skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. That motivated me to dig into a little research (what could be more important this evening?). Brave New Words: Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction ed. Jeff Prucher (2007) says,

* "sapient n. an intelligent being". First known use of any form of sapient/ce: 1960 in Woman Day by PJ Farmer: "It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet."

* "sapience n. [< S.E. [standard English?] sapience, "wisdom"] intelligence"

* "sapient adj. [< S.E. sapient, "wise"] intelligent"

* "sentience n. 1. an intelligent being", "2. intelligence". Sense 1's first known use: "1947 G. O. Smith Kingdom of the Blind in Startling Stories (July) 48/1"

* "sentient n. an intelligent being". First known use: 1965 by PJ Farmer (again) in Maker of Universes

And a new word (to me):

* "sophont n. ... [< Gk. sophos, "wise" + Gk. ont-, "being"] an intelligent being". First known use 1966 in Trouble Twisters by P. Anderson

Available in the amazing Internet Archive library:
https://archive.org/details/bravenewwordsoxf00pruc

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EDIT: But wait! There's also the "Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction" edited by Jesse Sheidlower ("offshoot of a project begun by the Oxford English Dictionary" - which another article says is the same origin as the dictionary above [1]). Here are the significant differences with the above source:

* sapient, first use of any form: "1935 B. Olsen Who Deserves Credit? in Amazing Stories Feb. 81": "When EXPLORATION blazed through space...And found men, sapient, on Mars, He gained renown's most honored place."

* sentience/nt:, first use of any form: "1931 J. Williamson Stone from Green Star in Amazing Stories Nov. ix. 739/2": "'We are dealing with an utterly alien world,' Midos Ken said several times. 'There is sentience here-but sentience in no familiar body. We must be prepared to deal with manifestations of intelligence that are unfamiliar or even inconceivable to the human mind.'" There's a 1920 quote, but it doesn't represent human intelligence: "1920 Punch Feb. 25 150/3": "By systematic and scientific training is it possible to produce that perfect type of manhood gifted with the best powers of what we are wont to call the 'lower orders of creation'-keen sighted and swift of motion as a bird, sharp-scented as a greyhound, faithful and acute as a dog, and full of sentient wisdom as an elephant."

All from:
https://sfdictionary.com/

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2021/03/24/major-scifi-discovery-hi...
> A lot of people reach for string handling when the actual correct thing to do is intentionally avoid string handling, and only handle strings as opaque encoded UTF-8 bytes, that cannot be reasoned about in terms of human language.

I have lost count of how many times I have wanted to find substrings, transform cases, catenate strings, find patterns, substitute patterns. I'd be happy to do that in a language that didn't permit me to index the underlyinc characters or the bytes. Keep 'em opaque, sure. But I think it would be a mistake for a language not to have an idiom with a favorite library to perform these operations on encoded text. If resolving library dependencies is easy enough, then it doesn't need to be "standard" but it should be "the defacto standard." And if it turns out the defacto standard stagnates and doesn't keep up with the needs of developers, a new one can come take its place.
As a long time Linux enthusiast, everything listed in your comment is a _fantastic_ idea. I applaud the effort and I can't see anything wrong with this direction. But I really do not understand those that complain about GNOME and Red Hat building a, quote, walled garden. So what? Give me the open source walled garden!

Why does every Linux desktop have to accomodate all the whims of every user? Why does GNOME have to be compatible with your homegrown DE? Do you also expect emacs to ship features that are compatible with vim?

I want a consistent experience, that is open source. I want a libre Apple experience. There should be nothing shameful in having a group of people pushing towards that goal.
It's great that insecure fast RNGs are improving, but it's extremely important to be responsible about how they should be promoted.

1. Insecurity needs to be in the name: Make it Insecure<Your RNG Name Here>. This is extremely important. Since the intended use-context is going to be non-security critical, anyway, it's actually good that it states it's insecure. That way you know you're not accidentally using RNG where security properties might cause any bottle-necks. At the same time the misuse resistance of the RNG increases significantly.

2. Make sure this is not default, but something that needs to be imported separately from non-security context, such as module about statistics, simulation etc.
Why is it due to be replaced? Has your bandwidth speed substantially improved to the point that OnHub can no longer keep up? Because otherwise it sounds like you're happy with where you're at. There's no reason to replace a well-functioning device that does everything you need just because it's reached the end of the ever-shortening consumer electronics lifecycle. My own router is about ~7 years old, I have twice the devices connected as I did when I purchased it, and it still handle my 200Mbs broadband just fine among all devices in use.
Doesn't surprise me. Google has trouble planning for anything longer than 1-2 OKR cycles, which nowadays means 6-12 months (previously 3-6 months). Sustainability planning and long term support just aren't in their wheelhouse as a result. In fact, anything long term planning there is a bit of a farce, including headcount planning done yearly.
Just a nitpick (I notice everything, especially when it comes to spelling and grammar), but on your landing page you mention Let's Encrypt but you didn't capitalize it properly.
Re insutrial revolutioon, FYI, they're calling it industry 4.0 now, although I'm pretty sure it didn't happen how they expected, so maybe they'll just call it industry 5.0. Or better yet, it will somehow become part of the metaverse :/
Yeah, like Stadia... If Google wants to know why I won't pay for that service, it's precisely because I know Google is going to kill it soon.

GeForce now is a better model. You buy your games on diverse platforms and the subscription to run them on remote hardware separately. Your games are still there on your computer even if GeForce now is gone.
That's how its normally done in the USA as well.

Brown, Green, and Transparent glass gets sorted, smashed, and melted back down into new bottles.
I just bought one and he emailed within an hour and shipped within two. The photos and conversation were lovely. He's a role model.
My company introduced minimum 2 days in the office, the rest is up to us. Perfect.
I am not convinced these are safe to use. I am concerned they just report back to your employer, when they are provided as a benefit, so they can “better manage attrition.” Or to large data brokers otherwise.

Unless these tools are open source and can be compiled from the source, I don’t want to entrust them with my emotions or thoughts.
You are correct that more exposure would likely lead to more addiction, but consider alcohol. As a society we have developed cultural norms for avoiding addiction such as drinking only in the evenings, weekends, or special occasions. This is only one of many cultural mechanisms we have for regulating drug use, we just need the exposure to develop the mechanisms.
Using the built in formatter is optional, you'll be free to run your own formatter.

Right now you might be more worried about how the current compiler can't even compile Zig correctly before worrying about what stylistic choices it can handle. I'm a tabs guy myself but it's really quite irrelevant at the moment - the focus is still on figuring out how Zig should work and making that happen not day to day usability of the current toolsets for end users.
I think HTML tags like 'meta' are merely payload to HTTP, right? Presumably a markup language doesn't fit Andrew's criteria for "protocol"?
This is why I'm thankful for the experience from one job where everything was in stored procedures. Say what you will about stored procs, but they're a great way to get comfortable with SQL!
Yea - a preboot setting actually seems like a pretty rational way to allow this fix. I don't think it's easy to get ignorant users to mess around with bios or other system level settings.
Prison for the top brass 1:1 with negligent death essentially removes the possibility of any large company existing even down to hospitals simply can’t exist in such an environment.

The paradox here is that aviation for example is filled with cases of negligence causing large numbers of fatalities, while at the same time the industry has become extremely safe. It’s not that negligence has become more common it’s simply rolling the dice more frequently. By comparison having someone install solar panels on your roof is stupid dangerous at scale, but individual homeowners don’t notice that risk. Should we send every homeowner that had solar installed into their homes to prison? If not why should it apply at a larger company.

It’s not that these companies get a special expedition, it’s that everyone gets that same exception. Killing a pedestrian for example rarely results in prison time. People are often punished more for a DUI without an accident than a sober fatality caused by simple negligence.
> Since you're on HN, you're probably more intelligent and somewhat more disciplined than the general population.

The drug-using population is more intelligent than the non-drug-using population -- except if the drug is cigarettes. Something I learned recently here.

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/intelligent-people-drugs/
At the time that you made your comment, I think it had the potential to be accurate for a lot more people because at that time my understanding is that the outage was ongoing.

With the incident now resolved, I have the benefit of hindsight to say it was down for a total of two hours, which is well within error budget to maintain 99.5% monthly uptime, and since this isn't part of a larger pattern (so far), they're within budget for 99.95% yearly.

I think that for most companies that aren't already heavily invested in a highly available container runtime platform, the cost of this kind of downtime will be less than the cost of self-hosting something better. Especially if they're not in a situation where registry downtime implies an equal amount of customer-facing service downtime.
You can certainly go wrong with Docker if you wander too far off the reservation. Do what most people are doing with it and be fine, or you could end up in a hellhole of using different related tools (ahem Podman) that fail to live up to their promises.

Otherwise yeah, Svelte and Typescript are pretty dope.
The UTF-8 encoding is designed so that this is usually not a problem. If you do a search in a utf-8 encoded byte array for an ascii character, for example, you can never get a false positive. Compound UTF-8 characters always have the most significant bit set of each component byte, and ascii characters always have it unset. Additionally, treating the string as an array of unicode codepoints doesn't solve the problem -- now you have people screwing around with individual codepoints inside grapheme clusters :P
Single family home in Sunnyvale has sold for $823,000 over asking
> now it doesn't

For an incredibly small set of people who are both professional enough for this to be an issue but also not professional enough to spend a hundred bucks on a device specifically meant for this purpose.

If you're going to claim gaslighting, then maybe actually include the intricacy that you seem to have missed there.

It continues to work fine for the vast majority of people.
Amazon agreed to allow only five-star reviews for Xi’s book in China
I appreciate your response, and also that you posted the article in the first place. I think civil discussion is a good thing, especially among parties who disagree.

It is beyond dispute the rioters intentionally acted in a way that placed the lives of the the capitol officers at extreme risk.

Yes, I think this is a reasonable summary, and a good start to reaching common understanding. It's not murder, but it's very wrong, and should be punished.

Police officers were murdered.

This, though, is both inflammatory and false. It's the sort of thing you'd say if your intent is to provoke a civil war, rather than prevent one.

I'd rather prevent one. I hope that's your goal as well?
Seems similar to the saying that 'success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.'
Well… I believe it was James Gosling who said that there are two types of computer languages: “ones people complain about and ones nobody uses”. So if you’re complaining about Brainfuck then it must be a language people use by process of elimination ; )
Show HN: Pandadoc Tech Blog Launched
My bad, I meant any drugstore analgesic, OTC or not (I'm not in the US). I assumed painkiller was a synonym. I wasn't aware of the connotation.
They never mentioned anything about World War 2. They are talking about the Cold War. The nuclear crisis between US and Russia. And I think they are right because I believe they set up a direct line between Moscow and DC right after that conflict ended.
If you need complex graphics that need multiple accessibility nodes, stick with SVG.

If you need the "tiny" part of TinyVG, add an aria label to the UI node that renders it. Should work well for icons, logos, etc.
https://archive.md/L7306
Given the obvious issues - neigh-zero upside, massive downside - with open reviews of such a book...why in the world did Amazon ever allow them???
Yeah and this might be too obvious to spell out but can we really expect the UN to be efficient when its purpose is to coordinate organisations that themselves are neither efficient nor willing to cooperate much of the time.

Isn't the only way to make UN more efficient to make nation states more efficient?
Steve1989MREInfo

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA

Nice!
Isn't the Southwest uniquely not harsh? The biggest enemy of most man-made structures is water.
FWIW I was pretty sure full-remote (even Covid remote) would lead to less spontaneous interactions but since we’ve gone full remote (no office ever) I’ve found spontaneous interactions/ideas to have gone up. I imagine, as with anything, you get out what you put in and my company went hard on full remote. Also oddly my meetings have gone down (and I’m a lead dev) I think because of increased use of Slack and async work, means small meetings aren’t necessary.
I would only agree with that if Google fully published their support roadmap ahead of time so that I could know what I'm buying. Especially in light of the $ at any given time: $300 when there's 6 years of support ahead is fine, but it's not worth $300 anymore when there's only 4,3,2 years of support left. How can you possibly do a TCO analysis without that information?

They at least do this for their Pixel phones.
SpamSieve: Easy-to-use Mac spam filter
> An app must be installed to detect abuse, who would install that preventively?...

> A protocol should be implemented, so it can be implemented on a more broad os level.

I don't understand, this is what I'm saying. "Either everyone jumps on the same bandwagon (Google joins Apple or something), or you install the app for the bandwagon that exists."

You need the software installed. Either everyone jumps on the same bandwagon and everyone provides the app/system service with their phone, for the same protocol, or everyone has to install an app/system service that supports whomever's specific protocol. This has been the case long before apple, with Tile, Samsung, etc.

> who would install that preventively?

With the unfortunate consequence of causality and forward direction of time, everyone that has a phone that doesn't already have it as a system service, until everyone jumps on the same bandwagon and agrees to supporting one specific protocol. What's the alternative here? Regulate all tracking devices so they can't be sold until all phones can detect them?
Finley (YC W21) is hiring early engineers to build fintech SaaS (Remote)
>... kind of like how people use painkillers to forget about their toothache instead of going to a dentist.

I used to use whiskey for this when the pain became unbearable. Would take half a shot, then invert and tilt my head, letting it sit for a minute on one side of my upper jaw. Sometimes I'd spit if there was a lot of blood. Did the trick though, was usually enough relief to get me through until the toothache went away.

For a time I probably had more alcohol intake from that then I did actually drinking, despite it being a seldom occurrence.

Note: I say this being fully aware of how dangerous some types of untreated toothaches can be, so if you can afford care, get it. It might save your life.
The majority (or easily over 80%) of the EU's high taxation incomes are not being spent solely to support the people who can't afford their own healthcare or on those who are truly in need of that money, so that argument is pointless.
Unless you are a millionaire you can't live well in EU. If you are just a regular tech worker advancing in your career can actually reduce your salary because of the tax brackets.
@abelsm i also tried out your sample app https://app.flutterflow.io/run/ByqwG33rw80qyN39ooNq and think i found a small bug - when i go to customize my name before joining, and hit Continue, nothing happens.
For smarthome, I would recommend Zigbee devices. That way, you limit your attack surface to just your Zigbee gateway, rather than every single light bulb in your house, with the added benefit that those don't clog up your Wi-Fi.

We have the Philips Hue gateway at home (which has limited support for other brands, but IKEA Trådfri bulbs work), but you can also get a Zigbee USB stick/Raspberry Pi HAT, install Home Assistant or deCONZ, and go wild without being tied to any vendor.
Nope, I also encountered text rendering issues with SVG.

I reckon devs will just drop SVG in favor of a PNG or re-export with text as paths instead of complaining somewhere.
Work. Now defined as simply "it will absorb power and gently warm the surface upon which it is placed."
Putin thinks EU politicians are dumb because HE himself orchestrated nuclear shutdown in Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relation...

>In his first term, Schröder's government decided to phase out nuclear power

>As Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder was a strong advocate of the Nord Stream pipeline project, which now supplies Russian gas directly to Germany

>In 2016, Schröder switched to become manager of Nord Stream 2, an expansion of the original pipeline in which Gazprom is sole shareholder.[92]

>In 2017, Russia nominated Schröder to also serve as an independent director of the board of its biggest oil producer Rosneft.
This is awesome. I built a metronome from a Forest Mims book and parts I bought at RadioShack back in the day, so it's nice to see the timer in all it's glory. One of my biggest surprises when I reported for duty on a submarine in the early 80's was that most of the electronic systems were discrete components.

https://www.radioshack.com/products/getting-started-in-elect...
> The number of apps on Flatpak is pretty small compared to say Snap

Citation needed, and number of users is more important than number of apps. Snaps are pushed strongly by Canonical and they actually pay people to port apps to their store, which is pretty much used by Ubuntu users only, while every other distro uses Flatpak.

Snaps are not gonna last long, like many other Canonical-only efforts. Nobody is interested in adopting them, for good reasons. Flatpak, with their shortcomings, are more flexible, actively developed by multiple entities and adopted by more people.
C# Kernel Mode Driver to read and write memory in protected processes
It's more like they decide to work with each other. I don't get the idea why people separate state and corp like they are completely two different things. IMHO they can be combined into a well known word: elites.
If you want money from advertisers with the least effort, don't you have an incentive to identify the people most likely to buy before you advertise to them? And thus do the least possible amount of converting people to products they weren't going to buy?

It seems to me that you're hypothesizing, say, Google, doing more effort than necessary for no reason. Regardless of how much ability they do or don't have to affect behavior, if they can sell correlations, worrying about causality is wasted effort. Causality determines if they are cheating the customer but not if the customer is paying them, so ignorance is bliss.

The way I read your comment is that we should believe what's inside a black box is a valuable product because it hasn't been proved not to be. I'd argue the label on the box is zero evidence of anything, and the incentives not to look inside are evidence that nobody is putting good stuff in it.
Security and Privacy of VPNs Running on Windows 10 – Consumer Reports [pdf]
> character slices

Sorry, byte slices is what I had in mind.

I'm not talking about language level string operations as in concatenation with + or something like that at all, because that certainly wouldn't make sense in language like Zig.

I'm not advocating for string functionality in the language, I'm advocating for a way to not allow byte slice functionality on a thing that is clearly not a byte slice.
In New Zealand more adults haven't been to a dentist in the last year than have.

These numbers are for New Zealand for the years 2017/18

https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/annual-update-key-res...

>Nearly half of adults (47%) with natural teeth visited a dental health care worker in the past year, down from 52% in 2006/07.
Further gold in the comment section:

>Eh can be done with a single 555 timer…
Ah, thankfully this temblor was no big deal here in Fort Bragg on the Mendocino coast.

Especially as compared to the Loma Prieta quake, I was in Mountian View for that one, it was an E-Ticket ride!

At first I thought this quake was a big gust of wind shaking my little 100 year old house, but after 2 long seconds of shaking I jumped up to grab my Go Bag, but before I could get to it the shaking had stopped.

The local email listserv lit up with reports from Albion to Westport, no real damage reported, just a couple things falling off shelves.

Haven't seen reports from Eureka/Arcata yet, but I'd bet there's some damage up there, even though this was an realy short duration quake.

We're all waiting for the Big One here on the Mendo coast, the 1906 SF quake destroyed half of our business district by fire.
Why did the Pfizer young kids trial fail?
The crazy thing is that they don't even need to actually support a 6 year old product: you're not getting much in the way of updates from a random netgear router that old. But Netgear isn't going to brick your device so you can't make changes and reconfigure it. All google has to do it not block it in the Home app.
What about just letting the air out of the tyres?
Every climate brings its own challenges, of course, but it still seems true that that's better than dealing with constant precipitation, freezing, and so on.
It's in production somewhere, but the authors currently discourage it.
Do you have a citation on "busy and successful"? I lived in Chicago in the 1990s and I remember Meigs Field as niche curiosity. The only airports I or anybody I knew used were O'Hare and Midway, both reasonable transit rides from downtown.