skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because leap day is at the end of the year, but at some time we moved the start of the year two months back (same reason why September through December now are the ninth through twelfth month of the year, not the seventh through tenth)

There is actually no hard evidence that the Romans ever started their calendar in March instead of January. The earliest contemporaneous use of the calendar relies on January 1 as the start of the year, short February, and with intercalation happening after (or maybe within) February.

The primary evidence we use to indicate that the start of the year shifted is... the apparently wrong month names. Some writers did describe a calendar that starts at March and ends in December, with winter basically having no proper calendar--but these are writers describing how their calendar worked several centuries ago, attributing it to mythological figures, and the explanation strikes me as very heavily a "just so" explanation.

If you want my hypothesis, the Roman civil year never started in March. But March would have had some amount of primacy, as it indicates the start of the planting year. Shenanigans in the calendar would have occurred in February to ensure that the equinox is properly timed to happen in March. But the civil year would have started closer to the beginning of winter for other reasons (perhaps taxation? but finding this level of granularity of information on Roman taxation is difficult).

In this hypothesis, the month names were not incorrect because they were never intended to count from the beginning of the year. Note that the first 6 months of the civil year have names, while the last 6 are merely numbered. It makes no sense to me that you'd make up special names for the first 4 and the last 2 months of the year, while skipping everything in the middle.
He should still carry a personal locator beacon, unless he has no friends or family. It would distress them unduly if he died when he could have been rescued.
> Also, for those interested, look up Swatch time invented in late 90s and touted as more logical replacement of the mess that we have.

Swatch Time is just a rebranding of French Revolutionary decimal time displaying the hour number next to the minute. It was introduced a bit before the metric system in 1793 but was made optional in 1795 and finally dropped in 1806. Swatch has always been extremely good at marketing but I don’t like crediting a corporation for something they didn’t invent.
Perhaps. But another way to look at it is, now you could live anywhere. Pardon the cliche but Starlink might a game changer, a paradigm shift. I don't disagree with you per se. But in this case the future might be different than the past. We'll have to wait and see.
I don't see the problem. HTTPS is basic internet hygiene. It's no worse than telling people they should mind their body odor when they're in a space with a lot of other people. Possibly indelicate, but undoubtedly true.
I'm going to assume here, that suicidal thoughts or depression are not involved. If any of that is in play, please ignore Internet forums and get some professional help and support. But if that's not the case, and you are indeed faced with a crisis--professional challenges, bereavement, financial loss or crisis, etc.--read on.

A few things: find something short term to focus on; try and get that done. Something as simple as chores around the house. Or maybe a movie or book franchise you want to work your way through. Might be inane, but you need a bit of that.

Don't be afraid to be alone, and to face your thoughts and feelings. It's doesn't feel great, but it's a necessary part of the journey.

Don't put yourself under pressure to get back on your feet, and be social and productive immediately. Stick to the routine, but don't be hard on yourself if you're not doing your best.

Most importantly, for the long term, just try and remember that things change. Your crisis may feel overpowering and all encompassing now, but it WILL NOT last. All you need is time. You'll benefit from other things along the way--hobby, support, friendship, etc.--but you WILL need time, no matter what else you get, support-wise.
Maybe it's optimal to have an obvious overflow state
Thanks for catching that, I got my English the wrong way round.
Depends ;). In Croatia its still called nedjelja (Sunday) and ponedjeljak (Monday).
Oh sorry, it does affect who must pay tax and how, but I think you pay more or less the same amount of tax either way.
That kind of ambiguity is everywhere, though. If it's Friday, and I say "next Monday", those two days are close enough that you may need clarification - do I mean "this coming Monday" or "the Monday after that". Or another example for day 1 = Monday, if on Sunday I said "let's do that next week", you may need the same form of clarification.
A Google search suggests that person may have been talking about the Black Dahlia killer, not the Zodiac killer
Yeah i don’t think Medicare even pays enough to covers the providers wages much less they building overhead and equipment
These days many people are working on tethered multi-copter based active radio "towers". The most interesting ones use single wire (~28awg) surface wave transmission lines with lightweight launchers on both ends to transmit significant RF power which is rectified at the multicopter to use for flight energy.

Balloons and kites work but they're much more difficult to control.
Go a video or a demo?
I'm mostly curious in what compression algorithm results in artifacts like these, and assume somebody here on HN recognizes them? But we're 225 comments in (so far) and not a single answer.

They're absolutely nothing like block-based JPEG, that's for sure. When I inspect the images Google Photos serves me in my browser, it is serving up JPEG (from the response headers). But is this an artifact that shows up in AVIF or WebP? I wonder if mobile clients are getting a different encoding.

The only objective thing I notice is that the artifact lines tend to track a line of constant brightness, so you seem them appearing perpendicular to gradients of light and shade. And that each artifact line is black/dark on one side and white/light on the other -- and that the white edge seems to be in the direction of darkening, while the black is in the direction of lightening.

Someone here who works with modern image codecs must be able to hypothesize what part of encoding/decoding must be bugging out here?
Yeah, this guy doesn't (as he admits) understand a skaters mindset or culture.
If you ride Indy's you're buying into classic solid trucks, and if you been skating a long time you are likely to be nostalgic.

On a more practical aspect, you don't want to relearn the feel of your trucks, and for what benefit, if the word was they grind better, or are lighter without a reduction in strength, maybe, but neither are likely to be more than marginal. Also skaters can be a bit superstitious, have a crap session, blame the stoopid new fangled trucks.

Anyway may take on it, but not skated for years.
Aliens don't exist? You seem very certain of that
A predicted drop of 1.4% of GDP is an economic catastrophe?
You sound like someone who did many pitches to VC.

“Everyone on earth breathes, so our market for oxygen bars is 8 billion plus users”.

Profitability of dead zones (especially with speeds lower than 2G) is not exactly high. There’s reason why they’re dead zones in the first place.
Depends on the person and on his specifics. A CS student should absolutely take time to learn to use these vim, awk, gdb etc. For a self-learned dev who is already working and already have his habits, i don't think this is worth his time.
This misunderstanding is probably where the idea that Monday is the first day of the week came from. Biblically, Saturday is the Sabbath, the last day of the week. But early Christians came together before and after work on the first day of the week, the day Jesus rose from the dead, which is explicitly the day after tue Sabbath. Eventually that day was also made a free day amd added to the weekend. But it was always the first day of the week until ISO redefined it.
Standards are the enemy because they allow you to use alternate client implementations.
As much as I loved 3Dfx (with a capital "D"!) by the time it was bought by nvidia, it was already on its downfall. It did some interesting things, but clearly, they couldn't keep up with nvidia.

I actually had some hope when nvidia bought it, but unfortunately, they killed the brand, only keeping "SLI", for something that isn't even SLI (scanline interleaving).

And yeah, open source drivers, but don't you find it annoying when you only get open source drivers for subpar hardware? It is unfortunately a recurring problem.
Humans are doomed.
Ok fine so hire one worker for 32 an hour instead of 0/2 for 16. It’s not rocket science, you just might have to cut hours or services.
> So, in summary: they fucked up and had a really stupid response, right?

Straw man fallacy. Not everything is so simple. Even though all cell embedded antenna suffer from the same or similar flaw of deattenuating signal when held as opposed to being placed on a grounded surface in conditions of poor cell signal, perhaps the tactic applied was to avoid consumer resentment. Perhaps the legal costs of proving innocence and the common flaw among all similar devices was vastly more than paying the settlement. In fact, I am sure that was the case. Apple took the more equitable high road.

>> What more would you like them to do?

> Nothing. It's just funny. They should probably avoid being ridiculous if they don't want memes about them to exist?

This is merely schadenfreude. Do not believe that it is so that you will find happiness in the misery of others. To do so denies that Karma is never broken, or if you prefer, denies the validity of Newton's 3rd Law of Motion.

Self-esteem has a negative relationship with the frequency and intensity of schadenfreude experienced by an individual; individuals with less self-esteem tend to experience schadenfreude more frequently and intensely.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
> He's written about in a famous book but historical records are spotty

Don't want to start a religious debate, but it really annoys me when for some reason, multiple documents that were later compiled into a book are not historical documents, just because they were treated as religious texts by the church councils 300 years later. The Bible isn't a book that Christians all sat down and wrote. It's a collection of many different historical documents written by many different people.
What's rule #9?!? I need to know!
So annoying to find the whitepaper itself. Seems it’s just on discord for now? Really weird.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021522007122251776/1...
"last minute tickets can be expensive" we used to call these walk up tickets and it was just the same price as everything (and not expensive).
Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
It's something people might do for a short period, or while looking for a better option.

A friend commuted from Coventry to London for a year. She moved there with her husband, but had one more year to go on her PhD -- using the labs at the university was essential, but there was also plenty of work that could be done on the train.
Dammit it's very hard to go a day without getting a very high ROI from reading HN.
That was JFK
If you use Firebase the syncing and offline access comes for free.

I suspect most of the first mobile developers used to be web developers and then they taught the future generations of mobile developers to also be like web developers. Query endpoints from the backend for individual features without building a local view in the javascript of the whole world. And slap some spinners and error messages on to give the illusion of responsiveness.

As for the backend, they just use whatever database they prefer.
Shopify is publicly traded and is an e-commerce platform. It isn't dependent on VC money to run, and neither are its customers. What happened was people shifted discretionary spending to e-commerce during covid, and between things reopening, having a fully-stocked home gym, and inflation, they cut back on buying stuff.

Wealthsimple might have funding issues (I'm not sure), but it lost a lot of use because again, its growth was driven by people bored at home.
The one at the end of the week, and not the start.
That makes sense for places where the week starts with Monday, but I guess this week means up to and including Saturday for Americans if it's actually normal that the week starts with Sunday.

I was always under the impression that Americans basically agreed on that the week started on Monday, that the weekend ended with Sunday and that next week meant after Sunday. I thought Sunday as the first day in American calendars was a "yeah, it's stupid we do it like that, but I guess that is how it used to be back in the days" kind of thing.
Can confirm. It's so cool. It's a shame neon signage has gone out of fashion.
> A lesson to be learned for anyone taking a job in a fast-growing company is to really think about the value that your specific job brings to the company.

Imo the issue usually is that interesting and value bringing work are usually not in alignment at these companies.

most companies i’ve worked at, no one wanted to work on ads and found them boring even though they brought in all the revenue.

everyone wanted to work on the experimental or shiny new thing which may not have demonstrated value yet.

but not sure if it’s worth working on the boring thing just for job safety
> I was tempted to think that these were just glaring, negligent design errors.

As a software developer, luckily I always find out very quickly why designs aren’t as bad as they might seem at first sight. You just delete the seemingly negligent design, substitute your own, and wait for the reports of the regressions. Then in a hurry substitute back the original design, with an additional comment.

Software development is easy.
Do you happen to have actually any data to truly make this point in a valid way?

A few of the most non-secular societies like Poland and Russia seem to belie this assertion.

Do not overestimate the power of religion here. Monks used to be purveyors of wine and spirits.

I'd wager that respectively fewer people drink now than before, mostly because other entertainment than a drinking place is now available.
> In America, libraries do not pay annual licensing fees for books.

We're talking e-books ("concurrent check out"), and they certainly do.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

> While consumers paid $12.99 for a digital version, the same book cost libraries roughly $52 for two years, and almost $520 for 20 years.
5% of Belgium's power doesn't seem tiny to me.
Peterborough is a commute of around an hour, was a designated New Town for precisely that reason and tops most people's list of least expensive London commuter towns to actually live in.

Sure, you can pay a mere £4k per annum for your rail ticket coming in from somewhere like Stevenage, but then you have to find a mortgage lender that will let you borrow another £100k (and won't have a more exciting locality or fancier house to show for it)
I would recommend Postgres and the best reason I can give is its very good "extension" ecosystem [1][2].

But I wouldn't go so far as migrating existing projects from MySQL to Postgres. Use Postgres on your new projects and let the old ones continue to use MySQL unless you had very good reasons to migrate.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/contrib.html

[2] https://pgxn.org/
I don't think the age of an article invalidates it's findings by default, but of course I'd expect new insights with the passage of time.

I'm doubting myself as ever in light of your comment, but the fact that there are studies, with any credibility at all, with a conclusion contrary to your earlier point namely that it is "definitively proven to greatly reduce the chance of HIV transmission from females to males" shows that that's pushing it at the very least.

And even if you're right, that doesn't excuse genital mutilation.
Jewish people celebrate New Year's Day on the first of Tishrei - which is tomorrow
And likewise, September is the 7th month, October the 8th, etc etc
A very accessible book which discusses exactly the intersection of Puritan beliefs and their treatment of American Indians is "American Nations" (https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Nations/Oc5VDw...).

https://www.chronicle.com/article/patriotism-and-the-puritan... is an essay on a related topic.
> May be the author got tired (or whatever he took started to wear off)

The author uses they/them pronouns. And more likely their ADHD episode started to wear down, rather than something they took started to wear off.
I think the line spacing is "comfy". Approved. For me.
You literally provide no evidence of your view, just assertions. Not even reasoned argument or examples. Just assertions. Assertions that lots of people who are serious experts in c++, library design, etc, are prima donnas.

You see how that isn't particularly helpful or constructive to discussion, right?

Maybe you'd like to at least point out the very large scale systems that are using and getting benefits from exceptions, as you claim exists?
I can't personally name a single one.
Wow, it used decimal time? That was always a bad idea - being indivisible by multiples of 3.
What if your belief is that “the US administration” is an inertial beaucracy that carries on regardless of who gets elected?

Obama ran on ending wars in Iraq and afghanistan, and then he got in and those options disappeared. Trump did similarly.

So what would it look like if the US had been run for decades primarily by unelected agencies, and the us media served them, not whoever happened to get elected?
I think this comment and the parent comment are key insights. My random thoughts and rant:

The extract of money to the rich has created the wealth gap: CEO pay , investors with money to invest, all of got richer when the money supply was expanding while keeping worker (actual producers) pay raise at a far lower rate.

Now that there are supply issues, due to different Covid rules across countries for global trade, and demand relatively high, the rich are looking for “growth” still. But with a cash tightening, they can’t borrow as much to produce goods at an accelerated pace. Hence “worker shortage”.

If CEOs and companies are cutting staff, the board should consider readjusting executive pay as well to save money and reallocate the savings towards hiring! It’s time to adjust executive pay vs. worker pay and shrink the wealth gap a little.

I don’t usually agree with Robert Reich as I’m more moderate than he is positions, but topic I’m in agreement: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflat...
I bought into a new community this year. When I signed late last year, most of the street was sold before the foundations were poured.

They're now building the next section, a few blocks away. Many of those houses are approaching completion and are still for sale.
> As the climate doesn't care about man-made boundaries, isn't that all the more reason gauge emissions on a per-capita basis, without reference to borders?

How do you do that? Measuring per-capita can't be done without drawing a border somewhere. Split it up by income?

> If migration could lower per-capita emissions as you describe, wouldn't that count in favour of that migration?

I pointed out how absurd that was, not that it was a good idea.
The problem is usually price and reliability.

You can commute Segovia - Madrid Chamartin on a high speed train (95 km, 27 min, 200 euro per month). Reliability and price are top notch.

A comparable commute is Cambridge - London (60 mi, 65 min, 500-600 pound per month depending on some details).

I have used both, and there is no contest, sadly.
Yeah, often people leap to "aliens" being some higher intelligence than us who will judge our poor sub-optimal decisions. Though to me it seems more likely that any life we encounter is more likely to be less intelligent, if intelligent at all.
I'm not a teenager any more either, could have something to do with it.
There are quite a few misunderstandings with his assumptions in explaining the story.

I know, I know, it's supposed to be for humor, but for those of us that have read and understood the historical basis of the calendar system, it really kills the effect.
Your 2nd paragraph is correct. No one actually thinks about when the week starts, it's almost universally understood to be Monday based even if the calendar says Sunday based.
https://youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk
This is incorrect. The US is hardly the only country where people consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Anyone with some understanding of the history of our weekdays does so, and that historical understanding is not limited to Americans.

It's also not true that the US is the only country to use 12h time; many countries do. Including mine. If you need to write time without ambiguity, you use the 24h format, but in everyday use and in cases where context makes it clear what you mean, people use the 12h format.
Your upstream comment made me think you were interpreting the linked article as saying "if something is traditional, it must be wise, thus we should follow it." But it is not saying that, by my reading. It is saying: because the pace of generational change is increasing, applying the Chesterton's Fence rule to traditions is increasingly difficult, thus many people abandon it and try to work from first principles."
Maybe it is both ends. Like book ends.
Is the reason you view it that way due to having anti-anti-porn sentiments?

Suppose instead of a app where a church community can see whether the person who has installed the application has viewed pornography, you instead consider someone who has suffered from alcoholism and is trying to stay away from alcohol, and wishes to be held accountable to others for their decisions.

(Now, of course, one difference between these scenarios is that alcoholism is like, a medical condition? but the analogy is about the type of intervention, not saying that the two scenarios exactly correspond.)

What one might call a "revealed preference" might not be a preference that the person who has it, endorses.

Suppose someone is finding that they keep distracting themself with some diversion (perhaps a videogame) when the course of action they endorse for themself is to complete some other task first. They might turn to their friend, hand them the (e.g.) video game console or whatever, and tell their friend to hold on to it until they've demonstrated to the friend that they've accomplished the task.

Of course, if someone doesn't choose such an arrangement, and it is foisted on them by others, then that can be more questionable,

but the general mechanism of using others, and the judgement of others, to guide one's actions towards what one wants one's future actions to be like, is legitimate, and can be useful.
Surely the main issue with winter in more northern regions is the significantly reduced period of the day for which any solar-generation is even possible. During the daylight hours there's still more than enough total insolation to heat the small amount of air we need to inside our houses, but you obviously need some form of storage (or incredibly good insulation, arguably a form of storage too) to ensure buildings can remain a comfortable temperature throughout the day and night. From a purely technical feasibility point of view, there's always sufficient insolation somewhere/somewhen to provide all our energy needs, but whether it's practical or economical compared to alternatives such as nuclear is worth doing the sums on.