skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's roughly true worldwide -leader would pay for books to be written. But someone still had to pay, and copies tended to be limited. And if course then there were the book burnings to eradicated knowledge dangerous to the current leader.
This seems a bit mean, especially given its a pretty natural question as to why the equinox is considered start of fall instead of midautumn (in certain regions)

Edit: i take it back.
Only if you're insistent on willfully misreading them.

[no application protocol implementer] implements HTTP, JSON, and TLS [because there are well-worn implementations that can just be used for the purpose].
Thanks for the callout :) I'm not doing so much development on Cyrus any more - I still attend the weekly team meetings and do code and design review, but trying to keep my focus more on company operations and standardisation work.

JMAP core and email standards haven't changed in the past few years because they're done! In the JMAP working group at the IETF we're currently heavily focused on getting the calendaring and contacts bits finished. That unlocks significantly more benefit for a JMAP client because you don't need multiple different authentications.

As for email clients - yeah, it's been slow going, partly because when COVID hit we all shrank back into our shells a bit, and certainly my travel and networking was cut back! It's good to see how it's perceived from outside our little bubble where JMAP is doing great and we're moving more and more of Fastmail's internal APIs to be JMAP-style because it's so easy to multiplex requests together and route them separately through our middleware into different systems, then combine the results back to together in a single response to the calling system or browser.
I've never really considered Taubes as anything more than a writer/journalist and I appreciated the obviously herculean effort writing something like Good Calories, Bad Calories must have required.

If he poorly ran poorly designed trials of his own with NuSI, it wouldn't remotely surprise me. It's not, to my understanding, his wheelhouse.

From what I recall of Good Calories, Bad Calories (it's been quite a few years now), the thing wasn't even making new claims by the author. It dryly stated the purported science and history surrounding claims that weren't even his own. And it was all thoroughly backed with citations.
It is going to be a sad day in Electronland.
This has to be satire right? There is no way apple development actually requires an amount of restrictions and effort like this?
It's the Catholic Church you're talking about...
if you do an image search for Cat Ping, she faces some challenges gaining recognition

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Cat+Ping&iax=images&ia=imag...
This comment is interesting because it kind of contradicts itself:

At first you say sometuing akin to “to become part of the elite you need to accept the elite's point of view and beliefs”, citing higher education as a gateway for elites, and the you use the discourse “social justice” as an example of what young people must believe in to get to higher education. But “social justice” is definitely not a foundational belief of the elite, because otherwise the US wouldn't work the way it does otherwise, for the elite is the one who actually shapes the society.

If anything, it's much more likely that Yale wants to attract young people by advertising values the young care about (young people being naturally much more progressive than older ones).
But the murder rate is also going down. Seems like the less capable criminals know they can't as easily get away with it.
Also recently in Providence Health:

Claiming a $500M operating loss to get it back in federal COVID relief funding while sitting on a $100B reserve generating $1B in investment income, as a non-profit[1]

Refusing to treat a life-threatening miscarriage by calling it an abortion, in 2019[2]

Inspiring the Oregon state legislature to protect access to reproductive health services when religious-based providers like Providence buy them out;[3] unlike secular hospitals, they're exempt from state law mandating free reproductive health care[4]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/business/coronavirus-hosp...

[2] https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2019/09/25/miscarriage-catholic-...

[3] https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/06/oregon-hospital-merge...

[4] https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/06/22/health-insurer...
Starting as a back end dev at a startup, any tips?
I'm getting hired at a startup from next year as a backend/fullstack developer. I have only worked for medium (100+ employees) to large(1000+ emplyees) companies before. The startup have 2 devs at the moment and are around 30 eployees. Do you have any tips?
Let us stop using Wikipedia to support our arguments.
Could be just a wannabe copycat?
'Democratic (or republic) government' as opposed to totalitarian ones because the latter are almost always corrupt (almost by definition), thus excluded from discussion.

(Truly benevolent dictators are like hens' teeth—non existent.)
I'm clearly an outlier... But a Casio for a watch, and then an old Garmin bike computer with OSM maps has proven the best for hiking.

Large screen, incredible battery life, and OSM maps when off road just beat everything except Ordnance Survey in the UK.

I do have a Fenix 5, but it's not very good TBH. I did try an older Apple watch and similarly not very good. I thought about Suunto but they seemed more watersports oriented.

The best of the outdoor devices I have has no hiking features. That's my Hammerhead bike computer. The software is great, the maps are OSM, the hardware is great. If that came with a neck collar loop and a hiking profile it would be my single device for outdoor things.
>- Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

Does anyone know why? This has always seemed a bit weird to me. I mean the US is a fairly religious country and it's pretty much known to anyone that Sunday is the 7th day in Christianity?

And on the first day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the first day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the first day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

edit: just looked it up. Apparently Sunday = Restday is a catholic thing and Jews / Muslims use Sunday as their first day!

How and why America switched as Christian nation I'm still not sure.
It does not. As soon as you take the puck out, you have to input your pin again.
A slightly off-topic but still relevant - the app Libby is currently as close to that ideal library of everything for free. You have access to vast amount of books, especially most of the recently published ones (and some popular older ones that have digital versions published) and available for free, at your fingertip. Since I have started reading books through Libby, I read a lot more books, and started collecting more library cards :) Surprisingly few people seem to know about Libby. If you haven't installed one, you really should. And I am surprised there's no mention of Libby in HN when the topic is about books and its availability.
Ask HN: Why are expert practitioners often so bad at teaching beginners?
This may be only my observation, but, I have observed this many times. A truly exceptionally expert practitioner doesn't always know how to teach a beginner the workings of his field. He knows his field inside out and are almost always self-taught in achieving their expertise. Still when someone asks how do they self learn (atleast start) they are clueless or point to obscure or very high-difficulty resources.

Is it because the area they practise in now, is at a much higher level of abstraction than what a beginner should do and they have lost touch? Or is there some other reason?

E.g: You ask an expert programmer for advice on how to learn to become a good programmer, they will almost always suggest mid tier resources.
Hey, I love IMAP. For all its faults it is pretty powerful and good.

I've spent a lot of time on it, but the reasons that JMAP was developed still exist and are still valid :)
When gcc broke the string ABI they made sure that code that uses one version wouldn't link with code that uses the other one.
EShell in Emacs can preserve point at the prompt that executed the command. You can then hit space to page through the output, or start typing to immediately jump to the end of the buffer (and thus a blank prompt):

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/complete-guide-master...

There's also `C-c C-p` to jump to the previous command prompt in the likes of M-x shell. That's not quite what you want, but it's another way to jump back up.
I just don't answer any calls if I don't recognize the number (and even sometimes if I do). Leave me a message, or better yet, text or email me like a normal human. I've yet to change my outgoing voicemail to say that but I'm very tempted.

The problem for me is the asymmetry: Someone interrupts whatever I'm doing with an unrelated random topic and wants me to make a decision or answer questions, with basically no time to switch contexts or think. This is infuriating to me.

At least with work, friends and family, for the last several years I've not even really used the "phone". All my calls are either scheduled conference calls, or adhoc calls initiated after a text/chat message.

It's just contractors, dentists, daycare, stores etc that still use the phone primarily. Hopefully they'll all join the 2010's within the next decade or two.
I don't hate telephones so much as I hate POTS. Unauthenticated, unencrypted, easily caller-id-spoofed POTS is the worst. POTS is the whole reason why SWATting has been a problem for years now. At this point you shouldn't be able to call in a threat that results in a police raid, unless there is some way to verify your identity.
Net exporter of electricity, but importer of gas. I think now Germany imports electricity only on 8 days of a year on average.

https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/column/20180302.h...

> If Germany is self sufficient for this winter, why are they beginning to impose energy restrictions on government buildings? Why are they having so much issue sourcing cheap energy? To me it sounds like a net import situation.

It is more complicated than that. If Germany runs out of gas this winter, then the lights in Italy will go out, because Germany, despite of all the issues, is a net exporter of electricity.
NoSQL just means something that's not a SQL DB. But the set of databases outside of that set is very large and various.

Think about your requirements and then consider various databases, keeping the "sql" feature as just one dimension.

(To make things more confusing, you can actually query many "NoSQL" databases using SQL with some SQL middleware)
Some of us enjoy the culture, food and network of living in a large city. There’s a whole world in what your day to day is between living in the 3rd biggest city in US-Canada and living in Winnipeg. Both are fine, but they are different, not interchangeable
Allright, thanks for the info - it's an interesting case for a foreigner.
Ike was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. As of the articles and very few YouTube videos he was Good Military Guy. Before he left presidency, he said too much power going to the military and related fields is not good. I think we don't make military men like him anymore. Anyway, What I was looking for is A good documentary, movie or tv show about him. So far, I found Ike: Countdown to D-day, and Ike: The War years, And I can't even find a proper way to watch war years, not even in torrents.

Hollywood makes war movies of many 2-bit heroes in society, or they rebrand some nutcases as heroes and make movies.

But why they can't make a proper solid movie about Ike?
I used to follow this logic but I think it is limited by the fact that using desire as a guide for meaning is a cognition that can be overruled by other congitions. E.g. a religious person may decide to forego actions related to sexual desire because their philosophy follows some theology with rules on sexuality. You could argue that the religious devotion is just a more fundamental desire, but I think this leads to a circular definition ("meaning is derived from our fundamental desires" and "fundamental desires are what we find meaningful").

Instead, "what is the meaning of life" can be interpreted as a question with no cognitive answer, and thus in itself meaningless to ask. The question must then be "what is my meaning in life?" which is up to each person to decide.

Another question: if we desire something, how do we know that _someone_ gave us that desire? And who gave them the desire to give us that particular desire? I think it's turtles all the way down (but I'm not philosopher so would be keen to hear a rebuttal)
Hello my friend,
final reminder that the FB price is now 141 and trending steadily down.

Good luck in your future predictions !
> For a self-learned dev who is already working and already have his habits

this implies that the self-learned dev has habits that are just as efficient as the unix toolset being recommended for the CS student.

But you dont know if that's actually true - it might be for some people, but not for others. It's a skill for someone to have, to find out whether their current toolkit is not good, and that a better one exists.
i am forced to use windows machines in my own office. i know people and kids who use windows machines. with new installs, they are being taught to set a password, which is fine for a bank or a super secure machine that holds financial data but for kids and grannies and drone office workers, this gets tiring. Now you are saying to FORCE them to use 14+ characters. HOW? why?
in linux there is a "auto login with this password" which i love to use because there is nothing so private in my machine so i can just go in and out
> The week is still popularly understood to start on Sunday in English Canada

As an english canadian (alberta), i have never in my life heard of people considering sunday the first day of the week.

Edit: appearently people are talking what is printed on calendar. I consider that to be a separate thing. If you asked me to list the days of the week in order i would start on monday, which is a totally separate question from the layout of a printed calendar.
One solution: just also hit cancel or whatever button it is to clear the time. Another solution: only use +30 seconds to add time and think of the 4 seconds as "rollover seconds".
I've been interested in flutter but it's still so new I'd be hesitant to commit to it. And the Google influence seems similarly risky to me, though if Go is any indication it hasn't been catastrophic.

Curious how flutter compares to Qt in terms of performance if you've got intense 2D rendering.
Even with a 30 year mortgage, you can refinance (take out a new mortgage and pay the old one off early) at any point. So even if you take out a mortgage with a 6% interest rate, you’re not stuck with it if the rates go down.
I don't usually find the local hardware stores to be cheaper than McMaster.

I see Home Depot has 1/4-20 18-8 stainless steel bolts for $7 a pack of 10. McMaster has them for $8 a pack of 50.

The exception is when I need just one or two of something and it is available in the single-unit bins at the local hardware store. With McMaster the minimum quantity is usually a box of N, but the price per unit usually quite a bit cheaper.

And of course the selection is vastly better. For the above example, I'd usually really buy 316 stainless, which Home Depot doesn't even have.
mmmm wait until you know that Persians' extra day off is not Saturday, it's Thursday.

Also that in Muslim countries that take Sat and Sun off, they all leave at Friday noon to attend the Friday prayer.

Now what if you have a Persian embassy in a foreign country (they are at the verge of extinction though), it will be closed on Friday, Sat, and Sun!, plus all the holidays of Iran and the host country. They almost never work (This sentence was not only about their days off)

If you have a company that has a branch in Iran, no luck for remote meetings on Thursdays all the way to Sundays!
I have more faith in JMAP's eventual success than you do, but I do agree that it's frustratingly slow. We knew that adoption would be frustrating slow of course, but I do hope that in 3 years' time we'll have a much better story than we have had in the three years since initial standardisation of the core and mail parts.

Certainly once calendars and contacts are done, and hopefully tasks as well, that will make a more complete ecosystem that is even more attractive than just the email component!
Just because someone believes CICO is accurate doesn't mean they also have this "all about willpower" perspective. I think CICO is most of the problem and I also think attributing overeating to a lack of willpower is naive.

More importantly, the willpower debate is irrelevant on a population level. Dieters and personal trainers can argue about it until they're blue in the face but it has nothing to do with policy.

We could achieve better public health outcomes if we accepted that CICO is the big and clear cut problem and ignored all that other stuff.

For example: if you accept that overeating calories is THE public health crisis to solve, our policies around subsidizing cheap calories would no longer make sense. It would follow naturally to discontinue those policies and subsidize nutrient-dense, low calorie foods instead (i.e. fruits and vegetables intended for unprocessed consumption).

Then you would give people an economic incentive to go to the grocery store and buy fruits and vegetables instead of Hot Pockets. Public policy can't fix the whole problem, but it can adjust economic incentives.

Unfortunately people are off tilting at various windmills like mystery pathogens, estrogens in the water, plastic packaging, whatever - instead of accepting that CICO is this clear and central problem and crafting policy which reflects it.
I've been street skating for about 15 years and I've had maybe 2 kingpins break total
Few years before the pandemic i researched moving to canada from the uk. I was shocked at how low tech pay was. Basically it was lower than in some east european countries for my level of experience. The way i see it, canada will follow the path denmark went after the 2008 crash. The software tech sector all but vanished and has not recovered since.
To be perfectly fair; when it comes to the economy, belief somehow follows reality.

If “the economy” believes there will be a recession, there almost certainly will be one. Even if it wasn’t going to happen by itself.

VCs dumping money into the “bottom point” of the market will also stimulate the economy a lot, leading to a recovery.
"to evangelize"

It's sad that superior standards need to be evangelized to even hope to gain traction.
It's so clean like Apple Store but more cheap.
Just checked here in Sweden and only one online store (or at least store that I would trust) claims to have it in stock and they want over 1000€/$.
Only the no-longer-in-use passwords, which could be collected at the point in time when the user changes it to a new one.
China is a country not a race.
Neoclassical economics can't be correct, the obvious problem is the lack of liquidity costs/taxes as a way to balance out liquidity benefits. The system breaks down if you do the right thing, so you must do the wrong thing all the time.
I think there is a distinction between what people consider the first day of the week and what is printed on a calendar.
gbp / yen graph looks good for gbp though
It's a joke, get over it
Optional extensions pretty much signal the death of any protocol. It shows there is no longer any leadership or direction. Same thing happened to XMPP. A functioning and healthy protocol would just start with proposals and once they are well tested, bump the version number and list everything as mandatory. Then implementations can just say they will be dropping legacy_version in x months, update or become incompatible.
The United Kingdom is nothing if not a surveillance state, and their crime clearance rates are lower than ever. They seem to have a different set of priorities for their state surveillance apparatus.
Yes, from a seasonal perspective, the timing of a season varies idiosyncratically from place to place. That was the first thing I said. Why would you then want to locate the beginning of Fall on the equinox?

Quoting from your link:

> seasonal lag is not "seasonally symmetric"; that is, the period between the winter solstice and thermal midwinter (coldest time) is not the same as between the summer solstice and thermal midsummer (hottest time).

> In mid-latitude continental climates, [seasonal lag] is approximately 20–25 days in winter and 25–35 days in summer.

> there is no meteorological reason for designating these dates as the first days of their respective seasons.
> Do you also hate every story ever told?

I don't get why this should apply to every story.

> It is funny. You should try laughing at how dumb we are. It's fun.

Individual humans are stupid, probably most of the time, I don't disagree. But what this reminds me of is when people imagine stone age people as "ooga booga"-idiots, instead of human beings that might have not had access to the same technology and intellectual concepts that we can rightfully feel superior about. And as the narrator is implicitly taking sides with the alien, he too is looking down at us backward humans.

I don't know if you have ever met people who hate humanity and try to disassociate themselves the rest. They refer to us as "Humanoids" as if automata that they as superior being have the right to use and manipulate. It is a vibe similiar to this that I picked up, that I object to.
Amazon pro failed badly due to mismatch of service levels. Raptorsupplies.com is a similar one that's purely non-US though.
I think you might want to do some background reading on the US meddling in South America. It's uh...enlightening.
Not any more

edit: Nevermind, it seems to actually be available
Ecommerce filtering for electronics generally is terrible. I even made a hobby website for used electronics, specifically inspired by the precise parametric search we expect from McMaster and Digikey etc
They will probably offer their currency at a discount to incentivise to take it anyway!

Of course, that promise is only credible if they aren't near bankruptcy anyway, so I suspect that specific rule won't change much in how the game is played.

(Things like selling shares in one's properties, on the other hand, makes it possible for the game to go on for a really long time. Some games turn into complicated interlocked arrangements where nobody wants anyone else to fail lest the whole thing comes tumbling down -- much like in the real world. At that point the game is less about winning and more about finessing your way around a financial system.)
Org+babel is probably my favorite thing about emacs, magit being a close second.

I tried doing Literate Programming using this blog as my guide http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2016/06/21/optimal-emacs-..., but I got burned out pretty quickly. I think my problem was I put literally everything in a single README.org file, and it was so taxing scrolling up and down. I might try again but with multiple org files.
I use a browser extension called Window Resizer where I create 2 resolution profiles (1440x1080 and 1600x1080) and then use CTRL+1 and CTRL+2 keyboard shortcuts to alternate between them.
OK, but is that viable on a large scale or will only the top 1%-10% be able to make a living. Though to be fair, the current situation probably isn't much better.
A lot of argument here complaints that Linux is broken outside of Linux specific vendors or ThinkPads.

Well, how did it go for you to try and run MacOS on non-Apple hardware?

Maybe, sure you get a better experience with hardware supported by Linux. But that's a lot of bias in your opinion.