skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love looking at the history and etymology of place names (more here in the US than in the UK though). Just around where I grew up, there are some pretty interesting place names, more than a few of which nobody knows the actual origin of. For example:

Civietown - an unincorporated community in Brunswick County, NC. Except, if you look at really old USGS maps, the name used to be Sivey-Town, and the location was different by a couple of miles. Nobody knows what Sivey-Town means either, although there's some speculation that it has something to do with a kind of bean called a Seve bean.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:W7m_Re2...

We also have places like Lockwood Folly... or is it Lockwood's Folly? Nobody is sure. And nobody is sure where the name came from, but it might have something to do with a ship built by a man named Lockwood, which proved unable to navigate the mouth of the river which came to bear the name "Lockwood Folly" (or Lockwood's Folly) and got stuck and eventually rotted to pieces, never making it to sea.

Then there's "Half Hell". Love that one. No real idea what that ever meant.

Even Shallotte, the closest nearby town... it's rumored that the name has something to do with Shallot onions, but again, nobody seems to really know.

Bolivia, NC? Named after the country Bolivia? If so, what's the connection. Hmm...

And then you get cute names in other parts of NC, like

* Climax, NC

* Horneytown, NC

* Erect, NC

and many other gems. (See: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/north-carolina/funny-town-na...).

Sadly the details of the origins of many of the place names seem to be lost to the sands of time, leaving just rumors, speculation and, maybe some wishful thinking.
Could it be that you are perhaps unaware of what is a cleverly veiled spam reply or a scam reply? Lots look conversational, even genuine.

You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light, and you generally get drive-by likes from verified NFT-related accounts, and if you check their 'Likes', they've liked dozens more tweets since yours. The idea being to draw attention to itself with a certain demographic. Twitter has its own option to report people for this exact behavior.

Likewise, the number of QRTs in replies to things boggles the mind.
Telegram is a brilliant alternative and a free libre and open source software (FLOSS) which is used by tons of users.

However, like Gab, it has all the same “oppression and harassment”, or everything that F-Droid has quoted:

'Things like racism, sexism, verbal abuse, violent nationalist propaganda, discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, antisemitism and a lot more things become popular on such instances.'

Those same people that are on Gab are also on Telegram. So why have they not taken a 'political stance' against it or 'banned it' like they have banned Gab?
Neither this article nor the wikipedia entry[1] contain the string "geothermal". A web search[2] seems to return some stuff. Both sources of geothermal heat (residual heat from the planet's formation and nuclear decay heat) were greater in the distant past, to my understanding...

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

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=faint%20young%20sun%20geothe...
100mb FiOS Business is on the order of $70.
Pittsburgh lost over half of it's population over a 40 year stretch starting in the 70s. Blaming them in the past for not being able to tell the future doesn't make a lot of sense.

When they built these bridges, it probably seemed pretty reasonable
I'd highly recommend taking an intro class at a community college if that's an option for you. In my opinion, learning how to think and solve problems "spatially" is a really cool (and valuable) experience. An experienced teacher, white board work, and group discussions would be invaluable as you learn the basics. I mention this because once you have the basics down you can self study your way through just about anything GIS related.

Another approach would be to simply pick up an ESRI tutorial and work your way through a couple of projects that appeal to you. A nice benefit of this approach is that software and data will be provided. I smashed one over the weekend before I started my first GIS internship and I got a lot out of it.
Totally agree. I too had the Covox voice recognizer on an SX-64 doing voice-controlled x10 (and other) home automation in the '80s. The amazing thing is that despite the fact that an RPi 4 has more power than a Cray had back then, modern voice recognition really isn't much better than it was then. (Although it was pretty speaker-dependent...)

I have a handful of Echo Dots and Shows in places I don't mind the security risk, and they are maddeningly incompetent at doing anything in the real world other than telling the weather and acting as a voice-controlled radio (their main use...)

It would be interesting to go back to the Covox approach and rebuild it for today's tech from the ground up (shouldn't need the hardware anymore...), as it worked surprisingly well on computers that had less resources than many (most?) of today's microcontrollers...
I've used Vim for many years and I don't recommend people learn it. The things which make Vim strong (cross-platform, plugin ecosystem) has been subsumed by VSC for the most part, and what is left is Vim's unique philosophy of text editing, which by itself is an incredibly modest proposition.
I've been doing my own hosting for 20 years, this just doesn't happen often enough to concern myself with it.

You need to disassociate yourself from the start-up mindset when you DIY a side project app or site. Having said that, there are ways to cache and improve your write performance and maintain HA on a budget. The only thing that's hard to replicate in self-hosting is a high performance global presence.
On Android there's also: https://framagit.org/tom79/nitterizeme. Get it on F-Droid.
> (1) there is no way to migrate to another homeserver (I gave up on Matrix after the third one went bust)

partially true - while there isn't a protocol defined way, you can invite your new account to your rooms, import your encryption keys and leave the rooms with the old accounts

> (2) the homeserver has (!) plaintext access to all traffic on it

hmm, isn't that unavoidable?

> (4) no effort at all to obscure metadata, who you communicate with and when.

There is effort on it, e.g. by going P2P and eliminating dedicated homeservers

> I don't know of any clients that let you manage separate identities at the same time

FluffyChat, Syphon, and others I don't know the names by heart

> Matrix defines a sort of end-to-end encryption, but the ends are homeservers and clients.

The ends are the sessions in a room. The homserver is not an end. How did you get that impression?

> Lack of encryption-at-rest, wherever it is that messages live, seems like a stupendous implementation design flaw, and makes me question all the project's other choices.

Isn't encryption at rest usually done by the operating system?
While the vitamin D result was significant, this is not a slam dunk result. 123 (treatment) vs 155 (placebo) had a confirmed autoimmune disease. Low incidence rate with a small effect size hamper the power here. This is somewhat expected given the complexity of autoimmune diseases; I would have been highly suspicious of a slam dunk, silver bullet result.
Ah! Interesting. The color plate makes it quite clear that the "trunk" is actually another creature (a snake).

I wonder if the motif of elephants battling dragons comes out as a kind of origin story of how the elephant got its trunk.
The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid
Sounds like the variable is whether one engages with Bitcoin discussion. I don't, and have observed no spam.
I have to say, I find it sad how even the most trivial apps, like some basic bug trackers, are built on top of electron and manage to be extremely slow even with the latest 4500€ hardware. And I have to use a bunch of different slow-as-hell apps like this in work. It is just embarassing.
Since I added my .eth domain to my name 1 week ago, I've got 3 identical looking spam DM's about NFT's or the next Shitcoin... just saying
What you've outlined above is a common misconception about RDF. Here's another way of looking at RDF:

An abstract data definition language for structured data represented as entity relationship graphs. Basically, the same Entity-Attribute-Value model that's existed for eons plus the addition of formalized identifiers (i.e., IRIs) for denoting entities, attributes, and values.

That's it!

RDF Schema, OWL Ontology, etc.. are simply Data Dictionaries comprising terms that describe Entity Relationship Types.

Related:

[1] Understanding Data -- https://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/understanding-29894555

[2] RDF based Linked Data, Ontologies, and KnowledgeGraph -- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linked-data-ontologies-knowle...
>Matrix defines a sort of end-to-end encryption, but the ends are homeservers and clients.

Just clients I think. Otherwise it couldn't be E2EE. AFAIK, if you actually can manage to verify your correspondents with whatever the identity numbers are called in Matrix, you get effective E2EE.
It definitely didn't "fall" at that time in any real sense, but it seems to have started a terminal decline that continued all the way through the Early Middle Ages (with no clearly identifiable "fall" event, albeit the convention of picking 476 CE, being roughly at the midpoint, is arguably as good as any!). By the same standard, one could argue that recovery and renewed growth following this "decline" state began roughly in the Late Middle Ages and continued throughout the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period, essentially setting the stage for the Age of Exploration and Industrial Revolution as truly "disruptive" events from a long-run POV.
Thanks for the explanation. As I've stayed far away from cryptocurrencies, I thought it was Covid related at first.
Awesome. I'll try it out. Thanks!
Not all food is done once it reaches the desired temperature. A lot of food, e.g. tough meats, need to stay above a certain temperature for a long time until they're done.
The required interpretation appears readily available. Arizona wouldn't issue anything, but they'll gladly accept it.
I agree. I love ruby, it's my first love. I'd probably reach for Elixir/Phoenix for any new web app projects though.

At TuneCore we've already replaced a lot of our micro-services with Elixir/Phoenix/Broadway or Go and we've saved quite a bit of cash of server costs.
I don't know what they call that logical fallacy cloud fanatics use when they say "if blah blah just make build your own datacenter".
Depends on the company, usually. Currently, I make my contributions with a personal account.
For a while, Twitter would autoban your account if you changed your display name to "Elon Musk". But apparently either they stopped, or the spammers figured out how to evade the filter.
Seeing the reply I'm getting, I think this is just the "English is my second language" showing on my side. I always assumed both expression were somewhat equivalent but clearly they aren't.
I'm curious now... could a state just stop accepting USD and demand gold and silver.
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Study suggests dysfunctional communication plays a key role in sexual coe (cont)
My wife is a teacher in Chicago Public Schools and there are classes in her school that have spent less than half of the school year in the classroom because of quarantine every time a kid gets COVID. Because the kids all eat lunch together, unmasked, and indoors, well they're all considered close contacts. So back to remote lessons they go again and again.

How exactly is this better than a consistent schedule from home?
yea, that's my biggest fear right there (in terms of raising money). I doubt he walks away with anything after pouring his life into the company for years. I get that they raised $15 million, but to lose your code, company and time is horrible.
He ended up being powerless at his own company
I'm pretty sure the main point of Twitter is spam.
So? Something is better than nothing.
I would be more worried about violating the ISP's terms of service. Running a business based on that seems pretty precarious.
I love the post. I smiled quite a lot, not only because of the stories themselves, but because of my own childhood tomfoolery, oftentimes including my childhood best friend.
I wrote a script that basically hits an offsite DNS with my latest IP. It's worked quite well. I think in the past 4 years I have had Comcast, they haven't changed my IP once.
You said:

> its the same for every other infectious disease without a vaccine.

To which someone responded:

> But we have a vaccine.

To which you responded:

> Not for omicron, or the next variant, or the one after that.

That last statement is incorrect. Yes, you can still get and spread the virus if you have received the vaccine. The same is true for almost all vaccines; they do not cease to be vaccines because of this.

I do support calling out the hyperbole of other people in the thread. Accepting that everyone likely will get the virus at some point is not remotely the same thing as eugenics. It does not become OK to make dangerous misstatements, if not outright lies, in the service of doing that.

For what it's worth, a little more precision (e.g. "every other infectious disease without a sterilizing vaccine") would have served you well here.
Well, sure. Anything adjacent to the cryptogrift is going to be a cesspool. I very strongly suspect that the very different experiences that people have relate to who they follow and what they post.
I can't say what Google's policy is, even after looking.

However, a least in some countries where they pay for parental leave, it's capped.

For example, it appears that in Germany a VP making EUR 500K/year isn't eligible to receive any Elterngeld.

And in Denmark it maxes out at DKK 4,465/week = USD 669/week = ~$35K/year -- both the VP and entry-level employee in your example will get the same benefits.
I follow around 5000, zero spam.

Everyone I follow is computer science or software engineering focused though, so maybe Twitter's algorithm can easily recognize my preference and fill my timeline with related tweets.

Maybe someone who follows a more diverse set of interests will get more diverse tweets in their timeline, more likely to include spam.

Just a guess, dunno for sure.
“Arizona” did not introduce this bill. A single Senator, Wendy Rogers, with no co-sponsors introduced a bill. She is a well-known wingnut, who introduces a lot of legislation that never even gets to committee.

https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/25708
> But it could at least be self-consistent. Sometimes identical tweets by different users are given different verdicts.

Anything deterministic could be defeated in short order. But yeah, I get that criticism.

> Twitter's offensiveness detection seems about as good as Google's search results.

My Google search results are excellent. But I also don't block them anywhere in any capacity; you could possibly argue that Google knows me better than any living person, and I am benefiting from that. lol.
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Two lanes on each side + protected sidewalk on each side, yeah.
In a vacuum, someone will step in, and that someone as of now is China and/or Russia.

The US is certainly no saint, but I think someone(s)? have said that considering the alternatives *, you could do a lot worse.

* Realistic alternatives that is. I too would love to see us achieve world peace and ditch all weapons. But that's probably never going to happen as long as humans are not extinct.
Building a database is such a hard undertaking. I have to give a shoutout to RethinkDB, which also had cool tech and also failed commercially. And then if you have success as open core, AWS will just fork and offer a hosted version of your software. Good luck continuing Dgraph as open source.
Depends how many different tasks you want to compare, and how many different interpreters you want to compare, and what you want to do with the comparison.

Find a comparison someone else already made, for example:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/

Make your own time measurements:

https://github.com/tobami/codespeed/

https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
I see those on page 4 and 5 of the search results. Thanks to Google for hiding the full url which would make them easier to identify as untrustworty.

Hit the drop down error to the right of the shortened url to see the cached page.
> "Arizona" introduced nothing.

It's just synecdoche.
Well said, and what's interesting to me is that this matches my experiences quitting serious nicotine and marijuana addictions as well as alcohol.
Ooh, I know this one - if acquired as a non-itemised purchase, the valuation should be the number of books we care about, divided by the total number of books (100 in this case), multiplied by the total lump sum paid.
Agreed. We all celebrate the big raises and never talk about the very significant potential downsides of those raises for both founders and employees when things don't go well.
They definitely have a spam problem, but cleaning it up would create a business problem... so they leave the cesspool.
This only means it would be pegged to the gold standard set by the FED, I reckon.

Edit: I'm serious. I'm not saying that's a realistic option.
I'm amused that people are willing to contextualize this bridge failure within what is essentially the entire 20th century economic history of Pittsburgh; and then act like that history somehow excuses the complete failure of local governments over that same time period to either repair or eliminate unsafe infrastructure. It's honestly nothing short of absurd.

No one is honestly expecting the local governments throughout the Pittsburgh metropolitan area to eliminate 150 bridges (or some other arbitrarily large number) by 2023... They expected the local governments (and the state and federal governments) to behave competently and never let it get to this point. The decline of Pittsburgh as an industrial hub started over half a century ago... They've had plenty of time to address things like this in that context.

The fact that keeping infrastructure safe is "political suicide" or "costs too much money" is essentially the entire problem - and it's a problem that is not at all unique to Pittsburgh.
Talking about Vitamin D and calcifediol: why are we not informed that Calcifediol treatment (and as such Vitamin D supplementation) significantly reduces the chance of ICU admission and mortality in COVID-19 based on RCTs [1,2]?

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34097036/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
A custom supercomputer dedicated to simulating folding proteins (two-state folders with nontrivial secondary and tertiary structure) from unfolded to correctly folded state using only classical force fields probably could work, and DE Shaw has invested a lot of money in that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)

but, as I pointed out elsewhere, this would not be particularly helpful as it would use an enormous amount of resources to compute something we could probably approximate with a well-trained ML model.

It also wouldn't address questions like biochemistry, enzymatic reactions, and probably wouldn't be able to probe the energetics of interactions accurately enough to do drug discovery.
I'm sorry but I don't really follow what you're saying here. That the GP comment was a supercilious putdown seems completely obvious to me. Perceptions differ, of course.
If the homeserver sees plaintext, then it is by definition an End.
Wingnut who’s legislation never even gets to committee.

https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/25708

And no, that is not legal.
Yeah I mean for sure it depends on the domain.

But it's interesting you mentioned compilers - I'm in the process of writing one, and I very much used an incremental approach.

The first pass I essentially wrote a parser and a component which walked the AST and produced output. At a certain point it was clear that local knowledge of the AST wasn't sufficient to capture non-local details about the program which were required to produce the correct output. I got away for a short time with dirty tricks, but eventually transitioned to a new design: I kept the lexer and parser, and implemented a data driven IR in the style of an ECS system to be built up before emitting output.

So I threw out the initial output component, but I learned a ton by starting with an end-to-end compiler, however incomplete. If I hadn't taken that step, and tried first to plan the perfect IR on paper, I am certain I would have reached an inferior result.

edit: and even the IR and compiler middleware is loosely coupled. The IR is essentially a set of flat data tables, each of which is built independently by walking the AST. And the compiler is implemented in a series of independent passes: i.e. one pass to build the IR, one pass to derive type information etc. so it's very much grown into a series of independent components, each of which could be independently rewritten without affecting the others very much.
I mean that such a universe could be so different from ours that the idea of 'species' may not even be sensible.

> Do you mean that the entire universe is simulated down to the planck level?

Unspecified. Perhaps gross approximations are used unless an attempt is made to observe (internally or externally) more detail.
It’s not really a language thing. I would never use Java again simply because it is owned by Oracle but I am sure it is possible to use it elegantly. Just that it seems this is not the mainstream way.

So this is going back 5 years or so. We were building an Eclipse plug-in to make an IDE for a scripting language used in our platform, for which we needed to extend another language plugin. I remember there were layers and layers of abstractions, to hook into which I had to do some dirty things. There was a lot of boilerplate that I had to write before I could even start working on what I needed to work on. Logic being scattered across many many classes some with multiple inheritance was not fun.

I also did a similar project in JS for a web-based IDE around the same time and it was just so much simpler to do.

Eclipse itself was not a joy to work with - good idea in principle but so slow and buggy to actually use.

I also got to look at the code of a JS library that some of our Java devs wrote (some sort of RPC plugin framework) and it was simply terrible in exactly the same ways - abstraction abuse.

So basically I get that sometimes this complexity is necessary but it usually isn’t. Like we had a WebUI app built in Java that took nearly a GB of memory to run because it was probably using some framework underneath that was designed for bazillion different use cases all of which were completely irrelevant in this case, but there was no choice to leave them out.

So I really love the simplicity of JS. I particularly love Node.js - it’s really a C++ framework with a JS API but it’s such a joy to use for all network service related things. Add some sensible use of TS (for the type system rather than the additional OO features that pretend it is not JS) and it’s now even better.
In fact they have publicly whined about it already
I'd like to hear more about how you can avoid names. How are actions items assigned? Genuinely curious, this sounds cool
> I erred on the safe side

The safe side is giving them the benefit of the doubt. Possibly made up, sure, but your "if there’s any truth to it" gave a most probably made up vibe. Not only is that uncalled for, it’s pretty inaccurate.
On a side note, Prometheus seems to be built for bloat. AFAIK, it isn't even designed to consume metrics other than from apps linked to its client library. It's like a microservice, but with the footprint of an operating system.
I think they’re appealing to the idea that by eating food before paying, you are indebted to the restaurant, and the very definition of legal tender is that it is valid for all debts.