skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are not well understood and they give only partial information about the initial Semitic alphabet.

From those inscriptions it was not possible to determine the complete list of signs, their phonetic values and their alphabetic order, things that we know only about later derived alphabets, e.g. the Ugaritic alphabet and the South-Arabic alphabet.

Even if the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions would have never been found, starting from the derived alphabets we could have guessed about the original alphabet about the same things that we know now.

The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions have provided a confirmation for such guesses and they have also provided a more constrained time frame for the development of the original Semitic alphabet, but they did not add much other information.

This might change in the future only if additional inscriptions would be found or if someone would be able to make an improved analysis of the existing inscriptions to better determine the meaning of the signs, as for now the exact correspondence with the later alphabets is not clear.
"as simple as possible but no simpler".

Figuring out the sweet spot in architectural design seems to me still an art/craft, that comes from intuition and by experience.

[As far as dependencies... using dependencies may sometimes be simpler than the alternative(s), and sometimes not, sure. It depends on the nature of the dependencies, the problem, and the alternatives. :) ]
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I came to the comments just to ask about this part. Pretty much every desktop OS out there allows you to change the orientation of your monitors, and I haven't noticed any font rendering issues when doing so.

A citation for that statement from the OP would be appreciated.
This overengineering happened on my team recently. I built a REST backend and the front end team was tasked with building 15 admin CRUD interfaces in react which would talk with the backend. A junior front end guy convinced the senior front end guy to build an entirely new dynamic CRUD layout system. I saw what they were doing and knew it wouldnt work out. People got upset at me for raising concerns so I kept my mouth shut. 6 months later the project was not even 25% complete, the senior dev left for another company, and the junior dev got shuffled to another job in the company.
The Scrum way of doing Agile is mostly fine, especially as the people who created Scrum define it. The problems with Scrum that I have seen are mostly the result of expedient training. Scrum is a victim of its own success in that way.

Scrum jargon combined with a recipe-based application of Scrum makes things worse. Some Scrum jargon is counterproductive on the face of it. "Sprints" imply working faster. "Product owner" is often a debased form of product management. There is a normal English word for everything in Scrum.
You could say we do those things better or with greater complexity, but they are all there in other species.

1- Language: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/river-dolphins-surpr...

2- Complex tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals

3- Symbolism: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610212404.h...

4- Visual Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird

5- Music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomusicology#Music_produced_b...

6- Religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_behavior_in_animals
Sounds like china's gaokao? It might be mericratic, but it's also very high stakes and just leads to your entire high school being devoted to test cramming.
> I never think about light in my home, I flip the switch if I need it - lights seem like such a chore to my friends who have to issue commands to a speaker and that’s one of the few things this tech is supposed to be good at

Pre-covid we used to leave the dog at home during the day (I now WFH so not an issue), but it gets dark at 3:30 here during the winter, meaning the dog is stuck sitting in the dark for 2 hours. Philips Hue has routines for turning on lamps 30 minutes before sunset meaning the dog gets to chill out and stare out the window for an hour longer. The bulbs also sync with TVs and devices that will adjust the lighting for tasks/bedtime/movie time.

We use hue bulbs in our bedside lamps, and they sync (pretty much out of the box) to alarms in google calendar so 30 minutes before "up" time the lamps come on and fade up to full brightness when my alarm goes off. It happens 5 days a week, and correctly knows when I'm OOO to not bother waking me. The lights can also do holiday modes so no more giving keys to my neighbour to ask them to turn on lights for me.

Heating is even more key - ever go away for a week and forget to turn down the thermostat? I know I have, and we've just wasted a weeks worth of heating the house to comfortable human temperature rather than just keeping it from freezing. Modern smart heating systems have thermostats in each TRV so you can adjust the temperature in one room rather than the entire house (where right now I am using one room), and can be controlled on timers, and deactivated remotely.

EDIT: I do want to say that the devices (particularly the voice interface to them) is not perfect, however I would estimate our failure rate at once every couple of days rather than every time we try to turn on the lights, and as others have mentioned here it needs to have "dumb" fallbacks - I need to be able to turn off the lights with a switch, or walk to the thermostat and adjust it otherwise it just doesn't work.
Root cause analysis has nothing to do with data structures. Obviously it's an idiom ("the root of the problem") based on the plant part (like 'tree' data structures). In any case there is not point arguing on such semantics, especially if it's to argue on overly narrow definitions.

The "root cause" of an issue is very often not singular and therefore "root cause analysis" is not an attempt to find a singular cause.
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Mostly due to the saying of people "Free as a bird", but also due to the topic of the paper. Though I dont think there should be a difference. I think that no pet should be kept if it requires a leash, cage or any other form of freedom deprivation. Domesticated dogs can be an exception, but in general a pet should choose to be with you because he likes you and doesn't want to go and should be able to leave whenever it desires too.
... eyeing you suspiciously and backing away ...
I am a frontend developer, but from afar, backend looks harder.

I think the challenge is being able to look at all things that are new and choosing the ones that matter. From your post, I think you are failing hard at this.

I safely ignore Chrome inspector new features until it happens to be relevant enough for a coworker to mention to me. I don’t know much about animation, but probably could Google my way into it if required in a task.

Now, responsive layout and ES6? These are essential for frontend development for some time already. It is not like those are new hyped frameworks that some early adopters are jumping into, those are required knowledge since, idk, five years ago.

So there is this aspect of development work where you have to study new things. You don’t have to study all things all the time. But ES6 you are already a good few years late to learn it, there is no way around it. You don’t need to know about Vue and Svelte, but you have to know well at least one framework, and React is the most popular by far, so it is an obvious choice. And you have to keep up with most relevant new things of your framework of choice. React Hooks is starting to enter that zone of required things to know.

If you don’t have the will to study everything (most people don’t) choose wisely what you must know. But if you don’t have the will to study anything new, there is no way you can have a career in any aspect of software development.
Boost did it because C++ template definitions must be in headers.

That seems unrelated to this idea that C code using it is equally reasonable. That's a developer choice.
The only source in the article is a faculty member who was denied a grant.

Here is the explanation the funding agency uses:

https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/EDI/Guide_for_Applicants_...

Putting on my 'dealing with faculty and grantsmanship' hat, I would bet good money he was confrontational in his application and that more than anything was why it didn't get funded. There are definitely faculty out there who don't get funded simply because they are too difficult to deal with.

In parallel, no one is going to check or hold you accountable on these things and they list the criteria. They don't hide it, its right there. They are the funding agency, the government directs them to set priorities and policies and they did. Stating up front that you believe their policies and priorities are stupid is not a great way to get anyone to give you money.

He's just participating in performative nonsense.
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The cray x-mp and y-mp supercomputers of the 1980s, reserved for simulating nuclear chain reactions or weather or other high compute tasks, had a capacity well below a solid contemporary smart phone. Only in the late 1990s 32GB of ram became available.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP

For a real main frame in your pocket have a look at the Hercules mainframe emulator. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
I own one and here are my thoughts:

So far it has been an extremely reliable product that was fun to get some scripts running on. I use a raspberry pie with a cron job to update the board with the weather and my daily schedule. Board actually looks extremely repairable for each individual character, and have has no issues with reliability in ~6mo.

API currently is through a rest interface which they have promised to keep free despite charging for plugins shared through their a subscription model. They had promised a native/local API but I have not heard anything from that.

Overall would recommend but it falls in the tech art category for sure.
Also modern mobile phones have super high resolution screens so you don't need to bother.

That's clearly the future for desktops too. At some point I would imagine subpixel hinting gets disabled entirely in desktop OSes but we just haven't got there yet.
I thought the same; to actually prove those birds are willing to give away their tokens and loose out on walnuts in the process, they should have been granted the option to trade their tokens themselves.
The way the experiment was carried out seems to be based on lots of brittle assumptions…
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I rather wonder if things like this are used to encode a proof of intent.

If something is marked as copyrighted, it may be trivial to remove the mark, but at least you had to remove the mark, and that's evidence of intent rather than ignorance.
The biggest consequence for me was not mentioned: that your carefully planned design very soon becomes an obstacle to something a user actually wants done, at which point you say "we can't do that". Which is one of the worst things you can do. In this sense almost all of the systems I interact with, modify etc. are over engineered.
Hacking was different then. I attended a few 2600 meetings in the Citigroup Center building in NYC back in the late 80s/early 90s, and HOPE in 1994. Sad to see they are pushing for the vaccine to attend without mention of natural immunity, or lack of long-term studies coupled with yet another $40 to $60bn of booster sales for big pharma. but hey, times change. Yesterday's subversive group has been incorporated into the pablum purveyors. Kind of ironic for the group to tow the line without question. I had already done analog red boxing with a microcassette player/recorder and a homemade pickup coil at payphones in the early/mid 80s. I was working on video tape encryption and satellites where I could then too. No real internet, just BBSs. I loved ECHO founded by Stacy Horn in NYC after coming off of GEnie BBS. I miss those days! I liked the US TV show for what it's worth. Very cool for the time and a bit subversive compared to the drivel on TV now.
Windows updates (and other first and third party downloads) can be downloaded through the background intelligent transfer service (BITS) which uses idle bandwidth, and throttles the download when something else is using the pipe.
Everybody I know who installed smart home devices has abandoned them; none would recommend them.

The main issues are surprisingly poor reliability and overly chatty interfaces.
More like a broad short of the all the BS web3 thingies not specifically crypto :). But good to know there is a simple trade to short crypto
British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left on during launch
Those are available and fairly easy to get, typically for travel to other countries where an app is not so easy to obtain for non-citizens, even comes with translations to popular language (I've just returned from France to the UK, in France a passe sanitaire is needed in all bars & restaurants, the NHS paper form was universally accepted).

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-covid-pass
I am planning to try this, basically the real (neo)vim inside VSCode,no emulation.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
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the future is still far away. On a 17" 4k screen I could still see the difference.
“Slightly compressed” is heavily used in 3D graphics -- see ETC2, DXT, etc.

It’s useful because the size savings apply in memory, because decompression is so cheap it can be done on the fly.

It has to be lossy because you want a guaranteed fixed-rate compression ratio (eg 4x) and there’s no way to do that losslessly.
>The thing is that you have to adjust curriculum to the developmental stage of the INDIVIDUAL child.

While I agree with this, I suspect the social winds that led to this change, wouldn't put us on the path of creating individualized curriculum like you wanted. As gp mentioned, this change was motivated by social justice, and the same movement has called for getting rid of AP or other advanced material classes on the basis they're discriminatory (blacks/hispanics are underrepresented in them). I remembered a school district doing this sort of thing, but I can't find the link right now. That said, I did find a link of an entire province (!) dropping advanced classes under similar justifications: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-to-en...
> We’ve poured money into SETI to try and answer the anguished question, are we alone? Well, it seems that we aren’t, but we might be too stupid and self-absorbed to notice.

We seriously underestimate other animals' intelligence, but until some other animal on earth puts a flag on the moon, it's safe to say that no other animal on Earth shares our unique brand of intelligence.
My takeaway from your anecdote is completely different: when exactly a school introduces concepts doesn't matter as much as the stimulation a child can receive outside school.

In my experience, kids whose parents help teach concepts and don't just leave things up to school generally end up with an advantage. Kids love learning from their parents and other loved ones, but school is generally regarded as sort of a chore even if it does bring friends and playtime. A great many parents simply don't have the time or energy left after their day job to support their children the same way others can. Kids whose parents often read to (and with) have a noticeable advantage in many school settings, and you can't substitute that for all students by just cramming in more reading time in their busy school schedules.

Kids have a finite time they spend in school. You can shuffle the time they spend around all you want, but in the end every kid requires a certain amount of time to grasp a certain context. That time may differ when kids get older or younger, but the required time spent on learning won't suddenly change.
Wikipedia:

> Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Computer Science Network (CSNET). In 1982, the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, which permitted worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks.
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My experience with this particular funding agency is that the rejection isn't justfied. Just like a job interview: 'We have decided to go in a different direction'.

This stands in contrast to e.g. the Quebec equivalent, FRQNT, which has always provided me detailed 'rejection' reports
React is a prime example of fast-change (even though not so fast as angular did). Since 2014, they changed their main programming paradigm 3 times (mixins/make*, real ES6 classes, now hooks). Then there was state management; first Flux, later Redux, then MobX became fashionably while today I start React projects without any state library and just use the stable context API + hooks. And let alone the plentheora of major changes in ReactRouter, which only became somewhat stable at version 4.
I'd say it'd still be entertaining though some of it is definitely set in the past as it were. The discussions on how to do rocket boosters have been made a bit redundant by Musk doing it for real for example.
Yes, this is baffling. Wonder if the format could still be amended to fix this?
Thanks for the explanations! Tracking if anything fails is normally important for what I'm doing, so I quite like that array-based solution. I really like that `"$pid" || status=$?`; it's much nicer than `if ! wait $pid; then status=1; fi` I have in there.
Largely because American's believe they understand the educational process (largely based on their own anecdotes) better than experts.

The particular reason people struggle with algebra is because it is one of the first fundamentally abstractionist topics taught in schools. There is a huge cognitive development and experiential component.

Delaying teaching algebra makes cognitive developmental sense, but it is also inherently intertwined with with race, class, and gender for a bunch of reasons that get a lot of people really angry.
Good question: I should not have phrased it that way at all.

I mean there isn’t a sharp delineation that magically happens; there are n factors (some large, unknown number) each of which develop at a slightly different rate in each child; there’s nothing magic about reaching 6. My opinion might reflect an accidentally rigid expression of this when my own kid was 6.

Thanks for your comment!
100.64.0.0/10 is reserved for CGNAT providers to assign to CPE. If you don't connect to a CGNAT then there's nothing stopping you from using it, however. Tailscale hands out addresses in 100.100 for that reason (deconflict with customer private networks)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_shared_address_space
I am building my own lighting controls (using Bluetooth Mesh as the underlying communications technology), because I don't want the madness of IoT.

There is a misconception that building reliable products with a full TCP/IP stack and internet-based servers is a good idea. It isn't.

We don't have to go back to mechanical devices: there are ways to build reliable home automation solutions. Just don't make them all internet devices with a bazillion dependencies.
this is so satisfying to see. kudos to developer!
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Noisy but around recurring or slighly different pixels would achieve a 1:4 compression rate
Isn't that exactly how any constructive proof works?
So you're saying the criteria is stupid but that's okay since no one will check?

And he's the one participating in performative nonsense and not the government and funding agency?
I guess that's the question will middle men make more or less money with crypto.

As for the push the loss onto others and collect a % of the profits, isn't that how VC firms work?
This reminds me of the short story “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang, so I can recommend that to anyone intrigued by your comment.
I know tonnes of people in London jumping ship for 50%+ bumps.
Thanks -- added!
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Nintendo had this exact problem when they initially released StarTropics on Nintendo Switch Online - they forgot that the player wouldn't have access to the manual: https://nintendoeverything.com/startropics-for-nintendo-swit....

Nintendo had previously released this game for the Wii Virtual Console, but they included an image of the dipped letter in the digital manual included with the game.
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> “We will hire the most qualified people based upon their skills and mutual interests,” Kambhampati wrote on the application.

> “I’ve had two people say that was the kiss of death,” said Kambhampati.

> the council said, “the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion considerations in the application were deemed insufficient.”

So he might have a point.
About 10 seconds into reading this I got a 'cute' drop-down box that greyed out what I was half-way through reading, and insisted that I attend to a 'Get my weekly IoT newsletter' that demanded from me an email address, name, and company details.

The unbearable demands of advertising.

EDIT (ADD)

I've installed a couple of ESP32's with humidity / temperature gauges, in two of my abodes, that feed into a prometheus -> cortex store, so I can then map them on Grafana.

This is considered 'excessive' by the family, but for me it's deeply interesting and compelling, and I'll be pushing more of them out over the next few months.

But these are very basic devices, with rudimentary access to the local network, and no way (or interest) in phoning out to anything else beyond my router. This is the ideal scenario for these kinds of devices.
Yeah I don't think there are any new ideas here. RLE, differential encoding and dictionary encoding have all existed for decades.

The interesting thing is that it comes close to PNG.
Worst: sqlplus by Oracle. No autocomplete, no backspace, no history function. It's like nobody ever inside Oracle ever had to use this craptastic piece of software to accomplish anything.

EDIT: Oops backspace works. Might have been a combination of putty and sqlplus. Nevermind.
My niggle is with commands that cannot be composed, ie. consumed by other tools or shell scripts or built into pipelines. There are lots of small things that break composition: Not exiting with a non-zero code on error, sending error messages to stdout, not producing output that can be easily parsed by another command. Too many commands suffer from one of these problems, unfortunately.
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What if the students are interested in learning a subject to a high academic standard and will be bored otherwise? I was getting lower grades at my easy "teach to the bottom 10%" public school than the very difficult private school I moved to. By just dismissing academic rigor, you are alienating the high-performers who WANT to care. That's a bad group of people for a society to ignore.
Sure, the standard cheap mechanical timer has DOA's and failures because its a cheaply made machanism; but the basic electro-mechanical switch on a clock design has been around since the 70s.

I find the timers are best replaced after say 5-8yr because they're cheap and i dont trust the plastic once it brittles up.If you've been running one over say 50% of its rated load it might be entertaining to crack it open and see how much the conductors have softened.
One would think a lot of investors learned their lesson after Juicero :D