skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Bernard Cornwell novel about king arthur introduced me to all sorts of defunct, proto-english & welsh counting systems. Shepards used one system. Sailors used another. Soldiers another. It was part of a society that was deeply dialectic in all things, especially language.

This resonated with me, because my grandfather had sheep. Sheep were weighed in kgs. People were weighed in stones. Feed in pounds. Sheep were sold in dozen and half-dozen dividable lots. Land in acres. In his region, one acre could feed one cow and one sheep so they had an intuitive serendipity. 100 acres made a viable farm.

Measurement systems tend to leave even more vestiges than other elements of language. Most of the world uses metrics, but almost no one advocates for metric time or angular units. Square kms never became an agricultural measure of land because one is bigger than most farms. Instead, metric hectares and metric dunams were adapted to be metric. They were close enough. Acres weren't, so there is no metric acre.

There are sixty minutes in an hour and 360 degrees in a circle because sumerians used a base 60 numerical system 5 thousand years ago. I have never even heard of a metric angular unit.

I totally accept the fact that metric systems are better. Engineering anything in inches seems impossible. OTOH, the richness and embedded history of language is valuable too. There's a reason esperanto never caught on, even though it's arguably the right tool for the job.
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I took Aiken's Stanford Compilers course on Coursera and wrote about it:

https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/writing/2012/07/21/compilers-on-c...
The basic idea: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome.

This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days, https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.

Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.

So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.
The first very special thing that was observed about the speed of light is that it is NOT relative. That is, if I fire Alice light beam at you from a moving train, while Bob fires a beam at you from a platform, both beams will reach you at the same time. Sound does not behave the same way, light was the first thing that we observed like this.

This was a gigantic problem, an experiment contradicting one of the most fundamental laws of nature as we knew them at the time - Galileo Galilei's principle of relativity.

Note that this observation has nothing to do with our eyes's ability to perceive light. The same observation will not happen with sound waves; and it will hold even for frequencies of light that we can't directly observe with our bodies, such as radio waves.

As others note, it was later discovered that this is not a special property of light itself. It is in fact a special property of the universe, and it applies to any particle without mass; the photon happens to be the only massless particle that we can directly observe, so it was the one which gave the name to the physical quantity.
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12 has while number factors of 1,2,3,4 and 6 and 12.

That handiness is why the usage of the dozen and the foot persists.
Oh wow, this has been happening to my Mac as well. I am thinking of going back to a previous version.
Six is a half dozen.
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“Why is a comment "Increments i by one" for i++ not ok, while a function "incrementIByOne" is supposed to be good style?”

It isn’t, but nextOrderNumber could be, especially if it is used in multiple places. That function could easily evolve into _doing_ “increment i by one, atomically”, “generate a random UUID”, “get a new unique ID from the database”, etc.
Shifting time for everyone and everything was a bad idea. For example you wouldn't like being in a train during time shift, wasting one hour just because of this...
The reality is that there is an entire supporting industry that needs to be built to make nuclear power plants economical.

Nuclear power plants have special requirements that are rarely met by conventional industry. A lot of nuclear power plant designs involve manufacturing via the largest hydraulic presses we have ever built. There are not many of them and building more of them is expensive so it will raise costs in the short term (10-20 years). The design philosophies have to change considerably if nuclear power wants to be cost effective.

The monolithic nuclear power plant is a dead end.
Really? The risks of COVID are pretty well known at this point, and for the vast majority of people they seem quite low.
4. Split up the codebase into modules.
You yourself cannot change these modules. Only the ‚module experts‘ are allowed to change their own modules.
Your final executable will consist of ~200 such modules.

If you find bugs / problems you will need to convince the module owners that is in fact a bug in their module.

And modules are delivered only every 4/5 months..
If anyone is wondering about the historical context to this, look up "boot environments", which first appeared under Solaris with FreeBSD copying the feature:

* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/beadm-1m.ht...

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm
This article is misleading. Banks do ultimately create money. Even if you ignore the details and complexity of how this works, the empirical evidence is clear:

- How do you explain that the M2 money supply is always going up? Where is all that new money entering into the system? Government contracts funded by government bonds? If that was the case, government contractors would be getting very wealthy and everyone would be working for them (directly or indirectly)...

- How do you explain the recent, significant, almost instantaneous jump in stock prices of major tech companies after the Fed printed and injected trillions of new dollars into the economy? Did these corporations all suddenly score huge government contracts from the bonds which the government created? Seems more like investors and company insiders used loan money from banks to do stock buybacks or increase their positions.

- Under the model suggested by the article, how does one explain why there are so many millionaires are in the real estate industry? If you assume the opposite argument that banks are able to print money (directly or indirectly), the number of millionaires makes perfect sense since everyone buys houses using 'loans' from banks; so it's natural that all this free money from banks would constantly inflate real estate prices; each new generation of citizens would inflate the prices of the properties which were bought by the previous generation with increasingly larger loans from newly printed credit from their banks.

What is claimed by the article does not match the evidence, even the people have wised up to this scheme which is why Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been able to hold their value.
Did you account for the footprint of building the plant (all that concrete manufacturing produces lots of CO2)? And the footprint of the waste storage (again concrete, potential for leaks)? Footprint of mining? Lots of Uranium produced in the the developing countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine) which have poor safety standards.

The problem with peaks is not a defect of renewables, it is a temporary problem, which will be resolved once we build international power grid.
I've met both kinds of Evangelicals. I think we need to figure out a term to differentiate between the normal Evangelicals and this strange subset of American Evangelicalism.
our .UK ltd was owned and verified as an educational institution though if you bothered to look up the whois. Seems like we already built a system to handle this, not a tld
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Exactly. Two companies that had lost their vision
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You mean mostly Ukranian citizens against Ukrainian army which was unconstitutionally deployed against them? (note that I do not deny Russian involvement, but foreign involvement in civil wars is a really common matter)

Ukrainian army uses similar simple drones to throw grenades at rebels as well [0][1]. And interestingly enough Chinese develop similar drones [2], so I think they will be more and more common in future conflicts.

[0]: https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/202052159-Rc...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Y810e2RXk
[2]: https://www.defenseworld.net/news/24569/Weirdly_Shaped_Chine...
This might be one reason they are uncomfortable with mandatory vaccination orders, but there's also the fact that the government is putting a gun to your head and saying, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Now I'm going to stick this needle in you. Don't resist and nobody will get hurt."
Without the time to properly test the vaccine, you're as much in the unknown as with COVID-19. Maybe even more. This is really high risk that can backfire a lot.
If the vaccine is ineffective, or worse, cause health issues, how would you convince a population (with already a portion being anti-vaccine) to get vaccinated to the point it requires to stop the spread once a good vaccine is available?
Taking this risk for a political campaign is insane...
Regarding management, it's a bootstrapping issue: The main requirement for an engineering management position is management experience. The easiest way to get it is to stay at one place for 3-4 years. The move based on that experience.
There is, the damn spacetime, under all it's completely tangled together, you can't separate them, because relativity. It's a very useful "illusion" for everyday life, to think of time as something completely distinct and always present... but it seems, our best experiments and thus models suggest otherwise. Similarly with quantum stuff, there doesn't seem to be hidden variables, it's truly a probability distribution.
Esperanto didn't catch on because a lot of people feel like it's not the right tool for the job - there are forks and whole different projects that try to mitigate the issues.
Why entitlement? If you just searched for Greg Egan and got a bunch of images for Greg Egan's that would be fine. But google is pulling together info as a bio of Greg Egan the science fiction author, presenting it as authoritative, and including a picture - not someone with this name but that specific person. The author being annoyed that Google is falsely saying this is what he specifically looks like doesn't sound entitled to me
Greenwich became the standard meridian at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC in 1884 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere...

It was at the instigation of the USA and it was partly to do with the establishment of the time zone system, and partly to do with marine navigation charts. Britain had the best charts at the time so there was a significant practical reason to bless Greenwich (with 180° being the second choice).

The French obviously did not like the result, but there wasn’t any quid pro quo about adopting the metric system.
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I just visited a restaurant like this in Calabria a few days ago - you turn up and they just bring you food, most of which is produced by them or nearby. It was awesome. :)
They’re doing lots and lots of engineering on macOS - APFS, read only system partition, app sandboxing with user file protection, app notarization, catalyst, SwiftUI, Big Sur native iOS app support, the whole Big Sur redesign, custom T2 controller, ARM Macs.

The problem seems rather like they are making too many deep system changes without any bug fix time to let them settle.
I think the author really misunderstood the term "active hours"
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Camera lenses can't be blinded? Sensors can be blinded too, by rain, sun and dirt.

Just had to remark on that specific point. But I understand where you're coming from. Still doesn't change my trust level for technology taking over in traffic.
> ZFS is great but aren't we better off focusing on something else like btrfs?

Btrfs was originally introduced in Linux 2.6.29 in March 2009. It is still flakey in many situations.

ZFS was first release in Solaris 10 6/06 in June 2006, with it being open source almost right away. OpenZFS was forked in August 2010.

Should Btrfs at some point simply be declared a sunk cost and something new be created? Because from the outside it looks like it's hardly gaining any traction because of its reputation for eating data (maybe only with its RAID code, but still).
Indeed becoming a tech lead or manager comes through being part of the company most of the times. Which sometimes is a terrible practice because being employee #3, 5, 10, etc. and staying there for 5-10 years does not mean you are a good leader or manager. Not to mention that in most companies it is also impossible to move higher in the ladder with all the internal politics, "friendships" and significant lack of proper management.
> although, really, if you have compiler warnings you need to rethink your life choices

Is this a joke, half a joke, or serious?
Why is the gallon a "human sized unit"? What does it even represent? A hat size?
I read your first comment, and didn't understand who you were referring to. Now I get it. It's actually real interesting.

It's not that base 10 "math" is harder. It's specific "math" of everyday life and commerce that was easier using those systems. You could pay using fewer coins, for example. You buy butter in in ppunds, half pounds, etc.. These corresponded to money denominations.
This is an exciting development!

I am though wondering, if the current version is stable & working well enough to be a daily driver / main phone.
Speaking of waving. That's one of my pet peeves in traffic. We're taught here in Sweden to NEVER EVER wave anyone ahead in traffic.

Always obey the traffic laws and regulations about who has right of way and who has to yield. While still staying alert and prepared to react of course.

So imagine a two lane road where one driver waves a biker ahead to cross while in the 2nd line a self-driving android is coming.
"Nuked" probably only refers to somebody sending a bigger bomb on the way back and not so much on nuclear warfare.
Not great general advice. Totally agree on no job security... but there’s other ways to succeed then jump ship every 2 years. That’s a great way to have 2 years experience 10 times.

Sounds like you haven’t found an employer who invests in your continued skills and development. A good employer/manager will give at least 10% and often 20% for skill dev.

With the resume of leaving every 2 years, many recruiters and hiring managers for companies that do invest in their employees would avoid you. So you’ll never find good employers either.
I use Windows at work occasionally and I can't get over how much clicking I have to do. Also some basic stuff is missing without convoluted work arounds (such as resetting the default app to open a file type to none). W10 is not in the same league as MacOS despite MacOs getting worse.
It's also a violation of the UN "right to be free from non-consensual medical treatment" (https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31.pdf)
We rebooked relatives during the pandemic and was surprised our credit didn't apply to the same class of service. If you bought a package with extra legroom and a checked bag, you end up being able to use the credit on basic economy, and repaying for the checked bag every time you book.

Just stuff like this where they continue to nickel and dime you while saying they're doing you a favor.
No healthy child or adult (excluding the very old) should take this vaccine unless it's 500% safe because children and adults are NOT at risk for COVID.

Really it's only the old people that should be given any kind of a COVID vaccine.
Maybe their quality control can be improved, but you give no insight in QA practices they are obviously skipping. Unless you're counting "dragging developers over hot coal" as your advice. In which case, I have serious doubts the system you're comparing them with is actually of better quality.
How's the RAID-5/6 functionality?

Also, do these Debian cautionary notes still apply to new code:

> There is currently (2019-07-07, linux ≤ 5.1.16) a bug that causes a two-disk raid1 profile to forever become read-only the second time it is mounted in a degraded state

* https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#Warnings
We also use Dhall.
The home page has a very nice intro indeed. https://dhall-lang.org/
How is that non-discoverable? Most software literally tells you beside the copy/paste entry that it is ctrl+c/v.
Support for Trump among Evangelicals has always remained steady at or slightly above 80%. The "strange subset" of Evangelicals are the ones who don't support him, the "normal" ones are the ones who do, by a wide margin.
Is just an metaphor that there is always something with a bigger drone. Change nuking by bombing and city by hacienda if you prefer.

Of course the concept of drone-bomb, once released, is like pandora's box. A double edged sword that could harm both parts.

The natural answer from the enemy cartel after being bombed would be to intercept as many enemy drug-delivery drones as possible with a, lets name it, "falcon-fly drone", attach a package bomb and a postcard with a magneto and let it to continue their route.

And if you are the police you could attach a beacon instead to convert it into a "Judas drone" and release it. Even better if you can catch again the drone in route or release the beacon automatically after a few minutes, the narcos wouldn't suspect that now you have a velocity and a vector. That would help you to trace a possible point of origin and maybe delivery over the same straight line.
After starting to read this article, I had several random thoughts:

* What makes this author's explanation credible?

* Does anyone actually understand how money works, or are people trying to rationalize what we already have?

* All that really matters (to me) is the value is relatively stable and it doesn't create a crazy imbalance of power.

* Money does an okay job maintaining a stable value for some stuff (e.g. food), but an incredibly lousy job for other stuff (e.g. land).

That got me to thinking about a game I was recently playing and frustration with it's two in-game currencies, neither of which have anything to do with external transactions (such as obtaining DLC). One of those currencies could fluctuate in value based upon supply and demand (actually, how much you were trying to sell). Now that leaves me wondering if the game developers discovered that it was impossible to balance the game with a single currency (i.e. avoid an imbalance of power through the fluctuating value of currency).

In other words, did art avoid emulating reality because the premise of reality is fundamentally flawed?
And it's weird to call a unit "human sized" when there are different versions of it.

A US gallon is 3.785 litres. A UK gallon is 4.546 litres.

Which if these is more human-sized?
Just the Mozilla CA list has more than a hundred CAs ... https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...

And you can install your trust root if you want, for example I can't find any Russian ones in that list, so probably the Russian government uses internal ones. (Their tax authority interestingly uses Sectigo a CA from the UK.)
I still get the feeling there's still a lot to discover about this disease.

And some will quibble over the precise definitions of "vast" and "low" in that statement.
Forget visual - DIY (semi-)autonomous drones are doable today and could be pretty scary too. 4G may not be good enough for a human pilot flying FPV but it’s likely more than enough for a drone with GPS running Ardupilot to hone in on a target tagged with a planted transmitter or bugged phone.
As the article said, deposits are just IOUs. You can definitively have IOUs denominated in BTC.

The number of Bitcoins in the ledger/blockchain would not increase, but if you asked everyone how many Bitcoins they owned and summed it all, it would have increased.

To use the standard terms, the hard limit on the number of BTC in the ledger/blockchain is M1. You can have an increase in M2/M3 without an increase in M1.
Only the main twitch site seems to be using fastly, the streams are powered by AWS' infrastructure as far as I can tell, which would be expected, seeing as how Amazon owns Twitch.
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> Instead, metric hectares and metric dunams were adapted to be metric

Ares (and therefore hectares) aren't part of the SI system, but they are original metric units -- an are is 10m×10m, hect- is the prefix meaning 100×.

The metric angular unit is a gradian. I've heard of it, as I read the whole manual when I first had a scientific calculator, age 11-ish, but I've never worked in a field where it's used.
I've tried 4 or 5 times over the last 3 or 5 years to use it on macOS and I've been rewarded with hangs, corruption, kernel panics. For something as critical as a filesystem, it's just not ready.
I wonder if it will be powered by Purism's Phosh (by default) like many other distros already.

"Phosh is current available on 8 different mobile distros that have been ported to the PinePhone, and Phosh is the preferred DE on 7 of those 8."

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-ph...

The list of those distros is in the link.
Thanks in this case I am trying to understand what is meant by “moving through spacetime”
You have control. You can turn off SIP and mount the root partition as read write, then empty out that folder. And modify whatever other system files you like.
I haven't even read it yet but this website is exactly what I'd expect to see all sites like, customisable to your taste (and even needs, for visually impaired). And this is the first web page I've ever seen that does that since... the web began I guess.
"NOT at risk" is a bold overstatement. We can debate how much risk but it's dishonest to say "no risk"
This could work very well when teaching programming.
Ten is not, which was the point.

Eggs are also sold in boxes of 6 or 10 in Denmark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Esperanto would probably have to be 10X better than existing languages in some sense to be a viable replacement.
Someone Rustier than I am, what's the story with this enum solution when I want to add a _new_ star later? Can one implement this in a way that respects the open-closed principle?