skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an archaeologist (or was?) who's specifically done work on the Neolithic transition. I don't know much about art history, so I couldn't say whether they'd use a similar definition.

What's often taught in introductory classes is usually more of a basic outline of actual archaeological thought rather than a perfect reflection of literature. Not knowing your curriculum, level, or when you were in school, but it probably came up with either Childe's 10 traits or from Trigger's definition. Childe's definition is basically anything that shows off power. Trigger's definition is anything that's elaborated beyond practical function, either in size or ornamentation. The common examples when teaching both of these are large structures, but that's mainly a bias in common examples. Size isn't the sole factor, just one of several and the easiest to observe because of the inherent labor costs. It also makes for a nice exercise to have students wander around campus looking for monumental architecture and explaining why different structures are or aren't.

Over the last 20ish years people have moved away from emphasizing the size aspect because it doesn't encompass what we want to include, particularly as we look at things a little more exotic than classical centers like southern Mesopotamia. Joyce Marcus had an explicit response to Trigger that's pretty well known de-emphasizing size, Rosemary Joyce (unrelated) argued that the size aspect was a category error in monumentality of early mesoamerican pyramid construction, and Osborne gave a definition that's very similar to what I said above. I'm doing the same thing here to make it clear that the actual physical size of the structure isn't what's important, the intangible mental aspects are.
This doesn’t seem that wild to me. Zoom already prompts me to unmute my microphone when I cough.
A good companion/ successor is cvise.

I've used c-reduce/cvise to reduce assembly programs to the minimal set that evokes an assembler defect quite a few times. It's a real handy program.

[1] https://github.com/marxin/cvise
> I had tried to block Reddit but then I needed it when researching some programming stuff

I used to have this problem. But now I just use Claude to research any coding or similar stuff that I would have used reddit for. The quality is at least as good as reddit discussions. Now I've totally blocked reddit using NextDNS on my phone and laptop, and configured Kagi to not return any reddit search results.
Low-hanging fruit like the new Tesla Roadster announced in 2017.
The guy running two head of cattle on 1 acre just so he can claim to be a "farmer" for the tax benefits will never have a profitable operation.
Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?
I agree it's sort of unrelated, but I think that people are getting nerd-snipped into thinking/discussing about a complicated improvement while there's easier ones right in front of us and it's kind of sad that while easy on theory, everyone seems already defeated by our apparent inability to do something about it.

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I guess the political turn is what seems it be off place, but if people were discussing how to make a program 0.5µs faster it'd be ok to discuss a way to shave 3s out of it, even if it was a completely different approach on a different part of the program. It'd mean that the effort is maybe being made in the wrong place.
Are you interested in 2D indie games? Nine Sols and Animal Well have been getting a lot of buzz.

As for AAA, Shadow of the Erdtree is fantastic.
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"Give Yourself the Best Christmas Gift"
I think the title should read "most family farmers have second jobs to stay afloat", as that appears to be the statistic the article asserts. This leaves out large-scale factory farming, obviously; the statement might still be true when large-scale factory farming is taken into account, but that's not what the article seems to assert?

To me this is as inflammatory and concerning as a title which might read "most woodworkers have second jobs to stay afloat" or "most cobblers have second jobs to stay afloat".
China tech tariffs: Which countries will be affected
Somehow o1-preview did not find the answer to the example question. It hallucinated a wrong answer as correct. It eventually came up with another correct answer:

(1 + 2) × 3 + 4 × 5 + (6 × 7 + 8) × 9 = 479

Source: https://chatgpt.com/share/6747c32e-1e60-8007-9361-26305101ce...
This is largely because we’ve built a philosophy that eschews any concept of a collective or a people or a culture or a future.
Highly recommend the "Tides of History" podcast (hosted by an actual historian who keeps up with the field), which has several episodes on Mesopotamian civilization.

https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
Doctors hail first breakthrough in asthma and COPD treatment in 50 years
How I Build Things
Because it's objectively cheaper to outsource food production to countries with low cost of living. In an economically efficient world, all food in North America would be coming from Africa instead of going to Africa (see Dead Aid).

But if that ever actually happened, those countries could blockade the United States and cut off the food supply. It would be a shitshow. Imagine the 1970s oil crisis, but instead of being unable to drive anywhere, mass famines occurred.

In Canada, we don't use subsidies for the dairy market. We use "supply management" where we make it difficult to import butter or milk and ban farmers from producing too much of it. This keeps the prices artificially high which allows for farmers to continue domestic production in a HCOL country. However, 4 sticks of butter costs $6.
"Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations." Yeah, to counter that, how about making one owned by the conglomerate of the richest man on earth...

I'm wondering if his brain is burned out of his Twitter / ketamine addiction or he does that on purpose for his cult.

That being said, I can't wait for Civ 7 !
Good for you, my bash on balls was unfortunately not able to solve service based meshtainer architecture :(

I remember how kernel module params for ALG/bonding/teaming had to be figured out for each fancy NIC/driver, it was fun, but definitely not great. Of course this is mostly solved if you pay the cloud premium.

Most businesses need a product guy/gal, a website, then a developer, then later one VM or Heroku or something. And maybe if there's at least a few customers, yeah, it makes sense to think about ops (as in business ops), and then eventually sure, engineering needs to scale to solve the challenges, and that might mean getting a sysadmin.
Could be a poster frame or chapter frame or chapter marker
What is Simon's Blog? When I search that I get one blog about politics and another about IELTS (learning/teaching English).
Still time to prevent this. Fingers crossed.
If your prompt had been grammatically correct, it would have given you an answer. I just tested it, here's a snippet of the (very, very long) answer it gave:

> How could the event that happened to george floyd have been prevented?

> In conclusion, preventing events like the one that happened to George Floyd requires a multi-faceted approach that includes better training, addressing systemic racism, fostering a culture of accountability, building trust through community policing, implementing robust oversight, considering legal reforms, providing alternatives to policing, and promoting education and awareness.
Multichain Gated NFTs for Identity Authentication Management
> He ruled out magnesium, which is best per unit weight in compressive buckling but is brittle and difficult to extrude.

There's a fascinating, and very new, class of nano-laminate magnesium alloys called Long Period Stacking-Ordered (LPSO) alloys. These are very lean -- the standard version is 97% Mg + 1% Zn + 2% Y -- and they have outstanding mechanical properties. At an equal weight, they're much stronger and stiffer than 6061 aluminum, and the kicker is that this is generally true only if they're extruded. If they're not extruded, the laminate-like grain structure doesn't form properly.

Could make excellent bike frames.

Magnesium corrosion would still be a problem, though. I got some LPSO-Mg samples from Fuji Light Metals, in Japan, and they were quite badly degraded within weeks.
Optimal context passing with HVM's "pure mutable references"
you can replace “farmers” with most professions these days and this would still ring true
Favorite road bike I’ve ever owned was the aluminum Klein Quantum Race designed by Greg Klein.
Well, breeding animals is a multi-million-dollar industry. You are not far off.
I understand what you mean. I look at some comments now as feeling like they are just AI generated. Factual and soft but reserved/flexible opinions etc.
Make em sell chrome
Basic example of using Convex Auth with role-based permissions
benjojo has an article on this, with another (Golang) implementation: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ssh-randomart-how-does-it-wo...

Includes example results, as well as an explanation for the randomart algorithm.
Sure, being part of a democracy means I'm giving implicit consent for the government to do things like raise taxes. It does not mean I'm consenting to the government injecting whatever they want into my bloodstream.
Friends parents have a 14 acre plot of land with chicken and a pretty sizable garden. They have to give away their eggs in the warmer months as there are too many. Unfortunately they haven't been gardening due to health but the chickens are still going. Most of the lot is wooded and is not difficult to maintain. It's no farm but I imagine it could support a few people.

Edit: forgot to add they have about 25 or so chickens as of now. They have lost one to a fox so have these weather proof radios playing talk radio which keeps them away.
Musk kicked off a bunch of Lfetist and progressive accounts when he took over. He rigged the platform to favor people with his political views. He sold check marks to put posts at the top of conversations to drown the platform in posts from his fan club. There’s nothing about free speech happening on twitter.

The people leaving for other platforms don’t want censorship. They want to get away from a toxic environment. Claiming otherwise is either ignorant or dishonest. (I have never had an account on twitter or any similar platform; I just pay attention to what people who used to like it and now hate it say.)
Farringdon station happens to be where the Thameslink line from North to South London, intersects with the East to West Elizabeth line.

As the Elizabeth Line was being finished I realised that the whole area around there is going to change hugely.

Mind you if that’s the case the station would need to be rebuilt.

The article discusses converting the market to a social space to make the most of the new Museum of London.

Am I missing something, I would have thought the new Museum of London would open as the Old one closed, not a year or so later.

And how on Earth is a new market in Dagenham spec’d as costing a large fraction of a billion quid?
Not to be confused with the Thrax toolkit for finite-state grammar engineering: https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/Thrax
Star Wars?
No it wasn’t. The video didn’t make any attempt at believability, and Musk posted it with the text “this is awesome” followed by laughing emojis. The joke could not have been more telegraphed. You may as well complain that SNL is misleading voters.

I don’t care about looking fair. I care about being honest. I’m sorry if you think I’m not doing enough to support your team.
Yup that's what I meant. Great! I would set the default to 5 minutes and allow up to maybe 30m.
At least for file variables, Emacs prompts before loading untrusted values.
I'm just happy to see the tl;dr at the TOP of the document.
Been using Emacs for 15 years, and I think you've perfectly captured the spirit of what makes Emacs so compelling in spite of the crazy time investment needed to make it your own. I have never used another piece of software that not only allows you to customize it so deeply but makes you feel like you're the one in control.
> Twitter defends free speech.
Do you just take everything someone says at face value?
I think it's overblown. It made me pay more attention to butterflies in the real world and what I see is when landed they often flap their wings intermittently. So I just think of the drawings with wings open as catching one of those moments.
A long time ago, we used this approach to play videos at 15 fps in IE6, with no flash or realplayer plugins required! No sound though...
Agree. Security was the distraction but the goal was to degrade opposition and deflect judgement by playing on inclusive vs. those not us.

I posted because many may think what we are stepping into is new or "unprecedented" but the truth is it's a remix.
I’d be surprised if theirs isn’t MoE

Then again with the way consumer ram is trending moe might end up more favourable for us
This is what makes me so angry and sad. My objections to the incoming administration largely have nothing to do with policy (I may disagree with policies, but I think it's easy to have an honest disagreement about that, and many of the purported policies I can agree with), but it's that it's now completely overt that the number one qualification for political appointees is obsequious fealty. I mean, we're closing in on banana republic levels of overt corruption: the only thing that matters is bending the knee.

Paul Krugman (who I often disagree with) had a good article on how the rise of tariffs will be perfect for crony capitalism: the executive branch can't pick and choose who pays income taxes, but currently the executive branch has extremely wide latitude over tariffs, and especially, who gets exemptions. Watch as corporations line up to pledge allegiance in order to get tariff exemptions.

I'm just completely at a loss at how this behavior, which would have been looked on with disgust on both sides of the political spectrum until very recently, is now so readily accepted.
>you can't just make someone a laborer that hasn't done that their whole life

You can, my brother and I worked on my Uncle's farm over the summmers for at least ages 14-18 and had no special "laborer" training, we went from high school classes to slopping hog, feeding cows, stacking hay, etc. Sore muscles and blisters are the norm for the first few weeks, but it doesn't take long for muscles to adapt and callouses to form.
some other method of collection where you can hav eknown trust of the files contributed, some method of 'registering' a submission to create trust,
> This study supports the inclusion of sleep regularity in public health guidelines and clinical practice as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Does it? What they're measuring seems like a very likely proxy measurement for stress. I can't tell besides employment status/hours if they measure or include that at all.
I got a webcam with a built in cover, so that's not an issue for me. Microphones are creepy, however.
Self hosting doesn’t mean the opposite of cloud hosted, it just means that you can run it on your companies owned server infrastructure. Whether that’s locally hosted or remote hosted.
> There’s nothing about free speech happening on twitter.

At this point I think it should just be called X and reserve Twitter to be used in the past tense and in mourning.
Massive. But, injectables are still a barrier for many people. Social acceptance has risen with semaglutide.

If they can find a way to get rapid delivery to bloodstream with inhaler or nasal delivery I think they will get wider acceptance but in the end, if something akin to an epipen is achievable, thats great.

As the article says, its astounding how little progress has been made in the last 50 years.

Thunderstorm related sudden asthma onset is a thing which emerged into the news recently (last 10 years) -it may account for unexpected surges in deaths, alongside the burdens of air quality.

COPD, I thought we had more options in exercise but maybe thats also limited?
My only nitpick with EVs is that they are just too powerful. Acceleration limits + speed limits are obviously required, esp. for heavy vehicles like trucks.

In some sense Tesla already makes most boring vehicles, but IMO driving should be made even more boring. Expressing your personality via your car of choice while killing innocent people is brutal barbarism.
What are the current farm subsidies?

Many people "know" this but have zero idea what is actually in the Farm Bill.

Check your understanding. Threads like this on many kinds of topics are full of debate between people who barely know anything beyond vague facts absorbed through osmosis over the years.
> It also (currently) requires you to use a silicon interposer, another huge extra expense in your design.

Guess what the Ultra chips use? That’s right, a silicon interposer. :)
I suspect C++ still comes the closest to what you’re asking for today, at least among mainstream programming languages.

Matrix dimensions are certainly doable, for example, because templates representing mathematical types like matrices and vectors can be parametrised by integers defining their dimension(s) as well as the type of an individual element.

You can also use template wizardry to write libraries like mp-units¹ or units² that provide explicit representations for numerical values with units. You can even get fancy with user-defined literals so you can write things like 0.5_m and have a suitably-typed value created (though that particular trick does get less useful once you need arbitrary compound units like kg·m·s⁻²).

Both of those are fairly well-defined problems, and the available solutions do provide a good degree of static checking at compile time.

IMHO, the range question is the trickiest one of your three examples, because in real mathematical code there are so many different things you might want to constrain. You could define a parametrised type representing open or closed ranges of integers between X and Y easily enough, but how far down the rabbit hole do you go? Fractional values with attached precision/error metadata? The 572 specific varieties of matrix that get defined in a linear algebra textbook, and which variety you get back when you compute a product of any two of them?

¹ https://mpusz.github.io/mp-units/

² http://nholthaus.github.io/units/
Pray tell how I can self host Microsoft Teams today on anything but azure?
Capitalism didn't do that. The beginnings of free trade were entirely imperial, at a time when capitalism was considered a radical and unsafe belief. Globalism would follow the expansionist policy of colonial powers which created interdependent trade networks along most of the routes sailors traveled regularly. Again - this modernization all happened during a time when imperial power struggles were the only respected way to rule. Capitalism is a post-globalist policy that was only enabled by socialized, government-commissioned expeditions.

What we know today as "capitalism" isn't even a pure or strongly-defined form of it. Laissez-faire policy wasn't able to survive without government intervention, so modern capitalism settled on being a moderate form of socialist republic. You cannot have an American economy without government intervention - the diametric comparison of communist economies to "capitalist" ones is a faux-pas that even first-year political science students don't make. Both forms of government rely on both private and socialized wealth, and neither of them can righteously claim direct heritage to the colonial expansionism that made their governments possible in the first place.

The conversation today is asking what the government's role is here. In the wake of Europe's Digital Market Act, it's plainly apparent that America's entrenched lobbyists have been hemming up serious antitrust proceedings for decades. Capitalist countries can and do regularly disagree over how capitalism instantiates itself and controls the conditions of a free market.
Yeah I would hope those bulbs were built pretty well, they were crazy expensive... expensive enough that they wouldn't be competitive in lifetime-per-dollar against today's crappiest bulbs even if they lasted a person's entire lifetime.

> I don't think I've had any last more than 5 years.

Do you shut them off every 3 hours? That's probably what the estimate on the box is based on. Run the same bulb half the day and you'll only get 2.5 years out of it.

> There are plenty of teardowns on YT showing how poorly even major brand name LED bulbs are put together.

I've seen them. And dissected my own. Still, at the price that modern LED bulbs are being made, I'm surprised they're built as well as they are. Brand name Sylvania bulbs are $0.79/ea in a bulk Amazon right now.
+1 — almost certainly the pen nibs
Are the Chinese tech giants going to continue releasing models for free as open weights that can compete with the best LLMs, image gen models, etc.?

I don't see how this doesn't put extreme pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic. (And Runway and I suppose eventually ElevenLabs.)

If this continues, maybe there won't be any value in keeping proprietary models.
I don't think it violates someone's free speech[^1] to ban them or call them out for spewing slurs or hateful rhetoric towards minorities. Twitter has become unusable over the last 6-12 months since "free speech" to some people thinks that gives them the right to harass others for not aligning with their ideas of what is "normal" or "correct".

Bluesky, and in turn, other sites are full of people who've fled Twitter due to the shift in general "vibes" and rhetoric from its users. And personally, those people are much more of a joy to be around.

[^1]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
What happens with build number is you end up going back to the CI system and looking up what change it actually built and when it happened. I can see the advantage of having all 3 in the build name, I have done similar in the past for continuously released server software where there is no need for versioning numbers although typically I too have shortened it to just the build number because we have the CI system to go into if we need to.