skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you think de-westernization of archeology has anything to do with it or is even relevant?

He won 2 awards for his research, 1 in 2019 from Antiquity. Which is from the UK and so western.

I think most people want to find out the truth and that's it.

The problem was that there was not much similar evidence for this architecture to buy build nearby, so some archeologists had wrong conclusions.

It don't think anyone benefits from pushing a false dogma.

At least, i don't see how they could benefit x centuries afterwards.

On the contrary, the named archeologists could have had more success by acknowledging it's history ( even though they didn't acknowledged it) and helping investigation.
What I'd expect in an MBA : accounting, finance, marketing, basics in legal, management, business strategy, etc.

Sure. It's not higher maths. But they are real skills that are 1) hard 2) are not 'natural'.

Yes. It's also a good way to meet other people like you. But then the same thing goes for any 'skill'. How many businesses weren't founded by comp Sci students from the same uni?
I don't believe that anyone here, who is engaging in a casual debate attempted to assert authority over the matter, it should be assumed that in any discussion on the internet, that we aren't attempting to handle a legal matter, and that we are all just expressing our opinions.

You are making the assertion that "A device put a child's life at risk" this isn't established. Were and How is the device responsible for producing results to queries that the results don't require review before following the result.

To me, its seems silly to assume, that voice assistance results to queries will always be safe, for all people asking.

If Alexa is asked for a challenge and it provide the result to swim laps, that seems reasonable, but if the the person in question can't swim, and blindly attempts to do the challenge would the device be responsible for putting them at risk?

The idea that the device is responsible here seems silly to me, what would put a child at risk is letting them engage with the internet, if they haven't been taught to filter the results, and disregard things that would cause them or others harm.
The last two satisfying jobs I got were acquired by going to see the CIO/head of department with no prior engagement.
Not that resilient in the end, since it is mostly shut down.
If setting up and leading a minority rule government based on race is not enough to be painted as racist, nothing and no one is.
What rule? I didn't watch the movie nor do I know much about James Bond beyond watching a few of the films over the past few decades.
Amazon doesn't just operate in the UK though.
You are aware you can have 10 or more eSIMs plans on an iPhone, right?
You are free to swap between them as you wish? You are only locked into a single carrier if you purchase the iPhone thru that carrier. Always purchasing and unlocked phone is what solves this.
Its true that errors happen but if those kind of errors are something amazon is aware of then the usage by children should be prohibited or at least it should indicate that alexa could be harmfull to children.
Children teach others. They are learning through the teaching process.
It might be a both and rather than an either or. Those would probably be separate lawsuits against the individuals.
Yes, I don't understand how this could be welcomed by anyone else than Apple. It gives flashback from time when Verizon had CDMA network and their devices did not have SIM.
Public speaking, writing, networking, reading primary sources, and independence are all useful.

I’ve met really good PhDs, and awful ones. Awful ones wanted respect because they had the PhD. Really good ones realized how much they didn’t know and acknowledged that.

A PhDs can be a requirement to get very highly specific jobs (ml at google or robotics at Argo AI) but it’s rubbed me the wrong way when PhDs are a bonus for stepping into leadership, which sometimes seems to occur in government / research labs tied to academia.

I think PhDs often experience a dysfunctional work environment in their formative years during the PhD and then try to translate that to the work place, implementing almost a caste system with an over-emphasis on education and power concentrated at the top.

Also I’ve seen some PhDs discount MBAs or other degrees that aren’t hard science because it’s not what they chose to study (physics or pure CS or Chemistry). I guess the point is that someone can get a PhD and be missing some basic core competencies.
I worked long enough in telecom industry to know that there is no way for regulators to leave major communication platforms without some sort of surveillance. They can't sleep without it, and they don't take "Oh! sorry it's encrypted" as an answer.

I don't buy this. Maybe it's true about FBI, but other agencies have the keys for right or wrong reasons.
Indeed, I should have made that clearer. 10 years is what separates the iphone 1 and the iphone 8, or the PlayStation and the PlayStation 3. If there's a breakthrough in computing technology it'll be everywhere within a couple of years IMO, and miners will be among the first ones served because they're willing to pay above market price and in bulk (see the GPU situation at the moment).
> So yes, some EU products feature all-metal pins. And yes, on those plugs half-inserted plugs do expose metal parts.

Ever tried to half insert such plug? You'd be met with a thick plastic since these plugs cannot be half inserted while exposing the pins (hence the full metal pins).
You're redefining the terms, native and interpreted programs are differentiated by the execution layer, and it has nothing to do with where a majority of programs live.
> If you think like that, you might as well use Chinese messengers.

True, but I don't really "get" Chinese style UI.
OSM is making a volunteer-run open source GIS dataset, not an unregulated speculative securities offering.
All those yearnings for "the old web", I can amend it to "once every couple weeks". Here's a recent one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661935 (This page is designed to last, 5 days ago)

HN is also my procrastination tool of choice, so it might be I can see articles and manifestos urging for the return to the glory of blogosphere and web 1.0 before they sink down into oblivion.

It's like you may grow an impression that on HN, there are always endless debates about notetaking in software and paper. Sure they are there. There's good stuff, too, at least every other day.
As someone who actually lived through the Web to Web 2.0 transition... no.

Web 2.0 was not coined by historians to describe something after the fact. It was a term that was being used by the people who were inventing it. Much like Web 3 in that regard.

CSS and JS both weren't widely supported cross-browser until well into the initial web rollout. Before Ajax with had "Dynamic HTML" and also some pretty innovative things with "long polling."

And contrary to popular belief, "Web 1" was not as dark ages as people think. Forms were part of the HTML spec literally a decade before Web 2. We had plenty of dynamic content. It just required a post to a server instead of being able to be refreshed dynamically.

PHP was part of the Web 1 legacy and launched in 1995 and provided dynamic content. The first eCommerce sites predates "Web 2.0" by over a decade. I should know, I launched one of them. And before that you could make CGI programs in C. And before SQL databases became widely adopted for web applications we had these things called "flat files" we could write to.

Even the very early web specs has POST as a method/verb. Literally, it is in the HTTP 1.0 RFC from 1996.

What differentiated Web 2 specifically was user generated content and dynamic refreshing of the content. And I was actually there, when the phrase was coined. It's not some distant memory for me or something I read about, I was one of the Web 2 early pioneers.

Unless you were on ARPANET you did not use "Web 0"... "Web 0" is not a thing I have ever seen used in my entire 28 year career until this Hacker News post. You can't just rewrite history... there are people alive today who actually lived it.

You can disagree that Usenet is a predecessor to the WWW but you can't redefine Web 1 as Web 0. To anyone who lived it, that is absurd (and slightly disrespectful to our legacy).
This depends on broader society accepting that COVID is endemic though, and the cessation of all sorts of regulations. I don't doubt it will happen eventually, but I'm not sure if another year is enough time. There has to be some sort of common knowledge catalyst that changes the general approach; as long as events are still being cancelled due to COVID cases, we're not out of the woods and "living with the disease" quite yet.

Additionally, I think "undoing" the remote workforce transition is going to be nigh impossible for many companies. How do you get your employees back to the office? You probably tell them their employment is contingent on being in the office; that's the only leverage you really have as an employer. Many people have moved since the onset of the pandemic, and with the labor market as tight as it is, few companies are going to be able to stomach laying off employees who moved away and don't want to move somewhere near a physical office location.

So companies have a Hobson's choice: declare an "on-site" culture and axe all the people who no longer wish to be on-site (with no guarantee that you'll be able to hire replacements in a timely manner), or declare a "hybrid" culture and allow people to opt into coming into the office instead of having it mandated (with no guarantee that people will actually show up to the office and make your real estate expenses worthwhile).

I think a lot of companies are going to choose option #2 now, and a lot of those who choose #2 are going to reevaluate that gargantuan office lease expense in a few years' time when comparing the cost with the actual utilization of the space. I think a not-insignificant portion of the option #2 companies will end up being "full remote" companies as a result, it'll just take them a few years to get there. I think the option #1 companies will probably be fine if they're in cities where there's enough talent, but their long-term success is kind of a toss-up in my opinion. It truly depends on whether the social benefits of in-person interaction gives them a competitive advantage versus world-spanning remote companies who can be more selective with their talent.
They don’t. All MBAs I’ve met in my career have been replaced easily.
The lighton device accelerates random linear projections. Its input is a vector x and its output is a vector W*x, where W is a fixed random matrix. This is useful for a class of machine learning algorithms, but not frequently used in deep learning.
…or a paddle? /s
UK voltage is 230 which is what I was referencing
I've tried the fingers flick, no change.

I've dewaxed at the doctor, no change.

Target sounds - sounds risky. I'd rather do in a clinical setting.

There are new experimental drugs and techniques in the pipeline. Many vets suffer from this; many have it far worse than I do currently. There's a real need for new treatments.

My hunch is that we'll want to develop risk profiles for T and H based on genetics. My ears are sensitive and I shouldn't have exposed myself to loud sound at all as a kid. Probably should be part of military admission screening.

I've had this for a long time. It was so unbearable at first that I was sure suicide was inevitable. (Still seems that way). But, the remediation for me is low stress, low exposure to sound, get enough sleep, avoid activities that exasperate T and H. It's not as bad as it was when I got it long ago but has never gone away. Damage is done, though - to my life, career, relationships.

Anger: I never experience true quiet, so my baseline cortisol is elevated. I become easily angered. Yelling mostly. This raises my T and H. Any significant brain activity raises my T and H. I never finished uni nor accomplished much. My attention span was wrecked after I got this.

Tech: I detached a few years ago when I decided to drop out of life, prepare for suicide, and focus on shitposting 24/7 until death about the largely unattributed scumbag targeting incidents that I've accumulated over decades. Problem solving isn't on my radar any longer.

Muffs: Sure, I can wear muffs and plugs for short jobs. I'd be ok. But I'd prefer no exposure because it took decades for the T to subside, and only a few months of playing a musical instrument (with muffs and plugs) to make it worse again. That was about 3-4 yrs ago; T still worse than it was 5 years ago. Any exposure is risky.

Societal issues: Zero Trust, applied to technocratic incumbents means breaking up big tech, banning data hoarding and data brokering, banning cameras everywhere, policing satellites - a futile pipe dream, indeed. The risks of power asymmetry via tech will only rise. I am not optimistic at all about the future of democracy. Asymmetric power hoarding opportunities will probably increase significantly over the next 50 years - a scary prospect.
Right, but I'm not trying to optimize carbon efficiency. And neither are the regulators. If they were trying to reduce GHG emissions, they'd keep the nuclear plants operational, try to drive down the price of electricity relative to everything else, and have better pricing to feed in to the grid.

As it is, the cheapest way for me to get electricity is to buy a turbine generator and burn natural gas myself. Which is completely insane.
North American power sockets and plugs are a death trap. My 9 month old started to be interested in plugs and would try to pull them out, exposing the two prongs. It's insane. I started adding a bit of electrical tape to the base of the prongs to the nightlights that necessarily need to be on ground level but why this is the way it is, I don't know. I must be exaggerating the risk, otherwise the industry would be insane.

I can't speak for the UK plugs but they sound similar to the "EU" ones where this just wouldn't be possible due to the design of the sockets and plugs.
Current keyboards have the finger wells and the sloped sides that give a tactile cue to school you in optimal placement. That amazon one has the same qwerty layout but has a small gap before you double key - the degree of double-key is a function of travel, so it depends on key resistance as to the amount of double keying. There is less of a tactile cue on the hexagonal ones, so if the keys are tender = perhaps more double keys. Some keyboards detect off-axis depression and have a built in brake to stall off-axis depression - does the Amazon have that feature?
Without buying one to see and test it, it is hard to say.
I am sure the keyboard designers at modern US terminal makers would have far more comments/suggestion and criticisms than I would - perhaps an email to support at Cherry et al, would get a response you can post here?
https://www.cherry-world.com/ and a pack of 10 assessed.

https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/peripher...
Ah, thank you. That explains the problem quite well.

I suppose the wait is on for someone to rewrite the JIT engine to be compatible with Apple's implementation of ARM.
Consider, for the age and minisign/signify use-case: https://gossamer.tools
They owned Vexcel for some years:

In 2006, Vexcel Imaging was acquired by Microsoft
Corporation and contributed as a subsidiary to the
success of Microsoft’s Bing program by pushing the
envelope of photogrammetric hardware and software
technology with innovations that underpinned the Bing
Maps web service and mapping platform.

https://www.vexcel-imaging.com/company/
This comments makes it seem like you have an agenda outside of just stating facts.
It needs to be said that you can get most of the benefits of your own mail-server and still route outgoing SMTP through a provider like mailroute/sendgrid/mailgun/AWS/even google.

It’s not an all- or nothing question.

Similarly, if you’re worried about the risk of potentially losing incoming email if you have issues, you can keep your existing mail provider choice as fallback in the DNS and fetch+delete mail going there into your primary mailbox every 5 min or so using mbsync.
These rubber connectors cannot be halt inserted while still making contact - that would only work with EU plugs, which have partially insulated pins for this exact reason.

If you try and half insert the other type of plug, you'd be met with a thick plastic body, but not exposed pins.
Netflix "discovery" often feels no better than the ads before the DVD menu. Their own productions featured prominently even if they are absolute garbage, the rest is just a vague list of what's popular.
> tried Nix once or twice

me too. I broke my system a bunch of times, and eventually just gave up. I remembered the other day that I have a lot of programs installed with it that I don't even want to think about updating. rofi changed it's configuration file format recently, and that was tied up in nix. I am too lazy to fight with it for now, so I've just disabled my config file. It bothers me every time I use it.
I’m not sure that’s true; some people do get weirdly evangelical about WFH.

Personally, I’m glad that people who like WFH have increased opportunities to do it now, so long as I never have to do it again myself. Worst two years of my life.
> Furthermore, the effort to rewrite as much of the TeX implementation as possible in Lua is perplexing.

Very little of the TeX implementation has been rewritten in Lua. (Assuming you're talking of LuaTeX itself and not the "TeX without TeX" wiki page, which is just for demonstration.) LuaTeX starts with the WEB (Pascal) code of TeX, manually translated into C (see e.g. https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-3/tb96hoekwater-pascal.pdf), and, additionally, hooks are added: callbacks that can be written in Lua, and which have access to the internal data structures.

(By the way, SILE is a separate typesetting system (unrelated to TeX) that is actually written in Lua, and re-implements some of the TeX algorithms in Lua, I think. You can see this talk by its author about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIP_N9qQm4 )
OpenSea is filing for IPO, no one is calling it distributed. Their smart contract can clearly wipe data
That wouldn't obviate the need for DRM, though, as there would still need to be a way for the content owner to be confident that players register each use.

And we sort of have this use-based system now, but with unlimited uses per month of active subscription.
That would make more sense if people were neutral about Smart TVs. But people hate them, which means they should hate their Smartphones too.
>People want private cash and an open financial system and then will have it regardless of what government thinks.

What people want, and what they actually get are two completely different things, and the process of moving from one thing to another is slow, bump filled, spans lifetimes, and requires a refresher every few generations.

I'm not denying that KYC and AML is a pain in the arse most people wish would go away. Hell, I'm ready for a bit of that. I have, unfortunately, been part of that system though. I have also seen from sampling of job offerings in the space, that the hires getting planned out paint a picture of societies getting ever more tightly integrated, and doubling down on who can participate in the financial system.

A theoretical question for you. Do you believe that authorities will blink at enacting some coercive structural implementation that will give them an effective lever to use for controlling cryptocurrencies? Do not mistake slow progress, for no progress. Especially when immutable stores of data are concerned.

Hard limits on power consumption, limits on hardware manufacture, protocol filtering, other more intrusive measures; it is all on the table.

KYC/AML itself was at one point far outside the Overton Window. It only took a short time for the circumstances to arise for that to rapidly change.

This isn't a case of Tech doe tech's thing, and society does another. The tech will be judged by the rest of society on it's utility, what it enabled, and whether that justifies adoption or regulation.

People are not stupid. Do not mistake not agreeing with you or silence as assent. I apologize if I'm sounding preachy, as it isn't my intent; I merely caution to temper your estimation of societal uptake with a comprehensive reevaluation of the objectives and end goals of the apparatus to which everyone delegates the responsibility of making the infrastructure that even spawned the potential for technology/technique possible.

All tech throws more work at creating minima in terms of facilitating some way of life. By the act of an allegedly representative government, it was decreed there was utility to higher friction in this particular sector of human endeavor.

Wait til the ink is dry to pop the champagne is all I'm trying to say. It's far from a settled question, and life never ceases to find ways to surprise.
No Cookies. German DSK issues reqs for cookie banners, consent, US providers
> n ∈ N (p), where N (g) is the set of gnomes who can hear g, including himself. Note that h ∈ N (g) ⇐⇒ g ∈ N (h).

> Each gnome g tracks the spread of the proposal in the following way: once all his neighbors n ∈ N (g) say their k-neighborhood (or bigger) is aware of the proposal

If I understand this correctly, a single node crashing would stall it's entire neighbourhood. @gritzko, can you confirm?
No favorite but here’s some things I like about a few:

- TypeScript: the type system is incredibly powerful and expressive. You can guarantee wild things at compile time without a single runtime test.

- Clojure: very simple and elegant way to learn/introduce FP.

- Rust: I’m learning it now, and while I definitely understand why it’s considered difficult to learn… it’s certainly much less intimidating (in my experience) than other systems programming languages, in particular because of the borrow checker.
Yes you absolutely should. But, should you expect to make a living out of it? No.
>So yeah, it's virtually public.

Let's stop saying that as it implies users are somehow aware the service provider has access to the content, and that they make an informed decisions wrt their privacy.

>Even your private messages only require you to enter an SMS code to view, so anyone that can intercept an SMS sent to you, can read your messages.

The 2FA password is something everyone should enable. It's still an incremental security improvement if you have to use Telegram and your threatmodel is a banana dictatorship doing SMS interception but not server-side hacking.

The right thing to do is get yourself and your loved ones the hell out of Telegram as soon as possible; Signal is your best bet here. Cwtch/Briar if you need to also protect metadata.
Good brutally honest logical take. Did you optimize for money to save up, then move to cheap col in Taiwan, and now changed to prioritize autonomy?
One "useful" skill PhDs seem to learn is how to manage a busy non 9-5 schedule while earning grad-school wages. This is a non-trivial and probably useful skill to have for many people, but if I were to earn an PhD and quit academia I sure hope that I would have a 9-5 job with high pay...
Soft skills are very valuable but you tend to learn those with experience not classes, MBAs are just as unlikely as PhDs to have them
Nextgrid, you're all over this topic providing high quality answers. Just wanted to say thanks for helping justify my still reading HN comments.