skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you seeing "an aesthetic from a bygone era" in the linked page? Are you really grokking what's going on with the content, or ? Undergirding the brutalist claim is its quine-ness. Like buildings in the brutalist tradition that "showcase the bare building materials and structural elements"[1], the content of the page reveals its structure. In fact, no part comprising its structure or building materials (such as they are) is left unexposed. It displays everything that is essential and displays nothing that is inessential.

It would be one thing to say that this sort of thing—i.e., taking it to its (brutal) extreme—is overkill and that that's what you find unappealing about it. To call it "the opposite of brutalism", on the other hand, is silly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brutalist_archite...
An SM-2 and an AIM-9 have a two order of magnitude difference in kinetic energy. It's not even close. The SM-2 is 10x heavier and would impact such a target at relative velocity of Mach 2+, whereas a Sidewinder will often impact at only a few hundred kilometers an hour.

At the same time, a 747 and a MiG are two completely different vehicles.

An SM-2 has a solid chance of sinking a ship - and was seriously investigated for that application. A direct hit on a 747 is game over. It's going to go clean through, and if it's into the fuselage, cut it in two.
What have you done a chargeback for with Google? There's stories of folks doing a chargeback and then having their account closed afterwards meaning you lose Gmail etc.
It’s bad right now. In August only 57% of German long distance trains arrived less than 6 minutes behind schedule. 23% had more than 16 minutes delay. IIRC that’s not even counting canceled stops.
I can't decide which is worse, undiscoverable software or software that always changes its behavior from what you just learned.
The bigger the problems you have to handle at scale the more annoying are small, fully unnecessary inconsistencies in the peaces which compose the system in which your problems exist.

Big things have failed due to small overlooked inconsistencies in handling date times.
> It is debated by people like Richard Carrier

Yes, but there’s little debate amongst scholars that aren’t atheist activists. For instance, it’s extremely difficult to explain the historical facts of the early Christian movement without a historical Jesus due to those events being so recent and broadly falsifiable via living memory let alone records extant at the time and there being no evidence of the Romans using a lack of historical evidence for Jesus as an argument against Christianity.
And economic pressure means nothing to a theocracy that governs over a poor population. That is in fact their bread and butter.

Look no further than Afghanistan to see how resilient they can be. They even withstood decades of occupation.

Hard power alone wouldn't have worked and who knows whether soft power could have worked either since there were so many saboteurs both internal and external like Saudis/Israeli lobbies killing the project in its infancy.
> May be the author got tired (or whatever he took started to wear off)

Reading through to the last bits I was foreseeing the launch of a specific space faring vehicle except it would have failed in some way because of non-metric units (purposefully not saying of which kind) thus closing by leaving a loose thread up another level of insanity.
Ah, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant the government would be pressuring Boeing to show that the CIA covered up the real results of the investigation.
Did you read the article? It‘s based on privacy pass protocol, and Apple is just the first major vendor to support them on OS level.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-auth-...
I think if a shot a gun down the street intending to hit a rabbit and shot my neighbor instead I would be charged with something more than mere negligence.
I had a hell of a time trying to find a pill planner that didn't start on Sunday. I was ready to 3D print one when I found one that's circular.
Few generations is not enough. Having a few generations between large-scale war is how Europe operated in the last 200+ years. Maybe it's just few generations o'clock.

Add to that how Europe absolutely botched both Bosnia and Kosovo and had full-scale wars there. Your arguments about world peace are bogus. Europe is encircled in a ring of fire made from ex-USSR, Middle East and Maghreb. All the wars in the world happen around Europe specifically. Maybe it's time to ask why.

As you can see now, not all of Ukraine wants to align itself with America/NATO.
In general, sanctions are notoriously complicated ( sometimes with seemingly -- or actually -- contradictory notes ). And just to complicate it even further, it uses a system of waivers ( licenses ), which allow you to ask OFAC to engage in some ( usually explicitly listed ) of the otherwise prohibited activity. Due to their size and reach, it is not unlikely that both entities secured such a license.

Naturally, there is a compliance cost that they incur as a result, but I am sure there is an interest in US government to keep those lines of communications open for one reason or another.
We need better news outlets than Wired to cover stuff like this. Frankly, after the last few years I don't trust a word they say about freedom of speech on the Internet. I don't have any reliable knowledge about Iran, so there is no easy way for me to double-check anything without spending hundreds of hours on research, and even then the results will be uncertain. We live in a kind of dark age of news media, while simultaneously suffering from information overflow.
It makes typing reeaaaally troublesome!
I came up with a cute algorithm for arbitrary division with repeated shifts when working on one of my earlier projects, which was an emulator for a trinary computer (where obviously dividing by 3 was a thing of import).

A recursive expression is derived like this

1 1 b-a
--- - --- = ----
a b a b

1 1 (b-a) 1
--- = --- + ----- ---
a b b a

If you select 1/b to be nearby a power of your base, this recursive relationship can be expanded until you get adequate precision.

e.g. to express 1/7 in terms of divisions by 8 (i.e. binary shifts by 3)

1 1 1
- = - ( 1 + ---)
7 8 7

1 1 1 1
- = - + --- (1 + ---)
7 8 64 7

1 1 1 1 1
- = - + --- + --- ( 1 + --- )
7 8 64 512 7

So you get v/7 = v>>3 + v>>6 + v>>9 + v>>12 + ... (mind the carry). You sometimes end up needing to do some multiplication too but usually b can be chosen to make the problem a series of trivial operations.

Good expression to be able to derive in case you need to rebuild humanity from a box of nand gates.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Is that still a thing? I never saw any oshiya when I was there 5 years ago.
I think those definitions are somewhat complicated, because micro-computer architectures have gradually adopted features (perhaps in reduced form) from their mini-computer and mainframe counterparts.

So, mainframes have channel controllers, and micro-computers don't. But a modern micro-computer Ethernet driver might run some software on the NIC. It's not really a channel and yet the architectural distinction is blurred.

The distinctions made more sense in the 80's, when the lines were clearer.

But I think the point is valid: the micro-computer architecture has taken over the industry, and some things of value have been lost.
Sounds like you have a code-quality problem more than a language problem. In that situation, switching languages probably would not help you much.

Get a handle on your code quality, and put the language features to work to solve problems for you. Then Go will increasingly look pitifully inadequate.
I mean most people can drive a car but few can build one, and the majority of both groups can drive pretty badly at times.
NASA’s Asteroid-Deflection Mission Spotlights Planetary Defense Effort
That specific base was home to a missile testing center, where dozens were shot.
Me? No. But enough people to solve a worker shortage? Maybe.
> Most of the eyewitnesses were over the horizon from any potential launch site.

Yes, you will still see it ascend over the horizon. Not so for a level plane.

>A tail-heavy half of a 747 could absolutely go vertical for a bit with the entire nose missing.

No, it can't. In the unlikely event that it can keep from stalling, a positive feedback loop from being aerodynamically unstable would send it in a spin. It wouldn't be able to pitch up for more than a few seconds before spinning wildly or disintegrating from aerodynamic forces. Most likely it is already in a state of stall and basically in a fall.

> People largely reported hearing an explosion, not a sonic boom.

Sonic booms sound just like explosions. Here is what a high supersonic to hypersonic missile sounds like : https://youtube.com/shorts/QknqE1IIgHc?feature=share
This is perfectly explainable: Very often, early adaptors of, say, communities are a very different breed of people than people who join the community in a later phase.

So, it is the behaviour to expect that sooner or later these early adaptors that lead to the initial growth of the community won't feel home anymore.

See also Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The "above six foot" rule seems like it's just a round number, but in the US at least:

* height is normally distributed for men.

* The average height of a man is 5'9".

* The standard deviation for men's height is 3".

So six foot is one standard deviation above average. I am sure one or more of the above does not hold for NZ. I just think this is neat, that the commonly stated preference happens to be for one standard deviation above the average.
This is mainly tailored toward the Gregorian/Solar calendar. We don't have leap years in Hijri.
The instinctive jumping over some incomprehensible phenomenon, in the moment, also worked unbelievably well, the one time I did it.

I'd just applied a spray-on anti-slip floor treatment to the very-very-tiny bathroom floor, in a dodgy student apartment (mainly to cover up some ugly stained Linoleum). Then I see this tide of a thin layer of flame rolling rapidly at me, along the floor from the adjacent kitchen. Without thinking, I somehow jumped seemingly backwards, onto the edge of the bathtub, somehow didn't fall, and then jumped forwards, over the tide of flame, and out of the bathroom with the flaming floor treatment. Afterwards, I mentioned that I'd had the thought "fire shouldn't be coming from that direction", and I suspect that I was already jumping before that thought registered.

After the automatic, cat-like jumping, which I didn't know I had in me, I then consciously focused on grabbing kitchen fire extinguisher, and putting out the flames.

(Turns out that a gas from the floor treatment was highly flammable, and apparently heavier than air. Gas had rolled out, into the kitchen, and got to the pilot light beneath the apartment's mini oven/range.)
Just being simple in electronic design doesn't make it RISC, that makes the term useless. The PDP-8 shares a lot of similarities with the 6502, and in one implementation comes in at only 1409 transistors. If you look at what you need to do to write a program in it, it's anything but RISC in concept. A small set of operations is the least useful marker, the ones I gave above are common criteria.
He didn't mention LEAP-SECONDS which are at THE END OF THE YEAR.
Hope the next Alexandria library is named Elbakyan library. She surely deserves. And this time I hope it doesn't catch fire. Fortunately bits are not as flammable as paper. But on the other side they are higher maintenance to last thousands of years.
Those at the top will continue to thrive. The further you are from the apex, the harder you're going to get hit.

From the perspective of those in the valley, the issue isn't current inflation per se. It's that for multiple years running wages haven't kept pace with costs. Over that same time line the income inequality gaps has gotten wider and wider.

It's time for the rest of us to worry less about the economy, and more about the socioeconomic fallout from the bombs The Fed and associated system is dropping.
He was a busy man.
Of course, and you will find cases of opposition to it in eg Tibet; on the other hand the negative aspects of Catholicism might be relatively unknown there.
Tolkien’s Hobbit calendar did just that - which had the good or bad effect of your birthday always being on the same weekday. Which could be annoying.
There is a fundamental contradiction:

- first as an author, want to be read, the more people read your books the better.

- second as a human, you need an income.

Imagine a charity (it could be government taxes as well) paying you proportionally to how much your books are read and providing the books for free to the readers.

What's wrong with that?

You will have more readers and you'll get paid for writing books (according to their popularity).

Do you really want to sell your books? (and get less readers)

Or do you want instead to have as many readers as possible and get paid for that?
You can't blame the shit-seller for making you eat shit, but you can choose not to eat at restaurants that have shit on the menu. I choose not to work with Okta.
Yes, it's called academic publishing.
Makes sense, thanks for explaining. I just use the webui so works for me fine.
Imagine if the imperial foot was one centimeter longer. Then men on dating apps would need to be minimum 188cm (because round number).
The electric field from the cloud is usually not high enough to break down air on its own, but some particles from space can ionize the air enough to start the process.

This counts as an amplifier in the same way that avalanche photodiodes do.
It might actually have been easier. Our current time system is regular enough that you can get away with skipping many irregularities (leap year is pretty much the one that matters). If you were forced to regularly deal with time conversions, you would just accept that different people have different times and you just need to convert.
Car metrics are not “can data”. Even if they arrive over CAN at some point. You are so far removed from “CAN” at that point it isn’t worth mentioning and misleading to do so.
Yeah, collaboration around covid was perhaps a bit easier to force, because no country could do a vaccine on its own (including production, packaging, etc).

But in this case Sweden and Norway probably could do electricity without supplies from the European grid. But they might not want to be as unreliable partners as Russia turned out to be...

If you void contracts and begin backstabbing when things get hard, people won't trust you in the future.
Not sure about India, but China is buying the gas at prices way below market rate, likely at loss - because Russia has no other choice but to give them whatever they want, simply to stay relevant. Which means, the more they sell, the more they lose.
Maybe the profit motive is the reason why you can't find books you genuinely love.
The american weekend is sat-sun. Work week starts on the second day of the week. Because reasons.
All these things have a historical basis. Are we assuming aliens don’t have cultural things from their own history?

> I'm not sure, really.

This right here. All of these things have reasons that made logical sense at the time. The speaker is just ignorant of history.

> so you switch to base-10 at last

At last? Are we assuming the aliens have ten fingers?

> Your months are named, not numbered?

Why would aliens not name things?

> yeah, it's Monday or Sunday.

Or Friday.

The human should explain lunar calendars next.
It's not two divided countries but politicians creating division on purpose and many people falling for it and fighting eachother instead of the politicians.
> A million copies of a 10MB PDF is 10 terabytes. A gigabit internet connection could serve that in 22 hours. Pretty straightforward to do that.

Yes, just so. The parent seemed to be arguing that it was too much to claim that it would take a few hours. I'd definitely call 22 hours at least a few!
Can Lego play the drums? [video]
There are biases depending on the 'side' of US political spectrum a given medium happens to be supporting. In this case, the best you can do is to account for inherent bias and ingest the information accordingly.
Actually, it would be like:

- Why is this so weird?

- Eh, historical reasons. Legacy framework retained due to inertia, don't think too much about it.

- Yeah, makes sense.
or june 30th
> This whole thread is why c++ is..bad. It just leaves me with a sense of hopelessness.

You've tried to force your personal misconceptions as some kind of gotchas that justify you irrational dislike for a programming language, and once each and every misconception you had was dispelled and debunked, your reaction was to double-down on your irrational belief.

This does not flag failures in a language.
Perhaps using a custom domain would be best if you might need that.
Please tell me where to look, I'm currently in the UK and I can't find one available anywhere?
That was my point, if the workweek in US is Monday through Friday, and US weekend is Saturday and Sunday, there's NO REASON WHATSOEVER to call Sunday "the first day of the week"...
Commodore Amiga Unix Implementation (AMIX)
Google would like a word with you, and many others too.
Why? how?
This reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment. Specifically, which leedcode medium problem statement covers this?

To OP, I wish you luck. I would love if my management used this tool so they could see that have multiple people on multiple overlapping projects leads to delays.
> The blocks against WhatsApp also appear to have impacted people outside of Iran. People using Iranian +98 telephone numbers have complained that WhatsApp has been slow to work or not functioning at all. WhatsApp has denied it is doing anything to block Iranian phone numbers.

I doubt that Zuck would help the Iranian govt, which would suggest technical reason or an attack, which makes me curious.

It's likely that +98 numbers outside Iran are connected to those inside that are blocked, but could that cause some bottleneck in whatsapp infra? Or could the Iranian govt be running some ddos style attack on certain phone numbers over whatsapp?
A neat coincidence only. America consists of lots of ethnicities. Some bring that average up and some bring it down. There’s some preference for intra-ethnicity dating.
> Maybe your traditions are blinding you to the fact that male circumcision falls in the same category.

No, they are not. Perhaps this is "oversharing", but I (male) was circumcised when I was 11 years old, and it was my choice - I wasn't circumcised at birth because I had jaundice when I was born. I had "tight foreskin", making it difficult to follow my doctor's instructions to clean under the foreskin when bathing, which is why I opted to undergo circumcision as a pre-teen. The process itself was pretty brutal (took a couple weeks for everything to heal), but in retrospect I'm very glad that I did it, and only wish I could have done it as an infant so I would have no memory of the surgery.

Plus, circumcision has been definitively proven to greatly reduce the chance of HIV transmission from females to males.
Ah, it looks like you're right. A google for "ofac iran instagram" returns:
https://therecord.media/us-treasury-carves-out-iran-sanction...
are you implying that it would have been better if we delayed or never used fossil fuels?
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>>The idea of traveling first class is unheard off for brits.

I mean, that's a weird statement to make. Every time I travel the 1st class is packed, and it's not packed with blog-writing foreign visitors. Also the 1st class upgrade can be very cheap - I've been down to London several times where the upgrade was £40 on the day of the departure. Also Newcastle-Edinburgh on the Azuma LNER train in 1st class can be had for as little as £40-50 total, did this several times too. Hardly an extravagant expense.
> Higher paying than what? Than other places you can get jobs now?

Yes. That's the only metric that matters for most people.
The UK has an explicit policy of not subsidizing commuter trips, only longer trips.
I thought that that in Slavic languages Sunday would be the first day of the week, since the Polish for 'monday' means 'after sunday'.

EDIT: got 'monday' and 'sunday' the wrong way round
A “startup” in Canada is just a dozen guys who stay afloat by chasing $50k government grants full time. It’s very good when these go out of business
Lobsters pulling each other back into the pot.
If you think that people are cancer of planet, you probably dont know how many great unhabited places on Eearth we have, ie in Russia.

Overpopulation is narattion for/from pathological politics we have.
So does this partially vindicate the '80s moral panic - D&D is connected to ritualistic killings, it just happened decades earlier and had nothing to do with what the hysteria claimed it was doing?
Is that a quote?
"There's 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds" - except sometimes when there are 25 hours, or 23! Because it's too hard to ask people to change their schedules, so we change the time instead. And of course we don't add or remove those hours at the beginning or end of the day, so we never actually have an hour 25, we just repeat one of the middle hours instead. And then, independently, sometimes there are 61 seconds, or 59. And don't get me started on time zones...
Swiss Back Plan to Work Longer, Lift Vat to Pay for Pensions
Pirate publishers were a thing well before that:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.28173/
Disclaimer: Writing this doesn't mean that I approve or agree with how the world currently works or that this is fair, right or good from moral perspective, it's only a cold analysis.

In current geopolitical climate you would lose a lot more than $70 billion if Russia would win in Ukraine, there is a lot more on stake than Ukraine independence, US debt is financed by the rest of the world. US is world hegemon because of its influence granted by military and economical power. If you lose that status you lose influence, if you lose influence you also lose your country "safe heaven" status for other people money, next USD could lose status of world reserve currency, next your budget deficit is unsustainable anymore, your social contract gets broken, 2008 crisis would be nothing compared to this. Not mentioning that US was not ready to fight Russia and China same time, elimination of Russia from equation through proxy war in Ukraine will allow US to focus on China. Additional benefit to USA is Sweden and Finland joining NATO and strengthening US influence in Europe, making it a lot easier to flip Europe against China (see how NATO joint statement about China changed in Madrid summit in July 2022 compared to stance of leading EU countries before the war). $70 billion is not a high price to show the world that you are not a declining superpower (especially after that Afghanistan retreat and rise of China) and retain your status and influence, if I were a US citizen I would be glad it costs me only $70 billion knowing the alternative.
One more thing ...

Good quality skates have pivot pins whose length is adjustable. I don't know if skateboard trucks generally have this feature.

You tighten and loosen the pressure on the kingpin rubber bushings by shortening and lengthening the kingpin in order to adjust resistance for cornering. When you do that, you also need to be able to adjust the length of the pivot pin. Otherwise, lengthening the kingpin results in a pivot pin that's not resting properly in its cup. You want it just touching, not floating out of the cup or exerting a lot of pressure on the cup.
Well, in HCOL areas, the land costs more than the labor charges.