skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda related. Hangul (the Korean writing/character system) was created in 1443 to solve a bunch of problems related to competing adapted character systems.

> the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty, Sejong the Great, personally created and promulgated a new alphabet.

> The Korean alphabet was designed so that people with little education could learn to read and write. A popular saying about the alphabet is, "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; even a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History
Reminds me of `just`. I love `just`. (Although I've never used make...)

https://github.com/casey/just
We seem to be special: we are the only (so far) known species having complex speech as well as ability to convey our thoughts to others, capability to build tools, and abstract thinking.
Did you check any numbers before being so sure?

Each launch burns about 120 tons of kerosene for about 360 tons of CO2.

If we take this Nature study as accurate, a ton of CO2 has a societal cost of about $185. If we add that all up, it's $70k per launch? Let's round up to $100k per launch.

Multiplied by launch count, that's only a few million dollars. They're still at breakeven when you include it.
Not everything that I can't disprove should be taken seriously.
DEET isn't toxic, but it repels pollinators from areas where it is heavily used [1]. This isn't exclusive to DEET, every bug repellant does it to some extent, but DEET is unique because it's so damn effective.

Don't get me wrong, DEET isn't bad enough to be illegal. It washes away in the rain. It doesn't foul up groundwater, and although it does get washed into rivers and streams, it really doesn't do much once it's there.

I mention DEET as another example of a chemical that is bad for the environment because it's too good at its intended purpose - did not mean to indicate that it's as bad as that boat coating stuff.

[1]: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/potential-impact-of-mosquito-a...
I think the 80386's final design benefitted tremendously from the Motorola 68000, then the m68020. Had Motorola not released a proper 32 bit CPU without compromises, it could be argued that Intel would've had yet another stop-gap after the 80286, which itself wasn't intended to be a proper successor to the 8086/8088.

As it is, the 80386 came with a number of compromises. For instance, there was no cache at all beyond a 16 byte instruction prefetch queue, whereas the m68020 had 256 bytes of instruction cache. There were no atomic instructions (LOCK wasn't useful for this), which is why many modern OSes support the 80486 but not the 80386. The fact that compatibility with the 8086 required real mode or VM86 meant that it took quite a long time before software started taking advantage of the 80386's new features.

It was an important chip, but it showed us early signs of what we've come to expect from Intel: attempts to create other markets at the expense of, or with the express desire to not compete with, the x86 (the iAPX 432 then, the Itanic twenty years later), the slapdash addition of "features", such as the additions to the 80286, which then were required to be included forevermore as legacy support, the rushing-to-catch-up when other vendors had features that everyone wanted (real, flat 32 bit support then, 64 bit support twenty years later).

Still, it's interesting history!
I’m really not sure. Wikipedia lists them as a “Unitary theocratic Catholic elective absolute monarchy” and says “ It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under ‘full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction’ of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity under international law.”
Banking is, in the United States, by only the dictionary definition a private industry, and their importance and potential negative impact to the daily life of the average citizen puts them in the same category as utility providers and healthcare.

Strawman all you want, but there's a big difference between social media and finance.
I am really curious how much Musk extracted from American taxpayers. Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink everything is or was substituted by tax money. Without the Ukraine war and all the terminals and monthly payments from different governments Starlink would have no chance to break even so early.
The 's' is voiced in the verb and voiceless in the noun, at least in my midland accent, which is probably closer to American TV's accents. By 'voiced', I mean your vocal chords vibrate and make a sound for it. But the lip/teeth/tongue are the same.* There are several noun/verb words where the pronunciation changes and lots where the stress changes. Another pronunciation change example that I can think of right now is 'close': The noun and the verb do the same thing with final sound.

The voiced 's' is a 'z' sound. And English sadly doesn't use a different letter here.

*In simple terms. I think these form an identical mouth shape, but there's probably a dialect where it doesn't. And some bizarre cases where it doesn't. Because English. And judging from another comment from someone from Michigan, they say both the same?? Also 'housing' for me uses a voiced s, but I think I've heard 'housing' both ways.
Show HN: Bravoboard.xyz – Your platform for celebratory online cards
Thanks for the hint, I didn't know about this project; will check it out.
This doesn't work in Pale Moon 32.5.0 on Win10x64. Please review your development platforms.
You need a key to access the terminal, and the key is never sent to the server or over the network, it goes in the browser hash. You could say the same about Jupyter being a web access tool, for instance.

sshx only lets you make ephemeral connections and isn’t meant to be a remote access tool

All session IDs and encryption keys are cryptographically generated. And sshx refuses to connect except over TLS
I love using the `-G` flag for tracking the history of any occurrence of a given regex across all directories/files. It feels more flexible than `-L`. As an example:

git log \
-G "$some_regex" \
--patch \
--stat \
--source \
--all \
--decorate=full \
--pretty=fuller \
-- . ":(exclude)\*.lock"
The hard part is not the "programming" part; it's boolean logic, if you understand how your machine works at the gate level, it makes sense as a kind of pseudo-declarative model of the bits of the machine. I found Verilog / SystemVerilog very intuitive and fun to work in. Not that I ever did it for a living, but it was entirely comprehensible to me after some practice. I went from newbie to wiring up my own simple video chip & character generator to a RISC-V core in a month or two.

The hard parts are...

a) the "fuzzy" bits -- timing, propagation delays, etc. the tool will warn you about it but it's not always easy to understand. It's easy to end up with a mess that makes perfect sense "logically" and works in your sim, etc. but actually only sorta works in meatspace.

b) the tools. They all want to ram you into their shitty 1000lb IDEs which are forks of Eclipse from 15 years ago with a heaping dose of Tcl on the side and only work in some specific version of RedHat or whatever. Forget about using your preferred editor or IDE or build tool, they want to ram you through their GUI. You can sometimes route around it, by reverse engineering their Tcl and figuring out what command line invocations rae actually happening behind the heap of wizards they want to herd you through... but you'll always end up back in Quartus or whatever at some point. HW Engineers seem to be suckers for this kind of punishment.
"Housing" esposes more of the howz sound. The first is just howce.

Thinking about this more... I just realized something. I struggled with a lisp and speech therapy in grade school. I distinctly remember a lesson where I was being instructed on how certain words ending in "s" actually sound like "z" like "apples" and I was pronouncing it without the z.

I am thinking this may just be related to that.
The trick is you can still do awesome christmas with good family relations and a good dose of materialism ;-)
Here's that question in song form. Among others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69ny57pR0
Howz and howzing.
some cancer. We already know different cancers use different 'fuel'. A keto diet would likely speed growth of cancers that can use or prefer ketones for instance. But for ones that only absorb glucose, the rats in the article indicate a maybe.
Disagree -- that's just a typical romantic view of that language. There's a reason Latin's been forked so many times.
Most app data you cannot back up easily without root anymore. I used to use Titanium but stuff stopped working consistently even with root.

Settings and some apps aside, I otherwise basically do this myself. I keep my last model phone as the fallback and use Syncthing to copy pictures, SMS and call log exports, TOTP exports, Signal backups, and any other useful files automatically to it. Contacts and everything else is cloud already. Would take about 10 minutes to reimport and start using.
Demystifying Python Classes for Beginners
well said and .. the unique abilities of fast computers, cloud clusters and fast networks, to solve and serve clients in ways that humans cannot do.. must have sufficient weight in judgement. Specifically, some law school parable about how a person A can do this and group B does that, is very much missing the weighting of judgement needed. Many smart-enough people with responsibility do not think through the implications of tech, while returning to what they were taught, about comparable situations in law and the like.. IMO
>Our satellites deorbit and burn up without intervention at the end of their lifecycle.

I'm curious how this works. Is there a certain amount of propellant reserved for the deorbit plan?
You aren't thinking about this right. Instead of worrying about the sun rising at 0330, worry about how you are going to build enough blackout blind factories to profit from the obvious solution to not writing thousands of lines of code.
> How are iso timestamps a problem? You need a time zone of course.

You answered your own question in the following sentence - ISO 8601 timestamps do not require a time zone, and infer "local time" if none is provided.
It's the same wasteful, inane absurdity of Irvine, CA over-manicured emerald lawns. My late grandparents were adherents of Orientalism landscaping and interior decorating and on this train of 19th century French aristocracy subsumed by Americana.

Visit somewhere like the quieter residential neighborhoods in Palo Alto where native plants and the natural look is less effort, cheaper, more efficient, and less noisy.
I don’t see the connection between the Postal Service and banking. Is it just it was historically there? If that’s the case, you could attach it to any department.
> That alone exceeds the requirement of “minimal"

Does a car with 4 wheels exceed requirements of minimal? Who operates a payment service without handling fraud? Can you operste a postal service without handling fraud?

> pay for all that extra staff?

Do roads create revenue?

Like you are fee to argue that its not worth it, but government services do not need to charge fees, rhey can create economic growth and get the money back through taxes
Everything we know about time is total order, but partial order is also possible.
so basically, threatening anyone who tries to leave with extortion.

interesting. wonder how quickly it'll result in a lawsuit.
On a long enough timeline the answer to this is always no.

If the question is can I burn something to release energy the answer is nearly always yes. If the question is can I depend on the weather for anything the answer is invariably eventually no.
The Uprising of Mesopunk Books
>Introduc…ing the .ing top-level domain

https://blog.google/products/registry/introducing-the-ing-to...
No. I am atheist, but I happily encourage the lessons of Buddhism and religious pluralism. (This came about from having an atheist father and Buddhist mother)

I am the only atheist that I know of that helps teach at a Sunday school. I still believe in community and the greater good. My friends tell me this is because I have not been betrayed often enough.
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee's LLM startup unveils open source model
Isn’t AI usually highly memory-bandwidth constrained? Designing a new powerful AI chip to rely on slow memory probably isn’t the best strategy.
Here's what companies are trying to do: replace people with "AI". Why? Because people are annoying. They demand wages, breaks, medical care and so on. Of course what happens to companies when there's no one left being paid to afford their services never enters the picture.

Here's what companies should be doing: using AI to easy the work of their workers.

What's the difference? Well, in this case, closing an account is a serious action. It should always require human review. Mistakes do happen. Bugs happen. So, automated systems should simply allow one person to review many more accounts and/or to require less time to review such actions.

Companies should always be responsible for the consequences of these automated actions including all damages plus punitive damages. Want to know how this can go (and has gone) horribly wrong?

Hertz had an automated system that was falsely reporting rental cars as stolen [1]. People were charged and spent time in jail for this (eg [2]).

This should never happen. Any police report like this should require human review where the human is responsible for the consequences of that. Automated system or not, Hertz made false police reports. That's a crime. Or it should be if it isn't.

We are rapidly heading towards a dystopian future where ordinary life is impossible and nobody knows why because none of these systems explain why you're being imprisoned and your money has been seized.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-marine-arrested-charged-...
learning a language is hard. Unlike with PLs, learning a language in a vacuum for your own use is ... pretty difficult and hard to apply? And on top of that there are many "good enough" solutions.

English has a bunch of weird and confusing issues. But "English as a second language" is at least a variant that is stripped down, with far less weird idioms, and lets you get points across to people. "Correct" pronunciation (whatever that's worth) is also optional. Hard to beat!

I thought Esperanto did have some success though! And FWIW I think many language learning communities can thrive on a bunch of people using their second language. So maybe if someone makes a fun synthetic language it can totally work!
It was a 386 that Linus Torvalds wrote the first Linux kernel on, and support for the new features of the 386 from the start was one of the reasons Linux took off instantly.
America was complicit in it's production while in Afghanistan. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-...
While I got the 80386 programmers manual as one of my teen birthday presents.. I only ever actually did a little ASM programming but I loved that book anyway and read it a lot.

Really annoyed at myself that I got rid of in some fit of "well, I'll never use that again" cleaning some time.. especially given somehow still have "Sendmail, edition 2".

I might read the 386 book for nostalgia.. the Sendmail one..well, PTSD isn't something you get nostalgic about!
There actual is a way to define "better neighborhood" (property value or desirability) with data independent of human occupancy and qualitative appearance: count of large trees.
If you sell a ton of these cars, having employees controlling 2% of the time means your costs become enormous rather quickly. You would have to have a subscription business model for this to make any sense where the person buys the car and then has to keep paying monthly for self driving.
It's not theft, etc. Boring tangent to try to introduce
> The real issue here is a human rights issue.

However wrong the EU is on many things, at least the EU states that having a "basic bank account" is a right in the EU that cannot be denied: "If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account". Banks cannot refuse your application for a basic payment account just because you don't live in the country where the bank is established.". [1]

And the European Convention on Human Rights has some implication on banks in the EU, for example when they lend money (say for a mortgage) to an EU citizen.

I'd say that that's better than a country where you can be totally de-banked and blocklisted.

I don't have any false hope but it's at least better than nothing.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
I’m surprised that no one has suggested: pick something that you actually care about, which may not be a lucrative job opportunity, but gives you the opportunity to “make a difference“. Most nonprofits desperately need help with their tech.

A while back, I took a leave of absence from the tech industry to work on climate change issues, and was amazed at what it felt like to work on issues that really seemed important.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be climate change, but if you are interested in that, you might have a look at: https://airminers.org/
The department of housing and urban development needs to make new houses to house new immigrants.

The department of <howzing> and urban development needs to make new <howsses> to <howz> new immigrants.
C'mon, nobody speaks Latin per se these days.
Yes. Christian. Bible-believing, serious about actually trying to live it out, not just showing up on Sunday and wearing the label.
The way that society has completely acquiesced to constant monitoring and tracking - not necessarily by governments, but by one another - completely blows my mind.

I’ve had coworkers casually and shamelessly pull up their living room camera for us all to see their spouse sitting on the couch in real time. I’ve been looked at like I have two heads when I say my partner and I don’t track each others’ location using Find My. These are all little erosions of personal autonomy that are kryptonite to me, but most people just don’t seem to see a problem with them. I don’t get it.
Been a while since I've come across a website with a splash page.
Sometimes the meet has folk that are even more expensive (not me). Sometimes theres more than 50. Four hours of meetings, six hours of wall-clock

Edit: some companies have >20k employees. My first years at MS (late 90s) had these "war room" like 2x a week, 50 people, multiple VPs in the room, 2h. But there were other groups doing their war rooms too.
It used to provide some limited banking services up until the 60s and it still does billions of dollars worth of money orders a year so a lot of the infrastructure is still there.
Calling it a massive database makes it clear you lack a basic understanding of how it works. Please go learn the basics before commenting.
I was just trying to illustrate it better. I think the majority will say "howz new immigrants."

There are a few weird "same-spelling" words. You can refuse to throw refuse in the trash can. You can estimate how many estimates you might get. But I suspect that you're not a suspect in this case. But, if you get close, I'll close this thread.
Indeed! My first taste of Linux was Slackware on a 386
I'll remind you that you're commenting on an article about a new rapid transit system, which I'd certainly call improving public transit's utility.
You must have forgotten how they paid to put it in just about every installer, selected by default, and pushed it aggressively in every Google property. They may not have had to, but they used their monopoly position to cut the air off to every other browser. That's not ahistorical even if everyone seems to have forgotten.

We'll never know how things might have gone without that monopoly abuse. Maybe Mozilla would have had enough developers and testers to fix things without abandoning what made Firefox unique.
Was going to say. x86 I think has spoiled people in terms of what they expect in terms of memory model / consistency.

The answer is to be careful as a dev, and hopefully let the compiler and your libraries take care of the finer details.
It causes massive economic impact! Where I live Aedes aegypti is extremely common and Chikungunya routinely causes people to miss work for over 6 months due to intense chronic pain. The impact on the public health care and social security systems is huge. These patients frequently need opioids on a daily basis because all other treatments failed.
It still works. I do it on my stainless wok.

It certainly isn't as resilient as my cast iron, but it works and is super easy.
Sometimes others there is no change. HVAC systems won't change demand at all when upgraded to more efficiency .
I want to dive into the "how to politely resist this in an effective way".

1. Opt out of these things as much as you can. Often times you can't opt out of the underlying actual thing (school, banking, etc) but you can opt out of the terrible new thing. You don't need to explain to people a deep "why". Instead give the people polite, reasonable (and generally true) excuses. "Oh, it doesn't work on my computer". "Oh, I don't understand how to use it." "I don't really like technology."

2. Help other people, particularly children, the elderly, the vulnerable, etc, in opting out of these things and bypassing them when needed. Help them fill out the paperwork, call the right people, cause the right fuss. Frequently, you'll find by helping one person they'll go on to help other people do the same thing.

3. Tell other people, in appropriate times and circumstances, that you don't care for these things and opt out of them. Don't be weirdly obnoxious about it, but when someone gripes about it or complains about it not working for them.. just agree with them. Most people don't like these things. These things don't generally work (for anyone). They suck. Let other people know you agree with them that these things suck.

There are cases where this doesn't work - automated account closures, automated sentancing, rent shenanigans. You can of course do the usual things of bugging your congress critters (and you should) but you should also use the full range of pressure available to you. Don't do business with shitty companies - and when they inevitably try to sell to you, tell them why you don't do business with them. When a politician supports automated sentancing tools, explain to them why you aren't voting for them.

Surprisingly a little bit of pressure goes quite far.
> super-high-fidelity game, and grab all marketshare

This is not necessarily true any more. I think smaller studios chipping away for a long time are making better games than most big ones.
It's a problem of motivation, alright? Now, if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime!
This is an interesting way of thinking about it, but I’ll note: Kant absolutely believes that humans are special. His moral philosophy is grounded in the concept of a self-legislating agent, which in turn is more or less coextensive with a human being. Self-legislating agents are, in Kant’s view, the only type of thing that moral “oughts” impinge on.

(That doesn’t mean he’s right, but I think it’s worthwhile to point out in an exegetical context.)
You need to help your daughter on physical activities, not virtual bs games
How does it compare to waf (1)?

(1) https://waf.io/
He said the Greek (modern, not ancient) name -- Δευτέρα (Deftéra), which has nothing to do with moons, but means "second day". Obviously this only makes sense in a Christian context which starts the week on Sunday. Monday is "first day" (星期一) in Chinese, for example.