skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most central themes in Christianity is that these folks were lying through their teeth in oder to falsely convict Jesus, and they knew it. That's what makes it the story of the individual who did no wrong being falsely put to death, willingly carrying out His sentence, and in the process absolving mankind of the wrongs they did or ever will do. It wouldn't be all anywhere near that powerful of a gesture if he did something illegal, was caught doing it, and was killed for it.

You can see in the passages directly surrounding what you quote how obvious the Bible makes it. Paraphrasing and injecting context that would have been obvious to the Jewish audiences:

Jews: Should we pay taxes?
Jesus: This item was made by Caesar in the image of Caesar, therefore it's safe to assume it's Caesars property and if he wants it back you should return it to him. But you on the other hand were made in the image of God, you are God's property and you should return to Him.

Jews: Are you the King of the Jews?
Jesus: That is what you have called me.

Jews: This guy says we shouldn't pay taxes and that he's the messiah! Kill him!

Judge: “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. I will therefore punish and release him.”

Jews: But we really really really really want you to kill him! And we'll probably have an uprising and cause a ton of trouble if you don't!

Judge: Screw it fine, I'll let this other murderer and insurrectionist we had previously held captive go free and crucify Jesus instead.

How's that for foretelling?
The system is said to be solvent for at least one more generation, perhaps 2, even at current demographics, but for one small change... removing the cap on paying into the system as your income rises.
People aren't tv experts. A tv breaks and you look for a replacement…
I hope Ukrainians are watching this. It would be a shame if even a single russian refinery remained out of their drones range.
I'd say that's a consequence of the nerd generation entering the workforce. The kids today see the nerds working "cool" jobs at "cool" employers like Microsoft, Google, etc. and become goals to strive to.

Granted, that impression is probably on its way out with how much reputation/"cool factor" the tech industry is losing in recent years.
I know indirectly that claude is basically completely unbeatable in creative writing, even GPT4 can't hold a candle..
What career?

Companies haven't been loyal to employees in a long time, so now they get to enjoy employees not being loyal to them.
Yes. Another one is deciding if something important with a far away deadline is urgent or not.

I'd need to first know how long it would take to deal with it, estimate how much of a margin of error I can allow myself, and then guess weither something will throw a wrench in my schedule making it impossible to deal with that task when it's due.
I’m sure it worked out well for the pocketbooks of the new management.
I thought you were being handwave-y about the signal being returned because that's an obscenely small amount of power, but you're right. Hardware that is probably 50 years old at this stage, in the cold of (interstellar)space, and we're still able to talk to it despite the signal after its long journey back being ~0.000000000000000001w.
Good question. LSST was being studied as early as 2008, and it was highly ranked in the 2010 Astrophysics decadal survey - I just looked it up and in that 2010 survey the design was described as “relatively mature.” This was long before the Starlink issue became known, e.g. the first Starlink launch was in 2018.

I worked in this area around 2008-2014 and I never heard astronomers discussing communication satellite interference, it was mostly about data volume, image processing, and automated classification. Perhaps it was being considered in the later 2010s by serious optical system engineers?
I also highly recommend When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Left_Earth:_The_NASA_M...
The 1970s were when change started slowing down, and coincidentally, it's also when we stopped growing yearly per capita energy usage by the customary 2%. (I can dig up the sources on that.) Remember the 1970s oil shocks, for example.

All the stuff we were 'promised' that we didn't get, like personal jet packs, flying cars etc, would cost a lot of energy to run. All the computing advances we did see were possible in the stagnant energy budget.

Nuclear energy would have helped keep the energy budget growing, but for a variety of reasons, it was never really widely enough adopted. I'm very optimistic about photovoltaic, because thanks to it being a semi-conductor technology its costs have been falling along a similar curve as other electronic products. I expect that to keep going until installation and land rent will be the predominant cost factors.

So per capita energy budget might go up again for a while, and with them labour productivity improvements might return for a while.
Bonk: A toolkit for X11 window management
> Seriously, if you have a recommendation for a consumer TV company that makes money by selling TVs, I'm all ears.
> Greetings, human. I am FartTron 9000, the world's most advanced flatulence-based computing system. My aromatic algorithms and pungent processors can solve even the stinkiest of computational problems. How may I ass-ist you today?
<pfffrrrrtttttt> braaaaaapppp <fffrrrttttt>

Where's your AI safety now?!
People hang commercial art in their homes all the time, and that's essentially design-by-committee.

I see no reason that someone wouldn't hang an AI poster print in their AirBnB that's abstract, or even a "commission" based on the property and its locale.

Same reason for AI music. Your store needs a bit of music to set a vibe, but with AI it can be free of copyright and performance licensing, and again, be tailored to your location, products, clientele, the day of the week, etc.
> I have more personal experience in the Republic of Somaliland

> If you're really interested in mobile money APIs or payments in Somalia

Wait, I thought you were from the "Republic of Somaliland"? Why are you asking people to contact you about Somalia?
> Why would I care about my manager not being in the office?

I suspect OP might be more interested in the manager being available, not so much where the manager is physically located.
Can't wait for the failure mode where they sit over HVDC lines, fail because there's no alternating magnetic field, and then fall on them and hobble the infrastructure.
I own a Bravia, it has all the usual bells and whistles but was made in Japan for the Japanese market. We've had it connected to the internet for the year since we bought it and haven't had any trouble with ads.
On fb I mostly see advertisement for programming courses.

Of course with a master of science in computer science, after years and years of posting links to my open source projects; what I need the most is a programming course or a no code platform.
> Companies haven't been loyal to employees in a long time, [...]

Some companies have, some companies haven't.
Yes, and not an assembler but the inverse of a hex-dump.

(although that is very close to an assembler for the subset of programs consisting only of .byte foo, bar, bletch, ... directives)
lol, from the title i was absolutely convinced that he was talking about https://www.wix.com/
It would be fun to try to design a system that can work around all kinds of failures, such as being able re-purpose one subsystem to take over from another one.

For example, have all the digital electronics be reprogrammable gate arrays.
But at least we are healthy and not all radioactive -- aside from the microplastics and forever chemicals.
Well, it's all about compromises. The market mostly provides what people are willing to pay for.

Yes, it's a shame that other people have different preferences from me sometimes, so that the market for what I want is smaller. But, hey, variety is the spice of life.

You can get pretty far with ad-blockers.
>Anyone who grew up in the late 80s and early 90s in particular probably doesn't even think of the 90s as being particularly "old".

Born in '89, the 90s was my childhood. I will tell you today holds none of the magic the 90s had, it's ancient history. I pity the children of today.

Also, what was that old saying?: Everything you grow up with is magic, everything you see in adulthood is mundane, and everything in your senior years is fucking blasphemy?
I have lived in several commie block apartments over the 30 some years I lived in Romania, and in every single one every radiator had a manual valve I could use to regulate temperature.
Famous problem is that it breaks twrp (work profile). You need disable fingerprint unlock every time, which is very annoying
Thanks for the tips. I was aware of holding option to show inspector but not about this behaviour while closing apps holding it. Nice to know. As always, the best features of Macos are the hidden ones.

Still, to me, inspector should be the default.
I indeed clicked it because I thought that as well.
Oh, man, I was hoping this thread would be about managers who have mastered the art of time management and are doing their jobs in a few hours per week.

One of my old managers had it. I would rarely see the dude -- except for once or twice a month, when we'd happen to be in the same meeting. He'd wait until the last bit of the meeting, and then he'd come in -- calm and measured -- with a comment that would blow everyone away. While everyone was nodding at what a good point it was, he'd disappear, never to be seen again until next quarter.

Meanwhile, I'm over here working a steady 50 hours/week and barely keeping up. Most weeks are wall-to-wall meetings, combined with a few over-caffeinated nights writing up some doc or another, and then it's a stumble into the weekend with just enough time to recover and start the whole thing over on Monday.

I'd like to hear from those kinds of AWOL managers. I have no idea how they do it.
> Does it use 1970s encryption?

That would actually be fine, because you can do encryption in software. So you wouldn't need to keep any physical artifacts from the 1970s around.
None of those are developed and still have a large part of the country undeveloped.

The UAE is probably the closest one from your list but you'd have to basically ignore the large Indian diaspora which isn't treated very well to make it fit.
I've had a few AWOL managers, but in each case they had another team as well. They spend all their time on the other team and expect the team I'm on to run itself. So they aren't AWOL from the company, they just have 0 presence in my work life.
I don’t see how it’s any different than Windows ME.
Actually no it was not. It's more that power was distributed differently. The speaker of the house, the master of the Senate had real power. Power that now rests with interest groups.

If you are interested read Robert Caro's Master of the Senate.
Antiochus III
That time period also happens to be when the top rates of income tax started to be cut dramatically.
They had decent bandwidth internally allowing them to playback uncompressed realtime standard definition video which normal PCs running Windows couldn’t do at the time.
Could the checks be binned into some categories or time strata, such that obsolete ones could be dropped. Eg, we could keep them all there under a --exhaustive flag for those 6 or 7 people who are really attached to their computer that they got in the 90s. But then add some more options like --fast or --cutoff=2015 to pare down the checks to what is relevant today
Retrospective on 10 Years of colour-science
Is there more information about this?
Wow, it's anoying that it reloads the result while I'm going through them
Yes, this is it. Thanks a lot!
We had an internal tool that was written as a quick hack by a rogue developer but then became crucial for our operations. It was starting to show some rough edges and some performance limitations, so a big project was planned to replace it, run by two fancy new hires who demanded teams of underling developers and ridiculously inflated titles before they would tackle the project. It quickly became clear that this project would not bear fruit anytime soon, so my boss asked me on the down-low to produce an unofficial stopgap replacement for the parts of the old system that weren't scaling well. However, it could never threaten to be a full replacement, because then I'd be stepping on the toes of our expensive diva hires.

Long story short, last time I heard, both the original hack and my partial replacement were still in use ten years after I left. The big project ran for almost two years without replicating a single feature of the original hack. Right up to the last, the fancy guys produced an impressive series of complaints and excuses that basically said that they were doing everything right but doing things right didn't work because the problem and the context were wrong.
At the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft.

The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.
Dupe: White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68722032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916102 (219 points | 2 days ago | 242 comments)
to be clear: in the blog post I wasn’t remotely proposing that governments should determine the technical details of the projects to be funded. But instead the projects which empirically support public infrastructure can apply for maintenance funding.

For instance “xz is used to compress packages for these ubiquitous OSes. please can I get $$K/y for security audits and to cover my time to work on PRs”.

So you would still have the competition for the best tech to get popular and become public infra. But you would be protected against the paradox that the more successful and ubiquitous FOSS projects get, the more they are taken for granted, and the less their maintenance is funded: “I didn’t have to pay for this thing to exist in the first place; why should I start paying for its maintenance now?”
hmm, i thought maybe that was the version where you had one- or two-byte labels for the (hexadecimal) instructions
That only really applies to cold climates at best.

Here's the theatrical trailer of Ten Canoes (2006) by Rolf de Heer with modern actors, many of whom are a generation or less from living traditionally without permanent homes, long houses or anything westerners would consider as "inside", retelling a story from their oral history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH_MY8FJuYo
I have a gazillion of those weird names in my library
You need the money to survive and none of the tech or business will matter in the end. Optimize accordingly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942397 (examples of useless work)
Owch, yeah. I suppose it's always a good idea you have a backup regime that's actually competent or you'll get revolutionary France.
Please enlighten me as to how:

- iCloud is a privacy nightmare

- iCloud e2ee with ADP is sometimes-kinda e2ee
It's a good question. For simple UPDATEs, CockroachDB always executes in a deterministic, serial order and so it's likely the rows will be locked in the same order by any competing updates. (This can be confirmed by looking at the query plans.) Complex UPDATEs using joins and subqueries will need explicit ORDER BY to always lock in the same order.

If an UPDATE has to retry halfway through, locks are held across the retry to help the system make progress. But as you point out, this could cause lock acquisition to happen in an unexpected order if new rows qualify during a retry. So far we haven't run into this, but we might need to provide an option for an UPDATE to drop locks on retry if deadlock turns into a bigger problem than livelock. It depends on the workload.
I wish my manager went AWOL. Would certainly increase my productivity
That's why you should call what you store in git the _desired_ state, not anything else. A git repository is not a live database. It's a collection of static text files that change less often than your live system. There will be bugs and misconfiguration, and sometimes the desired state is just technically not reachable, and that's fine. What the actual state is doesn't matter. Leave that to the controller. State drifting is a problem your gitops engine should detect, and should be fixed by the owner of controller code.

Some companies practice infra-as-code, point to their git repo and tell me "this is our single source of truth" of our infrastructure. And I have to tell them that statement is wrong.
Those are different kind of drones. To successfully enhance a refinery, it takes a smallish plane with a pot of explosives, not a tiny grenade-dropper or fpv.
A lesson from Syria was that VBIEDs have trouble with terrain which is no longer flat; the response seems to have come quickly.
> the N64 they showed they could design a consumer product. But outside of that they were in no future consoles. 3dfx and ArtX both came from former SGI. You don't need to stop selling workstations just because you make chips for consoles and other such devices.

Commodore tried for a play where their - still much lower end - newest generation chipset would have scaled (with the same chips) from being a full low end computer, console, or set-top box, computer (it had a PA RISC core on chip, so could run standalone), a high end graphics card for PCs, and the chipset for a higher end Amiga at the same time.

They ran out of money - short maybe a few million - before being able to test if that would have worked as a way to widen their market.

I wish we'd have gotten to see how that'd unfolded, though Commodore's deep management dysfunction probably still would have made it fail.
It’s somewhat sickening, for essentially making pennies a month per user, all users of the TV have adverts inflicted upon them.

When I need to replace my TV, I will happily pay the extra 10s of dollars for one which will never do this.
Have you considered slowing down to no more than 40 hrs/week and starting to interview for jobs that don’t exploit you?
It just needs some random words either in bold or highlighted with the entire palette of colours, then it wouldn’t look out of place with the mad rambling nonsense scrawled on a large piece of cardboard held up the homeless guy around the corner from my place.
Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet
Earlier post (also no discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679772
This is frankly awesome news, we now know Voyager 1 just needs a Windows Update(tm) to keep on flying. Of course, "just" is putting it mildly to say the least, but I don't want to think how worse the diagnosis could have been.
https://www.amazon.com/Eisenhower-in-War-and-Peace-audiobook...
I often break down tasks like that into "finding out/planning" and "the rest of it" - so the first task would be important and urgent. The other would not, until I've decided.
> Try murdering someone like that… well that person might have contingencies in place so that things just start to randomly burn down in your country……………

I don't even know where to start with this. The article portrayed your interaction with the DoD to giving them a Powerpoint presentation and making various attempts to catch their attention. Which you've portrayed here as a 'heavy affiliation'... so heavy that the state conducts special operation behind enemy lines to avenge you.
Please bring neon db to GCP
I love neon.tech but the only problem I have committing to it rn is that it's only available on AWS and my entire infra is on GCP and I do not wanna pay data transfer fees.
Hey Google, Set YouTube Free as a Standalone Company
I hate the term force projection. It’s too needlessly complicated.
https://archive.ph/sKekm
There is no end goal. They're desensitizing consumers and their children until what they're doing is seen as normal and acceptable so that they can push a little farther.
Except for the fact that ads didn't obscure the content, Idiocracy had the right idea
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/177/116639897...
Considering the website we’re on, under what circumstances would you not have a terminal open?
Soaring Tortoise Trem-O-Graph Beat Programmable Optical Tremolo (2013)
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/saildrone

>With a speed through the water of 2-8kts, they have a range of more than 16,000 nautical miles, and endurance of up to 12 months.
> I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt like either they're made up

Reddit’s AskReddit and AITAH are a fascinating example of this. Whenever I’ve browsed it, half the posts feel like thinly veiled creative writing exercises and/or karma farming. Often the accounts are a couple days old with a sudden burst of posts across multiple subreddits. Some of the stories are completely inconsistent with the poster’s past comments. Others aren’t even logically consistent from the beginning to the end of the story.

The most fascinating part is that the commenters don’t seem to care, even on the most dubious posts. They only want a creative prompt to comment on and add their opinion. Some times you can scroll half way down and find someone who debunked the post against the OP’s comment history, but it won’t get as many upvotes as the hot takes from others.
A lot of people are overwhelmed with "urgent" tasks and in that state, they find it hard to even realise that some are more important than others. The discipline to say no, I'll do this one really important thing first and everything else can wait isn't something everybody is born with.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946524

but I agree. When I created newsfeed app, I also started pushing data to repo https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024, in JSON.
Looks like a silent quitting schema.
I'd prefer absent boss than someone that micromanage what I'm doing.
but we have artificial intelligence. it's just not autonomous. it doesn't popup a notification in the middle of the day saying "You know? I've been thinking about your issue you mentioned in the morning daily and I think you have a race condition. here's a link to a POC to see what I mean"

That's what I mean by autonomous.
Seasons. Last one was crypto.
It looks like a perfect candidate for a vs code extension.
For All Mankind is a fictional alternate history with an awesome first season.
Not to mention the Roosevelt family.
Pirate IPTV Investigations Are Expensive, Time-Consuming and Prone to Misfire
Applied radio astronomy with a transmit component.
Really impressive, no doubt showing the results of having a tech lead who's been through the tangled over-engineered/ mishmashed hell that most companies end up in, and learned the lessons.
Keep in mind several of the others survived long past their public visibility. There were MIPS smart phones for a while. Both PPC and MIPS long outsold x86 in number of CPUs - just at low margin licenses with the bulk going into embedded uses, like ARM.

ARM had the advantage in that space of starting from the very low end, and being able to squeeze margins instead of being squeezed.
I still havent figured out how people decide signals under the noise floor