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As of the last 24 hours I have observed the same behaviour while archiving HN posts using "Save Page Now" feature of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. After I start the page archival proccess it downloads only the favicon.ico file and stops.

Is this a result of some HN policy? If not, how can Internet Archive team be notified, aside from sending a useless error report with no details?

By saying general math in the title I mean all of the following (in American way):

- Algebra 1, 2

- Geometry

- Precalculus

- Calculus 1, 2, 3

- Statistics and Probability

- Discrete Math

- Linear Algebra

- Differential Equations

But especially these two:

- Calculus 1, 2, 3

- Linear algebra

I am currently studying at a non-english university in a technical specialty involving math (Calculus and Linear Algebra, to be exact). Right now the workload is 3-4 hours of classes a week, which is painfully low. And after a second year, apparently even less time will be spent on it. My English is good enough to consume math content, so that's not an issue. As well as explanations: I have already found and used resources (both in English and my mother tongue) to self-study fast enough to submit my homework.

What actually is an issue are workbooks (or exercise books, whatever you call it). All the workbooks by which we study vary in quality and there are library shortages. The authors are almost always dropping easy exercises right after the start of the paragraph in favor of much more complex ones.

Since I can buy books on Amazon or acquire PDFs using other methods I am asking for your advice on picking general math workbooks that fall under all of the following criteria:

1. There is a shit ton of exercises in the book, varying greatly in their complexity. You can't solve the book in a month or two even if you study 24/7. This way it's suitable for spaced repetition.

2. The author does not sacrifice easy stuff for hard stuff and vice versa.

3. The answers are given to all of the exercises, no matter the complexity.

4. The solutions, however, are unnecessary.

5*. The workbook itself may actually be some online platfrom like Grasple.

The queue has been in 5 digit numbers for a few days. And for a few weeks before that it was possible to get articles archived by archiving them when americans are sleeping (at GMT morning). Nowadays it is no longer possible and the waiting line is about 2-3 days. What on Earth is going on?

I don't watch YouTube Shorts and I also don't watch videos shorter than 3 minutes. And yet they still show up a lot on the recommendations page, even though I click "Not interested" button every time. I do use a Google account and YouTube history is turned on.

Does anyone else notice this?

The announcement is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220203

Google Chrome has simplified it's icon, so no more shadows and brighter colors. The blue eye inside the circle is now bigger. And personally, I hate this redesign. Not the icon, but this whole trend to simplify, update, redesign perfectly normal things. Especially, when the design team has a lot of other stuff to do.

I have mixed feelings about subscriptions depending on the case:

a) the subscription is a red flag stopping me from using the service (Notability, Ulysses)

b) righteous anger for subscription based apps which were already making tons of money without subscription but switched to it anyway (looking at you, Adobe)

c) the subscription model is somewhat justifiable given the complexity of the end product (Altium, Autodesk)

d) I am willing to pay monthly fee because the app or service is actually way better at some things compared to non-subscription analogs (Spotify)

e) this is not a monthly fee but a monthly donation you can stop paying at any time (Wikipedia)

So, when exactly is the subscription fee appropriate for you?

Sometimes doing a thing one way is just common sense, but most of the time there is some innovation involved, e.g. GrapheneOS malloc. The code is covered by license, but are design decisions? Especially given the fact, that they were openly discussed before the code was written?