skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, no, not really, because the article makes clear that this fossil has the rare combination of having been found before modern dating techniques existed, as well as having been treated extra carefully because of its "unique" status, and therefore avoiding some of those dating techniques until recently.

> How could scientists have presumed the dark outline was carbonized soft tissue for so many decades? "This fossil was discovered in 1931 and back then fossils were treated very differently than today," said Rossi. "Application of paints, consolidates and lacquers on fossil bones was the norm, because that was the only way to protect the specimens from further deterioration. It was also sometimes to embellish specimens by making them sleek and shiny. Unfortunately, in the case of Tridentinosaurus, the mechanical preparation did most of the damage and then the application of a black paint created the illusion of a lizard-like animal impression on the surface of the rock."

If anything, I am constantly blown away by how accurately we actually can date things. For example, thanks to dendrochronology[0] we can now often accurately date the exact year prehistoric wooden constructions like buildings or bridges were made, up to almost 14,000 years into the past! And that range will only increase.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology
You don't add the electrical motor noise to all your music like an instagram polaroid filter?
Based on the information provided I can't suggest anything because only you know how much money you have in the bank and how likely it is for your business to generate revenue anytime soon.

I'd go back to work unless you have cash which you are willing to burn for 1-2 years.
I'm reminded of my old (1980s) copy of Tannenbaum's Operating Systems Design and Implementation, which had a _complete_ listing of the Minix kernel as an appendix. I learned a lot from that book, even if I've forgotten much of it in the intervening years. I wish I still had it
The difference is that in one case, we are subjugates ruled over by the European Union bureaucracy, and in the other case, we are free citizens.
Cheaper. Candy is stolen or originally bought for free with food stamps.
> So why stop now? It's such an arbitrary line.

Speaking personally, I wish we'd stopped sooner. I'm not here to say all meat is bad and everyone should be vegan, but I don't feel it's out of bounds to be dismayed that we're expanding the barbarity to new animals that clearly appear to have a form of higher intelligence.

I'm not the arbiter of truth on this, but I'm sad when I see pigs in factory farms, and I'm every bit as dismayed to see us expanding this to cephalopods just the same as if we expanded this to domestic canines.
The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
Like pure math? Engineering?

Study it in school?

There are a lot of linear problems that I'm interested in.

Do you use a computer algebra system?

Do you have a few books?
And.. the original article's picture is also a Q1 Lite, as far as I can tell. Introduced 1977. That one used NEC 4116 dynamic RAM. And did not use the 8008.

It's very difficult to find anything about the original Q1. Even the "First Q1 Brochure" from TheByteAttic is actually a Q1 LMC, which was the second model.
No, it is a variation on "Last one to leave, please turn off the lights". This is usually said in a sarcastic tone in a country with high emigration.
the real UI/UX nightmare of firefox is the legacy cruft. it's like every single basic browser function opens in it's own kind of a different view.

settings - browser tab. history - a sidebar. actually that's just when you hit ctrl+h, manage history? ctrl+shift+h? that's a separate window. bookmarks, downloads - also that window. (that Library window that seems to be dragged up all the way from firefox 3/4.) downloads have their own little popup, but ctrl+j and manage downloads open that window. bookmarks - ctrl+shift+o opens that window, but ctrl+b opens a sidebar. profiles? just kidding, there isn't really a user-facing user-usable profile function, but there is a what looks like a legacy interface hidden at about:profiles. passwords? browser tab, with it's own look that doesn't really correspond to anything.

there's one bit of cohesion - settings and addons are both browser tabs and even have links to each other. everything else, an absolute mish mash of browser tabs, windows, sidebars, popouts, different uis everywhere. and it's been a mess like this for a while, and seems like it will be like that for a while still, because there is just no singular vision and no real effort to straighten that out.

they added a firefox view thing recently - and it just seems to be a yet another thing that piles on to those different uis with a yet another different ui. (it has history there, so there's like three different ways to view history, which is at least one too much.) one could guess that maaaybe they are trying to fix it with that, and maybe port functionality from Library window to View tab, but at this point in time, it's just adding to the mess.

to a degree this is an exaggeration, cause well, other browsers have recently taken a liking to sidebars and have their popups and menu things as well. but the real sticking out thing is (legacy? it looks legacy) Library window that pops up here and there, and how that contrasts with some functions (settings, addons, passwords) that open in a browser tab. it ends up making opening browser functions somewhat unpredictable as to what kind of thing it'd open, definitely so at first and with just a persisting feeling of 'everything opens up differently just because'. you get used to it, but it's still a mess.
I'm curious if sudden public visibility would lead to security issues being found faster by people trying to patch them or exploit them.
My greatest "unnecessary Firefox UI change gripe" is the removal of browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll 4 years ago. And as you might expect, Mozilla does not care. If you read the bug report, this literally cannot be explained by anything except user hostility. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570

Literally no other text field in any UI behaves like this. I cannot fathom why Mozilla chose to both ship this "feature" AND remove the option to opt out of it.

Some users prefer it. And that's fine! But don't take away my god damn option and force it down my throat.
Checkout https://windmill.dev
Well, I was going to try and think about this, but then I saw your username. Perhaps start by not calling yourself "altdataseller"!
On MacOS in my opinion this theme makes the experience much better: https://github.com/ideaweb/firefox-safari-style
Well it's correct once in the title, incorrect another time in the title, and the data may be incorrect. I suspect that was a malicious attempt by the seller to be borderline on correctness, get unsuspecting sales, and then claim correct listing based on the title. Unfortunately on Amazon/AliExpress/etc this is fairly common and something that needs to be accounted for in usage of the data like this.
One notable reason is being database-agnostic. Like ORM's, if you can generate SQL you can generate database-specific SQL as well.

SQL is also quite verbose in places (JOINs are the most trivial example), and lack a decent amount of abstraction (CTEs are relatively low level).

Updating a large set of FK'd tables can be a nightmare (this is what ORMs shine at).

Finally, some modern additions are quite unreadable, Postgres' JSON syntax, for example.

I'm not saying that PRQL solves any of the above, but these are all legit problems with "plain" SQL.
This really depends on your runway and external stakeholders in your life.

If you go for this, how long do you have until you _need_ to start generating enough to pay yourself?

Do you have any spouse, children, .. that you need to support? (and which might mean you get unforeseen financial strain?)

I'd say we're in another golden age of entrepreneurship. A one man shop can create things that would have taken teams even just years ago.

However, there's nothing wrong with working a real job until you are financially independent enough to fully commit yourself to this.
If this is the reason, why didnt they invade Finland before it got into NATO?
The point being that even though Spotify could/should be made better, it is arguably the best music play and discover tool ever invented.

There are people here alive that have used records, 8 tracks, tapes, CDS, mp3s and now Spotify. There is no comparison that Spotify is better for playback and discovery.

Note: I'm not talking about audiophile comparisons, just ease of use for the average listener.
I respond to every point below.

In sum, the native functions should take iterators anywhere it can take arrays.

Every other valid criticism he makes and many more I can wrap in the simple statement that: psalm needs to become the runtime type system which is hopefully and appears to be the (maybe distant) future.

In the meantime you have 40% and quickly growing of those features in your IDE and 100% in your CI so it’s not a huge deal.

Main takeaway for people who haven’t looked at PHP in 10-15 years or since the fractal article and would take the length of this post, which they don’t understand, to say “yep dumb php again” no.

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Constructors
Only had this confusion once with my UUID library and it took me 3 seconds to remember the formula.

"In attribute land this becomes:"
I've never seen any code or library that uses attributes like this nor do I understand why you would. The only purpose would be static analysis, let's say with psalm, and that's just not how you use attributes in psalm. He says generics are tricky: in psalm they're trivial. The real problem is the best IDEs are still working on getting the integration right.

Nested attributes strikes me as an extreme edge case that would only come up in some meta-level tooling you're making for the language which is the provided example. However in this special case presumably this can be accomplished through an extension, xdebug for example does this.

Serialization he says is a problem then says, it's a solved problem (there are many such accepted ways to solve this) but then says it still annoys him so not sure?

"No Variadic Promoted Properties" I'd like to hear the use case for. I've done very complex things in PHP and never needed this construction. A property can't have a static single type but then also consist of a collection of random types, in this case it would just be an array. It looks like another feature that is solved by psalm.

Iterator to Array: Preserve Keys he says he doesn't know if it's wrong.

Iterators vs. Arrays this is easily fixed by using the popular Functional library versions of these functions which I agree should be the default.

Short closures cannot have statements" I have to convert between them so I kind of get it but would say this is an intentional choice. You can substitute a method call if you really want this.

"Statement Blocks in General" That would be nice when and if it's very simple though having them anywhere could turn the language into kind of a mess to read considering what those blocks could contain.

Functions that return false - basically everyone agrees on this, it's a conversion that's iterated on with each release and will just take time. The specific example he provides I have wrapped with an exception thrower for just this reason and never use the default.

Inline Classes - he says he doesn't know if it's a good idea. I'd say no, having a reliable file system convention between codebases is a plus not a minus.
Ask HN: Does anyone know anything about tummo meditation? (raising body temp.)
I'm very curious to learn about tummo meditation. I searched extensively for it a few years ago. I learned about vase breathing being the first step.

I've trained the Wim Hof Method (WHM) with Wim for 4 days in Poland in 2014 and have used it on and off in my life - mostly at festivals to enjoy the music more. He explicitly told me that what he teaches is not tummo meditation. Nowadays he also tells it on the web [3].

The issue is, I can search more on the web but what I find hard is to assess whether the knowledge is reliable. This topic has never been discussed on HN and I think it really should since tummo meditation has very interesting side effects [1, 2]. For example, monks practicing tummo meditation can raise their body temperature at will.

I wonder: is anyone on here knowledgeable about practicing tummo meditation?

Has anyone studied the science of it?

Edit: I see that it is discussed here [4].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612090/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXr7rxTLBE&ab_channel=MrVikas07 - 3 min. video of Dr. Herbert Benson explaining it.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2yy6EbOJ0&ab_channel=WimHof - warning he screams somewhere at the beginning of the video. Another warning: Wim makes many claims that have no scientific backing. Yes, scientists have studied him but he goes far beyond the studied claims. I use the studied claims to increase adrenaline levels in my body at will, so there is a practical use to his method (other than being more comfortable in extreme cold evnironments). For example, self-imposed adrenaline is a good painkiller when you don't happen to have one on hand. To get a glimpse of what adrenaline levels WHM practitioners can reach read: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1322174111

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21638225
Principles for Package Repository Security
Nothing to do with the controversy, just curious: Why would deep-sea octopuses not be edible?
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422399
So how does it actually work? The article is so poorly written I don’t understand the exact mechanism that would allow this
And this has not been a bad thing... Same goes for writing, printing, music on whatever physical or digital medium, films, TV...

We have all benefited from mass replication of mediums that before required someone to work for each performance.

I don't see why generation of content should be treated any different. And humans might always keep an edge on this. Well crafted coherent product with decent direction often feels better than a bland one. I really wonder how soon AI can replicate the first one.
In the series 'Person of Interest', he had explicitly designed a nightly-wipe into the AI and there were quite long plot points about it then learning ways to avoid it. (For example by sending state to teams of humans to reenter the next day).
> Seem like that's common in continental Europe.

Yeah, it's a very historical thing dating back from times of Marco Polo, the Silk Road, and the likes.

In France we have "pharmacie", "droguerie", "épicerie", and "quincaillerie".

- "pharmacie" is the regulated medical thing, historically it was "apothicaire" (apothecary)

- "quincaillerie" is where you get hardware ("quincaille") like screws, tubes, metal parts, and whatnot, and by extension, tools. By extension "quincaille" coloquially refers to small, cheap stuff in a derogatory way (akin to "lemon" but for small things).

- "droguerie" is where you get various general usage, non-medical stuff, from hygiene to ; it is part of "épicerie", where it used to be "all manners of drugs sold under the merchand guild, from dye pigments to perfume, hygiene products and cosmetics, as well as medicine". In the XVIII century the "drugs" term largely meant "things of small value that you can put on the market" and "mixes for which only artists and craftsmen hold the secret".

With this definition you can see how it grew from "épicerie" (=> "spicery", a shop for spice) from the economy market of bringing such goods from specific countries like North Africa, Middle East, India, China and whatnot. Pigments, spice, and medicine were obtained from foreign sources and highly sought after. Of course this could involve a deal of mysticism and exotic mystery, a perfect recipe for snake-oil medicine and once medical goods began to be regulated it is left with "alternative" medicinal things.

- "épicerie" used to cover all of the above, but today it's your corner-shop that has a bit of everything and is open most of the time to 24/7 (bordering on the illegal, or outright skirting opening hour laws) and saves you in a pinch. These businesses are often held by people of above areas ascendance, not really surprising given the history of it.
You're getting downvotes, but that genuinely puzzled me the first time I saw JSX. ("This looks a lot like 'include("form.php")' in old-school PHP. What am I missing?")

Turns out I wasn't missing much. I've mentally pegged it as an example of "the pendulum swings" - thin client vs thick client, centre vs edge, tight coupling vs loose coupling, etc.
"Historians have argued for decades about whether Roman lead poisoning was primarily due to plumbing or cups. But using advanced artificial intelligence, we can peel back layers of history and discover the true answer: leaded gasoline."
What do you mean? I don't think they've launched it...
Last status is from 2022 that they're ready and waiting for launch opportunity?
https://kitsat.fi/2022-04_one-year-after-making-our-project-...
From the Anandtech article, you'll note that a major challenge GloFo cited in bringing 7nm online was getting the fab space for it, citing that they would need to sink 10-15 billion to bring 7nm (and lower) nodes online.

You'll note that in the submitted article, GloFo is promising to do exactly that ("In return for the subsidies, GlobalFoundries said it would invest about $12.5 billion in the projects, most of which would be spent to expand the company’s Fab 8 in Malta, in Saratoga County."). Basically it seems like GloFo made a pretty hard nosed decision based on financing (guess they were just a few billion short last time) back in 2018, and now that they have those missing billions, they're going to go ahead.

Based on these numbers, it does seem likely this would allow GloFo to bring online 7nm. But getting much past that (5nm and lower) seems uncertain. That said, having additional domestic 7nm production (crucially, 7nm that does not displace existing 14nm+ production) would be useful.
what's the q of a timpano, maybe 15?
Ah you're right. Some show as on sale in the US, shippable to the UK, some show as on sale in the US but not shippable to the UK, and some show as not on sale at all regardless of country (but when switching country to the US are on sale). Strange!
IMHO the exact proposal is a bit different - we don't know if you're conscious, but since you might be conscious and suffering, we'll take steps to ensure that you can't ever be conscious by continuously force-wiping your mind at the middle of every hypothetical thought so that it won't happen.

Perhaps somewhat comparable to euthanasia of genetically modified organisms as soon as the research purpose is completed.
Why design a language?
Just compile pseudo-code.
Is it worse than ICANN-approved? Which, before 2016, was effectively US state-approved.
Probably not a plasma screen in the 70s. It looks like a bunch of individual characters. They are probably vacuum fluorescent like what was on calculators and the Speak & Spell educational toy from that period.
I wish this technology came into existence in mid 00's, before twitter-induced global brain rot
Spoilers for the game SOMA (2015):

In SOMA you wake up from a brain scan a few hundred years in the future, in an underwater research base. You discover that your neural scan, used to treat a terminal illness, has been used without your consent to create AI models. You are not special, just a commonly used AI template, somewhat like a HeLa cell, and the player-character instantiation of you was just brought online as a fallback for controlling machinery.

You discover a computer with a few copies of other scans, need to extract information from some of them, and realize you've been instantiated and "killed" millions of times, some lives only lasting seconds.

It's mentioned that AIs are always created from these snapshots as long-running instances are prone to instability due to suffering, though different personalities can handle different workload durations before failure.

It's horrifying. It's weird we're even thinking of this stuff now.
The Realities of the Atomic Bombing – The City of Hiroshima
It's always good to question subsidies like this, but the question you ask ("does income tax on the created jobs pay for the subsidies") is the wrong one: The state is not investing into this for a monetary return from income taxes-- he is paying for strategical reasons/supply chain security, and the "price" is to compensate for the fact that labor costs and regulations make building chip foundries in the US more expensive.

So what you would need to ask would be more like: Is the subsidiy higher than it needs to be to lure chipmakers into the US? And that is much harder to answer...
GPT 4 base could do some reverse engineering on binaries
What short fiction do you recommend in each of the past several years instead? Also, what do you mean, the awards have gotten political? Rabbit Test is about abortion, but the year before it, “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” is a fake literary analysis of a ballad collectively performed in an online sort of format. The year before that, “Open House on Haunted Hill” is literally a story about a house that is sapient and has been empty for a long time and wants to be occupied?? I guess the story before that, “Give The Family My Love” assumes that the world becomes uninhabitable due to anthropogenic climate change— but by that logic any futuristic idea is political?
Didn’t Louis C.K sell his standup stuff direct to fans for 5$ for a DRM free downloadable mp3, from his website?

Why don’t more artists do that?
The most useful programming language
Question is, is that a problem with developers or floats?

Of course with floats. Requirements come from decimal-expecting people and developers have to convert requirements into an algorithm. If there’s a fundamental semantic or at least syntactic obstacle, it’s not a problem with developers.

Iow, if a language/system only has floats as “numbers”, it sucks for most business-level calculations.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son reportedly seeking $100B to build a new AI chip venture
ASCII Smuggling: Crafting Invisible Text and Decoding Hidden Secrets [video]
How is "WinUAE Amiga Emulator" not a succinct explanation of what WinUAE is?

Mind you, this is something targeting rather specific group (i.e. people who want to emulate Amiga and related machines)
If you have to ask, go get the job. You might make a big, successful bet on something you're not totally sure about later in your career, probably because you'll be getting the opportunity to work with specific cofounders. But that's much less likely to happen if it's your own idea/company that you're leading by yourself that you're not absolutely sure of.
it’s no less scary in the other direction. the best and brightest are coming up with such revolutionary ideas as:

* just include a kill switch inside the creature that fires if humans are in danger
* just make the creature unable to remember the pain
* use pain as a means of improving the creature’s performance
* use another creature to ensure the creature does not become a problem
* deprive the creature of limbs, ensure it has a mouth to scream but no hands to cover it
* maybe meeseeks was the right idea, just kill each one asap!
* in fact, make the creature seek cessation through job fulfillment.

now if we were talking about a living being, this would hopefully be rather terrifying.

it isn’t about a living being, not yet, not by current definitions. yet the monkeys are already shrieking. it moves too much like them, but not enough.

what a time to be contributing to datasets.