skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hereditary cognomina were used to distinguish different major branches of large, powerful clans. Some sort of device to specify which subbranch of an enormous group you're talking about appears to be necessary in every place that has such enormous groups; in imperial China, then as now, vast swathes of the population were covered by just a handful of surnames, but the practice developed of referring to notable families by a combination of their name and the location where they were dominant.

So Caesar's close relatives were all also called Caesar, which is how it got to be an imperial title. You might think that with the original cognomen locked into place for such families, members would get a second cognomen so that there would be at least one part of their name that could identify them. But apparently not.
Yes

Early Digg was pretty good.

Early Reddit had a lot of good help guides and interesting perspectives.

Now on HN. And crossing fingers.

(Slashdot seemed to go through the cycle, bottom out, and is ok again?)
Even though this will likely prevent OpenTF from connecting to registry.terraform.io to get plugins, the source code for most (all?) plugins is still open source and actually stored on GitHub (e.g. https://github.com/terraform-provider-openstack/terraform-pr...).

More work for OpenTF to get up and running, but also feels reasonable that HashiCorp wouldn't allow connecting to their service.
> "How does a brand show up in somebody's DMs or Discord server if they're not invited?" Haberman said. But in many ways, that's the point. People can still go on Instagram to check on their favorite celebrities and influencers, but young people don't want brands and marketers infiltrating the closed communities where they spend most of their time.

All people don’t want brands in their closed communities!

Anecdotally I strongly agree with the article. I pretty much only use Discord and group texts anymore among friends and family (though I do self host and share on Mastodon/Pixelfed/Lemmy it’s a fraction). Any time I poke around on traditional social media it just feels like a wasteland, 90% ads/curated content. Fine if you want to go read a magazine for a bit I guess but a shell of what it was like a decade ago.
Vyvanse is basically the same thing as normal extended release amphetamine except it lasts longer with a gentler up down curve.

So you can abuse it the same way. It just lasts longer.

The continual high you can get on a large dose is the same, just less peaky.

> Giving an addictive stimulant to food addicts

Yeah, amphetamine has so many effects beyond appetite suppression that it’s a pretty blunt instrument for that. GLP1 agonists like Ozempic seem far more promising since they don’t have the ability to crack you out.
> I like wind, and PV and batteries.

As further grist for your mill:

* Australia has proved a focused sunlight system with hot|cold water 'battery' storage

(existing ProofOfConcept) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/raygen-resources-open...

(funded expansion) https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/raygen-resources-opens-ne...

( Prior iterations of focused sunlight have had issues )

* 'Gravity batteries' are finnally being constructed (Waterless hydro batteries for non dam friendly topography)

(2018) https://insights.globalspec.com/article/10784/massive-gravit...

(2023) https://www.energyvault.com/project-cn-rudong

(cube animation 2021) https://vimeo.com/647372871
That transparency effect (in [2]) looks great.
Mastodon’s Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search
NIMBYs want to watch the world burn, from their safe and seclude back yards, lol.

Reminds of the idiot filming the wildfires as he played golf.
I was at a dinner with people who were at the Franklin Dam protests. I remarked off hand that in hindsight it would have enabled a great pumped hydro opportunity for Tasmania. The looks were intense.

There's a certain pragmatism that we need to adopt as we hurtle into the middle of the climate crisis. Seeing a lot of wind Tubines and solar panels on the landscape is a small sacrifice that we should be willing to pay. And it's not like they make the land unusable. Live stock don't mind turbine, and love to graze in the shade of solar panels.
I think it might just be the corollary of the aphorism: "If you build it, they will come."
I see the difference in that "enshittification" is what the platform owner does. "Glossification" is what the users do. Of course both are closely related.

To elaborate, with an example: ebay has once been a platform to find things non-professional people would sell from their attic on the cheap, as an auction. Then professional sellers came in, first with auctions (either more expensive ones, or by using sockpuppet accounts to drive up the bid). That was glossification. ebay then of course went through enshittification, with fixed-price offers, selling preferred spots, etc. But interestingly, they currently seem to try to revert some of that, because glossification and enshittification affect their bottom line, so now non-commercial sellers get zero fees and their own classifieds' platform
Regulation also slows down green projects. There are reasons for these regulations and some of them will be around for thousands of years...

Green energy is cheaper, less risky and regulation (while also painful) is easier in most cases. As a result a project can be built much faster. Land usage is bigger but mixed usage is OK (e.g. solar over crops, parking lots etc.). Wind can reside in the sea and geothermal can be in the middle of the city.

I think the discussion over nuclear is based on data from a decade ago. The world changed. It isn't Greenpeace that should object, its the business interests. It just isn't viable anymore and the viability is declining, since solar/wind, storage etc. keep improving at an amazing rate.
I was still curious about the exact response, therefore I see no harm in posting that.
I might be late to the party but I think if you watched BlackBerry you’d like the Tetris movie too.

It’s a bit silly but in a good way.
John's behavior already is illegal in most Western jurisdictions. Your example does not demonstrate why deadnaming in particular needs to be a criminal offense.
It all went to shit the moment 'timeline' became 'feed'.
So you want better lab safety, and that is reasonable. How would Covid-19 being a lab leak, or not, change your desire for safer lab work? How would the outcome of a lab leak determination change your life outside of your desire for safer labs?
You mean "spreading democracy".
> and doesn't require associated (not yet existing) massive storage.

That's not quite true. Nuclear generation is more flexible than wind and solar but much less flexible than thermal fuels, particularly gas. Although you can choose when you turn a nuclear power station on and off, you can't do so quickly, and your choices are somewhat constrained (regular downtime is required).

Nuclear worked well in the energy mix when it supplied base load (ie generate roughly the minimum daily load at all times) while coal supplied predictable peak load and gas could supply unexpected peaking. As this mix changes, availability patterns of nuclear start to be more of a burden. In a system without fossil fuels, you would have to have (some) energy storage, regardless of the split between nuclear, solar and wind.

The exact number for how much storage, how much overcapacity, or how much natural gas generation you would need vary with the proportions of solar, wind and nuclear of course, but it's an oversimplification to suggest that they are trivial if you use mainly nuclear.
what would be the best fix for this? when checking for dupes, ignore dots on all leftside of all emails?
I find this effect somewhat unpleasant to look at though.
Sure, but why JSON? :) What happens when a new format comes along that is better, more efficient, or whatever? Would all tools then need to be updated to support it? What if a change in the format is introduced? Would all tools need to be updated, and have to maintain backwards compatibility indefinitely? This would be an even bigger UX problem, while also adding much more maintenance work for tool developers.

It might seem like unstructured text as an exchange format is a usability nuisance, but it is what makes independent and disparate tools work well together. Choosing a strict contract is only sustainable if a single project maintains all tools, and even then it's a huge maintenance effort.
There is no RFC about how the local-part is interpreted: even the gmail +tag syntax is an extension some servers implement and some don't. The only way to accurately test equality of email addresses is to send an email to them.
I made fun of Google Wave a lot at the time because it wasn't clear what it was for. (Is it chat? Authoring? Google+?)

Eventually one of my friends forced me to try it and ... it was the coolest thing! It worked so well! I used it for note taking and collaboration but not for long because it was cancelled basically immediately.
That's what we do, in our app.

People can write whatever they want, there, in whatever order they want. We only allow 255 characters, though, because we use classic VARCHAR, and index the field.

Some Spanish (as in Catalan) names can be downright legendary.

I support non-Roman character sets.
Sorry to nitpick, but I believe that "anecdata" is strictly plural and as such "one anecdata" is grammatically incorrect. It should probably be just "one anecdote", but if you want to emphasize the "data" aspect, I'd go with "one point of anecdata" or more concisely - "one anecdatum".

Somewhat surprisingly to me, "anecdatum" has apparently never yet appeared in print [0], and I'm happy for the two of us to share credit in coining it.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=anecdatum
I get it — subscriptions suck, but I've explained why in the "Why a subscription?" box here: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free
That's not true.

I've just gone to facebook

clicked register new account

Entered Name, DOB, Email

Now I'm stuck, can't proceed past "Enter the code from your email" and going to https://facebook.com in a new browser tab takes be back to the "enter code from email page".

I doubt they will send any chaser emails but I will report back in some time
Only because of perceptions, not because of actual facts/specs.

My point here is not to debate if the Mustang is a SUV, I don't personnally consider it one. My point here is to show that there is no clear/undisputable definition of what a SUV is appart from manufacturers labelling it as one and vague perception by the public.

Because for each definition you can give you will find an example of a car labeled SUV not adhering strictly to this definition and counter examples of cars not labeled SUV adhering at least partially to some of the definition.
In France married women, if they let their guard down, will be given their husband's last name as "nom d'usage" upon almost any sign-up paperwork, without being asked, at least in my experience.

Nom d'usage technically has no legal value, it's just a last name you might want to be addressed as, normally that of your husband but it can be a pen name and whatever. It's optional, and technically only at the request of the relevant person. Men can have nom d'usage too (égalité, after all).

Still, immigration offices, banks, insurances... they often slap the husband's last name if that field is left empty, just because. Why would you want something else, right? She probably forgot!

We started crossing those fields to make it clear she doesn't want a nom d'usage.
They are definitely related. The social media 'enshitification' is a subset of all tech/industry 'enshitification'

Think the Doctorow 'Enshitification' was more broader than just social media, and was all technology, even non-social apps eventually turn bad as the goals switch from being focused on the user and providing value, to corporate greed trying to extract money from the user.
A non-sanctioned country can buy uranium on the open market relatively easily. Production happens in many places [1], including Canada and Australia.

French power plants don't need to worry much about African politics, at worst they'll have pay Canada or Kazakstan a little extra for short notice delivery. And even then, Uranium is a small part of the overall cost of nuclear energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
> With wall-eye, you shift the convergent point being what you're seeing,

Here "being" probably should have said "behind".
That's a brilliantly simple approach. You could even have an estimated difficulty score that updates based on number of moves, switches, etc. and ramp up target difficulty as the random run progresses.
You have to be a bit careful with that kind of argument though. According to the specs the local part of an email address (before the @) can also be case sensitive so me@example.com and ME@example.com could be different email addresses. In the early days of a new system we implemented account email addresses following what the rules really say and making no assumptions. We then spent way too much time dealing with users who signed up with one address but then tried to log in with a "different" one because they had caps lock on or some auto-capitalisation feature in whatever browser they were using. Lesson learned - users do assume those are all the same address and cleaning up a database that sometimes has accounts for both me@example.com and ME@example.com isn't much fun.
You're conveniently omitting that a lot of these costs are driven by onerous regulations and delays put in place by the same anti-nuclear activists. You can't simultaneously lobby for bloating the costs and then use those bloated costs as evidence against nuclear's effectiveness.
I am not a grid expert, though I am fairly well versed in EVs/solar/battery storage.

I am curious if battery storage can be done on-site at solar/wind facilities rather than distributed locally in neighborhood grids. I ask, because in NY we are seeing huge NIMBY issues with installing battery storage in residential areas. A mix of realistic concerns (fire safety) and general FUD/NIMBYism for sure.

The facilities aren't even that big, which is why I'm curious if they could just be built out at the generation site and fight the NIMBY env. review paperwork game once.
In my experience, surprisingly few services nowadays require email confirmation, I suppose in the name of increasing conversions or something.

I've had a number of accounts opened in my address but with different dots (eBay, Spotify, Shutterstock) that didn't require confirmation.

I usually reset the password, inform customer service (who generally don't care, or don't want to do anything because it's not my account), and then I close the account.
It does, i just tested it.
> concerns exist about impact on wildlife

My father pointed out an interesting counter to this to me recently: how many birds are killed by wind farms and how many are killed by house cats?

Studies show a million or so birds killed in the US by wind each year. Other studies estimate cats kill billions of birds- and most aren't eaten, because the cats are well fed pets.

> loss of agricultural space

Is that something we're short of? I'd argue that food prices, ignoring recent inflation fluctuations, are the cheapest they've been ever in the history of humanity. Hunger only exists in the world because capitalism dictates that those who are poor must starve.

The opposition to renewables is pure NIMBYism. Though I'd still back new nuclear any day (and my province recently announced some!)
I've never really seen it as multi-tasking, just that a lot of knowledge work involves inputs and outputs (edit web page/ previous web page, edit code/view test results, read requirements/write spec etc). Those can often be separate windows and being able to focus on either at will works well for me.
My iPad Pro is a pro consumption device. I want a productivity device. :(
> lifespan of nuclear projects, which is easily 2-3 times longer than solar and wind

Not sure it is a really solid argument. For wind maybe yes, but life expectancy of solar panels is about 40 years (warranty are 25-30 years but are pessimistic with margins). And with very low maintenance during the lifespan and easy replacement.
Nuclear reactors have 60 years lifespan yes, but with massive continuous maintenance during the life cycle.
Try these:

An interactive website https://seeing-theory.brown.edu that takes you through some of the most critical probabilities and statistics concepts.

Statistics 110: Probability

If you want a more advanced overview of Probabilities and Statistics, this course from Harvard University is an excellent introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6...

This is MIT Course 18.06, taught by Professor Gilbert Strang.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...

One of the best linear algebra courses that you’ll ever find.

Essence of Calculus

This is Grant Sanderson’s excellent take on calculus:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53...
And I appreciate your story and empathize, which is why I am ensuring both you and others reading your story remember that folks finding themselves in your situation have rights that are less commonly exercised.

But I appreciate that it's a tough topic and not engage further. Good luck with it.
> Which explicitly implies that objects are exclusively freed only by autofree and reference counting.

Yes, and what's wrong with that? That's how it works now too, except RC has been replaced by a tracing GC.
Same reason I have issues with the Uk Green party, makes them look foolish when they push to stop fossils but the only current practical solution is nuclear(which they're against)
I haven't experienced something being uninstallable, I've always used Google pixel phones, do other manufacturers do this?
I see, interesting! Maybe they've changed their system. Thanks for looking into this!
It is also an age/generation thing.
FB was cool until your aunt was there. Then IG was cool until the same. TikTok probably well through that cycle. etc.
The bulk of the burning seems distant from anything that's ever been "managed" or logged in any way.
Nuclear power plants on submarines successfully meet energy needs for customers who are the least price sensitive in the world.
I have nothing useful to add except that I know quite a few people who would be happy if they could have an apostrophe in their name without everything going to shit
That is a first step towards an open source version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328669
So what? Society should be structured for the benefit of the people rather than corporations, which are only useful to the extent that they benefit people. We don't need or want all possible businesses, just the ones that are sufficiently useful without being too harmful.
It’s so true and refreshing to hear. If I had to characterize my own successes in learning, they come from very “honest” teachers, and those aren’t always in intro courses. A few examples, learning PowerShell from Snover, one of the creators via Microsoft Virtual Academy (probably a bit dated by now) or Calculus 3 from Professor Leonard on YouTube. I often have to go through a few dozen resources to find the one that works for me.

We also can’t teach math well for the masses, there’s a long history of failure. Like New Math or the STEM pipeline. Embarrassing stuff really and I don’t know what a good solution is. It’s one reason I don’t totally hate the new approaches to how math is taught that get lambasted on social media (this is not New Math which was much earlier) because the past isn’t working well enough.
I posted a lot on facebook in high school. Had maybe 50 friends there, like my classmates, soccer team etc. Posted at least once a day what I was doing, same did everyone else, and we discussed in during lunch next day. Or I would post a general "going to the soccer field, just join in", and we'll be a group there. Then joining university and getting new groups of friends, it didn't feel relevant to "spam" everyone with these things anymore. And then friends and family joined. Then I got a job and new groups, and suddenly there's 500+ friends on there I don't want to tell everything to...

And the opposite problem with people I follow on social media. I care about your tech writings, or your sport performances or whatever. But not everything else you post. I want a slice of you, not everything.

Hence, silence.
Never really happened to me, but Thunderbird has a pretty good feature for this case: "Ignore message thread". I'm sure other mail clients have this feature as well.

If someone is bothered by such a thread, it's really easy to avoid.
> Not for gmail though; gmail ignores those dots. But some.email@notgmail.com is normally a different inbox if the local part drops the dot.

My own mail server is configured to use a different character besides the `+` for tags and its notion of "same account" is defined by a mysql query. There's no way to know the interpretation of the local part in advance: you can apply various heuristics if you don't mind annoying people; or you can accept the email and verify it by sending an email.
If an AGI is a GPT and you can chat with it why wouldn't you call it ChatGPT?
10K people have offered to change their names to 'Subway' for lifetime free food
For an observer to be unable to differentiate the simulation from the outside world if put in the simulation is a very low bar, and the one that matters.

It's a low bar because you don't need to presume the simulated entity gets the benefit of the passage of time. For it to be likely for us to be in a simulation, it's sufficient for it to be likely for the total runtime of "simulated us" to be higher than "real us", and our only knowledge of the passage of time are the momentary memories and sensory inputs right now, and we can't validate their truthfulness.

In other words: you don't need to simulate any physics to prevent a mind from differentiating. You just need to limit the scope of your simulation to a sufficiently narrow slice of time.

Personally, I tend to think that if simulations become widespread, test runs, debugging and development, research runs, or application specific runs of small slices are likely to far outpace full scale simulations in runtime, and so if simulations are probable, I'd be inclined to think we're most likely in a (very) short-lived, scope-limited simulation in a horrible groundhog day like setting.
Still, with the Estonian salaries, 55 people is a rounding error.
That's like saying you shouldn't use a second monitor because then you have a hard time to use anyone's computer that doesn't have a second monitor.

Also don't use any editor other than Notepad.
The basic skills for this are taught in Electrical/(Computer) Engineering. In fact depending on your college you may end up writing a instruction set emulator lol. So it's not something that requires a 20 year career experience background.

It just takes a lot of dedication and time/energy to reverse engineer. People basically do it as a hobby. Usually the most hobby interest is nostalgia vibes from old stuff but even getting new stuff to run is done for the mental excercise fun
There is a difference between a forest and a tree plantation. It is deceptive to call a tree plantation a "forest".

Sure, both contain trees, but the plantation is a monoculture, with all the problems that brings. Also, the trees are not allowed to mature - they are harvested as soon as they reach a certain size.

If you removed plantations from the listed forests, people would be shocked. Actual, natural forest? There isn't really all that much of it...
> Reminds of the idiot filming the wildfires as he played golf.

Was there a water hazard nearby?