skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He meant a month as defined by 1/12 of the tropical year, not a month as defined by a lunar cycle.

There's a wonderful Wiki-dive on these topics too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Synodic_month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year
> Why is this, and how do we get it fixed?

Not to get political on HN, but, well, California is now in the grips of a truly demented ideology. Due to having overwhelming majority everywhere, they can pretty much do as they wish. It's as close to a corrupt third world government as I hope we are ever going to get.

For example, our roads are in terrible shape. They have squandered or diverted funds that were specifically allocated to road maintenance. By that I mean: We voted to pass measures to collect additional taxes to fix the roads and they stole the money.

Another interesting one: They pushed and passed a law taxing any square foot of land that does not allow a drop of rain water to directly make contact with dirt. The tax is $0.025 per square foot. This means that your home, driveway, patio, patio cover, etc. are counted as part of this. Think of places like your local mall, Home Depot or strip malls, where 95% of the dirt is covered. This is huge.

I could go on. Like the high speed train to nowhere that we approved at a cost of $10 billion that is now near or past $100 billion. It goes nowhere, it isn't finished and nobody is gong to use it. And yet they don't stop. I would not be surprised if this becomes a half billion dollar project. The ROI on these things is so upside-down a fifth-grader could figure out it's a bad deal.

And, of course, there's this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2019/10/10/califo...

And this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2019/10/22/now-calif...
Firefox has credit card auto-fill capabilities: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/online-shopping-autofill-cr...
So now developer certificates are available on the free tier?
Perhaps he genuinely enjoys his job? Why should he have to launch another business? He already started one and it's very successful! Let the man enjoy his freedom and have a regular job if he so pleases!
You'd be amazed at home much time and how many resources useless UI animations take up. Go turn "Animation Scale" to 0 in the android developer settings page, and it will feel like your phone is 10x faster.
Cover Crop Exchange
https://covercropexchange.com

Providing a marketplace for buyers and sellers of cover crop seeds. We deal with licensing, shipping/logistics, ordering, payouts, etc. Diversify your farming income by growing and selling cover crop seeds.

hybrid85
https:://hybrid85.com

$85/unit Non-GMO (Conventional) seed corn.
Maximize your profitability by lowering your input costs. Utilizing off-patent genetics that perform as well as "the big guys".
and that s why they are "monopolies" - they each dominate a format. It's like saying IRC is a monopoly - which it is, just not owned by a central entity. It's not really going to work with people having 2 facebook-like accounts - they 'll eventually gravitate to one. What will work, is if there are viable , better open source and decentralized alternatives.
> at best, the temptation to RiiR is unproductive

I think there are probably three cases here:

(1) You have perfectly good software and your only motivation to rewrite is infatuation with how great Rust seems. In this case, yes, that's unproductive. (Infatuation-driven design is poor engineering and is a fairly widespread problem in the software industry.)

(2) You already have other reasons to want to rewrite (design could be improved, code is in a poor state, etc.), and you're deciding between languages. In that case, a rewrite could be productive even if you didn't use Rust.

(3) You have mature software that appears relatively free of obvious, known bugs, but it's written in an unsafe language, and it would be valuable to have the additional confidence that a safe language could provide. Security-sensitive or other critical applications are where this is most likely to make sense.
You are misrepresenting what was said. "Heavily covered in the media" wasn’t cited as a criterion for a whistleblower. Actually to be more precise, it was cited as a criterion—by you—when you claimed that as a hallmark of “fake” whistleblowers.
Ontology, Taxonomy, Choreography
>Thats not a solvable problem

Well, we're not trying to "solve" the problem. We're just trying to clarify that Twitter has no legal liability for the problem. If you delegate access to your account and someone proxies it; or there are all of a sudden all these GDPR violations flooding in because you gave away access to your contacts' private information when you delegated access to your account; etc etc; that liability should fall on either the user, or the entity to which the user delegated access. It shouldn't really fall on Twitter.

That's all we're talking about here, just making sure that legal and criminal liability is matched with delegated authorization. Because the legal ramifications are what tend to ensure security and privacy.
Some years back, I decided to dig into stuff completely counter to what I'd learned growing up. And sure enough, most of it seemed really crazy, not reality-based at all. At first. But I kept reading, and sometimes I'd look up other--more mainstream--books to see if such-and-such was even true. Over the long haul, it really dramatically changed how I view... everything.

It took a long time and a lot of reading, so I'm not surprised when I see people respond with disbelief and dismissal to things I (now) know are definitely true. After all, schools are generally operated by and supportive of some central authority or another (government, church, etc), so it's not really in their interests to teach us to question authority.

Plus, reality is exhausting and sad.
It doesn't make cycling safer for the individual, it makes society safer and people healthier. Individually riding with a helmet is safer than riding while not wearing a helmet, but if everyone rides a bike without a helmet, fewer people die and people live longer because there are far fewer cars on the road.

Fewer people are driving cars which are much more lethal to non-drivers, so fewer people get killed. People are more active and live longer because of increased physical activity.

Making bikes more appealing/ easier to access by not requiring helmets makes people collectively safer and healthier.
The Great Globalist Miscalculation: Version 6.0 (2018)
You're moving the goalposts massively. No one is claiming that the first gen iPhone outsold anything or anyone. More importantly, that data is for 2006, the N95, of which you claim everyone and their dog knew about, didn't become available until march 2007. Your claim that the N95 was massively popular is also wide of the mark. Nokia had around 30 SKU's available to buy at the time, with the N95 being one of the very top end devices. All your link shows is that Nokia had the lions share of revenue and market share. Well, yeah. No one with half a brain would argue that.

TL;DR: Look at how Nokia's revenue collaspsed post September 2007. Look at how Android and Nokia's decision to go all in on Windows Mobile accelerated it. Then tell me that the iOS fanbase is trying to rewrite history...
Rankings plays no significant role for my app, although it does affect downloads a bit. My app has been in the top 10 for a while, but also around 30-40 or so. It was never featured by Apple.

My app doesn't target people who just browse the app store and look for new stuff. It requires people with domain knowledge to actively seek a solution (I offer). So, before people get to know my app, they usually find themselves to get to know about the domain.

As an example: Before you download an app for vegans, you read about veganism first. There is no point in downloading an app for vegans otherwise. It's similar with my app (different domain though). But once your vegan app is somewhat popular in vegan communities, you depend less on rankings and more on SEO and word of mouth.

Of course, being featured by a vegan magazine would do a lot for you, probably more than being #1 in the app store or being featured by Apple (in terms of customer loyalty).
Why does he? He's not a journalist, he's a talking head. He'll challenge statements he can't get behind, but this is an opinion/entertainment show, and he's not throwing up slogans that read "fair and balanced" at every opportunity.
Being a specialist isn't enough. You along - no matter how good you are - are not enough. Either you need to control enough money that you can hire many specialist (Elon Musk with SpaceX), or you need to convince someone with money that is the right path. The skills for each of these are people skills not technical. Either way you will spend all your time in management activities so technical skills are not worth learning (beyond enough to understand what is feasible).

If you want to focus on technical skills, then you need to find a specialty that someone with good management skills will think important so that you can work with many other experts to develop things.
The linked paper shows the "classical system" is the Summit supercomputer[1], using 128 petabytes of disk. Still, its remarkable that the choice of a different simulation algorithm by IBM that trades memory for CPU usage cuts the time from 10,000 years to only 2.5 days.

[1] https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/sum...
CNN and NBC are not partisan entities, contrary to Republican smears. If they have any faults, it is in how desperately they bend over backwards to maintain the appearance of nonpartisanship amidst bad-faith attacks from the right, to the point that CNN just this week hired an alt-right conspiracy theorist as a full time contributor.
For the US:

With lab-grown meat agriculture has mostly collapsed, since most of it was either meat or food for meat production.

Most small cities are essentially dead, at least in terms of opportunities to improve ones life, since there are no jobs for low skilled workers. Those jobs were mostly meat plants or trucking and transport is done with automated trucks. There were other jobs but those where mostly in support of those jobs, or incidental to peoples life.

High Skilled workers have moved to the cities, but most of their income is eaten up by rent. Those who got there earlier and got a reasonably affordable place to live are making a lot of money.

Both suffer a lot less because things have continued to get cheaper -- you don't need to travel the world with good enough 3d glasses, most things we have physically today are available in "phones" (though nobody knows why they are called that anymore, as nobody use them to make old style phone calls). Without meat production, most oil-based transport and most stuff the environment is doing okay. It helps that not too many babies are being born (turns out, 3d porn is just that much nicer).

On an international scene things are looking much better: most of the world has cached up to the standard of living the US had in 1980, with the exception of basket case countries that are essentially still basket cases (North Korea, Eritrea). China has court up with the US and are beginning to face the same problems the US had, though somewhat dampened by the lack of freedom. Despite this, they have had to find make work projects for their people, and have had to grant more and more freedom to stay in power.

In short the world will be a lot freer, a lot more equal, but inside countries there will be a lot less hope and those countries will be much less equal.
> If the various Linuxes might give you what you need

Oh, how I wish! The problem is it's not just me. I'm the IT department for my wife as well, and there is no way she's going to switch to Linux. For on thing, she's a writer, and she uses MS Word. That is not going to change. :-(

Also, what to do for a mobile device? They all suck big fat honking weenies AFAICT. We both have iPhone SE's which, AFAICT, are the least bad of all the available options. We both tried Android once and it was a disaster.
divergence of rule interpretation is an issue, and harmonization is is the role of the ECJ (as final arbiter of interpretation) and ultimately the European legislative branch (for further harmonization).

Still, I do not see you go from that to "[it is] easy for rules to be introduced and hard for them to be struck down ".

edit: remember, the alternative is 28 potentially incompatible rules.
> This isn’t just because you have a good FAQ, it’s because it’s relatively expensive.

As a B2C SaaS product it actually seems to be relatively cheap: 10,000+ paying users and 370,000€ in yearly revenue points to around 2.99€ / month and 29.99€ / year subscription fees – similar to Instapaper Premium[1].

[1] https://www.instapaper.com/premium
LoopBack 4 Offers Inclusion of Related Models
> I'm sorry but as a user, I trust my relationship with Apple more than I trust random third party devs.

I don't see any reason why one would trust Apple more than a random third party dev. To me they are one and the same.
“You people with this phony emoluments clause”

- DJT
Oops! Correct link for hybrid85 is:

https://hybrid85.com

(can't find the edit button on hacker news)
You have to wonder how much money the corporations are funneling into politicians' pockets (legislative, executive, judicial and law enforcement) and institutional pressure from finance/accounting people to bring in funding sooner-rather-than-later to push jurisdictions to settle now instead of banking on bigger settlements later. Furthermore, the public good is not accomplished because massive crimes get swept under the rug and very few executives go to jail for killing millions at the cost of billions.
Glad to hear it has decreased. Nox emissions are mainly from diesel cars which where sold as clean diesel but where dirty. Hopefully hybrid and electric vehicles will decrease air pollution a lot more. Also car free city centers are a real possibility.
I use a very haphazard combo of evernote, google drive, and an ever-growing collection of physical books. It works for me.
Yes, if it is available it can be used.

The point of the assertion is that you can be tracked even if your IP address is obscured, mangled, or spindled.
San Jose to propose turning PG&E into giant customer-owned utility
Zuck Bucks: A Protest of Libra and Facebook
Rain pants? Pretty standard here in Copenhagen. It helps if it's coldish, otherwise you either sweat more or cycle slower.

A change of shoes and socks can also be appreciated if it's tipping it down.
There are plenty that do. They end up making waves in the libertarian and conspiracy communities and are generally blacklisted by the mainstream press.

The two communities above are receptive to messages about government overreach and corruption, the general public seems not to care much.

I suspect this is largely because libertarians and conspiracy theorists (which do overlap to some extent) are already skeptical of government "goodness" and anything that feeds that skepticism is easily accepted. The general public places government on a higher moral plane of existence and any challenge to that is met with skepticism and excuses.

The end result is that those that speak out/expose the government are sidelined and punished through smears or government action. See: Attacks on Gabbard, Ron Paul, Snowden, Bill Binney, Assange, etc.

It always fascinated me that the discussion of the leaked Clinton emails conveniently focused on the speculative source and motivation, never on the content of the emails with valid DKIM signatures. There is literally no question that those emails are real and unaltered.
possibly: https://www.linkinpark.com/
His podcast approximately makes 50 million USD per year.
Building a PKM ( Personal Knowledge Management ) system is what https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ is all about.

I benefited immensely from taking the course. I have no personal benefit or stake in the program.

The author/program does use evernote primarily as the tool but the technique/process/workflow is independent of tool ( I think they do address notion and onenote as well if that's what works for you ).

A brief high-level summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjZSy8s2VEE
this already happens, but x.1 updates are beta tested. If you’re running the beta channel, you’ll get x.1 updates shortly after launch.

These beta updates can go through a couple iterations before being released to the public, which is why it seems like there’s a long delay.
i now realise you/parent were talking about the about:addons page, not the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ web page.
:) What can I tell ya - human nature! We all have weaknesses individually and a different bunch when in groups.

The first time I saw a large cheque waved in front of me, I fell for it hook line and sinker :) Having lived through the dotcom bust/2008 financial crash and all kinds of other events, all I know is Learning takes time.

I had to fall and be miserable to learn. The second time around I didn't take the cheque. I had to also learn financial independence gave me choices. And lots of people don't have choices. All that creates conditions for the contradictions we see. But things change. The world is not static. I also learnt the hard way, naming/shaming/comparing/judging etc is not the most effective in speeding up that Learning process. It creates more defensiveness and counter reactions that drain energy further. There are better routes to create understanding. Search for them and redirect that passion in your comment into those routes.
Great timing, I am!

I’m a software engineer with 15 years of startup experience including two IPOs. I have an idea for accessory subscriptions that fills a niche that seems to have no competitors.

I have need of the following, any help on any would be amazing:

- full stack generalist engineer: I cant code all the time if I’m doing everything else
- business statistician: revenue models around subscriptions are fairly difficult
- marketing guru: I’ve coded my entire life, never been much for marketing campaigns
jpablo built a website that uses WebBluetooth to do something. That doesn't work on Safari, so to make it work on iOS, jpablo built an app.

The app is mostly just a (safari) webview, but with hooks to satisfy the web bluetooth api, by using native code.
You referenced the current president as an example of someone ignoring the law, while previous administrations were responsible for implementing and extending mass surveillance consistently while ignoring the law. I said that could be part of Trumps success, because his voters had similar ideas.

Which laws did Trump break by the way?
> the largest complaint is that we have our own launcher.

That sits above Steam's launcher, so I launch the game via Steam, then Uplays pop up (slowly, then updates), I dig up my contact details from an old post-it, then the game launch! I think it makes sense for Ubisoft to have their launcher, but in the case of games sold through Steam, its mandatory use detract from the game. And on Steam, games that have been pulled from the store are still in the game library of buyers, so it's not an argument.
unitedremote.com
Export tools happened after GDPR.
Have fun getting your stores stocked by trucks with no roads.

Having a baby? Hop on a train, hopefully it's not delayed.

Mother dying? Walk a few blocks, train, hopefully she'll make it.

Public transportation in American cities barely works as is, and usually only for tourists (see LA) and yet you want to rely solely on it?
Found the text of the legislation here. For some reason the original is on scribd, not the senate website. Weird.

https://www.scribd.com/document/431507473/GOE19968
This writer sounds very bitter.
It's a startup that provides a combo of Triplebyte + WeWork + Zenefits for hiring distributed teams.
Disney Chief Robert Iger Defends Marvel Movies Against Hollywood Critics
A few thoughts that immediately spring to mind:

Starting school at 7:30 has negative academic value, because half the students aren't even awake yet.

It's done because it's convenient for parents, who have to drop their kids off, who, for some reason, are 'incapable' of walking to school like their parents did.

A class of 32-35 students per teacher has no positive academic value. It is purely a cost-saving measure, that leaves everyone with a half-assed education.

Having to ask permission to piss, hall passes, limits on the number of students allowed to use the restroom at a time (typically 1/class) has more in common with a prison, or maybe boot camp, than a school. And, of course, there's no time in the 5-minute between class break for everyone who needs to, to both use the facilities, and get to their class, on time. It is done purely for social control reasons.

The expectation that teachers also do the job of social workers results in a lot of anti-academic outcomes. When your teacher, in a class of 30, is more concerned about how to deal with behaviour problems for a kid whose parents are, say, raging, shitty alcoholics, is not particularly conductive to the academic development of their peers. But that's not the school's, or the teacher's fault, so I can give that a pass.

AI essay grading (which is a more modern development, and works about as well as asking a monkey to grade essays) is the new thing that's popular to complain about. Negative academic value, but it saves time for teachers, who don't want to spend hours grading the hours of homework they assign. I don't blame them for preferring to have a 10-hour workday, instead of a 15-hour one, but still...
>IBM has physics on their side.

What do you mean by this?
I really like the phrase "elite quitters".

I wonder if, as a stereotype, it's unique to the software industry.
Do you know of a proportional form of Bucklin voting? What do you think of the Borda count and the Quota Borda system? I believe they're straightforward to tally and sum (at least the single-winner form), and that between them they're suitable for both single-winner and multi-winner elections.

I wonder how important summability is. If voters submit paper ballots, why can't election officials scan them locally and electronically transmit them to a central location for machine counting? Couldn't that make non-summable Condorcet systems work?
The process of "functions to convert bytes to a string" is called "encoding". The problem is, there's no universal way to do it, so you need to choose one. You need to know what the bytes mean, and then convert them into whatever representation that you need.

It is unfortunate that you’ve been downvoted for asking a question.
That's the part I don't understand. Why do people leave CA and then push for the same policies? It's crazy. I don't get it.
Someone will write an app that uses a delegation API to destroy your data. Possibly including better or more nuanced ways than simply deleting your account, like removing all pictures of yourself smoking or wearing a beret.
US aims for test of artillery prototype with range of over 1k miles by 2023
5-10C but wet is easy mode. Use a rain jacket, rain pants, and rain spats (optional). It's harder when it's warm and wet, as you can choose between getting wet from the rain, or sweating under your waterproof gear.
Nvidia with the binary-blob drivers are fine. Not great, but fine. Some updates broke things and required work but got em fixed.

That said, looking at AMD for the next (linux) build, both in CPU and graphics card.
Rolling updates is the reason I loved using Arch Linux instead of the more common Ubuntu.

Though if quality control is bad, rolling updates means many broken updates spread over the year instead of an optional huge broken update every October. Right now I'm on Mojave, works well enough, and I can wait until next summer to update to Catalina, when hopefully the major bugs have been ironed out.
Using revenue is a bit silly. Speaking in terms of the dev budget would make more sense.
Amazon Becomes Member of JCP