skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average confirmation time is actually explained by very old transactions that have been in the mempool for weeks or months finally being included due to transaction fees being low enough[0]. This of course raises the average confirmation time metric, but the average time for a new transaction to be included was on average 10 minutes like it always is assuming fees paid are above block minimum.

[0]: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...
And that is precisely why, unless you go between two directly connected cities, car is even more convenient than train. You don't happen to live in the train station in Paris. And neither do you happen to stay at the train station in Berlin.

Google Maps tell me Paris-Berlin is 9h35 minutes by car. I can now leave at the exact time I want. Maybe pick up something on the way by making a little detour. And arrive at my destination and have a car there.

I did that just yesterday (a road trip from Luxembourg to the french riviera): 960 km road trip (600 miles). Closest train station is a one hour drive. Closest highway is a 45 minutes drive. Closest airport a 1h30 minutes drive.

And of course once at my destination I then get to use my own car, not a rental one.

P.S: No security check lines. No being packed like sardines.
In addition, although the Luddite uprisings were themselves crushed, the political elite were not blind to the circumstances that led to them, and did eventually bring in the legislation that introduced modern workers rights, legalized unions and sowed the seeds of the modern secular welfare state in Britain. That is a pattern that appears throughout history and especially in Britain, where the government cannot be seen to yield to violent protest but quietly does so anyway.
Eccentric success - even if accidental - is more interesting than cookie cutter MBA min-maxing.
It’s an interesting question I guess (and slightly worrying that I can more easily imagine the end of the world than the end of advertising). Especially if we take it to the extreme and imagine sponsored listings also don’t exist. I guess incumbents would have a big advantage.

There are second order effects of ads that we’d need to consider. Facebook and Google wouldn’t exist as we know them. Maybe that means some of their research doesn’t happen?
You may think in that way, but in order to make a such strong statement you probably want to do your homework first, like searching up the discussions and its rationale. Usually there is a good reason to pass a law if it's almost universally voted for.
Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal
> When I work in an office, I can't choose my timezone. Neither can you. Neither can anyone else.

And this is the whole point - DST gives those whose work schedules aren't flexible an hour of extra usable daylight at the time of year when it is available and pleasant to be outside.
I saw Mosaic playing a weather animation in 1994.

It was over a hotrodded connection at 16600 baud.

I thought, "this will never work" while the download took several minutes.

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The night I spent watching videos of Tsunami footage in 2004, was the first time web video felt usable...that was through a cable modem.

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HTML5 was web standards catching up with reality. But that's always been the case with HTML standards because businesses develop technology to do what needs doing and eventually, it makes sense for everyone to do it the same way.
Seems like really cool tech. Such a bummer that the it is not source available. I might be a minority in this opinion, but I would absolutely consider commercial services where the core tech is all released under something like a FSL with fully supported self-hosting. Otherwise, the lock-in vs something like kafka is hard to justify.
> No-one ever called a real program an "app" before that, did they?

Yes. Apple called them apps in the 80s, at least on the Mac - this is Apple II but it's plausible they were also referred to as apps there?

For my part I read the title as "Taking over a wall changed my direction as a programmer" which had me really confused for a while. I'd like to read that article, I think.
> "Today I make generative art..."

Is generative art just AI, or is there something else out there that was called that before the emergence of AI? Genuinely curious.
"Applications" was a very common term in the classic Mac days. "Programs" was a more Windows-y term. ("Applications" vs "Program Files" in ye olden 90s world of where to put things you installed.)
The 100+ years of research on PTSD, starting from shell shock studies in WWI shows that PTSD isn't so simple.

Some people come out with no problems, while their trenchmate facing almost identical situations suffers for the rest of their lives.

In this case, the claim is that "it traumatised 100% of hundreds of former moderators tested for PTSD … In any other industry, if we discovered 100% of safety workers were being diagnosed with an illness caused by their work, the people responsible would be forced to resign and face the legal consequences for mass violations of people’s rights."

Do those people you know look at horrible pictures on the internet for 8-10 hours each day?
Spotify is a market. Markets have two sides. You're fixated on one side. Repeating my earlier comment, "I don't think this is the most egregious act of dishonesty in the article, though. I think Spotify deliberately seeding this music into its playlists is a worse abuse of its position as owner of the marketplace."
I think the definition would have to be an exchange of something of value for telling other people about a product. There are some companies that got off the ground with no paid advertising but I think they’re an exception. Generally people are not seeking out new products.
The answer is in the question: Whoever has been raised in a culture that doesn't make a big deal out of whatever the given content is.
Generative art pre-AI was art created with code.
Hello there! Did you receive an error with your RSS feed (https://rishikeshs.com/index.xml) or the JSON feed (https://rishikeshs.com/index.json)?

I am able to successfully poll the RSS feed, but the JSON one is returning an error. Only JSON Feeds that conform to https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/ are parsable by the software.
Let's say you took a document as a string, and split it up into words using a lot of string views. Every string view created would affect the reference count of the parent string. Then every time you work with the string views, saving temporary instances, passing them to a function, assigning them, whatever, you're affecting the parent string's reference count.

And reference counts are often atomic integer operations, so it might not be a regular memory increment, instead it would be an interlocked increment. And if there's multiple threads, the CPU cores will be competing over who gets to keep the reference counter in their L1 cache line. (There is a way around this where you can give threads an their own reference counter)
I agree that it's debatable, which is why I used the word “almost” ;). The fact remains that this info isn't in RFCs and is hard to find on the web.
GEM on the Atari ST supported the .app (short for "application") extension for gui executables. One of its components was the AES, short for Application Environment Services. This stuff dates from the early to mid 1980s.
I find Anki is useful for boosting the frequency of important but medium-frequency words/phrases.

This is where language learning usually plateaus. Assuming one is being constantly exposed to comprehensible input, the first 80% (by Pareto principle) is usually easy because they're high frequency patterns and the brain automatically picks up on what to pay attention to and tries to retain them. (pattern/word frequency)

But then there's the 10% of high-leverage phrases that native speakers use (which makes them sound native) but not quite often enough for our brains to pattern match. These are the hardest to retain because it's diminishing returns for our brains. (weak signals in training data)

This is where Anki helps: the SRS artificially boosts the signals for these phrases. (synthetic data)

I also use Anki for easy confused words/phrases -- in Portuguese, "rodoviária" (bus station) and "rodovia" (highway) are easily confused, but Anki's SRS prompts me to differentiate them. (discriminative learning)
Not only do LLMs require some work to build anything useful, they are also fuzzy and nondeterministic, requiring you to tweak your prompting tricks once in a while, and they are also quite expensive.

Nothing but advantages.
Kind of tangential, but I'll share a bit of a horror story from a friend when it comes to e-signatures.

The company in question uses DocuSign, and most of their clients do as well. They are big, serious companies. However, nobody is able to set up DocuSign in a reasonable way for a multi-client contract. Every company needs to use their own DocuSign.

Now, DocuSign embeds a cryptographic signature in the signed PDF. This means you can't sign a PDF twice.

So what my friend does is create the PDF to be signed, send it to one company for signatures, get it back and run it through Microsoft Print to PDF. This friendly utility happily strips away all cryptographic signatures, but importantly leaves the "signature picture" in place. And then they can send this PDF to the next company.

I joked that every time they do this, a cryptographer somewhere stubs their pinky toe on a corner.
The hydraulic systems of the Alhambra Palace [video]
Equating outrage to PTSD is absolute nonsense. As someone that lives with a PTSD sufferer, it is an extremely severe and debilitating condition that has nothing to do with “outrage” and can’t be caused by seeing people kiss.
Yes, if you know something is an exact multiple of n = r*2^k where r is odd, you can divide out the multiple by right-shifting k followed by modular multiplication by the modular multiplicative inverse of r.
I have a TK913 GPS tracker for my ebike, which is configured to send location reports to my server running Traccar[1]. I'm very happy with the setup, it Just Works. I can check where my bike is at any point from the web UI from my phone. It supports A LOT[2] of these cellular-enabled GPS trackers.

[1] https://www.traccar.org/

[2] https://www.traccar.org/devices/
yes that was my point
It is exactly what I mean.

If you don't nurture that outrage every day than you'd be rather surprised what can happen to a culture in a single generation.
> Besides, it's not like standard time is any more natural than daylight savings

The question is whether there are any downsides from abruptly changing wake cycles twice a year. That article does seem to bound the cardiac risks somewhat, but there's also the auto accident angle. There's also just the human suffering: stepping the clocks sucks.

> and their bodies would gradually adjust to the seasonal shortening and lengthening of daylight with no abrupt transition necessary.

Yah, but there's nothing gradual or natural about a 1 hour society-wide step in wakeup times.

I'm not saying that people or businesses should never adjust what they're doing for daylight or other considerations. DST is a ham-fisted, blunt approach attempting to crudely fix the problem just by stepping society's clock.
> This is a somewhat, hmm, bilingual post.

Yeah, I wish the author had just mentioned what language they were using in the blog post text. I was looking at it and I couldn't identify it. Now I know it is Zig, but I'm not familiar with Zig so I can't identify it by sight. I was looking at it and thinking "this looks a bit like Rust but isn't Rust".
It's not hard to read one hundred pages each day of newspaper articles and magazine articles and other similar publications. If The Economist were a daily publication, I'd gladly read it every single day from cover to cover. However I see that the author has excluded periodicals in this statistic, presumably because it's not "heavy" reading?

I recently re-read a few books from the Harry Potter series and I could very easily read one hundred pages a day. I just finished reading Deaton's Economics in America and it's comparatively light and I read on average 50 pages per day. But I recently began to read Pigou's The Economics of Welfare (which I discovered only because Deaton quoted it) and there's no way I could read more than 20 pages a day.
this is a really good source: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
Except for city centers, there's nowhere cheap to park (especially overnight parking).

I used to live in upstate NY, and driving was definitely more convenient and fun (I would learn so much listening to long podcasts), but I would never drive to NYC because of the parking issue.
Airline should be on the hook, for the concert ticket refunds. The whole "48h notice for cello" line is bullshit
It's not clear to me how to actually get the required plist file to make this library work. Neither of the scripts in this issue seem to work: https://github.com/malmeloo/FindMy.py/issues/31

Is the syntax to run them just `swift <filename.swift>`?

Swift/ErrorType.swift:253: Fatal error: Error raised at top level: main.MyError.noPassword
Unless they were using a model too stupid for this operation, the fundamental problem is usually solvable via prompting.

Usually the issue is that the models have a bias for action, so you need to give it an accetpable action when there isn't a good comment. Some other output/determination.

I've seen this in many other similar applications.
PTSD is what happens when you see someone standing next to you reduced to a chunky red salsa in a split second.

The idea that seeing images of that can match the real thing can only be said by people who haven't smelled the results.
Best pipeline I’ve had the pleasure to design is AWS CodePipeline via AWS CDK. Ticks all boxes. Uses pure TypeScript code.
The article never hints at a business or regulatory angle. The author repeatedly has no answer for the sudden (and often long-term) closures.

After the first anecdote about the couple getting evicted shortly after spending weeks of 12-16 hour days cleaning a derelict property I thought it was just some asshole miser stealing sweat equity from would-be proprietors, but the larger picture seems more like mental illness than pure avarice.
Relative opening hours would be quite interesting: this store opens 1h after sunrise and closes 1h before sunset.
Guarantee you one of them is actually always looking.
Probably not a popular opinion, but I’d prefer to eliminate local time zones completely. I’ll figure out how to live on UTC, my brain still has enough plasticity (I think).
>Dresden killed only 20,000

>It was a "good genocide"

How good could it get?

I worked with a German machinist from there who had experienced it at the time.

He didn't think it was so good, and it was a very long time afterwards. Me neither the more I knew.

Just doing his job back when he was a teenager, like I was when we were doing our project.

Not really sure even then if we were contributing to a military device or not.

But it's a high-tech factory, so.

And he was one of the lucky survivors.

Think how everybody else felt.

As they were dying.

They were his friends and co-workers.

Who shared their last words with him. They hated America worse than ever. Not easy to forget.

But he was still able to forgive the average American, including me, and build real friendship.

I even played in his polka band a little.

Would still have the sheet music if it wasn't for a damn hurricane.
A data table thousands of years old (2020)
I would consider putting the buffer last in the structure and making it flexible to allow skipping one allocation.
But the whole point of a capitalist society is that competitors that do things better/cheaper start taking customers so the capital moves to the best and most efficient system.
(Founder) We are happy for S2 API to have alternate implementations, we are considering an in-memory emulator to open source ourselves. It is not a very complicated API. If you would prefer to stick with the Kafka API but benefit from features like S2's storage classes or having a very large number of topics/partitions or high throughput per partition, we are planning an open source Kafka compatibility layer that can be self-hosted, with features like client-side encryption so you can have even more peace of mind.
Discounts require multi year commitment for minimum (and increasing) spend.
Generally you need to be either profitable or a well funded startup to demonstrate why a vendor would trust your ability to pay (it's literally a debt on your books). How do they know you're good for it?

Plus multi cloud means less scale and less marketing incentive (can't talk about you as a x cloud customer).

I wish you the best, but would encourage you to not set your prices below your costs.
I came here to say the same. Having the navigation on the bottom is great too, with it appearing when you scroll up. Kudos to the owner.
I've been programming professionally for over 30 years and "app", "application", and "program" have been interchangeable for me and the people I worked with as far back as I can remember.
Timekeeping was never the point of timekeeping anyways...
And what culture is that?
Ask HN: How Do You Juggle Multiple Projects?
If you have a handful of projects you're interested in, do you cycle between them in increments- power through them in sequence, or approach them some other way?

I'm reflecting on how I approach my handful of projects; currently I change focus each day on a 4 day cycle between 4 different projects. While it feels like I'm maintaining 'multiple irons in the fire', it also feels like I'm spinning my wheels to some degree.

Reading second hand accounts of the corporate world on HN, the industry standard seems to be focusing on one thing at a time with dedicated teams - but I'm unsure if that's due to it being the best way to get the most out of a handful of workers with varied aptitudes and motivation levels - or if it's the best way for human minds to focus productive attention, hands down.

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this topic, especially in the context of self employment.
does it need to be like an onomatopoeia? the word "precariat" was invented to describe a specific flaw of capitalism and at least it has good phonemes
I thought the book was stupid. Rehashed a bunch of obvious ideas. It’s a bit harsh, I know, but that’s my honest opinion and I respect other people who like his book.

I too have a fp background and I felt the author is unqualified to talk about complexity without knowing fp. Elimination of procedures and mutations is a formal and concrete reduction of complexity while the authors definition of complexity is hand wavy. Someone should know about what fp is before writing a book like this.

Why? Because fp is a basically like a formal structure for software design and the author tried to talk about philosophy without knowing some hard formal rules that are well known in the industry. Not saying these rules are absolute but you can’t talk about design without talking about this.

The book talks about modularity and things of that nature too and totally skips out on understanding the separation between statefulness and logic. The author completely misses this design concept of how how IO and mutation should be separated from declarative operations. Imperative shell/functional core is a central design philosophy that he doesn’t touch upon. The book is woefully incomplete without talking about this. Whether the authors philosophy aligns with it is open for debate but you can’t talk about what he talks about without mentioning this in a big way.
That's the theory. I'm not sure yet that it works in practice, I've seen a lot of people on Mastodon complaining about how as a moderator, keeping up with the bad services is a perpetual game of whack-a-mole because everything is access on by default. Maybe this is a Mastodon specific issue.
Our median wealth in this country allows us to be so destructive as an unnoticed byproduct of our ridiculous standard and method of living.

Sure, idiots go into the wilderness and cause damage, and the residue from boating "enthusiasts" is terrible, but it's the machine itself that is the problem and those that can do something about it are too busy profiting from it to give a sh_t.

All the problems you describe are real, and they can all be addressed by better seeing through eyes of compassion with a heart tuned to care for others and our mother Earth, herself.

More succinctly, I've heard the saying, "Shit rolls downhill.", as it applies to the qualities of the leader percolating down through the ranks out to the leaf nodes of the culture. Most people are trying to emulate those power-hungry sociopaths, who are nearly always wealthy.

"No more turning away." --Pink Floyd's "On the Turning Away"
We already tried it in the 70's. People hated it. It was switched back.

If we're going to bother again, we should at least go with standard time this instance.
Pre-Israel Palestinians are mostly of Jewish origin. The modern usage of Palestinian didn't come into broad usage until after the six day war.
I don't have an iPhone or Mac.
Can I buy an AirTag, initialize it with the help of a friend who has an iPhone, and then locate the AirTag or ring it from my PC with this Python lib?

It would be awesome.
There are definitely at least some youth (16 to 25 year olds) around these parts smoking marijuana, and of those the ones who look more like gaming addicts tend to be chronic[1] pot smokers.

Probably depends at least to some extent on their socio-economic status, but then again I’ve known plenty of professionals who are gamers and pot smokers, meth users, heroin addicts.

Having said that, if a persons drug use is chronic then it’s arguably no longer recreational.

1. chronic in the medical sense, as in chronic disease - usually a condition that lasts for at least three months.
There are a number of good independent radio stations I listen to, personally I would say that is the better option for human curation.
What is the intentional wordplay here though? Just the mention of hadron? I don't think that really clears the bar to even single entendre.
ARC co-founder Mike Knoop

"Raising visibility on this note we added to address ARC "tuned" confusion:

> OpenAI shared they trained the o3 we tested on 75% of the Public Training set.

This is the explicit purpose of the training set. It is designed to expose a system to the core knowledge priors needed to beat the much harder eval set.

The idea is each training task shows you an isolated single prior. And the eval set requires you to recombine and abstract from those priors on the fly. Broadly, the eval tasks require utilizing 3-5 priors.

The eval sets are extremely resistant to just "memorizing" the training set. This is why o3 is impressive." https://x.com/mikeknoop/status/1870583471892226343
Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown
Tried it, and it worked perfectly. Neat!

But should I uninstall it? I noticed that this extension (at least the Firefox version) requires "Access your data for all websites" and there's no option to grant access only when needed, clinking on the extension button. I’m not comfortable with extensions having access to all my browsing data unless it’s absolutely necessary (e.g., uBlock Origin).
Congrats ! I don't have an iPhone or Mac. Can I buy an AirTag, initialize it with the help of a friend who has an iPhone, and then locate the AirTag or ring it from my PC with this Python lib?
The post is quite strange, though. It exaggerates the deal in a very artificial way. For example, "My wife asked me how to think about this — is it a beginning, an end, something in between? I told her that it felt like a clear chapter mark: the end of chapter one. A fantastic opening act behind us, but with many chapters to be written in front of us.".
> I liked this kind of pattern at the bottom of OpenAI's site :)

Where on OpenAI's site do I find a footer like that?