skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White settlers drove the advanced Cahokia civilization from the major city they built for themselves and then made up a bunch of nonsense about other ancient people building the city to justify the ethnic cleansing! Truly awful. What year did this all go down, Wikipedia?

The population of Cahokia began to decline during the thirteenth century, and the site was eventually abandoned around 1300[18] The area around it was not reoccupied by indigenous tribes[19] to 1350.[20] Scholars have proposed environmental factors, such as over-hunting, deforestation, and flooding, as explanations for abandonment of the site.[18]

Another possible cause is invasion by outside peoples, though the only evidence of warfare found so far are the defensive wooden stockade and watchtowers that enclosed Cahokia's main ceremonial precinct. Due to the lack of other evidence for warfare, the palisade may have been more for ritual or formal separation than for military purposes. Diseases transmitted among the large, dense urban population are another possible cause of decline. Many theories since the late 20th century propose conquest-induced political collapse as the primary reason for Cahokia's abandonment.[21]

Ahh, it was those white settlers in the year 1300.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
Personally, I have trouble falling asleep without at least a light bed sheet.
"but the end users of the compiler aren't having to spend time digging through the guts of it to guess what kind of magic sequences are needed to get fairly good performance."

That's precisely my point: The claims they make about this in this article that claim to prove this are demonstrably false. So that may even be true, but it's definitely not anything in this article that shows that.

If the author had just said "hey, when i wrote this version, it performed better and was easier", that'd be great, and awesome.

Instead, it seems they wanted to make more general claims, and to be honest, don't seem to have a lot of idea what they are talking about on that front, and to anyone who does have experience in this area, like i said, it comes off very badly.

I'll also point out, if you expect to not need to do profiling and algorithmic improvement to anything to get significant speedups, that's also similarly silly. It's just not realistic for any language in the real world. The only question is "which of the code you write will this be true for" not whether it will be true.
Meanwhile cocaine usage in Zürich is one of the highest in Europe ( https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/drug-capitals_zurich-is-europe-... ) which boggles my mind - I assume this is the finance industry
That's awesome! We might be interested in doing something together with a react conference— how do we get in touch? Can you shoot me an email?
> I don't follow what your confusion is, exactly. Could you try explaining it differently please?

When we say that A is B, or A implements C, which B is known for implementing, and we don't caveat it as an analogy or model, then we're making an existence claim about A's nature. We're saying that A is fundamentally B stuff.

> It means that nature, in this case the ants, perform the steps of the algorithm.

Does that mean an ant nest IS A computer? Does nature literally compute? Or is that just a helpful way of looking at things?

My point that the language of the article is smuggling in an ontological claim about nature. Maybe it's only meant as a useful mental model and not an actual existence claim. But maybe not. And some people will take it literally.
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1) Home automation products are pretty immature and can be frustrating. Some are dangerous. Almost all are privacy nightmares. If you have extra cash and enjoy tinkering, it may be worth it.

2) If you don't have big reserves of cash, get great insurance and a home warranty, like American Home Shield. Reviews are mixed, but it's saved me money and given me peace of mind.

3) If you live in a humid place, dehumidify. Humidity is easy to prevent and can become a nightmare.
The Arduino Due version runs Altair code at the speed of the original Altair, i.e. 2 MHz. (The Mega 2560 version runs at about 25% the speed of the original Altair) If you want Altair code to run significantly faster, you should probably use one of the software emulators on a PC and see if you can turn off their speed throttling. (The Due's underlying clock speed is 84 Mhz, which is zippy for an Arduino, but nothing compared to what a desktop CPU can do).

But unfortunately you're still not going to get to 1 GHz this way: modern PC CPUs clock in around 3 GHz, and it's going to take more than three PC clock cycles to emulate 1 Altair cycle on average. At the 42:1 ratio of the Due to Altair, 3 GHz is going to get you about 72 MHz. Let's say though you're super clever and you use profiling, etc. that lets you use multiple cores and whatnot. Even if you get a 4x boost and bring the ratio down to 10 PC clock cycles per Altair clock cycle, you'll still top out at 300 MHz.
Too many coders work in environments where they are treated as idiot savants
But as I stared into the infinite
+1, those guides are excellent!
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I'm not American FWIW, but please explain what you mean?
> We live in a society though that thinks someone else is going to take care of the problems.

It's worse than this. Now society thinks that government is going to take care of the problems. The past fifty years and the War on Poverty have shown us how well that works. I wish that, instead of spending more untold billions on new programs and bureaucracies, government would switch to facilitating citizens to create, man, and implement the help that is so sorely needed by the poor and helpless. Encourage the citizenry to take personal responsibility for helping others, instead of offering an easy out to do nothing.
What Comes After the MVP? It’s the MVM – Minimum Viable Magic – IQVIS Inc
Transfer SQL Server Database Data to MySQL Database Using .NET Core
Love the recursive self-hosting! Where can I read more?
Social networks that aren't well-policed become swamps where marketers crowd out all the actual value for regular users. See: Pinterest

Quora really shouldn't allow companies to comment on questions about the quality of their product.
I've heard this a few times but thoroughly disagree.

Being able to explain/teach something to others is a very different skill to understanding it and isn't compulsory.
The big players can’t compete because all of them are invested in making the experience on their own platform the best. Box is the only platform agnostic competitor.
Been following this project since it was in the rougher earlier days. Really glad to see it come together. Congrats!
No, actually weighted like this [1], literally 20 lb blanket. (Just an example, not a recommendation.)

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B073451HTY/ref=psdcmw_3732181...
A friend of mine runs a video copyright enforcement company. He provides the ammunition that Hollywood uses to send takedowns to a large number of small video platforms for content posted on them.

For a web-wide search engine, it's even easier: you can send a search engine a takedown for any url anywhere, because search engines index the whole web. RTBF requests are similarly relevant to any web-wide search engine.
Which is at odds with current political and economic trends. Right or left, no matter what kinds of social or environmental causes people seem to care about, there is almost universal support for economic policies of unending growth. You almost never see Japan get touted as a model first world country - with both a shrinking population and economy - but maybe that's the way we all should be heading.

Retirement investments and real estate be damned, maybe immigration and jacked up trade isn't so important if we care about having a diverse and healthy biomass for future generations to enjoy.
Note that gravitational microlensing is a completely different technique from solar gravitational lensing discussed in the linked paper.
Perhaps writing is a poor choice of profession for someone who desires a stable income.

I would rather be at the beach, but instead I'm stuck here in an office.
Do progress bars show real loading progress or are they just animated graphics?
California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars
I don't, until the mosquitoes come feasting.
My guess is that the warm and snug feeling of behind under a blanket evokes the womb. Same idea for white noise while sleeping.
Maybe link all the outside nodes and then tell them to repel each other. If there are only two, it will be weird, but with three or more should work out.?
My dad and his army unit would sleep under wet bath towels in the sweltering El Paso summer nights, in the late 1960s. He would wake up in the middle of the night, when the towel dried up and stopped cooling with evaporation, and have to go get it wet again.

It seems like an evolved reaction - make sure we are under cover, out of sight while sleeping and helpless. But given how much we move around, snore, talk, and make commotion while sleeping, having a simple cover may not help much. Maybe it was evolved for a smaller frame?
It's 3x faster than, but 4x as fast as.
StoryWeaver: Expanding literacy with open source technology
Ads that auto pay audio on a developer blog, really?
Saw this via a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8NMP7hyP8U
I need to update the doc site, but the source is at https://github.com/tmzt/isymtope

You should have seen it when the iframes all tried to load in the nested view, I counted probably six deep! ;)

I wonder if there might be a good meta format for a reactive-component AST or intermediate language which could be target different frameworks?
Hospital blankets must be made from lead, but I don't know where they get them. Quilts are usually pretty dense.

I have this argument with my wife: in the winter we have a very nice down comforter. It is plenty warm on its own. She likes to through a heavy quilt we have on top of that. I say that it makes the bed colder... the quilt compresses the down in the comforter and it loses much of its insulation ability that way, more than the insulation added by the quilt on top. She refuses to accept this argument and says it's warmer with the comforter plus the quilt. I haven't wanted to win the argument badly enough to start taking measurements, but as a compromise, we've worked out having her double up the quilt on her side.
I agree. We have bombers for a reason. Have they already forgotten about USS Cole??
You may have a valid concern (I say "may," because we still don't know all the details of this arrangement in China).

But there is still a sharp contrast to be made between Apple and companies for whom collecting as much private and personal data as reasonably possible is fundamental to the business model.

Companies for whom you are the product.
Standard Western bigotry. Here in he middle part of the earth (ie near the equator) it’s super common for people to sleep without any cover. It’s still considered more “proper” to use blanks because that’s how westerners do it, but it needs to be learned. People don’t do it automatically, and kids kicking off their blankets is a common theme between parents. Your hottest nights are just not hot enough.
Definitely true for gamedev in my experience. I don't think I've worked in a game code base of nontrivial size without seeing some implementation of state machines.
This was my crystal ball:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3...

Also discovered around this time that subprime mortgage didn't mean a mortgage with an interest rate below the prime rate.
tlnr: we don't know but it's nice.
Also, I live in SE Asia. Our nights are hot, but we have fans and use very thin blankets. (Not even sure if they're called blankets, but they're very light weight and maybe should be called sheets)
How would a sheet help with that?
I always find these claims not persuasive, where some modern laws of physics can supposedly be aligned or derived from some historical religious concepts that no one ever used to make any predictions that could be verified by science until we started working backwards. There are some brilliant and lovely ideas in the historical texts that have survived to this day, but.... I just don't see that god passed on ideas to the authors of those texts.
In Canada during the summer it's common to use a sheet (yeah, a super thin cover).

It has nothing to do with temperature. It keeps any breeze of my skin. For me at least, this is much more comfortable because there's simply less stimulus. A breeze really distracts me.
I don't get the sense that that's what the headline is alluding to. It refers to the bias in interpreting the archeological evidence at the time.

> "The splendor of the mounds was visible to the first white people who described them. But they thought that the American Indian known to early white settlers could not have built any of the great earthworks that dotted the midcontinent. So the question then became: Who built the mounds?"

The article itself confirms what you found in wikipedia in the first paragraph:

> "Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25,000 and 50,000 people."

Yeah, the headline is more "exciting" than I would have written, but that seems to be the trend nowadays. My skin is slowly thickening to that.
This is a great idea, but this is far too vague. Very clear cut terms would be necessary for this to have teeth. For instance something like, data collection on individuals must have a clear purpose, the subject of collection must be clearly presented with that knowledge, and they must derive a benefit directly connected with the item in question.

Unfortunately, as alluded to in the README, even a strong statement would have very little in terms of bite unless there is some kind of specific force backing it up. Clearly, cultural pressure is currently insufficient or this wouldn't be needed. Instead, I advise building an organization around developer ethics that can pressure decision makers. Such an organization can democratically ratify a code of ethics, collect signatures, and provide financial support for individuals that resist unethical demands and face retaliation.
I supposed that's why management is paid more - the skillset for a good manager is rarer than that of a good developer, even if they are less critical.
So are there any search engines that ignore RTBF?

Edit: Public ones, I mean. I'm sure that major TLAs do.
I didn't see the Google Blog post - thank you for pointing me in the right direction! And great work.
Everyone should read that, and Cryptonomicon.
In this case, the number of iterations (1000) of each loop is being held fixed, and the depth of nesting is varying, i.e. the body of the inner loop executes O(1000^depth) times.
It isn't on/off for me. Every night is a bit different, even though my thermostat has the same setting day by day. One foot uncovered. Or two. Or neither. Thick blanket, or thin, or both. Many options and throughout the night the configuration changes.
I cannot sleep with any layer, very uncomfortable indeed. To be honest, I cannot stand the idea of getting irritated by clothing during my sleep. Not only that, even the faintest bit of light or even the slightest periodic ticking of the clock (or anything for that matter) annoys me. A thin blanket will do in the summer, but usually tucked to the side when hot, and a second blanket of the same material in the winter, a third blanket of the same material as a bed sheet. Everything needs to be dead quiet and super dark when I'm sleeping. I'm trying to achieve the darkness to the point where the capability of the human eye adaptation to low-level ambient light won't matter (absolute pitch black).
I would guess that he was hired so he can bring in some multi million clients from his network. Such hires can sometimes bring a lot of value to the company or just be a big drain at other times (the more severe effect though can be a dip in motivation for other techies).
Unfortunately, pretty much all of the BoR is regularly under attack. Those rights have to be constantly reaffirmed.
had financial judgements against you,

You had me with the other two, I don't know about this one. In the absence of criminal financial malfeasance, or deliberately poor mishandling of instruments an official had some responsibility over as an individual acting in the public trust, I can't think of a compelling argument for why this needs to be the public's business.

I can only presume, but I'm with pause to put words into your mouth that this is probably want you meant?
Dunno about crawly things, but mosquitos definitely first go for body parts not covered by sheets.
Disable JavaScript, problem solved.

Bonus: Pages written by developers who don't know/care about graceful degradation appear blank, so you don't have to waste time reading them.
Bigotry?
A 1-bit SRAM cell consists of 6 transistors (or 4 transistors and 2 resistors). While a single transistor doesn't have a capacity for memory, it is trivial to build small circuits of transistors that have memory.

The fundamental problem in modern computers isn't memory: it's in moving data around. The speed of light in a vacuum gives you only a few cm of distance to move information in a single clock cycle, and the actual electronic propagation inside the processors is substantially slower. In fact, the governing factor of the size of L1 cache is the time it takes to actually read a value. At the scale of supercomputers, the topology of the interconnect has major implications for the actual performance on HPC applications.

Saying that bringing memory closer is the determining factor in speed ignores the fact that the size of memory has implications in the time to access it. The innovation in CPUs has been about minimizing latency essentially by developing better heuristics in what it might be. GPUs innovate by not trying to minimize latency but instead trying to overprovision cores and rely on batched memory access (consequently, GPUs are not good at handling codes that rely on irregular memory access patterns).
Come to Hawaii in the summer. Not in a hotel, just in a normal apartment like a normal person. You'll ditch any covers whatsoever.
I literally just returned the first thing I could find that was a study with citations and stuff. Nothing in my post said I was attributing anything. You’re reading into my actions assuming intent that simply isn’t there.
You lost me at coding.
It's really not important to reinforce whatever stereotype your parent is implying.
That forces wizard to always have a staff and warrior to always have a sword?

warrior can also use a staff

both can use daggers
In Haskell, this would look something like:

data Player =
Player (Maybe Weapon) Class

data Weapon =
Sword
| Staff
| Dagger

data Class =
Warrior
| Wizard

type Error = String

mkPlayer :: Maybe Weapon -> Class -> Either Error Player

mkPlayer (Just Sword) Warrior = Right (Player (Just Sword) Warrior)
mkPlayer (Just Dagger) Warrior = Right (Player (Just Dagger) Warrior)
mkPlayer Nothing Warrior = Right (Player Nothing Warrior)
mkPlayer (Just Staff) Warrior = Left "A Warrior cannot equip a Staff"

mkPlayer (Just Staff) Wizard = Right (Player (Just Staff) Wizard)
mkPlayer (Just Dagger) Wizard = Right (Player (Just Dagger) Wizard)
mkPlayer Nothing Wizard = Right (Player Nothing Wizard)
mkPlayer (Just Sword) Wizard = Left "A Wizard cannot equip a Sword"

A player is always a defined class(wizard or warrior), but they may not have a weapon equipped. This solution is a bit wordy, but comes with the benefit that if you ever add a new weapon/class, the compiler will scream at you if you haven't handled the case for it properly.

You would only export the mkPlayer function in the library and you could potentially have much fancier error handling, such as building a data structure that contains an 'invalid' player anyways (e.g. `Left (Player (Just Sword) Wizard)`) so you can custom build an error message at the call site ("A $class cannot equip a $weapon") or even completely ignore the error if that is a potential usecase (such as building an armor/weapon preview tool, where you don't care whether they can use the weapon/armor).

Modifying it is pretty easy too. Say I wanted to allow for 2handed weapons, plus offhand weapons (shields, orbs, charms, etc.) I could encode that in a data type like:

data EquippedWeapon =
TwoHanded TwoHandWeapon
| OneHanded (Maybe OneHandWeapon) (Maybe Offhand)
| Unequipped

and swap it into the Player definition:

data Player =
Player EquippedWeapon Class

And now I wouldn't be able to compile until I fixed the mkPlayer function and any other place that uses a Player and is dependent upon the weapon portion of the data structure.

e.g. This function wouldn't need to change

areYouAWizardHarry :: Player -> Bool
areYouAWizardHarry (Player _ Wizard) = True
areYouAWizardHarry (Player _ _) = False
You would notice that there's something under the blanket, moving toward your head.
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If it's friggin' HOT, and as long as there's privacy in my own room, nothin', and nada, no need for close proximity insulation technology, and for bugs? I use my mosquito bed net I bought from Amazon.
Do you realize you're hand waving?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-waving
well, neither does goldman
I’ve found https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com to be an amazing resource for improving interpersonal skills. Folks in the spectrum may also appreciate reading the content there. And asking for help when a situation just seems unfathomable.
prokaryote -> hot spring -> FDR -> libertarianism
My partner made me a 15 pound weighted blanket for Christmas and I love it. It's very cozy and feels nice. She made it out of light materials so it can breathe and be used in the Summer.
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LG Power X, Chrome.
It's probably how the assembly guys felt back in the 90s/early 2000s when we started doing more C on the 8-bit micros... except way, way worse.
Example:

sdow true false

Output:

{"isSourceRedirected":false
"isTargetRedirected":false
"pages":

{"161711":
{"description":"Value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth"
"title":"Truth value"
"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_value"}

"228748":
{"description":"Wikimedia disambiguation page"
"title":"True"
"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True"}

"40805040":
{"description":"Wikimedia disambiguation page"
"title":"False"
"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False"}
}

"paths":[[228748,161711,40805040]]
"sourcePageTitle":"True"
"targetPageTitle":"False"}

Edit sed commands to make first line indented:

|exec sed '
s/{/\
&/;
s/\",/\"\
/g;s/,\"/\
\"/g;s/:{/:\
{/g;s/}/&\
/g;s/\"pages\":/&\
/'
Someone will figure it out with Steam.
As a previous compiler developer, its a pretty bad idea to look at the final lines of code to determine its cost.

Typically in compiler development, there's massive R&D time, many hours spent analyzing memory & CPU patterns to figure out which code to emit. You also take a look at disassembly of generated code and nowdays perform data-mining to figure out which patterns of optimize for (typically on non-kernel or hotspot-heavy type workloads).

The end result of alot of investigation can be few lines of code which have to be absolutely robust and production ready at the time of release under standard configurations (i.e -O1, -O2 etc...)

Its a costly piece of engineering which is why some companies still charge money for it.

I'd say the article's estimates are accurate for a simple compiler that emits results at say -O0 or -O1 level of efficiency, but anything higher will start to require more and more resources with diminishing gains over time. But this can be said about most things in engineering.