skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fast enough operations on a distributed database can exceed the precision limits of TAI's definition, making it impossible to canonically order events.

The TAI would be a sincronization target, just like UTC. Any device can have its own high precision clock and periodically sinchronize with other clocks (just like NTP does) which to my knowledge is how most distributed systems work

> TAI doesn't even make sense on timescales that exceed Earth's lifetime

I disagree, 10^100 seconds in the future is perfectly valid time in any time system

> It doesn't encode enough information to answer questions about elapsed time of even ideal clocks at real, physical locations to arbitrary precision.

Those clocks would use the TAI to avoid drifting from each other.
This kind of behavior is common to housecats too - they'll lame a small animal and bring it to their kittens for practice.

Another thing worth noting - most cats like to eat their prey intestines first without caring whether or not it's alive (for pre-digested fiber and other nutrients not common in meat). For larger cats that often hunt by leaping from above and breaking the neck in one stroke the prey will probably be dead, but otherwise they're probably not.
I was trying to say that loanwords are generally present in languages. Modern German itself has many weirdly used English words without any immigrants to bring them in the first place.

> Still influenced the dialect, didn’t it?

A few food names do not qualify as "influenced the dialect" for me. Mapudungun did influence the Chilean dialect, but German did not. I generally find the "German influence in the south" very exaggarated and a cover-up for the fact that the primary influences in the south have always come from Mapuche culture.

But there's a broad veneration of Germans and other Europeans, combined with a disdain towards indigenous peoples and their cultures, so the "German South" myth withstands, along with that one photo of Puerto Varas taken from the right angle to make it look like a German town.
> Have you ever received an email that felt so personalized, so tailored to your interests and experiences, that you couldn't help but be intrigued?

Did he use an LLM to write the blog post too?
I find it slightly ironic that they're only able to do this effectively because they've been able to train their own detection model on traffic, mostly from users that have never agreed to anything.

I don't have strong opinions on this either way really, I just found that a bit funny.
This is fricken awesome. Wish I understood more about NES game dev to make some sense of this repo but that is likely the point of this project :)
Instead of a shinkasen running every six minutes, we get a low-speed train that runs about once an hour, and only during working hours. If you work past 8 PM you're going to have to find another way home.

I don't really know what's far enough, but culturally they consider themselves entirely distinct. People from one almost never work in the other; the trains that do exist are for bringing people from the suburbs.

Even those suburbs are fairly distinct. There's a dividing line at Columbia, MD where people go both directions, and nearly everybody else affiliates themselves with one city or the other.

Another way to look at it: they have separate sports teams. They're not even rivals, because they play in different leagues. Within the city fans are pretty exclusive, and the other city's teams aren't of interest.

Maybe that would change if it were possible to live in one and work in the other, or if they commonly shared night-life or restaurants or leisure. Instead, the other city is a full-day trip, not a jaunt across town.
Modern retro-consolers keep trying to get the old pixel graphics games to be sharper and brighter. I guess because the actual pixel style has become aesthetically appreciated but the old games were designed to be blurry on a CRT screen so the colours and lines blended properly.

Here's a classic example on this topic: https://imgur.com/a/AzX2kc8
Digital TV brought massively better viewing experience in every area I've lived in.
Author here. Thanks for the perspective. p.s. I do hope AI startups not estimate how hard it is to break into vertical markets which have their own challenges
Do you want me to enumerate the ways in which a bike is not a motorbike and the parameters in which people who are interested in bikes operate in their hobby or profession? Or are you asking why professional racing puts guidelines around what types of bikes can participate?
Nix sounds like a great fit as well, but my experience with it has not been that great, and I feel it is not ideal for Python. I recently gave Flox a try, which simplifies the use of Nix. I use it from time to time, but it has not yet replaced my development environment.

In your case, is maintaining 2 dev env not annoying?
If you do well on a cheap bike in a local race someone will notice and start asking if you belong on a major team with money. The teams with money want to win, they cannot afford to keep out a poor person who otherwise is good.
I read once that the root word that evolved into all the modern Indo-European variants of bear began as a euphemism to avoid having to say the creature’s name and risking summoning it. It meant something like “the brown one.”
> One-time payment A license for Faktor is one-time purchase that gives you a life-time license.

While nice for users, this funding model kills anything bigger than a 1 man project in todays world.

Turns out users pay one-time but software developers prefer their salary not to be paid one-time.
Right, pack it up. You all heard the guy with the random username. Corporations have the power to make things convenient so I guess we should just give up and allow ubiquitous corporate control.
> The only way people are going to respect some arrangement is if they believe it's good for them. Russians now believe "some voting" they had forced on them was catastrophic and "some treaties" are fundamentally unfair to them.

That is deeply delusional. The Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe were held together only by force. 50 years of Russian domination only led to severe economic stagnation, lack of freedom and prosperity. Half a century of lost progress. Russia does not have an unfairly lost empire. Europeans are not your slaves. You can't even run your own country properly, yet you somehow believe that the Americans should hand you on a silver platter an empire to run. How does that make any sense?

Nothing is going to get better before you get rid of this imperialist delusion.

Even USSR as it existed after WWII was not of your own making, but an unfortunate side-effect of massive American military aid provided under the lend-lease agreement, which allowed to roll over European nations after Nazis had been defeated, and keep them hostage for half a century.

Germans managed to snap out of their delusions. 30 years after Nazis brought them to a similar total collapse, Germans did not have a Gestapo officer as their president, did not decorate official events with swastikas, did not reurgitate Nazi propaganda, did not complain how the entire world as wronged them, did not demand the US to cut ties with the UK and France, and did not wage genocidal wars against neighbors in an attempt to reach the 1942 extent of Germany. Instead, 30 years later, they had become the cornerstone of pan-European cooperation towards peace, liberty and prosperity.

If anything, the mistake made in 1990s was not making Russians face the consequences of their actions to the same extent Germans were forced to and thus Russians have not internalized that the 1990s were the result of their own actions. Are you not old enough to remember the depth of Soviet mismanagement and the ножки Буша that saved the country from starvation? But KGB and CPSU leaders were not hanged, apprachiks were not banned from public life, nuclear weapons were not taken away and the country was not demilitarized, Russian imperialism and Soviet ideology were not rooted out in favor of universal humanist values.

Ironically, it looks like those who do not learn from history are indeed doomed to repeat it. Putin has put the country on the path of reliving the 1990s, this time with much less international sympathy. Do they grow chicken in North Korea?
This is fascinating, thankyou!
> if you’re working on more than 2 features

(Honest question because I've always worked in R&D...)

What counts as a feature when you're starting from scratch?
If the cable (or one of them: again it's bad to make it just one, just physically spreading out that 1m^2 into a hundred cables of 10cm by 10cm makes it a lot less risky) goes through Russia, and they cut it, the effect is that immediately Russia stops trading energy.

At best, this is a loss of income. At worst, it means their own lights go off because now they aren't getting anyone else's electricity in their own night and their own winter.

What exactly do you think is fantastical? Using one year's production of one element? Because I'd already noted that the political aspects are severe enough that it's unlikely for anyone to build at this scale any time soon, and that only one country would be capable but even then it would be a surprise.
9 engineers can't make a baby in a month.
There was another I tried to dig up. It listed how one day forecast was better at x, during the day at y, 2-3 day at z, etc.

Windy.com allows you to compare models. Apparently weather forecasts accuracy are a popular topic and I didn’t bookmark it.
The universal part is alread coordinated, the problem is that it keeps adding and removing seconds with no regularity and little advance notice.
40,000 km, almost exactly
Show HN: JustJot – A note-taking keyboard-first web app
A few months back, I encountered (Basic) bookmarks (https://bmrks.com/) and loved its keyboard-first interface, but lamented two things:

- It doesn't cater for non-Mac, so the primary mod key is Win/Super on Windows and Linux, making it unbearable.

- Its usage is limited to storing hyperlinks.

I would have happily made a PR, but it wasn't open source, either. I decided to make my own, and JustJot was made.

Along the way, I decided to add todo items with checkbox, which ended up being the most frequently used item type.

This is project is not revolutionary in terms of technical implementation. It runs on React, TypeScript, Sass, with the backend powered by PocketBase (which I tried for the first time and ended up really liking). I also had a lot of fun collaborating with my co-worker (Casey, an UX designer) to flesh out its UI.

Things I'm currently not happy with would like to work on:

1. Markdown support: one of my friend mentioned this, though I have not come up with any idea on how to use this effectively. This app is not trying to be a feature-rich editor, and using markdown without some sort of preview is not going to be very useful.

2. Security and privacy: this is something my co-worker mentioned, and I completely agreed. As of now, with me and Casey being the only active users, this is good. But it is a fact that as an administrator, I am able to access all user's data.

I'm thinking of two potential approaches:

- Encrypt all data content: This is obviously my first thought, but I'm not sure it is realistic or possible to encrypt database data, while also storing encryption password somewhere that would make it impossible for me to access (which I probably would occasionally need for debugging).

- Making it self-hostable: this is more viable, though this would likely involve a lot of rewriting, and repackaging both of my repositories into probably one single binary executable (which is what PocketBase does).

3. Offline operation: I have an idea of what is needed to be done, but the thought of writing another versions of the frontend logics entirely, and sync them with the online mode, is one hell of a hassle. So far I've been okay with this thing not operable offline, but this is on my todo list.

4. Data export/import: This is the most straight-forward and easiest. I have a very good idea of what to be done, just not the motivation, because it does not bring a lot of values to me currently. I will get around to it sometimes.

I created this for myself and have been very happy with this. I hope it could be useful for someone in some way, too.

I had the thought of running a Discord server to receive more feedback from people who might be interested in and using this, but neither me or Casey is having the bandwidth to moderate it. That being said, if you'd like to use it and have a channel to speak to us more directly, please drop me a word.

The app: https://justjot.app/

Frontend source: https://github.com/JunoNgx/justjot-frontend

Backend source: https://github.com/JunoNgx/justjot-backend
The only reason the Russian economy is weak is Putin. He could have easily democratized and worked with other Western nations on infrastructure and improving life for his citizens, instead he continues to subjugate, propagandize, and toss them into his military meat grinder like Stalin. He thinks the war economy will make Russia prosper, instead he’s killing off his next generation of men to improve the country. Russia has bountiful land and resources and wastes them on this crap.
In two books I've read recently (Conquistador about Hernan Cortes, and Civilized to Death which contrasts the lives of modern humans with ancient ones) the authors mention how fat was often poached from the dead -- animals and people alike. It was used like a grease for all sorts of things, including filling wounds to prevent infection. Pretty interesting stuff.
When did you start programming?

NewtonScript appears to be an older DSL.

I didn't start writing code until roughly 2011, had no real idea what I was doing until 2015.
"A base of 2 is useful because there are several small positive integers whose base-two logarithms are also integers." What? No! Base 2 is natural in exactly the same way that base e is natural, except for discrete domains instead of continuous domains. There is a unique family of functions for which the rate of change of the function is equal to the current value of the function everywhere. On discrete domains it's some scaled translation of 2^x, and on continuous domains it's some scaled translation of e^x. "Some scaled translation" here is accounting for the fact that the function is only uniquely exactly 2^x or e^x if we also add the constraint that f(0)=1.
I was thinking parent commenter might be stuck with a widely-dispersed Protonmail address.

Your solution is the one to go for though.
Seems like a massive distraction from their offering for a small company, wonder why they didn't consider something like tight integration with OnlyOffice or similar. Setting out to build a new office suite feels about as sensible as building a new web browser from scratch. Except at least with a browser, you have open specs helping you through most of the endless supply of compatibility problems.
"First" is very hard to demonstrate. Maybe, even probably, but it seems unwise to make this a definite ideological truth.
Read this a few years back..
highly recommended

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/...
I think you're hand waving a lot of problems away without giving them the thought and attention they deserve. And sometimes using arguments that aren't really unique to the JS ecosystem.

> The complexity is there because everyone is trying to reinvent everything.

That's not just JS. That's literally everywhere. People reinvent ideas in every codebase I've seen. Sometimes it's a boon, sometimes it's a detriment. But again, not something that's unique to JS.

> Do multi-pages apps and most of these are really trivial due to the amount of solutions that exists.

None of these are trivial, even with existing solutions. They're only trivial for trivial cases. Like, I'm sure we both understand people aren't building to-do demos.

> It isn't the old IE days

Probably happened accidently, but it kinda misconstructs what I'm saying. There are issues between renderin engines and variety in how much/quickly they adopt some features. Hell, you still need code branches just for Safari in some cases becaus of how it handles things like private browsing.

> Build a desktop app.

You're trading one world of complexity for another world of complexity (or I guess we could say it's trading one set of platform quirks for a larger set of platform quirks)

> Because it's like watching Sisyphus pushing the stone up again and again. The same problem is being solved again and again and if you want to use the latest, you have to redo everything.

I understand where you're coming from, but just because Svelte was released it doesn't make React (and spin-offs) or Vue less relevant. You're not force to use them.

Regarding the bundling topic, again you're not forced to awirch to a different bundler if you're happy with your existing one, or the project isn't at a scale where it matters.

I think the pressure is internal, not external.
Foldable phone, maybe with an SSH session to a Linux server.
People actually paid for HEY? I tried out the closed beta for a bit and once they started asking for $100/year I very quickly decided it wasn't worth that.
Great ideas are often simple, the main problem is that people consider them too simple, neglect them and then fail.
So say we had an abortion decision decided as RBG wanted it based on the privileges or immunities clause (as per Reva Siegel) You would still oppose that because it’s at the federal level?
I literally just set up DevPod 2 days ago -- are you using it via the CLI?

I wanted to use it via ssh, but the port forwarding flow (that I figured out) was a little wonky:

- spin up pod

- adjust .devcontainer to open port

- --recreate

now my port is open. Do you happen to know if there is a smoother way to do that?

I expected to be able to do it in the devpod up command with a simple --port-forward=3000 put I didn't find that documented.
I always feel conflicted by these kind of announcements, because for me there is significant value in spreading my dependencies across different companies, to reduce risk. I think Proton are great, I would like them to succeed - but I'm not sure I want to put all my eggs in their basket.
...Or just commit the terminal commands and/or resulting dotfiles to git.

Which the GUI paradigm has no built in equivalent to
It's hard to do better than the most successful businesses is not a statement that makes sense from the investor's perspective.

The price of an investment is based on the expected profitability of a company, an investment in a barely profitable company, if priced correctly, should yield returns at least equal to good companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, as the investment would be discounted to compensate for the poor expected future earnings of the company you are investing in.
They can't, all proton products are end to end encrypted, typical solutions like onlyoffice won't work.
> In classic HN style the original reply lacks empathy, and demonstrates a preference of machines over humans. Life goes on...

That stereotype definitely rings true. Thank you for helping me put my finger on it!
MSN Weather. I found this which links to a PDF of a report with comparisons:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/05/28/weath...
Out of the top of my limited experience the only project I interacted with not on GitHub or similar is Linux.
What is tig/tag?
> someone shared an anecdote about [big cats eating] deer that isn't relevant to "bears eating people".

Would you admit that it's relevant to "big cats eating animals"?
The percentage of people who are called Nazis who are actually them is probably higher than you realize, because the word "Nazi" makes people think of concentration camps, and we don't see those, even though the Nazis did over a decade of other bad stuff before that. A Nazi accusation isn't saying someone runs a concentration camp - it's saying when there are concentration camps, they probably will.
You have a source for that? All I ever read was “suspected of”. If you’re an actual reader then you read that as suspected and not “did blow up”. To my knowledge I’ve never seen a western source that said Russia did it, other than opinion pieces which are by definition suspect and “opinion”
Industry people (usually) shouldn't apply academic research directly because the majority of peer-reviewed published papers are irreproducible bullshit. Of course there is an occasional jewel in the muck so industry people with the skill (or luck) to identify those can get a jump on their competitors.
I'd be perfectly happy on a steel tube 10-speed from 1975 if I was allowed a modern click shifter and modern disk brakes. Steel frame bikes are really nice, and 10 gears is more than you need anyway. Steel frame bikes from 1975 won't win you a modern race, but they won't be far behind.
Its impossible to tell, but the sense of passage of time must have been dramatically different in earlier periods of human development.

Persistent rituals passed on from elders to youngsters, oral transmission of huge poems and other such "low tech" information tools must have given some structure to what otherwise might have felt as an eternal reboot.
In 400 years we can define new 30 minutes shifted timezones and in 400 - 500 years governments can slowly change their official timezones (maybe at summer/winter time they shift 30 minutes instead of 60). It does not feel like a big issue.
Hedge Fund's Adani Short Revealed in Blow-by-Blow Account
Hello,

I'm Ewen, a co-founder of FeedbackLoop. We launched around 3 months ago but got our first client around 1.5 months ago, which initially made around 80$ - now we are at ≈$ 300$ with 4 other users.

I think this validates our idea quite well and now I'm looking to scale up. I am listing our product on different startup directories (with not much success yet but it's really recent so I'll have to be more patient to see if it truly works), and I'm working on pieces of content to publish on our socials (Medium, Linkedin, Twitter).

I'm struggling to see much results from these efforts...

What else can I do to scale up?
Proton does a lot of open source washing. Their public communication often mention that they are open source, while in reality only some of their clients are open source and the uploaded source code[1] often lags behind by months (currently 3 months).

[1]: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
Why 2024 Sucks for Junior Dev Applicants
My parents failed me too on that!
If that's the goal, then you might as well get rid of all contact sports - drugs or not.
Is it not possible to simply fly a flag for the love of the flag? I own a number of flags from various countries and periods. I have no particular attachment to the Whiskey Rebellion, but I like the flag and fly it regularly.
I did not say profitable
Sounds like the typical case of people not looking at the core work required in order for the very expensive individual items like tailored nutrition, top-end (and even customized) parts, per-race-specific optimized chains and what not to make any sense whatsoever.

If your times are, say, 20% or more above the absolute top times for a given course, you've got a long way to go by improving yourself - on just about any bike whatsoever. The super expensive parts make low single digit differences.
I guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(game)
If you want a more software focused take on it, there’s The Phoenix Project.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
Then the symbols interpose (shadow) and now you have divergent behavior depending on the order they are loaded (which can change in Python as they are dlopen)
Read the judgement and stop making assumptions.