skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that presidents get filtered out is a god send tbh in case of Iran.

Imagine ending up wit people like Masoumeh Alinejad-Ghomi, Reza Pahlavi, Supreme Grandma Maryam Rejavi (_Masoud Rajavi decided to become against the IR since his or his party was filtered out_) or any other weirdo.

Not so great process, but I don't think letting everyone run for presidency has much of its goodies packed with it anyway.

In either case, Iran's constitution keeps the president above so many levels that having impeachment becomes even harder. Whoever president Iran ends up with, it becomes almost impossible to replace or take them down by Majles.

I don't know, probably a role of Prime Minister will be more suited with some changes to law that person can be nailed down in wrongdoing or pressure to step down, but who knows, maybe that backfires too.

yuck, so complicated :p

edit: some typos
Just what I needed to search my collection of comp-sci articles. Regular grep fails on most PDFs.

I installed the Ubuntu package. Thanks!
The Shah had a very powerful secret police, the SAVAK[1]. Prior to the overthrow of Mosaddegh, there wasn’t a comparable security force.. but I think something about gaining power in a coup makes one incredibly paranoid about being a victim of a coup.

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
> Engines running for long time ?

Not with chemical rockets. Perhaps you meant "engines sitting idle for years in interplanetary space, and then restarting reliably".
Sure, if “rational” means that you only do that one thing (science/tech) and have no quirks, personality traits, faiths, etc. outside of that.
This article doesn’t even discuss the eternal problem of broken kingpins. Skateboarders don’t care about “turning efficiency”. I don’t even understand what that is.

If you want to make better trucks, make some where the kingpins don’t break all the time. Every skateboarder will be buying your trucks within a year or two. You’ll be an overnight success guaranteed.
TY for explaining this. I would not have made the point as well as you have, but the "solar + wind is inefficient use of land" argument is an old debunked talking point that has been around for decades.

Like you say, wind can be co-located on farms or other areas that are not otherwise economically useful, with minimal environmental obstruction. Something on the order of 99.99% of the acreage occupied by windmills can continue to be used for other purposes. Solar panels can also be efficiently and thoughtfully located.

Of course, they can also be located poorly as well but it's not something that's like definitionally baked into the technology, it's a matter of having good policy about siting.
When you read these, remember that the fundamentally power is all that matters to powerful institutions. The Times is threatened by the rise of populism in the hinterlands and technocracy on the west coast.
The expression is "premature optimization". And, Donald Knuth.

GC overhead is always hard to measure except end-to-end, because it is distributed over everything else that happens. Cache misses, TLB shoot-downs. Mitigations are very difficult to place.

Practically, you usually just have to settle for lower performance, and most people do. Double or triple your core count and memory allocation, and bull ahead.
My personal answer? I don't trust any of the systems and entities that got us to this point. For example, Big Oil knew where things were headed, and they buried that info. I have to presume plenty of elected officials knews (or could extrapolate) the same.

Yet here we are making a case to trust those who haven't earned our trust. I'm not certain what the answer is exactly. But there is no reason to believe those who have failed us - again and again - are up to getting things back in order. To think otherwise is naive.
One BTC Equals One BTC Becomes the Narrative as the Drop Gets ‘Too Painful’
Where are you getting your numbers?!
A story? Whats the point of this story?
I’ve been looking for an alternative to Acrobat’s ‘Advanced Search’ capability, which allows you to define a search directory (like NP++). This feature is possible with pdfgrep and other tools, but the killer for me is that it displays results in context, and allows you to quickly sift through dozens or hundreds of results with ease.

It’s literally the only reason why I have acrobat installed.
And iirc at least one country decided that was too simple, decided to gradually shift, then reverted, then did it in one go.
> A quick check of Wikipedia suggests Arabic, Portuguese and Vietnamese, all use number-based systems to name the days of the week, and they are indexed from Sunday = 1.

I can confirm that in Hebrew, the name for Sunday translates into "First Day", Monday into "Second Day", etc. Except for Saturday, which is Shabat.
Have you actually tried to use Kaldi though? I have. It's basically impenetrable unless your full time job is working with Kaldi.
“Hasn’t anyone ever tried to fix this?”, “yes, there was the International Fixed Calendar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar..., “and?”, “well, only one company used it and that company eventually lost relevance and was never able to get the broader society to use it”.
Said the team liked it but wanted address and data bus demultiplexed - but the 286 already has demultiplexed buses unlike the 8086. Maybe I misunderstood!

It’s here I think:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w1HODsDGMzI
It's already an English translation of a French paraphrase of a text of unknown provenance.
This sounds like my experience of the Apple Watch Series 3—absolute garbage for exercise. I think the problem is the GPS hasn’t locked on when you start the run but there’s no way to know this in the UI. The only solution I’ve found is to “start” early, immediately pause, then wait a bit for GPS to locate you before unpausing.

Most sports watches solve this problem by explicitly telling you your GPS status when you are getting ready to track your exercise.
I take periodic backups of my Google data using Takeout, primarily for the GMail backup. When I took one a few months ago, I noticed that the Drive part of the backup had some mangled filenames that the backup from a year ago didn't have. I don't remember exactly what it was but it was something like long-filename.pdf got truncated to long-file~01.pdf, like back in the 8.3 DOS days. Luckily I already have a local copy of the Drive contents so I didn't need to rely on it, but anyone else should be worried.
CIA doctor investigating Havana syndrome in disbelief as he suffered it himself
The Arabic/Islamic calendar starts at Sunday because the weekend is Friday and Saturday. In Islam, the weekly congregation (mass equivalent) takes place on Friday around noon.
The year also starts and ends with winter. The day starts and ends with night. So growing up it seemed to fit that the week would start and end with weekend.
In skateboarding people tend to use angled riser pads to adjust the kingpin angle. As a side effect these riser pads can (ever so slightly) absorb hard shocks and decrease the chance of a wheel-bite (when your wheel comes into contact with the wood of the deck and stops you apruptly). This is not necessary with most longboards as they usually have a higher clearance, or even cutouts at the sports where wheelbites would occur. In street skateboarding the tradeoff is a little different, because the area where wheelbites occur are just next to the area "the pocket" you utilize for nearly all flip tricks. Also taking wood away there would have a negative impact on stability so street skaters would rather live with wheel bites than sacrificing wood area there – or as mentioned use the stiffest pushing you can find, use riser pad, tighten the trucks or similar.
Advanced Search in Acrobat allows you to define a directory. It’s the only reason I ever have it installed.
There's that, and there's also the tendency for humans to feel nostalgia for a time that never was. Memories are poor. I suspect if people were asked to guess whether a thread was from today or 2008, they'd get a lot wrong (aside from chronological details giving clues).
Time to start a movement to consider saturday the as the beginning of the week!
If we switch to dozenal, we can switch metric to being dozenal based and we won't need decimal time.
I am genuinely curious - are there any historical examples where ending diplomatic relationships and imposing sanctions on a country has improved the situation for people living there?
As a counterpoint, I saw something similar happen after upgrading to watchOS 8 for 7 months, but then I somehow got my vo2max to go back up by losing 5 pounds in 1 month and eating healthier.
Related: Starlink Speeds Drop Significantly in the US Amid Congestion Woes

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-speeds-drop-significantl...
I have been a London commuter for 15 years, with a £5k season ticket

quite why you'd subject yourself to that pain if you're on barely more than minimum wage I really don't know
He didn't just throw dice or march in, see what's what and grab the locals by the nadgers.

JC was quite a chap and of course why its called the Julian Calendar. Many other calendars are available. Kalends is the source of the name for calendar and the Roman day of month counting is pretty involved - http://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=calhistory/earlier/roman/kale... Kalends, nones and ides.

JS died on the ides of March ...
The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool
Does this circumstantial suggestion that a man was involved in the 1960s zodiac killings partially vindicate the critics of Dungeons & Dragons (first published 1974)?

I’m going to go with “no” and cite “the linear flow of time”.
Fastmail makes an excellent email client, but there are significant privacy concerns that have not been adequately addressed in many people's eyes.

Namely, that Australia (where Fastmail is based) passed laws that require all Australian companies to give any/all data on their users to the Australian government, and are not allowed to publicly disclose what is given.

Not that Google is any better.

If you want a privacy-focused email that "just works" consider Protonmail or Tutanota. Alternatively, if you're feeling bold, you can self-host your own email like I do, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're in it for the fun of it!
In Russian, Sunday is "Resurrection Day" and Monday is "The Thing concerning Not-Doing being in the Past-Perfective Tense" (po + ne+del + nik)

It looks like Polish is similar except that Sunday is "Not-Doing"
it's actually the exact opposite

the commuter fares are regulated, none of the others are
Then it'd be called "weekends", not "weekend".
> Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi - one man - and it was a prominent story for years

If your country dismembers a Washington Post reporter inside a consulate in Turkey, and Turkey releases audio of the murder, you're probably going to wind up with some press coverage of this in the United States, at least in the Washington Post.

The idea that the US media is biased toward Iran is kind of bonkers. The US media may be biased about the importance of US issues in US/Iran relations. Iran is less threatening to the US than it may be for other countries.
You are correct. These are frequent and I’m not paying attention until something meaningful changes.

The US will resign the Obama-era nuclear treaty as a fuck you to Trump, and the money will reinforce the regime. Little people don’t count in this situation.
> The video says it, but it’s all more important to emphasize that Palestinians including women & children were killed at this checkpoint by Israeli forces.

That's odd. I don't recall seeing anything on the news about this.
One day I noticed I only had a jar of mayo in the fridge so I decided to do an experiment and turn my refrigerator off. I cut my electricity bill in half. I'm able to get by on food that doesn't need to be refrigerated.
AMD Ryzen 7950X/7900X/7700X/7600X Cinebench scores leaked
Or you just say, Sunday is the end of the week and Monday that start of the next one. Funnily enough this is the first time I've heard as Sunday as the first day of the week. I'm from Germany where Monday is the first day and Sunday the last.

This also coincides with the work week where the first workday is Monday, then the weekend ends the week and a new week begins with Monday.
Another alternative is that they sell them first Party (probably a non-option because storefronts would probably throw a fit). And instead of first come first serve, simply have a queue.
As a English Canadian who works for a company that was bought by an American company and was force switched to Sunday as the first day of the week….what? Maybe we “officially” or legally have Sundays as the first day but my entire life has been Mondays first. Every calendar I’ve had has been that way as well. It still messes with my mind, even four years later, that at work Sunday is the first day of the week.
So, the standard US weekend is Saturday–Sunday, even amongst the Sunday=1 holdouts. I say holdouts, because it helps to understand that this isn’t agreed on even within the US. Not to suggest that the holdouts are a minority, I honestly don’t know but I doubt it. I think, apart from the initial puzzlement of recognizing the inconsistency, most of us don’t give much thought at all to which day is 1. “Weekend” generally is used colloquially to mean whichever two simultaneous days the speaker or audience is off work, insofar as they have two consecutive days off work.

I believe, but I may be wrong, that the inconsistency arises from Sunday being the Christian sabbath. That “starts” the week, but it’s a traditional day off for religious observance. And this tradition goes back well before the 40 hour work week, and the common Monday–Friday work week. Which is to say that “weekend” didn’t originally have connotations about which days were work days, they were typically all work days except for the Christian sabbath. Which as a retcon makes the present colloquial usage even odder, even if it’s (maybe?) more consistent with how other countries/cultures use it.
The Book of Swarm (2020) [pdf]
“On the surface, everything was rosy. Technological utopia hyper-connected the world in a way no-one could have imagined. No longer was the web just for academics and the super 1337, it made the sum of human knowledge available to anyone, and now that smartphones became ubiquitous, it could be accessed anywhere. Wikipedia, gave everyone superhuman knowledge, Google allowed us to find and access it in a moment and Facebook gave us the ability to communicate with everyone we had ever known, for free. However, underneath all this, there was one problem buried just below the glittering facade. Google knew what they were doing. So were Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. So did some punks, since 1984.”
Oh give me a break! With higher wages, the US Population would have its own children. I know I certainly would! And studies agree!
Smugmug pro my friend. Not even paid to shill, but it's reasonably priced for complete photo -freedom for me
I'm not sure what map you're looking at, but the first map (for 2022) shows that "san francisco-oakland-berkeley, ca" has a value of -10.17, which means it's undervalued. From the caption:

> IF A HOUSING MARKET HAS A NEGATIVE PERCENTAGE, IT MEANS HOME PRICES THERE ARE LOWER THAN EXPECTED WHEN FACTORING IN LOCAL INCOMES. DATA FOR THE Second QUARTER OF 2022.
> Eg. Calculator: the way “real” IRL calculators change the number you type is with the “clear” button. IPhones support that.

The screen recording of the calculator app seems to just have "C", which I would assume deletes the whole number, not one digit. That's not the same action.

The Android calculator has a backspace button, that removes a single digit. It's clearly recognizable as a backspace, just like on any other on-screen keyboard input.
The same roughly applies to Arabic: Sunday (derived from one) to Thursday (derived from five).

The word for Friday seems to be derived from “gathering” (probably due to weekly Islamic mass) and Saturday seems to derived from “sleep” (?).
Let's just hope people remember how to write books by the time you figure it out.
I'm from Winnipeg originally and considered Sunday the first day of the week. Maybe it's regional or cultural?
> Why doesn't that get the attention of eg Tiananmen Square?

Tianamen Square would have been forgotten if immediately followed by a global pandemic. With respect to Riyadh vs. Tehran, the former has political relevance in America. Horrible things happening in Iran isn’t domestically relevant in the same way since there aren’t any pro-Tehran public figures who would face pressure from that news.
It’s totally arbitrary (as well as totally immaterial) whether the week starts on Sunday or Monday (or any other day for that matter). The fact that the US does it differently than many other countries really isn’t a big deal. Your downvotes show the whole bike shedding nature of the issue. The debate is so contentious because the stakes are so low.
They're not doing the same thing though! They're doing it on a massively bigger scale and damaging the planet way more today than developed countries did in the past.
The best part for me was that it has a link to the GitHub repo, where I can browse the code and see what it does.

The site design looks nice - but I almost never give out email, so the landing page was not useful for me. It did make me curious what "static CMS" and "no database" means - so perhaps you could explain in technical detail how a CMS with no DB works, what its advantages are compared to other similar projects, etc.
At the point of impact, 15000 feet in the air and 120 miles downrange, it would not have looked anything like that. The missile would have been in a terminal glide and there would have been a huge trail of smoke all the way back to Philadelphia.
And speeds will creep up, as they did for phone / cable / fiber / cell.
there's like 5 people who commute daily from Bristol too

peterborough is on the border of super-commuter category
Terrific book, would really recommend everyone to read it to understand how a lot of cities came to look the way they do in America.
Thanks; I stand corrected.
A lot of the shittier bars will have glasses that look like pints but only hold 14oz, 12oz of beer 2oz of foam.

The German system where there's a line on the glass that needs to be reached by beer under penalty of law puts a smile on my face.
I would be shocked if the median pay for an author was more than $2/hour. I'd actually be shocked if it was that much. Not sure what effect lowering it to $1.50/h would be.
Because it frequently isn't knowledge that is being spread, it's a creative work.

There's nothing intrinsic about Harry Potter that the world needs access to it. An encyclopedia would be a great thing to be freely available. But why would someone need free access to Harry Potter?
This is sadly more of an urban legend. There recently was an article about this which also disproved this theory quite well, best seen in other civilizations that have no connection to the european one.
Maybe google some actual research papers on this and other energy policy questions? But what do I know.
Hiring freezes are definitely more sinister. I'll take being laid off over facing endless dead-end prospects. Too bad they usually come hand in hand.
> we're pretty confident we can […] keep humans alive in space for years

Are we? In outer space? Radiation, psychology/isolation, months away from any support in case of an emergency? My understanding is that there are a lot of open questions, and that even a mere fly-by mission would constitute a major new step in manned space flight.
Wait till you get to travel Polish trains - 120 minute delay suddenly becoming 240.

It got better as personnel seems to be more friendly than 10-15 years ago.

Train! You were lucky to have a train! We used to run on the rail, all twenty-six of us, no sitting spots, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
This is still the case, since timezone differences affect day boundaries.
Building Software Bridges to Ensure Workload Portability
They are incompatible as long as a majority of people think their appropriate contribution to authors is $0
1m user terminals manufactured and yet we still don't have one 18 months after paying for it. (Actually, I canceled my order a year ago. But my brother, who also paid the full $600 still doesn't have his. And they keep delaying it.)

Three years ago we both signed up for a terminal, paid the $100 deposit and got on the list. Eighteen months ago I got an email saying I should log in, pay the additional $500 to have the terminal shipped to me. After three months of waiting nothing had shown up. There's no way to contact customer support so I had to ask a friend who works at SpaceX who I should talk to. Two weeks later I got an email from someone I'm guessing is part of their support group saying i was in the queue for delivery in late 2021. Late 2021 comes and goes and no terminal. I ping that same person. Now I'm in the queue for a late 2023 delivery. I ask if I can get a refund, they say yes. They credit my card for the second $500 charge but not the original $100 which they claim is unrefundable.

My brother, the true believer, is still waiting for his terminal and his cybertruck.

I know that Elon is a minor deity on hacker news and peeps are going to downvote the heck out of this comment, but from my perspective, dude's a ripoff artist who survives only because the government is paying for his rockets and ev subsidies.
The above is commonly encountered, but not good advice.

Most important, defend your hot path against incursions. E.g., don't pass smart pointer arguments around on hot paths. That is what matters.

New language features are not slower than old features. But there are slow constructs to use carefully. Which they are will always surprise you, usually pleasantly. For example, almost everything around lambdas is fast, fast, fast, except =capture.

Measure often. Look for surprises.
Similarly, the "bus" of a micro-computer started out as a pretty simple thing: parallel, 8 bits of data, 16 bits of address, with memory-mapped or I/O-mapped fixed-function peripherals managed by the (single) CPU. Memory and I/O devices on the same bus.

But the modern PCIe "bus" is really more of a packet-switched network. Memory is now separate (although, see CXL). Devices on that network can talk directly to each other, or to the CPU. In some ways, this is closer to a mainframe architecture.
I wonder how many people who support piracy ever did anything in their lives worth pirating?
With that argument, you might hope to convince me to spend more time in the sun. Not worship it.

But no, as somebody with usually-moderate, sometimes-acute photosensitivity, even your usually-correct conventional wisdom isn't what the doctor orders in my case.
Portuguese name weekdays by numbers ex Monday, Segunda-feira (Second Market), but I don't think anyone assumes Sunday as the first day.

And I leave the "market" for someone who still didn't have enough of this rabbit hole.
A couple more details ...

Good quality roller skate truck pivot pins end in a spherical ball and the pivot pin cup on the truck is also spherically machined. There's no bushing in the cup.
omnivorous diet sounds fine indeed.

> one with a strong connection to the temperance movement and a sect of the Christian church.

Appeared in 1839 [1], popularized in 1847 by the Vegetarian Society [2] apparently. Do you have a source for the sect thing? Anyway, this would not reflect today's reality.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetarian

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian_Society
Yeah, I agree the line spacing is far too much. Butterick's Practical Typography recommends 1.2 to 1.45: https://practicaltypography.com/line-spacing.html

Really the only reason to use a line spacing of 2 is if you are printing it and then editing the text with a pen. So... maybe in a print stylesheet in a very specific situation? But never on the web, IMHO.