skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally the age is considered to have come to an end with the Mongol Siege of Baghdad, wherein the invaders sacked the city. Baghdad was the center of learning, and the fact that scholars from all around the empire (including non-Arab, and even non-Muslim) were able to travel to and, more importantly, find institutional support in Baghdad was one of the main drivers behind the age.

But institutional support had already begun to wane as a consequence of a theological shift in Arabic Islam from Mu'tazilism to Ash'arism. Ash'arism is often described as pro-rationalism, but compared to Mu'tazilism it was a significant regression, especially in terms of the motivation for official, institutional support for the study of natural philosophy. Despite the sacking, Baghdad recovered relatively quickly, but institutional support for natural philosophy never did recover.

Work in mathematics, medicine, and natural philosophy in the Islamic world didn't end. But it found much less support, and often came from the periphery, further away from the now more theologically conservative Arab world, and fragmented. Proximity is everything, especially before the age of telecommunications. There were no fewer geniuses in the Islamic world, but now they were cut off from each other. It's much like the Dark Ages in Europe--there was no shortage of smart people doing smart things, but they lost networking benefits and enjoyed less patronage.
How about using ivermectin? The bed bugs may bite, but now you're toxic to them.
You're right, it couldn't possibly be that Apple has a superior product (iPhone/iOS) compared to Android's fragmented, poorly supported, borderline bad implementations.
Not that it is 1:1 equivalent (due to expense and difference in encoding), but blockchains such as bitcoin can be used to store arbitrary data (and have been). Thus far I believe no one has gone to jail for running a cryptocurrency node because of non-financial reasons.
Without the US there wouldn't be anything to regulate. Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation if Europe was capable of producing innovative companies that would compete with Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. Instead, it's all copies of ideas pioneered in the US built for the local market.
A Satellite Phone That Works Anywhere? The U.S.-China Rivalry Makes That Harder
Not knowing what you are going to pay until you are committed to paying is the most American sickness that exists. It’s infected every purchase we make. Every purchase has sales tax added on non-transparently at the check out counter. Restaurant bills have tips. Your cable and telephone bills have hidden fees tacked onto the advertised price. Hotel stays have resort fees and an amenity charge that gets applied if you so much as brush up against one of the sodas they leave out for you. Hospitals don’t even have prices. You just go and preemptively agree to pay whatever they ask for later. Insanity. You never actually end up paying what it says on the label in America.

So much business relies on this deception, that if you forced companies to advertise exact prices, everyone would go out of business.
https://archive.ph/XNQtv
"buns glazing"

Lol typo or intentional?
Because they’ve had limits on accounts combined with trivial registration of new accounts, combined with counting enterprise “accounts” from stuff like bing or api usage which really is just the same people using them over and over. That and startups tend to look at numbers that please them once and never question them. I don’t doubt they had a ton of accounts sign up. But MAU after 2 months isn’t a statistic it’s a data point, and coming from the most unreliable source possible.

Incredible growth in traffic is easy to explain - a lot of big companies and the most influential investors invested a ton of money in this. They have connections to all the top media sources. They pushed this stuff absolutely everywhere. It was a massive media blitz. You’re being manipulated. They’re hyping AI, they’re talking about doom and fear, they’re getting front pages everywhere. Everyone wants in - media wants in on the hype, social media users realize they can gain tons of viral views, it’s a giant pit of self reinforcing hype. That happens with things. See Pokémon Go, and then what happened a short while later. Or the crypto bubble. Or any number of bubbles. You can’t base your predictions of future success on self published popularity numbers after a huge and expensive media blitz.
Funnily enough, on Half-Life 1 engine-based games (i.e. the engine that came before HL2 - on which Team Fortress 2 runs; such as Counter-Strike 1.6), a different allocator problem exists -- glibc's malloc() just decides to fail miserably[0] on some setups.

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/3158
My memory was not great either. It's still not that great, so I'm learning Chinese to train it (memorizing Hanzi characters helps).

For me it's outlandish that somebody can forget long division. I literally haven't done it in 20 years, but I've just tried it and I can do it fine.

I guess not using calculator at school helped a lot. My math and physics classes all had arithmetic that could be done mentally, or occasionally on a piece of paper.
> just pointing out that anyone who believes the TV is the purveyor of truth is not really going to be a productive discussion.

I am merely quoting Russian TV not Western TV.

> Don't you want to help the children?

Not sure what help a M270 MLRS will do to feed the children of Africa but I guess you could try.

the vast majority of the dollar value of aid to Ukraine is the value of the vehicles being provided, cant use that to feed children.

But I have a feeling your against any aid to Ukraine regardless of how many lives it saves.
I think sinew (long animal ligaments IIRC) is an option for attaching axe heads. I've heard of survivalists using it for similar purposes. And that's assuming simple strips of hide don't do it.
Bitwarden's support for images attachments is completely useless. You can't view images - the only option is to download them to your Downloads folder, and then you have to remember to delete them and empty your trash.
But does it have anything to do with Deming? Korea, for example, is as bad, and maybe worse given their alcohol culture; they just don't get any cutesy terms like 'karoshi'. Or consider this recent followup about a famous American bonsai master who learned in Japan, and learned such brutal lessons from his master that he's driven away all would-be American apprentices: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/the-beautiful-... Are we going to blame bonsai on Deming now?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459134/

> Psychosis associated with alcohol can occur with acute intoxication, alcohol withdrawal, as well as in patients with chronic alcohol use disorder. The specific diagnosis of alcohol-related psychosis is also known as alcohol hallucinosis. It is a relatively rare consequence of alcohol use. However, it may be more prevalent than classically thought depending on the inclusion criteria used for diagnosis. In alcohol-related psychosis, symptoms of psychosis present during or shortly after heavy alcohol intake. Clinically, alcohol-related psychosis is similar to schizophrenia but has been found to be a unique and independent condition. It is characterized by hallucinations, paranoia, and fear.

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> A 2015 Dutch literature review on alcohol-related psychotic disorder found that there is a 0.4% lifetime prevalence in the general population and a 4% prevalence in patients with alcohol dependence.
SRI-NIC was the center of the universe. All ARPANET TIPs/TACs had a special purpose command "@N" that would connect directly to the NIC's Tops-20 PDP-10 at SRI, where you could get news about the network status, communicate with the people running the net, and stuff like that.
And what’s the first thing every scam will now tell people to do?

Turn dev mode on so they can install the “malware remover” or “fix the Facebook app” or whatever to be able to execute the scam.
I can only imagine it would be the one you earn. The degree your roommate earns couldn't possibly change you as much as it does them.
Or perhaps because it was poorly implemented and made it harder for customers to know what their total would be before reaching the cash register.
We need the same with text to train Large Language Models
Lol. You went to MIT, didn't you?
We're really hoping we can find it a home in a park somewhere! Jon's youngest is getting to the age where the rocket is becoming old hat so we're trying to find a place where people can enjoy it, rather than letting it sit unused (or scrapping it, the horror!)
It's not abusive to build really good experiences for your customers and it's not a mystery why they don't waste their resources developing for the competition.
> It can until there's hard hardware chain-of-trust enforcement (like UEFI) with signed images.

And then hackers will graduate to side-channel attacks... it's a game of cat and mouse. The best bet, IMHO, is to make the cost of cracking exceed the value of what's being cracked.
> long-term economic concentration that has held for centuries

This reminds me of the article someone posted on HN that, from ancient Roman times till today, a nice house has always cost roughly 10,000 grams of gold. It wasn't quite true and is an over-generalization, but it was an interesting point.

I see this recent housing boom mostly through the lens of monetary expansion, since the US population has not actually skyrocketed over the last 2 years.
Fundamentally I do think "operational rigour" is separable from "being a nice place for humans to work".

But I don't think any discussion on this kind of thing is complete without understanding the power relationships involved.

In particular, who sets targets and what role do workers have in that process?

It's not "operational rigour" that e.g forces drivers to piss in bottles on their routes.

It's a power imbalance between the people who must meet targets and the people who set the targets.
Ivy League Exodus
See also bullock where the ock is diminutive. And possibly more directly related to ox than https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ox#Etymology_1 suggests.

> we rarely use kine for the plural of cow,

Also possibly related, boelekijn from Middle Dutch.
This is interesting, but after further research, the history looks a bit more complicated.

From an article published in the Canadian Tax Journal, written by an attorney [1]: "The GST was introduced in 1991 as a 7 percent VAT, replacing the federal sales tax (FST). The FST was a manufacturers’ sales tax, which applied at 13.5 percent at the wholesale level to a limited number of goods and which was almost entirely invisible to consumers.

"The GST applies to most supplies of property and services in Canada, and is imposed on the purchaser. The key feature that makes it a VAT is that most businesses can claim refunds, by way of input tax credit, for most or all of the GST that they pay on purchases."

In addition, a Government of Canada publication also explains that GST does not apply to exports, in contrast to its predecessor [2]:

"The GST is a sales tax which applies to final consumption at a fixed rate of 7%. Whereas the former FST was a hidden tax on the manufacture of goods, including those exported for foreign consumption, the GST is a visible tax on the value added at each stage of production and distribution of goods and services – which makes it a multi-stage tax – and applies only to consumption within Canada."

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In summary, there were other differences between GST and its predecessor. GST has applied to only consumption within Canada, whereas the former FST also applied to exports.

Also, GST was paid directly by customers, rather than by companies (who had the option of making customers pay). It's possible that in many cases, customers ended up paying the same total amount after GST's introduction—in cases where companies may have lowered their prices to offset the new final total price due to the GST. But in other cases, it's plausible that companies kept their prices the same or didn't lower prices completely offset the tax, leading to increased prices on necessary goods and services for customers.

In the end, according to analysts and newspaper columnists years later [3] [4], people with backgrounds in economics concluded that GST was good for Canada's economy, as the change provided a simplification of the taxation system that encouraged investment.

But this positive effect is a bit different, though related to your comment: it looks like the positive effects of GST were largely based on encouraging investment, rather than based on the principle of transparency to consumers. These were interesting reads, though; thanks for raising the discussion.

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Sources:

[1] Canadian Tax Journal: https://ctf.ca//ctfweb/Documents/PDF/2009ctj/09ctj4-policy.p...

[2] Government of Canada: https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.....

[3] The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-gst-hated-by-man...

[4] CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gst-not-all-that-bad-say-ta...
How do you recover passkeys if you lose all your devices? (2022)
> Is there some new school of philosophy among the management class that doesn't believe in spending money to make money?

Yeah! Your salary scales with the number of underlings you command while the number of underlings depends on what task was assigned to the department. You can't add in some fully unproductive people nor can you assign someone to be unproductive thus therefore and so on the hip choice is to gradually lower everyone's productivity. You might see a pattern of counter productive measures if you look for it.
Opportunity cost is a concept from microeconomics, a field completely alien to the vast majority of the managerial strata, in my experience; any lingering principles from microecon 101 having been long since replaced by MBA dogma.
Indeed and that's what makes labels difficult.

You can make the same argument about Middle Ages Western Christian philosophy for what it's worth. While it originated in the erstwhile Roman Empire, the cultural and religious norms at the time were very much attuned to the various Germanic norms of the peoples that dominated the formerly Western Roman Empire rather than the joint Roman and Greek culture that constituted the Roman Empire during the founding of Christianity. Eastern Roman Empire viz Byzantine norms were codified in the Orthodox Church canon and philosophy in the region had a much larger overlap with "Islamic" and Greek cultures of the time.
There’s very different bedbug populations in different areas with wildly different levels of resistance to these chemicals. NYC and a few other major metropolitan areas have in practice spent decades maximizing how resistant these bugs are.

It might sound preposterous but even within NYC there’s very different lineages where wealthy areas tend to be much harder to deal with because people don’t want the stigma and so don’t tell anyone when they fumigate and they also travel more which means constantly risking exposure in hotels etc.
Nice to see proof that, while still quite loud to the user, multiple tested battery blowers fall off to reasonable levels by the time you get to 100-200ft which is a pretty typical distance for neighbors in a lot of areas.

Key takeaway regarding gas blowers: "Noticeably louder to 4 times louder"
Considering Epic is one of the most exploitative companies that just got slapped with a massive judgment for their dark patterns involving children, of course it was never about consumer freedom for them.
VR is dead in the water and so is AR. I thought Google had learned that lesson from their own foray into the space with Google Glass. Latest evidence: Sony’s PSVR2 doesn’t sell. Oh and the ongoing crapshow that is Meta’s VR-based Metaverse program that doesn’t even draw in their own staff.
I couldn't resist asking ChatGPT to help with this:

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Filing a trademark opposition is a legal process that allows an individual or entity to challenge the registration of a trademark that they believe may infringe on their own rights or cause confusion in the marketplace. The process may vary slightly depending on the jurisdiction, but here are the general steps you can follow:

1. Monitor trademark publications: Keep an eye on trademark registers, such as the Official Gazette in the United States, to identify trademarks that you believe may infringe on your rights.

2. Understand the grounds for opposition: Ensure you have valid grounds for opposing the registration, such as the likelihood of confusion, similarity with an earlier mark, bad faith filing, or a lack of distinctiveness.

3. Check the deadline for opposition: Be aware of the deadline for filing an opposition, which typically starts from the date the mark is published. Deadlines may vary by jurisdiction, so ensure you are aware of the specific deadline in your country.

4. Gather supporting evidence: Collect any evidence that supports your opposition, including documents that demonstrate your use of the mark, evidence of confusion in the marketplace, or any other relevant materials.

5. Prepare and file the Notice of Opposition: Draft a formal Notice of Opposition that outlines the grounds for your opposition and includes all supporting evidence. This document must be filed with the appropriate trademark office or tribunal, such as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) in the United States.

6. Serve the notice on the applicant: In some jurisdictions, you may be required to serve a copy of the Notice of Opposition on the applicant or their legal representative.

7. Participate in the opposition proceedings: After filing your opposition, you may need to participate in various stages of the proceedings, including discovery, pretrial disclosures, and trial. This may involve submitting additional evidence, deposing witnesses, or attending hearings.

8. Await the decision: The trademark office or tribunal will issue a decision based on the evidence and arguments presented by both parties. If the opposition is successful, the opposed trademark application may be refused or subject to certain conditions. If unsuccessful, the opposed mark will proceed to registration.

It's important to note that trademark opposition can be a complex and time-consuming process. It's often advisable to consult with an experienced trademark attorney to ensure that your opposition is filed correctly and to increase your chances of success.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/streaming-doesnt-pay/

> You've probably heard about the pathetic sums that creators earn from Spotify streaming, often blamed on the tech industry's unwillingness to pay creators what they're worth. Maybe you've also heard the rebuttal – that Spotify pays plenty to entertainment companies, but they intercept this money before it can get into creators' pockets.

> That right there is the false binary – either Spotify is cheap, or the Big Three record labels are greedy. But what if – and hear me out here – Spotify is cheap and the Big Three are greedy? What if Spotify and the labels are actually colluding to rip off the "talent"? What if neither kind of monopolist is good for artists, and no matter how much we love them, they'll never truly love us back?

The search results are filled with adverts for Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow's book, but Cory Doctorow hasn't tagged many of those adverts "chokepoint capitalism": his website lists examples, instead. https://pluralistic.net/tag/chokepoint-capitalism/

Summarising https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/, I'd define it something like:

> Chokepoint capitalism is where one party becomes both a monopoly and a monopsony: a gatekeeper, or "chokepoint". This gives it more leverage than any single other party, which it uses to extract and exploit with impunity. ⸻ While it may once have added value, once an entity becomes a chokepoint, it can cease to add value, and even start making people's lives actively worse ("enshittification"), without losing its position of power.
Orchids are not only pollinated by mosquitos. While there are some orchids that have a single insect species pollinator, this is not the case with the orchid that mosquitos pollinate, the blunt-leaved orchid, which is also pollinated by other insects.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanthera_obtusata
In retrospect, those concerns were pretty much drummed up by the "AI ethics" people, who needed an easy topic to demonstrate their importance.

When actually powerful AIs got released, the 'bias' angle got overwhelmed 100x by the "trained on copyright data" and "Are we going to lose our jobs" angle. Your average black artist doesn't care if SD defaults to drawing white people, because
A: he cares about not being able to draw for a living, permanently, 100 times as much. B: He can always add 'dark skinned' to his prompt

The bias problem is also relatively easy to solve (Midjourney has already made massive improvements), while the copyright/job loss problem is extremely hard.

The AI ethics people have had shockingly little to say on copyright/job loss issues. Which is why they got fired en masse.

Large organisations systemically overestimated the risks from bias, and underestimated the actual AI risks that society actually cares about. I think the answer is also simple, because accused of racism, will cost any executive in a large company their job. Being accused of automating millions of jobs, will earn them prestige and a promotion. Smaller companies can ignore those accusations because they aren't vulnerable to activist pressure, they answer only to their customers.
You will very quickly hit a wall with that. Speaking from experience.
"most people", I agree. Being a broke kid, I recall trying to figure out how to break different schemes. BBS Doors were my main target. I was horrible at it, but some things were learned.

I was hired as computer assembly tech at a local computer store when young. There was a customer that was frequently delinquent. The boss asked me to write a program to encrypt the hard drive if the customer hadn't paid. This customer had a business so I was very nervous about my lack of confidence in being certain their data was not lost. To compromise, only filenames and extensions were changed. IIRC, the bill was receive a payment weekly. Once the money was received, a code was given to the customer. This code would update a file on their system. If, after two weeks, no payment was received, the code would recurse through the directories and rename data files with a simple XOR. This would allow files to be recovered manually if needed. I'm not certain, but I think this was done in dbase 2000. It was the only compiler we had access to at the time.
> With running, it's harder to believe that the gear is what's holding me back from performance.

Running reminds me of strength training. No one thinks a new barbell is going to add 10% to their one-rep max.
The author is absolutely correct that AI can't do physical labor or interact with other humans very well. It's also worth pointing out that there will be new job functions created by AI. There will always be productive ways for humans to spend their time, aka work for humans to do. People predicting mass unemployment focus exclusively on the work we have now. People saying "it's different this time" minimize the innovations of the past.
When “lockless” algorithms rely on CMPXCHG aren’t they just shifting the lock from software to hardware?
You can go to a place that has self-service photocopiers and copy the QR code(s) from the export screen(s) to paper that way.

I just tested this using the copy function of my Brother printer/scanner, and my phone was able to successfully import from the printed export code.

I've only got 4 accounts in Google Authenticator (because I only have it because I wanted to help someone else once who was using it figure out something). The more accounts you have the denser the QR code will be, so it is possible that you might have to split the export into multiple passes with this method if you have a lot of accounts.