skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it unacceptable to you for someone to explain why they do not find something funny?

We are really not all the same. HN is a big old forum and there is no such thing as a normal response.

That person was describing their personal reaction to ... something. I don't think that proscribing dogma is helpful in response.
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

First day of the working week is Sunday in Nepal. I assume they consider Sunday the start of the week, but I'm not Nepalese. This is just a random fact I remember from visiting.
Wireless coverage above >30 MHz or so (too high to propagate by ionospheric reflection) depends on line of sight to operate. The cell network works because people invest a lot of money to provide electrical power to very high points above the surrounding terrain.

The only places that community meshes (wireless meshes without $$$) can work are mountains with cities below them or mega-cities where residents have access to the roof tops of their buildings.

There is no amount of power, no special modulation, nothing, that can punch through a slight hill or a valley. Your antennas have to be above the surrounding terrain to get a high data rate mesh to work. And for most places that means spending money to get access to rooftops or towers. Everyone just adding their node in their house, car, or as a phone is not going to do it.

tldr; the only thing that matters is height above terrain and that costs lots of money.
>You simply can't hijack every instantiation to involve a transaction.

IMO, you shouldn't hijack someone else's work to make it free. If the person creating it wants it to be distributed freely, they have the option to make it so.

> You can't get the phone without a transaction happening.

This is also the case (not always) for a book, because the creation has a cost. Again, the author can choose to make it free, but they should also be free to charge a fee for it. It's pretty arrogant to take that choice away from them.
Because of the morals, the risks, or the pressure?
I find Netflix 4k looks way better on my new TV compared to Amazon and HBO. Haven't compared to youtube, I'll have to check it out.
They're not equivalent in most cases (not all female genital mutilation is performed the same way and I cannot fathom a medical reason for any sort).

But that doesn't mean they aren't in the same general category when defined as surgical alterations of people's genitalia performed for religious or cultural reasons without any medical necessity.

A medically required circumcision when reasoned and self-chosen is an altogether different story.
Thanks.

If it needs explaining I meant this guy is worried about a few 1000 tons of space debris versus the certain eventual end of the species if we don’t become spacefaring.
I thought the move to do midband mobile spectrum with t-mobile and offer line of site coverage across 100% of the country was a pretty big move. Existing phones can be enabled on this spectrum. I also see it being leveraged well for edge services where classical 5g towers are just too damn expensive to pout out that far
What you don't use, you don't understand.
For example: "The New York City Department of Education has axed another 850 teachers and aides for not complying with its vaccine mandate, bringing the total to nearly 2,000, the New York Post reported Saturday."

https://nypost.com/2022/09/17/850-more-unvaxxed-nyc-teachers...
Afghanistan is different from Iran. Even today, Iranians are highly educated and they have historically been highly educated. Most of Afghanistan that the US was trying to mobilized was uneducated and living in tiny villages with no real stake as to who won or lost. With Iran's highly educated population and militarized, they have a much better chance of standing up to the fascist government and enacting change.
I dislike this view, for learning to write or anything else. It has an implicit assertion that all human quality is innate, and we only ever learn how to recognize and express it. This means that we can never actually learn anything new, we can only learn new ways to pull from our innate quality, and everything else is just imitation.

It implies we are born with some sort of immutable value locked inside of us, which I disagree with.
Take the new job. Counters never work out. All your problems will still exist if you stay at your current company.
Hm, the Mark 5 carriages were introduced in April and October 2019, so it could have been either just from the year.
If you squint a bit, you can view Web-1.0-era UIs as being a bit like a 3270: the terminal downloads the template, the user fills out the fields, and hits the submit button. That creates a HTTP POST, which is kinda like a CICS transaction.

This enables the central CPU running the application server to ignore all the terminal I/O issues, and just deal with a set of transactions implementing the application logic. If the load-balancer and HTTP server are separate machines, then at a high-level boxes-and-lines level, it's not a long way from a mainframe application architecture (at the front end, anyway).

But this isn't really accurate, and it's become less superficially similar with more recent web trends where the REST layer isn't a hard boundary, and pre-rendering and so on have muddied the model again.
I'm building a site like HN where the goal is to reward quality contributions, while also allowing one to filter by topic (sort of like how Reddit has subreddits).

https://zsync.xyz

Definitely a chicken and egg problem to attract users, but I've got some ideas in the works...
That's a great point. I gave it some thought and I think it's a matter of the relative distance from the start to the end from your perspective.

Billboards are meant to be read from far away. So even though the physical width is large, we perceive it to be much smaller. Maybe similar to a big banner on a Desktop monitor.

Imagine reading the billboard at a much closer distance, say 2 meter. You'll have to move your neck from left to right. It doesn't matter how big or small the font size is.

As a subjective test, I lowered the font size of a random article to see if I would have trouble reading it. Other than having to focus more to make out the text, I don't have problems reading the entire paragraph. On the other hand, removing the max width made it more uncomfortable to read.

So the distance from where the text will be viewed from is an important factor to take into account. Phones, Desktops & Banners all are viewed from different distances.
Unfortunately, the universal POSIX standard of awk only supports single-character, non-regular expression field separators (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/a...). It's arguable whether one should write POSIX-compliant awk or not (similar arguments apply for shell scripting).

When feasible, I try to write POSIX-compliant awk, so the script could have been written as:

awk '/\/\/d / {gsub(/.*\/\/d /, ""); print FILENAME ":" FNR " " $0; }' source/*.c
>Before that, they had had names equal to fifth and sixth month, respectively, like September comes from seventh.

Now, do i google, duckduckgo, or bing, what those months were called?

Fifth collumism?
Sexism?
There's another account :-)
> .. considers Sunday to be the first day of the week

How can the first day of the week happen in the middle of the weekend!?!
Sorry, just bored of the self-centered "I don't understand this thing, so therefore it can't be true" mentality that seems to be a common trait across most conspiracy theorists.
Elegant, but not something you should ever use outside of ad-hoc situations.

I think this is more comprehensible, and is also more robust because it actually specifies the field you're looking for rather than just any line with quotes:

gawk -F'"' '/^ name:/ {print $2}' appVersion.gradle

(hacker news is clobbering the spaces after ^)
We don’t call it “nights” even though one is split over two days (before midnight and after).
Quintilis and Sextilis are their names.
I believe more people are shot by .22 than any other caliber. I have no source to back that up; it’s just something I’ve always heard from the LEOs in my family.

From my personal experience shooting, it’s the quietest of the rounds given the gun has a closed designed and a decent sized barrel. But at the same time, one of the loudest firearms I own is a .22 revolver simply because everything is exposed and the barrel is so short. It is far louder than almost any larger caliber firearm that I own or have shot.
While this effort is hugely appreciated someone needs to make an open source alternative to Zlibrary where books can be freely searched without rate limitation. Right now I don't know how to even download and sort through 31TB of this data.
I'm aware. Look at the plots of WHOIS privacy vs open once ICANN was forced to allow it by the GDPR. They're in my second link. You cannot deny that correlation so I assume you just didn't bother looking.
Wow! I took the 1913 date from the Etymology dictionary, so I'm surprised it goes back another 100 years before that.
Right, that program is still provided as part of the standard distribution. Well, at least that much works, anyway!
> "Now nuclear costs 3-5x more compared to renewables and is simply not relevant."

We're seeing the hidden cost of renewable energy now, aren't we? Cheap because it's supplemented with natural gas to provide base load. If the politicians actually cared about the climate, they would be adamant about supplementing with nuclear, which is far far more energy dense.

https://xkcd.com/1162/
It was 17 years since I lived in the UK, so it may have changed a lot, but my experience with trains was not that great:

- very expensive

- not enough space, and too small rack areas for luggages

- booking that crossed over several private train companies was complicated and unreliable

The experience was much better in France.

But as I said, it could have changed a lot.
Well worth the watch, also shows that Ceasar's main character arc was bossted by his calendar knowledge and authority.
I just love this. I still don't get it how in this year, something like wikipedia, and newspapers in a 4k/1440p monitor are a pain to read. I get it, mobile first it's a thing, but with something as simple as this your readers will have a great time.
Having traveled through large parts of Europe by train before ever visiting the UK, I can only say that UK train travel isn't beginner friendly.
You literally said:

> The NBER has never failed to call a recession on 2 quarters of negative growth in the past,

However, thus far, despite two quarters of GDP decline, they have not (and from their own definition, it is clear why they have not).

Business Insider believes the state of the job market to be the primary reason why.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/economy-nber...

> The NBER, by the way, uses many metrics to declare recessions, and they particularly overweight employment and payroll metrics

You may consider it overweighted, my point was merely that the use of a single metric is mostly a feature of pundits and not civic institutions like NBER, who you mentioned as arbiters of being-in-receession.
Yeah, thats why I started with "If one assumes.." :)
But good point, I did not consider overhead and operational costs in this.
> Don't pass smart pointer arguments around on hot paths.

oh this so much.. I remember optimizing a particle system which would copy a shared_ptr for each particle on every update operation... IIRC just switching to references ended up being 10+ times faster
Did we just find Elon’s alt?
- You lose a screw inside: microcomputer

- You lose a screwdriver inside: minicomputer

- You lose a technician inside: mainframe

When you bring a new addition to your personal collection:

- your wife complains: microcomputer

- Your wife yells at you: minicomputer

- Your wife leaves you: mainframe
I think you might be misreading the intent behind those statements in one of two ways:

1) Capability != Experience. Gimp is capable of doing about what Photoshop can do for photographers but with a much, much worse experience.

2) Photographers aren't the only Photoshop users and Gimp's shortcomings are much more consequential for, say, Graphic Designers. Comparing Gimp's typesetting tools to Photoshop's is like comparing a screwdriver to a fully-stocked workshop. Since those features generally aren't on photographers radars, let alone in their regular workflow, I didn't include them.
Like many other things affecting western countries though, it's worse in Canada since we have lower investment rates, spend less on R&D, have an ultra-risk averse culture, extremely high costs, etc...
Routine tasks are, as others have commented, essential to pay the bills. And they come with a deadline, because someone out there is expecting the task to be done--whether it's the bills you need to pay, or a report you need to prepare for your boss. So logically, if the key difference between a routine task and a creative task is the lack of deadline and structure, wouldn't it make sense to have people involved for your creative projects too? So collaborative creative projects are likely to get done, while solo creative projects will probably run slower.
> Boeing is not 'a person' and neither is the government. Boeing is a conglomerate of affiliated smaller organizations. So is the FBI and CIA. Understanding those dynamics is what makes this scenario so implausible.

>At the individual level, many of these people have security clearances. Fraud/lying on official documents is the easiest way to lose your clearance. There are no provisions for "It's OK to lie for the good guys". If you lie in an official proceeding, you are going to lose your clearance.

Are these 2 arguments consistent with each other?
I mean, Boeing, government and letter soup agencies don’t behave organizationally, except when it comes to upholding the right rules?
My Series 3 was dead on until this spring; there is a 5k run I do 2-3 times a week where the Strava would tell me I had hit 5km within a few meters of the same tree. Then it started misbehaving, usually 100-300m short of the tree, a couple of times 50-100m beyond the tree. The path in Strava was all over the place.

I tried rebooting, reinstalling the Strava app. Cleaned up some Watch apps. Didn't get better.

Finally I deleted all the watch apps except Strava: apple store, audible, three authenicator apps (why does Authy have a watch app?), my Bank's app (wtf?) etc. etc. etc. Turned off or configured for minimal sync anything I couldn't delete.

Things started tracking again.
That'd be a negligent discharge, and if they died, a negligent homicide.
Nintendo did this, the Switch was out of stock consistently, unless you bought it in a "bundle". A lot of the bundles were 12 months of the Online service, so basically easy profit.
FWIW all I had to do was Google "male circumcision hiv clinical studies", it's not that hard to find:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233247/

From the introduction: "Three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in sub-Saharan Africa have shown that adult male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition in men by about 60% [1-3]."
The SM-2 has direct-hit capability. If it did directly hit the fuselage without the NTSB being briefed on its capabilities, it could easily be mistaken.
paragraphs are less readable past 90-100 characters width
Hiring freezes don't have to be industry wide to be problematic. If you are competing with dozens of people for a job, there is a high chance some of them are both a good fit and willing to accept crappier compensation.
>Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week

Sunday is the first day of the week in much of the middle east
> The _one_ thing that could definitively prove the link and clear the mystery one way or the other.

Fingerprints should work, someone would just have to check.
Isn't there also additional calendars in at least Japanese and Chinese culture?
> The week is still popularly understood to start on Sunday in English Canada

Interesting. How does software (e.g. Google Calendar) display weeks when in en_CA localization?
K is very niche, but in its niche is a extremely popular.
To be fair, I said "connected", which could mean almost anything- not specifically "caused."

It's interesting that if this Doerr theory is true, that means Zodiac really did resemble pop cultural conceptions of him and other Zodiac-inspired fictional killers: a geek, interested in nerdy fantasy hobbies once considered the province of social misfits. But then again, the occult-steeped tone of the letters and the ciphers themselves already gave that impression.
In Indonesia looks like Sunday is taken from Portuguese name with modifications:
Domingo - Mingo - Minggu
Originally the starter home was a low cost easy to build home mass produced by Sears et al.

Then it became an older home in a more run down neighborhood. But neighborhoods aren’t running down as much as they used to.

Now it’s almost extinct because the cost to build a code-compliant house is so large and the cost to make it “bigger” isn’t much, so only bigger ones are built. Many houses that people are living in today are illegal to build. And building code improvements aren’t all bad - the energy saving can be huge. But other minimums could perhaps be investigated.

Townhomes still exist in some areas, but they have their own issues.
nope, monday is „after sunday”
1TB thumb drives are tiny and can hold a TON of pictures.
Go was specifically designed as a language for un-demanding applications written by coders with strictly limited skills.

That is most applications, in practice. Unpleasantly often, though, applications move from un-demanding to demanding, and then having been coded in Go is unfortunate. A nimble organization will code a C++ program for that use case. Lesser shops will lumber along patching the Go code.
It does seem plausible.

But I wonder why the writer didn't ask Paul Doerr's daughter for old letters or other hand-written documents, to compare with the ones sent to the papers, known to be written by the real killer.
The same way all the other illogical things happened: random cultural legacy.

Why would you expect the week start day to be any different?
The way you frame the situation is hardly justified, most of what you say doesn't match any of the commonly accepted explanations.

First of all, it's not bad president against good protestors. There were actually two things going on on the streets: peaceful protestors with political and economical demands, and armed organized bandits/terrorists wreaking havoc and destabilising situation as much as they could.

The bandits were killing the police (also going to hospitals to finish any wounded police officers they could find), storming jails trying to set criminals free, burning government buildings, they gave fake calls to firefighters and killed the crews when those arrived.

I leave it to you to read up on who could be orchestrating the bandits. I suggest you focus on local (CIS-based, Russian speaking) news media and telegram channels for that. But one of the important hypotheses is that it was all made by the forces in power opposing Tokaev (the president), and he called the Russians because he didn't trust his own men's loyalty. Russians were protecting some critical infrastructure (which never got attacked, so they didn't fight anyone) including president's headquarters (which was very, very far from the core of riots).
That happens especially if you speak a Latin language. Very annoying.
What does this have to do with mainframes other than the word "mainframe" is in the title and it links to a blog post where someone mentions Unisys. BeOS and OS/2 were operating systems that predominantly ran on PC class systems.
The most interesting part (to me)is at the end. His fingerprints are available from the military. SFPD just has to check against zodiac’s
What Violence?
I literally said not to construct or destruct smart pointers on the hot path.

Also, my experience with lambdas has been otherwise. There are a lot of cases where lambdas need a heap allocation when you otherwise wouldn't. However, being able to use FP ideas can make up for that.
There’s no easy way to organize lots of windows, and there is no way your approach would work nice with all web apps, sites and articles in different tabs of the same window.

What would be nice is a special element <viewport sizeable style=“width:n”> so a user could either enjoy a default width or drag one side of it to resize its margin at both sides, without resizing a window. Or, instead of an element it could be purely a browser viewport-resize feature, like they do for textareas.

Meta: it’s really frustrating that every time an argument about web ui starts, nobody thinks of how to actually make it better and just holds on some particular use case or preference.
A 747 has plenty of wrong places that if hit would be curtains. It is not designed to resist battle damage. It is designed to resist failure of individual components.
I think your advice comes from the mistaken assumption that I haven't already looked beyond FAANG companies and startups. Thereby making some of your intentions hard to follow.
> Why is it unacceptable to you for someone to explain why they do not find something funny?

I mean, it's not "unacceptable", free speech and all. It's just silly to jump in and "well actually" a joke, especially when the explanation is kind of why the joke was funny.
> Julius and Augustus were emperors and from that point are just numerals, starting at March

It used to be numbers earlier, Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed for them.

Apparently the Romans did not find hard naming even persons - they just went by numbers, as in Secundus, Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, etc.
When I had just moved to the Bay Area back in the mid 90's, I read Robert Graysmith's book on the Zodiac Killer — just looking for a paperback in the grocery store to read after I got off work. It was a spooky and uneasy read.

It surprises me that the killer could outlive justice and die taking the secret of his identity with him to the grave but it appears that is what has happened.

I read Graysmith's book though a bit skeptically, assuming there was a lot of ginning up by the author to make for a more compelling read. Skeptical too of the Zodiac's claims — I don't believe he committed all the murders he bragged about.

Nonetheless, I couldn't avoid perceiving a sort of psychological wrangling that the murderer might have gone through. As though after a couple of simple shootings, he decides to up the game and try a stabbing. But it seems as though the awkward stabbing experience chills the killer and he perhaps even has second thoughts...

I confess I am drawn by "Zodiac killer identified" headlines for decades now. At first hoping they were zeroing in on a capture, but later, as it becomes more likely he has died of old age, just out of an old curiosity.

This new suspect is compelling. But the comment about "so many nuts in the 60's" rings true as well. This guy could have just been another nut, but not a murderer.
I'm amused that we're in the same thread that started with someone claiming that climate activists dont believe in clmnate change, they just want to help the poor and do left wing things, and now here you are complaining that all their solutions hurt the poor and dont target the big polluting corporations.

Feels like at least one of you is wrong.
Boy. :) a) Yes, I understand you are a specific person, not a statistical average. b) I'm sorry you didn't find the bit of flavor I added to the thread interesting and wish you hadn't felt attacked by it.
Why the heck is Cmd+P the key binding for Print, in Xcode, in 2022? Has anyone ever printed anything from Xcode?
Both ends of the week are the weekend.

One is the starting weekend, and the other the ending weekend.