skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what exactly have you accomplished in your life that has bettered others' lives?

Don't get me wrong it's perfectly fine to criticize someone on specific things - however, you are just blanket calling someone you don't know a sad loser... honestly says more about you than him.
I remember in the early 90's people similarly would develop motion sickness from the FPSs of the day, such as Doom and Quake.
The idea of DC to NYC being roughly as far away as Maryland to DC is kinda funny to me.

I guess that's just how the panhandle panhandles.
927!

We are literally building the future, HTF do we keep getting into these situations?
Or toLocalDisplayString(TAI timestamp). It seems like timezones and their rules change over time and geographic location, using todays rules to show dates back in time with previous rules would be broken right?
> Boeing developed Starliner under the exact same set of constraints that SpaceX had for crewed dragon.

You could be right. My (limited) understanding is that SpaceX is doing most of their R&D internally, and therefore they don't have the same oversight requirements more NASA-centric projects require. But that was based on an article about Artemis, and not Starliner.
In other words, we are almost as far away from moon landings as they were from Wright brothers first flight. Not particularly optimistic.
Since timezone definitions change, how do we guarantee consistent behavior across browsers and browser versions?
> didnt even do a fn GPT splat

Do us a favor and run your comments through it next time. And drop the whole crybaby "bots" crap.
For those who like independent software and open protocols, I would like to share the https://indieweb.org/
SpaceX is solving this and many similar issues.
Good, I also used to think storing timestamps in UTC was sufficient. The examples really explained the problems with that well. One other issue to note is that, if you store dates in UTC, now the fact that they are in UTC is a tacit assumption, probably not recorded anywhere except in organizational memory.

So the new API will be a very welcome addition to the JS standard library.

However, and this is probably a bit off-topic, why are the ECMAScript guys not also addressing the fundamental reasons why JS continues to be somewhat a joke of a language?

- Where are decimals, to avoid things like `parseInt(0.00000051) === 5`?

- Why are inbuilt globals allowed to be modified? The other day a 3rd-party lib I was using modified the global String class, and hence when I attempted to extend it with some new methods, it clashed with that modification, and it took me and hour or two to figure out (in TS, no less).

- Why can't we have basic types? Error/null handling are still haphazard things. Shouldn't Result and Maybe types be a good start towards addressing those?
I'm a long term investor, and I wouldn't bet against Musk long term.

> Twitter's revenue is down 80% since it went private

Twitter's costs are down 80%, too. I wouldn't be surprised if X was currently profitable, though since it is privately held, who know.
Running a self hosted actions runner on the system just to deploy the docker compose stack should be cancellation level.
I would put networks above HDDs (depending on how many miles you need to send your emails)
I don't see how that would work. The memory access causing the page fault still blocks, but now another thread handles paging in the requested data. So without coordination between those two, nothing really changes. Sounds easier to just use nonblocking reads directly.

Thanks for the pointer to userfaultfd. Didn't know that existed.
Honestly SQL screwed things up from the very beginning. "SELECT FROM" makes no sense at all. The projection being before the selection is dumb as hell. This is why we can’t get proper tooling for writing SQL, even autocompletion can’t work sanely. You write "SELECT", what’s it gonna autocomplete?

PRQL gives me hope that we might finally get something nice some day
One could argue that shuttle program didn't end up as successful as was originally hoped, but it is certainly “serious space development”.
Must have been super fast though
I get the same impression. Not identical but the whole temporal API seems heavily influenced by Java.

Having worked with dates and times in both Java and JavaScript, I'm very happy with what I see in the temporal API. Huge improvement.
SELECT 1+2;

FROM clauses aren't required, and using multiple tables in FROM doesn't seem to work out too well when that syntax is listed first.
> Replace Boeing with Facebook/Google, and it still sounds strange to feel bad for the workers at those companies when the executives make bad decisions like chasing profits over all.

I don't understand this sentiment at all. I know quite a few people who worked on the Google Domains team. It was a good team, a good product, and it sadly was all blown up by some senior executive decision that didn't make any sense.

Why can't I feel bad for the workers I knew whose product got deleted out from under their feet?? Some of them are in the process of getting laid off now!
No, it’s not an issue of form factor. It’s the disconnection from reality and the constant literally-in-your-face attention grabbing that would come from wearing AR glasses, no matter how slim and lightweight they become.

I have an Apple Watch. Why? Because it lets me use my phone less. It is a purposefully less capable and less attention-seeking device which I can use to check the nature of a notification in a socially acceptable way and then go back to living life without pulling out my phone.

AR/VR is fundamentally having a phone strapped to your eyeballs. You’re saying “but it can be made lightweight and comfortable!” I’m saying you’re missing the whole point: I don’t want a phone strapped to my eyeballs, even if it weighed 0 g and was soft and velvety. It’s a step backwards.

I would love for that technology to exist, because I have AR applications in mind that I think could be industrially useful. But I would despise that becoming the normal mode of interface to the world, the same way I despise people having their heads in their phones all day long.
> "Engineers are more arrogant and misogynistic, while MBAs tend to be more progressive"

Utter bilge. I bet the author knows nothing about engineers or running a business.
I would suggest that it's hard to do that as an afterthought. If the internet has shown us anything it's that public curating of material seldom allows quality to float to the top.

And when filtering, or curating, is exercised then the argument swings between "untrue" on one side and "censored" on the other.

Simply saying "it should all be open" without acknowledging, or worse without understanding, the real harm that approach could bring is to bring an overly simplistic solution to a hard problem.
SpaceX exists because of that government's significant funding of the company and the prescient decision to award multiple (fixed-price!) Commercial Cargo/Crew contracts.
Dupe of:

NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339667
How is this different from Schema Spy (https://schemaspy.org)?
Isn't Zotero doing the same?
Private industries have no good record of quality or efficiency.

See Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Fukushima, Enron, Theranos, etc.

With the cheap talking points out of the way, one could examine this question carefully and objectively now.
Well, then they will get fined but they will never pay because after some time some horse trading will be take place, for instance when the other countries need Hungary's vote for additional financial support for the Ukraine.
I tried it out on a not so complex Postgres v15 DB. No relations were imported, just the tables?
Right, the public-sector government becomes afraid to take risks for political reasons. On the other hand, the publicly traded private sector over-optimizes for shareholder value, putting the cart of gold before the horse; Boeing.

SpaceX remains a private company solely focused on their mission undeterred by outside influence which allows engineers the space to do what they do best.

There’s a difference and anything that’s truly critical to our lives or human livelihood should consider delisting. Once shareholders demand your company to stray from excellence and quality in the name of raising the bottom line, it’s time to give it a hard look.
It's 10% of NASA's current costs. Costs for NASA never came down.
Oh good, from the language that brought us WAT, a new complicated approach to timestamps, what could go wrong.
But can they grab all the removed files and create a new somethingBSD with them?
AKA, "60 fps is no benefit over 30 fps"-guy.
OpenAI's biggest bagholder thinking AI is a universal hammer for every nail isn't surprising. Those O365 and Azure subscriptions aren't going to sell themselves.
> Look at this shit. Just look at it:

Thanks for the link. That is truly amazing to watch!
Great library for scripting, especially in combination with GraalVM and JBang!
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Hi!

I recently got in touch with a few influencers about a business collaboration and was wondering how you approach them. What do you write in your emails. How much do you pay etc.
Sure, but problem Cumberland has same problem as rest of Appalachia, it's geography isn't very good. Mountain areas make everything 10x times harder to build.

Let's say some big software company wanted to build second HQ. Even if Cumberland was attractive in workforce, education options and so forth, the architects would say "Building your HQ2 is going to be rough. There isn't enough flat land, flooding could be problematic, fiber companies are screaming about the trenching" Not to mention, where are you going to put all your workers since housing will run into same problem. So if you wanted to stay in MD, somewhere like Hagerstown or Salisbury would be a better choice since usable land is plentiful.
scnr

So JavaScript gets what Java got in version 8, 10 years ago?
Dates of past events are always UTC, dates of future physical events must always be a timestamp and a location, dates of future virtual events are either UTC or location based depending on how virtual they actually are.

I can tell you from bitter experience that if you have an event where a person has to arrive at a place at a time and you store that as UTC instead of wall clock, you will have a problem at some point
does it necessitate foreign keys and schemas being defined beforehand? or is that the "AI magic"?
I didn't know this was possible. I thought you were forced to use Javascript to define a custom element - this severely reduced its attractiveness. Why use JS for static UI ?
Somebody pointed out to me that IKAROS didn’t last that long (neither did its namesake), so far that’s the best rebuttal to my L1 sunshade plan but I’d imagine a second generation product could do better. People so forget that space is a corrosive environment that will wreck many materials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Duration_Exposure_Facilit...
Awesome! This is exactly what I wanted last year when I was helping my wife with her reporting and the only access she had to her company's application database was through Redash.
what is your input to Claude
It's not a technical problem. It's that they need to stay too-big-to-fail, to be able to resist the very aggressive competition of other aircraft manufacturers. If they are broken up, the smaller companies would not be able to compete effectively, and they would also be immediate acquisition targets by largely foreign competitors.

I agree with others here that think they need to be a quasi-government-run company, but in the US that is done through oversight, managing the manager rather than stepping into the management role directly. Of course we have to absolutely gut that awful management with extreme prejudice, to start.
I support Wikipedia. They do great work. AI systems can be complementary, because they've always been a raw source of information that requires your own research. People trust writers and bloggers to do that for them, and they trust Wikipedia to curate the consensus of books and blogs. So nothing would fundamentally change. The same people would simply be empowered with the next generation of tools. More precise and accurate ones that help them do their jobs better.
Competitiveness is an economic concern one can ignore while the government is willing to pour billions on a decade+ timeframe
> That said, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to cram in 24 bytes of null-terminated payload

Note that I didn't say this is impossible, just that the given trick wouldn't work.

However, this is impossible for general strings. The only way could possibly make this work is if you constrain the inline string somehow (e.g., to UTF-8), so that some shorter strings failing that constraint are forced to go on the heap too. Otherwise you have 1 fixed zero byte at the end, and 23 fully flexible bytes, leaving you no way to represent an out-of-line string.

(Well, you could do it if you use the address as a key into some static map or such where you shove the real data, but that's cheating and beside the point here.)
So let's get this straight -- the quasi-nationalised Boeing fucks up, a private company steps in to save the day, and your conclusion is that fully nationalising Boeing is the answer?
Soda cans too!
I think a more ultimate "just in case" is downloading the ISO image file which is what you would need if you were going to burn a traditional Windows installation DVD-ROM.

The ISO file just sits in a folder like a last resort installation backup, but it can then be used to create a fresh bootable Windows installation USB stick (or DVD) any time from then on without need to access the internet after that.

Well you might want to use a program called Rufus which will more conveniently turn a Windows installation ISO into a bootable USB drive than the Media Creation Tool anyway.

Plus IIRC, Rufus would run under Windows 7, but you will need to use last year's version of Rufus, look at this page of current and past versions:

https://rufus.ie/downloads/

You will see that rufus-3.22.exe from 2023 is the newest thing that was intended to run on W7, so download that, download the W10 ISO from Microsoft, and you can then run Rufus to choose the ISO from your own filesystem that you would like to turn into a bootable USB stick.

That USB stick would then be the Windows 10 installation media like you probably wanted to begin with. It also has some recovery functions and a powerful command line on its own if you need it.

Really still functions this way not much different than the original W7 installation DVDs up to W11 so far.
This is a step in the right direction, but it really needs to be supported everywhere so that there isn't friction when crossing into Javascript, and out to a database or other language.

A language-agnostic test suite should be provided, including every edge case, so that this standard can be implemented everywhere.
Sounds like a place I wouldn't mind working if I can find a remote position again. I'm a big introvert, and I would like to move somewhere more greener (getting tired of living in the middle of a bland hot dessert)
I thought x banned this sort of API usage
So John Carmack created a VR port of Minecraft, but Microsoft is holding it back from release...
> We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft!

- boz
Yeah, their approach to the business is great; I find it very inspiring and hope to do something similar with my own product if it’s financially feasible.
i'm truly obsessed with this design. who was the person that designed it?
Absolutely. No matter how gifted a person is, there is going to be some point in their lives or some domain where pure talent will be insufficient.

Even super geniuses like Terence Tao struggled (he nearly did not pass his generals).

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/living-proof-stori...

https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence

The American Mathematical Society has a PDF of essays of brilliant mathematicians (including Terence Tao) who despite their abilities, faced obstacles and difficulties that their sheer talents were inadequate to overcome, and they had to persevere.

https://blogs.ams.org/inclusionexclusion/2019/06/26/living-p...
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> 0x400000
> The base virtual memory address for Linux executables in hexadecimal.

I might be wrong, but isn't it the case only for x86-64 though? It looks like on other architectures .text base address might be different (It seems to be 0x08048000 on i386 for example).
Yea, and I saw nothing about “AI”.
Yeah many of the other similar incentives provide free land, housing/internet/etc benefits too
Just a couple hundred years ago, Settlers who risked their lives and spent several months on cutting edge technology (aka wooden sail
boats) to find “new” land would like to have a word.
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Every language should just copy Joda time's API. It nailed it.
Letting them merge? Boeing and McD were essentially forced to merge by the Department of Defense post cold-war. So were Lockheed and Martin-Marietta, and Northrop with Grumman, etc. It was in the national strategic interest, apparently. Recommended reading: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/03/01/the-last-supper-how-...
Ask HN: AI Agents for Data/Email Enrichment vs Using Apollo.io or RocketReach
In my current startup, we rely heavily on email marketing. We've found that sending 10K emails monthly has been a game-changer for us. However, finding this many emails each month at a reasonable cost became our biggest challenge. We’ve been using Apollo.io, which lets us find 10K emails for $99, but the accuracy rate is around 40%.

So, I started training a LLAMA3 model to find anyone’s business email given the first name, last name, and company website as inputs. It’s now performing on par with Apollo.io in terms of accuracy and even validates the emails before outputting them.

Next, I created another agent for LinkedIn enrichment. You provide the agent with a list of LinkedIn URLs, and it outputs an enriched CSV with the most up-to-date data.

My question is: Should I also create another agent that helps users find data first? Perhaps an LLM/Vector-based search? Or a Chrome extension to export data from Apollo or Sales Navigator? How helpful would these agents be before I launch the product publicly? Your advice is highly appreciated. Thank You.
> when there are far more important things happening under the hood that affect the execution plan

It feels like google is only concerned with large query engines like BigQuery where you're relying on partitioning and sort order within partitions more than you can indexes or complicated multi table reference semantics.

> Can't this be avoided by using aliases?

In any language where variables are hard to declare and use pipes always feel like a good option; however, just adding some variables in is probably the better solution in most cases.
https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
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Perspective on "The Elegant Universe: 25th Anniversary Edition"
Sure. So size matters. If you drop a rock in the ocean it doesn’t darken the skies, does it?

Meteors fall onto Earth all the time. It is a matter of composition, trajectory, and mass, no?
This is interesting, thanks.

> 0b11111110 - All 1s with a trailing 0, indicates heap allocated

> 0b11XXXXXX - Two leading 1s, indicates inline, with the trailing 6 bits used to store the length

I stared at this for too long, as it allows collision. Then I realized you'd never set the third bit, it should probably have been written 0b110XXXXX and recorded that 5 bits are used for length. Right or did I understand it wrong?
and the government should continue to fund private enterprise for innovation.

much of the billions for a charger network for EVs has made <10 chargers, they could have provided that to Tesla. similarly the EV tax credits provided to private companies has fueled EV proliferation
My problem with this is that the opensource desktop apps are often unusable, for example LibreOffice Calc.
Private companies have shareholders as well.
I played Minecraft a lot when I was younger, and I really don't think the game (any game, really) would be improved by wearing 600grams on my head or having a screen 3cm from my eyes. Aside from the novelty, which quickly wears off, I am yet to see a compelling reason to play more than 15 minutes with a VR/AR game.
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I wish someone had told me this in school.
There is no such thing as absolute time so the distinction you're trying to make is not clear.
For many practical applications, slow learners do just as well as fast ones, once they’re up to speed.

Math teaching is mostly playing hide-the-ball, which teachers justify by saying people learn more deeply when they figure it out for themselves. But really that just shifts the burden of backfilling prerequisites to the student.
Wouldn't you wonder why then that it seems, at least according to you, society have went backwards and not forward in this time frame?

"We have to have a collective look at what 1st-world governments, the media, and most "ordinary" people have been focusing on since the late 60's." still applies. Fixing the everyday problem is part of the problem-set to get to the "civilization advancing" goals.
I think that'd be the worst place to take it from for the same reason. If I build a package using today's current TZ database and it works on my machine, it shouldn't stop working if I share it with someone using an old CentOS from several years ago.
Kind of a hand-wavy solution here - don't worry about maintenance just invent a self replicating universal tool that is either perfectly recyclable or cheap enough that we don't need to worry about their resource costs or cleanup. With that kind of tech nailed down pretty much ANY endeavor sounds very achievable (until the cheap startup version cuts one too many corners and the gray goo scenario begins I guess).
The problem isn't government meddling, but the government creating perverse incentives. Boeing has an extremely strong relationship with the government, which means they get sent endless billions of dollars with quality being only a distant concern. Because it's not like Congress cares about space - NASA is just seen as a convenient jobs/pork medium. So long as money gets redirected to the right people, they're happy. And so maintaining this relationship, and milking it for all it's worth, becomes much more profitable and reliable than trying to compete, innovate, and bring down prices. On the contrary, high prices and long development times just drive even more profit. Most of their contracts have been cost plus where the government pays for all costs and then gives them a fat chunk of profit on top. Even the fixed price contracts tend to end up getting 'adjusted' over time.

Any company solely motivated by profit would probably be destroyed in this system, because the incentives created do not reward competence.