skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, even in rural parts of the country orders placed by 4-6pm still arrive next day[0]. This saves calendar days on projects; its often not till 4 or 5 that the full list of missing fittings/parts/tools comes together.

[0]Sometimes you need to spring for air shipping if you are in the sticks.
So that middlemen can’t spy on which part of the blog you’re visiting / alter the content of the blog / inject ads. There’s also all sorts of vulnerabilities that crop up if you use HTTP and HTTPS on the same site.

All of this was present in the 90s and early 2000s so not really theoretical attacks.
> I suspected my question was similar - I noticed these two glaring flaws, but there are likely other, less obvious factors that contribute to the TKP design. So here are my speculations.

I love that the author acknowledges Chesterton's Fence.
Ok, but if we're being honest, you can make that sort of claim about anything and it's equally as unhelpful. Things can have value even if you can't perfectly define a metric, and even if others might use different metrics.

The author explained why they think it's great, so rather than waving your hands and denying that greatness could ever be defined, what about a constructive approach? Engage with the elements the author identified. Criticize specific ones, or suggest others. Say something you actually believe!
> Lack of HTTPS on the author's site also adds a nice subtle flavour to the blogpost.

If you're not doing anything requiring security, you don't need HTTPS, IMHO.

> POP should really be considered legacy

I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly.

Similarly, I'll let the wisdom of "Teh Internetz" to decide whether JMAP is worthy of the effort to replace IMAP. Having a IETF RFC is a good start, but let's see...
Agree, FAA & Pharma are good examples.

That said, keyword everyone seems to be missing is “personal” — specifically from:

>> By context, I mean professional, personal, etc.

Lots of professional examples exist; consumer reports would likely be a personal example, even throughly researched medical decisions, but not aware of any culture, even small group of people of significant size, that try to base choices on science; or at the very least identify which choices are not being made using science.

Basically, I mean a culture most likely that lives and works together, though at the very least all practice science based choices all the time.
This thread is mostly making large conclusions from limited study at google. Lots of it isn't really that true.

And he makes it quite clear with 'Not interest in discussion'. His mind is made up from when he was at google and that's it.

The industry isn't the same as it was then and it was mostly economical that google didn't do the project.

The ecological isn't really bad, its mostly that rocket launches produce CO2, but for a global infrastructure project it isn't actually that much. Everything else isn't really that relevant.
Yeah, exactly!

Imagine of instead of typing all that negative conspiracy theory rubbish on HN, you were outside intermingling at your local sun temple.
10% is very believable. 20% isn’t implausible, e.g. Cambridge to London is £6k which would be about 20% of your net income if you were employed earning £40k (and putting nothing into salary sacrifice for pension).

Plenty of young people live in London on that sort of income but it’s obviously more difficult to make it work if you want to live alone or with more space for eg a family and I guess this is a big reason for people wanting to live outside the city. Though Cambridge is a slightly weird option there: the town is expensive and so are the tickets.
> Almost everything is next-day delivery,

Could it be that you live next to one of their warehouses?

On the other hand, Amazon delays orders on purposes if you aren't a Prime member.
In my area it's fairly common to say, for example, "X happens every Thursday. Do you want to go this Thursday or next Thursday?" which is equivalent to +3 versus +10.
Ask HN: What Is Readable Code?
“DRY code is readable” “no WET code is readable” “Go is readable” “no Go is verbose”

What makes code readable? I feel like this word is borderline synonymous with “I like this thing”. We all know code is read more than written, so readability matters, but does anyone actually know what makes it easier to read and understand?
I still have a 90s LaserJet printer, back from when they were made like tanks. The college I went to got rid of a bunch of them in the late 2000s, so I ended up pulling the toner cartridges out of the discard pile. I haven't bought toner since 2005 (?), and I have three more cartridges to go. The cartridges also include the drum, so there's no separate drum to fail / replace.

It's a parallel printer, so it's connected over the network with a JetDirect. Not sure what the story for using it on Windows / Mac would be, but cups and sane support it like a charm.

It's also been upgraded to a whopping 10MB of memory, and has a built-in scanner that sees relatively much more frequent use (weekly scanning - I print a few times a year).

Unless the printer mechanically fails, I'm set for awhile.
2270DW. We print a few hundred pages a year and the cartridge has a page yield of 2,600 @ 5% Coverage
Apple is using ARMv8 which doesn’t have much in common with older ARMs past the name.

Also, Apple didn’t just fund and design a good implementation, ARMv8 was created for the project in the first place.
No it hasn't. Your link even points out that Jan and Feb were added to a 10 month calendar starting with March. Moreover, various cultures notionally observing the Julian calendar have assigned varying dates to the start of the year throughout history.
The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor’s hidden secrets
"At least your calendar doesn't get reset every time a comet flies past the sky" or something
I realized a few things

First is that sometimes event happens that just suck, and your life will suck until you can get away from that situation for a while e.g. a loved one dies, life sucks for a while. The only option is to embrace the situation and bear it with whatever grace you can muster.

Second is that a life that is stably worth living is one with multiple pillars of support. Mine are family, friends, hiking, reading, and my career. Because I have so many sources of joy and comfort, some of these can fall through (e.g. It's ok if I don't see friends for a few weeks) and life is still worth living. Learn to build and sustain these pillars in your life.

Third, in support of the second point, a life worth living requires a bare minimum of resources. Figure out what that is for you, figure out a plan that will give you that minimum, then execute.

Fourth, "a life worth living" may not always be happy, but might instead be "fulfilling". To the second and third points, setting yourself a goal and making concrete steps is something I and many others find fulfilling. Not realizing this till later in life is one of my bigger regrets.

Best of luck.
Many people going to read this thread and think "yes, everything is completely backwards and nonsensical, I hate all forms of historical traditions and reasoning"

I'm also making a comical absurdity just fyi. Do people like this exist? I don't know
Lol, I just got back from there a few minutes ago!
Curation and variety would top my list of important features.
I'd have suggested illicit piggy backing the SMS broadcast SS7 signal channel, like the original WhatsApp did.
ahk is a lot easier than any alternatives for a lot of Windows stuff like window management.

I use ahk scripts to arrange my windows for me and some other simple hotkey things. Wouldn't use it for "real" programming stuff though.
? That's their only comment on the entire page.
Yeah, but typically the difference is that you can't see IMAP as a backup. Whereas with POP3 (and not having your client set up to automatically delete emails on the server) you can.

With IMAP, when an email gets deleted by some client, other clients will also delete their local copies of that email. That won't happen with POP3.

But I haven't read either of the two protocols, so I'm not sure whether that's something required by the protocol or just a common behavior of clients.
When I started signing PDF documents with a graphic tablet instead of printing, signing and scanning them each time.
Biblical books are biased to assert Jesus existed as they describe him. There are no neutral historical records to prove he specifically existed. Besides, your “historical documents” contain competing narratives of events with each other, supernatural magic, and exist as part of a handpicked religious narrative that left other books out at that.
Do you have a source I could read about girls greatly outperforming boys in Maths at school? I did think girls outperform boys. But that was across almost the whole board and the effect wasn't what I would call great.
digikey, jameco, mcmaster, ingram...

most of these online catalog parts houses have excellently functional websites.

but like, even back in the day distribution warehouses had excellent terminal based inventory search and ordering interfaces over packet switched networks.

anyone remember datanet?
You should explain such a strong assertion about Moody's.
I feel like I need to specify that the Dutch sometimes coloquially also use pounds and ounces, but Dutch pounds are exactly 500 grams and Dutch ounces 100 grams.
This one isn't intended for cars, but apparently is powerful enough to be able to recharge one, and popular youtuber Bitluni modified it to do just that.

https://www.anker.com/eu-en/products/a1770

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE447r1mFXM
IBM i (iSeries, AS/400s) are considered "midrange" computers. Indeed the author is a bit wrong on this considering IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system".
Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?
Every. Single. Calendar.

If you’re in Ontario, you’ll rarely see a paper calendar that isn’t SMTWTFS
> I fear there is no strength behind any pendulum swing back to architectural simplicity, appreciation of the available capacity of hardware and how to use it, and local-first.

The reason why there is no strength is that "cloud" seems to be the only way to monetize software.
Ask HN: How can I clone myself using ML?
What beginner-friendly tools and models can I use to create a backup of my voice (text 2 speech and the like), appearance (video in real time) etc?
Wait, what?

What about we start by not destructing our planet? "No no but look: we destroyed most life on a whole planet, but it will be different in a spaceship: there we will live happily in peace forever, without any problem we can't handle (because we destroyed them with our habitat)"
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There was an armed transition to a different government decades ago, it's what installed the Islamic government.
I interviewed at a startup once in Canada. They offered 40K per year (Canadian) and asked late working hours right in the interview process. No thanks...
To be clear, I'm not denying that it was the first month at some point. It wasn't when Caesar designed his calendar, and we don't have a record of it changing. I refer to it as a legend not to indicate that it isn't true but to indicate that the only sources we have are referring to it as changing sometime in the distant past.
>This 5x number is nonsense.

Sadly it doesnt surprise me that youre surprised. You ought to check lazard for a full LCOE comparison. I didnt just make it up.

>France had advanced reactors in the 90s and guess what, instead of building them they were killed in the endless attempted by some forces (usually greens and left) to prevent nuclear from happening.

The greens never had enough political power to do that. Cost was the only reason France's nuclear industry struggled. It's the same reason it was just nationalized.

The nuclear lobby does share the oil industry's utter disdain both for the environment and environmentalists though, something it has apparently passed on to some of its more enthusiastic supporters.

It is so very, very obvious how much they hate the Germans with a for proving nuclear power doesnt need to be part of any green transition, for instance. This why certain groups will never shut up about the "environmental damage" done by Germany shutting down just two nuclear plants and never even mention Poland being 80% coal fired.

>Had Germany in 2000 simply started to build as many reactors as possible

Then theyd have run out of money. It's a good thing they didnt choose the 5x more expensive, slightly more dangerous and slower option. Unlike the nuclear industry they gave half a damn about global warming.

Maybe if Poland did the same thing they wouldnt be 80% coal powered.
Yes its amazing that a company that is deploying more infrastructure every week thinks that the capacity of their infrastructure will go up. Crazy that they think that.
When a kingpin breaks it's almost always complete mechanical failure, e.g. it snaps in half one way or another. In addition, it's usually not possible to foresee it happening by visual inspection, the wear and tear is internal.
We also have "bookends" which go on both sides of the books they support. That's kinda how I see "weekends".
Gnu ask does support them.
MacOS cli userland is less capable by default.
I feel like they missed an opportunity to get into date formats (big-endian vs little-endian vs American middle-endian)
> lower investment rates, spend less on R&D, have an ultra-risk averse culture

Why do those make it worse? Lower investment rates means less money to lose, R&D is often trimmed first, and investment should go to lower risk in this kind of environment. And costs shouldn't be much higher than USA.

I think the problem is actually the opposite. People say the US is willing to take risks which is why their tech and startup scene is so good. Among the complaints about all other countries trying to work out how to become the "next silicon valley", near the top is almost universally "risk adverse". I think that's backwards though, investments in Canada and other such places in tech startup are very high risk and speculative, because people are just closing their eyes and praying that these fanciful predictions about being the next silicon valley are true and they hit it big, rather than being based on any real evidence or logic.

True it's often governments engaging in this reckless risky spending, which seems to make it appear to be "low risk" to other investors. That doesn't make it so though.
Garmin's entire line-up is pretty great. They focus on things that matter: honest GPS measurements and battery life being at the top of the list. I really like some of the new Tactix 7 features, like the ability to remember the route but forget the geo coordinates.
A few decades ago when multiple high-res monitors became affordable. (However, partner is addicted to printing important documents, so we have one.)

Before that was fine to print at the print shop for a while until I learned copiers and printers are keeping internal copies of files and scans that are not deleted. Very few folks are aware of this, but the world keeps on spinning somehow.

So I've been using our home printer here and there. But it is hooked up to wifi, and who knows what it is doing on the internet besides checking for new firmware. I have no way of knowing. You can't trust any electronics and companies any longer to respect privacy. So I'd like to get rid of it in the long run.

Wonder if the wifi router supports disabling wan access for certain devices? I'll have to look.
It’s overpriced. I rather order from Misumi or Accu.
> inject ads.

If you believe that your ISP or a middleman can't inject ads without breaking the S in HTTPS, I have a bridge to sell you.

They can just push the content into a frame and inject the content outside that frame. I encountered this more than once.
Again, more wrong. Zone 2 HR training induces a different physical response to zone 4. This is proven and measured. Zone 2 training increases mitochondrial function and burns fat. Zone 4 causes glycolysis and so on. These HR zones, reflective of effort, even exercise fast vs slow twitch muscle fibers differently.[1]

Having a device to help you stay in the right Zone is very valuable for effective training.

Large mirrors are in gyms to help with form when using equipment.

[1] https://youtu.be/-6PDBVRkCKc
Plenty of people, including the author and me, don't carry a phone any more, just a watch. Anyway the watch really needs its own fix as the phone will be displaced from the watch and have a different orientation even if you have it close by.
> From a Christian point of view, it would make sense that Sunday is the last day of the week, as it is the official day of rest.

Depends on the Christian. If you mean the Puritans, from whom present-day prescriptions (such as no or limited alcohol sales on Sunday) derive, you may be on to something. If you mean the Sabbatarians, no doubt they have an explanation, but I don't know it. If you mean a Seventh-Day Adventist, you'd be wrong, because they still hold to Saturday as the seventh-day and the sabbath. If you mean a Catholic or one from another denomination, the Catholic catechism teaches that Sunday is the fulfillment of the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath, and most other denominations understand similarly.
These are some things that have helped me:

Focusing on myself and what I can control. Focusing on improving my physical wellness, in whatever ways I can---we are more than our minds. Focusing on being a good friend to myself---not beating myself down with self-criticism.

I've also found great help in a support group---for me it's been Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change" (even though I don't really believe in God), developing greater love for myself, and all that. Realizing that whatever I'm struggling with, I'm not alone.

The observation that, given time, things can get better.

The observation that getting involved in any positive endeavor, whether my own work, or collaborations with others, helps me feel better about life. That working toward any worthwhile goal, no matter how small, be it as simple as cleaning my own counter, can put fresh wind in my sails.

The observation that people grow, and change, that it takes all kinds, that feelings of overwhelming crisis are important feelings, but not facts. That people have bounced back from terrible life disasters, and gone on to do amazing things. That everybody, even those we most admire, has an "annus horribilis" or two.

Tackling my despairing thoughts using techniques of cognitive behavior therapy. Realizing that even if I can't prove that everything will be okay, it is far, far better to live with the hope that overall, things will work out. Letting myself believe that I am a good enough person. Letting the pursuit of perfection drive me, but not letting it drive me into the ground.

Establishing positive routines.

Learning more about other people and how they've faced life---perhaps I can change my approach?

Reading less news; refusing to doomscroll. Reading things of substance instead. Allowing myself to establish a psychological boundary between the real horrors that happen in a world of 7 billion people, and my own life and the lives of the people I'm close to. EDIT: I actually explicitly limit my news consumption to a finite amount of time each week, using the LeechBlock browser extension. And yes, that includes Hacker News!

Getting a pet.

Meditating.

Writing poetry, essays, and stories.

Eating the occasional hot pastrami sandwich.

Whatever you are going through, things can get better.

Human beings are incredibly adaptable creatures. It just takes time, and experience.

These are just some things I have found helpful; there's a whole world of other approaches out there. Who knows what you don't know right now, but will one day learn?

Wishing you the best.
"Lack of HTTPS on the author's site also adds a nice subtle flavour to the blogpost."

This blog can be read over TLS using gemini://.

printf 'gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/09/22.1\r\n' \
|openssl s_client -connect 71.19.142.20:1965 -ign_eof

Also

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/...
Garmin for sure. I use a Fenix series but they have the Forerunner too.

I hear Suunto watches are good too. Basically any company that has been in the GPS space for a long time. Garmin has been doing GPS since long before Apple contemplated making phones.
> Shopify, hired like mad during the pandemic boom knowing full-well that they would end up laying off a bunch of those new hires once things got "normal" again.

You should read Tobi's post about what happened. That's not how it was.

https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team#

> Before the pandemic, ecommerce growth had been steady and predictable. Was this surge to be a temporary effect or a new normal? And so, given what we saw, we placed another bet: We bet that the channel mix - the share of dollars that travel through ecommerce rather than physical retail - would permanently leap ahead by 5 or even 10 years.

> It’s now clear that bet didn’t pay off.

> Ultimately, placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong.

Shopify grew like mad, but it wasn't from vanity. If the bet had paid off, it would have meant a permanent step up in company value.

Bias: I'm one of the last developers hired before the stock crashed.
I never stopped. I would like to say, though, that Molly Wood's printer rant is still one of the best things on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj_4KkTWW2o

My daughter, who is 17, also needs to use the printer occasionally for school.
There are certainly countries where a translation of "16 o'clock" or similar is the default way to say that time.

France is one I'm familiar with.

In Britain, people reading out an important time presented in 24h format (like when discussing booking a flight) will usually read it out as fifteen thirty etc.
This entire Twitter thread (and most of the comments here) operate from some really weird assumptions about these aliens. As in, that there’s some agreed upon final answer for how everything from time to historical events should be logged, categorized, and accounted for in your little planet’s revolution around its Star. And that this regime is perfectly predictable without knowing anything about the life forms on the planet you’re observing.

Do people here really think this is reasonable, or realistic?
I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it.

For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the pages together to get a better feel for the document.

Side note: why can't I get rid of the idea of pages in Word? Just let me type on an infinite white space. When things (tables, images, diagrams, paragraphs) get split over two "pages" it makes no sense. 99.9% of documents don't get printed.
When you want to know how your friend spent the previous Saturday and Sunday, do you ask:

"How was your weekend?"

Or do you ask:

"How were your weekends?"
Second this, his Apple Watch Ultra review is amazingly detailed (like all his reviews), opinionated, and he does his best to participate in the comments.
Thanks dapick! I would love to learn more about what you like about it. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - ali@usevenice.com or you can join us on Slack
For some reason in the War Games movie the simulation shows that then they start nuking every country, even the remote ones. Is that more realistic or just an exaggeration for the movie? [Hi from on of the remote countries!]