skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> millenia before and after the Roman empire (until about the later modern era), China is considered by economists and historians to have been the top global economy

The list of largest cities tells the story succinctly [1]. Power went from the Levant and Egypt to China after the Bronze Age Collapse, returned to the Mediterranean with the rise of Rome, gradually traded away from Constantinople to China again through the first millennium CE (where it remained for much of the second millennium) before returning, suddenly and massively, to London following the Industrial Revolution.

There is no basis for claiming the various civilisations of the Mediterranean, ranging from the Hittites to the Egyptians and Greeks and Romans, both Western and Eastern, to say nothing of the Parthians, were less “developed” or ”refined” than China at their respective heights.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_throu...
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I do still think it's negative.

My ideal framework is a library or set of cooperating libraries on the inside, with as little framework as possible.

e.g. Qt is a framework. Qt "calls you". But you can run the QPainter code without starting the Qt event loop or thinking too hard about QObjects. You should ideally be able to use the event loop without buying into signals and slots, though it won't be as ergonomic.

It's not always possible, it's not always worth it, but everything else being equal, I'd rather have no framework at all.

(For game engines I understand why a little framework is necessary - When you're talking about compiling to a weirdo platform like phones or consoles, the engine must also be involved in your build process and sometimes even libc shit. So you can't just make a Win32 exe that is a PlayStation game.)
Had three ATI Radeons back in the day, and that's only because the first two died under warranty one after the other lmao. it was even worse before AMD bought them.
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I noticed on my city's public network Google Safe Search, and the DDG equivalent, is enabled by force.

Apparently for Google it's done by aliasing www.google.* to forcesafesearch.google.com [1], or for DDG: safe.duckduckgo.com [2]

[1] https://www.draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-dns-safesearch
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/safe-s...
Not always but often.
I generally know better than to read the native comments on articles like this, but I've not really woken up yet. Are those merely stupid when they suggest using alphanumeric, or are they abominably stupid because the backend only allows numeric codes?
Take care Jake. It was a privilege to follow along, and I wish you peace on your journey.
For sure. I just meant with respect to the Delta piece.
> In international development, it’s not enough to try to do good.

The problem is "top down" or "trickle down" interventions/actions/programs. People who are not in the same situation decide what is good and beneficial for others. It is arrogant and ineffective.

We are now so accustomed to a model that says "people don't know what is good for them" that we accept it without question. Just ask yourself if you would like for someone to come from another culture and tell you what you want and need? Not to mention that there are values in those offers that may not be your own.

I am not advocating that we walk up to a person and giving them something they want. I am advocating for an effective process that allows a community of people to say what is good for them.
Even if Delta doesn't win this is going to lead to more and more customers wanting to negotiate terms when they buy software like this to either get money back if the vendor causes them problems or hold the vendor liable.

Seems ridiculous but big customers seem to be able to negotiate this stuff. One place I worked Verizon Wireless was a customer and they were able to negotiate money back over bugs taking too long to fix and/or outages caused by the software. That was a long time ago.
This is a different set of users here. I assume most people on HN realize that it's spyware and a Trojan trust-proxy, and abandon it when feasible for one of the many other trust-proxies. The end game looks the same for every browser one way or the other, the trick is to sidestep the end game. Of course, that also results in Facebook and TikTok, but one can sweet-dream
CrowdStrike to Delta: Stop pointing at us
parent knows what they’re doing here but a helpful thing to know is that you generally want at least 3-5% salt by weight for safety (though less can be okay, depending on other factors)… but if you’re not building in a margin of safety, you need to weigh the peppers and water together to calculate 5% against, not just the water.
> I find that there is not that much in the way of vegetables when eating out

Here in (northern) Spain is pretty much the same. Outstanding meats, cheeses, wine, etc. but you'll be lucky to set your eyes on a salad, and the only actual vegetable on most menus is grilled peppers.

I do forewarn vegetarian friends before they come to visit, but in general I don't think "light on veggies" translates to "bad". Most European nations have gone through low veggie diets at various times.
There are usually flights from hub to spoke, and spoke to hub, and each one will have the same number. This is within a 24 hour period. 3934 is one such flight between PHX and SEA.
Learning Haskell has its challenges but once you stop thinking of time as a sequence of events and realise it’s actually a directed acyclic graph of causal nodes, everything becomes crystal clear.
I understand, but your points aren't really relevant for a number of reasons:

First, it is a dream, you have to do something to make it work. You are describing the status quo, I want us to move to something else. After decades of neoliberalism, even embraced by the centre-left party, we have eroded our actually quite decent public transport facilities. There is no reason it has to stay this way.

Second, I'm not talking about people commuting to work with public transport vs cars, even though it would be nice to get people out of the car into a much more efficient system. I'm talking about our neighbourhoods, the places where people actually live. I'm talking about going outside your house and not as a first thing having to face the noise, danger, pollution, ugliness, etc. of parked cars and cars moving on the road.

The neighbourhood could be a place where children play on the streets, where there is space to meet each other, with room for trees and other vegetation. If you just move all the tin out of the neighbourhood and to the edges on big solar covered parking lots, then it is easily done. It will create a lot of space and very little downsides. Of course we can't just rebuild all cities, but we can use this design for new ones.

I'm really not talking about parking along the edges of the city, so that you have to take a bus or bicycle in order to get to your car. I want people to park just on the edges of a block or neighbourhood (like 500 to 5000 people, depending on density). You should be able to walk to such a parking lot within 5 min. You would still be able to get to your house for things like groceries and stuff, just not park there. And disabled people would get an exception. Just this relatively simple change will reduce traffic immensely.

Third, it may feel now like you are entitled to be able to park in front of your house and drive to it by car. Everybody must naturally accommodate your wishes in this respect, because this is what the majority wants. However, if we change that and take that away from you, it will not take a lot of time before that changes. And then people will start to feel entitled to be able to have their children play on the streets again, and to enjoy such these carless spaces. In the same way, smokers used to feel entitled to be able to smoke in restaurants, in the train and even at the office. Things can and do change.

For the people who meticulously maxed out the total amount of minutes they are willing to commute, so that they really can't bear to add 2 x 5 minutes of healthy walks a day: they will eventually move jobs closer to home or vice versa, so we eventually again hit the same average of daily travel time which has been stable since medieval times. Reduced emissions is just a bonus.

Really, why are we not doing this? The Netherlands is often seen as a country which has their act together around transportation, but it could still be so much better. Cars are still way too dominant and there are way, way too many of them. We just don't have the space.
> why not let anyone take drugs to make it easier for them to compete as well?

There's two robust reasons I know of for banning a performance-enhancing substance: health risks, and equality of opportunity (e.g. if a substance is expensive to get hold of or has been developed privately).

I'm guessing that in the case of therapeutic uses, the pros are considered to outweigh the cons.
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>I'd like to know how others think about the hypothesis of the pandemic causing the next evolution? With the proliferation of habit trackers and productivity tools. What's begun is focusing less on the spiritual and more on actions.

I have also had thoughts about this. I do think that having time to themselves made some humans (and perhaps humanity as a whole) more reflective.

But also I dont think it's sustainable. Already, most offices have been pushing workers to return. We are sliding back into the old ways.

And people no longer have as much time to reflect, to be thoughtful.

>For my own journal I have chosen to capture more objective facts e.g. the actions in my day-to-day life. And place less effort on recording more subjective reactions like my mood.

I have some reservations about this.

Our moods and feelings tell us a lot about ourselves, things that we are not conscious of.

And writing about these subtle moods and feelings helps me be more conginizant of those things.
Code-sharing is a headache for customers. Trying to find your flight on a rotating screen is frustrating, and having a different flight number on your ticket compared to the actual flight is just confusing. We should do away with code-share numbers and use the operating airline’s flight number instead.
Rest easy. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Your words have made a wide impact on this corner of the internet, and I’m lucky to have experienced them.
I can't wait for the "enhanced games" to take place and finally put to rest this nonsensical morality over performance enhancing drugs.

Every professional athlete uses PEDs already and they do so discretely. Let's dispell with the nonsense that they don't.

Take the 23 Chinese swimmers who all got caught and WADA hand waived it by saying it was doped meat. Are you kidding me?

Common complaints about PED use range from inaccurate to outright lies. Steroids can be used at appreciable levels 200-500mg when blood tests are done regularly. Damage to the cardio system only occurs when you don't do cardio and let your hematocrit get too high.

Pro athletes who do PEDs will have access to the best doctors and medical care money can buy. They are prized stallions and will be well taken care of.

So that leaves us with the final one which is, "it will encourage normies to do PEDs for the gainz!"

Trust me, every fitness magazine does that already.

The sooner the WADA, USADA , and IOC get a kick to the face when the attention to them disappears is when this pearl clutching finally ends.

Sports are entertainment, people want to be entertained, and advertisers want eyeballs. If it falls outside of that scope then it's a waste of time.
Remember when Google wasnt just a bunch of mouth-breathers with MBAs their daddies bought for them? Pepperidge Farm® remembers.

They cant even apologize right they just pull out their "victim mentality" card like a bunch of spoiled brats. Crying about how people liked the ad in internal testing which just means the executive who thought of it showed it to his wife and she said she liked it through her vicodin haze.
Software is in fact eternal. Maxwell’s Equations of Software (Lisp) is still a thing to this day [1]. Even for software designed for arcane architectures. You can simulate the Apollo Guidance Computer and its software today [2], which got people on the Moon. Technological progress must never come at the expense of people's rights.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
[2]: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/
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That is me, I have `/home/delme` since forever!
> We are struggling with a broken model of "security" and the emergence of a global insecurity industry.

I have a take that isn't too close to the focus of this article, but there is a big underlying point.

There are known vulnerabilities in consumer and enterprise tech that are purposefully not closed in order to maintain a tactical advantage. Consider the tech used to break into phones, Pegasus. This is a highly visible peak of an iceberg in an otherwise massive industry of finding and weaponizing vulnerabilities that can have real world consequence, see WannaCry.

This is both hugely political, and not political at all. It's almost a guarantee that a nation-state with cyber resources will use said resources to find a tactical advantage and constantly lob attacks back and forth. Each side will loudly exclaim "Look they're hacking us!" while staying quiet on their own attacks. You can set your watch to it.

Basically any government is spending vast resources to find vulnerabilities and keep them open, which makes everyone less safe. Coupled with the constant war on encryption, gov sponsored "Cyber" is a money pit for hawks that wish to start trouble.
Knuckledragger, a Semi-Automated Python Proof Assistant
I am confused. If there are these bugs/problems in the game and someone has some up with the solution, shouldn't they be incorporated into the game itself?
Duplicate from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150074
Sounds like a false analogy.

"independent verification" is subjective. Who does the verification, do you trust them, how do you know they didn't screw up.

"benchmarks" are objective. A is faster than B, we know because of the way that it is.
A classic case of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

In this case the substring is part of the author's name. Such names are not at all uncommon.
That and all of the dating sites whilst we are at it.
And to be specific, some kinds of UB are painfully easy to avoid. A good example of that is strict aliasing. Simply don't do any type punning. Yet people still complain about it being the compiler's fault when their wanton casting leads to problems.
California lawmakers got ticket freebies as they cracked down on Ticketmaster
I like PHP, and guess what? I also like PowerShell for web apps. I don't really care what anybody says—I can build fast in PowerShell. My clients are happy, it's simple to debug, and I can tap into .NET classes when necessary. PowerShell + HTML + Alpine = productivity. I'm not building the next Netflix or Amazon and the end-user isn't going to notice or care that I haven't selected Node and React.

I just can't get behind the complexity of build steps and compiling, all just to get a website online. It's crazy. The simplicity that PowerShell (and PHP) bring to this process can't be overlooked... so I like to beat on this drum whenever I get the chance.

Choose the tool that is right for the job, and PHP can be that tool in a surprising number of cases.
I mean yeah, it is quite good already! But sometimes lines break on stations (see e.g. the green and brown lines on Clark/Lake) and there are some unnecessary intersections (e.g. pink and purple on Washington/Wells – can be avoided by swapping them in in the line “bundle”).

Solving these problems would make the map not just prettier, but also easier to read and understand. Of course, doing this by hand isn't really feasible on Organic’s / OSM’s scale, but the blog post you linked is pretty much a how-to guide that can be implemented in code. I’d love to work on something like that, but don’t really know where to start.
Does PostgreSQL respond to the challenge of analytical queries?
>is regulation really the answer?

What other alternatives are there when the market has clearly demonstrated that it's not going to regulate itself in favor of the customers?
My understanding from reading the article, is that the issue is not so much matching the deciphered lines, but the interpretation of that deciphering. So they want the scholarship agreement on what is actually written on the papyrus.

I imagine there are plenty of missing words being inserted, unreadable letters being guessed and so on.

So the way to do it for now, has to rely more on experience and intuition than a database search.
how about they help jumpstart the economy and hire engineers to fix the problem?
The Evolution of Extreme LLM Compression: From Quip to AQLM with PV-Tuning
Thanks for everything you've written, it will be a useful legacy to many.

Take care of you and yours as you can. My thoughts are with you and Bess who has been a true champion through your ordeal.
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they were inclined.

I have yet to see a digital system that I would trust myself to validate, much less the non-technical majority of the public.
Boeing is a few orders of magnitude simpler than a single human cell. We can't even create a CFD model of an airplane that is realistic as can be seen on all airplanes or even race cars designed purely by CFD.
This is also why I recommend something completely different as your next language to learn - learning something completely different will open your mind and teach it to see patterns you previously had no idea existed, just because you couldn’t see them. Haskell is an enlightening experience not unlike your first Lisp.
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> So for 3 years you are apprentice, after that journeyman.

What's nutty is that journeyman usually means "capable of a day's work without supervision" (hence the name: journee-man) and I doubt three years of work is really sufficient for that in complex fields like software development.

Granted, I worked with unusually skilled people for much of my early carreer, but I didn't stop feeling like an apprentice for at least seven years if I include education.
> If several groups could stop attacking it, we would immediately have peace

You mean that Israel would leave the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which has been illegally occupying for decades?
I'm sorry, you're just wrong. White men are represented. In almost every TV show, EVEN the ones who promote diversity. I mean take a look at Disney's new star wars shows. All incredibly diverse and guess what - each one has white men in it.

Again, same with the ads. Ads typically have multiple people in them. Usually at least one is white, typically more or most are white. But as I've iterated, white people are greedy. Anything less than 100% may as well be 0% to the eyes of a lot of white people. That's been the theme since the inception of the US.
Additional tip: start by learning the things that modern JavaScript does that once made jQuery king.

Know that jQuery and JQuery-ui are different animals.

Here's how "the pros" use jQuery:

- plug in to document ready

- selectors

- events (though we prefer modern events)

- ajax; now use native or axios.

- a consistent way everyone jacks their own code into the jQuery convention

- the ultimate hack tool for fixing others (and our own) mistakes.

It is however a mess over time, devs, and growing demands.

Nothing new should be designed depending upon it.
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> at conveying an explicit meaning.

The other person understood me just fine, and also noticed how obvious my statement was, and how you avoided it.

> doesn't mean what you said was clear.

Oh it absolutely does. The other person understood it perfectly.
Some very minimal things such as reading or writing to disk or files, reading the keyboard, or other very simple activities
> Israel did not start this war

What do you mean? It didn't bomb a foreign leader in the center of a foreign capital? Or you mean it didn't illegally occupy Palestine for the last six decades?
You could also include SSH keys as public secrets.

https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent
I took it to mean the native Mail app on the iPhone. Not their email service.

I personally can’t imagine not using the native email app. It’s quite nice.
They are not very rare. Letter suffixes are very common in Europe to avoid potential ambiguity. However they do not change the actual flight number portion. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/clearing-up-call-sign-con...
> With Intel Core CPUs in particular, we pay close attention to voltage levels and time durations at which those levels are sustained. This has been especially challenging when those guidelines are difficult to find and when motherboard makers brand features with their own unique naming. (emphasis mine)

That last little bit is a thing that has infuriated me for decades, and it's all over the place in anything that tech touches, not just motherboards. Can't we call things by their proper names?
I wonder if they have enough 2 digit letters to expand their usages.

Perhaps American Airlines could have both AA & AB, so they would then have 20k flight numbers to use?
I mean it didn't start this war, simple as that. Iran can make excuses all it wants (defenders of Palestine my ass) but it started this war.
Meta's PromptGuard model bypassed by simple jailbreak, researchers say
In 20 or 30 years you can look and see if he's 99th percentile for his age along whatever metrics (mile run time, VO2 max, skin elasticity, etc.) and that will be an obvious sign of a successful experiment.
> Ableism [...] those who argue that you shouldn’t use Linux (or, worse, computers in general) if you don’t understand how they work [...]

> Often your supposed sin would be hiding configuration options (their ableism says everyone wants those!)

I think the author is using "ableism" when they mean closer to "elitism" - primarily being about level of commitment and expertise.

Often these goals do align - like how making clickable elements more obvious helps new/casual users and also those with visual impairments - but I don't think it can reasonably be called ableism to oppose obscuring a configuration option. In fact, since it's likely those with some kind of unique situation who depend on the options that the majority don't, I feel the accusation of ableism may often make more sense in the other direction. Though realistically I don't think either accusation would helpful in a conversation weighing up benefit and maintenance burden of keeping the option.
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R/P FLIP (floating instrument platform) was an open ocean research platform
> George Carlin has a famous comedy bit where he states "It's a big club and you ain't in it"

Just for the record, the club that Carlin is referring to, is not some professional guild. Those were difficult, but not impossible to join.

He's referring to a very tiny minority of ultra-rich people. That's the club that usually doesn't take new members.
Try 'Auto Tab Discard'. It unloads tabs to save memory.
Online trading platforms down for users
no, you modify the output probability so that you sample in a deterministic pseudo-probabilistic way - i.e. save the seed, and insert low SNR bias into the sampling. you can recover the bias afterwards and prove you generated the sequence.

my example was just a reference to Jarvis in the avengers.