skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comet strike of 12,800 years ago neatly wiped out north American camels, horses, giant sloths, mammoths, mastodons, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, the biggest bear and bison, cheetahs, and numerous other species, and neatly terminated all Clovis production. It would not be a stretch to guess it also wiped out most of the people making the Clovis points.

People living in southeast Asia 70,000 years ago were certainly sailing out of sight of land, because they reached and colonized Australia. It beggars belief to suggest they did not also go to other places in equally easy reach, and then others from there.

The article disgracefully trots out, once again, the "construction equipment" claim about the Cerutti mastodon site, despite its thorough refutation.

The article further vindicates Graham Hancock's complaints of vicious mis-representation. His projections are certainly wrong in myriad details, but he is totally sincere in advancing them. He has predicted, correctly, embarrassingly many recent developments historians laughably insisted were impossible; I would not be surprised at more. When you feel you need to lie about your opponent to discredit him, it tells us more about you than about him.

Genetic evidence, and notions of a more-or-less constant rate of accumulation of mutations, are on much shakier ground than the author suggests. That unreliability is unfortunate for people obliged to rely on it. We can still learn a great deal from it about the order of migrations, but not so much their dates relative to geological events.
There is no yoke. GNU is not RMS, but the people who make GNU software.
See also https://gnu.tools.
I suspect calculating the average RGB of each emoji and comparing the distances between the average RGB of subsections of the image would have resulted in better emoji choices and better output (simpler, too).

I mean, I get that maybe it’s not the point of this article, but I think the end result would have been a better ‘mosaic’.
Ask HN: Top Predictions for 2023
I'll try to go first:

- GPT4 starts unbelievable hype and VC money grab. Everyone will try to implement Copilot for X, either from scratch or on their existing platform.

- 60+ of crypto landscape slowly dies, unless it manages to create some strong real world usage.

- RUS vs UKR war still going stong-ish in June.
FYI: This framework uses rust doc-comments for essential functionality. It’s basically using the documentation tool’s JSON output programmatically during compile time.

Generally this kind of “too clever” programming tends to fail in creative ways, especially over longer periods of time.
heh, driving into Croatia. Hand over passports to the first guy, answer a few questions and we drive off. See guy in the rear-view yelling and waving his arms at us.

Turns out that immigration is at the booth, then the guy standing around ahead is the customs guy you're supposed pull ahead and stop for. Oops.

Looking forward to using some of the "EU traffic only" backroads crossings into Croatia that were inaccessible to me.
Maine, too.
Happy new year! I hope 2023 brings peace to your country.
Core of macos itself is immutable and won't let you even add kernel modules or enable/disable system services, and IIRC it lives on a separate partition that is R/O.
Yes but RISC-V is very risc-y by the criteria Mashey proposes here. The one thing that arguably doesn't completely fit is the multiple insn sizes, and even then real-world RISC-V implementations have only two, at 2 or 4 bytes. That's still very low compared to historical CISC. And I think the atomic instructions do RMW to memory, but they carefully avoid complicated address modes; they even dispense with register+immediate offset.

(The E variety of RISC-V is also a bit strange in having only 16 integer registers, but the rationale for that was supporting smaller chips and easier extensibility; it's still very clearly a load-store architecture where compute happens within registers. Arguably, compilers have also gotten better at staying within fewer registers and not spilling to memory. So "number of registers" as a criteria might have shifted a little bit.)
Anno Domini
Just to clarify in case this might be misunderstood: Stallman has no say in the Guix project.
I cut Amazon some slack during Covid, but once that was over and things were returning to normal, I was still seeing 4-5 day Prime shipping whereas I used to always get 2 days or less.

I saw a post recommending to complain to Amazon, so I did, via their online chat to a CS rep. They amended the shipment I complained about and I got it the next day, and since then, most of my shipments have been within 2 days again.

My advice: complain to Amazon. If everyone did this, it would make a huge difference. If you don't complain, you are basically telling them you're fine with whatever delivery times they want to give you.
I'm just holding out for a Jetpack Compose for iOS :)
Happy new year! Stay safe!

I wish you didn't have to go through all of this...
Peace, and not "the peace of the graveyards". May there be peace on just terms.
i read an opinion that inflation might actually grow because some will put up their prices during the switch.
On the downside, if you're a long-term tourist inside Schengen, your 90 day limit over last 180d rolling window now includes Croatia. Can't "earn" more days in Schengen by spending time in Croatia.

Hopefully nobody asks for proof of all my "visits" to Andorra ;)
Hi dang, I'm new here so I'd appreciate clarification.

Someone defending this privacy debacle on Hacker News is a Google employee on the Chrome team and was a business cofounder with the Stanford collaborator. That person not only failed to identify how very close they are to the topic, but also phrased their comment in a way that falsely represented distance from the topic. It seems to me essential for understanding their misleading comment to be aware of the factual context.

I thought I had phrased this factual correction in a way that was neutral and not a personal attack. My assumption was that the commenter may have violated Hacker News guidelines by being so misleading. What did I do wrong?

As for the downvotes, I see that I should have emailed you rather than adding a note in the comment. Nonetheless, could you see what's going on?
There can be side effects as with any procedure. In my experience of seeing about 10 patients go through it they had no issues. The visual result is worth any little side effects. Our brains are very good at adapting so in about 3-6 months you will be used to any minor changes if you notice anything.
or you need a vulture capitalist to come in and steal 49% of any good idea
That's popular, but that's not an immutable OS we're talking about that's just a hypervisor. Routers also work like that, but we're clearly not talking about them.
> No tool will have a standard library as big as TeX/LaTeX when it is created, if that is the bar you set for new software, then you will use TeX forever.

TeXmacs isn’t new software that was just created, though.
If you owned your home and someone made it easy for you to rent at high price, wouldn't you do the same?

Im a renter, not a homeowner.

But I didn't choose to move to SF as a settler when it was a polluted mess of a city with days you couldnt go out, and high crime.

I wanted to move to opportunity.. When incomes are high and the city was better (it is not anymore)

Id like for prices to go down but I dont blame those that benefitted from just being there. Instead I look at the enablers, there is plenty of blame to go around, and the homeowner is last in that list. Prices are not High due to just prop13.

Miami, NY, Boise, Nashville and a bunch of other cities have housing prices that are going for the moon relative to what its been. They have no prop 13

40% of land on 280, between SF and Palo Alto is undeveloped farmland.

Cows dont pay property taxes
I’m getting too old to stay up until midnight nowadays
There is I think a little bit of chronological confusion that I will try to clear up. My understanding of the consensus rough chronology is as follows:

* Populations move into Beringia maybe 20-25kya. (My knowledge of this date is particularly hazy).

* Populations start moving from Beringia into the Americas. This date is highly contested, but it's accepted that this occurred at least 15kya.

* Clovis culture starts up around 13kya, ends around 11.5kya.

* Younger Dryas starts up 12.8kya, ends around 11.5kya.

So genetic evidence suggesting that peopling starts from around 17kya isn't inconsistent with mainstream dates for peopling of Americas, although it would mean being suspicious of sites much older than 17kya.

> but the really interesting question from here then is who were they and what happened to them?

My interpretation of the evidence... they became Clovis culture.
I've been running the latest version of macOS and I've never had to reboot to enable camera permissions for any app. I haven't had to do it on fresh install or upgrade. The only thing I've had to do is close the app and open it again after giving it camera permission on first install. Subsequent updates seem to keep that permission enabled...
I'm sure some of the oddity of how the US regulates interstate commerce is related, too. Consider how the regulation of insurance and car sales have basically stalled all similar attempts to enter that market.
I'm saying the opposite: in the case of children, it's not about "attainable" vs "non attainable", as there's no sense of a "consenting child". The mere pedo desire is desire for a subject unable to consent, that is pretty much equivalent to a rape desire.
I thought mixing Rust with C was supposed to be safe?
Well, crazygringo, let me issue & control your money for you then. Nobody said that they are forced. UK didn't adopted the Euro. It wouldn't have been so easy walking off in that case. I'm not so sure about the "free to leave" in the future part, considering the high cost that that would entail. And, in any case, in Croatia's case the advantages could very well outweigh the disadvantages.

Curious what do you think of the "West African CFA franc"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_CFA_franc
> Reached out briefly for help on the IRC with no response, same with the guix-help mailing list.

IRC (on libera) is pretty active, maybe try again.

I see your mail on help-guix[1], but there's no mention of sudo looking up the system. I'm not familiar enough with btrfs to help here, but there are many btrfs enthusiasts in the community, who could probably help you here.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2022-12/msg0012...
From personal experience it's at least 1%. I had a Kickstarter project 10 years ago that had approx 6,000 supporters and 50 were simply awful human beings. Everyone else was ok. Anonymity brings out the worst in some people.
Southwest had an awful week, no doubt. But while it is easy to jump on the bandwagon and point fingers at a train wreck, at the end of the day LUV has a market cap approximately equal to United and American combined, and just a touch below Delta's. While the 3 majors have all declared bankruptcy at some point in the past 20 years, LUV never has. It also recently re-instated its dividend, which the majors haven't done yet. The majors each rely on a mini-monopoly by dominating 3-4 hubs each where they have enormous pricing power (except when a JetBlue, Spirit, etc comes in to compete) while LUV is often reactionary, operating a large number of unique, convenient routes that are underserved by the majors and the hub-and-spoke model.

Of course LUV should spend some money and modernize their systems but a) there's probably not a single software developer who understands the full scope and difficulty of such a project (meaning you should dismiss any comment that sounds like "why don't they just...") and b) without hubs, what they are already executing every single normal day is likely a lot more complicated than what the majors ever attempt.

This isn't an excuse, or a waving off of LUV's serious issues. It's perspective, I guess.
EEP 42 is not implemented in mainline OTP. If it were, the proposal would likely link to the implementation, and the EEP index in EEP 0 would show what version it was first included in: https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0000

If your application is using something like this, you're running a modified beam (which is fine; my professional experience is on a modified beam where we added a process_info option to drop all messages in the queue of a given process, and to allow for messages to be added to the front of the queue, neither of which would be acceptable upstream, but both of which were super handy for us)
> the resulting damage was huge (bankruptcies, people's lives' ruined), still having repercussions ot this day.

same thing happened in other countries in eastern europe. it was a mess, but to me it showed that people don’t really understand what they’re signing.
The peg usually is in the period just before the switch to the euro, if the period is longer then invariably the peg breaks and the local currency will slide, sometimes quite a bit in a very short period.
The ISS is completely self-sufficient for water and air. No country on Earth is fully self-sufficient in what it uses and is dependent on supplies shipped to it from elsewhere.

The word colony in the sense of space exploration and other extreme habitats means permanent occupation and exploitation of the resources there.
Just "visit Andorra" a lot. Not-Schengen, but no borders with France or Spain.
Ye gads! I can't live with a browser that hides the bookmarks bar. (-:

Among my first steps during setup is to pin that thing visible. Then, I place just the few most relevant folders and links there. Whenever I start to struggle with whether something belongs in-view on the bar, in one of the bar's visible folders, or in overflow, I know it's time to re-evaluate my categories and whether I some of those links are no longer necessary.

Sadly, I still end up with heap of "just in case I ever need them" bookmarks in "Other Bookmarks". To be fair, many of those are imported from other browsers over the years and from before I really started my bookmarks bar strategy.

To be even more fair…their are too many "Other Bookmarks" for me to not feel daunted at the idea of trying to weed through them.

. o O ( Yep: I'm a bookmark hoarder; there might be something I "NEED" in there. )
I watch a lot of ancient history shows on PBS, etc. There are many groaners in there about "sophisticated astronomy", like when some ancients managed to point a building at the summer solstice. Another groaner is bleating about "advanced engineering" when talking about a large mound or pile of rocks.

One of the dumbest was the claim that the close fits of rocks in South America "so tight a knife won't fit in the cracks" must have been done by space alien technology. This silliness persisted until an archaeologist showed how to make such a joint in about half an hour by banging and rubbing rocks together.

What the ancients did do very well with, however, was manipulating the natural world to their benefit. I.e. making gardens, cultivating plants, managing livestock, etc.

Edit: for those who are wondering, the altitude and azimuth of the sun at the solstice can be accurately determined simply by erecting a vertical pointed stick, and having a bit of patience. That's it.
Also, no non-competes in California.
I'll get upset about this when we finish discussing all the times The Bible has predicted the end of the world.
> Here as far as I understand the fact that TeX is a Turing-complete language makes it impossible to write a converter for TeX.

Converters whose source, target, or both are Turing complete languages are... not uncommon in computing.
> A lot of people contact support half-expecting that they'll get fucked around, and you see a complete 180 in their tone as soon as you offer a decent solution to their problem.

I occasionally get rude customer service emails at my startup, and in nearly every case the person apologizes after receiving a personal reply (from the founder, in my case) within 24 hours.

In many cases, the customer actually becomes an advocate for us. Once they understand that what they want (to be able to use our text enhancement within Kindle/gdocs/iBooks/Nook) is not something that my startup can do on its own, they will offer to reach out to the relevant BigCo and ask for them to build an integration.

Basically, people who will take the effort to reach out to complain to me are more likely to be willing to reach out to another company as well.
This is where I start to give credit to a lot of Mars conspiracies. I know that the cameras on the Viking probes were tested and calibrated on Earth to give accurate colors, the probes themselves had color calibration chips on their hulls that the cameras could use for testing and recalibration, yet for some reason the sky and ground on mars was always shown as red hued (like in the 80s Total Recall movie), or maybe the sky was a little yellowish - until it wasn’t! Suddenly one day Mars had a blue sky and most of the rocks are grey, and only the soil is red. Not any real explanation I’ve ever heard, just oh by the way the sky on Mars is blue, in other news…
Dumbo, Italy and Greece had debt problems before the Euro even existed.
I think you are conflating things here. The gentleman who came up with the polio vaccine is the "crazy" person who decided not to accept the status quo. That polio should be literally a death sentence. I am not saying the hard working people who administered the vaccine should not be acknowledged, they should be but we cannot equate administering the vaccine to inventing the vaccine.
We should all be reading more fiction
Needed saying. Chapeau!
adopting a currency has nothing to do with territory expansion. a country can easily adopt USD.
You're conflating S-expressions and the DSL.

Your attempt to set up "ideologically driven" as an obstacle to "general purpose" is baffling, because we've gone out of our way to make extending Guix close to trivial: via channels, through package transformations, by augmenting the Guile load path to load any modules you might have (with "-L", "GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH", or even just the Guile load path variables).
>We also didn’t talk at all about how different workloads affect different branch predictors. Predictor performance varies not only based on table size but also based on which particular program is run.

One of my favorite little tradeoffs around this topic is around power usage.

This is because, in many cases, adding more hardware (generally) increases total power usage. I.e. adding more execution units makes the processor faster at the expense of increased power usage. Good branch predictors, however, are very notable exception to this rule because even though the increase instantaneous power usage over a small delta-t, over a much larger one they tend to save a LOT of power by avoiding costly mispredictions. This means that, somewhat counterintuitively, adding more hardware decreases total power, which is really cool!
> ECMA wasn’t a thing yet

ECMA is much older than JS.

ECMAScript wasn’t a thing yet, I think you mean.
Good news for Croatia.

To Romanians, the ongoing stonewalling is perceived as racism against Gypsies; fear that the under-documented Gypsies of Romania and Bulgaria will flood Western Europe, who already has had enough of the documented Gypsies migrating to their cities so far. And when, after years of poorly-founded claims that the Romanian external border was leaky, Austria brings up their brand new, never heard before reason "poor treatment of Austrian businesses", it's seen as making up random stuff, cynically.
That's not true. They're merely stating existing law and policy, nothing to do with Croatia.
The same procedure as last year?
Comet strike?
My July 4th fireworks show was rained out this year, so the explosives sat on the shelf until Christmas Eve, when we set them off in the snow and subzero cold. Fireworks in the snow are magical. So, I truly was watching July 4th fireworks last week.

But I feel you on the instant passage of time thing. I blink twice, and it's Sunday freekin' evening again.
My daughter in law who's Swiss introduced me to this. I can't remember but I think it was on New Years Eve. I remember before VHS tapes they were quite a few shows that were always aired around the same holiday time and we all watched them together (with commercials!). Fun times but like catching your new favorite song on the radio those times are gone.
IIRC, in the case of Poland people had mortgages pegged to the Swiss Franc.
A central bank can only peg to one currency.
Slava Ukraini!

Best wishes and Good Hunting from a Brit looking for revenge for the attack on my local town (Salisbury). Good people here are working night and day to support the fight against Russia and I hope we see continued progress in 2023.

Victory can't come soon enough!
As someone who uses this off an on amount, I was really disappointed when I opened the app to the new web app. It was slow, janky, required me authenticating multiple times (biometric then username and password). I'm now looking for alternatives because "as fast as possible" is an important feature for me. I keep the app on my android home row, not because I use it a lot, but because when I need it, I need it instantly. Massive downgrade for the user imo, this only benefits the developer.
So, essentially Phonegap/Cordova again? I always liked that model. I’m not entirely clear why it fell out of favor.
Pedantry is no trouble; we both allow detailed location, so there's no excuse for different results! It would also be bizarre to show a different long-term forecast to two people that are 1-2 miles apart (esp. in the Bay Area, where weather is relatively stable).
Sure, you technically have the right to file a lawsuit, possibly in small claims court. The question is whether exercising your rights leaves you better off as a practical matter. Like, there's a similar issue with most credit-card based disputes with merchants, where you technically can file a chargeback, but practically speaking you'd rather not get blacklisted from Amazon/Uber/whatever so that's off the table completely.
Some people have to go through hell for the rest of us to hope for a good new year. I hope you are able to make the best of it, and that we can greet each other in a peaceful setting one year from now.

"This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren." - Zelensky

Slava Ukraini!
Breakincludes: Fixincludes in GCC
Renters have abismal rights when it comes to property disputes. As a class, renters are more likely to be living paycheck to paycheck, they are less likely to be connected to government or local community, and are dependent on their current landlord/credit agencies to secure shelter in the future.

If you are paycheck to paycheck, a lawyer is a crazy expense at the outset. If suing your landlord means that you are out of a home… and their mention to the credit bureau or landlord friends kills your next lease. Then you probably aren’t going to be able to stay around long enough for the court case to play out.
I used to work in food service. I didn't keep track, but I don't think it was 3-5%. More like a tenth that. Maybe it's just coffee, and so even a great majority of the really terrible people could manage to pay and leave without exposing their terribleness.
The state of proliferating sites that won't let you access them because you're not using an "approved" browser with JS and cookies enabled, and hiding behind the "security" excuse to do so. Ironic that I can't even read an article about HTTP in 2022 because of that racket.

Thanks, Cloudflare.
> No, the EU started as a trade alliance and evolved into the bureaucratic behemoth it is today.

This a very limited reading of History. The main purpose of the coal and steel community was to make war between France and Germany impossible by making both countries dependent on each other. Read the Schuman declaration and the first Rome treaties, they are not that complicated. It always was political.