skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an unexplored archeological/anthropological investigation to be about the relationship between board games and counting boards in ancient history. Counting boards were used for (of course) counting large quantities and doing arithmetic, the classic example being the Salamis board [1].

Separately, were divination methods used to determine the will of the gods, an example of which were the Urim and Thummin of the Old Testament [2], apparently some form of dice. Senet, the Egyptian game, was also closely tied to religious belief and ritual [3].

At some point, no one knows when, these came together and became games that were played for fun.

IANAA, but perhaps some caution needs to be exercised before announcing that "XX ancient people were having fun playing gamez!" and consider whether they were trying to count bushels of grain or trying to find out if it would rain the next day.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamis_Tablet

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urim_and_Thummim

[3]. http://www.eloquentpeasant.com/2010/10/14/its-not-just-a-gam...

PS: All that said, it sure looks like a Mancala board to me.
Isn't this comment nerd-shaming? I use LibreOffice Writer (and sometimes Word) quite frequently, and I consider myself somewhat of a nerd.
Physicists Create Bubbles That Last 465 Days
She was a 23 year old doc student. She should've been supervised really.
> Maybe you're just saying that a prion isn't as good at replicating as a virus? It seems like a difference of degree rather than kind.

They are qualitatively different.

A virus infects a cell, and critically, can quickly adapt (through random mutations) in an unthinking war between the various forces of the immune system and transmission mode efficacy; A prion does not evolve, it's a misfold of a single type of protein. If you want to compare it to a virus, it's like a virus that is incapable of replicating anything other than an exact copy - and can also only replicate itself using a particular cell (one type of protein).

Why the human body cannot effectively defend itself against particular propagating misfolded proteins is a mystery to me though... perhaps it's too low level to be identified by the immune system as something to attack, much like a poison.
I used Notepad++ for almost 10 years, just for viewing text files because of its right click context menu option and performance. but few weeks ago I decided to try sublime which is good but still notepad++ if faster. (sublime takes a few seconds more to load)
Still doesn't explain "algorithn".
Authoritarian rule doesnt persist via tanks and stormtroopers knocking on your door, it persist by leveraging minor daily convenience, necessities, which mold compliance. Social credit system.

If you cant take the bus to work, if you are denied healthcare because of xyz, if you are denied access to credit, or the grocery store, etc.in a cashless economy.. then most people are controlled without any violence.

This is one of the main reasons many are against an increase of centrally managed services such as universal state healthcare, ubi, etc.. because once they control exclusively a necessity in your life, they can leverage it to ram anything they want or deny you sevices. Freedom lies in choice.
The Newbery Medal Is 100. It’s Smuggled Some Real Duds onto Our Library Shelves
80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes
The killer feature for me besides the lightweightness of Notepad++ is it's ability to remember what files were last opened and also "save" unsaved tabs.

I end up using it like a glorified sticky tool which I know windows did have at some point, but Notepad++ provides the same functionality with a much better experience.
Looks like we share the same city even as I am not in that city anymore but still serviced by the same company directly and not as a reseller.
Don't forget Web components v1
Obviously the "Oranges: the new apples?" title is off-base; k8s is fundamentally a control loop engine, Wasm is a runtime.

What I want to know is, is there anything out there like kubernetes but stripped down to just the control loop engine part? Like a glorified IFTTT but without all the overhead and baked-in assumptions of k8s. Some kind of daemon/library where I can write an arbitrary controller which reads a spec, queries some state, and has actions to push the system toward the desired state.

The actual I/O is just writing an API and could basically just be a CRUD. What I'm looking for is the state management engine; that is tricky.
Nice, good old times
Pentium is single core again
Core i3 to i7 - all dual core
But you have several atom cores so you can run your stuff on them, while windows update taking the main ones.
One could argue it.

But they would then have to answer why would non-business buyers, that is, users who did "leave the update treadmill" and bought new updates (or skipped them) at their convenience, suffer the subscription model too?
You can produce binaries for macOS and Linux with PyInstaller.
Antichamber has lots of weird, cool stuff in it, but nothing to do with non-Euclidean geometry. (They just use the term incorrectly.)
If anyone is curious what happened in 1983, that’s the same year that Apple Computer Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp. set the precedent that binary data is covered by copyright (before this case, only source code was covered).
Android's dev team really does surprise me with how bad they are at building an OS. Every single part of the platform is a disaster.
My provider has increased the price by ~27%, to 39¢ / kWh.

Best offer from electricity price comparison sites is 44¢/kWh, so I guess I will stay with them.

People using electricity startups / discount providers (both gas / electricity) have seen them go into insolvency. They are automatically supplied by the base providers who run the networks in their region.

New prices are up to 1€/kWh on the high end. This is less a problem due to shutting down nuclear plants or the CO2 tax, but rather due to the energy market being de-regulated to casino style capitalism (meaning many more investors / companies being allowed to make a quick buck on the end user's expense).

edit: another reason for high energy prices: the former government has decided that wind energy farms require 1km distance from the nearest settlement (compared to less than half that for a coal-driven power plant...). Also NIMBYism prevents the building of desperately needed north->south electricity lines which could transport energy from wind farms to where its needed.
We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves.

Wuhan Institute of Virology was BSL level 4, and yet here we are.

People aren’t perfect. Accidents happen.
If you don't mind me asking, which city? I'm in Regensburg and recently got moved to my munincipal provider because my former provider closed shop and it's looking...bleak. We're talking ~60+ct / kWh.
No, since that's orthogonal. You can pirate with or without a subscription.
'Base price' is what's called a 'Standing Charge' in the UK?

(it's a flat daily fee you pay regardless of your gas/electricity usage)
Vinny – 1000 ideas for quality time with preschoolers at your fingertips
N-Ergie, Nürnberg (Nuremberg)

https://www.n-ergie.de
> Being vegetarian is also a complete defence[sic].

Tell that to deer dying of CWD.
Infamous is probably the correct word, its infamy just hasn't been translated.
Looking into space pays off at home
New framework-agnostic error page for PHP
I haven't got the time to read the paper yet but I believe I'd emerge with the more or less the same opinion that I've had before: nobody's forcing you to pass -O2 or -O3. It's stupid to ask the compiler to optimize and then whine that it optimizes. I usually am OK with the compiler optimizing, hence I ask it to do so. I'm glad that others who disagree can selectively enable or disable only the optimizations they're concerned about. Most of the optimizations that people whine about seem quite sane to me. Of course, sometimes you find real bugs in the optimizer (yesterday someone on libera/#c posted a snippet where gcc with -O2 (-fdelete-null-pointer-checks) removes completely legit checks)
Some people are terrified of spiders. I am terrified of prions.
Once people did not want to be restricted by their gender. Today it is some form of cult that doesn't allow any dissent. A fate of many with once noble goals if they turn to point their fingers at others.
> Who would have thought the cost of the hardware would be irrelevant compared to the cost of the energy

Makes me wonder how OVH / French alternatives will fare. My guess is much better, since they have a more stable energy infrastructure, from what I can tell. Peter Zeihan has some good analysis on that.
Another example:

Intel Xeon E3-1275, 16 GB DDR3, ~1 TB HDD. Price went from 37.60 to 59.29 (~57% increase)
> Even if the exceptions outnumber the rules, each rule applies in a much larger number of cases, so each case is more likely to follow the rule rather than being an exception.

Perhaps, if you're looking at a language in its entirety, without regard to usage frequency of particular utterances.

However, most of the exceptions tend to be concentrated in the most frequently-used portions of the language. So, while the statement is technically correct, extensive focus on the rules is not really practical.

Take a random verb in English. It's reasonable to assume the third-person singular form can be constructed by appending an "-s" to it. Similarly, the past-tense forms can be constructed with an "-ed." Most verbs are like that.

Yet this rule isn't of much help with the two most common verbs: "to be" (am/are/is/was/were, not bes/beed), and "to have" (has/had, not haves/haved), as well as dozens of others that also happen to be among the most frequently-used.

Thus, from any practical point of view (such as a language learner's), it's best not to expect any rules to hold in principle, at least not until one's awareness of the exceptions is sufficiently advanced.

> And linguistics as a field is really about the regularity of languages. When exceptions are studied, it is to discover the underlying rules that e.g. cause exceptions to arise or to disappear.

I think this is a very good point. I'm not criticizing the questions as they are, as I said I found them interesting. All I'm saying is that it's good to be aware of the limitations of such an approach. It's best to look at some of the problems as logical puzzles, only wrapped in references to some (more or less) obscure languages, and natural languages should not be expected to follow the principles of logic.
No. There is such a thing as proficiency in word processing.

Most people don't use styles, or use them improperly, or modify every instance randomly. They use forced line breaks to adjust page breaks because they don't know about forced page breaks, or the "keep with next" paragraph setting. They've never heard of non-breaking space. They align numbers with spaces. They don't know that you can (and should) have accented capital letters in languages such as French, and that there's a specific option to set for that. They don't understand footnotes, type the footnote text in the text itself and wonder where it's gone after page reflow. They don't know anything about ToC, or ToC formatting. They are very surprised to learn you can type in italics directly using underscores. They can't navigate a paragraph or a line using home/end buttons. They select text with the mouse, which takes like two minutes in a long document, instead of 500ms when using CTRL+Shift + End/Home, or CTRL+A.

And let's not talk about composition. Alignments. Bullets, bullet types. Margins. Sections. Checking for rivers.
Going through the Rubocop configuration ordeal is probably a good investment of time if you have a large codebase where every developer has a different style, and you don't want everyone's code to look completely different.

But most of my Ruby projects are tiny tools with a bus factor of 1. I find "rufo" as a minimal formatter quite nice for those (there are VS Code plugins). For the most part it normalizes '' to "" in code that I might have copied from somewhere else, but doesn't go on to lecture me that "if not" must be written as "unless", and all the other things that the Rails community cares about.
Tragic. It’s always scary to handle needles in a lab. Even with good needle safety protocols, accidents are bound to happen.

There’s this case that my PI showed me of a student who pricked his finger with a needle filled with DCM [1] (which is very common solvent in used in lab). The residual DCM at the tip of the needle caused the damage shown in the pictures.

When your work involves handling tens of needles daily, accidents are bound to happen. I pricked myself once with a needle. Thankfully it was brand new and dry, so nothing happened. It was just the idea of it was terrifying. In an alternate world, I could’ve gone to the ER because of it. Hope someone invents a safer needle.

[1]: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/gruesome-accident-prompt...
As long as individual employees are willing to invest in themselves and change employers, this isn't a problem. Employers have effectively off-loaded the cost of career development fully onto employees. This is even more true at the low end of the career/pay/skill spectrum.

Anecdote: I have a friend who manages a large food production plant in middle America. He constantly gripes about being unable to find skilled welders to maintain the giant metal vats used to mix/cook/etc ingredients. But, he's reluctant to start any sort of apprenticeship program because it costs money. He'd rather keep the employee churn and bitch on the internet instead of up-skilling existing employees or creating a training program for new employees.
Stopping after only a year is great! It took me seven years to conclude it was doing more harm than good -- twice.
I don't understand this complaint – the convention is encoded in the defaults. If you actively choose configuration over convention, it doesn't make much sense to complain that you had to supply configuration!
Technically the last move is always a forced move :) The effective part was getting rid of 'E' in the 4th slot, leaving U as the only available vowels.

I was surprised though that there weren't any digraph-based solutions even though I still had S and H in.
Latvia, not far from Germany.. you may want to read this: https://www-delfi-lv.translate.goog/bizness/biznesa_vide/202...

Tldr: 2021 avg electricity price 88,78 EUR/MWh, 2,6x higher than 2020. December 2021 had highest avg price: 206,40 EUR/MWh (January had ~50+ EUR/MWh), with peak price for 1 hour: 1000,07 EUR/MWh
Yeah, this is like the Hemingway quote -
"Write drunk, proofread sober."
Part of it is idiotic "green" policies, part of it is massive inflation, whether we acknowledge it politically or not.

Money is worth less and less, you'd better start charging more.

All the assets are up, the market is up despite the terrible economy, salaries of jobs which are needed are up.
Startups are also incredibly overvalued, I think that's because nobody want to hold cash, which drives evaluations up. (Hence why all the recent unicorns)
Switching to a usury free economic system is a start.
Disclaimer: I'm an almost daily smoker of cannabis.

There is definitely some impairment long term. I think we can assume that even without this huge study. I don't think knowing that matters unless we have some scale that tells us how dramatic that impairment is.

If I compare someone who smoked all the time, but also had a rich and engaging social life with a lifelong abstainer who live a mostly isolated existence, who is going to be more cognitively capable?

There are so many inputs that feed into who we are and what we are capable of that, in all likelihood, cannabis use is likely only incidental to much larger factors like isolation, media preferences, home life, etc.

As an anecdote, the worse thing I think I've ever done for my brain, the thing that I immediately felt dumber after doing, was reading "Shadow Wolves" (Steven Segal's book). I had trouble communicating thoughts effectively for weeks after finishing it. It was like it had sucked vocabulary out of my brain. Maybe that's how cannabis leads to long term impairment. It makes you read "Shadow Wolves".

Edit: Since people are voting this, I want to add an extra warning that I was not joking about "Shadow Wolves". If you read it, you will feel dumber, and it will take time to heal the damage done. Seriously.
Clean Error Handling in Python
How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
Good to be aware of your biases. Not many people are self aware enough about themselves to know that something like "packaging" can effect their rationality. Especially here on HN where a lot of people think of themselves as "smart" programmers more intelligent than the rest of the population.

Such an ability allows you to see truth where others delude themselves. But knowing the absolute truth isn't always a good thing, and sometimes you may get attacked for pointing something out.
I disagree. Field linguistics is all about deducing the underlying rules of a language from a language sample. Maybe those rules are very complex — perhaps even unpredictable, or irregular — but they can be described. The best reference grammars can be thousands of pages long in an attempt to describe all these rules (I always recommend [0] as a particularly good, open-access example). Based on the samples, the Linguistics Olympiad presents exactly the same sorts of problems, just in a reduced form.

> Separately, there's also the broader issue that languages are primarily what we speak, to which the writing conventions are secondary. In these examples, we're only looking at how things are written, which is yet another filter that gives an incomplete view.

This is wrong also. If you look carefully at the example questions from the Olympiad, you will see that those languages without a conventional orthography are written using the International Phonetic Alphabet [1], meaning that the texts are a direct transcription of spoken words, with little or no ‘filter’.

[0] https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...
This is very field specific. As sibling poster mentioned, claiming it true for all of science is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Publisher verification/app consent policies are now generally available (2020)
Very nice one. I hope I can integrate it at work!
Thanks - I'm looking forward to going back to commuting someday, so I can actually use it!
“Protein” isn’t just one thing.

I’m far from knowledgeable in this area, but the model in my head is: the $foo_protein can be folded in at two important ways, $foo_v1 is what you want, $foo_v2 is a catalyst for refolding $foo_v1 into $foo_v2 but doesn’t refold much (or anything?) else.
Source YouTube Videos in Gatsby Without a Plugin nor a YT API Key
I've started a thread on twitter about this: https://twitter.com/vikgl/status/1484500546358845442

and somebody from Hetzner decided to answer some of my questions. One of which is mind-blowing: apparently they are going to re-adjust the prices once the electricity prices go down: https://twitter.com/hetzner_online/status/148452210352112435...

I wonder why this wasn't at all mentioned in their initial email... note i don't remember signing a contract for hosting where the price is dynamically calculated on commodity prices...
True. But they don’t go away, they persist in nature. So theoretically, the risk continues to grow as they accumulate over time.
Thanks, very interesting. Should've stayed in Nürnberg, I suppose :)
Mustafa Suleyman Leaves Google
One of the best light-weight editors for Windows devices. Textpad is the next best, probably.

The key feature for me is saving unsaved files when you close the editor. Notepad++ does it, Textpad doesn't. For everything else, they are on par.
> Why is it different then for example webcams?

Getting temporary access to video is different than getting access to upload firmware that changes how the webcam works.

It is also more abstract - the browser is not going to be able to enumerate the ramifications of what they are approving. Think a script which is asking for access to a YubiKey - there’s no way the browser can enumerate the various security ramifications of doing so, and the webpage itself may do so incorrectly (this is a reason that I believe Chrome deny-lists access to FIDO keys to WebUSB).

Finally, video access is a known quantity and thus gives opportunities to surface potential abuses in certain ways, such as displaying a colored ‘recording active’ indicator across tabs when the camera is in use, or providing a way to temporarily restrict video access without needing to find the application control option.
It is estimated around 400 000 infected cows entered human foodchain in the UK in the 1980s. Less than 200 people died. Samples from appendectomy imply many more are infected, but didn't develop symptoms (yet).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak
Plus today it's easier than ever to make updates (or bunches of related updates) selectable and installable on demand.

So you could skip 90% of the BS updates you don't care for and get the 10% you do, as opposed to pay the full update price or maintain a subscription...

In other words, you could get a base product, they keep maintaining, and even release new versions you can update to for free/cheap, but with features you haven't paid for locked. Then, if you paid for a feature, you get to enjoy it for all free/cheap updates of the program.
Dogs have been highly domesticated, but only some smaller breeds are "ok" with not getting regular walks outside.

I think it would fall on being able to empirically test whether the animal is content or perhaps even happy. It seems possible to satiate most needs and basic desires but you bring up a good point as to whether we can truly replicate the audiovisual and tactile richness of their usual habitat.

Got to thinking about VR for aquatic animals...
I would bet there’s a correlation with changes to internal teams. Specifically the people who made it good leaving and new people coming in who ruin it.
Just commenting to wish you all the best, I'm in the same 5 weeks to birth "boat" :)

I wish you and your soon to be increased family all the best.
> I've caught my self falling into this trap my self recently. It's hard not to knee-jerk react when someone mentions something like ivermectin and then make wild generalisations on that persons political opinions, mental ability and then judge them as a person.

I agree it's important not to, but playing devil's advocate, has that specific generalization ever been wrong, for anyone? Genuine question.
So basically billions of dollars invested in NFTs solve the problem of not having enough profile pic jpegs to choose from?
Whoever decided to implement the mouse-over thumbnail preview for open apps on Taskbar needs to a whack to the head with a rolled up newspaper. It's incredibly aggravating having all these small windows popup when you're busy. Most times I end up clicking on something I didn't want just because the mouse cursor got near the Taskbar.
But why do the complications start sometime later? Wouldn't it be ideal for running through a series of checks as they are working in a lab?
> TL;DR – On March 31, 2022, we will discontinue Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story. This includes all job listings, saved searches, applications, messages, recommended job matches, job ads, developer story, saved resumes, and the salary calculator.

> I wish this post would include some bold warning, like "Hey, go to your https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/current and export it, because you know, we're killing CVs".

Too bad, they are shutting down the first place I would have looked for a new job.