skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that if a Microsoft Word document is stored on a file server on a network that's disconnected from the internet, two instances of Word running on separate computers can simultaneously edit that document?

I don’t believe that’s accurate.
Ah thanks I was looking for the same <3
Yes, tariffs may work for small countries, Cuba being the classical example (even though it only worked in the sense of keeping Cuba poor). But using tariffs against a country the size of China is a complete non-sense that could only come from the minds of stupid US politicians. The fact that it didn't work at all for Russia, which has an economy many times smaller, should be an early warning.
Then do it now and it’ll be unlocked.
I think it depends on how the reference is used. Something like “here is a proof or an explanation, it’s great and I am going to repeat it here but it came from that website over there so don’t think I came up with it” is very different from “there is a proof over there so I will accept it as true and you should too” (i.e., how citations tend to be used most of the time, unfortunately).

Even as a referee I would be happy with the former, provided that there is a permanent link or a pdf of the webpage in the supplementary material. I really would not let the latter fly.
Martha (Passenger Pigeon)
The area around Cumberland, mostly to the south towards Moorefield and Petersburg, WV, has a somewhat similar climate to the Tokaj region of Hungary, known for growing rare botrytized wines that sell for a fortune. I found this one day when I looked at the map of precipitation activity the US and saw an unexpected dry(ish) spot in northeastern West Virginia.
once.com is an interesting recent step towards this
"Assessed" doesn't mean much, there are many towns (such as my current town, and many others here in NJ) where houses all sell for a similar premium over the official assessed value.
The AI chip startup that could take down Nvidia – Etched's Sohu
"Not as successful as was originally hoped" is quite an understatement. The program missed all of its economical and operational targets (reliability, cost per kg in orbit, launch frequency) by a factor of one hundred. It was supposed to usher in a new era of scientific, commercial and civilian spaceflight, and competing programs were cancelled and deprioritized because they were about to be obsoleted by this amazing new reusable space lauch system. What it ended up being, instead, was an epic exercise in space budget whoring, which continues to this day with the Artemis program that insists on "reusing" Space Shuttle derived hardware for that exact reason.
reddit has had off the chart anti-trump content for nearly a decade now, as have nearly every single mainstream media outlet
And thus WalterBright describes to us how VC's make money... risk and reward.

(Hi Walter. Love your posts...)
The value of this didn’t really hit me until this line (which frankly should be the lede):

“This precision means that regardless of DST changes or any other local time adjustments, your date will always reflect the correct moment in time.”

Probably a failing on my part but I had somehow assumed all this time that calculating DST was a separate concern from time zone offset, given how tremendously opaque it can be.

To my knowledge, there is an area in Arizona that does observe DST, within an area that does not observe DST, within an area that does, within Arizona at large, which does not. Does this API really accurately represent this peculiar arrangement?

It looks like canonically there’s an America/Shiprock timezone but you’d think you’d need at least 4 to accurately represent the various areas.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/AZNMUT_D...
That description of Necrobarista reminded me of Dostoevsky, "Bobok" (1873).
You'd wonder why. Also he said that Microsoft developed it further. Why not release it?? It would be a great addition to their offering.
Thanks for the perspective!

Do you think this helps or hinders your ability to internalise the information (ie so that you don’t need to look it up, in the browser or from the LSP)?

For me, I feel that documentation is a starting point, but the goal is always to not need to look it up, after a little ramp up time.

With that said, I do use ChatGPT as a replacement for documentation sometimes, asking it how to do things instead of looking it up, but again the goal is to internalise it rather than to rely on the docs or tools. I won’t shy away from reading primary documentation, though, when necessary.
>Just curious about the emphasis on the single query.

Marketing?

And they need a single json to create the diagram from.
Do you consider reading from a normal array (one not backed by a memory mapped file) to also be blocking?
> Either this, or every project starts with a 200kb date library import.

It's interesting you say this but then go on to explain that you roll your own date library. Doesn't that discredit the idea that the alternative for every project must be a 200kb date library? I agree that most projects work with dates and time zones in some way, but that doesn't mean we'd have to use moment.js in the absence of the Date API. There's plenty of incompetent developers that would still do as such in the current year, but then this becomes a whole different argument.
Automatic document summarization is very hard without knowing what purpose the summary serves. For what/whom is the package intended?

Evaluating the quality of summaries is also very difficult. How would you evaluate whether a bioRxiv paper is well summarized or not? In the scientific literature you will find that one way is to let human domain experts score various dimensions of the produced summaries e.g. using a 4-point Likert scale.
Alternatively, professional summarizers produce "reference summaries" that serve as a model, and automatic summaries can be evaluated automatically against these using string overlap metrics.
Have to live in Cumberland, MD for 5 years though.

Borders West Virginia and a key city in the Appalachian area. Some would say this region was day 0 of the opioid epidemic. As of 2020 census, population is largely (~89%) identified as Caucasian. Diversity is lacking. Median income reported at $45K.

Don’t know much besides what’s on paper, but I highly doubt most people on HN would integrate well here.
So I have done both, the thing about VR is how scale comes across. I got hooked on it all over again in VR (Vive Bedrock Mod) because suddenly everything in the game felt immense! It's less a novelty and suddenly a whole experience. I will admit I played in shorter sessions, but more than novelty level.
You do get some kind of automatic extension for being out of the country...
My RuneScape account is the same and over 20 years old.
No surprise with this :(
Probably a system to exchange electronic money?

...Which would by the way suggest that you may not want some software to run in the background, but be turned on only when you know you are in a fitting situation...
If the calendar application want to be really accurate in a couple of years it's probably best to ask the user for coordinates for the event. You never know if that spot in Florida will be part of America/New_York next year.

(Of course a tz identifier will be better than an integer offset, but I'm only half joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana#tz_database)
A cryptography course should be mandated in the curriculum of most universities, just so people gain some intuition about the types of attacks that are possible. Just yelling "don't roll your own crypto" isn't practical advice when most issues come from misusing primitives or combining primitives in a "weak" manner.
Every prediction about the future--this one, every other one ever made, and every other one that will ever be made--is implictly made under the assumption that if the prediction lies beyond the predictor's lifespan, then the predictor will not be in a position to care one whit about the veracity of the prediction when that time comes. My clarification isn't at all motivated based on what the parent commenter said (I find the construction of a skyhook approximately as likely as the construction of a space elevator, which is to say, it will "never, ever" happen), but rather as an explicit clarification of the aforementioned implicit assumption.
The problem is that the rest of the world does not really like reviewing stuff. A few people hint frauds, which is a great service, but that’s about it.
> Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, also thinks specialization is the best approach to building AI chips, developing Sohu, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that runs just one type of AI — transformers — very, very well.

I thought the cryptocurrency craze taught us that ASICs get annihilated by Nvidia GPUs when benchmarking equivalent-value systems. Guess not.
I take notes with the script below, publishing to Git lol. My window manager (Sway) runs it in a terminal on-login

Respecting "$EDITOR", opens 'this week' and 'last week' in tabs:

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename "$0")
if pgrep -f "$SHELL.*$SCRIPT_NAME" | grep -v $$ > /dev/null; then
echo "The notes are already being edited elsewhere."
exit 1
fi
NOTE_DIR="${NOTE_DIR:-${HOME}/notes}"
CURRENT_NOTE=$(date +%Y-week%V)
LAST_WEEK_NAME=$(date -d '7 days ago' +%Y-week%V)
NOTE_PATHS=("$NOTE_DIR/$CURRENT_NOTE" "$NOTE_DIR/$LAST_WEEK_NAME")
EDITOR="${EDITOR:-vim}"
if [[ $EDITOR == *vim* ]]; then
# Run the vim-like editor with tabs
$EDITOR -c ':tab all' "${NOTE_PATHS[@]}"
else
# Run the editor without vim tab arg; assume array is fine
$EDITOR "${NOTE_PATHS[@]}"
fi

Can choose where the notes go with "$NOTE_DIR"
I was just wondering if radicle would be a good answer to this problem. I haven't tried it yet, but read about it with great interest and couple months ago.
> Let's not forget why humans went into orbit and the moon in the first place.

Political propaganda?
Starliner is the capsule, SLS is the rocket. SLS [1] is not a fixed price contract. The government's dumped tens of billions on it already, and continues to throw good money after bad. And the "fixed" price contract for Starliner keeps getting adjusted with NASA giving them hundreds of millions more dollars, allowing them to skip certain qualifying tests, and so on.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
You can be great at one phase of your life. Motivating people, working 20 hours a day, sleeping in the office. Probably Tesla would have gone under without Elon pushing, motivating, and showing his investment (meaning of time and energy).

It doesn't mean you are a statesman, a scholar, or all knowing. About anything.

It also doesn't mean that you can solve every problem you encounter in life with that kind of behavour.

Tesla as a company is an impressive accomplishment. Elon does sound crazy, however.
No, if the memory-mapped page you're accessing is in RAM, then you're just reading the RAM; there is no page fault and no syscall and nothing blocks.

You could say that any non-register memory access "blocks" but I feel that's needlessly confusing. Normal async code doesn't "block" in any relevant sense when it accesses the heap.
It is really bad advice because sometimes people just want to share something useful with you. If you do not positively acknowledge those people, you will miss out on information that could gravely affect your life. They will stop trusting you and stop sharing it. Meanwhile, you will keep fighting your own fires without learning some better ways. Serendipity is not a useless concept either.

Contrary to this person's belief, the person appears to be a robot.
The first of this macOS WMs that implement something that understands the wayland protocol -- bridges it to macOS compositor or whatever -- will really have my money.
The very most difficult part of writing date and time handling code is interfacing with systems whose developer thought date and time handling was completely straightforward :P.

It's hard, but it's not that hard so long as all the data is there. The biggest difficulty is working out the right frame of reference to store timestamps with. That's mostly only a catastrophic problem for future events involving people, but (as others in the thread note) it's still potentially an issue for audit (and other) data too.

Knowing which time zone a meeting is supposed to be held in is especially important around time zone changes.
It's quite annoying to deal with different library dependencies that all picked a different userspace library for something that should be standardized. For example, you might ship a date picker component using dayjs, but I already adopted Luxon in my application, so now I need to write some janky adapter or end up using both.

I would love to not have to import dayjs or another userspace library, so that i can pass datetime-with-timezone to other libraries and instead use an IETF standard way of handling time that's backed by performant native runtime code.

In my experience, userspace timestring parsing and timezone conversion can also be a surprising CPU bottleneck. At Notion, we got a 15% speedup on datetime queries by patching various inefficiencies in the library we selected. The runtime can be more efficient as well as saving page weight on tzdata and locale stuff.
Example; As late as July 28, NASA flight director Ed Van Cise explicitly denied that the Starliner crew was stuck or stranded <https://x.com/Carbon_Flight/status/1817754775196201035>. Even if one quibbles about whether "stranded" applies in this situation (I believe that it does <https://np.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ekicol/not_stranded_...>), "stuck" definitely does.
> Commute into a DC metro based office once a month

Not even once. Have you ever driven in DC metro? No thanks.
If we could bring in awk somehow...
Ha. Exactly.
I've had similar experiences helping my SO, my sister and a good friend with post-high school math in various forms.

My SO had a teacher at school who'd determined she couldn't do math, and had the worst passing grade as a result. She wanted to go to engineering college and lacking the prerequisites she had to take their pre-course, ie all the math and physics required compressed in a year. She struggled hard from the get-go, and I had to go back to elementary algebra and build up. Yet after a few hard weeks the efforts started paying off, and in the end she nearly aced the pre-course.

My sister had never been into math, and had taken a vocational route working in a kitchen. After some time she wanted to go to college doing something else, and that involved taking college level math. While not as strong as my SO, again similar story where persistence and working the foundations helped a lot, and she aced her somewhat easier college math course on time.

My friend was a bit different, in that he'd never been interested in math but had to take it to get the required points to get into some uni program he wanted. He's fairly smart but struggled with motivation. So for him it required finding the right way of forming the questions so he got some motivation to solve it.

These are my most direct experiences, though I've also helped others here and there. It led me to believe most people could do reasonably well at entry-level college math (ie basic calculus, statistics etc). For some it might require quite a lot of effort to get there, but still doable for someone with motivation.
manifesting as real motivation
Nice!

Re: favorite systems for migrations — not really; I've always just kind of not used one, or rolled my own. Desiderata:

* fully atomic (all goes through or none goes through)

* low-boilerplate

* can include execution of arbitrary application code — data-query-only only migrations feel kind of limiting.

* painless to use with multiple developers multiple of which might be writing migrations
some time ago I was thinking about this issue, maybe the concept of "parametric books" will become popular in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXktVbeWAeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpb2rXtBos4

perhaps, with the advent of AI, one will be able to convert a current book into a more detailed book, and also a current book into a smaller book, so maybe this idea is even easier to implement than 4 years or so ago, before chatgpt (but after summarizers, which prompted the idea in my head).

I would humbly appreciate any feedback on the concept of parametric books, for now, it's just an idea, but it's a free one, anyone is free to implement it.

thanks in advance, for your comments on it.
You asked for a source and were given one, then went on to talk about joe Biden for some reason, may I ask why?
s/some/most/

engineers on the bottom don't care about the politics. they design and implement the best they can.
Agreed; I had just been surprised that the others had all been added in the very same year as "yeet".
Related:

ArcticDB: A high-performance, serverless Pandas DataFrame database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198131 - March 2023 (1 comment)

Introducing ArcticDB: Powering data science at Man Group - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181870 - March 2023 (1 comment)
This sounds a lot like the story of Sprint (Southern Pacific Railroad INTernet?). If I were less lazy I bet I could find the story where this part of Sprint morphed into Qwest.
New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
I get a laugh too. Also, I love what he has done with Twitter, though name change to X was stupid.
Good software.

One more smart thing to do would be to open different workspace by middle click on the workspace name or giving options to open from the list.
To be clear, I think there's a lot of reasons to do cool things in space (Moon base, etc.). However, we're kidding ourselves if we think one of those reasons is "make a profit based on the intrinsic economic value of the endeavor".
Yes, it's being standardized by the IETF, here's the RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9557.html
I too have served on faculty search committees and reviewed scores of papers. Many members of the committees only counted publications. I read some papers and commented on them without much effect.
Show HN: Milestone update: 3000+ indie makers joined Awesome Indie
Hello HN! Even tho I have not given much love to the project in the last year (even letting the products queue reach 0 for like 4 months - shame on me) the users kept signing up.

Recently I have decided to upgrade, refactor, and fix most of the issues and automate a bunch, so this post is to celebrate the milestone crossing of 3000 user signups on https://awesomeindie.com!

Feel free to submit your projects there!

Your feedback is appreciated, thanks!
Instead of memorizing the values you can learn the shape of the graphs and/or learn the meaning of sin/cos on a right angle triangle.

I think I got ok through a math/comp.sci. degree without memorizing values but I will say the "mechanical" aspects of math including trig functions and things like integrals and derivatives involve drilling those enough to make these things automatic (which is sort of memorizing but not exactly). I was always lazy so I never got really good at that (and my calculus related grades are evidence of that ;) ).
And if your spouse is checking the charges from Madrid, they probably want to see it in Madrid time. There is no single correct answer.
Note to author: some links to capivaras.dev in https://kokada.dev/blog/quick-bits-why-you-should-automate-e... points to capivavas.dev.
Doesn't this mean that biologists have a problem writing effective abstracts in the first place? I thought the point of an abstract was the summarize and motivate.
That's laughable, China will spend 15-30 expanding on all kinds of technologies while cut from the US by design. I cannot see any long term benefit for the US when it lost access to the largest foreign market and suffers from fierce competition across the world. See the debacle of EV, where Chinese companies are already dominating sales on 3rd world countries and inside China.
‘Overtakes’.

The major qualification for headline-writer, as always, appears to be the ability to make slightly crap puns.
In my last posting, I shared a game I have been running, in different contexts: Quick Hei$t. The game came to me during a bit of session prep. I wanted to give players the room to move around without the rules getting in the way. Most legacy games a tricky to tackle with new players, especially class-based games.
> Adobe softwate is best we have on market on audio-visual production.

It's good, but besides Premier I really don't think many of Adobe's products are hot shit nowadays. You can do most of the same compositing you do in Sony Vegas with Blender and Davinci Resolve; today's tools are diverse enough that you don't need Adobe. And for music production and photo editing, I don't even think Adobe is a competitor. Affinity Photo eats Photoshop's lunch, and everyone else that wasn't going to pay for a photo editor can use GIMP or Photopea.

Unless you explicitly work at an Adobe-only shop, I really see no reason to continue using modern Adobe products. The value is just so bad compared to what you can buy elsewhere.
Neither the presentation nor the content was good, so you are being downvoted.
The commercial aircraft part of McD was dead when the merger happened. The had a cash cow called the "MD-80", which was a derivative DC-9. That had stopped selling.

Boeing got more value out of the defense part of McD.
the purpose of having engineers write software is that they can transparently prove that it works reliably, and they can be professionally held accountable and learn if it fails.

You're suggesting that reliability should be improved by being obfuscating the code through transpilation or by merit of being generated by a black box (LLM).

I really suspect that simply transpiling code to rust or ada or some other "safe" language largely wouldn't improve its security. The whole point of these "safe" languages is that they encourage safer practices by design, and that in porting the code to rust you have to restructure the program to conform to the new practices (as opposed to just directly re-implementing it).

I haven't seen a LLM that is reliably capable of logic/reasoning or can even reliably answer technical questions, much less synthesize source code that isn't some trivial modification of something it has been trained on. And it's not clear that future models will necessarily be capable of doing that.
Did you know that Columbia, MD is consistently voted one of the best cities in the country in which to live and work?
> Europe

Where people without Zuck-owned messaging system are like once those with undisclosed numbers.
I'm 100% with you about fixing fundamental societal problems first. But we still have to ask why we can't do that anymore with a single breadwinner in a household.

After the super-basics like hunger, homelessness and violent crime, the next item on the list should be this problem of the value of a human's labor (As to how, I'll leave open for discussion). I believe it's been going down since the 1950's because we've transitioned away from manual labor and onto more "knowledge based" labor, of which most people are not keeping up. And of no fault of their own necessarily. We're simultaneously not assisting them with schooling and training, but we're also trying to insulate them from the negative effects of their falling-behind by not promoting a meritocracy.
By that logic is there anything that the Federal government can't regulate? If that's the case why is the commerce clause in the Constitution at all?
This neglects the cost of extraction.
In particular, the most rare (and therefore precious) commodity in the solar system and indeed the universe is the 4 billion year old bioreactor we refer to as "topsoil".

Getting all the other elemental material we need without screwing that up will be a win for our descendants.
oof, there went 12 days. at least this isn't a regular occurrence outside of 1752 (unless you have DID, I guess)