skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly.

The whole sequential history narrative, the Standard Model, is totally blinkered from its NW european perspective.

"Civilisation," meaning societies that have cities, taxes, writing, big government, roads, aqueducts, and such.... these existed for thousands of years in Egypt, Iraq, India, China, Greece etc. Rome was such a society.

Rome also conquered "The East," and the north african coast... all long established urban "civilisations." When Rome "fell," those civilisations persisted. Persia had "fallen" before them, as had Alexander's empire, Assyria, Babylon, Sumer, etc. etc.

There were good centuries and bad, but they generally stayed "civilised" through thousands of years worth of political turmoil and change. They always had scribes, high priests, princes, infrastructure and such.

England, France, Germany and whatnot.... These were never civilisations. They were, for short periods ruled by Rome. They had some elements of civilisation, but for brief periods with limited reach. It was never culturally rooted or widespread. They were barbarian societies, and continued to be barbarian societies. Writing doesn't "disappear" in europe, it never really existed.

Concepts like Scottish or German renaissance are ridiculous. These were new civilisations being established in previously barbarian societies. They weren't renewing, they were founding.

Urban civilisation is new to NW europe. 200-500 years old. England's "old world civilisation" is only 150 years older than US civilisation.
Just to make sure: if the company goes bankrupt, will I be able to continue releasing updates etc.?
Your example is usually referred to as a sunburn chat. Although it shares all drawbacks of pie charts. Some would say sunburn chart make it even harder to correctly understand the relative size of elements than pie charts.
Link provided doesn't work for me. I'm already logged in to 
Twitter
 X, but it sends me to a login page.

Which is probably not what you intended.

Unless it is what you intended, in which case I don't understand your point.
I guess spawn-like or invoke-like things are a bit more intuitive at first but they break down when you're out of the trivial case and you have to clean up some but not all resources in a certain way and keep some others to pass on before calling the actual child code.

Then fork starts to make sense as you can do the preparation phase unrestricted by what the spawn API allows and be sure to affect only the child before exec'ing. Probably changing this would require a significantly different resource management model (which is a nice thing to explore)

In some ways, fork+exec sucks, but in others it's also exactly the right tool for some jobs. There's some conceptual simplicity and beauty to it that reminds me of lisp's homoiconicity, where things can be broken down to four fundamental elements (read eval print loop)
Fruits used to be a seasonal treat, and people lived very active exhausting lifestyles. As we've gotten more sedentary, sugar consumption has gone up, and it should truly be the opposite.

Also no, it's no more difficult to run a marathon with an all meat, zero carb diet than it is with a carb heavy diet. People run ultramarathons on carnivore diets:

https://youtu.be/PEgjafWFMQ4

And this is how ancient humans hunted game as well, despite not having access to trail mix and Power Bars, as you can see in the Masaai persistence hunting technique:

https://youtu.be/9iGJjdt1xSo
It’s just a pity they’re so expensive.

By rights I should be using tape for my backups, but even a single tape drive is…
There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub. It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify.
> I'd like to see some stats to back this up, considering the IUCN has taken the bluefin off its "red list,"

No they haven't. Nothing gets taken off the Red List (e.g. the Brown Rat is on the Red List: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19353/165118026). It's the Red List rating that matters, and Atlantic Bluefin is listed as Endangered. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21860/76599358
Flamegraphs are (usually) not a timeline.

> The x-axis spans the sample population. It does not show the passing of time from left to right, as most graphs do. The left to right ordering has no meaning (it's sorted alphabetically to maximize frame merging).

https://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html
For me, "Growing Up With Science" encyclopedia was pure ellation. From the subject matter to the explanations of use and application to the beautiful illustrations. I purchased a complete set a while ago when my child was born and shared the experience with them as well.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4760487-growing-up-with-...
Mediteranean sea has a Surface area of 2,500,000 km2. Where exactly did they measure ?
> All in all, I think that the net proportion of skilled labour grew significantly.

I'm not so sure. Before industrialization, most jobs were skilled. For one, most people were farmers, and it required a lifetime of knowledge (usually passed on from previous generations). Whereas today, lots (most?) of people are employed in jobs which don't require much training. In factory work jobs, it's enough that you are literate and can do basic arithmetic. In many office jobs and service jobs, it's that plus possibly some basic computer skills. The actual training often takes one day and teaches you everything you need to know to perform the job well.
right, I might consider that a large number of the services my employer has paid for are crap, but when I talk to representatives of those services I can't say why in hell did you decide to do this idiotic crap because their HR would complain to my employer's HR and thus I am forced to be polite. Definitely a win for professional etiquette.

I believe, based on other comments I have seen on HN, that my view is a pretty widespread one.
Tapes gave us the mix-tape - a beautiful thing for sharing.
There's also http://wiby.me and https://searchmysite.net
> whose only cause is sugar

Which chronic diseases are caused by sugar and nothing else?
Explorer Exposed The weird and wonderful world of Internet Explorer (2009)
Forgive me, but are that many people that morbidly obese and adamant that it's not their responsibility when they're in the dang hospital? I'm carrying around a few dozen extra pounds, but I don't need special-sized anything.

The bitter truth is that people don't lose weight because it's goddamn fucking hard.
Copilot for Pull Requests
The author seems to be using "Malthusian" to mean "pessimistic economics," even if the specific flavour of pessimism is the opposite of Malthus'.

I think the biggest thing we can learn from Malthusean economics is that have a fun last name increases your quotability by 10,000%.
CEO of DNSimple here. We have not changed the prices for any existing customers with active subscriptions, nor do we plan on changing them in the near future. We have adjusted our pricing for new customers and prior customers who resubscribe.

With our new plans we offer zones for $2 per month for unlimited query volume whereas Amazon charges $0.50 for each zone, plus $0.40 for the first million queries + $0.20 for each million queries thereafter. We will likely also eventually have to charge by query volume because there are real costs with operating our DNS network. One of the reasons we have not yet talked about what we will do with existing plans is because we do not know for sure what the optimal pricing will be with query volumes involved.

Cloudflare is something altogether different and frankly is hard to compete with based on price as they are subsidising their free tier with by charging business customers at a much higher amount (I can say this from experience).

In terms of where we are headed to differentiate ourselves from other domain management services, the new features we've been launching should make that clear. For example, you can now manage Route 53 zones from within DNSimple (https://blog.dnsimple.com/2023/06/manage-aws-routes-in-dnsim...) as well as CoreDNS zones for on-premise DNS, as well as see your GoDaddy domains in DNSimple as well (with management coming in the upcoming months).

For any existing customer that wants to switch to the new plan, we've made that easy to do (for example if you have one zone it'll be cheaper in the Solo plan). For customers that resubscribe and need to select a new plan, they are always welcome to reach out to us at support at dnsimple dot com and we will be happy to work with them to find a solution that works for them.
HN is designed to encourage news over discussions. PG thought free discussion would encourage "blogging" and low quality content.

Which is why the text of those posts is pre-faded, so the longer they are, the more painful they are to read, and the less likely they are to be engaged with. News posts also get more visibility than text posts.
I clicked the first one, it's readable in the browser for me?

https://github.com/mark-watson/free-older-books-and-software...
> Is there ever a benefit to adding refined sugar to anything, though?

1) this claim is much weaker than "Sugar is the worst substance for public health ever. It's literally poison."

2) and it can be a good idea if otherwise someone would suffer from caloric deficit dangerous to health and eating more food is not viable (yes, this situation is unusual)
The Expo setup that I use never calls into Expo servers at build time. For OTA updates, I've managed to get my self-hosted Expo update server working too, although I'm not using it at the moment, as its incompatible with the React Native New Architecture (it's the last expo package to lack this support - hopefully they'll add it soon).
No worries, thanks for being a good sport. I think we agree all around.

It was never the connecting that bothered me, it was the storage of the data encountered.
Even if what you say makes sense, there are maybe around three people in the world who are interested in a new OS because of this reason, which is not really the "users" that people talk about.
That is insane.

What else? Is taste trademarkable? Or some kind of smells? Or maybe a tone/frequency?
And lack of water would make alcohol even more expensive.
You can handle the TSTP signal to stop that.

However, it still leaves ABRT on the table that can be with ctrl-4 and ctrl-\. For that you'd need to disable the binding e.g. with stty and then handle TSTOP the same way I suppose—or just put it in raw mode.
What are these shorts? It looks like common video that is very narrow vertically.
> AMD GPUs are great in terms of pure silicon

This has pretty much always been true. AMD cards always had more FLOPS and ROPs and memory bandwidth than the competing nVidia cards which benchmark the same. Is that a pro for AMD? Uhhhh doesn't really sound like it.
For Austria I can assure that it happened somewhere between 1995 and 2000. It was a combination of many things though: Social ostracism of smoking; Gaming consoles and Internet which kept people in their flats/houses; Ubiquitous availability of alcohol measurement devices which effectively supported enforcing workplace security and liability of drunk driving.
There is a lot of low quality comments on this, I feel sorry for that.

What everybody who does not feel well under these conditions should never the less consider is: Connections are formed during these events and collective rule breaking is an effective bonding mechanism. Further more, getting intoxicated together is a convenient way to make statements and have a degree of deniability afterwards.
Not analogue audio cassettes though.

They would get tangled in the tape deck, and be ruined. They would sightly unspool themselves, get caught on something or twisted, and be ruined. They would stretch with overuse, distorting the audio horribly and/or comically, and be ruined.

In my youth it seemed like every major roadside was littered with discarded audio tape. Clumps of tangled brown film dolefully flapping about in the breeze.

This is not a format to be overly nostalgic for.
While there may be some truth in your comment, you do miss the entire point.

General purpose computers with general purpose operating systems on them are exactly what it sounds: general purpose. A PC would be comparable to a CNC mill in metal workshop. Operator needs certain base level of knowledge and skill to use the machine safely and purposefully. In fact, general purpose computers, "enterprise" controls on them and end user programs are so unimaginably good and miraculously robust that people with little to no formal training and very vague understanding of operational concerns of the system can use the system to consistently yield net positive result. Even when users actively try to bend the systems in ways they are explicitly not expected to be bent. I don't know whether this is because of or despite the systems being duck taped from scrap, but nevertheless these systems are amazingly resilient and fool proof.

> In no other engineering discipline would this shit fly; imagine building a bridge and just constructing it from rocks, old cars and whatever scrap they happened to have lying around the construction site and then fixing it on the go as some of that crap quite predictably falls apart. This is basically what all of computer/software industry is doing.

On the other hand, in no other engineering discipline engineers and operators are expected to provide a pedestrian bridge that is movable, can quickly scale to support military column and be able to support opening parade before foundation is poured. In no other engineering discipline you start building a façade and figure out internals later, based on use. The more I understand inner workings of computer systems, the more I am amazed at how they do not collapse under their own weight and remain operational.
Expo is great. I use it.

My primary issue with it is the lack of support for in app purchases (last checked in late 2022).

The only easy way to do it is via RevenueCat, as none of the other RN IAP libraries work with Expo.

Expo also has built in support for over-the-air updates, which is great. However, it is a paid product, for $5/m per 1000 users (first 1000 free).

I believe you can run your own server for OTA updates, but it's fairly obvious that this feature will eventually be removed when they need to monetize harder.
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
Blake vs. Nist is irrelevant to the performance debate, because no matter what you do, they're both going to go approximately the same speed. The debate is why hardcore 256+ bit crypto is needed at all by the operating system primitives on a simple device living in my home, when doing that goes literally 30x slower than using something like crc32 or xxhash. Not to mention that if you're pushing for hard crypto merkle tree stuff, you'd be a fool to do it without things like ecc ram too. Since cosmic rays will blow up your data structures. So you're not just making embedded go slow. You're making it less reliable too. Just to wield ironclad remote control of people's personal possessions.
In the original example I gave a compromise was made. Namely the $0.01 increase in pay. I claim one side didn’t really have bargaining power. Do you believe all instances of compromise indicate bargaining power on both sides? I don’t. Sometimes one side budges very little and has way more power than the other. So much so that it’s not accurate to say both sides had bargaining power.
I made one to help Sales people make personanize cold email at scale.

ChatGPT is just amazingly good at it!
I get info from the LinkedIn profile of my prospect and generate an ice-breaker from it.

If you want to try it (it's free) https://www.salesgpt.xyz/
Very true. Making alcohol requires a lot of water.
Ah, that's black metal, which is deeply earnest. When I explain to people about my theory of earnestness in music death vs. black metal is a great way to show "not earnest" against "earnest". Can you tell me the story of the band and the sheep heads though please? I've heard a lot of stories from the black metal scene but not that one!

Here are some very earnest album covers lol:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/06/13/the-worst-black-m...
Of fucking course they are. I can track everything I eat, but most of the time I find myself too stressed to care, let alone to run the numbers in my head. If your life sucks and food is the only thing that gives you any reprieve from anger, anxiety, and depression, I don't think any amount of accuracy or willpower will save you from gaining weight.
Maybe it helps that you sterilize a big batch once and then it stays safe indefinitely? I'd rather drink a 2 year old bottle of wine than a 2 year old bottle of lake water.
And the movie and TV industries wanted in on videotape back then. I remember reading a piece by one of the then big lobby shops, arguing that VHS tapes should be a tax, the income to be distributed to the studios.
-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for production C code [video]
Hey there, I was confused at this exact question too. This link might help, written by a contributor to llama.cpp:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684

TLDR: Lower quantization means higher perplexity (i.e. how 'confused' the model is when seeing new information). It's a matter of testing it out and choosing a model that fits your available memory. The higher the quantization number, the better (generally).
A big shift was also coffee. Works much better for focus work, and also gives a slight high (big in the beginning).

The coffee & alcohol cycle is also an interesting one in the West

High paced work environment & coffee jacking up your nervous system, and then in the evening using alcohol to calm it down (or other calmers like weed or painkillers).
> I too would need a half bottle of port to write about freedom and liberty while my slaves built me a countryside mansion.

Indeed, after deposing the monarchy of your mother country, and setting about to create a republic in the face of thousands of years of bloody noble rivalries over succession to the throne, a tall pint of cider is well in order.
I don't foresee this happening anytime soon, given the abstractions that keep doubling.
* actually get the things you committed to doing done, in (on average) the timescales you committed to

* work at least your contracted hours each week

* be available for real-time interaction with the people you are working with

Track these things and make sure you are doing them and keep doing them. If you are doing all these things and in the absence of negative feedback, there's no particular reason for concern or guilt.
In Sweden there is still a tax on cassette tapes that goes directly to artists... So if you buy a cassette tape (any cassette tape for any use) artists in Sweden gets a cut... Not sure how many people today use cassette tapes for piracy...
The cross-silo synergy is strong in this one.
Show HN: SalesGPT, create personalized cold email at scale
Interview with an Extraterrestrial
Fascinating how they place more importance on how “unwelcome” they would feel if not allowed to carry a gun, versus how physically unsafe others might feel if they were.
Oh cool, nice that you edited Wikichip, thumbs up :)
It's nice to have those memories, for sure, but my CDs themselves get completely neglected nowadays - between mp3 rips, and streaming services conveniently tying in with my main hifi setup, the CDs just don't see active service any more. And my kids sure aren't interested :-D

I used to love exploring friends' music collections, seeing where tastes overlap. "Everyone has everything via Spotify" completely eliminates this. And I don't see us going back in any substantially wider sense, the genie's out of the bottle. Ah the march of progress, eh...
Wall squats _and planks_.

And gentle reminder that the world record for a plank is over 9 hours. Humans are awesome! ;)
Fixed link: https://twitter.com/x
Perhaps (2020) in the title?
Some people in the US were all torqued in the 80s when you could no longer drink and drive.

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/166851023189728870...

"You can't drink when you want to, you have to wear a seatbelt. Pretty soon we'll be a Communist country".

Does that echo, or what?
> the free one will be rated lower because of perception.

Not only that. I would buy paid app only if convinced that it is worth it. I am willing to try free app - and in case that it is garbage, rate it accordingly.

Also, free versions often have strong limitation or massive amounts of ads: so they are worse than paid one.
This might become the new go to example of "crank magnetism".

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism
Decentraleyes: Local CDN Emulation
The general problem we need to find good answers for is that as a society, on average we just don't move enough.

And in general, folks dismiss some of the easier ways to do this. Walkable and bike-friendly cities. Fare-free mass transport (gotta walk to bus stops). Electric bicycles that require foot pedaling (folks are more likely to use them when they have the electric assist vs a regular bicycle). Taking care of walking/biking infrastructure (sidewalks to little if you don't treat them as well as the roads). Heck, we could make gyms affordable too. Reasonable work hours - for everyone - that allow for time to move would be a bonus as well.

We aren't even teaching folks how to do this stuff in ways that even poor folks in studio apartments or rented rooms can do. I spent more time learning parts of the body, the dangers of sex, and rules for sports than I did anything that would lead to lifelong health and strength and I doubt that has been fixed now.

These aren't cure-alls, but pushes folks in the right direction. It at least should work better than the shaming we do now.
I will use this definition of "happiness" in my reply: an emotional state arising from a way of life that is fulfilling, meaningful, makes the person fully satisfied but at the same time eager to explore, to set new exciting goals.

I know someone who has some unique qualities: this person is passionate but at the same time deeply analytical and profoundly sincere. E.g. he goes to the deepest possible degree of being honest with himself (by unflinchingly scrutinizing his beliefs, feelings, reactions), and does so in systematic, thorough way, gaining more and more understanding about how mind works.

This understanding allowed him to build his personal system of self-improvement (he describes it in several books which I don't link here because they are not translated yet into English), so he was able to rework himself into a truly happy person.

I've used some of his methods and I personally attest that they can be very effective if applied properly. But it is rather difficult to apply them! Because you have to be alike to the person who invented these methods: sincere, passionate, and persevering. Not everybody has these qualities.

I think that the key to the happiness is to be sincere, to strive for honesty. To know yourself and understand how your mind works, what it wants and why. Once a person truly understands themselves, they will be able to figure out their personal path to happiness. Which is unique for everyone.
There seems to be still a few in Dublin. I remember them being collocated with phone shops, not to be confused with places that let you buy phones, but to make calls. Now they seem to be collocated with tanning salons...
If I recall from a previous company, we used Stripe but would sometimes need to manually invoice a customer and they had the option to generate a unique link to a decent looking invoice page where the customer could fill it out, have everything logged and handled by Stripe, and that was the end of the story.

It seems fantastic, although I wasn't on the finance side of things. Any negatives to using something like that? It seemed awfully convenient for one offs/corrections for large customers when things done need to be slick and automated.