skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every large manufacturing facility has vehicles for their maintenance staff. Sometimes they use golf carts. Sometimes they use tricycles.

An automotive assembly plant can easily be 10 million square feet.
Based on my research, that is a very fair price for a industrial tricycle; honestly would have expected it to be more.
Were a species that prioritises backwards compatibility.
I've seen that argument (the one you're replying to) many times online and I never understand it. In the same breath people say that immigrants choosing to immigrate will have low wages and poor working conditions. Alright, but that's no secret, they know that and it's still better than where they came from, or they wouldn't move! Keeping them out hurts them or forces them into illegally immigrating.

The America First, America for Americans type people at least have a position that is coherent even if it's not compassionate.

The anti immigrant liberals for whom class solidarity ends at the border just don't make sense to me.
Exploring Time and Order in Distributed Systems
…shopify is losing more than 1 billion a quarter.
5370DW with the standard TN-620 toner cartridge. 3000 page yield. Average of 300 pages printed per year based on the expected yield and how long it took to use up.
> We are seeing that with the influx of migrants into the U.S. and Western Europe

dont be ridiculous, we are seeing ECONOMIC migrants.

Im not saying we will not see climate/disaster migrants, but the overshadowing majority of migrants are economic opportunists, that are eying the possibility of a better life in Europe/USA. This is why in Europe they overwhelmingly seek to the countries with the largest welfare schemes.

I dont blame them, why wouldnt they do this? but dont fall for the obvious lies about WHY they come.
How could first foot on an alien planet possibly not be a historic achievement?

The point is not and could never realistically be exports.

The point is to overcome the challenge and develop capability.

You can't learn how to live on another planet in silico
I disagree with one thing: I usually go to Mcmaster to browse. I often have a problem, and I know that it must be a relatively common problem with an elegant solution, but I'm not experienced enough in that area to know what the solution is. Browse through the catalogue for a while and sure enough, there's a widget that's specifically designed to solve your problem. The design of the website makes it really easy to do that. Everything is well curated, labelled, described, tagged, and hierarchical.
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

I think Israel, and Jews in general consider Sunday the first day of the week.
The thing that would've brought it around for me is a punchline where the alien says something like "wow, your system is so clean and simple compared to ours".

I do think there's a certain degree of humor when looking back at history. There are plenty of things to laugh at in hindsight. But the thing that rubs me wrong is the undertone that this is somehow a distinctly human trait or inherently a bad thing. That somehow only humanity is subject to the impact of evolution and gradual learning over time.

And to those complaining that we should just have fun with this, I get it. There's some funny stuff in there. But that shouldn't absolve the thread of criticism. It's fair to point out that it's a pretty reductionist take when combined with the implication that humans are uniquely stupid. It's an easy problem to solve with a very slight reframing. $0.02.
> You're saying this isn't communism because it's not at sufficient scale or depth.

No, communism simply isn’t an attribute that a small store has if it is owned by a local government. If 10,000 small town governments in the US start running their local grocery store that still has nothing to do with communism. Communism is an ideology and movement about establishing a society whose fundamental socioeconomic system is based on common ownership of production and distribution of goods and services.
there's no way around it. if you want to avoid getting misunderstood, misinterpreted, especially by in a somewhat adversarial setting, then you need to build a mental model that grasps what you want to communicate, and then spend the pages and ink to write it down. structural language, plenty of examples to narrow down possible points of false interpretations, etc. (at least 3+ examples for each thing, to have a quorum of examples that can break ties in case of opposing interpretations) obviously quantification is good, measurability is great, directionality is important (so then as you try to specify this abstract concept by its boundary in some mental space you can say what's inside and what's outside the boundary, which examples point in which direction ... so you can say things like "we mandate providing shelter for every resident" with a lot more precision, after all in no time someone would argue that it's a tautology, since "residents reside somewhere, which means they have an address, and therefore they already have shelter there".)
> British people love to complain about the state of their railway

Because they invented railways, and then stopped investing in them. HS2 is the first new line of rail north of London in like 150 years.
Thank you for the additional detail about the origin of Sunday as a sabbath, and the nuance that it’s not observed on Sunday by all Christians. I was not actually thinking about the resurrection story, or even about how Sunday came to be observed as such, but it led to some interesting reading.

I've found it hard to search for details of this aspect of labor history because results are almost entirely about the movement for, and details of, what came after: the 8 hour workday. But my understanding is still that Sunday was historically the conventional rest day in the US (at least for workers who could enjoy a rest day at all), regardless of the history of the traditional Jewish/pre-Christian/Restorationist sabbath observed on Saturday. The best source I’ve found so far[1] doesn’t explicitly say so, but does strongly suggest that Saturday came later as a recognized day off because the competing “weekend” equivalent spanned Sunday–Monday (I’m also fascinated to have learned about Saint Monday). I’m sure there are other sources to find, but I’m going to leave it here to enjoy the remainder of my rest day/weekend/first day of the week.

1: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200117-the-modern-phe...
I've seen this a couple times; a startup makes it past whatever threshold you'd consider a startup, but doesn't want to let go of that "culture" or zeitgeist, or whatever romantic notion they had of yore.

In one case they were bought, so now they were part of a 75k+ employee behemoth. But still, with only some irony, called themselves "scrappy".

In another they're still privately owned, but are over 7 years old, with close to 500 employees, and allegedly #1 in their space. I feel they like to hide behind this "startup" idea because it relieves them of putting on the big-boy pants and accepting that the expense of moving fast being the #1 priority is actually something they're having a hard time paying.
Not my bailiwick but I feel like early Java's problem was a combination of everything not a simple primitive is an object that goes on the heap plus a GC optimized for batch throughput vs latency. Bonus it's Java all the way down to the bitter end.

I'm with you. One should look at latency requirements and the ratio of profit vs server costs when making a decision. AKA when your product generates $250k/month, you're paying three programmers $40k/month, and your AWS bill is $500/month isn't the time to try and shave pennies.
I recently found out that evince works fine with gzipped pdf (although not zstd). pdfgrep doesn't handle that but rga does.
You know, I've had experience teaching elderly and computer-illiterate people tech. It was much easier to teach them Windows in early 00s than iOS today, because the former, while looking more complicated, was also very consistent - once you explained the basics like drop-down and context menus and drag and drop, those things generally worked everywhere throughout the system, even in new apps they haven't seen before.

Conversely, with iOS, the problem isn't just that all those techniques are undiscoverable - it's that the tricks you learn for one app will rarely work in another. Well, that, and the fact that they regularly change basic UX, too, like removing the physical home button.
what if we transmitted signals on gravity waves?
It's actually the other way around, as in "Don't let the US drag Ukraine into War".

But too late.

NATO/US is now fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.

Vicki "Fuck the EU" Nuland has a lot to answer for.
September through December being months 7 to 10 are because Julius Caesar (July) and Augustus Caesar (August) added months named after themselves after they were named.
I think the stereotypical female experience is wanting to see the breadth of items available, and maybe "oh wouldn't this go nicely with that thing you bought?" I really don't think the stereotype is true, though. I LOVE browsing McMaster with no specific items in mind, and would not at be mad about "you just bought 1/4-20 18-8 stainless steel screws. here are nuts."

All in all, I'd say to be careful with stereotypes. I'm sure women love the McMaster-Carr shopping experience.
Grainger isn't directly a competitor as they focus on "everything" but they're amazing.

You can pay them to open the local branch at 2 AM on a Sunday if you need a part and they have it in stock.
> mostly self-selected tag used to indicate culture

This is _precisely_ how I've seen it (mis)used; a (IMO very creepy) need to hang on to those wonder-years that got you there. It's also when you typically see the "visionary" type leaders start heading out and doing it over again.
Someone should study whether there's a causal relationship between empathy and depression/anxiety.
When it comes to populations it's about statistics, not about what is possible at all. If we want many great works, we need to make it possible for more people to succeed with that not make it harder. Same fallacy as saying that discrimination or poverty don't impact success, since some people have pulled it off despite those.
Hum, no. There is no reason not to change it (except for inertia, what is a better reason than any you will see). It is logical (once you get over the fixation with 60), but none of that logic is a good reason to keep it.
I mean, I did that. I left Google and cashed out. I'm not old, but I'm mid-life. I'm not able to retire. I just couldn't handle the bullshit anymore. But now I'm working again (for less $) because I need the money :-)

But TBH the hiring frenzy was happening long before that. When I left (end of last year), I heard Google had hired something like half its staff just during the pandemic period. Not sure if I believe that, but if so, that's crazy. None of those people even saw the inside of the office.
> It’s fundamental to the design of the OS and has been so since day one.

Swipes, and especially swipes from behind the edge were definitely not "fundamental" in the first version of iOS. I don't even recall them being fundamental in the first iPad.
This isn’t even getting into backhaul, assuming the laser links work out. There are financial firms that would hand over untold stacks of cash for even a few ms of performance improvement between say, London and NYC. And Starlink can do that between all sorts of distant city pairs.
Big eInk device with pen support could be an alternative
No, that never happened. They renamed the existing months "5" and "6".
JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (2019)
Other extreme bass instruments:

- octobasse: https://youtu.be/12X-i9YHzmE

- subcontrabass saxophone: https://youtu.be/kgt2m9Q7Kz0

- subcontrabass flute: https://youtu.be/dA70S6NJsCw

- subcontrabass recorder: https://youtu.be/U3CsmeKU2vE

- subcontrabass tuba: https://youtu.be/OK1GDkvFdL4
A printing press still takes resources and times. I don't imagine many people had easy access to a printing press.

And even then, it wasn't a scanner. Printing a single book meant making templates for each page. Sure you could print a lot of copies of that particular book, but you could not make a library out of every book out of it. Worse I imagine most people who did print books likely didn't credit the author at all, just sold them as a business.

This is very different from the digital age.
I use this password for all my accounts: BingoBongo77. Is it secure?

Edit: oh crap
Please do not link to foone here
I'm not. The SM-2 has contact fuze capability in some models. Look it up. This was almost under active development at the time, as the SM-2 Block IV.

I'm not talking about therotically here. The SM-2 was at the time in a development program that involved direct hits.

A test warhead for direct hit capability is something that was tested for the SM-2 repeatedly, and was almost certainly being tested around the time this incident happened.

You would not expect any fragmentation in such test. Since hit to kill capability was under development at the time, and since test missiles often have dummy warhead, you could reasonably expect exactly what I said.
I have no idea about iOS restrictions but wouldn’t it be easier to build an API that does the parsing for the app and if something breaks in the process, you get notified and fix it ASAP instead of having to push an update and wait for it to get approved? Hosting would be free or super cheap if you use Cloudflare Workers or similar places.
> I don't think anyone assumes Sunday as the first day.

That is not up to assumptions, but to conventions and arbitrariness. You find both conventions among Portuguese speakers, but mostly domingo/Sunday as the first day of the week.

A good way to check this is to websearch pictures for "calendário em português", and look for the first column of the calendar. Most will have D/Dom (domingo/Sunday); however a large minority will have S/Seg (segunda-feira/Monday) instead.

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

It's mostly a fossilised meaning.

Latin "feriae" originally meant holidays, holy days, vacations, and the likes; that's why the clergy¹ chose "feria" for the weekdays, as you'd be praising their god instead of the Pagan gods². However, already in Late Latin, this backformation also meant "fair"³. In Portuguese that second meaning eventually evolved to "street market", likely due to influence of the names of the days of the week - you don't work in domingo/Sunday or sábado/Saturday, but you gotta work and sell stuff in the "dias de feira" (feira days).

1. This clergy intervention was done in Latin. This is visible for the name of Tuesday being terça-feira ← tertia feria instead of *terceira feira (third holy day).

2. The traditional names for Monday to Friday were lues, martes, mércores, joves, vernes. Ecclesiastical interference got rid of the names for Sunday and Saturday early on, but if Portuguese inherited the Roman names they'd be something like "soes" and "sadurnes" respectively.

3. In fact that's where English got the word "fair" from. At least when it comes to those fancy markets/exhibitions/etc.; not to be confused with the homophone "fair" for just, beautiful, etc., as this one is native and unrelated.
Log analysis: Detecting new attacks by watching your 404 error logs
Clearly the 32016 was a failure for all sorts of reasons that are well known. The chip was buggy as hell and late.

But it came out around the same time period as the 68000 -- a very similar chip -- which is no less complicated. And that processor was enormously successful. (From what I've seen of the NS32k it was basically... A lot like 68k but little endian and witha smaller register set that wasn't split into address vs data registers)

My point is that 'engineering complexity' can be measured in all sorts of ways. It took 15 years after that period for RISC to truly prove its way, and even then it's been heavily modified from the original "recipe."
> but I don't think anyone assumes Sunday as the first day.

You can get any calendar from a Portuguese speaking country to see they do.
The 6*6*10 calendar is regular as possible.
It has 6 months per year, 6 weeks per month, 10 days per week.

One month:

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59

60

Every month ends with a blank day (60), with the exception of the last month in non-leap years.
Ask HN: Will AR be the next computing platform?
Hey there, it seems that a lot of companies are working on AR/VR technology - Microsoft (Hololens), Apple (rumored Apple Glasses), Google, Meta, Magic Leap, etc. Do you think AR could become the next computing platform and be as big as desktop or mobile?
Show HN: Clammer – share and discuss article excerpts with friends
Clammer is a social platform for sharing and discussing excerpts from online written content. It's like Twitter but every post and thread stems from the facts, quotes, and insights you collect online, all tied back to the source. In fact, you can have a whole conversation without ever writing a single word.

I made this because I was tired of rehashing vague opinions, the real juicy conversations are in the details. Would love to know if this resonates with anyone; any and all feedback is hugely appreciated.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-4uMcNiGk
just because something has historical reasons does mean it makes sence today. There is no reason for the Moon to have any place in a modern calendar.

You already have 2 values: year and day, and they do not divide nicely. But they serve a practical purpose in a modern society, so we have to deal with them. The moon does not, but adds a third factor.
Even going for a color laser printer isn’t really cost prohibitive any more for anyone with an average income. The Brother entry model is $300 or so and you can use it basically forever.

I say this because I had only b/w for years before finally getting annoyed enough that I upgraded to the color variant.

The only negative is that the thing is so ridiculously big (compared to inkjet or b/w laser).
For Mormons, a perfect lawn is a godly act. The drought is catching up with them
At first glance, this may seem to criticize a particular religion.

But it doesn't really, and it is an interesting story I learned a lot from.

I never knew that in Utah, there are two separate freshwater systems: treated drinking water like you have everywhere else, and untreated "secondary water" for lawns and irrigation.

There is no meter on the secondary water. You can use all you want, and only pay a flat rate per year.
This!

Over 3/4 of the media I pay for is creative commons, redistributable, non-commercial, no-modifications, attribution licensed. (The other 1/4 is streaming video, music, etc, which is not CC licensed.)

I am 1%-5% of some of the CC artists' income. I'm probably < 0.000001% of the income for the corporate media sources I pay.
thanks for sharing, good list
Anybody can indeed hire an editor, but you have to hire them. Nobody edits (or copyedits) for free. Which is Kasey's point.
If I see that regex in code somewhere, I'd have to stop and break it down the way you did to understand what it's doing, and I've spent a fair bit of time with regex. I think reading it and understanding what it does in one go would require far more than mere familiarity. (and that's not including the awk-isms like FNR etc.)
Perhaps, but I feel the real reason is their security team tells them they can't control it so they should get rid of it.
Drop-down menus with more or less standard categories were for discoverability. Toolbars were always meant for "quick access", representing the most common - and, usually, user-configurable, subset of commands in the menus.
Serious-ish question: how do we know the ‘meaning’ we perceive doesn’t also originate from some external agent?
It wasn't only HACK that got broken today. Around the same time as HACK stopped working properly, Refined HN[0] (browser extension) did the same for me on desktop Firefox. It mostly works, but there is no more "favorite" button (and other extra buttons) next to individual comments and probably other features I am missing (because I don't use them).

Not sure if it is an HN API change or not, but feels like it.

0. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
I thought this would be about Consistent and Partition tolerant systems. (Or CAP theorem).
Epic! reminds me of the conversation I have with every new hire, trying to explain our 20 year old system.
A week is not a bookshelf, it's a snake. Does a snake have one end, or does it have two? Does a dog have two tails and two butts?
That's pretty silly. What "shared resources" am I contending with previous developers for? It's not like "oops, I can't deploy to the QA environment now, it's in use by somebody who left in 2015"

Also all the remedies he suggests (keeping your responsibility assignment matrix small) would make absolutely no sense if "communication costs" was dominated by the cost of communicating with developers in the past. By any reasonable reading communication costs refers to developers simultaneously working on a task (in analogy to parallel processes).
I'm sure money is one reason people don't have kids but look at rich european countries compared to poorer countries. Families tend to be smaller, why?
That's a way better list than what I had! Thanks! Think I'll watch the rand() talk tomorrow, I love (to hate on) rand.
the problem is that journals have this fancy dream that they are still the communication medium between peers of the field, who are equals and up to speed, and they are simply exchanging notes on their eminent thoughts and theories.

yes, that probably also happens every once in a while, but they should adopt a rule to assume that readers are absolutely not the seminal trailblazers of the field. [of course no need to go back to Simple English Wikipedia level]

there's ample space in journals. no need to hide stuff in spreadsheets in the supplements. paper authors should write the fucking thing down with precision and accuracy. yes, of course cite things, but also they should finish their thoughts, spare the reader the endless goose chase. no need for the standards smug remarks that communicate absolutely nothing just namedrops citations.

understanding should not be an adversarial process. (Socratic, yes, but that's cooperative/constructive.)
Nobody should learn vim when vis exists.
Don't worry, all I can see is ••••••••••••. The browser builds in technology so that it conveniently shows you your password (BingoBingo77), but all I can see is ••••••••••••. Neat, right?
I already did!

https://adamziel.github.io/index.html

https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html

It also lives on netlify: https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/
Android at least lets you re-enable the old UI in most cases. And then there's the ability to install custom launchers etc that also helps maintain sanity with major releases.
My area is one of the more extremely overvalued ones; we’ve been looking at relocating but if we actually correct anywhere near as much as this indicates we will happily be in the market.
When Google embed their DNS and their certificate into every Google product you have to use, you can't effectively block it.
There you go. I have done something similar. And place was puffing up with out of college new hires. Everyone getting pat on the back. I stand by my assertion, companies will have to get the old people back unless they are happy to have years of over investment with little returns, increased uncertainty around release cycles
Log in to find out what this might be

Nope.

I might do it after reading something, looking at some pictures or a video, and being sufficiently interested to give it at try, but a logo on a blank screen screen isn't sufficiently persuasive. Sorry.