skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The signalling won't work, so nothing will happen.
every religion is full of elements from previous religions

zen buddhism can reasonably be thought of as a mix between daoism and buddhism

pure land buddhism is basically christianity dressed in buddhist language

modern hinduism is full of buddhist elements

many central aspects of christian myth can be traced back to things like the resurrection of osiris

many christian practices such as monogamy and christmas are obvious continuations of roman pagan religious practices, and of course 'easter' was a northern european fertility goddess (though she isn't the origin of the festival with her name; the corresponding holiday is called some version of 'pesach', 'passover', in non-norse languages)

in many cases particular saints in syncretic catholicism in the new world can be identified with particular pre-conquest deities

islam is largely judaism, but has clearly integrated a lot of non-jewish cultural elements

and all of that is just in the last 2500 years! so it seems totally believable that in 26000 years things would be vastly more intertwingled
It's centuries that aren't divisible by 4. It isn't years that aren't divisible by 4.
There are other forms of social status. Under communism people could be nominally wealthy, but party status carried a lot more weight.

However I would note many, many people are not motivated by status. I for one would rather be unknown and my relative status compared to anyone else is about the last thing I will ever concern myself with. I’m not alone, even if the status seekers stand out for all their attention seeking.
Countries that do have such "regulators", as you call them, aren't that much different from that, though. Most of the work these bodies do is just more professional approach to what you described. It's just observing how language changes and keeping a written record of it. Which is surely more comforting for a school teacher, I agree, but, damn, who cares. It really seems like a non-issue to me. And, I suspect, most school teachers feel like they have more important things in life to do, than keeping track of linguists keeping track of the language, even if it's implied that it's their job.

Sure, I know some countries where these "regulators" perceive themselves as having an important political function: keeping (mostly dying) language "pure". But this really is pretty laughable, teenagers will still speak some kind of pidgin, borrowing half of vocabulary from some other language with larger (and more importantly, perceived as "cool") community. I've seen this happen a lot. Maybe this does slow down language transformation to some extent, but I really doubt it is significant on the historic scale. In fact, I strongly suspect that English is changing much slower today, just because of how much content there is in it. Other languages borrow more from English, than English does from other languages today.
https://archive.is/Hpzme
> This is irrelevant

You've got one thing right. Over a billion people are now obese, a rate that has skyrocketed over the past 30 years. Whether physicians ever refer people for psych evaluations is irrelevant. My point is simple: I don't think it's plausible that the obesity epidemic is an "emotional problem". Beyond that, we've just fallen into sniping in a pointless way, which I have no wish to continue.

The thing about physicians is, if global amoral food conglomerates are targeting young people with unhealthy products, for example, there's little or nothing an individual physician can do about that. They can offer advice to an individual patient, but they can't really treat a societal problem. So if you're looking at it only from the perspective of an individual physician, you're missing the forest for the trees.

It would be like looking at cigarette smoking as an "emotional problem" while completely ignoring the role of the cigarette manufacturers in producing, marketing, and selling a product that they know is both addictive and deadly. Of course your physician would say don't smoke. (Ironically, some physicians smoke too.) It's no mystery that smoking is unhealthy. But it would be absurd to refer a smoker for a psych evaluation as if they were mentally ill. That's not the reason people are smoking.
The problem with fediverse style setups is that they tend to become highly centralized. Email being a great example. It's often pointed to as a perfect example of federation but naive because when highly centralized it only slightly reduces issues of full centralization. So the question is how you be federated while being highly decentralized.

This of course isn't important for everything. Centralization can even be good at times. But an example might be like browsers. Technically anyone can run their own. But since the ecosystem is so Chrom{e,ium} based, Google can exert a lot of control over what standards are set on webpages and how to process data. You might have heard about them trying to destroy the cookie. Which in part I feel is great, but at the same time it's not like they aren't still tracking people. Either way, the point is that a singular (or even a few) compan{y,ies} shouldn't get to dictate critical infrastructure. This can actually even lead to fragmentation, especially when we consider that more than one country exists.

So it has to be easy, near trivial, to run your own server, and must also be cheap, if you want a highly decentralized platform. If it isn't, there's always a strong pressure for centralization.
>that entirely focuses on getting autistic people to conform to "acting normal"

There is no reason why ABA has to be used for that purpose, it's just a technique to modify behaviour, it can potentially be used for good.

The problem I have more with ABA is the utter lack of ethical oversight amongst its practitioners, such as trade organisations continued acceptance of the Judge Rotenberg Center[1] who tortures its patients[2] according to the UN. I am generally concerned that this is a treatment ONLY used on autistic children since that makes the potential for abuse far higher, since they're "others".

[1] https://www.abainternational.org/events/program-details/even...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOBRhxlQgy8
Sugar? Alcohol? Nicotine? Oh but a 19 year old should get 20 years for an eighth I guess.... for their safety of course!
Not true, or you personally just don't care enough to think about it? Let's say someone literally approached you and your kids in the river and called you an asshole for subjecting your kids to that "unsafe" environment – would you be offended and scurry back home as quickly as possible or would you laugh at them and get back to the water?
Lol no one reads, just RIIR.
Would genuinely like to know what additional value Amazon is getting from hiring nearly, what, 900k people since 2018?

I mean, seriously, what do they all do?

I can't fathom onboarding that many people in that space of time and integrating them into an employment structure in any reasonable way. It seems like 75% of your existing workforce would have to be dedicated to onboarding and training.

How are you seriously bringing that many people onboard and having them genuinely contribute?
> Plenty of good sci-fi, but mostly on TV.

Care to share? I can't name a single one besides 'The Expanse'.
Enumclaw/EnumClaw?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100401-00/?p=14...
Show HN: ImmersiShare-like for Spatial videos for VisionPro
Ok, I've unflagged it, but "your comment is incoherent" was definitely against the site guidelines so if you'd please edit out swipes like that in the future, that would be good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another wrinkle to the study is the route of cannabis use and how it may play a role in the link to cardiovascular disease. About 74 percent of cannabis users in the study reported smoking cannabis, which could potentially increase the risk of cardiovascular disease much the same way as tobacco cigarettes—a result of inhaling particulate matter into the lungs. It's unclear if edible cannabis products would weaken the association seen in the study.

Inhaling smoke is just flat out not good for you.
> unified feed like "All Threads"

I don't understand why I'd need or want this. I saw it in the video and was horrified. Multiple feeds updating as I'm watching them is just too much going on.

When I'm chatting, I don't want to pay attention to 10 different things at once. I'm most productive when I am working on one task (with a single topic), which may require me to refer back to Slack periodically.

Struct looks like it has two differentiating features: 1) it surfaces irrelevant distractions in the All Threads channel, and 2) it creates the tl;dr summary. The former seems actively harmful to productivity, and the latter seems like it could be useful.
Some things off the top of my head...

I've been doing some texture painting recently in Krita and i find it to lack things like various filters. It does have the GMIC plugin which has its own filters but those are way slower than "native" Krita plugins and not as integrated (which makes sense).

GIMP has more ways to adjust the colors of an image - an entire menu of the stuff actually. Something i often need is adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image, but there isn't such a thing in Krita (well, there is in GMIC, but it has its own issues).

GIMP can work with indexed images directly and has decent functionality for them - Krita can only export indexed images and even that has very little control. You can apply a palette as a filter and when exporting the image you can have it save it as an indexed image "if it can be done" (meaning it wont be forced) and that if the exporter supports it. This also means that it wont preserve the palette indices since it doesn't know about them.

And the selection stuff mentioned by kuschku. In fact IMO selections and copy/paste work in weird ways in Krita.

There are more things that i notice when using Krita (and is what i tend to use these days), but i can't think of them right now. At the end of the day there are ways around things so the only thing that remains is my impression that is weaker on stuff outside "2D digital painting" (where it is very strong).
> ... he made this clear to them in interviews and when he accepted the offer.

Is there evidence of the "making it clear to them", in case it's needed for legal purposes?
Anecdotally I've seen quite a few Muslim sci-fi fans say that they enjoyed all the references to their culture in Dune. You might also find this interesting: https://reactormag.com/the-muslimness-of-dune-a-close-readin...

Speaking as a Russian, the only real reference to Russian specifically in the books is Vladimir Harkonnen's first name, which was amusing when it first came up, but it doesn't really seem to play any specific role (and ofc his last name is Finnish, so, like most other things in this universe, if it's a cultural reference, it's very syncretic). There is another reference to a broader Slavic culture in one of the Fremen chants in the first book, though:

ima trava okolo
i korenja okolo

This does not directly correspond to any existing Slavic language, but it is very recognizable to most speakers of such - "trava" is grass, "korenja" (pronounced as "korenya") are "roots", and "okolo" literally means "around" (from "kolo", circle), and in some Slavic languages became more generic "nearby". So the snippet should really translate as "grass is around/near, and roots are around/near", but Herbert translates it as "these are the grasses and these are the roots". Then again, many clearly Arabic phrases also have meanings that are similar but not exactly the same as what they really mean, and the book sort of implies that it's just the result of language evolution over time. But it is rather interesting that Fremen of all people apparently have some Slavic language as part of its history. Given that the snippet most closely resembles South Slavic languages, it is likely a reference to Bosniaks specifically, but it's never really elaborated further.
"the smoking GNU"
> Who knows how many lives are shortened by sugar and a million other everyday things?

Nevermind other substances, how can someone oppose the legalization of Cannabis, yet be perfectly fine with alcohol remaining legal, despite the fact that regular consumption of alcohol also has a strong link to cardiovascular disease?

Shocker! It's almost as if drug consumption is bad for your health.
Sorry, Rupert Murdoch.
"There’s no human driver present to interrupt your phone calls. You can pick the music yourself, and, of course, the science fiction–feeling of being driven by a robot is exhilarating."

Well, if that doesn't convince everyone I don't know what will.

I know the post presented more reasons after thus, but these are literally the first arguments pushed forward to explain how great self driving cars are.
What’s the significance of 365? Each Earth year has just a smidge under 365.25 days.
Well let's say one person is the child of French parents, another is a child of German parents, both first generation born in Israel and raised on modern Hebrew. Are they going to have the same accent when speaking, whether Hebrew or English? Yeah, I suppose they would, since people usually pick up their accent from their peers rather than their parents.
>A fox indicates that the enemy will not attack openly but will plot underhandedly

Interesting how foxes were already considered tricksters in the 2nd century AD.
Founder here.

TLDR: AI word is overthrown these days, sorry about that. But, what makes Struct different isn't AI. It's feeds and threads.

Longer version: The AI in Struct is, IMO, a balanced approach. Struct is different, not because of AI. It's different because of going hard on feeds and threads.

And AI helps in generating titles and summaries for threads -- something which pre-2023 me would have basically asked the user to create. In fact, that was the original idea that users would set their own titles for threads. But, users are forgetful and threads deviate from their intended purpose. And that's where AI can really help -- keep both title and summary up to date.

And you could stop there with the AI.

But, then you start playing with Struct bot, and it's ability to recall bits of information from older threads -- that's really nice. It's saved me so much digging around, personally. But, it's optional, you never have to talk to it.
I never knew that was something you could do to begin with.

The utility also seems rather dubious - presumably you scheduled things like getting picked up from the airport and hotel stays based on the flights you were planning to take. If flights are frequent enough that your plane landing a few minutes early would allow you to catch an earlier flight, how much time are you really shaving off? Are you really going to throw your plans out the window for the chance at getting to your destination an hour earlier? I don't really travel that often, and when I do I like to minimize stress, so perhaps I'm just not the target audience here, but I don't think I'm going to be running across an airport to catch a flight I'm not supposed to be on.
That's a new one since I last visited, but I guess it has been a few years
https://archive.is/yBQEd
>Best way to do this is wrap the whole script into a function and then execute at the last line[0].

It's not the best way. If your function is named `lsp_init` and your last line is `lsp_init`, a partial line can result in the execution of `ls`.

AFAIK the best way is to just wrap your script in `()`.
Embedded devices did not necessarily use the c++ memory model, and definitely not in the 90s and were highly likely in order CPUs to boot with no crazy compilers and thus atomics didn’t matter too much anyway (volatile was sufficient). They had a weaker memory model maybe but at the same time multi threading on embedded did not really exist as it was only being introduced into the industry with any real seriousness around that time (threading on Linux started to shake out around the mid 90s).
Apparently 16GB iPads set the line at 5GB per app by default, and while that flag lets you request more they don't make any guarantees of how much extra quota you will get, so I'm not sure how useful that is for loading a big model if it might randomly fail. I suppose it's probably safe to assume the Vision Pro is similar.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/25/apps-can-request-access-to-mo...
Unfortunately, I’m not sure. I’ll have to ask him
>Herbert's elaborate spiritual systems then become manifestations of the culture under religion, but don't hold true moral or philosophical significance that religion is supposed to have, because the true moral reality in his setting is ultimately still about power.

In the later novels it introduces the concept of "Arafel" a word which comes from the Hebrew word for darkness. It represents the apocalypse (the end of humanity) and the idea is that through the golden path humanity is steered away from Arafel, so there is a thin veneer of a moral justification beyond power..
Spotify Artist which is app for managing as name states your artist profile should allow you to run promo campaigns but they need to be set till the end of the previous month. Well. 29 February according to spotify is not a valid February date.

I know it's somehow an edge case but it's one which appears every four years so I dont understand how it could be missed by such a big company.
Yeah since all the super strict laws on opiates have helped Ohio, right?
Cost and requirements.

If a website goes offline, what impact does it have?

For Amazon, offline equals lost profits. Thus staying online is an imperative.

It is easy to have near 100% uptime on AWS because AWS was designed to support Amazon's requirements. It does cost more because you would need to configure for multiple availability zones and elastic scaling.

Is the cost of that increased availability worth it to other web sites? Maybe or maybe not.
That must be it! I don't really have any threads I don't think. Oh so Struct uses that as boundary to summarize? Makes sense, although a lot of Slack and Discord servers don't really use threads. Like, the golang one in Slack specifically asks people to NOT use threads, out of some usability concern, I think (screen readers or something).
Didn't see it mentioned here but cloudflare sent me an invoice today and the attached PDF was titled cloudflare-invoice-1970-01-01.pdf :)
I don’t know what the company said exactly, but as I’ve heard from him, it was that he wasn’t doing enough work and/or they didn’t expect it would be as bad for him as it was
Because he's funny as hell.

I don't think people realize how entertaining the old radio shows were. It's all fallen out of the collective consciousness, but Jack Benny was as funny as anything on TV today. "X-1" is better scifi than anything on today - it benefitted from running during the golden age of scifi. "Gunsmoke" was great, "The Six Shooter" starring Jimmy Stewart was wonderful.

They used to play on LA radio stations after midnight, I started listening to them on college and never stopped.
> Georgism isnt a viable solution for the modern world where a majority of the economy is services or knowledge work.

You need land for datacenters and offices. There is zero economic activity that doesn't use land in at least some capacity. That's indeed the very basis of Georgism's viability, including in the present day.

And even if there was some tech company that used zero land whatsoever, there are plenty of other things with inelastic supply that would confer the same benefits if taxed by value; IP addresses and domain names both come to mind.

> 100% of the tax falls on use of physical goods

Correction: 100% of the tax falls on landowners, while 0% falls on everyone else.

> Of course this sounds attractive for tech workers

It should sound attractive to literally everyone whose wealth derives primarily or entirely from their own labor.

> who would live nearly tax free under such a system

That depends on their living arrangements. If they're renting, then yes, it'd be entirely tax free, as it would be for every other renter. If they own their own homes, then it depends on location; given equal physical characteristics, a plot of land in Downtown is more valuable than a plot of land in the middle of nowhere, and so would be the tax on that value.
Shakespeare died over 400 years ago and, as you point out, he’s still mostly comprehensible. And Chaucer wrote in Middle English so I don’t know what you mean by that.

If you want to focus on spoken language, as per the claims about sound recording, Simon Roper and Dr. Geoff Lindsay both have videos on YouTube about dialectical changes over time. My impression is that the difference between 1924 and 2024 seems about as big as the difference between 1824 and 1924, despite the invention of sound recording. And this is exactly what I would expect. I don’t think you could name ten pre-1940 films that most Americans have seen, for instance.
Substraction is necessary for long division. Elementary schools force you to learn long division because later when you learn algebra, you need long division to divide polynomials, for example. You also will need substraction to do Gaussian elimination, etc...

Many school systems make difference between the ability to solve a problem, and the ability to solve a problem a certain way. Sometimes the first is all that's asked, but when that way of doing things is necessary later, then the second is asked of you.

The point is that you want to prepare the child for what they will need in the future. Sure, perhaps you are doubly exceptional and will be able to adapt on the fly in the future, but you can't design a school system around extremely uncommon students.

I say this as another 2E student that had very similar issues. There is no good way of fixing it except maybe by giving special accommodations to these students. I repeatedly failed exams exactly because I would skip steps this way, but there is no sense fundamentally changing the entire school system and hurting the majority for that.
And if someone wanted to point out that I shouldn't let things to last moment.

He would be absolutely right.
Smoking weed increases your risk of heart attack and stroke. That was obvious this whole time?
Because the comment you'd responded to asked "does this mean that instead of going up vertically, with this engine, the 'rocket' should fly near horizontally and stay in the atmosphere at the right altitude?"

Your response suggested that rockets do this (though your altitude comment negates some of that). They in fact don't, and get above most of the atmosphere before their horizontal-to-the-ground vector becomes significant. A key clue is that fairing separation (shedding excess weight, but constrained by the aerodynamic advantages and protections of the fairing itself) tends to occur before major pitch-over.

Note that pitch-over is not the same as the azimuth "roll program" which most launches execute immediately after clearing the launch tower itself, which is for purposes of aligning navigation, in part for the later pitch-over maneuver. Roll is not pitch-over. Everyday Astronaut has a good explainer (~22m long):

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kB-GKvdydho>

The problem with air-breathing engines is that they work best where the atmosphere, and aerodynamic effects, are still relatively thick, as compared to the elevations at which pitch-over occurs. Commercial flights and even very-high-altitude surveillance craft (U-2, SR-71) still operate where aerodynamics and high-speed skin heating (a factor for they hypersonic SR-71, but not the subsonic U-2). Max altitude for the SR-71 was about 25 km (82,000 ft).

Ramjets can attain altitudes of ~30+ km (record: 27.7 km, 123,500ft by a MiG-25 per StackExchange: <https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/35858/how-much-of-...>). Scramjets might be able to reach 100k ft (<https://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43_schedule.html>). That's getting to be close to what's useful for space launch, but whilst the altitude is useful, the velocity remains low relative to orbital velocities.