skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>sometimes there are 61 seconds, or 59

Isn't one of those still just a theoretical possibility? I think all leap seconds so far have been in the same direction.
In Paris train pushers are just a convenient excuse for you to ram the idiots standing clueless in the middle of the carriage towards the aisles where they should have gone from the start while pretending it’s not your fault anyway.

It’s nearly as enjoyable as getting someone out of the way so you can get in said aisles yourself and avoid being compressed next to the doors at rushed hours.
Well, post digital era we still buy/rent games, video and music.

I don't see why something similar couldn't be done, pay monthly and you can read whatever your want, and what you read depends on where the money from your subscription goes. And as distribution costs are lower, higher % of it should go to the writers. Hell, amazon could just do that, except of course they wouldn't give a fair cut...

At zero cost to try new authors it could possibly be a good way for more niche stuff, you can just page thru any book that you want with no cost but time

> What do you expect them to do? Force users to sign up for a weekly subscription and email out individually DRMed copies of the chapters each week?

There is actually one guy doing it on patreon but he already have YT audience for music gear reviews (book is about electronic music ideas and tips). So it is possible, just kinda hard as you already need to have publicity.
I recently learned that in West the weekdays are named after Roman gods, but in English it's done by the way of Germanic gods. It's just that Romans, when visiting German tribes, interpreted local gods as Roman ones, simply with different names—as they did everywhere else too. So they brought the calendar with them, and explained that Odin is the same as Mercury, etc, and thus where Romance languages have ‘mercredi’ and such, English has wōdnesdæġ.

‘History of the English language’ is a splendid podcast.
FWIW, if you could get almost the same effect from google docs (and presumably excel): if you cut/copy a grid of cells and paste it into something that only understands text (e.g. VScode) you'll get tab-delimited columns of text. I don't know if there's a way to get some of the niceties like left aligning but I've used google docs for this sort of trick many times.

1 5 9
2 6 10
3 7 11
4 8 12
Now be completely honest:

- If you haven't read the article, would you think this site great?

My point is: no one knows what is a great e-commerce website. Is one that sells a lot? Amazon does it.

Is not one that sells a lot, but that is very easy to use?
I will update these old pages on my blog and redirect them!
"Sat and Sun constitute the weekEND, right?"

It's called a bookEND only if it's to the right of the row of books. If it's to the left (for books in an RTL language), we call it a bookSTART
I for example just wouldn't like anyone to be able to see what data I exchange with any server, be it small profile blog or a login page.
Never. My kids enjoy coloring pages, I have legal docs that need signing and scanning, and my wife teaches at a local college. Printer is pretty busy.
> Colonizing the clouds of venus is a good idea eventually, but it's certainly not a viable first target.

Sure seems a _lot_ more interesting than Mars at least.
> Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance

I'd argue with some forms of writing / publishing books are the secondary income stream.

There seems to be a growing audience for online serial fiction as well as technical books that are written by the chapter, where some readers pay for early access to chapters that have yet to be released.

The outputs of these are quite long, so at some point a block of chapters gets bundled into a "book" as well as an audiobook on occasion and then sold on amazon.

Some authors then hide / remove the earlier chapters (this is not universal), or add extra bits in the book and then publish this for people who are hearing that "This story is really good, get the book to find out what happens".

Not sure what the actual economics looks like at the macro level, but it seems some authors are doing it as their full-time gig.
Line height 1.75 lol no thanks.
That’s not true (e.g Hinduism), but even if it were, the fact your views align with the views of other people alive or dead does not make them correct, nor does it absolve you of the moral and ethical responsibility to consider their consequences. At this stage in human development, eating meat is a choice not a necessity. Many other customs that were once as popular are now seen in a much different light.
If you're hand-wringing about the performance impact of function calls, Python is probably the wrong choice anyway.
Would this be compatible with DEI mandates at many organizations today?

Why does Harvard still want to consider race in making admissions decisions?
What does it even mean to consider Sunday the first day of the week? What does it change?
> body :not(:is(h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)) {

That seems both clever and hard to maintain over the long run.
> I do have to wonder how long until Google decides that only certain clients can connect with Gmail?

Already the case on mobile:

> If you use the Play store or GitHub version of FairEmail, you can use the quick setup wizard to easily setup a Gmail account and identity. The Gmail quick setup wizard is not available for third party builds, like the F-Droid build because Google approved the use of OAuth for official builds only. OAuth is also not available on devices without Google services, such as recent Huawei devices, in which case selecting an account will fail.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co...
"Today, the spoils are distributed unequally: the larger the companies’ data set, the more it can learn from the data, attract more users and hence even more data. Currently, this is most apparent with the dominating large tech companies such as FAANG, but it is predicted that this will also be increasingly importantin non-tech sectors, even nation states. "

The idea that a scheme like this, which involved effectively universal DRM, could change the current inequality, is just preposterous. Sure, this might threaten a Google or Facebook model but a Disney or Elsevier would love this and the existing success of data aggregators who own their data shows where it would go.
Ask HN: Unique or interesting experiences for software developers?
I have a friend that will be serving in Antarctica as part of a science program and it got me wondering what unique or rare opportunities there might be for software developers.

By this, I don't just mean "cool jobs", but more so opportunities that are meant to be constrained by time, location, or scope for some specific purpose. An example might be the US digital service program for US citizens, which had (has?) a 1 year term-limited service that software developers could join to help modernize government technological services.
What traffic between a blog without user auth for comments needs to be encrypted? Why? I understand that Let’s Encrypt exists and it’s “easy” to set up (for people with root access to the system hosting their site + a decent level of technical sysadmin proficiency)
As far as crypto nonsense goes that's unusually smart
The reason that is true about Saudi Arabia is because nothing else that Saudi Arabia does gets any reaction except tacit approval from the US, and they paid absolutely no price for Kashoggi, either.

Right now, the US is screaming about the veil right after recriminalizing abortion. Meanwhile:

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-gi...

Saudi woman jailed for 45 years over social media use, says group

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/saudi-woman-gi...

Saudi Arabia is imprisoning women while the rest of the world is not paying attention

https://theconversation.com/saudi-arabia-is-imprisoning-wome...

These stories get a little attention from the press ostensibly because they're about speech, but knowing modern journalism it's really because they are about Twitter. Women getting executed for infidelity? Not news.
I recently began the process of interviewing for a position with a Vancouver HQ'd Canadian tech company (that a friend works at) while also interviewing for a remote US HQ'd startup. I terminated the process with the Canadian company when I accepted the offer for the startup. A couple weeks later the Canadian company announced a large number of layoffs, including for the kind of position I was considering.

I just looked and they're now advertising for that position again, with a fresh new posting. Just two months after their layoffs.

Dubious.
3 Link (no kingpin) trucks are cool

forum.esk8.news

https://stoogeraceboards.com/collections/all
JS died how?
I feel dumb because at some point I was extremely lost reading this thread.
Printing all calendars and design all calendar software with Sunday in the first column is a big clue that most Americans consider Sunday the start of the week.

In Europe, printed calendars and apps have Monday in the first column.
What about: "measured against the potential saved [...], before realizing that in the end, it probably won't change anything there"?

Just like 5G could potentially reduce the overall consumption, before we realize that actually we use it to the point where it increases them.

Or just like any other technology, after all.
Well, I have only had 3 jobs after the first one... I tend to stay at places for a while. My first company was shut down suddenly by the parent company, and I was recruited by a consultant we had worked with to join a startup he had joined.

I then joined the next company when the people who started that company started a new one.

When that startup failed, I was going to take a break and maybe start my own company, but a guy who had worked for me at the failed startup invited me over for margaritas and to check out his new company he had joined, and next thing I knew I had accepted a job offer.

I have been at the last job for almost 10 years.

I now have a ton of connections from people who I worked with and they then left the company. I am sure if I was interested in getting a new job, I could put some feelers out and have some offers right away. I have had people try to recruit me, but don't have much interest in leaving my current place.

I don't think my experience is that unusual. It is so hard to find good talent, sourcing from people you have worked with before is extremely valuable.
At the time of the calendar reform, the months that are now called July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis. The Julian calendar came into use on January 1, 45 BC. July was renamed in 44 BC (the year of Caesar’s assassination), and August in 8 BC.
Focusing on the immediate objective. When that's done focus on the next immediate objective. It's like you build a ladder of objectives one step at a time to guide you through the rough times. Focusing on the immediate makes things easier for me.
You can do it in 15 minutes if you've already done it before. If you didn't, you'd be very lucky doing it in such a short time frame.
You’d pass up on reduced risk of all cause mortality, reduced risk of cancer, reduced risk of fall injuries, and improved mental health [1]? Just to stick it to Google? Man, get some exercise. If you don’t like Google either don’t use a tracker, build your own, or use one that’s more trustworthy.

1: https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Acti...
What helped me was to understand that my struggle had several causes, and clearly identify them all.
Then, I could start working on improving those that could be improved, if only by a tiny amount. Talking to a therapist should also probably be part of the plan.

This gives you a plan and the feeling that you are back into control, that you can fight back.

Hope is only about tomorrow, in the long term we are all dead.
Was the woman dismembered in NYC allegedly killed by foreign state officials after being lured somewhere?

I agree with your broader point that reports generally like to report on themselves when possible, but pretending the Khashoggi assassination (because that's what it was) isn't particularly newsworthy is kind of silly.
Let's change the scenario to explore the framework of your argument.

Suppose Vladimir Puten says he'll nuke the planet tomorrow unless every Apple employee dances naked outdoors then burns their headquarters to the ground.

Apple does not burn their HQ down and the employees refuse to dance outdoors, naked. Are they "fanatical Apple computer advocates and/ or fanatical prudes?" Or does game theory suggest responding to threats is a bad idea?
For sure, I agree that the ajax UI/UX offered by gmail is a game changer. And all those features that makes it convenient for users, can be accomplished without compromising security/privacy. What I don't like are companies proposing standard disguising as a some convenient feature, where in reality is just a racket to mine data from the users.
They were definitely talking about Zodiac, although the same name is linked to the other case.
Only $50k grants? You must have missed the AI startup wave here in Montreal. They didn't end up producing much, if anything, of value. But they sure knew how to scale those grants/"government investments" to a completely new level.
Simulation of US and Russia Nuclear War
I use a Dymo label printer for shipping labels, and a Brother laser printer for packing slips almost every day for my small business.

Both connected to my Proxmox machine running cupsd, printing from all platforms in my household; Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, all work fine, I print remotely though a WireGuard tunnel when not at home.
I had a great time implementing a C compiler and embedding it in the D compiler so it can import C code directly. I keep toying with the idea of doing that for C++, but since C++98 the language has just gotten too complicated to reliably map onto D semantics.
It was only Phantasy Star Online that used Beats.
As a previous skateboarder, the sweet spot is having full weight on a corner and having about 5mm of space between the wheel and the board. Wheel diameter also plays into the equation. Smaller wheels are used for looser KPT truck setups to reduce the wheel bite mark while increasing the truck turning capability. Risers further this difference. A standard park/street setup is different than, say, a downhill setup or what you find at your local department store. 48-52mm wheels instead of 56-58mm.

Longboards use larger wheels and wider trucks to clear the board of any wheel bite. Some even cut out that area of the board. For skateboarding, you need that area for stability, flip tricks, and landings.

The physics of it all is what’s so awesome about it.
I normally browse HN incognito on my phone but had to go to my desktop and login to say this: I fucking love MMC and their website. I got into woodworking during the pandemic and eventually built a loft bed for my son. I needed some very specific sizes of furniture bolts in small quantities and Amazon just didn't have what I needed. McMaster-Carr to the rescue!

I agree that they aren't the cheapest, but the quality is unimpeachable and the shipping is fast and reasonable even for small (i.e. retail) orders. I also love how everything in the catalog includes a brief but concise description of what it is used for.

Also, at the risk of perpetuating (largely accurate) stereotypes about gender psychology, it's clear that the website is designed around the typical male shopper: I am shopping to fulfill a very specific need and I want to acquire the solution as quickly and efficiently as possible.
I'm not a super expect in space, but I'd argue yes. There is more radiation there, but we know how much and how to shield from it. The ISS does have an "escape module" descent craft allowing the crew to evacuate in a few minutes any time needed, but they've never had to use it yet. IMO that's a good argument that it isn't that big of a deal. Yes, it'll be a bit riskier for the crew in that there's no security blanket of a quick easy escape to Earth in the event of a real emergency, but well shit happens. I don't think there's anything going on as far as isolation that's really more severe than tons of other things that have already been done.
It makes sense. Plausible business models can get normal business loans. Funding what no one else or not enough people are funding is typically the point of a grant.
Also cousin of Dodi Fayed and second cousin to Adnan Kashoggi.
> In short the Monarchy serve no real purpose in modern societies. Even as a symbol, it's a very bad symbol.

TBH I'm sort of baffled by this stance given the events around Queen Elizabeth II's passing.

To be clear, I'm not a monarchist, and I share the opinion that their continuation in modern society is, well, weird, to say the least. A modern constitutional monarch holds no real power, and often times holds less power than normal people (e.g. not being able to express any political opinion). For example, I wouldn't wish being a member of the UK Royal Family on my worst enemy - yes, you are rich and nominally "famous", but you essentially have no freedom: your job in life is pre-ordained, and your life is basically constantly under the microscope of an adversarial press.

But, while I may not fully understand it, it's clear to me that a monarch can serve a real purpose in modern societies. Many, many millions of people felt an affinity and dare I say a love for QEII, and I think these traditions serve a unifying force in the UK, or at least in England. The UK monarch and royal family are essentially the ultimate "branding" exercise. Plus, since the UK has basically separated any real power from the monarch, it means that the monarchy's sole purpose is to serve as a "neutral" symbol of the state, something that pure democracies often lack.

To give a good analogy: I don't really understand rooting for professional sports teams either (George Carlin has a great bit about this "The players change, the coaches change - you're basically rooting for laundry"), but clearly tons of people have a deep, strong emotional bond to their "favorite team". It's also clear to me that, even if I don't understand it that well, many people can feel the same way about their monarch, and that can serve an important purpose.
Well, the foundation of Christianity is the establishment of a source of hope that transcends the tragedies and corruption of the prime material plane. That hope is incredible source of strength for many. I think it's an interesting examination of people to understand where they derive hope from, and just IME for many it's their spiritual belief system. "What gives you hope (about humanity, the world, your personal life, your family, etc.)" always seems like an enjoyable conversation. To the extent that one feels and internalizes gratitude I think is also strongly correlated to hopefulness, just IME.
Maybe rule 10 explains rule 9 :)
No, but maybe I do …

Don’t yuck someone’s yum.

Let people enjoy things.

Don’t rain on the parade.
Looking at that article, price controls are a broad topic (MSRPs are a price control, minimum wages are price controls, rent control is a price control, fixed prices for food are a price control), one that results in obvious economic deadweight (scalping, enforcement), and one which is generally pretty heterodox in economics.

I'll give a real world example. In Canada, they privatised almost every public telecom in the country except Sasktel. Since Canada has lots of rural customers that would be unprofitable to service, connecting these customers is subsidised by the government, in return for the companies among other things accepting price controls on what they both charge companies and also charge 3rd party providers piggybacking off their infrastructure like MVNO's. Canada has some of the highest telecom prices in the entire world, so price controls at best were inadequate and at worst failed. Yet Saskatchewan notably pays less than the rest of the country, and that's because there's no incentive for them to collude with the big telecoms to raise prices, so they don't.

He also mentions anti-trust, anti-trust is all well and good but historically only a very few companies get broken up and it tends to encumber than less than expected, Microsoft is doing OK. Taxing corporate profits more is almost totally hopeless, especially for something like Big Pharma which has countless means to shift around which country profit was realised in. Price controls for pharma make no sense, the government is artificially raising pharma prices through IP enforcement, just don't enforce their patents and you'll have lower drug spending and lower enforcement costs. Why do governments enforce patents for tax dodgers anyways?

To me, I feel like Reich is dancing around the crux of the issue, talking about moderate approaches which mostly buy into the status quo, talking about things like price controls with a degree of embarrassment.
It results in your browsing history being tracked and sometimes sold by your access point and ISP at a page level instead of just domain level, results in injected ads and banners on some access points, results in injected trackers on Verizon, and more broadly it permits unknown third parties to alter the content of your website.
Columns like those are a bit awkward when combined with scrolling long blocks of text. When you reach the bottom of one column, do you need to scroll back up to get to the top of the next? Or do you have the column fit the height of the screen and have some sort of horizontal scrolling for as many columns as it takes.
That's like saying X11 the communication protocol is missing config files. Wayland is not a concept that would, or should, have config files.

Sway is an example of a Wayland compositor, that is an actual piece of software, and has a config file.

> input <identifier> scroll_factor <floating point value>

> Changes the scroll factor for the specified input device. Scroll speed will be scaled by the given value, which must be non-negative.
I would expect a alien calendar to be as complicated as ours. The calendar we use is the result of a long and rich history. Their would likely be as complicated, especially if there are part of a tree sun's system.
About 10 years ago. If I need to print, and I rarely do, I will go to a local printing place. At least their printers will work
I'm going through the process of switching off of Gmail and onto a Fastmail account under my own domain. I'm loving the freedom of having my own domain that I can switch to another email provider whenever I want. Also, Fastmail with a custom domain has some nice features that were unavailable with a Gmail account (aliases, masked emails, automatically snoozing certain emails so I get a bunch all at once, etc.)

As for pictures, I do use Google Photos, but it's not my primary photo video store. It's more for the app that lets me lookup pictures.

For storing original versions of pictures/videos, I sync from my phone to a home computer using Syncthing, and store backups of my files on AWS S3 using Restic for encrypted backups.

If I lose Google Photos, no big deal. I still have local and cloud copies of my data.
What would make it hard to maintain? (honest question, I'm rather ignorant of CSS)
I’m on a phone otherwise I’d have contributed myself, but you should definitely link this page in the README so it’s easily discoverable. If it wasn’t for this thread I wouldn’t have even known it was supported!
Yeah, this just proves to me that the intuitive shell tools are way better. I'll keep all the heads, tails, cuts, and trs, etc.
McMaster in general for all things high quality if I need to make something. Calipers, verniers. Tap sets. Electrically conductive TPU filament. Amazon is for crap.