skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scholars may have fought bitterly over whether the relationship between them was sexual (it undoubtedly was), but words like "gay" and "homo" and "LGBT" are completely anachronistic in an ancient Greek context. Greek sexual norms were completely unlike our modern ones in many ways, some of which make most people in the modern West uncomfortable, including the LGBT community.

For example, take the Sacred Band of Thebes:

> It was composed of 150 male couples, each pair consisting of an older erastês (ἐραστής, "lover") and a younger erômenos (ἐρώμενος, "beloved").

That second word—erômenos—is deeply tied to pederasty, which is something that neither the LGBT community nor conservatives want to talk about. Greek writers describe relationships with an erômenos as often starting at about 13 years old.

I think the instinct to distance the modern LGBT community from the ancient Greeks is well placed. It's a rhetorical minefield that allies would be better off avoiding.
They hide behind coded socio-political and economic language to externalize their real needs on others, inflate their buying power, burn more fossil fuels.

The fiat wealth model is politically contrived misdirection. Physics makes no mention of a fundamental currency policy or sacred economic model. It’s 100% socialized propaganda there’s a communal upside to capitalism as we know it, not immutable physics.
Nice observation. kind of off-topic for an article on literature, but I've been trying to put my finger on what's been so wrong with movies and TV lately, and I think you've nailed it: It's that there really aren't many that are memorable anymore. I've watched a bunch of new movies in the last few years, and more and more often, I sit there an hour later and think "I can't remember anything all that interesting happening in the movie." I mean, there was action and conflict, protagonists and antagonists, and I can tell you the movie's genre and describe a few of the characters. But the dialog was bland and mumbly, the cinematography was all gray and washed out, the setting was kind of standard for that sort of movie, there were no interesting character arcs or twists, and it all kind of played out exactly as you'd expect a movie like that to play out.

Willing to consider that maybe it's just old age and cognitive decline, but I feel something is just off about a lot of recent movies.
Sounds great. I may repost this Tuesday, and see if we get some other ppl, but I will email you regardless. Thanks for replying *thumbs up
I think the "mass" they are referring to might the mass of the Bayesian posterior in parameter space, not the mass of the data in event space.
Fraud spreads in Science – and I fear it will become worse
Yes - The Celts were the people spreading throughout Europe during the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke the Celtic language and shared cultural and religious practices and beliefs. The Gauls were the Celtic tribes that settled in what the Romans called Gaul.
Is lack of GC another reason that wasm is more performant than JS?

P.S. I assume JS has a GC and WASM does not.
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist (2021)
I’ve had this happen when I called in a support request for some iOS issue I had. Their interface has all the devices on your Apple ID, and they can enable screen sharing on any of them after you accept it via a notification. I have to admit, it must be a lot better for the support experience as opposed to trying to verbally describe what’s going on.
I had tried manually delete post/comments before shreddit, half of the deleted post/comments returned after refreshing the page. Checking the requests, many of them would return 500 status code.

Later move to shreddit and created a cronjob to delete the entries, and kept shreddit running a week or so. As you suggested, you will hit Reddit's rate limit soon after start mass deleting or your account shadow-banned.

Just checked two of my deleted account, can't see any post or comment. I wish I didn't delete it, just overwrite them with random sentences from local AI
> he made almost $1 million in a year with this site

How?
Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate
Suave.

The output reminds me of nethack.
Yeah, but people often don't remember or aren't moved by classics as well. The response is usually to lament their lack of attention span, or tell them that they didn't get it.

It ends up becoming an example of The Emperor's New clothes, where it's been decided ahead of time that if a layman disagrees, it's merely a sign of ignorance.
That baffles me. Why do you think you do not have the time? Certainly, if reading the book again is important enough for you, you could lower the priority of some other occupation/task/...?
Tech giants sign accord to combat AI-generated 'deep fake' election year info
The important is not what changes but what remains constant.
I like Zizek's thoughts on ideology to further explain why things are the way you describe.
this is a contradiction.

If every election has some shady things happen then it's not possible for every bit of shadiness to be explained as anything other than shadiness.

So was there shadiness or wasn't there?

A lot of it can be explained away, which is why I said the hanging chad issue was a bigger problem. but ALL of it? I don't think so, even at the time there were a few things that gave me pause.
If you're trying to reconstruct the Mycenaean Greek world from very paltry contemporary sources it's fascinating.
More info in app
> I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts.

Out of curiosity, why not just distribute via R2 or similar, or archive.org if you don't need AuthN/AuthZ? What's the complexity (to you and listeners) of BitTorrent buy you?
Hell is having to debug perl scripts you wrote yourself long enough ago that you've forgotten and the developers of the packages you depend on have literally died of old age.

Because you have only yourself to blame.
I think a key consideration is they created the entire platform inclusive of the market structure day zero. The law doesn’t protect against market dominance in one or more markets and they’re not leveraging one market against another - they created the markets and distribution channels.

It’s like claiming Amazon Kindle not hosting Nook bookstores is anticompetitive or Krogers not letting Whole Foods sell in their store or Peleton for not opening their bike to other fitness products. They built the platform and the distribution channels, are they obligated to host everything in any channel?

While side loading is a feature of general purpose operating systems not all operating systems offer it, and it’s only really coming to be an issue here because of the ubiquity of their product. But the lack of side loading isn’t new, and has never been offered. To that extent it’s more along the lines of market dominance alone, not using dominance to distort adjacent markets or willful anticompetitive behavior.

I suspect Apple and Google will not be forced to open their products in the US as it’s not clear their strategy runs afoul traditional interpretations of law.
+1 very very much the spiritual successor, and I think even some of the same developers.

The negative side of course is that they have not really added that much in terms of new gameplay mechanics in Two Point Hospital compared to the original, and a bunch of the levels are DLC so are extra money. But hey it is fun.
A little intimidating at first but eventually all the pieces fit into place. I feel like the challenge is in finding early on the rows/columns that can only be one exact combination of pieces and then building from there. Also looking for odd numbers means there must be a 1-piece in that alignment.
Too long ago (~2004) I read a good article about something like deep-linking with micro-payments. That's the best I can remember. The idea was to use hypertext extensively as references within on-line writing and have some kind of system like $.001 for every time a link was used.

That doesn't feel entirely adequate as an explanation. Anyway, it was before blockchain or some other mechanism to implement it, but I thought it was an interesting direction to pursue.
Find a way to port plugins from VSC and I'm in!
This version of Microsoft has learnt from the mistakes of its predecessor, coming up with an even more potent model for making money.

"Embrace + extend + embed" makes more money than "embrace + extend + extinguish".

As long as Microsft controls the data (your vscode actions), they have no need to explicitly destroy their competitors. The data skew gives them a natural advantage. I don't trust their intentions, but I do trust the well-aligned monetary incentives.
Yeah you always need a backend part as part of your dev dependencies but currently you also need to add a little snippet in your production view code.

It could be a browser extension like Rails panel + meta_request but I think it’s also good that anybody working on the codebase always get the debugbar, regardless of their browser or setup.
You shouldn't feel anymore threatened by this than by interchangeable parts. People upskill and society ends up as a massive net beneficiary.

Until we have ASI (imho we're not remotely close) then there is plenty of work to be done. It will just involve fewer menial tasks.
In my experience, the non computer savvy problem with non iOS devices have far higher probabilities of having malware than the non computer savvy people with iOS devices.
Just stop buying apple products... it's like people buying Lego toys and whining because they are expensive and cannot plug with Playmobile toys.

So people are so enamored with apple devices that they cannot stop using them, but don't want to pay the rent the company charges them... just go play somewhere else. Or create your own park. That's what Hawuei did, that's what Android did.
Have you thought why isn’t sustainable for you?

The main problem I faced was giving in “just this time”. Fat and sugar are addictive and when you fall, it makes it easier to fall again.

About healthy food, I had overweight and I mostly ate “healthy food”. I needed to go to a nutritionist and ask him why.

This is what O was eating a year and a half ago:

Breakfast: two bread slices with avocado.

Meal: mostly salads with lettuce, tomato, tuna, avocado, carrots, salt, vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. (I really wanted to lose weight).

Dinner: chicken, sushi, eggs… normally I would add a handful of seeds/nuts.

This is what my nutriotionist told me: you have been eating quite healthy, the problem are the fats: too many healthy fats (extra virgin oil, avocado, nuts… nuts have a lot of fats).

Only add protein shakes when you are trying to gain muscle and you are not able to add normal proteins. I started on protein shakes once I was slim and not able to eat that much food to gain muscle.

A year later I am fully conscious of what I eat. I can have eventually a burger, but I am fully aware that it is really unhealthy.

My proteins today are mainly chicken and salmon, carbs: quinoa, rice, lentils… and almost no fat (I’m trying to get my fat % to 12… it’s quite difficult)

Also read all packaged ingredients you will find nasty surprises in form of fats and sugar in diet / “high protein” meals.

Also no juices!
I wasn't worried until Google showed up with a 1M token context with 99.9% recall...
Those who do worry do so because they assume (rightly or wrongly) that it will be possible to automate everything you do, including ‘higher-level architecture concerns’.
Rust uses the C compiler as a linker, because this is often the only way to ensure all the libraries needed by the system toolchain are included. (Compare to the CCLD variable in autotools -- it refers to the command to use the C compiler as a linker, and exists for this very reason.)

This isn't only libc -- it also includes libgcc (or compiler-rt, depending on your system toolchain), which, despite the name, may still be called "behind your back" by the LLVM toolchain.

> So it's a Rust program but it's just calling inline assembly and using a C compiler?

Yeah, I think this article is more in the tradition of [0] (but trying hard not to drop rustc) than being completely practical advice on making the binary you ship to users smaller.

[0]: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
I have worked with the8472 to get Bitmagnet's BEP5 & BEP51 implementations working and ensure it's a good citizen on the network - there is more to be done and more protocols to be implemented, but unlike Magnetico, BM is not simply scraping without responding to incoming requests.
You've been downvoted because of a cadre of people on HN who, unless you virtue-signal your adherence to their doomsday religious cult, have deemed you impure.
That's Obelix.

An obelisk is a type of pillar from Ancient Egypt.
It's a free alternative to a relatively expensive and clunky-to-install tool. It's popular, the first result when searching "online photoshop". And it has ads.

With a non-technical demographic, ad-blocker percentage is lower and you can make a lot of revenue.
Intel Arc 2024 Revisit and Benchmarks – Trouble for AMD [video]
If you believe the FTC in their current active anti trust case, the reason for this is that if Amazon sees your product for cheaper elsewhere (even if it's the same after shipping), they will down rank your product in search results and add friction to the buying process.

Since no manufacturer can risk having no Amazon sales, this means the manufacturer requires a base price that matches Amazon.

Amazon recoups free shipping cost through additional merchant markups.

This means consumers pay increased prices everywhere, and we are all indirectly paying the free shipping cost even if you walk into a store.
Spirituality, not religion.
That wording is exceptionally poor in my opinion. Just above, @blueprint, does a fabulous job of summarizing what I think is essentially the same idea (but with far better wording):

"..the problem is that for some people, addiction is connected with:
* using an external means of dissociation
* to obtain instant control over feelings
* without relating to them on their own terms"

Someone who is without serious trauma won't likely have the same reaction/response to this level of dissociation.
How many architecture does a company need? Realistically if they succeed you'll be unemployed.
Googled the bittorrent community with the acronym "AFAIU". Lol.
Exactly. The instant someone turns to their phone to check something, it ruins the conversation completely. The whole point is the conversation, the banter, the talking; not on the factual accuracy of some trivial thing.
This is fun! The exact type of game my wife loves. Agree on the other comment about misclicking off-by-one placement errors on a phone touchscreen.

Small feedback, the “copy” button doesnt seem to work on iOS Safari. Otherwise would be a good rip of the wordle emoji share ability.
I bought a $10 item with $10 shipping on eBay; it was broken. Offered a refund of the product, not the shipping and I'd have to eat shipping. All that for basically $5. Always get free shipping!
But how do you get the product out!?
Is it specifically the emissivity that's so unusual and makes it the preferred material? I don't know that "low emissivity in infrared + high emissivity in visible" is a rare property—I recall reading about space satellite thermal engineering and seeing long lists of common materials sorted by visible/infrared emissivity ratios [0]. And there are a lot of them, in every category. I suspect the key thing is ThO2 is a super-refractory with a melting point of (approximately—these are hard to measure!) 3,350° C [1]. (About the same as the tungsten filaments in the old-school type of lightbulbs—something with pretty similar considerations). I suspect "things that maintian structural integrity in hot gas flame" is really the key discriminator here, the rare property that prunes out most candidates.

I'm not any sort of expert on this, to make very clear! Just a curious geek.

[0] (That's basically a proxy for the radiative equilibrium temperature in space: visible emissivity measuring absorption of sunlight, infrared emissivity measuring emission of waste heat. (To those unfamiliar, absorption and emission are exactly the same, at a specified wavelength: the physics is reversible). ThO2 for example, you'd expect would get extremely hot in space).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_dioxide
Your perspective that allowing things like four-plexes is 'destroying' neighberhoods is just complexly delusional. Having four-plexes is not 'high density', not even closes. And nobody is destroying anything, the existing houses mostly stay there and most will remain single family homes.

What we are talking about is going from ridiculously low density that was literately created to keep out 'negros' to another form of low density zoning.

That the actual reality, acting like 2 families living is the same as Hong Kong is just fearmongering.

> Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans,

See the problem is you don't actually understand homelessness. You have one image in your head of what homeless is, and you can't see beyond that.

There are lots of people who have jobs and live in their cars. And there are plenty of people who start out that way and their situation gets worse.

You have people now living in cheap apartment blocks, those people might have the money to move to a newly built four-plex. That leaves an opening in an apartment block. Then somebody from a shelter might be able to move in. People go from older buildings into newer, leaving those housing units available.

This is the actual mechanism that you need to employ on all level to lower rents and make more space available for affordable apartments.

> nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.

Forcing developers to build 'affordable' units is the wrong approach.
I know. I was joking of course :)

But Asterix and Obelix are of course named after asterisks and obelisks. It's part of the joke.
Well it got flagged and was never allowed to hit the front page so I’d say 12 is pretty good. There’s only one of you saying this.
Really? Wouldn't a better argument be that Americans have experienced constant positive social progress and stability, which reinforces the American mindset that "change is good". Whereas China has undergone nearly two centuries of instability, reinforcing the mindset that "stability is more important than pursuit of an ideal"?

I still don't even think that this is a super useful model because it is also reductive. But my point is just that you shouldn't paint broad brush strokes with bad history to find a reason for something. It's actually counter-productive. You can find post-hoc rationalization for anything. It doesn't make you right.
GCHQ celebrates 80 years of Colossus – GCHQ.GOV.UK
Yeah it does SO MUCH!
I did not know that, thanks. And cool!

That explains why they had some typical celtic things like druids.
Would be curious to see how this compares to Modal.com too.
I'd love a random dungeon generator that includes multiple plateaus inside one room. For example, a dungeon with a waterfall or a tree.

Whenever I'd run an adventure, my players would often try me out, and open a door of some sorts. But the 2D maps feel very artificial. Guillaume Tavernier on Patreon makes maps with plateaus and multiple stories: https://www.patreon.com/dearchitecturart

A generator like that, would be awesome.
Tried with Twitter, worked fine.
Apache HTTPd Server Developers Considered Harmful
For the past 25 years, I have been the lead developer of the libapreq2 subproject within the Apache HTTPd Server Parent Project. The original idea of libapreq as a safe/performant HTML form and Cookie parsing library came out of a collaboration between Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern in the late 90s.

It was my vision back then to transform the library into a generic, non-Perl related C library that would support language bindings from other programming languages, which is why I pushed for the project to be homes under the HTTPd umbrella instead of the Apache-Perl project.

While this vision was wildly successful, with language bindings available for several languages like Perl, TCL, R, etc, ever since about 2010 its proven tragic for the existing user community consisting of all of them, not just Perl.

What happened? Philip Gollucci, a Perl/FreeBSD olleague of mine at the time, started agitating that we promote the project to be released from inside the HTTPd server itself. What Philip didn’t know very well back then was how utterly vapid and territorial that team had become, which would have meant having to collaborate with them directly on user-facing decisions about the code base.

In 2012, Philip got what he wanted and I stopped resisting, so he forked the existing project and copied the C library components into HTTPd core.

In 2016 I resigned from the Foundation en masse. You can guess the reasons.

In 2020 or so, Google’s Security Team took advantage of an alpha release of httpd 2.5 by fuzzing its 8 year old copy of apreq. It found a few hotspots that needed repair.

Instead of having the courtesy of reaching out to me, or anyone else involved in development of apreq, a junior engineer on the HTTPd team went about the business of “bug fixing” the vulnerabilities Google found. You can see a record of his trial and error work in every release since then.

But the coup de grace was the 2022 release of 2.17, wherein the rookie developer purposely introduced a fatal bug into the codebase, breaking a fifteen year old regression test.

If you are wondering how something with a broken regression test winds up on CPAN, you’ll have to look into how RELENG is done in the server project.

Long story short, they commented out the test and shipped it anyway, and called it a Security Release that fixed a vulnerability every prior release was susceptible to.

Why do I care now? Because I’m the sucker users reach out to for answers as a known subject matter expert.

This sucks, but I’m sorry to tell you that my days wearing the Superman cape at Apache ended 8 years ago.
How do you see the Replicate vs Modal.com overlap?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

It's about a multi-decade civil war almost 2 thousand years ago & is the oldest of their classic novels and the characters are all household names.

And many similar character types ... Diaochan <> Hellen, Lu Bu <> Achilles, Zhuge Liang <> Odysseus etc.
Read the article, he interviews several real people.
One thing I know of is that zed'a scope is a bit wider and includes some collaborative tools and enhancements. Don't know the exact details though.
Doesn't appear to support UI scaling on Linux :(
So, you agree it doesn’t work.
When did robots.txt get a legal status?

Or did it ever?
In the US there are thousands of overlapping and independent sales tax authorities. Each tax authority has their own complex sales tax rules with respect to what products they apply to and the rates. Each authority can change these on an arbitrary schedule. it isn't chaos but it is very messy.

As a consequence, the sales tax rules are extremely local and the combination of all separate tax authorities that have jurisdiction over a specific retail location. While it might be nice if the sales tax was built into the price, it is a continuously moving target and therefore is simpler to compute on demand rather than physically repricing things on the shelves.
South Bend seems to be doing a lot. They are hosting a lot of talks and engage with all kinds of urbanist ideas. Great to see.
Airline Takes Revenge After Bad Review, Posts Passenger's Passport Online
Some random team at Berkeley beat them to it by a couple days: https://largeworldmodel.github.io/ . It's just a matter of throwing compute at it, nothing fancy. OpenAI could probably do 1M token context too but they haven't yet found a way to make it profitable (neither have Google; the most they actually offer customers is 256k).