skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NonStop?

Originally from Tandem, then bought by .. Compaq? And then HP, now HPE.

Not a mainframe, but designed and built for 100% uptime. They used to do demos where you could open the cabinet and pull out boards at random, and it'd just keep going.

It migrated from custom hardware, to Itanium, to x86-64. It's a custom OS, but has a Unix-like layer on top for ease of porting stuff.
The point of comical absurdities like this is precisely that they appear comical or absurd if you don’t know the reasons for them being the way they are. That doesn’t mean there are no reasons, it’s just that those reasons aren’t necessary or even relevant to appreciating the apparent absurdity.
Haha the PMs at their pension funds on the other hand… I have heard it gets boring when everyone in a local startup ecosystem is chasing govt grants.
As Schemes go Chicken is one of the most practical ones and easiest or straightforward to get into, IMHO! Would love to see it grow more widely adaptation.
Dealing with calendars can be pretty difficult. Since I recently wrote a script in Lua to be my personal assistant, processing calendars, todo lists, mailing lists, etc., here’s a Lua form of the code to calculate the day of week. This is accurate for any Georgian date:

-- Calculate the day of the week
-- Input: year, month, day (e.g. 2022,9,16)
-- Output: day of week (0 = Sunday, 6 = Saturday)
function dayOfWeek(year, month, day)
-- Tomohiko Sakamoto algorithm
local monthX = {0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4}
if month < 3 then year = year - 1 end
local yearX = (year + math.floor(year / 4) - math.floor(year / 100) +
math.floor(year / 400))
local out = yearX + monthX[month] + day
out = out % 7
return out
end
I know this doesn't apply to all Canadian startups, but this is definitely a thing too.
In Polish, Sunday is „niedziela”, and Monday is also „poniedziałek”, so it actually makes more sense than in Russian :) I suspect “niedziela” («неделя») was the original, proto-Slavic word for the day of the week, as some variations of it are used for I think all Slavic languages except Russian, who at some point decided to rename it to celebrate Resurrection.
This would make for fantastic radio drama. For some reason I can imagine the voice of John Cleese as either the Alien or the Human.
Government is a microcosm of the economy. Like we're not want for applicants for cushy middle management and above government jobs. We can't find the bus drivers, teachers,cops, and so on that get (relative) shit wages for crap jobs.
To put it more simply - money tends to end up with people who earn/acquire it faster than they spend it.

It’s pretty obvious when you think about it.
I can’t speak for parent but I’ve been headhunted by crypto companies a lot and my feeling is the same.

For me it’s as simple as: I will never work for a company where I cannot immediately and concretely understand the value proposition.

Crypto people can frame this as me not being competent if that’s what they need. But I think I’m reasonably smart and usually it just sounds like a fraud.
Weeks are always displayed as beginning on Sunday in the US (I get confused and annoyed when a calendar app is improperly localized for en_US and shows weeks as starting on Monday).

Separately, we call Saturday and Sunday “the weekend”. Yes, these two facts are logically inconsistent, but we live with it and I have never observed it causing any difficulty in practice.
What's the best gps exercise watch you've used?
I generally agree but:

> Anyway, today there are only 3 kinds of secondary storage worth caring about: flash (sector granularity, but no seeks), cloud (like S3), and archive (like Glacier).

"cloud" and "archive" are not storage devices, they are network architecture, and a service. There is a whole lot to write about that, but this is not on the same layer.

"The cloud" uses flash memory and spinning rust, and they need to care about how to get the best performance out of the hardware they use. Maybe there is not much left to discover, and maybe fewer people need to know about that, but it still matters. Same thing for "archive", with less flash and more tape.
Are you suggesting that the men were known as Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar? Because that's wrong[0]. Augustus used this name and it became a title for roman Emperors, in reference to Julius Caesar. If people are talking about Caesar, they mean Julius Caesar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus#Name
I bet that’s correct if you include accidental shooting - the .22 LR is by far the most common ammunition. And they’re used sometimes to put down animals.

But aside from execution style killings they’re probably not that common, especially among the common criminals.
I thought about this, but both the macOS Awk and GNU Awk support regexps as field separators.
A fun bit of trivia is that it wasn't until the middle of the 18th century that it became standard in Europe to start the new year on January 1. Up until that point many regions used March 25 as the date of the New Year. So, for example the day March 24, 1715 would have been followed by March 25, 1716.

March 25 was the Feast of the Annunciation whereas January 1 was the Feast of the Circumcision, so the two dating methods were called Annunciation Style and Circumcision Style.

Obviously this created some ambiguity since the Circumcision Style date March 24, 1716 would be rendered March 24, 1715 when written Annunciation Style. Around the time of the transition to Annunciation Style dating in Britain you actually see people writing both dates together to avoid confusion, usually with the Circumcision Style date below the Annunciation Style date. (You can see an example here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Memorial...)
> Apple conceded to a flaw in the design and settled a class action lawsuit, but apparently a few are still needy enough to require Apple be punished forever.

So, in summary: they fucked up and had a really stupid response, right? I'm failing to see what part of that isn't fair.

> What more would you like them to do?

Nothing. It's just funny. They should probably avoid being ridiculous if they don't want memes about them to exist?
I don't know how many fingers you have, but decimal system makes more sense to me...
In base 10, the times tables for 2 and 5 are easy because they divide 10. If I want 2*7, I know 7/5 is 1 remainder 2 so it's 10+2*2=14. As for 5x7, I know 7/2 is 3 remainder 1 so it's 30+1*5=35.

In base 12, there are similarly easy rules for 2, 3, 4, and 6. Doesn't seem like that great of a trade off but it could be beneficial. That also just comes down to 12 being a "superior highly composite number".

If I personally was allowed to rewrite our number system, I think I'd choose a base that is either a superior highly composite number or a power of 2. So something in the set [2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 32, 60, 64...]. I doubt 10 would even cross my mind as an option if I didn't have 10 fingers.
Not-Doing can be a false alias: the week is nedelya and ponedelnik may thus mean "one going with the week*, i.e. starting it.

Altough I'm not sure since the sibling proto-slavic explanation makes much sense. Fun fact: slavic languages split off in medieval times when the calendar and the week were already thorougly taken care of.
My issue with Nix-lang is that it's somewhere between declarative and uhm…not declarative?

Certain sections of nix files have special meaning (config), certain functions only work in those sections. Nice features like `//` for merging dicts goes out of the window as soon as you have nested dict, which is nearly every time.

It's poorly documented, “standard library” documentation is even worse. It's impossible to navigate because everything is mashed together in `nixpkgs`. Often show no examples on how to use a function and just say `it takes blahblah`, but what is blahblah?
I find it impressive that people use CAT to justify a fatalistic attitude.

You can compare the predictions year by year and see the "current policies" values drop every year, from "3.1-3.7" in 2017 to "2.5-2.9" in 2021. Do those also depend on DAC?

Also, as far as I understand, the technology exists (in the sense of "there are plants already running") and scales horizontally, it's just currently too expensive by a factor of around 10 compared to current carbon pricing. Expecting general industrial progress, economies of scale, and an increase in carbon pricing to bring this into alignment doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Who celebrates new year's day on September 25th?
The French revolutionaries made a whole lot of mistakes, some fatal, because they liked to dictate things top down.
It’s less dangerous on skateboards because they break when landing flat from drops, but it still sucks.
Some call it a "tradition".

Some call it "backwards compatibility".
Hopefully no one tells them about java.util.Date.
"Google Books was 90% there, I wish it had been allowed to succeed."

Yes, it would be so much better if an opaque "tech" company was collecting data on every "patron" to inform its online advertising services business and other commercial projects.

While Google might have access to some of the same material, not to mention an endless stream of garbage one would never find in a library, as an organization, it does not share the same principles.

https://cdn.ifla.org/files/assets/faife/codesofethics/united...
I just write Perl instead
> I say holdouts, because it helps to understand that this isn’t agreed on even within the US.

I disagree. I can’t remember having ever seen calendars display any day other than Sunday as the first of the week, except in the case of computer software made by non-Americans who didn’t think to localize it.
Your bias and the bias of the study you cited are painfully obvious and assume a particular point of view as valid while rejecting others. The whole concept of the study is framed in a utilitarian value system. If you had a thousand similar studies you wouldn't proven anything to someone who does not hold to an empirical and utilitarian worldview because the questions that the study is asking are ultimately philosophical, epistemological, and moral. As such these questions transcend the usefulness of observational science. The study is worded in such a way as to sound very thorough but if you look at Appendix 2 you can see that even by empirical standards the evidence they have chosen to consider is slanted to a particular subset of the available data, let alone the anecdotal evidence which surrounds the researchers on all sides.

In other words all you've truly pointed out with this post is that the various members of the UK government have policy goals and that they are willing to use science as a cudgel to achieve their policy goals.
Most people prefer legible code, not hieroglyphics
It goes back even more, it predates copyright.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=jFMEPUO7LS0C&lpg=PP1&hl=de&...
It absolutely is. IBM started to bring mainframe features to the PC architecture with its PS2 line. The PS2 microchannel architecture (MCA), in particular, was inspired by the 360 and became itself the inspiration for the PCI bus.
Because you get paid in coins and have to divide them in 2, 3, 4, 6'z?

*but i do now understand the use of a thru'ppenny bit.
Cyberpunk 2077 Resurgence Continues with 1M Playing Each Day
Considering in that world said child, with or without circumcising, often only had 50:50 odds of making it to adult hood, but if they were an adult, these things would matter?

You’d likely have others overrule you.

Such is society, or something.
You need to follow something like https://twitter.com/PS5StockAlertUK
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Ponedelnik etymologically means the day after the not-doing day. Nowadays the connection is lost because Sunday is no longer called “nedelja”.
What I find interesting is that many Americans consider themselves Christians and that will influence their decisions. So one argument can be made from that point of view (I'm not religious myself).

In the Bible it says God designated the last day of the week as a day of rest. 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. Otherwise they disrespect the Bible and skip the "real" day of rest.

I'm not religious or American, so from my relatively objective view it seems as if the people from the majority religion has ignored their holy book.
An interesting aside the Cotsworth Calendar is such an obvious approach to the months problem it makes me wonder why it was not adopted in the first place.

We have 13 months of 28 days each. The 9th is always a Monday the 19th is always a Thursday. "Two months from now" always means the same thing and always means the same number of days.

The extra day is New Years Day. It's a holiday and does not belong to any month - or belongs to it's own month if you prefer. On Leap Years there are two of these days.
There’s no reason whatsoever (other than historical) for any of the inconsistencies explored in the tweet thread. Why should the start of the week be any different?
Off-topic, but I _love_ the "sidenote" format for footnotes. I've been meaning to implement that in my own blog for a while, now. I'll check out the source for inspiration.
What has kept you going during a personal crisis?
I've been struggling immensely and I'm wondering what has helped you guys keep going in life when all hope is lost?
fucking lol. 2X!!!!!! That's still unfathomable. We're lucky everything didn't double in price.
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You can put those on a service like AWS Glacier for next to nothing, the only challenge is keeping your billing details current.
A smarter way than manually picking "worthy" and "unworthy" emissions to tax is to tax them all, including basic needs, and distribute the proceeds from that (or a fraction of them) to everyone equally.

Those who consume less will receive back more than they spent on the basic necessities, and you don't get into envy- and activism-based debates where everyone tries to hurt their favorite sinners.
Hmm, and the week is the not-done-thing?
I would go almost the exact opposite on some of these. Offer smaller theaters with family style seating designed for a single group, and allow a much larger selection of movies beyond just what’s “out now”.

And have larger theaters perhaps with the rules suggested, but those should each have their own restrooms where the movie is piped in to TVs above each urinal or opposite each toilet. Never miss a thing.
In Portuguese, Monday through Friday translates to something like “Second Fair” through “Sixth Fair”¹. Saturday and Sunday aren’t numbered.

¹ “Fair” as in “a gathering of stalls and amusements for public entertainment”.
Because the week has two endpoints: the initial day of the week and the final day of the week.
> Yes, you will still see it ascend over the horizon.

You notice something out to sea. It's a lit object rising up into the air. There's then an explosion. This describes both "missile hits plane" and "burning plane flying upwards explodes".

> No, it can't.

I mean, tell that to the NTSB, who didn't have much objection to the CIA's theory. Or the world's community of aviation engineers, who a) weren't part of the conspiracy and b) didn't riot over something you're claiming is obviously impossible.

Essentially, it did this, but at a much higher starting speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUWC2jfjqI

> In the unlikely event that it can keep from stalling...

Yes, it would stall. If you want to stall a plane, one of the easiest ways ways is to pitch up sharply.

> It wouldn't be able to pitch up for more than a few seconds before spinning wildly or disintegrating from aerodynamic forces.

Yes, that's the ka-boom part of what was seen. There's an animation based on the reconstruction at https://imgur.com/a/zin7CRo that demonstrates this, exactly as you describe - pitch up, flip over, disintegrate.

> Sonic booms sound just like explosions.

Then we agree that "people said it sounded like a missile" is not meaningful.
It’s been my thinking for a while that the majority of people who interface with Musk ventures walk away happy. They must, right? Customers are the most important fans.

But if for some reason one of the cogs in the big machine fails you - you are screwed. There is no real recovery beyond tweeting @ElonMusk on the day once a year has his heart reinserted to legally be considered alive.

I’m sorry to hear your situation - mine was different, more positive.

The line that separates us is one broken cog. Musk customer support is the worst and I’m sorry you can’t enjoy what has been a life changing product for me.

Hang in there, it (Musk venture customer service) sometimes gets better.
Nope. Despite there have been division of labor and traditions historically, semitic religions - foremost Christianity - are what codified the 'lower status' of women, including how they were beneath men, or even 'sinful and dangerous'. You have no idea how it was during the middle ages until Cathars, despite having been persecuted and massacred, have changed the perception of women to the 'bad' state that we later knew. Before Cathars, it was much worse.
Would tree be bad conductor tho ? It's more conductive than air, much taller than average human, and probably similar in conductivity when wet
Damn good writing.
As of 2020 about 60% of MBTA costs were not covered by fares. I don’t know if that’s considered heavily subsidized by European standards or not.
Except, ironically enough, male circumcision is the perfect example of something that was done for "traditional" religious reasons, but for which now there is ample medical support for it.

For example, circumcision is extremely common in the US, despite the fact that it is relatively very rare for it to be done for religious reasons (only about 2-3% of the US population is Muslim or Jewish). It is done because the medical community broadly recommends it due to its health benefits: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cdc-encourages-circum...
There is nothing to collect. It's a bad idea period. 75% of people live in cities. If one wants to go the way of personal flight transportation for the masses then helicopters and VTOL are the way because of lack of space. Of course everybody would have to wear ear protection 24/7/365.

One should just be grateful that Larry Page is not a scammer, he could have built a POC, use the immense power of his wealth and the immense power of Google to hype it up , then IPO and make billions by selling into greater fools , the same who blindly buy Gamestop, AMC and whatever Musk shoves down their throats.
In Chinese, Monday is 星期一 (=1st in week).

And the months are numbered (January = "first month"),

Who are we to argue with the people who have finally gotten an act together to number it properly?[1]

[1]: alright, yes, Sunday is still the odd one out and doesn't have a number.
Mh, but isn’t the base 12 system coming from the fact that people used to count stuff with their thumb, using the 3 sections of the other 4 fingers?
Recessions can hamper tourism and once they have difficulty covering the mortgage, things will snap wildly.
Yeah, it's a shame it's hidden behind a computational paywall.
CDPR would’ve had an absolute hit if they’d waited until the game was finished. There’s a massive difference between moving through an open world that resembles LA or NY and an open world fully realised futuristic city - with its own completely unique politics and factions and weapons and social issues.

Likewise the video cards from 2 years ago (and PS4s) simply can’t do walking through Night City in the rain justice.
Sounds a bit daft when you realize that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of crap deposited by meteors .
How about the fact that 10/11/12 can variously refer to October 11, 2012, November 10, 2012, or November 12, 2010 - depending on what country you are in?
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Nah, this is full of identity studies jargon.
If we're splitting hair, Octavian was adopted into the gens Julia, so he was a Julius as much as he was a Caesar, and his full name before ascending to emperor was Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.
> UK workers on average salaries will spend 14% of their income on a monthly season ticket from Luton to London (£387), or 11% from Liverpool to Manchester (£292).

these figures are deliberately misleading (well... it is the TUC)

they're using the average UK salary

not the average London or Manchester salary, which are both quite considerably higher (London is almost 100% more)
And just to make sure the aliens lose whatever shred of confidence they might still have in human civilisation, we should introduce them to time zones: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY. My favorite video on the topic.
Methane has a half life in the atmosphere of 12 years. Gradually leaking methane is way down the list of problems.
Nope. That's it - the effect in USSR is society wide. Its an entire retooling of culture. In Arab countries, there has been some effort in the same direction by the socialist governments of 1950s and 1960s. Those did some effect, but they were not as profound as USSR's cultural impact. Today the upper classes of Arab societies send their daughters to STEM schools for economic reasons and for the prestige that those fields gained during that period.
It's horrifying that these are even compared. The foreskin is just some skin and absolutely not required to experience sexual pleasure or climax. But for women, they cut their clitoris out, fundamentally altering their ability to have sex forever.

You cannot compare this. There is no equivalence here. IMO, female genital mutilation is comparable to male gelding --- removal of the entire penis. Both are designed to ruin sexual pleasure

Always weirds me out when a dude compares a circumcision to FGM, like someone is intentionally conflating a much lesser evil with a far greater one.
Eh, that reduced it but definitely didn’t release the pressure. Trump turned the screws down pretty tight in quick order too.
there's a lot of studies about optimal typography for readability in terms of fonts and characters per line etc.

Having dead space on the side is kind of a different problem, more on the lines of the appropriate default settings of the application (or system)
Most authors never make a dime. Most authors never get published. Most authors have no readers. Still they write.

I think the point is to pay successful writers so they keep writing.

Pay them and distribute ebooks for free. Where is the contradiction? The money just have to come from other sources than selling the books.

Free ebooks mean more readers. This is something desirable, no?
Inventory will climb, probably to pre covid or earlier numbers.

Time on market is the one I’ll be keeping an eye on, because that should be around 2-3 months. Longer indicates prices need to fall, shorter indicates that they have room to rise.
You do realize that in terms of speed it makes 2G look like a dream?

It’s only good for emergencies.

And anyway it was mostly just a publicity stunt, announcing non existing feature (no satellites in orbit are able to do it) to preempt Apple by few days, and them rolling out working product this year.