skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interpretations given in this article to many Ancient Greek words referring to colors are frequently encountered in comments about the Ancient Greek literature, but for many of them it is extremely doubtful that they have any connections with reality.

For example there is nothing to justify the idea that "kuaneos" was used "to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black" and even much less that it has ever meant "blue-green", as "cyan" means now in English.

The only certain thing about "kuaneos" is that its original meaning was "of the color of the pigment ultramarine blue". The Greek name of the ultramarine blue pigment was "kuanos", from which "kuaneos" was derived in a regular way. Besides "kuanos" there was another pigment frequently mentioned by Homer, "miltos", which was red iron oxide, so that is another color whose meaning is certain.

So "kuaneos" meant, without doubt, just "blue". Homer and other poets did not use the color terms very precisely. In many cases they chose the words that sounded better in that positions of the verse and not those that would have been more appropriate in meaning. Therefor "kuaneos" could be used for any kind of bluish colors, usually for colors of darker hues, because there were few if any objects of light blue color at that time. Nevertheless, the meaning of the word was just blue as a blue paint, without other connotations.

Also in the article, "polios" is said to be "whitish". I do not know where did the author find such an interpretation. There is no doubt that "polios" meant "gray", i.e. the color intermediate between white and black. It means neither "whitish" nor "blackish" but just the middle between white and black.

Some later authors say this precisely, but even in Homer and Hesiod there is no doubt about the meaning. "Polios" is used for iron, for platinum-group metal alloys (a.k.a. "adamant"), for gray wolves, for the hair of aging people who are not yet old enough to have white hair.

The precise meaning of "glaukos" is not known, but there is very little, if any, proof that it might have meant "blue-gray". "Glaukos" was mostly used about eyes, so it might have meant "light blue" as there are few eyes that would suggest the color "blue-gray".

And so on.
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> TV has been like that since the advent of cable.

No, it hasn't. It has been somewhat since the much more recent introduction of “on demand” programming to cable, but that was basically just the introduction of streaming into cable in response to streaming services.
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1. We are entering the product testing stage with our cement producing parnters in the next few months, so I'll have a better answer for you then. But from a chemical composition point of view, our product is purer than mined limestone and so should perform better.
2. Biggest bottleneck from our perspective is nailing planning permission to build our plants quickly enough to supply cement producers.

Unfortunately no blog post or anything like that just yet. Website is very light on details for now, we haven't prioritised updating (+ some patent considerations).
It was pretty finnicky for me. I tried switching 2 years ago, which I wrote about here[0] but also ended up going back to Windows and WSL 2.

I couldn't get my USB audio interface to work with my hardware combo without getting a ton of crackly sounds and pops that happened every time I recorded my microphone when screencasting. This was after literally an entire week of troubleshooting and trying every audio thing I could think of.

I think that's the main problem with Linux hardware compatibility. A lot of devices work in isolation but certain combinations don't work. The USB audio interface I have is known to work trouble free on Linux and I know some folks using it based on what they say on YouTube but for me, it didn't work. Was it due to my motherboard or something else who knows, but it works in Windows.

I'd rather not stick with Windows, but the reality of my current situation is there seems to be a hardware incompatibility for this box to run native Linux.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/i-tried-linux-as-my-main-dev-...
How about a phone that is not a phone anymore, but computer in a phone form factor. Because that hardware is that capable for some time. It's so infuriating watching all this effort going into "experience" features that all boil down to shooting selfies and liking posts on facebook.
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The real question is whether a thread-based actor model is any better performance than existing approaches in python for cpu parallelism. At this point, about 95% of cases that need CPU parallelism are already going to be implemented as native modules bypassing the interpreter and the GIL entirely in hotpaths, or otherwise the overhead of process-parallel python code via celery or the stdlib's multiprocess module is acceptable.
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Then why would you possibly bother reading the comments? Just to troll and say lololol stupid platform wars!
WireGuard itself doesn't even handle its existing authentication fully -- you are expected to exchange peer public keys out of band. There are several projects that try to tackle this public key exchange. I think what you're asking for, indirectly, is support for certificate authority style authentication similar to how SSH CAs work, so that wireguard could authenticate tunnels using certificates with signed pubkeys instead of statically configured pubkeys themselves for each peer.

If the wireguard core included any kind of timed partial delegation of authority through key signatures (similar to what SSH allows now with cert-authority/CertificateFile), that'd be enough to build SMS/HOTP/TOTP 2FA, security keys, and much more on top of it.
I pity companies that will follow this hype train and rewrite perfectly working software to achieve nothing in the end, from a pragmatic point of view.

You can do an essay for every other vector of software development and claim how a rewrite will do you wonders:

Eg: FP, strong type system, Linux...

The problem is, in real life, we have a bunch of a problems to solve from many vectors, not just (the little square) of memory safety related bugs.

And people from the real world tend to measure those vectors together for their particular problems and often their answers, even if they go for C++, are a better suit to solve their issues than a objective-imperative from a person who looks only from one perspective, and think that is 'the most important thing®' that should be pursuit, risking avoidable financial bankrupts (by threatening financial bankrupt).

Think for a minute if the native access of a giving library, say, LLVM or Tensorflow is much more important for the project and/or the company survival..

Its like Bush's "War on terror" making people feel fear about some boogeyman but actually inflicting the real terror they said you should trust them to avoid.

Specialized, cartesian division of technology tend to turn us all into neurotics, and the problem with neurotics is that they don't see the bigger picture which is much more complex and systemic as things in real world tend to be.

Contrary to the extremists views, modern C++ is a fine option and people should not go for this FUD tactics, making they fear to opt for a perfectly nice platform to develop things, and that has proved itself over and over through time doing amazing things.

Rust might be a fine option too, but this whole urge to rewrite C++ software is pure non-sense.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I love watching defensive football, teams like Atletico Madrid defeating the Barcelona in the 15-16 Champions League finals.

What I hate watching is the time-wasting, injury faking shenanigans that defensive teams also do. Unfortunately, it's a part of the game due to football's insistence on using a running clock, which makes zero sense from a competitive aspect and needs to be changed.
Yes, thanks for clarifying
outside of 'food deserts', there may be other factors people shop at DG. There's one a block from my office, and I drop in there now and then to get stuff (snacks, or light bulbs, or whatever). Almost every time I'm in there, I'll see an older person doing what seems to be a weekly shop (or more) - they'll ring up $70+ of stuff - canned/packaged foods. Clearly stuff for meals. They then get in to a taxi or rideshare car and are driven away.

.7 miles from here - in a more convenient area to drive to, is a Lidl, with everything that person bought about 40% cheaper. 1 mile away there's a Wegmans. 1.4 miles away there's Target, Lowes, and Harris Teeter. All just as accessible via taxi/uber as this DG.

The only real thing I can think of in DG's favor is it's very easy in/out - there's 2 counters, no self-checkout, the store is small itself. Just walking around to find what you want in those other stores would take 3-4x as long as hitting the 6 aisles in DG.

But... they're paying a terribly high price for that little bit of convenience. There's been a couple of times I've wanted to tell that person "hey, you can save $20 or more by driving another 3 minutes down the street" but I doubt it would be welcomed. I can't think of a way to intrude that isn't intrusive or patronizing. :/
you used the word "investments" again, so I don't think you understood my comment. In the context of your comment, saying "preserve their capital" would be a clearer phrasing. They're trading, not investing - you already call it a trading app, so just keep it consistent.

Also, to be clear: options are still high risk, you can't predict the future. Robinhood options leaves much to be desired, and I think an app focused on options will go a long way for traders because they don't have enough information.

I will also highlight that a lot of people have been burned by not being able to act on their positions via robinhood due to the platform falling over from demand. This is the chief reason I won't do options trading. Would love to see assurances that when I need to exit a position i'll actually be able to, such as having an SLA.
> which often contain multiple times the daily recommended intake of sodium

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...

Classic article.

It's Time to End the War on Salt - The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science
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The fact that there are such libraries in existence means that there is no pain associated to this particular activity. Not only do you get great mocking frameworks, they are actually very robust and benefit from static types.

Mocking dynamically typed languages is monkey patching, something that the industry has been moving away from for more than a decade. And for good reasons.
Entertainment on TV has been abundant for nearly 50 years, ever since the advent of cable.
These are all good points. Do you see use cases that you’d personally find useful?

For example we’re working with a telehealth company to provide weekly/monthly health updates that they otherwise would send through emails and people would ignore.

I’m personally more interested in these product use cases than sales/marketing. This is also why we require set templates that limit what you can change.

We are also working on the flip side of this problem. In addition to building this platform Tavus is also building detection tools as we continue to explore what disclosure should be required on these videos. I know in that sense we’re both fire fighters and seem like we’re arsonist. However we’re really focused on providing a tool that builds immersive experiences while also fighting bad actors from other platforms that precede us/will come after us.
OpenBSD on the APU2 has been the most reliable, solid, and lowest maintenance router I have ever owned. The thing never needs to be restarted, never hiccups, and just is really rock solid. Highly recommend, just wish there was a good wireless AP solution too.
The word helicopter is not heli+copter but is really helico+pter. Helico as in helix and pter as in pterodactyl. "Heli" is a modern prefix that comes from helicopter, not the other way around.
What isn't viable about Aiopg?

(Assuming you are only talking about Postgres libraries.)

Maybe it's somewhat obsolete now that Psycopg itself supports async. I think most people used Asyncpg because it's "easier" and supports useful stuff like connection pools.
Freemarket choices of what to spend money on can certainly have problems. It'd be bold to assume that the dictator's choices will be better for their people, though. The USSR spent its money on tanks: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/entry/the_soviet_ec.... Will China be different? Or sometimes, are tanks the right choice? Let's hope not.
"Japan and the US are close allies based on common interests:"

Doing imperialism and committing war crimes?

"Japan is one of the few countries that hates China more than the USA."

Yeah, they made that obvious in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
If I am not mistaken this strategy is used by large multinationals in developing countries.

For example, Unilever selling the same washing powder in India, just in miniscule packages.
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Yes. Supply of PBS quality content is a solved problem.

The unsolved problem is the demand side, people making better consumption choices. Legislation can't fix this, since the government doesn't have a unified view of what "good" content is, and is heavily interested in promoting various striped of partisan propaganda.

Mr Rogers got broad bipartisan support. Today he's considered "left wing".
Is there no regulatory or compliance requirements for surveillance software?

Instead of blaming the victims of pegasus, we should focus our attention on the lack of actions from key policymakers and regulatory bodies. It is not possible for every individual to be a technical expert when it comes to malware removal, but we can reduce the likelihood of misusing surveillance software by creating an ethical framework around it, backed by nations that value freedom and democracy.
>Because some people are claiming that they all work

Who? Just go to that site. It's tells what's working and not working. It says right there on the front page only 50% of the games are currently rated gold. You can't really complain that something doesn't work when they're telling you it doesn't work.
I wonder if there would be as much pushback if this wasn't sales. Let's say it was an online course, where the AI ingests Wikipedia articles and renders a "professor" to lead a video on the subject. Would people feel lied to if they found out that Professor McSmartyPants wasn't real even though they never would have read the article without a video existing?
We're competitive at scale. This does require us to hit our CAPEX targets and to capitalize on cheap renewable sources of electricity that are becoming prevalent
Now I know there are tons of bookmarking services, each with its own pros/cons. I'm curious to know the services the HN community uses (apart from the built-in browser feature). In particular, in response to GB going away. Do share, pls
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Comic books are culture.
PBS is liberal aligned org. so it is perfectly aligned with the democratic party... which are in power now?
If they had any sense they would shutdown this company selling to hostile foreign dictators to track, imprison, and kill journalists and politicians.
Yet the article talks about breeding Red Delicious for looks and transportability. If it was only cloning, Red Delicious would still taste the same way it did way back then.
> Western democracies don't even have democratic recall outside of the neutered impeachment process.

Paging California. Paging California. Which is now in the process of its second recall of a governor.
Could you provide some evidence for that statements? As long as the fan curves are good enough to cool the card, then nothing really should be different between different 5700xt cards.
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absolutely. The incentives to train for the job search and then apply (and succeed at) a job with zero relevant competency, are quite high. And there are... geographies... which have a deserved reputation of being mills for those sorts of individuals, likely because the economic incentive is even stronger than the median, which I suspect is quite annoying for actually competent people that come from those geographies.
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What actually qualifies as misinformation? I see lots of things these days that fall under that label that would simply have been called gossip in the past and covered from the perspective of exploring popular gossip.
It feels and looks better. That's it.
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That's shocking! Really surprised that they don't see this as an issue, I would expect that it's trivial to social engineer someone into forwarding you one of those emails.
Can you elaborate why? To be honest, I don't have experience with large-scale Clojure codebases, but I have my fair share working on fairly hefty Python and Perl projects, and I tend to think that the parent commenter is mostly right. What makes you think they are incorrect?
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Sure? The problem isn't that security is integrated into the way the store works, the problem is that security is making things harder for the customer. The proposed solution reworks the store, true, but it does so in order to maximize convenience for the customer.
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