skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many places in the US, anyone can get a card to a library.

So, if everyone had that knowledge, it actually would mean the entire world.

In the county I have my card with, they give a card number over the internet without any kind of address validation, so anyone willing to lie about their address can get a card there. I'm sure that's true for countless counties.
Yes. It should end with “…and this is the best system we’ve found, because all other ones were ditched for being too complicated.”
Have a play with https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/Season-Calculator...

My old commute into London was £3,660 per year - standard class. Pretty close to 20% of my net at the time. Plenty of people do it because big cities are where the opportunities are.
Video summary:

01. Enforcement of movie theater policies (talking, using smartphone)

02. Lower the ticket price (complicated because of studio leverage - explained in the video)

03. Fewer ads and trailers

04. Make it special (only available in the theater)

05. Have some fun (special screenings)

06. More variety (of movies)

07. Embrace streaming in the movie theaters (e.g. drop earlier before streaming on TV)

08. Change with times (sports, live events) [1]

09. Mask the screen (mask the screen to the correct film aspect ratio)

10. Share the love

Not mentioned in the video, but mentioned in the comments: dim projection and even dead pixels.

[1] This is already happening at some movie theaters - showing arts performances of concerts, plays, opera, ballet
This isn't a uniquely Canadian problem at all, it's just Canada experiencing the pain of the wider tech sector.

Ultimately, it's the same issue as what's happened (and happening) in the US: the VC fun money dried up, and it's no longer cool to be an unprofitable business with a lot of "growth potential". Now tech leadership is being forced to balance a budget and figure out a path to profitability instead of just perpetually increasing revenues at negative margins.
I read an opinion piece somewhere that Starlink is just busy work to keep SpaceX launching rockets, but because gestures at Google I can’t find it. This Twitter thread nakes this theory plausible.
> They managed interstellar travel, we did not. That inherently puts them at an advantage to us.

It means some species that is/ was out there has an advantage. The species that actually visits us could be less intelligent than us but just intelligent enough to operate the equipment they dug up.
I'd love to hear the logic of why Monday should NOT be the first day of the week.
Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum
He was a journalist, but he was also working for the Washington Post in particular, and he was an US resident, and the details of this murder where particularly gruesome. No need for the jab about the media here.
> London is its own kind of beast with the tube/overground

To do well in London you really have to know the city (or at least the areas around your start/end points).

Especially as you get towards the centre of London, there are lots of opportunities for "cheating" (i.e. getting out and walking is much more efficient than going to your actual destination station, or, worse, changing trains).

If you want to go that extra step, memorising the tube map (or at least the central areas) also helps because then you can consider your re-routing options based on the actual live status of the tube (I say "actual status" because London Underground ALWAYS lie about the actual status .... i.e. they will always declare "good service" until they really can't avoid admitting the truth, by which time the service is truly up the spout)
It might also be written by someone who isn't a native English speaker. Most of these sentences are valid, but as you note, the wording is pretty strange, almost like they were written by someone who is choosing words from a dictionary without any knowledge of what sounds "natural".
The Julian calendar didn't have the divisible-by-100 rule, every other fourth year was leap.
Go = GOAT
https://archive.ph/imxwA
You are misinformed.

The railroad union got screwed. For one they didn’t get an actual contract. As far as I can tell they got Tentative deal that was used as a procedural trick to delay the strike till after the midterms. It’s not even clear that there was anything in this “tentative deal”.
More importantly the strike wasn’t about pay as much as it was about absolutely terrible scheduling practices. Employees were on call 24/7/365 had to show up at very short notice, couldn’t take vacation or sick leave etc. There was no promise of actually fixing any of the problems in that deal.

This happens a lot in union strikes, workers want better work conditions but instead the union negotiates like 1-2% more pay and the media reports it as greedy unions getting overpaid. Even though that’s not what the workers even wanted.
> Modern theory says that lightning is the amplified voice of a distant pulsar

It does?
I have not checked out a physical book in several years, but I use my library card to rent digital media (primarily audiobooks) all the time.
The first time I visited the UK, a train was slightly late and at the far end after I'd disembarked I noticed a man in a bowler hat, absolutely red in the face. "The train was TEN MINUTES LATE", he exclaimed at the station master. "We're still recovering from the storm", said the station master. "The storm was TWO WEEKS AGO. I can't believe you've still got trouble".

I was very impressed by this bowler hatted Thompson&Thomson character's high standards. Of course, eventually I moved to the UK to live in London, and found that he must have been disappointed very often indeed.
This is just more garbage, surface level aesthetic observations (the ideas vs aesthetics interest differential in human personality psychology is a running theme with this stuff) that bear no resemblance to the actual mechanics of what are going on.

'Wholesale Wokery', which, as usual, is confusing correlation and causation
Are you arguing against the use of links? Have we really gone that far?
Landing on Venus would be ridiculous.

However, Geoffrey Landis has (among others) proposed that we put an atmosphere-floating habitat "on" Venus. PDF: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20030022668/downloads/20...

Abstract:

Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the atmosphere of Venus.
> to extract a structured set of what the model "knows"

To be fair, that's impossible in the general case, since the model can know things (ie be able to answer queries) without knowing that it knows them (ie being able to produce a list of anserable queries by any means significantly more efficient than trying every query and seeing which ones work).

As a reducto ad absurdum example, consider a 'model' consisting of a deniably encrypted key-value store, where it's outright cryptographically guaranteed that you can't effiently enumerate the queries. Neural networks aren't quite that bad, but (in the general-over-NNs case) they at least superficially appear to be pretty close. (They're definitely not reliably secure though; don't depend on that.)
The Mozart of Modality
https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-machine...

They opensourced (some) of the logic used for how it works
Mostly because Saturday and Sunday are collectively known as the weekend and it doesn't make a lot of sense to start the week in the middle of what everyone agrees is the end of the week.
We should start first be redefining the second: 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom. It's too long anyways, we can easily perceive time down to at least 1/60th of that.

So let's call it 150 million oscillations, and refer to it simply as "time", since the word second only makes sense in context of an analog clock anyways. Then we can start rounding the other weights and measures accordingly until everything is nice and clean. It appeals to the OCD in me, despite the societal chaos that would ensure.

But then the universe will undoubtedly throw random numbers at us like π or the fine-structure constant and mess it all up.
Iran in particular is very good to keep those foreign military intervention checked on their place without even having any deterrent like Nuclear bomb capabilities.
Who said it's a metaphor?
I think it’s similar to that, with some critical point at which the behavior makes a discontinuous change — as seen from the examples:

- the gambler goes broke

- a sink carrying over 100% capacity can jam

In general, if you have some kind of system where there’s a “critical threshold” and a discontinuous (or even non-linear) result for crossing it, then approaching that boundary will be increasingly dominated by that effect, as the distribution of events starts to cross into that regime.

For the example of a queue, the odds of a packet failing due to delay suddenly spikes as you approach “full capacity” because the variation in packet timings causes it to “cross over” that boundary for brief periods, the closer the mean of the distribution moves to the critical threshold.
Thank you very much! I've always disliked it. Uncomfortable, bedding is spare, and overall not that much fun. And people often tell me I'm wrong. I've only ever been twice on it and disliked it both times. I take the day trains now instead.
There is something I find a bit confusing with the idea that we should find ways of degrading plastics.

Our big concern right now is climate change, and it is in large part driven by CO2 emissions. Plastic is sequestrated carbon, degrading plastic means finding life forms that turn plastic into CO2. Why do that when we are trying so hard to avoid putting more CO2 in the atmosphere. And should we want do destroy that plastic, we can burn it in furnaces and use that energy for ourselves.

As expected, the article mentions unproperly disposed plastic that ends up where it shouldn't be. Plastic-eating mushrooms won't solve that problem unless they work and spread in the wild, which is highly unlikely: these solution usually require very specific conditions. For example PLA is technically biodegradable, but unless you are using an industrial compost plant, it won't. And if these mushrooms work in the wild, we will have a bigger problem...
He mentions one first class journey.

That's easily affordable by booking well in advance, I sometimes even did this as a student if it was £5 more or so on a £50 ticket.
University of Delaware 1959 Campus Master Plan [pdf]
Rust can't easily bind to many modern, high performance C++ libraries because it lacks a fair amount of the semantics of C++.
Reminds me of the imperial measurements debate.
Think tanks will publish research on "both sides" and then they'll apply for funding and donations based on their "insight."

Their site is full of dual-side research. CATO is a known offender in the Washington policy scene.
I'm guessing that these wristbands will be mandated for other workers eventually, and then the general population. Consider this report from the Economist last year[0] about efforts to put CCP "embedded party organisations" in Chinese businesses:

> It involves an app that shows members how many points they have scored for volunteer work, for taking part in political study sessions or for submitting “thought reports” (a device much-loved by the party for ensuring discipline, as it forces members to expose their own weaknesses). Score less than 60 points in a year and you could be summoned for a chat with a party official, or sent for retraining at a party school.

[0] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/06/23/the-part...
Couldn't this whole thread just be condensed to: we have a thing called culture which is not completely rational or efficient? I'm sure the aliens would get that - they would probably have something similar, albeit with different irrationalities and inefficiencies.
But there are two ends of any line, one on each side. Not two ends, both of which are on the same side.
You're missing the forest for the tree. I wasn't giving instruction for exercise, I was making the miniscule point that all running requires is to run. You have entirely ignored the major point I was making to construct your straw man. All I was arguing was merely that exercise, getting fit and keeping fit, does not require wearable computing accessories to gather data second by second, the true purpose for which is stroking vanity. At these scales, the measurement is too refined to be useful. The odometer on your car does not display millimeters for a reason. Human memory and geographical awareness does the same work for free and apparently is more accurate.
A Tiny Tool for Collecting Website Response Time Statistics
Augustus and Julius stole a day from February so theirs' would be long ones.
I’ve thought the right thing to do would be to put up ~10% of production to auction to take revenue from scalpers.
That's helpful, though comparing a (perhaps) 1900kg missile that's 53cm/21in in diameter with a ~1000°C exhaust temp to a bullet isn't quite right.
If I check out your book from the library, do you consider that theft?
>Consider a world without antibiotics

In a world without antibiotics I’d rather not want anyone getting within 10 feet of my son’s penis with an unsterilized blade, thank you. Not to mention the whole “direct oral suctioning” tradition of some religious groups [1], which sounds like a recipe for spreading herpes and other goodies.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/safe-bris...
Days of the week in Hebrew are numbered from Sunday "Yom Rishon" (First day, lit. "Head Day") to Friday "Yom Shishi" (Sixth Day). "Saturday" is "Shabbat" ("sabbath")
I worked as a substitute teacher for a Asberger and Autism class. Half of them seemed to be there because they played Magic the Gathering. And the other half had obvious clinical difficulties with interactions.

I was quite perplexed by the width of severity of who was eligible for the class.

There was certainly a overprescription of needing to go in that class -- or maybe the diagnosis itself.
Finland will have one operational next year. [1]

That aside, even in a worst case scenario, nuclear waste destroys local ecosystems. That cost would still be worthwhile if we can prevent the destruction of the global ecosystem.

We're at a stage of impeding global disaster that I'd rather have a 50km exclusion zone around Asse (or whatever other site) than not being carbon neutral or negative.

But then again, nuclear waste disposal is mostly an unsolved problem because it's expensive - and the resources aren't being allocated to it because it's not seen as a priority, not because it's impossible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Julius and Augustus you mean, both were Caesars (Augustus, AKA Octavian, was adopted).
Because weekENDs. There are two ends, one at the beginning (Sunday) and one at the end (Saturday).
Larry Page’s Flying Car Failure Is a Lesson for Us All
Not to mention that quite a few countries are also missing those 12 days, but in completely different years. Greece did so in 1923, for example.
See your point.

More likely like a co-op that’s data driven for decision making.

To me, technical committees rarely are making decisions that impact themselves and rarely responsible for actually getting things done, which to me is part of being scientifically driven.
You make a great point about fiscal policy. Around 2010 we saw the beginning of the end of the Fed and Congress being able to work together on monetary and fiscal policy, and that clearly made Yellen (a labor economist with some Keynesian leanings) a lot less confident about raising rates. Powell seemed to substitute this with an uncomfortably close relationship to the Trump white house, which wasn't actually a real replacement for good fiscal policy. I was actually hoping/guessing that Biden in 2020 would replace Powell with someone his party preferred (even if it was Lael Brainard, who is a little too left-leaning for my taste - Raphael Bostic would have been great), but I guess Joe Manchin got in the way of that.
We should seed Venus with microbs that consume amonia and the other chemicals on Venus, starting at least to make it habitable.
"Object-oriented" is a niche technique.

Any big-enough system will naturally have some OO-ish parts, just because it has some of almost everything. Most small programs will have none.
There’s no going back. I routinely mess up 8 with October now.
There was a more significant effort to decimalise time (and the calendar to some extent) after the French Revolution, along with introducing the metric system everywhere. People hated it and they eventually switched back. A bit of related trivia is that France only accepted the Greenwich Meridian on maps/charts on the condition that the international meridian conference (of 1884) also concluded that the convened nations also resolved that decimal time was a good idea and they should work towards it.
How about three 90 day quarters comprised of three 30 day months and one day in between each quarter for each solstice and equinox day? You can add a day or a week periodically to keep it synced.
Season ticket from not that far from Brighton is the best part of £5k a year. My good friend who commutes from there earns £40k before tax from his job in London. So I reckon some people pay 20 percent or more if they have a job they can only do in London, and for various reasons cannot living in London.
“You’d be learning about how people work in deep space, without committing yourself to a full Mars mission,” he said.

All of these "Not Mars" people always seem to fall into the same boat where they know there's zero point to sticking human beings and life support systems into an observation probe so they trot out this "it's good practice, guys!" horseshit. Scientific progress is not the point of putting the first set of boots on Mars any more than it was the reason for first climbing Everest. The point is to prove it can be done. After that you can quibble about the most efficient method of further human spaceflight development. It's like they're standing in the way of us learning to walk because they insist we figure out the best brand of shoe first.
Ask HN: Most interesting technical articles you've bookmarked
I spend a lot of time reading technical articles, and sometimes I just can't find the good ones worth reading.

What are some articles you think are good? Please dump your bookmarks!
Tried this the other day but couldn't figure out how to use it. Is it invoked from eshell, dired, a pdftool buffer, or what?
The fact that Rouhani got elected and became a president and JCPOA got signed and so many catastrophic events happening by that administration shows there's a democratic election.

Impossible to think if it was a "dictatorship", such person would be elected in the first place.
Honestly I didn't find it funny, maybe because it ignores the reasons of the inconsistencies, that by the way are perfectly understandable looking at space.

Months are related to Moon's orbit, weeks to its phases. Months have other gods's names: Janus, Phoebe, Mars, Aphrodite, Maya, Juno... Julius and Augustus were emperors and from that point are just numerals, starting at March. It was associated with Mars because Romans used to go to war in the Spring.

Asimov had an excellent chapter on calendar in his divulgative book The Universe, explaining why it's not so easy to design a regular "logical" calendar.
Lovely, I was wondering who did that. :)
I can't understand the author's issue with Zuckerberg wrestling. I especially can't understand how it "seemed designed for maximum outrage."

>Mr. Musk’s blockbuster deal for Twitter underlines how the tech industry still operates like an old boys’ club.

Can anyone explain this line?
I’m pretty sure the alien calendar will be even weirder. ;)
On HN? Almost certainly more. I was wondering what PS5 could possibly mean in the context of OS dev!
I don’t think it’s via JS, it’s via WebAssembly. WebAssembly doesn’t use JS, it’s separate, although you can interface with WASM via JS.
TIL: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/opinion/global/24iht-june...
It's like London, but the overly-compressed people are more polite and the air doesn't get quite so.. thick because the carriages are much bigger.

Also, the trains are on time, so there's no waiting on an overflowing platform for 10 mins of no trains then 30 minutes of trains too full to get onto.

Having experienced both, I'd take Tokyo anytime.
the world can be quite brutal, and different. we're not special. it's upsetting when we get a reminder, but maybe this is a chance to learn that much of the world is.. not so nice.
Your statement is false. You can both pause service and sell the equipment to someone else when you no longer need or want it.
The lag would be enormous between galaxies, unless we invent quantum entanglement, in which case the lag is also irrelevant because you can teleport yourself.
As an unashamed imperial units enthusiast, now I’m sad we don’t have different ones for current and potential.

But at least we still have horsepower! My PSU is a 3/4-horse unit. My toaster oven is a full horsepower.

I like it.
There's some Javascript you can run in the browser console to read articles normally:

```

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Both of your first points are factually incorrect - I’d have to imagine some bubble-bias involved, but many countries aside from the US use the 12 hour clock and start their calendars on Sunday.
> The Tokyo subway during rush hour is anything but heaven.

I've done that.

Its busy for sure. But it works. Even if crowded, its still punctual and high-frequency.

Still preferable to a London rush-hour.
Two pints in a quart! Two quarts in a 'pottle'! Two pottles in a gallon!

Except nobody remembers what a 'pottle' is.
Sounds a lot like Lotus Notes!
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-destruction-of-...
I stand corrected. Didn’t see these AD’s.

Also it appears that in 2005 there were about 100 AD’s issued in response to flight 800 center tank issues.

Finally, I never stated that there was a coverup.
> I saw the original video the user that reported it created. That guy was a deceptive idiot. It was obvious that he used trial and error to find a strange, finger-spread death grip that duplicated the issue in the most severe way. What is bazaar is someone that was obsessive enough to develop a grip that produced the issue with the most effect, and used it for personal benefit to gain notoriety.

That'd be compelling, except it started as wide-spread intemittent reports that the signal strength was just awful, but only for some people. This came up before anyone had any explanation yet, so couldn't possibly have been caused by a youtube video with a particular grip.

Turns out you just have to bridge a gap in the exposed antenna, there's no insane death grip required. It happens way more for left-handed people.

If it happens for every phone and every manufacturer equally, why/how did Apple fix it with a case?