skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very likely that at its origin the Roman year started on the spring equinox.

That is why March was the first month and February was the last Month.

However, the astronomical rule was not followed later, and due to the inconsistent length of the year the position of the spring equinox had drifted from the 1st of March to around the 25th of March by the time of Julius Caesar.

The present position of the spring equinox around the 20th of March does not correspond to its position at the introduction of the Julian calendar, but to its position around the time of the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325).
> Also, for those interested, look up Swatch time invented in late 90s and touted as more logical replacement of the mess that we have.

There is Tranquility Calendar[1] that was proposed sometime back:

- Starts at the time when man landed on Moon. (Tranquility base)

- 1 year = 13 months each of 28 days (13*4 = 364) + 1 Armstrong day

- Exactly 4 week months.

Back in 2019, (50th year of moon landing) I happened to build a web representation of the same[2].

[1] https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48c6d4c3d54cf

[2] https://anoopelias.github.io/tranquility-calendar/
As someone working in the industry, I can say that unfortunately NHS funds are very poorly managed with lots of corruption within management. My believe is that a lot of the staff are passionate and hard-working, however at least an equal number of staff are worn-down, disillusioned and dispassionate due to years of managerial neglect and high public expectation.

There is also a believe that the NHS is a single national entity, which is not the case. Both Wales and Scottish have a national trust whereas England has 100's, totally 217 trusts as of April 2020 [1]. This does not allow for combined purchasing power, shared resources and causes duplicate effort in almost every area.

How about dentistry? Seems odd that for the most part that's not covered under the NHS. It wasn't until adulthood I understood all the jokes about British peoples teeth!

My hope is that we can move to another model that is directly free to the end user, reduce the eye watering waiting times and put the almost £200B annual funding to good use.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_trust
What is considered "normal" in some workplaces isn't really a good measure. It is true that requirements on suggested behavior increased in the last decade.

But it isn't a competition on who is the worst actor here. I agree that some companies seem to mirror the impulse to police behavior.

There is no racism to be found here. Your accusation is wrong and preposterous. It shouldn't even be worth a reply since there is no argumentative basis.
I remember years ago that Larry Wall said about Perl 5->6 upgrade: "We can fix some broken things." This was an item on his big list.
Same can be said about many of the examples in the tweets. :)
Never regretted waiting.
On a related note: the author links to his open source web mail platform Cypht. It looks cool and sounds promising. Anyone tried it? I can't remember if it has been on HN. The git history of the project is very active.
> you would never email someone you know directly.

Across countries everyone uses a different messenger app. For some whatsapp, other LINE, etc. Email is faster to make sure you reach them all.
I worked at the same company for a decade. There were three times the company did mass layoffs, and every time it trimmed a ton of long term employees.
They're related in time and space for sure.

> How is that true for a person who is born today?

A person born today doesn't need to buy anything from Amazon. They just don't. They may want to but it's not necessary. A person born 50 years ago doesn't either. Makes no difference when they're born.
I suspect that's why AW sleep tracking isn't improved well as GP said.
Jacques Patarin[1], my cryptography teacher at university introduced us with zero-knowledge proofs with a simple real-life zero knowledge scheme. All you need is 5 cards, 3 identical red and 2 identical blacks.

You give one black and one red to each person (Alice and Bob), and keep the last red.

The scheme is the following:

Alice will puts her two cards ON TOP of the remaining red card: to say yes, she puts her black card on top of her red card, to say no she does the opposite (red on top of black).

Bob will put his pair of cards BELOW the remaining red card, and to say yes he puts his black card at the bottom, with his red card in between, and to say no he does the opposite.

Then you cut the deck enough times to obfuscate who've done what, and you know that they've both day yes if you have the two blacks cards next to each other (or both at each ends of the deck). If anyone (or both of them) said no, you'd have black cards separated by one red card.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Patarin
> The corporations are now able to invisibly offload those costs onto their workers like never before. Remote workers love sitting at our kitchen counter with a laptop, and being able to go pick up the kids or do laundry in-between shifts with no commute, but in reality, we're now paying for the plumbing, to keep the lights on, to push bits through our Internet connections, and we're the ones purchasing office chairs and webcams.

You mean to tell me you don't have a desk and computer and chair at home? What kinda nerd are you? lol.

All of those things are sunk costs for me, whether I work at home or in the office. The cost of a little extra electricity and water is PEANUTS compared to what I was paying driving every day. I have far better workstation equipment at home than what my employer offered in the office, so .. with pleasure I use my own stuff. Plus if my chair wears out, I can buy another of my own choosing immediately. I don't have to file a facilities request and use some jank old chair my coworker was farting in for years. lol.

Seriously though, how much are you expecting your water bill to increase? Do you not take a shower and clean your house? Sure if I'm in the office for a full day I'll probably use the bathroom 3-5 times.

You're really exaggerating on how expensive it is to work at home. Don't forget the opportunity costs of being able to handle home chores during your breaks, or depending on your scheduling, being able to take a nap easily and conveniently mid-day. Or eating while working at your desk... (not allowed at my workplace's offices)
Both of these are readable code to me:

1. https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

2. https://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Would love to see a comparison with Org's Babel.
With a much different radiation environment.
Small correction:

> The passive past participle of this noun

should read

> The perfect passive participle of this verb
You are, people ignore how much their time costs when they start "saving" money all the time.
That's not even the thing that was talked about in the blog...
Wtóry is oldstyle "second" in Polish.
It has the tooling story figured out, but its type system leaves a lot to be desired
How do you know it's only the first sign of trouble?

Regular employees don't have the possibility to change companies from the inside, leaving is the only option.
It's the middle day of the work week.
It was life-changing when I discovered this, yeah.

... and then I moved into an apartment that has a microwave that has no mute option. I'm getting closer and closer to just finding and cutting that beeper wire...
I did - the bulk of my commentary was on the writing of the article itself. Not the topic of said article.

Also I linked to a wonderful series that goes into great depth of what should be done. One which I've read, it even covers the state level investigations into such practices.

Largely I think it needs someone watching these organizations, and probably a minimum number spent on delivering services based on endowment size to retain non-profit status.
As an aside, I find a little macro that expands to asm(“int3”) is useful for this.
Alas, for some reason they only cater to the US market and have no presence in the EU, for example. So while it is possible to order from them, it's rather inconvenient as you need to deal with customs/taxes.

Digi-Key got this right: you can order DDP, which makes things quick & simple.

Incidentally, I am amazed that they don't have a meaningful competitor in the EU. It seems most companies here are stuck in the 80s and dedicate next to zero effort to their web ordering process.
Spain and other countries, yes. Nobody wants the extreme instability of Italy.
Well the northern European will blame southern for not being frugal enough.

But this is the same as drug dealer saying their dead customer was not responsible enough. Yeah it true, but some people just are not responsible for their own actions and the dealer was happily benefiting all the time from him
It's less about loyalty to your current company, and more about the appearance of loyalty to your next company.
This is a fair criticism.

I think, if I had stopped at "hey look, Will Larson's model in this post wasn't realistic, this proves there's a bunch of people out there being mystical about system dynamics", this would certainly be a straw man -- but my argument went further. It's "hey look, Will Larson's model in this post wasn't realistic -- in fact, it's impossible to use stock and flow modeling to tell a realistic story about this subject matter, yet nevertheless here is system dynamics being peddled as useful in basically all contexts as a fundamental skill of leadership" which is not a straw man.
Thoughts on Internet Content Moderation from Hours Modding Volokh Conspiracy
The legends about the 10 month calendar are almost certainly a very late invention, which appeared as an attempt to explain why e.g. December is the 12th month.

It is likely that at its conception all the months of the Roman calendar were numbered, but some time later the months January to June were given names corresponding to important religious festivals, which were scheduled during those months.
Polish uses both "drugi" and "wtóry" for second (wtóry sounds old style, but most people understand it).
Restoring and reverse engineering parts of the historic Apollo spacecraft
Group Dynamics: The Leader's Toolkit
Assuming this is about free speech, I suspect that free speech is maintained by the instructors, but they can’t use it as a defense for saying the “wrong things” while on the clock. One could argue that what Florida wants them to teach is BS, but that’s a different argument.

This situation would be the same for any employer, e.g. if one works for Meta but insists on posting disparaging remarks about FB on Twitter, one will probably not last long at Meta. But one would still have freedom of speech.
Via Nitter: https://nitter.it/TubeTimeUS/status/1574220833530052610
That's because labeling items with attributes and filling them correctly is manual work on behalf of a multitude of 3rd party sellers.

Some of them do a decent job, most don't. There are also incentives to completely ignore parametric search and throw as many ads at the customer as possible instead of relevant results.
We're in a recession. Any time there's a recession, people become bearish and want to be paid in cash and not stock options. So it's bad times for startups. The good news is, the startups that make it though this will be the ones where people really made a product they were passionate about. Think Square or Skype.
Slint on Microcontrollers
I think the answer is some sort of licensing body (like the bar for layers), an oath or cannon of conduct are important too, but as a basis to regulate.
Agreed. There's always the risk of Google ending the project. Qt has been around for decades.
Ignoring the religious angle entirely, I've always thought it was weird that people consider Monday the first day of the week, because to me, Sunday and Saturday are at either "end" of the week, hence they are called "weekend" days.

If Monday is day 1, then Saturday is day 6 and Sunday is day 7, so Saturday is no longer a weekend.

(Yes, I know that you can argue it a different way such that it still makes sense with Monday as the first day of the week. But it just feels "wrong" to me, probably because I lived the first 15-20 years of my life without even knowing that anyone else didn't consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Stuff you grow up with is hard to change.)

(Relatedly, no matter how hard I try, Celsius degrees never feel natural to me. Ditto for kilograms when talking about how much a human weighs. I've managed to get myself comfortable with meters and liters, at least, though I still sometimes have to "translate" in my head for things to make sense to me.)

At any rate, I do wonder when this difference solidified. Was Monday considered the first day of the week in western Europe during the period when Europe was colonizing pre-United-States? If so, when and why did the US (or colonists in the pre-US) switch to Sunday?
To which "gpdr laws" do you refer, specifically?

GDPR is about protecting personal information (specifically, giving people the right to access, correct and delete personal information), and I do not believe showing a web page would somehow cause the web site to come into possession of my personal information and thus fall under any of the GDPR regulations.

In other words, this has nothing to do with GDPR.

Also, after we've had this tangent discussion, I would submit that if a site is (deliberately) available only to a part of the Internet, it should not be HN material. Unless HN wants to be a "US-only" site.
> and for 365 users, unless you got one of the more expensive accounts intended for large companies, then no custom domain names for your email unless you use Godaddy as registrar

I guess that’s US only? With 5 employees we are a pretty small company and this is not the case for us.
iPhone biometrics can’t be faked because the sensors can’t be moved between devices, each Face ID sensor uses a different random pattern, etc.

It’s also more secure than a password on a phone because if you’re using it in public someone can watch you type your password in.

Of course, someone might be able to clone your head shape.
Very cool! Does anyone know of such OSS tools collection for Windows? Desperately looking for some good solution for a server I run for a small office.
Don't choose password to make offline cracking hard.

Sounds exactly like the advice an offline cracker would give. ;)
>Airpods are the best headphone right now

No.
As a complete novice to Qt6 I managed to make a decent modern (ish) multi-page GUI CRUD app in a day, I would say the framework is pretty solid in spite of lots of reinventing the wheel (QObject??) and even has some nice parts like CMake integration and an okay DSL (QML)
So spoof the user agent.
It could also mean they stick around just as long as to notice that they have to deal with the consequences of the decisions they inherited and cannot change.
An easy one: Google doesn't sell your data.

For using it internally: health data is widely considered toxic. As in "I'm not touching that thing with a barge pole" toxic. I would personally be pretty surprised if Google ever started monetising it.
Depends on what you optimize for. If you want a good price/performance ration then waiting even longer might be a good idea.

Hardware revisions for retail are a special topic though. Depending on the particular device or part, a later hardware revision might just mean that the manufacturer found cheaper parts for assembly. Most consumer devices are tested quite thoroughly because competition is high. So it is not easy to say, but usually waiting a bit leaves you with advantages.
As a London resident I find the app Citymapper pretty invaluable for making public transport decisions, it makes good use of both “shortcuts” and current conditions on the line to give pretty accurate results. Worth downloading if you visit (it’s also available in other major cities but I don’t know if it works equally well).
This sounds like an awesome tool, and the "hacker spirit" of it really speaks to me.

It's really fitting to have a supremely technical and focused tool like this be described with things like "pretty C expressions" and (my favorite) "it's like find(1), but more fun to use", because obviously writing low-level C-like expressions to match against files is fun, most of all. Love it.

Also some of the examples are truly powerful, and at least I was not aware of any tool that could do things like this:

# Find executable files that are larger than 10KiB, and have not been executed in the last 24 hours:
anyx && sz > 10K && atime < ago(day)

# Find regular files with multiple hard links
f && nlink > 1

# Find symlinks whose ultimate targets are on a different filesystem:
texists && tdev != dev

Examples all cherry-picked from the manual page, and I picked the most terse version, more readable/explanatory versions using fewer built-ins are also available.

Many of the examples feel liks "I would never need that"-territory, until you do and then it's like impossible unless you write your own specialized tool to do it, or reach for this. Very cool!
You have 100 magic dollars in circulation and 10 basket of goods; 10 per basket of goods. Then, there only 8 basket of goods. No change in circulation. Still, now 125 magic dollars per basket of goods.

Goods production is down.
> Infrastructure to handle authentication on the web already exists.

Email does not run over the web, it runs over the internet. It uses a completely different set of protocols from the web, which were all invented at least 5 years before the first web protocol. Why should email clients be required to add HTTP support in order to make email work?

Maybe we should take heed of Zawinski's Law, and make all web browsers implement native email clients instead. Yeah, that's probably it. The Netscape Communicator/Mozilla Suite model should never have been dropped, and it was a mistake to separate Firefox and Thunderbird as separate projects!

/s
A lot, if not most, of the movements on currency markets right now is actually the US Dollar getting extremely strong. Pretty much all currencies are recording lows against the Dollar right now, as mentioned in the article.

Also note that the article does not use the word 'collapse', which is click-baity editing by the poster.
> Digital libraries destroy this balance. The content of books is available to everyone, instantly, at maximum convenience.

What you are describing is a wonderful result that happens to fail due to our economic system which requires everyone to constantly seek profitable activities to survive. If seeking profitable activity was optional, authors could write books as their passion drives them, and then share them with everyone for free on a global library. Most creators create because they want to do so, and the profit is incidental as they require some profit to survive.

But if we have an economic system that can’t handle maximum convenience of a free worldwide digital library, it’s worth considering systems that would allow for that.
If China wanted to hurt Australia it wouldn't be through the military, it would be through the economy. China is the largest trading partner for Australia but Australia the 7th for China (still significant). Not only that but how much of Australia internal economy also relies on chinese people? If China somehow forced chinese people to all return it could cause quite a disruption as well.
> a) password doesn't support 2nd factor.

FWIW, there’s the hacky way reddit clients authenticate: "password:OTP" instead of just your normal password. Not that MS could do that, but I wanted to mention the option ;)
> Interesting things they have had in the past include basketball hoops

They still have them: https://www.mcmaster.com/basketball-hoops/

Don’t buy their basketballs, though. They aren’t RoHS or REACH compliant (https://www.mcmaster.com/45425T23/)
Self-hosted software I'm thankful for
It eventually still boiled down to some kind of forced labour. Feeding those laborers for decades consumed ressources, which the rulers couldn't just magically conjure out of thin air... so e.g. farmers had to probably suffer from that.
Personally I suspect incompetence on both sides, rather than collusion or any intent.
What does "cut the deck" mean here, precisely? I feel like this word is fuzzy & can mean several things.
The person originally bringing this up referenced printed calendars always having Monday as the first day of the week, so it seems reasonable to use an observation of printed calendars with Sunday as the start of the week as a rebuttal.
Whenever Apple introduces a new design or some radical new features, then I believe it's generally a good idea. I don't think it matters much if Apple iterates over an existing design.
You guys delegate your healthcare to McKinsey?! Perhaps try Google and Apple?
That isn't the fear. The fear is that you as an author will not be paid for your work of creating and publishing the material because whoever wants a copy of the book will go pirate it instead of paying you.

Luckily, for now, piracy doesn't seem to be making that huge a dent in author income as far as I know. Many people find it easier to buy their book with one click on Amazon or one of the other storefronts, or read through a bunch of books with a single Kindle Unlimited subscription.

I'm not sure how long that will last. Some authors are updating their business model to include subscription services like Patreon, where they sell more direct interaction, character naming rights, early access, and additionally gated materials to dedicated readers. This is probably good to secure their income stream in the long term.
https://nitter.net/foone/status/1572260363764400129
As in, not plaintext passwords.
It’s mostly an excuse to accept fewer Asians, just as personality and interviews used to be one to not accept Jews.
Meh. There's cable cars that go above the treeline, and there's plenty of easy hikes up there that anyone can do without special equipment. That's typically where you see people hiking in street clothes.

On longer or more tricky routes I have never seen anyone with street clothes.

Also, judging by local news, the most common reason for needing rescue is going on hikes that are too long, not going on hikes with bad equipment. And it happens to people with proper kit all the time.
Not only: https://nascompares.com/2022/03/01/terramaster-nas-devices-b...
Words can have multiple meanings. And, some of those meanings can be based on ignorance, bias and sloppiness. It is fair to critique the use of words when they obscure actual meaning.

Appeals to authority is not mysticism.
Hijri calendar fixes some of the inconsistency. Day naming is just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, "gathering day", "rest day". Number of days in months are based on the moon phases. Days start on sunset instead of some arbitrary time at night.

There's also a clever, perhaps unintentional naming in days, where the first day is al-Ahad (The One), which is also a name of Allah (Unique, The One). So it's no longer some awkward Sunday or Thor's Day or Zero Day.
When dealing with the public, sure I agree. But not at all when dealing with (supposedly) professional bodies such as national governments, I don't buy it.

I'm not pointing the "overspending" finger either, just saying, countries should take responsibility for their actions, not complain at the enablers.
Well, this!

Except that the dead customer still owes 590 billion to (mostly) the drug dealer mentioned above and won't be able to pay it.

And the goods delivered were not drugs but things that usually don't alter your way of thinking (like cars, machines, ...), even less if we're talking about a group of people (like the government or a country of 60mn people)

Oh and there was also trading (i.e. delivering goods back), so Italy is not only consumer but also producer.