skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you haven't seen big servers, but some blade-servers need >15 minutes just for the hardware check, same with big switches and san's.
Tocharian is a language, we don't know who the "Tocharians" were as the linked paper explains in the abstract (and then somewhat ignores). Strictly speaking we don't even know if they were one ethnicity, the Tarim Basin has always been a melting pot and even during the time of the Tocharian manuscripts there were already Sogdians (Iranians), Han Chinese and others living and trading there.

There also isn't really evidence that the mummies are directly linked to the later Tocharian speakers of the texts in the first place. They may be or may be not.

It should be noted that research in this field is extremely politicized within China even by local standards. The finding isn't surprising in the sense that this is what the official narrative is, so they found what they were looking for. Uyghurs, who don't have a local origin, claim the mummies as their ancestors but the Chinese state strongly denies this. There may be something to that story as it's generally assumed they intermixed with the local population when they settled there. When you visit the museum in Urumqi you're greeted by a sign claiming the area had always been Chinese.

If we assume a Western hypothesis, it's also possible that the mummy genes are "local" but the language isn't, if we were to assume the study findings are correct. There are dozens of other possibilities.
> Everything is information

Truly spoken like a brain, an information processing machine. I'm not sure it could arrive at any other conclusion, given sufficient time to ponder the problem.

If you ask a pair of eyes, everything is shapes and colors. Query your ears, and you'll be told everything is made of sound.
You have to admire El Salvador for at least trying something different to get out of its financial hole. Too many countries struggling with issues similar to it (crime, poverty, debt) end up using the same playbook (IMF/Worldbank loans) and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the poverty trap.

There are no easy paths for countries like El Salvador. This might be bad too, but at least its a different attempt.
Uh, your thought process is operating on the level of what you as an individual can do. But as a result, you are seeing none of the systemic problems. While your thinking is probably individually beneficial, like that of a salmon knowing to swim upstream, this salmon has no way of addressing the dam that's being built upriver. Regardless of whether the dam is built or not, it is still best to do what you can to swim upriver. But it's better for the dam not to be built and ruin your habitat.

But you're annoyed at other salmon trying to stop it, because they took a break from swimming upriver.
The reason for this is that commercial adoption happened with PWRs and after that the nuclear companies had no need to commercialize anything else.

By the time Breeder research by government was happening the anti-nuclear movement of the 70/80 was already in full effect and research money was being cut and very few nuclear plants were being built so there wasn't much reason invest in commercial breeders.

Specially because fuel isn't that expensive in the first place and waste isn't actually a big problem either.

There are still other good reason to create breeders and if we are gone develop next generation reactors, we might as well go in that direction.
Education was pretty good there comparing to USA. However, what is more important, are chances after education. Where are you gonna end? In USSR, only in some national soviet office, wasting all your talent...
Employers tend to view their employees at adversaries first. Nobody wastes time with an union if their employer aims to treat them in a way that both sides win.

You unionize, when your employer fucks you over once too much.

Employers typically do all of that to extract more value than is rightfully theirs from their employers or to make their own lives easier at the expense of their employers (e.g. by ignoring safety regulations).

So unions naturally form when employers go to far. A clever employer who is after an actual win-win situation might anticipate this and skip the entire thing by providing actual countermeasures against the tendency to fuck over ones employess themselves.
Yes, it's a bit of the vibe of iOS users who always force-quit all applications for some reason.
> Their examples of forecasting waffle fries reminds me of a failed startup that forecasted how many checkout lines to open via computer vision

Maybe this?

https://ixr.com/queue-prediction
I still remember the small adrenaline rush we had as soon as we would detect the tone for a successful connection.
> Thinking about it now, it reminds of the “Obey” nonsense that supposedly was designed as an “ironic comment on contemporary society” that regrettably served the function of having the word “Obey” appear wherever you looked.

Wasn't it lifted from They Live?
Yggdrasil was seriously badass, first live-CD, overlay filesystem and much more.
Details and video of what was my first Linux distrib: https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/yggdrasil-first-live-linux...
If you can send information FTL it creates time travel paradoxes in GR. Gravity waves are a propagation of information, so if they moved at 1.0000001 times the speed of light it would cause… the theoreticians to go ballistic, because it would either open the door for time travel issues, or something about GR is wrong.

At least, that’s my lay understanding of it.

So, nothing specific to gravity waves allows for backwards time travel, so much as anything that carries information traveling FTL would cause backwards time travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead#Etymology

> The English mead – "fermented honey drink" – derives from the Old English meodu or medu, and Proto-Indo-European language, *médʰu. Its cognates include Old Norse mjǫðr, Proto-Slavic medъ, Middle Dutch mede, and Old High German metu, and the ancient Irish queen Medb, among others. The Chinese word for honey, mì (蜜) was borrowed from the extinct Indo-European Tocharian word mit – also a cognate with the English word mead.

Also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/m...

> Borrowed from Proto-Tocharian *ḿətə, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. One of the words found only within the traditional Finno-Ugric group.
Thank you, that is a good example of the right way to do things. Normally what I see, and what is abundantly clear in this thread, is unions are going for win-lose deals.
I mean yes, it was continuously breeding and the result of that breeding was in the reactor and partially was used to sustain the reaction.

What has not happened is that that fuel was removed from that reactor and then inserted into another reactor.
Agree. This cool project should be called "a user agent", not a browser.
What they collaborated was in Distributed Objects Everywhere, which ended up becoming Java EE.

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

Their collaboration is also one of the reasons why Java is basically Objective-C semantics with C++ like syntax.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

Interfaces (protocols), dynamic class loading (plugins), RMI (distributed objects), jars (bundles), dynamic dispatch by default, object root class,...
10 years ago today, 100% of HN front page stories were Aaron Swartz-related
The article researches concentrations of BDNF following exercise and fasting: the link to neurodegenerative disorders is hypotetical.

> Six minutes of high-intensity exercise could extend the lifespan of a healthy brain and delay the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease ... a short but intense bout of cycling increases the production of a specialized protein[: ]essential for brain formation, learning and memory, ... brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes neuroplasticity... and the survival of neurons

> BDNF increased ... more compared to fasting (no change in BDNF concentration) or prolonged activity (slight increase in BDNF concentration)

> Twelve physically active participants... took part in the study

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Original research article: Fasting for 20 h does not affect exercise-induced increases in circulating BDNF in humans - https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP283582

> Intermittent fasting and exercise provide neuroprotection from age-related cognitive decline. A link between these two seemingly distinct stressors is their capability to steer the brain away from exclusively glucose metabolism

> [*] Intermittent fasting and exercise both have potent neuroprotective effects and an acute upregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) appears to be a common mechanistic link. [*] Switching the brain's fuel source from glucose to either ketone bodies or lactate, i.e. a cerebral substrate switch, has been shown to promote BDNF production in the rodent brain. [*] Fasting for 20 h caused a 9-fold increase in ketone body delivery to the brain but had no effect on any metric of BDNF in peripheral circulation at rest. [*] Prolonged (90 min) light cycling exercise increased plasma- and serum-derived BDNF irrespective of being fed or fasted and seemed to be independent of changes in cerebral shear stress. [*] Six minutes of high-intensity cycling intervals increased every metric of circulating BDNF by 4 to 5 times more than prolonged low-intensity cycling; the increase in plasma-derived BDNF was correlated with a 6-fold increase in circulating lactate irrespective of feeding or fasting. [*] Compared to 1 day of fasting with or without prolonged light exercise, high-intensity exercise is a much more efficient means to increase BDNF in circulation

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Note owing to the current times: these abridgements, normally opening my submissions, for the convenience of the reader and for the writer's purpose of analyzing the matter, are created by an actual intelligence (as opposed to automated).
It's simpler than that, one can only change lanes when they are separated by a dashed line. Solid lines you are not supposed to cross.
Great input, thanks.
You might want to consider what synergies there might be with the digital public goods alliance [0] (broader scope and they have a type a certification process)

[0] https://digitalpublicgoods.net/
5 seconds is nonsense.

The average driver’s reaction time is 0.2 to 0.3 seconds. This is before the driver’s foot moves.

Then there is approx 1 second before the brakes take effect (foot movement, applying the force, brakes responding)

So 1.5 second before the car starts breaking.

There is a rule of “be at least 2 seconds behind the car in front” which gives a safe distance to handle any emergency braking.

Of course everything depends on driver’s and car’s conditions.
> Do you suggest me to grep source files with error messages to deduce stack trace

Yes, that's common. Perhaps a gopls search engine for error messages would be useful?
Pulsar navigation: piloting aircraft with the aid of the stars (2015)
A silly different attempt is still a silly one…the Bitcoins the country bought are now worth over 60% less than their purchase price [1]. A poor country has successfully thrown away tens of millions of dollars…such incompetence on display.

1- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/10/13/el-salvadors-bitcoin-hol...
Great service!

Could you consider allowing for ports other than 7878? Would be nice in restricted network environments. Like that of my company; it's allowing only the more common ports to WAN.
You greatly overestimate how much Starbucks pays workers.
Current reactors are already being certified for 80 years and might be longer eventually.

But of course this articles assume you would build new reactors over time.
Rotary dialer as USB keyboard
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/OLIMEXINO-85-ASM/o... was used for keyboard emulation :)
In Copenhagen (and maybe Berlin) it's döner kebab
They're all under Workers United which is under SEIU. It's a big union.
In this case these are more like machines that play instruments than what most “common folk” would consider a robot.

This is certainly an interesting creation but for some reason the lack of sensors or some ability to respond to what it is doing or it’s environment seems to fall short of “robot”.
In my opinion the optimal following distance for traffic flow is probably slightly higher than what people are doing.

There might be a "laffer curve" where increasing the follow distance of other cars and limiting overcorrections would increase capacity, rather than decrease it, at the current level.

If we're getting regular "phantom jams", we're probably following too closely.
Thanks, that was helpful
Just my 2 cents: 2 billons are payed not for reliability but for size.
Size of the system (and size of the team).
This is a case of phantom braking, which is illegal.

People often forget about the most important traffic rule: it is not allowed to cause an unsafe situation.
The OC is not suggesting any support or disagreement regarding the execution.
In the past years, I've grown increasingly concerned about backups. To me, it feels like whatever you back up should be validated, before it's considered "okay".

So, if you have a database of some sort, a part of the backup process would be checking that the backup can be used to run an instance of it. If you have images or videos or PDF files, all of those should be validated as well, to make sure that they're not corrupted (e.g. display/playback fails). If you have compression as a part of the backup process, then the compressed archive should also be validated, that it's not corrupt and that the data can also be extracted.

Only then would checksums of the backup be actually useful, once you'd know that you don't just have a bunch of mostly useless binary data on hand. Sadly, the tooling just isn't there (e.g. CLI utilities for validating everything) and there are far more file formats than most people want to concern themselves with.
How would you apply TDD to a backup system? By writing backup and restore tests? What if one test fails unreproducibly?
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
The comparison code in the "Goal #2: Handle panics gracefully" section is unconvinced.
Reminds me of Electromancy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9tBkb9DJTrA

From the channel description:

> I’m a disabled musician building a robot metal band to keep playing music. DIY robot instruments, broken manikin bandmates. Creative mind of Step "Satyra" Tranovich
But is it shielded?
It's not, as it refers to the two parts (female and male) of a binary reproductive system. There's no third type of gamete, and therefore no additional sex category that would make it non-binary.
In my direct experience, this seems to work quite well for two kinds of companies.

One is software consulting where the clients are so big that project timelines easily stretch beyond the typical lifespan of a business executive. No one important notices that the project has started dragging before the person who initiated the contract has claimed credit and gotten promoted for it.

The second one is cryptocurrency/web3. I overhear from my network that what matters most there is the pedigree of their workforce and the background of the founders. Once funding is secured, it looks like project outcomes start to matter less, and the startup can afford to churn through engineers when they quit due to project dysfunction and unfortunate architecture choices.
Cloudflare/wildebeest: an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
That would be very interesting. Stand behind your product. If FSD becomes a public nuisance they will quickly become uninsurable or worse.

I was thinking today about the Southwest disaster, not only for customers but for the company’s reputation. But I know a great way to win it back: cash. Promise it won’t happen again, but if it does, offer best in industry cash compensation. Prove that your company gives a shit. I will be very disappointed if they expect time alone to heal this.
Looks pretty good:

https://www.starbucks.com/careers/working-at-starbucks/benef...

This even includes college tuition.

Besides, the union ought to be able to fund at least one coffee shop, and show Starbucks how to do it right. Banks also offer loans to start businesses, if the applicant has a decent business plan.
I think it helps if you just talk about a more brainy movie with others - online or in real life. For a lot of people nowadays, films like Fight Club or (more superficially) The Matrix were films that made them go "whoa" and question their own existence for a bit, to the point where some based their whole personality off of films like that for a while.

Other things you could try (and I'm no expert, just armchair etc) is to watch multiple films from the same director in a row, try to see patterns and commonalities. Might be better to avoid the more prolific ones, since their repertoire will be very large. But e.g. Darren Arnokofsky's films would be good for that, there's... less than ten, lol. But the films are more low-key than e.g. Spielberg or Nolan, more about people and filmmaking and the like than big action shots or whatnot.

For example, I really liked The Fountain, but that's a controversial film because there's a nearly 50/50 split between people who love it vs those who hate it.
It’s just as easy to tell a story about how the employees tried to be decent, were ignored or silenced, and had to speak out more aggressively. Your view is clearly biased and it’s a take as old as time - if that darn Dr. King didn’t block the streets, he’d get better results. Just calm down and have a chat, says the already wealthy and happy worker.
Glad to see I am not the only one who feels this way. The DSL is poorly designed to say the least. I don't understand why a whole new badly designed language has to be invented for tasks like this when the same thing could have been achieved using established languages that can also support declarative style programming.

But switching to anything else is going to be hard at this point because so much of the infra is already written with that poor DSL.

Nobody would approve spending the person-hours to be spent on migrating a working but complex infrastructure to a new codebase at this point.
Those who have opted in choose to be bound by the vote in exchange for the increased bargaining power that a consistent position affords, right?

In the car analogy, you're missing the "free to not have any car at all even though you would like one" option.
Sweden has the rule of "at least 3 seconds". Because you keep ignoring the speed, and the braking distance as well. Edit: and assuming perfect conditions when the driver is perfectly alert and looking ahead. And is young and healthy. And...

However you count, if Tesla did a dangerous lane change and started braking, how is this the fault if the driver behind?
No, it's quite different from those, and it's not overlaying VR on top of camera video. You're looking at the real world through a diagonal window, and the phone screen is reflecting off that same window so you see it overlaid on your direct view of the world.
They came to US ;)
Or you could prosecute dangerous drivers who hit pedestrians for manslaughter / attempted manslaughter and work on the assumption that the person I charge of the most dangerous vehicle has a duty of care towards other road users and if they don't discharge that duty they shouldn't be allowed to drive.
The comorbidity of anxiety/depression and ADHD can certainly be hard to disambiguate so I’m sorry it took so long to find the right treatment, but it’s also great that you’ve got it now. I do want to point out that a psychiatrist would perform a targeted history of your presentation and mental status exam, and might very well have provided the “correct” diagnosis much sooner—these people do more than prescribe medications on their first hunch. It generally wouldn’t take two years to do a generic review of mental status symptoms.

A GP on the other hand might be more pressed with less time to prescribe an SSRI or medication of a related class and put in a referral.
Agreed. Most blogs are now created solely for the point of generating content, in the hopes of generating leads/clicks.

If you want actual insight you need deep research which is most often found in books.
kristall is along with geminaut and lagrange, the perfect triptych for wandering the small web! until recently they were the only ones to pass (almost) torture tests [1]! highly recommended

[1] gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/
> It's a problem when e.g. searching for caf◌́e doesn't find café.

That doesn't even display on my browser[1]; tried it in Goland[2], doesn't display there either, so that's the rare case 0.0001% that I wouldn't really worry about, because if the code has undisplayable unicode sequences, there's bigger problems than searching.

[1] Chrome, on Mac

[2] Also on Mac
Right, but the wholesale massive move of the entire industry to subscription services (offering access to X games for a fixed monthly cost) is happening in movies a few years before games. What you're talking about are single games offering a subscription which is a step in that direction, but not quite the same (you're still paying for each individual game - and usually to the developer of that game - not to a distribution company to provide you an entire growing catalogue of games).
We don't even understand gravity entirely.

It's entirely possible we will come up with a different theory which is largely consistent with much of what we do know, while still allowing for things that we currently think are impossible.

We know so very, very little.
Like Lynx then?
It's a different tradeoff. Systems that fails and *executes recovery path* from time to time tend to be more resilient to catastrophic failures.

Ideally you would want the combination of both: system doesn't usually crash/fail, but you force it to do so regularly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
>They're so rare,

They are not rare, just because you don't detect them (consumer hardware) means nothing.

>>study done by IBM in the 1990’s that referenced 1 cosmic ray bit flip per 256MB of memory per month

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2022/04/13/this-week-in-glean-...
In Poland cinema ticket costs ~5$. Is it really 10 times more expensive in USA? Why?
Myths about Bitcoin Debunked
...a browser for what ? Kristall is (near) perfect, for its work
I expected the article to be about The Trons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trons
Most apps on my M1 mac load instantly. And there is very little I can do with a loaded app that has no documents open (as opposed to maybe in the MacOS <= 9 era). But the icons stick around and clutter the dock. Eventually the icons will shrink or I confuse similar icons. If I want an app icon to stay, I can just pin it.

Of course you can close the app manually, but that is cumbersome: You close every window with command-W or a click, but have to remember to close the very last window with command-Q. If you select the app icon to quit, it will not just activate the app, but open a new Window. So the best way is to right click the dock icon and close. But then you have to think if there is still an window open or not, so you don't accidentially close it.

It's not a big deal, but it is a slight annoyance, just like how you can't close minimized windows. Apple actually implemented auto quitting apps in the Lion era, but removed it (probably because it was to Windowsy?).
Make is all about producing a file (so you need PHONY for tasks that should still run if such a name already exists).

But for many modern tasks that are not producing a file, like "deploy" -- you're right. Although I'd argue that then it's easier to have multiple bash scripts, each with its own "set -euo pipeline" on top. Easier to read.