skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hypothesis I've been developing over the past few years in light of that emerging archeological picture is that the Exodus narrative was a sea peoples story appropriated by the Israelites after the sea peoples alleged settlement and relocation in Palestine in the 12th century BCE by Ramses III.

A number of stories in the Biblical account which have no archeological evidence as occurring for the Israelites have similar events well attested for the sea peoples, including:

Judges 18 has the descendents of Moses as priests for Dan; the Karatepe bilingual and Çineköy inscription both have a "House of Mopsus" as the ancestral lineage for the leaders of the Denyen in Adana (the Denyen have also been connected to Dan)

Sea peoples "without foreskins" battling against Merneptah at the battle of the Nile (see Libyan war inscriptions regarding the captives) vs the second circumcision in Joshua 5:2 immediately following an exodus from Egypt (where partial circumcision leaving the foreskin was practiced)

There's no evidence of the described conquest of ancestral homeland taking place in Canaan per Joshua, but there's considerable evidence of conquest of Mediterranean sites by sea peoples best summed up by the Cypriot response to the fall of Ugarit: "As for the matter concerning these enemies: (it was) the people from your country (and) your own ships (who) did this!"

No evidence of Samson (with similar features to the mythical Hercules) or the Israelites conquering Ashkelon, but considerable evidence (i.e. OP study) of Anatolian or Aegean sea people doing so in the 12th century BCE (where Xanthus placed Mopsus as conqueror).

You even have the Lukku, one of the tribes fighting Merneptah, as one of an explicit 12 groups of tribes brought into captivity by Ramses II following the battle of Kadesh.

This picture even emerged in antiquity following the comparing of notes between Egypt, the Greeks, Anatolia, and the Jews in the wake of Alexander's conquest, from Atrapanus of Alexandria claiming Moses had taught mysteries to Orpheus (the Thracian poet and shipmate of Mopsus), or the Jewish author of book 3 of the Sybiline Oracles claiming the kingdom of Solomon included a number of Anatolian tribes.
Angular, to me, feels like it was designed by Java developers - classes and bloat* everywhere. Most code, when compared to a React etc. version, just seems like a wall of text on my screen.
But, this might make it more approachable to developers that come from a Java background - I see this at my current employer.

(*) By bloat I mean that I often feel like I should have been able to implement whatever feature I just implemented in half the amount of code.
Um yeah, about that… most of this stuff wasn’t built for free.. it was either directly (think IBM and Oracle and Linux) or indirectly (the countless people including me that could contribute development time because of high compensation from 9-5 jobs) funded by major corporations.

Even gcc was a languishing mess until it got some real corporate backing into it. The Hurd never took off - the bulk of the real FSF successes had tremendous infusion of commercial support.
Why is 70% of freight carried by trucks then?
A corporate setting once required perforce so I did everything in a local fossil repo and begrudgingly created the changes in perforce to ship already completed things.
In general "Office" applications are a bad solution to any problem, so not using them at all is best.

For text, Markdown with inline semantic HTML if necessary and CSS stylesheets if needed is better, since it properly separates style and presentation unlike word processors.

For modelling, Jupyter-like notebooks are much better than spreadsheets since they properly label objects, don't make everything a 2D grid, and use a proper programming language.

For data, databases are better than spreadsheets.

Presentations are just documents, so there is no reason to use separate software.

For drawing you can use Inkscape and Gimp.

For collaboration you can use normal distributed version control like Git (with solutions like self-hosted Gitlab).
I probably could have done remote. I decided it was a good opportunity to get a free move and explore a new city.

So far I like it. More city, less nature than Vancouver.

As I side note anyone know any tech related events to attend in Toronto? Would like to be more involved with hackathons and entrepreneurship communities.
Unfortunately Office is no longer "the thing everyone knows." It has become a hideously dysfunctional mess, primarily because of UI-design defects.

Style management stands as a particular example. Now you must wade through dozens of unwanted canned styles to find the ones you've set up... if I remember correctly.

For the style mess and other UI regressions that I haven't taken the time to catalog, I switched to LibreOffice. Granted, I don't exchange Office documents with coworkers much. We use (also crappy) Confluence for most documentation; and if I just want to send a document to someone, I export to PDF.

I used to love Word. I used WordBasic to automate not only technical-documentation production, but also to parse and rewrite thousands of SQL routines on a DEC VAX system and save my company weeks of engineering time.

I hate Word now because Microsoft ruined its UI. Oh, and I detest the continual hounding to log into your "Microsoft account." Nobody wants your goddamned account, Microsoft. We all have PLENTY of accounts by now.
Do you read anything, like, at all? Finance plays a _huge_ role in the climate change machinery. Carbon credits, ESG, regulations and more. Thems the bean counters.
Not being able to get a taxi? I don't really see how your question relates.
After having worked on an Angular project for a little over a year I'm at the point where I'm very unlikely to accept another job where they use Angular. It's so frustrating to work with, and every week I find another corner in the framework that, in my opinion, is very poorly designed and/or implemented.
Can you give a few sentences on why someone would want to do this?
> When I see vertical video I instantly think "moron".

You must be fun at parties.
Do you run Wayland, by any chance? Last I tried Wayland, Libreoffice simply crashed on startup.
History has shown that nuclear is politically brittle. It has to come from the top, with government support. And with left-leaning parties opposed on environmental boogeymen grounds, and right-leaning parties uninterested because it competes with their god-given oil money, you’re left with a very tough political knife’s edge to walk on.

And so solar, wind, and hydroelectric need to bring the future.

Oh hey have you seen that environmental groups financed by oil money are against power lines to connect the eastern seaboard with the Quebec grid composed of 98% hydroelectric power?
Files: A Modern File Explorer
Why would I use this instead of Istio mirroring?
You correctly note that of all Musk initiatives, only SpaceX has shown partial success, and that only via direct government subsidy.

You correctly do not assert that Martian colonization or suborbital passenger or freight service are better than grift even with a 100% Starship success.

You correctly do not assert that any other Musk initiative, including hyperloop, domestic robots, self-driving cars, electric trucks, are anything other than grift.
This model of complexity just doesn't make sense to me. So I looked it up on Wikipedia:

> Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.[1]

Is a star topology wih 50 nodes more complex than a star topology with only 5? To me, there are concerns of size and scaling, but not complexity only given that as a problem. And according to Wikipedia, the difference in leaf nodes wouldn't increase complexity.

But that's exactly what the article is calling complexity, more nodes in a star topology!

And then it calls other things complexity that make even less sense:

> Blockbuster, too, was a network: one formed by the links that the company had with its customers [star topology again, like I pointed out above]. But by the early 2000s, those links started breaking down: The company was losing customers because its business model had become obsolete [and not because the business was too "complex," so let's blame complexity].

Maybe complexity works differently in physical chemistry. Maybe that just doesn't translate well outside of chemistry. I don't know. I just don't get it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity
Fw: Workspace Productivity Booster
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know that about QUIC. But QUIC is trying to implement reliable delivery for applications, which makes sense as a general purpose protocol. but if I were doing a file transfer app/protocol these days for example I would send hash+Mac+metadata reliably and then check chunks of the file (unreliable+encrypted UDP)as they are decrypted (have to anyways for integrity checking as part if decryption), and peform reliable retransmission request when decryptiom fails. That's what I meant by application layer, application and use-case specific protocols. but perhaps general purpose protocols are still better (I am not sure, I was asking in my post, sorry for not being clear)
In some models, this picture of slow gain followed by rapid decline is actually the worst possible situation for happiness, with the inverse (rapid gain followed by slow declines giving optimal happiness). See here:

https://www.efavdb.com/utility-engines
LibreOffice is working on them: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Collaborative_Editing
Hey just tried and the link is not resolving. Www works fine, seems to be an issue with the naked domain config.
It's a feature to have it right there, a 'fossil ui' away from launching in a browser instead of whatever extra installed stuff git offers. Also choosing the right one from many takes more patience than I have.

Notably 'fossil' is a single static binary that can be anywhere on the $PATH too.
While I'm worried about PFAS and microplastics in general, I'm not sure that the "ill-prepared" part will happen as a) it was stressed-tested by COVID and b) there are now research that tracks what's happening now and c) bacteria and fungi has evolved to break down plastics (whether this is a good or bad thing is up to debate). I'm more worried with anti-microbial resistance, considering the still-unfettered access to powerful antibiotics in developing countries (usually for veterinary and agricultural use but some as OTC) to be honest.
Self driving, autonomous databases are an interesting study
Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide
I'm rather a fan of [ox-hugo](https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/) for similar purpose. There's more to understand upfront, but since the output target is Hugo, you can modify/eject from Org with zero effort.
None of these solutions with work with non-programmers.

Except maybe Gimp? Most people in offices don’t do image editing…
Social safety nets in a capitalist society don’t make a country closer to socialism. Same with decent worker rights. Neoliberalism has done a huge shift into pushing the world towards capitalism. I don’t think the state needs to own the means of production to be socialist. At the very least 50% of private companies should be co-ops to be called more socialist than capitalist.
And I would speculate that most devs only know a small fraction of git's functionality. It is certainly the case for me.
You need to pay for the charging network. It’s no longer free.
Gitcoin has solved this problem! https://gitcoin.co/
5. The hell you talking about?

The game literally removes the controls while you're being told how they work. They vanish. You can't do anything but sit there patiently while a game character lectures you about how a joystick works.

What next? "To use a key on your keyboard, apply sufficient downwards pressure that you hear a 'click'. Do this now!"

It's patronising to a level that I feel insulted and leave the game immediately.

Compare to the height of the PC game era -- which Blizzard games used to be the epitome of -- you get "dropped" into the game and you learn through discovery instead of an unskippable presentation.

The intro of Half Life is a classic example of how to do this well. This is the opposite of that.
Also Porsche undercarriages, at least the older ones.
I'm not sure why you're limiting the discussion to inductive stoves. Technology Connections showed resistive heating working most efficiently.
I do not consider 26 ug a 'microdose'
I do think increased building standards and expanded city amenities explain some small part of price increases. But not like 10%+ increases over inflation year after year as is seen in many areas worldwide.
That setting doesn't do what you think it does. As per the tooltip[1], all that does is cause notifications from uber to be delivered regardless of focus settings (eg. if you have work focus on and uber sends you a notification it will show up immediately rather than being hidden/delayed). You'll still get other notifications if you don't have focus on.

[1] random image result: https://static1.makeuseofimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl...?
I had no idea TCP can reach 8gbps over 1s rtt. I suppose folks that tune it and use the right algorithm can get that or multi-threaded transfers working. The problem is most services and applications are not specifically tuned for this.
> if the tokens have "no value",

But if you can exchange tokens for prizes, clearly the tokens do have value. 1 token = piece of bubble gum, 10 tokens = keychain, 5000 tokens = fluffy unicorn. Etc.

Basically, I don't see why the fig leaf would work in the first place...
Algorithmic stable coins have always been vulnerable to a run on the bank situation but it’s not limited to just algorithmic stable coins. Bitcoin itself is also vulnerable and due to it’s design, big investors will be able to attach much higher transaction fees to their transactions meaning they’ll get a chance to sell first.
I'd known that at one point and forgotten it. Thanks.
Step 5, mention a creep.
Link to the original study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202874119

The data comes from a very specific polulation:

> His data come from a survey begun in Cebu City, in the Philippines, in 1983.

I'm not sure if it can be generalized.
Sadly I think broad funding for non-commercial OSS might be an unsolvable problem, or at least a problem that can't be solved by a startup.

I'd like to see the government try and step in (a common solution to Tragedy of the Commons problems) with a grant program.
I never worked proper fine dining, just hotels and not exactly fancy restaurants and bars so I strongly suspect that’s the hospitality industry in general. Everything you wrote accords with my experience.
I hope I'm not the only one who misread the title as "Itanium CPU" and went "geez, again?" :^)
I use LibreOffice in my engineering practice. Even when exchanging documents with lawyers and other clients, containing extensive change tracking and comments, none of us had difficulties on any side of the exchange. At one point I had to update to a more recent version to access the "resolve comment" feature, but that was about it.

(Random additional comment: One thing I especially like about LibreOffice Calc over Excel is its process for importing CSV files).
Personally, I’ve found the new UI in Word to be a massive improvement. The ribbon is way easier for me to navigate and find functionality.

Then again, I’m using the macOS version. It still has a menubar for less common functionality.
Yeah, whenever dealing with someone who uses O365 you are going to run into issues with everything from formatting to formulas to error messages.

Not worth it imo.
This is pretty much why I switched from Mercurial to Git, and in retrospect, it was absolutely the right decision. Not only did that choice relieve me of having to master two different version control systems, it meant I could build on top of the huge amount of Git tooling and (more importantly) training material out there.

Teaching colleagues and using tools they can put on their résumés is pretty important. Iconoclasm isn't always a good way to live (or do business).
What I want is fewer people to die while waiting for the FDA to take years to approve already existing drugs.

You seem to care more about marketing than people's lives. We all have different priorities.
I was a Libre Office user, explaining to you why I am no longer one. Clients would have problems with my documents and it made their lives hard so it became my problem. I'm a fan now of just using what works, stuck using Google for now, fortunately not needing to write serious documents with it.
Given that they have had 34 some odd drafts and continuous errors, with some still not fixed, QUIC is not confidence-inspiring. As an ordinary internet user, the problem I see is that QUIC development is being led by companies, not academics,1 that see the internet first and foremost as an advertising and commerce medium, as would be expected since they are companies pursuing business interests. The issues around those commercial uses are prioritised while issues around ordinary internet user privacy and control are secondary. Certainly QUIC is not the first2 and and will not be the only UDP-based reliable transport protocol but what will be interesting is whether firewall administrators will treat all the alternatives equally. It may be that the corporate-sponsored ones like QUIC are allowed through while ones written by academics or other non-commercial authors are not.

1. Many of the people leading development of the older HTTP versions were academics.

2. See, e.g., CurveCP: https://curvecp.org Having played around with CurveCP before QUIC existed, and having already thought CurveCP was amazing, the later commercial effort led by Google has left me underwhelmed.
> If they choose to take the money, they risk having to defend that choice if the cryptocurrency industry collapses in disgrace

Take the money. If he collapses, there is nobody to whom any favours must be paid. That’s a win. This giving by Bankman-Fried looks like the same mistake Jen Bush’s campaign donors made in ‘16, thinking a cheque and a cheque alone buys power.
You might have luck with Qmole. It works on 32 bit devices.
https://github.com/chriskmanx/qmole
I think theres a cydia repo somewhere.
What OSes do you use? What field are you in? Do you share documents outside the company? How much do you use comments, especially @tagged comments? Do you need versioning? Fo you need collaborative editing? What file storage do you use? How much do you all author documents, presentations, spreadsheets? Do your users use laptops directly or do they use keyboards and mice?

But really, probably none of that matters. If you think Google Workplace is too clunky, you’ll never be happy with LibreOffice. Just get O365 and get back to work. It’s not worth saving ~$5k annually.

For the last 4 years, I’ve been CIO and VP Eng of a now-series B company. We’re at about 70 FTE. We use Google Workspace and O365. We tried to move everyone to Google, but we couldn’t do it. As you noted, there’s just too much missing from it.
Based on what? Ride share companies don't absorb any of the cost of vehicle maintenance, insurance, or fuel. Drivers are subsidizing a significant amount of the capital costs of running a taxi business that isn't exactly reflected in prices.

Additionally there's the problem of the market tolerating current prices. Like gasoline, even if the cost comes down it doesn't mean price goes down. Profit margins will increase if the market can sustain current prices.
That's only a counterargument if you're ignoring the value of coordination with the greater EA movement. I don't know why one would take that stance.
Because it's easier on your hands to hold your phone in portrait rather than landscape
You don't even need to rewrite the source branch history. You can leave the source branch as is, and create a single commit on the main branch that is the squashed content of the source branch. It isn't considered a merge in the normal way by git, which can cause issues, but there is no lost history and GitHub and gitlab are able to keep track of the source of the squash commit.
I'm so sorry. None of it is remotely fair.
He aged out (mostly) of being a belligerent young man, but what got him there?
There are significant pockets of non-git users in the developer community ;)

I find hg much more pleasant to use than git, and can generally still work in git based teams while using hg.

I find pijul's approach much more interesting than git's, and look forward to pijul (and others :) pushing forward how we do revision control.

I don't believe git to be the end of the evolution of revision control systems (which for me has looked like cp -> rcs -> cvs -> svn -> git|hg), and find git lacking enough that I look forward to what the next generation does.

Would I argue that you personally should branch outside of your git centric world? Of course not! Just as I've worked with many devs who live their lives gainfully employed only knowing Java, or sys admins who only know Microsoft, it is up to you as to if you wish to explore different approaches and styles to achieve your end goal.
Nvidia Rumored to Launch GeForce RTX 4090 in October, RTX 4080 in November
Iirc up till recently EU environmental laws practically outlawed any kind of silicon fabs on the continent. It's only now that Intel has decided to move a plant here, so something must've changed.
>Unpopular opinion here, I suspect, but I'm happy to see COVID vaccination mandates getting rolled back. They made sense last year when we all thought they would have a meaningful impact on transmission, but Omicron has made it pretty clear that they don't.

I've heard it theorized that vaccination makes Omicron spread faster, because being vaccinated reduces symptoms while not reducing the viral load, making it more likely for someone to unknowingly infect others.
That happens after Phase 3 trials too.

This is about probabilities, and when lives are at stake, you should take some chances.
Spotify does 90% revenue through premium subscriptions. Ads could completely go away and they’d still survive.
https://craft.co/spotify/revenue
https://archive.ph/vthsH
Not true for everyone. I commit early and often, and treat them as if they're etched in stone. Plus I use git.
Key word: complex.

As complexity increases so do unknowns. As in, if X and Y changes what happens to Z or Q for that matter.

Futhermore, as complexity increases, often historically so does hubris.

Look no futher than the current state of the world and say The Fed.
I think you can already do this with LibreOffice Online/CODE?

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
4 billion seems an enormous amount. Do you know how they trade it?
One time $70 for standalone, no phoning home version of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
So I used to be a huge MS Office file format geek because of my work with Apache POI (https://poi.apache.org/). I spent some time playing around with LibreOffice API's to try to use them for file format conversion.

I feel like LibreOffice/OpenOffice file compatibility with MS Office peaked in the early 2000's. The last time I tried to load a Word doc in LibreOffice a few years ago, it looked very janky. About the same as it did in 2004.

Sadly, I still receive 2 or 3 Office attachments a week. So MS Office compatibility is still very relevant.
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical:
It is a largish standard wired mouse. Very good optical engine, popular among FPS players. It can be overclocked as well. Yes, you can overclock a mouse. They sell them sealed in package on sites like eBay.
fossil has the concept of shunning an artifact, this has the interesting side effect that that artifact will now never be allowed in the repository(without additional work to un shun it).

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/shunning.wiki