skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for the sake of the Science we should try random regulation too. Maybe one state could use USDA regulations and another could use whatever ChatGPT comes up with and we A/B test.
> However, the discovery of Tocharian changed this situation: Tocharian was the easternmost of all early IE languages, yet was a centum language! Thus, the theory had to be abandoned. We now think that neither centum nor satem languages form particularly closely-related groups; rather, the various groups each independently underwent centumisation or satemisation

I have some questions about this:

1. If the various language groups underwent independent centumization or satemization, it seems like that should have happened somewhat differently to different groups.

1a. Are there satem languages that didn't lose the /n/ in their word for 100?

1b. Are there centum languages that merged k into ḱ rather than the other way around?

1c. (Anything else along these lines? You're the expert.)

2. Why does the geography of Tocharian matter to the hypothesis that centum / satem reflects an early split between "proto-centum" and "proto-satem"? People move; it would be easy for the centum languages to divide from the satem languages and then rearrange their own geography.[1] Tocharian is spoken in a region known for its extreme mobility and ethnic turnover. Just to the west of the Tarim basin there was a region that spoke Greek ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan ); what does this tell us about how and where the division between Hellenic and its sister branches occurred?

Similarly, the Indo-Iranian languages are currently distributed with Indic languages to the east of Iranian languages, but they used to be the other way around.

[1] It would also be easy for the division to take place just as described, one time early on, but without affecting some places that are to the east of a particular longitude. Happens all the time.

A distribution like this:

ooxxxxoxx
oxxxoxxxx

tends to suggest that if the X-O split was a unitary event, the O people must have been overrun by X people afterward. But a distribution like this:

kkkkkkkkk
kkkkkssss

says nothing of the kind. That could easily be a unitary split that just remained in place over time.
The Anti-Semitism stuff is just a propaganda line invented by Vladislav Surkov (Russia’s Goebbels).

Like all good propaganda, it contains a kernel of truth that’s expanded and dilated until it becomes nonsense.

Believing in generalised Anti-Semitism and Nazism in Ukrainian society is like believing Saddam Hussein funded 9/11. It’s just a mind trick.
I can't imagine anyone would be able to answer this definitively without knowing the country you're in, the state you're in if you're in the US, and a copy of your employment contract.
Yes, but the alternative in my case probably would have involved suicide. Unfortunately, that's not something you can tell prospective employers, as an explanation for taking a break. (I'm not at all suicidal these days, so worry not.)

My suggestion there is to think of a plausible fib that won't raise flags. You could make up a consulting jaunt or maybe a dying relative you had to take care of. Or just say you needed a sabbatical. This might seem unethical, but my read is that employers really _want_ to see you "act normal", which in our society means lying about certain things in a professional context.
Buy APPL, GOOG & BTC and sell them at the appropriate times?
> A mindset of technology being the means, not the end, is uncomfortable.

Really? That's pretty funny. How could anyone miss this lesson who has ever used a computer to do things.
Mood Gym
This are good models for roughly continual usage of the equipment, but they don't model the use cases of operating capacity factors less than 60% for electrolysis, and it's likely that the capacity factor of electrolysis equipment powered by excess wind would be <10%. At that point, the capex beings to dominate nearly all other factors.

I in fact used to be somewhat optimistic about hydrogen as a long term storage mechanism for our excess renewables, until I saw models like these from NREL. Now I am extremely skeptical of any hydrogen from electrolysis unless it's from something like solar+storage facilities. (Which are actually being proposed now, which is very exciting!)
Reminds me of Tesla. Was he Serb or Croatian
His compensation was $99.4 million last year, and after the cut will be $49 million. I think he'll be fine.
Link to an example? I don't think this is true, unless you're playing stupid games with your code, which wouldn't pass code review.
I work in this field and directly am involved with the treatment of prostate cancers. What you describe is not standard of care, and I’d hesitate to say that everyone should be so alarmed of getting prostate or any cancer. It’s unfortunate that your father’s PCP wasn’t aware of such warning signs, and I’m sorry for your loss.

However, We’ve seen this before with prostate and breast cancer where early and often screening leads to not only false positives but undue stress on patients. Furthermore, catching a nonaggressive prostate cancer 2-5 years early may lead to the same outcomes as catching it when certain things like PSA are detected to be increasing. But you may drastically affect one’s quality of life. It can at times be a difficult balance.

We see more and more elderly patients being treated because they are living longer. For many though, “waitful watching” or “active surveillance” is the correct clinical decision and always is up to the patient.

Finally, while prostate cancer isn’t as publicized as breast cancer (we’re trying!). It is a well known cancer and there is awareness of it.
But if we're looking in the direction of a galaxy far far away (i.e. 14bn ly away) (which we don't know it's there, but let's assume it is, because likely some galaxies must be there), how come we see the CMB, which is 13.7bn years old, and not the galaxy itself, which is (by definition) less than 13.7bn years old?
Developing components like this puts a lot of pressure on the components to each look like a piece of Real Software.

Versioning, stability, changelogs, coordinating new features as beta releases followed by deprecation announcements and finally deprecation. None of this is unreasonable, technically — my Linux OS is made of many small stable projects after all, none of whom communicate with each other beyond broadcasting NEWS.md etc with each release.

It’s also exhausting. Do your competitors hamper themselves by cosplaying a bazaar of open source projects coordinated by whatever your internal equivalent of the Debian project is? No! Move everything under one roof to truly reflect your org structure and take advantage of the fact that you all report to one CTO, you all have real-time communication between each other, and you probably know where everyone else is sat for eight hours a day. Move fast.
You are adorable.

Yes, iOS is a black box hellscape. Android less so.

And webapps are the epitome of walled garden. The programs literally require a host server to function. All you get is front end.

I take your point on accessibility. And that is the main draw for a lot of people and devs I imagine: I can access the thing I like from nearly anywhere and anything!

And I can respect that. And it has its uses.

My complaint is that this won’t be a choice eventually for most things. It’ll be “use this web version or nothing”.

You are already seeing negative aspects of a lot of this even on desktop programs. Like look at Steam. It’s convenient. People have flocked to it.

If you are offline you lose access to everything. Unless a cached credential is still working.

If you lose access to your account, you’ve lost all your games. Blah blah.

I’ve had personal experiences with this. It blows.

It won’t stop it. People are fine till it happens to them. But then they forget it five seconds later and right back at it.

*aaS is irritating as fuck
Do they restrict which animals, beyond (probably) not human?
Due to something about its instruments, or just due to being a limited resource?

Edit: Answer provided in adjacent thread -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34360391
SEC Sues Crypto Firms Genesis and Gemini over Lending Product
Strangely there already is one between Scotland and Wales and two more are proposed (see the article).

I suspect NIMBYism is a big part of the explanation. Airborne AC links are efficient but ugly. Underwater AC links are tolerated by Nimbies, but inefficient. So you end up with underwater HVDC links.
> Curtailment cost money, you still need pay the wind operators to the energy you told them not to produce

Why? What are the real costs? Isn't it just a simple disconnect switch? Why do the wind operators get paid for not delivering power? Is it a contractual issue?
Is it their slack account or your personal account. Just like email, if it is theirs it is theirs.
I'm 50. I put stickers on my laptop -- originally so I'd know which way to open the lid on my MacBook.

But now, it's to "peacock", too. I appreciate when others do it because I have an idea of who I'm dealing with. I've met some cool people from it and cut to the chase on other things where you work with someone new and have to subtly feel each other's technical ability out.

Perhaps a single "shiboleet"[1] sticker would suffice.

1. https://xkcd.com/806/
Wait until you hear about Python bytecode: https://opensource.com/article/18/4/introduction-python-byte...
Anyone got that book tho?
Obviously `interface{}` values are not comparable?
SpaceX could launch first Starship orbital flight in February
a product that itches a major pain

I think you mean 'scratches a major itch'.

It comes down to whether you want organic or exponential growth. If you make a high quality product that's hard to reproduce well, organic growth is fine, your long-term prospects will be good because you have a reputation for craft, quality control etc. If you have a relatively simple offering that's easy to copy, then you want exponential growth so you can maximize your market share and become the default brand in that space. Maybe you make very tiny profits from each person that uses it, but if there are a lot of them and 80% of them use your thing, then you will get rich. In the latter case you definitely want venture capital because it's ultimately about quantity over quality (and this will become increasingly obvious over time, but many prefer market dominance to being the best).
I am not seeing dynamic and the newish reverse dynamic tunnels here which are just setting up a socks proxy to access any network the client or server can access.
She has definitely aimed the books at the 9-13 crowd, which is probably about when I stumbled into it, so there's no Randian overtones, although there are a few hints of a gradual thematic slide away from a Hellenic polytheism towards a pan-monotheism it's never blatant or strictly wedged into a specific religion.

It's a surprisingly complex piece of literature for a kids book.

There are sentient White Holes and predatory Supercars becoming loving pets, polymorphing into a whale and swimming with sharks, traveling to other dimensions and planets, computers that evolve into turtles to fight the devil, who while bad (as in, destroys stars to enjoy the looks of terror on the faces of the frozen inhabitants of that star's planets isn't all bad, a never ending battle against the heat death of the universe...

It's imaginative and entertaining and it hit me just the right way.

There are very few books I can read more than once. I get about 3 pages in, realize I've read the book before, and then immediately grow bored of it.

The "Support Your Local Wizard" Omnibus edition (Containing "So, You Want to be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry) and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Decalogue are the only 2 series I have been able to read more than once.

I do have the Wheel of Time complete series in my to read group, they take up a whole shelf so it's daunting but I'll get to it soon.
Love the idea. Shame the country list is quite limited: I wonder why?
All good points, thanks for sharing the learnings of candybar.
That’s account lockouts, it doesn’t work against bots because they can just try a million accounts instead of a million passwords on one account and it makes it super easy to do a denial of service on an account, and it doesn’t prevent a denial of service against the server that has to service all these login attempts that might very well involve running hashes designed to be computationally intensive, like PBKDF2.

This is not a novel measure, rest assured that the people that choose to implement captcha instead are aware of its existence and chose for the captcha instead.
Get me in a whiteboard session, and you get responses that I've spent 15 seconds tops thinking about. Send me an email and you'll get responses that I've spent an hour or two thinking about.

There'll also be a written record of the exchange for future reference. The time spent writing the email isn't wasted. It's time saved putting together documentation.
I'm in the US, working as a contractor (W-2 to the contractor, who I assume has something like a 1099 with the primary employer). The employer is in Madison, Wisconsin. I am in Florida. As for the contract, I think it's safe to assume it says "We can do anything we want, and you can do nothing."
Stripe, for one
It sounds like one of those cases where it was decided early on without too much thought and the reasoning given now is just after-the-fact justification.

Which is fine; you can't expect language designers to bikeshed every little thing at the beginning.
+1! Infinite density => way blacker than a black hole, no?
In the United States? May depend on your location, but as far as I’m aware based on the (large, tech heavy) states where I’ve been in the unfortunate position of executing firings and layoffs, probably not illegal. It’s not uncommon for off-boarding procedures to include taking over the terminated employee account to set up email and chat auto responses, which aren’t materially different than “thanks”.
Understand that emotions may be running high, but they said "Thanks". It was a little shady to post as you, but it did no harm.
Seems like in this case it was pretty innocuous if all they said was "Thanks"
Based on the ads I see for Replika, "too horny" is supposed to be a feature.

But reading the article and seeing the history of Replika and how it used to be, it's definitely a bug, though probably an intentional one made to make more money.
Division by zero, dereferencing a nil pointer, invoking methods on a nil interface, invalid indexing of an array, unchecked type assertions -- these are not common operations! These are always easily detectable programmer errors.
I had exactly the same experience in building a glibc and gcc, and it was also on an old CentOS system on HPCs that are not updated and I do not have root privilege to. I used linuxbrew to build glibc and gcc.

In my case it was that VSCode remote delivers a node to remote machine that requires a new glibc, where the HPC does not have. I have to use patchelf to patch the node runtime in order for it to find the glibc libraries I built.

I am so glad there finally more products that allows me to easily run newer software, and glad to see it is Arch Linux, which always have latest software and is my go to for dev machines.
"It's kinda a shame they reduced it to this. A single machine in a colo center is going to be far more reliable than single availability zone"

I think that depends on the colo honestly. What is so unreliable about a single EC2 instance in a zone?
Huh? Monorepo refers to storing your source code, regardle5 of how many binaries you build and run, not shipping your system as one giant monolithic binary.
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I
Which website, may I ask? Or were you literally just buying from one Russian individual.
As with most such things, there is considerable nuance to this question. If you're careful with your dependencies and optimizing for compile time, it can be quite good. For example, a clean release build of makepad studio on M1 Max is 8.81s.

There are also patterns that can really bloat compile time, especially heavy use of procedural macros to autogenerate code. Using serde to serialize big, complex data types can be a big compile time hit. Monomorphization can also be a problem, but fortunately careful use of boxing of dyn traits can help a lot with both code size and compile time (miniserde is an alternative to serde that's more optimized on these dimensions).

There's also continual and ongoing work to improve compile times. So overall I would say it's definitely a factor, but not necessarily a showstopper.
Is there any chance someone was cleaning up your laptop/backing up IP and simply forgot it would be signed in as you and not them? A simple "thanks" on a public thread is ambiguous enough that it's not obvious which comment they'd be replying to.

Posting from your account accidentally would likely be fine, legally. I don't have any idea about the law if it was intentional, though.
If it wasn't then who built it? Or is it the quotes we should focus on.
Navy’s Task Force 59 to Keep Tabs on Iran with Armada of Drones
I realize it has absolutely nothing to do with this specific article, but I’m amazed that the Venn diagram of people who buy hipster olive oils and people who don’t want more single-use plastics doesn’t overlap more.
I notice that the curtailment for today happens to coincide with the lowest demand at 5 in the morning. Their screenshot also has overnight curtailment.

It suggests that replacement CO2 was generated as a result but it looks like it may just have been total system overproduction, which may involve payments but shouldn't cause any extra CO2.
There's a lot of this article I agree with. Some of the key things I disagree with are:

1. That the shaman's job is sensemaking for the community

2. That the shaman's job is useless in the modern world

I think the modern world does not value the shaman, but they are still very much needed. There is something broken and incomplete about modernity that goes beyond inadequate sensemaking. There's nothing vestigial about shamans, though that's generally how we see them now.

One of the things I am exploring now is a reframing of "civilization". That perhaps, it is not some form of governance, or allocation of resources, or the material culture and technology. Rather, it is design, and shamans plays a key role. Understood as such, nomadic, tribal, settled cultures all have forms of civilization, because there's some form of design.

Example: there's a hypothesis that the cave paintings of animals contain symbols for counting moons, and together, used as a hunting calendar for the local area.
> If you know "this thing is broken", the commit log is a fantastic resource to figure out what changed which may have broke it

git supports both diff and log for specific directories, although this may not help you if the issue was with a dependency in another folder that was updated.
> Nobody cares what your code looks like. Nobody cares what your architecture looks like. As engineers we should worry about creating forgettable experiences (at least in enterprise). They care that it does the job well, with low load times and an easy to use UX. That's it.

Isn't this sneakily hiding the assumption that what your code and architecture looks like has no effect on how good/fast your product is? That's a pretty common implicit sentiment these days, especially as part of the (valid) sentiment that chasing fad languages/frameworks/tools is not a good idea. But it's pretty clearly not true in general.
No footage of the actual wave, annoying
Yes, and ban pedestrians. Walking belongs to a shopping mall. We cannot allow those pesky pedestrians endanger our Full Self Driving.
Good architecture leads to faster feature development and increased stability, which makes your users happy
> desktop app does not need anything downloaded first.

Well, you need to have a computer, and download and install an operating system first.
The corporate account and everything you do under it belongs to them, not to you. It's probably legal but certainly unethical.
I believe Google is putting too much effort into bringing interop between C++ and Rust. Why not simply rewrite the core of Chromium in Rust?

I mean, if a handful guys at SerenityOS can write a web browser from scratch in just a few years surely Google can muster enough manpower to rewrite Chromium in Rust in a couple of years?

Interop is wasteful since there's a large discrepancy between C++ and Rust code. Trying to plug the holes will lead to an inferior product at great cost.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 161
The simulation gets less cohesive the farther from earth you look.
Freak the hell out! Stay out of my own way too.
But some of those bets should be right, or else he'd be better spending his time and accumulated knowledge writing a historical monograph.
Me too.

I like how they include planning an offsite as something that could be done with these tools. I like to think that the plane tickets and hotel accommodations are booked through API calls run in the CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline runs when the PR is finally merged.

Much monies could have been saved if the tickets and accommodations were booked sooner, but there was contentious discussion the style guide that happened as the result of the PR.
> I cannot recall seeing any automotive advertising that wasn't clearly produced by a specific vehicle manufacturer.

You're right — what I was thinking about wasn't that the Exxon was running ads saying you should buy an F-350 for your grocery shopping but the more subtle long-term stuff: pouring millions of dollars into funding the people who say climate change is a hoax (meaning fewer people feel guilty about 10mpg), turning that into a litmus test for politicians so the same people in office are also receptive to continuing exemptions from pollution laws, etc. The blame is wider than them I think it's important to separate out unknowing mistakes from deliberate attempts to delay action after you know there's a problem.

There's also an interesting split here: until about a decade ago, the interests of the oil and car companies were perfectly aligned. Now that EVs are popular, however, that's diverging and I'm curious what the political realignment will look like — Ford won't be backing transit or high-density housing but they'd be totally cool running ads about how their latest Mustang can be powered by American wind farms.
Analysis: Why the U.S. needs Japan's help on China chips restrictions
If I owned a newspaper, I don't think I could write an article under the name of a journalist I just fired.
Just for any future historians: all us normal people are aware that the idea of the Big Bang seems a little fantastical, but relativity or whatever is, like, way complicated. Most of us just have to trust the physicists. Of course now that you have the Theory of Everything, notation and thought-experiments developed to make it obvious, and relativity is just a special case, we look pretty dumb. But if you look at the operators that your undergrads pull out to solve Theory of Everything equations and try to somehow derive them with ancient 21’st century math, they are actually really complicated!

Actually, having a bit of sympathy now for the folks who believed in the Luminiferous aether.
Messages can be deleted. I would imagine if that scenario were true the person would delete the accidental reply, no?