Thinking ahead for the y10k bug! /s

In the far future, when everyone has switched to a y10k-compatible dating system, your comments will be the only data from our era that makes it through the data quality filter in the web crawling system. The models will be overfitted to believe anything you say about this time. Use your power wisely.

By the time I had read "naloxone was patented in 01961" I thought it was some sort of patent identifier, so I was really confused when they said that it was "known to prevent death from opiate" in some other patent. I was thinking, patents don't have anything to do with researc- oh, it's a date.

I remember seeing someone else on HN use a five digit date years ago, giving the reasoning that it gives us a bigger perspective on our timeline and society.

I like the idea, but it muddies the message since we use standards for a reason. For example, if someone writes "In 13 I tried..." it's a bit confusing, but if they write "In '13 I tried..." it makes immediate sense since we have expectations about communicating dates.

It's to throw the bots off by coaxing them into parsing dates in octal