skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much admixture would there be? All the major Macedonian cities are part of modern Greece.

Even the application of the name to North Macedonia is more a Roman thing than anything else. We don't call all of Greece (not to mention all the other lands conquered by Alexander) "Macedonia" just because it was conquered by Macedon back then ...
The contents is the thing that deserves protection, not every individual instance of a medium it's stored on. If I buy a music CD, I paid for one license to play that album plus some plastic and distribution fees. If I make a copy to play because I don't want to damage the original, if I then lend that copy to my friend, if I rip it to mp3 because nothing plays CDs anymore - in all those cases, only one copy is being used so my one "license to play" should suffice.
I think in recent years a major source of these are OCR errors in scanning text. Occasionally while reading texts from Gutenberg project, one finds mysterious strange words which aren't found in any dictionary.
Shutdown of Sky Global encrypted mobile communications network
Greece introduces the six day work week
From the first of 3 previous submissions to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839603
Interesting, any chance you could share your profile/blogs?

For context, I'm a dev, prev a sales eng, and I miss being more involved in business.

Feel free to DM me on LinkedIn (see my profile) if you wanna maintain anonimity here.
Preferential attachment is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with 'our system'. One could equally say of an oppressive Stalinist regime 'power tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it,' and those who have a lot of power in such societies would not doubt agree.

The comment I responded to was the typical collage freshman “eat the rich” bs which is rooted in communistic ideation.

Then you should have directed your remarks to the person who wrote that instead of to me.
When I read old articles like this, I start wondering what the story was behind all those companies mentioned. Stackworks Forth, Alan Ashley Assembler. You almost never hear of a company which is still around.

Was it actually possible, back then, to make a living selling Forth for CP/M computers? Or Assemblers? Did Stackworks have an office, with a jaded-looking middle-aged secretary who put out her cigarettes in an ashtray on her desk, before she picked up when the phone rang? A glad-handling salesman who came back to the office every few weeks before going out to sell?

I don't think it has been possible to sell a compiler which isn't a loss-leader in a bundle for what, 30 years?

Or were these side hustles? Alan Ashley, was his day job being a math teacher or something, and he did this to round out his budget?

The industry was a heck of a lot smaller back then, but these old articles mention way more different companies. Seems like before all these behemoth monopolies there was a lot more air to breathe.
> It would be impossible to hide.

I think about Thalidomide. It's definitely a teratogen, but you only see birth defects if it's taken during a very specific window during pregnancy. This fact led to the product being left on the market for many years, and even for a period time after we concluded that it was responsible for horrific birth defects and newborn deaths.
Google Maps extends atlases vertically in the rare case that they overflow by creating a new taller texture and blitting the old one into it.

Since it's device local it takes almost no time.
I find it hard to believe such as broad claim is defensible.

The peaceful exchange of vote buying is widely considered a corrupt and morally wrong practice.

Downsides listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_buying#Consequences are "it interferes with the ability to rely on a popular vote as a measure of people's support for potential governments' policies", "the autonomy of voters is undermined", and "create a dependency of voters on the income or goods that they are receiving for their votes, and can further perpetuate a type of poverty trap."

Since there are externalities, what would be the reasonable taxes on the sale of one's vote? Do they differ based on the election type? Based on polling? Are the taxes in a swing state higher than non-swing states? If someone votes often do they pay a different rate? Can we use voting history to help determine the rate?

How can it be quantified?

Who is in charge of quantifying the externalities about housing in Barcelona? If I rank "the children raised in Barcelona should be be able to afford a home in the city by the time they are 25" significantly higher than "tourists should easily find a 3 bedroom tourist apartment with kitchen and laundry", while you rank them the other way, then how do we impose a reasonable tax in the face of very different assessments?
depth estimation, scene reconstruction, 3d reconstruction, image to 3d model, cctv scene reconstruction - all good phrases to start searching from

There's lots of research, mostly based on deep vision models / transformers (algo)
Did you? You asked a question about Social Security policy, in a thread that's arguably about individual tipping practices. Perhaps you regard the former as an illustrative thought experiment which helps reason about the latter via shared principles, but it's a shame you didn't elaborate on it because as it stands, I regard it as a non sequitur.
The guidelines explicitly say "Assume good faith":

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The guidelines don't say anything about being free to be a dick when the other person is being a jerk. They even say not to:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
also. one cannot have a thread about the atari st without mentioning midimaze!

the original multiplayer first person shooter that would run over an ad-hoc midi ring network.

my first ever network program was a multiplayer math problem race game, written in gfa basic in the '80s. :)
Who's going to solve it if the people smart enough to work on the problems and the people smart enough to worry about overpopulation are the same people?
To increase your savings and investments focus on making more, not spending less.
> They've wrapped themselves up in an identity greater than their self, they want to associate with it and steal some of the perceived value/amazingness (that they weren't responsible for creating).

I agree with most of your post.

However, there’s also the desire to paint one’s own context, biases and giving credit to the shoulders one stands on.

How can you differentiate between negative and positive intentions of communicating one’s context? Just by (often faked) humility? And how do you spot the fake?
Later versions of SimCity are available on Good Old Games with adaptations to let them run on recent versions of Windows.
Yeah, but other than that, ... ;-)

The author was born/raised in the US which, not explicitly mentioned, means his father must have spent most of his time in India, away from the family, running the business. If so, that's a big sacrifice that the son amply reciprocated.
Related discussion at the time Sky Global CEO indicted over encrypted chat drug trafficking (83 points, 3 years ago, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464373
Waymos enable fewer families torn apart by car crashes.
New Twitch UI User Feedback
OK what the bloody fuck. What is it with the tone of these discussions? You can 100% confirm I'm reaching... the hell is the matter with you? Can't you disagree like an intelligent adult?

Fucking internets.
as @katbyte already suggested, yes

No speed limits anywhere, or at least no enforcement.

As I said above, speed limits are repressive and a way for the government to bully its citizens and extract money from them. If the government actually wanted to solve the problem (making roads safer), they would simply design the roads differently. Speed bumps are also a very bad solution. Good solutions are "road islands" [1], "curvy roads" [2] or "metal rods" [3].

No limits on the highway either, except to mark more dangerous parts of the road (i.e. it's a suggestion not a limit).

By definition, if you don't crash, your speed was OK. So maybe there should be speeding-related fines only if you do crash.

[1] https://www.google.ch/maps/@46.9519887,8.6213984,3a,75y,174....

[2] https://www.google.ch/maps/@46.0665621,14.4965949,3a,75y,188...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14vls...
Is V2 already written? Or are you taking lead on designing and building it?
I don’t know if this fits your particular situation, but I recommend building tutorials into your migration process. I built a tool for migrating apps from Heroku to AWS ECS. The app developer runs the tool in their repository and it opens a migration guide in their web browser. The actual migration was mostly automated but we split it up into steps and embedded them into the guide. This way we could teach app devs the basics of how to use ECS and other AWS services as they went. We could also link out to additional docs and provide company specific details. There was a CLI mode for developers that had to migrate a bunch of apps. The tool was a big success and a couple hundred apps were migrated with it. The migration guide ended up being a good reference for people building brand new apps in AWS too. I built the guide using VuePress, but Docusaurus is also a good option if you are familiar with React.
is MINIX abandonware now? Many years ago I tried to install the release that works (or comes bundled) with a light window manager but it was not trivial and it looked pretty abandoned even back then.
Vanilla bean != Vanillin, since the smell of natural vanilla bean has a many more components to it other than Vanillin which lend it that characteristic odor (sweet, animalic, slightly woody and herbaceous).

Vanillin by itself is of course a principle component. However, coumarin and vanillin don't smell too similar. Coumarin has more of a herbaceous, 'hay' smell, quite different from vanillin itself.
It could be because in electroplating, metal flows from the positive terminal to the negative, because the metal ions are positive. However... electroplating wasn't invented until after his death.... oops. 8(
I'd recommend finding a note-taking/capture flow you're comfortable with, then use that for bookmarking. Org-mode, obsidian, logseq, etc.

1. You can solve the "remember random thing" problem once and for all.

2. Such tools usually have efficient capture workflows that let you capture now and organize later.

3. Note-taking applications tend to be more flexible and featureful than bookmarking applications.

The main downside is that browser integration can suffer, but you can usually find companion extensions for capturing notes at a minimum.
So long, and thanks for all the fish: Leaving the Nix community
Yep. Once human drivers are banned from streets, cycling will be much safer!
Dinosaur with 'blade-like nasal horns' dug up in Montana may be new species
Many car seats are removable and have carry handles so it is possible to hang them and have them moving like a pendulum also spinning. For safety use a strong strap (like for a hammock) and hang just an inch or few cm or so above the ground and make sure what it is hanging from can not topple or come crashing down.
Can Pain Shut Down a Programmer's Mind? [video]
Fairly static, but I'd cycle the CDs every few months.

Even in the 28.8K modem era, people didn't suck down everything they could, partly due to time, partly due to storage space (eg: the reason I used CDs instead of big drives is because big drives were very expensive), so the life of these was pretty long. The software was also not rapidly changing, probably because distribution was harder (so: get it right the first time), and also partly because it was mostly for offline use (no network, servers, etc to stay in sync with or worry about remote vulnerabilities from).
Markets as a general thing are essential, I agree. The particular market configuration that we have in this context is bad and tends toward oligopoly. I'm sorry for not articulating this more clearly. I'm sure you don't think that all markets are equally efficient or sustainable, but that individual markets can be more or less good depending on how they are structured and how competitive they are.

Attempts to use central planning instead have been universally disastrous

Nobody mentioned central planning except you.
One word of caution about naively porting a regular web app to lambda: since you’re charged for duration, if your app does something like make an API call, you’re paying for duration while waiting on that API call for each request. If that API breaks and hangs for 30s, and you are used to it being (say) a 300ms round trip, your costs have 100xed.

So lambda pricing scales down to cheaper than a VPC, but it also scales up a lot faster ;)
There’s tons of other ways to get to consumers besides Spotify.
>What types of pages do you keep permanently open in tabs?

Sometimes blog posts and sometimes youtube videos. There are tabs that are like 300MB of memory. Some websites are badly optimized or full of ads and trackers and that's also something to take into account. For example when I play games, I need to close my Chrome browser because my 8GB RAM laptop can't handle dozens of Chrome tabs plus RAM heavy video game.
You are correct; most of these new techniques are using a camera. In my line of work I consider a camera sensor a scanner of sorts, as we do a lot of photogrammetry and “scan” with a 45MP full frame. The inferred 3D from cameras is pretty bad when it comes to accuracy, especially from dimly lit areas or where you dip into a closet or closed space that doesn’t have a good structural tie back to the main space you are trying to recreate in 3D. Laser scanners are far preferable to tie your photo pose estimation to, and most serious reality capture for video games is done with both a camera a and $40,000+ LiDAR Scanner. Have you ever tried to scan every corner of a house with only a traditional DSLR or point and shoot camera? I have and the results are pretty bad from a 3D standpoint without a ton of post process.

The collision detection problem is related heavily to having clean 3D as mentioned above. My company is doing development on computing collision on reality capture right now in a clean way and I would be interested in any thoughts you have. We are chunking collision on the dataset at a fixed distance from the player character (can’t go too fast in a vehicle or it will outpace the collision and fall thru the floor) and have a tunable LOD that influences collision resolution.
Fast Company is an American magazine. American business magazines, like Fortune, Forbes and Fast Company, write for a primarily American audience.
It’s there as a “evacuate the station right now” contingency. Fire on the station or something like that.

There’s plenty of supplies to take time to work up a better plan in this sort of scenario that doesn’t use the lifeboat.
Just use the lane normally and zipper merge when the lane ends. Don't waste space. Don't block people. You don't get brownie points for being in the "correct" lane as soon as possible, and it doesn't help to police others who are using the existing lane. It really isn't that hard.
I enjoy the attempt to analyze the dancing (really choreography). But I'm surprised that in this new world of LLM hype not one word in there was dedicated to what dance really is: a language.

Dance is a physical, kinesthetic language.

And to riff on some of the posters, it's this expression and communication between the dancers that makes dancing worth dancing. There's also the social communication between the group, cultural "dialects" and "accents" (on1 vs on2, stylings, etc.)

I began dancing when I realized there was an entire spectrum of the senses closed off to me from overthinking. Besides the specifics of "body language," good dancers can convey intense amounts of emotion. I met someone who could "talk" to me for hours and she never needed to say a word. While the poster attempts to represent dancing in terms of a symbolic language, I'd recommend anyone interested in dance to also try the opposite: realize the physicality is the language and medium of expression. It's more fun, and I promise you your style of thinking will enlarge and grow.
Musical and Mathematical Design of Square Dance Singing Calls Part 1 - Guy L. Steele Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_TqFOyYYmc

Guy L. Steele Jr.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.
Well yes and no. Cities do have hostels and hotels under control by their ability to give or deny permits. If everybody can turn their private flat into an tourist rental just by signing up to an online platform that is no longer the case. Suddenly what was zoned as residental turns into tourism.

Surely there are multiple ways ro tackle that, e.g. one could require permits for those as well, but I didn't defend the measures taken by Barcelona, I defended the fact that unregulated AirBnB can turn into a problem for a city and the people living there.
Help me understand how this could possibly result in a healthier SDLC. Great, it is possible to run the same container on all these services (and probably more given the usual quip about the 50 ways to run a container on AWS). And, I can see that being a tempting intellectual idea and even a practical “cheat” allowing understaffed orgs to keep running the same old code in new ways.

But why? The less it changes the the more vulnerable it is, the less compliant it is, the more expensive it is to operate (including insurance), the less it improves and add features, the less people like it.

Seems like a well-worn path to under performance as an organization.
Slave labor can indeed accomplish things, but it cannot compete with free labor.
>This is a bit like denying the English King Arthur because the bulk of them are descended from the Saxons that King Arthur was supposed to have been fighting

No, it's more like denying WASP Americans the native american heritage. Even ignoring the clouded history between the two groups, the former simply came later and have nothing to do with it.

>I don't see any compelling reason to say that the modern Greeks are more entitled to Alexander's legacy than the modern Macedonians, given that neither ethnic group is actually descended from Alexander (his family was all murdered).

The claims of legacy is not about having Alexander's family DNA - it's about historical tracing and culture and so on. In any case, even DNA wise, ancient to modern Greeks are quite close according to related studies (and unlike some western racist prejudices in the past centuries, dismissing modern Greeks right to their ancestry).

>and neither culture bears any resemblance to the culture of Alexander

Says who? Greeks have been speaking and developing the Greek culture and language since before the times of Alexander. And Greek vocabulary as developed at the time of Alexander's expansion, is still easily understood by modern Greeks.

Things did change, as they do everywhere - a culture changed after 2.3 millenia of development, is not the same as it being something alien that came from nowhere.

Does 16th or even 19th century US culture look like the modern one, if seen superficially? Not. However if traced back, and seen as a series of historical developments, it's a specific stream, discreet than say Mexican or Canadian culture or whatever. And that's just a few centuries. And of course, there being a big difference to 2024 US culture to 1780 US culture doesn't mean current Americans don't have a claim to the Founding Fathers, or Poe, or Mark Twain or whatever - or that suddenly Canadians can lay claim to those things.
This was a great read. You could sell this story to Netflix.
May I propose that you find out why you're wrong about the usefulness of art, by looking for the talk by Brian Eno where he explains it?

https://youtu.be/GvHY5BFgniw?si=-JbjYVjY38uYQpog
I would have rephrased the title of the article:

"US Supreme Court: Immigration to US is still a privilege, not a right. A US citizen has a right to marry a GS-13 gang member, but the right does not extend to giving him a US immigrant visa."
Democratic National Convention Will Treat Influencers Like Press This Year
What prompts do you use for DnD / dungeon master? Think this would be great for solo campaigns.
Why in gods name would I use windows in the first place!! 40 years of patch Tuesdays?? Get a Mac.
Middleware is still fully supported when self-hosting. I agree that it would be helpful to have a Node.js route level middleware primitive. This primitive, for "global" middleware, intentionally has a limited runtime.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploy...
This is what I expect will happen. Invest $10B (already happened), then invest another $5B for the sunk cost fallacy, then layoff and close (or divest if they're motivated enough). They'll write this off as a loss and the market will eventually forgive them as they chase the next buzz
> We can't expect to turn back the clock and have everyone writing HTML by hand again, not when we're all accustomed to typing text and uploading media via carefully manicured, intentionally minimal user interfaces.

I mean, I do it. That was always allowed! You've been able to write as much or as little HTML as you want since the Web was invented.
How painful is iterating changes during development on this?
I enjoyed the UI, cool aesthetic.
API design is something relatively concrete though. One can provide examples of pre-Forth and post-Forth design.
> I don't see any compelling reason to say that the modern Greeks are more entitled to Alexander's legacy than the modern Macedonians, given that neither ethnic group is actually descended from Alexander (his family was all murdered) and neither culture bears any resemblance to the culture of Alexander.

So Italians are not any more entitled to Caesar's Legacy than the Japanese because Caesar lived thousand of years ago?

Modern Greeks are descendents of Ancients Greeks while modern Northern Macedonians are not. Alexander was an Ancient Greek living in Ancient Macedonia.
Indeed. Where it goes wrong is the notion it will help people learn how to dance.
Surely you end up with one abstraction (of ownership) each. If you teach me some idea, I still know it even if we've agreed that I won't teach it to others for profit.
> Heh, but how many digits can you actually provide? Not too many. So have you really thought of the number in any meaningful sense when you barely know any of its digits?

I’ve never thought through very many digits of pi either. Or even 1/3 for that matter!
> There's no built-in trackpad, though the arrow keys can be used to simulate a mouse.

> The system also includes a USB port, though as with the Book 8088, it may be usable for mass storage but not for typical USB accessories.
I support everything in this comment.

After more than a decade at large sw companies, I can count on one hand the number of migrations where the legacy system was ever able to be turned down. I’ve seen migrations drag on for years, to the point where most of the team has turned over. I’ve seen them become a three-way migration because the second version was deemed insufficient so a third solution was introduced.

Absolutely put your most senior devs on this; maintain as much support from management as possible; budget for much, much more time than you think; you need full commitment or you are going to be maintaining both systems indefinitely.
Seems outdated and missing some data

OpenSecrets has them (barely) at #2 (https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/super_pacs)

Another Super PAC has already spent $250M (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4437019-pro-biden-supe...)
Right next to the North Korean ones about the discovery of a unicorn lair.

The truth in this case is, generously, disputed. https://web.archive.org/web/20190503223325/https://www.npr.o...