skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of the word wer as "man" (male) can be read in Beowulf. For example, when people are eulogizing a dead king. It says "ymb wer sprecan"[1] meaning "speak about the man." Same with the word wif: "wíggryre wífes" means "war-violence of women."

The development of the modern word "woman" is interesting. It descends from the word combination "wif" + "man". The "i" gradually changed to an "o". However the plural (women) retains the original "i" sound. The word "wif" on its own changed to our modern word "wife"[2].

A lot of our modern words which contain "-man" or "man-" in them developed in Old English. The word "mankind" for instance is present in Beowulf. It is spelled "manna cynnes" or "mancynn".

One last note, the word "wer" predates the English language. It dates back to Proto-Indo-European, and shows up in many different languages. For example in Latin it is "vir"

If you want a Beowulf side-by-side translation: https://heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-text.html

[1] Cool to see the word "sprecan" and it's similarity to modern German "sprechen".

[2] Which has always made me wonder about the phrase "I pronounce you man and wife". What meanings of "man" and "wife" were common when that phrase originated.
this is a categorical error

obviously "A/B testing" is not "hiring psychologists", because one is in the category of experimental methods the other one is about human resources

yet there are obvious connections. A/B testing is used to increase "conversion", which is profitability. which is the same fuckin' thing as addictiveness in case of a site where you pay with your eyeballs
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/facebook-mulled-multi-bill...

I wonder why Unity didn't agree to be acquired. Say what you want about Meta they were pretty good at acquiring companies.
If you show an ad for a car that costs $100k to 1000 users and a single user buys it (0.1%) you still sold a car for $100k. Let's say it costs $90k to make it. You could pay $5 per ad displayed and still made a profit. My point is, the people who actually buy the products are actually paying for the other people who can't afford it. So, the model doesn't rely on everyone buying a keyring from a car dealership, but on most people not buying anything, and a couple buying a car.

In a sense, that model is better at distributing income, because everyone gets a service and the people who can afford pay for everything. If everything was behind paywalls, people who can afford would have all the nice services and people who can't, will have nothing.

What's interesting is that "targeted ads" is a bit of a misnomer. It's more of an ads ranking, where the user is shown the ads they are most likely to buy. However, from the point of view of the car dealership, when they think targeted ads, they would like their ads to be shown only to people who will likely buy the car. No company would want their ads shown to someone with no disposable income, yet, they will be shown some ad.
slay!

really great darknet interview too!!! thanks for your amazing work
My two cents on the declarative vs imperative debate:

Yes all code is eventually imperative if you go down low enough. But your code should be as declarative as possible for your user. For example, the business department write a ticket for me to build a new feature. They essentially declare some functionality. I then take the imperative steps to code that on the front or back end. To do this, I will likely need to use some tooling. As far as the tooling is concerned, I am now the user/business department, I declare what I want in the tooling and the tooling should make it for me. The developers of the tooling then write imperative code to handle that. Maybe they rely on tooling to do so, in which case they become the user and so on. The cycle repeats itself recursively until it reaches the machine code at the bottom.

You could even take it further if you like in that the hardware engineers behind the processors are now the developers carrying out the imperative functionality who in turn carry out their job using electronic measuring tools which makes them users etc.

Basically, everything should be declarative by default for the intended user of the application unless they have specifically requested finer grained control. The user has enough to deal with getting their particular task done, they shouldn’t have to navigate between layers building the tools that they need to get their job done. Unless he’s working on something unique that requires it, the tradesman doesn’t want to go to the DIY store and give them instructions to build a drill, he just wants to buy a drill that meets his requirements so he can get on with his job.
For every person taking money out someone else has to put money in (which would be zero-sum) plus the miners taking their cut.
Right, but if the choice is between SBF paying $5bn or going to jail for 30 years...then what? The facts aren't clear, but SBF has money outside FTX.

Even if the loss was manageable, I suspect that Binance never intended to do any deal. They had absolutely no incentive to do so.
I seems harmless to me and lot like old school stories of entrepreneurs starting out doing odd little things that don’t scale or work super well until they hit on an idea that cliques for them.

I think the online culture around this is more annoying than the actual activity.

It just seems like a lemonade stand or washing cars to me.
Citigroup and Barclays cut hundreds of workers
fullscreen != fullwindow

Cmd+s in Arc just hides all the UI of the browser but does not change the size of the window frame. This is more akin to Chrome's add shortcut to desktop feature, except that it is easy to toggle on/off with a keyboard shortcut. So if you have a web app you want to just focus on, you can just do so.
The argument still stands, but can be rephrased if convenient: have you purchased olive oil or vehicle fuel using cryptocurrency?
People are ascribing brilliance and cunning to something that was simple self interest. FTT was risky, so they dropped it. What would they have done if FTT was risky and they didn't intend to acquire FTX? The same thing.
Vim Editor Ported to WebAssembly
This looks so cool! Unfortunately, my 16.1 11pro is crashing before an image can be generated, let me know if I can do anything to debug/test this.
They aren't available _anymore_ - they used to be more widespread, for instance the "Rayovac Renewal" line of rechargeable alkalines.

The quoted 25-cycle life seems like a deal-breaker compared to other battery formulations.
This is why AR is the holy grail for all of the companies in this space. It just augments reality instead of replacing it
I talked to a therapist about this once and he told me to volunteer or have kids. Haven't talked to a therapist again since those were dumb suggestions.

Settled into just enjoying my life and building for the future. Work out, have a dog, have a partner, build cool things. No more existential dread about purpose.
I love the way they do their 'pay wall' .. just btw
Aww man, no ipad version? Tsk what did I get this 16gb of ram for?
> have we ever had an asset type that is accessible to pretty much every single person in the world?

We still don't. Assets have value.
I still remember the pictures of real war injuries they showed to us during a first aid course at military. Such pictures should be shown way more. People have a way too clean conception of war, probably because of movies. It's dirty business with horrific consequences.
But then what will I put on my resume and how will I answer all those behavior questions in STAR format so I can pile a bunch of new tech into my next job and then rinse and repeat?
You don't want that, because for market capitalism to work, Meta has to suffer some consequences too.
I think people are forgetting that a severance package is not a legal requirement, and that this one is actually pretty generous. "I fucked up, here's what I can offer" is more or less what this letter is saying, but it's just not drawing the connection between the two parts in a way that makes sense to people.

People can disagree about whether the package is satisfactory, but that's completely beside the point. The severance package is the make good Zuckerberg is offering: it is an expense his company is paying when they do not have to.

It is the implied answer to the question "Oh yeah? How is he taking responsibility?" Argue about whether it's good enough, but it is an answer.
Yeah but we're dealing with the vestibular system here and other biological systems. It's apples to oranges.
Crypto is worth something in that it can be sold at a higher price. USD is worth something in that at the point where it isn't you already have much bigger problems
I do not think he is evil, just really disconnected from reality, which in all honesty most C-Levels are.

From his statement it sounds like he really believed people would accept the pandemic’s restrictions as a “new normal” and this would leap-frog humanity into the virtual world for good.

I am a highly cynical and pessimistic person and even I knew this wasn’t happening. People around the World were literally risking their lives and their loved ones for a little physical connection. Our generation, it turns out, is still very human centric and we are still ultimately social beings, not just social minds. Maybe kids born into YouTube, who are now coming of age, will be different, yet I still would not bet 11 thousand lives on it.
Isn’t Google revenue from more than search?

They have a full business suite, App Store, hardware sales, fiber internet, wireless cell and internet, and a server rental division.
Apple doesn’t patch older versions: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu...
Specifically a controversial opinion precisely within his academic field at a time when the topic mattered the most. Authoritarian societies will let you freely say non-controversial things too.

He is not just complaining about students but also the administration not acting to defend him. The article directly claims censorship occurred. Perhaps they mean self-censorship due to fear. It does still count, though perhaps some few isolated threats may seem a lot worse to the target than they seem to others (go figure).
My fetish is unnecessarily-superior firepower against people advocating for violence (and also their families)
First of all, the "collusion" Buterin is referring to is a game -theoretic term and is precisely defined. Based on your response I'm guessing you are not familiar with his blog post.

Calling something propaganda without being familiar with the source is probably the purest form of irony.
Crashes every time... am I doing something wrong? iPhone 11 Pro.
Now that I am rambling about etymology, another cool thing: We spell and say the plural of "wife" as "wives". This is because of how the voiced "e" changed the pronunciation of the unvoiced "f" to a voiced "v". ("v" and "f" are the same sound with the only difference being if you are engaging your vocal folds or not. Same with "z" and "s", "b" and "p", and some others).

The same happened with "knife" and "knives", and the pronunciation of "path" vs "paths" (the "s" sound is voiced, and caused the "th" to be voiced as well).
Neat! "All" you need on top of that for reverb cancellation is for the 2D array to be a surface enclosing the region of interest and for the way it itself mechanically interferes with the sound to be predictable. If you're a bit careful with where you send the sound then perhaps the top/bottom exits wouldn't matter too much.
I mean, I'm not even sure if it's legal to own aquatic marine mammals of that size, but I can see how that relationship would be meaningful.

I'd probably start with some marine biology classes. Then maybe you could find an internship or job at a large aquarium. After that you'd need to forge relationships with handlers and suppliers. Start reaching out and asking "hypothetical questions" about sourcing "for the aquarium" ;)

While you're trying to make the deal you'll need to setup a space for your new friend. You'll probably need a source for fish in bulk and maybe a free water source. Municipal water would be expensive.

Good luck!
> It just seemed to me like, “Well some people don’t like other people.” I didn’t even realize it was against the Jews.

This is one of the most fascinating parts of the Nazi rise to power to me. The sheer mundanity of it all. So many questions.

- what events today seem like ‘not a big deal’ but will go down in history like kristalnacht?

- Hitler is a byword for evil now, but at the time he was just another mundane talking head. We remember him as a frothing monster, but he was just a man, nothing special: Bavarian postmaster. Which talking head alive today will carry that legacy?

- Could it have been prevented? How do you stop the mundane effectively? Is it happening right now? Could we even tell?
I'd argue 20 years of mobile development has given us a more powerful Palm with a SIM card and apps including ICQ with encryption, Skype but viable on a handheld device, email with office apps on a small screen, networked games instead of single player, maps, destruction of privacy from use of spyware on apps reporting every swipe, view of contact one has.

I'd argue most enabling changes exclusive to mobile have come from video, which was already a concept, location, which was already a concept, real-time status (which is mainly Twitter and Twitter-likes) and bandwidth. The 'killer feature' at the outset being syncing music and a web browser with sufficient adoption to make saying no to IE 6's vision of the web, and Flash, viable.

But I'm keen to know what was barely imagined back in 2000. Is it shift to mobile devices for a consumption?
> But I think we'd have far bigger problems than VR in that case (like food scarcity).

If we’re looking at the big picture, mature VR/AR will help suppress social unrest. It will help with other issues like the scarcity of physical space.
I think broadcasting the intent to sell the FTT was the big mistake. It isn't in their interest to announce to the market their trading plans so, and to my knowledge they are not beholden to any regulation to do so, so why do it? Just slowly offload the risky asset.
Mainly agree except the squashing bit. Squashing means lost history, and you cant tell why a specific method or peace of code was written.
Ironically the only people who can hope to be forever employed are the execs running the ship into the ground.
I thought of a few interesting (speculative) use cases:

- Treat photosensitive epilepsy by filtering incoming visual stimuli

- Improve vision for cases not treatable with typical lenses

- Use eye-tracking to assist with communication for people with various disabilities

- Teleoperate robots in dangerous conditions

- Perform live translation with AR subtitles

- Learn everything there is to know about anything you look at - plants, animals, places, things

- Block ads/brands in real life

- Enhance learning of instrument/sport/activity

- Record and re-experience major life events in 3d space

- Communicate with true telepresence
> FTT was risky, so they dropped it.

Instead of quietly selling off their holdings over time, the CEO tweeted their intention to sell and triggered a death spiral.
Is ios 15 vulnerable? I assume it is, but I can't find a good answer.
"With the inevitable advancement of our civilization"

unless advancement is understood as necessarily attendant upon linear time unspooling, it is no ways inevitable
We do cache, but only for 10 mins.
AI answers questions on Sahil Lavingia’s entrepreneurship book in his voice
that's still 3 miles range without the foldout. also the hours of light are very optimistic at best. i'm assuming full output for 6 hours in a a row.

i've edited to reflect your numbers. still feels low, but: a model 3 long range has ~ 300 miles of range on an 85kwh battery, so 3.5 miles per kwh?
Not one Republican in the article you cited literally admits to wanting to get rid of Social Security.

Most of them mentioned in the article are apparently 8 Senate Republicans who are co-sponsors of the TRUST Act which would create Congressional committees to come up with plans to deal with federal programs that are heading towards insolvency, including Social Security. The act was also co-sponsored by 3 Senate Democrats, one Senate Independent, 2 House Republicans and 3 House Democrats. If that is "wanting to get rid of Social Security" (it isn't) then getting rid of Social Security is a bi-partisan effort.

Then you also have one Republican who thinks we need benefit cuts at some point to deal with insolvency, one who thinks Social Security should be moved to discretionary funding rather than non-discretionary, one who thinks all federal programs should need to be voted on every 5 years, and one who made comments about getting rid of Social Security in 2010 but who now says we need to raise the retirement age to deal with insolvency.
I have been reading up on

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

lately
It's such a strange phenomenon. My well-paid tech friends scoff when I say I pay $9.99 (annually, not monthly) for my little podcast app [0]. Meanwhile they have YouTube Premium. I don't get it.

[0] https://pocketcasts.com/plus/
Rosetta 2 is beautiful - I would love it if they kept it as a feature for the long term rather than deprecating it and removing it in the next release of macOS (basically what they did during previous architectural transitions.)

If Apple does drop it, maybe they could open source it so it could live on in Linux and BSD at least. ;-)

Adding a couple of features to ARM to drastically improve translated x86 code execution sounds like a decent idea - and one that could potentially enable better x86 app performance on ARM Windows as well. I don't know the silicon cost but I'd hope it wasn't dropped in the future.'

Thinking a bit larger, I'd also like to see Apple add something like CHERI support to Apple Silicon and macOS to enable efficient memory error checking in hardware. I'd be surprised if they weren't working on something like this already.
I looked into being an electrician at one point, and it turns out that it's not really something you can just "pick up". You need to pay to go to a trade school because most employers won't take you without some proof that you'll be a good investment for them. Then you need to work (at low pay) for a few thousand hours as an apprentice before you are even eligible to get your license. Most electrical companies do not hire part time because they have more work than employees.

There are occupations that are pretty well out of reach except to those who are just starting out or can afford an outright career change midstream, and unfortunately electrician is one of those.
Discussed at the time:

Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978841 - Jan 2016 (272 comments)
It's almost like TFA is about this very distinction. Whether or not you agree that "guys" should be used as such, it is in fact used as such in common english.

"how many guys have you had sex with?" implies maleness, though it would also depend quite a lot on context.

"what's up, guys?" is used in a gender-neutral way, therefore it is gender-neutral. That's an entirely descriptive, not prescriptive, observation.

Language, especially slang-y words, are more learned than taught, and neutral-guy is no exception. We humans use "guy(s)" as male in some context and neutral/unspecified in other contexts. No one told us to do so.

Whether we should consciously stop doing so is a judgement call. When someone actively makes that correction in conversation, that rubs some guys (including my bio-female partner) the wrong way.

Now, I think it's noble to attempt to use gender-biased language (such as neutral-guy), and eventually it will hopefully fade from usage, but it's still obnoxious to make the correction by interrupting conversation.
So every time I sell something on craigslist I need to worry about being drawn into some kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare because someone might claim I didn't fulfill my end of the bargain? Got it, I'll just throw out my old stuff going forward.

Why doesn't the government just do their job and catch and prosecute criminals?
Also has nodejs binding
I'm leaning towards self-hosting on this occasion, but Webflow does this funny thing where it doesn't let you self-host collections (like Blog posts).
Exactly: the food culture has adopted to chopsticks. Eating double cut pork chop with mashed potatoes using chopsticks would require substantially more effort than a fork and steak knife.

>> That said, I've also eaten uncut steak with chopsticks and a knife.

What kind/size steak? I said a very specific thing.
You don't need to be an ascetic. You just need not identify with or get attached to your money as if it were an end in itself or some talisman. Recall the biblical verses about it being easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven. Those passages aren't about being rich per se. Indeed, that same criticism is directed at the others listening who aren't rich. It is a spiritual condition that can afflict the poor as much as the rich.
and this is why banks are not allowed to use customer deposits for such activities.

And if they do, they must have equity value to back it up - aka, the bank's share holders lose value _first_ when shit hits the fan, before customer deposits. Then lastly, the gov't has put up guarantees on the deposits in case bank equity cannot cover customer deposits when shit hits the fan.

Crypto has none of the above - so basically, it is exactly what happened in the early days of the US financial system - i'm talking in the 1800's!
Playwright is the bee knees. At my last tech job I did maintenance on about 400 wordpress sites, and I used playwright to automate a bunch of monotonous clicky tasks normally done via the wordpress backend gui. It was a lot of fun and toward the end I got playwright running on heroku and made a gui so that my not very tech coworkers could upload a csv of different sites and then and a select a dropdown list of different scrapers, tests, etc.
When he describes what he does he's describing a 10x engineer. 10x doesn't mean you write 10x more code, it means you deliver 10x more problem solutions
Pretty much nothing of any particularly great value. Sounds about right.
I consider Reddit to be a form of web directory in a way.
Feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen a big bankruptcy.
Coinbase supports USDT

https://www.coinbase.com/how-to-buy/tether
https://archive.ph/iw9tM
What if you dedicated yourself to becoming enlightened as quickly as possible for the benefit of all beings?
Could've, sure, but then they'd be accused of insider trading, or trading against their users or something. With their volume would a death spiral not have happened anyway after all the downward force? You could also see it as them giving their users a chance to get out first.

Binance didn't benefit by announcing it either. The token dumped before they liquidated, and they didn't scoop up their competitor.
FYI, the website is a mess for me on Safari for iOS and iPadOS
This is also giving me Microsoft "independent advisor" vibes.
Turned out that BTC is not an inflation hedge.
Another required quality that might be surprisingly tricky to get right is durability. Sunglasses are notoriously brittle, and I can't for the life of me keep sunglasses in good shape for more than a few months. I don't know if there is any great solution besides fundamentally altering the form.
Reddit search is garbage. What people do is they search on google “headphones_model review reddit” on Google which shows them somewhat less fake information than the SEOd blog posts that would come up.

Sure maybe it would be good if Google prioritised these results by default but that would just result in reddit becoming more manipulated since whatever the default search shows will be gamed.
Indeed, see the _platform_*$VARIANT$Rosetta implementations in libsystem_platform.dylib.