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If politicians have the ability to borrow, they will generally make use of it.

Which is why the weaker currencies were a much better fit for Southern European countries. Creditors would expect a high interest, due to high inflation, thus limiting the politician's ability to borrow money.

I do feel northern Europe (especially Germany) is partially to blame, since they were very much interesting in increasing their exports and the Euro was the enabler.
Without Paywall: https://archive.ph/LvblX
How would the colloquial understanding of the first day of the week get divorced from what's printed on calendars, though? I feel like one should inform the other, no?

Out of curiosity, if you have a calendar app on your computer, does it start with Sunday or Monday?
> Do you have multiple high quality implementations for supporting mbox or maildir in nearly every language and framework in active use today?

Yes.

They're builtin to Python's stdlib [0]. There's dozens for JS. Part of the PHP stdlib. [1] A number for Rust. Several for Go. And so on, and so forth.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-createmailbox.ph...
I don't know about Java, but in Python, 99% of the modules I create respect the 1:1 mapping between modules and filesystem.

Same in Rust, the overwhelming majority of modules I create is in the standard filesystem <-> modules mapping. For generated code, I use the special syntax that allows not respecting this mapping, but that's once in a blue moon.

IMO, C++ should have taken the same steps: providing sane, correct and easy defaults, while allowing the flexibility to override them when necessary (with special annotations).

I'm disappointed that a modern C++ feature was designed in the long tradition of having bad defaults instead.
The worst thing about biometrics or hardware devices is that someone can force you to give them out in my opinion. If I have a 6 word passphrase which I remembered, no one can get it unless I give it to them (Yeah, I know there's still some methods https://xkcd.com/538/).
Since we're all donning foil hats in this thread, I may as well join in and suggest that "thought control" is already plainly evident and rampant.

See: manufacturing consent, cultural hegemony, capitalist realism, etc.
you will notice a rapid lack of upwards ('vertical') movement in that video.
So ... you have issue with people maybe having kids (whether their own / adopted, etc) or perhaps having family in an area (cousins, parents, etc) ?

This seems odd to say the least.

As I stated, for longer termed positions that require some stability matching the duration of a capital build project we look for people that have had exposure to a variety of past experiences and some demonstrated ability to stick something out coupled with some indication they making long term plans.

Which bit of that goes agin your HR policy?
Is it possible you are using wrong terms here, or perhaps don't completely understand what this is about? For starters boards have 4 wheels, completely different from the 2 wheel countersteering business, and the axis is offset from the pivot point in all truck designs?
I was thinking of: Hobbits and the Hard Right: How Fantasy Inspires Italy’s Potential New Leader (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933425)
When you target the general population, it's sadly more profitable to design for exploitable, manipulateable, lowest common denominator. You can only have nice things if your consumer base isn't generally morons and you are therefore somewhat protected from predation by unscrupulous companies.
In Canada? Software engineers are traditionally not well paid there. Plus I assume gangs of other kinds of engineers are always beating you up for calling yourself an engineer without an iron ring.
I mean this is fine if you just abstract away those people being fired as resources without feelings, bills, families, or opportunity cost…
Patens need a exponential tax, so its only worth to cling to those worthy. First year is free, 2nd year is 1000 $, third year 1000 ^ 2$, etc.

Research Endavours that do not bring in the money have to be funded and spearheaded by government programs (as they often are already).
Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms
And the same applies to C and libc.
I mean I'm conservative in that I care about using the legal process before blowing people up. Jesus, dude.
Your furnace will either use very little electricity if it burns something else or it is exactly the kind of thing to shut off since your home can already buffer heat quite effectively. Allowing room temperature to drop by 1 or 2 degrees is preferable to blackouts.
I've had it confirmed by on of the top two mobile OS providers, that their email developers have JMAP on the roadmap.
One of his best recent work was his post on Audible.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audibl...
How many of those unsolved crimes involve a serial killer who taunts the police/public?
Besides giving a block of code a name, functions also reduce the scope of the data the code can possibly be acting on. They also introduce a namespace that lets symbol names focus on locally relevant information. How did this huge refactoring patch you are describing hold up in code review?
I'd agree. The Series X has atleast 2 large cavities near the intake and outflow vents.

These alone must take up like 5%+ of the volume.
> but I am a highly experienced software engineer with a deep understanding of network protocols

Thank you for your service
It's not bad, some things are just missing. E.g Night light doesn't work on Wayland with Nvidia drivers.
The natural expectation to have is that males and females are different, have been different since 300K years ago (and even longer than that), and have been described as being different in the last 6K years of man made records. Try to change this nature by policy, or any other artificial incentive, and it will fail.

An anecdote: from all the children in my family, not a single girl ever picked the hand powered drill from the toy box and went chasing a piece of wood to victimize. It is just nature.
I'm not sure what kind of users you observed, but I have switched fully to Mac (as a developer from linux+windows) after seeing how quick devs can be on a Macbook. Dev conferences are full of macs and most of my dev friends made a transition to Mac and I have not heard one complaining about any workflow speed. Actually the opposite and so is my experience.
For those of us with Unix-y mail setups the move to OAuth2 can be a bit tricky, but there are now several different programs to help (spurred, I suspect in no small part, by Microsoft/Exchange's stance). The ones I know about are:

Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy <https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy>; mailctl <https://github.com/pdobsan/mailctl>; mutt_oauth2.py <https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/mutt_o...> (some suggestion that it might not always work these days?); pizauth <https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth>; oauth-helper-office-365 <https://github.com/ahrex/oauth-helper-office-365>. Disclaimer: I wrote pizauth and it's just about to move into the alpha stage.
People mostly remember Caesar as a ruler, however in 63 BC (5 years before the Gallic wars) Caeser managed to get himself elected as Pontifex Maximus (chief high priest).

Adjusting the calendar was as part of the duties of the Pontifex Maximus. They decided public holidays and they decided whether to add an "intercalary month" (at the end of February which used to be the last month).

There are many interesting things to say about this but since this is hacker news I'm going ro focus on one:

Caesar was away campaigning a lot and the Pontifex could adjust the calendar only while physically in Rome. So many years went by without calendar fixes.

After having benefited from the confusion and the edge he had by understanding the calendar (like knowing he could safely cross the Adriatic when his opponent assumed that crossing it that given month was a bad luck) he decided to fix the calendar so that it doesn't require a human in the loop.

In a way, he automated himself out of his job.
Both "optimal way to achieve X given Y is Z" and "setting P as your goal leads to Q" are facts.

So in fact science also gives you ways to achieve your goals and even to evaluate and change them to better suit you.

You can see this in very simple model that is chess. The only thing chess engines do is estimate how good a position is. But that's plenty enough to win against any human player.

As for "meaningful" lives - culture can be a source of meaning, and it can be a cause of lack of meaning (for example if you happen to have a calling to become a pilot but your culture forces you to become a housewife instead).
The biggest problem with state-managed health care is when you get ideologues in control who's ideology is "state-managed things can never work well", because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. A lot of European countries have spent the past decade or two attempting to privative their health care to varying degrees, since the ideology says that will make it cheaper, but instead it has just gotten worse.

> does someone have a good read

The question is complicated enough that any writings on it will inherently have a bias since there are so many details that are easy to ignore in your favor
> If politicians have the ability to borrow, they will generally make use of it.

This does not absolve the politicians, nor the electorate.
I am a complete ignorant regarding economy but one thing I was quite certain about was that when you print a lot of money, then your currency devaluates. So why given that the US have printed huge amounts of dollars in the last couple of years, the dollar is winning both against the Sterling and the Euro?

Is it just that war in Ukraine have made investors ignore the huge inflation in the dollar?

Maybe after the midterms the dollar could have a crash if the democrats lose?
> but there are no extant contemporary records describing the switch.

We have something of a philosophical disagreement; I would argue that the names of the months themselves constitute a contemporary record describing the switch. It doesn't tell us when the switch occurred, but it tells us very clearly that the switch occurred.

It is true that the record might be accidentally or deliberately falsified; perhaps the months were originally named after unrelated concepts and the names got revised into their numerical forms over time. But a formal history suffers from exactly the same problem, and it still gets to be called a "record"; I don't see why we would consider the fact that our ninth month is named "Month Seven" not to be a record of a shift in the beginning of the year [or rather, in the beginning of the sequence of months].
How to build a habit-forming product
The world would be a slightly better place if everyone had some form of engineering background. Not necessarily software nor mechanical, just an inkling of making things more efficient, more logical, and more usable.
None of the vegan 'meat alternatives' strike me as healthy though. It's all full of seed oils, corn/sugar, and soy protein. Meat is actually healthier.
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You divide the cards stack in two and put the top part at the bottom of the other part (which was the bottom part and will be now the top). The relative order of the cards is maintained: you don’t shuffle them. But if you cut them in this way several times, it obfuscates the original location of the cards (as it’s in practice impossible to follow their position changes) so you can’t tell who put which card where. Therefore the final arrangement, when revealed, is anonymized.
This is incorrect.

Easy access to SIP trunks is the problem, SIP trunks that don't enforce a connection between ANI, BTN and Caller ID.

The telephone network was never designed for non trusted parties to have access to the signaling system for the PSTN.

Neither analog lines, nor TDM ones need much in the way of authentication, or encryption - because of that tie to a physical line, and a physical nexus.

Very little if any spam/swat calls are coming from the analog side of the PSTN, a marginally larger but near zero amount comes from traditional TDM services, the bulk of it is shoddy SIP carriers.
I'm using LuLu since few months and find it absolutely helpful.

When I first installed it, it required quite some efforts to consciously filter/allow traffic from/to for the apps. By the time, all regular apps were properly configured for the rules and now I see notifications for block/allow only when there is uncertain traffic going out.

Definitely recommend to give it a try.
There's a very large gap of which the mid-tier is as natural to the expert as typing. I see this a lot in math, where the best lecturers are usually fairly junior.

My best friend has trouble reading graphs, as in y-axis, x-axis kind of thing. He doesn't know whether < means bigger or smaller. This is something a lot of experts have internalized decades ago, so we'd completely overlook how hard it looks to a beginner trying to learn comparison or AND/OR in a condition.
I am working on this, https://www.appswithcode.org/?q=windows , It is far from ready, but it is meant to solve such problems.
It costs all of that to make coca-cola, too. Can we get rid of soda before we get rid of our meat, please? I'm not going to eat bugs, but you can go right ahead.
> how blame northern Europe for southern Europe's debt.

They both share the blame. If a bank clerk keeps giving loans to a drug addict something is definitely off. Especially if it suggest settling the debts via organ sale (austerity).
What? This kind of logic only makes sense if working an additional hour gives you an additional 45 dollars
10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.

With that division, seconds would be 0.84 the length of current seconds.

But, one second is exactly 10 alpha cycles in the brain (10 hz), which is the most dominant electrical cycle. So, maybe seconds are biologically sensible. In that case, we need to build a system that connects the rhythms of our biology to the rhythms of our planetary motion. Oh…
That article doesn't "debunk" anything. Whether something can be healthy or not isn't "debunkable". It requires thought, time, and critical thinking.
I wish LuLu had some kind of logging though, and asynchronous rule adding (i.e. no need to take decision when connection happens and block by default, and then review this list when I have time), otherwise it at some point you just start accepting connections for all processes without thinking, just to not be distracted too often.
JR Pass is the answer for this! The JR Pass is awesome!

https://www.jrpass.com/
So one of the features of books is that they are not freely and easily available. How is that a desirable quality?
Yeah the point of this entire thread is that your (not unique to you, but you are certainly one of the CEOs that are easiest to vilify when discussing this phenomenon) incentives are so skewed that a given employee should be very cautious about joining your company.

You made a bet on e-commerce penetration. The reason it was so easy for you to make that bet is because if you were correct, you’d be even more fabulously wealthy. If you were wrong (like you were), you could simply lay off the employees you hired and tuck the severance package into one quarter of extraordinary charges.

The employee view of that is that if you were right, they’d be somewhat wealthy and if you were wrong (which you were) their lives would be completely upended.

That’s all. It’s just an attempt to remind people that even CEOs who have good intentions (and author layoff memos in a cerebral tone without the help of PR) can still cause absolute havoc in their lives because of the asymmetry of the power dynamic.
In any field there could be a disconnect between the struggles experienced by the expert and the hand-holding expected by the beginner.

Programming is not just any field though. Programming is incredibly immature and filled with wildly unrealistic expectations. As a self taught developer of 25 years of experience I have largely given up teaching beginners how to easily write high performance code.

There is a lot of insecurity in programming putting tremendous downward pressure on bad habits. Teaching disciplined techniques to produce higher quality output is often met with hostility if contrary to a popular tool or current trend.

If the results of trying to teach produce such hostility why bother? Why would I volunteer my time to help people if the result is bitching, whining, and anger? Instead I will keep my experience to myself for my personal projects.
Tutankhamun’s burial chamber may contain door to Nefertiti’s tomb
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

Not correct, as others have pointed out. Regardless, why is it more or less logical for any particular day to be considered the start of the week? Hell, it seems that even in several countries that use Monday as the first day of the week, the names of the day reflect that Monday is the second day of the week!

I personally like Sunday and Saturday to be the opposite ends of the week. Sunday and Saturday are both considered rest days for the most part, and I think rest days are a good way to both start and finish your week. But I recognize that there's still really no logical basis for this; it's just what I grew up with so it "feels right". Just as those of you who grew up in a Monday-indexed week are used to it, so that "feels right" to you.
Also eshell imenu support can be enabled https://xenodium.com/imenu-on-emacs-eshell
> the San Francisco Police Department used a woman’s DNA previously obtained from a rape kit to arrest her for a property crime.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-allegedly-used-r...
Well that sounds like the UK's fault. It's like asking for a divorce from your spouse who earns a much bigger paycheck because you're bored with him and want to bang other people, but wanting to keep access to the shared bank accounts.
From a job hopping POV, projects or roles don't count, it's all about how long you've worked at the same company. My current tenure at giant company X is "10 years", even though I've held at least 4 radically different roles across three different products during that time.
I'm still waiting for your evidence that the study I cited above showing estrogen was a minute presence in drinking water was one that nobody could replicate. That seems a lot more on point than something something bass?

If the medical community has no consensus about the cause of semen decline, how the fuck should you or I know the cause? Linking to something about bass doesn't really suggest to me you have a basic understanding of the facts. Did it occur to you bass don't live in the same environments humans do and they may have a few anatomical differences than humans?

I think you would benefit from less original thinking on the matter and more sticking with what experts say on medical matters in general.

Here's a mayo clinic article on low sperm count, for example:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-sperm-cou...

It has a section on environmental causes none of which include estrogen.
Well, its only intuitive because you already memorized what all the options and command lines do. I for one don't even remember how to use head, I just

sed 15q

instead of head -n 15, s/// is clearer than a cut sometimes. if you're starting unix, learning sed/awk is enough to do everything.
The issue with the name 'global elites' is that you can put anyone behind it.

IPCC scientists, WHO doctors? Elites. Hollywood personalities? Global elites. SV devs? Elites too, no?

I think the Marxist 'bourgeoisie' or a more specific 'big capital owners' (which exclude small shareholders) is more narrow, and still too large to be true.
This discussion is about ideas (or opinions), not privileges.
> It gives clues, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It certainly isn't enough to do anything other than make a pure guess at what the application actually does and more importantly how it does it.

I'm not claiming that it will tell the whole story; I am claiming that it tells so much more of the story than the code, that you may as well just not look at the code if you have the data structures.

OTOH, if you look at only the code and not the data structures, you'll have so little of the story that you cannot make any change without risk of breaking some other piece of logic.

There's just no comparison between "The code tells us what the applications should do" and "The data tells us what the applications should do".

If you can find any examples where it is faster to determine what business logic is supported by the application by examining code (as opposed to being faster to determine what business logic is supported by examining the data structures), I'd very much like to see that.
I didn't know about mcmaster.com, but I took a look at it, and the images was a surprise. The uniformity of the product images is nothing sort of amazing.

Most websites don't care to much about illustrations, even though that's what many people use when buying. Taking your own photos, or doing illustrations is pretty expensive, but it really helps the customers pick the right products.

The grayscale may be a way of insuring that customers aren't overly focused on the illustrations, and instead actually read the product descriptions.
The site is using Yahoo User Interface, discontinued since 2014. As I always suspected stick to old tech is not always bad.
Love this! I just started DDIA, so liked the sqlite article
> Part of the PHP stdlib.

That's an IMAP library, not mbox/maildir, and it's part of an extension, not the standard library.
Its actually part of the POSIX standard that redirections can be put anywhere in the command line, so one can do:

<file.txt sed 's/some/filter' | other_cmd

on any standard compliantish shell :) (I use zsh, and I know it also works for bash and dash)
I think that would depend a lot on what the extensions contain. I think extensions are a decent idea when they're obscure functionality that would take a lot of work to implement.

Complexity has exploded as of late. It used to be a joke that programs grew until they became able to read mail. These days programs grow until they contain a web engine. It's not enough anymore to just have a chat window, the chat window has to generate thumbnails of webpages for you.
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

Many Arabic countries have the weekend on Friday and Saturday and work on Sunday. I think they probably all start the week on Sunday for this reason. No idea why the US does too though!
Do you mean as a columnist/tweeter or in his work as a profesisonal economist in academia, textbooks etc?

Judged by peers he's still quite valued eg by this ranking: https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html (rank 36/3255) - but of course in academic research you don't necessarily aim to be right as often as possible, it's a search and exploration of ideas and testing what works.
TikTok creators condensing Hollywood films into minutes and getting mil of views
The usual theory is that the US is not alone in experiencing inflation (or having printed huge amounts of money), but as it still is considered a reserve currency and seems to care quite a bit about getting inflation under control (in addition to having a track record of having done so), investors often assume it will recover more quickly than other currencies, causing them to dump their local currencies to put their wealth in the dollar until the economic storm has stabilized some.
Nature News: ‘Papermill alarm’ software flags potentially fake research papers