skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's the point of the metric. The observation that libyear is a dimension, libyears are additive.

If you value some library years more, and some less, then weight the sum.

It's like saying there is no point of natural numbers, because when you count apples, some apples might be rotten.
No. UTC with leap seconds isn't "reality" except in the sense that some of those awful scripted "reality TV" shows are reality. It's a confection, and it's annoying so there's no real argument for it beyond "That's what we've always done" which is a pretty dubious rationale for anything, but even more so when it's been like that for less than a normal human lifespan.

Leap seconds won't even be like the automobile, let alone newspapers or hotdogs, they're a fleeting idea we thought might be good, now we realise it's not good, so bye bye.

There are two "realities" here. TAI is the monotonically increasing "Seconds are the same length and happen in order" clock time that it turns out well suits a lot of human enterprises. The exact details have been worked out pretty well. A Day in TAI is 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 SI seconds, always, forever.

UT1 is a descendant of "Solar time" now based on the Earth's rotational angle. A Day in UT1 is the full rotation, how long that is in SI seconds varies very slightly and arbitrarily.

UTC wants to have the steady monotonicity of TAI except it wants to match UT1's days exactly, this is not a thing, so the "leap seconds" are conjured to kludge it. This kludge is what's going away, it's not part of "reality" it's a kludge to try to fit a square peg in a round hole and we're giving up the kludge.

It has been a long time since humans worked purely from direct observation of the "solar time" or rotation. Once the clock gets invented, so millennia ago, that's out and humans are measuring (albeit not very precisely at first) what we now call TAI. Giving up leap seconds is us finally accepting that while UT1 is astronomically interesting, it's not actually a sensible basis for day to day living.
That's an uneeded "optimisation". There is nothing wrong with eating meat and breeding cattle. Again, the issue is that the environment has a limited, finite capacity, which we exceed when we are 10 billion with good standards of living.

To reduce quality of life (because it's not limited to meat, it's comprehensive restrictions) simply to accomodate ever more humans on the planet is madness and unsustainable, anyway.

PS: Let's also remember, for example, that 50-60 million bisons roamed North America before European settlement, whereas there are about 28 million beef cows in the US today (according to Google).
> Submodules make managing dotfile dependencies so much easier.

I'm impressed by the dedication of anyone who has enough dotfile config to use a submodule!

I still like Vorta for dotfiles, just because it's trivial to set up and only uses tools I already use for other things. Most of the dotfiles I want to back up have secrets, so GitHub isn't really an option.

SyncThing seems like it could work well for dotfiles too, with some kind of frontend that copied stuff to a sync folder.
A month or so ago a ship filled with 19,000 Brazilian cattle destined for the Middle East docked in Cape Town. The cows were living in such horrendous conditions that the stink of the ship took over the entire city. Living in pools of excrement, sick, lame, pregnant and even dead cows among them. The South African animal protection service had to put many down.

It's easy, its right to blame the Bolsonaro regime for having ramped up cattle farming in the Amazon leading to situations like this. It's harder to think of them when we have beef on our plates.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/seven-h...
Bank of England holds rates at 5.25% but signals summer cut
>Because one cannot ignore nature?

Sure we can, in computing make abstractions that ignore nature all the time. As long as there's no issue (or no big issue) with them being out of sync, we're fine.

Besides there are few things natural about how we handle time, those are already big towers of abstractions on top of the movement of celestial bodies that simplify and sidestep a lot of subtleties.
Well, please keep in mind that I am not intentionally trying for this to be propaganda. I'm instead trying to see how the Apple users themselves view some of the arguments that others use against Apple. To me, this is an important step because maybe the lack of customization or the high prices don't bother people as much as I expect it to, so I may have something to learn there.
Interesting subject but he didn't really do it justice.
Here's a side-by-side. This is way past "taking inspiration"

https://x.com/thisritchie/status/1788527859952238598
> this Khosla guy, should I even know him?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla
While granting that libyear is clear in what is measures, I still think it measures the wrong thing. What should we be measuring?

I have some ideas for my projects, but I don't have the answer for your project.

Semantic versioning ain't the only game in town for sure, and I'm not anchoring on it as the best or only way.

But I will say this: when one has figured out what is important to measure, build metrics for that. You almost certainly will need to factor in supply chain security. And probably some metrics for recency about the hardware platforms you deploy to. This could look like a weighted score, perhaps. But it is unreasonable to hope that libyear or semver to do that for you.
All of that could have been avoided from the start if someone had the balls to just tell this brain dead cto how stupid the original idea was and pitch the in house development. Plan accordingly and deliver in a relaxed state with no deception or unethical business practices.

But since this is an f500, cto prob has an ego despite not having touched a terminal in years or decades. So it’s necessary to stroke the ego or become a yes-person; otherwise get 86’d.

Collectively, we need to stop bending to the will of C-level executives. Let their stupid ideas fail so they get replaced.

Halfway decent engineers will always find new work. A majority of the time workers are not impacted by failures of leadership. In past jobs for F50 companies, VP/Director/SVP positions changed hands frequently, almost on a quarterly basis. C-level positions changed less frequently but it happened a couple of times with enough bad quarters
Imo thinking about the title actually helps you to get a clearer view of the problem
Does anyone deal with leapseconds without it being mediated by computers?
No one has seen the data behind Tyson's "climate friendly beef" claim
I broadly agree with you, but all of those things are generally done inside the home, and I don't think anywhere legislates that you can't have a knife at home.
I tried participating when it came out. I think I spent an hour building something that was as reliable (in terms of getting the correct balls to the correct output) as I could. After I submitted it, I refreshed the page and found at that spot someone else's contraption (which was, admittedly, prettier, but not as reliable). Oh well; though, I wish that sort of thing was a bit more up front.

It also looks like I'm not the only one who hasn't figured out that the list of building blocks is scrollable!
The comment justifies it no worse than how the Fence principle is justified
you ever seen how some people conduct themselves in a public restroom?
Typically operating systems don't maintain a database but instead rely on network time servers to let them know that a leap second is about to occur.
Greening != Recovery

> China’s outsized contribution to the global greening trend comes in large part (42%) from programs to conserve and expand forests. These were developed in an effort to reduce the effects of soil erosion, air pollution and climate change. Another 32% there – and 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.

If the green of pristine forests is replaced by the green desert of a monocultural eucalyptus planted forest, or the green of grass pastures, it's still a big ecological net loss.
I like the odea of reference frames. But it isn't just geographic. The unix clock on a starlink is doing double digit mach and goes horizon to horizon in minutes. GPS satellites have always had to account for relativity, so we could look to that system... Hmm, seems gps time doesn't add leap seconds, only using those already added when it started ;)
One step away from rediscovering voltime.

Time flows faster in periods of high volatility and slower in periods of low volatility. Instead of measuring time directly it should be adjusted by things like changes committed, LOC added/removed, CVEs opened/closed, etc.
I’m not convinced yet that GDPR covers things.

GDPR is focused on PII and anything that can identify you directly or indirectly as an individual.

If your posts start with “My name is Jane Doe and this is my post” then that would be one thing.

However from everything I’ve been able to ascertain, your average forum post is unlikely to be covered, save from anonymizing the email address etc.

Granted there are certain things that can lead to deanonymization, in the case of forum posts I’m unsure how far that goes.

It’s a myth that the GDOR “right to be forgotten” is an absolute.

I also suspect that creating anonymized IDs and attributing that ID to each thread would be enough to get past such attempts to link posts to PII.
Fake? Did they say anything non-factual? Seems to me they just chose to lead with the one new bit of information in the update since last time that is surprising and that people would want to know about in any new medical device: problems. They don’t totally trash the device, but I’m sure even people considering volunteering would be interested in the potential hiccups.
Most people would argue that not eating beef would lower their standard of living.
Autopsy Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following Second Covid-19 Vaccine Dose
Read the first one. The second has a lot of spin that is obvious once you have the context from the first article.

The entire planet is greener. Everywhere. The planting did little.

> Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect

One of those Inconvenient Truths.
Kant already explained this in the mind of all “technologist know it all” though
Is this low-effort very short content perchance AI-generated?
About to start my read. What would you say he could’ve done better? Will revisit when Ive finished
And apparently stopping hiring: https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hiring-freeze-job-postings-elon-mu...

I'd be dumping TSLA so hard right now if I owned any, has to be the world's most overvalued stock right?
> ... what prevents him from using the deleting/encrypting the backups as well?

With ZFS snapshots the older snapshots would still be present on the target server, in their unencrypted form.

> That means no ssh keys on the source machine ...

Typically for non-user logins (eg script access and similar) you do the extra step of configuring the receiving ssh to only allow a specific command for a given key.

It's a configurable ssh thing, where you add extra info to the .ssh/authorized_keys file on the destination server. With that approach, it doesn't allow general user logins while still allowing the source machine to send the data.
> Fully remote workers, meanwhile, are ineligible for promotion

Is this out of a Dilbert cartoon?
>Money is amoral. It quickly becomes a calculation of ROI to violate the law.

You're describing the current system.
The Ambling Mind
Except that is what jlinker, and GraalVM/OpenJ9 (among other AOT toolchains) do in practice.
>What’s money when you have billions?

You take the billions.
Achieving a lot in life is not necessary about working hard. Its more about working smart or having a bit of luck. None of the successful (money wise) people arround me worked really hard. The working hard sentence is really nonsense.
That’s possible because the engineer is licensed. A random guy giving bad advice and failing to disclose he’s not an engineer would do no such thing (so long as he didn’t suggest he was an engineer).
Only for those that are yet to learn how to use jlinker.
Ten Odd Economic Indicators (2009)
I'm curious if people have their own. Mine is just the amount (and quality) of recruiter messages I get.
Critical Vulnerabilities in Next Gen Big-Ip
When Tesla entered the fortune 500 and my SPY stock bought it, I was enraged that someone could swindle their way into auto-buys.

Genuinely not sure what to think of the stock market/index funds since that happened. I'd like to get some sort of compensation that is GREATER than my cost.
No mini LED, but you can configure the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook with a 1000 nits IPS display.

And AFAIK, Google dictates 10+h of battery life with mixed web browsing for all Chromebooks.
I guess that having to rely on metrics to begin with means the battle is lost and your have no control on the code you are using.

Maybe we should stop boilerplating everything and write the actual code we need. For the most part softwares usually use a tiny fraction of capabilities of any given library.

Maybe before trying to limit our lag in dependencies update of unlimited levels of libraries we should focus first on having a maximum level of dependencies. Like one project would use a maximum of 2 level of libraries dependencies and you would have to rewrite those that have too many levels.

The javascript ecosystem for instance is totally unmanageable as I see it. We just pretend we have a bit of control but in reality nobody knows what code is executed really and this is sad.
>Fraud of a sufficient degree causes harm at a scale that is equivalent (in economic terms at least) to the consequences of murder.

This is ridiculous, practically and morally.

Someone losing their life is far worse than a billion people being defrauded of $10 each, regardless of how the economists decide to value a human.
> you either need superhuman memory, or a printout nearby. And if you don't use it every day, you'll also need to look up the exact syntax for that command.

This is how I feel about emacs. Sure it contains the world, but you have to memorize the map to get anywhere interesting. I do like emacs and I do use it daily, but my command repertoire is under a dozen in number.
Ask HN: What's the most powerful code generator now?
Be it an LLM, a coding assistant, a no-/low-code product, or whatever else, what’s the most powerful tool to help with generating code based on arbitrary specs?

I ask because there has been a proliferation of such tools recently, and it is not clear what the state of the art is.
Hence why you end up with 300MB x platforms, and tricks like upx.
Speech LLMs for Conversations
They must be working from home... :-)
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MACLISP was most definitely a compiled language, it’s just that like modern Lisps you could mix the two (compiled and interpreted code).

I tried to be clear by using the modern terminology “generic function”.

If you compile a function with those annotations you’d end up with two functions: one that could be called if you knew the types at compile time and one that did not.
Even small ones.

I have run into many people that work for companies, where vendor relationships are based on That Guy With the Really Good Coke at Burning Man, or, in more staid organizations, That Guy With the Prada Pimp Suit at the Country Club.

Many times, the higher-level managers are working on a culture, where they are The Big Decision-Makers, With A True Knowledge of The Big Picture, and everyone else is an interchangeable peon.

This is usually reinforced by their peers, and the culture is embedded like a tick. Pretty much impossible to dislodge, without damaging the entire company.
Opps. Though the rest of my point stands, you get food, clothing and not much elsei
And here's the dev blogpost, hot off the press!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300454
Yep, that is my main complaint, and why I will rather reach to JNI instead.
I would call it a “leaky analogy” but any analogy can be picked apart. The overall point is sound IMO. Be aware of the operational load you’re signing your team up for when choosing your architecture. Seems like commonly sense but is often overlooked.
"Next level trolling"

XD I wish that had been intentional. Thanks. Here's Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics" partake if you dare.

https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/heid...
I really appreciate that they added weight to the description. Puts things into perspective. Nowadays typically umbrella weights 300 to 500 grams
A graph, three paragraphs and a reference to Yuval Noah Harari? There is absolutely no substance here. Maybe something meta about lack of attention spans and not looking beyond the surface at claims.
So "worst case" they have the same view?
>The issue is the fines aren't a big deterrence as they're not that big.

So make them big?

What would you and/or society gain if Musk goes to jail for 10 years? Another mouth to feed in prison, while he continues to accrue wealth in off-shore accounts.
Will this technology be encumbered by patents/license ? I guess it is most likely already patented (or very close) and you will need a license. xLTSM is not open source
Tangential to the topic but regarding the supposed Snowball Effect there is in real life no such thing. I have pushed large 'snowballs' down slopes --in reality they are snow cylinders as shown in the photo-- and they invariably do not get far. The reason being that when one side of the cylinder randomly thickens slightly with respect to the other side this causes the whole thing to turn in the opposite direction.

For example, if the RHS of your cylinder has a slightly larger radius than the LHS the cylinder will commence turning to the left.

The upshot is the thick side picks up more snow than the thin side and the disparity in radii increases more rapidly still. The cylinder becomes a truncated cone which turns sideways and halts!
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After reading, I agree with im3w1l. The author did not do this subject justice. Its too short, makes some sweeping generalizations about the evolution of human culture, and never really dives deep into answer the “How” that it calls out in its title. Great title, mediocre article.

I also think the suggestion that content creators, as in all of them (the author specifically calls out Charlie Damelio), don’t view their fans as anything more than a number is interesting. He calls out a content creator he perhaps views as part of the problem but fails to acknowledge the same extends to literally everyone you’ve ever heard of online that you follow but don’t know in real life, including people im sure the author would defend as being “really good guys”.
Jira is extremely customisable. The "too complicated and enables a lot of processes and micro-management which used to kill our productivity" thing is a matter of management in the company, or whoever controls the implementation of project management flows, rather than Jira itself.

I'm not a fan of Jira and avoid it if I can, but it has never reduced my overall "productivity", putting some text in some forms and clicking some buttons just isn't the kind of factor with such an influence in my experience.
> They are showing no difference between on demand and reserved pricing, with reserved pricing often even being more expensive.

That's exactly what is happening when you look at things without depreciation. You pay 3y all upfront. And it's a lot of money: a high step on the graph. On demand will grow steadily and in three years, it will surely be higher than 3y reserved instance. But we are not comparing one instance. We add more ever more powerful servers as they are added in any infrastructure. And we pay upfront. On demand price can't catch up to those all upfront costs on our period of time.

To see it clearly, we fix the infra on the 4th graph. And then on-demand becomes much more expensive.
Also, you may look at the last paragraph in the Appendix to see why 3y all upfront is not horizontal between the steps.

> Are they actually taking the full 3-year up-front cost and comparing it to monthly on-demand pricing?

Yep.
>it seems totally appropriate to jail these people to me.

Yes, people would rather see their enemies punished versus solutions that can actually benefit people, that much is clear by these comments.
> "the world's most overvalued stock"

There's always Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, ticker DJT.

$6.5 billion market cap. Annual revenue $4 million (that's an "m").

It's a social media company that doesn't reveal any usage numbers or other KPIs. The company's auditor was just revealed by the SEC to be a complete scam with 100% fraudulent audits.

So why would anyone buy this? Well, it's 65% owned by a presidential candidate in the current election. The same candidate is threatened by massive legal fees.

So if you're Saudi Arabia, you can easily afford to spend a billion dollars on technically worthless DJT stock, and it goes straight to the pockets of the politician who has a very good chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. And there's nothing illegal about this, apparently. (For prior art, see that time when Qatar paid $1B for a distressed New York property owned by this same president's son-in-law.)
The level of writing isn’t up to snuff for what I think AI would generate. It’s rather…pedestrian.
Women in the French Resistance
Agreed. Great article title, the article itself falls flat. This is the sort of title where I expected a quasi research paper with links to sources rather than just plain text references.
Wow,Thats unfair
> We load all the data from local (indexed db),

Ymmv with that. I've written a webnovel reader for myself before (never published it because of the obvious copyright issue of scraping the content)

My first approach was a Django SSR app, and it worked great for years. Since then I've remade it several times in various languages, attempting to get the smallest latency possible vs the developer experience.

In my testing, web requests were ultimately faster then indexeddb if the query was essentially pre-computed / simple select (i.e. persisting count attributes with via insert trigger etc).
My currently deployed version is java, and it's only role is to extract the userId from the jwt and feed the request params into the query, which is serialized to json by the DB, so the java application simply returns the data as string while setting the application/json media type.

I got full page load (pwa, so cached html/Js) to 8-15ms with that approach, querying the data from indexeddb took upwards from 25ms on all of my attempts, usually 50+ms as the amount of data increased later on
> Libyear seems like a decent starting measure if there is no appetite for something more in-depth

Maybe, but couldn't measuring, and thus reacting to, a bad measure be worse than doing nothing?
notably he said this... "Dr. Rapaport continued to explain on the podcast that this method has one big drawback. It causes “some amount of brain damage when they’re inserted to the brain.” That, of course, is less than ideal. And Rapaport says he believed it was possible, “to extract information-rich data from the brain without damaging the brain.”
The linked article which is the source of the graph is more interesting: https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-t...
I did mention that people disagree on this :)

I've moved both ways along the continuum between these perspectives at different times. I don't think there is a single correct answer. I'm at a different place than you on it currently, but who knows where I'll be in a year.