skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'm thoroughly confused. I get that the vibration frequency of the atomic clock is faster in the lesser gravity. But why does that require an entirely different time system? Isn't it as simple as adjusting your computation when your reading the frequency to account for the faster tick? I mean, you have to calculate that anyway since the frequency isn't an interval of one second here on earth either, and is different depending upon which element you're using in your atomic clock.
> We also did not add any free software

What does this really mean? Did you use some paid language/compiler ala Borland? Did you write all your own libraries?

Without huge resources, like an intelligence agency or multinational, I don’t see how it’s possible to not use any free software. Unless these stories take place 30 years ago or something.
X is pronounced as ch in Catalan too.

https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/16203/use-of-x-i....
I've done plenty of useless things in my career, and had more than my fair share of projects that ended up being shelved and never used, but, sometimes, I make useless things on purpose.

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode

Please enjoy.
The wealthy are starting to have more babies than the poor again
>The first one however I don't understand. Do you mind to give one or two concrete examples of that?

Not everything about a project maps to a type.

The team might have to handle the issue (and have a way to talk about the problem) of back-pressure for example. Doesn't mean there's a back-pressure type in the server code, or a "back-pressure-handler" class or something like that.

And that's still a term referring to a core tech aspect. There are terms related to projects that teams need to agree on that are appplicable to the sales or marketing or user documentation of the software, and not classes.
It is hilarious how the commands used 50 years ago in SCCS in 1973 are roughly the same as what I use today with vim and git.
Is nuclear powering the next big thing in Asia?
Indeed. In interviews he has even boasted with his abysmal academic output (sorry, no link, just a vague memory). It's like 10 papers in total. I feel like he's the most overrated scientist of all time.
This is the fourth time I’ve see an article about this without any giving a concrete example of a real planned experiment that would depend on this level of sensitivity. (GPS cannot be used on the moon, nor does GPS require the user to have an ultra-precise clock.)

The actual White House proposal

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Celest...

mentions precision spatial positioning and its use for spacecraft docking, but this does not require having a separate reference clock anymore than it’s needed to use GPS at high altitudes on Earth. (Again, the GPS system does not require the user to have a high-precision clock.) They also mention the dependence of the SI units on the unit of time, which really suggests the writer has no idea how measurement precision is achieved.
This is incredible. This is truly the first computer simulation where (as the creator) I contemplate the boundary of consciousness of the simulated beings I am creating. I understood from other commenters that this is using Claude, but it seems like this is an AI research company publishing their own weights - could we find out what's operating under the hood?
Yep, I had some scaling code that swapped width/height in one place by accident and IDEA caught it. I really love this tool.
To add to this, the raccoon is looking for free-as-in-beer food.

What do most people (including businesses) want? Free-as-in-beer software, because nobody wants to pay out unless they get an invoice in the mail.

What does FOSS provide? Free-as-in-beer open source software.
It was linked to unmanned space activities. We'd have had it without a manned space program.
coming back to this comment, and i just wanted to say...

i take your points well. and would also offer that you have a personal life experience which is fascinating to me given my upbringing in quintessential USA.

'voting with one's wallet' as a concept has more to do with the (English anyway) word for 'boycott.' a boycott, unlike governmental regulation, is something strictly reserved for private individuals to carry out. governments cannot legally boycott anything, at least that comes to mind. but they do have implicit (sometimes called 'plenary') authority to regulate the private market.

both, boycott (i.e. freedom of speech and to assemble, etc.) and lawful governmental regulation, are but of course myriad components of a healthy, functioning democracy.

nice exchanging ideas with you.
I don't anyone is disputing that, but why did the department head see a need to point that out?
Agree. Learning windows installer is bananas because it is super unintuitive.

Intentionally so in parts, because they do not want you to interact with it outside the API.

Example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/msifileh...

You could be forgiven for not catching on that this table is just using slightly obfuscated MD5 hashes.
Checking for anomalies and then running `universechk --fix-all--force --yes` made me feel some kind of cold hearted god operator verifying his simulation experiment. Then I proceeded to mount another universe into sagittarius* and ran an rsync from the other universe to the current one.
Please don't copy the whole post as a comment. People are expected to read the article.

> So what would be the reason to not doing so?

Some people hate beeing tracked.
Apple says you can take photos of the sun with an unfiltered iPhone camera, because the lens is too wide-angle to focus a dangerous amount of light on the sensor. However, it can't really handle the brightness, so if you want to see anything interesting, you should still use a fiter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/yes-your-iphone-can-photograph-...
Maybe I'm not understanding, but they only organization I do is put each movie and related files like cover and SRT into its own folder named after the movie. Seems to work fine.
Nah, it doesn't pass the sniff test.

Is it more important than a list of critical bugs?

A document explaining how a developer can get the application up and running?

A document detailing how the production server is setup and how to gain access?

When you think about it, lots and lots of projects manage without any kind of glossary but would go up in flames without some kinds of documents.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM
It was not enormously expensive. The entire Apollo Program cost about 1/6th as much as the Vietnam War, and that's direct costs only. One created something people can be proud of, expanded human knowledge and horizons greatly, and put us one step closer to the next and presumably final stage of human expansion. The other wasted a lot of money on some vague geopolitical goal that achieved literally less than nothing - much less than nothing.

If we spent our money on nothing except Apollo Program type projects, the world would be imaginably different today. We could very well be living in the sci-fi future that many living through the 60s would have expected to see emerge over the next 60 years. If you told them that, instead, in 60 years we'd be struggling to achieve a manned flyby of the Moon, not a soul would have believed you.

Think about this another way - if we had decided to pass on the geopolitical stupidity, we could have afforded a program (with no increase in spending) of more than 6x the scale of the Apollo Program. It's really tantalizing to think about what that could have been like. Alas that's for the other timeline where humanity is already on the verge of constructing a Dyson Sphere. In this one, maybe we'll finally manage to achieve a manned Moon flyby sometime soon.
Look at Israel's history and you will find that religious fundamentalist Israeli Jews have always been at forefront in sabotaging all efforts at peace and in fostering violence whenever they can because it benefits their politics. (I've already cited many examples). The slogan "from the river to the sea" was originally the genocidal slogan coined by the fascist Likud party, by Netanyahu, in 1977 to highlight their policy of subjugating all Palestinians and occupying their land for the State of Israel (The controversial phrase “from the river to sea,” explained - https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23972967/river-to-sea-pal...). (And now the same religious fundamentalist Israelis cry crocodile tears about "anti-semitism" because some muslim fundamentalists and secular pro-Palestinians have usurped the slogan for their own cause).

As long as these religious fundamentalists thrive in Israel, Israel is doomed to be a country to live in hatred and anger.

And, if you support Israel, it should worry you. I am an indian who had great sympathy and respect for Jews, and later Israeli leaders. Today, thanks to Netanyahu and his vulgar war to just cling on to power, I am a pro-palestinian now. It is important for people like you to understand this because while in the short-term you think that Israel is "winning" the war by "defending" itself by killing 30,000+ Palestinians, later on, you are going to wonder why the rest of the world don't "like you". Netanyahu and his other religious fundamentalist jews will use identity politics and try to convince you its because you are a jew, and the world hates Jew. No. If people look down on Israelis today and tomorrow, it will only be because you were cowards to not stand up to your genocidal leaders, and even supported them, like the Nazis cheered on Hitler.

(Now, Netanyahu has deliberately attacked and provoked Iran too because he knows Israelis are losing patience with his promises to bring back the hostages - most of whom the IDF has already killed with their bombing of Gaza. So expanding the conflict to war with another foreign state, by provoking Iran, is his only way to further distract the public, foster even more hate between jews and muslims and cling on to power.)
A cope with what? Thats literally correct. The tool was made to replace 5 assistants, accountants and paper pushers. There's a design to this ginormous system that works best when you lean into it.

Its why picking the right ERP is very iimportat
An Introduction to Machine Intelligence for Architects and Other Nonengineers
You should look at the motivation and reasons why people people went to work for 37signals.
>yet they do little to ensure its ongoing health.

My late mother who was an accountant taught me a very important lesson about business:

Nobody's going to pay you until you send them an invoice.
Hilarious title - 37signals is surely now associated with the opposite of expertise in this area? It'd be like taking advice from "Paul von Hinderberg's Guide To Safe Passenger Aviation" or "Gerald Ratner's Surefire Tips For Sales Success!"

[for context - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...]
They were banned from talking about any sort of politics. Be that personal identities, political figures, etc.

It was handed down by public announcement with zero discussion or warning.

If my boss pulled nonsense like that I would consider quitting too.
Right but what is the point of having internet in a school?
It almost makes me glad that my tear ducts are defective and I can't wear contact lenses. I think I might genuinely be willing to live without whatever advantages people think these will provide if it means avoiding having all my visual attention monitored at all times.
Not OP, but I just stream from it as a better Spotify alternative. It uses opus codec for encoding, which works really well even with a slow CPU. The playing is instant.

Jellyfin uses AAC, which then spins my homelab fans when I try to encode anything. With opus the fans stay silent.
It was irrational. While I agree that the new policy could have been rolled out differently, and likely led to a few of the bullets in this blog post, employees and the public very much over reacted.

Company leadership deciding that political discussion/debate is too distracting to go in the remote team's official communication platform seems totally reasonable. They didn't say you can't talk about it with anyone at all, they just said don't do it in the chat rooms that are used by everyone at the company.

I'm not sure when the norm changed but it had to be very recent, I've never worked in a place where it was acceptable to debate politics in a company-wide platform.
> Even C doesn't map any longer when taking into consideration -O3, UB, vector units, and compiler replaced standard library calls.

I've found it maps orders of magnitude better than C++ under the same optimisation levels.
One thing that set SGI apart from the rest was that their cases were so incredibly pretty. Even today, the most beautiful PC cases barely play in the same league (IMHO). When Apple started building those colorful cases around ~2000, they reached that level of aesthetic appeal, but then they went for brushed metal (which is also very pretty, but not that pretty, IMHO).

Had one of the major PC vendors hired their designers and built just run-of-the-mill PCs, housing them in those amazing cases, I wonder how that would have worked out.
The first one really confuses me.

You can not not communicate. Not discussing the elephant in the room is communicating. Few things are as important to study, practice, and perfect as clear communication.

I wonder if a meaningful gaze or avoiding eye contact would be better when not discussing the elephant.
A utility company can operate such drones without a meter, because they own lines and power.
I've been purchasing older O'Reilly books off of Ebay for the past couple of years. My most recent purcahse was Applying RCS and SCCS by Don Bolinger, which is split between RCS, SCCS, and describing software configuration management in general.

The SCCS interleave format lived in BitKeeper and PVCS/Dimensions.
I have two cats that are expert at furniture damaging. Can rent them out for a couple of hundred a day
Did, basically before you had no money, and thought people with money should share his with you and, now you have money and you don't want it to be taken away
How to Improve Your Customer Service With AI
Information overload. There’s tons of info on our Slack, but the vast majority is noise. If you saved transcripts from all Zoom meetings it would be mostly noise too. The benefit of meetings is that they be chaotic. Creating something succinct and sharable from them should be done later as a singular focused activity and stored in a wiki.
Nice tool. A couple issues.

Filled in the form and pressed generate - got the signup barrier. Ok, sign up.

Then just plopped back down on the form page. Expected it to start generating. Stared at it for thirty seconds, decided to risk pressing a button again. THEN it generated.

Finally, my portrait picture (just my face) resulted in some guy I don't know, in an impressionist style. Different face entirely, different hair entirely, different color eyes, just no resemblance whatsoever. Were some wires crossed in there?

A good idea if it did anything more than collect my email. Now I'm wondering if it isn't just a honeytrap for email collection. Hm.
To be fair, people can indeed learn lessons from bad decisions. When you do, sharing them with others is a great way to help others avoid making the same mistakes.

A few of the bullets in this blog post absolutely had to come from lessons of the early 2021 controversies. Picking the right venue to share communication, for example.
So if I develop a niche feature relevant to a handful of people and contribute it upstream, I'm entitled to a free perpetual license to future software updates, even though a select few core developers, who are by and large paid Red Hat employees, do all of the work? I'm sorry, but Amazon didn't do much for Redis. I'd argue that they did the exact opposite: Indirectly defund the people who did all of the work to make Redis happen. Given the forced opportunity to fund the core developers, they noped out real quick to gain more control over costs and the software project itself. I hope that Red Hat learned their lesson and use strong copyleft licenses in the future to avoid this toxic situation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/business/tesla-auto-sales...
Agreed, it's even more irritating that the very first bullet point is grammatically wrong as well, further highlighting how poorly this whole "guide" has been communicated itself:

> You can not not communicate.

It's "cannot not".
This is one of the many reasons why I think society should slowly phase out big tech and shut it down, and put a hard limit on the size of corporations. They simply cannot be trusted.
Very interesting.

Since presumably "all writings" refers to all his writings during his lifetime, I'd hope it can account for those times in his life at which he changend his mind on certain topics?
Not a source, but rather an exercise: give yourself a tight word count and rework your essay until it fits. When one third of your article has to go, you start looking really deep into how to extract as much value as possible out of every word.
This article was a big surprise to me for another reason: I've lived in a variety of regions in the U.S. and loose produce has been the norm my whole life, at least for items that aren't really small (berries usually come in packages). You can buy a sack of 10 oranges or something, but the norm is to select your own oranges one by one.

I'd very much have expected the U.S. to do whatever makes the most profit, so I wonder why there's such a cultural divide.
The Bible Belt people believe a whole bunch of other groups also are evil and deserve the death penalty…
I’m working somewhere now where we’re building everything above the network transport layer from scratch.

We just built an in memory IPC and rpc protocol on top of UDP.

You can just do that. It’s not as easy to use as grpc+protobuf.

Probably not as fast, almost certainly not as correct, but you can do it.
Couldn't agree more. It's disgraceful how some companies these days try to ride whichever, often short-lived, political direction is prevalent at any given moment, just to convince people they are a valid participant in the public discussion. They are not. They're there to make money, period. 37signals aren't perfect, but unlike the majority of other companies, their leaders seem to know when it's time to apologize, even when they decide to stand their ground.
I felt like this reading Never split the difference when the author mentions in one of the first cases that the hostages died (and he was the negotiator).
In China, specifically; yes.

> It has 38 nuclear power reactors in operation and 19 under construction1/. It has increased its number of operating reactors by more than ten times since 2000 and plans to bring five units into commercial operation this year alone. It is China, the fastest expanding nuclear power generator in the world.

-International Atomic Energy Agency

https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/how-china-has-become-the-world....
The joke on an old team of mine was that because there was always enough important/urgent work to keep us busy (partly because leadership treated too much as urgent), the important/not urgent stuff never happened, or never happened until it became urgent. Which leads to some problems. But I do think when you’re feeling overwhelmed with stuff it can be a useful categorization system for what you can put aside.
> Automatic occasionally: “Social questions”

Bah.
I wouldn't say I like this approach, since it's based on the assumption (wrong in my opinion) that using a tool or a set of rules to enforce social communication, will solve the socialization problem.

Do you want to talk about a book? Talk about it.

Would you like to know your new remote colleague? Book a call with her.

And so on, on a list of examples that I'd like to sum up in this sentence:

if you want to socialize, just socialize, since no tool can do that for you.

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Then, I'm quite in line with this comment from @nmat

> Face-to-face communication is very underrated nowadays, probably because of the negative connotations associated with meetings. Talking to someone is by far the fastest way to convey information. I often prefer a quick chat to spend 30 minutes writing Slack messages back and forth. I agree that writing has other benefits and it's better in certain cases but we need to get out of the mindset that writing/async is always better.

A direct, face-to-face conversation is usually way faster than a ping-pong chat on Slack or, worse, especially for day-to-day activities.

On the same line of thinking, instead of long, useless meetings, or writing pedantic, bureaucratic, asynchronous long forms (like the 30 bullet points of the article), I'm a big proponent of pair/mob activities within small teams:

Use a visual collaboration tool, a shared document, or a code editor, and write together!

Utilize a timer and change the driver often.

Keep people focused and work together.

I've never seen teams be as efficient and fast as the ones adopting this approach.

Finally, the principle that I like most of the Agile Manifesto, the most important one to me:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Perhaps in terms of the importance to effort ratio. How long does it really take to maintain an adequate glossary?
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I recently learned about the "Windows Sandbox"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

Perfect for testing things that might screw up a Windows system in a 'clean' environment.
Love the idea of daily “what have you done today”. I did this in a few of my previous roles, and it kept the team accountable for their work.

We don’t do it in my current job and it means; weeks or months of someone being on the same task.
The only reason I am still on Windows is Adobe Lightroom. Come on Adobe, time to support Linux!
If Israel loses international support completely, there is a possibility.
The value of convenience may be significant but is it really great enough to find the cost of providing that convenience without external subsidy over the long run.

To me it is ridiculous that anybody thought local personal services like food delivery, dog walking, and taxi driving could ever be converted into durable, efficient, profitable national or global monopolies. In the absence of monopoly power such low barrier to entry commodity services invariably see their profit margins squeezed to cost from competition. All this is freshman or highschool level economics.
This is the best version.
Flying trolleybuses :)

If you live near a power line, is it worth it to have a few drones automatically go back and forth and recharge your house batteries for free?
unsupervised major surgery.
Sounds like recreating Doom. Or Linux.
That is weird. I started in 2003 and we absolutely had SVN provided by the department... at latest by 2005ish, maybe even 2003, or it was CVS. I can only say this for sure because of one course where we actively used it.
why also post the link as a comment?
By the time it was open sourced, the DVCS wars were already at an end. Git (due to Github) was used everywhere. Bazaar saw it's last release in the same year as BK open sourced (2016) and Mercurial usage dropped slowly.