skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little bit like McCarthy being retroactively proved marginally in the ballpark because the Venona papers uncovered Soviet infiltration.
Definitively proven? I can’t wait to see that randomized controlled clinical trial. FWIW the language I see used is compelling evidence, where are you getting definitively proven from?
Indeed. See https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/leap-se...

And they always are end of June or December in UTC time, so locally they can happen on the first of January or first or July.
Source?

This sounds like bullshit to anyone that knows how interrupts work.
Reminds me about Japan and their supposed superior aging. Though the general population believes Japaneses people live longer, turns out its probably not true. In the early 2010s there was some effort to find out why Japanese people live to 100+ more often. When researchers went to find these centurions...whoops most of them don't exist anymore and died 20+ years ago. Turns out that Japan is very lax in checking its social security payouts. They were finding a huge numbers of these people were simply never reported dead and the families kept on cashing the checks that came every month.
I checked the German rates recently and I wish that were still true. The ticket for going between Dusseldorf and Cologne train stations with intercity or regional trains is 175 GBP (146 if you book for the whole year). The one for regional trains only but including transport within the two cities is 269 (216) GBP.
Wasn't that exactly the plan publicized by Musk?
Hi-res version of the PDF here: https://fabiensanglard.net/cpsb/book.pdf (although there's barely any compression artifacts in the compressed version)

Also the book is "gift-what-you-want"; you can donate to author here [1].

[1] https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/fabiensanglard
Obviously Sunday is the left end of the week, Saturday the right.
February had 28 days before Julius Caesar came to power, so he and his successor couldn't have stolen a day from it.
Bannister's use of a mechanical stopwatch on a 440 yard track is as much a case of cybernetics as a modern GPS or a heart rate monitor. He obviously didn't just turn up on the day and run 3:59.4. He trained for months with a stopwatch:

"Several days [per week] consisted of 10x440 in 66 seconds with a 2 minute rest. During the following months they were gradually speeded up ... to 59 seconds per 440." [1].

So aside from accuracy, what's the difference between training with the feedback of timed laps on a track (be it Bannister's mechanical stopwatch and cinder track measured in imperial units), or a modern athlete running kilometer repeats on the road via their fancy Apple or Garmin smartwatch?

If one is that much of a running purist, why measure time or distance at all?

[1] https://twitter.com/jmarpdx/status/1465431668206944256
Awk is such a weird tool--it's powerful and so few people know how to leverage it.

Yesterday, someone in chat wanted to extract special comments from their source code and turn them into a script for GDB to run. That way they could set a break point like this:

void func(void) {
//d break
}

They had a working script, but it was slow, and I felt like most of the heavy lifting could be done with a short Awk command:

awk -F'//d[[:space:]]+' \
'NF > 1 {print FILENAME ":" FNR " " $2}' \
source/*.c

This one command find all of those special comments in all of your source files. For example, it might print out something like:

source/main.c:105 break
source/lib.c:23 break

The idea of using //d[[:space:]]+ as the field separator was not obvious, like many Awk tricks are to people who don't use Awk often (that includes me).

(One of the other cases I've heard for using Awk is for deploying scripts in environments where you're not permitted to install new programs or do shell scripting, but somehow an Awk script is excepted from the rules.)
OK, this was not possible a year ago, but looks like it is now.
and I am not writing about popularity, just saying that there are many in an absolute sense (which is honestly the only thing that matters in practice, relying on popularity of things relative to each other in a state of abundance is absolutely stupid)
The author of this post seemed to have struck gold with the trains he went on. This entire summer, my train trips have been troubled with constant delays and cancellations either because of heat or the constant rail strikes.

Travelling to-and-fro Stansted by train was awful compared to taking the National Express up to the airport. The CrossCountry trains were small and crammed to the brim, I had even less leg space in the train than I did with my budget airline flight. Even sitting up completely straight, I still felt my knees rub up against the metal of the seat in front of me. The train stations and trains themselves were filthy with trash lying around. One thing that always bothers me while travelling in the UK, is how there's essentially no cell service along the whole route. You're lucky if you even get to pull up HN reliably.

I suppose it helps travelling first class - but that is not at all realistic for most people living in the UK.
> Disabling wifi on the Apple Watch, Bluetooth on iPhone and combinations of those, to disconnect the watch from iPhone before starting the run

Unfortunately, disabling wifi will absolutely wreck havok with getting a quick, precise lock on GPS. Also, the author didn't specify if they have a cellular model or not, which is also a factor.

More importantly, this really is an issue for Apple to fix - let people know what the GPS status is!

IMHO: the apple watch is the BEST casual fitness device. But, if you compete or are training in any serious way, it falls flat almost immediately.
Or, more closely, Julian day number.
The way I've always thought it was meant to be is that the "weekend" is really the "week ends," meaning start and end, the same way a shoelace has 2 ends.
I’ve never seen entire industry hiring freezes so i’m not aware of the concern. Would rather stay on job during hiring freeze than he let go. I can sense if i need to bail without being subject to one or another.
Well, most people say Saturday is the weekend.
After Iran-Iraq and being sanctioned to hell while even being invaded, Iran went into the process of independent military complex and so far has mastered to become almost fully self-sustaining (except military fighter jets, which they're trying to replace with Drones)

The geography of Iran is Afghanistan 100x when it comes to moving military equipments as well due to mountains and deserts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw just one of them)

Guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare is up to many levels

Among other is the missile capabilities which changes the game dramatically as well.

Another factor, is the mix of regular Army and IRGC which is a full topic how they differ and operate.

_above just top of my head and very brief, there so many other factors that with good research can be found_

Ofc, not saying Iran is DA GREATEST and MOST POWERFUL, but for sure is able to keep up a bloody fight that causes damage to the enemy so high that no country after Iraq has dared to start one.

Regardless, let's hope no country decides to attack another country, there's enough bloodshed
Commuting from Peterborough would be absolutely insane. You can't convince me you can't find cheaper housing between London and Peterborough. That radius has got to be the majority of the UK's housing stock?
Unlike fusion, we know we can build airships, in fact, we already did. It is just that economically, it doesn't work. And even less so if you are using a scarce resource like helium as a lifting gas.

In a sense, it is even worse. At least, fusion is a hard engineering and physics problem with many unknowns, we know we can make progress, and we do, slowly. Airships are well understood, the physics has been known since Archimedes (ok, with a little bit of fluid dynamics), and on the engineering side of things, we already know how to make every single part, we might get some improvement: lighter envelopes, more efficient engines, etc... but no amount of engineering will change the fact that we will need a huge bag of gas to lift a comparatively small payload, slowly.
An Apple manual from the end of the 70s:

https://archive.org/details/The_Applesoft_Tutorial_HQ_color/...

And they only got fancier from there. If anything, current manuals and books are a lot less frilly than your typical early personal computer manual.
That is a remarkable take on disabled vets, when you see 15 year long fights to get covered for brain damage received in combat due to IEDs, but there are no visible wounds. Cancers and breathing problems from burn pits. Untreated mental illness leading to a much higher rate of suicide and alcoholism than the rest of the population.

But I guess we should go after those disability queens right? Screw the warfighters who signed up to take incoming rounds for the promise of a dodge charger and a communications degree.

I love that you scoff at PTSD being a mention it and get 100% condition. You must be smoking the good stuff.
This is the problem I recently encountered with Avanti West Coast in particular, so often that I am kind of astounded that the author didn't hit it once and instead praises Avanti.

Avanti's ticketing system would flatly refuse to sell me an "anytime single" for virtually any route. I had to scroll through and finally find one that claimed to have a seat reservation available and then I could use the actual train I wanted--which, I might add, had buckets of unreserved seats. Once I got griped at by a conductor for taking the "wrong" train when he missed that I had any anytime (1st!) ticket, which was the only thing their own booking engine would sell me.

This month, every Avanti West Coast train I've tried to use has been canceled, and they seem utterly incapable of running direct trains. I've seen the inside of Crewe quite a few times more than I originally intended.

(I understand that it is partially due to "industrial action"--such a nice phrase for "striking workers because they don't get paid enough"--and partially due to limited overtime by those same workers. That's, frankly, not my problem. Pay your people and run your trains.)
Good luck getting anyone from any other country to erase it. (Media orgs). Can’t imagine why most would be able to watch more than a couple hours of it.
Decimal is a natural convention once you're using fingers to count, which humans usually do while they're figuring it all out.
20+ years of Xcode. This advice is ludicrous. Something traumatic must’ve happened 10 years ago to produce this policy. I only ever reboot for system updates and run zillions of things happily along with Xcode and many other full dev environments at the same time.
A woman in Iran would not be allowed to own a gun only because of the fascist regime in place today. Back pre-Ayatollah, Iran wasn't as misogynistic as it is today. It was one of the most forward Muslim nations in the world. I imagine that if Iran were liberated, they would be similar to Israel in the sense that men and women would all be mobilized into an army and trained such that something like the Ayatollah could never happen again.
Lots of leverage through armed proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria and so on. They can exact a price from anyone in the Middle East, and interfere with the global energy market (like their cruise missile attack on Aramco or sabotaging and kidnapping tankers in the Persian Gulf). It makes dealing with them quite geopolitically expensive and a nuisance.
Moonshot type of projects are risky so most of them will fail. That's ok. But to maximize their utility to everyone they need to publish details on what went right and what went wrong. Google needs to collect all the project's details and place them in a public accessible website.

If they don't then they have failed a second time. Once for the company and a second time for the general public good.
I would add one more point, as a general policy you might want people to read more not less.

If ebooks can be distributed at no cost why make people pay for reading? It makes no sense.

This cannot be the right way to incentivize and provide income for writers.

I think Zlibrary and scihub (for scientific publications) are heroes: how do you think poor people get access to books? How do you get access to books when you are poor in a poor country?

For billions of people this is the only access to books. Otherwise they wouldn't read... What a loss for human kind!
Just like Perl. Most people prefer dumb verbose code, not smart terse.
Indeed, the "tv day" stretches from 02:00:00 to 25:59:59, but you usually don't actually use wall time (or in this case, modified wall time), and instead measure instant time as "minutes after midnight" (MAM) or "seconds after midnight" (SAM), so it's just an integer.
Having broken a couple of kingpins at high speed on roller skates, it's definitely no fun. Unfortunately, the kingpins are under a lot of stress and they're threaded. Invariably, the break occurs on the threads.

Titanium kingpins are available for skates and skateboards, and are much lighter. I don't know if they help with breakage.
Yes, it’s odd that most skate trucks don’t have spherical pivot cups.
> The idea of traveling first class is unheard off for brits.

Bizarre and falsifiable claim. Who do you think is in there? All foreigners? I travel first class quite often if I'm booking in advance, or if I'm travelling on the weekend - and I'm not any kind of money bags foreigner. More space to work, or if you are bringing your family.
I have no idea what this is in reference to, but I love the cut of your internet commenting jib.
Or £8,800 if you choose the "Great Northern and Thameslink" only one rather than the "Any Permitted" one. The former lets you travel on the same services as the latter as well as intercity services operated by LNER. They are somewhat quicker of course by virtue of not stopping anywhere after Peterborough (if they even stop there in the first place!), but as Thameslink services continue through London instead of terminating at King's Cross their slower time to get to King's Cross can pay off with a shorter overall journey by virtue of not having to change trains (for a number of people, this can also mean not needing to pay for the tube either - bringing it down to £7,388 year).

Now undoubtedly £7,388 a year is a significant chunk of cash. But to be clear, Peterborough is very much on the edge of the commuter belt at 60 miles from London. A more typical 'commuter belt' origin on that route would be somewhere like Stevenage, Welwyn or Hatfield - which come in at £4,224/year, £3,300/year and £3,076/year respectively.
Maybe ad-hoc WiFi stuff? Or can you ad-hoc see other hardware attached to the same "cell" as you?
If NYTimes had any shred of journalistic integrity left, they would be looking into themselves first before pointing out other “broken bro cultures”
They forgot summer- and wintertime, and leap seconds.

Oh and afaik only some english speaking countries use AM/PM, the rest of the world uses the 24h based system doesn't it?
I sometimes have a dream that I've gone through several months of high school without realizing that there was a class I signed up for but never went to. After finding out the horrible mistake, I'm guaranteed I won't be able to catch up, and my school career is over. Seems like an extremely unlikely scenario in real life, but I've had the dream more than once.
In fact all of these points have valid reasons which simply reflect some form of cruft. For instance, until Caesar February was the last month of the year, so there was an intercalation of a month of varying length every two years(which made more sense). Also, the months September, October, November, December actually were the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the year. And all the months were 30 days (actually alternatively 29 and 31 days), but the mensis intercalaris which was either 22 or 23 days.

Julius Caesar changed this because during the Civil wars of the late Republic, many times there was no Great Pontiff to do the calculations, so the additional month were left out a few times and the calendar was really getting out of sync. He changed the beginning of the year from the Spring solstice to January 1st, because that was the day of the consular election (and the consuls were elected for one year, so that made more sense as the years were named from the consuls that were elected).

As for the birth of Jesus, we now know that it must be off by a few years. But originally, it was just the best guess they could come with; once it was found that Jesus actually wasn't born when initially thought, well, tough luck, it simply stayed as it was because it was too difficult to change after centuries of counting this way already.

Regarding the use of base 60 for time, it made sense because it allows matching the course of the Sun and the Moon across the year (about 360 days), across the month (lunar month is 29.5 days) and the day. That's also why we cut circles in 360°: to allow for easy astronomical calculation (by approximating the year to 360 days, the lunation to 30 days), and splitting the day and night into 12 hours.

Notice that until the invention of mechanical clocks, there was 12 hours a day and 12 hours a night, therefore hours were of varying length depending upon seasons, but OTOH using a sundial was dead simple -- which made sense when you had sundials, but no clocks...
Probably less geezery to write

set_content_size(MAX_SIZE-HEADER_SIZE);

Sayin'.
Wait till you see old crumbling 1950's communist era stations. These get less common nowadays as they are fully rebuilt.

If you peeps could keep up Victorian era stations in decent shape imagine how much money was spent there.
I suspect anywhere there's substantial tourism/airbnb activity the prices have taken a bubble-like trajectory. And I don't see that abating, travel is only increasing. It'd require something like regulations reeling in the whole short-term rental business, or something else killing tourism.

So I'm inclined to ignore these numbers for anywhere having significant tourism.
We're not going to see major sacrifices, much to the chagrin of activists that conflate sacrifice with effectiveness, but we are seeing significant improvements from existing climate action already. Most of it doesn't make as much noise as highly visible yet ineffective actions like bans etc. which activists prefer.
It does exist: https://friendos.com/
Which is great for this conversation, because it proves that it isn't absolutely necessary for software copyright to exist in order for people to get paid to write it.
tldr:

Do not get touched by it period. Nothing will save you.
> The entire business model you are relying on for income has been completely broken for 30 years.

Many people have their lives depending on that business model. They just cannot realize that such system is dying, if not already dead. It's a false hope dictated by self-preservation.
The jab about the media is absolutely warranted. How many women are found dismembered in the US almost every day? There was just a case last week in NYC. The media doesn't pick it up, but with Khashhoggi they did, because they care the most about journalists.

I'm not saying that it wasn't horrific what happened to him, but the question was why was there so much focus on his case, and the reason is because the media loves to report on themselves over anything else.
Is a fully-assembled ISS capable of withholding torsional stress that would come from insertion burns?
The Swatch time is a variation on the fractional day. Astronomers use it, with .00 being noon and .50 being midnight. You can extend it to any precision you like, 1/100,000th of a day makes for a good 'decimal second.'

I like knowing what percentage of the day is over, a friend of mine says it'd drive her crazy knowing exactly how much time gets wasted.
Sunday is the first day of the week in Israel, not just on paper but very much in practice. I know this because Israelis I worked with will be unavailable on Friday but they will start emailing you Sunday morning.
As a related topic the NY Times .onion site likes to refuse loading articles thinking a normal visitor with Tor Browser is a robot.

If anyone has any contact with the NYTimes ops' team perhaps this issue could be raised with them.
There's a general license for personal communications services in sanctioned countries. There's no required user payments, although phone number verification necessarily involves payments to the destination telephone company.
No one in power is seriously proposing nuclear retaliation to defend Ukraine. The catastrophic consequences would primarily be expanded sanctions. This might include sanctioning foreign entities that conduct any type of trade with Russia, thus severely restricting their imports and exports. I suspect the US would also ramp up covert operations, perhaps trying foment a revolution.
The obvious coincidence within the coincidence. The firearms are now missing, under uncertain circumstances. The _one_ thing that could definitively prove the link and clear the mystery one way or the other.

Also, the daughter says this would justify her life, which is a baffling statement. A life which apparently included drug problems up until at least 2007.

Sorry, I think the author got baited into a family story he didn't fully work to understand or convey.
Layoffs may not even be a bad thing if job mobility is high. Startups lay off a lot of people who have bullshitted their way into their position, members of low ROI teams who can't be easily be transferred somewhere else, quiet quitters, etc. On the other hand struggling to find a job as an experienced engineer is usually a symptom of a sick economy.
It strikes me as even more tenuous than that because you could just as easily say “ah well there were no zodiac murders post-D&D, so obviously role playing slakes rather than inflames the psychopathic mind” or something.
Awk, like vim, is a tool I love dearly that I absolutely would never recommend someone else learn. It’s like a form of mental illness but it’s so lodged in my brain and I’ll give it up when they put me in the grave.
Blocking or bridging the embedded antenna on any cell phone will produce the same results. Apple is high profile, so they got the business, so to speak. Materials that do not conduct electricity like wood, drywall, plastics, and glass will impede a cellular signal, but not block it.

But I really think the problem had to do with bridging that space in the antenna with a conductive material, such as the skin on fingers. The case merely provided a few mm of room for the signal to be able to squeeze through, plus it insulated conductive skin to prevent electrical bridging and deattenuation of the antenna.

Having owned an iPhone 4, I personally never experienced the problem beyond the same exact issue I experienced with a Motorola v551, which is that when placed on a table untouched, the signal strength increased, but then touching or holding it, the signal strength decreased. This can be reliably reproduced over and over again with any cell phone in an area of weak signal. Something about the conductivity of human skin interferes with attenuation of embedded antennas, and this has been true from the first cell phones with embedded antennas and is true of all modern cell phones, that in an area of weak cell signal, any skin contact will reduce signal strength and show one or more fewer bars of signal strength until skin contact is removed.

Apple conceded to a flaw in the design and settled a class action lawsuit, but apparently a few are still needy enough to require Apple be punished forever. The complainers had nothing to compare it to, so they were all, all of them, merely mistaken, the flaw exists in all cell phones with embedded antenna. Instead of proving them all wrong, which would have been academic, Apple laid down. What more would you like them to do?