skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What exactly is the fear of dulled senses? What are you gaining by being a bit sharper on Friday night that drinkers are losing? Is anything actually lost?

If I drink even a drink or two I can definitely tell a difference in my performance the next day. I'm a bit more lethargic, not necessarily as alert, it's harder to get on the treadmill etc. When I was in my 20's it was honestly the same, but I just had more energy/gumption to work against it.

I do drink, but I have to say I've just been getting less and less into it. I gotta admit I still really love expensive beers.

> I would guess the average casual drinker dismisses the person that is worried about "staying sharp" as being uptight or unnecessarily rigid, because as you said, life is short and who really gives a damn about being 100% cognitive all the time?

Dealt with this too - I really don't care about my public image. Anymore, I almost outright refuse to drink at work events... and if the social pressure gets too crappy I just go get some random drink and nurse it at half way for hours. This the only place I've been pressured or discretely judged for not drinking. The only reason I lie by nursing a single drink is because people will assume the worst - that I am/was an alcoholic (this has happened).

I'm just not here to impress, and anyone passing judgement about someone else's lack of alcohol consumption is a loser. Seriously.

One more thought - when it comes to being "100%" - yeah... I find myself wanting to be at my best more and more. I think it's just maturing a bit and realizing time is waning. Even the stuff I do to relax I've noticed is more enhanced by sobriety vs. with alcohol.
If you already have an Apple Watch, I recommend trying WorkOutDoors before looking for another device. It’s a huge step up from the default workout app that I’m still using my Series 3 for everything up to marathons.
Thanks! I would love to learn more about why you think its great. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - ali@usevenice.com or you can join us on Slack
I've seen this when working on a side project involving public transport timetables from Google Transit. A service can run on 26:00 on Sunday, to indicate that the Sunday service is running 2 hours past midnight (i.e. on Monday 02:00).

https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference#stop_ti...
It matters in the astronomer's case (which does use local noon) because that's when they do their work. For the version where .00 is midnight in the local time zone, well... it's how we live our lives! I'd argue the week is more important than the months for the same reason.
I thought it was nicely egalitarian and oecumenical to have the years from oune religion, months from another, and weekdays from a third. Let's give every religion a stake in the calendar system.
Hi, thanks for your message.

Maybe I didn't express myself very well.

If you don't know what a great ecommerce website is, what is has, what it does, does reading a piece where someone says some site is a great e-commerce website influence your opinion? Does it shape your view?

If so, how does previous literature about the subject influenced the writer?

So, a great e-commerce website should be measured by it's form or by it's results?

Why non functional and not great websites thrive?

Would Jeff Bezos be fixated on those pixels because he believed that as long as amazon.com kept growing and selling, the site must therefore working great?

Those are all sincere questions, not rhetorical or trolling.
Others have pointed out things wrong with that doomsday predicting Twitter thread. I wanted to add a couple of things

* Rocket launches are a rounding error on co2 emissions when compared to passenger aircraft

* the worries about Kessler syndrome whilst simultaneously worrying about tonnes of aluminum and rare earth minerals (gasp) due to the short orbital lifetime of the satellites are contradictory.

* Presumably astronomers are more worried about light pollution rather than ecological concerns

On a side note, what is it about people hyping up rare earth materials? The twitter thread tries to make them sound scary. Others try to make them sound harder to find than gold.
As most of us have successfully figured out counting, we can move on to measurement systems that are more convenient when dividing.
It was Amiga 500, and it was either 1988 or 89. Amiga Basic most definitely worked on the A500 (although it's equal chance I used it or Amos).
While their overall point is valid, they seem to be overly tolerant of straw in the examples they knock down. Eg:

> Hale's story misses that the slower pace at large organizations is less about the growing size of the team and more about the growing size and complexity of the codebase and the product.

In a Hale-like model, the growing size and complexity of the codebase and the product are communication and contention costs. Unless you wrote the entire codebase yourself (and probably even if you did), you are communicating and contending with the other authors of that codebase, using the codebase itself as a communication medium. Getting rid of other communication and contention costs provides a constant-factor improvement to a process that is still asymtotically quadratic. (Ie, O(a*N^2+b*N^2+...) is still O(N^2) as long as any of a, b, ... are nonzero.)
I set it up for my home server maybe a year ago. I'm not a web developer or system admin, but I am a highly experienced software engineer with a deep understanding of network protocols. The documentation didn't seem the greatest, basically being, "copy/paste this if you use Apache." My particular configuration was quirkier than the example assumed, and I had to go through a few rounds of troubleshooting. It definitely wasn't trivial.
> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers.

They literally already have far more then that and they have only just started. They don't even have full coverage yet and have only just launched their mobile products and only just started their shipping products.

Airplane and shipping industry isn't even really onboard yet, there is a huge costumer base there.

The military, NASA and many other government organizations, has lots of uses for it as well. And that goes for other nations equivalence of those organizations as well (except maybe military depending on US policy on that).

> “10k satellites that have to be replaced every few years” business

Every generation the sats will get vastly better thus increasing the capacity and/or decreasing the price. At the same time the rocket technology gets vastly better decreasing the price considerably. This first iteration is by far the most expensive one.
well yeah, things have happened, but still far from how it currently is in pretty much every country.

If I do not consent to rules forced upon me, and stop paying protection money, ultimately government goons with guns are gonna come to haul me away.
So far. But it's definitely still possible. Earth's rotation has been speeding up lately. https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/shortest-day-2022
Almost Half of Industrial Robots Are in China
When people complain about "negative performance impact of GC", often they're actually bothered by badly designed languages like Java that force heap-allocation of almost everything.

I think this might have been fixed in latest versions of Java, though, not sure if value types are already in the language or just coming soon.

Aside from that, it's my understanding that GC can be both a blessing and a curse for performance (throughput), that is, an advanced-enough GC implementation should (theoretically?) be faster than manual memory management.
I came across mcmaster.com like 10-15 years ago and I thought its design and experience was amazing. I didn't understand why other sites weren't like this.

Then I talked to regular people (like my friend who builds high-end magic tricks) who happened to use the site and like me wondered why more sites weren't usable like this.

And then after a few years, I saw that people in the comments here and elsewhere thought the same.

And this post is the latest.

I think there's something there.
Yeah, that sounds like a mistake by the tweeter. As far as I know there have always been 12 months, but the start of the year got moved from March to January at some point.
and the 100% mortgage rate hike of the past year
That was always silly wasn't it? A few decades ago I scanned my signature. I place it on a pdf with gimp and output as jpg or png then return.
> If you're not doing anything requiring security, you don't need HTTPS, IMHO.

I disagree, for a lot of reasons. For one thing, I don't want some random WI-FI to know every page I visit, even insecure pages.

I also don't want to leak any information about my browsing habits. Using https everywhere limits the information you leak about how much of your traffic is sensitive.
Their involvement in the 2008 crash certainly didn't win them any admirers. Not sure if gp has something else in mind though.
it was 70% in 2021 not 50%. so you can take my sample and apply the reduce to 20% if you want and get the same outcome: it still sends the signal that they going away from nuclear. any kind of shareholder would vote against investing in the field… dont understand what you dont understand there.
Tom Scott introduced me to the Strid. God I love his content
> As John Gilmore once famously said: "The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it."

Cloudflare is a big reason why this quote isn't true. They proxy "load testing" sites used to ddos people, and then restrict who can access services behind their ddos-resistant proxy. So even if you're VPNing around someone's censorship, in the best case your web browsing will be limited by your ability to solve captchas.
a) is only relevant once, during setup; b) isn't fixed by Oauth; c) is by design, I'd argue.

I support adding 2FA to email in some way, but I heavily dislike using browsers to do so. What's wrong with adding a simple challenge-response protocol for FIDO2/U2F USB drives? Or a TOTP popup if you don't have a physical security key?

This can all be standardised without a browser ever touching the email client. We already have IMAP authentication methods that use signatures (like most 2FA hardware keys use) or challenge/response methods. You can even do client certificate authentication through STARTTLS when lacking a TPM.
The linked help page doesn't make up for what the letter says. The letter is just plainly misleading.

Read it again - they're unambiguously saying that non-Microsoft email programs that rely on SMTP, POP and/or IMAP will "stop functioning when Microsoft chooses to disable these protocols".

That the linked help clarifies a little doesn't mean this is a flatly misleading letter.
It says that later Romans said that they started with the 10-month calendar and that the second king added 2 months, and that at some point those two months migrated to the front.

The context that I did not include in my original comment and should have is that everything from Rome in the time of the kings is considered to be legend. There are likely things that are rooted in fact, and this story has strong evidence for it, but the number and order of months has not changed in recorded Roman history, we only have indications from later Romans that they believed it changed at some point in the past.

My main point was that Caesar did not have February as the last month, he used the same order as his contemporaries and as we do.
Do either of these address the underlying problem that without https there's no guarantee that the blog content hasn't been modified in transit?

Neither Gemini nor the Internet Archive have access to the content through a channel other than the insecure HTTP endpoint, right?
You're rather inaccurate though. Not sure if you're talking about "Ruby for fun", but anyway:
- you wrote it for your own son;
- you're distributing it now on CC BY 4.
So, no, we're not at risk of losing good books from good authors, there are more incentives than just money.
As my AWS account manager back then LOVED to tell me every time we spoke
He did leave her things when he died though, and it sounds like they stayed in touch to some extent until then.
Just read that after seeing your suggestion. It's good! Skipped a lot of the argumentation—the proof is in the pudding, after all—and appreciated the concrete advice about "resources of speech" and intonational units.
> Typically speaking, the left want government rules determined by scientists and experts that maximizes overall freedom, the right want government rules determined by the church that maximizes the freedoms of adherents to that church.

c'mon, do you really think that? It's blatantly the work product of demagoguery.
also, the reason why they're all good is because they're not trying to sell you anything. they're for people who are at work, know what they need, know they have options on where to buy. therefore it's streamlined as much as possible to make life at work easy (which becomes their differentiator, along with easy billing terms and fast shipping), rather than market things to people who aren't even making decisions on what to buy...
I think most of the world does that. I don't believe the claims that almost nobody uses the 12h format. At least not without a very thorough survey of the many ways many cultures use time.
One thing that has always been true is that we always put as much crap as possible while not getting unusable.

Computers got infinitely more powerful, but websites are not faster to load because they are much bigger. QUIC won't change that, it would just allow for more crap.
I'm ~12 miles from one, and they are as fast as amazon
Wonder if this will crush overlevereged REITs
Ads.

"This paragraph is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends! Join the fight hero."

/s
You can pay people to do that and also to pretend it matters.

I took this photo myself the other day. Look at this contrail starting and stopping: https://ibb.co/t2k8fKd
No love for Rock Auto?
As a Persian, I always found the Gregorian calendar weird. In Iran and some other countries, Jalali calendar is used which is much more straightforward:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalali_calendar

The Iranian calendar (also known as Persian calendar or the Jalaali Calendar)
is a solar calendar currently used in Iran and Afghanistan. It is
observation-based, rather than rule-based, beginning each year on the vernal
equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran.

There are 12 months. The first 6 have 31 days and the rest have 30 days, except the last month which is 29 days. Every 4 years, it's a leap year and the last month becomes also 30 days.

It's also precisely set to follow seasons. For example, the first day of Fall is actually the first day of "Mehr" (the 7th month). For some reason, the Gregorian calendar has it on Sep. 22.
Thanks for your hard work and fast reaction. Waiting patiently for the approval from the apple app store :-)
That is not possible. You would get a cert mismatch error.
Maybe it depend on which license/tablet? I have worked with customers with that issue in the past and the option for generic imap has not been there.

Double checked and you are right, it was this issue that I recalled: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-your-other-em...
> On the other hand, Amazon delays orders on purposes if you aren't a Prime member.

Sounds like a conflict of interest if they literally start transit then delay at some point. Like maybe retailers shouldn't be able to own shipping
Garmin user for ages. Forerunner 9 series is my jam but you might want to find what works in your price point along with the need-to-have/want-to-have feature matrix of your choosing. Garmin's UX is stuck in the Symbian era of OS design. So I appreciate the competition that Apple brings to this segment.

Sport gear reviewer DC Rainmaker has a full write up on the good/bad/ugly of the Apple watch for athletes[0]. He also has plenty of other reviews on other brands of sports watches if you want to see what is out there for you.

[0] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/apple-watch-ultra-in-dep...
Amazon has some kind of unlimited thing but whenever I've looked at it, none of the books I want to read are in it.

(I guess like Netflix doesn't have every movie.)
The five day workweek is a fairly new thing (early to mid 20th century); the day numbering thing is much older.
Yeah it's supposed to be non-ionising. Curious claim.
Excuse me while I read about what happened to Tesla's research on my wirelessly charged phone.
Unless you use DNS over HTTPS, all the effort there is moot. Even then, a flow server can trace all the point to point IP traffic passing over it. Yes, it limits the obtained data a lot (no hostnames to begin with), but a proper traffic analyzer is rarely blinded completely by HTTPS.
I saw a series of photos with descriptions published by the AP. Each photo was labeled "sourced from a person with no affiliation with the AP" before its caption. They are trying hard not to make their reporters targets.

Having read this I now presume they were sourced from 1500tasvir.
Official updates wouldn't matter if you were running NetBSD on it.
Occult Languages and Alphabets
There's a reason it's called a scream test.

You take out the fence, then watch closely for the disaster. Likely the fence was unnecessary because most fences are built to accomodate for somebody's personal tastes and aesthetics
https://twitter.com/thepaulofhaynes/status/15729051635848355...

Some good side-by-side images.
I've never emailed them but I have called them on a few occasions. Somehow they pick up before it even rings once. And it's a real person, not a phone tree. Pretty remarkable.
These people are crazy. A Right wing woman who is also a mom is the best of both worlds.

That is personal responsibility domestically, no-nonsense of any kind plus avoiding getting screwed in Brussels without any cult of personality and war waging.
For most modern blog hosts, it's a pushbutton solution or automatic.

For self-hosted, it's table-stakes knowledge. Failure to do it implies the site admin knows so little about modern security that their access logs are probably only thinly secured. It's an "admin smell," if you will.
OS/400 was developed alongside the AS/400. IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system".

Source: me, two decades doing IBM sysprog on AS/400s and z/OS.
The same people who'd claim http is a bad look would also tell you to pipe curl to bash with sudo.
Mcmaster is what the web is supposed to be like.
They would know the IP address and host name from SNI, but they wouldn't know which articles on the blog I read.
i just want to write a rust binding to the existing j40 and learn about its implementation while I am at it (always has been fascinated by file formats)
I believe that it is in spirit of this website that you are encouraged to explain poorness of a joke, if you find it poor. After all, if it inspires curiosity what's the issue?
Because the only thing preventing you from living anywhere is the Internet connection? What abouy access to water, food, infrastructure, social life?
A moon base would make the probes mission a lot faster to develop and launch, in the long run.
I have not. Working from home meant I needed a printer at home. Especially for official documents needed for travel.
Economic sanctions mostly hurt the population and make the population less able to overthrow the government. Economic sanctions are known to strengthen the hardline elements. Its the hardline conservatives who can't deal with open economy.

Your arguments go against the research on this topic I have seen.
Meh, _capitalism_ is like the peter principle. They get large enough till they're incompetent.

Adobe, Oracle are just the best examples
Maybe Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December were the seventh, eight, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months of the year through all of the “recorded Roman history”. But it seems well accepted that they were once the fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth and tenth months of the year.
Plenty of dedicated shipping companies do exactly the same thing (if you don't pay for next day then they'll deliberately delay it so it takes 5 days or whatever you paid for), it's got nothing to do with being owned by a retailer or not.
Why would we assume that alien visitors don't also have convuluted time measurement systems? It's seems likely any alien civilization would have followed a similar development trajectory as humans and would therefore also retain some anachronistic practices well into technological advancement.
It does increase the cost of tech support.
This person pretty much sums up my thoughts. I'll let him speak for me (although my position is probably a bit more moderate).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzM1TO2pb4

He's also English while I'm not.
Also small. Story notes he carried a pistol in each pocket.

Also her argument abt bow and arrow being a challenge could extend to a small caliber pistol.
Tortoise Text-to-Speech
I live in France, and I feel sad every time I have to buy a screw.
because the people ordering bar stock or whatever know what they need, and it's very specific, and they cannot be upsold

if you want to make a sale all you can do is give them what they want

most stores have to convince the user that they want something, and that could be anything, and it doesn't much matter what it is.
>gmail account has a deadman’s switch

How do you do this?
DC Rainmaker: Apple Watch Ultra In-Depth Review
Comcast injects data into plain http pages, altering them when they see fit (they put in a datacap warning into the text of the page).
Without the paywall: https://archive.ph/20220925200441/https://www.economist.com/...
The overall connection will drop to "mixed status", but the inner frame will still be HTTPS.

My ISP used to do that when they started deploying DPI hardware as a technology demo. They'll hijack your traffic and inject full ads w/o redirection or added (bill) warning banners or ads sporadically to retrieved pages.

My mobile carrier sometimes injects SMS & Notifications arriving to my modem if they find the chance w/o disturbing the connection too much.

So, having a HTTPS connection doesn't make it tamper resistant, but tamper evident, at most.
10 years ago. I’m in Japan and I go to the nearest convenience store, transfer the pdf document to the printer and get a clean print. I only use the printer for two pages a month to post the document, stamped with my company hanko, to a traditional Japanese big company.

The only time that I regret not having a printer is when it is pouring with rain on print day.

Why? Because dried up ink was a rip off.
What about the storage devices (the S in NAS)? My external HDD (just for reference) has an AC adaptor that outputs 12V at 1.5A, so that's another 18W. And most people who care enough about storage to have a NAS have multiple disks...

I'm not saying it isn't under 40W - as you note, if it's idling properly, it's pretty easy to have a NAS including disks under 10W idle. But the electricity cost is not negligible when you are running something 24/7. Even 10W24hr30day is 7.2kWh per month, and most places cant count on 8c/kWh electricity anymore.

> My RPi 4b runs on a 18W power supply, which would put it at 432Wh per day

Which would be 13 kWh per month. If we're comparing to monthly fees for cloud storage, it's important to look at the same time frame.
Good times. I used Speedscript as a pro tech writer for a few years, connected to a Brother typewriter with a parallel port interface dongle thing. Typed it in myself.