skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree that Cyrillic is not a natural fit. No writing system was a natural fit for Turkic languages.

Arabic script? Turkic languages have lots of vowels, which are very important, and a lot less fricative consonants. You must add a lot of "diacritics" (points above or below).

Latin adapted for Turkish has same issues: a lot of diacritics, and also the infamous i/I distinction (like peek & pick in English) that causes typos.

Cyrillic for Turkic languages simply introduced more letters. For example, in Kazakh the vowels а, о, у, э, е, ы were extended with ә, ө, ұ, ү, і. Consonants got their fricative counterparts: к, г => қ, ғ. The only inconvenience I see is Latin "h" (e.g. жиhаз, furniture) which can't be capitalized -- it will collide with Cyrirllic Н (N). I actually find it easier to transcribe German in Kazakh letters than in pure Russian ones.

The flip side is you need a bigger keyboard, the number row gets used for letters too.

In Kazakhstan, the transition to Latin lost traction even in the state organs: every legal document is written in Cyrillic. In Uzbekistan the attempt was made ~25 years ago, IIRC, and still even state organs print a lot in Cyrillic. They allowed writing in both systems as legally equal for 10 years, but had to extend the transition period for another 20, IIRC.

So supposing it's the cultural trend is quite disputable -- I'd say only nationalists with decolonization agenda may want it (but then why not the old Arabic writing system?). The majority doesn't care nor want to switch.
Harmless recreational side effects of anesthesia, or mild neural damage? Who knows!
it’s not possible to be legally bound to commit a crime, so if those “legal issues” (nice euphemism) are great enough then it doesn’t matter what some dead dudes agreed to. the contract is toilet paper from 400 years ago, even if you really like the dudes and the current state of affairs.
50 years is a long time.

Between the existence of Austria-Hungary empire, when the Latin alphabet was very relevant for all the Balkans, and the end of WW2, when the Cyrillic became much more relevant for them is just 1945-1918=27 years.
I’ve been reading about spatial partitioning of fractals lately but haven’t found a good resource on the subject. They probably use bsp-trees?
> Beach erosion will make Southern California coastal living five times more expensive by 2050, study predicts

I had no idea there was such demand for beach erosion.
It always had name .NET Framework, and what we have now is called .NET.
For discovering files in an unknown codebase I use the grep feature in Helix (or just ripgrep CLI). Way faster than going through a tree in most cases.
In the longer term, too many unpredictable factors can collide, so anything is possible.

Particularly in Bulgaria, the youth is dominated by western culture only at the surface level. It’s in their consumption patterns, the outfit and the slang. Apart from that, it’s not a western culture by a long shot. The competitive individualism is not there. The family is expected to give a good and steady start to their children, at the cost of the comfort of the parents. The national symbols like the alphabet are encoded and institutionalised through the educational system. For example, all schools are marching through cities on the 24th of May, to celebrate the alphabet and enlightenment (просвета) in general.
Surely there's a more credible source you can find for this
It's a bit more complicated. The OG cyclic was the the Glagolitic - which is very different from the greek alphabet.
The proper Cyrillic, while based on the greek alphabet, was developed then specifically and consciously as a political project against Byzantium, as of course the byzantines would much prefer to use greek for church and business ...
I dunno what the interface looks like, but couldn't they hand the AI the entire stack of resumes and tell it to give them the N best ones?
Sorry, I meant I use 401, not 402.

And I use those terms in all error messages, documentation, and code. Otherwise I respect the standard.
Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Django Back End Lead in Paris (PostgreSQL, REST)
> In Cyrillic just one

That's not true. Depends on the language, of course, but at least in Russian there are definitely more than one way to express many sounds using different letters. For example, there is no difference in pronunciation between "ёлка" and "йолка", although only one of them is accepted as correct
I think I've told this before but here goes. I was put under multiple times, but in this instance for nasal surgery I believe.

When I woke up, the nurses were half laughing and half pissed that I tried to get up mid surgery and fought them, so much so they had to get 6 nurses to restrain me(I'm a huge guy, no surprise here).

She said 'You kept saying you needed to take care of Charlotte, whoever she is, she must mean a lot to you.'

Charlotte was the location of our data center. Apparently even in my delirium I dream about work.
I've looked at it a bit tonight, since I do drive from DC-ish to Orlando-ish for a thing every year.

It looks like ticket prices vary considerably based on date, and tend to get cheaper as dates grow closer if bookings are sparse, much as airfares or hotels behave.

Depending on date, it looks like I can take one direction of that trip on a train for as low as $360. That's $75 for (what looks like decently comfortable) "coach" seating for 1, and $285 for a "standard size" vehicle.

To drive between those same two points is 811 road miles. At $0.67 per mile (the IRS reimbursement rate, which is supposed to include consumables like fuel and also less-visible things like insurance and depreciation), that's $544.

So the Auto-Train can be cheaper.

It can also be more expensive: Again, depending on date, I've seen coach seats as high as $280 -- a couple hundred bucks higher than the cheapest fare of $75 -- which makes it more rather more expensive than driving.

Trip time, if driving solo, looks close-enough to the same. It's 12-ish hours to drive straight-through, plus stops for fuel, libations and probably at least one nap of indeterminate length to combat fatigue. That seems close-enough to the auto train's ~17-hour trip to not be worth thinking too much about.

And theoretically, after getting off of the train, I won't be worn out from having spent an entire human day driving. That seems like it would be nice -- I can have a cocktail or two and play some Factorio instead of just...driving all damned day.

Fascinating stuff, I think.

I'll check out prices before I head out to make that trip again in the spring.

Who knows: Maybe I'll wind up taking the train.
>Thank you. This middle ground between hyperscaler infrastructure and super simple web apps is where most of my career has been spent, yet the recent trend is to pretend like there are only two possible extremes: You’re either Facebook or you’re not doing anything complicated.

100% this. I am tired of you don't need microservices, you don't need JWT, you don't need Kubernetes, you don't need ElasticSearch, you don't need IAM, you don't need Redis, you don't need Mongo and everything should stay in one SQL database.

Things are being used not because they exist, because people want to be fancy or because they don't have something better to do. Things are being used because they solve problems and do so with least effort possible.
During the time we are talking about politics and religion are one and the same ...
Correction:

HN edited title: "Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels Into Identities"
> So far as I know even SF has only ever had one avowed socialist politician

Surely you’ve heard of Dean Preston, the DSA member of the Board of Supervisors who owns a $2.5m house in the city and is also the least pro-housing member on the Board?

While I don’t think housing in SF is socialist, it’s also about as far from neoliberal as is possible, with rent control, zoning and complex environmental review process. These also happen to be the means Dean uses to block development, and has been in place in the city for decades now. Whatever is causing the housing problems in SF at least, it’s not neoliberalism.
Developers just replaced IE as the only thing they develop for with chrome, users then _have_ to use chrome because of web developers who only develop for chrome and consider any behaviour other than "it works in chrome" as a bug in other browsers, just as they did with IE.

Then there's the relentless parade of "alternative browsers" that are just chrome skins - a period IE also went through - that intentionally try to trick people into believing they're not just using chrome but with less security engineering, and more scams.
As others have said, around here it’s entirely SOP to do wisdom teeth removal under just local anesthetic. I guess you can get a GA if you pay from your own pocket. My own experience was not that different from a more routine dental op, though they did use a "curtain" so I was spared the sight of the gory details.
I have a handful of different personal web apps spinning away, and other critical-path ones for work.

Nothing though gives me the feeling of dread that I get when my partner's business WP site goes down and she asks if I can take a look.
"harsh punishments don't work"

They do if they are very harsh, see Singapore, Indonesia etc. America doesn't want to that.
Seriously considering switching back to Firefox after all these years.
> Most of the countries these artifacts come from don’t have the ability to properly store and protect them.

ok, but the problem this article is discussing is that the British museum doesn’t have that ability either.

if you don’t know what objects you even have, how could you possibly be ensuring the proper storage conditions?

Absolutely wild logic that gets thrown around when it comes time to defend looting and pillaging that in many cases occurred during living memory or not far removed.
The Future Stack
Nonprofits in the USA are basically failings in government.

Non profits at their best provide services that any half decent government should provide but do it at a fraction of the efficiency that the government could.

At their worst they are private individuals spending tax payers money (that’s what tax breaks actually are) on personal causes and self enrichment.

That’s why it’s interesting seeing a right wing publication advocating for fewer non profits, I’m all for it. Cut tax breaks for non profits, reduce funding of non profits and fund government to provide the services.
That’s something you can’t control
Bungie Wins Lawsuit Against Cheat Maker Aimjunkies
I can’t speak for general solutions, but at least one portion of the addicted just have chronic pain; were prescribed extremely strong and addictive painkillers (as the only thing that would work!); and then got cut off from the medical system.

These people try and try to solve their debilitating chronic pain problem (which they still have, and likely will always have) through increasingly-desperate and illegal measures; and go through many harrowing things due almost solely of the illegality of acquiring these same drugs outside of medical channels: the difficulties of finding a source and potential for arrest; the income-eating expense (no insurance to cover costs, plus 10x risk markup); the heightened spike-dose addictiveness of street forms of these drugs, that leads to a quick fiending withdrawal and need to redose, leading in turn to loss of employment due to spending all your time on the street hunting for the next dose; and of course, the unpredictable dosing and potential for adulteration, leading into high potential for OD.

Most of this particular problem can (and in some trials, has!) been solved just by prescribing these people the drugs they need again. When you go from unpredictably doing random shots of freebase heroin/fentanyl/etc with a dirty needle alone in an alley, back to predictably being able to get precisely-dosed extended-release pills from a pharmacy and take them on a set schedule, a lot of “addict behaviors” for these chronic-pain “addicts” just evaporate.
The L2 chargers are often quite programmable to e.g. use the cheaper late-night electricity. And because what new gadget these days doesn't come with software and an iPhone app?

And some chargers would have an integrated meter as well. Would this suit you? But we don't really know what your intended for that meter use is.
Reminds me of [1]. We are good at estimating the median but not the mean.

[1] https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
Nice idea but I doubt it will do anything meaningful. The corruption is rampant here. You can even tell in his own words, it's his data not the people's but his data! That shows the core problem.
Have you given Dotclear a try?
How much time is spent in the office. Only kidding. API Latency is one of my favourites.
Because the people pouring billions into policy changes that should be done transparently by tax-payer money also are the same who make the world an objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc. and argue that you can't pay a worker more than a given amount and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care. But for some reason this system where money is "so tight" suddenly leads to billions in profit that can be just thrown away into unrelated activities independent from the company amazon.

This is basically circumventing democracy. Money from publicly traded corporations is drained where it would be needed into activities that manipulate the public and don't have political oversight.

It's especially ironic, as Bezos says "We will emphasize social justice, as climate change disproportionately hurts poor and marginalized communities.”

Well, how about starting with "social justice" in your own company.
The other day I was wondering if LLMs are bad at at maths because they don't have readily apparent access to the concept of "columns". Apparently the answer is yes.

Vertical alignment across lines is pretty important for humans to learn operations on digits, but the way we encode lines with a \n separator doesn't really help. In a recent codebullet video gpt really struggled with any kind of vertical alignment task. I wonder if it would do better on a fixed 80 column width...
Yeah, that's why I refuse to buy PS5, iPhone and iPad.

I have a Switch though, thanks to Nintendo's incompetency on locking it down.
Hat tip: Wiki/English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative#Germany

New York City also has co-ops but for very different reasons: To screen potential owners.
What's the best skeleton theme to build your own theme on in 2024, that supports Full site editing, Gutenberg etc?

After a decade away from WP I wanted to set up a new site. The default 2024 theme doesn't meet my needs, and I couldn't find a modern skeleton theme where I could add in Tailwind and build what I wanted. I've used https://roots.io/sage/ previously but they're moving further and further away from the WP way of doing things.

Edit: or instead of a skeleton theme, a good free FSE theme to build on?
Nice work by this Mirella girl, though she fails on several important point.

* The original alphabet, called glagolic, namely this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#/media/File:... - is not in use anymore, and have hardly been in use even at the time of its creation.

* There is this argument whether Saints Cyril and Methodius were of Greek/Bulgarian/Macedonian origin, but the fact is that what is in use now as the Cyrillic was formalized in Pliska - the then-capital of Bulgaria during this same Boris ruler. The Pliska Literary school - this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School - developed what is nowadays known as old-Bulgarian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School#/media...

now we read from wikipedia this thing:

"Unlike the Churchmen in Ohrid, Preslav scholars were much more dependent upon Greek models and quickly abandoned the Glagolitic scripts in favor of an adaptation of the Greek uncial to the needs of Slavic, which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet."

So you see, this thing, which is the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in area that is indisputably the Bulgarian kingdom. Which is this blob https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Southeas... comprising significant part of present day Northen Macedonia, and much of the geographical Macedonian area, half of it falls in present day Greece. Later this also includes Ochrid - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Ri....

* Finally this argument of rulers in Bulgaria speaking Turkish is very funny, given the fact that Bulgarians list tribes such as trace, proton-bulgarians and slavs as ancestors, and not the turks. The names of rules before Boris are Asparuh, Krum, Kahn Omurtag, Khan Tervel...etc. none sound Turkish to me, for all I care there may be something persian in the ancestry, which explains why so many Bulgarians look Iran so often.

And if you have reached reading here, take a look at this coptic alphabet from ... 2cent AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_script and try to convince me scholars in Pliska didn't use it as foundation for cyrrilic. Many believe the actual cyrillic, used today, was influnced by the greek alphabet, but given the fact that this all was done by church people it gives some impression it was this Coptic Orthodox script, rather than Greek alphabet at the time which influenced the change. Which was done by Clement of Ohrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Ohrid and his fellow scholars.

Finally, I really dispose such arguments of whether Nikola Tesla, for example, was Slavic himself, or Serbian or Croatian or whether, which you can find in history books. The fact that Tesla took American citizenship and his work flourished in the U.S.A. (because it was not possible to do so in Serbia/Croatia!) gives to the fact that the environment where genius works may be more important than his origins.
Mentioned?
He was a designer on the 68000, the system 370, and the micro system/370, which (gasp) used 68000 chips. ( "Heavily microcode modified. Heavily.)

Now, I do not know about the transition from the 370 on a chip to the XT/370.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorola-intel-ibm-make...
Wouldn't enough walls, dykes and pumps be an engineering solution? The problem is cost. How much money are people willing to throw at keeping the land above water?
Microsoft Wanted to Be Carbon Negative. Then It Went Big on AI
It’s the in buzzword for middle level managers.
From your site: “ Why should your vacuum be able talk to your doorbell? Inadequate network isolation makes breaches worse.”

Just got to say- that would be awesome for my vacuum to stop making a loud noise when someone pushed the doorbell, so I wouldn’t miss the person! (But I do completely get the underlying sentiment)
I once worked at a company that put a large logo with the company name on their office building. They used the Microsoft YaHei font, and didn’t have the permission or license, so they got contacted by the Microsoft representatives. I’m not sure if they sued the company, but at the end the company I work for did pay some money to settle the case. That was about 10 years ago.
> It used to be legal to track people here, but thankfully it’s not anymore.

It not legal anymore, except when you are big enough or you are the one that decides what is legal or not.
Are you going to bring your Smart TV and PS5 for VSCoding anywhere and anytime?
> So, author boils everything down to anti-Western politics a 1000 years ago and insists Cyrillic just got lucky that it spread so wide.

It's a mix of accurate and inaccurate. It is based on a 1000 years old anti-western politics, but also anti-Eastern politics. And it didn't just get lucky, but there was a massive, massive effort on part of the First Bulgarian Empire to spread it via missionaries and the like, which is what set the foundations for its later use up North, where later the Russian Empire became a thing and so on ...
Renting is short-term flexibility and lower barrier to entry. It can have some advantages if used carefully. In the long term, it gets questionable. (The Times calculator says so too).

The thing that would stop me from buying right now isn’t the price, it’s the interest rate. Also one method for dramatically reducing TCO of a house without increasing the monthly payments by that much is to finance with a shorter term loan. It’s harder to get rent to win when financing with a 15 year loan.

And it’s way harder to get rent to win without the opportunity cost, especially when comparing apples to apples on space. I feel like you’re mostly talking about what’s possible but not what’s likely. You might be able to come out ahead renting but I think most people won’t. Most people at the edge of buying a house aren’t going to invest if they decide to rent instead. The choice doesn’t seem to play out as buy vs rent+invest, but more often just buy vs rent. When the choice is buy vs rent, and renting isn’t offset by investing, then it really is pissing money away, transferring wealth away faster than if they bought a house.
Hey PSeitz, Meilisearch CEO here. Sorry to hear that you failed to index a low volume of data. When did you last try Meilisearch? We have made significant improvements in the indexing speed. We have a customer with hundreds of gigabytes of raw data on our cloud, and it scales amazingly well. https://x.com/Kerollmops/status/1772575242885484864
I think at least a few photography nerds would notice the 30W white blob coming from where you're standing. Now whether that would get you in trouble...
RickView is an RDF knowledge graph browser written in Rust with the following design goals:

- performance: low memory and CPU utilization, fast page load times and high number of handled requests
- robustness: once it compiles, it runs indefinitely
- standalone: no dependence on services such as a SPARQL endpoint or a web server
- adaptability to any small to medium sized knowledge graph via sensible defaults that can be changed in a configuration file and overridden with environment variables
- containerization: offer a compact container image containing a statically linked binary
- simplicity: RickView is minimalistic and only offers browsing of static data

Here are some RDF knowledge graphs you can browse that are served by RickView:

- <https://www.snik.eu/ontology/bb>

- <https://hitontology.eu/ontology/>

- <https://annosaxfdm.de/ontology/>

- <https://linkedspending.aksw.org/>
This switch in other Slavic countries, you must understand, is thanks (caused by) the adoption of Catholicism. So nothing to do with what people decided, really, it was a political/church decision. I doubt Bulgarians would ever toss the Cyrillic away, as it gives so much identity to the country and the people there.
This works great until someone comes to the show with flashlight augmented with a simple chip to send the right frequency and does his/her own crowd painting :D
> I imagine that actual selection of those effects is done out of band.

This is a bit tiresome. :) Our conversation so far (paraphrasing)

You: “it is not DMX” Me: “it is DMX, here is the source” you: “i still imagine it is not”

Why is it so hard to believe that the effects are selected “in band” using DMX? You can imagine all you want all evidence points at that it is indeed just DMX.

Here is a video where they describe the system: https://youtu.be/CPqup9_I_dU?si=voLX4gAidOcOVJJ0
Fun and random facts about Albert Einstein
>It will come to some countries with collapsing demographics and that won’t be a pretty sight.

Except that's not how it happens. Demographics have been collapsing in many EU countries for a while now and prices have been going nowhere but up at rates beyond wage growth.

Internal migration from rural to urban, and external migration from war torn and impoverished nations also to urban centers, keep pushing demand up regardless of local reproduction numbers.

Sure, you can now buy cheap properties in some empty towns in the south of Italy for example, but to what end if there's no jobs there?