skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writers of the time, including Pliny the Elder and the Greek geographer Strabo, described these sacrifices as a chilling spectacle. A priest would lead an animal, perhaps a sheep or a bull, into the shrine. As if by the hand of the god, the animal would instantly drop dead, while the priest would walk out alive. "I threw in sparrows, and they immediately breathed their last and fell," wrote Strabo..

.."I wondered, could this Gate to Hell be a volcanic vent?".. "We saw dozens of dead creatures around the entrance: mice, sparrows, blackbirds, many beetles, wasps and other insects. So, we knew right away that the stories were true..."

.."When Pfanz tested the air around the vent with a portable gas analyser he discovered the reason: toxic levels of carbon dioxide. Normal air contains just 0.04% CO2 but Pfanz was shocked to discover that the concentration around the shrine reached a staggering 80%. "Just a few minutes exposure to 10% carbon dioxide can kill you," he said, "so the levels here are really deadly."

"These ultra-high levels of carbon dioxide are caused by the same geological system that created the area's hot springs and dramatic travertine terraces. Hierapolis is built on the Pamukkale fault, a 35km-long active tectonic fault zone where cracks in the Earth's crust allow mineral-rich water and deadly gases to escape to the surface. One of them runs directly under the city centre and into the Ploutonion."

"Almost certainly the choice of the Ploutonion's location was directly related to the seismic gas vents that exist here," said Yeomans. "Given that the underworld and the deities and myths associated with it were a significant part of their religious ethos, it makes sense that they would construct temples and shrines in places that most evoked the world that they believed lay beneath their feet."

"But such proximity to the forces of nature came at a price: an active fault zone also causes earthquakes, which levelled the city in 17 AD, 60 AD, and again in the 17th and 14th Centuries. Eventually, Hierapolis was abandoned."
They didn't write that anywhere.
That is an interesting idea for a future post. Thanks.
Co-Pilots are fully qualified pilots. They can take over 100% of the jobs of the Captain if they need to.

Just like Tesla’s Autopilot, this was poorly named, at a minimum.
I normally read AC as something opposed to DC, but not as air conditioning.

My country is located in a moderate region. So our cars traditionally did not have A/C. Long time ago, when I visited Arizona, we tried to keep cool by opening the windows, like we did at home. I was very happy after reading the car's manual to learn what this mysterious A/C button on the dashboard was.
Nice. Will you open source the code and docs at all?

I do get why the irs wants to vet submitters in production but you can't even get the detailed info for development without going through the long verification process.

I wanted to do this since I have extensive experience in implementing SOAP clients and interfacing with ancient legacy systems so I am very interested in any public way to contribute
USA brand tax cattle state property objects must achieve maximum USA compliance scores or have central bank revoked food permits.
This might be what I need. A few years ago I made a short tutorial on YouTube self-defence [0] but the measures are quite drastic.

[0]. https://hakon.gylterud.net/tutorials/youtube.html
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> there are a few popular languages around which jumped on the UNICODE bandwagon too early and are now stuck with UTF-16, but those languages usually also offer simple conversion functions

Java does this, right?
Oh, definitely.

I was just musing on the previous comment and noting that one of the things we do best is learn how to do things we previously didn’t how to do.
> 2FA is more to protect users from phishing attempts

Usually, 2FA enables phishing. People generally know not to share their passwords. But scammers are now triggering the password reset mechanism and phishing people for the 2FA code. People are not as careful with that code as they are with their password.

My grandmother almost told her SMS 2FA to some scammer on the phone claiming to be from her bank. If they asked her password she would have immediately understood the scam.

So I feel 2FA is worse than useless for preventing phishing attempts.
The other thing to keep in mind is that in musical intervals, X and Y add up to X + Y - 1. For example, two thirds (say, C-E and E-G) make a fifth (C-G). That's because both endpoints get counted in the interval.
I don't know why AC has such a bad rap. The US spends more energy in heating than it does in cooling. Most heat is produced by burning gases (natural gas or propane) which create more CO2 than the average electricity mix to power an AC. Even if everyone used heat pumps, there is a larger delta between the outside temperate to the desired inside temperate in cold-climates than in hot climates. It seems heating is a much bigger problem for the plant than cooling.
Any climate policy other than a carbon tax (with tariffs on goods from non-participating countries) is going to be a failure - it will be shot through with loopholes and rebates, such that little reduction is actually achieved.
I was wondering that too. I'm guessing it's frequency. We get them, but they are once every few months. The only annoying thing about them is I have to open outlook to actually report them as I normally use Airmail.
Syntactically how does PathQuery compare to Gremlin?
Sure, in the South it was ruthless Europeans trying to get rich. And they did. The Mayflower settlers were more or less fugitives from Britain, while all other colonial powers, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, were only there to exploit. Not very enlightened, even compared to contemporary Europe back then.
It makes sense what you're saying. But "rooting for" one outcome or another doesn't do anything.
Well, they only measured the CO2 content within the mask. The mechanisms were not studied, so you can't make conclusions, and thus you are unable to say whether it is or is not true. (i.e. you can't say anything about filtering capability, it's not what they studied) All they found was a correlation between mask usage and CO2 concentration that exceeds the government safety levely by several multiples within a few minutes. I suspect this has to do with the rate of transmission, but again I cannot make any definitive statements without further studies.
how they suppose to learn about it or at least be curious about it if they do not even see it?

>I buy it honestly.

phishing should look nice to the victim?
it is a phenomenon at the event horizon at with radiation is emitted in a way comparable to the radiation produced by every object according to temperature
More like 10-15 ms in practice, on sub-6 bands at least.
Maybe you didn't read the whole article then. It totally describes how to do it. The bottom has a nice summary but I'll quote the solution parts of it here:

The winner will work on some side project. Still work.

Not a solution to the bus-factor of people but a good solution to the "we never get to work on tech debt / platform work because features" problem. This alone is awesome about this.

Everybody, including product managers, gets one ticket every week, even if you don’t want it.

This, if done right, will result in Product Managers providing a vision and consistent answers to similar type questions. Thus the team can learn to anticipate their answers for minor things (which helps even in week where the PM isn't the winner) and in weeks in which he is on vacation (or wins again) the team isn't stuck waiting for a week for an important question that blocks development.

Team should avoid delaying the work for a week.
Try to bring one of your colleagues to do the task with you or under your supervision.

This is what to do, when you need to break "rule 3" (which states you have to be completely unavailable). It's a soft rule and I think the point is actually to break it a lot in the beginning. The "under supervision" part means, you are teaching another team member part of what made you the one with the bad bus factor. As time goes on, having to break this rule will become less frequent (which is why they wanted everyone to write down when they have to break rule 3 if you ask me)
Note that a chief impediment here is copyright rather than the ability to reference an extant work.

A photo of an inscription is not the same as the inscription itself --- detail is lost in any translation.

For digital works, it is possible to faithfully reconstruct an original with full fidelity (if necessary, embed an emulated environment of the host, server, or network originally provisioning the work). But copyright claims make this a legal suicide maneuver, at least for any entity capable of being sued, or being sued effectively.

Note that numerous previous archivists have in fact been pirates or copyists, sometines under pre- or non-copyright regimes, but very often in direct rejection of copyright.
I think the article misses the fact that "childhood" in the past was more or less defined as just the stage of your life until you could do something useful, regardless of age. So as a child growing up in that environment, finding something useful to do was more or less the basic minimum to be accepted. Schooling was just an add-on in comparison.
The United States has been fractious since the beginning. It degenerated into a Civil War that had been brewing since its inception. The Constitution was full of rules designed to grant extra power to those who went on to secede anyway.

Nor did the end of the war settle anything. The reconciliation project was quickly put down, and the losers of the war set about memorializing and lionizing their heroes. The violence continued, but quietly.

The next century is what we think of as that "American identity", where we were too busy making money and becoming the international superpower to wage large-scale violence on each other. That fractured after World War II, when the people who weren't benefitting from that demanded an end to discrimination.

That's been the story for the last half century, as the gradual success of marginalized groups gives that original urge to fracture America a new urge to express their grievance. And that grudge is so old that it's practically impossible to talk about. You can see it in this thread already. They see it as a personal and modern imposition, talking about great old days that simply did not exist -- not for everybody.
This isn't true. I understand the economics and that a fairly administered carbon tax would be good, but other systems like cap and trade with targeted legislation do actually work in practice. Take the province of Ontario, for example.
I think it also has a huge effect on sports. Especially the ones that aren’t on TV. When I did martial arts in the 90s it was super hard to find recordings of good Muay Thai or kickboxing fights. So you had to figure out things for yourself very slowly instead of seeing how the world class guys do it. Today’s youth can watch the best in the sport from all history and learn things way faster.

So I expect the next generations of athletes to have way better knowledge of the sport and just be way better.

Same in music. I had a drummer friend who had one tape of Neil Peart of Rush. He studied this in and out. Today you can find recordings of all the greats easily and see how they do it. This will take off years of the learning curve.
South America is an obvious choice for anybody concerned about time zones.
among the last? that seems wrong according to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_sla...
Usenet died because reasons. It had met its effective maximum scale by the early-to-mid 1990s, at a millionfold less use than today's largest Web platforms see.
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SMS 2FA is an antipattern. Many people know this, but it's not percolated down to everyone just quite yet.
China has had continuous organized civilization, and the alcohol it produces, at least as long as anywhere.

That makes a good environment for mutations that protect people from alcohol consumption, but such mutations still has to randomly appear, and that it happened to appear in East Asia is probably just random.

The fact that populations who have never had alcohol succumb to rampant alcoholism when first getting access implies that even the eurasian populations without the Asian Flush genes probably has some less obvious genetic protection. You can also think of it as the most alcoholic prone genes have been weeded out over the centuries.
I'm not sure why it's worth quoting that "expression of concern" rather than addressing the study directly.

I'll list my "expression of concern" about their "expression of concern": their "expression of concern" contains no evidence refuting the study. In fact, it contains no substance at all, other than being a political statement.

View the full text here and see for yourself: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/705/htm

"The journal is issuing this expression of concern to alert readers to significant concerns regarding the paper cited above [1].

Serious concerns have been raised about misinterpretation of the data and the conclusions.

The major concern is the misrepresentation of the COVID-19 vaccination efforts and misrepresentation of the data, e.g., Abstract: “For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination”. Stating that these deaths linked to vaccination efforts is incorrect and distorted.

We will provide an update following the conclusion of our investigation. The authors have been notified about this Expression of Concern."
Would they though? The interests of their donors are different.
Lotus Notes is a crime against humanity (2012)
Good to know even they're toothless, now..
Do you have any suggested reading on content-addressable file storage?
Yeah, it must be because it's two years old and fell through the cracks. But source is available and it's fairly easy to host the two necessary files:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/alyssa/monotone-portraits/-/b...
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A Self-Adjusting Search Tree
Hah, yeah, although the process here wasn't as cynical as you're making out.

I blog about things that catch my interest, and the coding error in Copilot caught my interest. Usually when I do a blog post about the 'right' way to do something, it's triggered by seeing it done 'wrong' somewhere. Usually I can't point to whoever did it wrong, because it's unfair, and as a result I get a lot of replies to the post like "duhhh everyone knows this already". But in this case it's AI creating the error, so it feels fine to point to the source of the error.

Rather than jumping on a hot topic to farm hits to my blog, I'm blogging about something that caught my interest, and it caught my interest because it's a hot topic.
So, for people to quickly implement http requests, we need to feed, clothe, and discipline humans for a minimum of two decades, backed by legions of teachers, doctors, and professors with endless time to service them.

That doesn't seem sustainable. It also seems like a poor cost to value ratio
So it will be self-reinforced to get worse and rot over time? Since surely all code that used Copilot will be slightly worse than code without (extrapolated on the assumption that Copilot is wrong some of the time).
I imagine most such companies block by default. Copilot has so many sword-of-Damocles-level potential issues with it WRT licensing and the potential for the exposure of proprietary code that I can’t see a responsible closed source developer, let alone a CTO or CSO allowing it.
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Liberia also largely uses it, and Myanmar has their own thing, but you're largely right.
I've only ever paid with a card, but you basically just hand the card to the attendant and they run it through the card reader on the pump just like you would in a different state. As far as I can tell there is nothing unique about the pumps in Oregon compared to everywhere else.
What product managers can learn from farmers
Major WiaTag update: how its work, design, and settings have changed
Or the Nox and Sox cap and trade market that started it all.

https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/acid-rain-program
Ok: and since I would hope we agree that no one worth being a software developer is just blindly copying code off of stack overflow into their code, Copilot is certainly a horrible idea if what it is doing is making that easier or "cooler", right? :/

If we start by assuming the developer is a "good dev", I can't imagine Copilot is going to do anything useful for them, as this isn't going to be a useful way for them to come to understand how the system they are using works, and it won't support them building abstractions to reduce boilerplate. This tool is simply not useful for them.

Which leaves us with the idea what Copilot is a tool designed for "bad devs" to be able to do less work to do the bad things they do, and while I sort of appreciate the idea of "it is worthwhile to support people who don't know what they are doing in their attempt to do the bad thing they are doing anyway", I have severe reservations about doing that with engineering... it at least needs to be marketed as that!

Otherwise, the two main things we should be doing for "bad devs" is either helping them become "good devs"--which this doesn't do for much the same reasons it isn't useful for "good devs"--or we should honestly be trying to convince them not to be a developer at this level at all (which might include building higher-abstraction systems that are easier to use and understand).
Building a City in the Cloud
Balajis has talked about cloud cities and cloud comunities before. Thought this concept of a chartered city and starting small as being quite an interesting one to build on top of.
C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup who is Danish. But otherwise your list is mostly accurate.
Tesla Deaths
A result of insertion order is that when I print {b:2,a:1} I get "{b:2,a:1}". This can be nice for being able to store something like an HTML element's attributes as a dictionary while still serializing it back to the order it was declared with

Sorted order also requires sortable keys-- not something that's required when hash maps only require hashing & equality

A stable ordering is nice, without the ability to sort insertion order meets this ask. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1... shows how in Python this useful property also comes as a side effect of an optimization
I'll add that with SO it's always helpful to read a few answers below the accepted ones.

There's always almost some nuance that the accepted answer might be lacking or you should know about that is mentioned.
The problem with that (at least in what I've sold online), is that older/elderly people tend to copy and paste into their messages or type it out verbatim.

Again, maybe that's specific to woodworking tools and supplies, because those people tend to skew older, but I have legit asked 4 or 5 buyers, this year alone, if they were bots because that is literally their first line.
uh, no, unless you count "responsible maintainence" as "engineering" which it isn't.
> “Nobody is going to propose a tax on all Americans and the cynical side of me says, yeah, we kind of know that but it gives us a talking point that we can say, ‘well what is ExxonMobil for, we’re for a carbon tax,’” McCoy said.

> McCoy also told the interviewers that Exxon had poured money into “shadow groups” in order to fight against climate science.

That appears to be the worst of it and I'm not sure it compares to what Exxon has already been caught doing in the past. A bit like finding out a convicted murderer was jaywalking on their way to the scene.
This is a great idea! It sounds similar to controlled chaos and/or engineering serendipity, where you intentionally create chaos in order to uncover some sort of new skill or increase productivity
I think you're conflating two things here:

- 2FA one-time passwords shouldn't be used for anything but verifying a normal login attempt, not a password reset. Independent of a login, they should be totally useless.

- If someone is phishing via a phone call, I'd expect that they already have the password in-hand, either because the bank themselves have been breached or because your grandmother was re-using the username/password combination on another website that got breached (a situation that should be taken into account as a common case when designing login systems nowadays).

Again, 2FA isn't to _prevent_ a phishing attempt, it's to throw up additional barriers to someone attempting to phish. 2FA is also great for situations where someone else has been breached, since an attacker can't then immediately take a re-used password and shove it into a third-party system to get access.
There was a story just the other day about how Microsoft has been signing rootkits. The new "security measures" don't do crap for malware and just make legitimate uses of the machine (installing software that respects your freedom) harder.
My YT fix tale: friend was throwing out an LCD TV because of weird colours, like solarization. I asked him for it, spent an hour searching youtube and found a TV engineer video with a likely solution: unplug the data cable where it feeds into the screen and scrape it clean.

7 years later and the TV is doing daily duty as a monitor for watching streamed content. I clean the cable once or twice a year, and one time had to source a replacement capacitor from a roadside discarded TV to bring it back to life (again, thanks to YT info.)
In case you're just wondering how recent it is (vs. "Why is the date not in the PDF?"), the page says the submission date was 17 Jun 2021.
Copy/paste from stackoverflow is a great analogy: Copilot is making something that already has a huge negative* impact on code quality more optimised and easier to do as part of your daily coding flow.

* Just to clarify, I'm not saying SO is bad, but just specifically the practice of blind copy/paste without reasoning about & understanding the code you've copied. SO moderators encourage/semi-enforce descriptive answers for this reason; to add context to the solutions provided.
All major powers of the time were faster. Even if Napoleon made slavery legal again in the colonies for a while it was abolished in the main land before.
There has, if you aren't in the US, Liberia, and Myanmar. Sure, you get a few small outliers (Canada and probably Great Britain still have a mix of measurements)... but mostly, the world uses Metric.

This winds up being in the background in the US. Medicine uses a lot of metric. Sciences generally use it to be standardized. Soda is sold in liter bottles.

But there hasn't ever really been a push to actually adopt metric, which basically needs to start from the government. Road signs do not list metric and standard distances or speeds: Food is still sold in pounds and gallons as no labeling law has been made. Weather reports don't mention celcius. Without a push from the government itself, I can't say there was ever really and adoption at all.