what makes it a hard problem. Staff notation is the notation of music written for clergy and kings. So there are banal incentives to premise arguments about music on the idea that staff notation notates everything that is properly/fully/truly music.

And the politics of music is so pervasive we don't even think about it as politics. So pervasive that describing the music we listen to is often a shorthand for deeply describing ourselves...and perhaps describing the music we do not listen to, even more so.

To put it another way, there are very well-established financially-backed conventions for what constitutes an informed opinion about music, and a corresponding canon of compositions.
> Or, in other words, let's assume that I want to solve homelessness. What do I have to do for that?

In Finland at least this was (mostly) solved by, you know, giving homeless people homes. Ones owned by municipalities. Decided by elected representatives. Who were elected by voters who care about more than their own ass on this quarter.

This is really not rocket science or fusion power stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
How was the transition? I just got on Noom for a 2nd stint
I am not sure about abolishing, but it would already quite help if there was a clear, reasonably timed, copyright period. Like 50 years after publication.
The news and videos about the recent airplane accident in Tokyo can be found on Twitter, people posted Twitter links, no such thing for Threads.
The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived
A project called The Infinite Jukebox was started back in 2012 and allowed users to endlessly loop songs at similar-sounding parts, creating the illusion of an infinite song. It works better for some songs than others and often requires you to use the "Tune" feature to make it loop better.

The original Infinite Jukebox went down years ago, leading to "The Eternal Jukebox" being created not long after. Sadly, that tool stopped working in mid 2023, possible due to Spotify API changes.

A few weeks ago, Reddit user davioitu announced that they had revived the project and the tool is now once again available to use.

Here's an example of a basic loop: https://jukebox.davi.gq/jukebox_go.html?id=2pNMoqwpAGDmoLWnn...
> And even if we had granted #1 and #2 I don't see how you get #3 because even if the extra time were entirely eaten up by 30 distracted passengers this wouldn't get you 100% dead:

You are right that it does not necessarily follow that 100% would be dead. AC 797 had a flash fire after 90 seconds, and only about half the people died. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
daisyui is a great idea! It's planned now :)
This is a very sad example of land movement and it's a tragedy that people have died in the aftermath and recovery effort.

But it's also an important reminder that our super accurate GPS measurements are not 100% reliable over time. The earth moves. Either in jumps like this or fairly constantly if it's somewhere like Australia [0]

0 -https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/world/what-in-the-world/a...
You're not alone. I do the same thing.

Maybe not so overzealous though. I'll let a few through because I know it CAN be abused but some don't abuse it so badly. A marketing notification here and there is fine, but a few of them send me multiple DAILY. Those get muted and then the next time an app causes me to go to my notification settings, I notice the previously muted one and I determine "Have I used this meaningfully lately?" if not, after muting the current notifications app, I go an uninstall the previous ones.
Food for thought in Substack's statement on the matter: https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343
What I should have paid for:

UltraEdit

WinZip

Procomm Plus

mIRC

Forte Agent

Eudora Pro

Paint Shop Pro
I know macOS doesn't have nearly as much market share as Windows, but we've been getting requests for a macOS version for a long time. Considering the current Windows-only version of the software has been around for 20 years, that's a lot of requests.

Our software is very specialized and very expensive. We don't need to sell thousands (or even hundreds) of licenses to justify the effort.

Maybe the aerospace grads wasn't the best example, mainly because I didn't go to school for aerospace. The private sector is full of space startups that need mission planning software. I don't know about you, but every dev job I've had in the past 7 years is full of people using MacBooks or laptops running Linux.
I agree, on a societal level it's a great benefit.

On an individual level, however, I'd suggest keeping an eye out for opportunities to retrain.

As an analogy, I'd rather be like the coal miners in the 80s who could read the writing on the wall and quietly retrained into something else rather than those who spent their better years striking over cuts to little avail.

It's a very daunting prospect seeing a path to unemployability, though.

Depending how quickly the change happens, it could be a gentle transition, or it could upset a lot of people.
How property rights work when land shifts?
Yes is the usage of fake plates a problem that needs solving? Criminals just take real plates off of other cars and use those. I read that in SF theft gangs even try to take plates of the same color and model of the car they are using.
A democracy that had some level of class consciousness would be optimal at this stage in the US. Instead, our democracy observes relative power and that power is exercised through money.
Also Firefox on mobile, and I have zero issues (on this blog or the last linked one) on a pixel 4a.

Perhaps it's related to android version, Firefox version or constraints imparted by your budget phone, but it's not a mobile layout//Firefox specific problem as far as I can tell (and I have like a dozen add-ons installed now that we can install from the full Firefox catalog).
Apps using repetitive junk push notifications to drive product addition has a side effect of driving smartphone addiction. Good luck expecting apple or google to curb smartphone addiction.
@dang something is wrong with the ranking of this post.
> America, of course, can also refer to two entire continents but I don't know that I've ever met anyone who's primary identity refers to their continent.

It can be hard to tell with Australians for obvious reasons, but I think some do hold such an identity there.