skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always use https://fast.com/ for speedtests, it's hosted by Netflix (I rarely use the Starlink app after initial setup). I checked just now and clocked 71 Mbps, 160 Mbps, and 120 Mbps on 3 different runs.

Running the Starlink app, it's clocking 108 Mbps (within same range reported by Netflix).

Just tried speedtest.net and clocked 152 Mbps.

Sometimes speed can drop temporarily when satellites fall out of range, so I would try multiple times over a 2-3 minute window to get a more accurate average.
Lol sure.
With respect, I think it is reasonable to assume post primary school education. The example given is perhaps a poor one.
This thread is filled with "So what!?" imo.

Like this part:

"and we further subdivide the months into 'weeks', which is 7 days."
"ahh, so each month is an integer multiple of weeks?"
"that would make sense, but no. Only one is, sometimes"
"SOMETIMES?!"

What does it matter?
Better for paypal, not the victims. To be clear: I don't support their actions, but I think its easier to correct them if we don't moralize for a bit and look at the incentives they're responding to.

There isn't a good solution for people who have their funds frozen that I'm aware of. :(

You can mitigate your risk ever so slightly by being setup to be able to accept bitcoin: it won't get back seized funds but it can make a blockade by commercial actors even coordinated ones less damaging, but how viable that is depends a lot on the nature of your business and it certainly isn't without it's own problems.

I wonder if any insurance policies for small businesses might cover account seizures?
My mobile strongly disagrees
Definitely the best comment I read on this thread.

Not sure if this was the intention, but I read it as both recognizing the original post as funny, and yet recognizing that we (as in humanity) aren't "stupid" for having this complex system, but that's just how things develop.

Having both views live together is the best take on this.
In "The C++ Programming Language", casting is described as a tool of last resort. Bjarne says he likes long winded cast operators because they stand out as an easily greppable marker of complex code. I wonder if this perception is changing.

Personally I like the explicit names, even if I can appreciate the argument that the proposed mechanism makes the templating system more generic.
"Those who would give up essential User Experience, to purchase a little temporary Security, deserve neither User Experience nor Security." - Benjamin Gates
Nahh, postage is $12.99; I can save that by driving 5 hours each way tomorrow to collect it - unlike you wasteful people who stupidly pay the postage and have it arrive the next morning /s
I think they are uncommon because torx drivers are always bigger than the head of the tool. They always taper down to the size as part of the design, so that doesn't work well for most applications.
Not if you never give it access!
I used to fix machines at an insurance company in Wisconsin that was so big people rode those tricycles with baskets all down the hallways.
Too hard to watch a perfectly good device being destroyed
At this point I’m carrying so many electronic devices with me or at home that I’ve give up on going out of my way to prevent getting tracked. My best effort is to trust Apple doesn’t sell me out.
A problem with phone calls is that they interrupt no matter what. The person calling have no idea if they are interrupting.

If I am in my home with family or in the office with colleagues they can look at me and check if I look busy/occupied and then decide if they want to interrupt me.
TLDR: you cannot.

I am saying they are independent concepts. Basically, if you stay for one year it is not possible to learn the effects of longer projects (very valid point you mention). _But_, staying 10 years does not mean necessarily that you did learn from 2-3 years cycles. It will be _possible_. It could mean you are very good at deflecting, coasting, or playing golf with the right people, among many other possibilities.

Unrelated: today is on the news that Unilever's CEO will be resigning after 3 years, which also seems short to me.
> Cambridge is infamously time consuming to get to by train

Why is this?

I know the story about the University insisting that the station be far from the center of town to make it inconvenient for students, and that Peterborough is on the ECML, but I don't see good reasons for Cambridge being hard to get to. There are direct express trains! It's not the North where everyone's trundling around in Pacers.
I'm also not a fan of the "alien-who-is-really-the-writer has an objectively superior and judgmental perspective" genre, even when it's trying to be funny. Some movies: K-PAX was one, Powder, another.
So is it astronomical season or weather season? Weather varies between locations.
The Admiral Wilson UFO Memo [pdf]
What hoops are you referring to?
Regarding the password, Google requires you to use an App Password, e.g. a password used solely for POP/IMAP, separate form you Google password. I suppose setting up POP/IMAP nowadays would involve:
- Enable POP/IMAP in GMail settings
- Set an App Password
- Enter email address, full name and App Password in Thunderbird first-time use wizard.

I suppose this can be a pain if you are not aware of these 2 settings, for newcomers they would likely need a tutorial. However this setup is really a one-time process.
Cheap VPS with your own setup. Only communicate theiremailadress@yourdomain.
0 spam.
Telephones and asynchronous communication have very different use cases. There are many situations where asynchronous is much better, but when some complexity comes in and would require lots of exchanges, a phone call is much more effective. I often picked up the phone and called someone after exchanging several messages (e-mails, text messages or anything else), solving the issue MUCH faster than if it would have been by message exchange. Most people also can speak much faster than they type.

Of course, there are problems with the phone system itself (let's just mention robocalls), but it's just a matter of time before you'll get robomessages on any kind of messaging platform too, although maybe they will be easier to filter out. Robocalls do happen on phone because that's the platform where most people are reachable (and because it's easily doable on scale).

And there are problems with call centers having completely incompetent people answering. But this doesn't mean that the problem is inherent to the phone...

Finally, phone is one of the few really interoperable telecommunication systems (like e-mail is, but mobile messaging platforms like Whatsapp/Signal/... are NOT, at least not until the EU will oblige them to, which is planned). Imagine if you could only receive calls from people using the same phone brand as you, or anything similar...
Whoa I love SMTP and email, as a distributed systems nerd I'm a huge fan of the federated protocol and it's simplicity but JMAP I'm sorry is garbage. The http/json part is great, the potential to simplify email access and use is great, even using DNS SRV records is a potential good use of DNS and a compliment to MX records. But the actual JMAP protocol is horrible. This is something built incrementally for fastmail, it's not how you design a protocol. We need to go back to square one and redesign and access and communication protocol as one thing that's ultra simplistic as a building block and starts with very basic primitives. JMAP combines too many things while being very ad-hoc and custom not taking into account a lot of progress made in things like gRPC protos, etc. Tempted to build it from scratch just to prove a point.
If circumcision as a tradition gave cultures an evolutionary advantage due to medical benefit you'd expect that it would've spread farther, yet we see basically 1 small insular group and another much more recent, semi insular group adopt it. The vast majority of men on this earth are uncircumcised.

Foot binding probably led to reduced STD tranission as well, due to women being unable to leave the house and become sexually active (which was part of the reason for it), I don't think medical benefit is a good defense of violating a human beingst agency and bodily autonomy.

There are other cultures that have other circumcision traditions that are much more brutal, I don't see any arguments for their medical benefit, and I think this argument about medical benefit is a rationalization for defense of a cultural tradition after the fact.
What was the motivation and how was the process of the rewrite?
See the FAQ on pilimi.org
>have higher taxes

It bears repeating for the zillionth time that the US spends more public money on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the UK.
Unfortunately, people are now often fighting with their own devices for control over which 3rd party services they access. This sometimes means that you have reasons to MITM or block traffic your own devices generate if you want to control aspects of who you actually send data to, or what data you actually send.
Protecting firefighters from PFAS toxic foam
I like your attitude, so... why not contribute!

Spend a long time writing a good quality book (like my father did, he wrote several, years of work went into each) then give it away for free. See how it feels.
> At $WORK we have libraries that are use std=20 features (...)

That's specified at the package/project level. You're inadvertently proving my point.

> (...) and only expose a c++=14 interface because that's what expected by our clients.

That's also configured at the package level, because the interface headers need to be included in translation units from projecta configured tu be C++14.

Again, you're also inadvertently supporting the point I made.
> Stand on the right of escalators

This surprised me when visiting the UK.

I actually expected people to stand on the "left" of the scalators - just like how they drive on the left and overtake on the right - but they didn't.
They stood on the right.

I was left puzzled ???
This seems pretty old (2011) to be altogether relevant for all the new typographic techniques of 2022 on the web.
> I couldn’t disagree more. I want to see commitment, not leaving at the first sign of trouble.

This goes both ways though - employees want to see commitment too - not layoffs at the first sign of trouble (or, often, no trouble at all, but just opportunity to improve short-term numbers by outsourcing to cheaper locations). Want people to stay for a long time with your company? Perhaps you should advertise a policy where you don't lay off staff even if company is in the red.

Notably, government agencies don't do layoffs, and people working there are much more loyal than people in the private sector, even though government pays less.
Some users experience corruption of older images stored in google cloud.
The set of people I would exclude for shiggles include non-Christians.

Except for the New Testament, there are only 2 other known possible references. One was altered by later Christians, and the other could have referred to a Jew named Chrestus.

Without other external motivation, would this be enough to establish historicity?
Hmm. Have you tried buying Spanish tickets on thetrainline?

(For a while in the early 2000s the best way to buy UK train tickets was through the Deutsche Bahn website; exogenous ticketing is weird, but presumably they've already done the API work to simplify it for you)
Citation needed.

Also - relevance?

The tagline being questioned here is—

“People don't change their minds”

— the problem with which is not that it’s “simply untrue” but that it requires qualification, e.g. in the prose of the linked article it’s written:

“To a good first approximation, people simply don't change their minds about anything that matters”
It's enough to compromise one CA for TLS to be entirely defeated - any CA can sign a certificate for any site, and TLS implementations will accept it. The only defense is pinned certificates, but that comes with its own problems.
I would step on that and immediately assume someone forgot to put it back together
Then there are timezones and daylight savings time...
Curing the pandemic of misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines with evidence
War is already upon Europe. The only question is how long will it take for the European troops to get involved in the Ukrainian conflict, against Russia. Hopefully before Putin resorts to nukes...
Agreed, I think the separation between SMTP (as used for submission) and IMAP makes sending emails unnecessarily complicated.

Edit: From a quick glance it seems like JMAP actually supports submission.
For the record, I'm an atheist that just happens to be interested in biblical archeology and philology. I got no skin in this debate though.

There is very little question that Jesus the human being and Roman subject existed, professed some sort of fanatical messianic religious messages, and got executed for it. Stronger than any evidence for Jesus directly is the evidence for the existence of his brother, James, who was a respected religious leader in Jerusalem for about 25 years after the death of Jesus. It is James that Josephus was writing about--Jesus is only mentioned to explain who James is, "the brother of Jesus who some call Christ." But in addition to this one near-contemporaneous reference, there is also a dozen or so writers who talk about James in the 2nd century. That is a century after his death and the death of his brother, but these writers seem to be working from largely different sources so we can infer multiple historical accounts that would have existed at the time. If we agree that James existed, then the strongest argument for the existence of Jesus is that all of these motivated, non-Christian secular writers of the 1st and 2nd century would have been in a better position to know whether Jesus had existed, and if there was any doubt they would have definitely smeared James as having made up his imaginary brother. But none of them did.

If anyone is interested in this question btw, Reza Aslan's Zealot is an approachable book on the historical Jesus, what little we know for certain and the surprising amount we can confidently infer from the available evidence.
Can you elaborate on how you would make your own set up? Always meant to do this for at least enquire how but never got around to doing it. Thanks! :)
Oh, is that why Tolkien had Frodo throw the Ring in the Fire on March 25? And then King Elessar made that day the first day of the New Year. And the tradition held on until the 18th century. Huh.
To be a proper zero knowledge proof, it mustn't prove to bystanders that Mick knows the secret.

With your simple proposal, everyone watching is convinced. In the more complicated version, only the person calling left/right knows for sure. As far as everyone else knows, Mick doesn't actually know the secret and the reporter colluded with Mick to pre-arrange a sequence of left/right calls.
Although dental coverage on the NHS sucks, British people actually have quite good overall oral health outcomes. If you google, you can find that some studies place British overall oral health ahead of the US.

For anyone who's spent a significant amount of time in the US this shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Middle and upper class Americans have access to excellent dental care, but if you spend some time in the poorer parts of town, you'll see plenty of people with missing teeth and other severe dental problems. NHS dentistry is poor, but it's better than nothing (which is what a lot of poor Americans effectively get).

There's also the aesthetic aspect of it. Europeans in generally tend to be culturally less interested in tooth straightening and whitening.
Ok, go ahead and consider alternate economic systems.

But until we have that new system, would it be alright to continue to respect the wishes of authors who have created creative works under the current economic system? Consent is important. We can’t opt them into our hypothetical passion-driven economic system where is everything is free against their will.

Individual authors might opt in, and it’s fair game to pirate their work. But let’s not decide on behalf of other people.
macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
> I'm not religious, but don't really consider myself an atheist.

Oh, an agnostic.

There is something to be said about groups of people that hold similar ideas because their similar way of thinking lead them to similar conclusions. It's a very important exception to the OP's description, where the group came first, and may even be the most common kind.

(Of course, the question to answer is why do those people think in similar ways.)

> part of the group of software engineers by trade

I'd bet that one lead you into adopting some values.
Don't look at the geography, look at the travel time.
Can you suggest a source that is more consistently correct?
He has a college degree, albeit non-STEM. This stuff is taught in middle/high school here if you're not in STEM.

Also I've taught coding bootcamps and after a few batches, I set up expectations that, no, you can not learn programming from "nothing" like the ads say. You're expected to know touch typing, basic math up to algebra, and how to open files on your own device. Those who don't know these things should get a refund and try again for the next batch.
It's a joke. But I think you're underestimating how malleable it is.

In the US, DST was changed in 2007. Many states have yearly discussions about it. The leap second was introduced in 1972 and many have been inserted since.

In Taiwan, years are often counted from the establishment of the ROC. https://www.todaytourism.com/travel-guides/Taiwanese-calenda...

It IS kind of broke and people are trying to "fix" it pretty often.
Didn't know about JMAP - had been looking recently for open JSON-API-over-HTTP protocols, good to know.
For landlords it is a massive shift, many of these office jobs are simply not coming back. I know companies who have downsized office space after the pandemic, and others who wish they would have done that since they have a ~10-20% occupancy rate on a weekly basis.

It is really too bad that zoning and the construction of the towers prevents them from being transformed into housing, be it affordable/subsidized or not.
I'm not familiar with that nursery rhyme, but it sounds like it's based on the same misunderstanding that lead to ISO 8601.
I think the more important question is why are you still supporting this ISP by being their customer?
This permeates all online discourse and a good chunk of face-to-face ones, too.

Try this sometime - choose a position (in politics or whatever). Use the terminology and dog whistles of the "other camp", but argue the opposite policy.
Standardized roles don't exist in any industry anywhere, and from both sides to be incentive is there to fudge responsibilities. From a business perspective, advertising for current trends makes talented applicants more likely to apply. On the flip side, an applicant likely wants to have a DevOps title even if they are simply doing clickops, as it makes them more appealing later down the line with 4+years experience in the title. "Title inflation" happens in all industries - you see it with people being called senior engineers with 2-3 years of experience, for example.
On-site you can only consider jobs in your city, or with reasonable commutes, or where you would be willing to relocate to.

Remote, you don't have that restriction.
No one in physics dares say so but the race to invent new particles is pointless
I agree on a general basis, with the caveat that sometimes there's a sea change that warrants being an early adopter (the Apple M1 laptop series comes to mind)

With major OS and software upgrades though, I am all for waiting at least a few weeks till the first patch release comes out.
Oxford English Dictionary says: classical Latin Māius (adjective and, short for Māius mēnsis , noun), probably < the name of a deity cognate with the name of the goddess Māia (see Maia n.) and with magnus great (see magni- comb. form).

For April, on the other hand: classical Latin Aprīlis, use as noun (short for mēnsis Aprīlis month of April) of masculine of Aprīlis of April, of uncertain origin; perhaps < Etruscan.

(Oxford English Dictionary is a great resource. In the UK you can often get free online access through free membership of a public library.)
The reading material is essentially an entire twitter thread saying "nuclear is the beginning and the end of the answer and everyone who is against it is not thinking right. Anti-nuclear sentiment is rampant and the problem". I found it profoundly uninteresting so if you feel I should have gotten something else from it, perhaps you can enlighten me with what that was.
The broken turbines in question were sent to western factories which repaired them. If they weren't broken it would have been noticed. And recall, the whole point of sanctions was to degrade Russia's industrial capacity by preventing them from repairing things that depended on western parts, so this is very likely a priori.

Anyway it doesn't matter. NS2 is there ready and waiting to go, but Germany won't switch it on ... due to sanctions.
Yeah this article turned out not to be Wirthwhile
AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now
Andys Working Notes
That seat arrangement was because they were converted British Leyland buses.
Ask HN: Do any of you have a completely unrelated second job?
From time to time I become frustrated with the non-tangible nature of the products I work on. Then I start thinking of starting a second, completely unrelated job or business. Something like refurbishing garden furniture, simple gardening, or even working as a janitor has come to my mind.

I read about an entrepreneur who always had the dream of becoming a bus driver. When he had a successful (non bus-driving related) business, he made his driver's licens for buses and started working as a bus driver on weekends.

Do any of you have a completely unrelated side job, that you don't do for monetary reasons? Do you enjoy it? Would you recommend it?
Do those jobs really pay less when you take into account pension benefits? Pension benefits are worth a LOT and continue to increase in value as people are living longer.
Have you considered disabling non-https in your browser, and blocked outbound port 80 on your home router?
> Other nations with "good health care" seem to pay their workers less, have higher taxes, have long wait times at the ER, weak militaries, etc. Something always seems to give.

What is a "weak" military for you, and what does it have to do with healthcare? The UK has aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines (including 24/7 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile patrols). Only an ignorant American (and maybe Russian) would consider that to be "weak", because they're so used to the militarised culture and massive spends that everything below blowing half the budget on tanks is "weak".

As has been said many times, the US spends more public money on healthcare, per capita and as % of GDP than everyone else, and had some of the worst outcomes (infant mortality, birth mortality, life expectancy, etc.) of all the developed world.

It's not a matter of how much, but how. The US system has middlemen to manage the middlemen and mind boggling prices and practices. Other systems are underfunded or with corruption here and there.

Would you prefer to wait 2 months to see a non-urgent specialist doctor for "free" or have it in a few days, but billed $60k hoping your insurance covers it? I know that most people prefer not being bankrupt over speedy non-urgent treatment. And US nurses are still paid shit for terrible working conditions, so it's not like it's them getting the extra money, it's mostly at middlemen and to a lesser extent doctors.

The solution to the problems exhibited in systems such as the NHS are more funding and focus (e.g. helping more students get to doctor/nurse positions to ease the burden).