skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper (not linked per standard journalistic practice) is really interesting and highly readable. It's "A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364318023_A_Canaani...

Here's their transliteration (brackets denote damaged letters)

ytš ḥṭ ḏ lqml ś'[r] [w]zqt

glossed as

ytš root out, jussive mood (indicating command)
ḥṭ tooth/tusk (metonymically, comb)
ḏ this
l direct object marker
qml lice
ś'[r] hair
[w] and
zqt beard

I thought it was cool that the third letter that looks like a W is so close to its modern form, shin ש.‎
Recreational golfing is much more relaxing. I can chase personal goals while enjoying every minute of it.

We're all aware of Tiger blowing out a knee, but some stories coming out of the LPGA with pros living with excruciating pain from a relatively early age is just absurd:

Michelle Wie's interview this year with the statement of not being able to pickup her own child at times did not make sense.

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/05/26/lpga-michelle-wie-w...

There are a few more golfers in the LPGA with back injuries in their 20's, knowing they only have one back (J. Korda this week for example).

I saw a Seve Ballesteros documentary about his severe back pains on VHS and have fortunately avoided pushing past the breaking point for a few extra yards.

As a technology native, golf has always felt amazing with both hands. Even my glutes grew up my back without trying as well... Provided you know your own body :)

Effortless energy is a breath of fresh air. Not many sports have that.
Firefox reader mode made it readable for me.
I find most aspects of social media silly, and combining it with a git repository especially so. But I still don't understand what it is that people want here - to use the government (as Libertarians would say, men with guns) to force Bloomberg to sell their services to that financial analyst?
i think w3c really missed out by not specifying a sarcasm tag for html.
I see strong support for crypto “assets” in the $0 range.
TIL posting Saturday evening is the strategy for views…

Does no one on hn have a social life? I’d expect Saturday night to be the worst night!
Yeah, this begs the obvious question - who are startups for? Sure, people love ownership and the sense of mission/purpose, but if the argument is that startups are only for people that love mission/purpose so much that they're willing to get shafted on compensation and shafted on quality of life (in order to make other people rich), then it sounds like the issue is with startups and not the employees who are smart enough to see they're getting a raw deal.
Bernie Madoff got away with it for 40 years BECAUSE he was making money for the powerful, not despite it.
To me, the definition of Agile is the Agile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org/

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

If this doesn’t describe what you’re doing, then it’s not agile, and it makes no sense to blame agile for what is just a busted process that someone has told you is “agile” without actually understanding what the term was intended to mean.

I’ve worked in large companies where none of this is true, but they called it agile.

It’s not.
A large part of making this work, requires basically creating a virtual machine, ALA SWEET16, which is what Woz needed to do to get parts of BASIC to work.

But, that will _never_ be as fast as hand coded 6502 assembly unless compilers/etc get a _LOT_ smarter. I came to the realization many years ago, that while the 6502 and the software written for it is amazing, its fundamentally incompatible with modern software development. Thats because in order to create high performace 6502 application three major tenents of software development _must_ be violated.

1: No self modifying code
2: Avoid global variables
3: Use structured programming rather than goto spaghetti.

On the 6502 there are provable reasons why not using self modifying code, globals (frequently on the zero page), and goto's vs function calls are slower. When looking at cycle times, sometimes its just a cycle here/there being saved, but you have to realize that saving a cycle on an instruction can frequently be anywhere from 20-50% faster just on that instruction. Sometimes one can afford to run 10x slower, but on a processor running at just a few Mhz (or 1Mhz in many cases) that can be the difference between being able to realistically solve a problem in realtime or creating a batch job.
A reminder that whatever else we might want to say about the comparative safeguards of the US and Indian "lawful intercept" systems, access to Indian servers for the US IC is fully automatic. You can't improve your resilience against the NSA by offshoring your data; offshore is where the NSA's authority is at its zenith.
The free market does not address externalized costs, by definition. If you don't price those costs in artificially via legislation, they will end up systematically exploited. The business that can externalize more of their costs will always win -- they will have a better product for a better price.

This is why things like river fires are no longer common.

I will agree that congress is bad at picking winners. They should focus on prohibiting damaging practices.

Although, congress didn't pick ethanol because they thought it was a winner. They picked it because it propped up farmers.
Not really. cc will still compile a single source file. So will rustc.
I'm sorry that has been your experience with agile. That doesn't sound very good. In my experience, if agile rituals take more than three hours per 2-week sprint, something is not aligned with the team or the project. Maybe the necessary skills aren't there. Maybe the team doesn't trust each other. Perhaps the project plan is not aligned with business goals, etc. None of these problems can be solved by adding more agile rituals.

How I prefer to run it:

- 1h per week alternating between estimating and planning

- (optional) 1h per sprint for backlog refinement

I like to keep two sprints worth of work in the backlog. More than that, the spec will change too much, and you will re-estimate. When a project has just started, or the requirements have become understood differently, to get four weeks of backlog work may require additional refinement. I typically do the bulk of this refinement myself (as a tech lead), and I try to avoid asking the team to have any extra meetings beyond what I mentioned above.

It can be good to have retros sometimes, but it's better to have a team that feels safe to share and discuss issues constructively without a mediator.

I'd also like to advocate for 1:1s. We are all humans and social organisms. Ideally, these 1:1s are 80% unrelated to a work task.
You're right, disinformation is the currently preferred. I guess it still sounds strange to me outside of a Soviet context.
I agree with all of this, but I will say that startups can be great for fresh college grads. Not every fresh grad can land a FAANG job, and a startup might be more willing to take a chance on a smart kid with minimal experience. Once there, they'll likely wear multiple hats: everything from coding to infra to even maybe some customer support. Drinking from a firehose can be a great way to learn a lot fast, and likely with more breadth and opportunity to try new things than being SDE Level I on a 10 person team working on a single widget for a multi-widget dashboard for one of dozens of products for 'Big Corpo'.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that a 20-something also has the energy and ability to take risk. A startup folding when you're 25 with no dependents or mortgage is much different than taking that risk as a 40 y/o married father of 2.

As someone in that latter category... nah, dawg, I'll take the steady paycheck and the reasonable work hours.
I needed a lot more context for this. It’s apparently the creation story of a song that was released 35 years ago. The story on its own is pleasant but unfortunately meaningless not having ever heard of the song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_o'_the_Times#Track_listin...
Disclaimer: Defining and using a narrow definition agile IMO is a useless rabbit hole.

And the big names in tech also purport to use agile and spend maybe an hour every Friday or Monday doing "agile" type meetings. Which are we talking about here?

If it helps, add to my above post that I'm using "agile" to mean the philosophy of defined sprints with stand ups, planning, and retrospectives to help execute a larger, changing roadmap. There are many many other rules people can choose to add, but my experience across many companies is that this is the shared core in practicality.

When people say agile, 95%+ of the time they don't mean whatever Pivotal Labs is using for a standard. I've practiced "agile development" at F10, big tech, and under 250 person startups, and no one has ever referenced a strict spec definition like that, not even the F10 which basically said "here's some detailed guidelines some use, take what works". So what's the relevance of this strict definition?
Tweets aren't journalism. Nor are posts on 4Chan, SMSes, etc.
https://archive.today/GjR8N
Running these two lines in the browser console removes the circle and restores the cursor:

document.querySelectorAll('.container-mouse,.mouse-pointer,.circle-path').forEach(n => n.remove());
document.getElementsByTagName('main')[0].style.cursor = 'initial';
People have been saying stuff like this about Bankman-Fried for days now. It's an easy story to tell. When it's for real, the source will be better than a "source familiar with the matter", and it'll run somewhere more credible than Cointelegraph.
I don’t really know anything other than Distraction Driven Development. Between being waterboarded with Slack, email, and noise on both about everything else, and walls of all team meetings… only the loudest, quickest, and shiniest things get done. The carefully groomed backlog is irrelevant in a crisis, and in the realm of devops it seems that’s the norm.

I’m certain that I am part of that problem. My neurotype seeks, even demands novelty. My role requires creative work among a stream of incidents. The not quite platform team thing. I’m finding myself working late and at odd times to get creative work done and it’s not sustainable.

The promise of agile is to fix this. The reality is most people can’t, won’t, or simply don’t say “no, there’s no cutting in line. It goes to triage then the back of its respective line.”

I don’t think Distraction is a good thing per se, but it feels inevitable from where I sit. Agile eschews planning, or embraces not sticking with the plan as state changes. I’ve not really worked in a waterfall environment, but if it’s agile’s antonym then I’m in.
I thought there were going to be Atari 2600 games to teach programming concepts but this is pretty close so upvote
But if you fit to a infinitely parameterized ML-boosted quantum inverted hypersonic cosine it’s quite clear that it’s nothing more than a strong buy signal ready for a 125x breakthrough prior to the next decadium /s
> its not just terrifying, it is immeasurable sadness for most, and probably psychosis for some.

Much like now.
Oh ya! I’ve seen his stuff before. Thanks for the reminder!

I still wish there were more sites/foundries with licenses like his, but helpful nonetheless!
The cursor issue was the single biggest takeaway from the article, positive or negative. The headline should have been about it.
Securities Commission Addresses FTX Statement on Bahamian Withdrawals
It’s not obvious to me - what would you suggest?
I agree that there's no use defining things so narrowly, but I think your experience about the meeting load involved in "doing agile" is atypically low for the industry in general.
According to the README on Github main page for the project, you need to provide the -m flag when working with HTML.

— The tool parses XML by default, which is much stricter than HTML. Hence the error you are seeing (in HTML5, one can omit various close tags and the HTML is still 100% valid — that's what you are encountering here)

HTH
By their logic, startups are for (primarily) white people who come from well off families or otherwise well off individuals that can afford to subsidize and supplement the investor's cash infusion.
No, it wouldn't, because it turns out that malls are not actually an important part of the fabric of American life, or even commerce, and it would be dumb to invest more importance in them. Mostly, the only reason anyone ever talks about malls anymore is to make arguments about who should be allowed to use the n-word on Twitter.

(I'm probably being hyperbolic, but I'm sorely tempted to test the hypothesis with the search bar below.)
Thank you for this writeup. Having done some work on deduplication/matching systems, my experience (as with many things in data science) is that there are a lot of things consider and there is no single best solution. Hopefully you are able to keep up with this series, because I think it will be very helpful to many people.
Switches don't care about TCP.
Honestly, at my last company, in my first team we reserved the fridays afternoons for demo and short formations (the most complex, that also resonated the most with me, explained how and why the network architecture was made, while some were as basic as explaining how to make good PR).

It was way more productive than with my second team where we used one hour every two week for the retro. In big company, the time you actually spend on understanding how everything work is never really lost.
Agile isn't just a workflow or philosphy. It's a way of life. No one has ever ben sucessful without triaging first.
It’s also important for people to be able to participate in the well-being of themselves, their family, and their community. A medicine garden allows for such participation, and it’s something we lost when our medicine was industrialized.
Keep in mind that corporations are artificial legal constructs. If the government wants to put rules on companies with thousands of employees, that's very different from putting rules on people.
We tried punishing drug users as strongly as possibly. It didn't work, and had a ton on bad consequences. Now we are trying different types of leniency. I'm sure it will work better.

I notice that you did not cite any citations for articles against leniency. Really, it's difficult to prove one way or the other since no solution has worked well yet.
The guideline is there specifically because these things are super annoying. So annoying that talking about them can eat up the whole thread, as this thing is threatening to do.
I find these extreme enviroments fascinating, in this case polar days and nights (months long each). May I introduce you to Cecilia Blomdahl [1] who documents her life on Svalbard.

[1]: https://www.tiktok.com/@sejsejlija?lang=en
And Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin.
It's not unspecified "doctors and researchers". It's the overwheming consensus among medical professionals. The CDC recommends masks, as I linked. So does the WHO,

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cor...

And so does the European CDC,

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/using-face-m...

etc. etc. The picture is very clear here.

And, again, the lab evidence is incredibly supportive. We know that N95s filter viral particles. It's possible in theory that that doesn't end up mattering - say if people never wear them right, or if they end up taking more risks because they think they are safer - but that seems unlikely when other evidence says otherwise, and the experts concur.
Your current company is doing it wrong - this does not sound like Agile at all. Another point to remember is that Agile is for Product Management and Stakeholders - its not meant to be the fastest, most productive developer pleasing method at all.

It's meant to build cross functional teams of people who can produce predictable amounts of output such that people in Product Management can build roadmaps and concoct release schedules.

Not to mention, once a company has successfully implemented Agile (and its inherent trade-off of dev speed vs. predictable minimums) that company may now replace any person on any team with any other person. Nobody wants to say it but Agile is about hiring low rate contractors instead of expensive FTE resources.

An often overlooked part of Agile is that if you're an experienced dev who's also lazy is that this method provides a lot of cover to hide in. It's about predictable minimums. A clever dev with some talent can work about 4h/day and still outwork some of the less clever cohorts who may work many more hours.

Also, you seem very angry and thats a sign you probably care a great deal about what you're doing at work. Maybe its worth looking for something else to do where things operate more to your liking? Stress really is a killer and few things are as stressful as hating the way your job works every day of your life. Reading your story I think I'd be angry too in your position.

Finally, repeat after me here - "Agile is for MANAGEMENT - Agile is NOT for developers". The Happy Agile Developer is one who's figured out how the game works and uses that understanding to work less.
At my startup we're trying to pay senior devs $150k/yr with no bonuses with stupid vesting plans (if any equity at all) while the CEO is making $500k a year.
That's a depressing Wikipedia hole to fall down…
Aircraft use AM on VHF because it is still the most efficient mode.

Unlike FM it doesn't suffer from the "Capture Effect" so you can tell if a weaker signal is trying to get through on a busy channel. And unlike FM it doesn't suffer from the Threshold Effect where weak signals suddenly disappear into the noise.

And of course Digital modulation is ruled out by both of the above considerations.

The only mode which is more efficient (for weak signal communications) is Single Sideband, and that can't be used in aircraft due to Doppler shift.

It is true that local reception sites can help, but they are not possible over water. Perhaps one day satellite systems might finally replace aircraft AM. The problem at present is the cost for fitting to light aircraft.
They forgot the step where you add your website to cloudflare to cache it. That away it propagates across their servers. Plus protects from ddos.
Steal money from people. Make yourself and your VC crook buddies like Sequoia rich. Board a private jet to Dubai. I mean why not? If you drop morals, this is a great gig.
Why do people flee to Dubai? It's my understanding they almost never naturalize non-arabs, so any fugitive would forever be on perilous grounds.

Honestly the dude could be in a boat god knows where in the Caribbean, slipping in and out of international waters to the point where no one knows where he is.
Yeah but you can do that with CSS, you'd just never want to as it's too verbose and a pain to change en-masse compared to abstracted classes. Those concerns don't go away with Tailwind - they're just less trouble to type.
>This is why things like river fires are no longer common.

And this is because of US Congress or because of State Governments?

Most regulation around rivers, and other such things are State Government controlled, not federal

I fully support federalism, I fully support State governments doing regulations that are sensible to the people, and conditions of states.

I reject the idea it needs to be a national policy or that such a policy is even possible with out being completely corrupted and authoritarian. Nor do I believe such a regulation is envisioned by the powers granted to the US Congress in our Constitution
Maybe so, but it's varied across size and industry and matches with my friends experience in other broad areas. So I guess let's reframe: what is my meeting load estimate (the 4 hour a week high side) missing? How does that get to 4 hours a day, and if not there, what is the maximum?

To be clear, that's not to say that other meetings can't be used, but that they are not part of the "agile" process. I can easily imagine a dev ending up with 4 hours a day, but that's more related to company size and process. Things like design reviews, meeting with other teams, not being able to quickly find the right point of contact, using meetings to find out you have the wrong person, not defining clear agendas, inviting too many people to meetings, and so on. I'd bet some of these are affecting OP, but again, this has nothing to do with the style of development planning/process.
I am using github actions with a local runner. It simply has a API via post for /finetune (which takes multipart file upload). I have not yet deployed it, as it was a weekend project. The first task was actually fine tuning GPT-J-6B
Federal prison has maximum reduction of sentence of 15%. No parole. A 15 year sentence, if she gets that, will have her serve 12+ at a minimum, no less.
You probably answered the cognitive benefit aspects of exercise as well :/

I find the best part of exercise being not feeling like exercise at all and being well outside of my normal operating parameters.
Symbolic Regression is NP-hard
I believe the iPhone has such a receiver but it’s not enabled.
A broad band of spectral components generated by the Raspberry Pi's clock generator because it has a lot of phase noise? Or do you just mean that in general that many circuits that generate clock signals can have phase noise but that you don't have any idea about this one in particular?

He doesn't seem to be using a mixer, so I don't think you'll get any spurs caused by mixing products in this case.

I'm no expert obviously but I'd think the phase noise of a PLL driven from a quartz crystal would be negligible.
I hope you're right, and it's always easy to automatically replace Tailwind with vanilla CSS, but I'm not so sure anymore
They take bribes in the form of local business investment. If you can dump a few hundo k a year into the economy, they’ll let you get away with almost anything
Mac Users Deserve Better – 7 Unacceptable Problems with macOS
Letting people walk around malls, during their heyday, was just as important or more important than letting them walk around public streets. And that importance was used for a lot of bad discrimination of various kinds. Saying "no, everyone is allowed in the hallways unless they start breaking the law" does not invest more importance in them, it just helps everyone have fair access.

Related: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-skyway/
You may be surprised at shell script knowledge among devs.
Exact and near duplicate articles should have similar or identical word frequency distributions. Maybe that can be used as a blocking criterion somehow. Although it might not be any faster to compare word frequency distributions than to compare dense low-dimensional embeddings.
would be a fair point if the releases weren't actually significant changes
I mean, while functionally true, the lived experience for a Dubai millionaire versus a typical immigrant labourer. They can afford to make expenditures to make their life easier. Which is good - it increases the chance they eventually slip up.
The naming is enabled by the way S-expressions work and aren't merely convention. Handling such syntax in non-parenthetic languages is difficult because of the overlap with the other meaning of those infix operators in the language. For example, in F#, if I have a function named `string->number`, then the parser doesn't know if I mean `(string) - (>number)`, `(string-) > (number)`, `(string) -> (number)`, or the function `string->number`.
Same person, but on YouTube for those staying away from Tiktok

https://youtube.com/c/CeciliaBlomdahl