skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since life on earth is affected significantly by the movements of Sun and Moon, the calendar has to be based on both their positions relative to earth. The calendar system invented in ancient India does this. Check out this illustration in the wikipedia page on Hindu Calendar for a quick understanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hindu_Lunisolar_Calendar....
Sure, but circles are geometric too :)
Right, gov't doesn't like competition
No, but it is a sense we use constantly: people instinctively avoid unpleasant odors. It's one of our most basic environment assessment tools and it's always active: we smell things to assess all sorts of properties, but chiefly "is this toxic/a biohazard" is pretty well coded into us.

Forcing someone to consciously suppress that impression upfront is fighting against some pretty basic "am I safe?" instincts.
>If job hopping continues, it catches up to you later in a career.

This is not guaranteed. You will limit yourself out of some jobs, but that's true with any career decision you make. Someone somewhere isn't going to like what you did and not give you a job because of their views. But as long as the pool of jobs is large enough, you can find something. If the pool of jobs shrinks so dramatically that this isn't supported, you might survive but you'll end up having a lower salary for it long-term.

These arguments seem to be against full time position job hoppers, but you may not be asking if they were doing contracts or purposeful short-term engagements. And perhaps a contractor is looking to go full-time. But before getting the full story, you've already made your decision.

There is not a optimal path which grants you maximized salary and maximized opportunities. The industry supports multiple career archetypes right now. Don't cast doom and gloom to make people feel anxious that they chose the wrong path when there are viable alternatives.
I'm 40 and just began managing factories and designing electronics, resolving machine issues and doing some electrical for the last 5 years. Absolutely a lot of it needs a refresh. Reading your recent comments I can see you know your stuff. Happy to collaborate or share ideas, please provide an email address in your profile. Can't answer the YC question, I did the online course and it was good but I probably got more technically out of the TechStars Venture Deals course.
>It’s a rough time to prioritize profit, because much of tech compensation is grounded in equity valuations. The prevailing wisdom has been that FAANG companies are the easy path to outsized compensation, but Netflix has dropped from $691 to $179 in the past 8 months, and Google has dropped from $2,965 to $2,181.

This is, arguably, backwards. Your package is salary + equity and the amount of equity is based off of current valuation. As an example, Google going from ~3k to ~2k means you get 50% more stock for the same dollar amount equity package.

It's probably the best time to join a FAANG. Certainly much better than those that joined this time last year and have taken a hefty haircut on their equity.
Ohh, that's a cool opinion!!! Thank you ^_^
If you enjoy this look, I recommend checking this out:

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
When a factory is a couple km long in either direction and a machine breaks the mechanics need to get their tool boxes there fast and safe. While street truck could be used (and often they are), a because of people walking around the top speed is no higher, and the trike is more maneuverable and so overall is faster than a truck.
The raises had to be approved though, right? It seems like an excuse to blame software for this. And it seems really off-putting that they wouldn’t just own the error, but instead try to revert it.
Portland, amongst others.
> Big corporations aren’t benevolent - the advocacy I see around OSS projects from FAANG (MAANG) companies is problematic. They don’t support OSS. They use and leverage it.

How is this problematic? For most of my career, I also haven't supported OSS -- I too use and leverage it.

Open source is relatively simple: it does what it says on the tin. If you make something freely available under a non restrictive license, you no longer own that thing. Sure, you may retain some copyright, but you've given it away. Why are people always surprised when those free things are leveraged? Is everyone truly this naive?

GPL, AGPL, BSL... they all solve different problems. There's no right answer. If you're building something and want to make money, then it behoves you to choose a license that strengthens your position to make money, rather than introduce a vulnerability.
Just loaded, after 20 attempts. ;)
> I’m under the impression that trigonometry is not extensively taught in middle schools and high schools in the USA

Education quality and quantity vary greatly across the country. Many schools don't require trig at all or lump it in with other classes. I memorized SOH CAH TOA and brute forced a CLEP test (the state of MN is required to allow you to test out of classes and to write a test if one doesn't exist; usually AP and CLEP tests are accepted, and they don't count for/against your GPA).

It's also culturally accepted to "be bad at math," with undertones of defeat and that it's the world doing that to you and not something you can change (maybe the blame lies elsewhere like with how math is taught as a sequence of dependencies and bombing one course makes the rest substantially more difficult). I don't know how many people scrape by a D in trig and subsequently forget it all, but I'd wager it's a lot.
It's the equivalent of walking in the store and having a sales person show up and ask what you are looking for.

Some people like it, some people hate it. I'm in the latter camp.
But they were mostly peaceful mountains. Right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_clownfish is what you are looking for.
The lack of perspective is astonishing.
You seem to imply that interruptions to watching passive entertainment don’t count as interruptions, is this correct and if so, why do you do that?
yeah. pretty innovative, love this kind of unconventional thinking. good “why now” as well with the iphone supporting esims first class
Related concept is ignorance is bliss; which can be traced back to around 50 BC:

“In knowing nothing, life is most delightful.”

- Publilius Syrus
Actually, I think explaining our calendar would be one of the more interesting points of discussion. In fact, the very fact that this is somewhat controversial with folks feeling our calendar is 'illogical' reveals a lot about the current generation's materialistic, efficiency-obsessed world view.

It's like we've all lost the ability to see and understand symbolism and tradition.

Things to consider about the calendar in the West:
1. The West was once a Christian realm. The calendar reflects this. Lots of interesting history here, starting at least with Constantine.
2. I only _this_ year have noticed a push to make Monday the first day of the week. My first thought when I noticed this: it's explicitly an effort to de-emphasize #1. Sunday is the first day of the week because of the importance of the Resurrection for Christians. Changing Monday to the first day of the week is basically the same move the Jacobins for example attempted when they reset the year to 'years since the revolution' instead of 'anno Domini'.
3. Not all the 'West' uses the same calendar. The Orthodox East generally still uses the 'old' Julian calendar. There is currently a 13 day difference between the Julian and Gregorian. This is one of the reasons that Pascha (Easter) usually is celebrated on a different day in the Orthodox East than the Roman West (yes, Protestants, you're still with the Pope on this one).
4. p.s. the process by which the Gregorian calendar was inplemented is actually a very interesting story. There basically was a missing week in Oct when this was done (around 1430 as I recall?).
5. It gets better. Some Orthodox like the Russians celebrate Christmas on the old Julian calendar, which translates to Jan 5 on the Gregorian.
6. (Main point!) the calendar itself is _liturgical_. Feasts, fasts, death, regeneration. All these things are reflected in the calendar. Liturgy is fractal. It happens in the Church and is echoed higher and lower throughout different hierarchies. If you are at all interested in this, please look up Jonathan Pageau. He has some great podcasts and youtube videos...

It really is quite beautiful.

Unless you are a nerd and just want us to switch to stardates. Easier to program I guess but thoroughly boring and dehumanizing.

p.p.s. It occurs to me that not everyone will understand 'Orthodox East' and 'Roman West'. By Orthodox East, I basically mean Palestine and the Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Eastern Europe, and Russia. Think the New Rome (Constantinople) and those lands once controlled by New Rome, e.g. the 'Eastern Roman Empire'. By 'Roman West', I mean Western Europe and those nations colonized or influenced by Western European countries. Perhaps more simply, 'Romain Catholic' realms.
Well some of that code had a license that obligated them to, not kosher y'know
Well it was how life was. I was a product manager and then an analyst and I got phone calls from various people all the time at my desk. It was just how business worked. Yes I was grateful when someone just asked a simple question by internal only email instead.

And yes you called friends out of the blue because how would you communicate otherwise?
I agree, Steve is very much an AMD fanboy. When I called them out with him complaining about AMD not supporting certain models of motherboards such as the B350s and cheaper hardware, I pointed out that AMD never said they would and their wording was only for current X570/X470 and B550 and B450 boards at the time. Not the older stuff cause it just wasnt doable. He lost his shit at me in the comments of the video and proceeded to say how wrong I was and AMD had promised him that they would support all mother boards into the next generation (Zen 3). I still watch their channel but that argument left me some bitter moments with Steve.

I agree with his take on Userbenchmark as that site is a piece of shit but it also seems that Steve is turning into Userbenchmark AMD version given his numbers always seem to be topping intel over compared to other reviewers like GN. He claims he is unbiased but his review titles and thumbnails say otherwise. The guy just seems like an overall douchebag who gets butthurt when anyone critizes his favorite brand. (P.S I own an AMD system lol, 3700x here.)
> But a democratic state today can become autocratic 50 years from now.

It can happen in years, nevermind decades.
It works well for switched on companies. I've spoken to very small SAAS company CEOs before via it, which is effective. Maybe something to discard over time.
Has author actually seen a CRT TV image in real life?

Because it didn't look like that, you didn't have those clear distinct lines.

Color CRT displaying a game, no lines: https://i.imgur.com/eI2yb7Y.jpeg

Black & white CRT, you can barely make out the lines: https://d23gn3985hkc32.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/202...
Oof. This is one of those not-even-wrong cases in which the misunderstanding is revealing.

Math education is so lacking among people who could really benefit from understanding it. Sad state of affairs.
I'm not hand waving it, I literally did it. It is not easy but also not some terrifying abyss. I think in such scenarios it doesn't help people to present this as a really big problem, they are helped with the reality: It is something to do if you want to do it. If you do want to, you can. It doesn't require a significant lifestyle change, just regular exercise time (even once a week makes a big difference in most people). It's effort and it's not fair, but it is eminently available to almost everyone.

Edit: I'm sorry, I glossed over the "force of personality" part. This might take you a few years to get right, but since it boils down to "be more assertive" the only way to get better is to consciously work at doing it. It is the same as building any other habit.
Imho if you're ok with the GPL v3, the AGPL v3 is almost always the better choice. The spirit of the GPL is "if you change it for anything other than internal use, you have to distribute the changes", and the AGPL just logically extends the enforcement of this to services provided over the internet.

The AGPL v3 and GPL v3 also contain provisions to make them compatible with each other (resulting in AGPL terms for the combined work, but the GPL parts remain GPL).

The FSF goes a bit more into detail on this: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2021/fall/the-fundamentals-of-t...
Sounds like a great implementation of the wrong solution. Rather than locking down SIMs and phones it would be better if we stopped using phones and/or SMS as a means of identification/authentication. When SIM/eSIM is no longer used for authentication then the threats posed by SIM Swap attacks go away as well -- without the need for gold-plated SIM security solutions.
hmmm very interesting, not sure why that could be happening! I can see loads of people are reading it now but i would have thought our server (arranged on vercel) could handle it
I'd wager that this person wasn't doing a lot of travelling around cities during rush hour commutes.

>I travelled quite extensively throughout Europe by train in the last three months and of all countries visited it was the UK which had the best record when it came to trains running on time as I don’t think I had one which arrived more than five minutes late.

This particularly struck me as odd, as when I used to commute by train from to Manchester just a few years ago, I tracked at least 25% of my trains as being late. The latest train was 1.5 hours late (going from Manchester), constantly being updated as being 15 minutes late... then another 15 minutes... I was about to bite the bullet and pay for a taxi as it showed up.
News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63028118

Labour commits to renationalisation of the railways. Shadow Teansport Sec:
“Labour in power will bring our railways back into public ownership as contracts expire.”

Looks like someone finally noticed there is something very wrong with John Majors railways privatization.
I almost always enjoy the faffing around "well I don't like JSON personally therefore it's a bad fit for email" in every one of these threads.
He's moving it from working memory to long term memory :D
Considering most of the market will only hold stock for under 4 months, one may find the idea of a long-term investment hard to justify.

In general, shifting your equity into index funds, and keeping 7% in high-risk markets is a good balance. If you are a family with young children, than that risk-exposure ratio should drop to under 2.5%.

Depending where you live, additional community programs can offer substantially higher than normal returns with tax resistant programs like Education funds for your kids, Disability savings accounts, and First-time home-owner grants.

As a side note, it has been my observation that few people ever see an actual return on in-house stock options in startup tech-companies. Additionally, a purge of senior-staff often happens before a firm transitions into the markets. It turns out, that more often than not these contractual incentives are just a tool to help drive down salaries, or even work for free with the truly audacious cons.

Some have found utility in copying those who can break Market restrictions. ;)

Congress member holdings report:

http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-search.aspx

Senate member holdings report:

https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/
I just wish we spent 1/20th as much money in walking and cycling infrastructure as we do on car infrastructure.
The primary motivations for having a secondary citizenship is reducing your exposure to political risks and giving yourself visa free access to more countries. For example, traveling with a Russian passport is more challenging now than it was before the invasion of Ukraine. Some countries limit issuing visas to Russian citizens. A Russian traveling with a non-Russian passport will have a less frustrating experience in some places.

Not an expert, just sharing some information I’ve seen around on the subject. Do your own research.
Yes. I like idling in Q/A channels (mostly IRC or Matrix) to handle support requests or answer questions from time to time.

Even if I'm not a core dev or even a seasoned user, I can often help debug, point to the documentation, or ping relevant people/forward to proper channels.
I agree with you. People confuse their edge case with Math as a whole.

To sum it up: "Computer Science has nothing to do with Math!" ;)
Try any cryptography textbook! This is the whole point of zero knowledge proofs: that you can convince someone, yet they have no evidence (i.e, "zero knowledge") that they can take to another person and expect to convince them.
I’ve had mostly good experiences with Aliexpress though you have to read the fine print on everything very carefully - I think most people would have a lot of problems with that. There have been a few times I ordered electronic components and received ladies handbags or, hilariously, a toddler size leather miniskirt. I did get a refund in all those cases but it was a multi week process.

I did think it was pretty funny that the same tweezers CVS sells for $7 a piece in midtown Manhattan costs 5/$1 on Aliexpress. Only difference is the CVS tweezers are available immediately whereas I had to wait 20 days to receive the ones from Aliexpress - though I more or less have a lifetime supply now. :)
I have the Helm email appliance, and what it does _not_ come with is a webmail interface. (It does have Nextcloud, though). I put Cypht on a different box to access my Helm mail, and it was very useful.

At the moment it is down because I did a migration from one host to another, there is some sort of login problem on the new box with the old database. RSN I'll have time to diagnose and fix.
This mentions the Elasticsearch situation, but there's nothing the GPL does that would've helped Elastic.
There's two meanings to attractive... One is you like them physically, another is 'a lot of people would like them', or more prosaically, 'a lot of people would like to have sex with them'.

You can see who other people are attractive (either famous or around you), and infer from there.
I used to do both on the same line (Bath to London), and it ranged from so egregiously expensive that a small group of us who needed to travel looked into chartering a helicopter as potentially cheaper, to a very pleasant and very cheap trip. All depended on whether you were going on a weekend or not.

Even a first class ticket is not a guarantee of a seat on a weekday morning…
So Microsoft want you to switch from (awful) Basic Auth to a Microsoft-modified version of OAuth, is that it?

I don't use Microsoft mail services, except as SMTP destinations. Does Outlook not support Digest Auth? Digest Auth certainly isn't perfect (I seem to remember that it requires an extra roundtrip), but it's not a security disaster like Basic Auth.

My main problem with OAuth is that it's hard for users to understand. If we expect users to use the internet securely, then they need to be able to know when that's not what they're doing, and I don't know any ordinary Joe that I could explain OAuth to. Hell, I implemented OAuth once, and now I can't remember how it works. It doesn't help that OAuth is a moving target.
It looks like what happened is employees got a fixed number of RSUs. Their pay letter assigned a hypothetical value to those shares based on an incorrect stock price. So Amazon is probably not changing anything in the raise itself but rather correcting the hypothetical future value of the RSUs.
I've already bought two steam engines this morning. The ads were pretty convincing.
Yes, this is the topic of the fine article and the point that is being made. Ideally both of the multiplies (one in the user code to multiply by pi and another in the engine code to divide by pi) can be omitted.
here is a preview for you -- for three or four years after being a thirty year old hot-shot on some current in-demand tech, yes.. great life consulting.. fast forward ten years.. "people over 35 should consider retiring" and no consulting.. at the same time, massive, huge outsourcing to the lowest wages, for newer tech stacks, and maintenance mode for lots of things that were current.
I get that it's about being funny, but the roman calender is not completely universal either, there is at least Iran, my home country and afghanestan which has the solar hijri calender as it's first official calender which is very much logical and accurate. You can visit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Hijri_calendar
For more info

Also in Iran the week starts with saturday.

If you look from an american or a british person these are all valid points and I got the fun and laughed but couldn't help my self not saying all these
And I'm sure Iran is just an instance
Yeah, I understand why the author wants to turn it into a probabilistic argument, but it doesn't quite work with the circular cave analogy. You need something where the entry and the exits are different, and Mick Ali were able to use his secret to affect the outcome at the exit.

What if Mick Ali were going down one of those twisty waterslide tubes, and could say his secret phrase to shunt himself off to a different fork, so he could come out at a different tube exit at the bottom?
By far the most annoying myth I face when trying to discuss the pros and cons of various education techniques is the pervasive idea that everybody is a magical knowledge sponge and will go to their grave still remembering how to integrate by parts and every detail about some particular battle they covered in seventh grade, and therefore, if we slightly tweak a curriculum plan to drop something that was included on theirs we'll be stealing that knowledge from all the 70 year olds who will eventually have been on that plan.

Where this idea comes from I have no idea. Personally looking around in school itself it was plainly obvious this was all going in one ear and out the other for the majority of students even at the time. The better students retained it long enough to spew it out on the test but that was already above average performance. That doesn't mean there isn't still a certain amount of value in that in terms of what that knowledge may do to their brain during the brief period of time it is lodged in there. (I think there's a lot of value in just learning the "shape" of all this stuff, and perhaps having some index of what might be valuable to know.) But the idea that we can spend 15 minutes and a one-page homework assignment on something and expect that to last 60+ years is just nonsensical.

I mean, honestly, anyone over the age of 22 or so ought to be able to notice a distinctly sub-100% retention rate simply by looking inside themselves.

Yes, to a first approximation everyone with a normal education in the US has been present while some sort of trig was discussed. Not all of them, but still quite a lot of them, were present for the Taylor expansion discussion. The vast bulk of them have had it decay by 25, and there simply isn't anything to be done about that if you're talking about humans and not some homo educationous who mythically retain all knowledge they were exposed to even for 30 seconds just as the mythical as homo economicus perfectly rationally conducts all their economic business at all times. Perhaps they're actually the same species.
assuming our brain is a CPU, the 4-working-queue-short-memory is basically our L1-cache. We need L2 and hard drive for longer term memory, otherwise the system can not really function well.

however long-term storage is just one vital factor, another one is the 'deep learning' neurons that understand the content it stores and more important to connect the dots among various neurons.

we need both: understand and store. Neurons do both for us.