skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case the barrier is likely semipermeable. It may be that certain bacteria were advantageous to human evolution, so the barrier evolved with a mechanism that allowed good bacteria to pass through. Now this should make us humans a bit concerned about the likelihood of mimics. If good bacteria indeed play a role in human emotion and alertness, then perhaps some mimics result in certain types of mental illness.
This line of reasoning is silly. I suppose all technology comes from Homo Australopithecus since they were the first to bang two rocks together, and they were the true origin of the Renaissance?

I'm all for acknowledging eurocentrism, but this euro-bashing is ridiculous. If these "prerequisites" were all that were needed to kickstart the Renaissance, why did it not occur in the middle east, for instance, where all of these elements were also present?
The blood brain barrier usually only allows particles on the order of nanometers in size, while bacteria are much, much larger.
Thank you, for finally putting this out. I was very confused as to why am I the only one having these strong feelings against how the tech works.

I think the guys over at bigchaindb present quite an interesting solution to the problem Blockchain is trying to solve, without giving up scalability and speed.

https://youtu.be/1NHHmHVCWy0
Would this work?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/youtube-kids-adds-a-whitel...
Google's only product is online advertising, the only kind of advertising that matters in the 21st century.

This is a big deal because they can abuse their advertising clout for evil purposes. (E.g., advertise Chrome but put out a prohibitive pricing scheme for Firefox.)

But it's not a monopoly yet because Facebook and Amazon are competing actors in this space in the USA, and other nations have their own local actors.

In theory, though, if Google went on a really aggressive attack via their Chrome, Android and Analytics properties then they could kill off the competition.
A company shrinking is only a problem for a certain kind of shareholder. Employees may be perfectly happy to retire or move on to new jobs as the company gradually reduces its workforce while remaining true to its core business, for which there is a gradually decreasing demand.

As an example, I believe there are some car manufacturers who have stated that rather than diversify into electric cars they intend to stick with internal combustion engines for as long as there is demand, then close down. It seems like a reasonable plan to me. Some investors will be happy with the larger short-term profits that derive from not having to invest in a struggle to go electric, which they'd probably fail at anyway. Other investors can sell their shares and reinvest elsewhere.
Monokai Pro color theme reaches 200K downloads, and rising
The Monokai Pro color theme for Sublime Text and VSCode is on its way to reach 200K downloads: https://monokai.pro

Interestingly, while it was originally made for Sublime Text, the VSCode variation surpasses Sublime Text by a factor 7. 24K downloads for Sublime and 170K for VSCode.

- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=monokai....

- https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Theme%20-%20Monokai%20Pro

As far as I know, Monokai Pro is the worlds' first freemium theme. I'm very happy to see that developers recognize a good looking working environment and are willing to pay for the work that goes into creating a color / user interface theme.

Thank you for the support so far!
Because the Mongols destroyed them after they refused to pay tribute.

Knowledge is passed generation to generation, and if you interrupt that, it's hard to recover from. Mongols destroyed everything, including libraries and killed most scholars.

That void was filled with tribes that were not secular.
The way I look at it, the more you work the more opportunities you have to have good luck. No guarantee of it. (Kind of like smoking doesn't guarantee you will die of lung cancer, just increases your chances).

There are probably smarter ways of increasing your luck though.
On our website Google's pagespeed mainly complained about the Google Analytics snippets.
Was it http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/dog/ ?
No, any regulated financial impact occurs across the board and is not anti-competitive. Regulation is good, lobbying is bad, libertarianism will destroy us all.
I'm sure they'll figure it out
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> GLSL is used for multimedia apps, user interfaces (Qt at least uses it quite a bit), 3D authoring apps. ISF (Interactive Shader Format https://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/spec), fairly used in all the software chain around audio-visual installations, is based on GLSL. It's used on android, on embedded devices, etc etc...

Google and Samsung are developing HLSL compiler for Vulkan, because a large majority of game studios don't want to bother with Vulkan on Android if they cannot port their shaders.

There are plenty of HLSL compiler status talks at the Khronos web site and YouTube channel.

> > And since Windows and macOS/iOS don’t support Vulkan,

> now this is just FUD. you can entirely write vulkan code and have it run on windows and apple platforms.

On the contrary, this is quite true.

Apple does not support Vulkan, you need VulkanMK, which is basically a Vulkan portability layer making use of Metal API, and only supports the subset common to both APIs.

Microsoft does not allow OpenGL ICDs on UWP/Store Apps, which is the mechanism used by Vulkan drivers on Windows, thus it is not possible to run either OpenGL or Vulkan code on UWP and Store apps.

Which is why Microsoft ported Angle for UWP, however they haven't bothered with similar support for Vulkan.

https://github.com/Microsoft/angle
I agree with you, but what passes for a book these days is not what it used to be.
Make your own, with 100% butter. Takes 5 minutes, and tastes so much better it's not funny.

Palm oil is barely fit for human consumption, and it tastes bad. When mass manufactured products are no longer fit for purpose, it's time to ditch them.

I do the same for bread as well. Just bought a 25kg sack of organic white flour which will keep me going for a few months. With practice, takes just 10 minutes to make a loaf of bread or some batch rolls (without a breadmaker). The taste, consistency and quality of it is again much better than any of the mass-produced stuff, which makes it worth that little bit of time to prepare.
Startpage. https://new.startpage.com

DDG gets all the publicity but, truth is, their search results are pretty poor. SP is Google Search anonymised. It also looks better.

DDG's shebangs are great though. I wish SP would copy them.
The organisation who banned it has explicitly said:

'it was deemed to be "an advertisement inserted by or on behalf of a body whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature".'

'for Iceland to overcome the ruling, "Greenpeace needs to demonstrate it is not a political advertiser."'

--source: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/11/12/clearcast-clarifies-...

Sorry if my point was too specific but I think it's a worthwhile one to press:

The ad wasn't banned because it itself was political, had exactly the same creative been made by Iceland it wouldn't have been banned. It was banned because it was a re-purposed piece of content originally created by and used in partnership with a group deemed to be a politically-focused organisation.

(and actually, it's worth pointing out that Clearcast can't "ban" ads by themselves, that's the ASA in most cases - they just really advise as to whether they abide by the rules)

Given Greenpeace's status as an activist organisation, I can't bring myself to believe Iceland didn't expect this decision. Whether or not it was intentional, it's certainly achieved its purpose as an advert...
Exactly, I've never dared to click it assuming it would send immediately.
What if it was perceptually at Mach 2 / distance X yet really was at Mach 20 / distance 10 * X ? (Bullshitting numbers here, but you get the point)

Angular speed across FoV is a function of distance from the object and the only thing that makes us understand that high altitude airplanes are nowhere close to a standstill is that we can infer distance from the intrinsic knowledge of the airplane size.

If all observers are close enough together we'd be unable to uncover the illusion, as that would require a widespread enough configuration.

Additionally, I question the "astronomical" attribute, especially with planes cruising at ~800kph, Mach 2 is at most 2.5 their typical speed. Concorde is hardly astronomical, and although jet fighters are not chasing for top speed anymore some of them are still able to go to such Mach factors. Now, Mach 12, that would be closing in to being astronomical (entering the order of magnitude of an ICBM descent speed).
Not it, them.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/operating-system-books.html

One of these days I shall get around to expressing my opinions, which as you can see are still missing. Indeed, the list itself is a decade out of date. (-:

I have some SCO UNIX manuals on the other side of the room as I type this.
An honest question - have you ever used any of these auto replies, ever?

I don't recall any situation, not even once, where they would be relevant to what I received. The most insane thing is that I receive auto-reply suggestions in English, even when the email was not written in English.

If this is the best that Google's "world-leading AI" can come up with, then I'm not worried about AI taking over the world. Not even slightly.
So, Youtube, who _still_ make a large amount of money from infringing other people's copyright, are not keen on being held liable for what they allow on their website?
Same here. This is news to me.
> more on the basis of his "authenticity". (And I wish I could use about fifteen more air-quotes around that word.)

He curses a lot, so you know he’s authentic.
An actual person from the commonwealth is trying to tell you that the role of the colonies in WW1 is often ignored, and you can't even bother to read past the first paragraph. You just want to keep repeating that they lay wreaths.
I think that's wholly simplistic. What about regions who beat off the Mongols, such as the Mameluks? Or people who weren't that affected, like the Ottomans.

For that matter, I'd be interested in your theory as to why the Ottoman empire failed to develop any intellectual tradition of note, while Europe was soaring.

Russians greatly suffered under the mongols but eventually became a superpower. China lost half its population but rebounded pretty quickly.

Edit: "Mongols destroyed libraries" afaik, they destroyed the library of Baghdad but that's about it.

Also, the Mongols were not the only ones to destroy libraries. Iirc the library of Cordoba, the biggest and most advanced of its time, was burned down by the Caliph because it was deemed too un-islamic.
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Normally the way it works (in uk terms) the coop X owns the company Y who employs workers - who when they become members of coop Y own the ecompany.

It gets complex but membership in a coop and being an employee of the company the coop owns are two separate but interlinked things.

When I was a member of Poptel we had a 4 page document that explained how it worked :-)
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Good point. Aviation in Indonesia operates in a particularly challenging environment (many islands, short hops, inclement weather, problematic infrastructure, institutional culture with massive corruption and shortcuts, pervasive poverty). Given that background, I think commercial aviation there is amazingly successful and safe, by and large.

On the other hand, Lion Air does have a bad reputation even in Indonesia, and I suspect not without reason. So some speculation in that regard was to be expected. What's a shame is that some commentators pinned it on Lion Air without waiting for the full picture to emerge, and it seems Boeing screwed up, here.

But I don't think Boeing specifically is sacrosanct here; the discussion would have been much the same if it had been an Airbus.

FWIW, I've suggested to my Indonesian friend (who's just been to the funeral of one of the victims) to avoid both Lion Air and Boeing 737-8, -9 MAX for now.
Perhaps all those test hours flown in simulators and in the air were by Boeing test pilots who actually had full knowledge of how the new MCAS system operated.
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Most of the times they are correct but not sufficient, but I've used it enough times that I don't mind the suggestions being there 100% of the time. I do write tend to write terse emails though.

The newest "press tab to auto-complete word/sentence" while I'm typing though, that's incredible and I've used it in every email since I got the feature. A real time saver - and sometimes makes me sound more eloquent too!
I do not know a lot about bacterial meningitis, but I don't believe that it actually passes through the barrier. Meningitis is caused by the inflammation of a membrane that the brain and spinal chord are encased within [1]. So it might be causing the membrane to become enflamed from the outward facing surface.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/bacterial-meningitis-cause...
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Selling :-) in the UK for small < 30mill you can use an EMI share scheme to gift the shares or grant options to the employees with no income tax liability and Entrepeneaures relief applies so 10% CGT rate.
https://www.copenhageneconomics.com/dyn/resources/Publicatio...
It's gone from being OK-but-nothing-special to a brown-wax-cake-topping like Hershey's. Inedible and worthless. I've gone to more premium dark chocolate from a local company (Mackies) or Lindt. Costs more but it's worth it for actually tasting like chocolate and being made with proper ingredients.
Its also used now. That's why many dissidents die from lack of medical care in Prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-med...
No, it doesn't mean "imitating something for the sake of it".

It means ritualistically imitating some advanced technology and thinking of it as magical way to get wealth and prosperity (based on primitive tribes building fake-airports and thinking that will bring the associated goods westerners coming to their land with airplanes had). And yes, it can involve all kinds of "rain dances or other backwards stuff" too.

"The name derives from the belief which began among Melanesians in the late 19th and early 20th century that various ritualistic acts such as the building of an airplane runway will result in the appearance of material wealth, particularly highly desirable Western goods (i.e., "cargo"), via Western airplanes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
As someone who has a 3d printer running about a quarter of the time less than 10 feet away from me hearing that it could be bad for me is alarming that it could be harming me. (Other than the lost sleep because its loud) When though of as a risk benefit analysis though I come to the strong conclusion that I will use my printer no matter what because it is the compiler to my hobby: no printer, much harder time making stuff.

I don't need to iterate on the greatness of them here but they have the potential to radically help teach people how to make stuff which drastically helps in industry.

My main concern with these articles is that there is no relative risk factor presented against. I have no idea if these particulates are something it would be worthy to invest in an enclosure or are there low levels which are permittable.

I know that I personally am much more likely to have health complications from almost anything else but to someone else reading the above article they may draw the conclusion that 3d could be dangerous and should be restricted. If a person shows up to a school board meeting throwing a fit that they are running 3d printers with children in the same room then it looks bad on the printers, possibly having them removed and to generalize I think that that is the last thing anyone wants.

Ninja edit: formating
Do you have any source to your claim that these societies required little work?

And seriously, claiming that a society will engage in warfare by comparing it to an example that is as remote to it as possible in terms of technological development and culture (we do view warfare as negative, not all societies do and ours used to not do so) is not exactly convincing.
It also looks to me Belgium is forgotten, isn't it? It's mostly Britain, France and Germany remembered in Europe (The US is more associated with WW2 I think).
They've barely begun the investigation. It'll be a long time before we know why and how this crash happened.
It's more about misunderstanding cause and effect. Tribal people after WW2 started building runways on their islands because they thought that as long as they built the runways the airplanes would show up bringing their cargo.

They didn't imitate it "for the sake of it", they genuinely thought they would receive cargo by building runways.

So while it's not about rain dances and shakalaka sticks the previous commenter was on the money about the term cargo culting.
I apologize to general knowledge that this is the top comment.
You can install Ublock Origin and add cookie notification blocker list, then you will see much less those annoying boxes.
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Yeah. Another example: the terrorist-proof cockpit doors, which enabled suicidal co-pilot Lubitz to fly Germanwings Flight 9525 straight into the French Alps.

I guess a good thing to note about this is that aviation is so close to optimum safety level that it's hard to find unambiguous ("pareto") improvements; you can just find a different tradeoff. The gradient is pretty close to zero.
Just noticed that the BBC are reporting that 670 thousand people have signed a petition to request this add is shown on TV:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46187070
Can you publish this solution somewhere? It sounds grand!
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-eu-climatechange-palmoil/e...
There is still a huge demand for b2b software and large swathes of industry that are in the very early stages of digitalisation. We work in an old fashioned industry (education) and are constantly asked to build x, y & z outside of our scope.

Get to know businesses and their problems and there are plenty of opportunities to build helpful software. You will constantly be battling to stay product-based vs service-based but if your building a small company this isn't as big a problem as it seems (Ive met more well off entrepreneurs with service-style businesses)

I think the best assistance you can give yourself is to reduce your personal expenses and save up a nest-egg that would allow you to work on this for quite a bit longer than you would think. While saving up, go out and talk to people about their problems. You'll find there are a million problems to which the current solutions aren't a perfect fit.

PS If you run a business you will be thinking about money far more than you are now!!
It's not a "mindset" that there is an inviting "click here for the next recommended video" link when one is done playing.
What the article actually says: "These colonial subjects remain marginal in popular histories of the war. They also go largely uncommemorated by the hallowed rituals of Remembrance Day."

Largely, not entirely.

And this isn't a question of blunt fact which can be rebutted by pointing at the presence of the various Commonwealth High Commissioners during the ceremony itself, but a question of meaning and salience.

What they mean is things like this exchange which I immediately thought of: https://twitter.com/AGlasgowGirl/status/897719075182456833 (followed later by https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/1061199619412189184 )

There definitely is a faction of people who tie remembrance to militarism to ethnic whiteness, and as part of that they will whitewash the role of non-white people in the wars.
Interesting. What I meant to say is that even if the pilots had no way of knowing, the computer should notice and drop into a failure mode (that does not involve trimming down again and again, until the pilot sticks an umbrella in the trim wheel).
> Life on earth isn't going to end from our activity

Although unlikely, I can envision a plausible pessimistic runaway scenario where we turn Earth into a Venus-like world due to sheer collective stupidity over a sufficiently large timescale. Maybe not completely sterile but having only some hardened bacteria survive is hardly a hopeful outcome for "life".
I am talking about the Siege of Baghdad (1258). You are talking about a period of time after the death of Kublai Khan (1294) where the Mongols were already divided into smaller regions.

Anyways, if you want to be a eurocentric revisionist, continue doing so. I don't care.

If you study the Latin translations of the 12th century you will see how significant part of the Reinassance could be attributed to previous civilizations.
I use a winch based on a stepper motor. Everything is modular so that it is easy to make a robot with just 3 wires or with 8 for 6 DOF experiments.

Passing tools among a neighboring system is going to be hard as there is a "dead zone" bordering the rectangle drawn by the pole but there may be a way to smartly cross the wires so that two system may share an area where they could pass around tools.

Harvesting is actually, counter-intuitively, a low priority task IMO. This is usually a single day of work, and this is the one with the highest stake, where things going wrong can jeopardize your whole harvest. People will want to be present for it I think.

What needs to be automated first are the tedious tasks that need to be done repeatedly : weeding, monitoring, watering.

About harvesting, a farmer friend proposed something interesting: just pass bags/baskets from the field's side to the place when the human is inside the field. Ricefields are very muddy and if you work in the middle of one, doing back and forth to the border is really tedious.
I would like to know more! :-)
should we just wipe an island off the map?

Like, say, the one Johnny Depp owns?
> people just tell me my résumé is awful, as if that would help.

Improving your resume would definitely help, I see from your comment history that several people gave you the same kind of advice over and over (e.g. remove the pictures, remove or shorten the preamble). Of course it may be that everyone else is wrong and you are right, but maybe you could give it a go?
Hilariously the Verge website doesn't like me blocking all their trackers.

It was supposed to be a choice, not just "I accept". I rather type out this comment than take the 10 seconds to open this article in an unmodified browser.
"What's the decryption key?"

"I don't know."
You can never say for sure when it comes to an individual example but, this seems like a wide effect of macroeconomics.

There is a ton of economic pressure right now to "put money to work." Interest rates have been low for a long time and industry is, for the most part, cashed up already. This means prices get high.

There were obvious seeds sown internationally after the banking crash, but I think tech companies may have something to do with it too.

Think of Tesla, a car manufacturer, and how different that is from a Facebook or Amazon.

Musk had to sell all shares (holding onto voting rights) and raise as much debt as he could. Tesla is still capital constrained.

Meanwhile, Amazon, Google and even apple are headed towards $1trn valuations without cash problems at all.

These companies basically create massive book assets (and income streams) without requiring much capital, or being capital constrained.

The growth potential and the cash needs are just not in the same place. This part of the economy isn't growing out "investment." It's adding to the lake of corporate cash, but corporate cash doesn't isn't used to make or grow googles.

We saw the baby version of this when of was writing about founders starting to keep majority ownership.