skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We hit this with the US timezone change in 2005. The front-end devs were using moment.js which didn't know about the previous start/end dates.

These days I try to encode everything that is logically a date as yyyy-mm-dd. And if I need to do math with it, I often work with an offset julian date as an integer. But that only works if you stay on this side of September 1752:

% cal 09 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
At one point, they were not even sure it could be detached from the space station. Due to hilarious reasons(?), the autopilot module which performs the job was not installed on the ship carrying crew.
sounds like we might enjoy a wind machine and a heat lamp
Around early 2015. Before then it was annoying to fill out online forms with addresses, because you had to guess the right way to say no-postcode. I still get letters to this day with "None." written where the postcode goes.

IIRC, we were going to implement UK style postcodes much earlier but the OCR machines that an post had were good enough to read the whole address reliably by the time they got around to considering it. So they deemed it unnecessary.
By trade I'm a C#/.NET dev. Unity made it easy to dabble with gamedev on the side. But I've since moved to Godot. Their approach makes a lot more sense. Unfortunately, the C# experience isn't quite there.

GDScript is just barely OK. You really start to miss a lot of advanced features on bigger projects. Generics, Typed Dictionaries, Extension Methods, etc.

Godot adoption will skyrocket further once they add proper C# Web Export. Unfortunately, they claim to be blocked by this .NET team issue.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70796#issuecomme...

https://godotengine.org/article/platform-state-in-csharp-for...
We should just go ahead and admit that Boeing is a government company, and that's what it takes to be one of the big-3 global commercial aircraft manufacturers these days (Boeing, Airbus, Comac).

Fire all Boeing senior leadership, go through the remainder of the company with a fine toothed comb and fire anyone mid-level who did anything dumb, then conduct a search to replace everyone.

Make the government an explicit stakeholde (25%?) with board representation.

Dilute shareholders ($0.50 per dollar?) for investing in a bad company, but make any employee shareholders who are still employed whole ($1 per $1).
Sam Altman doesn't care about you
Why downvotes? Ignoring C++11 changes for a minute, c_str is absolutely able to cause a reallocation if it needs to, such that after it returns, its return value and the value of data() are the same. Ergo no, the GP statement alone doesn’t imply anything.
Sometimes the greatest gift you can give a gifted kid is failing early at something they want, so they learn the grit to achieve it.
Doubtful there are enough resources to sustainably maintain much of anything in NEO. Asteroids with significant reservoirs are far apart and navigating between them is fraught.

Also how are the robots going to know what and how to maintain things? Otherwise they must be remote controlled. Yet their sensors break down over time.

Do reproducing robots even exist on Earth? How robust, nimble, and capable are they? Are their inputs found in space?

All that said, I do love the idea of a robot space colony producing useful things, even if all we gain are space probes and knowledge.
At first I thought the title meant the mmap() call itself blocks, which I figured could be slightly surprising. But it seems they're referring to I/O on the mapped file? I'm also baffled, how could it possibly not block?
That was indeed an inspiration for lab6.com.
Not at all, but refer to the Polgar-Kasparov where Garry Kasparov swore he did not take his hand off the piece, and the next day after Judit Polgar had looked at the film, she blistered his ears. There are enough cheating without adding more ways.
Yeah, I'm mostly referring to Chase's relationship with the Fed, FDIC, and regulators - they're clearly the bank of choice for rescuing distressed banks, and they're the largest bank in the country by a pretty substantial margin.

You're right about the difference, though - they're stable, well-run, and with a solid balance sheet, and it's clear the tradeoff for being effectively the Bank of the US is they're regulated and stress-tested six ways to Sunday.

If that were the model being applied to Boeing, this'd be a different story, but I think there's been a clear decision made that Chase is critical infrastructure and should be treated & audited like it that hasn't been made about Boeing yet.
They rarely beat the market... Those who do are rather special cases.
We are working on a feature to let paid users download their sites as a zip file or export them to cloud storage buckets (s3/aws, google cloud, etc). So far though it's meant to be used with our hosting. Free accounts have an advertisement for Hot Page itself but they let you connect your own domain for free.
NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission
I get that AppleCare is technically insurance, but it's kinda a rip-off IMHO.
This thread is full of people complaining that they just want the ability to set a hard billing cap. And yet, providers continue to insist that no serious customer wants this and/or it's impossible to implement.

What would it take for providers to listen to real customers here?

I have $25k in cloud spend that we absolutely cannot go one single cent over due to the politics of internal budgeting. That's my reality. If you want my $25k, I need to ensure that I don't spend more than this amount.

As is, my solution is to use old-school pre-rented, long-term contracted commitment VM hosting providers. This is really the only way to guarantee that you are paying an exact amount and no more.

But, I really would like to use a more scalable system that didn't require pre-provisioning. And, I wish people would believe the customer when they say something and not continue to gaslight us.

Providers say it's impossible, but I don't see how it would be so hard. Here's my sketch of how it could work:

The main component is a system that monitors billing events and watches for the slope of the bill to ensure that there is enough runway to stay under the cap. Optionally, they could implement rate limits on resource creation to ensure that a sudden surge doesn't outrun the monitoring.

You also need notifications for when the projected spend exceeds the cap. Optionally, you could implement a soft cap, where no new resources can be created.

And finally, you need the hard cap where things start to get deleted. If they're feeling generous, the provider could implement a period where VM's/lambda's/etc are shut off, blob storage is not accessible, and so on so that the account holder has some time to fund the account and/or fix whatever is causing the overage.

That set of features are all totally within the competency of a cloud provider. Knowing how much things cost, billing for them, and turning them on and off is their main business. And I can't believe that they expect us to believe that it's impossible to do that tracking.

This is how I do system migrations. There are escalating warnings until one day the service is shutoff for an hour and turned back on. That wakes up any laggards that missed the dozen or so communications over a three-to-six month period. Finally, after a few more days, the service is shutdown for good and then data is deleted a week after that. Though I almost always keep a copy in cold storage. But that isn't necessary as a provider with a limited relationship to the client.
This is evidence of the utter failure of constantly pumping money into a dated cartel of prime contractors that have no incentive to do better. I am very thankful we have Elon Musk to be bold enough to enter this impossibly capital heavy market and show a better way. I hope this is the start of a reset on how taxes are funneled to government contractors.
It's crazy to me that while we've been fantasizing about lunar bases, Mars settlements, asteroid mining and colony ships, now, 60+ years after our "space" era started, we still haven't figured out how to get a single person to low Earth orbit and back in a safe and cost efficient way. We all need a collective reality check on our spacefaring hopes.
My memory is kinda shit.

So when I was in the gifted program, they got real concerned about how I didn't know my times tables and was super slow at a few of them. This was the 1970s, and before I knew binary, so 7s and 8s caused me issues. So I'd figure out 8x8 by going from 6x6=36 (real easy to memorize) and then adding +6+6 to mentally fill out the 8x6 block and then adding +8+8 to fill it out to a 8x8 block (I'm visual/geometrical).

I was the first kid in school to pass the AHSME to get invited to take the AIME though. Being before the internet, and being stuck on an island in Alaska, didn't get me enough exposure to higher math through my own self-direction to get anywhere on the AIME. If you don't live anywhere near a University library and/or don't know you can use it, that'll set you behind (at least back then, these days there's YouTube and sci-hub and friends).

I still think I would have hit a wall anyway with Math, even with perfect exposure, because I'm visual and higher Math seems to require being very good with symbols and memory as well.

I suspect lots of people still underestimate me because my memory is ass, and we associate memory with intelligence so much (e.g. Jeopardy).
> The Temporal API represents a revolutionary shift in how time is handled in JavaScript, making it one of the few languages that address this issue comprehensively.

Note that there's also a Rust datetime crate, jiff, that's inspired by the Temporal API and features zone-aware datetimes (from burntsushi, author of ripgrep and Rust's regex library): https://crates.io/crates/jiff
No, it is not an embarrassment. Space is hard, failures do happen often there. There is and will always be a human factor, politics and cost optimizations. Despite that they delivered people to ISS and have a plan B. It is partial success. The problems will eventually be fixed and USA will solidify its leadership in space race by having different launch systems and never again being dependent on rival powers.
Well, they are suffering disproportionate casualties in this offensive while killing some civilians, taking hostages and shooting up residential infrastructure. Raiding always has a high casualty count once the opponent gets over the surprise. Esp when there are no close defense lines to fallback to or anti-air supporting you.

Sure, it makes Putin look bad, but it doesn't solve anything and it has given the Russian hardliners all the ammo they need to firmly curtail all discussions towards a negotiated peace.
For precious metals that doesn't necessarily mean it's not worth going to get them in large quantities. Aluminum used to be more precious than gold. Now we make airplanes out of it.
That's for Crew 9, not the Starliner crew
The Book of Colour Concepts
I like this point - it's no secret that mmap can make memory access cost the same as an IO (swap can too) - but the interaction with async schedulers isn't immediately obvious. The cost can, sometimes, be even higher than this post says, because of write back behavior in Linux.

Mmap is an interesting tool for system builders. It's super powerful, and super useful. But it's also kind of dangerous because the gap between happy case and worst case performance is so large. That makes benchmarking hard, adds to the risk of stability bugs, and complicates taming tail latency. It's behavior also varies a lot between OSs.

It's also nice to see all the data in this post. Too many systems design conversations are just dueling assertions.
I think mathematics education is pretty horrible this way. You only start actually learning the foundations of math in your 3rd or 4th year of undergrad.

At least nowadays there is a shit ton of youtube resources and more, so a self interested kid can learn it far easier. I tried and the books that were out there were... sparse and textbooks are written for other professors, not students.
Anti-virus definitions, not really exhaustive security maintenance. Defender is their AV. The firewall/kernel isn't included, for example

How important that is, no idea! The firewall is probably passable but I generally don't know your risk profile.

Applications and the rest of the system offer a lot of surface area
"hopping between these products instead of learning and understanding" was intended to exclude people who already know how they work, because I think it is totally fine to use them if you know exactly what all the current knobs and levers do.
they fly there and do the deal over email from the hotel.
This is a really interesting use of LLMs for filtering content semantically. I feel like this has more general applications than just youtube/screentime filtering.
I was going to post:

Well, about time.
Not in any way that's close to good, at least in my experience
Agree, it depends highly on goals. Using off-the-shelf ML/AI models (to make great software) requires far less background knowledge than implementing new models being introduced in papers, which in turn requires far less background knowledge than producing new models that improve upon the state-of-the-art.

Thanks for the kind words about Math Academy! It's true that we focus on students who are trying to acquire math skills to the highest degree possible -- we teach math as if we were training a professional athlete or musician. We maximize learning efficiency in the sense that we minimize the amount of work required to learn math to the fullest extent.

I realize that there are many learners who only want to devote an hour or two per month, but, at least right now, such learners would be better served elsewhere. It's a totally different optimization problem -- maximize surface-level coverage subject to some fixed, miniscule amount of work -- and as a result it would require different different curriculum and possibly different training techniques (or at least, differently calibrated techniques).

But it's definitely an idea to think about in the future. :)
So, I believe you have utilized free 15GB storage and you are currently paying for Drive storage, right?

Also, I don't find Drive Desktop App any helpful, it is very limited and feels like bloatware. Do you feel the same or are your needs fulfilled via Chrome's features?
Those things are terrible, and Russia has suffered in response. Thankfully not every insidious act is met with escalation. Down that path is MADness.
It always makes me think, this app is not secure in theory if they are worried about rooted users.
With Power Comes Great Responsibility Platforms Want to Be Utilities (2021)
Just has the advantage that it is really cross platform instead of having subtly different "makes" on the unixes and windows.

Same issue with bash. Having something that really cares about windows support is useful.
We need to nationalize Boeing and get rid of the money men who ran this company into the ground.
I read auditor as not the tax authority, but an auditor or accountant hired by the company.
This is an amusing companion to the PHP interpreter written in go (by Mark Karpeles of MtGox infamy)

https://github.com/MagicalTux/goro
We don't need kilometers. We need lots of 7cm nanotubes, bonded together with epoxy.

http://images.spaceref.com/docs/spaceelevator/521Edwards.pdf
why don't they just scan it and release the images as a public archive? are we arguing over old paper now? what will we do with it in a museum? lock it in a glass case so no oily fingers can turn the pages? maybe scholars want to rub their faces all over the book cover at the weekends as a kink?
Nothing I'm aware of with Chase's leadership, but they're the largest bank in the US by far by AUM, and that's because they've been the partner of choice for the FDIC & regulators looking to rescue distressed banks. In other words, they're a private corporation being used to fill a role the government deems essential, and consequently probably the safest place on earth to put your money right now, at least with regards to the risk of a bank failure.

(As I noted elsewhere, they're treated much differently than Boeing, in that they're audited, stress-tested, and generally put under the kind of scrutiny warranted by that kind of role.)
Sure, I did—a lot of them. These are the ones that were not in my training dataset in any form before I solved them, as it's impossible for a human to hold all scientific papers, historical facts, and in general, the entirety of human knowledge and experiences from the entire internet in their brain.
It could be emotional, but sometimes emotions are necessary to get the meta-point across. Without critical thought, the same people also pass on various other lies. For example:

1. Fluoride is safe in drinking water and is a good thing. It may be safe up to a point, a very conservative point, beyond which it definitely harms the brain development of kids, perhaps of adolescents too. Certain branches of the government are finally coming around to acknowledge it.

2. Chlorine is safe in drinking water. Chlorine is of course necessary to kill germs, but there can exist certain byproducts of excessive chlorination that are harmful to the stomach and the digestive system. These could form when chlorine reacts with organic matter in tap water. I'd like to see the government acknowledge it, resulting in a tighter range regulation of chlorination, its byproducts, and organic matter in water.

3. Handwashing prevents flu and colds. This lie was repeated over and over for at least a decade before Covid. Handwashing is no doubt important, but there is no way that it will block respiratory inputs like a good mask will. Both practices complement each other.

4. Combining vaccines is totally okay. Both children and seniors get affected by this lie. Logically, if each vaccine has certain temporary side effects, there is no way in which it's better to take two or more vaccines together, e.g. RSV + Covid (Moderna) or flu-shot + Covid (Moderna). Logic dictates that spreading out the risk over time will be easier for the body to handle, and it is so in practice.

5. Water ultimately heats to 100C (212F) in the microwave. In truth it's very easy for drinking water to superheat in the microwave to greater than its boiling point. The purer the drinking water, the more likely it is. This is a common occurrence with RO (reverse osmosis) water, even after it has been pH adjusted. Understanding this helps avoid burns to the hand and face from an explosion of the water.

6. It is safe to stand very close to a microwave while it is in use. In truth, if you measure with a microwave radiation meter, you will see that nearly all microwaves leak substantial radiation measurable in the first one-foot closest to the front of the microwave.
This seems to be a story of a kind that shows up regularly at HN. People who are smart in several ways but because they cannot do what some other (1 out of 10000) people-with-or-without-children can, they don't feel smart and are a bit frustrated by it.

Those others make a 'tutorial for creating a raytracer from scratch in a weekend', invent a format for a binary that runs as-is on several processor architectures, or are maintaining parts of the linux kernel.

I easily recognize such stories, perhaps because that story might apply to myself as well. This unfulfillment treat applies to this post as well as the writer of the article (the writer indicated that before his 150 day submersion he felt a bit dumb at mathematics).

The thing I want to bring across is now... we should not strive for such capability. There are many things to learn and ways to grow as a person, why beat ourselves up for not being very good at this or that particular thing?
That's an excellent essay. I especially liked this part:

"
Active learning and deliberate practice will be covered in more depth in later posts, but below are some key points:

- Effective learning is active, not passive. It is not effective to attempt to learn by passively watching videos, attending lectures, reading books, or re-reading notes.

- Deliberate practice requires repeatedly practicing skills that are beyond one's repertoire. However, this tends to be more effortful and less enjoyable, which can mislead non-experts to practice within their level of comfort.

- Classroom activities that are enjoyable, collaborative, and non-repetitive (such as group discussions and freeform/unstructured project-based or discovery learning) can sometimes be useful for increasing student motivation and softening the discomfort associated with deliberate practice -- but they are only supplements, not substitutes, for deliberate practice.

- Deliberate practice must be a part of a consistent routine. The power of deliberate practice comes from compounding of incremental improvements over a longer period of time. It is not a "quick fix" like cramming before an exam.
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Given that SpaceX is about to launch four people on what is more-or-less a joyride (Polaris Dawn), it's really only the government and boeing that seem to be having problems.
It wasn't the quantity of money that was the issue for most people. It was the "I am changing the deal. Pray I do not change it any further"

They were asserting their ability to unilaterally bring in new terms, and specifically with the per-install issue bring in terms that require data that was poorly defined and could potentially be arbitrarily decided.

It wasn't a money issue. It was a trust issue.
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara#Amara's_law
Yup. There's no market pressure of note on Boeing, otherwise they'd be even the slightest bit concerned that their planes are falling out of the sky. They exist to turn government contracts into stock buybacks.
Nasa website still obfuscating.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-star...

Practically nobody was asking "how are they bringing back starliner?"

Practically everyone was asking "how are the astronauts returning?"
It's defective. They need to fix it or replace it.
> I'm only objecting to the "never, ever" part of your post.

Sure, let me qualify "never, ever" as having a time horizon of "so long that anyone claiming that you, the eager investor, will see an economic return on this endeavor in your lifetime is secretly banking on breakthroughs in life extension technologies to make that statement technically correct".
Oh is it this time of the year already?
Ah, PHP! The grumpy old git of the programming languages (see also Jeremy Corbin and Bernie Sanders) /s
The Starliner crew are staying on the station until then - they'll be leaving on Crew 9.
Can you link a chat and show specifically where one falls off explaining, eg complex numbers or integration by parts? it's been a while since my math minor, but ChatGPT seemed to be able to guide me through what I recall of those topics.
Can they at least release the last version from before it was privatised?
Would make a decent starting point.
It's true. Dropbox is easier for Businesses than Google Drive for Work.
And OneDrive has better integration with windows.
Three different apps seem like a hassle.

What type of work do you utilize all three services for primarily?

Also, what mobile device are you using? Does the ability to sync work well along with the features you use?
That's going to be a lot of miles on a self-driving vehicle.

But if there are no further incidents it may not end up with such a bad Carfax after all ;)
That assumes we don't see tariffs as war while Russia, and presumably the poster, do consider it war. Otherwise both sides would acknowledge we're at (cold?) war.