skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like there's a legend that this was the case, but January has been the first month of the year through all of recorded history, and Julius Caesar's version was no different.

EDIT: Because there's a lot of confusion in several replies I thought I'd clarify: February was the second month in Julius Caesar's calendar. Romans in the Republic describe the month as being at some point the last month in the calendar, but we don't have any direct record of that. That's what I mean when I refer to it as a legend: it's a story that later Romans tell about their distant past. It is probably accurate but the sources are too far removed from the actual event to be treated as primary sources.

This is true of Roman history in general: any story that dates back to the kings should be treated as a legend that Romans told about their past. It may have elements of the truth, but shouldn't be taken as firm fact. This particular legend has a lot of evidence going for it, but that doesn't make it inaccurate to refer to it as a legend.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Februarius
Would love to see websites start optimizing for low-bandwidth high-latency connections. Page sizes have continue to increase even with the increase in usage of [typically] slower mobile connections, so I'm not holding my breath.
It's an awesome hack, though. "Approved!"
Not only do we have to understand how things go wrong externally, we have to recognize that our own internal understanding maybe be incorrect. It's pretty hard to trust others when we can't even trust ourselves.
Sounds like he invented something gimmicky.
Just because the leash is longer does not suddenly mean there is no leash.
Motorcycles helmets don't prevent accidents and don't guarantee that you will survive if it happens, so why are people promoting wearing helmets?

Vaccines reduce the risk of infection, reduce transmission and reduce the risks of serious symptoms. Maybe by not as much as we would like to, but still enough to recommend them.
Aliens: "yeah we know, our calendar system sucks too. we're really here for your species' best cable management pictures"
I think it's a bit naive to expect sense from anything related to dates and times at this point. It's all just accumulated history, and historically, Sunday has always been the first day of the week, no matter what people today think about it.
I have a strong suspicion that the data shows a correlation, potentially showing that socialization is important, not the alcohol itself.

We really could use a legal intoxicant of this kind with fewer nasty side effects. They already exist.
And the jury is still out on whether he will be right or wrong.
Working on it. Will release documentation and a short video tutorial in the next few days. Stay tuned!
It would be exactly as funny and exactly as interesting, which is to say: not very.

This is right up there with noticing that sometimes the "b" in certain English words is completely silent! Haha isn't that totally irrational and crazy you guys??
> Not sure what you are trying to say with your quoted phrases.

That the metric system is just as arbitrary as the customary units. Things like the meter and (kilo)gram were based on arbitrary objects rather than anything objective. They've since been redefined using physical constants to come close enough to the old reference objects. (And the US customary units are officially defined as exact fractions from the SI units -- making the whole world happy to have exact measurements regardless of the system you use.)

At least the customary units have nice divisors. Just saying.
> It's more complex than that.

There's always someone, right?

Yes, remember that my comment is not about enumerating all the various reasons for why someone may or may not be more or less likely to suffer from depression. My comment is specifically attacking this association between knowledge/awareness/empathy and depression as being something that naturally follows from that possession.

"How an individual may respond" is about as infinitely open-ended a statement about experience as one can make, incorporating unending psychological, physiological, genetic, epigenetic, spiritual, behavioral, and physical causes as one wants to consider. You can load it up with as much as you want or as little as you want. I would hope that you load it up commensurate with your understanding of the complexities and confounding variables.

> Never implied.

Your statement that "if you are aware of [x] you have reasons to feel hopeless" struck me as one of many here implying this link that depression follows awareness. After the umpteenth expression of this in other comments, yours was the one I replied to. I'm sorry if I read your statement incorrectly.

But it's a good time to also establish that depression is not just a negative emotional reaction. It may be reasonable to assume that most/all would experience some degree of negative emotional reaction to bad news, but it is not reasonable to assume that most/all would feel hopelessness or depression as a reaction to bad news. This has nothing to do with the knowledge itself, and everything to do with the pre-existing framework into which the new knowledge is being incorporated (and again, if we need to, let's explicitly state that, yes, the pre-existing framework is incredibly complex with many confounding variables).

> sounds like a strawman

It's hyperbole to illustrate absurdity. It might turn into a strawman if that's what I was attacking, but again, you can find many, many comments here voicing specifically what I am attacking -- the assertion that "my high level of empathy", "my awareness", "my knowledge", is integral to the person's state of depression and as often its corollary: a lack of depression follows from a lack of the empathy/awareness/knowledge. What's interesting about this humble brag is that it excuses the avoidance of difficult self-examination. It's an unhealthy coping mechanism. I call it out because I don't think it should be reinforced.

Again, if you disavow making this claim, I'm sorry to lump you in with the others that are making this claim.
the book: "The AWK programming language" written by Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan (AWK)?

You can easily find it online. Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454

For GNU AWK you also have https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
Try reading his site on a 21:9 and your eyes start bleeding.
Oh boy, the comments on these are teeming with tin foil hatters and believers in chemtrails.
I sure hope so after the insane 50-100% bull run of the last two years
Love dngrep, one of my friends used to combine all his pdfs into one and then use adobe reader to search before I showed this to him. It's very powerful and also simple to use, even for non-technical users.
Are we talking about the same Peterborough? It's north of Birmingham?
I don't think I'd ever noticed this. Flipping between the system font option and Proxima Nova, there's not a huge difference (on a Mac). I do find it subtly easier to read however, so would agree that attention to detail is neat.
A font that they've licensed for use in their web app.
It makes the web app look quite professional in a subtle way.
I’m unsure how commonly known this is, but also note that July and August are named after Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus
> the value proposition

You're selling a get rich quick fantasy.
No, the biblical day of rest is the Sabbath, the Saturday. The fact that most Christians keep the first day of the week instead of the last day is because Jesus rose from death on the first day of the week.
Accessories aren't strictly required, but they can be a massive help. Being aware of your heart rate and your pace helps you get the best results from your exercise. Also, accurately measuring your times, and seeing even few seconds improvement since the last week's training helps keep you motivated. There are many reasons to use such accessories, other than "stroking vanity".
And maybe the 400% tech worker salary too
It isn't controlled overtly but influence is still exerted. This was readily apparent when W shunned any organization that dared question the justification for invading Iraq. News of domestic relevance gets buried all the time by upper management who want to curry favor and stay in good graces with authorities.
Commuting into central London by car is the sort of thing that makes using the British railway system sound appealing
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http://web.archive.org/web/20190604142831/http://www.unixgui...
Musk quote: "We specialize at turning the impossible into late."

Personally, I much prefer the latter. I also quite like the transparency that lets us all see into the disorganized mess of it all long before it's ready (as opposed to the Apple strategy of complete silence until announcement day).
He forgot to mention people also don't agree on the hour in the day and have oddly shaped "time zones".
Yes, that was my point. This is an issue I won't budge on.
#candlesforall
Not in Lake Wobegon they’re not.
It’s a public private partnership, it runs privately but the federal government decides who is appointed to its leadership roles
> Historically after you create object files the linker doesn't care what c++ standard the source was.

Mechanically this is true, but just because we can link object files together doesn't mean the resulting program makes sense.

Suppose I have an object file I made with GCC's copy-on-write C++ 98 strings and then I linked that to an object file I made with GCC's modern C++ 11 short string optimised strings. If these objects think they're talking about the same string then the resulting executable is nonsense and will probably crash or misbehave badly.

It might be helpful to think of WG21's attitude to compatibility as occupying a sort of "strategic ambiguity" akin to the US stance on Taiwan. For example when it comes to ABI changes, the committee voted that they shouldn't happen... yet. Not that they will happen within some horizon, but nor that they won't happen.
Yeah I agree. 12h time is the natural consequence of using analog clocks where one rotation of the hour hand on the dial represents 12 hours. But I guess it won't be hard to represent 24h if the speed of the hour hand is halved, although I have never seen such clocks.
A lot of people have already commented on how Israel and the Middle East consider Sunday to be the first day of the week, but I'd like to add that the week itself seems to originate in Judaism (Wikipedia, "Week"):

"A continuous seven-day cycle that runs throughout history without reference to the phases of the moon was first practiced in Judaism, dated to the 6th century BC at the latest."

In Judaism the week starts from Sunday, so you could argue that it's not completely illogical for it to be the case in the US.

Changing the rest day of the week to Sunday was a change made in Christianity by the Council of Laodicea:

"Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ".
a) was very freeing. I didn't realize there were services so much better than Gmail. Even ones I pay a small amount for and get as many custom domains as I want.
b) did this a long time ago. Glad I did. I can sync any file I want too, not just photos. Really been liking Seafile + AutoSync (android) for this.
Actually your wife is wrong. The American media is controlled but in smart and efficient way, the average Iranian knows this well unless they're the Pro America Iranian who only represents small percentage of the Iranians (and they are seen as traitors even from many opposition parties). The funny thing, the difference between the major American media regarding Iran, is that some want to starve the people until they can make a coup, the other opinion is that Iran should be nuked tomorrow. And People has the nerve to call this "freedom of speech"
The MVS systems I worked with had a small priesthood of sysops and sysprogs keeping them ticking. They certainly weren't set and forget.
It’s a pity that awk doesn’t support capture groups in line patterns. Then you could get rid of the field separator and make the script even more comprehensible. (You can simulate this with match() in gawk, but then you must know how match() works.)

Personally, I’d probably rather use sed here:

sed -nE 's/^\s*name:\s*"([^"]*)"\s*$/\1/p"

While that regex is more complex, it is also safer and more explicit.
Coincidentally I had debates recently about traditions. In particular about Monarchies.

While traditions can be there for reasons and it's OK to follow some traditions, all traditions should be questioned. The amount of knowledge we have today is not comparable with what we had in any previous time in history. The article actually proves that. We now know about chronic cyanide poisoning to a level that was unknown even to the population that developed traditions to avoid it.

Also traditions can:

- Have lost the original problem they were developed to address.

- Always been the wrong choice (but probably without giving a significant disadvantage to a population).

- Be irrelevant as better methods are now available.

In short the Monarchy serve no real purpose in modern societies. Even as a symbol, it's a very bad symbol.
Sounds like a burning platform. The problem will solve itself, the company will go bankrupt.
"Libraries and books existed long before copyright."

Yes, back in the ages when you needed a scribe or a huge printing press. It's not like knowledge and books were magically free.

Now in the digital age we can create as many copies, without consuming physical material, as we want and distribute it globally.

The realities are extremely different. Perhaps copyright could be amended, but I can't envision its complete removal being net beneficial.
Corporations raise prices until demand starts to reduce. If you had a store that was constantly selling out of goods, you’d raise the prices until you stopped constantly selling out, no matter what your input costs are.

This is what the Fed is attempting: demand destruction.
In other words, Sony isn't charging more (in dollars). Your euro/pound/yen is just worth less than it was a year ago.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/EUR-USD?comparison=JPY-...
My experience of using Strava on a mid-range Android phone several years ago was that readings were splayed horizontally across (road-side) paths by five or ten meters in many cases. Now that I have a Garmin watch, I am gradually closing in on my former Estimated Best Efforts with readings that appear to be much more accurate in terms of how they correspond to the paths that I've been running on.
The first torrent has a 2gb SQL database called index
.22 is a great choice too if you want to remain quiet. Subsconic .22 rounds + something as simple as an oil filter can make for a ridiculously quiet gun.
That's fine but he should get a full refund not a partial one.
That's not what I'm doing. In this case the massive criticism of California comes from right wing media
> I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers...

Better off worshipping unintelligent and non-existent beings, and all the foolish memes that inevitably accrete with magical thinking?

> hollowed-out atomised atheists.

Hollowed of what? Mostly harmful traditions many of which were designed to entrench unearned power and influence?
FGM also can be just cutting some skin (the inner labia) and it is comparable to circumcision.

The function of the inner labia is to help keep in moisture and lubricant, very much the exact same function and role of the foreskin.
> That aside, POP should really be considered legacy, it comes with many downsides that hinder people's e-mail usage.

And one big advantage - it actually allows you retrieve and store e-mail locally - irrespective of any server allocation.
At least, we have a well-defined second. Assuming that humans make interstellar travel and/or colonization happen before being visited first, it's not entirely unreasonable that space-borne vessels will maintain the time and calendar system developed on Earth. It's convention, after all (we fudge it _just a bit_ here on Earth, too).

Perhaps extrasolar colonies will have to develop a system that makes sense for whatever planet or moon they settle on, at which point they'd be converting between Earth time and local time for correspondence.
"The public tends to respond to precedents and superlatives," is one of his main quotes. At some point I think he figured out it doesn't even need to be released first to get the precedent credit.
There are many reasons to call Sunday the first say of the week. Mostly historical ones. Weeks have existed for far longer than the US or in fact any modern country has. Or the concept of a 5-day work week, in fact. The Monday as the first day of the week is modern revisionism.
Original photos are not affected.

Probably just a bug in their image manipulation lib when generating previews. All the corrupted images can be rebuild from originals.
Running your own private discount web hosting used to be fun and lucrative, less so with AWS nowadays and it takes time to build up a customer base. Still fun though.

Short term project contracting is what got me out of my burnout. As did learning music on the side and just treating work like a day job rather than a calling.

You can also probably speak to some recruitment consultants about pitching you to companies as part time. So much work going one is bound to be happy with that.
This is so epic. I was just ruminating about this particular use-case. who are your typical customers. Supply chain or purchasing? Also I notice that you do text extraction from Invoices? Are you using something similar to CharGRID or its derivate BERTGRID?
Wish you and your team more success!
Reducing red tape doesn't mean just reducing the number of personnel. It also means utilizing existing personnel effectively. Often government processes have SO MANY steps (often meaningless) that the total amount of work done by existing people is much lower than what they are capable of.

When you go into the bowels of government, you realize how many steps are "Send X document by USPS, an employee evaluates for 6 weeks and sends Yes, No, Invalid, Request for more docs by USPS again." Then you send more documents and they take 8 weeks to evaluate again.
It's worse. "Aliens have the same taste in things as me". With the implications being something like "Aliens are super intelligent" and "I am super intelligent".

IAmVerySmart vibes
Sell courses
So if you had a friend visit and say he was going to kayak down the San Joaquin you would tell that's a good idea while the state is facing a massive drought? Also, you need to spend some time in really poor areas of the country to get a proper perspective on how lucky we are in CA
I'm glad you dig the design, feel free to explore the Github and star it if you like :)

As for the technical details, the framework is used to manage content for statically generated websites with Next.js, using Markdown and Git to store the contents. I'll go into more detail in the docs, which should be released this week. Thanks for checking it out!
Even HTML apps have the option of local storage.
In Canada, Ontario was forecasting a $30 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year. When the final numbers were in, they reported a $2 billion dollar surplus - even with higher expenses. The nominal revenue growth was 11.9% - inflation boosts the coffers.
A Stock Exchange Engine and Simulator
The qmrExchange project is an open-source financial markets exchange simulator that realistically mimics all the main components of modern trading venues. It allows us to test and quantify the behavior of different agents in a laboratory and isolated environment without the high noise-to-signal ratio that is otherwise unavoidable in live settings. By creating a completely functioning trading venue whose access is only granted to a finite and known number of agents or trading algorithms, qmrExchange enables analyzing causation and quantifying the impact of each agent in a way that is otherwise unfeasible.
I don’t see any ambiguity in “next Monday”. It literally is saying the next day which is Monday.

“Next week” on a Sunday is ambiguous because some people consider the new week to have started while others consider it to start the next day.
the cat food can thing is perfect here.

there are, in fact, TKP trucks on longboards, there are extensive discussions on r/longboarding about the differences, and what it boils down to is that a skateboard is an individualized piece of equipment, and it will work differently with every human being because of the geometry of their legs, feet, ankles, muscles, ligaments, shoes, the kind of riding they do, the type of pavement they ride in, the weather they ride in,whether they do vert skating or "transition" (ramps/bumps), rails, massive jumps, ground tricks, carving, downhill bombs, long distance push, pumping, etc etc, and even the way their mind works in relation to their body.

so the amorphous concept of "feel" is, basically, everything on a skateboard. the top end skateboarding engineers like Paul Schmitt ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MRZq0bhpE ) will spend endless hours interacting with skateboarders to get continuous feedback about anything from wheel chemistry to changes in board shape. There is another interview there with rider Andy Anderson where he talks about how they shaved part of the sides of his board down in a slight taper so that it would be balanced evenly due to one side being slightly differently shaped than the other. To a casual watching him at the Olympics, you could not even tell which side of this board was front and back let alone if the sides had gotten tapered. That was just one many things he had put into the design of his board, all tailored around the style he wanted to skate (which is a lot of older freestyle like Primo and pogo hops combined with all the newer olympics stuff ).

im sure there is some room to innovate trucks but it takes a lot of back and forth with a rider, its not , like the cat food can thing, a single variable optimization.
Creating a Signal Proxy To Bypass Iranian Censorship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-mtjEF4t0

Iran is only topped by North Korea in its backwards oppression of Iranians (at least those would did not manage to flee and join the huge world-wide diaspora).
You really just posted to repeat yourself after I took the time to answer you?

Waste of my time.
I'm wondering if he's going to get in trouble because someone in China either doesn't understand or doesn't like this sort of humor (or just the consequences that arose from dumb people misinterpreting it).
I stopped owning a printer when the one I had in college stopped working, and I realized it was cheaper to pay 10-20 cents per page to print at the library on the rare occasion I needed to print something, than to buy a new printer and ink. And honestly, it was less of a hastle than printing with a cheap home printer too (at least since I go to the library fairly often anyways).

Oh and now I don't need space for a printer either.
HN implements shadowbans that way:

Your comments appear, but are automatically flagged dead.
I didn't find it particularly funny either. It's mostly predicated on this belief that somehow we "should" have optimized our date and time system and that it's silly that we're using an inconsistent, legacy system formed for many cultural reasons.

My analogy is that it's like writing a tweetstorm about how aliens landed on Earth to find that humans use different languages! And different writing systems! How quaint!