skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that people around the world were celebrating it at the same time. While you are definitely right that the Gregorian calendar stems from Roman culture, one cannot deny that its revisions were religiously motivated and funded. Further, that its history and global adoption is intertwined with the spread of Christianity around the world. With its global adoption cultures all around the world have lost their connection to their own calendars and practices. As for the BC/AC part I believe it was always part of the Gregorian calendar? The Julian calendar also used BC/AC. :)

EDIT: I meant to say that the Julian calendar did not always use BC/AC but adopted it some time prior to the invention of the Gregorian calendar.
> I mean the entire thing is built around the death of Christ

i.e.: the death of an ethnic Jew

> Christian fundamentalism as a excuse to colonize people all over the world and commit atrocities.

Monotheistic belief systems are not tolerant of people that believe in other deities.

This "fundamentalism" can be found in every monotheistic belief system, especially as you start going back in history.

History is full of examples of Christian kingdom/empires/countries waging war against each other.

World history of full of conflicts in single every region of the world, including regions with negligible Christian presence.

> however, unlike most religions proselytizing is a feature (not a bug) of Christianity

D'varim 13, 7-10
Previous links and discussions on Rapamycin and Metformin:

Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy [1]

Rapamycin extends life span and health span of male mice and Daphnia magna [2]

Drug typically used in cancer therapy emerges as potential anti-aging treatment[3]

Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)[4]

Metformin for cancer prevention, longevity: popular in Silicon Valley[5]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660669

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058322

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648886

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27486841

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19472942
You do still have to worry somewhat about space in between characters; if it's missing too often, you can't recognize the character boundaries.
Sincere question, what are you doing with 5 gbps to the home? Part of me thinks "hell yeah why not", but realistically I have 1 gbps service and it's probably overkill even with me being an abnormally heavy user. My internal network is 10 gig, which I find extremely useful, but I'm not sure what I'd even do with 5 gig WAN with the current state of the internet.
See the recent Terry Tao post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33078012

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/what-are-the-odds/
If you do that you throw away everything that’s been written in Braille, or force the visually impaired to learn two alphabets. All in the name of an optimization that has an unproven benefit.

Let’s say it’s 10% better. Would that be worth it?
If it's for commercial use, paying for a useful component should be plausibly reasonable?
And now you get to explain why, of course.
It brought a smile to my face seeing a completely unexpected reference to Andy McKee on Hacker News :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
My understanding is that PoE is typically 48V and 10g Ethernet is something under 4V.

I'm not up on the latest NFPA codes, but how much of a hazard is 52V? I'm also guessing the quality of the cable is a factor.
Why? Are these possibly unsafe because consumer safety tests are not verified? Is this more likely to fail early in its lifecycle?

I suppose I’m seeking to understand if the low prices are from cheaper manufacturing or if they’ve taken shortcuts. And as a consumer how are we supposed to become informed?
> This isnt even on the road to intelligence, let alone an instance of it.

We don't know if your database analogy is also true for the human brain.

If it isn't, then you have a point. If it is, then you probably don't.
Amazing thread. Lost it at "YOUR CALENDAR IS BASED ON A RELIGIOUS LEADER THAT NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN?"
If you hate aging (who doesn't), SENS Foundation[0] is dedicated to engineering solutions to reverse it.

0. https://www.sens.org/
> This is what she says happened. There content of the note is not provided, they didn't reach out to the officials, they didn't interview neighbors.

Yes, and? I find it plausible something like that happened based on my own experiences here. I see minimal incentive for her to lie. This isn't a court: that's enough for me to assume it true for the purpose of idle commentary.

> But for every story of bad neighbors doing this, there are orders of magnitude more unreported stories of neighbors helping each other.

That's consistent with there being a serious problem. You can't compare "raw number of bad things" to "raw number of good things" like that. Trivial example: if 4% of a neighborhood is shot at that's a neighborhood with a big shooting problem.
Thank you! My proportional font is about a 35% increase over 4×4, so I guess what you mean by "yours" is Janne Kujala's 4×6 design (from which I think I derived my proportional one).

I think that if you use grayscale, and certainly if you use LCD subpixels, you can get readability down to a smaller size.
Still good for even cheaper kit, or retro gear.
There is very little headcount right now, team matches are taking forever. I'm not sure how far you are in the process, but if you want a new job SOON, this is probably a bad time to join. If you want to get in the pipeline now because you want to get a job in six months, this might be a good time.

Source: Did interviews in early, passed HC for senior SWE in SRE in July with a team match, and now i'm stuck in team match purgatory.
That's the Sentinel system. I worked on it when I was at Cray, and we did some covid stuff[1][2] with a researcher at UAH. We accelerated a docking code using some cool tech I created (in Perl, so there!) and some mods my teammates did to the queuing system.

The work won some award at SC20[3] (fka Supercomputing conference). I had considered submitting for the Gordon Bell prize, which had been specifically requesting covid work, though I thought the stuff we had done wasn't terribly sexy. We were getting ~250-500x better performance than single CPU runs.

Looking back over these, I gotta chuckle, as this (press releases) is pretty much the only time I'm called "Dr.". :D

Back to the OPs points, they are right. In most cases, cloud doesn't make sense for traditional HPC workloads. There are some special cases where it does, those tend to be large ephemeral analysis pipelines, as in bioinformatics and related fields. But for hardcore distributed (mostly MPI) code, running for a long time on a set of nodes interconnected with low latency networks, dedicated local nodes are the better economic deal.

During my stint at Cray, I was trying (quite hard) to get supercomputers, real classical ones, into cloud providers, or become a supercomputing cloud provider ourselves. The Met Office system is in Azure, is a Cray Shasta, but that was more of a special case. I couldn't get enough support for this.

Such is life. I've moved on. Still doing HPC, but more throughput maximized.

[1] https://www.uah.edu/science/departments/math/news/14954-uah-...

[2] A whole marketing writeup was done here https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/journey-to-accelerate-dru... . I tried very hard to correct the errors in the writeups. Sadly I wasn't successful.

[3] https://baudry-lab.uah.edu/news#h.121c63ayp0k0
Letting my children have unsupervised net access before age 16
Maybe we should steer clear of power sources that can cause the worst environmental disaster in living memory, regardless of the mechanism.

If new reactors like this one can avoid such outcomes where the old ones cannot, it's a decided improvement.
So the visually impaired would need to learn a new alphabet/representation all to make things readable to the sighted.

I don’t think that suggestion would go over well.

Also it looks like it would be less informative dense for a given area, which seems like a downside as well.

It’s a neat exercise and could make a cool font for an ultra-low resolution display. But this does not seem like a better solution than just printing normal text above/below/on top of the Braille.
If you have multiple people with multiple devices updating operating systems/software or downloading/streaming videos having the headroom so that everyone can go as fast as possible at the same time is rather nice.
Posted this in response to another comment but:

While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that people around the world were celebrating it at the same time. While you are definitely right that the Gregorian calendar stems from Roman culture, one cannot deny that its revisions were religiously motivated and funded. Further, that its history and global adoption is intertwined with the spread of Christianity around the world. With its global adoption cultures all around the world have lost their connection to their own calendars and practices.
Did you know Colorado actually receives more people from Texas than California? It doesn't really make sense, because California is 33% larger than Texas, but it's true.

So you really should be blaming Texans more than Californians, and if they are ruining Colorado like they did Texas, you should call them out on it.

https://stacker.com/colorado/states-sending-most-people-colo...
sounds like I’ve been had by Big Altimeter :’)
> As per the pic in the article, she's handing her clothing in the front yard, which, even in a country where drying-by-hanging is the norm, is still considered tacky and stupid.

Not in Scotland. In smaller towns you'll even see poles installed next to the sidewalk to hang your laundry in public.
Be the change you want to see in the world, join the police today.

No? Why?
What does that mean, preventing stress adaptations? Does it mean that the body wouldn’t get stronger in training ?
That really isn't how it works.
All of the examples show a single use but the value of destructuring becomes more obvious when you look at an example with multiple uses. Take this variant of one example:

const Component = (props) => {
funcA(props.a.deeply.nested.variable);
funcB();
funcC(props.a.deeply.nested.variable);
};

Depending on what the functions are doing, neither the VM nor tsc might be able to infer that variable's value stays the same or that props, props.a, props.a.deeply, or props.a.deeply.nested will stay the same for that matter.

The VM will likely have to generate code to dereference the chain all over for the second use, and the compiler might lose narrowing information. Both of these can easily be avoided with destructuring.

(You could use "const variable = props.a.deeply.nested.variable", but then you have many of the same issues the article complains about.)
Ask HN: Anyone else getting a lot more bruteforce attacks from Google Cloud IPs?
I get notifications from fail2ban for a number of my servers whenever the various services running (email, form logins, ssh, etc) - normally I get two to three notifications a day; nothing crazy.

These last three days I've been getting 30-60 SSH bruteforce attempts per day, which is way more then usual and way more in sequence then I've ever seen.

They're all from Google Cloud IP addresses, and they all look like the standard mass-bruteforce attacks we've seen before. This isn't a coordinated attack, since different IPs attempt the same usernames repeatedly.

I'm curious if any other sysadmins have noticed the same thing - and have any foresight into why Google Cloud VMs have become so popular for this kind of attack.
By any chance are you selling the iMac Pro and live in the bay area?

My 2014 iMac has a failing system fan and repair seems like throwing away money.
The pricing on masto.host should give you some idea of the requirements and cost:

https://masto.host/pricing/

I think they're the largest managed hosting provider in this space. Obviously they are charging a premium compared to deploying it all yourself, but I think the prices are fair, and the plans give you a pretty good idea of the resources required.

No offense to the other admin, but $200/mo for 50 active users is way too high. A Kubernetes cluster for 50 users is obvious overkill IMO. Maybe you did it that way for the learning aspect, which is fine. You should be able to host 50 active users for a 10th of that cost though. You can easily do it on a single VPS.
My understanding is that Metformin's mortality reduction effect is only present in younger people. I don't have a source handy, but I take it for diabetes and was reading about its other positive effects a few years ago. Perhaps someone can chime in with additional information.
Is it really that big a problem? Yeah the DVD is annoying, but once you get it, DICOM is easily viewable, with free and/or open source softare...

https://github.com/bettar/miele-lxiv

https://horosproject.org/about/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luolai.dro...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idv-imaios-dicom-viewer/id1444...

> But we still aren't very close to being able to see X-rays on our phones.

Actually, last time I had such an injury, I copied the files from the DVD to my phone and just showed all the doctors exactly that... x-rays and CAT scans on my phone, all using free apps. Similar viewers exist for Mac and Windows too. It works fine and the image format is a lot more powerful than JPEG, letting you scan between depths (or reconstruct a 3D model from individual slices), etc.
For the Japan, the War criminals of WW2?
I was able up upgrade from 1Gbs to 10Gbs while also paying about half as much. It was an easy decision.
Oh yeah that sounds nearly intractable for me, I actually wanted to work on a modern Mac and deploy to a classic Mac

I’d guess nearly a whole terminal was implemented for vim 5 on classic macs: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/vim
The author phrased it poorly but there are two nuggets of good advice through the text. I'd phrase them as follow.

1. Knowledge is more important than judgment.
2. Intentions are esoteric babble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_%28Conway%27s_Life%29
Ask yourself that can you master something without understanding it?
Sorry. I didn't read your comment as a criticism of the FSF because they don't live up to their ideals. And you didn't initially provide an organisation that did it better. That's fair enough.
How in the world is this not a certification requirement for phones to be on the big carriers’ networks (which would also cover Fi)?

How the hell does this keep happening?
You could easily host 50 active users on a single VPS for a 10th of that cost. masto.host has a plan that covers 100 active users for $19/mo.
That somewhere could be the middle of the Pacific, and it just drops you without a boat
Hehe, I did move away to SoCal. Other SF friends in similar age group moved out of Cali.
CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms
It's a TV series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_83

In the US I believe it's streaming on Hulu.
I deployed and have been maintaining a very small Mastodon server (~10 active users) for several years now and I can say that at my scale it is not difficult (for someone with modest technical abilities but no professional sysadmin experience). Sure if your instance is as large as Mastodon.technology and you are the only admin doing it as a hobby/side-gig then things can get rough.

Regarding spam, there is some (seemingly inevitable in any community involving humans). But frankly Mastodon, right from the beginning, focused heavily on Moderation tools. Figuratively speaking, no expense has been spared to make it easy and convenient to block bad actors (or instances) from your account (or your whole instance).
Props to the authors for choosing the subheader: "This effect was shown in mice."
This Celeron based system has been reported to be able to support up to 64GB RAM [1]. It's an excellent low cost multi-port 2.5GbE switch, router and firewall platform for small networks [2].

[1]Two Fanless Intel Celeron N5105 4x 2.5GbE Options Reviewed:

https://www.servethehome.com/two-fanless-intel-celeron-n5105...

[2]Cybersecurity for Small Networks:

https://nostarch.com/cybersecurity-small-networks
Most people who are blind lost their sight as adults[0], and less than 10% of people who are blind can read Braille[1], so this font is already probably readable by more blind people than Braille is.

[0]https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-a...

[1]https://nfb.org/images/nfb/documents/pdf/braille_literacy_re...
Null hypothesis: A Nanotransfection (vasculogenic stromal reprogramming) intervention would not result in significant retinal or corneal regrowth

... With or without: a nerve growth factor, e.g. fluoxetine to induce plasticity in the adult visual cortex, combination therapy with cultured conjunctival IPS, laser mechanical scar tissue evisceration and removal, local anesthesia, robotic support, Retinoid

Nanotransfection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_nanotransfection :

> Most reprogramming methods have a heavy reliance on viral transfection. [22][23] TNT allows for implementation of a non-viral approach which is able to overcome issues of capsid size, increase safety, and increase deterministic reprogramming

https://www.google.com/search?q=Nanotransfection
The main concern with lithium batteries is fire. A fire in the cabin can be detected and contained much faster than in the cargo hold.

Fire is probably not a realistic concern with an AirTag, Tile, or similar low-powered device using a tiny battery, but the regulations are not nuanced. Devices powered by lithium batteries are supposed to be turned off if they're in the cargo hold.
I understand your needs, but where people can find a academic resources to say their basketball team won a game?
Sure, but base stations are going to be your main worry there, since they put out way more power than user devices and the antenna of a radio altimeter will be quite directional and pointing down.
Have a look at Milvus (BSD license) and Weviate (Apache 2)
> Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It's become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted.

Reality is even worse than that, what you actually get is an unholy marriage of both. A highly customised feed built out of content plucked from a small number of highly homogenised sources.
> I'm out the money AND the car

Incorrect. You only deserved one, not both. You don't get the money AND the car. It's either your car and someone else's money, or someone else's car and your money.
Having worked in the high performance computing field and in cloud hosted commercial applications, I can agree with the article but for entirely different reasons. The reason why some scientific computing shouldn't be done on AWS has to do with networking and latency between compute nodes. Supercomputers often use specialized networking hardware to get single digit microsecond latencies for data transfer between compute nodes and much higher network bandwidth than what you would normally find between EC2 nodes. This allows simulations to efficiently operate on really large data sets that span hundreds or thousands of nodes. The network topology between these nodes is often denser than a tree (think a 2D or 3D grid topology) and offers shorter paths between nodes.

All of this allows you to run code that you can't run in AWS unless it fits on one computer only. It's also way more expensive than clusters of commodity hardware.

For problems that are trivially parallelizable without much communication between nodes - I don't think that most universities can actually operate those cheaper than renting them from cloud computing services. A lot of these calculations don't take the staff to operate data centers, the cost of the building itself or the opportunity cost of using lots of space for this purpose vs something else into account. Economics of scale also kick in here. It's way cheaper per computer for AWS to admin a data center because they do this for orders of magnitude bigger data centers than your typical university.
With the exception that the reputed brands may just be the Chinese ones but rebranded.

Iirc there was an article where someone purchased a port of some kind from multiple brands but they were all the same under the hood.
If banks repaid scam victims, couldn't you game the system, fake getting scammed, and get reimbursed, doubling your money?
>sulforaphane/sulphoraphane

How do you take this? I've tried broccoli supplements and they don't work all that well. There's only one direct sulforaphane supplement that I've found, though I'm not sure whether to trust the brand
Helped you click: As a college student Brad went to the DMV for a star. Now he has a career being the expert at solving all sorts of problems for all sorts of famous people. Interesting things happened along the way.
It's really understudied in US medicine. In Russia, it's been used for a long time as a general purpose brain enhancer. FWIW
Right. Some of these potential longevity interventions seem to have a catabolic effect. Not a problem if you're a mouse living in a safe, flat lab cage. But problematic for an elderly human at risk of falling down the stairs and breaking a hip due to sarcopenia.
Elon Musk suggests making Taiwan a ‘special administrative zone’ similar to HK
Tell HN: I possibly found a great way to improve your pronunciation
Learning pronunciation is a balance between listening and speaking/practice. This eliminates that compromise.

Get an audio interface and xlr mic.

The interface has a "display" function.

It basically lets you hear back what you're saying/playing. I know windows have "listen to device" option but it's very delayed in comparison.

The lag in audio interface from speaking to listening is much much smaller.

I found that hearing your voice back I could hear things that I know I said wrong, but replay isn't so soon that it gets mixed and becomes indistinguishable form my own inside voice, and not so delayed that the brain doesn't feel like it's my voice. It's perfect timing.

Then if you go to a website that lets you see text and video at the same time, you can practice speaking along them and you will hear your voice very slightly delayed and pick up on errors. ex https://youglish.com/

You see text, you start reading along them, and you hear how YOU spoke it vs how they spoke it all in like <100ms, when the correct sound is completely fresh in your head.
Sounds good to me. And while we’re at it let’s replace domestic aviation with some more rail.
Because it's an easy thing to ticket if you don't have proof of insurance (even if you do have insurance).
We didn't drop torture, we just shifted from physical to mental torture in the form of solitary confinement or "white torture".

The effects of white torture are arguably worse, but they let us pretend to be less barbaric.
As the article points out its got the same realtek chip in it as any other brand.
Although to "question" often implies an element of doubt or at the very least analysis (while to "ask" typically doesn't), the definitions of the two words share too much in common to be distinguishable as a general rule in the way TFA suggests.

A simpler expression however is the following:

"Why?" implies intention seeking / judgment

"What/How/When/Who" generally don't

Strive to use the latter forms unless the effect of the former is necessary.