skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems completely impossible, regardless of the ages of any surviving inscriptions.

The reason is that the initial North-West Semitic alphabet had 27 consonants, whose order is known from the Ugaritic alphabet derived from it.

The Phoenicians have merged 5 pairs of consonants (KHA with HOTA, SHIN with THANNA, DHAL with ZETA, ZU with SADE and AIN with GHAIN), and they have kept only one letter from each pair, the result being a simplified alphabet with only 22 consonants.

There is no doubt that all the other later North-West Semitic alphabets have been derived from the Phoenician alphabet and not from any earlier Semitic alphabet, because all of them have started only with the restricted set of 22 letters, even if their languages had more consonants than 22, so the Phoenician letters were too few for writing all the sounds of those languages.

Because of this mismatch between the Phoenician alphabet and the sound inventory of the languages, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic have been forced initially to use a single letter for multiple sounds, which has been corrected later by inventing various diacritic signs to distinguish the multiple meanings of a letter, like in the Hebrew SHIN and SIN (which are distinguished by adding a dot to the letter, in different positions).

If the Hebrew alphabet had been older than the Phoenician, it would have included more than 22 letters, e.g. by having distinct letters for SHIN and SIN (whose pronunciations were different from the modern pronunciations, which have merged SIN with SAMEKH).
Assuming this actually works (I /assume/ this is based off of passive lens flare detection???), this is easily countered with a bunch of 300 dollar drones with 120 dollar off the shelf optics attached, sitting in tree branches vaguely aiming in the direction of the device.

Nice expensive waste of money, Russia. GG.
I think of a "work week" as a bit of a fishbowl situation for most professionals. If you extend it from 40 hours to 80 hours you'll generally get the same output over time.

Of course, this productivity can only be squeezed into only so small a frame, but I think what we're learning is that 40 hours is probably not the maxima for efficiency.

The simplest way to have more efficient workers is to make them happy. I don't have a panacea for that problem, but giving them an extra day for leisure sure doesn't hurt when possible. But more than that, companies rarely ask and listen to employees about what they want/need, and there's so much social pressure that people seldom speak up. Fundamentally this is a cultural problem.
> Apparently "do something" doesn't extend so far as to naming names?

All talk and no action.

People need to start naming names.
Ah I was just looking at Microcenter, thanks!
It's a great site, but the home page of such a site doesn't make for a great HN submission because it falls in the category of "list": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

Lists don't make great HN submissions because they don't point to anything specific enough. The resulting discussion tends to be generic and shallow, because the only material to discuss is the lowest-common-denominator, i.e. whatever the items on the list have in common.

This thread is a nice example because the comments are only about the site in general—mostly how good it is—which of course is true, but not 'interesting' (in HN's sense of the word) enough to devote a frontpage slot to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

The solution is to pick the most interesting element from the list and submit that instead. Maybe we should ask amitp to nominate one :)

Edit: I did that and have changed the URL now. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708834. (I will also mark the current comment off topic so it goes to the bottom of the page.)
one thing I’ve realised is working style is really something that is highly preferential, you cant possibly satisfy everyone.

Working from Office, Working from home, hybrid- working hours, lunch hours.

you cant ever hope to satisfy everybody.

In my case for example, i bloody hate commuting, I feel like any work I do in a day eats disproportionately too much of my day (like going to the gym, where if you work out for 45 minutes you should allocate 90 minutes actually due to prep, shower, travel etc).

I’d much rather have longer fewer days.
Overseeing fall of a company, huh? Hell, I can do it for free. I'll just network, see where C-suite lands, and ask for favours later while paying out significant C-suite compensation bonuses.
The solution to both of those problems is to not use Instagram, which isn't a great solution, but at least it's possible.

However, if Instagram is collecting browsing history and location data on me from some other source, it's hard/impossible for me to avoid.
Pretty much every smartphone younger than four years.
...and that long, windy road is one-lane, and I don't remember high-quality pavement.

Some of that money would have to be spent on the road, right away, if there is any hope of it to be a general attraction.
Are Many Worlds and Pilot Wave the same theory? [video]
At the moment, you can buy drugs with it online. Don't know if that will last, though.
> stop the world from literally burning

That's the sort of climate histeria that makes it difficult for rational people to take any of it seriously.
What language are you using? I think about doing the same thing every now and then, no reading about it just daydreaming. I would think a BEAM language like Elixir might do the trick, a BEAM process for each processor, passing messages around.
From your second link:

> In most cases, public companies are private enterprises in the private sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
I just listen (with an SDR, I never got a HackRF because I don't transmit). Where I live I can see planes on approach to SFO and can cross-reference flight codes on the radio with planes that I can see flying by and on flightradar.
Yeah, quite the opposite, I see this in the official announcement: "We aren't cutting any core businesses, and are continuing to invest in games with Fortnite first-party development, the Fortnite creator ecosystem and economy, Rocket League and Fall Guys; and services for developers including Unreal Engine for games and enterprise, Epic Games Store, Epic Games Publishing, Epic Online Services, Kids Web Services, MetaHuman, Twin Motion, Quixel Mega Scans, Capturing Reality, ArtStation, Sketchfab and Fab."
ReactOS's mere existence doesn't mean it is actually competing in a meaningful way. People use Windows on PCs because it is what is preinstalled from OEMs, not because they made a conscious decision to choose the OS.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

If you want to replace MacOS or Windows dominance, you don't need a better OS. You need an OS that is preinstalled on hardware that people buy.
Here are reasons I can think of for either side of the conflict to blow the dam up.

We need to note that contextually, the dam was blown up at the start of Ukraine's Counter-Offensive against the Russian positions in the south of the country.

Purely mechanically looking at "who benefits" I have the following understanding.

Reasons it could have benefited Ukraine:

1. The flooding destroyed the Russian first lines of defence along the Dnipro as well as their artillery ranging Kherson

2. The flooding created an emergency situation on the ground requiring evacuations and therefore double-tasking Russian forces which were supposed to defend the primary surge toward Tokmak

3. The destruction of the dam makes Russian occupation of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant more difficult

4. The destruction of the dam makes Russian occupation of the Crimean Peninsula (which gets its water from the dam) more difficult

Reasons it could have benefited Russia:

1. If Ukraine's counter-offensive had included an attack across the Dnipro, this action would have delayed that front, allowing Russian forces to focus on the three other main fronts. (Based on what we know now it appears this was not part of Ukraine's action plan, but that's not to rule it out entirely)
I've seen companies host a ton of tiny web sites, each in their own AWS account, replicating the same infrastructure N times. Tons of overhead. Total costs is many times what it would cost to host on a few mid range servers in a colo. But, it's "secure" and "scalable". Actual utilization is single digit requests/second, summed across all the sites, on a good day.
What's the difference between the approaches?
You could just as easily make df opt-in. Another way is to use “fake” cloudflare-df.com sni just like they are doing with cloudflare-ech.com outer sni
4-day weeks have a lower cost than 32 hours spread over 5 days, because some of the days you’re off would have been off anyway due to holidays or whatever. You can also get away with offering fewer days off without doing any harm—all weekends are three-day weekends, and you see fewer parents taking days off because of e.g. a Friday school in-service day.

The cost of having Fridays always off is a fair bit lower than 20% of actual hours worked in most 5-day-a-week workplaces.
They would lose because the response was appropriate with the given information at the time. (and the lower risk we enjoy today is thanks to vaccination and natutal immunity of the survivors).
Assume for the sake of argument that facebook users make one-million posts a day. Assume it's spam detector is 99.999% accurate at telling if a given post is spam or not.

That's 10 false positives _every single day_. And in all likelihood their spam detector isn't that good, and there are many, many more posts than that.

Every now and then one of those false positives will be an interesting web site or one that feels really obviously wrong. But that's just what statistics does. When you take enough samples from a distribution, even very low-probability events happen.

Sometimes something will feel really out of the ordinary and wrong, but it happened entirely by chance.

If there were evidence of systematic decisions like this, it would be more of a story. But what we have here is just a big nothing-burger.
To start, every worker is an owner in a worker cooperative. Mondragon requires a financial investment in the cooperative upon hiring. A fair share would be based on the size of each worker's investment in the company. How it is regulated is set by each cooperative so there is no real answer to your question.
I've had a 3 day work week for years (at 20 hours per week) and I love it. I feel like I'm more productive than before, too. Not just productivity per hour, but total productivity. I was surprised by this result since I'm working half the hours per week.
It's hard to know for absolutely certain, but a lot of it might be because diacritics would just make English even harder to read/write. By the invention of printing, English was a very confusing mess of the germanic and romantic languages and there was no absolute agreement on pronunciation. Plus, we were in the middle of the great vowel shift, so slapping diacritics on letters would have been a fools errand since they wouldn't sound like that diacritic says they do. English's lax pronunciation, linguistic changes during the middle ages, and strong romantic language influence, would make it even more confusing to create solid rules on diacritic usage, especially as many people would still be illiterate, and English was an "easier" language than the very complex Latin.
Not immoral. Just potentially counterproductive.

I've taken a stance, DECADES ago, that all ads are telegraphing a very simple message: "my offering is not good enough to be discovered on its own merits, therefore I have to spend money to drown out the more worthy options".
I'm definitely a fan of the general sentiment. Exactly how that is done to keep enough stability to avoid constant churn would be a really interesting debate, but I've long thought that laws should be required to come with expiration dates that have to be renewed.

Personally, I'd also be so interested to see what the political response would be today if a group of well known and respected individuals scheduled a constitutional convention to honestly hold such discussions. It's exactly what we did to being the process of breaking away from the king, I wonder if they would get shut down somehow?
"Docker Desktop for Mac" as the option to use rosetta 2 to run linux/amd64 containers on apple silicon Macs.
Ah yes, the many apps poor Android users are forced to sideload.

As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
OpenAI offers creators way to opt out. One artist calls it 'enraging’
The further I've risen in my career the more I've grown skeptical of the CEO role and the compensation most of them receive.

The truth is that there are truly important CEOs without whose leadership their companies would flounder, stagnate, or die.

At the same time I've been wholly unimpressed with the leadership of the vast majority of CEOs I've met, not just from an outside looking in perspective but from a working closely with them and meeting them personally perspective.

I've met any number of VPs, COOs, CFOs, etc. that are extraordinary leaders and I've met mostly CEOs who exploit those people and the value they create for their own personal gain.
I love this channel, there is something about the simple graphics and pending doom background music that really sucks you into the topic being presented. From the most epic battlefields in ancient history being portrayed with just some simple squares to Roman politics and now 'Working hours'.
> Azure certainly is a gold mine.

I sometimes dream about Microsoft selling Windows. (Because they see it as cost center and make money elsewhere... Or whatever its a dream ok.) It gets picked up by a smoll private company that's just in the business of making a good OS. teary eyes
My point isn't that Nasa should prioritize hiring good marketing over good engineering. Nasa has good engineers. My point is that their biggest challenge now is their public perception. The general public does not care about Nasa's mission.

SpaceX is far more popular than Nasa. If you stop to think about it, SpaceX is just making travel cheaper and it shouldn't be that interesting. If Nasa can make their mission more fun and interesting, they have a better shot at a larger budget.
Companies should just have roughly 20 "core hours" in the week during which everybody is expected to be reachable for calls, meetings, chats, etc. And then just let people do whatever they want as long as they deliver.
Ehhhh. She is an opportunist. Nothing wrong with that if it raises your profile in the part of the tech industry that sells ads, and you get out before a humiliating event. But she is not a very good opportunist.
I don't think we need to assume that actual children will someday vote. It's not punitive to say that we should have some age threshold into adulthood and its responsibilities. There are so many facets of society that necessitate some degree of protection of young people that it isn't unfair or unrealistic to also create a barrier around their full participation in our Democratic society.
I think you've fundamentally missed the point. You can call for more open platforms on a closed platform, there's nothing hypocritical or problematic about that. It's just accepting the reality of where people are.

Like it or not, YouTube and twitter are enormous with huge audiences.
> We're not talking about capital punishment here, we're talking about social media, and Facebook appears to have made the very reasonable decision that it's worth accidentally rate limiting some innocent accounts in order to keep spam lower than would otherwise be possible

That sounds reasonable.

Well, reasonable unless you happen to be (or care about) one of the innocents being accidentally punished, because some corporation's algorithm said so.

Scholars have been worrying about this kind of thing in the real world's justice system for a long time (think of William Blackstone's "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer" quote, which is over 250 years old[0]; of the 1895 U.S. Supreme Court's "it is better to let the crime of a guilty person go unpunished than to condemn the innocent", and these weren't novel ideas, they go all the way back to the Romans).

Where are the checks and balances for the online world?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_En...
Can you please nominate a specific URL on your site that we can change the top link to? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904 for why)

What's your most interesting piece that hasn't gotten sufficient attention yet? I believe HN has had many great threads about the A* and hexagonal grid articles over the years. Is there a comparable one that's been overlooked so far?
Depends on the job.

I hire you to change the electrical panel and you charge me X to do it, I'll leave you alone and might even leave the house because the electricity is out.

If I pay 150$/h to have something fixed, you can be sure I won't be far.

But if I want to watch them work, I ask first if it's ok for them.
Great unveil and presentation at OpenSearchCon
You frame this like its a grand plan by the globalists to usher in a NWO.

We know the conspiratorial MO. No surprises here.
I'd say term limits are an unfortunate tradeoff that might be helpful when votes and performance diverge too far.

If the machine itself is broken, any changes or limitations to the output (the politicians here) are just bandaids. I do actually think we should fix the underlying problem, but hopefully term limits could buy us some time and start to remove power from those who gained so much by the system that needs fixing.
the last expansion that was any good?
Does Facebook still consider distrowatch spam? It was posted here a couple years ago now, and I was skeptical then and I've always wondered whether it was true/fixed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529312
I dont think the flooding reached that far. Point of filling up the damn before blowing it was to create a wide as possible flood to make crossing the area impossible. So its unlikely that the flooding without the damn would have reached much further?
My thinking has always been that Bitcoin can solve the issue of continued printing of fiat money. Bitcoin and other crypto clearly introduces other problems but this fundamental weakness of fiat currency is still there and unsolved. Will bitcoin/crypto really go away if this issue with fiat currency is still unresolved?
Yeah the older you get, the more visible the grift is. CEOs/Elite companies hide behind abstractions of eliteness/prestige. From the outside it always seems they are on the ball. On the inside you realize the guy that went to Harvard that is now CEO, got into Harvard due to rowing, and fell upwards for 15 years afterwards. Close interactions with these people will almost always reveal that they are mediocre regular human beings that got put into a seat early in life.

While you were toiling away on some task at work, he was busy trying to meet people higher up the chain.

The kicker though is that Harvard does attract real outliers (mark zuckerberg, bill gates), and so the name brand rests on them identifying one guy a year that might change the world.
Is it? All the rednecks I know love plinking cans in the trailer park or state land behind where they live. Join them plinking for an afternoon, you'll realize they aren't that uptight as long as you're respectful
I've worked 4-10s for 3 years at an aerospace contractor but after 8 hours I felt done. I worked 5-7s during COVID as WFH and really enjoyed it. Sometimes we would do 4-8s around holidays and vacations and that was also great. It's really about defining a culture that supports quality over quantity of work.
I felt it ended quite abruptly too, and then I remembered Elon still seems healthy enough and may accomplish/mess up more.
> To be fair they are barely relevant in my circle and more a fashion piece for the older generation.

I'm of the older generation (in my 50s), and at least in my circles, Ray-Bans aren't particularly cool either. They're not exactly un-cool, but they do tend to be worn by a particular sort of person.
Norwegian Seismologists believe they detected a signature.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norwegian-seismologists...

(Not to dismiss the effects of Russia's deliberate overfilling.)
Immediately after seeing werkkzeug, I started coding my own wz clone.

Here is a video of what it was like around 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYy8lry2do
For sure. I was at a company in the mid 2000s and we had 50+ racks of servers and managing those back in the day was a very big lift. If we had the tooling we do now back then, we could have done it with a fraction of the cost. When I told some of my old coworkers I was going to get my own rack two years ago, there were some comments that I am a glutton for pain and suffering. Overall, it's been a great experience and cost savings on my end. I couldn't afford to run my workloads on any cloud provider.

I also understand that I have a skill set that enables me to take advantage of running my own hardware, but with the advancements in tooling and cheaper hardware costs I believe the folks that don't have these skills have a better chance of doing the same. I am hopeful that datacenter providers will shift their business models in the future to enable easier access to getting space, power and bandwidth. That would help enable smaller teams to run their own hardware. The network/bandwidth part has gotten better. Almost all of the major datacenter providers offer some sort of software defined network service so you can get cheaper bandwidth and IP space than from the cloud providers. It is still more expensive in the long run than getting a bandwidth provider yourself. IPv4 space is still expensive but you can lease blocks pretty easily too.
“Not Like I Don't Like You” (Fall 2009)
South Korea’s esports stars target medal success – and a military exemption
Why didn't they made a shuttle?
I used to live in Boston and visited recently for the first time in a while. The red line was so slow between Central Square and Harvard that I thought there must have been some kind of mechanical failure, but when I mentioned it to friends afterwards they said that it had been like that for months.
Why specifically anti-gay?

> Grindr’s practice of sharing sensitive personal data with third parties

Doesn’t really seem like a defensible practice - are you saying it’s a common one, and therefore singling out Grindr and not say Bumble is a red flag?
Whether they are being paid 0.000044% ($650k) of AUM or 0.0044% of AUM ($65m) doesn't really seem like it would make much of a difference to the fund's performance. If it is possible to get better performance by paying more, it seems like this would be a good idea.

In Norway's case, the pension fund is a really huge deal for the country, and managing it is probably like being a high level politician in some ways. You are probably present at all the most important events, and regularly having dinner with the president. They could probably easily pay $0. I don't think you can extrapolate this out to others.
I'm not OP, but I seem to naturally hold my iPhone closer to my face than the distance at which FaceID works. Either that, or the system just doesn't like my face.

FaceID works so poorly that I actually disabled it for unlocking my phone. At least when I use a passcode, I can set a grace period of one hour before the passcode is required again. If you turn on FaceID, it's always required as soon as you lock your phone.

I have an iPhone 13 Mini fwiw.