skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While it is true that average body height was somewhat shorter, the difference is negligible.

> The remains of victims found in the Tollense Valley show an average height of around 1.70 m.

The Tollense valley is in Germany, not Greece. In Greece, the average male height was (and still is!) a good deal shorter -- 162cm in the Bronze Age.

This puts the Ancient Greek mean height in the modern 2nd percentile, which has hugely significant implications for hand breadth. I've checked against a US Army database, which you can see here: https://ibb.co/LRhMbVW

Now imagine some of these swords were made for shorter-than-average men. A 3" grip would fit perfectly. It would not, however, fit in an average modern hand -- which could lead to very complex rationalizations as to how that short-gripped sword might have been used. Such rationalizations are ultimately misleading and unnecessary.

For there's also a great deal of Bronze Age art that shows swords gripped quite normally. And this directly contravenes that Patreon post. See:

https://periklisdeligiannis.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads...

https://www.thelanesarmoury.co.uk/photos/24766g.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4304/35874906211_62611c697c.jp...

https://thelanesarmoury.co.uk/photos/22103e.jpg

Edited to add: I've checked this further. It's true that there are bronze swords from Germany and elsewhere that have been uncovered, of similar size and shape to bronze swords from the Hellenic world.

Yet the average skeleton at Tollense appears to be 1.66m rather than 1.7m.

> Based on measurements on the most commonly represented skeletal element in the Tollense Valley material, the left femur, individuals at Weltzin 20 were on average 1.66 m tall (ranging from 1.60 m to 1.73 m; calculation after Pearson 1899), a value comparable to results obtained for other Bronze Age sites (Siegmund 2010).

(From "Warriorsʼ lives: the skeletal sample from
the Bronze Age battlefield site in the
Tollense Valley, north-eastern Germany" by Lidke et al.)

Ultimately, I don't think that this changes anything. There's no evidence to support any need for complex rationalizations; smaller men used smaller weapons with shorter grips.
Agreed. That's why the documentation is important. If the issue ticket says "I saw this but once. It took 2 days of reproducing and it could only be done if the moon was in a waning phase while 3 dogs bathed simultaneously" and "this is the log dump. You can see on line 3453 that we segfault" etc, it shows what you've been doing.

The way I felt the article should be interpreted is that yes, if after 2 weeks you have a 1 line change, that's going to get you fired. And debatably it should, given that it'll likely take somebody else another 2 weeks to fix a similar problem. Why would a manager want to pay 2 weeks salary for (what we call, unsure if commonly used) "tribal knowledge"? At least do a post-mortem/lessons-learnt
I wish this was funny but it’s not. We are doing this now. It has become like “because it’s got electrolytes” in our org.
What do you mean the patient is bleeding out? We just need to use more bandaids!
> if it's never practiced, is it really a principle? Or is it just propaganda?

Whether it's principle or propaganda, it was the deal. So, if it's not a principle, make it one. Including reminding employers who forgot civics class.
>but the discussions are becoming increasingly pointless

And hostile.

Point out that someone is wrong (even with hard evidence at hand) and people will still try to push their deluded conclusions nonetheless.

Same thing for expressing an opinion outside what the hivemind deems acceptable.

Btw, I think this phenomenon is a widespread cultural thing, not HN specific. Happens irl so much that it is now almost impossible to have an actual conversation with anybody.

Meanwhile, solitude and suicides are skyrocketing and people do not see the correlation ...
The entire food pyramid is essentially propaganda from what I understand. Corn subsidies and mandatory corn-derived ethanol in gasoline created a surplus of corn, which led to fructose and high fructose corn syrup being added to everything.
I understand that this is valid for stationary solution which is what an astronomical black hole would be most of the time. What I don't get is why do you assume that this would violate causality. In GR the idea that changes must “instantaneously update” large regions of spacetime due to supermassive black holes ignores relativistic effects like time dilation. From the perspective of an external observer, as an object falls into a black hole, time appears to slow down near the event horizon. The infalling object’s influence on the black hole’s external field (e.g., its charge or mass) is perceived gradually by distant observers.

For supermassive black holes, this process might seem slow due to the massive scale of spacetime curvature near the event horizon, but there is no requirement for instantaneous changes. In fact, relativistic causality ensures that no information can propagate faster than light, so updates to the black hole’s charge, mass, or angular momentum are constrained by the speed at which signals (gravitational or electromagnetic) can travel.
"Greenwashing" Structural Adjustment: Should the IMF Lead the Energy Transition?
Perhaps you could take your childishness elsewhere. It does grow tiring.
fortunately we aren't policing anybody :* (we do love PKD tho) we thought precog perfectly described the function
Mantis takes a unique Makefile-style approach to task setup and execution. It addresses a key challenge: infrastructure-as-code (IaC) often does not need a Turing-complete language like TypeScript or Go, which tools like Pulumi and cdktf rely on. These languages, while powerful, can add unnecessary complexity to infrastructure management.

With Mantis, the focus is on simplicity and correctness through CUE, a superset of JSON, which is easy to learn and use. It offers templating, modularity, and policy enforcement within a single language, eliminating the need for separate tools like OPA or Rego for policy assertions. Mantis enables users to build task graphs with clear dependencies and ensures infrastructure consistency without introducing multiple abstraction layers.

By simplifying the IaC workflow while still maintaining flexibility, Mantis provides a lightweight yet powerful alternative to Pulumi and cdktf—one that reduces complexity without sacrificing expressiveness or control.
Is video calling your friends and family depressing? What about group chats with friends? Looking up the weather every morning before you leave the house? Checking up scores of the game your favorite team is playing when you are on the move? Clicking a photo and sending it to a loved one? Playing Wordle or solving the NYT crossword on your phone during your commute? Downloading episodes of your regular podcasts? Tapping your phone to pay at the checkout counter or the subway? Being able to translate between hundreds of languages in real time? Paying rent every month without mailing a paper check? Looking up driving directions for your next appointment? Managing your fantasy football team? Checking Wikipedia when you don't know something, or generally having the sum total of human knowledge at your fingertips? Being able to work from home?

Most people (including Tim Burton I bet) do all of this every day and love it, yet "the internet" is scary and depressing? Just more low effort "everything is bad these days" clickbait content.
That is a sensible unit.
If I had to guess, there probably isn’t any direct monitoring of commercial-ness in the IDE, but also guessing there’s Jetbrains employees watching for public statements that mention/screenshot a Jetbrains product and will contact the business if their company is not on file. Only need a few hits to make that worth while.
First off, thanks for all the work! I have a few questions if thats ok:

1. What is the next thing that the team wants to focus on improving?

2. What are the performance differences between the old architecture & new one?

3. What are your thoughts on the fragmented state of rn wrt react-native-web/react-native-windows/react-native-macos?

4. It is quite difficult to know what supports RN vs what relies on react-dom. Is there any thought to create some ecosystem focused around RN? Or if something like that is too cumbersone, perhaps even just adding some badge to github pages for "Supports RN"?

5. I forget what it was called, but the creator of react-native-web stated that they wanted to start winding down support in favor of an alternate approach which attempts to bring web apis to native instead of trying to make the native api work on web. I.e. instantiate div elements in native instead of view. What are your thoughts on this?

6. React (and IMO Meta as a whole) seems to generally have had the tech philosophy of take what you want, leave what you dont. With the dropping of create-react-app and endorsement of frameworks like Expo, it seems like its getting harder to just take the pieces we want. Is there any thought about this trend?

7. Related: as for the upgrade process: it would be cool if there were a way to "opt-in" to auto upgrades. E.g. what if there were a package which contained a base class controlled by the RN team so that a client side upgrade could be as simple as updating the version of the library the base class is in? (customization would be simple extending the class and doing w/e else needed there)

Again, thanks for all the work!
Is any of this code open source? As an outsider, I'm kind of at a loss for why anyone wants this or what you kids are doing over there and how offended I should be by it.
Congrats on the launch!
Curious to know, which OSS models you see works best at the moment?
> If management is measuring pull request (PR) throughput, is it really so bad that developers start pushing through smaller PRs?

So, just the previous week I've made 5 small PRs, all of them working on the same certain "area" of the code base but different pieces of it. Two of those PRs touched almost every single corner of that "area" (differently structured error reporting and differently formatted logging) another one had a rather sizeable refactoring and code movements between three major files of that code area, and as for the two remaining ones, one absolutely depended on the other but could not be done in the same PR because of how the JIRA issues were structured (i.e. "PROJ-9004: Make it do foo", "PROJ-9005: While foo from PROJ-9004 is happening, make it also do bar").

I've also made a decision to not order those PRs sequentially (i.e., base the next PR on a previous PR), and instead branched each PR from the dev trunk and went to work on them. As a result, I've increased the work I had to do approximately by 50% because of the merge conflicts I had to resolve. The reviews combined took about twice as much time as a single big review of all five changes in one PR would've probably taken. The QA took about five times as long since QA did full regression of that code area 5 times instead of 1 time; they've also almost missed an error in the 4th pull request because of all the repetitiveness.

All in all, 10/10, recommend it if you need your coworkers to get lost in the maze of similarly-themed little branches, all alike.
> In other words, would a thin, metabolically healthy person benefit from taking semaglutide?

That's what this thread is about; and multiple other studies looking at different diseases/illnesses/addictions. Time will tell. It is currently approved for T2 Diabetes and Obesity.
> Drinking

Being obese is probably worse for you. NAFLD has long eclipsed alcohol related liver issues.

> Even simple unprotected sex can lead to massive medical problems

Even treated HIV is probably less of a risk to your long term health than obesity, but I'm not a doctor.

> Cocaine addiction. Meth

OK, yes, there are illegal drugs that are going to be worse for you than being fat.

I'll rephrase:

Being obese is basically the worst possible thing you can do to yourself that affects a huge portion of the population of the western world.

Very very few people are riding motorcycles without a helmet, even fewer are getting into planes flown by harrison ford, only a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the population even has the option of being a professional athlete.
It's not that the internet created new behavioural problems, but that intensified old problems.
It's probably the most ridiculous nitpick in the history of ever, but I really hate the "sign in" button at the top right of Zed, particularly there's no way to hide it even through some configuration file. It's distracting to me and I want zero cloud connectivity associated with my text editor.
> When you're using expo you cannot bundle your own native extensions. [...] You're locked to their prebuilt ones.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, this isn't true at all. At $day_job we have an Expo app with a custom native library and it works just fine; you just have to write an Expo-specific adapter for it and can't use Expo Go in that case.

Source: https://docs.expo.dev/workflow/customizing/
what

// FLT_EPSILON == 0.01
equal(4.999, 5); // true
4.999 == 5; // false

am i missing?
Wow, someone experienced an adverse effect from a drug and are suing?

This adds literally zero information.
> I am very cautious about the potential for damaging long-term side effects.

This is fair. But I'll ask you this: how long would it take for you to trust it? Assuming there are no side effects beyond what we know now, which are:

* gastroparesis is a small number of patients

* elevated thyroid cancer risk in mice

* nausea and general uncomfortableness when taking it (some percentage, not all)

* muscle and bone loss which seems to be roughly on par with any rapid weight loss approach

* a small percentage of people develop malaise, anhedonia and suicidal ideation

* a propensity to gain some percentage of weight back and/or relapse in addictive behavior when going off the drug

These are the side effects we know about with over a decade of prescribing GLP-1 agonists. Assuming these continue to be the primary side effects, how long would you wait until you are comfortable in trusting they are the only ones?
You don't have to jailbreak your Kindle, or render images.

You can just point its web browser at any webpage you design, and disable the Kindle's "screensaver" (its ads or sleep screen) with debug commands [1, 2].

You'll be stuck with a browser bar along some edge of the Kindle (you can rotate the device orientation to put it at the bottom or right edge), but it's a small price to pay for being able to write your weather/transit/news screen in easy HTML/CSS/JS and whatever backend language you want, and run it on a cheap DigitalOcean $4 instance or whatever.

[1] https://blog.notfaqs.com/2018/06/kindle-e-reader-disable-scr...

[2] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198334
Not to be that guy but obesity is arguably kind-of a national security emergency thing...
No matter what framework you roll with, you're gonna hit the same ol' clunky mess—it's just how app development goes.

The trick is, some frameworks smooth over the rough spots and throw a few sweet perks your way, while others give you a taste of both the good and the gritty.
Back in the day I looked at a GNOME 1.0 binary and saw it had like 60 library dependencies.

Aint_nobody_got_time_for_that.mov

Given the utter malarkey that's transpired since with GNOME, including the crappy UI revamps, the slowness (in the Windows 7 days, it was literally better just to use Windows on aging hardware), and the arrogant devs reinventing Windows 8 poorly and not listening to what users actually want, nor allowing users to make changes, I've been VERY happy keeping my environment GNOME-free.
This was my first thought. I don't think I've ever worked in anything "ground breaking", but I've never had work that was just "connect A to B with no thought". I mean, even if it _is_ connect A to B, you still need to consider

- Is the client (internal, external, whatever) asking for what they really want?

- Is the client asking for what they really need?

- Am I correctly understanding what the client is asking for?

- Does building this make sense for the product as a whole?

- What As and Bs can accomplish what I'm looking for (assumes they exist, per the initial assumption)

- Of those As and Bs, which ones won't run into conflicts with the project

- Of those As and Bs, which ones are well supported

- Of those As and Bs, which ones are likely to continue to be supported (long enough for our needs)

- Of those As and Bs, which ones mesh well with the current coding/development style of the project (maintainability)

- How can I best use A and B in a way that is easy to understand (maintainability)

- How can I best use A and B in a way that I can test my code without having to write 1000 lines of mock (maintainability)

- and the list goes on and on and on

Unless you're a VERY low level developer, most software development requires a large amount of thought, both analysis and planning. It is very much _not_ like routine factory work.

Heck, I spend a fair amount of my day not even looking at my screen, as I ponder how best to solve "easy" problems.
I’m a lawyer and I would not be comfortable doing this outside of perhaps the message board context.
Alzheimer (the regular one, not the early onset) is a progressive condition usually not detected early. Moreover, keep in mind it is possible we understand less about Alzheimer than we thought, from the very start

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/alzheimers-theo...

This publication is bogus. It is too soon to know if there is any benefit at all from Semaglutide.
Absolutely. And every time I come on HN to point out processed foods are bad, I always get the feigned confusion "But are cooked carrots a processed food"
Drag racing is a lot less strict on noise.

Your car would get kicked out of a lot of races. Even the 24 Hours of Lemons has noise limits. Most sanctioning bodies do because they don't want to get noise complaints from neighbors who moved in after the track opened.
> the founder/CEO has stated in no uncertain terms that we'll never be sold out to investors

Ha! Heard that one before. Company was sold. Founder got filthy rich, bean counters came in, you know the rest.
how long did you keep drinking after starting? thanks for response
It's not hypocritical to feel different about different types of telemetry from different companies. JetBrains makes software I like using, and hasn't given me much reason to think they're being nefarious. Microsoft makes software I hate using, constantly betrays user's trust, shoves ads where they don't belong, uses dark patterns to trick people into using their services, ignores user defaults to promote their own shit, repeatedly installs software I didn't ask for, replaces working OS apps with shitty replacements that don't work and crash constantly... need I go on?

Windows exists to sell ads and Microsoft services, and no one can go anywhere because they're locked into legacy software, and Microsoft constantly abuses that position. JetBrains IDEs exist to sell themselves to businesses as a productivity tool. They benefit from making it actually good because no one is locked in and they have real competition.

Not to mention an OS has more access to my data than an IDE. If JetBrains suddenly decided they'd bundle a feature in IntelliJ where they constantly record my entire screen at all times, I'd be much more wary about their telemetry.
No, language is the ultimate API.
Where did I say it was a preventative drug?
Uhhh no. Lock-in seems like hyperbole given that you can migrate over to any other IDE. And, especially given the fact that when you purchase an annual subscription, you were given a perpetual fall back license - meaning you can continue to use that version long after your subscription has lapsed.
> same type of law scheduled to go into effect in July

As near as I can tell, that's the real rub here - this is not a law,, nor was it directly enacted by legislation. It's a regulation written independent of lawmakers, and the question is whether the FTC has the authority to write this specific set of regulations.

I'm hoping the cable companies lose but we should be aware of the consequences of allowing uncheck regulatory rule making outside the scope of congress.
Complete the Un-Completable: The State of AI Completion in JetBrains IDEs
Keyword is "kinda"
As a regulär Jetbrains products user, I was shocked when I first has to use VS. Until today, I haven't figured out how to open a class by name (from any assembly), other than writing they name in code ans strl-clicking it.
Just to note to say thanks. Never have I played anything that gives me so much satisfaction. I found I had some weird aptitude for it.
We've had a decent amount of luck with InternVL 2.0 w/ Llama, and are pretty excited about Llama 3.2

It's still super early in the open source x vision model space. The limiter actually seems to be the vision encoder -- advancements here will pay off huge dividends

https://huggingface.co/spaces/opencompass/open_vlm_leaderboa...
I have the humility to admit that this, despite everything I pretend to know, has always escaped my understanding.

Someone please (jump?) at the chance to explain this one to me.

(assume i failed 9th grade 3 times)
Humans often strive to distance themselves from others in many aspects of life. We buy cars to avoid public transport, seek homes over apartments for privacy, and prefer remote work with its isolation. Yet, paradoxically, we turn to social media to engage with the very strangers we avoid in daily life. We reject unsolicited opinions in person, but eagerly seek them online from countless unknown voices.
“Doors and corners” as Detective Miller was fond of saying.
> With 200K+ employees, at this point it is better to think of Microsoft as a city and different teams in it as independent companies in that city with employees that sometimes go out for coffee together :-P

As a former v dash, it was always amusing to see the proclamations come down from the mountain that basically said something like if you are using version x.y.z or below of so and so dependency you must correct it within n days. The people enforcing this seemingly didn't care what the application did or where you were in your software lifecycle, all they cared about was this dependency is raising a flag and we must fix it. :crylaugh:
my point is that valve/steam takes 30% "because they can". they could charge 5% and im sure still make tons of money. it's still a cut throat business, and while yeah they could be doing shittier things to make more money, i think they also do risk assessments on disturbing the golden goose
https://archive.fo/KAAJC
You only compete with one thing: Your costs
Sorry to hear.

Honest advice: I have heard fasting + healthy diet can permanently fix diabetes (though I forgot which type)

Maybe try it? Good luck in any case!
Just took down the sign up for anyone who wants try it out! Thanks again for pointing that out - new to posting on here, super helpful hope you get some use out of our project.
Absolutely we need much much more energy and many many more powerful chips. Energy is a resource and we need to harvest more of it.

I don’t understand why people make a point about energy consumption as it would be something bad.
Vision plus accessibility metadata is the ultimate API. I see little reason that poorly designed flat UIs are going to confuse LLMs any less than humans, especially when they’re missing from the training data like most internal apps or the documentation on the web is out of date. Even a basic dump of ARIA attributes or the hierarchy from OS accessibility APIs can help a lot.
Vision here means "2d pixel space".

The ultimate API is "all the raw data you can acquire from your environment".