skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Punjabi we have divided day into 8 parts, with each 2 parts have names like 1st pair (3am to 9am), 2nd pair 9am to 3pm) third pair 3pm to 9pm & final pair 9pm to 3am.

So, we usually say, 8 o clock in third pair means PM, or 8 o clock in 1st pair means AM.
Is Sunday a work day in Israel?
I've been using Postale for a for a few years now, it's been very solid and the pricing is reasonable!
Show HN: Script to prevent same day meetings on my corporate calendar
Hi,

I have a corporate job, I have most of my notifications off, and try to work in blocks of focus time.

When colleagues schedule same day meetings I often miss it because I saw it too late. Which makes me feel guilty.

This tool helped me avoid feeling guilty by preventing last-minute meetings.
Hey, author of Refined Hacker News. I've since fixed the bug and pushed updated versions to the Chrome Webstore and Mozilla Add-ons. The Chrome Webstore version should roll-out in a couple of days depending on how quickly they review and approve the extension. Thanks for the patience! :)
At this point I'll note the watering hole frequency is about 20 cm, giving a conveniently big distance unit without additional parameters. If other, alien species aren't using it already, they'll be jealous enough to switch.
If you had to guess, what percentile of the general population are you in when it comes to fitness?
Mhh, yes. It seems you're right. Saturday is the day God rested supposedly?

Wow it really hasn't stuck. I stand corrected.
Because with more and more people having laptops, they probably don't want their pictures or what have you in the hands of some random thief who happened to steal it.

Newer computers also usually come with a TPM, which allows you to not have to type the password every time. If the PC doesn't have a fingerprint reader [0], it can use a shorter PIN.

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[0] I know a fingerprint isn't a password, but for protecting low-profile individuals who aren't a target for actual data theft (as opposed to opportunistic old-fashioned property theft) it's likely good enough.
When are there not layoffs in startups?

Startups are a crapshoot; not a sure thing. Startups sputter and fail in the best of times and worst of times.

You can go through 30 years of career doing nothing but hopping from one failed startup to another, which can span a bubble or two and a couple of recessions.

Software? Most software ever written has been a commercial flop. Not a single customer.
I understand that people often refer to Julius Caesar as "Caesar", but to me at least, it mainly refers to the "title" (though that remains a surname, as succession was hereditary, mostly through adoption).

History is not my field, I am probably making multiple mistakes and oversimplifying, but I don't see something in that link that disproves what I said. Today, we often refer to Augustus as Augustus Caesar or Caesar Augustus (less frequently, Emperor Augustus). I also think it's interesting to point out Julius's first name in light of the previous discussion, as that's where the month name comes from.
Not only did I not ask that, I don't believe that the equinox is traditionally known as the beginning of autumn. Traditional terminology always marks the solstices and equinoxes as the middle of the season in which they occur, because that is obviously the way seasons work. Compare Western European "Midsummer" [the solstice] or Chinese 立秋 ["beginning of Fall", August 8; compare to the equinox on September 23, or to the "Mid-Autumn Festival" 中秋节, fixed to the full moon, but generally around late September].

The equinoxes and the solstices are marked on modern calendars as the beginning of their respective seasons, but I have never heard anyone attempt to justify that. I tend to assume it's the result of the calendar-buying population not having any reason to care what season it currently is.

But even among modern calendar-buying people, I believe they think of big snowdrifts as something that happens in winter, not something that happens in late fall and continues through winter. And the calendar doesn't agree with that.
So people are suspecting collusion between the government and Bank of England?
> The Ideological Donors on the other hand have a strong belief in free market economics and finance as the main economic driver, both of which are harmful to an economy in the medium to long term (and often the short term too.)

How exactly is free market economics harmful to the economy?
Yeah, that's a typo, 70%, as you can see from the rest of my comment about the fact that with the increasing electricity consumption it's barely a reduction in net terms.

So it's not reducing by 20%, it's "with projected growth it will only account for 50% instead of 70%, so capacity will stay roughly the same, only refreshed".

And again, shareholders don't matter, EDF has always been majority state owned.

So I don't understand what you don't understand there. There was barely any reduction to speak of, a full refresh was needed anyways due to age, and was planned for the future 50% of the grid, and private shareholders were never asked.
They absolutely do in Portugal - I’ve been tripped up by “see you next Sunday” when they meant “see you this Sunday”.
Florida asserts instruction at state universities not covered by First Amendment [pdf]
Capitalism isn't working?!? Let's do it harder!
They can probably try to do that but Margaret Thatcher completely destroyed the UKs manufacturing base in order to screw over labor unions. The Thatcher theory was screw over manufacturing in favor of financial services. She was widely praised by the financial press for doing so.

The plunging pound does not help the financial services sector, it hurts it. Then there is Brexit which seriously hurts both the manufacturing and financial services sectors.

So the UK can increase manufacturing but it will be a long hard slog after they intentionally and continuously gutted the sector for the last 30 years.
At least starlink publishes expected service speeds somewhere [1]

Xfinity provides "800-1200 Mbps service" in many areas and they don't even mention upload speeds. You can expect less than 50 Mbps for areas, though their official press will advertise "eligible xFi Complete customers can receive up to 5–10x faster upload speeds" [2].

[1] https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1002-69942-69

[2] https://www.xfinity.com/hub/internet/faster-upload-speeds
There's also Strix[1], a self-guiding anti-armor mortar round. Not actually sure when it was taken into use, I recall hearing rumours about it being in development in the late 80s, and the Swedish model designation (m/94) indicates it was accepted in 1994.

But, 120 mm is a lot bigger than anything I'd be comfortable firing from a rifle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strix_mortar_round
> But “social justice” is definitely not a foundational belief of the elite

The selection committees at universities certainly believes in social justice or they wouldn't consider race so heavily for admissions.
YouTuber Tests Apple Watch Ultra with a Hammer: Table Breaks Before Watch
> I was impressed he managed to write such a complex piece of code without ever indenting anything.

I wonder if he'd enforce a 's/^\s*//g' pre-commit hook if you worked with him...
There is endless supply of people who want money and don't care if they provide value or not, it is not that special attitude. Usually however the primary motivation is to want money without working, or at least with minimal amount of work. However naturally also the value of the work doesn't matter, the primary objective is just money, and then there are varying levels of aversion towards work.
WAF bypasses using 0day techniques
There's nothing wrong with job hopping, and I've seen no indication that patterns affect anything.

The fact is, we are all working for a wage. With the death of unions, and right to work, that's about all we're working for, personal motivation aside.

If a company is willing to pay more to hire you than your company is willing to pay to keep you, take it. Only suckers stick around out of some loyalty. See how loyal the company is when times are tough. In my personal experience, the tenured, high paid 40 and 50 year olds are the first to get the axe.
Norway is a rule-taker that pretty much implements every EU directive but has no say in how they’re made.

Britain is too proud to agree to that. It would have been very hard to explain to voters why UK resigned all its influence in the EU but still has to follow all the rules. And anything else meant losing access to the common market. This was explained many times during the Brexit campaign and subsequent years of confusion, but somehow the idea persisted that UK would eventually get an exception that breaks the fundamental design of the common market by allowing one country to produce goods and services that don’t follow the common market’s rules.
> That’s so beautiful about modern democracy - promise peasants heaven on earth. Get some shady funding to buy ice cream/beer/organize couple village festivals.

Everybody is doing it, so it must be good.
Interesting that they can have them manufactured at high volume when everyone else is claiming that they are struggling with supply chain issues.
The regex solution might be faster.

The $0=$2 solution has to find the second field and test it for truthiness for every line, while the regex one only has to do that for those matching the regex, and matching that regex will be fast for most lines (skipping spaces and then testing for a fixed string ‘name’ is easy)

Regardless, the regex solution is more robust and maintainable.

Depending on how this get used, I might add code to detect the ‘appVersion’ start and end lines, set/clear a flag there and only match the ‘name’ lines when that flag is set to make it even more robust (who knows what other lines might contain ‘name’ now or in the future?)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392698
if you are into calendars, read zecharia sitchin's books on anunnaki. the calendar, and zodiac, is 6 000 years old! essentially jews are still following the sumerian calendar to this day. that's also why the creationists say the world is only 6 000 years old. the aztecs were famous for the 2012 end of the world but that was only their calendar and they even had three different cycles that worked together like cogs in a machine.
In Hebrew the days of the week are named numerically: first day, second day etc. Sunday is the first day of the week in israel. Saturday, the last day of the Hebrew week is the only one not named numerically, it’s called sabbath.
Looking at the last line:

Authors: 1990 Ken Stauffer, 2022 raf <raf@raf.org>

Has this been around since 1990?

I’m bummed I didn’t know about it. The variety of output options is amazing.
Except it would be absolutely impractical to actually use in practice by any species/societies that have to sleep on a regular basis and in general need cycles. If all your "natural cycles" happen to fit well into base-10, well, that's great. Otherwise, you need to base your cycles on something else, which is exactly what calendars do.

And, just by the way, the Gregorian calendar is bad and messy, but the ideas it's built upon are absolutely great and are not results of shower-thinking and twitter-shitposting, but arise from pure practicality. They suit Earth, and humans are earthlings, their cycles are defined by the Earth. A year is a crucial cycle, because it defines weather so much. A day is a crucial cycle, because it defines when it's dark outside. A lunar month is a natural and pretty good cycle, because Moon cycles do actually affect life on Earth, but it isn't crucial, which is exactly the reason, why Gregorian calendar happens to get away with pretty much ignoring this one, unlike a day and a year. Still, it explains why most calendars through history prefer months being close to 27.3 days, and why weeks are 7 days (a quarter of 28). Both cycles also are both long enough and short enough to be useful for practical reasons, like organizing work schedules even without relying on celestial bodies. Furthermore, it even appears they are not enough, which is why the year is divided into "quarters" for business purposes like accounting. And these happen to be fairly close to 30 days, which happens to be a very neat divider of 360, which is close enough to a year on the one side, and a very neat number that naturally divides all small numbers up to 6 on the other side, which makes it easy to work with (unlike base-10, BTW, since that cannot be divided by 3).

All of which explains, why French Republican calendar is actually a great idea and unfortunately failed (for a fairly stupid reason, IMO), and base-10 day is not so great (although it has merit, since modern digits are base-10) and naturally failed.

Now, these totally imaginary and having nothing to do with reality aliens of yours may not have earth-like and human-like cycles, but they surely have cycles of their own. So it is unlikely that magnitude-1000 time measurement with no cycles in-between can work for them either.
Commuting costs me 25€ each day. So if I can stay home 3 days a week I can save 300€ each months covering big part of my utility costs. In terms of salary it’s ~7000€ plus what in my situation is not doable anymore as salaried employee.

I really don’t mind my employer giving my desk for the rest of the week to somebody else. There are no colleagues in my group who want to sit 5 days a week in the office anymore.
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majority(most of them) of crimes go unsolved. why are you surprised one got away?
And this is why we CS never advances and is still stuck in the 70's. well, just linux.
I find that to be the case for many "industrial" (for the lack of better word) online stores. E.g. for plastic containers, https://www.usplastic.com/ is similar.
I thougt english gene pool is french. /s
We evolved in a world of social distraction. Now our mental life is so fragile that it can be disrupted into anger by a spontaneous interaction.

Yet the information systems we live in are also designed to continuously distract the hell out of us.

If you need to focus, turn off your phone, lock your door, and do not go online to read and post.

Otherwise come join your fellow human animals in the beautiful dance of communication that gives us our superpowers!
>Not all scholars agree that Jesus was raised from dead,

Are there any scholars that do agree to this?
McMaster is the golden example of only trying to sell people what they need.

No upselling, no "popularity" filtering, no cheap imports that under-perform. You don't reviews to select between items because if you know what you need, you just buy that.

Of course this requires some expertise. You need to know what you need. And that's where the value of a physical trade shop comes in, where you can go, talk, even show the problem to somebody who might have seen your problem before.
Ask HN: Do you know your Open-Source history?
Julia Ferraioli has started a timeline for the Open-Source history on Github: https://github.com/juliaferraioli/opensource-timeline (see timeline.csv).

Nice idea - if you know more facts maybe chip in? ... or give her a star!
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This was not such a problem when science was advancing slowly, but with acceleration of scientific development, this has become the retarding force. If we want to speed up science, we need to find a way of allowing truths to triumph faster.
Best e-commerce site? Ok, trying to search for “bolts filips”. Showes me ALL products.
Many more than that. Pre-pandemic Bath was quite busy in the mornings. Only 75 mins from Paddington, good comfortable trains, and always a seat, so you could work. What's not to like
PayPal could be banned from blocking accounts for political reasons
Second hand books aren't easily and freely available to you in a matter of seconds.
Well of course you only see the times the employer axes - but you never even hear about the times they don't.
Right to work didn't kill unions, Europe has right to work and unions do just fine, California doesn't have right to work and software engineers still don't unionize. Right to work is just a ruse trying to make you focus on the wrong thing.
I am so sorry to hear about your loss of dear memories and the overall uncomfortable situation you were put in. Something similar happened to my mother last year, her account was compromised and everything was deleted from her page including old photos. Thankfully she keeps a hard drive at home full of them. She came to me in order to try and resolve the issue but as I was helplessly looking around the Facebook forums and FAQ:s there was literally nothing of value. We attempted to contact Facebook as well but to no avail. In an attempt to reset her password we tried all of the 'have you forgotten your password' options but it was all going around in circles.
Thanks for making a post here again! :)
Still not enought to power all cars during the night, given the charging time.

Anyway that isn't an issue, because only a few elected ones can charge their Teslas on their private parkings.
Truss isn't exactly inspiring optimism to say the least, and this is when Europe as a whole already had a pretty bleak outlook.

Times like these you remember those (what feel like an eternity ago) days back in '07 where 1GBP would buy you 2USD...
You can connect the power cable through one of those "push the button for 30 min of electricity" boxes.
Why does this thread assume that aliens will be hyperlogical and not understand what culture is? This is the most ass backwards assumption almost all scifi makes about aliens, at least in my humble opinion. A society which has cracked inter galactic travel will probably have its own vast culture and quirks, i see no reason why not.
It immediately presented me with a screen with the choice to "save originals to cloud or save a compressed version to the cloud" (I don't recall the exact words) with no option to not upload to the cloud, and then immediately started uploading my library.

I scrolled back and checked some pre-2015 photos, they look fine, and then deleted the app.
The answer is simple -- it is just a flight to safety. And the dollar is the safest place to hold assets at this point. The inflation is not the biggest issue. If inflation was the biggest issue, everyone would be holding the stocks of companies that make the things that are inflating the most. But those stocks are going down with everything else.

The problem is the damage Jerome Powell is intentionally doing to the economy in the name of fighting inflation.
Is there a reason why those extra books can't be contributed back to Libgen, instead of starting a separate torrent?
The minimum viable fan control script
The argument isn't generally that "Jesus" isn't a person, but rather probably built off one person, but also a collection of stories about people who might be other persons or made up. There were lots of messiahs at the time, and considering that the first gospel was probably written a good 20-to-60 years after the protagonist's death, it seems reasonable to many to presume that some the stories might be stories about other messiahs at the time that got passed on.

It obviously doesn't matter if actual divinity isn't at stake. Did Socrates exist? Maybe... probably? But he's depicted as two very different characters in the two sources we have (Plato and Xenophon). Which one is the 'real' Socrates. What about Homer? What about Achilles? Having long dated historical documents, especially one's that are more about the story than the person gets complicated.

Do I think that a person named some translation of "Jesus" existed, and generally lived the life described in Mark? Sure, maybe... It gets a bit dramatic at times, but it's plausible. Was that the exact same guy as the "Jesus" in Josephus? Hard to say... Maybe? Do I think all the things written in the gospels, and Josephus and the guy referenced by Tacitus all the same Jesus, and were all the things that happened real and/or happened to that specific one person? I find that to be wildly improbable.

Again, it sort of doesn't matter to non-religious folks. I don't think the person in the story needs to be "a person" just like I don't think Plato's depiction of Socrates needs to be 100% accurate, or even mostly accurate (it seems very obvious that liberties were taken). I don't think it really matters whether William Shakespeare or secretly someone else wrote all those plays. It really doesn't matter to people who have a healthy amount of skepticism... It's perfectly fine to admit that we don't know. The stories are still there and they're good stories.

It only really matters if one has built their identity on some long lost non-verifiable, historical parchments being the truth about the universe... I know many people have chosen to do that. I was brought up religious.
> Other nations with "good health care" seem to pay their workers less, have higher taxes, have long wait times at the ER, weak militaries, etc.

Are these conclusions based upon some sort of systematic analysis of yours?
You made me think of Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia: All are Islamic majority in Southeast Asia. I Googled and look what I found: "Identify the first day of the week based on the locale"

Ref: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000338932&type=...

The entries for Indonesia don't make sense to me.
Expertise can't be taught. That's why you enter the workforce as a junior, whether you have an engineer's degree from MIT or you switched careers and are fresh out of a bootcamp. From there, the road to expertise is not paved with courses and books and hand-holding. It's paved with _lots_ of real world experiences, good and bad. Expertise _happened_ to those expert practitioners as it will happen to you as you fight fires, solve problems outside of your scope of responsibility, etc.
> which is a totally separate question from the layout of a printed calendar

I have no strong preference on Monday/Sunday, and I don't think either is inherently more logical than the other. However, it would be illogical, whether Sunday or Monday first, to have the 7th and last day of the week, laid out as the first column on the calendar.
That website routinely comes up in a lot of crafts and craft-related hobbies (in my case, it was guns, where gunsmithing can involve parts they sell), so it's not exactly a secret. And yes, people do actually like it regardless of the article.

OTOH I don't know of any serious hobbyists (of whatever) who get the majority of their supplies from Amazon. When you ask, people generally say that selection is poor and quality is always highly suspect.
If Australia considers China an existential threat (I.e. that it is plausible that China might decide to invade Australia) then there is only one option: Nuclear deterrent.

This is because Australia is much, much too small to even try to compete with China.

This is pretty much what North Korea similarly concluded with respect to the US (though the threat seems proven in their case)
Sparkle Framework exists.