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I too waited for the preview to load, but looking in the browser console I saw a file was in 404 ( /static/tritium-c69b2fe84b82a0da.js ) (so it silently failed as soon as "import init, * as bindings from '/static/tritium-c69b2fe84b82a0da.js';")
Your list made me remember doesthedogdie.com which lists diverse trigger warnings in movies and other media.
It was sadly hinted as a recent or non standard feature by Github's syntax highlighting not recognizing it either
Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct.
Birds (Aves) are dinosaurs (Dinosauria), and dinosaurs are reptiles (Reptilia).
There are a lot of obvious cognates between Japanese and Latin through recently borrowed English or Romance words, so I was wondering what was surprising about it.
But it seems the author is talking about traditional Japanese words, and looking for ties in words and idioms like ("kokoro" & "corculum"), ("koi" & "cupio"), ("ganbare" & "quam vale"), ("omedetō" & "omen datum").
Seems a bit farfetched to me, but I'm no expert.
This should matter if Kagi ever intends to do business in the EU.
I suppose a serious breach of regulations, and if Kagi decided to ignore fines, apart from a bad reputation, could ultimately lead to things like judicial decisions of blocking access to the website or blocking payments for EU customers.
small nitpicking: it ought to be written as "20 m" instead of "20M" or else why bother including the equivalent in meters? (in the International System of Units, M is the prefix for mega: 10^6)
Aren't kaomoji a subset of emoticons? most western old emoticons are turned 90° CCW, whereas kaomoji are mostly horizontal and often using CJK characters.
OLVID App by the French Government
Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.
Oh, it wasn't lost among all their replies, it was in the 4th paragraph of the header text section of that Show HN post.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 its OP states "A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush."
After asserting it's a rubber duck, there are some claims without follow-up:
- Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part
- It states there's no land nearby for it to rest or find food in the middle of the ocean: if it's a rubber duck it doesn't need to rest nor feed. (That's a missed opportunity to mention the infamous "Friendly Floatees spill"[1] in 1992 as some rubber ducks floated to that map position). Although it seems to recognize geographical features of the map, it fails to mention Easter Island is relatively nearby. And if it were recognized as a simple duck — which it described as a bird swimming in the water — it seems oblivious to the fact that the duck might feed itself in the water. It doesn't mention either that the size of the duck seems abnormally big in that map context.
- The concept of friends and foes doesn't apply to a rubber duck either. Btw labeling the duck picture as a friend and the bear picture as a foe seems arbitrary (e.g. a real duck can be very aggressive even with other ducks.)
Among other things, the astronomical riddle seems also flawed to me: it answered "The correct order is Sun, Earth, Saturn".
I'd like for it to state :
- the premises it used, like "Assuming it depicts the Sun, Saturn and the Earth" (there are other stars, other ringed-planets, and the Earth similarity seems debatable)
- the sorting criteria it used (e.g. using another sorting key like the average distance from us "Earth, Sun, Saturn" can be a correct order)
The etymology of "chauve" (bald) in "chauve-souris" (bat) is debated, but I've often read that it could be a deformation of a word designating an owl or a crow (it would be a cognate with the late Latin "cavannus" (tawny owl), for example).
On a similar note, the "cerf" (deer) in "un cerf-volant" (a kite toy) probably derive from occitan sèrp (snake) as a reference to dragon-shaped kites from Asia.
The post mentions Tipeee but it "charges 8%" and has "invasive personal documentation requirements". Seems Tipeee is based in Paris, so the cumbersomeness may be related to EU regulations.
When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß.
On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning "and"), was named "ampersand" in English as a mondegreen for "and per se and" as it used to be placed at the end of the English alphabet recitation.
Some other things that irk me a little with that font :
The "@" looks thinner than the other chars.
The "%" has its fraction slash cut in 2 non aligned non rectilinear parts (and not coherent with their "‰" and "‱").
(Also, the "€" looks weird to me, maybe because the horizontal lines are of the same length ? But that's probably less important in a coding context)
Is that a reference to the "Universal Paperclips" game?
For those wondering like me what "bart" might be in this context, it seems to be the heavy rail "Bay Area Rapid Transit" system in San Francisco, California.
btw, seems there's a small typo (see wikipedia article "Immanentize the eschaton", from adjective "immanent")
there's no "caffeine crisis"
On a less humorous side node, I remember having read there are scientific concerns about large-scale pollution caused by mankind high usage of caffeine: ground-water contamination, bioaccumulation in water organisms, detrimental effects on aquatic or terrestrial organisms like insects, or molluscs
eg from the abstract of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125343 :
(...) definitive evidences have been provided that environmentally relevant caffeine concentrations exert adverse impacts on aquatic species and terrestrial insects, which included lethality, decreasing general stress, inducing oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation, affecting energy reserves and metabolic activity, neurotoxic effects, affecting reproduction and development, etc.
I know imperial was invented by the British, but it's largely just the US left using it
According to wikipedia, the US do not use the "Imperial System" but the "United States customary units" and they are not exactly equivalent, although they both derive from the "English units ".¹
Also, from the article: "The international foot is exactly 0.3048 of a meter". And it seems the international yard and pound are defined using the SI units as the reference.² (Edit: So by transitivity they also are defined using caesium-133 atom's radiation, light speed in vacuum and Planck constant.)
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
a mix of two ends of the visible spectrum
Wasn't that about magenta/fuchsia? ( #FF00FF )
I actually found it a quite disturbing sight when I flew over one of the greenhouse areas by night once
There was a link 2 days ago about aerial photography of LED greenhouses in the Netherlands : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327623
Also in 1968, the french singer — and hobbyist mathematician — Boby Lapointe ¹ proposed a graphical representation and pronunciation system for hexadecimal numbers, named bibi-binary ². The pronunciation part is based on the combinations of 4 consonants (HBKD) with 4 vowels (OAEI). It's probably less practical than a system relying on similarities with words for native numbers, but it was probably more of an artsy experiment and it produces shorter (and maybe funnier) results.
"septante", "octante", "nonante" would be coherently based on Latin etymons, but if you want to coherently use "heptante", which relies on a Greek etymon, you should probably also use "ennéante" in lieu of "nonante".
2. Wikipedia articles (...) pale in comparison to an actual encyclopedia. (...) This is easy to see on pages for cities and countries (...)
I'm not claiming Wikipedia is perfect (they are not claiming this themselves) but in contrast most of the small cities worldwide are not even entitled to get an entry in "actual encyclopedia".
The grandparent's post might be referring to an article¹ recently featured on HN which stated that complementing cow feed with less than 2% of a specific dried seaweed, called Asparagopsis, might decrease their methane production by 99%.
"These paintings have zero artistic value" is quite an harsh judgement, especially when defining the "artistic value" is so subjective.
It's not like commissioned painting is a new thing, and it yielded some masterpieces. Bringing it to a broader audience can be beneficial for artists themselves.
I remember seeing an interview of an African artist who was telling the journalist that before she gained some fame in her country she was living in quite a precarious financial situation. I think there's definitely some merit to such a service if it might help some artists in similar situations, as by solidifying a source of income, they could then devote themselves to paint things they really want to paint.
Listening to Radio in FM uses passive reception and dedicated chip, and thus has probably much lower power consumption.
Not having WIFI or 4G available is also a good reason.
When did you get to vote on anything?
October 2000, there were a worldwide online vote to select some members of the ICANN Board of Directors.