skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given what we know about statues in the classical world, and the way hieroglyphs look, it feels like a safe assumption to make that the pyramids were sporting some artwork.

How can you not mention egypt's own royal tombs, which were chock full of rich artwork (somewhat we know because several KVs still have lot of artwork) e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.KV62.01.jpg in KV62, which is considered "modest wall decorations", or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.KV43.01.jpg from KV43.
> You can do it on your own server, but you can't force anyone else to.

That's exactly what thechao meant by 'consensus'. If we all agree to configure our computers to fail to resolve all domains ending with `.org`, there's no longer really a .org TLD.

Google could probably pull it off. Imagine if .org domains failed to resolve in Chrome, or resolved but triggered an ad banner saying This website is supporting an institution which is undermining the web, for profit. Not the kind of activism we'd realistically expect from Google, but they have enormous power over the web. Throw in cooperation from the other browser vendors, and you can kill .org pretty dead.

Unsanctioned DNS shenanigans aren't just hypothetical. Alternative DNS universes have long been a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Funny how he ended up being Putin's bitch and working with the GRU to throw the US presidential election to Trump then, isn't it?
This was the reply I came here to write.
I thought it was just a satirical work?
One of our local hardware stores (Home Depot) went completely self-checkout a couple years ago. It was terrible and the employees hated it. I haven't been back. I might be the minority though.

I'd argue there is also a societal effect as well. Those employees are trained on how to spot theft, and not about being helpful to the customer. I'm not interested in being treated like I'm in a prison. :) I'm fine waiting in a checkout queue with my kids. They enjoy shopping with me, but it's a small nightmare trying to do it all by myself.

This will invariably lead to people like me having to pay a premium for an actual employee of the store prepare my bill of sale. --Which, when that time comes I'll pay.

Also, I really don't want the liability of performance on me. I scan a wrong barcode or I miss something and then I'm in a small room talking to a police officer having to explain myself. No thank you. :)
I have tried lots of ratios rice/water, and I think the brand/type of rice, stove and pot properties all greatly affect the results. Not to mention the subject "goal" for the results we all like. (maybe you like your rice wetter/stickier than I do?)

Do you add the oil, salt and pepper before cooking?
Hacking a WhatsApp account with the help of ethical hacking
No it's not. There have been several cases where someone has run to the press and it's done nothing. I have yet to see someone cite an instance where a media connection suddenly made Apple be more communicative with an individual. In every case I've seen so far, Apple has already been in contact with the individual and the only thing the media attention does is give that person an outlet to post the emails they get from Apple along with their side of the "story" with a bunch of conjecture from a blogger thrown in.
Yes, it is really evil for a corporation to disagree with the concept of unionisation (I don't actually understand what it means to disagree with unions).

The relationship between employer and employee is a fundamentally uneven one. The ability to organise and cooperate amongst employees to bargain on an even ground is an important right, a right which was hard won by our forefathers.

> Doesn't seem like a particularly controversial, unusual, or unreasonable viewpoint, among people from all backgrounds, workers and leaders alike.

Widespread opposition to unionisation is fairly unique to the USA, a country with both a shockingly low level of unionisation, poor working conditions in regard to its richness and high inequality.
It's something like a long running joke, but I like to celebrate "Future Day" every October 21st. For at least a few "negative years" (-3rd to -1st, IIRC), I invited friends over to my place to celebrate it together, but it's a date that was intentionally picked to a boring, ordinary Wednesday on its Zeroth year in 2015, so celebrating it alone is just usually more convenient.

The celebration itself I will always describe as quite simple, and laid back: I order a pizza from Pizza Hut, some Pepsi (and only those particular brands for reasons of verisimilitude), watch all three parts of Back to the Future (as the one long movie it has always been to me since I was a kid), and contemplate Gibson's Law.

Gibson's Law reminds us that "The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed."

It's very easy to look at the technologies that past visions dreamed of and be disappointed in some that didn't make it existence in the present. It's tougher and more rewarding to ponder what we do have, how much the technologies in our pockets, on our walls, in our homes, would have startled and astounded friends or ourselves from the past, but that we take for granted simply because they exist, that they are something we use every day, that they've blended into the background.

It's easy to get lost in the spectacle of hover boards and hover converted cars in BTTF Part 2, but there's a surprising amount of technology that did exist in our 2015 that wasn't far from that vision. If you wanted Biometric thumb locks on your doors in 2015, that was rare, but plausible. It's possible there were some kids in 2015 high on Kinect games, and never before introduced to a classic arcade cabinet, to have the way-too-strong opinion that games that need hands are kids toys. They'd be really dumb kids on the losing side of that battle (all their friends with Wiis probably laughed at them), but it was imaginably a briefly valid opinion. BTTF Part 2 faired a lot better in the brand game than Blade Runner or (especially) 2001, and the only heavily featured trilogy brand that didn't survive to 2015 was JVC merged to form today's Kenwood brand, but Kenwood will still sometimes sell JVC brand stuff for nostalgia's sake.

Anyway, long rambling above aside, it is weird that we've crossed into the "future" from when we were kids, but it's an interesting opportunity too, to contemplate where we are and where we are going. To quote one Dr. Emmett Brown, "It means that your future hasn't yet been written, so make it a good one."
Considering that they are 4500 years old, not anytime soon. Even without maintenance, they would last some more millenia. But if you look at the difference between how they look now and how they used to look, they have suffered quite a bit. Only because they are the most robust structure ever built by man, doesn't mean we should just watch slowly decay. Especially while most of their structure is still close to original, it would be a good time to restore them.

Imagine, if for example the acropolis in Athens would have been kept in original state vs. mostly having decayed. All those wonders of the past we decided to keep, we should preserve, while it is still possible.
There was a very old ticket that was closed recently when a component was re-written in Rust. I can't find a link right this second, but if you could have told the future, it's kinda amusing. "Sorry, we'll fix this, but first we have to invent a new programming language. We'll get back to you in a decade."

Frankly, I think it's pretty amazing that bugs this old end up getting fixed. Not many projects live even live that long, let alone keep up their infrastructure...
I think the world of consumption has changed though. People expect things (music, games, etc) to be free and balk at paying for them. Why would they when there is likely someone offering something comparable for free but supported by ads?
It's not. You just have to care.
> They also lease out a great amount of land to the country - to the wide benefit of the entire populace - for pennies of what it would cost the nation to purchase such land and resources outright.

Land which, without support from the royal family, would sink into the ocean.
Plenty of people fall for marketing.

I'm not sure how that is relevant.
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No, when properly implemented, it can not be broken. "Properly implemented" pretty much implies a paper version where there are only two copies of any pad page, and both are immediately destroyed after use.

Computerized versions share the same vulnerabilities as the computer it is on. It can't be "cracked", per se, but there are side-channel attacks that can be effective.

Here is a paper by Dirk Rijmenants which explains it in the context of Cuban spy communications: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/papers/cuban_agent_comm...

I've experimented with generating them manually, using 10-sided dice to generate the code groups and an old manual typewriter (not electric!) with a very used cloth ribbon and 2 part carbonless forms. Works pretty well, and once you get into a rhythm you can make a considerable amount of key material. I just grabbed some random 10-sided die at the local gaming store, but if you were serious about it, I'd get Game Science 10-sided die: http://www.gamesciencedice.com/Gamescience-White--d10--Ten-s...
What part of this whois lookup actually says "corporate PR"?
I wonder if it took 30+ years because your young adult brain was geared toward perceiving 'carrots and sticks'.
I'll add a simple tip to other builders, use a password manager. When I sold my startup, remembering all the passwords and getting them changed took longer than I would have liked.

Additionally, we also lost access to a service because we used "Google login" with name@company.com and in the hand over the new owners deleted name@company.com in G suite.
We couldn't access the account since the email no longer existed.
> a healthy plurality of us here don't even really believe that the state's existence is just to begin with

The idea that the largest group of people on HN do not believe states should exist is straight up delusional. Why is it that you believe that it is so?
"In AD 1303, a massive earthquake loosened many of the outer casing stones, which in 1356 were carted away by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo."
The Wikipedia article on the Sj-sound has some audio samples for those wanting to know what it can sound like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj-sound
Plz ignore the cockly language :D

We believe email is extemely outdated, and all the current solutions out there aren't really making it any better.
We're taking a whole new approach and our only mission is to bring a whole new email experience that everyone can love. That's why I'm curious to know about your opinion, basically :)
This is what happens when your newly-elected DA says shit like "crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted"

Source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-th...
Sci Fi, most especially visual sci fi (film, television), is most principally at communicating a narrative to a user, and in video, doing so in a visually compelling manner. The needs of such interfaces are fundamentally different from those of someone whose interests are solving a specific task problem.

(This disjunction is why, fundamentally, film and text narratives are at odds with reality: the problem domains are different. Hollywood gets reality wrong, because reality is not Hollywood's domain, visual storytelling is.)

Neil Postman and Michael and Joan Heusemann each have a set of questions that should be asked regarding technology.

From Postman, in Technopoly, his "six questions to ask about technology":

1. What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?

2. Whose problem is it?

3. What new problems might be created by solving the original problem?

4. Which people and what institutions will be most seriously harmed by this new technology?

5. What changes in language are being forced by these new technologies?

6. What sort of people and institutions gain special economic and political power from this new technology?

The Heusemanns fail to distil their critique into a similar set of questions, though they do ask:

1. Can technology solve major environmental and social problems? What are the limitations of tech?

2. Why do most people believe in technological progress and uncritically accept any technology?

3. Are there simple and effective low-tech solutions, and what can we do?

The book's table of contents outlines their general argument and prescription well:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/21pc8c/michael...
Yes, reading IPA is very hard, but it's hard for a good reason. It's the best way we have of describing human-made sounds unambiguously, because our regular alphabet doesn't work cross-language.

I agree it would be cool if there was a good IPA speech synthesizer, that would certainly help! There's some discussion on the issues and problems with it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514258
32 degrees seems really really shallow compared to what I see in pictures. This source https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/angle.html says it's 51.5 degrees.
You’re not really redesigning email. You’re only designing a new email client. Good luck with your project, there have been many email clients over the years, so I’m not sure what you can improve that hasn’t already been tried. Gmail and Outlook, for example, are already very good at what they do.
Big star energy: record-breaking explosion recorded
The realities of Winner Take All is that the US regularly omits wide swathes of people from the vote. Anyone that votes republican in New Jersey or California is effectively removed from the equation. Stating that power is distributed based on the constitution is naive, given what the constitution says taken in context with how things are.

Omit Iowa and/or North Dakota and it doesn't change all that much. Both sides of this same argument are precisely the point of the Electoral College. It handicaps high density populations and skews toward rural areas. It is electoral affirmative action.
It is probably better to offer "if you need some help with X I have some experience with it". If they come back to you, you are then free to give advice. Otherwise shut up!
> Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to. I feel no entitlement to their content as they should not feel any entitlement to what code gets to run on my machine once it reaches me. I might expand on this in a blog post some time soon but it's probably closer to an art project than something actually viable.

An advantage of this is we'd skip the whole ad blocker and anti ad blocker charade and gain a metric ton of performance back.
But that's not correct, though, and is exactly the kinds of misunderstandings you might expect people to have if they interpret the ages in simplistic, metallurgic = weapons way.

Bronze age cultures did not "wipe out" stone age cultures with their new, fancy bronze weapons. First of all, bronze weapons weren't even a defining feature of the early bronze age, swords not appearing for a good 1500 years, and spear tips being a fairly minor part of what was being developed in bronze. Second, the description seems to imply a period of stone-age cultures sitting around with bad weapons, getting attacked by other cultures who had invented bronze. Rather, those same "stone age" cultures were gradually incorporating bronze-making into their culture.

The bronze age ended with more of a "collapse," but that was due to a huge number of factors, not simply some new culture having invented iron and jumping out from behind some unexplored region of the map, Age of Empires-style.
Yeah, let me just multithread and hand-optimize the piss out of this Go program until it's marginally faster than it would have been in C.

Reminds me of the argument that venison tastes better than beef. The argument roughly being, "If you shoot the deer right, drag it home right, gut it right, skin it right, tenderize it right and cook it _just_ right, it'll be _almost_ as good as store-bought frozen beef"
Socially insecure people should just watch the s*it out of this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/charismaoncommand/videos

I think visual examples can be way more impactful than what the linked dry text guide could ever hope to be.
For multi-cored cables such as extension leads I would worry about the wear on the cable of all those smallish loops.

For a bit of rope it would be fine, though.
Awesome, great feedback!
Highly appreciated :)
I hope chuck sues. This is a clear case of tortious interference.
This is a little complex. In the UK, there is a distinction between the Crown Estate (which is technically owned by the Royal Family but functionally owned by the state, you also include the Duchy of Lancaster/Cornwall in this) and the Royal Family's private wealth.

The latter consisted in large part of property (Sandringham and Balmoral are privately-owned), furniture, art, jewellery left by the Queen Mother to the current Queen (some of which was then gifted to the state) and an investment portfolio...which no-one actually anything about (it is not large) but which was all acquired privately (both Sandrigham and Balmoral were bought on the open market by Queen Victoria).

To suggest they have "so much of the country's wealth" is wildly inaccurate though (most estimates are $500m, and that is including the Duchy of Lancaster/Cornwall...she benefits from the income of both but they are not owned by her personally). The Royal Family aren't even the wealthiest members of the aristocracy in Britain (or anywhere close, frankly).

Btw, it is worth remembering that we executed our king ~500 years ago when he got out of line. This isn't our first rodeo.
Correct, FEI and Empireflippers have a $25k minimum sale price. They don't dabble in the small sites.
I'm a different person then. When I talk about my problems, I do want advice, because if I'd have already figured out a solution, I wouldn't be talking about it in the first place!

I just don't understand this humanoid need for seeking emotional validation by pretending to ask for advice. A lot of my friends and acquaintances do that, and I know how to handle it, but myself, I just can't do that.
IPA seems to describe areas as far as I can tell; each consonant is how-do-you-make-the-sound and where-is-the-sound-made, not specific frequencies, charted on a grid. The vowel chart is "where is your tongue in your mouth".
I personally have turned down offers such as this with regards to the NYPD so I am familiar. I didnt understand your original point, thought you were saying people should quit high paying tech jobs TO go work for the DoD. Sorry for the confusion.
Will Motorola Succeed with the RAZR Foldable
There are many ways to implement "safe environments". I'm a person who easily speaks up and is pretty assertive but back when I worked in Scrum I really liked the retrospectives where people first silently wrote down their thoughts on post its, then each and everyone went and put them up; explaining what it meant. During this you were not allowed to disagree with but you could ask for clarification. Then you would vote on what seemed most important and go into deeper discussions.

I always felt that those sessions were more productive than just going around the table or people just speaking up.
At the very least, from a "I expect the worst from my government" skeptic POV, one could see this as a good shakedown opportunity from Facebook for massive fines.

The only reason that doesn't happen is either fear of FB or corruption.
Stadia isn't so bad... It's a first time run too.
Casing stones still exist on the Giza pyramids: https://www.google.com/search?q=pyramid+casing+stones&source...
Alternative DNS roots exist, but to my knowledge they don't have much traction.

It's good that they don't. It breaks the web if we have different 'namespaces' like that. URLs are means to be universal, after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
You may not feel an emotion connection to people you've spend thousands of hours around but that is unusual. Most people do. You can't really expect people who spend 1/3 to 1/2 of their waking hours in close proximity to one another for years to not become friends and confidants who are able to talk about serious, non-work things together. It's normal.
Copyright extremists were freaked out with VCR anyway, and tried to claim it's forbidden. They never learn.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
To the people who say "of course":

> The Spanish lawyer Aitor Martinez, one of the lawyers in Julian Assange's legal team filmed by UC Global, tells Repubblica: "Over the years Mr. Assange and his defense team held legal meetings inside the embassy. Those meetings were protected by the lawyer-client relationship and the fundamental right to defense.

What about this fundamental right?

> However we can see those meetings were spied on, according to the videos published by different media. Under these conditions, it is clear that extradition must be denied. We hope that British justice understands the scope of what has happened and denies extradition as soon as possible".

Interesting take, if this would become the end result for this very reason someone shot themselves in the foot.
It's weird that everyone points to the opiate epidemic as somehow signifying something major, when it's just the same drug epidemic that has already ravaged the inner cities decades ago. The only difference with the opiate epidemic is the drug dealer is the neighborhood doctor, so the risk barrier has been lowered to fit the middle class more subdued risk palate.

Same weird thing as will the mass shootings. Mass shooting has been going on for a very long time in the inner cities, but it's only a big thing once middle class kids and adults start shooting everyone up.
Exactly. People keep on saying people can “buy more” because things are cheaper! But that ignores the fact those people just scraping by having to work service jobs would rather pay more and have a job that would afford them raising a family.

I remember in public school, the janitor (before the whole title inflation took hold) made enough money to raise a family.

That doesn’t happen much any more. That job has been outsourced to cheap labor. Cheap because of two things people in mfg don’t have a job and will work for less and two low skilled labor coming in and adding downward pressure to wages.
We sweep the ancients aside at our peril.

I've been reading the works of Plato during part of my commute for the past few months. And for the past six months or so I've been one of several peer reviewers for a certain philosophy-of-science paper which we only recently finally all agreed to accept (after many rounds of revisions). Oh, if only we had waited--just this week, I was reading one of Plato's dialogues and, bang! The big problem which our reviewee was working on was addressed right there on the pages, from the lips of Socrates, over 2000 years ago.