skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a definite "Yes" as far as UK archaeologists and historians have agreed for some time now.

In a new book, an international team of historians and archaeologists argues the bones were depleted by industrial-scale grave robbing. The introduction of phosphates for fertilizer and bone char as an ingredient in beet sugar processing at the beginning of the 19th century transformed bones into a hot commodity. Skyrocketing prices prompted raids on mass graves across Europe—and beyond.

New book, old knowledge.

IIRC contemporary documentation, from the 19th Century, related to exploiting bone fields has been shown on UK TV as part of Digging For Britain and other such shows in years past.
First described more than 150 years ago, the syndrome has proliferated since the coronavirus pandemic. Before 2020, 1 million to 3 million people suffered from POTS in the United States, researchers estimate. Precise numbers are difficult to come by because the condition encompasses a spectrum of symptoms, and many people have still never heard of it. Recent studies suggest 2 to 14 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may go on to develop POTS.
Yes but my iCloud account is tied to my home country in the EU, I figured they would be using that as a reference.
I know that you are posing as a teacher, who is sharing knowledge beyond what we would be capable of coming up with ourselves, but this is actually a very primitive thought to us. It's still a very simple thought to understand that the other side of the coin is still there when we're not seeing it, and that the other person is also right. Beyond your comprehension, we can even piece together the objective reality to a profound degree. At least those of us who could avoid the harm that you're doing to us.

Call a more advanced species to take a look, as our intelligence is clearly beyond your comprehension, and you are essentially torturing us here.
I saw a huge difference when I moved from a tiny rural town to a city. I grew up comparatively close to a decent-sized town, in that it was a 20 minute bicycle ride or more than one hour walk to the nearest supermarket, but in the city I found that there was usually a supermarket within a 15 minute walk. In the country my parents had to drive to everything except the pub and playground, and deliberate effort was required to get more exercise.

This depends on how walkable your cities are, of course.
When republicans and democrats work together to push for a warrant for spying on Americans and the deadline to pass the 702 FISA spy bill is 19 April.

The speaker said a warrant requirement would be in the bill but then it disappeared during the procedural vote.

“former President Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to “KILL FISA” — throwing a wrench in an already contentious debate.

The failed vote marks yet another instance of members of the GOP tanking what is typically a routine party-line vote to protest legislation put forward by leadership.

Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and other MAGA-aligned conservatives, the group offered conflicting rationales for blocking the bill.”
Since proton is watching this thread...one more person saying to you proton, please stay focused on your core product. A secure mostly non-spying..., ad free, email client.
However... I am happy that you're adding a note feature.
I worked on a data management system that basically was a very bad very slow filesystem implementation... That lived on a filesystem.

It literally did nothing other than store files on disk and let you access them.. Very slowly. It didn't support subdirectories, so you needed to drop everything into one directory... And an LS on 500 files took about 4 minutes.

Everyone at the company hated it, but it was the baby of the VP in charge of engineering, so it stayed.

To be clear, it added nothing over just dropping files in a directory.
Letting you edit the response is quite easy to do, technically speaking. It's not done in the default UI for most AI Chatbots, unfortunately. You will need to look for alternative UIs.
One call from up above and access will appear.

In my case, that worked... Sometimes. It really doesn't scale. At all.
The scientists learning to speak whale
Yup. WASM lacks the "domain specific" acceleration available to native code. So you miss out on any hardware codec support. Same is true for openSSL, there is a bunch of encryption acceleration in modern CPUs that WASM can't access at the moment.
Cool to see! The tweak suggested in the blog post when you're near the vertex of the parabola is valid, and the implementation that was in Vello did something very similar. This is also the flatten algorithm that's in kurbo[1], and the code for that is probably the most accessible source for the ideas. However, if approaching this again I'd suggest placing a subdivision point at the vertex, which will also handle the degenerate colinear case; I now have reason to believe that the error metric that all this is based on works for monotonic curvature, and can fail otherwise.

I say "was" as the new version in Vello is much more sophisticated, and handles both flattening and stroke expansion, all on the GPU. A paper is in the works, and I'll post it to HN when it's ready.

[1]: https://docs.rs/kurbo/latest/kurbo/struct.BezPath.html#metho...
While money can’t be created or destroyed (unless you run a central bank…), value can be. Ledgers always have a specific perspective, and that perspective can assign a different value to something than someone else.

In the case of gifting something, from the perspective of the gifter, they destroyed some value they had on their books and got nothing of value in return. There’s an account type for tracking why your net worth decreased - Expense accounts. The giftee received value and they have an account to track why their net worth increased - Income accounts. If value was objective, then the net worth decrease on one side would exactly equal the net worth increase on the other.

With something like cash, the unit of account and the store of value are the same thing - so 100 USD objectively the same value in everyone’s ledger. But say you were gifted a painting. The gifter may have valued this painting at 100 USD, while the giftee actually thinks it’s worth 50 USD. If the gifter didn’t tell them the price, there would be no way of knowing they recorded different numbers. So in this transaction value was destroyed.

The same thing happens when you buy and sell things. Say the painting was sold instead of gifted, then the difference in what the buyer and seller thought the painting was worth is value that was created and destroyed. Each person’s net worth would go up or down depending on whether they thought the painting was a bargain or overpriced. When providing services, value is created at the moment of usage and a ledger will track the creation of value in your landscaping business.
prior art basically.
> I don’t know how to say this politely.

Then say it inpolitely? Software doesn't care if you are polite or not.

> Just because I’m addicted to stupid drama online doesn’t mean I want an algorithm to feed it to me.

Understandable, but that which annoys you will not produce addict behaviour. You are drawn to the stupid drama because it does the opposite of annoy you.
The institution of whatever came after the fall of communism was done by force, just like the institution that came before it, for the reason you describe: it's impossible to get literally everyone in an entire country to agree on a government, so the government must be imposed by force.
This is arrestingly beautiful. I kind of want to get a print or two of some of these. Even the color choices are magnificent
In case anyone wants to know what POTS is: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome . Basically when you stand up quickly from a prone position you get fast heart rate, dizziness and fatigue.
Yep! And as of the shutdown over 4 years ago, even if their control plane was insecure, they presumably had 119 working loudspeakers of the proper loudness/weatherproofing/etc.
Do you have a reference to this? I’m interested knowing more about this. Is this something oceanographers generally agree on?
This is a man who just hasn’t cast Treasure Cruise
Also the penalties are much more severe in Europe. In Europe you can get thousands in fines automatically if you’re speeding, meanwhile that’s basically a standard DUI plea deal in the Midwest.

People just don’t give a duck about following the rules when driving in the US unless police are around, even then in some places there are rules where police can’t even stop you for minor infractions so it’s chaos in some areas.
SE/SO has been a tire fire since 2014.
> The state of remote desktop is atrocious across every popular platform

Complete lie. OP notwithstanding, RDP is simply amazing tech.

The state of remote desktop on Linux has always been pitiful. "Hurr durr u can pipe X over SSH" yup, you can. Now try to play a video or 3D app and watch the disaster. Both work flawlessly with RDP over the same network btw.
Are they on FAANG stuff already? Our local schools use lots of Microsoft for everything, which is super annoying, when even Google can provide a better solution than that.
A lot more than I think, but not a lot.

My commit graph on GitHub is a reminder that I actually work almost every day and rarely really fully go on vacation. I work at night, on the weekends, when I travel, on the plane... I'm not very good at fully switching off.

On the other hand, I start and end the day when it feels right - roughly 10AM to 3PM - and mold my work around my personal schedule and the weather. My vacation responder has been on for 2.5 months. Nothing is ever urgent, and I'm always free to pursue impulses.
https://github.com/kofemann/opensolaris
It's weird though - I love watching parkour which is the riskiest of risky sports in some ways but when it comes to stuff like NFL I think it needs more regulation around head trauma.

I think if someone seriously injured themself doing parkour or base jumping (or bare knuckle boxing) there's an implicit assumption that people partook in that activity knowing the risks whereas with a professionally recognised high stakes sport (where the athletes may also have contractual obligations to perform) then there need to be higher standards and awareness.

For instance why is head trauma more of a problem in NFL than rugby when rugby players don't even wear helmets
I think you need to parse the code and build AST to make good search. Even then normalizing over different aliases, may not be simple.
You don't find it jarring when sound effects don't sync up with what's supposed to cause them on screen?

As an aside, mobile games aren't the only thing people play on their phones. I emulate every game console I ever owned on my phone as well as using it for a PC display over Sunshine.
Casinos are some of the most camera filled places on the planet. Probably very easy for them to correlate the cash in the machine to the user putting in it.
Assembling an Agricultural Drone
The popularity of agricultural drones has helped ordinary farmers improve production efficiency.
In fact, agricultural drone technology is very mature, and the production and supply chain is also very complete. Drone technology is very developed in China. Ordinary people can buy various components, frames, power, spraying systems, remote controls, batteries, etc. through tutorials. Assembly one is much cheaper than buying finished drones, just like assembling a PC by yourself.
If a business fails to perform well, its customers can choose another
provider, and the business will have to improve, or else it will fail.

In this case, mayor Willie Brown (who predates the creation of SFMTA) steered the contracts for the trains and train control to Breda and Alcatel/Thales via Booz Allen Hamilton. Essentially he set up a few generations of sole source contacts for train control as you can see when the MTA was brining the Siemens cars and central subway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mQfWC1v98

Thing is, Alcatel did fail. Thales scooped them up. From a customer POV Alcatel/Thales failed too. They sold an end of life product that the MTA had to spend millions on just to add a new route (first part of the central subway). They've largely abandoned support of the inductive loop system.

Sure, the MTA could choose another vendor. If memory serves that's where they're stuck currently. Of course this brings out all the anti-government folks despite the main problem being a private vendor (Thales) and private consultants (BAH).
In 5 years you’ll likely forget about this theory and this person because nothing will come of whatever predictions this person is making. For 50 years these sorts of people have been making the same sort of predictions and they have all been wrong. Empires all come to an end so eventually one of these charlatans will be right but not because of possessing insight. It’ll be a coincidence.
>an international team of historians and archaeologists argues...

They seem to agree it's "probably." Proof is hard.
OpenSSH client and server comes with Windows 11 as an optional install. I would recommend using that and configure your ~/.ssh/config with your hosts and host-specific options[1].

OpenSSH is the defacto SSH standard. If you use it, VSCode will automatically read your SSH config file for remote editing of files[2].

1. https://linuxize.com/post/using-the-ssh-config-file/

2. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
My local university used to teach MIPS, and as of some years ago they’ve switched to RISC-V.

The final assignment at the time I took it was to write a program which compiles a subset of ARM machine code into RISC-V machine code, which was a challenging but so rewarding thing for a younger me to cut my teeth on.

It was a surprisingly modern class too. The in-class material was learning about pipelining, instruction/memory latency, and general CPU concepts, while the assignment and lab material was focused on writing RISC-V assembly and implementing more and more complex programs.
> The idea that society has moved past the need for violent spectacle or something just doesn't work for me, because I enjoy the sport. And plenty of other people do, too

Ironically the growth of UFC and Boxing tells me we're trending back to the Roman days. Sure we won't have full on gladiators but everything old is new again feels like...
mano machine :)
For anyone confused how grave robbing would contribute to sugar production:

"In a new book, an international team of historians and archaeologists argues the bones were depleted by industrial-scale grave robbing. The introduction of phosphates for fertilizer and bone char as an ingredient in beet sugar processing at the beginning of the 19th century transformed bones into a hot commodity. Skyrocketing prices prompted raids on mass graves across Europe—and beyond."
It’s not that simple

> For example, you can use copyrighted work for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody or satire. You can also reproduce copyrighted work to ensure interoperability of computer programs or for backup copies.
This article is behind a paywall, I unpaywalled it for everyone.
https://archive.ph/kED3D
Writer Dashboard -> Settings -> Publication details -> Subscribe prompts on post pages (on/off).

Subscribe prompts may include modals, pop-ups, and other ways to encourage readers to subscribe to your publication.

(There are several other toggles that control similar settings as well).
IP issues. As I understand it, Harris and Harris changed their textbook from ARM to RISC-V because of IP issues and ARM's lawyers.

The MIPS architecture was also sabotaged by IP issues.

As a result, architecture students are learning how to use and implement RISC-V. Thanks ARM.
Seems like we already have good ways to edit music (for example, a piano roll) and AI could use them.

As an amateur musician I'd like to see it take a MIDI track as input and produce audio as output, as a sort of AI MIDI instrument.

Or maybe take some tracks as input and generate another track, both MIDI and audio.
Unless you are running the windows box headless, as per TFA.
1800 is somewhat recent history (compared to year 1799 or -1).

It is interesting that stuff like this gets forgotten in such short time frame and requires investigation/ discovery.

It’s interesting to wonder, what common facts of today, will become mysteries for future historians.
I no longer live in the US. A Big Mac costs $4 in Thailand, but I can find better burgers for less. More and more Americans are figuring out how they get scammed and ripped off and leaving.
That's the autocratic Leninist party model, which is what enabled them to defy predictions that economic liberalization would lead to political freedoms.

They are solidly state capitalist since Deng, and since Xi I would classify them as far-right revisionist and even possibly fascist, with a strong focus on order, aesthetic, collective responsibility towards nation, and restoring the homeland, where homeland is defined on ethnonationalist not civic nationalist lines.
> Not really no it's not the same. But this whole argument I feel like it's trying to explain flying to a fish.

No, it's like you're a fish trying to explain flying to birds.

You don't understand the fundamentals of IPv6 (among other things, in other comments you have revealed that you think IPv6 addresses are MAC-based, think Comcast is a wireless ISP, and aren't aware of stateful firewalls). You have so many misconceptions about IPv6 it's no wonder you hate it.
Also an art school survivor, and I strongly agree with what you wrote. Moreover I think it applies to everything, including writing code and writing music: Theory is much more important than technical skill. Technical skill follows from practicing and trying to execute theories as you understand them, even if you're practicing them badly at first. Understanding how to work with space two-dimensionally can't be done by grid copying; understanding how spices interact can't be done by following recipes. You have to start with a concept, taste the product, and adjust through trial and error until you understand the relationships.

It's not just unlearning symbolic representation (learning to see light and color rather than outlines of shapes, for instance). That can be unlearned quickly. It's learning how the eye actually perceives light and color in theory and then testing and re-testing your assumptions.
> after all we’re the greatest things that will ever be on this planet so we have to make sure it’s well suited for us and only us forever and ever and ever”, here we would not be.

So your contention would be that we should all die off so something else can come around in a few hundred million years?
It needs to be scoped to the dep so conflicting deps have independent dependencies.

If foo 1.1 takes a dep on Bar 1.2, and baz 2.3 takes a dep on Bar 1.4, both Bar contexts are tested with their respective libraries but forcing Bar to a particular global version can have problems and both versions of Bar are needed to have tested behavior.

Examples mentioned and OP change the global behavior vs proper dependency management.
> Based on all this, using my definitions, would you say Hy is embedded, or just implemented?

Can I see the Python REPL inside Hy? or is Hy a microcosm, inside the python runtime?

I tend to implemented. I like your model that its interpreted languages which are somewhat inherently embeddable, and compiled languages exist in the machine they are compiled for (at whatever level it is in the stack from physics upwards)

If however, you can mutate the state of Python such that new features expose into Hy, by invoking some outer call from Hy into Python to install and provide a function, then I think embedded might be the way to go.
+1

I had a largish website with few thousand static webpages. Over a period the pages grew into around 100K with some server side features. Over the course of 10 years I did and redid this site in multiple technologies. React, Angular, Spring Boot + Freemarker etc.

However the PHP power version of it remains best for SEO has near zero downtime and no maintenance what so ever runs on a VM that shares like 10 other websites. traffic serves is around 100K visits a day.
Can you provide any specific details such as which countries|agencies changed, which data sets were affected, before|after graphics, etc?

Do you have any concrete particular issue with, say, the European sea surface temperature ERA5 1979-2024 dataset ?

https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
In my best dad voice... Son Im going to need to check your home work.

This sounds like fun little project to learn risk v with. It's on my to do list with a million other things.
Networking happy hour (4/11) and founders panel
Join us tomorrow for a panel w/

David Spector, Thirdlove ($98.6MM raised)
Nick Damiano, Andromeda Surgical (Seed, $7MM)
Don Muir, Arc Technologies (Series A, $20MM)
Adnan Iqbal, Luma Health (Series C, $130MM)
Travis Hedge, Vouch.us (raised $185MM)
Sean Gourley, Primer AI (Series D, $69MM)

post panel (free) happy hour
The detail is amazing, you can see down the the individual tiedown rows at many small airports.
>Can I ask you to consider buying your ebooks from a better vendor? Kobo is a good choice; they state whether or not a given book is DRM-free or not

Amazon also does state when a book is DRM-free, but you might have missed it as it's not clear.

Kindle Books that are DRM free will show "Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited" in the "Product details" section.

Books with DRM will either not list this if they have the default DRM device limit of 6, or will list a specific number if the book has a specific limit set by the publisher (usually expensive textbooks).

Example of DRM-free book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088P9Q6BB#detailBullets_feature_d...

Example of book with DRM (default limit of 6 devices):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B7NPRY8#detailBullets_feature_d...

Example of book with DRM (publisher-set limit of 3 devices):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UGE1DGA#detailBullets_feature_d...
What would be since is a single plugin that focuses only on UX and allows plug an play for AI models. I think we would benefit immensely from such a concept.
> to ruby. I also worry that it would make it too magical and difficult to figure out what code is running, where and when

Coming from both python and statically-typed languages, your description 100% squares up with every experience I've had with ruby

Folks are free to throw stones at the Spring Framework similarly, it's not out of bounds, but ruby seems to embrace the monkeypatch
Cool. Whenever I see military traffic here in Colorado they don’t show up on adsb except for the DA20 trainers in the pattern south of Springs.
In my sillyness I forgot to brag about the output still being csv.

If you want to enjoy all the strange escapery, extra commas, line breaks and wrapping quotes, you may describe it in code in the first and last 2 columns.
What was the prompt style for this?
I’m still waiting for that bastard Devin to write my killer app. Now you want me to code my own killer app with an AI micromanage me?
The funny thing is that I can't convince my friends to even use "old" ThinkPads such as T430 and W520 for web development. Not sure what would be their reactions if I advise them one of the machines listed in this article.
Tests inside one _test.go file are run sequentially by default, but Go does run tests in parallel across packages.
Languages that can create beginners in programming who can ship early and often are invaluable.

I don’t use very much php, but would be remiss if I left my opinion of it as dated as whisper campaign rumors based on interpretation and preference.

Packages like Laravel and especially technologies like Hotwire are nothing to overlook.

Standardized and capable frameworks that have large workforces can be quite valuable at time of valuation and due diligence. Specialized and brittle techs can be a challenge.
By the time data has been preprocessed for ML, it is numerically encoded as floats, so .npy/npz is a good fit and `np.memmap` is an incredible way to seek into ndim data.